If you’ve never heard of the late American inventor John Kanzius, prepare to be amazed.
I myself will never forget back in 2007, when I saw the
Youtube clip of Kanzius burning salt water.
In his earlier life his achievements might not have been that impressive – Kanzius was a TV station owner and a broadcast engineer (he considered himself a layman.) But in the sunset of his life he made two ground-breaking discoveries. The first was a possible effective and harmless alternative to chemotherapy. And the second? A potential solution for the world’s energy shortage.
His motivation to find a cure for cancer started when he himself was diagnosed with Leukemia. During treatment, passing by the children’s cancer ward moved him deeply. In a 60 Minutes
interview, Kanzius said, “I saw the smiles of youth and saw their spirits were broken. And you could see that they were sort of asking, 'Why can't they do something for me?'"
According to 60 Minutes, on a sick and sleepless night, Kanzius began building upon a childhood affinity for crafting radios, making a radio-wave emitting device out of pie plates.
His wife, Marianne, was skeptical. “…I had mentioned to him, 'Honey, the doctors can't-you know, find an answer to cancer. How can you think that you can?'"
But he found a way. The device he made consisted of two boxes – one of which sent radio waves over to the other, creating just enough energy to affect gas contained in a fluorescent light.
While the initial prototype was able to harness focused energy and transmit it harmlessly into and around the human body, he still had no way to affect cancer cells specifically.
$200,000 later, Kanzius had made the necessary technological advancements – a more refined version of his first prototype – designed to focus intensely on metal that had been injected into the body (or into surrogates, such as hot dogs filled with copper sulfate.)
During his first hot dog test, the temperature rose only in the areas where the copper sulfate existed. In essence, he’d found a way to burn away cancer cells without effecting the rest of the human body. His discoveries were fused with those of peers in the scientific community – and metal nano-particles entered the equation, significantly refining Kanzius’ device’s effectiveness.
When accredited scientists began testing his invention, skeptics became supporters, and newspapers began reporting on Krazius’ innovations.
Dr. Steven Curley, a liver cancer surgeon, after testing Krazius’ technology, said, "I've gotta tell you, in 20 years of research this is the most exciting thing that I’ve encountered."
Curley currently works with the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation – in the spring of 2009 he
was arranging clinical trials of Kanzius’ device on large animals. And just recently, his research was published in a lengthy article featured in
Cancer, which is published by the American Cancer Society.
Kanzius’ same device, later publicized for its potential cancer fighting capabilities, initially had another useful side affect – it loosened the bonds of salt water particles, making them combustible.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State professor, tested out the device’s water combusting potential back in 2007 – when the
Youtube video was creating quite a stir. Using Kanzius' generator, Roy led 50 different experiments in his lab only to prove Kanzius' discovery
true -- that saltwater could be burned as a possible energy source. Roy said he presented his findings to the Department of Defense to try to obtain funding for further research, though wasn’t sure when he'd hear back.
Well, good golly, hopefully someone’s gotten back to him in the past four years – we need this technology now. It’s more important than… well… basically anything, and a topic well worth ruminating on.
Erin Monda is a HealthTechZone Contributing Editor. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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