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Radio frequencies help burn salt water

(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-12 09:14

ERIE, Pa. -- An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt
water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most
remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to
desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to
treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to
the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water,
the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.

Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at
his State College lab to confirm his own observations.

The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that
make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the
hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.

The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy
said.

"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy
said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."

Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and
the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.

The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the
burning hydrogen?- which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees
Fahrenheit?- would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.

"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it
leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."

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