yeah that was sorta weird. Being a chemist myself I can safely say that chemistry is one of the most well-rounded fields knowledge-wise. Knowledge in fields ranging from biology/biochem, geology to physics comes with being a chemist IME. Sort of like a jack of all trades (and a master of some!).
The claims are utterly fictional (lies), but the technology has existed for a long time. He didnt invent anything, he simply read a couple of textbooks, understood basic chemistry, figured out he can scam scientifically illiterate morons, and just went for it. Yes, THATS how easy it is, as long as you've got the click-thirsty shameless fake news media to shill for you. "AMAZING INVENTION! ZOMG THE FUTURE IS LOOKING SO BRIGHT! READ OUR NEWS ARTICLE!"
@@morpheas768 What makes you so certain his claim is fabricated? Per the Daily Mail article: "independent evaluation by the Government agency UK Trade and Investment said in 2017 that it was a 'very attractive battery' based on 'well established' technology" and "accredited tests" show "Jackson's fuel cell produces nine times as many kilowatt hours of electricity per kilogram" compared to a lithium ion battery. Nothing in Thunderf00t's video actually "busts" the claims by the inventor -- scathing to sensationalist journalism but nothing directly disapproving the claims. -- An inventor claims they solved two problems that exist with the incredibly energy dense aluminum air fuel cell. Using an electrolyte which isn't prohibitively caustic or corrosive, while also using an easier to obtain lower than pure grade of aluminum. I am sceptical of the claim and plan to research further though nothing screams "fiction" to me just yet. Admittedly, even if the "accredited tests" do hold up to scrutiny, implementing the aluminum air fuel cell technology faces engineering and infrastructure hurdles. Am I wrong to keep an open mind about this? I hope not.
@@dustinbird2090 Nothing new was invented. The battery is NOT rechargeable. It must be replaced when depleted. So you install a battery large enough to move a multi-thousand pound car, drive 1500 miles and you are done. Now remove the battery and put in a new one.....yea sounds cheap and totally practical to me. Call me when you have used one, or even seen that it has been commercially produced. There is no free lunch and this is a non viable, non invention....
With him reading all those articles / papers dramatically, I realized my life will never be complete without an audio-book read by Thunderf00t. You got to love how he does it.
and it should be the "The Miracle Mineral Supplement Of the 21st Century: Parts 1 & 2" MMS(is fucking bleach and this book basically points out how to use bleach as a fucking cure all tonic by ingesting it when mixed together according to Jim Humble the person who "found this" specifications you're actually ending up ingestion hospital strength bleach cleaner.
The guy was poisoned because at first the electrolyte was water, and any fool could drink it safely, but then later some guy pepped it up with some drain cleaner. Now he's bench pressing daisies.
Even better, with a large enough vehicle you can make a solar assisted aluminum smelter on the back. I'm sure they're just about an infinite number of better ways to use the solar energy but if you want aluminum...
Yup. that is a rechargeable SINCGARS battery: www.butlergroup.ie/products-page/components/battery-bt-70790-bb-390bu/ The two slot looking things give it away from the non-rechargeable kind.
The conversation probably went something like this. Journo: Have you got an example? Beardy: I have this. Journo: That doesn't look like a battery, it looks like a science experiment. Haven't you got something that looks like a battery? Beardy: I've got this old military battery but it's nothing like what mine will look like. Journo: That'll do. Don't want to confuse the public, do we?
@@billyhills9933 Journo: Have you got a prototype? Beardy: I have this glass filled with drain cleaner solution... Journo: uuhh... we gotta find something else.
To be fair he may have designed the battery to fit in a form factor he's familiar with as he's ex-military. He might have a friend still in the Navy who can get him old battery cases for free or cheap so he can stick his tech into them. If some Navy equipment still uses these, selling his tech to the military is a license to print money. The fact he's teaming up with a dubious car company would suggest the Navy told him to sod off, so he's now trying to sell to the motor industry. If the technology in the cell was as good as he claimed and could be produced as cheaply as petrol / diesel, the UK MoD would have bitten his arm off. My guess is the fuel cell does work, but would have to be manufactured in such high volumes to bring the price down it becomes unfeasible. As a fuel cell, it has to be replaced when run down, hassle for consumers when compared to a petrol pump or plugging in to the mains electricity. Even if the case and aluminium are all recycled, I think it would be exceptionally difficult to compete against petrol or lithium on price. Saying all this, if it turns out he has found a workable solution and I can change the batteries in my electric car like changing the AA cells in a toy car, good luck to the guy.
I would argue it never existed at all, you will always have your few "groundbreaking" stories, but the rest has always been shit, look at newspapers from 100 years ago, they are literally peddling the same shit!
@Phantom Alpha it works in Europa. It's not working in shitass backwards countries like the US but even in Canada it works. It has limits, no argue, but it can work. Not the 50k per year, but healthcare, food and a home is for all possible.
" He cut the top off of a can of coke, drained it and filled it with the electrolyte" Aren't soda cans lined with a thin layer of plastic on the inside? The electrolyte wouldn't even make contact with the aluminum..
they're usually lined with PTFE or other inert polymer because aluminium leaching into your soda due to the soda having a pH of around 2.5 (phosphoric acid which I've seen lab concentration eat through a wooden bench and citric acid, same thing) would make for a REALLY BAD DAY when the can turns into a bomb.
lol, just got to that part. Yeah, thats why thunderfoot, when he tried it, couldnt ground the wire out. It still workd tho cuz ptfe loves static. Its got a ton of charge on its own so it still makes a differential.
Yeah and up hill as in under an extreme load, isn't good for any potential energy dense high output storage device. A computer controlled battery bank cod solve this, just like the technology that already exists.
The problem with the Aluminum-Air Battery isn't that it's not working, take a big enough battery and it will probably take you 1500 miles. Main problem is, that you have to litteraly dump said battery after the 1500 miles to buy a new one since it isn't rechargeable.
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. "The Car that Ran on Water". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008. "End of road for car that ran on Water". The Sunday Times. Times Newspapers Limited. p. Features 12.
The authorised share capital of a UK private limited company is commonly set at a nominal £1 per share, and has no bearing whatsoever on the company's actual value. All Thunderfoot uncovered there is that it's a privately held company with two shares.
@@SkylerLinux I was pointing out nothing more than than the meaninglessness of Thunderfoot's pointing to the share capital. It could be a billion dollar company.
