On 9/11/07, Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:
The energy required for the RF input (that according to most of the articles "breaks down" the salt water) is the question - does it take more energy to provide that RF than the "flame" produces - or than can be recovered from the flame. (Remember, a flame in itself isn't a very useful source of energy, and there are considerable losses converting it to electricity or other useful forms.)
From what I've seen elsewhere it does take more energy to produce the
RF than is released by the reaction. It seems to be basically super heating the water so that the hydrogen and oxygen split, then when the atoms leave the area being excited, they "burn" and come back together as water again, with a net loss of energy from waste heat.
Jon.