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Re: (TFT) Power

The burning salt water looks cool, but it's not a fuel source. The energy required to break up the water molecules has to be at least as much as the energy you'd get back by burning the hydrogen. In practice, the system would waste a lot of electricity.
When you burn hydrogen, it turns into water. Water is the ashes from that fire. If you could just burn the ashes, that would be creating energy from nothing. If you could do that, you'd be violating really basic laws of physics that people have been trying to break for centuries and always failing. Give that man a Nobel, it's time to rewrite the physics & chemistry textbooks.
I don't believe that he accidently discovered this by putting a container of salt water in his gadget either. There's no use for brine in an electronics lab. We've known for centuries that water molecules break apart when you get them hot enough, and we've known since the '50's that you can heat water with radio waves. 

--Scott

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On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:43 PM, "Jay Carlisle" <Maou_Tsaou@charter.net> wrote: 


Very interesting how this funny old world works.
I've been trying to wrestle a scale outta energy requirements for societies the past few days. I know the basic source is the campfire, but by the time you reach modern tech the situation gets a bit dicey as far as future directions go. 
Power plants are very intresting buildings.
So then I come across this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq85HFOXcc4
It's salt water being burned at about 1500 degrees cent. in an RF- generator. It looks like the H in O in energy out water out model got it backwards.
I had this as a "it's possable but how" hyper advanced technology in the vein of advanced tech looks like magic so I don't have to explain it. 
It turns out that I'd have been wrong wrong wrong it seems...
There's a TON of questions here, like how many watts are being used to maintain the saltwater in that state... and what's up with the salt anyway, but this is kinda cool. 
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