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The burning of the hydrogen does not actually use the energy being put into the salt water by the radio frequency. All the frequency does is make the energy in the hydrogen accessible. It simply loosens up the particles so that they can be burned.
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Exactly right on both accounts.
What I'm telling you is that the maximal theoretical energy you could gain from burning the hydrogen is less than the amount of energy needed to "loosen up the particles so they can be burned".
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The machine only uses a very small fraction of the energy you will get from burning that natural gas.
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Correct.
The maximal amount of energy you can get out of burning the natural gas is less than the amount of energy that was needed to create the gas.
Since the gas was created naturally, however, the it didn't cost us anything.
An analogy for that to the RF saltwater would be if we could get the radio waves from outer space and didn't have to generate them. That way, the "loosening up" of the saltwater wouldn't cost us anything.
But in any and all cases, conservation is maintained.