Salt Water Fuel powers a Stirling engine

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by mathking

There is actually a large (and growing) percentage of the population (at least in Europe and the U.S.) that has, had or will have cancer. Over one third of the population of the U.S. will get cancer during their lifetimes.

Well, if you take the statistics obtained from This site, a reputable journal for cancer clinicians, it says that there are about 1.4 million new cases of cancer developing per year in the united states, In all sites of the body. If you compair that to the current population of the united states, some 301,139,947... it turns out to be a very small percentage indeed... somewhere around 0.46 percent per year. If you take a look at the average American life expectancy, (74 years) ... and ... wait. I am not going to get THAT in-depth =P. I just want to point out that there are a lot less people suffering of cancer than will be suffering through an energy crisis if we fail come up with something soon. But, as was already pointed out, the efficiency of this process right now leaves much to be desired in a perpetual motion machine, (Some 31%, I believe).