ENERGY FROM SALT WATER!!!
FROM YAHOO NEWS! ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century. John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn. The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel. Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations. The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said. The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said. "This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills." Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding. The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery. "We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."

Let's analyze this a second. Is he saying that he's going to burn the H2O molecule (2 covalent bonds) separating them into 2H2 and O2 and that this will produce energy? Dear me. Sorry, but my knowledge of chemistry will need to be supplimented. You see, this would leave you short a couple electrons. This is a reaction that consumes energy, just as the formation of water produces it or as a necessary product of having the energy stolen. Either a couple protons latch on to a full oxygen, or an unfull oxygen enslaves a couple full hydrogen (proton+electron). Until I'm given info to understand what is being claimed better gotta call this bunk science. It's doing rather the opposite of burning. A plant, for example, uses water to form organic (carbon-based) chains (where your hydrogen goes presumably) and expels oxygen. Animals on the other hand are more like fire in that we break the carbon by using oxygen to react with it, and we produce water. I think. My knowledge is rusty.

They are talking about using saline water, not pure water. So I could see it being possible maybe to burn Saline water, but I can see SeaWater being the most suitable due to the different elements in it. But I still have doubts about application of it.

Exactly, how do you burn salt and extract energy from it?