John Kanzius, the inventor from Erie, Pennsylvania, has made a deal with researchers at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Roy Rustrum, head of the Materials Research Laboratory, will begin studying Mr. Kanzius's amazing salt-water burning invention. He was very impressed by the initial results John had achieved working out of his home, and is expecting a scientific "gold mine."
I'm very excited to see the research from, and eventual commercial applications of, this device. Years from now, I hope people won't speak just of the work of Mr. Kanzius and Dr. Rustrum, but refer to the path down which they're starting as a course all of humanity followed. I expect (or at least hope) textbooks will one day refer to "mankind's struggle to turn one of the most plentiful natural resources on Earth--saltwater--into fuel" as "one of the most significant achievements of the twenty-first century" which "transformed the geopolitical landscape." I can see this saving lives, bringing everyone who wants to be connected into a global community, and allowing us to take significant steps towards achieving our potential as a species. I may be overstating things, but if ocean water can become a source of energy, who knows what our limitations are?
And it will have all started with the humble John Kanzius, who--still thinking of the little kids he met going through chemotherapy--plans to spend his spare time, and any profits from this device, working on using the same machine to help cure certain types of cancer.
For a more newsy update on John and his machine, go here.
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