Mallove's 1998 notice of Stan's death, and the rewrite under his name

When Stan died, Eugene Mallove, the editor of Infinite Energy, wrote the notice "Stanley Meyer, 'Water-Fuel Cell' Inventor and Promoter, Dies Suddenly" for the magazine's spring 1998 issue. The archive holds the printed page, and it is shown in The Day Stan Died. It is a sceptic's notice, from a man who had watched Stan's cell in Grove City in 1993 and been refused a test ever since.

The same notice is on waterpoweredcar.com under Mallove's name, and there it says nearly the opposite. It has been copied from there onto other sites. This page sets the two side by side, and then checks what both say against the record.

When it was changed

The Internet Archive has the page from December 2005 onwards, and the captures date the changes:

The rewrite was made in the last days of 2005, and it has not changed since.

What was changed

Mallove's words are on the left, as Infinite Energy printed them; the website's are on the right.

Each change turns Mallove's doubt into support. His suspicion that Stan had no process becomes a suspicion put about by oil cartels. The failed attempts to reproduce the cell from the patents are gone. The bribe Stan described to cameras becomes a fact, and the conspiracies that "one had the impression" Stan believed in become ones that "exist today". The last sentence of his argument is reversed by the loss of one word. None of it is Mallove's, and all of it is printed under his name.

Mallove's death

The byline's "(another inventor who was murdered.)" is true in one sense and misleading in the other. Mallove was beaten to death on 14 May 2004 in the driveway of his late parents' house in Norwich, Connecticut, which he had been clearing after evicting the tenants for unpaid rent. It was not about his work. Chad Schaffer, the tenants' son, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 16 years. His cousin Mozzelle Brown was convicted of murder in October 2014 and sentenced to 58 years.

What both versions say, checked

• The Denver refusal. It is on tape, and the archive has transcribed it: the Denver lecture of 1997, from 55:38. Mallove offers his laboratory and asks, "Will you allow us to test?"; then, "Where are the numbers? … We don't need to get inside the box." Stan answers that "under the international patent laws, that if you release any of your work out in the public domain, you can receive a statutory blockage in receiving your patents", and that "I'm not willing to violate my development rights to reduce it down to practice." Mallove's "lose his patent rights" is a fair summary; "falsely" is his judgement. The rule Stan invoked is real in most countries, where disclosure before filing destroys novelty. Whether a meter reading on a closed box would have counted as disclosure is the question Mallove was pressing, and Stan did not answer it. The meeting was the Fourth International Symposium on New Energy, run by the Academy for New Energy, and Stan's paper for it is in the proceedings.
• The billion dollars. Stan said it himself, many times. In It Runs on Water (1995): "The Arabs offered me well over a billion dollars cold case simply to sit on and do absolutely nothing with it." Don Gabel's reading, in his 2008 interview, was that Stan "might have added up all the offers together." It is Stan's claim, and nobody has confirmed it.
• "Alternating current and voltage cell." This is Mallove's phrase in both versions, and it is wrong. Stan's patents drive the cell with unipolar pulses, one electrode always positive and the other always negative.
• The court case. Stan lost a civil case in 1996, but not against "a former associate": the plaintiffs were two dealership investors, and the court found "gross and egregious fraud" (the Fayette County docket).
• The $50 million research centre. Mallove could not confirm it. The centre was real: the Grove City planning commission had approved a research campus on 56 acres along Seeds Road in January 1998, on land bought by his Belgian backer, Philippe Vandemoortele, and it was to be inaugurated on 21 March, the day Stan died. The $50 million figure is still unconfirmed. See The Day Stan Died.
• "Collapsed and died" in the parking lot. He collapsed at the Cracker Barrel on Stringtown Road on the evening of Friday 20 March, was taken by ambulance to Mount Carmel, and was pronounced dead there on Saturday 21 March. The coroner certified a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The version on the website leaves out the Dispatch report of the autopsy that Mallove printed.
• Too Close to the Sun. Stan's car does appear in the 1994 documentary, transcribed here.