quack science gets picked up by major news outlets

apparently this isn't a "new" discovery...and it now seems that indeed his idea of filing an alternative fuel patent is a bit misguided. his attempts to output more energy then inputed have failed (for reasons we all know) and he's been trying to dope the salt water with various secret chemicals to change that.

at last resort, he's saying that the radio waves act as a platinum catalyst and could devise a method to make a cheaper hyrogen fuel cell (maybe, except that he's burning up the hydrogen).

The reason the water burns is because the radio frequencies might be enough to bend the water molecule (changing the angle of the bonds) which causes them to lose their ability to interact with the sodium atoms.

as most people know, elemental sodium reacts violently with water and that would be enough to ignite a flame. still, i'm not sure off all the details....

regardless, if you want more info you can go here....but please, this whole notion of making seawater into a fuel source is just hype to build his name.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Direct...es_Hydrogen_from_Salt_Water_Using_Radio_Waves

 

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070518/WSEE01/70517027/-1/WSEE0101

He has now admitted apparently that it uses more energy that it produces.

Ya know, it's ironic, the Chinese posters got this right - shows that indeed China is ahead of us in science education.

 

yes, that's what you are saying. If you say you can use seawater to power our energy needs, then you are in fact talking about a new source for energy.

And it is a shame that China is ahead of us in education - we spent probably 10x more per child and we have a crappier education system, that's a shame.

 

i know you love calling me closed minded....

I'm sorry, someone trying to use radio waves (which can't even penetrate your skin) to cure cancer is quack science. That alone should discredit him and wasting effort and taking away from real scientist.

The guy is a radio broadcast executive who decided to use radio waves to cure cancer because he saw chemo as too rough. He had no scientific knowledge of the facts. It's total quack.

The guy doesn't even have a PhD and has an undergraduated degree in electronics from a technical college. He's not a scientist even. he's never done a real scientific experiment, and has never submited a single study or experiment for peer review - a standard requirment of any researcher to be taken seriously. I know more science then this guy - that's how sad he is.

And to even think this is more efficient than electrolysis in producing hydrogen is sketchy at best. Sure, maybe it might work, but it has a lot of catching up to do with that technology. But it's certainly by pure accident.

You don't know enough about this to call someone closed-minded about it. So please, just stick with politics. Other posters here have shown why it's quack - posters who normally hate my guts...even some of them see it's quack. Are you calling people with scientific knowledge closed-minded, because I can tell you and self-respecting physicist would laugh at someone taking this seriously.

 

x-rays - discovered by a scientist who was doing real experiements and did more experiments after his discover to establish what he found out and went through scientific rigor.

vs. a guy who doesn't know anything about science and just used radio waves because he had a nut-case idea that radio waves...the stuff you listen to in your ears - could cure cancer....when it can't even penetrate your skin.

 

"we came up with something that burns and it looks like salt water could be used as a fuel to replace the carbon footsteps that we've been using all these years i.e. fossil fuels." said Kanzius

oh yes he did!