List of pseudoscientific water fuel inventions

This article attempts to list pseudoscientific inventions wherein common water is used to either augment or generate a fuel to power an engine, boiler or other source of power. This is not to be confused with legitimate inventions (such as hydroelectricity) in which the kinetic energy of flowing water is used for power.

Electrolysis

The electrolysis of water splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, producing a usable fuel. However, the energy required for electrolysis is greater than the energy released by burning this fuel, so this is not a viable way to manufacture energy. Nonetheless, several people have claimed to create devices that do exactly this.

  • Stanley Meyer, who claimed to run a car on water in 1984.[1][2]
  • Charles Frazer, an inventor from Ohio who, in 1918 patented a hydrogen booster which claimed to use electrolysis to increase vehicle power and fuel efficiency while greatly reducing exhaust emissions.[3]
  • Daniel Dingel, a Filipino engineer who has been involved in water fuel research since 1968. A video interview showed Dingel's Toyota Corolla with an on-board hydrogen water fuel generator.[4][5] This research career may be curtailed by his recent 20-year sentence for fraud.[6]

Partial Electrolysis

Removing only one hydrogen atom from the water molecule requires less than 1/2 the energy required to remove both hydrogen atoms based on enthalpy of formation calculations. If this could be accomplished using high voltage pulsed partial electrolysis, then the hydrogen gas generated could theoretically be burned with atmospheric oxygen for net energy gain as postulated by Brian Glass in his YouTube explanation[7]. The law of conservation of energy is maintained as the byproducts of the partial electrolysis will ultimately be passed on to the environment and there will be an endothermic reaction with environmental molecules.

Submerged gasification
  • Ruggero Maria Santilli's "Magnegas" recyclers, which use an underwater carbon arc to gasify bio-contaminated liquid into a clean-burning gas.[8]

Transformative claims

Water is claimed to be transformed into a fuel itself, by the addition of some ingredient. This may be either a highly concentrated addition, or a catalyst (i.e. not consumed in use).

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-03-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. us 4936961 Meyer water cell
  3. us 1262034
  4. http://www.wasserauto.de/html/inquirer_article.html
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhXrvCCILw
  6. "Inventor, 82, gets 20 years for 'estafa'". Philippine Daily Inquirer. 20 December 2008. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008.
  7. Brian Glass (2017-02-17), Water fuel cycle Part 1, retrieved 2019-06-09
  8. "From trash to gas". CNN.
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