Yull Brown is the man responsible for that popular urban myth of the car that runs on water.

 When he first developed his new water electrolysis process in the mid-70s he found a safe, non-explosive method of separating water into oxygen and hydrogen.

He built a device that converted his car to run on the hydrogen from water, with oxygen as the only exhaust emission.

 He was shown on television at the time actually filling his car with an ordinary garden hose!

A skeptical world was amused by the oddball news snippet.

 Then Mr Brown began to have problems.

 He was, of course, loudly denounced as a crank.

 Scientific experts were quoted as saying the new technology was "physically impossible" and "ludicrous".

Absolutely no one would give him a research development loan.

 Approaches to the automobile industry only brought derision.

His bank foreclosed the mortgage on his home and, shortly thereafter, he made television news again because of attempts made on his life.

 Shots were fired into his kitchen.

Realizing that his new technology aroused the considerable opposition of different corporations, Yull Brown disappeared from public view with his water-car and set off on another track to research and develop he new electrolysis process he had discovered.

The water-car became another urban myth along with crocodiles in the sewers under the city.

Suddenly, last year, Mr Brown surfaces with a way of turning water into fire.

Under the corporate name of B.E.S.T Aust. Pty. Ltd.

 He introduced a commercial range of revolutionary Gas Generator Welders.

 Disposing completely with conventional bottled gas, this new water-powered system generates a gas mix called Brown’s Gas which produces a flame that can cut, fuse, weld, solder and braze.

 Brown’s Gas has some remarkable characteristics which include being able to weld a steel pipe to brick with perfect molecular fusion!

The new company tried to float on the Sydney Stock Exchange for development funds but a mysterious smear campaign of crank phone calls defaming the product and claiming scientific documentation that proved fraud so disturbed the Sponsoring Broker that confidence was lost and all funds were returned to investors.

1988, with the enthusiastic backing of a Korean businessman, the company was floated again, quietly with a minimum of fuss, on the Hobart Stock Exchange.

It may take a little while for the new technology to sink in but Mr Brown reports an unprecedented avalanche of enquiries and requests for information since the press reported his successful bid on the Stock Exchange.

The most startling claim by the inventor in the press is that the gas produced in his process can reduce nuclear and toxic waste to harmless carbon.

Mr Brown’s company is now in full production of the revolutionary new welding machines, and is making first deliveries.

 A larger version of the device is about to be shipped to the USA where its ability to destroy plutonium and other problem toxic wastes will be tested.

The Technology ~

In 1973, Prof Brown found that if hydrogen and oxygen were carefully mixed in the same proportion found in water (two hydrogen atoms to each oxygen atom) they would burn much more safely.

 He developed the first high efficiency electrolysis cell to produce his unique gas mix in a confined gas mix causes it to implode rather than explode.

 It burns faster with higher efficiency than any other gas mix. The flame front propagates at 3 km/second compared with only 10 m/sec for oxy-acetylene.

This means that with the gas burned at high pressure extremely intense heat can be produced in a tiny volume.

In one instant the flame can be the temperature of a candle, and you can wave your finger through it.

 Then, it will melt and split granite or fuse metal pipes to house bricks. Brown’s gas can reach 6000 degrees, the hottest known temperature. Tungsten, the most heat-resistant metal which melts at 3600 degrees, changes directly from a solid to a dark gas under the welder.

Mr Brown theorizes that the temperature of the flame is determined at the surface of the material through an interactive process between the hydrogen molecules and the atomic bonds in the object being welded.

Essentially, he argues, this is a controlled thermonuclear reaction.

To use Brown’s gas as an energy source, it is detonated by a spark which immediately forms a vacuum.

Atmospheric pressure then sucks water or any other liquid through a container or hollowed area, electricity and water are the only elements needed to activate and fuel the unit.

Atmospheric pressure forces the pistons down into the cylinders to occupy the near-vacuum caused by the implosion of the gas.

One wonders if the now much-mooted Greenhouse Effect might break down the resistance of certain major corporations to Brown’s gas generators being used to run cars and aircraft run on water sooner rather than later.

Indeed, this remarkable Australian technology may have surfaced just in time to offer a healthy alternative to present polluting power sources.

The water generator and welder have up to 30 different applications covering the following technical areas: Glazing and kiln operation, mining and mineral separation, drying of foods, rocket fuel production, silica conversion, primary production, irrigation, etc.

 Techniques are:

Air-conditioning and cooling, coal to oil conversion, pollution, smoke cleaning and disintegration of toxic waste, cheap hydrogen production, welding and brazing, liquid displacement, water pumps, graphite production, industrial and somatic heating and cooking, motor-cars, railways, ships, waste gas conversion, vacuum systems, and the timber industry.