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Old 10-06-2007, 12:48 AM
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Run your car on salt water in the future??? Check this out!

Someone sent me this clip of a guy in Akron, OH, looking for a cure for cancer, and accidentally stumbled on the fact that he can make salt water burn, and he runs a tiny science-lab engine off it.

Check out the short article and watch the video clip!!

www.wanttoknow.info/newenergyinventionsnewsstories

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Old 10-06-2007, 01:17 AM
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Is the science-lab engine providing the power back to the RF transmitter, then? (closed-loop system?)

If yes, neat -- but keep in mind that RF transmitters only convert ~20% of their input power into actual energy, the rest is wasted entirely. Imagine if your supercharger sapped 80% of the horsepower of your engine to run.

Not very practical.
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Old 10-06-2007, 10:43 PM
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Hmm.. nuke sea water with radio waves, get hydrogen gas, burn it in air.

Thermodynamically, it's a crock. If the seawater had that much potential energy, it'd have been released millions of years ago.

Now, what he might have struck on is a convenient way to dissassociate the Hydrogen out of seawater on a large scale. That's immensely valuable in its own right if we ever want to power consumer automobiles on Hydrogen -- we'd need to produce massive quantities of hydrogen unimaginably fast to meet the needs.
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Old 10-07-2007, 12:54 AM
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Hey, look...

Hey, look man, give the guy a break. He was looking for a cure for cancer and he found a way to light salt water. That's pretty amazing in itself, regardless of how efficient at this early stage. Rudulph Diesel's first attempt with diesel blew up and almost cost him his life.

I say, give the man a hand for finding this. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but sometime in the future maybe there's hope to not enrich the Saudis!

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Old 10-07-2007, 02:34 AM
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This was already mentioned in OD.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=199602&highlight=salt+water
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Old 10-07-2007, 10:10 AM
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jeepers, that sounds like a big conspiracy theory site... everything in there has a tint of look what you could be using...
anyway, don't hold your breath for seawater engines...

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