Aluminium Oxidation: Reusable Portable Circuit Solutions

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I have watched many videos of aluminium air batteries and it got me wondering. Could this same process work if you stored the aluminum in vacuum and exposed it to oxygen? For example:

A high surface area aluminium plate is in a glass bulb under high vacuum. A copper lead connects to the aluminium to a load. If we break the bulb the aluminium will rapidly oxidize. How do you close the circuit? I know you could ground it but what about in aportable application? Reusability and controlled current flow are of no concern.
 
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Samson4 said:
How do you close the circuit?

In what you described the circuit is already closed.

Whole trick with every battery is to have both half reactions separated so that electrons can flow through an external circuit, instead of jumping from one atom/ion/molecule to another directly.
 
If we released pure oxygen inside an aluminium sphere, a charge would develope on its surface correct?
 
I guess a better question would be; when 1 side of an aluminium plate is oxidized, does a charge develop on the opposite side?
 
Samson4 said:
I guess a better question would be; when 1 side of an aluminium plate is oxidized, does a charge develop on the opposite side?

No. I told you how it works. Please read any general chemistry book on redox reactions and cells and you will see what it is all about, right now you are just wild guessing.
 
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