Well, that particular weedkiller *is* perfectly safe to drink. I recommend giving Myles Power a watch, who is both a chemist and a youtuber and did multiple videos on glyphosate, it's properties and it's alledged toxicity and in one of those, he did in fact drink the stuff to prove his point. He also said it didn't taste great, but he still did put his money where his mouth was and is fine.
water is a weedkiller just flood it out an apple tree in a carrot field is "a weed" but the diversity of types of plants in an area is reffered to as permaculture and is more efficient
@@beardiemom Well that youtuber is an idiot, studies not sponsored by Monsanto show that its a pretty nasty carcinogen. It might not have made him ill when he drank it but hes gonna die early. Hope it was worth the views I guess.
@@meetoo594 He's a chemist who doesn't work for monsanto and actually analysed the study you are talking about. Everything might be discovered to be a "nasty" carcinogen, if you use lab mice that are specifically bred to develop tumors, to test it.
Yep. High-purity alumina from Australia, smelter near a port, most output of a big hydroelectric plant goes to it, refined very pure aluminum goes to the port to go to Japan.
Schoolgirls still giggle in the UK? I thought the government sanctioned grooming gangs put a stop to that, as well as all enjoyment of life young girls might pursue.
@Dex Actually it's for watching television. I'm not in jail despite showing an employee of the baliff campany my house with several TV's in it which he could do nothing about as despite me owing them they were not in use at the time. I don't watch television. there's too much on youtube and all the TV's left in my house when I bought it shortly before the visit promptly went to the tip. The "wifi vans" they came out with were a scam, the technology never existed unless they planned to openly break the law by trying (in vaine) to break the security of (hack) your wifi.
@Dex I keep getting letters from them, I always return them with a pro printed sticker saying that the name is not known at this address. Every now and then they change the envelopes so that I open the but I don't as I know all the formats.
@rrobertt13 ketchup + mayo +dill pickle bribe is often the secret sauce for fast food chains. You were one ingredient short of a possible patent infringement. Swap the dill brine for sweet pickle brine and add onion powder, and you have the original McD secret sauce. Add garlic and onion powder to the three base ingredients and you get the original BK secret sauce. Serve with no additives and you get the oh so popular "fry sauce" served with fries on the east coast.
You've got a great channel. I'm about to graduate as a computer engineer and hated all things electrical until I found your videos a couple of months ago. Now I'm in the process of setting up a small home electronics lab.
0:15 that image drew me here because the battery looks very familiar to me as a veteran. It may be a more ubiquitous form factor than I know, but he's holding what looks to be a rechargeable battery for some military radios (SINCGARS, if you want to look it up). It's the same connector and everything, which makes me wonder how that thing can push out enough power to move a car. Feel free to check the spec on those, but pound-for-mAh it's far from being great, and they have a problem with leaking acid when used in vehicle cabs without AC, so I wouldn't want it sharing a closed compartment with large electric motor on a hot day.
@@Tovish1988 as well as animals, fungi etc. Every living organism is basically an electrolyte solution encapsulated in a membrane or some other form of barrier. I mean, you can't survive on distilled water and no salt intake. Death will follow quickly.
@@mrkiky I think it's time to put our foot down and address the fact that *dihydrogen monoxide* is being put into our drinking water. The *chemical* which has such a long list of dangers and harms associated with it that it won't even fit in a small YT comment. It's time to make our water *chemical*-free! Who's with me?
That's a little bit like: > Building a nuclear plant > Asks population if they are ok with it > Population gives a big no (because of Chernobyl disaster) > Government: sullywazowsky.png (i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/561/356/734.jpg ) > never uses the facility > make a complete fool out of yourself So basically what my country did. ._.
*Crocks, snake oil salesmen, and con men of all stripes:* "Introducing, the NEW, groundbreaki..." *The Laws of Thermodynamics:* "I'm about to end this whole mans career"
The lack of quality control in journalism is mind blowing. They know how to talk is if they know what they're talking about, so they fool people. That is, until that day that we all get to at some point, where we hear a journalist talking about something that is our own field, hear them manage to be many kinds of wrong at once, and all with that usual confidence.
Aluminium cathode? Ancient history. Aluminium cathode in the shape of a beer can? Totally amazing groundbreaking science! How did we ever survive without this utter genius?
16:15 Maybe others mentioned this but all soda cans, coke included, are lined with a plastic lacquer film specifically to keep the liquid from reacting with the aluminum. Pouring out the soda and pouring in electrolyte would do nothing even if you could make a voltaic cell in that configuration. There is no cathode or anode the way he had it set up. Im guessing there were button cells in the motor housing and the aluminum can was used as a bridge to complete the circuit.
@@mgc7199 And they are still pushing it. Didn't work on the paper, didn't work in practice. Messed it, dragged behind a car - still does not cooperate XD "We will turn it into Asian Tiger of Europe!" Considering Tigers are the countries of most hard-working people on the planet: "Brexit - brought to you by the sheer votes of all intentionally unemployed"!
One of the high-school chemistry lab demonstrations used to be placing a bit of aluminum under the surface of a pool of mercury on which hot water had been added. The aluminum is then scratched with a sharp tool and raised from the mercury into the water. The aluminum happily reacts with the plain water liberating hydrogen. Probably not done much these days because of the oh-so-deadly mercury, don'tcha know. The reaction between aluminum and mercury by itself is pretty interesting. There's a YT vid on that somewhere.
Well considering many tables and general objects today are also made of aluminum, that's also a likely reason such projects are to be rejected. Rarely are schools okay with collateral damage.
@@NipapornP only if we call spheres ovaries. What would be funny is if you were holding an overweight cat and say you've got a fat pussy. That would be hillarious.
I saw this on BBC's new feed and my first thought was, "too good to be true" my second was Thunderf00t will love this. I also did a quick google and could tell it was nothing new.
@@SF-tb4kb It oxidizes, that's what happens. It's only a little aluminum oxide, completely harmless. In fact you could get an enema with it it would be perfectly fine. _We have some here, would you like to get an enema?_ JERK!!
Lol, this reminds me game "jets`n`guns 2" and there is thing called antimatter generator, and it solds with ad quote "reducing probability to go supernova for 99% comparing to previous model"
@Haku infinite Simple, the atoms will be rearranged and split, so it will smell sweet for is. Easy duuuuu. Same with changing the voice, it changes the air molecules and the sound will change because of that.
Now we have a true battery. The Thunderf00t! You just need a small number of them since they seem to only have a .1 volt potential, but that is what cloning is for.
When things sound implausible to good to be true, I am so grateful to Thunderf00t, for explaining the hard cold truth to me, but in such a way that I still sit smiling ear to ear.
It's why they weren't called Eves, and why vessels get women's names in compensation. Oops, is that gendered speech? Sorry, I wouldn't want to sound uneducated.
