2007 Sep 15 - Sat
Burning Water aka Breaking Water Into Hydrogen/Oxygen aka Electrolysis
A few days ago, there was a much talked about article regarding
Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water. Even
John Mauldin referenced it.
Many people have gone off the deep end thinking that this is the next best thing to water running
up hill. By looking a carefully at the video and reading the article, and doing a little research, one
can understand what is going on. First a little background:
I'd say the radio frequency energy acts in a
way similar to feeding electrical current directly through the salt solution (radio frequencies are the
byproducts of an oscillating electrical current). The video showed us 'something' using between 200 and
400 Watts, about the equivalent of four standard 100W light bulbs. They were careful to not show us the
frequencies used though.
Thinking more about how
the hydrogen is produced and recombined, I seem to recall article and/or video from many moons ago
about once you got
this burning reaction going, you could keep the mix running by continually adding water. (No this is not
perpetual motion because you are still supplying a source of energy--the water). Anyone remember
research on this type of thing? In some blogs, there were comments suggesting that even though
this a a decent
reaction, but because it was not self-perpetuating, it isn't good. I beg to differ. Just think about
oil for a moment.
Untold amounts of energy is spent in finding it, drilling it, pumping it, refining it, and
delivering it. Yet there is enough energy left over to fuel our cars and planes. Could it not be said
that even though we lose energy in breaking the bonds to produce hydrogen, that there may be more
energy left
over to do other stuff? Looking at it another way, electrical energy is used to break the bond, and we
get heat energy (although inefficient to use) when the bond is recombined.
I did find a reference to a
Water Engine, but
it wasn't quite what I was after. Besides, I think the scientist in that post misses the point.
Yes, you can't
use the same amount of water and expect to keep re-using it. But if you keep adding water into the
system, you keep refueling the system, just like putting more gas into your auto fuel tank. An in most
places, water is quite abundant. Burning water may be more or less as energy efficient as burning oil,
but if I recall correctly (!), there is more water than oil.
If someone could point me to a reference where some one demonstrates a 'burning water' engine--an
engine where you prime it with hydrogen, feed it water, and keep it burning--I'd be
most appreciative.
But all this is water under the bridge, in comparison to what the video was really showing. It shows
that if you can deliver the special particles to the site of a cancerous growth, and use radio waves to
activate the particles, you can kill the cancer cells and leave everything else intact. Now that is
what one would call 'precision bombing'.
Update: Through a Google link that passed through my site, I came across Stan Meyer and a Water Fuel Cell. If you
look those up, you'll see all sorts of stories, conspiracies, and strange information floating around. Who/What can you
beleive.
For other alternate energy systems, PESWiki looks interesting.
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