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Investigator site log: Larson-Tyson (Realm Industries)

Run 1: 2026-10-04 (Step I, first run, 10-minute cap). Browser: Chrome (claude-in-chrome), Google search. Web time used: about 7 minutes (by date +%s, 401 s at stop). No file downloads were made this run; the PDF links are recorded below for the next run or for the owner.

Site URL First checked Last checked Queries tried Result Recheck? Notes
Google Patents https://patents.google.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 US20090092540A1; US7793621B2; "energy carriers" + assignee Realm Industries; WO2010039283A2; assignee:Realm Industries; inventor:Stehl before 2007 + water; WO2023055615A1 positive yes CIP granted as US 7,793,621 B2 (14 Sep 2010; lapsed 2018). Parent abandoned 2013 (no reply to office action). 15-member family. 2009 PCT "energy carriers" in which inventors concede the product may be H2+O2. R2D2/H2Plus later "structurally altered gas molecule" patents. research/2026-10-04-google-patents.md
Google Search https://www.google.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 see Keywords tried positive yes Led to all news, DOJ and EPA hits. DMCA notice removed 10 results on the Sylmar/Tylar query
Simi Valley Acorn https://www.simivalleyacorn.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 "Realm Industries" Simi Valley explosion 2010 victim positive yes 25 Jun 2010: victim was Tyson Larson; Cal/OSHA; Dec 2008 tank incident. research/2026-10-04-news-2010.md
Ventura County Star archive https://archive.vcstar.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 "William Stehl" BGX Technologies OR "Rainbow Technologies" indicted investors water positive yes 21 Jun 2010: origin in Stehl's BGX (Saranac Lake); father bought equipment 2005; prosecutor not alleging scientific fraud; Purdue chemist's dissent. 18 Jun 2010 article not opened. research/2026-10-04-news-2010.md
US EPA OSC Response https://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=7236 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 Sylmar 2011 explosion "Tylar" OR "Larson" hydrogen oxygen gas company positive yes POLREP #2: TyLar gas, MSDS = compressed hydrogen, invoice = "compressed water vapor", export to South Korea, cylinders destroyed unsampled. POLREP counter=16424, POLREP 4 and CERCLA letters not yet read. research/2026-10-04-epa-response.md
Press-Telegram (AP) https://www.presstelegram.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 "Family sorrow in fuel quest" Larson positive yes 2005 sale of Rainbow Technology patents/equipment; Cal/OSHA 2010 findings (3 containers failed; $5,685 citations). research/2026-10-04-news-2011-2014.md
Los Angeles Daily News https://www.dailynews.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 Cal/OSHA fines 3 businesses Sylmar "Rainbow of Hope" "Strategic Sciences" 2012 positive yes $540,890 Cal/OSHA penalties; H2 and O2 stored in the same tanks; sales demo of TyLar gas; Realm Catalyst dissolved Nov 2011. 2010 and 2011 Daily News stories seen as snippets only. research/2026-10-04-news-2011-2014.md
Fire Engineering https://www.fireengineering.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 (from Google: "Realm Industries" Simi Valley explosion 2010 victim) partial yes 2014 safety article: BGX, Rainbow of Hope, Realm, "Sylmar"; at least four explosions; "Tylar". Body stopped rendering after a pop-up; rest unread. research/2026-10-04-news-2011-2014.md
Fuel Cell Nation (blog) https://blog.fuelcellnation.com/patents/ 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 "Realm Industries" OR "Strategic Sciences" Larson Cal/OSHA ... positive no Secondary blog (hydrogen fuel-cell advocate); repeats AP and Adirondack Daily Enterprise. research/2026-10-04-news-2011-2014.md
US DOJ (USAO NDNY) https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/second-defendant-convicted-8-million-fraud-scheme-concerning-purported-alternative 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 "Stehl" "Saranac Lake" water energy sentenced OR convicted OR acquitted OR trial OR plea positive yes Stehl Alford plea 2 Sep 2014; Rossignol 20 years; Silver City NM slag-pile application. research/2026-10-04-justice-gov.md
Daily Gazette / Adirondack Daily Enterprise https://www.dailygazette.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 (same as DOJ row) partial yes 1 Jan 2014 article: headline only, body did not render. research/2026-10-04-justice-gov.md
European Patent Register https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP08835437 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 EP08835437 event history and document list partial yes Search opinion 31.05.2011; first exam report 27.01.2012; deemed withdrawn 05.07.2013; two inventor changes. Document viewer rendered blank. research/2026-10-04-epo-register.md
Stan's Legacy https://stanslegacy.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 site:stanslegacy.com Stehl Larson positive yes Meyer water-fuel archive indexes Realm patents as prior art; cited by Clentech (Dorais 2025) and HMT Hydromotive. research/2026-10-04-stanslegacy.md
PESN (Pure Energy Systems News) https://pesn.com 2026-10-04 2026-10-04 site:pesn.com "Larson" Realm OR Simi negative yes No match in Google's index, though Reddit and 911forum repost a PESN article "Explosion at California water fuel research company kills inventor". Retry via Wayback Machine
USPTO Patent Center (file wrapper 11/973,170 and 12/244,648) https://patentcenter.uspto.gov - - - not reached (time limit) yes Office action(s) that led to abandonment; prosecution history of the granted claims
Cal/OSHA / DIR records (inspection files 2010 Realm, 2011 Sylmar; appeals board) https://www.dir.ca.gov ; https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.html - - - not reached (time limit) yes Accident reports, citation appeal decision (Aug 2011 hearing)
PACER / CourtListener (US v. Stehl & Rossignol, NDNY 2010; CD Cal 2012-2015) https://www.courtlistener.com - - - not reached (time limit) yes Exhibits, investor materials, any technical evaluation of Stehl's process
California Secretary of State business search https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov - - - not reached (time limit) yes Realm Catalyst Inc., Strategic Sciences Inc., Rainbow of Hope Foundation filings
Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org - - - not reached (time limit) yes Realm Industries / Realm Catalyst / Strategic Sciences / BGX websites; PESN 2010 article