So instead of fuel stations, you'd have waste depot & aluminium pickup stations. They'd need new infrastructure washout and at least 2 refillable battery structures, so you don't have partially used battery issues. Trucks would come in with aluminium, leave with waste, to deliver to a reprocessing facility. This would be functional... but who knows how expensive.
Drain cleaner is also "safe" to drink. Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions character, Celia Hoover, "drunk it"; then Vonnegut writes, "Celia became a small volcano, since she was composed of the same sorts of substances which commonly clogged drains." :-)
10:40 >if I showed you an ipad 10 years ago you'd say it's fake. um...we had touch screen tablets in the early 90s. they were shit and ran on windows 3.1 but they did exist almost 30 years ago.
touchscreen tablets existed in the early 70s, but they were only used in multi-million dollars pieces of equipment for the military. They were also half a foot thick, with a case of steel.
@@ryankl1984 I actually had to work on touch screens that were made in the 70s/80s where you can see the wires used for the resistive touch function. I think that's actually neet, you can actually kind of see how it works.
windowsCE slightly later, which was a stripped down Windows version running on a multitude of devices. The there was Palmpilots, really hype in the 90'. They were not called tablets though, but electronic organizers. Some had dial-up modem piggybacks, or even WI-FI CF cards to plug in for connectivity!
I think this guy actually made the discovery....but without any pre-knowledge. So he shouted it to soon of the roof...before some 1 tapped on his shoulder, and told him that he re-invented a old tech.
"so he shouted it to soon of the roof" you should work on your sentence structure and grammar buddy... also someone is one word. there is no point in separating it, and changing one to 1. it just looks like a 6 yo wrote it. "told him that he re-invented a old tech.".... the "a" is completely unnecessary...
I really hate the sore throat I get from drinking that nasty sulfuric acid filled with lead gunk. If someone were to invent a battery with gatorade as an electrolyte it would be a game changer.
Saw that in a news article, read at the end "after the battery is depleted, you just swap it out for a new one". So, no recharge. Dead on arrival. Clicked away without a second thought.
Sounds like an aluminum superoxide co2 reactor tbh, but those things use ionic liquids, also known as liquid fricking salts, as an electrolyte, and those are expensive as fuck. It also uses a driving voltage to form the superoxide, which then SOMEHOW combines with carbon dioxide to form aluminum carbonate which it for WHATEVER reason creates a net positive of power. The people who made it for God's sake don't know how it works, just that it does S O M E H O W
I used to work at a foundry where we made, among other things, sacrificial anodes for boats and crab traps. Having access to buttloads of aluminum, zinc, copper, tin, bismuth, antimony, lead and cadmium, I made dozens of different batteries using vinegar or h2so4 for the electrolyte. Winner was zinc/cadmium/h2so4, holy smut did that thing have some zap! For anyone that wants to screw around with such things, night shift at a foundry could be a good job! Wonder why I got fired... oh yeah, lit up a pile of magnesium shavings and burned down the tire shed, worth it!!
In our induction day into high school we were given magnesium to react with some weak acid, we also had bunsen burners going for some other reason. I left a good hole in our desk after finding out what magnesium does when put in fire haha
Old knowledge from electronic engineering in the late 80's, so bear with me. Certain metallic batteries have different characteristics. The main ones are recharge/regeneration rate, 'memory' or regeneration resistance, and power flow capability. Zinc or nickel cadmium have HUGE power transfer capabilities, but bad memory and slow regeneration. Lithium Ion batteries have great regeneration rates, almost zero memory, but limited power flow. liON mitigated that with parallel cells in series (rows of parallel cell groups, then pit in series to reach proper voltage), and that works pretty darned well even if it sacrifices a bit of power density in the process. This made NiCad obsolete for most things. I still think my old NiCad power tools have more oomph than the LiION ones. but that recharge time does suck.
Back in the 90's Australia had a tech tv show called Beyond 2000. They ran a story about aluminum battaries once. That project had an actual EV running on replacable aluminum plates. Sounded great but clearly never made it to market. So as you said, not even a remotly a new idea.
So we used to make these things called "Amish Bombs" where we'd put aluminum foil inside a 2 liter, toilet bowl cleaner, lid on and shake it up then throw. BOOM!
totally off topic, but you can use beer as a photo developper, meaning you _can_ drink some photo chemicals. You still need a fixer, which gets pretty nasty once it is used because some of the emultion is left in it.
Dr. Mason is wrong and Moore is right - about glyphosate, but will he talk to other experts about what he seems to think is so fucking funny? Glyphosate is pretty much inert as far as we're concerned, from my recollection the molecule is just too large to get into our bodies and the amounts we're exposed to are vanishingly small. If anyone's self-owning here, it's Phil and I've asked him repeatedly to come on a video call with some specialist, doctoral level scientists and experts in this field and defend his position. I'm a big fan of Phil's but hubris can get to us all.
@@marcdraco2189 I agree - this is one of the few times that he has it wrong and whilst I think his debunking videos are generally great, this is one area where he needs to be a bit more careful.
@@thisismonitor4099 I've "challenged" him, asked him to provide evidence to back up his claim. I'm just a science writer but I've assembled a team of close friends who do specialize in this and GMO, who are quite happy to correct him. So far, "crickets...." Honestly for a guy with such a smug attitude, refusing to come and discuss this even in private, really speaks volumes because I refuse to believe that he isn't aware. One or more of his own sycophantic fans must surely have pointed out how funny it would be to make me look silly. I'm just trying to find the time to debunk this clip (and Dr. Mason's claim) once and for all because the real danger isn't ignorance, it's willful ignorance - particularly when that comes from a respected scientist.
@@marcdraco2189 I agree with you. To be honest perhaps he just hasn't spent enough time looking at it. It is extremely hard to be a true scientific polymath and not sure I know of a single person who is - I think Feynman was but that was 50 years ago and the total scientific space has grown exponentially since then (at least in terms of literature if not in terms of genuine scientific merit).
I prefer to clean my aluminum with hydroflouric acid, at 95 percent, with no gloves or ventilation, with my face as close as possible to the beaker, while taking deep breathes, and stirring with my finger.
At least with the click bait pages, I can give them the benefit of the doubt and think they aren't retards, they just don't care if what they write is true as long as it gets clicks, but the BBC doesn't have to give a shit whether anyone watches it, and doesn't seem to either.
@@junoguten being a reporter and being a scientist are at opposite ends of the 'scale of reality' and never should the two come in contact with each other . Besides , one is a discipline that requires one to understand how things work , the other is simply gobshite that provides a medium to sell advertising space/airtime in .
Maybe you can sell small ones for way above and beyond the price of aluminium to retard "science" "journalists" to show their believers while clickbaiting.
