Stan Meyer's plan to send hydrogen through the gas pipes under your street

Stan Meyer wanted his hydrogen to flow through the natural gas pipes that already exist. He said it started at a meeting in Columbus, where Ohio's industrial leaders were told their gas would be cut off. The usual way to move hydrogen was to chill it to more than four hundred degrees below zero and truck it. His Figure 2-10 does it differently: burn a little ambient air, mix its non-burning gases into the hydrogen, and the flame slows to the speed of natural gas, down a standard gas line of unlimited length. In Switzerland in 1989 he said it would run through existing gas grids without changing one piece of hardware. Decades later, from 2019, Britain's HyDeploy trial piped a 20 percent hydrogen blend through a working gas network. A different recipe, the same idea: use the pipes we already have.

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 lecture · Colorado Springs, 1991 · GlobalKast master
• Stan Meyer lecture · Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1989
• Stan Meyer, Figure 2-10, Utilizing Standard Gas Line to Transport Hydrogen
• Stan Meyer, Extraordinary Science Conference, Colorado Springs, 1991, at 13:35 — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, lecture, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1989, at 29:43 — stanslegacy.com
• Meyer, Figure 2-10, Utilizing Standard Gas Line to Transport Hydrogen Gas Safer than Natural Gas — stanslegacy.com
• HyDeploy, Keele University, UK: a 20% hydrogen blend in a working gas network, from 2019 — hydeploy.co.uk