Could salt water fuel cars?

Oh no. Here we go again.....

...No, wait. Page 2 of the site.......

"Both struggle with the energy input to energy output ratio -- or efficiency. This huge stumbling block causes some to view inventions like Aquygen and the RFG as useless science. While the RFG produces a hydrogen flame that burns stably, the amount of energy it puts out is less than the amount of energy needed to power the RFG. In this sense, any energy that comes out of the salt-water flame cannot be considered a source of power. It's just a manifestation of the energy being put into it, only in a lesser amount."

Nice impartial reporting. Just giving the facts and science. Hooray for proper reporting (I was getting a bit worried as I read the first page).

Now, if we can find a use for separating hydrogen from water using radio waves .......Oh, I just came up with one........and it's weapon-based . I think I will keep that one to myself.

I was thinking of perhaps a new form of desalinisation process to extract hydrogen and oxygen from salt and then recombine them in a more energy and resource efficient way than current methods.

Your suggestion is intriging. By what process do you see this happening?

Ahh, something along the lines of separation of the gas H and O from the water leaving behind all the other contaminants (sodium, polution, etc) and then recombining H and O to get water. Sounds a bit silly but if it could be done more efficiently than current methods then it could be a potential winner (filtering salt water is not easy and desalination plants are rather large and expensive places to build and maintain). Just an idea, but when a new idea comes along (yes it has been proven to work, even thou the primary proposed use is a load of rubbish) it is a good idea to see if it can be used for other purposes rather than just ignoring it out of hand.

No other ideas spring to mind (except my original).

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Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

Yes, others have already suggested this approach: electrolyze salt water to produce H2 and O2 gases. This of course consumes electrical energy. But we can recover part of that energy investment by feeding the H2 and O2 into a fuel cell to produce electricity and ultra-pure water.

No no no not electrolyzing, it's too inefficient, I was thinking of a different possible approach.

Out-of-the box thinking and all that.

Regarding the production of pure water from salt water, it's going to be very difficult to develop an approach that is more economical than reverse osmosis. I would suggest industrial-scale solar stills as an alternative. Or if you want something a little more "out-of-the-box", how about freezing salt water to produce relatively pure water-ice, using this ice for centralized cooling systems, and collecting the runoff. But this would probably be far too expensive.

Gosh, on the second page there was an inference about that annoying little law that keeps getting in the way. The Law of Conservation of Energy.

Josh Clark - the author of the article - did his homework and didn't jump like Mike O'Mara to give to Kanzius unconditional credit.

About three weeks ago, John Kanzius was featured on Discovery Channel (Daily Planet) in Canada. This time he seemed to be more cautious in defining salt water as the future fuel for cars. Instead, he came up with another miracle: crops are growing better if watered with RFG-treated water....

This guy never stops!

OK- He never stops. What is he getting out of all this nonsense?

What he gets? MONEYS for more "research". He's a master in TV shows as he was the manager and/or owner of a TV station. He is building a false credit by making waves in the media. How many decent and real inventors had this opportunity?