[Biofuel] The car that ran on water - Nine years after his death, inventor's dreams -- and suspicions -- linger

[Keith Addison]

The car that ran on water

Nine years after his death, inventor's dreams -- and suspicions -- linger

Sunday,  July 8, 2007 3:47 AM

BY DEAN NARCISO

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Stanley Meyer during a test of his dune buggy, about 1980. This 
screen shot was taken from a DVD sent to The Dispatch by his twin 
brother, Stephen Meyer.

* Video, audio and background information on Stanley Meyer's quest 
for a water-powered car



After more than 20 years of research and tinkering, it was time to celebrate.

Stanley Allen Meyer, his brother and two Belgian investors raised 
glasses in the Grove City Cracker Barrel on March 20, 1998.

Meyer said his invention could do what physicists say is impossible 
-- turn water into hydrogen fuel efficiently enough to drive his dune 
buggy cross-country on 20 gallons straight from the tap.

He took a sip of cranberry juice. Then he grabbed his neck, bolted 
out the door, dropped to his knees and vomited violently.

"I ran outside and asked him, 'What's wrong?' " his brother, Stephen 
Meyer, recalled. "He said, 'They poisoned me.' That was his dying 
declaration."

'Cloak and dagger'

Stanley Meyer's bizarre death at age 57 ended work that, if proved 
valid, could have ended reliance on fossil fuels.

People who knew him say his work drew worldwide attention: mysterious 
visitors from overseas, government spying and lucrative buyout offers.

His death sparked a three-month investigation that consumed and 
fascinated Grove City police.

"Meyer's death was laced with all sorts of stories of conspiracy, 
cloak-and-dagger stories," said Grove City Police Lt. Steve 
Robinette, lead detective on the case.

If Stephen Meyer was shocked at his twin brother's collapse and 
death, he was equally amazed at the Belgians' response the next day.

"I told them that Stan had died and they never said a word," he 
recalled, "absolutely nothing, no condolences, no questions.

"I never, ever had a trust of those two men ever again."

Today, Stanley Meyer is featured on numerous Internet sites. A 
significant portion of the 1995 documentary It Runs on Water, 
narrated by science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and aired on the 
BBC, focuses on his "water fuel cell" invention.

James Robey wants a permanent place for Meyer in his Kentucky Water 
Fuel Museum.

"He was ignored, called a fraud and died without his small hometown 
even remembering him with so much as a plaque," Robey wrote in his 
self-published book Water Car.

Meyer had euphoric highs and humiliating defeats. He was kind and 
generous yet paranoid and suspicious. He would be hailed as a 
visionary and a genius. He also would be sued and declared a fraud.

As many of his more than 20 patents expire this year, and gasoline 
prices hover around $3 per gallon, there is growing interest in his 
inventions. But it remains unclear how much was true science and how 
much was science fiction.

'Always building'

Meyer was born and lived on Columbus' East Side before moving to 
Grandview Heights, where he finished high school.

He briefly attended Ohio State University and joined the military.

"We were always building something," Stephen Meyer recalled of their 
youth. "We went out and created our toys."

At 6 feet 3 and with a booming voice, Stanley Meyer was charismatic 
and persuasive, equally conversant with physicists and bricklayers.

He was also eccentric. His favorite phrase was "Praise the Lord and 
pass the ammunition," friends said.

He once called Grove City police to his home and laboratory on 
Broadway to report a suspicious package. The Columbus bomb squad 
detonated the parcel, only to discover it was equipment that he had 
ordered.

His focus on water as a fuel began in earnest in 1975, a year after 
the end of the Arab oil embargo, which had triggered high gas prices, 
gas-pump lines and anxiety.

"It became imperative that we must try to bring in an alternative 
fuel source and do it very quickly," Meyer says in the documentary.

'Something for nothing'

The basis for Meyer's research, electrolysis, is taught in 
middle-school science labs.

