Furthermore... a comment on the above post by Chris... collecting the energy to "burn" the water into hydrogen would be inefficient if indeed this were an inefficient reaction to begin with. Am sure that we do much better with a solar cell at this point... why intruduce the extra step?

After further consideration it seems that chlorine is not released in the reaction. Seems it should be if my earlier comment were to hold any water... haha. So, how about a resonance frequence that is haromonic with the “bonding” frequency between the sp2 orbitals causing a collapse of the bond? Something like when a light wind destroys a bridge when blowing at the right speed? Really airing one out there, but my hopes are that this is one of the most amazing discoveries of the 20th century. I fear that like cold-fusion, it is all to-good-to-be-true.

OK... here is how you could feasably get a positive energy gain. Chemists, let me know if I am in error. We know that water dissociates into its constituent H+ on OH- ions at a certain rate at all times. Add salt to this and we introduce Na+ and Cl- ions to the solution which will combine with the OH- and H+ ions to form HCl and NaOH in minute quantities, but the solution will always attempt to maintain this balance because the dissociation constant requires that these levels be mantained. So, the electomagnetic waves are not actually breaking apart the water, rather they break apart the minute amount of HCl in solution. Since HCl has a much lower bonding energy than that of water it takes less energy to break it up. If it is in fact breaking the HCl bonds the solution will constantly replace the used HCl and we will have a self sustaining reaction. This is the only way I can possibly see for this reaction to have a net positve energy release.