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Stan Meyer vs Michael Faraday: the $20 jar that would settle it

Stan Meyer said Michael Faraday never found his process because Faraday "created a dead short". Faraday's law counts one thing: charge. One coulomb makes at most 0.19 mL of gas, and ordinary electrolysis can never beat it. Stan's own brief claims more than 100 cc a minute at one amp, about nine time

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Stan Meyer said Michael Faraday never found his process because Faraday "created a dead short". Faraday's law counts one thing: charge. One coulomb makes at most 0.19 mL of gas, and ordinary electrolysis can never beat it. Stan's own brief claims more than 100 cc a minute at one amp, about nine times the ceiling. Faraday left us the way to check it: a jar of copper sulphate in series with the cell. Weigh the copper, measure the gas, divide. We can't find one published run. Build it, and send us the ratio.

About the voices. The narrator is NeuralStan, an AI voice the archive uses for its made films. Where you hear Stan Meyer, it is Stan: every word of his is cut from an original recording, and nothing he says was synthesised.

Sources

  • Stan Meyer · house meeting, New Zealand · 1989
  • A copper coulometer · drawn by Stan's Legacy for episode 43
  • The coulometer in the VIC loop · drawn by Stan's Legacy for episode 43
  • Stan Meyer, house meeting, New Zealand, 1989, part 1: Faraday at 32:21, "restrict the amps" at 39:26 — stanslegacy.com
  • Meyer, Voltage Attenuation Circuit: "more than 100cc/min of gases at one amp leakage" — stanslegacy.com
  • Faraday, Experimental Researches, Seventh Series (1834), §§739 and 783
  • Episode 43, Copper Ions — stanslegacy.com/episodes/copper-ions

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