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09/16/07

02:41:37 am, by Rossputin

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Categories: Science, Environment, & Climate •• ••

Salt water as our next fuel?

Here's a little bit of fascinating reading for your Sunday morning:

Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water (Breitbart, 9/10/07)
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RIRI600&show_article=1

And here's a compilation of TV reports on it, including demonstrations of the discovery.

While it's still probably a net consumer of energy in its earliest stages (because it takes more electric power to generate the radio waves than is created by the burning water), it's quite possible that math could be overcome.

It's rare that you see a real breakthrough in science these days, especially in science that "normal" people can really understand. It's great to be reminded of human (and American) ingenuity.

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Comment from: The Freak [Visitor]

The truly interesting bit is the cancer treatment application.

As for burning seawater, it's certainly a cool demo, but it's been done for years. The problem is not optimization of the reaction, the problem is thermodynamic laws.

You can break water apart, then burn the resulting gases together to get water back. But you can't get any net energy out.

On the other hand, it might be an efficient option to produce H2 for fuel cells.

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