Potentially huge news...scientist burns water.

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Hmmm after writing that last post I've been thinking maybe I figured out the potential of this discovery. If the RF signals to produce this electrolysis could be made by a small enough RF generator to fit into a car, then that would solve the problem of the density or "lightness" of hydrogen.

Hydrogen actually has much more energy per kilogram than gasoline or any similar fuel, but the problem is that hydrogen is very light. The density of hydrogen gas is so much less than gasoline that the energy content of H2 is a maximum of about 4MJ/L, compared to 34.6MJ/L for gasoline, even though there is much more energy in hydrogen gas per kg! This results in the well-known problem with hydrogen fuel cell cars, that it's very difficult to store enough hydrogen in one tank for a car to be able to travel long distances without having to refill the tank every 60 miles or so.

If, however, you could store the hydrogen fuel in something much much more dense -- say, for example, water, which is even more dense than gasoline -- and then use an RF generator to "unlock" the fuel by electrolysis, then you would solve the distance problem of using hydrogen fuel in cars.

Btw, I tried editing my last post but it wouldn't go through.