Re: OT: Burning Salt Water


"Mike Rieves" <mriev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think this guy has stumbled upon the cure for the energy
shortage....wonder WHAT the oil companies will do......
I'm not gonna link it, for fear of being labled a spammer, but look up
Burning Salt Water on you-tube...you WONT believe this......

Remember back in junior high school when your science teacher showed you
electrolysis? Two electrodes in water, run a current through it,
hydrogen and oxygen gases are released, they burn and form water vapor.
This is the same thing, but instead of using electric current to break
the covalent bonds between hydrogen and oxygen, it uses RF
electromagnetic radiation -- i.e., the same thing your microwave oven
does. It's interesting that microwaves can do it, but not real
surprising. Electromagnetic radiation is well-known to be able to tear
covalent bonds apart, that's how UV radiation causes skin cancer, by
tearing up the long molecules in DNA. And, it's not going to be useful
as an energy source, because the energy that's used to tear the bonds
apart cannot be greater than the energy released when they're put back
together again by combustion, and due to inevitable mechanical losses,
would have to be less. Same reason you can't have a perpetual-motion
machine. You might have hydrogen to burn using this guy's process, but
you're gonna have one hell of a big electric bill.

Here's what you've got: A guy trying to cure cancer (!) in his home
garage (!) finds he can release hydrogen and oxygen and then burn it.
Yee haw! By the way, we already use X-rays and nuclear radiation to
treat cancer in much the way that he's pursuing, I wish the guy all the
luck in the world, but I'm putting my money on GE and Siemens. Oh, and
I have to be skeptical about a "scientist" that calls water the "most
abundant element on Earth." Water's not an element, and neither
hydrogen nor oxygen is the most-abundant element on Earth.

Exactly. It's nothing more than an energy conversion process, like
hydroelectric power. You can't get more out than you put in. The Second
Law of Thermodynamics says so.

Wait, with hydroelectric power, you're not putting any energy in,
gravity is doing all the work for you. That's the beauty of hydroelectric
power, other than construction and maintenance costs, it's free! :-)

Aw come on, there's no free lunch. ;-) Let's see, I'd say that
hydroelectric is a form of solar power. The sun provides the heat which
causes the evaporation which fuels the precipitation in the mountains which
fills the rivers which power the wheels or turbines through which the water
flows on it's way back to the sea where it evaporates.
Gerry




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