The Most Amazing Invention

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[Maceman]

Salt water as the ultimate fuel.

[Pietro]

Mr Kansius was an amazing indivual, May God rest his soul.

[A CA Guy]

I was going to hope someone invented the spine for Republican politicians.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Hmmm, very interesting. I wonder what the efficiency is.

[Red_Devil 232]

The most amazing invention according to my neighbor is the Thermos Bottle!

[RightOnline]

Absolutely..........remarkable.

[Nick Danger]

I was going to hope someone invented the spine for Republican politicians.

Instead you get a perpetual RINO machine.

[OldDeckHand]

"Hmmm, very interesting. I wonder what the efficiency is."

I'm guessing it takes considerable energy to run whatever RF generator he's using - probably much more energy than he's seeing in output energy from his saltwater reaction.

[pburgh01]

The inventor passed away last year, a true modern day Edison. But we have to rely on way cool, chin pubbed college kids for all the inventions right? If it doesn’t come out of Cal Tech, MIT or some other moldy university and is found to be of some political as well as practical use it never sees the light of day. It gets in some journal and is spoken about by sweater vest wearing intellectuals at the fall mixer. Find a way to clone polar bears it's on the vening news and gets gobs of funding, anything to fuel the engine of commerce and capitalism...well that is not important. It's never about clean energy its about control. Now windfarms and solar are not good enough for the Nazis, its simply us living in TeePees.

[counterpunch]

It’s easy to separate water into hydrogen and O2.
It’s doing it with less energy than you get out of it that so far can’t be done.
The laws of physics say it is not possible.

[org.whodat]

That is not new and it takes as much to power it as it produces. Zero sum game.

[nascarnation]

The laws of physics say it is not possible.

There's always a spoilsport in the crowd to point out those undeniable truths, LOL

[randog]

I'm guessing it takes considerable energy to run whatever RF generator he's using...

And therein lies the problem. It's all about energy in vs. energy out.

[JudgemAll]

YEs, our Space Shuttle is a fancy old steam engine.

[Right Wing Assault]

The radio waves require an electrical current, which requires a generator, which requires a fossil fuel (or nuke).

Can’t get something for nothing. The energy released by the burning hydrogen must be less than the energy stored in the burned fossil fuel that runs the electric plant that runs the radio generator.

Sorry, that’s the physics of it.

[z3n]

"I'm guessing it takes considerable energy to run whatever RF generator he's using - probably much more energy than he's seeing in output energy from his saltwater reaction."

Indeed... I'm not broadcast engineer, but I believe that conventionally it requires electricity to emit RF transmitting.
Perhaps you could work out a method making the process efficient by researching the perfect type of RF emission to generate the hydrolysis so that the least amount of energy is used, but what is the ratio?

[Lx]

Cool, now we can boil off the oceans!

[Right Wing Assault]

That is not new and it takes MORE to power it than it produces. Negative sum game.

[for-q-clinton]

That’s what I was wondering. So the key is the burning of the salt water has to produce enough energy to power the radio transmitter and whatever is left is what you can use.

Since you are burning a fuel it is possible that there is a net power surplus. Now they just need to make it effecient.

[org.whodat]

Oh, if you do want to achieve a power break through, figure how to produce and control balled lightning.