Retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, wasn't looking for an answer to the energy crisis.

He was looking for a cure for cancer.

The APV Company Laboratory in Akron has checked out John's amazing invention. They were amazed.

"That could be a steam engine, a steam turbine. That could be a car engine if you wanted it to be."

Imagine the possibilities. Saltwater as the ultimate clean fuel.

A happy byproduct of one man searching for the cure for cancer.

News Video -

http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=35660&bw=

Main Link -

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=68227

I don't believe it.

I can appreciate the 'steam driven' aspect but they seem to be inferring that the salt adds something beneficial to the process.

This would be a good project in science classes.....

Unfortunately, there's this little problem of EROEI -- Energy Returned on Energy Invested.

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The skeptics who will agree that it is possible to burn salt water - and there are plenty who won't even go that far - argue that at best the energy required to burn it would be greater than the energy produced by burning it. (source)

As one person in the "Skeptics Society" put it:

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Indeed.

Awaiting further research on the process.

(source)

TANSTAFL

For a fantastic new technology that harvests a "real" a energy source/resevoir, see my recent entry in the thread Global Cooling.