Keywords tried

  1. "Realm Industries" Simi Valley explosion 2010 victim (Google)
  2. Sylmar 2011 explosion "Tylar" OR "Larson" hydrogen oxygen gas company (Google)
  3. "Tyson Larson" water fuel pesn OR "unnatural bond angle" (Google)
  4. site:pesn.com "Larson" Realm OR Simi (Google, no results)
  5. "Realm Industries" OR "Strategic Sciences" Larson Cal/OSHA citation OR fine OR lawsuit OR charged (Google)
  6. "William Stehl" BGX Technologies OR "Rainbow Technologies" indicted investors water (Google)
  7. "Stehl" "Saranac Lake" water energy sentenced OR convicted OR acquitted OR trial OR plea (Google)
  8. "Family sorrow in fuel quest" Larson (Google)
  9. Cal/OSHA fines 3 businesses Sylmar "Rainbow of Hope" "Strategic Sciences" 2012 (Google)
  10. site:stanslegacy.com Stehl Larson (Google)
  11. Google Patents: US20090092540A1; US7793621B2; WO2010039283A2; WO2023055615A1; q="energy carriers" assignee=Realm Industries; assignee=Realm Industries; inventor=Stehl before:priority:20070101 q=water
  12. EPO Register: EP08835437 (tabs main, event, doclist)

Keywords for next runs (not yet tried): "Realm Catalyst"; "TyLar gas" Korea; "Strategic Sciences" Nevada; "Rainbow of Hope Foundation" Oxnard; "BGX Technologies" Saranac Lake Adirondack Daily Enterprise 2005-2010; "Rainbow Technologies LLC" Stehl patent; "Silver City" slag Stehl; Francisco Torres Realm; Dale Zuehls; "Timothy A. Larson" attorney Realm; "unnatural bond angle" water (forums: energeticforum, overunity.com); 物体键角 / 分子键角 Realm (CN200880118316); "угол связи" Realm (RU2010117738); JP2010528182; R2D2 LLC "structurally altered gas molecule" Jared Roberts Gene Dedick; H2Plus LLC; Hydroatomic "hydro nano-gas"; Stanley Meyer comparison.

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

  • US 7,793,621 B2 (granted 14 Sep 2010): the CIP "Alternative fuel engine" was granted with 22 claims. Granted claim 1 adds metering air into the engine with a second mass flow controller and mixing vapor, air and a fuel. It lapsed in 2018 for unpaid fees. Bears on claim 4 (engine runs) and on the folder's note that no grant was stated. [web: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7793621B2/en]
  • WO 2010/039283 A2 (PCT filed 3 Apr 2009, "energy carriers"): the inventors' later text renames the product "energy carriers", which "includes ... molecules with unnatural bond angles and H2 and O2 gas". They concede the process "could result in the production of hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen gas (O2)" and that covalent bonds "may break" at some frequencies. They drop the "safer than electrolysis hydrogen" sentence and present the diesel ratio as "test experiments". Bears on claims 1, 2, 3 and 5. [web: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010039283A2/en]
  • Patent family of 15 applications (AU, EP, CA, PCT, RU, JP, TW, BR, CN, AR, CL x2, UY), with a Chilean divisional filed in Nov 2011. The parent US application was abandoned on 2013-09-03 for failure to respond to an office action. EP 2209550 got a search opinion (2011) and a first examination report (2012) and was deemed withdrawn in 2013. The examiners' objections are unread (next run). Bears on all claims as the patent offices' technical reading.
  • Stehl sold "Rainbow Technology's patents and equipment" to Timothy A. Larson in 2005 (per Stehl's attorney, AP 2011). These earlier patents were not identified; no William Stehl patent before 2007 was found on Google Patents. Bears on the origin of the RC "resonating frequency" idea.

