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Water-powered car drove oil barons mad
Unsigned · 21 September 2007
Water-powered car drove oil barons mad
PEACE campaigners in Grange have organised a meeting featuring a guest speaker and film show with a strong environmental message.
Two films, and a talk with practical demonstration about water power technology, will be presented by John Blacker at the Sands Arts Centre on Tuesday.
The films are Be The Change You Want To See In The World and The Secret Messages In Water.
The event is being organised by Penny Pullen, from Grange, and fellow members of campaign group Truthseekers.
The meeting will hear details about American Stanley Meyer who claimed to have invented the technology for a water-powered car.
The water fuel cell, named by Meyer, is a device designed to convert water into its component elements, hydrogen and oxygen.
It is claimed the water fuel cell is designed to utilise less energy to break molecular bonds than the quantity capable of being recovered by combustion of the product hydrogen and oxygen gases.
The water fuel cell is claimed to be able to produce several times more energy than it consumes. The source of this additional energy has not been scientifically identified therefore the theory is treated with skepticism.
At least one car prototype, reportedly powered by a water fuel cell, has been assembled.
Mrs Pullen, from Kirkhead Road, Grange, said: “His family want us to share the news about his invention and to use it for the benefit of all. Stanley Meyer was offered millions by oil companies to keep his work quiet, but he refused.”
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The organiser's statement that "his family want us to share the news" is hers; the archive has no record of the Meyer family's involvement in the Grange meeting. The headline is the paper's.
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