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STANLEY MEYER - Inventor, FAYETTE COUNTY, OHIO: "Well it was during the oil embargo of the United States, it alarmed me that a little country over in the far east could actually cripple the United States and realizing that the entire industrial base of the United States and the world's based on the supply and utilization of energy, it became imperative that we must try to bring in alternate fuel source and do it very quickly. Of course I thought originally with the right type of funding we could possibly get it in within six months but reality shows that the twelve to fifteen years was more correct in this projection."
NARRATOR: Back in the seventies Stan Meyer set out single handedly to solve America's energy problems. He decided to do it using water, the world's most abundant storehouse of hydrogen which is a far more powerful fuel than oil. For fifteen years Meyer has been fighting to get his inventions taken seriously.
STAN MEYER: "Most inventors have to be a loner, you have to be somewhat thick skinned, and don't rely on other people to support you because they will not. More times than not an invention is really stolen from the inventor, even in my prior development with high technology, I've had patents taken from me. I've learnt from the school of hard knocks to be very cautious."
NARRATOR: Meyer has always stood out against the crowd. He has no formal qualifications as a scientist because he didn't wait to graduate from high school leaving early to go straight into research at the high powered Battats (?) Institute in his native Ohio. Now he works full time as a private inventor, he built a device with potentially revolutionary implications. There is nothing startling about a machine that can extract the hydrogen from water. What is highly unusual is that it should do so with ordinary tap water. The conventional method is called electrolysis. Meyer has turned that process on its head. Unlike electrolysis his device doesn't use up large amounts of electric current, nor does it produce an enormous amount of waste heat.
For twenty years he has been refining a method to fracture water that produces vast amounts of hydrogen on demand. This is not his latest apparatus, he was unwilling to let us point a camera at that. This is the simple device he used to convince a reluctant patent office that his revolutionary concept actually works. Alloy rods acting as electrodes are housed in a perspex container that's filled with water. Normal mains voltage is fed in through a transformer but critically, there is virtually no current consumed, less than half an amp. The result is dramatic, hydrogen pours off at the flick of a switch. Meyer claims the key is his electronics which pulses electricity rapidly across the rods at up to 20,000 cycles per second. In a way that's not readily apparent, his process transforms the equation. Whereas in conventional electrolysis three times as much energy is consumed, as is produced in the form of hydrogen fuel, but in Meyer's apparatus the reverse is true. It appears to produce several hundred percent more energy than it consumes.
PAUL CZYSZ: "Stan has something that's characteristic of the people that sound like they've done something to tap zero point energy. Has high frequency, high voltage and is a combination of the two at which something occurs. With Chernetskii in Russia it was what he called a self-sustaining discharge, the two would run by itself. When Stan gets this effect the amount of hydrogen and oxygen that are emitted off these two electrodes is a step function. It almost boils the water. If I did this with standard Electro chemicals I need current and the water should rise a degree every couple of seconds. With Stan's it'll run for a half-hour and the water temperature hasn't changed. Something's different."
NARRATOR: Meyer demonstrates this repeatedly without any difficulty and yet on the face of it, it represents an extraordinary revolution. His measurements over the years suggest 1700% greater efficiency than conventional electrolysis, and if he is to be believed he's getting much better results from his latest, still secret invention.
DR KEITH HINDLEY - Research Consultant: "Well I first got involved with Stan Meyer, when I went over there with a couple of colleagues to look at his water splitting device. So we arrived at Stanley Meyer's, he had a demonstration cell, we filled it with tap water, in fact I did that myself and he switched it on and almost instantly our three jaws dropped because of the rate at which the gas poured off. It was quite spectacular."
PAUL CZSYZ: "Whatever energy source Stan Meyer had tapped, it was not explicable by the electric power that was going into it. So something was powering it outside of conventional wisdom."
NARRATOR: There is no question that the gas coming off in such abundance is hydrogen. Meyer ignites it to produce a high temperature flame able to cut through metal.
DR KEITH HINDLEY: "Stanley Meyer has faced a lot of difficulties, he's three times tried to launch the device, produce press conferences, have the technical press around but he's been almost universally slated. In the early days very much so, they just ridiculed the whole idea. He's getting a little more notice now because some scientists are getting interested. But by and large science is very intolerant, particularly modern science."
NARRATOR: As with Tesla, Griggs and others, Meyer's claims are so far outside the received scientific wisdom that they've been ignored by the majority of the scientific establishment but then Meyer has ignored them too. He has poured his energies over the last ten years into establishing recognition for his claims by getting international patents.
STAN MEYER: "In the processing there was a great deal of difficulty in trying to process the legal paperwork in such a way as to allow the patent office to fully understand what was actually occurring. In one instant we brought the water fuel cell to Washington DC and of course I had tweaked it in such a way as to produce an enormous amount of hydrogen and oxygen gas and the patent examiner said no it will not work based on the electrolysis process and when we turned it on and produced an enormous amount of hydrogen gas, the examiner finally realized that we were doing exactly that and went out in the hallway and started screaming and hollering to everybody on the floor put out all your cigarettes hydrogen's in the building. So we started laughing and we said well we've certainly convinced everybody at the patent office that we can do what we said we can do.".
