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Burning salt water

by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News      September 24, 2007

Just Google the three words: "burn salt water."

By all means watch, the YouTube video. If you only have access to dial-up then get together with friends and rent the minimum down at the cafe. It is a hoot.

I love hoaxes, especially the really wild ones that hang on for a long time, like Y2K. I don't like that it is done. I like them in the same sense that I deplore free range graffiti but admire the art. This is going to displace Y2K and cold fusion in my ranking, if it takes off and becomes a grown-up hoax.

 
If it isn't a hoax -- wouldn't I like to be wrong -- then Einstein is again right in saying, as he did with the advent of the nuclear bomb, "everything changed except the way people think."

If indeed the people in the video are sincere, it may be that it takes more energy via microwaves to generate the flaming salt water than can be recovered from utilizing the flame to generate energy, so that doing it would be an uneconomical way to generate energy.

My guess, though, is that it will turn out to be something like what happens when I forget and put a can in the microwave. Don't you hate it when you do that?

I suspect this phenomenon, again, if it is not a total hoax, is achieved by suspending metals in the salt water. But that's what
 
is addictive about news, you never know what is going to turn out to be true. Real news keeps you guessing.

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