First, the Disney Movie based on a true story:
John Kanzius, a retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, woke up in the middle of the night to the idea that he could use radio waves to kill cancer cells. He designed a radio frequency generator in the middle of the night using what was available, his wife's pie pans, and sketched out a way to aim radio waves at teeny bits of metal that could be injected into cancer cells. Basically, the metal would attach to the cancer cells, and only those cells are heated and destroyed when exposed to radio waves. During his actual experimentation, John was desalinating sea water and set the salt water on fire, thereby discovering an entirely new source of clean burning energy.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, tested John's findings and found radio frequencies break the bond of the molecules in the salt, and the released hydrogen is what burns, generating temperatures of 1500 celcius, hot enough to melt a test tube. APV Labs tested and ran motors and devices with the energy. (Click for the youtube clip.)
Next, some ideas for the screen writers working on the next summer block buster:
Well, now that we know that we shouldn't eat wild fish frequently, given the fact they are swimming around in a toxic ocean bath we have created. (We also know we should not eat farmed fish, given the farmer's ability to stock a small tank with a billion fish and make them all sick and scary from smacking into each other, eating drugs so they won't get ill from each other, and living in their own filth.) And since we also know, that given our civilized penchant for piping sewage a few miles off shore, swimming and surfing are new x games, what benefit of salt water is left for us?
Burn the oceans.
Perhaps we can burn off the future tsunami, a la the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, so The NY Public Library won't be at risk. Even though the water doesn't burn, if burning salt water with radio waves can melt a test tube, someone should be able to figure out how to use the heat to evaporate water.
For those patient, curious cats, if we historically continue to play our cards the same way, we may be able to see to the floor or the ocean. (Remember when the earth was covered with trees?) And then, you can see if you can find the pinky ring you dropped when you were a kid taking the ferry to Montauk. Also, this would solve the problem that we have created by wanting to live on land, which does not make up 71-75% of the earth. Get rid of all that undrinkable water, and we can create and sell more land to more people.
And then for the sequel, maybe we can figure out how to burn dirt. Then, it is time to move to Mars.
Thought: In that we still have a sun, maybe we should wait to burn the whale oil; crude oil, coal, propane, and anything else considered fossil fuel; the oceans, and dirt until after the sun goes out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4gOS8aoFk
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/can-saltwater-be-burned-as-fuel/
