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Meyer had two plugs. One feeds gas from a cell somewhere else. The other takes liquid water and has to turn it into flame inside itself, in a millisecond. This is the second one, and that millisecond is the whole problem.

The archive's own copy, 13 September 2026 51 MB

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What was shown

There are two different plugs in this archive and they are routinely confused, including by an earlier cut of this film.

The gas injection system has a water fuel cell somewhere else. It makes hydrogen and oxygen at its own pace, and that gas is metered into the intake manifold with ionized air and recycled exhaust. That is the Gas Processor material, and figure 3-31.

The water fuel injector is a different thing entirely: a spark-plug-sized unit screwed into the head that receives liquid water and has to atomise it, dissociate it and light it inside itself. Meyer's own description in Water Fuel Injection System could not be plainer:

the present invention is a microminiatureized water fuel cell and permits the direct injection of water, and its simultaneous transformation into a hydrogen containing fuel, in a combustion zone

The present injection system eliminates the need for an enclosed gas pressure vessel in a hydrogen fuel system... The system produces fuel on demand in real-time operation

This film is about the second one.

Where the spraying actually happens

Correction from the second cut. The three-way spraying is done by a mixing assembly upstream, not at the engine. A constant displacement pump feeds all three at 125 psi; the ionized gas is deflected into the water path, and both are then deflected through the non-combustible path. What leaves is one fluid, and Meyer says where it goes: intermixed with water supply prior to entering Water Fuel Injector Plug.

So the injector in the cylinder head has one feed of already-made water fuel. Three arrangements exist in the record — the patent's three-ring plug, the patent's own two-orifice variant, and the vehicle's single premixed line — and they are routinely argued about as if they were one machine.

Figure 2B, below, is the first of those three. His Table I sets out what the constituents are for:

injector mixture process conditions thermal energy
water mist released under pressure into the combustion zone heat
ionized gas resonance using water's dielectric property as a capacitor or an engine
non-combustible gas unipolar pulsing at high voltage or a jet

What the ionized gas is actually for

This is the part the earlier cut got wrong. The ionized air is not a diluent and not a primer. It is an electron acceptor:

electrons are ejected from the water molecule and absorbed by ionized gases; and the water molecule, thus destabilized, breaks down into its elemental components of hydrogen (2H) and oxygen (O) in the combustion zone

Stripping electrons off water needs somewhere for them to go, and Meyer is providing it. As an idea that is sound — it is what an anode does. What it cannot do is change the price.

Does the charge keep overnight?

A fair objection to the second cut: charge in a dielectric plainly does last — an electret microphone holds its charge for a decade — so why not water fuel standing in a pressurised line? And Meyer claims the engine starts instantly on the first turn.

The answer is one law, not two mechanisms. Charge decays with the material's own relaxation time, τ = ε ⁄ σ, which is resistance times capacitance written for a material. Conductivity is the whole of the difference:

conductivity charge survives
PTFE, an electret 10⁻¹⁸ S/m 215 days
transformer oil 10⁻¹² S/m 20 s
light oil, his own slurry carrier 10⁻¹¹ S/m 2 s
ultrapure water 5.5 × 10⁻⁶ S/m 126 µs
tap water 5 × 10⁻² S/m 14 ns

Short of overnight by about 342 million times. But the objection arguably rescues him: his own phrase is "produces fuel on demand in real-time operation". He is not claiming the charge is stored — storing nothing is the point of having no pressure vessel. What stands in the line overnight is water. Which dissolves the storage problem and makes the millisecond problem worse, because all the charging then has to happen at the plug.

The millisecond

The taper still holds up. Hold the 0.010 inch gap and shrink the circumference and the impedance rises; a lossless taper conserves V² over Z, so voltage rises as its square root. His 20 kV in and 90 kV out needs a tip radius of 0.147 mm, which is buildable.

What does not hold up is the clock. He allows the whole sequence "within a millisecond or less". Taking one 7.4 µl shot of water apart costs 117 joules, and 117 joules in one millisecond is 117 kilowatts:

at the cavity the current must be
20 kV 5.87 A
90 kV 1.30 A

And the circuit feeding it is the voltage intensifier, whose stated purpose is to transmit voltage while restricting amp flow. At ten milliamps and ninety kilovolts one shot takes a tenth of a second, not a millisecond.

The droplet has the same problem. Only grains under about 22 µm can evaporate inside that millisecond, against a specified range of 10 to 250.

What still stands

Dilution is right, and it is the third stream's job. Thirty-six per cent non-combustible gas brings a hydrogen flame from 295 cm/s to petrol's 43, drops the peak from 2,483 K to 1,621, and cuts nitric oxide by a factor of 3,716.

And the international search report on his own patent is worth reading: two references are cited in category X — the claimed invention cannot be considered novel — against claims 1, 2, 7, 8 and 10 to 13.

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