Crusaders against pseudoscience can rant and rave as much as they like, but in the end they might as well accept that the myth of water as a fuel is never going to go away." Philip Ball, writing in academic journal Nature, characterized Meyer's claims as pseudoscience, noting that "It's not easy to establish how Meyer's car was meant to work, except that it involved a fuel cell that was able to split water using less energy than was released by recombination of the elements .
The water fuel cell would split the water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which would then be combusted back into water vapor in a conventional internal combustion engine to produce net energy. The water was subjected to an electrical resonance that dissociated it into its basic atomic make-up. Furthermore, Meyer claimed to have replaced the spark plugs with "injectors" that introduced a hydrogen/oxygen mixture into the engine cylinders. He stated that only 22 US gallons (83 liters) of water were required to travel from Los Angeles to New York.
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In a news report on an Ohio TV station, Meyer showed a dune buggy he claimed was powered by his water fuel cell. that produces the fuel gas in accordance with the method of the invention." Media coverage According to the patent, in this case ". the term 'fuel cell' refers to a single unit of the invention comprising a water capacitor cell . Meyer describes in a 1990 patent the use of a "water fuel cell assembly" and portrays some images of his "fuel cell water capacitor". Furthermore, the term " fuel cell" is usually reserved for cells that produce electricity from a chemical redox reaction, whereas Meyer's fuel cell consumed electricity, as shown in his patents and in the circuit pictured on the right. Meyer's use of the term in this sense is contrary to its usual meaning in science and engineering, in which such cells are conventionally called " electrolytic cells". Throughout his patents Meyer used the terms "fuel cell" or "water fuel cell" to refer to the portion of his device in which electricity is passed through water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. If the device worked as specified, it would violate both the first and second laws of thermodynamics, allowing operation as a perpetual motion machine. The resultant hydrogen gas was then burned to generate energy, which reconstituted the water molecules in another unit separate from the unit in which water was separated. The mechanism of action was alleged to involve " Brown's gas", a mixture of oxyhydrogen with a ratio of 2:1, the same composition as liquid water which would then be mixed with ambient air (nitrogen, oxygen, argon, etc). According to Meyer, the device required less energy to perform electrolysis than the minimum energy requirement predicted or measured by conventional science. The hydrogen gas was then burned to generate energy, a process that reconstituted the water molecules. The water fuel cell purportedly split water into its component elements, hydrogen and oxygen.
Meyer's claims about his "Water Fuel Cell" and the car that it powered were found to be fraudulent by an Ohio court in 1996. Meyer claimed that a car retrofitted with the device could use water as fuel instead of gasoline. The water fuel cell is a technical design of a " perpetual motion machine" created by Stanley Allen Meyer (Aug– March 20, 1998). For other purported water fueled devices, see Water-fueled car.
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