Burning Salt Water on YouTube, Inventor Waits for Prime Time [Update]

www.popularmechanics.com ^ | 01 July 2008 | By Daniel Tam-Claiborne

[Red Badger]

He's also working on a cancer cure using his RF enegy machine. I pray to God that he finds one or both of his devices a success!.............

[ClearCase_guy]

Kanzius and Roy hope that the increasing focus on the environment will enable them to get funding to continue their research.

See, right there is where it all goes wrong. The way it's supposed to work is that increasing focus on PROFITS will enable them to get funding to continue their research.

People love to make profits. If no one is funding this, then it's probably going to become a federally subsidized wealth redistribution scheme.

[SpinnerWebb]

First we burn up all our corn, then we burn up all our water...

how the hell will we make whiskey?!?!?

[antiRepublicrat]

Am I missing something here? If you have the electrical power in the car to produce the radio waves, why not just skip the water part and connect it to an electric motor to drive the wheels?

[ctdonath2]

"Nobody is claiming that you get more energy out than you put in," he says.

Acknowledging the First Law of Thermodynamics is a good place to start with this kind of thing.

Now between figuring out how much energy in vs. out, and showing this is a suitable form of hydrolysis, then maybe we'll finally nab two problems: simple hydrogen production (for fuel cell use), and desalination (for drinking water).

[Global2010]

Wow Saline Air!
That would really help you non oceanside allergy prone people, ya think.

[steveo]

you can also pop corn with cellphones :p

[Red Badger]

Oh, that’s just soooooo old fashioned!...............

[Sender]

Finally, a sane and refreshing thought in the energy debate.

[DannyTN]

"If you have the electrical power in the car"

You're assumption is bad.

[SpinnerWebb]

Finally, a sane and refreshing thought in the energy debate.

I'll drink to that!

[ltc8k6]

Yep.Watts are watts. It’s going to use the same amount of power to crack the water, which will be less than you can get from the hydrogen produced.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Al Gore claims to have found a way to control the weather.

[Red Badger]

Obama claims to have found a way to control Algore.............

[Kirkwood]

There may be instances when it is preferable to carry around hydrogen as an energy source as opposed to carrying around batteries or batteries + water.

[truthguy]

Please Red stop with this nonsense!

[Kirkwood]

Which kind of engine do you want in your vehicle if your are living in International Falls in the middle of winter? One that runs on batteries or one that runs on a tankful of hydrogen?

[TexasRepublic]

Another high-tech snake oil salesman whose success depends on the communist-wrecked public education system turning out gullible dupes.

[Red Badger]

You’ve got to shuck a lot of oysters to find a pearl.............

[Rick.Donaldson]

The energy released in a hydrogen/oxygen reaction is greater?

Actually internal combustion is more efficient than chemical/battery power, that’s the only reason.

But it seems to me that using the energy from batteries to power the radio system would be rather... expensive. Having used many HF radios, I say that most radios aren’t that efficient. You input a large amount of power into the finals and toward the antenna but the coupling isn’t 100% efficient, so you lose energy. Oh well. (No such thing as perpetual motion!)