Scientist burns saltwater with radio waves?

[cavalierlwt]

http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

WTF? There's gotta be a huge catch, like maybe it take 10 times more radio energy to burn the hydrogen out of saltwater. Something just doesn't seem right about this. There's radio waves all across the spectrum constantly bouncing around, including the ocean's surface. I would think if this was real, someone would have discovered this before--when they accidentally lit some of the ocean on fire! You kinda tend to notice strange things like that happening.

[Darknut]

http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

WTF? There's gotta be a huge catch, like maybe it take 10 times more radio energy to burn the hydrogen out of saltwater. Something just doesn't seem right about this. There's radio waves all across the spectrum constantly bouncing around, including the ocean's surface. I would think if this was real, someone would have discovered this before--when they accidentally lit some of the ocean on fire! You kinda tend to notice strange things like that happening.

Yes, I thought of the same thing. Something has to sustain the device generating the radio waves. It is possible that the radio frequency is either really high or really precise or both.

[Wairudo Enjin]

I would have to agree. The H2O bond is very strong and stable so it seems to me that it would take more energy to break the bond than would be 'usefully' given off.

[[ecgn] btt]

I would think we know less then we think about energy and particles on an atomic level and with that ya never know.

[cavalierlwt]

We'll know it for real if the next time you go to the beach, a bunch of Big Oil reps yell "Get the f*ck out of my water!!!"

[Darknut]

Maybe we'll get lucky and all you have to do is throw a radio tuned to a certain station into the ocean.

I still say that the best energy resource is liposuctioning the fat out of everybody and converting it to bio-diesel.

[SavageParrot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGg0ATfoBgo

1500 degrees celsius. I'd think it would have to use a shit load of energy to make it use more energy to run than it gives off with that kind of temperature.

[Cleatus703]

I don't think so. I salted up my bath tub the other night, climbed in with a radio and all it did was make my giblets tingle. So I don't it's that simple.


Note to self: When experimenting with radios, be sure to use battery powered radios. Those AC radios really tingle.

[Darknut]

You weren't tuned to the right station. My guess is to look for a power rock station.

[SavageParrot]

Nah it's got to be an evangelical station. That kind of heat can only be cause by God trying to smite someone...

[Darknut]

Nah it's got to be an evangelical station. That kind of heat can only be cause by God trying to smite someone...

Let the power of the Lord flow through you!

[SavageParrot]

The power of christ compels you!













































....to shop at Radio Shack.

[Darknut]

Imagine all the riced out cars that would have "Fueled by Jesus" written all over them.

[SavageParrot]

Or actually now that you mention it bumper stickers that read 'The power of Christ Propells you!'