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Burning the Worlds Oceans!

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cuchulann:

--- Quote ---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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Well once the hydrogen starts to burn the oxygen in proximity to it will burn as well as its pretty volitile too. The by-product of burning these two gasses together is water vapor. This is what happens with rocket engines. The salt I imagine is causing the ignition to occur at a more controlable temperature. Salt tends to cause chemical reactions to occur differently, like how salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water. It wouldn't surprise me if I'm way off in my thinking as it has been over a decade since I last took a science class.

Soul Sojourner:

--- Quote ---Well once the hydrogen starts to burn the oxygen in proximity to it will burn as well as its pretty volitile too. The by-product of burning these two gasses together is water vapor. This is what happens with rocket engines. The salt I imagine is causing the ignition to occur at a more controlable temperature. Salt tends to cause chemical reactions to occur differently, like how salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water. It wouldn't surprise me if I'm way off in my thinking as it has been over a decade since I last took a science class.
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Well THAT makes more sense, and I had thought about that as well. The problem is, they don't say anything about the oxygen burning as well, so I was just going by what it said, though I doubt that the information in the article is complete enough to easily reach an understanding of the way it works. If this were the case, that would make the "Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said" a half-truth. Though it says, "will burn as long as it is exposed." Does this mean that it will continue to burn forever, until the radio frequencies stop? That would be interesting.

420:

--- Quote ---Does this mean that it will continue to burn forever, until the radio frequencies stop? That would be interesting.
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"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpsons

I would guess it's an either/or, until they turn off the signal or the hydrogen runs out.

-420

Soul Sojourner:

--- Quote ---"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpsons

I would guess it's an either/or, until they turn off the signal or the hydrogen runs out.

-420
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Yeah, see, that would make sense "until the hydrogen runs out" but then... what about the left over oxygen and sodium chloride? You can't very well make water out of that... Or would it be released into the atmosphere like the hydrogen? Through exhaust, or some such, as is currently the release method.

Mo:
How can I donate to this worthy research?  Anything to see a world without a need for petroleum.

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