The Water-Fueled Car

The Water-Fueled Car

Victor Thorn, American Free Press, 14 March 2013. The article is at americanfreepress.net, and as it stood in 2015 at the Wayback Machine; its pictures no longer load on the live page. The archive's own copy is the printout's last page, photographed below.

What it says

Thorn opens on the Cracker Barrel: Meyer rushing out, saying he had been poisoned, and dying; a coroner's aneurysm and a police inquiry that found no foul play; the dinner with his brother Stephen and two Belgian investors who were about to build on a 56-acre site in Grove City. He calls Meyer the holder of 42 patents who had worked on NASA's Gemini project and on an energy system for Star Wars, and cites the Columbus Dispatch of 8 July 2007 on foreign visitors and buyout offers.

A section headed "The end of Big Oil?" is mostly interviews from October 2012. James Robey, formerly of the Kentucky Water Fuel Museum, says the story is one of suppression, compares Meyer to Preston Tucker and Tesla, says it does not much matter how Meyer died, and passes on a story he says Charlie Holbrook told him: that Meyer presented at the Pentagon, soured on a military use, and that the Pentagon later replicated the work at a Florida university. Andrew Vatty of the Hydrogen Garage in Morro Bay likens Meyer's "scalar-charged water" to Reich's orgone; Chad Brosius of Alternative Energy Resources says oil companies approached Meyer and were refused.

"His vision" quotes Leonard Holihan's praise, the $1,500 conversion, and Meyer on what losing fossil fuels would mean for food supply. "The physics" quotes Lisa Zyga's 2007 PhysOrg article, the Colorado Springs television report, and Tony Edwards in the Sunday Times of 1 December 1996, says in passing that the claim defies conservation of energy and the first law of electrolysis, and ends with Robey on "voltage without amperage", water vapour at the exhaust, and a scientific community that called Meyer a charlatan.

Against the record

• "Later that day he died." He died the next day, 21 March 1998, at Mt. Carmel West, after the dinner on the 20th; the two Belgians were friends and backers celebrating a closing. See The Day Stan Died.
• NASA's Gemini project. Nothing the archive holds puts Meyer on Gemini. Star Wars is in the record only as a line in the biography read out when he was introduced at conferences (an "EBIT concept"), and as 1980s press talk of the Pentagon looking at the cell for it.
• Across the country on 22 gallons. A claim made for the buggy, never a drive that was made.
• "A 1992 interview." The YouTube video it links (Vd7QL1-NnlU) has since been taken down, so which tape it was cannot be checked. The interview that usually circulates as 1992 is one the archive dates to late 1990; see the transcript.
• Leonard Holihan's "one of the most important inventions of the century". Genuine: he says it on camera, captioned "Leonard Holihan, Advanced Energy Research Inst.", in the News 13 Colorado Springs report on the 1991 Extraordinary Science conference, speaking of the British delegation that had just been to see Meyer's work. See the transcript.
• The Pentagon replication "at a Florida university". Third-hand, from Robey quoting Holbrook, with no university, date or document named. No other source for it has been found, in the archive or outside it; it should be treated as unsourced.
• "Voltage without amperage." Meyer's own phrase was restricting the amps, not eliminating them; his patents give the current as small, not zero.

A comment signed JW

Under the article, on 8 October 2014, a commenter signing "JW" wrote that he had known Meyer, had been in his lab in 1989 and was a close friend until his death; that the land on Seed Road was already owned; and that he had chased down the paper on "explosions in water" around 1993, linking Gary Johnson's Electrically Induced Explosions in Water, which Griffin cited at Warsash that year and Meyer bound into his 1995 report. The initials, the dates and the paper all fit James Wight, in whose papers this printout was found, but the comment does not give a full name.

Why it is kept

It is a late retelling, not a contemporary report, and it is kept as a record of how the story was being told in 2013, by whom, and from which sources, several of which are in this archive. A printout of it was in the binder of magazine articles in James Wight's papers.

The original