Alternative fuel from seawater?
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Stumble ThisBlasting saltwater with radio waves seems to break apart the water molecules; the sodium chloride may weaken the bonds between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms. It's these gas molecules that are igniting.
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I bet that flame couldn't power a R/C car transmitter.
but this has to be bullshit. All the energy is being supplied by the
RF field, and a lot more is being put in than is available
in the "flame" of dissociated hydrogen and oxygen from the water,
if that is what it is (it may just be plasma from RF ionization).
Otherwise it would violate the laws of thermodynamics,
which even Einstein said were the most elegant and solid, being
based on minimal assumptions, as well as conservation of energy. What it
does demonstrate is the blinding stupidity/ignorance of not only people,
but also the news media. Remember the cold fusion fiasco? Any
scientist or engineer worth their salt, so to speak, would not give
this idea a second's thought, any more than the hoax videos like the one
purporting to show how to make water burn by putting two AA
cells in it for 45 minutes. Woof!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/14/saltwater.fire/
hydrogen and oxygen for ease of transport and use, but one
main corollary of thermodynamics is that "there ain't no free
lunch". Even if this was electrolysis via RF (which I doubt;
look at the miniscule bubbles - they can't support that size
flame) and was 100 percent efficient, all you've done is converted
the electrical energy into chemical energy. This is measured
in one way by Gibbs free energy for 2H2O -> 2H2 + O2, what
one could call "the integrity of the water molecule", which
is really the difference in free energy of the bonds in
water and the gases 2H2 and O2. What it looks like to me
is similar to what happens when you put a candle in a microwave
oven. Check out these videos:
and
The first shows the plasma can be initiated on the smoke alone,
while the second shows the plasma dissociated from the flame once
it gets started. I think that what is happening in this saltwater
situation is a little salty water is ejected from the tube which
then starts a plasma going, which is constrained to appear as a flame
because the RF is restricted to the area above the tube, rather
than the whole cavity of a microwave, where the plasma can rise to the
top of the inverted glass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_EYPSPMLE
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0qr6v9icmQ