Salt water fuel!

[scottm]

I have heard of this before, where an inventor found a way to make water power a torch, but I never understood how it works until now:

http://dabble.com/node/12427667

 

[RevoME]

Uhhh... whales on land... no more fish... stopped right on the carribean cruise, because:

America drained the oceans

I wonder how much they are going to sell that for, $9/ pint?
Exxon Mobil Water, threat your engine well.

<< I'm going to the shore now, filling all containers I can find with water so I have some when the war breaks out

Amazing guy!

 

[SMaxxin]

Thats amazing!

A large oil company will buy it, and it will never see daylight again.

 

[NCNitro]

Thats amazing!

A large oil company will buy it, and it will never see daylight again.

Yeah, no doubt, or else how could they continue to rape up with insane oil prices all the while making record profits in the billions.

 

[Rolex]

Thats amazing!

A large oil company will buy it, and it will never see daylight again.

Absolutely. It happens every time. Hopefully he'll also find the cure he was looking for.

 

[Greyryder]

Wonder if he'll be denied a patent on the grounds that it's theoretically impossible. Wouldn't be the first time that's happened to somebody with a device that actually works.

 

[Karl M]

Neat, but how much energy is it going to take to create the radio waves? Seems like you would have to have some large batteries for the radio generator, with re-generative brakes it still seems like a long shot till batery technology improves.

 

[RevoME]

Neat, but how much energy is it going to take to create the radio waves? Seems like you would have to have some large batteries for the radio generator, with re-generative brakes it still seems like a long shot till batery technology improves.

If the oil companies would spend half their "brainwash" marketing budget on this guy, it would be found in every car on the planet withing less than three years. Unfortunately the lobbyists will spend double that to kill the idea Just imagine you are looking for a cure for your wife (!! which is amazing enough) running into this...

 

[olds97_lss]

Well, it was mildly inspiring.

Don't they do something similar with the hydro cars already though? They don't burn anything, but the rely on a catalytic reaction (or something of the sort) and the exhaust is just water.

If nothing else, it makes for interesting video.

 

[scottm]

Olds, a fuel cell car combines separate flows of hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity and produce water. The power that comes out is the same power that goes into splitting water into h and o in the first place though. This radio frequency thing does basically the same thing, split water into h and o with rf excitation rather than electrolysis. But in this case the two gasses come out combined, rather than separated like in normal electrolysis, so it wont work for fueling a fuel cell. Karl is right, the engery input must be an issue. My guess is it takes considerably more energy going into the rf generator (due to inefficiencies in the rf circuit, transmittter, and absorbsion by the water) than you get back in the form of hydrogen and oxygen. This has been around for a few years now, but I never heard a good explanation of what is happening before. Now I think the reason why it hasnt already taken off is the inefficiency. The real solution to the energy and global warming problems will be a process that produces separated hydrogen and oxygen directly from sunlight, without solar electric cells. Whoever can figure that out will be richer than bill gates....