i think the steam resonater was used to keep the water from freezing when the car wasn't in use. To keep the battery from going dead, he needed a way to heat the water without using much energy.
I think that too, but it also become a good way to get instant steam for example, to use as the gas source, cause is much easier to break the bounds of gases if you think about the distances of the molecules.. there's no hydrogen bound anymore.
I found while ago a paper that tells that if you make water vapor out of acid or base solution you develop a charged vapor and the thing become like a Kelvin water dropper...
When the molecules are in gas phase the hydrogen is not attracting the negative lone pair electrons of the oxygen in the neighbor molecule there fore the oxygen electrons in the water molecule will obviously rearrange, cause there is no more hydrogen bound (the bound between molecules not atoms in the molecule) just to be clear, so as the electrons will redistribute the oxygen will certainly became less electronegative.
All this to say that vapor state would be easier to break with only fields than liquid water, but in vast amounts. So to do this a steam tech was created by stan in my opinion, to use for home heating, industrial, and many other applications.
Droplets has many exposed atoms in the boundaries, if you shot a droplet thru an electric field it elongate like stan said, like oil droplets also do, and it gets deflected in the direction of the field if i'm not wrong the positive.
So K.I.S.S. yes but this is only related to look straight to what is needed to accomplish the task and not to make rocket science of it so don't wast time is what should mean.