News reports, 1986 to 1995, transcribed

News reports, 1986 to 1995

Transcribed by the archive from the tape as posted to YouTube, which strings four reports together under the title of the first. The film. The 1986 Channel 6 report is the earliest television of the buggy the archive has found; the last segment is an excerpt of the 1995 documentary, transcribed whole elsewhere.

Channel 6, Columbus, 1986

[0:02] In the top, our news here at 6 o'clock, an age-old dream becoming a reality. A local inventor has discovered a way, hear this, to use water to run your car. It's a major breakthrough that will no doubt make motorists happy. And as Ralph Robinson explains, the Pentagon is also showing lots of interest in this project. Water has always been considered a precious commodity, but Stan Meyer's invention may make it even more valuable. He has developed what's called a water fuel cell. It has taken the place of his old gas tank. The water fuel cell breaks down water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen is used to run his dune buggy. I don't care if you use rainwater, well water, city water, ocean water. If you don't have any fresh water, go ahead and use snow. If you don't have any snow available to you, then use salt water because there's no adverse effect to the fuel cell. Myers started working on this project four years ago.

[0:51] He's not a scientist. He isn't even a chemist. In fact, he never graduated from college. Myers was determined, he says, to design something to protect this country from oil embargoes. We have calculated that if we take the dune buggy from Los Angeles to New York, we would roughly use 22 gallons of water. The Pentagon flew a lieutenant colonel in last week to look at Myers' invention. There's talk of possibly using it in the Star Wars defense program and to run army tanks. Myers is currently perfecting a water fuel cell for cars. It will cost about $1,500. He says it won't need any maintenance and you won't have to replace it. It'll be at least two years before the fuel system goes into mass production. The date happens when we won the fuel industry hate. But it'll put a smile on the face of those who've had to say at one time or another, fill her up. As you can see, many patents have already been received and many more are forthcoming.

News 13, Colorado Springs, 1991

[1:43] A car that runs on water instead of gasoline. Can it be true? Well, inventor Stanley Meyer made an announcement today in Colorado Springs. He says he's come up with a device that will hook up to any engine and allow it to run on good old H2O. News 13's Kurt Goff tonight on the possible impact of the water fuel cell. Stanley Meyer says the answer to dependence on foreign oil lies all around us. and sea water, tap water, and rain water. Any kind of H2O, he says, can power just about every type of engine. How? With the water fuel cell. It fits in the palm of his hand, but it could revolutionize the world. You're talking about a pollution-free, totally new source of energy, the voltage disassociation of water. The fuel cell converts water into a gas, hydrogen oxygen, which is released in the form of thermo-explosive energy. The water fuel injector simply replaces the spark plug. We hook it to a hydrogen computer system which regulates and meters the flow going into the injector.

[2:44] It processes the water in such a way to release its thermal explosive energy.

A second Colorado Springs report: the billion-dollar offer

[2:49] The man who invented an engine that can run on water says he's been offered a billion dollars in cash by oil producing countries to sell his patent. So far he hasn't sold. Environmental specialist Jan Porter talked to the inventor who thinks that the U.S. auto industry could produce cars that run on water now if they wanted to. The industrial base of the world is based on the utilization... Stan Meyer has a car that runs on water, and that's drawing crowds at this year's extraordinary science conference in Colorado Springs. Myers has developed what is called the water fuel cell injector. The injector breaks down the water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen, and the hydrogen is what powers the car. Basically, all we do is replace the spark plug and replace it with the water fuel cell injectors you see right here. We simply feed ordinary non-processed water or processed water in here. And as the water goes into the injector, it hits a very high false voltage frequency, which instantly converts it into thermal explosive energy.

[3:49] And as a result, we can run this car down a road on water. Meyer's invention was introduced in Britain earlier this month and now the Brits have followed him here. We recently took a scientific delegation to witness Stan's work, to really evaluate it and came back saying this is one of the most important inventions of the century.

From It Runs on Water, 1995

[4:13] For 15 years, Meyer has been fighting to get his inventions taken seriously.

[4:19] Most inventors have to be a loner. You have to be somewhat thick-skinned and don't rely on other people to support you because they will not. More times than not, invention is really stolen from the inventors. Even in my prior development of high technology, I've had patents taken from me. I learned from the School of Hard Knocks to be very cautious. Maher has always stood out against the crowd. He has no formal qualifications as a scientist because he didn't wait to graduate from high school, leaving early to go straight into research at the high-powered Battelle Institute in his native Ohio. Now he works full-time as a private inventor. He's got a device with potentially revolutionary implications.

[5:01] There is nothing startling about a machine that can extract the hydrogen from water. What is highly unusual is that it should do so with ordinary tap water. The conventional method is called electrolysis. Meyer has turned that process on its head. Unlike electrolysis, his device doesn't use up large amounts of electric current, nor does it produce an enormous amount of waste heat.

[5:25] For 20 years, he has been refining a method to fracture water, which produces vast amounts of hydrogen on demand. This is not his latest apparatus. He was unwilling to let us point a camera at that. This is the simple device he used to convince a reluctant patent office that his revolutionary concept actually works.

[5:50] Alloy rods acting as electrodes are housed in a perspex container that's filled with water. Normal mains voltage is fed in through a transformer, but critically, there is virtually no current consumed, less than half an amp. The result is dramatic. Hydrogen pours off with the flick of a switch.

[6:11] Meyer claims the key is his electronics, which pulses electricity rapidly across the rods at up to 20,000 cycles per second. In a way that's not readily apparent, this process transforms the equation. Whereas in conventional electrolysis, three times as much energy is consumed as is produced in the form of hydrogen fuel, in Mars apparatus, the reverse is true. It appears to produce several hundred percent more energy than it consumes.