Salt water power

[archon808]

"the feul, nothing more than saltwater" WRONG. The energy is also coming from the 300,000 watt amplifier producing the radio wave. Check this guys electric bill to see the truth of this demonstration.

[jbrun009]

lol @ reporter 1:09 dramatic turn and 1:30 glasses in mouth

[gabl8a89]

if he pay me the radiowave generation cost i will use this

[Camyum]

Check out Stan Meyers water powered car too!

[93tomb]

Good God, this is so bad, I think I have actual brain damage. For fucks sake, as if these guys were so stupid they could blindly report it as some sort of 'free energy' breakthrough while ignoring the amount of energy required to power the RF transmitter! How do I know the transmitter would use more energy than you'd get from the water? Because that's where the energy fucking comes from! Jesus Christ, its a nifty little trick, but the reporting is painfully ignorant. Fuck!

[kdc43]

THIS IS TOTAL CRAP!!! AND THE STUPID REPORTERS ARE BELIEVING IT!!!!

[ramgueta]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Patrikss]

The energy comes from the plug in the wall, it seams like a detour and a waste of energy to me.

The way the energy travels: Electricity -> Radio waves -> dividing H2O into H2 and O2 -> Burns H2 with O2 which turns back to H2O -> The heat then drives the car?

I agree with Comic-book-guy "worst idea ever"

[jiggajesse]

How many watts is his machine using compared to what it's putting out?

[hilz4prez]

But if you burn hydrogen and oxygen the product is water, which is what you started with. So if you were to get more energy out if it then you put in then you're essentially making a perpetual motion machine, which is impossible. The only thing I can think of is that the salt must have something to do with it then...

[jfnelson77]

@hilz4prez Not a perpetual motion machine. There are losses in there.

But, if you use solar cells or wind turbines to make hydrogen this way then it would be green. And it the actual cost is less then $3.00 a gal equivalent we would have a winner. We need more research. Trying to do this while hydrolyzes or is it more effective if the salt water is hot?

[monky19]

for a accedent this is quite cool . to have this tech on a ship grate idea to have it in a desert erm ok idea but every wear elce it is simply not cost effective . would be easyer to make a solor cell useing salt plus water and copper but still very cool and hats off to the guy he is trying to save lifes so cut him some slack well done sir well done

[Ledamonster]

GENIUS ! ! !

[computersolutions164]

So in theory at least you should end up with sodium burning in a hydrogen flame.

If you burn pure hydrogen the flame is actually pinkish in colour.

Chances are the energy required to do this will be more than the energy released, I have not calculated this in JOULES though yet.

I am sure it must be possible.........

[computersolutions164]

hang on you folks a mo, let put some logic in this.

1. Sodium, (NA) a soft alkali metal which reacts with water asnd air

2. Chlorine a gas belonging to the "Halogen" group.

React the two and you get salt. I know this, i've done it. it usually creates a bright quick flash and hey presto salt.

So when you bombard salt water with high energy RF, what will happen?

The Sodium in the water will be released, hence the orange flame, the Hydrogen bond in the water will be broken releasing it

[EnviroWarrior10]

Even if radio waves do indeed crack salt water into hydrogen and oxygen you have to ask one simple question.

How much energy is required to operate the machine that generates the radio waves and how does that compare to the energy released as the hydrogen and oxygen is burned.

If the former is greater than the latter then the idea is unviable.

You can indefinitely spend more money than you earn and energy generation is no different.

[gaff2006]

Exactly; is there net energy.

[teachnorth123]

What a load of crap. I can't believe how stupid people are that work in TV.

[candnrg]

Just wish he (and the bulk of research funding) focused on the genetic variety of cancer research (the level at which cancer is formed and spread). The slash/burn/poison approach is barbaric and needs to be outmoded. Slash/burn/poison refers to surgery/irradiation/chemothera­py ...all of which are terrible assaults on healthy parts... a juggling act that can cause more weakness and cancer. These days will be looked upon as the 'Dark Ages' of cancer research.

[candnrg]

Wish it were more than a high tech parlor trick. If our senses revealed the ferocity of radio waves used to make the little tube give off hydrogen bubbles, the wasste of entropy would be obvious. (care for some fried brain with your fizzing salt water?) But maybe a humanitarian company will 'buy' it to help fund the cancer research.

[narcovice]

oh wow shes such a beautiful news women i love her silk blouse so beautiful

[9ijklk]

Some here suggest that this is just some kind of recycled, old technology - but I've NEVER seen salt water burn and THAT may just be VERY useful, even if it is caused using energy from off of the grid - the observer on the video said it had created heat measured at 1,500 degrees centigrade. Hmmm...

[Chacha2u]

What a bunch of huey. The energy to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen comes from the radio waves alright. But the radio waves are made by the transmitter which uses the power from the grid to make the radio waves. Radio waves don't come for free.

If you want even more H and O for your money, just stick electrodes into the saltwater and hook'm up to electric power. Its called electrolysis and is almost as old as the mountains.

[starkwether]

so is your mom

[Chacha2u]

What a bunch of huey. The energy to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen comes from the radio waves alright. But the radio waves are made by the transmitter which uses the power from the grid to make the radio waves. Radio waves don't come for free.

If you want even more H and O for your money, just stick electrodes in the saltwater. Its called electrolysis and is almost as old as the mountains.

[Chacha2u]

What a bunch ouf huey. The energy comes to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen comes from the radio vawes alright. But the radio waves are made by the transmitter that uses the power from the grid to make the radio waves. Radio waves don't come for free.

If you want even more H and O for your money, just stick electrodes in the saltwater. Its called electrolysis and almost as old as the mountains.

[wearejusthumanbeing]

what will happend if you light up the whole ocean with fire -_-

[starkwether]

it would be goddam hot thats for sure!

[abcdefghgijklmnopqrs]

you can do the same with a 9 volt battery salt water and a non galvinised cast iron nail i learnt that in school 8 yrs ago

[Plangkye]

Did... did he just call water an ELEMENT?!

[zappasoul]

Isn´t it an Element?

[CrimsonBladeMaster]

Poor man he's getting old

[photastegood]

@Plangkye Water is an element.. H20 anyone?

[smokeymctokem]

@photastegood water is a chemical substance made up of the elements hydrogen and oxygen

[1rabidmonkey]

@photastegood Water is a compound composed of the elements Hydrogen and Oxygen.

[Avataryoutuification]

@Plangkye H20 FTW!!

[vivixdragon]

@Plangkye I think he ment the salt in the water :p

[junkyjuice21]

@Plangkye yes, but it makes sense for him to use that word because it's what everyday people understand.

[yurchardonnay]

@Plangkye as in the four "elements"; earth, wind, fire and water ... is the meaning i think.

pstthe 5th element is love.

[cableairman]

The amount of energy going into the transmitter has got to way more than the energy going out of that flame. It just seriously can't be that efficient. you know how heavy that would be in a car. Or even if you just had transmitter on the road the energy for the transmitter would come from any body probably fossil fuels from a coal or oil power plant.

[davidrvrthompson]

GOD BLESS AMERICA

[sethmagill]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[SefoKaya]

hahaha the oil companies are gonna kill this guy. Is the fossil fuel problem solved now?

[dougfunny778]

INCREDIBLE!

[efegomez]

@dougfunny778 yes friend, it is incredible what a naive reporters!