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What Wikipedia didn't tell you about Kanzius?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Of the "burning water" discovery of John Kanzius, Wikipedia writes: The details of the process are still unreleased while Kanzius applies for a patent.

In fact, Kanzius filed numerous patent applications on his rf machine and its applications. They are not doing well at the Patent Office. Wikipedia didn't mention that.

Wikipedia did say of "burning water":

Kanzius has proposed that the flame is produced by burning of hydrogen and oxygen, released from the water by radio waves "forcing together" the "normally separated" hydrogen and oxygen in the water, a process he calls "reunification."[19] In water (H2O), hydrogen is covalently bonded to oxygen, and thus the process must "reunite" pairs of hydrogen atoms and pairs of oxygen atoms, releasing dihydrogen (H2) and dioxygen (O2). The energy from the radio waves is absorbed by the water and splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen which then react together to reform the water and re-release the energy and form a flame. In other words, the process turns radio energy into chemical energy, which then turns to heat and light energy, but does not "take energy from water". Rather energy is put into the water in order to break it up into its components, which now may combust. The water torch, a form of oxyhydrogen torch, is an earlier example of the process of breaking down water and then recombining oxygen and hydrogen to release heat and light energy.
The red flame and non explosive form of burning[20] suggest that other chemicals are involved in the fire, and if the claims are true, may be the chlorine released from the melted salt (NaCl).
Nevertheless, this discovery may be a clean way to break down water into its elements and perhaps a cheaper way than electrolysis which in most forms produces toxic output from chemical reactions with the electrodes, or otherwise is produced with platinum electrodes, which are very expensive. It is difficult to compare the processes, when no chemical, physical or numeric details are actually known, except the claims that RF heats up the water, breaks it down into its elements and that it then combusts.

[This text is a Sikahema waiting to happen.]

See also:

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/03/kanzius-ip-concerns-patent-applications.html

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-kanzius-patent-applications.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).