Have you seen this!?! Burning saltwater

[Billy Crook]

You can not get more energy out of a system than you put in to it.
There are NO exceptions, Get over it.  The best you can hope for is
100% efficiency, and that would still only be a hope.

On 9/11/07, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> > The energy required for the RF input (that according to most of the
> > articles "breaks down" the salt water) is the question - does it take more
> > energy to provide that RF than the "flame" produces - or than can be
> > recovered from the flame.  (Remember, a flame in itself isn't a very useful
> > source of energy, and there are considerable losses converting it to
> > electricity or other useful forms.)
>
> From what I've seen elsewhere it does take more energy to produce the
> RF than is released by the reaction.  It seems to be basically super
> heating the water so that the hydrogen and oxygen split, then when the
> atoms leave the area being excited, they "burn" and come back together
> as water again, with a  net loss of energy from waste heat.
>
> Jon.
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