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Building Nikola Tesla's Bladeless Turbine [video]
- fudged71 3y agoIntegza is one of the few channels where I will watch every single video and be both educated and entertained regardless of the subject matter.
- piyh 3y agoAlpha Phoenix is up there too.
- mandeepj 3y agoThanks! You both gave me a new goal to reach.
- Torkel 3y agoIt’s so fun to watch these builder-youtubers develop over time. If they just keep on releasing videos and building stuff, even if they are not so skilled in the beginning eventually they become really skilled! It really shows that practice yields mastery. Tom Stanton is another on my list.
- echelon 3y ago> It really shows that practice yields mastery. 100% true, but I'd like to change the word "practice" to "interested and intentional pursuit". Practice is rigid and structured. You can be told to practice piano for years, but you may never become great at it. When you find something you love, you drill into it yourself. Vertically, horizontally. It absorbs you. Expertise accrues through playful exploration and repetition. That's not to say you don't have to drill certain things. Professional piano players, professional athletes, professional gamers -- they all wind up doing "boring" drills of the same moves. But the craft isn't all technical all the time, and the endurance to withstand drills is greatly enhanced when you're hooked on playing.
- magicalhippo 3y agoIndeed! I'll pile on some of mine just in case: https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate https://www.youtube.com/@AirCommandRockets https://www.youtube.com/@AirCommandRockets https://www.youtube.com/@LesLaboratory https://www.youtube.com/@LesLaboratory https://www.youtube.com/@harrisonlow https://www.youtube.com/@harrisonlow https://www.youtube.com/@michaelrechtin https://www.youtube.com/@michaelrechtin https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics https://www.youtube.com/@jdflyback https://www.youtube.com/@jdflyback Not builders per se but really informative still: https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics (great electronics vids, especially analog guitar pedal stuff) https://www.youtube.com/@machinethinking https://www.youtube.com/@machinethinking (machining history) https://www.youtube.com/@AgentJayZ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentJayZ (in-depth about jet engines)
- TheDudeMan 3y agoSo what's the actual reason no one uses this type of turbine? The video frustratingly says, "People think it's inefficient. It's not." End of story.
- detourdog 3y agodepends who you ask. If you watch these characters they come and go. They often argue with each other. Charlie is the latest and certainly the least ridiculous. The best argument might be that current manufacturing techniques have caught withe requirements. I plan to build one.
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- emmelaich 3y agoPlease keep us appraised of your progress!
- detourdog 3y agoIt's a casual desire and a component of a larger ambition. I hope Charlie's proves useful. I do plan to start documenting and publishing but I'm still a few months out. Thank you for the encouragement. It always helps.
- nico 3y agoIt seems like while the turbine works great, the rpm output is too high, with too little torque, and you loose most of the gains when gearing it down, which is also difficult to do That’s what I’ve read, haven’t built one
- greensh 3y agoLesics (another Youtube channel) argues that current turbines are already 90% efficient. For Tesla Turbines to reach the same efficency it needs to spin in really high rpm (maybe 50 000), which makes it impossible to built disks for it. Those disks would have to be 2-3 meters in diameters for industrial applications and couldn’t withstand the forces.
- Animats 3y agoWatch about 1 minute starting at 03:00 and you'll see all the useful content.
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- tgv 3y agoInteresting. I do doubt the statement that dirt (he even mentioned rocks) won't hurt the system.
- soligern 3y agoAnything that has any sort of deposit will turn that thing into a monolithic cylinder in no time.
- ctenb 3y agoNarrator: "I know Charlie seems like your average Nikola Tesla fanboy, but he's not (...)". Not sure what part he is referring to that he is not, but we're definitely seeing some Nikola Tesla fanboyism there, looking at the live size Tesla poster and the man himself which looks like a Tesla replica :D Cool video.
- kaba0 3y agoMaybe it’s meant as not an average fanboy but a much bigger one :D
- rpz 3y agoSome great Tesla turbine builds on this channel. This is my favorite channel for anything Tesla turbine related https://www.youtube.com/@iEnergySupply https://www.youtube.com/@iEnergySupply
- detourdog 3y agodefinitely a lot of great builds but they desperately need an editor and should drop the big promises.
- carapace 3y agoWhen I was a kid this thing was legendary, most people had never heard of it and most of those who had thought it was a hoax. An engine with one moving part... The only place that had actual information on it was an obscure service that advertised in the classified ads section in the back of Popular Science, Rex Research: http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm It's wild to see videos about it today. (Also, check Rex Research for other cool obscure tech. Much of it is crackpot, of course, but some of it is not. E.g. the vaneless ion wind generator, a wind-to-electricity generator with no moving parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator There's more...)
- soligern 3y agoThis is not an engine. In the linked video it has 75 distinct moving parts. It also looks like a maintenance nightmare with particulate and deposits getting into every crevice including direct access to the bearings.
- seltzered_ 3y agoFWIW another design tried ~15 years ago was humdinger energy. http://web.archive.org/web/20100305210816/http://www.humdingerwind.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20100305210816/http://www.humding... Later on before they shut down they were selling kids kits of the windbelt idea: https://www.vernier.com/files/kidwind/humdinger_windbelt_manual.pdf https://www.vernier.com/files/kidwind/humdinger_windbelt_man...
- bob1029 3y agoI absolutely love this channel. I went ahead and ordered the 4.5" prototype. I've wanted to get my hands dirty in this space for a long time now. There are several pieces of turbo machinery scattered about my garage that were never integrated into anything interesting. Starting with something that mostly already works is probably more healthy for my side-project time budget & attention span.