NARRATOR: Even so the U.S. patent office dragged their feet for three years before granting patents on the hydrogen producing device. Since then against massive resistance, he's managed to get patents established throughout Europe and Japan.But the Hydrogen machine was only the first step towards Meyer's ultimate dream. If he gets it right this application of his technology will change the 21st century in the same way that the Wright brothers and Carl Benz transformed the 20th. He is currently modifying a beach buggy to run on nothing but water. It doesn't have a petrol tank or even a hydrogen container; it has just a tank of water. He's invented a device called a water splitter to replace the spark plug. As the water is injected into the engine Meyer claims it's fractured into hydrogen and oxygen and then burned as fuel. Now he's working on a kit to modify any engine. He hopes to demonstrate it on this car within twelve months.
STAN MEYER: "And of course the blessing to the use of the water's as a fuel source, that on combustion the byproduct is water mist. So we're even solving the environmental pollution problem at the same time that we're using water to maintain the industrial basis of the entire world."
NARRATOR: Meyer is protective about his inventions to the point of self-confessed paranoia. Most observers describe him as a crank and his car as an aberration but then madness and genius often go hand in hand. Meyer shares with many inventors a problem that goes well beyond paranoia. As an engineer with no scientific background he faces a giant hurdle when he tries to communicate with scientists.
FRANK CLOSE: "One problem is that the language that people use when they're trying to describe their inventions is not the language that I as a scientist am used to, and so I have to translate it, if you like, into a way that I can begin to understand what they are trying to say. It might as well be written in Swahili for all of the sense that it initially makes and so I'm not particularly inspired to put a lot more effort in, in the hope that the pearl of wisdom will reveal itself to me. At a certain point you get a law of diminishing returns."
NARRATOR: But it isn't just a question of the difficulties of communication. There is a profound barrier between scientists and inventors and a strong reluctance on the part of most scientists to risk their reputations grappling with issues that don't have a clear scientific pedigree.
PAUL CZYSZ: "The reluctance to look foolish inhibits a lot of people from looking at things. This is looked at as a pariah. You touch it and it creates an image of you that you don't want your colleagues to see."
FRANK CLOSE: "One extreme you might have things that are guaranteed to work but are not very interesting if they do, and at the other extreme things that are a real long shot but would be revolutionary. And so you have to try and weigh the balance and decide which side is more likely to be profitable for you. Then having made some choices you then have to ask yourself and how do I actually go about doing this. Do I have to apply for funds to do it and if I do who will I be competing with and what is the better chance that this will be supported or that, because at least in the big science area that I work, you can't just sort of come up with an idea on a Friday and expect to start the experiment on a Saturday. It takes many months, many years even of preparation."
NARRATOR: Although the scientific establishment may have ignored the likes of Meyer, a powerful military industrial complex certainly hasn't. Over the past ten years, Meyer says he has been quietly approached by many influential organizations who would never admit publicly to their involvement with him.
STAN MEYER: "It is involved in deep space exploration and its also being developed quite highly in the military. Basically what occurred with water fuel cell was in effect that once they understood what was actually occurring then under the U.S. national security mandate, I have no decision or power over whether or not the military or NASA or the Federal government will utilize the technology. They can utilize it in any way they so desire.".
NARRATOR: NASA is using every method it can to regain some of its now fading glory. In the face of strong congressional resistance the days of limitless budgets for space exploration have long since gone. The champion of the new environmental friendly energy source, NASA would gain immense support. As a former top scientist of the NASA space plan project, Professor Paul Czysz has an inside track on the workings of the agency.
LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER, NASA - PAUL CZYSZ: "NASA has large centers. The center that's in charge of propulsion is now St Louis in Cleveland, Ohio. Can you imagine instead of having a million-pound rocket as nine hundred thousand pounds of fuel on board in oxidizer? Can you imagine what it would be like if you could put a device on there that would split water and run it into your engines? No explosive compounds."
NARRATOR: Public confirmation of a contract from NASA would provide a resounding boost for Meyer's technology. Paul Czysz says it's only in a closed meeting they confirmed such an agreement.
PAUL CZYSZ: "They're looking for new energy sources. I understand from the people that I talk with that they have worked with Stan in trying to understand what he's done and given him a contract. I also understand with the bureaucracy in Washington, and the congressional oversight as to why they would never admit it. Anyone that does that will be suspect, will be challenged, will be considered a threat."
NARRATOR: But if only a fraction of what Meyer claims for his technology can be achieved, it would represent a vindication for NASA's involvement. It would also be a powerful threat to many entrenched vested interests.
PAUL CZYSZ: "If Stan Meyer's device works, like he advertises you would make energy available universally, almost free. That is a major, major, major impact."
