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420:
Who needs nuclear holocausts and global warming when we can just set the ocean ablaze!

--- Quote ---Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water

By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Tue, 11 Sep 2007, 11:41AM
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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."

Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.

The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen â?? which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit â?? would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.

"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."

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Information from: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Humans are wacky.

-420

Soul Sojourner:
Awesome.

Now, as long as they concentrate on the NEGATIVE effects this may have, if any. The purpose would be to find out if there are any... and what they are... how bad they are. For instance... if this were to somehow eliminate the water... you know, you can heat water until it evaporates... but it's not gone, you can cool it enough until it freezes... but it's not gone... but if you burn it is something they need to find out.

I see the possibility, because earth supposedly started without water, it was lava and magma and such and such that cooled and created water... as long as we're not somehow reversing that... and the water still recycles... all is well.

420:
Since it only works on salt water I suspect that after the "fuel" burns out you are left with pure water. Probably doubles as a cooling agent if you can keep it under pressure so it doesn't evaporate when it heats up. So the "spent" fuel cells would just be full of pure water and you'd exchange it for a new salty cell.

-420

Mercy:
Sounds pretty neat.

Soul Sojourner:
Thing is, what is the purpose of the salt? The reaction to the radio frequency? But if that's the case, then that's just releasing the hydrogen to be burned... so you're actually just using hydrogen as fuel... technically. Thing is... there isn't any hydrogen in salt... so the hydrogen is straight from the water.... However, if you take away 2 hydrogen from a water molecule, you wouldn't be left with water... you'd be left with O, not H2O... if you burned all the hydrogen out of the salt water, all you'd have is oxygen, sodium, and chlorine. And I don't see how that would reform as water.

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