Hey @Thunderf00t, regarding your bit between 18:00 and 19:00, you were right when you originally said electrons. There are no ions moving from one electrode to the other, it's the electrons that transfer, hence the current. However, in most batteries, you have ions being created and vice versa. In the case of your example, elemental aluminium atoms are being reduced into ions and copper ions in a small coating of rust on the wire are being oxidized into elemental copper. Furthermore, later in the video, part of the reason your NaOH solution got so hot is exactly because of what you demonstrated with its reaction with aluminium. I also want to add - the main product of the reaction between Al + NaOH + H2O is NaAlO2, sodium aluminate, not aluminum hydroxide. Lastly, you should also consider the contribution to voltage due to the reaction between Al and hydronium even though the electrode potential between Al and Cu ions is higher...this is why batteries tend to be made up of two cells separated by a barrier, eg., A salt bridge. I like your videos, have been watching for years... Regards.
One of my favorite experiments to do for kids is dropping aluminum foil into a solution just made with some washing soda, covering it, and then lighting off the hydrogen for a nice bang.
He may very well have come up with a way to make an aluminum-air primary cell not self discharge so quickly. If so, there could well be a practical use for this. It wouldn't be for electric cars, however. It would be for something that is sort of "use once and throw away" and could be helped by more energy per unit mass.
"And you can drink the electrolyte." Me: yeah if your electrolyte is salt water sure. And now for my next invention a self charging Tesla! I'll just put an alternator on it so it recharges the batteries while driving. Free energy, guys. I can't believe no one has come up with this one yet.
Engineer runs up to CEO. Said I've done it. I've found a way to make a self driving electric car with 1500 mile range. CEO how did you do it?. Engineer I took all that empty space used by the driver and passengers and filled it up with batteries.
Technically some garage engineers have already self modified their own vehicles to have enormous electric range by stacking the trunk and rear seats full of batteries.
As a boy we made hydrogen balloons using lye and aluminum. I mean I did. Gets pretty hot. Strap a half dozen of those along with a oxygen acetelyene balloon together with a slow burning fuse and you can cause some serious unexplainable noise a few blocks downwind. Along with some very curious police presence.🤓
The way the gram of platinum cooled down after being heated ( 22:31 ) was pretty amazing, we use platinum equippment in the microbiology lab because of how fast it heats and cools down to sterilaze it instantly, but watching a full gram square was pretty unique
I have two lithium batteries in my car that have lasted three years and traveled 15,000 miles. They're in a mini flashlight I carry in my glove box.
somebody upvote this guy
Massively underrated comment.
You had us at the first part you know... Lol
No doubt a SureFire flashlight.
Damn dude that sounds great!! How many times you recharge it in that distance?!
I've developed cold fusion in a container of margarine. It's also low calorie and tastes great!
soooo.... cold fusion that barely generates electricity? xD
Haha, that's a quality comment.
#GOFUNDthisBS
I can't believe it's not fission.
Will you make toast with it on air?
Flintstone car can go 1500+ miles without recharging too.
YABBA DABBA DOO!!!! :)
No one has ever seen Fred putting gasoline in the mystery machine, I see a pattern
This needs a pin :))
Hanna Barbera has proven the laws of thermodynamics wrong. Ruh roh raggy
Also Scooby and shaggy can eat like a ton of food and then they look fat and 1 scene later they look completely normal
"He's not a scientist, he isn't even a chemist" . . . Uh, did a physicist write that news copy? That's brutal.
Andre Goran
Sheldon Cooper?
yeah that was sorta weird. Being a chemist myself I can safely say that chemistry is one of the most well-rounded fields knowledge-wise. Knowledge in fields ranging from biology/biochem, geology to physics comes with being a chemist IME. Sort of like a jack of all trades (and a master of some!).
@@SMPKarma You're not a real scientist, you don't even have a gender studies degree!
@@mrkiky damn you got me. Way to make me feel sad...
Mayiandjay wrote it.
"it might sound like science fiction, but it's not" ... It's just fiction.
Excellent! ;-D
What part is fiction?
The claims are utterly fictional (lies), but the technology has existed for a long time.
He didnt invent anything, he simply read a couple of textbooks, understood basic chemistry, figured out he can scam scientifically illiterate morons, and just went for it.
Yes, THATS how easy it is, as long as you've got the click-thirsty shameless fake news media to shill for you.
"AMAZING INVENTION! ZOMG THE FUTURE IS LOOKING SO BRIGHT! READ OUR NEWS ARTICLE!"
@@morpheas768 What makes you so certain his claim is fabricated?
Per the Daily Mail article: "independent evaluation by the Government agency UK Trade and Investment said in 2017 that it was a 'very attractive battery' based on 'well established' technology" and "accredited tests" show "Jackson's fuel cell produces nine times as many kilowatt hours of electricity per kilogram" compared to a lithium ion battery.
Nothing in Thunderf00t's video actually "busts" the claims by the inventor -- scathing to sensationalist journalism but nothing directly disapproving the claims.
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An inventor claims they solved two problems that exist with the incredibly energy dense aluminum air fuel cell. Using an electrolyte which isn't prohibitively caustic or corrosive, while also using an easier to obtain lower than pure grade of aluminum.
I am sceptical of the claim and plan to research further though nothing screams "fiction" to me just yet. Admittedly, even if the "accredited tests" do hold up to scrutiny, implementing the aluminum air fuel cell technology faces engineering and infrastructure hurdles.
Am I wrong to keep an open mind about this? I hope not.
@@dustinbird2090 Nothing new was invented. The battery is NOT rechargeable. It must be replaced when depleted. So you install a battery large enough to move a multi-thousand pound car, drive 1500 miles and you are done. Now remove the battery and put in a new one.....yea sounds cheap and totally practical to me.
Call me when you have used one, or even seen that it has been commercially produced. There is no free lunch and this is a non viable, non invention....
With him reading all those articles / papers dramatically, I realized my life will never be complete without an audio-book read by Thunderf00t. You got to love how he does it.
Yes!!!
HORton hears A WHO
and it should be the "The Miracle Mineral Supplement Of the 21st Century: Parts 1 & 2" MMS(is fucking bleach and this book basically points out how to use bleach as a fucking cure all tonic by ingesting it when mixed together according to Jim Humble the person who "found this" specifications you're actually ending up ingestion hospital strength bleach cleaner.
A creationist bible audiobook? :D
@@michealpersicko9531 Nah... it should be "The Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy".
Can it be recharged while driving on solar freakin' roadways?
