Stanley Meyer was an inventor in who died in 1998, and he can be best remembered for one thing.
He claimed that he had invented a car – a dune buggy – that could run on water.
He was thought to have developed an engine that would run solely on water – which would have been a huge deal if it had worked out for him.
There are a few theories on how he said he’s done this.
One reportedly being that he’d created a fuel cell that used a principle of splitting water atoms into their constituent elements.
This one mean using hydrogen and oxygen – using hydrogen as a fuel, strictly speaking.
Meyer’s claim was apparently that his engine was able to separate the two elements down, and burn the hydrogen which would create energy.
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According to his engine plans, oxygen and some water residue would be the only emissions.
An invention like this would be game-changing, and would turn the oil industry upside down – So it’s easy to see that not everybody would be pleased with a nifty, environmentally-friendly invention like Meyer’s supposed water-fuelled engine.
When Meyer died in 1998, his chilling reported last words made headlines.
He’d apparently been out at a lunch, according to his brother, when he grabbed his throat, fell to the floor and uttered the words: ‘They poisoned me’.
However, when a toxicology report was released following an inquest into his death, there was ‘no poison known to American science’ present.
It was then later reported that Meyer died as a result of an aneurysm and the coroner’s conclusion was a death from ‘natural causes’.
