Could this be a viable fuel alternative? If it is, why aren’t private sector companies jumping on this? I’m curious as to the byproduct that is developed when this being burned.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGg0ATfoBgo[/youtube]
Can’t make money off this if you’re a big company. If you’re small time and you try and take them on they tell you if you proceed they will kill you and your family.
Google ‘Alternative energy scientist killed’ and check out the 3rd link down in the search results.
As a side note a group tried to do, as much as someone can outside of these companies, a basic calculation of the amount of money the oil and pharmaceutical industries have, and the answer is that it’s so large it’s functionally infinite. These are not sectors of industry, these are literally 2 of the 4 walls that comprise the prison planet.
It would be interesting to know how much energy is needed for the radio frequency generator. Salt water may be cheap, but the “system” might not be efficient. At this point, if someone can get a a good lab model functioning, it will be developed. We’ve had enough “energy independence” jammed up our ass for so long that all the big oil companies could do is to try to get in front of the game. No way could they stop it.
A good find. It’s something to watch. I’m betting that it will be the backyard tinkerers that produce a car using what I see as fairly simple technology. Once it is in demonstration, it could easily take off. The beauty of it is no need to create new exotic infrastructure for delivery, and since we’re only separating hydrogen and water for a brief moment, heat would be the only “pollutant”. The salt would be retained, so essentially, you’d only refill the water tank.
Way cool.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_ … modynamics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law … modynamics
The product being formed while it burns is water.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
So, no, it isn’t a viable alternative source of energy. However, it could be a cheaper way to produce hydrogen which could make other alternative sources of energy (solar, wind, etc.) more portable, which would be good.
Yeah, I googled it and at best, it is energy conversion, not energy production. I’m leery of any system that stores hydrogen as a gas. Too many ways for it to become a bomb. Using it as it’s produced is ok, but technological failures of safety equipment would be spectacular. I’d rather not want to see that. Oh well, another interesting technology with no where to go…
Rather than directly as hydrogen, the hydrogen will (at least for the foreseeable future) be converted into natural gas. It isn’t about “making a bomb” since making a bomb is a trivial matter. It is more about the dangers associated with regular contact. I’d rather not have my car be explosive.
Oh, making it a bomb would be quite unintentional! But I can see a hydrogen powered car that’s ten years old, 3rd owner who doesn’t believe in maintenance of the safety equipment sitting next to me waiting for the green light and… 
No thanks.
Yeah cause using gasoline isn’t dangerous.
I think we should stick with gasoline, or else a hydrogen bomb might go off at a stoplight.
Gasoline is substantially less volatile than hydrogen. But no one in this thread is arguing for the long-term continued use of gasoline or other gasoline-like products (see: biofuel).
Well, this discovery was somewhat serendipitous for this fellow, so I don’t think his desire was to make a killing on it. He was perfectly happy to let someone else develop the large scale infrastructural resources to produce a possible cheap source of energy. It doesn’t seem it merits a conspiratorial side to it.
That is nonsensical. Nothing merits a conspiratorial side to it.
A lot of things we use today mostly didn’t take off from a ground floor discovery situation. Anything worth it’s mettle will go through stages of development. Even when oil was first seen as a dirt cheap lubricating product over animal fats, it blossomed into a multi use product. Not to mention offshoots of invetions that came about when the popularity of it became very profitable.
It will quite possibly rise to the occasion like oil did along with the profitability factor. The good thing is salt water is abundant and with the advent of the internet, someone will quite possibly come up with a way to utilize it’s potential the way someone found out used cooking oil would work in diesel engines.
The potential could be there. The ignition source could be altered with a different delivery system through a manifold which might be able to increase the output. Certainly a lot of woulda, shoulda, couldas will pave the way for possibilities. If I recall right, the video mentioned the heat produced might reach 1500 degrees.
It seems alternative fuels will hit a few brick walls when going head to head with fossil fuels. Corporations along with stock holders won’t just step aside when there is money to be made. If I had stock in oil futures I would find it hard to give it up. It did slow down the harvesting of whales just for their oil (trading one evil for another?). Financial security isn’t such a bad thing after all. I also am not against investing in salt water as another possible energy source. Billionaire T. Boone Pickens as of right now is trying to get rid of 600 some odd electric producing wind mills due to unforseen problems that are cropping up. The investment made to build those must have been a wallet lightener. 