[johnandrhonda]

Total B.S.

[rawhide]

Interesting, hopefully others will continue his work.

[dljordan]

Queue the tin-foil-hat detractors. I love inventors.

[ikka]

Well the price of home heating oil in the NJ/PA area has been climbing a lot. Why not make a few of these for use as heating/electrical generators? There are plenty of rural places nearby where woodstoves, etc. are allowed.

[DB]

It takes more energy to separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water than is released when it is burned and returns back to water.

Physical fact.

If it took less then you'd have perpetual motion (free energy).

[econjack]

He's a video on a water-powered car. The article I found pointing to this link says the inventor was poisoned and died shortly after this report was aired.

http://www.befreetech.com/media/stan_meyers_bb.wmv

[Jaxter]

".. U.S. Vice President, Henry Wallace, while on a Good Will Tour of South America, saw the Pacheco generator run an automobile engine.."

[razorback-bert]

I will wait for the infocommerical on it.

[Sudetenland]

It has been a while since my inorganic chemistry classes, but I cannot recall any metals that will spontaneously generate hydrogen in sea-water.

I know that some, like Zinc will do so in an acidic medium, but I can't think of any that will do so in an alkaline saline solution (except of course for metallic sodium, phosphorus, lithium etc. which are not stable as pure metals.

[muir_redwoods]

"Nan Waters, a consulting chemist with the Aesop Institute analyzed the generator and wrote the following report."

Aesop?

As in fable?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

One of the things that you need to be careful about when jumping car batteries is an explosion. Why? Hydrogen is produced in the battery. If this is a problem in current batteries, it does not seem impossible that hydrogen could be produced in this battery/generator. How much and how fast is another matter.

With a mineral water brine, hydrogen might be released by either by a current passing between the plates resulting in electrolysis, or something in the brine or on the plates that acts as a chemical catalyst that allows electrolysis at a lower self produced current, or something that is not electrolysis at all, but instead some chemical uncoupling of the H-O bonds.

I can't say if this thing is legitimate. It would be nice hear some independent chemists research this find out.

If this really did work, it sounds like he should have avoided energy companies in trying to market his product. He should have gone to companies that produce specialty metals, like Alcoa, whose product would be used in the manufacture of the generator.

[Kevmo]

bump for later reading

[Sherman Logan]

One evening, while working alone in his laboratory with his array of glass jars and electrodes, he noticed bubbles of gas forming. Because pressure was building in one of the glass vessels, he vented the jar. But, it wasn´t until he lit a cigarette that he knew that the bubbles that were emerging from the water were filled with hydrogen gas.

When you run an electrical current through water, hydrogen gas is released at the cathode and oxygen gas at the anode. No great mystery here.