The hard disk route sounds interesting. I'm looking at the Cats mainly because of the high temperature punishment they would suffer under high amperage loads. That said, where about in the hard drive is the platinum - the platters or the other bits?
That said, if a cat was ceramic, persumably the platinum would be exposed throughout the ceramic and hopefully anough to conduct electricity. Alternatively I could crush the ceramic to possibly extract the platinum manually, although have no idea if this is workable or not.
I guess there is a bit of suck it and see here....
I'd be trying water then KOH later if no joy.
I have also seen people using nickel or nickel/iron plates that have say 50% efficincy in conversion, whereas platinum is about 67% efficient.
I have also wondered why no one has tried nickel cell plates yet?
Nickel is the base stuff used in electroplating and cheap to obtain.
Cheers,
SWStatistics: Posted by williamssteve — Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:37 pm
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