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United States Patent No. 4,936,961

Method for the production of a fuel gas

Inventor(s): Meyer; Stanley A. (Grove City, OH)

Issued on: June 26, 1990
Filed on: June 16, 1988
Application No.: 07/207,730
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Method for the production of a fuel gas


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A method for obtaining the release of a fuel gas mixture including hydrogen and oxygen from water in which the water is processed as a dielectric medium in an electrical resonant circuit.

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What is claimed is:

1. A method of obtaining the release of a gas mixture including hydrogen and oxygen and other dissolved gases formerly entrapped in water, from water, consisting of:

(A) providing a capacitor in which water is included as a dielectric between capacitor plates, in a resonant charging choke circuit that includes an inductance in series with the capacitor;

(B) subjecting the capacitor to a pulsating, unipolar electric charging voltage in which the polarity does not pass beyond an arbitrary ground, whereby the water molecules within the capacitor are subjected to the electric field between the capacitor plates;

(C) further subjecting the water in said capacitor to a pulsating electric field resulting from the subjection of the capacitor to the charging voltage such that the pulsating electric field induces a resonance within the water molecules;

(D) continuing the application of the pulsating charging voltage to the capacitor after resonance occurs so that the energy level within the molecules is increased in cascading incremental steps in proportion to the number of pulses;

(E) maintaining the charge of said capacitor during the application of the pulsating charging voltage, whereby the co-valent electrical bonding of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms within said molecules is destabilized, such that the force of the electrical field applied to the molecules exceeds the bonding force within the molecules, and hydrogen and oxygen atoms are liberated from the molecules as elemental gases.

2. The method of claim 1 including the further steps of collecting said liberated hydrogen and oxygen gases, and any other gases that were formerly dissolved with in the water and discharging said collected gases as a fuel gas mixture.

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#1|Anonymous comments:

Here's a YouTube video snippet of a documentary about inventor Stanley Meyer and his Water Fuel Cell (WFC) technology. It describes the apparatus in the video as one used to convince "a reluctant patent office" that the invention actually worked.

The liner notes on the video describe the apparatus as "the original Water Fuel Cell, which [Meyer] successfully demonstrated to the USPTO, in his Sec. 101 hearing, which resulted in the issuance of U.S. Patent 4,936,961.

#2|Anonymous comments:

Here's an interesting presentation that specifically addresses this patent. The presenter even goes so far as to accuse the inventor, Stan Meyer, of using the patent system to confuse the public.

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