Your next car, powered by...salt water?

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ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.

Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.

The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.

The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.

"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."

Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.

The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.

"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."

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Information from: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com
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Very interesting. I'm sure it's probably 10 to 20 years away from happening, but still pretty cool.
 
Doesn't seem, at first glance, that anyone will be able to make money off of this and repress people so I doubt anything will ever come from it.
 
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This guy is working on a salt water automobile engine and his name is Rustum Roy? That's classic.

[quote name='JimmieMac']Doesn't seem, at first glance, that anyone will be able to make money off of this and repress people so I doubt anything will ever come from it.[/quote]Dang, y'all are negative. Personally, having a couple cars provides me with a great deal of freedom. Can't think of how i've been repressed/opressed by having that mobility.
 
[quote name='guinaevere']This guy is working on a salt water automobile engine and his name is Rustum Roy? That's classic.

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:rofl: :applause: Good one! Didn't catch that.
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']Doesn't seem, at first glance, that anyone will be able to make money off of this and repress people so I doubt anything will ever come from it.[/quote]

Oh they will. People are gullible enough to buy bottled water. Someone, somewhere, like Moses, will find a way to part a fool and his money.
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']Doesn't seem, at first glance, that anyone will be able to make money off of this and repress people so I doubt anything will ever come from it.[/QUOTE]
Yup.

Corporate greed (oil and automobile) and The Man won't let this happen.

We'd have a mainstream alternative means to oil by now, if that were the case.
 
[quote name='Brak']Yup.

Corporate greed (oil and automobile) / The Man won't let this happen.

We'd have a mainstream alternative means to oil by now, if that were the case.[/quote]
Oh the man will let this happen, provided he makes 6-10k a pop supplying the engines.;)

My guess is that the radio energy required is more costly then the usable energy obtained from the combustion.
 
They have been working on this for years and conspiracy theories say that it has been possible for at least 25 years, but the government has been coving it up.

3,000 degrees fahrenheit seems a little hot to power a car with, but I know nothing about cars, so maybe it's not. :)
 
i remember reading or hearing somewhere that there was a scientist who had done sometihing similar with regular water and some kind of chemical maybe it was on coast to coast am or something but anyway whats the chance this will actually ever see the light of day? thatd basically make gas obsolete and the oil companies are far fromever allowing any other alt forms of energy to edge them out especially if the cost is way low. theres alot of energy saving stuff out there thats been invented and will probably never see the light of day due to greed.
 
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