Submission + - Buring seawater claims light up the web (newscientist.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Claims that seawater can burn when zapped by radio waves are sweeping the web. New Scientist is reporting that John Kanzius, an inventor in the US, discovered the phenomenon by accident while developing a cancer treatment based on radio waves. The thinking is that the radio waves somehow weaken the bonds in seawater causing it to dissociate and that the burning is the result of hydrogen being given off. Kanzius speculates that it will be possible to run a car engine in this way. Presuming all this is correct, the big unanswered question is whether the phenomenon produces more energy than it eats up.