Electricity flows through water, cracking the molecules and filling 
test tubes with oxygen and hydrogen bubbles. A match is lighted. The 
volatile gases explode to prove that water has separated into its 
components.

Meyer said his invention did so using much less electricity than 
physicists say is possible. Videos show his contraptions turning 
water into a frothy mix within seconds.

"It takes so much energy to separate the H2 from the O," said Ohio 
State University professor emeritus Neville Reay, a physicist for 
more than 41 years. "That energy has pretty much not changed with 
time. It's a fixed amount, and nothing changes that."

Meyer's work defies the Law of Conservation of Energy, which 

[Biofuel] The protesters are the ones we should listen to at this summit

[Keith Addison]

G20 Summit

Johann Hari: The protesters are the ones we should listen to at this summit

The way out of the credit and the climate crunch is the same - a Green New Deal

Friday, 3 April 2009

When this hinge-point in human history is remembered, there will be 
far more sympathy for the people who took to the streets and rioted 
than for the people who stayed silently in their homes. Two global 
crises have collided, and we have a chance here, now, to solve them 
both with one mighty heave - but our leaders are letting this 
opportunity for greatness leach away. The protesters here in London 
were trying to sound an alarm now, at five minutes to ecological 
midnight.

Many commentators seemed bemused that the protesters focused on the 
climate crunch as much as the credit crunch. What's it got to do with 
a G20 meeting on reviving the global economy? Why wave banners saying 
'Nature Doesn't Do Bail-Outs' today? Because both crises have their 
roots in the same ideology - and both have the same solution.

We are facing a collapsed economy and a rapidly warming world because 
an extreme ideology has dominated world affairs for decades. It is 
the belief that markets aren't just a useful tool in certain 
circumstances; they are an infallible mechanism for running human 
affairs. If the economy ebbs, the market will put itself right by 
punishing wrong-doers. If the climate begins to unravel, business 
will rectify its own behaviour voluntarily. Now we know how well this 
market fundamentalism works.

The climate is currently going the same way as the banks. Last month, 
the world's climate scientists gathered in Copenhagen to explain we 
are facing "devastating consequences" - not in some distant future, 
but in my lifetime and yours. Unless we swerve fast, we are soon 
going to hit global temperatures that no human being has ever lived 
through. We don't have much time. By 2015, we will have belched so 
much carbon into the atmosphere that we will cross the Point of No 
Return: the climate will start to unravel as all its natural cooling 
processes break down one by one, guaranteeing we become hotter and 
hotter. Once we hit an increase of 4 degrees, much of the world will 
become uninhabitable, and there will be vast wars for what remains.

This isn't the warning of apocalyptic wackos: it's the judgement of 
the climate scientists who have consistently been proven right up to 
now. Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has been 
appointed Energy Secretary by Barack Obama, says: "I don't think the 
American public has gripped in its gut what will happen. We're 
looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in 
California. I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going 
either." Goodbye Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego. And that, he 
stresses, is only the start.

The distinguished environmental scientist James Lovelock warns that 
climate changes tend not to happen gradually, inch-by-inch. They 
suddenly flip - in our case from a cool world to a very hot one. He 
believes the hotter new world we are bringing into being could 
support, at best, a billion people. That would require 84 per cent of 
the world's population to die off.

That's why the protesters were talking about the climate. It should 
be the number one issue at every global meeting. And the way out of 
the climate crunch and credit crunch is the same - a Green New Deal. 
Our leaders are divided about whether we need a fiscal stimulus at 
all. Obama, Gordon Brown, and the Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso 
are leading the charge for a burst of big government spending to 
jump-start the global economy, while Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, 
David Cameron and the US Republicans are arguing this will simply be 
a debt-funded splurge to nothing.

It's a strange debate to have now, because the opponents of any 
stimulus seem to be mired in a row that was resolved back in the 
1930s. John Maynard Keynes transformed the way that we think about 
recessions. Before him, everybody believed the Merkel-Cameron-McCain 
line that recessions are like bad weather: you just need to wrap up 
and sit it out, even though it hurts. But Keynes transformed all that.

