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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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January 21, 1991
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LEACH.ASC
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This document has been graciously supplied to KeelyNet by
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Dan A. Davidson from his own early and ongoing researches.
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We wish to make everyone aware that Dan has asked that this
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information be given the widest possible distribution.
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It is people like Dan who work behind the scenes to help fan the
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This article is from NewsWeek - April 19, 1976 - page 78
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Sam Leach's Box
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"It's the greatest thing since sex," proclaims Patrick McDonald,
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vice president of MJM Hydrotech of Los Angeles. "There will be no
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reason to strip-mine for coal, no reason to run supertankers full of
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oil or build nuclear-power plants."
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The object of McDonald's enthusiasm is a mysterious stainless-steel
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case, about the size of a steamer trunk, equipped on the outside
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with six dials and a gas jet.
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It was developed by an equally mysterious 61-year-old Los Angeles
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inventor named Sam Leach, who claims it will do nothing less than
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produce combustible hydrogen from tap water - without any continous
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source of outside energy.
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If Leach is telling the truth, his hydrogen generator would satisfy
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a dream that scientists have had for decades; an unlimited supply of
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clean energy for homes, autos and industry at practically no cost.
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If he's not telling the truth, it could be the biggest business scam
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since hundreds were bilked by the promoter of the nonexistent Dale
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automobile.
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Leach says his device is really quite simple. Inside the case is an
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UNIDENTIFIED REACTANT METAL. Tap water is fed into the case and an
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electric charge is applied, turning the water to steam.
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The reactant metal SOAKS UP THE OXYGEN in the steam and the hydrogen
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THUS RELEASED is sucked out of the chamber by a vacuum device.
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Leach says the device needs a small charge of outside power to begin
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the conversion process, but that after that it powers itself by
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using the heat produced by the chemical reaction.
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Unlikely as all this sounds, Leach has some believers. Morris J.
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Mirkin, the founder and former head of Budget Rent-A-Car and now
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chairman of MJM, and Randall Presley, president of Presley Cos., a
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California group of home construction firms, have each paid Leach
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$500,000 for "automotive" and "residential application rights,"
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respectively, to the generator.
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When rumors of the device began to circulate, the stock in the
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Presley Cos. shot from $4.24 a share last December 23rd to $20.25 on
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March 25th.
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At that point, the Securities and Exchange Commission stopped
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trading in Presley stock and launched an investigation into the
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possibility of stock manipulation and other violations of securities
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laws.
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Leach commissioned two reputable laboratories to test the generator.
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In press releases prepared by MJM, both were quoted as saying the
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machine worked. But the testing laboratories themselves refuse to
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talk to reporters, saying they promised Leach they would not.
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Skeptics : Leach also is not available to reporters, and he has
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little support among scientists. Most experts say his description
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of the process violates two laws of thermodynamics.
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"It's ridiculous," snapped a hydrogen expert from UCLA. "It sounds
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like a perpetual-motion machine."
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And so far, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
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also is unimpressed. "It's possible to produce hydrogen that way,"
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one top ERDA scientist said, "but we don't know what's in his box
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and he won't tell anybody. If I had to make a guess, I'd say it is
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a gimmick."
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Whether is is indeed a gimmick or for real will presumably be known
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when the SEC completes its investigation - or when one of the 86
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patents Leach HAS BEEN ISSUED in countries around the world is made
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public. That may happen early next month.
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In the meantime, the Southern California Gas Co. of Los Angeles, one
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of the firms approached to use the Leach device to generate gas, is
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keeping an open mind.
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"It seems a little unusual, but [physical] laws have been broken in
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the past," says Southern vice president Ray Todd.
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But then, Todd is willing to consider some unconventional
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propositions. Not long ago, he was approached by an inventor with
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an idea for extracting methane gas - the chief ingredient in natural
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gas - from chicken droppings.
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The following article is from Fate - October 1976 - page 32 & 34
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Perpetual Motion?
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Last March 28 in Los Angeles representatives of several laboratories
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and some reporters watched what seemed to be ordinary water piped
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into a device somewhat LARGER THAN A BIG TRUNK.
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Knobs were turned and a JET OF FLAME burst forth from a tube and
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BURNED FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES, until the machine was turned off.
