this is the base behind covalent atraction...
is possible to understand meyer idea but when we calculate to water size the electric field holding the molecule is on the order of 10^9
thats why is for the physicists and engineers hard to believe what we are trying to accomplish
meyer args that is the resonance that makes it possible to develop a force that exceed the covalent attraction force...
in my opinion he is right there and this is the way but if the molecule is already stretched with such high electric field there is two ways to make it oscillate one is to pull even harder to stretch and the other would be to atenuate the electric field in order to make it oscilate...
let me try to explain you can go up in tension or go low to start a vibration upon a tensioned string
normaly we go up applying a further tension...
but electric fields in nature are such as the covalent bounding is prof that its a kind of field that try to cancel as fast as possible some times in complex ways look water the oxygen really wants the hydrogen electrons while hydrogen wants oxygen electrons.. we never happy with what we have if we are alone !!!
meyer says he uses the dielectric proprieties of water to get it to break
the dielectric properties are the properties that makes a material good or bad in shielding or conducting electric fields
or how much it will conduct or hold electric fields;; the higher the values the better it conducts the electric fields.. a low capacitance need a low charge to develop a high voltage... if the capacitance has a high internal loss resistance it will take a long time to discharge
the water leaks the charge as soon as we put one into it because of two things
the electrodes are plenty of both species of ions adsorbed on their surfaces and so as soon as you go over the potential it requires to give up an electron or to gain an electron it will be shoot from the eletcrode transformed, consuming power
meyer said we must waste some power some 2 or 5 amps big deal
water cells has a polarization curve such as the polarization curve of a hydrogen fuel cell
it has 3 important parts that dictates the carachteriscs of the graph and they are related to 3 electrochemical limitations of the species to
get adsorbed or activation
to be transported , ohmic
to exist in enough amount to be transported
in the case of the fuel cell this is measured with a variable load so is just a graph of the voltage in function of current from open to short ckt
this is how you determine the best load for a cell to be able to use the most power it can give
theoretically would of course be more eficient to have many more cells than needed so you can work where the voltage is close to open ckt so more power can be generated by the gas consumed... and so on
a water fuel cell has the same kind of polarization curve for a very small applied voltage there is very low current than it will start to rise and than will get limited to a maximum