Salt Water Fuel powers a Stirling engine

[J_mclaughlin]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

This machine is merely using RF energy to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen.

I just have a couple of questions that I don't know if anyone could answer:

Why is it necessary that the "invention" use salt water? I could see that the radio waves could be inducing some kind of current or something like that, which would require dissolved ions of some kind to make the solution conductive.

Which begs the second question- doesn't chlorine have a lower (or is it higher- I don't remember) reduction potential then oxygen? Meaning that if it was electrochemical (which would explain the necessity of the salt), the products would be chlorine and hydrogen? The chlorine gas could also explain the yellow flame, although I'm not exactly sure which color excited chlorine atoms produce.