2. Supporting information by others

  • No replication, independent test or witness measurement of the bond-angle vapor was found this run.
  • Closest items: AUSA Dooley said in 2010 that the prosecution was "not alleging that this is some kind of fraudulent scientific process", only commercial misrepresentation (VC Star, 21 Jun 2010). Timothy A. Larson, an attorney and investor, bought the equipment because he "believed in the science" (prosecutor's and AP's characterization). Strategic Sciences was preparing a sales demonstration and an export of TyLar gas to South Korea in Aug 2011 (Cal/OSHA via Daily News; EPA POLREP #2). The Korean recipient may have tested the gas; unknown.
  • R2D2 LLC, WO 2023/055615 A1 and US continuations (2022-2023): "structurally altered gas molecule" from water (2 H : 1 O), with bond angle 94-104 degrees, bond length 0.95-1.3 angstrom, stable above 300 psig, made with crossed electric and magnetic fields. Realm's US20090092540 was cited against it. The H2Plus LLC filings (2023-2025) apply it to plants, fuels and power. Bears on claims 1-2: the same concept, claimed independently. [web: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023055615A1/en]
  • Brown's gas / HHO / Knallgas: the EPA, Cal/OSHA, the Daily News and Fire Engineering all classify TyLar gas this way (their characterization). Stan's Legacy (the Stanley Meyer archive) indexes the Realm patents as prior art, cited by Clentech H2 (Dorais, US12325922B2) and HMT Hydromotive (US10844781B2). Other citing or cited work: Hydroatomic "Hydro nano-gas reactor" US10300444B2; Advanced Combustion Technologies WO2012162434; Holt "Water fuel convertor" US20070012264; Searete "Selective resonance of chemical structures" US20070021921.

4. Historical record

  • Victim identified: the 17 June 2010 explosion killed co-inventor Tyson Larson, 28 (UCLA B.S. biology 2004; Realm's "head chemist" per Cal/OSHA). Stehl and an employee, Francisco Torres, were present. Cause "accidental but undetermined". Cal/OSHA found that three containers used to generate and store pressurized fuel failed, and issued $5,685 in non-accident citations (appealed). Bears on claim 6. [web: Simi Valley Acorn; VC Star; AP]
  • Company lineage: Stehl's Rainbow Technologies / BGX Technologies (Saranac Lake NY, 2001-2005), then Realm Industries / Realm Catalyst (Simi Valley, 2005-2010; Timothy A. Larson; incidents Dec 2008 and June 2010), then Rainbow of Hope Foundation and Strategic Sciences Inc. (Sylmar, 2011; "TyLar gas"; explosion 9 Aug 2011 that maimed Timothy B. Larson and Stehl). Realm Catalyst was dissolved Nov 2011. Cal/OSHA penalties of $540,890 (Feb 2012) included a finding that hydrogen and oxygen were stored in the same tanks.
  • EPA Region 9 POLREPs (site 7236): TyLar MSDS states compressed hydrogen; the invoice called it "compressed water vapor". Three cylinders bound for South Korea were destroyed by bomb squads on 15 Sep 2011 without sampling; CERCLA notice letters were sent in Sep-Oct 2011. Bears on claim 2 (the one physical sample was never analysed). [web: https://response.epa.gov/sites/7236/files/SSI_polrep_2.htm]
  • Federal case: Stehl and Rossignol were indicted in NDNY in March 2010 ($6-8 million from more than 300 investors, 2001-2010). Rossignol was convicted in 2014 (20 years). Stehl entered an Alford plea on 2 Sep 2014 and was reportedly sentenced in Jan 2015 to 12 years (NCPR snippet). The charges concerned commercial misrepresentation, not the science. [web: DOJ press release]
  • Absence of evidence: after 2011 the record goes dark. The patents were abandoned or withdrawn in 2013 and lapsed in 2018, the companies were dissolved or moved to Nevada, and the principals were injured or prosecuted. Competing explanations: (a) the technology was ordinary electrolysis gas and failed commercially and legally; (b) the work moved abroad (Korea export) or under another name (Strategic Sciences, Nevada); (c) the injuries, the death and the penalties ended it whatever its merit. Records that would decide: Strategic Sciences' Nevada filings, the Korean consignee, the CD Cal court exhibits, the Cal/OSHA inspection files, and the 2015 Saranac Lake garage inventory.