Well, of course! It's the conspiracy that's trying to take away all slack, of course. Praise Bob! [/sarcasm]
Only If you make sure to put thorium transported through hyperloops in the built in waters first
not if big oil destroys the solar panels
The guy was poisoned because at first the electrolyte was water, and any fool could drink it safely, but then later some guy pepped it up with some drain cleaner. Now he's bench pressing daisies.
Even better, with a large enough vehicle you can make a solar assisted aluminum smelter on the back.
I'm sure they're just about an infinite number of better ways to use the solar energy but if you want aluminum...
“I’ve invented an electrolyte that’s perfectly safe to drink!”... dies of poisoning the next year... “he was poisoned by ‘Big Oil’ to keep him quiet”
I wondered about that.
1+1= C(onspiracy)
Don't forget to follow that with a glyphosate chaser.
Well.. it wasnt the same dude.
Anyway... I guess mayers was killed by someone he scamed
Dave Church I don’t think so... I think the big oil will invest in the company to have something else to sell at gas stations...
By a Single father of 8 eh?
Sounds like someone doesn't know when to pull out...
lmao
In for a penny, in for a pound. xD
Well as he was in the navy, it may turn out what happens in a foreign port... Might be able to look up your address and sue for child support ;D
You are stupid. The kids are far cheaper and easier than millions of other children on the world, and also they can be easily recycled!
Yeah your father ...
"I myself actually generate some voltage" - Thunderfoot
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Thinderfoot powered cars when?
Jasny Mocny, this message brought to you by a series of tubes.
The smuglife chose him
That battery he’s holding is a type used for military equipment, in my experience at most, with constant use in a radio, it will last maybe 12 hours.
I was just going to say that. It's your standard mbitr radio battery. And, as you said, they don't last that long.
BB-2590
Joe D. Ignore what he is holding, it's just a prop for the photo as an example of something hi-tech.
Yup. that is a rechargeable SINCGARS battery:
www.butlergroup.ie/products-page/components/battery-bt-70790-bb-390bu/
The two slot looking things give it away from the non-rechargeable kind.
What about putting a water generator in it. It surely will help in Afghanistan
Next breakthrough: Inventor charges his Tesla with static electricity from petting his cat!
A pissed off cat would give anyone enough energy to run 3 miles for free!
You got my attention
My cat is a big fat ass. I think I would actually build enough static electricity petting that gigantic furball.
that might be possible it would just take 30 years and 100 cats.
I'd get scammed for that.
Where has journalism gone?
The battery the man is holding is a "Rechargeable lithium Saft military battery". He did not invent that. And it's not new.
It hasn't existed for many decades. They're shills and mass manipulators.
The conversation probably went something like this.
Journo: Have you got an example?
Beardy: I have this.
Journo: That doesn't look like a battery, it looks like a science experiment. Haven't you got something that looks like a battery?
Beardy: I've got this old military battery but it's nothing like what mine will look like.
Journo: That'll do. Don't want to confuse the public, do we?
@@billyhills9933
Journo: Have you got a prototype?
Beardy: I have this glass filled with drain cleaner solution...
Journo: uuhh... we gotta find something else.
To be fair he may have designed the battery to fit in a form factor he's familiar with as he's ex-military. He might have a friend still in the Navy who can get him old battery cases for free or cheap so he can stick his tech into them. If some Navy equipment still uses these, selling his tech to the military is a license to print money.
The fact he's teaming up with a dubious car company would suggest the Navy told him to sod off, so he's now trying to sell to the motor industry.
If the technology in the cell was as good as he claimed and could be produced as cheaply as petrol / diesel, the UK MoD would have bitten his arm off. My guess is the fuel cell does work, but would have to be manufactured in such high volumes to bring the price down it becomes unfeasible. As a fuel cell, it has to be replaced when run down, hassle for consumers when compared to a petrol pump or plugging in to the mains electricity. Even if the case and aluminium are all recycled, I think it would be exceptionally difficult to compete against petrol or lithium on price.
Saying all this, if it turns out he has found a workable solution and I can change the batteries in my electric car like changing the AA cells in a toy car, good luck to the guy.
I would argue it never existed at all, you will always have your few "groundbreaking" stories, but the rest has always been shit, look at newspapers from 100 years ago, they are literally peddling the same shit!
First line of that article says "Imagine" .... yeah I'm also a fan of fiction lol
"Imagine powering your house for 20 years on a grain of rice!" Fwd: hey grandson, thought you'd like this! You like science! :)
Ad Lockhorst John lean-on*
In my fanfiction stories, there is also an alien teaching the zootopians quantum physics and how wormholes work, does it make me scientist?
Imagine trying to break the laws of physics because your energy density is pathetic.
THIS POST WAS MADE BY FOSSIL FUEL GANG
@Phantom Alpha it works in Europa. It's not working in shitass backwards countries like the US but even in Canada it works. It has limits, no argue, but it can work. Not the 50k per year, but healthcare, food and a home is for all possible.
" He cut the top off of a can of coke, drained it and filled it with the electrolyte"
Aren't soda cans lined with a thin layer of plastic on the inside? The electrolyte wouldn't even make contact with the aluminum..
they're usually lined with PTFE or other inert polymer because aluminium leaching into your soda due to the soda having a pH of around 2.5 (phosphoric acid which I've seen lab concentration eat through a wooden bench and citric acid, same thing) would make for a REALLY BAD DAY when the can turns into a bomb.
@@BlokeOnAMotorbike forget the bomb. Aluminum causes Alzheimers. I'd rather be missing a few fingers than a few decades.
lol, just got to that part. Yeah, thats why thunderfoot, when he tried it, couldnt ground the wire out. It still workd tho cuz ptfe loves static. Its got a ton of charge on its own so it still makes a differential.
It's got electrolytes
Interesting. I wonder what would happen if soda cans were made of aluminium instead...
"You can drink poison, its fine.."
"Drink some.."
"THIS INTERVIEW IS OVER"
All mushrooms are edible, but some only once ;). We have have this saying in Poland.
@@peger i'm guessing they say that everywhere mushrooms grow.
That guy's gotta be outed by John Oliver
You can eat or drink anything, at least once.,.xD
If you can fit it in your mouth you can eat it. How many times is a different story....
1500 miles down hill the whole way? lol
my buly SUV is a hybird I do that to gain a few extra MPG :) worth the 2 hour commute
Yeah and up hill as in under an extreme load, isn't good for any potential energy dense high output storage device.
A computer controlled battery bank cod solve this, just like the technology that already exists.
The problem with the Aluminum-Air Battery isn't that it's not working, take a big enough battery and it will probably take you 1500 miles. Main problem is, that you have to litteraly dump said battery after the 1500 miles to buy a new one since it isn't rechargeable.
