[ckilmer]

About 5-6 years ago the news included a story about a guy by the name of John Kanzius who fired radio waves at salt water and got hyrdogen out of the water. Here's utube of the story

Likely the radio waves were tuned to something like 12.5 or close to whatever is the NMR nuclear magnetic resonance of hydrogen--and thereby shook them out of the H2O bonds.

It was an interesting experiment. The problem was that it took more energy to cause the reaction than energy was produced. I've seen numbers for the energy in out shortfall as being anywhere from 10%-70%.

There was an enormous amount of publicity about the procedure at the time. But after a year or so, the news died back to nothing. It doesn't seem like anyone ever tried to optimize the process. Kanzius died a couple years later.

[Red Badger]

I REMEMBER THAT................

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>John Kanzius who fired radio waves at salt water and got hyrdogen out of the water.

It should be obvious to anyone with a modicum of sense, let alone science, that such a process will always require more energy than will be produced. Unfortunately, most reporters, people with inherited or lottery wealth and the desperate-for-cheap-energy readers of such rubbish have no sense.

>It doesn’t seem like anyone ever tried to optimize the process.

Because it’s stupid.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I remember he also pioneered a cancer treatment that entailed injecting molecules containing metal ions that would attach to cancer cells then get zapped with radio waves and destroy the cancer cells. He invented it while he was dying of cancer, I believe.