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Originally Posted by ahecht
In other words, this is a cool parlor trick, and I can't see what useful purpose this would have. There are simpler ways of converting radio waves into heat.
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For me the kicker is this. What is he DOING with the energy that he is supposedly generating? The stirling engine looks very similar to an engine built by a shop class at our local Junior College. It runs by placing it over a coffee cup of hot water. It also only produces enough power to keep itself turning, at least until the water gets cold, when it stops.
To really demonstrate something like this you need to hook up calibrated power measurement equipment to the microwave input. You also need some way of measuring the power output by the Stirling shaft. If the latter is bigger than the former, then you really have something. If not then you have cool looking way to heat water that you can't even use for coffee.
The thermodynamic properties of water, sodium and chlorine and their reactions are well known. For this to work as described something would have to have been missed by thousands of engineers and scientists over the years. Remember these are people who are actively looking for anomolies. There might be somthing there, but it is probably another incidence of cold fusion.
ChrisH