Ocean Powered Cars? Could be.
71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans1.
That’s a lot of salt water!
What if all that salty liquid could power our cars? Well, that dream might be one step closer.
An amazing discovery by John Kanzius has led us to believe that by focusing radio frequencies on salt water, one can get the water to ignite!
It even gets hot enough to melt the test-tube.
As you know, where there’s heat, there can be power as well. Heating water to steam can turn a turbine, creating electricity.
How does this process work?
The radio waves bombard the salt water and separate the hydrogen from the water. This hydrogen ignite and keeps burning as long as the water is hit with radio waves. Depending on how efficient this process turns out to be (it takes energy to generate those radio wave), we just might be seeing the next big source of energy, and it’s 100% eco-friendly!
Hydrogen power has been at the tip of green science for a while now, but it has yet to provide and cost-effective, energy efficient version of the technology.
This is another step in the right direction, we’ll let you know how it turns out!
via AutoblogGreen
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