Research Topics

When I started to think about which environment issue to write about, I'll admit I was pretty unsure of where to even start. So like a lot of people did I'm sure, I went straight to Google and searched, environmental issues. I clicked on the first one and luckily something that struck me as interesting came up: Water more valuable then oil? I clicked on the article and it was talking about how freshwater is becoming more and more scarce and the site mentioned how by 2050, more than 48 countries and 2 billion people will have insufficient drinking water. I realized as I kept reading this article, that we have talked about this in class and the different water issues, so I wanted to move to something that we hadn't talked about.

I remembered hearing once that salt water can turn into an energy source. So I googled that and an article about a scientist who lit salt water on fire. He mentions how if we can turn salt water into fire, then they could use it for energy, and think about how much salt water we have on this planet. There are a lot skeptics about this however and people think that he put electrodes in the water. However he says its just salt water, so I'll do some more research to see how real that is. So I decided to do look up: salt water energy source on google. It turned out that CBS news did a special on this. Kanzius, a luekemia patient is the man who discovered that salt water could be burned using radio frequencies. If this is true, and we could find a way to do it with mass quantities, keep it safe, and use it inexpensively, could it really be a new energy source? Kanzius went to meet with officals of the Department of Energy to try and obtain funding. The heat produced from burning salt water got to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but they want to know if it could power a car or machinery. This article I found was published in 2007 though, so I'll have to try and find some more recent developments in it.