permanent magnet motor and electrolysis

[B]

anyone ever considered using a faraday disk for electrolysis....as I understand it, it can produce low volt high amp current which seems to be just what we want...I was looking at permanent magnet motors as potential for electrolysis, but all my readings seems to state that they produce ac not dc. I thought it would be great to have a wind generator producing hydrogen for free, or hooking one up to the serpentine belt on a vehicle to get the rpms. Wouldn't have to worry about draining a battery. Any thoughts?

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[kevinsatterfield]

seems like a farady disk assymbly wuld be HUGE to get enough power from it...you have one in yer power meter that the electric company uses to get feadback so they know how much to charge you for wat ya use....doent seem like they wuld produce that much power to run an electrolyzer.

[Etownlax]

Or you could just use a 12volt windturbine. Just like www.otherpower.com uses for their windturbines(well... some are 12v others are 48v or 24v. etc). They use theirs to charge batteries. Or they make higher voltage machines to heat water or their house. Depending on the size and voltage it wouldn't be unreasonable to be making 10-20 amps at 12v. Thats only 120-240 watts. AC is EASY to convert to DC(rectifiers*). But making that "wild" AC to a consistent DC(ei. always 12v. no more/no less) is another story. The faster the turbine goes the higher the voltage and higher the amps. So no matter what, it wouldn't be the most effiecent way to power an electrolyzer.

-Randy