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15 Year-Old Invents Air-Powered Engine, Perpetual Motion

Maruf Karimov, a 15-year-old from Uzbekistan claims to have invented a technique that allows an internal combustion engine to run on compressed air. Because the engine can recharge its air tanks once it's started, it can run indefinitely. More »

3:45 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Wes Siler
7,973 views, 49 comments

in perpetuity

Water Fuel Cells Move Closer To Reality

A group developing Water Fuel Cell technology claims to be close to completing a fully functioning prototype. Of all the conspiracy theories on the Internet, the one surrounding Stanley Meyer's inventions and death is one of the most well known. Having purportedly developed a Water Fuel Cell - a perpetual motion device capable of extracting power from water by separating the hydrogen and oxygen, then combusting the two, thus reforming water - his work was largely ignored right up to his supposed murder in 1997. Last month, the two patents for this technology moved into the public domain and the Water Fuel Cell Open Source Project was set up to investigate and develop them. A video of Meyer's Water Fuel Cell car follows the jump. More »

4:15 PM on Mon Jul 30 2007
By Wes Siler
2,192 views, 23 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: Yeah the idea is a good one, to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water. The idea is compared to biofuels where we grow tons of corn for fuel, the problem is what happens when we don't have enough crops to more »