Stanley Meyer
Stanley Meyer, Inventor of the Water Powered Car, 1940-1998
Stanley Meyer, August 24, 1940 – March 20, 1998
Stanley Meyer created a fuel cell, based on the principle of splitting water atoms into its elemental form, burning hydrogen to create energy and releasing oxygen, along with water residues, through the exhaust pipe, thus generating harmless emissions.
After a few months he managed to develop his water-powered engine, mounting it onto a dune buggy painted with the conspicuous writing: “water powered car”, and with a call to his Christian faith, to communicate the spirit of protection and creation, which animated his actions.
Photo credit: Fondazione Pirelli, Hemmings, Ferrari, BMW
Stanley had previously stated that he had been threatened many times by representatives from oil companies from around the world. He also claimed he had been offered the hyperbolic sum of a million dollars (some even say a billion dollars) to kill all evidence of his technology, and that he had refused. Stephen Meyer claimed that one week after Stanley’s death, unidentified people had stolen the Dune Buggy from Stanley’s garage, along with all of the inventor’s instruments, and that the vehicle had subsequently been found, but it is unclear under what circumstances and conditions. The patent had been registered, and the Dune Buggy was later closed off in a room without doors, so that no one could steal it and destroy it (but according to Meyer’s detractors, so that no one could examine it and discover the weakness of the patent).
In 2006, BMW presented the Hydrogen version of its 7 Series: its V12 was powered by petrol and liquid hydrogen.
It’s the 21st March 1998, the first day of spring, and four men are having lunch in a restaurant. A waiter serves one of them some cranberry juice, perhaps (but we will never know for sure) chosen for dessert. This man, immediately after the first sip, suddenly gets up as if he’s gone crazy, he holds his hands around his neck, he loses his breath, runs out into the parking lot, collapses to the ground and pronounces his last words “they poisoned me”.
“They poisoned me”.
– Stanley Meyer
Stanley Meyer