He was generating hydrogen through electrolysis it works and is suppressed science.
That’s nothing, I walked 1500 miles to school, up hill both ways
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.
"The Car that Ran on Water". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008.
"End of road for car that ran on Water". The Sunday Times. Times Newspapers Limited. p. Features 12.
Thunderf00t could be charged with assault on battery.
Ba Dum TISSHHHHH!!!
Except the battery in question can’t be found
Tf00t should be *charged with battery*
Yea I'm heading out.
😂 👍🏼 Even the term " charged " is a soooo important keyword in this " case " 😬
You win the internets today!
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Gratz you now own half the company!
You may have wasted a dollar
The authorised share capital of a UK private limited company is commonly set at a nominal £1 per share, and has no bearing whatsoever on the company's actual value. All Thunderfoot uncovered there is that it's a privately held company with two shares.
@@Degenerate76 Sure, but how is that then going to make cars next year?
@@SkylerLinux I was pointing out nothing more than than the meaninglessness of Thunderfoot's pointing to the share capital. It could be a billion dollar company.
@@Degenerate76 The difference between "could be" and "is" often is a lot of false hope.
"WEEDKILLER IS PERFECTLY SAFE TO DRINK"
-"Oh great we got some here for you to drink"
"No I'm not stupid"
I beg to differ, good sir.
Well, that particular weedkiller *is* perfectly safe to drink. I recommend giving Myles Power a watch, who is both a chemist and a youtuber and did multiple videos on glyphosate, it's properties and it's alledged toxicity and in one of those, he did in fact drink the stuff to prove his point. He also said it didn't taste great, but he still did put his money where his mouth was and is fine.
water is a weedkiller
just flood it out
an apple tree in a carrot field is "a weed"
but the diversity of types of plants in an area is reffered to as permaculture
and is more efficient
@@beardiemom Well that youtuber is an idiot, studies not sponsored by Monsanto show that its a pretty nasty carcinogen. It might not have made him ill when he drank it but hes gonna die early. Hope it was worth the views I guess.
@@meetoo594 He's a chemist who doesn't work for monsanto and actually analysed the study you are talking about. Everything might be discovered to be a "nasty" carcinogen, if you use lab mice that are specifically bred to develop tumors, to test it.
@@beardiemom Maybe. Its still idiotic to drink a weedkiller though, especially one that the long term effects are not well understood yet.
We've got an aluminium smelter here in New Zealand that uses 13% of the country's electricity.
What 2 x D cells? 😂
Well you do have a small country.
Quick, hide it from the Greens before they'll ban it!
Yep. High-purity alumina from Australia, smelter near a port, most output of a big hydroelectric plant goes to it, refined very pure aluminum goes to the port to go to Japan.
BBC Reporter: "But being able to do it with a drinks can is completely new"
Thunderf00t: giggling like a schoolgirl as he pulls out a drink can
He said ... Beer can
Schoolgirls still giggle in the UK? I thought the government sanctioned grooming gangs put a stop to that, as well as all enjoyment of life young girls might pursue.
Hold my half a beer, I need the other half
@Dex Actually it's for watching television. I'm not in jail despite showing an employee of the baliff campany my house with several TV's in it which he could do nothing about as despite me owing them they were not in use at the time. I don't watch television. there's too much on youtube and all the TV's left in my house when I bought it shortly before the visit promptly went to the tip. The "wifi vans" they came out with were a scam, the technology never existed unless they planned to openly break the law by trying (in vaine) to break the security of (hack) your wifi.
@Dex I keep getting letters from them, I always return them with a pro printed sticker saying that the name is not known at this address. Every now and then they change the envelopes so that I open the but I don't as I know all the formats.
In school I mixed taco sauce with mayonnaise to dip my fries in. That was a good invention.
@rrobertt13 ketchup + mayo +dill pickle bribe is often the secret sauce for fast food chains. You were one ingredient short of a possible patent infringement.
Swap the dill brine for sweet pickle brine and add onion powder, and you have the original McD secret sauce.
Add garlic and onion powder to the three base ingredients and you get the original BK secret sauce.
Serve with no additives and you get the oh so popular "fry sauce" served with fries on the east coast.
Yep that's a good one.
Sin tanan I might try those
Congratulations, you're mental prowess is now on the level of elon musk.
Wait, you're telling me it's BALONEY?
I'm SHOCKED!
At least baloney is useful as you can eat it 😀
You've got a great channel. I'm about to graduate as a computer engineer and hated all things electrical until I found your videos a couple of months ago. Now I'm in the process of setting up a small home electronics lab.
@@HunterD510 Great to hear!
@@Nilsy1975 you can drink the electrolyte too!
Better put that Batterizer on there, for another 2000miles......
3000km on a charge, with a battery that small ? Where's the bomb squad ?
Of course, thanks for the heads-up.
I would've never entertained the thought.
No kidding that energy density would be Star Trek levels.
Shit I could actually build a light saber with that of course it'd be one of those backpack ones but still xD
Forget the bomb squad, just evacuate SE England immediately!
0:15 that image drew me here because the battery looks very familiar to me as a veteran.
It may be a more ubiquitous form factor than I know, but he's holding what looks to be a rechargeable battery for some military radios (SINCGARS, if you want to look it up). It's the same connector and everything, which makes me wonder how that thing can push out enough power to move a car.
Feel free to check the spec on those, but pound-for-mAh it's far from being great, and they have a problem with leaking acid when used in vehicle cabs without AC, so I wouldn't want it sharing a closed compartment with large electric motor on a hot day.
Yup, standard mil-spec rechargeable battery.
I was thinking the same thing... It is that same battery...
Ah, now you're giving me nightmares about the '77 set from my era. I'd almost managed to expunge them from memory but here they are, decades later.
Same lol
"a chemical solution known as an electrolyte".
Oh boy, let me get strapped in here.
Hmm yes. *Enslaved ions.*
That's the stuff plants crave, right?
@@Tovish1988 as well as animals, fungi etc. Every living organism is basically an electrolyte solution encapsulated in a membrane or some other form of barrier.
I mean, you can't survive on distilled water and no salt intake. Death will follow quickly.
Chemical solution you say? CHEMICAL? That doesn't sound safe to drink. I dunno if this battery has a future if it's unsafe to drink.
@@mrkiky I think it's time to put our foot down and address the fact that *dihydrogen monoxide* is being put into our drinking water. The *chemical* which has such a long list of dangers and harms associated with it that it won't even fit in a small YT comment. It's time to make our water *chemical*-free! Who's with me?
"Give me money, I want to develop an idea"
"And what's that idea about?"
"I don't know yet. Give me money know, I'll figure it out later."
