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'''John Kanzius''' (born ]), is an american inventor, radio and TV engineer and one-time station owner from ], who has invented a potential method for cancer treatment as well as a way to ] from water, both using his ] ]. '''John Kanzius''' (born ]), is an american inventor, radio and TV engineer and one-time station owner from ], who has invented a potential method for cancer treatment as well as a way to ] from water, both using his ] ].


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John Kanzius (born 1944), is an american inventor, radio and TV engineer and one-time station owner from Erie, Pennsylvania, who has invented a potential method for cancer treatment as well as a way to produce hydrogen from water, both using his radio frequency transceiver.

Although he is not a doctor, or have a college degree, he was motivated in his research by his experience undergoing chemotherapy for treatment of leukemia.

Later in 2007, he announced that the same radio frequency transceiver can also be used to decompose salt water into oxygen and hydrogen gas.

Kanzius has applied for four patents, including a patent for an Enhanced Systems and Methods for RF-Induced Hyperthermia, which describes potential medical uses of radio waves to heat up injected metallic nanoparticles, in turn killing any nearby cancer and other cells. As of 2007, Steven Curley, M.D. is using the Kanzius RF device for research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Kanzius' demonstration of decomposition of water by radio-waves has been successfully replicated by Rustum Roy, a materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University. According to Roy, "The salt water isn't burning per se, despite appearances. The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies." When hydrogen burns, it produces water, thus making this a zero energy producing event.

The details of the process are still unreleased while Kanzius applies for a patent. He states that the discovery was made accidentally while he was researching the use of radio waves for the treatment of cancer.

According to Sterling D. Allan, on June 6, 2007, Kanzius claimed overunity results (an energy efficiency over 1) after changes to the apparatus, drawing critique from skeptics. But later Kanzius admitted that the apparatus "in this very early stage of development" needed more energy to produce the gas, than can be obtained by burning the gas.. The article continues: But he add that he never claimed this would replace oil. In fact, he says only that his discovery is "thought provoking.".

Philip Ball, a consulting editor at Nature and author of "H2O: A Biography of Water" debunked the concept of water being burned as a fuel, and was critical of lack of inquiry in media reports about bogus science.

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  1. ^ "Cancer Patient Invents Treatment Machine". CBS13. Aug 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ O'Mara, Michael (2007-09-12). "Salt water fuel gets major university review". WKYC. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ O'Mara, Michael (Sep 12). Burning Water. Erie, P.A.: WKYC. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite AV media}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  4. WO application 2005110544  SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RF-INDUCED HYPERTHERMIA
  5. US application 2006190063  Enhanced systems and methods for RF-induced hyperthermia
  6. EP application 1758648  ENHANCED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RF-INDUCED HYPERTHERMIA
  7. WO application 2007027620  ENHANCED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RF-INDUCED HYPERTHERMIA II
  8. Templeton, David (2007-09-09). "Salt water as fuel? Erie man hopes so". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2007-09-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. Roy, Rustum (2007-09-14). "Response to email". rustumroy.com. Retrieved 2007-09-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Ogden, Shannon (2007-07-05). "Salt Water Fuel". First Coast News. Retrieved 2007-07-26. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. O'Mara, Michael (2007-05-22). "Water into fuel?". WKYC. Retrieved 2007-07-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. Ball, Philip (September 14, 2007). "Burning water and other myths". Nature News. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
    Here, however (for what it is worth) is the definitive verdict of thermodynamics: water is not a fuel. It never has been one, and it never will be one. Water does not burn. Water is already burnt — it is spent fuel. It is exhaust. Can you get more energy out than you put in? I can answer that right now: no. You start with water, you break it apart into its constituent elements (hydrogen and oxygen), and then you recombine them by burning. Yes you can do that. Hydrogen, indeed, is the promised fuel of the new clean energy economy. But making hydrogen from water takes more energy than you can ever recover from burning it. Extracting net energy from this total cycle is impossible, if you believe in the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Otherwise, you have the basis of a perpetual-motion machine. He was also critical of the media coverage accompanying Kanzius' claims, saying "But no one does. No one raises any questions at all. The reports offer a testament to the awesome lack of enquiry and critical thought that makes news media everywhere quite terrifyingly defenseless against bogus science."

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