Talk:Faraday-efficiency effect

Did Pons and Fleischman measure the FE?

The cold fusion article says they did.Itsmejudith (talk) 15:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

In private discussions with Fleischman, he admitted that he never measured the Faraday efficiency in his operating cells. He may have measured it in a simulated cell, similar to the cold fusion cells, but not in the actual ones. Under conditions which do not produce excess heat, the Faraday efficiency is always 100%. --Rabbiz (talk) 03:02, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

The experiment descriptions which I've read (e.g. NASA's attempted replication) similarly do not measure Faraday efficiency. I've sort of assumed that this was a reasonable shortcut in the experiment that was testing for a reaction that would have (but did not) produce more than 2x expected heat. It is difficult to do calorimetry on electrolysis cell. Electrolyte evaporates; worse than that, there's extremely fine mist of electrolyte in the gas. 78.60.47.216 (talk) 13:31, 23 May 2010 (UTC) ahh, and also, it would've been more reasonable to build a closed system which would entirely recombine (with flame or catalytically) hydrogen and oxygen within the unit, so that nothing except electricity enters or leaves the cell. 78.60.47.216 (talk) 13:38, 23 May 2010 (UTC)