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The water fuel cell appears at first glance to be a technical design of a Stanley Meyer's Water fuel cell
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Help "perpetual motion machine" created by American Stanley Allen Meyer
Controversial invention
About Wikipedia (August 24, 1940 March 20, 1998), around which a case of
Disciplines Physics and engineering
Community portal controversy developed and remains to this day. He claimed that an
Recent changes automobile retrofitted with the device could use water as fuel instead of Core The device is designed to
Contact page tenets produce hydrogen and oxygen,
gasoline. To openly claim any further: that the automobile's air intake from water using electricity, by a
Tools plus recycled exhaust was the source from which most of his device method other than simple water
What links here derived its energy, would deny him proprietary protection. Thus, by his electrolysis.
Related changes lack of forthright admission, plus our collective ignorance of a few Original Stanley Meyer
Upload file technicalities -- one spanning two centuries, it appears to be a fraud. Not proponents
Special pages Theory First law of thermodynamics[1][2]
surprisingly, Meyer's claims about his "Water Fuel Cell" and the car that
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Page information it powered were found to be fraudulent by an Ohio court in 1996.[1][3]
Claimed Water break-up by unconventional
Wikidata item His method has been shrouded in mystery up until now. It involves deviance form of electrolysis
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3 Media coverage
4 Lawsuit
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Description
Nitrogen, oxygen and other trace gases from the engine's air intake are positively ionized to disassociate nitrogen's
triple bond into mono-atomic form using a high voltage corona similar to Herman Anderson's Water Powered Car.[4]
Only a portion of hydrogen, derived from electrolysis on-the-fly, is burned as fuel. The majority of electrolytic
hydrogen is positively ionized to maintain a mono-atomic form in another high voltage, coronal chamber (separate
from the ionization of nitrogen) before the hydrogen is allowed to chemically react with the ionized nitrogen to form
ammonia. This reaction is intentionally left incomplete to retain a residue of hydrogen which will increase the burn rate
of ammonia to levels comparable to petroleum fuel. Since the ignition of hydrogen and ammonia in the presence of
oxygen will produce nitrogen and water, or water vapor, this latter byproduct can be reclaimed by recycling the
engine's exhaust. The hydroxyl radical (HO derived as a byproduct from the electrolysis of water) must be excluded
from all of these interactions or it will prematurely react with available hydrogen before the latter can combine with
nitrogen to form ammonia. Brown's Gas (HHO) and hydrogen do not provide enough force of sufficient duration to
adequately drive an engine's piston to propel an automobile at normal highway speeds in contradistinction to
ammonia. Additionally, hydrogen readily ignites, while ammonia does not. Together, ammonia and hydrogen can
overcome their individual shortcomings and provide a safe, economical and efficient means of motive power.
The foundation for this device was laid over two centuries ago by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807, when he said:
"....electrolytic hydrogen will combine with nitrogen in the presence of water, while ordinary hydrogen will not."[5]
The fuel cell purportedly split water into its component elements, hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen was then
burned to generate energy, a process that reconstituted the water molecules. According to Meyer, the device
required less energy to perform pulsed, high voltage, low amperage electrolysis resonant with the water molecule
(plus its impurities) than the minimum energy requirement predicted or measured by conventional science.[1] The
mechanism of action was alleged to involve "Brown's gas", a mixture of oxyhydrogen with a ratio of 2:1, the same
composition as liquid water.[2] If the device worked as specified, it would violate both the first and second laws of
thermodynamics,[1][2] allowing operation as a perpetual motion machine.[2] Since the device did not work as specified,
Stan retained his proprietary secrecy under the banner of confidentiality. Inventors are barred from demands made
upon them by scientists for "replication" of their work, or else there would be no incentive for the profit motive driving
their research.

The term "fuel cell"

Throughout his patents[6][7][8] Meyer used the terms "fuel cell" or "water fuel
cell" to refer to the portion of his device in which electricity is passed through
water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. Meyer's use of the term in this sense
is contrary to its usual meaning in science and engineering, in which such
cells are conventionally called "electrolytic cells".[9] Furthermore, the term fuel
cell is usually reserved for cells which produce electricity from a chemical
redox reaction,[10][11][12] whereas Meyer's fuel cell consumed electricity, as
The circuit[6]
shown in his patents and in the circuit pictured on the right. Meyer describes
in a 1990 patent the use of a "water fuel cell assembly'" and portrays some
images of his "fuel cell water capacitor". According to the patent, in this case "... the term 'fuel cell' refers to a single
unit of the invention comprising a water capacitor cell ... that produces the fuel gas in accordance with the method of
the invention."[7]

Media coverage
In a news report on an Ohio TV station, Meyer demonstrated a dune buggy
which he claimed was powered by his water fuel cell. He estimated that only
22 US gallons (83 liters) of water were required to travel from Los Angeles to
New York.[13] Furthermore, Meyer claimed to have replaced the spark plugs
with "injectors" which introduced a hydrogen/oxygen mixture into the engine
cylinders. The water was subjected to an electrical resonance that dissociated
it into its basic atomic make-up. The water fuel cell would split the water into
hydrogen and oxygen gas, which would then be combusted back into water
vapor in a conventional internal combustion engine to produce net energy.[3]
Philip Ball, writing in academic journal Nature, characterized Meyer's claims as
pseudoscience, noting that "It's not easy to establish how Meyer's car was The water fuel cell[7]
meant to work, except that it involved a fuel cell that was able to split water
using less energy than was released by recombination of the elements ... Crusaders against pseudoscience can rant
and rave as much as they like, but in the end they might as well accept that the myth of water as a fuel is never going
to go away."[2]
To date, no peer review studies of Meyer's devices have been published in the scientific literature. An article in
journal Nature described Meyer's claims as one more "water as fuel" myth.[2]

