Burn Water?

[BrianG]

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

i hope that they will run with this, they would be able to produce electrical power , should help the coasts greatly, and stop the blackouts

great find

[Arct1k]

hmmm physics would say though that the energy required to bake the oxygen/hydrogen bond wll be greater than the combustion to create water.

Hence not really free just maybe more effecient that existing hydrolosis (spelt wrong i know)... Nuclear is the way to go if we can just stop them going bang - Ideally sustainable fusion is still the holy grail.

[BrianG]

Yeah, I think that's the thing they're looking at now: does the energy required to break the bond outweigh the energy produced. However, the article says that the salt helps the process so it might be more feasible.

[What's_nitro?]

Does exposing it to RF only release the hydrogen, like the article says? That wouldn't make any sense, unless the oxygen were to combine with the salt... Saltide anyone?

AND does this technique work with pure water? It could be the motivation they need to start mass production of hydrogen vehicles.

[Finnster]

Its a little short on details, but I do not see how it creates any energy. You are splitting a H-O bond to burn the hydrogen, ie oxidize it back to a H-O bond. You can only lose energy in the process.

I think the only point of it would be to be a more efficient means to create hydrogen that could later be used (in a fuel cell or direct combustion) other than hydrolysis or chemical reactions.

[gixxer]

just read that a couple hours ago on yahoo. thought it was pretty cool.