This is pretty amazing.

http://sfgate.com/flat/archive/2007/09/10/news/archive/2007/09/10/national/a143537D00.html

Hrm. Er. I call bull.

Or... how much energy is required to generate a big enough RF wave to have this "energy" released? Does it generate enough to self-power?

If so, then Hurray. But until more details are available, I'll pull a Whistler and call it fakes video, with wires, CGI and the whole shabang.

Har. Twice.

edit:

In all fairness, SFGate article mentions it got the story from the Post Gazette. I found the original here.

If they got anywhere near calling it "free energy" or a perpetual reaction, I'd cry foul as well. I'm betting it uses quite a bit of electricity for the RF generator. The cool part is that this way of breaking the hydrogen/oxygen bond was not known before.

Well, you can do it with electrodes. it's a slow process but give it a full day of solar-panel power and you actually got hydrogene. Though it's a slow process.

There's a good discussion here: http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001312.html

I knew about electrolysis - I was meaning that using RF to break the bonds was news. I knew you could boil water with RF (I used to have an RF oven - precursor of the modern microwave) but not break it up.

Interesting. This would have to be looked into, to see what kind of efficiency is possible.