Thatâs almost 2,000x the cost of a gallon of tap water and twice the cost of a gallon of regular gasoline.. A few more stats, via Colas: Americans spent $11.8 billion dollars on bottled water in 2012, the latest data available from the BMC.
1836 â John F. Daniell, and English chemist, improved the efficiency of Voltaâs design by developing a way to avoid the corrosion problems of Voltaâs batteries. 1868 â French chemist Georges Leclanche designed a âwetâ cell, the forerunner of the âdryâ cell, or flashlight battery. 1888 â German scientist Dr. Carl Gassner invented the âdryâ cell, a cell much like todayâs carbon-zinc batteries.
The water fuel cell is a technical design of a  perpetual motion machine created by American Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 â March 20, 1998), around which a case of controversy developed. He claimed that an automobile retrofitted with the device could use water as fuel instead of gasoline.Meyer's claims about his Water Fuel Cell and the car that it powered were found to be fraudulent by an Ohio court in 1996.n a news report on an Ohio TV station, Meyer demonstrated a dune buggy which he claimed was powered by his water fuel cell. He estimated that only 22 US gallons (83 liters) of water were required to travel from Los Angeles to New York.