Would saltwater make a good alternative fuel resource?

Question

what are the pros and cons?

Is it the best, if not what would be the best?

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

pros it isn't hard to get ahold of, cons it isnt an enrgy source that show promise

maybe in a few years

Answer 3

yes but you would have to clean the enigine a ton

Answer 4

Sure, there's plenty of it.

Answer 5

How would it make a good alternative fuel source? What process can saltwater undergo that would release more energy than it would consume?

Answer 6

My boss said he had seen a guy who had a rotary motor that ran on salt water in 1962 at a world fair. then he said he never heard  of it again. I guess big oil seen him too.

Answer 7

You can't burn salt water, so it is not a fuel resource.

Answer 8

Saltwalter could be used as a good alternative fuel resource if you seperate it into water and salt and used the water to power hydrogen cars because water has hydrogen in it. But this process is highly expensive and not worth it.

Answer 9

Apparently the answer is yes.

According to this: http://www.flixxy.com/alternative-fuels-...

it's possible to make fire from nothing but salt water using microwaves. I don't know if the energy produced is worth the energy it takes to make it work but it looks promising.

Answer 10

IF you are talking about the water from the ocean -- you would have to harness the wave action  not so much the salt water  and this is being done -- not sure the country  Norway --- and the Netherlands - I believe

It is very expensive to set up stations where the blocks would ride up and down with the wave action but you need enough action to produce the electricity  

It will work - but takes a lot of ocean coverage and can be damaged by storms -

Better off to go either solar or wind

Gerry

Answer 11

It could not be a source. You have to have electricity to turn it into hydrogen and the process is not very efficient.

100 BTUs of electricity ---> 60 BTUs of Hydrogen = waste of energy

Answer 12

It takes more energy to separate the water into hydrogen and oxygen than you get back burning the hydrogen. So no, it does not look promising and further reseach wont change it in the same way that further research wont make 1+1=3 true.

Hydrogen cars exist, no one denies that. The problem is how do you get the hydrogen.