There has been
much confusion about "burning (salt)water" processes, not least because apparently there's some sort of an inverse relationship between becoming a TV reporter and remembering simple high school physics/chemistry lessons. I wonder about the scientists featured in these pieces somewhat. I can imagine at least some of them being at least a little miffed at how the processes in question have been presented after editing and their best efforts to be clear about the principles involved.
It has to be said though, that Kanzius just might have come up with an applicable process (i.e. something like "high-energy electromagnetic field Na+ Cl- polarity arranged weakened hydrogen bond H2O electrolysis") that has potential for refinement and further applications, whereas the vast majority of "HHO free energy" propositions have (in my, and many others', best judgement) lacked any and all scientific merit. And there are many of those schemes around. I'm loath to guess when this "free energy from burning water" phenomenon is down to the misunderstandings of the schemes' creators and when it represents some sort of an investor gullability litmus test.
But coming back to the "burning salt water", try
this explanation on for size if you're still baffled. This is just in case and as an example of a pretty good effort of dispelling the myths, not an expression of mistrust in F1T's collective abilities to make sense of things. Far from comprehensive in every regard, but covers the necessary basics of it all pretty well. If radio waves electrolysed salt water the World over just like that, we'd live in a pretty infernal place ... in fact, our bodies wouldn't be very safe entities to reside in.
Some time ago on another messageboard far far away we also encountered people who inundated us with a multitude of "free energy" link backed claims of water as fuel. I took the trouble of actually doing calculations on relevant technologies and reactions rather meticulously, finding out efficiences (as they were at that point of time) etc. and presented the results in detail, contradicting the wildly optimistic to ridiculously unrealistic "free energy claims" quite sharply.
Nevertheless I probably still failed to convince the ardent proponents of water spontaneously "seizing subatomic energy" from its surroundings, or just suddenly lighting up on the realisation of it suddenly being "combustible", or something equally cockamamy wishful thinking akin to that. And while I don't discount anything, I still tend to base my opinions on empirical evidence, or valid proof of that.
Water is a truly amazing compound, well worth investigation, study and sheer joyous amazement. The web is full of reputable sources on water, electrolysis, fuel cells and hydrogen ICEs (I vaguely remember Sandia Nat'l Labs working on such engines and presenting some good data on their experiments).
