The Nightstar Zoo

Anybody know if this reaction is exothermic?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11 ... index.html

Not if it requires a greater input of energy in radio waves than you get out in heat.

The article didn't say what happens to the flame if you turn the radio waves off. I suspect it goes out immediately.

Hmm. Could theoretically be using radiowaves to generator enough energy to split water, or possibly some form of photochemical reaction which excites the water molecules that they split when they get rid of their excitation. Could also somehow involve the sodium in water getting burned but that's the wrong colour for that. It might be the wrong colour for hydrogen burning, I forget what that was.

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