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Samuel Leach, the 61-year old inventor, claims the flame results
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from BURNING GAS GENERATED BY SPLITTING WATER into hydrogen and
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oxygen. Except for the brief electrical input necessary to start
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the process, says Leach, it is self-sustaining and derives (heat)
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from the water itself.
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An inexpensive process to separate hydrogen and oxygen would solve
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the world's energy problems.
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For at least 60 years it has been known that the REACTIONS OF METAL
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AND WATER WILL PRODUCE HYDROGEN.
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One early process mixed POWDERED IRON WITH STEAM. The Chicago
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Institute of Gas Technology has developed a HYDROGEN GENERATOR BASED
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ON CADMIUM.
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But Derek P. Gregory of the Institute, who has led the push for a
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"hydrogen economy," states that NO KNOWN SYSTEM will approach the
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claims made by Leach.
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"If it works the way they say it does, it is perpetual motion.
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That's impossible," SCIENCE NEWS quotes Gregory as saying.
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The apparatus inside Leach's CLOSED STEEL TRUNK is supposed to
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include TWO STEEL TANKS, each holding GRANULES of an UNIDENTIFIED
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METAL that theoretically REACTS WITH STEAM, BINDING THE OXYGEN and
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RELEASING HYDROGEN.
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After the oxygen has been bound to the metal, Leach claims the metal
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can BE HEATED TO REMOVE THE OXYGEN AND THE CYCLE REPEATED (using the
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same metal).
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If it is to be self-sustaining, the heat given off by the hydrogen
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must be MORE THAN SUFFICIENT to remove the oxygen from the metal.
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The laws of thermodynamics say this is impossible.
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It's easy enough to produce hydrogen but some heat always would be
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lost in the process and outside energy would have to be added.
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The following article is from Fate - November 1976 - page 36
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Tunnel Vision?
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Science regards the laws of thermodynamics as almost sacred. A Mr.
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Leach insists that "thermodynamicists follow certain things BLINDLY,
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like TUNNEL VISION."
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Meanwhile investments made in a Leach invention by several large
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companies are at stake. The stock of Presley, one of the companies
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associated with the invention, has jumped from about $2.00 to $20.00
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and 3/8 on the American Stock Exchange, and the Securities and
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Exchange Commission has ordered an investigation.
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One thing seems sure. Although two laboratories, Smith-Emery
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Company of Los Angeles and the Approved Engineering Test
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Laboratories of Encino, California, disassembled and reassembled the
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apparatus and say they COULD FIND NO HIDDEN SOURCE OF ENERGY,
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definitive operating tests by dispassionate scientists have not been
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made.
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Repealing the laws of thermodynamics seems considerably more
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difficult than amending the Constitution of the United States. But
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wouldn't it be wonderful if Sam Leach has done it. - Curtis Fuller
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Vangard notes...
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A picture of the device shows the front panel to have two
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large meter type indicators, 3 small pressure indicators, 1
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large pressure indicator, 3 protruding stops which could be
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needle valve adjusters, and 5 knobs.
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A cutaway shows at least eleven drip bottles with a common
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input for each row of bottles. These rows are apparently
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controlled by a single master needle valve adjustment per row.
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There must be three rows of these drip bottles, each row of
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which can be fed singly or in any combination and at any rate
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of water. Apparently, this water then drips into the tank
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where it is electrified to generate steam.
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The steam is then broken down by the metal in its process of
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absorbing the oxygen.
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The device sounds simple enough and has many possible
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arrangements to enhance the effect. At this time, we do not
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have copies of the patents which were said to have been issued
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in OTHER COUNTRIES.
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Those in a position to experiment with various metals might do
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well to check into this phenomena.
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A very simple test would be to use a metal sample under a
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glass jar. As steam was passed over the metal, the hydrogen,
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being a very light gas would accumulate in the top of an
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upside down jar.
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A flame could then be introduced using a spark triggered from
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a safe distance to check for ignition. If the reactant is a
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metal and NOT AN ALLOY, it should be fairly easy to locate it
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by trial and error using different metals.
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Again, if this inspires you to carry out an experiment in this
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area, we would really appreciate you sharing it with us and
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the people interested in such projects.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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