That's a little bit like:
> Building a nuclear plant
> Asks population if they are ok with it
> Population gives a big no (because of Chernobyl disaster)
> Government: sullywazowsky.png (i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/561/356/734.jpg )
> never uses the facility
> make a complete fool out of yourself
So basically what my country did. ._.
I like the typo. It makes it feel more believable. :D
@@Verrisin INR
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 Exactly. But rightists NEVER want to consider consequences of actions.
@@theultimatereductionist7592 projecting much, liberal boy?
*Crocks, snake oil salesmen, and con men of all stripes:* "Introducing, the NEW, groundbreaki..."
*The Laws of Thermodynamics:* "I'm about to end this whole mans career"
*The Dynamics of Thermolaws:* "I'm about to whole this career's man end."
Don’t diss man crocks like that man
Crocks are horrible, they look like flipflops for flatards.
No wonder physicists in statistical mechanics committed suicide at dismal rates. They destroyed most of humanities naive dreams.
correction: "I'm about to end this whole man."
But it's got what plants crave, it's got electrolytes.
Idiocracy ferever!
I love that movie! ;)
@@jcd-k2s they're what plants crave, duh!
"This car runs on water."
"Water? You mean like from the toilet?"
I just give the hamster 🐹 in the wheel pure cocaine, he go’s fast, and lasts about 10 miles, then I simply change the 🐹.
I put a cat and a rat in the wheel.
That actually makes more sense than most of these infinite energy schemes
The word is "goes" and not *go's*
Other than that, it was a funny comment :)
CircleOfSorrow that’s progress
Razar Campbell
Well yes, however that does not denote a tone inflection, unfortunately such nuances are lost in today’s written english.
The lack of quality control in journalism is mind blowing. They know how to talk is if they know what they're talking about, so they fool people. That is, until that day that we all get to at some point, where we hear a journalist talking about something that is our own field, hear them manage to be many kinds of wrong at once, and all with that usual confidence.
Holds volt meter probes: I’m somewhat of a battery myself
HA!
Lol
www.extremetech.com/extreme/135481-will-your-body-be-the-battery-of-the-future
@sonny2dap: That's the premise of the Matrix movies.
when we're all hooked up to a computer in a power plant to feed our robot overlords, it's going to be because of this comment.
@aaronsdavis so dumb, that it took someone pointing it out for me to even notice. And I may have watched them all 5 times and played the video game!
It's nice to see that some things never change. I stopped watching for a while and then come back to see that good old early 2000s content.
Aluminium cathode? Ancient history. Aluminium cathode in the shape of a beer can? Totally amazing groundbreaking science! How did we ever survive without this utter genius?
16:15 Maybe others mentioned this but all soda cans, coke included, are lined with a plastic lacquer film specifically to keep the liquid from reacting with the aluminum. Pouring out the soda and pouring in electrolyte would do nothing even if you could make a voltaic cell in that configuration. There is no cathode or anode the way he had it set up. Im guessing there were button cells in the motor housing and the aluminum can was used as a bridge to complete the circuit.
"Oh my god these people are depressingly stupid.."
I felt that. It's not even a malicious statement, it's just a sad observation.
From the same country that brought you Brexit....
@@mgc7199 And they are still pushing it. Didn't work on the paper, didn't work in practice. Messed it, dragged behind a car - still does not cooperate XD
"We will turn it into Asian Tiger of Europe!"
Considering Tigers are the countries of most hard-working people on the planet:
"Brexit - brought to you by the sheer votes of all intentionally unemployed"!
@@HanSolo__ Things tend to not work when your elected MPs actively sabotage any attempt at progress
@@austin503 Do you think this sabotage is bad or any good? I mean in general for the nation, for the country.
It'sss a cloown woorld aaafter alll~
The power strip plugged in to itself is fucking brilliant, man!
‘Unlimited POWER!’
lol
One of the high-school chemistry lab demonstrations used to be placing a bit of aluminum under the surface of a pool of mercury on which hot water had been added. The aluminum is then scratched with a sharp tool and raised from the mercury into the water. The aluminum happily reacts with the plain water liberating hydrogen. Probably not done much these days because of the oh-so-deadly mercury, don'tcha know.
The reaction between aluminum and mercury by itself is pretty interesting. There's a YT vid on that somewhere.
Well considering many tables and general objects today are also made of aluminum, that's also a likely reason such projects are to be rejected. Rarely are schools okay with collateral damage.
You mean this video amount aluminum amalgam? th-cam.com/video/IrdYueB9pY4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mVpO-yh698WP1auX
" If I have for instance, large balls.....* long pause, * little giggle"
Is it also funny for you, if I have, for instance, large ovary?
@@NipapornP only if we call spheres ovaries. What would be funny is if you were holding an overweight cat and say you've got a fat pussy. That would be hillarious.
Nii P. - No, you should probably get that checked. Sounds like a cyst.
Best science channel on TH-cam.
Maybe he was driving that Electric Car on Solar Freaking Roadways!
I saw this on BBC's new feed and my first thought was, "too good to be true" my second was Thunderf00t will love this. I also did a quick google and could tell it was nothing new.
One of the comments you showed said, "is is all about the money." I agree, I think this person is indeed all about the money!
Fun fact.
Aluminium cans have a plastic bag inside. The drink never actually comes into contact with the metal.
Thank you I was yelling at the phone.
Yes I thought this exactly lol
The crocodile clip will dig into to the metal underneath
@@Tophat-oi6mt Does the hydroxide eat it away aswell? Wondering bc it can´t get rid of the oxide layer if it´s coded?!
@@SF-tb4kb It oxidizes, that's what happens. It's only a little aluminum oxide, completely harmless. In fact you could get an enema with it it would be perfectly fine.
_We have some here, would you like to get an enema?_
JERK!!
"These people are depressingly stupid" - so, when are going to see a new line of merchandise with this on the side of mugs?
Soon i hope, thats a good idea😂
I said "These people are depressingly stupid" only yesterday when discussing ani-vaccine cranks.
So, if they sell their ugly mugs they won't have a face left to show in public?
Perhaps I can approach the British government and ask for 108,000 Pounds to research putting it on a mug :-)
Thoroughly enjoyed this 👍☺
"These people are depressingly stupid."....I feel you bro, everyday.
Do you also feel saddle soreness from riding your HIGH HORSE ALL DAY??
@butch oblick I feed mine grass. Highest horse for miles. Hard to get going sometimes.
I know! Holy shit, it's maddening!
That is 80% of my job, complex yet simple things that could be found by reading the fucking manual.
"Top Secret" What you get when you have non-science science reporters.
