The Term "fuel Cell"
Throughout his patents and marketing material, Meyer uses 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. 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". Furthermore, the term fuel cell is usually reserved for cells which 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 left. Meyer describes in a 1990 patent the use of a "water fuel cell assembly'" and portrays some images of his "fuel cell water capacitor". According to the patent, in this case "... the term 'fuel cell' refers to a single unit of the invention comprising a water capacitor cell ... that produces the fuel gas in accordance with the method of the invention."
Also, water is not and has never been considered a fuel. It can not be burned, and is considered as fuel exhaust. The mechanism of action involves the mythical Brown's gas, a non-existing mixture of oxyhydrogen with a ratio of 2:1, the same composition as liquid water.
Read more about this topic: Stanley Meyer's Water Fuel Cell
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