Thursday, September 13, 2007

burning salt water

After years of people trying to invent new forms of fuel technology, most of which are less than convincing, there seems to be one which has caught my interest. A inventor trying to cure cancer stumbled upon a way to burn salt water which could act as the most abundant fuel source in the world. The physics behind this is pretty simple..

He heats the water using radio waves, which make the bonds in water weak. This causes the hydrogen to be released from water which can then be used as a fuel to burn any time you want. Also the process of hydrogen emission seems to be instantaneous and so you need not store the explosive hydrogen but only salty water and enough energy to fire the radio waves. There are still a few questions to be answered such a; how much radio energy will you need to produce the hydrogen? How much hydrogen is emitted? Is it a commercially viable technique and such.

But exciting for sure..

Burning salt water

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