Water Fuel Museum

The Water Fuel Museum, also known as the Kentucky Water Fuel Museum, a self-funded alternative energy museum located near downtown Lexington, Kentucky, opened at 1012 Manchester Street in the fall of 2005, and closed one year later. [http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/381254/thirst_quencher_for_gas_guzzlers/] Its purpose was to acquaint the public with the history of turning water into combustible oxy-hydrogen fuel. The museum's opening in 2005 coincided with the 200th anniversary of the invention of the first internal combustion engine-powered automobile, which also used hydrogen fuel made from water. (A patent was issued to Swiss inventor Isaac de Rivaz in 1807) [Joseph H. Wherry's 1968 "Automobiles of the World"] The museum had the unique distinction of being the first of its kind in world history.

Museum exhibits called attention to well-documented technologies that, by many different approaches, use water as a source of fuel. The background of accomplished inventors was emphasized, showing that this aspect of invention was only part of a larger body of engineering accomplishments. US patents for water fuel devices dating back to the 1800s were displayed, as were scientific papers, newspaper and magazine articles, and newscast videos that chronicled the emergence of the breakthrough science. [http://www.stormingmedia.us/57/5737/A573792.html]

The centerpiece exhibit was a 1971 Ford LTD converted to run on water by the late Tennessee inventor Herman Pleasant Anderson. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E6DE123DF931A35753C1A9669C8B63] ["US Patent # 6,119,651] A 1996 video interview with Herman conducted by MTSU professor Dr. Cliff Ricketts [http://janus.mtsu.edu/history/expages/Ricketts_cliff/ricketts_cliff.htm] explained how the system works.

Water fuel inventions showcased

*Dr. William A. Rhodes' "series cell" electrolysis design that has been applied to water-fueled oxy-hydrogen welding torches, commonly used by jewelers and glass blowers, as well as to on-board on-demand fuel production for internal combustion engines in motor vehicles. [U.S. Patent # 3,262,872] [http://www.pureenergysystems.com/academy/papers/Common_Duct_Electrolytic_OxyHydrogen/index.html] [http://www.hydrogen-gas-savers.com/william-a-rhodes.htm]

*Dr. Ruggero Maria Santilli, an Italian physicist currently producing "Magnegas" generators in Tarpon Springs, Florida. These industrial devices, based on an 1898 US Patent (#603,058), use an underwater carbon arc to produce a non-polluting combustible gas. He has demonstrated driving unmodified vehicles (Ford Escort) on the Magnegas he produces during the demonstration, with zero HC emissions. [http://www.i-b-r.org/index.htm] [U.S. Patent # 6,183,604] [http://www.magnegas.com/]

*Henry "Dad" and Charles H. Garrett, a respected Dallas father-and-son team of inventors who patented and demonstrated in public an electrolytic carburetor in 1935. [U.S. Patent # 2,006,676] [http://www.watermelon-kid.com/places/FairPark/fp-history/essays/wrr-father.htm] [http://keelynet.com/energy/garrett.htm]

*Francois Cornish, a South African inventor whose 1987 US Patent describes how to make hydrogen fuel for a vehicle on-demand with a unique underwater aluminum wire arc design. [U.S. Patent # 4,702,894] [http://keelynet.com/energy/cornish.htm]

*Stanley Meyer, an Ohio inventor who dedicated most of his adult life to the pursuit of producing an alternative fuel source from water to liberate his country from fossil fuel dependence. He first demonstrated in public a vehicle running on one of his devices in 1984. In all, he obtained 40 US Patents for related technologies. [U.S. Patent # 4,936,961.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIlXaABU54]

*Archie Blue, an accomplished New Zealand inventor who patented, and demonstrated in public, an under-the-hood water fuel device in 1978. [U.S. Patent # 4,124,463]

*Dr. Yul Brown, a Bulgarian-Australian scientist who, having read as a child Jules Verne's prediction about the future use of hydrogen fuel from water, dedicated many years to water fuel device research. He manufactured welders that created "Brown's Gas" on-demand. [US Patent # 4,014,777] [http://www.eagle-research.com/browngas/whatisbg/whatis.html]

*Francisco Pacheco, a Bolivian-American inventor who revived a technology from a forgotten 1897 U.S. Patent (#583,104) to produce both hydrogen gas and electricity from his unique cells. His devices were demonstrated publicly and won 'inventor club' awards. [U.S. Patent # 3,648,668] [http://www.mothersalert.org/pacheco.html] [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kentuckywaterfuelmuseum/2007/04/21/james-vanhooker]

*Charles Frazer, an Ohio inventor who, in 1918, was the first to patent a simple hydrogen booster, which uses under-the-hood electrolysis to increase vehicle power and fuel efficiency while greatly reducing exhaust emissions. [U.S. Patent # 1,262,034] [http://www.free-energy-info.com/]

*Andrija ("Henry") Karl Puharich, a Chicago MD who became a researcher extraordinaire, a water fuel device being among his inventions. A motor home was powered by his device. [U.S. Patent # 4,394,230]

*Daniel Dingel, a Filipino engineer who has been involved in water fuel research for almost 40 years. A video interview shows Dingel's Toyota Corolla with an on-board, on-demand hydrogen-from-sea water fuel generator. [http://www.wasserauto.de/html/inquirer_article.html] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhXrvCCILw]

*Plasma arc explosions of water itself, currently used in mining and metal-forming, and which have been applied experimentally to internal combustion engines in automobiiles. [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kywaterfuelmuseum/va/2008/06/02/robert-krupa] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrPu7AI50w&NR=1]

*Sonoluminescence, first described by John Worrell Keely in the 1870s, and portrayed in the 20th Century Fox feature-length film "Chain Reaction". [http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:John_Keely] [http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=chain+reaction&x=17&y=8]

*The use of additives to water to either produce a gaseous fuel (as in carbide lamps) or to make the water itself a combustible fuel. [http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportation/1980-03-01/I-Run-My-Car-on-Acetylene.aspx] [U.S. Patent # 5,156,114.] Some popular entertainment allusions to this use of water were also noted. [http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=150&format=movie&theme=guide] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Engine] [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/18561/Free-for-All/overview] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080754/] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0653101/plotsummary]

*Henry M. Paine's 1884 US Patent [U.S. Patent # 308,276] showing a simple method to "tweak" the oxy-hydrogen gas produced by electrolysis so that it mimics the burn of fossil fuel, allowing it to be used in fossil fuel-fired appliances.

*The use of water-injection as a means to more efficiently adapt hydrogen fuel (asd even fossil fuel) to internal combustion engines. [U.S. Patent # 3,983,882]

*Other superior technologies capable of reducing the cost of energy and/or transportation, both economically and environmentally, were described. [http://www.rexresearch.com/clemengn/clemengn.htm#7newspp] [http://www.rexresearch.com/pogue/1pogue.htm] [U.S. Patent # 2,026,798] [http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html]

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