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This is an awesome idea ❤ (my 8 yo daughter and I love watching your channel). It would be amazing to be able to generate energy from wind "turbines", but only have to build the generator part. Has any thought or care been put into the motion tree branches actually take, I don't often see them making a full 90 degree, vertical-horizontal motion. Some branches may only move enough for a single click of the ratchet, if we're lucky, and may move more erratically in 3d space.

5:25 "Only $241" Wow, I guessed $50 and thought I was overestimating.

the flywheel is a bad idea. atleast if the intention is for it to store energy and only release it when theres no movement from the branches. Bec then if theres constant movement for a prolonged time, theres zero power generation. And like wind turbines will tell ya, if it starts spinning too fast, shit breaks. So as the wheel keeps spinning faster bec the wind aint stopping, itll start wearing the thing down.

Technical speaking, you are shooting a gun using pnumatic pressure, which in turn will turn it into a gun. Not a firearm but a gun none the less. It looks like a short barrel rifle, which will get the attention of the ATF. If you were to make and sell them.

Can I buy one

The people who posted negative comments are just miserable and want others to be miserable :)

Like the wind-up radio? Or like a wire strung across a windy ravine creating vibrations, anywho, Love it. ❤ permaculture principles…..no mistakes, only feedback.🎉

It's for things like this that I watch youtube. Thank you for this, love to see engineers making things.

3000 comments did you read mine thats the only one that would matter in any case.

It would be interesting to check how fast it's going in m/s

How about storing a little of the water and electrolysing it into H and O, then you could ignite that gas to make the propellant for the ice round.

Where can I download stl files?

Where can I download the stl files of the first version

The CIA would love the fact it leaves no bullet or residue behind.

I’d love to see you create a system based on capillary action of a tree, or re create the effect in a closed loop system

Wow I love this version! Funny, as you were talking through it, I remembered a wave generator video I watched, they found that trying to harness the up and down ‘stroke’ of the wave wasn’t as efficient as just using one of them, for the same reason you described. The flywheel is a great addition, and again when you were describing the wire tension issue, I was thinking of the tensioners on railway lines that keep the overhead power lines in tension. Great work, can’t wait to see how it goes!

I would love to see this thing in really slow motion.

I think capacitors are more effficent.. does your system scale up.. and how much can you store I think compressed air is interesting in that you could use a fresnel lens and super heat low presure are into so much more volumn with the sun to pick up a lot of mechanical energy

use ultra capacitors for energy storage....

If you use lotus formation hydrophobic spray, to seal the surface, would it clog less? Might even be able to take off the electric heater and redundancies. Free space for graphene carbon8 parts in insulation and increased 900x strength; to make a dryice sniper version for 1.5km range? Maybe even an ice cannon? Test it behind lexan blast room.

i wonder what kind of dmg it can actually do and how far it's accurate

It's an air gun for sure now just to describe the pellets

" Guess how much it costs. 100 bucks less than a lcd steam deck! " Oh.... good....

Next he’s going to improve the water ballon by freezing it 😅😅😅

What you have made is the perfect assassin’s weapon all you have to do is change the mold on the inside, which shapes the bullet into a shape that is designed for piercing a.k.a. a sharper point then it will be able to penetrate skin now their countless things that you do not want that’s a liquid in your body that is the problem… I was going to build something like this but much simpler as the water is being shot and it goes through the gun it’ll freeze by the time it exits the rifle creating a ice needle, using pressurized gas that might be generated from something. That’s extremely cold that releases a gas….. I like creating things, but I tend to try to stay away from things that can do things that leaves to destruction It would’ve been a BRD just to say that I built it and it works. Maybe I can sell the design good job.

