salt water as an energy resource?

[stefan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4gOS8aoFk

[sparker1]

Call me cynical, but something will go wrong. Two years ago, I saw absolute, undeniable evidence of an engine that will run on pure water. With my own eyes, I saw it. Trouble is, it only runs on BOTTLED water, which as we all know is more expensive than gas.

[KillEmAll]

I've seen this floating around, and was pretty excited at first. But then common sense kicked in and I realized there is always more to the story. This is either a clever hoax or something that will never come to fruition because of some technical issue. And if I'm wrong, I'll be the happiest person ever proven wrong. If I were wrong and this actually works, we'll live next to the largest inland gas station, GSL.

[R]

The problem with technologies like this is that they require more energy than they produce. What you don't hear in the video is how much electricity is required to produce the radio waves that ionize the sea water so it will combust.

Me? I'm planning to cash in on the limitless energy potential of spontaneous human combustion. :nod:

[Sombeech]

Question: Does it have to remain in that machine to stay alight? Or can you light it once and remove it?

Either way, it looks pretty expensive.

[Gutpiler_Utahn]

Call me cynical, but something will go wrong. Two years ago, I saw absolute, undeniable evidence of an engine that will run on pure water. With my own eyes, I saw it. Trouble is, it only runs on BOTTLED water, which as we all know is more expensive than gas.

Hey Sparker... If that was the case, then I can only assume it was that the water had to be pure for it to work. If that's the case, then distilled water would also work for roughly $.70 a gallon.

I saw an article on Fox news a year or so back where a guy had managed to split apart the oxygen and hydrogen particles in your everyday water. He created a torch with it that would not affect organic material. I watched him put his hand in the flame and nothing happened, then he immediately moved the flame to a ball of brass. The brass, which was room temperature before melted to liquid in just a few seconds. He then turned around and made his car run on a combination of it and gas.

[ericchile]

Its it the first law of thermal dynamics that energy can't be created from no where?

Ie the energy it takes to split h2o to h and 2o is the same it is to put it back together (or less). I don't think water alone is the answer.

But it could be used as a sort of battery.....

A solar hydro car... use electricity to split the molecules as needed, and then burn them. The electric current could be pulled on the fly from solar panels. But would this be more efficient then strait electric?

What is more confusing to me is why car companies are making hybrid cars (mostly gas engine, powered by part electric). It would be much easier to build an electric vehicle and have it partly fueled by a gas generator. Think about it, you wouldn't need a transmission, depending on how long of trips you could avoid the gas station all together.

[ogdmfg]

check out waterpoweredcar.com, very interesting

[sparker1]

Call me cynical, but something will go wrong. Two years ago, I saw absolute, undeniable evidence of an engine that will run on pure water. With my own eyes, I saw it. Trouble is, it only runs on BOTTLED water, which as we all know is more expensive than gas.

Hey Sparker... If that was the case, then I can only assume it was that the water had to be pure for it to work. If that's the case, then distilled water would also work for roughly $.70 a gallon.

I saw an article on Fox news a year or so back where a guy had managed to split apart the oxygen and hydrogen particles in your everyday water. He created a torch with it that would not affect organic material. I watched him put his hand in the flame and nothing happened, then he immediately moved the flame to a ball of brass. The brass, which was room temperature before melted to liquid in just a few seconds. He then turned around and made his car run on a combination of it and gas.

I was just kidding. Forgot to use the emoticon.