Stan Meyer's Hydrogen Gas Gun, a.k.a. the Gas Resonant Cavity: not a weapon

Stan Meyer built a "hydrogen gas gun", and gave it a second name: the gas resonant cavity. It isn't a weapon. It's a seven-inch stainless tube with four windows cut down its length and sixty-four LEDs shining in through an acrylic sleeve, and his "lasers" were those LEDs, in his own words. And "resonant cavity" isn't a microwave cavity: on his own 1982 drawing the tube is a capacitor with a charging choke on each side. Sixteen picofarads with a choke rings near a megahertz. At 5,000 volts in his gas, expect a glow at the rod. Sweep the voltage and watch the current.

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 · an evening workshop · 1993 or after
• Stan Meyer · house meeting, New Zealand · 1989
• The gun as built · measured by Stan's Legacy for episode 25
• Stan Meyer · Fig. 20YIE, Electron Extractor Schematic · © 1982
• Stan Meyer, an evening workshop, 1993 or after: "a hydrogen gun technology or a gas-resonant cavity" at 82:16 — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, house meeting, New Zealand, 1989, part 3: "the size of a spark plug" — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, Hydrogen Gas Gun Technology, WFC 602, Fig. 20YIE, Electron Extractor Schematic, © 1982
• Episode 25, Half a Rocket Nozzle: the gun as measured, and the cavity as the C in an LC circuit — stanslegacy.com/episodes/half-a-rocket-nozzle