Hello guys. I'm new here, registered just now but I'm yet to find some sort of introduction thread so I guess I'll get right to it:
I have been playing around with some very crude normal electrolysis setups for about a year but now I feel it's time I start working on something more "real". I have this idea about getting a lot of thin plates and try to assemble them with extremely little spacing, trying to make the cell more of a capacitor rather than a normal electrolysis cell (even though a realize it would still be electrolysis).
I'm thinking that without an electrolyte the water would work as the dielectric and that when the voltage builds high enough there would be jumps of electrons between the plates and gas would be produced. I guess I think these "jumps" would occur more often and at lower voltage the closer the plates are to each other.
Another part of my project will be to try and constantly run the water through the cell using an electric pump, cooling it in a radiator when needed, pretty much like a normal cooling system in a car. I'm thinking that if the plates are placed very close together the bubbles of gas might want help floating up by running water (from the bottom up) and also that this setup probably would produce a lot of heat.
The reason I want to try this is to find a way to produce without having to add stuff to the water (or have to clean out goo, or care about Cl2, CO2 or any other unwanted side products being produced).
Now my question is, because I'm pretty sure this must have been though of a lot before, if anyone has tried this and if it's worth for me to test it. Any comments on this are very much welcome because I'll be spending my last lousy student bucks on 2000x1000mm of SS, hosing and some other equipment pretty soon
