Water as Fuel
I was browsing You tube and was surprised to see several video's on hydrogen generators. About 1990, I was given an article on The Stan Meyer, over-unity, hydrogen generation patents and asked to comment. I was immediately interested because at that time I didn't think that they awarded patents for a theoretically un-achievable over unity process. Yet there was Meyers with over twenty patents on his ideas and some under a class that means that they had actually been demonstrated to the patents office, with working models. After a little research I found out that he had also been awarded European patents for the same devices. Even, so I was very skeptical at the time, but determined to find out what the truth was. So I ordered copies of every single Meyer patent, in order to examine them in depth. I didn't realise it at the time, but thousands of other people and companies were doing the same thing. You see, Stan Meyer claimed that he ran his car on tap water !. It was the invention that was going to save the world !.
In order to split water into hydrogen and Oxygen all we need to do is place two stainless steel electrodes in the water and apply a voltage of 1.481 volts across them. Each molecule of water will then be converted to two parts of hydrogen and one part oxygen. Both gases being lighter than water, will then float to the surface of the water. When all water between the electrodes is converted into gas, the process naturally stops.
The 1.481 volts mentioned above may seem like an odd figure, but at that voltage all of the electrical energy is used to convert the water to gas. When the ambient temperature exceeds 25 degree's Celsius, this voltage will just begin to produce waste heat. When the electrode voltage exceeds 1.481, increasing amounts of heat are generated by the process. From an efficiency point of view, 1.481 volts is referred to as the 'thermoneutral voltage'. For electrode voltages between 1.23 volts to 1.47 volts, the electrolysis reaction absorbs heat. Over 1.47 volts the reaction gives off heat.
The Bang Triangle.
In a normal car engine we create a controlled explosion by mixing petrol vapour (fuel) with air (oxidant) and then ignite it with a spark (fire). So our 'Bang triangle' consists of fuel, an oxidiser and fire. Remove anyone of those components and you cannot have a bang. The best bang depends upon mixing the fuel and the oxidiser in the right ratios, under the right pressure and setting light to that mixture at the right time. Congratulations, you are now a rocket scientist !.
Stan Meyers claims.
Well, we already have hydrogen powered cars and they also use air and spark plugs, so it appeared to me that it was perfectly possible that he was cracking water into hydrogen and oxygen and then using a mix of those gases to power his car !. What was questioned, was simply whether the way he cracked the water, was an over-unity process or not. Or to put it in another way, did he get more energy out of the process than he put into it ?. Trying to prove him right became a very popular endeavor. The appealing thing was that the science involved was something you do in your own workshop and it was true .... anyone could generate hydrogen and oxygen gas with a very simple setup in their home workshop. In fact you can do it with two spoons, a jam jar and a battery !. However proving the over-unity claim required a more complicated effort. Basically Meyers was claiming that his process ripped apart the water molecule using much less energy that was required for electrolysis. Meyers used the word 'resonance' often in his patents and as an electronic engineer will tell you, resonance can do wonderful things ..... so there!. From my point of view the question was where was the resonance ?. Was it a proton resonance at molecular level in the water ?. Was it resonance within the fuel cell capacitor and load inductance,, or in the applied excitation currents. I could find no natural resonace frequencies in the tens of kHz and hundreds of KHZ that Meyer was supposed to be using ..... except the