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Fill the tank with water
Unsigned, in the SEER '94 programme and visitor's guide · 13 July 1994
Fill the tank with water
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, your car could be fueled by water. This is your car, not some exotic mega-bucks hybrid.
Work is progressing on patenting a process that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, ignites it in the car’s cylinders, and exhausts merely water vapor, which is recovered and used again.
You can find out more about Stan Meyer’s water fuel cell, as well as other energy ideas, at SEER 94, the Solar Energy Expo and Rally, July 15 through 17 in Ukiah at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds.
This year’s Expo will also feature Solar and Electric Boat races on nearby Lake Mendocino. You can tour a home built out of bales of straw and recycled materials.
The photograph
Caption as printed: In the future, cars could be fueled by a process that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. A water-powered car will be on display at the Solar Energy Expo and Rally July 15 through 17 at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds.
From the calendar of events, page 11
| When | Where | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 16 July, 10:00 | Purdy Hall | Mutual Inductance Transformer |
| Saturday 16 July, 2:00 | Purdy Hall | Atomic Energy of Water |
| Saturday 16 July, 5:00 | Junior Building | Water Powered Car |
| Sunday 17 July, 2:00 | Purdy Hall | Water Fuel Cell |
About these pages
The car in the photograph is Meyer's dune buggy. The pages do not name the speakers, so the archive cannot say from them alone that Meyer spoke in person; but "Atomic Energy of Water" is close to the title of his memo WFC 424, Atomic Energy Balance of Water, and three water-fuel sessions and the buggy in one weekend is more than a stand. A "1994 SEER Program" is on Jim Miller's list of Meyer documents; the archive has not seen it.
The rest of the two pages — the "Sol Train", cold fusion, an electric Porsche Spyder, solar kiddie cars and the rally timetable — is the fair around it and is not transcribed.
The original
Provenance
- Shelf
- Press coverage
- Page
- 11–12
- Byline
- Unsigned, in the SEER '94 programme and visitor's guide
- 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
- The Ukiah Daily Journal, Wednesday 13 July 1994. 1: page 12, the photograph and "Fill the tank with water". 2: page 11, the calendar of events. 3 and 4: the two pages in full.
- Citation
- The Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, California, July 1994, pp. 11–12, by Unsigned, in the SEER '94 programme and visitor's guide
- Publication
- The Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, California
- Transcription
- A clipping from the printed page, supplied by the archive’s editor.