He showed that recessions are actually caused by a failure of 
consumer demand. When people sense that they might lose their job, 
they - perfectly sensibly - cut back on their spending. They buy 
fewer DVDs or restaurant meals or holidays. But this causes a fall in 
demand for services - and more people lose their jobs, causing demand 
to fall further in turn, and on and on, in a spiral. He called it 
"the paradox of thrift": what is rational for an individual consumer 
is irrational for the society as a whole.

But he also showed that there is a way out: the government needs to 
spend large sums of money, financed by borrowing, to get all the 
workers waiting idle back into action. This form of government 
spending

[Biofuel] THE BOB BECK INTERVIEW

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THE BOB BECK INTERVIEW 
_http://www.health-science-spirit.com/beckinterview.html_ 
(http://www.health-science-spirit.com/beckinterview.html) 

Bob Beck is a physicist, holding a PhD in physics from the  University of 
Southern California. He also was previously a Professor at the  University of 
California. He began his professional life as a photo-journalist  and owned a 
photography studio in Hollywood. He is a researcher and inventor who  likes to 
improve upon other people*s inventions. His version of the Brain Tuner  has 
been 
used successfully to alleviate insomnia, depression, anxiety and  addictions. 
He is also the inventor of the strobe flash light. He has been  nominated by 
a Mexican hospital for the Noble Prize for his research in  developing an aids 
cure. He believed that he would not receive the prize, which  he did not, 
because he is not a **team player** in the organized health field.  Leading 
Edge 
Newspaper publishers Kenneth and Dee Burke interviewed Bob Beck at  the Global 
Sciences Congress in Denver, Colorado, where cutting-edge, innovative  
information continues to be presented year after year. 
 

Statement of Robert C. Beck: **All statements made by me  are mine, and mine 
alone. I am expressing this as my opinion; I am expressing it  as theoretical, 
although we have abundant proof; I am saying this information is  given for 
your education and informational purposes only. I cannot make any  medical 
claims, although we have hundreds of spontaneous remissions. Everything  I say 
is 
copyrighted 1997 by Robert C. Beck.**
 
LE: 
Bob, tell us about your  low-cost technology that allows us to cure diseases 
like AIDS and  cancer.
 
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[Biofuel] HEALING CRISIS The Road to Better Health

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adding cooked food to a  raw food 
cleansing diet or by alkalising the body and using anti-inflammatory  remedies. 
 
Usually we can select a suitable time for a healing crisis by  starting a 
strict cleanse on raw food only, especially fresh vegetable juices or  fruit, 
possibly also vegetable salads. A fruit cleanse is more suitable for  
insensitive 
individuals and vegetables are much better with an over-acid and  sensitive 
body. 
 
One of the main factors reducing the severity of any symptoms  is a clean 
bowel, regardless whether the reaction was triggered deliberately or  
involuntarily. The easiest way to do this is by taking a tablespoon of Epsom  
salts (more 
or less according to bowel reaction) in water at bedtime or on  rising. If no 
solid food is used then take a teaspoon of psyllium hulls several  times 
daily in a glass of unchloriated water. Too little water can cause  
constipation. 
 
Another way to ease or shorten a reaction is press-point  therapy: strongly 
press into tender points on the feet and body related to  problem areas until 
the points lose their tenderness. This may take hours or  days with some key 
points. You can further support your body with light,  enjoyable outdoors 
activity. Also prayer and meditation or guided imagery are  recommended. 
 
As you can see, there is no simple path to completely avoid  health-related 
suffering. We can only choose in which way we want to suffer. We  can either 
deliberately and cheerfully endure the unpleasantness of repeated  healing 
crises with the promise of better health to follow, or we can expect to  suffer 
involuntarily and in an uncontrolled way from chronic-degenerative  diseases as 
we get older. The choice is ours.
 
 
 
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