00:00In the 1970s, erstwhile inventor Stanley Meyer of Columbus, Ohio, decides to take bold action after Middle East tensions sparked
00:10soaring energy costs all across America.
00:13The source of fuel for the energy for our entire civilization was shut off through what was called the embargo,
00:22the Arab oil embargo, because of geopolitical conflict in the Middle East.
00:26That caused massive disruptions, long lineups at the gas pumps, gas shortages.
00:32The price of gas spiked from about 38 cents to 55 cents a gallon.
00:37It was cutting into people's pocketbooks.
00:40Do you want to put gas in your tank or do you want to put food on the table?
00:43That was the oil embargo of 1973.
00:49To address the fuel crisis, Meyer resolves to improve his car's fuel efficiency.
00:56As a former NASA employee who reportedly worked on the Star Wars Missile Defense Project, Meyer is well prepared to
01:04innovate.
01:05Stan Meyer, he worked at a radar facility and he noticed that at a certain very low energy, that water
01:13went right straight into gas.
01:17Not just vapor, but oxygen and hydrogen, which is fuel.
01:21And it was an empirical observation.
01:24Stanley Meyer looked at the most abundant resource on the face of the Earth, next to the atmosphere, water.
01:32And he said, what would happen if I had a vehicle that could run on water?
01:37Well, we know that water is made of two primary elements, hydrogen and oxygen, H2O, two hydrogens, one oxygen.
01:45And through a process that was already known at the time, he modified the process and made it more efficient,
01:55the process of electrolysis.
01:59Remarkably, Meyer lacked formal training as a scientist or chemist and never completed a college degree.
02:07Yet in his mid-40s, he masters the process of splitting water into its chemical components through electrolysis.
02:15So on its surface, it's pretty simple.
02:17Electrolysis.
02:18You run a small voltage, maybe 12 volts current into the water.
02:23It separates the water into its component parts.
02:27Two hydrogen molecules, one oxygen molecule.
02:30So you're running the car on hydrogen gas.
02:35The electrolysis process that Jan Meyer invented was actually unique in a great sense.
02:41He designed it so that it would have low current.
02:43Everyone that's into electrolysis knows you need high current.
02:47So this is unusual.
02:49And if it was true, it would basically mean that very little power was being used for the production of
02:56hydrogen and oxygen.
02:58Stanley was so confident in his ability and in the technology that it would work, that he spent the money,
03:06hired lawyers, and filed a patent for his technology.
03:10And he was given a patent.
03:11It's still available today.
03:13You can find it online.
03:13You can find it online.
03:14You can find it online.
03:15You can find it online.
03:20You can find it online.
