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Posted on May 31, 2007 - 1:10am by John P. in Environment, News, Philanthropy, Videos
I was so amazed at what I’m about to share here that I struggled for some time to come up with the right title. Other titles I considered:
In the end, no title seems worthy of this discovery. And I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it changed the world.
A retired TV station owner and engineer in Florida by the name of John Kanzius who was suffering from cancer treatment related insomnia woke up one night at 3AM with an idea he believed could ease the suffering of cancer patients. The concept was to inject nano sized bits of metal into the human body which would embed themselves only in cancer cells, then zap them with radio waves which would kill them – leaving only the healthy tissue.
Smalley, one of the world’s top minds in the field of nanotechnology, has already started work on trying to determine whether Kanzius’ theory –which uses directed radio waves — can be partnered with the use of carbon nanotubes to target and destroy cancer cells.
His Rice University-based team plans to work with researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to marry the two disciplines.
Results from the early rounds of research could be completed within six to 12 months, said Paul Cherukuri, a Rice University researcher and a member of Smalley’s team.
“Until we do the experiments, we won’t know. But it holds so much excitement,”Cherukuri said. “This is such an exciting possibility that so many people are just slapping their heads saying, ‘Why didn’t I think of it already.’”
According to TMCnet:
…a new round of tests at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston appears to be putting Kanzius’ theory on the medical fast track –and is prompting talk that the treatment might work on a wide range of cancers.
As if curing cancer isn’t enough, someone heard about his experiments and decided to ask if the machine might work for desalinizing salt water. When John tried it he discovered something much more significant. The process caused a reaction which freed up hydrogen molecules, allowing the water to burn.
Considering that Salt Water is the most abundant resource on the planet, John may have just accidentally discovered the holy grail of energy production. A practically free replacement for oil, gas, coal and any other harmful fuel. This reminds me of the plot for one of my favorite movies, The Saint, where a scientist invents cold fusion and gives it away to the world.
Here is a good intro video:
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And another:
Yet again:
This video demonstrates the burning saltwater:
More TV coverage:
And the last one:
What is also quite amazing is the fact that John is so laid back about it all. In the second video about all he says is “Pretty neat, huh?” That is the understatement of the millennia!
As far as I’m concerned, this is the most amazing discovery I think I’ve ever seen, and John Kanzius’ name may end up in the history books along side Ben Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, DaVinci, and the rest of the great inventors.
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John,
This is a great article. I hope the machine makes it to clinical phases in humans. We certainly need a definite cure for cancer. Remember, eat lots of curry, garlic, and green tea…these have also been shown to cure some cancer.
Jenny
You have to consider, how much energy is required, in terms of setting up the electromagnetic field (the radiowaves) versus how much energy is extractable from the comustion reaction. It is very likely that more energy is being put into the system than can be extracted.
The reaction is very interesting from a theoretical standpoint though.
Also, be careful with the term “cure cancer.” What he is trying to develop is a better form of chemotherapy… his idea is to improve existing methodology. If his idea works, and very likely there are many technical hurdles before this technology will make it to the “bedside,” it will be a new TREATMENT in physicians’ arsenal, not a cure.
Paul
Paul,
You are absolutely right about this being a treatment as opposed to a cure. But if it does ultimately work out like they envision – namely you get a shot and stand between some radio waves – it will sure put a major dent in cancer in general!
With regards to the energy production I seriously doubt more energy is going in than being released. That is pure hydrogen they are burning at 3000 degrees. We already have combustion engines that can run on hydrogen, and they could easily drive an alternator big enough to produce the equivalent of whatever household current he’s plugged into in his garage.
Just imagine… the main reason there aren’t a lot of hydrogen powered vehicles on the road today is that storing the hydrogen is dangerous. But if you can create it on demand that would solve all the problems!
Even if you couldn’t get the technology into autos any time soon, it would be easy to build large scale hydro-electric generators that extract the hydrogen from water and burn it to turn a massive generator. Remember, hydrogen has three times the stored energy of refined gasoline!
