Potential fuel: salt water

[Grenadier]

Interesting indeed...

If the energy output can exceed the energy required to weaken the H-O-H bonds, then I suspect that this guy will be on the fast track to the Nobel Prize.

If not, then it will be just like electrolysis: takes more energy to break the bonds than what you would be getting out of it.


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RIRI600&show_article=1


I doubt that they're going to be able to come out on top, getting a net gain, since burning hydrogen to power up turbines isn't too efficient, but I'll be the happiest person if I'm wrong.

 

[CuongNhuka]

There's still ethenal. Which, by the way, is used in several countries. And I mean pure ethenal.

 

[terryl965]

I wonder what the cost of water will become if it is turned into fuel.

 

[jks9199]

There's still ethenal. Which, by the way, is used in several countries. And I mean pure ethenal.

No, it's not ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol (C2H5OH); water is water. H2O. What I've got to assume is happening is that the RF is doing electrolysis; splitting the molecule of H2O into H2 and O. Then, they're burning the hydrogen, and actually producing... H2O! That's the beauty of burning hydrogen to produce energy; the "exhaust" is steam. The problem is that producing and storing hydrogen often consumes more energy than is produced in burning it.

 

[Dave Leverich]

Then we'll have salt dumps to get rid of all the extra salt

 

[Rich Parsons]

The article I read was "Salt" Water. i.e. the seas and oceans.

I think this is good investigation and should be continued.

 

[CuongNhuka]

No, it's not ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol (C2H5OH); water is water. H2O. What I've got to assume is happening is that the RF is doing electrolysis; splitting the molecule of H2O into H2 and O. Then, they're burning the hydrogen, and actually producing... H2O! That's the beauty of burning hydrogen to produce energy; the "exhaust" is steam. The problem is that producing and storing hydrogen often consumes more energy than is produced in burning it.

Yah, I know what electrolosis is. I was saying "there is still 'seperate method X'". Yah know like, "we could also do this"