Fire Water Burn

Soon the oceans will burn.

Trying to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer, John Kanzius accidentally discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel. The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.

Researchers will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain funding for studies. Prepare for a future where either cars become truly hydroelectric, or the the army has a salt water bomb.