Stan Meyer and General Motors, June 1990?

Nobody can source the story that Stan Meyer unveiled water fuel cells with General Motors in Detroit. The date is real, though, and so is his two-dollar-fifty answer to why Detroit didn't matter.

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Stan Meyer lecture · New Zealand, 1989

Nobody can source the story that Stan Meyer unveiled water fuel cells with General Motors in Detroit. The date is real, though, and so is his two-dollar-fifty answer to why Detroit didn't matter.

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Stan Meyer lecture · New Zealand, 1989
US Patent 4,936,961, Method for the production of a fuel gas, granted 26 June 1990: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4936961A/en
Stan Meyer, Global Sciences, 1992: "Detroit in the car industries is not going to change over to a power plant…" — stanslegacy.com

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NeuralStan (AI narrator) · This is going around as Stan Meyer history: on June twenty-sixth, nineteen ninety, he and General Motors unveiled water fuel cells in Detroit.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · Nobody can source any of it. Maybe he talked with General Motors, maybe not; nothing that survives says so. Whoever wrote this hung a story on a real date.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · The real date: that day, the patent office granted his patent for making fuel gas from water.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · And Detroit? Here is what Stan told an audience in New Zealand, in nineteen eighty-nine.
Stan Meyer (original recording) · Detroit, for example, is not going to change their production line when Stan Myers shows them how to take a $2.50 recycling tube, use the exhaust gases to adjust the burn rate of hydrogen gas to co-equal that of the fossil fuels, and run it off of water.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · His point: forget new engines. Hydrogen burns far faster than gasoline. So feed some exhaust back in. Exhaust won't burn, so it slows the flame to gasoline's pace.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · No new engine, no Detroit, just a two-dollar-fifty tube. Next: the patents they swear were seized. Follow.

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Method For The Production Of A Fuel Gas MEYER MARILYN · 1990 https://patents.google.com/patent/US4936961A/en