Kanzius Salt Water Energy

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Kanzius was testing his external radio-wave generator to see if it could desalinate salt water, and the water ignited. A university chemist determined that the process is generating hydrogen, which can be burned as fuel.

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Description

Scientists long have thought that salt water couldn't be burned. So when an Erie man announced he'd ignited salt water with the radio-frequency generator he'd invented, some thought it a was a hoax. John Kanzius has found a way to burn salt water with the same radio wave machine he is using to kill cancer cells. He tried to desalinate seawater with a generator he developed to treat cancer, and it caused a flash in the test tube.

Why

Kanzius discovery has spawned scientific interest in using the world's most abundant substance as clean fuel, among other uses.What's been released from the test tube is often refered to as "Brown's gas", a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen that burns pretty efficiently and cleanly. Many companies sell a Brown's gas generator based on standard electrolysis (you know, two electrodes in water, plus electricity. Adding salt allows the current to flow more efficiently, just like adding a bit of baking soda to an old-fashioned humidifier creates more steam).The only new wrinkle is using a microwave to break apart the water, rather than an electode and DC current. NO chance this is more efficient than taking DC current directly from a solar array with electrolysis to make brown's gas. Creating microwaves as an intermediate step will be at least half as efficient.  But imagine the advantages of a new microwave that browns as it heats.Yet the key benefit would be how scalable and how fast the technique would work. If the system is simple enough, it would go along way to a sustainable hydrogen economy. Generate the energy to then generate the hydrogen via this process. The hydrogren would serve then as a green alternative for other stores of energy, so that large scale solar/wind/etc energy plants then produce the hydrogen which would then be used the same way we currently use gas and heating oil.

How

While Mr. Kanzius was demonstrating how his generator heated nanoparticles, someone noted condensation inside the test tube and suggested he try using his equipment to desalinate water. So, Mr. Kanzius put sea water in a test tube, then trained his machine on it, producing an unexpected spark. In time he and laboratory owners struck a match and ignited the water, which continued burning as long as it remained in the radio-frequency field.The discovery was made accidentally while he was researching the use of radio waves for desalination. During these several trials, heat from burning hydrogen grew hot enough to melt the test tube. Dr. Roy's tests on the machine provided further evidence that the process is releasing and burning hydrogen from the water.Later in 2007, Kanzius announced that the same radio frequency transmitter can also be used to burn hydrogen electrolyzed from salt water. Kanzius has proposed that the flame is produced by radio waves "forcing together" the "normally separated" hydrogen and oxygen in the water, a process he calls "reunification."Rustum Roy - a professor of chemistry at Penn State University attempted to recreate the experiment to confirm what he'd witnessed weeks before in an Erie lab. Dr. Roy said the salt water isn't burning per se, despite appearances. . And, there were no electrodes or other inducers in reaction.In water (H2O), hydrogen is covalently bonded to oxygen, and thus the process must "reunite" pairs of hydrogen atoms and pairs of oxygen atoms, releasing dihydrogen (H2) and dioxygen (O2). The energy from the radio waves is absorbed by the water and splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen which then react together to reform the water and re-release the energy and form a flame.The radio frequency actually weakens bonds holding together the constituents of salt water -- sodium chloride, hydrogen and oxygen -- and releases the hydrogen, which, once ignited, burns continuously when exposed to the RF energy field. Mr. Kanzius said an independent source measured the flame's temperature, which exceeds 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, reflecting an enormous energy output.In other words, the process turns radio energy into heat and light energy. The water torch, a form of oxyhydrogen torch, is an earlier example of the process of dissociation of water resulting in the release of heat and light energy.

Future Trends

Kanzius said that "In this case we weren't looking for energy, we were looking for something that might do desalinization. The more we tried desalinization, the more heat we produced, until we got fire". Kanzius admits that this process could not be considered an energy source, as more energy is used to produce the RF signal than can be obtained from the burning gas and stated in July 2007 that he never claimed his discovery would replace oil, asserting only that his discovery was "thought provoking."Roy, who deems the discovery "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," will now take up further research with the Departments of Energy and Defense to investigate its potential applications as a source of alternative energy. "We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads. The potential is huge," he said. 

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