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SALT WATER to replace gasoline???

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  1. wingfeather

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    http://glumbert.com/media/saltwater

    As the clip will show, this man accidently found a way to convert salt water to fire.

    If the power necessary to create the flame is currently (or can be refined by scientists in the future) to be powered by electric car batteries, we could see salt water cars on the road!!!
     
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    Evenually this is going to be a future problem.
     
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    Astonishing - if the energy released by "burning" the water is actually higher than the engery needed for the radio waves, which I somehow doubt. For car usage, it would probably the best thing to use the heat run a turbine with a generator creating electric energy for the waves and for the actual movement of the car.

    btw, I hope his "idea" of curing cancer by heating up metal particles with radio waves is a joke - this has been discussed for quite a while, and if he really did research on the topic (which he better should have done if he wanted to find a cure for cancer) he *must* have stumbled over that method...

    Edit: Reading wikipedia,it was actually him who invented the above mentioned method for curing cancer some years ago. Very interesting!
     
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    I'm not a tree hugger by any means, but... crude oil magically appears from the depths of the Earth? It's not an organic based substance? This is news to me - and a little far fetched, too.

    Please explain...
     
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    The guy in the video looks so, so, so LIKEABLE!!!
    And he is a good man because, because......oh because he hates CANCER!!

    Scam.

    It takes more energy to power the machine making the radio waves then can be recovered by the burning hydrogen!
    Jeez.
     
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    That's it... if Wikipedia is to be believed, he says that himself (although of course he talks about 'the current state of the invention'), but the media doesn't want to hear any "yes, but..." ...
     
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