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Engine which runs on water
13 September 1993
Engine which runs on water
A RETIRED admiral will tell boffins that ships could be run on water instead of oil, at a conference this week.
Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin could go down in history as the man who turned the balance of power between Middle Eastern oil nations and the West, as he pioneers a revolutionary engine which uses ordinary water as fuel.
Sir Anthony will give a lecture on how household water can be used to power any combustion engine suitable for cars, planes or ships. His paper will be read to energy boffins at a week-long conference organised by the Institute of Higher Education in Southampton.
Sir Anthony, 71, said last night the system he will be unveiling to the world has been developed by an American colleague, Stanley Meyer, of Grove City, Ohio. It worked by using the energy between the electrons and nucleus inside the atoms making up water.
Water is fed into a fuel injector, which replaces the standard spark plug, which breaks the molecule into hydrogen and oxygen. The atoms’ energy is then harnessed in a special process.
The lecture this announces
The archive holds the paper itself at Water as Fuel. This is the notice that ran in the local evening paper on the Monday, and it is worth having because it dates the conference to that week and names the organiser as the Institute of Higher Education in Southampton, which the paper itself does not.
It also gives Griffin’s age at 71, which puts his birth in 1921 or 1922.
“Developed by an American colleague”
Griffin is careful about the attribution and the paper is careful to print it: the system is Meyer’s, and Griffin is reading it. Eighteen months later The Argus would report that he had been to Meyer’s workshop in Ohio eight times.
The original
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- Page
- 16
- Rights
- The newspaper page is copyright its publisher and is reproduced here as a record of what was printed at the time; the archive claims nothing in it. The watermark marks the archive’s copy, not its ownership. The citation is what a reader needs to find the original.
- Caption
- Southern Evening Echo, Southampton, Monday 13 September 1993, page 16. The yellow block over Meyer’s name is the search highlight of the service the clipping was taken from; it is on the words and has been left where it fell rather than painted out.
- Citation
- Southern Evening Echo, Southampton, September 1993, pp. 16
- Publication
- Southern Evening Echo, Southampton
- Transcription
- A clipping from the printed page, photographed and supplied by the archive’s editor.