Well, I guess we’ll see what happens, but if this works out it’s going to be amazing!
John
Wrong. Reason is it cost more energy to produce the hydrogen need to run the car then using gasoline.
Electricity is need to make hydrogen. Where does electricity come from? Burning coal, nuclear power, burning natural gas, hydro, wind, sun etc. Unless this RF thing has better efficiency then other method, its useless and nothing new.
I hope you’re right!
I don’t have the technical knowledge to be able to judge the validity of this for myself, but it would be great if it works.
“With regards to the energy production I seriously doubt more energy is going in than being released.”
So, you’re saying he found the equivalent of a perpetual motion machine? Of course there is more energy going in than is being released. No way is more energy being produced than is input – if so, alert the physicists, with a detailed mathematical explanation and the ability to reproduce the experiment.
This does not qualify as a perpetual motion machine. The salt water is the “fuel” which is used up just like gasoline is used in cars, where the gas engine is used to power an alternator to fire the spark plugs, recharge the battery, & must be replenished with more “fuel” to keep it going.
I’m excited about this promising new idea & hope it can help soon!
The salt water is the fuel??
Did you even watch the video? The Salt Water, under bombardment by RF, makes up the fuel. Meaning, RF Energy and Salt Water are the fuels collectively. No one bombards their gasoline with anything in their cars, it is the release of its chemical energy which took a long time to get there. The only similarity to gasoline is the O2 (Oxygen gas) and H2 (Hydrogen gas) that comes out of the test tube. Those two gases that recombine during combustion most resemble gasoline. Unfortunately, the energy of that flame, if completely enclosed and recaptured, would at best (in an equation only) equal the energy it took to run the RF Generator.
There is nothing new to see here other than another alternative to produce Hydrogen using electricity and a wonderful opportunity to get away from chemotherapy.
So why isn’t this story on the national news, 60 minutes, dateline, or has it been? I have not heard of this nationally at all… Are they waiting for more conclusive test results?
Now if only he could invent a way to keep greedy congressmen from accepting money from “big oil” lobbyists in order to keep all other forms of clean burning energy off the market. Now THAT would be something else!
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One minor problem is that burning salt water releases toxic chlorine (from the Cl of NaCl/salt). In addition the law of conservation of energy states that energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another, such as when electrical energy is changed into heat energy. You cannot have more than you started with.
Gasoline works well because of the energy used to create it (the oil it comes from), millions of years of heat and pressure. Not so with water, thats why it takes more energy to burn it than it creates.
I’m not sure that the powers that be are pursuing this new breakthru of saltwater into fuel and the cure for cancer quickly enough… Top dollar financing is needed from goverment as well as the private sector… Good luck human race…
Agreed, this should be given the chance to become what it can be, every little thing helps – together with solar and wind and now maybe water maybe we could just slow the use of our non-renewable resources by a small percent. Not a peep about this on the national news that I have seen – still! Is this not headline material?
Ethanol has been proven to be a rip off. Maybe this can develope into something good for all man kind if it can be kept out of the hands of our government and oil companies who’s greed for money has put our country in harms way. Maybe John could employ the help of MENSA and the private research organization Howard Hughes set up, that are not affiliated with Oil companies and Government agencies, and without the red tape of Governemnt or the sweep it under the carpet mentality of Oil companies to protect their interests and pocket books, to develope this enterprise privately to fund his cancer research quest.
If it were I who had this discovery, I’d start a limited investment “club” where invested people are limited to the number of shares they could own, so no one person could have control of the product. And under no circumstances could any company have ownership of any shares, it would be a people product with John’s name attached.
first, he uses radio frequency to trigger the reaction, which requires energy from electricity; second, pay attention to the flame, it looks more likely burning the salt rather than the water.
So, the question is does the energy produced from the burning greater than the energy used to generate the radio frequency? if so, it works for sure. but I seriously doubt that. The only thing too solve is how can we get a ENERGY-FREE constant radiofrequent environment. Then we can talk the rest!!!!!