Where did Stan Meyer's water car get its electricity? A car alternator.

Forty years of arguing about Stan Meyer's water car comes down to one question: where did the electricity come from? He answered it on stage at Deer Creek. A car alternator, with the regulator pulled out. How that works, why it gave him "amp restriction", and the one condition the whole car depends

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Stan Meyer lecture · Deer Creek, Ohio

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Stan Meyer lecture · Deer Creek, Ohio
Stan Meyer at Deer Creek State Park, Ohio: "Deregulate the alternator", from 0:00 — stanslegacy.com
The dealership tape: the variable pulse voltage frequency generator — stanslegacy.com
Every tape, transcribed: stanslegacy.com

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NeuralStan (AI narrator) · Forty years of arguing about Stan Meyer's water car comes down to one question: where did the electricity come from? He answered it on stage.
Stan Meyer (original recording) · so basically a car alternator, as you see right here, when you deregulate it becomes a pulse voltage frequency generator.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · An alternator is a spinning magnet inside coils of wire. In a car, a regulator throttles that magnet's field to hold about fourteen volts. Pull the regulator, and the field is yours.
Stan Meyer (original recording) · all I had to do was deregulate it in order to send it right on up to 110 volts or higher.
Stan Meyer (original recording) · So as a result, I can use a car alternator to restrict amps and allow voltage to take over and utilize it in a controlled mean.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · So the whole car is a loop. The engine turns the alternator, the pulses split the water, and the gas runs the engine.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · A loop like that only keeps going if splitting the water costs less than the gas gives back. Textbook electrolysis says it can't. Stan said his cell wasn't textbook. That's the number builders are still measuring.

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