Stan Meyer said use salt water. Here's why.

"Use salt water, there's no adverse effect." Stan Meyer's most mocked claim, in his own voice, and the reason it wasn't as crazy as the chemistry crowd thinks.

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"Use salt water, there's no adverse effect." Stan Meyer's most mocked claim, in his own voice, and the reason it wasn't as crazy as the chemistry crowd thinks.

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.

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WTVN Channel 6, Columbus, Ohio · c. 1985
Stan Meyer lecture · Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1989
Stan Meyer lecture · Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1989
Stan Meyer, SAFE conference, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1989: "We set up a non-chemical environment." — stanslegacy.com
Every tape, transcribed: stanslegacy.com

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Stan Meyer (original recording) · If you don't have any fresh water, go ahead and use snow. If you don't have any snow available to you, then use salt water because there's no adverse effect to the fuel cell.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · The chemistry crowd loves laughing at that. Salt water in an electrolysis cell gives you chlorine, corrosion and a dead cell. True, for electrolysis. Stan's cell wasn't doing electrolysis.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · Electrolysis runs on current, and it needs salt or acid in the water to carry it. Stan's rule was the opposite: add nothing, and hold the current down.
Stan Meyer (original recording) · We set up a non-chemical environment.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · With no current to carry, he said, the salt just rides along as a passenger. And he went further.
Stan Meyer (original recording) · So inherently, the characteristic of the fuel cell now gives us the ability to purify water and even go into desalination of salt water and do it in a way that we do not use any chemicals or filtration of any sort.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · Snow, rain, the sea. That was the claim, on tape, in his own voice. Test it before you laugh at it.

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