Yeah, that was a trip to read. And salt water, no less! Then again, given how well free hydrogen burns, I'm not too surprised by that. Actually, if it's separating hydrogen and oxygen, then it's not surprising that it'd be that intense.
My only question was wondering whether the heat output from it would make for more energy than it takes to be generating the radio frequency to set the water up to burn in the first place. If not, it's a neat toy, but not exactly an efficient fuel source.
That is, indeed, the question. We'll just have to wait and see how well it scales. If it isn't sufficiently efficient, then it's a really cool parlor trick.
I was reading today about concentrated solar power generation. One of the things they do to maintain power generation at night is using molten salt! I'm wondering if they might be able to sort of "bank" part of the output of igniting salt water to put it back into the generation loop.
Molten SALT? Wow....that's a fascinating idea! I'll have to look into that some more.
Banking part of the output would make sense. I will be very interested to see what happens with this particular technology. It's got a decent amount of potential to it, and would be cleaner than a lot of other options.
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Date: 2007-09-11 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-11 11:16 pm (UTC)My only question was wondering whether the heat output from it would make for more energy than it takes to be generating the radio frequency to set the water up to burn in the first place. If not, it's a neat toy, but not exactly an efficient fuel source.
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Date: 2007-09-12 12:27 am (UTC)I was reading today about concentrated solar power generation. One of the things they do to maintain power generation at night is using molten salt! I'm wondering if they might be able to sort of "bank" part of the output of igniting salt water to put it back into the generation loop.
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Date: 2007-09-12 01:22 am (UTC)Banking part of the output would make sense. I will be very interested to see what happens with this particular technology. It's got a decent amount of potential to it, and would be cleaner than a lot of other options.
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