Brian Peck · Founder · Inventor
My life froma dreamto an enterprise.
2025 was the 20th year of operations for Enthusiast Companies and one that changed our future. I'm an operator working on distributed power, natural hydrogen, and the chemistry that connects them. My work runs through three operating subsidiaries out of my small office in Liberty, Missouri. I hope you'll take a little time to learn about me and what my companies are up to.
I had a dream, and I've chased it ever since.
I was an immensely curious kid. I read a lot, loved science and shop class, and played with remote control toys and engines as my hobby. I had a dream about a huge engine that was running on a clean gas from the ground when I was ten. I didn't understand what it meant when I woke up but the feeling I had never left; and the geometry I saw stayed with me. I've spent my life chasing the ending of that dream.
When I got older and began to understand how the dream worked, I formalized it on paper in 2004 and built the first crude prototype shortly after. Not knowing what to do with it or how I'd run it, I shelved the engine and went to work on other things.
The fuel I believed was coming from the ground was hydrogen — but it didn't exist as a real resource back then. It was a manufactured chemical.
What followed was two decades of me forming companies while working at and operating others across automotive, insurance, broadcast, chemistry, and electronics. The work was cross-disciplinary, small, and mostly quiet. Everything supplied something that moved me closer to finishing the dream while my long term vision work ran in the background.
In 2017 hydrogen pioneer Roger Billings challenged me to rethink my engine geometry and introduced the finer points of Nikola Tesla's bladeless turbine. The rotor architecture we have today came from those conversations and I thank him for that.
In early 2025 the USGS published the first comprehensive federal assessment of naturally occurring subsurface hydrogen. The resource my engine had been built to run on stopped being a relatively theoretical idea of a group of geologists and scientists and was backed by seriously funded government research. Around the same time, genealogical research surfaced that Charles Fletcher Peck — Nikola Tesla's first documented investor and business partner — is my ninth great uncle. Tesla made the turbine 20 years after Peck's death and involvement, and my family lost some of this history thereafter.
Having past, present and future align; things got really interesting really quickly in 2025.
The answer my companies are bringing to market is the vision of a system to combust methane today and hydrogen tomorrow. Chemistry that uses both methane and hydrogen to create ammonia, methanol, and sustainable aviation fuel sits behind our power business on a longer horizon to complete the vision. Three subsidiaries, one operating enterprise, all from a dream in 1987.
I'm dedicated to creating the ending of the dream. I hope you'll join me and Enthusiast Companies as we build our future of clean energy and chemicals for generations to come.
All I need is you. - Brian
You can do anything you put your mind to;
Mary Jo Peck my mother She still says it at nearly eighty. I love it.
live your dreams.
Forty years ago I started collecting pavers for my path,one at a time.
The one I had, andthe one I wanted.
Everything on this table is from the same story. It just took thirty-five years to get it into one photograph.
The sensible engine. Single cylinder, two-stroke, dependable, and the reason the plane actually flew. It did everything a ten-year-old needed and none of what he was dreaming about.
A rotary. No pistons, no valves, nothing stopping and reversing — just a shape going round. It cost more than the airplane. I read about it in the school library instead, which turned out to matter more than owning it would have.
I got one for my forty-fifth birthday. By then I had drawn six generations of my own engine and had a company built around it. The box had been waiting on a shelf somewhere for me the whole time. The first thing I did...
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