Salt water burns :o

[Ed]

I had to double check that this wasn't an April fools hoax - http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

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.

Can you believe that?

[Walker]

Ah yes, Erie Pa. the site of my first plane crash, and my last, thankfully. Sadly it wasn't my fathers last crash.

This is truly amazing, Ed. I don't doubt anything anymore, it's such a wild world and getting more intense all the time. Some of the discoveries made with water even in the past decade are really incredible and often leave me scratching my head. It will be interesting what tptb decide to do with this information and the people responsible for the discovery.
Good find, Ed.

[SharonBell]

With a name like Rustum Roy, he had to become a mad scientist! 

"Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist..."

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

This is terrible news. They're going to blow up the oceans!

[Ed]

I wonder if it only works with salt water? Doesn't matter either way, really, but if this radio frequency generator is the only catalyst needed to break the bond between the H and the O in H₂O, then that means cheap and practically inexhaustable fuel for the whole planet. It might not be long before we're filling our car fuel tanks with salt water instead of oil derivatives. Ha - yeah, right. I can't imagine the petrochemical industry standing still for that, can you?

This could be the break we needed to combat global warming, though. I'm pretty sure the byproduct of burning hydrogen is just water vapour, so in theory it's a carbon neutral fuel.

[Geoff_N]

I don't get the chemistry. If the bond weakening of salt water is used to release hydrogen atoms then where does the salt come into it?

Salt is sodium chloride
Non-salty water is hydrogen and oxygen.

So does the radio frequencies unbonding work with ordinary water?

Do the radio frequencies need Rock music to be broadcast such as IGNITE?

Geoff

[Ed]

With a name like Rustum Roy, he had to become a mad scientist! 

"Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist..."

I dunno - it's also a good name for a paperboy, too... "Rustum Roy, the rustling boy... "