Water fuel cell

The water fuel cell is a unique electrolysis device invented by Stanley Meyer (deceased March 21, 1998) which is claimed to break water into hydrogen and oxygen gas using less energy than the energy present in the bond itself. The water fuel cell was claimed to produce several times more energy than it consumed (for instance, by connecting it to a hydrogen-burning engine). Since this violates the current theories of conservation of energy, it has never been demonstrated to work or reproduced, and the inventor of the device was successfully sued for fraud, it is under much skepticism and is widely assumed to be a hoax.

Related Topics:
Electrolysis - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Conservation of energy - Fraud - Skepticism

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Stanley Meyer was granted patents in the United States and abroad starting in 1989. The fuel cell consists of stainless steel plates arranged as a "capacitor", with pure water acting as the dielectric. A rising staircase of direct current pulses is sent through the plates at roughly 42 kHz, which is claimed to cause the water molecules to intensely break apart with less energy than is required by standard electrolysis.

Related Topics:
Patent - United States - 1989 - Dielectric - Direct current - KHz

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Meyer has demonstrated his fuel cell device before Professor Michael Laughton, Dean of Engineering at Mary College, London, Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, a former controller of the British Navy, and Dr Keith Hindley, a UK research chemist. According to the witnesses, the most startling aspect of the Meyer cell was that it remained cold, even after hours of gas production as his system appeared to operate on mere milliamperes, rather than the amperes that conventional electrolysis would require. The witnesses also stated:

Related Topics:
Mary College - London - British Navy - Milliampere - Ampere

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After hours of discussion between ourselves, we concluded that Stan Meyer did appear to have discovered an entirely new method for splitting water which showed few of the characteristics of classical electrolysis. Confirmation that his devices actually do work come from his collection of granted US patents on various parts of the WFC system. Since they were granted under Section 101 by the US Patent Office, the hardware involved in the patents has been examined experimentally by US Patent Office experts and their seconded experts and all the claims have been established.

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