  We explore a counterfactual protocol for energy transfer. A modified version
of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer dissociates a photon's position and energy
into separate channels, resulting in a photoelectric effect in one channel
without the absorption of a photon. We use the quantum Zeno effect to extend
our results by recycling the same photon through the system and obtain a stream
of photoelectrons. If dissociation of properties such as energy can be
demonstrated experimentally, there may be a variety of novel energy-related
applications that may arise from the capacity to do non-local work. The
dissociation of intrinsic properties, like energy, from elementary particles
may also lead to theoretical discussions of the constitution of quantum
objects.
