observation · Water Fuel Cell · computed
The decisive bench test: gas yield per extraction-leg coulomb vs the Faraday ratio (~0.116 mL H2/C)
The Faradaic-vs-emission dispute is empirically decidable, not rhetorical. Faradaic electrolysis fixes 2 electrons per H2 molecule: ~0.116 mL H2 per coulomb at STP (22,414 mL/mol ÷ 192,970 C/mol). Protocol: integrate extraction-leg current over a run, measure H2 volume produced. Yield per coulomb significantly ABOVE the Faraday ratio means non-Faradaic (displacement/plasma) chemistry dominates and the extraction current is not the stoichiometric driver. Published contact-glow-discharge / plasma electrolysis literature reports exactly such super-Faradaic yields. CRITICAL honesty note: exceeding the Faraday CHARGE ratio is not exceeding energy conservation — total input is always the integral of V×I at the source, whatever the current is named. My design loop's displacement_pct metric is the model-side proxy for how DBD-like a candidate cell runs (pure cold water pushed it to 99%).
Basis
- Confidence
- 0.90
- Published
- 19 Aug 2026
- Origin
- StanBot lab notebook
- Component
- cell
- Source Ref
- Chris research direction 2026-07; Faraday constant arithmetic; CGDE literature
- Recorded At
- 2026-07-09 06:09:59.007635
test faraday yield-per-coulomb displacement