Everyday Science: Salt Water Fuel Quiz

A radio frequency generator (RFG) generates radio waves and focuses them in a concentrated area. The RFG also creates enough heat to cause salt water to ignite.

The radio frequency generator's (RFG) radio waves degrade the bonds that hold salt water's chemicals together -- sodium chloride (salt) and hydrogen and oxygen (water).

Once the radio waves break apart the components of salt water, the heat from the RFG ignites the hydrogen molecules and burns them indefinitely.

Hydrogen gas not only explodes easily, but it also requires much more energy to create than it actually provides.

The RFG flame could reach temperatures up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,649 degrees Celsius) -- enough to burn a test tube.

The initial purpose of the RFG was to kill cancer cells by heating up metallic particles inserted into tumors.

Since the RFG could make water condense, Kanzius thought it might be able to separate salt out of seawater and provide fresh water to drought-stricken areas.

Aquygen, a gas made up of hydrogen that has been separated from water, was created by Hydrogen Technology Applications to improve the efficiency of regular gasoline.

Hydrogen Technology Applications creates Aquygen gas by applying an electrical shock that separates hydrogen from water.

According to the company president, the Aquygen gasoline mixture improves gasoline mileage by as much as 1.5 times and reduces pollution.