Title is an outright clickbait lie. The CIA wouldn't be involved in the least, nor would they be interested in this. The FBI would ignore it because it isn't their job to classify weaponry. The ATF might take a look then they might set a definition, but it's a toy and they would leave it at that. A life of lies is not a life, it is an eternal death of the soul.

almost more closely related to a airsoft gun (bb gun), call it a watersoft gun

Its definately considered a firearm, as it fires a solid projectile, but test it on balistics gel or an ivan head, maybe it can be categorised as nonlethal

I'm loving this project! From the video, it looks like in your multi-ratchet setup each ratchet mechanism is connected directly to the shaft. If that's the case, then they're all turning in sync at the speed of the fastest cable. If all the branches are moving at variable rates, you're not harnessing the energy from the slower branches because the ratchet inside is already spinning too fast for the outer gear to engage. That energy is "wasted". Is there a mechanical way to connect them all such that the individual rotation is additive to the whole system?

Best water gun of all times. I bet you could make a mini water catapult that could show where its going to land

awesome,, definitely a H2O gun,,, if it's fails to be classified as a "Water Pistol" you just may have started a new sport ,, brilliant

Brillant!

I hate when they complain when i hide a stone in my snowball. They better get ready cuz i'm bringing my stone inside of a water.

name the gun ELSA cuz of "frozen" and then.. f*ck it al.... f*ck it all... 🤣🤣

Gorgeous bit of ingenious engineering. Love the idea especially the weighted cables and flywheels. I would love to know how much power it would generate and what trees are most likely to have swaying branches. I bet you could build a dissertation on something like this. So much to explore.

Im envisioning a double ratchet that moves the drive wheel in both string directions. And also a loop of string tied to the same branch from two directions, running to the ground and driving the double ratchet system there to keep it stretched. For energy I’m thinking about lifting something heavy to intermittently drive a very effective standard generator that requires a bigger minimum force. Maybe a weight, maybe pumping a liquid.

Trees only grow in a manner that moves your anchor point at the tips of the branches. The rest of the tree grows by expansion. Just look at things that has grown stuck to trees, they’re enveloped, not pulled out of the ground.

There is a problem with the weight to tension the cable: In your current setup, lowering the weight does not produce any power as the ratchet does not engage. Power is only produced when the weight is lifted. Therefore, the power needed to lift the weight is not available for generation.

You can add poison to the ice. Even if it is scraches you are dead.

Icearms???

Impressive and ingenious ! Thanks to all the commenters' contributors and CCC for taking the time to create such a generator. I'm so curious to find out how this can be scaled up and what sort of energy it could provide! Somehow , this could be adapted to wave energy too!

Amazing keep doing what you do😊

Its a waterarm instead if firearm

Really cool Idea!! To let it work on millions of trees is a lot of Energy Output... Really great work!

CIA supposedly made a "heart attack gun". It supposedly shoots an ice dart at close range containing a poison that gives the mark a heart attack. The evidence melts away with the ice and the mark supposedly just died of a heart attack. . I may be wrong re who made this, but it was some US tax-haven money laundering department

I love this idea. for attaching cables to the branches I suggest a simple tube which wraps partway around the top half of the relevant branch and is connected with screws. if done carefully the branch will suffer little harm and continue to grow while allowing your cable and weight to hang over and slide over top freely for years.

Wow a gun with untraceable bullets kool

What if you made gell projectiles with Jell-O or corn starch or something instead of water or ice?

Cables and levers with lots of moving parts seem fragile for an outdoor application. What if instead you had each of the levers attched to 2 car jack style hydraulic pumps with one for each swing direction of the lever. That could be used to drive a hydraulic pump like the kind on the front output shaft of a tractor used to power hydraulic implements. You could still stack multiple lever units on top of one another mounted to a shared rail as you do now with the ratchet design. One end of the shaft going through the main pump would have the flywheel, and on the opposite side of the shaft put a 90 degree gearbox. You can get different ratio gearboxes depending on your desired output rpm for the generator. Hydraulic systems transfer energy really efficiently, can be made very rugged for outdoor use, and have way less moving parts.

haha i agree with others its an ice dispenser. if it were to stick true to water gun rules it would be better to ask chatgpt to define a squirt gun. this thing is wicked man and looks so awesome. great job. but it's NOT a firearm and that's the important part. you kind of invented a new genre. won't be long before icearms are banned with the way technology is moving so fast.