Lawsuit
In 1996, Meyer was sued by two investors to whom he had sold dealerships, offering the right to do business in Water
Fuel Cell technology. His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. However, Meyer
made what Professor Laughton considered a "lame excuse" on the days of examination and did not allow the test to
proceed.[3] According to Meyer, the technology was patent pending and under investigation by the patent office, the
Department of Energy and the military.[14][unreliable source?] His "water fuel cell" was later examined by three expert
witnesses in court who found that there "was nothing revolutionary about the cell at all and that it was simply using
conventional electrolysis." The court found Meyer had committed "gross and egregious fraud" and ordered him to
repay the two investors their $25,000.[3]

Meyer's death
Stanley Meyer died suddenly on March 20, 1998 after dining at a restaurant. His brother claimed that during a
meeting with two Belgian investors in a restaurant, Meyer suddenly ran outside, saying "They poisoned me".[1] After
an investigation, the Grove City police went with the Franklin County coroner report that ruled that Meyer, who had
high blood pressure, died of a cerebral aneurysm.[1] Meyer's supporters continued to claim that he was assassinated
in order to suppress his inventions.[1][2][15]
See also
Oxyhydrogen
History of perpetual motion machines
Free energy suppression

References
1. ^ a b c d e f g Narciso, Dean (July 8, 2007). "The Car that Ran on Water" . The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved
2008-03-24.
2. ^ a b c d e f g Ball, Philip (September 14, 2007). "Burning water and other myths" . Nature News.
doi:10.1038/news070910-13 . Retrieved 2008-12-08. "You start with water, you break it apart into its constituent
elements (hydrogen and oxygen), and then you recombine them by burning. (...) Extracting net energy from this total
cycle is impossible, if you believe in the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Otherwise, you have the basis of a
perpetual-motion machine. (...) He died in 1998 after eating at a restaurant; the coroner diagnosed an aneurysm, but the
conspiracy web still suspects he was poisoned."
3. ^ a b c d Edwards, Tony (1996-12-01). "End of road for car that ran on Water". The Sunday Times (Times Newspapers
Limited). p. Features 12.
4. ^ Allen, James. "Secret to Herman Anderson's water fuel system..." . OUPower.com. Discussion Board for Over Unity
Power Research. Retrieved 19 February 2014. Check date values in: |archive-date= (help)
5. ^ Reedy, J.H.; E.D. Biggers (Sept. 1942). "The Nascent State" . Journal of Chemical Education. University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois: ACS Publications. p. 403. Retrieved 19 February 2014. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors=
(help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
6. ^ a b U.S. Patent 5,149,407 : Process and apparatus for the production of fuel gas and the enhanced release of thermal
energy from such gas
7. ^ a b c U.S. Patent 4,936,961 : Method for the production of a fuel gas
8. ^ U.S. Patent 4,826,581 : Controlled process for the production of thermal energy from gases and apparatus useful
therefore; U.S. Patent 4,798,661 : Gas generator voltage control circuit; U.S. Patent 4,613,779 : Electrical pulse
generator; U.S. Patent 4,613,304 : Gas electrical hydrogen generator;U.S. Patent 4,465,455 : Start-up/shut-down for a
hydrogen gas burner; U.S. Patent 4,421,474 : Hydrogen gas burner; U.S. Patent 4,389,981 : Hydrogen gas injector
system for internal combustion engine
9. ^ The "The Columbia Encyclopedia" (Columbia University Press, 2004) defines fuel cell as an "Electric cell in which the
chemical energy from the oxidation of a gas fuel is converted directly to electrical energy in a continuous process"; and
electrolysis as "Passage of an electric current through a conducting solution or molten salt that is decomposed in the
process."
10. ^ Whittingham, M. S.; Savinell, R. F.; Zawodzinski, T. (2004). "Introduction: Batteries and Fuel Cells". Chem. Rev. 104
(10): 42434244. doi:10.1021/cr020705e .
11. ^ Winter, M.; Brodd, R. (2004). "What Are Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Supercapacitors?". J. Chem. Rev. 104 (10): 4245
4270. doi:10.1021/cr020730k .
12. ^ Chem. Rev.; 2004; 104(10), entire issue
13. ^ Robinson, Ralph (Reporter), Tom Ryan (News caster) and Gail Hogan (News caster) "Unknown Episode
[Videorecording (Broadcast)]" Action 6 News. Unknown Network. Station call sign: WSYX. Filmed in Groveport. Length:
1 Minute 45 seconds. Republished by Annaheim, Kurt W. "Media Page - See, Hear and Discover Free Electricity ."
File name: stan_meyers_bb.wmv . Last updated 7 May 2008 . Befreetech.Com. Accessed 23 June 2008.
14. ^ Letter from Water fuel cell regarding stanley meyer's water fuel cell project New Energy News 1997
15. ^ [1] Lieutenant Steven Robinette of the Grove City Police Department talks about the investigation into Stanley
Meyer's death. Robinette was in charge of the detective bureau at that time. quote: "The one thing that was based on
science."

External links
Stanley Meyer Website large resource of information www.waterfuelcell.org
Stanley Meyer biography from waterpoweredcar.com
Stanley MEYER Water Fuel Cell .
Fuel for fraud or vice versa? (On Stanley Meyer) summary of the article in New Energy News.
Meyer's rebuttal letter to New Energy News .
Meyer's documents archive at Open-Energy Project .
Herman's Insight: The Website for Herman P. Anderson's Hydrogen Car .
Herman ANDERSON Water Fuel System .
Herman Anderson: Water Fuel Car, Lost Video .
Water-fueled car; Energy from water .
PESWiki - Directory: Running Vehicles on Water

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