Climate Change : Yahoo! Green — If this is remotely true I can just imagine the future. “Daddy, I heard that years ago they burned that icky oil for energy.” “It’s true, son. What were they thinking. hahahahaha.”
ERIE, Pa. – An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the “most remarkable” water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
The discovery is “the most remarkable in water science in 100 years,” Roy said.
“This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere,” Roy said. “Seeing it burn gives me the chills.”
This begs the question. How do you put out a water fire?
found by Wild Bill Reising
Does it really matter that it takes more energy to break apart the H and O? The whole concept is to not use oil. It does take energy to make gas, about 10x energy more than breaking down water. Its just energy from the earth itself, not energy from us (except to extract and refine). So gas is low energy output when you look at the whole picture.