SEATTLE – For more than a year, it's been widely circulated on the Internet as a scientific oddity.

Now a process that converts sea water into a possible fuel source is gaining legitimacy.


Pictures have been floating around for some time of retired television engineer John Kanzius aiming radio waves at a test tube full of salt water in Pennsylvania.

"Just like that, if that was a car cylinder, you can see the amount of fire that would be in the cylinder," Kanzius said.

Could it be this engineer accidentally stumbled onto something that could change the world and end the energy crisis?

"It is the biggest discovery in water research in 100 years," said Rustom Roy, science technology professor.