Archie Blue
Archie Blue | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Known for | Electrolytic "water fuel" cell for automobiles |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Invention, electrolysis |
Archie Blue (Archie H. Blue) was a New Zealand inventor known for an electrolytic apparatus intended to power an internal-combustion engine on water. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Blue, of Christchurch, developed a bubbler-type electrolytic cell designed to fit within a car's engine compartment and to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for use as fuel. He was granted United States patent 4,124,463, "Electrolytic Cell," in 1978, and demonstrated the device publicly during the 1970s. His claim of running an automobile on water places the work outside accepted engineering and thermodynamics, and it is generally cited within "water-powered car" and suppressed-invention literature rather than in mainstream sources. Accounts state that he declined offers to buy the invention and that his experimental materials were discarded after his death.