Mystery AtlasStanley Meyer
American inventor who claimed in the 1980s-90s to have built a "water fuel cell" car engine running on water alone; an Ohio court found in 1996 that his device was an ordinary, inefficient electrolyzer and that he had committed "gross and egregious fraud" against investors. He died in 1998.
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Theories & Explanations
Stanley Meyer served as the basis for Water Fuel Cell / Suppressed Free Energy Claim.
Concepts & Beliefs
Stanley Meyer is frequently explored with Demarcation Problem — A frequently cited case study in distinguishing a genuine but non-functional invention claim from deliberate fraud, decided in Meyer's case by a 1996 court finding rather than a scientific journal.