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OT: more burning water

Preciouslife,
Rustum Roy is a legitimate scientist (emeritus prof at Penn State in Geochemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Materials Science). He's also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He's no schmoe but I think he's pushing a little hard if those quotes are accurate. I'm very confident that he's aware of Ulrich Franck's work on supercritical water oxidation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_water_oxidation> > (this is probably the only thing I've seen on this board that I actually know something about). The wikipedia link refs Franck's work but the link to the video didnt work for me. Franck was very fond of showing his "burning water" videos but he didnt have youtube. The supercritical water oxidation idea was adopted as a means of burning organic constituents in nuclear waste thereby reducing the volume and consequently the transport and storage costs. Using radiofrequencies to decompose water and burn organics in such systems MAY be a better approach but it will have problems if any metals are in the system. In the nuclear waste treatment application practicality and safety concerns trump energy efficiency. The idea of using radiofrequencies to generate hydrogen for vehicle fuels or as an energy storage medium (e.g. windmills power radiofreq generator --> H2) is somewhere between being naive and dishonest (depending on the knowledge level of the person doing the proposing). Not trying to be mean, just descriptive.
cheers,
Charlie