Electrolysis
The electrolysis of water splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, producing a usable fuel. However, the energy required for electrolysis is greater than the energy released by burning this fuel, so this is not a viable way to manufacture energy. Nonetheless, several people have claimed to create devices that do exactly this.
- Francois Cornish, a French inventor whose 1987 US Patent describes how to make hydrogen fuel for a vehicle on-demand with an underwater aluminum wire arc design. See also U.S. Patent 4,702,894.
- Stanley Meyer, who claimed to run a car on water in 1984.
- Charles Frazer, an Ohio inventor who, in 1918 patented a hydrogen booster which claimed to use electrolysis to increase vehicle power and fuel efficiency while greatly reducing exhaust emissions.
- Daniel Dingel, a Filipino engineer who has been involved in water fuel research since 1968. A video interview showed Dingel's Toyota Corolla with an on-board hydrogen water fuel generator. This research career may be curtailed by his recent 20 year sentence for fraud.
- Henry and Charles H. Garrett's electrolytic carburetor.
- Paul Pantone. GEET reactor.
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