EDIT:  don't let any oil companies buy your patent!! ...maybe the City of Cleveland can buy it ;)

 

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VIDEO:

http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=35660&sid=68227&bw=

 

Water into fuel?

 

 

Reported by  Michael O'Mara 

Created: 5/22/2007 7:28:52 PM

Updated:1/1/2008 1:08:14 PM

 

 

ERIE, P.A. -- Retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, wasn't looking for an answer to the energy crisis.

He was looking for a cure for cancer.  Four years ago, inspiration struck in the middle of the night. Kanzius decided to try using radio waves to kill the cancer cells.

 

More below

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=68227

Nonsense, poppycock and balderdash! Nothing new there!

 

Electrolysis of water has been understood for more years than any of us have been alive. Apply an outside energy source, and you can cause the oxygen and hydrogen atoms to separate and be released. Recombine them with an ignition source, and they'll react (burn). The products of the reaction are water vapor and heat (energy)

 

The salt functions as an electrolyte; without it, the process would take place very slowly.

 

Typically a direct current power source is used, either a battery or a rectifier; oxygen will collect at the anode, or positive electrode, and hydrogen will collect at the cathode, or negative electrode.

 

In this case, the external energy comes from radio waves that are generated by a device created by the experimenter. In any case, the potential energy derived from reacting (burning) the hydrogen and oxygen is likely to be substantially less than the energy used to sustain the electrolysis.

 

If you're looking for a place to invest in alternative energy sources, I'm working on this revolutionary new concept for a perpetual motion machine ...  :roll:

I've also read/been told a lot of criticism with the salt water bit as well.   You don't think there will be a cheaper way to produce the radio waves some day?

 

"The salt functions as an electrolyte; without it, the process would take place very slowly."

I don't what you mean here, he does use salt water.  Maybe something else could be added as another sort of catalyst?  Either way, you're saying it woud be cheaper, easier, and more efficient to just run the car off of the battery itself?

 

 

 

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Not that these have anything to do with what you said, but two of my favorite "science" quotes:

 

"In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window." Rodney Dangerfield

 

"The atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."

Admiral William Leahy, on US Atomic Bomb Project, to President Truman in 1945

 

"The salt functions as an electrolyte; without it, the process would take place very slowly."

I don't what you mean here, he does use salt water.  Maybe something else could be added as another sort of catalyst? 

 

The rate at which electrical current flows between the electrodes determines how fast hydrogen and oxygen are released. Pure water is a poor conductor, and doesn't promote very high current flow. Salt increases the conductivity and current flow, and accelerates the release of hydrogen and oxygen.

 

Automotive storage batteries use sulfuric acid as an electrolyte. When a storage battery is charged, it releases hydrogen. That's why there are warnings against storage batteries near an open flame, or smoking around them when they are being charged. There are various chemicals that will work as electrolytes; salt is probably the cheapest.

 

Either way, you're saying it woud be cheaper, easier, and more efficient to just run the car off of the battery itself?

 

Eggzackly!

The salt functions as an electrolyte

...But it has want plants crave

 

 

w  ww.youtube.com/watch?v=UuvK1NenUQ4

 

On a side note, I just learned you cannot post a youtube link as a url anymore, it always comes up as the full video in the thread...

 

  I used copper sulfate as the electrolyte in a high school experiment.

 

  Another way to say this is that the energy doesn't come from the water; it comes from the device that produces the radio waves.