Practical Guige to Free Energy Devices

there is a major problem. Make sure that your plate array is clamped tightly. Check for any place at all for liquid
to flow, as this will allow ion leakage to bypass your central "floating" plates.
The Gas Produced:
Schoolteachers will tell you that the electrolysis of water produces hydrogen gas (H 2 ) and oxygen gas (O 2 ). While
this is true, it is only part of the story. Water dissolves things so well that “pure” water really does not exist. Rain
falling from the sky will have absorbed atmospheric gasses on its way down and is no longer “pure” by the time it
reaches the ground.
As it flows along the surface of the ground and through the fabric of the landscape, it absorbs minerals of all
descriptions, and as it flows down streams the splashing causes it to absorb more atmospheric gasses (which is
just as well for the fish living in that water). If it reaches a water treatment plant, it will be injected with chlorine to
kill the bacteria in it, and possibly fluorine to “improve the teeth” of the people who drink it.
Tap water is an electrolyte, but one where you don’t know what is in it. Tap water samples taken in different
towns will contain a very different mix of additives while samples taken in different countries will have even greater
differences between them.
Most people would be inclined to say “who cares?” but this is an important matter when electrolysis of water is
being considered. If you use tap water for electrolysis, then as the electrolysis proceeds, the “pure” water is
removed as a mixture of hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. This releases the air dissolved in the water, so mixed
with the hydroxy gas is an unknown amount of air which is 78% Nitrogen. The dissolved solids and any solids in
suspension in the water, get left behind and they collect in the bottom of the electrolyser. As a large proportion of
naturally occurring landscape has iron salts in it, a good deal of these may collect in the bottom of the electrolyser.
One common element is iron oxide, commonly known as “rust” and although it is not the best, it is a conductor of
electricity, so it has been know for electrolyser plates to get shorted out by a conductive layer building up between
the plates. This short-circuits the plates, cuts the gas production and generates excess heat - generally, a
condition to be avoided.
For this reason, it is strongly recommended that the working KOH electrolyte be made up with either distilled
water or de-ionised water, and the water used for replacing the water lost through electrolysis also be distilled or
de-ionised water. It should be realised that even when using distilled water, the hydroxy gas produced will also
have dissolved air in it.
Supplying Water:
Surprisingly, supplying water to replace that which has been converted to hydroxy gas, is not a simple task.
Firstly, there is a 5 psi gas pressure inside the electrolyser and so a one-way valve needs to be placed in the
water supply line in order to prevent the gas pressure pushing the water out and letting gas escape through the
water supply apparatus.
In addition, there is considerable difficulty in knowing when water is needed and how much should be introduced
into the electrolyser and added to that is the difficulty in adding exactly the same amount to each of the 150 cells
which are only 3 mm wide. While it is not essential that each of the 150 cells has exactly the same electrolyte
level, it is very important that the added water is exactly the same amount for each cell, otherwise the cell
electrolyte levels will get progressively out of step. There is a degree of automatic balancing of the levels in that a
fuller cell is likely to produce slightly more gas and so use slightly more water, thus balancing the levels, but this
slight difference cannot be relied on to offset unevenly supplied water.
Recently, Ed Holdgate and Tom Thayer designed a double-pipe arrangement for the water supply and it is said to
work adequately, so using a slightly longer version of their design may well be a satisfactory solution. However,
this part of the design should be considered as an area for careful checking under working conditions and
possible future modification to provide an enhanced operation. Overall the operation would be:
The problem of assessing the correct electrolyte level is made more difficult by the severe bubbling caused by the
electrolysis which will have the surface of the liquid in constant vertical motion. Optical sensing is not likely to be
effective. Overall weight of the electrolyser is a possible guide but is an unusual approach to the problem and so
is probably not a first choice. The normal approach is to use two wires as a sensor as electrical conduction will
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