yes! deets please Rob.

Ok...Disclaimer... Do not try this at home! I am a professional idiot and stuff like this should be left me and my like.
The Buzz at work was that one of the mechanics had built a hydrogen fuel cell and was trying it in his pick-up. He had left to another garage and I didn’t think to question him about it. I though WTF I can do this! After a little research I put together a stack of stainless steel plates, offset them and ran threaded rods for the positive and negative poles and kept the plates from touching with graphite tube. We wanted to measure the amperage required to the gas production and see if it was worth it. (Would it make enough H2 O2 to get an effective burn in a cylinder?) The picture shows my Uncle Jan and I with a mason jar of water. I put latex glove over the top and popped hole for the electrodes and had 12 Battery from my trailer.( the wine is for motivation) The first attempts with just clear water were disappointing with little or no gas production so I added a little Baking Soda to act as a catalyst and it bubbled away but not enough to inflate the glove. Adding Baking Soda also increased the draw on the battery which resulted in a spark when I connected the battery. Some of the H2 O2 ignited which resulted in a loud POP! Scared the shit out of Marilea and the kids which stopped Phase 1 of the experiment.
Phase 2.
In buddy Al’s Garage we took an old baby wipes container and filled it with water and Baking soda. It had hole for the electrodes and tube in which we attached a sealed bag to collect the gas. It took approximately 5mins to get only a half bag of gas and the electrodes were drawing 15amps. No enough I think. With Al’s brother Neil watching and telling us we were going to kill ourselves, we took the bag off and lit it with a barbeque lighter and got a nice small orange red puff. Mostly Hydrogen I expect.
Al then said “I’m going to light it off the end of the tube”. “Wait!” I said, “Lets think about this. The reason gas like propane and natural gas doesn’t race down the tube is because it needs oxygen to burn. We are making oxygen in that container!”.” I’m not sure.”
Al looks at me and I could almost see the common sense part of his brain shut down.
He pulls off the short tube we had on the container and puts the lighter to the hole in the lid
KABOOM!!!(Actually more like just BOOM!) Very loud and enough for me to feel a slight puff of air from the explosion and I was 5 feet away. Neil freaks and is pacing back and forth saying “you guys are fucking nuts! Your gonna kill somebody!!”
I am doubled over and laughing so hard I thought I’d bust a nut. Wiping the tears from my eyes I look at Al standing beside the container. His eyes are like saucers and I know he is contemplating his mortality.
The lid is blue fragments spread up to 15ft away and Al’s and his face and shirt are splattered with water.
In his and is the tightly gripped barbeque lighter with the metal part gone and only a 5” wire hanging out of the handle.
I would say that all in all the testing is inconclusive. We have shelved the experiment for now.

Some references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

Holy shit I wish I could have been there. I just about peed reading that because I know the antics you get into and how you laugh so hard you cry almost every time. Dangit. We need a new experiment next time I come up!

omg. this is amazing.