i have a ton of cd cases here...
my plan is to have many types of electrostatic cells
the cd case is a good idea to start with because it has got a standart size and shape... i plan to use the cristal part and fill with resin to create a cavity... or couple of cavities... than place water and electrodes inside... and outside electrodes too..
there is a patent that criticizes the tay he han patent and fracture cell too
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100126846here he describe a cell using high dielectric coating and telling that its further coated with a graphite layer such as to provide a deionization surface where there are created holes and regions rich of electrons to drive the reaction.. he than connect the layers in short circuit to discharge the ions...
his short circuit however is made in such way that the electric fields are capable to still pass thru water to cause the separation of the components and subsequent discharge of the ion products..
i believe i found how to make this...
well a semiconductor like a mosfet uses a dielectric to allow the electric field to bring it in a conductive state under an electric field. although a semiconductor is conductor when on for say the capacitor still do its work..
what if we had some special sort of shape in the graphite layer? like holes in it? to allow the electric field to not be totally screened?
maybe just some lines of grafite layers... looking the patent the repreesentation of the many cell device may represent well analogly the idea... they dont suggests this anywhere in the patent and if you think about the electric field would be totaly screened by a short circuit except if is fast enough anyway the current would not be able to flow in the external circuit either in the case the electricfield was totaly screened
hahah
well if is that simple meyer may have though of something similar