September 16, 2007

Very significant or fishy hoax? Man burns sea water at temp of 3000 degrees by using simple radio waves. Humans rejoice at potential new fuel, Spongebob demands unilateral non proliferation agreement.
posted by Headsessions 16 years ago
  • Um, but what effect does it have on humans standing nearby?
  • THEY BURN
  • I suspect that it's neither significant nor a hoax: it's probably a miscalculation or failure to account for all the energy inputs to the system. I think the same thing is true for Steorn, incidentally.
  • It has been pointed out elsewhere that the energy required to get salt water to burn is greater than the energy produced by the burning salt water, so in all it is a net loss. That kind of kills the fun of this story.
  • The Klingon Empire demands that the Federation turn over the secret of the Ocean-Burning weapon to a neutral group and that James Kirk be arrested for war crimes.
  • May have some merit as a means of hydrogen generation if it can be shown that radio waves are significantly more efficient than electrolysis.
  • *ties on bib
  • All you can eat lobster and shrimp
  • Sooooo, if this makes big money is he going to fund the abandoned cancer research with it?
  • Well, at least Aqua-Man can finally get off the grid.
  • If sea water became as valuable a fuel as oil is now, it would make the oil tanker our prize winner for Most Obsolete Object Ever. Second prize: off shore oil wells.
  • They'd be wicks.
  • And the poor electric eel gets laid off as OceanCorp attempts to eliminate redundancies.
  • So now are they going to call them socket salmon?