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a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article and a WIRED Science Blog post talk of a guy (John Kanzius) who claims "he'd ignited salt water with the radio-frequency generator he'd invented" at a temperature of 3,000 °F (1650 °C)
well, IF that amazing discovery will result TRUE, a new generation of simpler, safer and cheaper rockets could be built:
http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/007saltrocket.html
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You know the old saying, if it sounds to good to be true...
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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Um, first of all, that site's down.
Second, if I've read the chemistry correctly, he's *electrolysing* the salt-water to produce dilute hypochlorite bleach solution and hydrogen gas, which then burns in the usual way.
I'd be interested in the mechanism and efficiency of the radio-electrolysis, because it is an old, old technology given a new twist. Beyond that, what does he propose to do with the left-over bucket of caustic bleach ??
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Um, first of all, that site's down.
it was not a technical problem... my site was KILLED ten days ago... but now it's online again...
in the "salt engine" article's UPDATE you can find a comment and a link to a MIT Technology Review's article about an interesting experiment from Japan
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Um, first of all, that site's down.
it was not a technical problem... my site was KILLED ten days ago... but now it's online again...
in the "salt engine" article's UPDATE you can find a comment and a link to a MIT Technology Review's article about an interesting experiment from Japan
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You mean you don't use nuclear salts dissolved in water?
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That would be NSWR. A good payload for Sea Dragon. A little kero for the first stage, uranium salts for the payload--sea water for everything else.
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