king and all the other functions in his new circuit were exactly the kind of things an engineer would expect to see in a working circuit. The only problem is that resonance eluded me !. Yes my replica setup did produce prodigious amount of gas using almost any excitation frequency but not a peak anywhere between 1 kHz and 1 mHz. I was beginning to wonder what I was doing wrong. After all, Meyer was supposed to have demonstrated his equipment to both the American and European patent offices. In addition the BBC had sent highly reputable scientists to see his equipment working. Everyone said it did exactly what he claimed it would do !. I think I decided to give up at that stage because I was running out of ideas. It was a sad moment for me, because like everyone else in the world ... I wanted it to work in order to save the planet. It was that important to me.
It is very difficult for an engineer to drop a problem after failure. So it was with me and I felt sure that perhaps I had missed something important in the pile of patents. Then one day I was reading through one and came across the phrase "idealised capacitor" and cursed, because with conductive water between the capacitor plates, it was far from being an "idealised capacitor". The reason is simple. The conductive water effectively shorts out the plates and it ceases to behave like a capacitor. It will still produce gas but only at a conventional electrolysis rate. To become an "idealised capacitor" one would have to insulate at least one of the plates. Then I wondered if our Mr. Meyers had done just that, perhaps by varnishing one of the capacitor tubes, thereby insulating it from the tap water. The casual observer would not be able to see a clear varnish coat when the tube was immersed in the water. The water capacitor and series inductance could now operate in a high Q resonance mode and a whole new world of possibilities would be open.
Another thought was that somewhere I had seen something similar .... and eventually remembered a short article in the "Wireless World" magazine from years before. It concerned the separation of oil from water. Two insulated metal plates were immersed in the oil water emulsion and an AC excitation signal applied to them. This caused the emulsion to break down into separate water and oil droplets. The effect is caused by the stress caused by the high excitation voltages applied to the plates. Could the same thing be happening in Meyers equipment or were all of the scientists fooled ?. Maybe you know the answer, because I do not.
1. Using tap water a brown flock is produced in the cell.
2. During one out door experiment, I accidentally left a small 12 volt / 100 mA solar panel connected to one of my cells. The cell was fitted with a 30 PSI gauge. The end result was one completely destroyed gauge !.
3. In one of Meyers patents he states that conversion of water to gas happened at a rate of 5 gallons per hour. This started me thinking about purification and delivery of water in third world countries. At least 25% of the worlds population do not live within walking distance of potable water. So delivery can be as important as purification. Water will always be found at the lowest point. Let us consider the case where the point of use is several hundreds of feet higher than the water source. We connect the two points with a length of common half inch garden hose. At the water source we use a solar panel to power a 'cycling' water splitting cell and feed the resultant gases into the bottom of the hose pipe. As Hydrogen is lighter than air, it will automatically rise to the elevated end of the hose pipe. Since the gas is being presurised in the cell, it will cause the pipe to fill with the heavier oxygen and fill the hose pipe to the elevated position. The hydrogen rising to the top of the hose pipe may also have an 'air lift' action assisting the lift of the oxygen.
At the elevated position we now pass the hydrogen / oxygen gas mix through a catalyst it will convert back to pure water, ready for use. Heat is also produced during the conv