flaming water batman!
Start stocking up on water, because the next time you go to buy it at the store, or the pump, it may not be such a bargain. There is new research being done, mostly by accident, which is looking towards saltwater as the solution to the successor of fossil fuels. An inventor recently stumbled upon a way to ignite normal saltwater, by placing it in the path of certain radio frequencies. The water once exposed to these frequencies and an ignition source is held near by, appears to spontaneously combust. What is actually occurring is more scientific, the radio waves weaken the bond between the hydrogen and the oxygen releasing hydrogen gas into the air, which can than is ignited.
This same concept is what is driving hydrogen cell cars with one major difference, radio waves versus electrolysis. Until recently the most common way to break the aforementioned hydrogen bonds was to introduce a current to the water, electrocute it in a sense. However this process has a major downside, the amount of energy it takes to break the bonds is less than what is released. This is why this new processes which I will call “radioing” the water is so revolutionary, it may be the key to solving the energy crisis.
The next logical question after hearing, and seeing (see links below) that we can burn seawater is how do we harness this energy? This is where I see the problems starting to arise. The obvious answer is power turbines, and than maybe even power cars, boats and airplanes. In order for these dreams to become a reality large scale tests must be conducted and new motors must be fabricated which can take advantage of this new found form of propulsion.
In today’s world of instant communication from anywhere on the globe, and other technologies beyond belief, is it so hard to fathom the world being run off of the burning sea? In the near future gas pumps could simply be replaced with water hoses and oil mines which are situated in the ocean could be re-rigged to collect the ocean it rests on. As I said before we should probably start stocking up on water before it is to late, who knows in no means time we could be complaining that sea water went up another 10 cents.
There are a couple links below to news stories which covered this and one which follows a different but similar set of experiments.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/09/fire-from-seawater-claim-lights-up-web.html <– blog similar to this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8utkoK2DhA ß interview with the inventor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChLaqkm_ME&feature=related ßsimilar invention which uses electrolysis
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If this is really true and it ends up being successful in the long run our world will change completely. It is pretty hard to believe, however it seems like there is a lot of research on it and it may actually end up working. If it actually does end up working it will take a while to change our cars, planes, etc., to be able to run of water and be successful. I think that scientists should really try hard to master this because it could change our lives. This is a really good blog and very interesting to read. It is written really well and your links are very useful.
This is a really cool thing this guy has discovered, out of all the energies that have been discovered, such as using corn oil to power cars, this would be by far the best, if we can make it work. There’s a lot of ocean out there, so I’m not too worried that this source would ever go dry such as the oil is now. We need to fund this and find out if this can work because if it does many of our energy problems would be solved. Cool blog.
Great blog. It was really helpful that you included extra links on the subject to further educate your readers. It is crazy to think that the world could be run by water now. If this was a safe and accurate method of attaining energy, this could solve a lot of the economic and environmental problems that exist in the world today. I believe we are technologically advanced enough to figure out a way to make this “dream” come true. It would allow for costs on certain natural resources to go down and provide a greater power source. You seem to be very knowledgeable about the topic, which made it easier for me to understand it. You did a great job with the structure of your blog and a great job included sources into it.
This is a great and new idea for the scientific world, which has been struggling recently to find a solution to the rising gas prices currently. This salt water solution seems to be a more reasonable way than using ethanol because using ethanol requires using up valuable food, more specifically-corn, that many people need to survive. It is hard to fathom that this could happen but in today’s world with everything developing so quickly, this could quite possiblely be the next way we are going to be powering our cars. I know I am a huge advocate for hybrids, and I still love the fast expensive gas guzzlers like the Ferrari’s , Lambo’s, and Rolls’, I still think my first choice for a car would be the Toyota Echo because I believe every little bit of saving helps. This idea put forth by this scientist could be helpful in another invention that might be discovered on the future. Your blog was very informative and I learned a lot about this new salt water idea.
This is fascinating, John. In the beginning of my chemistry course, we talked about new ways of harnessing energy in place of petroleum. Electrolysis seemed to be the best solution- put an electric current through water, and you get hydrogen. What was needed was a way to harness this efficiently, but this is the solution for that.
The ability to harness this efficiently is incredible. They should be able to make power turbines and engines that can use this soon.