I have a top secret recipe for pecan pie
that monsanto denier was hilarious.
edit: oh wait it's Daily Mail. that answers that
Lol, this reminds me game "jets`n`guns 2" and there is thing called antimatter generator, and it solds with ad quote "reducing probability to go supernova for 99% comparing to previous model"
@Zaalt Naerthe Either in the making or already out. Check for yourself, saw it a while back as notification in steam.
there is a second part, thank you very much - I must head off now
[ _"Flight of the Toyota"_ intensifies ]
@Haku infinite Simple, the atoms will be rearranged and split, so it will smell sweet for is. Easy duuuuu. Same with changing the voice, it changes the air molecules and the sound will change because of that.
@Zaalt Naerthe
Fyfanvadkoolt is cool too.
Father of 8? He's probably gonna use all that money to pay child support.
Now we have a true battery. The Thunderf00t! You just need a small number of them since they seem to only have a .1 volt potential, but that is what cloning is for.
Thunderfoot: *laughs in actual science*
You need liquid helium for that.
HeHeHeHeHeHe...
“A hundred and eight thousand pounds, you can buy a lot of Austin Electric company with that.” You killed me there!😂
"A... Different metal with different potential. I'm going to use Copper because I have it"
Ooph mad science flex in 2022 ahaha
Its almost like the news places do ZERO research... :D
Almost like?
@@oldbatwit5102 Yeah *almost* ;)
When things sound implausible to good to be true, I am so grateful to Thunderf00t, for explaining the hard cold truth to me, but in such a way that I still sit smiling ear to ear.
It’s amazing how many undiscovered Stockton Rushes there are
Stockton was a moron but at least he was a true believer in his BS, these guys are probably just grifters.
"Atoms are basically balls that stick together" - Thunderfoot 2019 - now, tbh I know THAT feeling all to well ;-) or to the leg or the pants...
Did nobody tell you showers are mandatory after 1500 miles?
"batwings" they call it
It's why they weren't called Eves, and why vessels get women's names in compensation. Oops, is that gendered speech? Sorry, I wouldn't want to sound uneducated.
No they're not. They're more like clouds of probabilities. Think a fart contained in your pants.
So, what your saying is my nuts are also atoms. Because they stick together.
I admit it, these are some of my favorite videos on the interweb.
"I have large balls"
-Thunderf00t 2019
Watching this video made me feel like I'm in a physics class that i have no idea what he is saying but it's so exciting and gets me more interested
So instead of fuel stations, you'd have waste depot & aluminium pickup stations.
They'd need new infrastructure washout and at least 2 refillable battery structures, so you don't have partially used battery issues.
Trucks would come in with aluminium, leave with waste, to deliver to a reprocessing facility.
This would be functional... but who knows how expensive.
Drain cleaner is also "safe" to drink. Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions character, Celia Hoover, "drunk it"; then Vonnegut writes, "Celia became a small volcano, since she was composed of the same sorts of substances which commonly clogged drains." :-)
“I myself generate some voltage”. By his own admission, Thunder is a battery!!!
Thunderf00t is literal thunder.
Feel the hertz!!!
He's a bright spark alright.
Just try connecting to his foot!
Does he come with a hammer? The sparky guy in avengers comes with a hammer. How is this one better?
10:40 >if I showed you an ipad 10 years ago you'd say it's fake.
um...we had touch screen tablets in the early 90s. they were shit and ran on windows 3.1 but they did exist almost 30 years ago.
touchscreen tablets existed in the early 70s, but they were only used in multi-million dollars pieces of equipment for the military. They were also half a foot thick, with a case of steel.
@@ryankl1984 I actually had to work on touch screens that were made in the 70s/80s where you can see the wires used for the resistive touch function. I think that's actually neet, you can actually kind of see how it works.
@@ryankl1984 OK tablets marketed to consumers.
I'm not sure I'd call a 12 inch thick console device a tablet though.
windowsCE slightly later, which was a stripped down Windows version running on a multitude of devices. The there was Palmpilots, really hype in the 90'. They were not called tablets though, but electronic organizers. Some had dial-up modem piggybacks, or even WI-FI CF cards to plug in for connectivity!
I think this guy actually made the discovery....but without any pre-knowledge.
So he shouted it to soon of the roof...before some 1 tapped on his shoulder, and told him that he re-invented a old tech.
"so he shouted it to soon of the roof"
you should work on your sentence structure and grammar buddy... also someone is one word. there is no point in separating it, and changing one to 1.
it just looks like a 6 yo wrote it.
"told him that he re-invented a old tech.".... the "a" is completely unnecessary...
Have you heard of people speaking englisch as a second or third language?
@@darkshadowsx5949 I seriously can't fathom how you could even dare try to correct him when your grammar is clearly as shitty or worse than his. Smh
@@darkshadowsx5949 lol dude your commenting on a 8 month old post complaining about his grammar XD maybe English isn't his first language .Your funny
Like the kid who invented a battery that can charge in 30 second, I was like so she just learn about capacitor.
It had always made me angry that I couldn't crack open batteries and drink them like I would water bottles. I hope that this invention changes that.
I really hate the sore throat I get from drinking that nasty sulfuric acid filled with lead gunk. If someone were to invent a battery with gatorade as an electrolyte it would be a game changer.
@@mrkiky gatorade? I'm currently working on a Red Bull drinkable battery that's going to change everything.
Saw that in a news article, read at the end "after the battery is depleted, you just swap it out for a new one". So, no recharge. Dead on arrival. Clicked away without a second thought.
Sounds like an aluminum superoxide co2 reactor tbh, but those things use ionic liquids, also known as liquid fricking salts, as an electrolyte, and those are expensive as fuck. It also uses a driving voltage to form the superoxide, which then SOMEHOW combines with carbon dioxide to form aluminum carbonate which it for WHATEVER reason creates a net positive of power. The people who made it for God's sake don't know how it works, just that it does S O M E H O W
@@tripleaffirmative5p How expensive is "a fuck" for you?
@@NipapornP Depends what she's willing to pay.
When Thunderf00t calls people morons: 🤣🤣🤣
When Thunderf00t starts doing real science: 🤔😒😪
The magnet analogy is brilliant I’ve never seen it explained in such an easy and understandable way :)
Some guy: "look at this thing I've invented. It will power the world"
Thunderf00t: X
I forgot about that interview with the weed killer guy, it is indeed hilarious.
I used to work at a foundry where we made, among other things, sacrificial anodes for boats and crab traps. Having access to buttloads of aluminum, zinc, copper, tin, bismuth, antimony, lead and cadmium, I made dozens of different batteries using vinegar or h2so4 for the electrolyte. Winner was zinc/cadmium/h2so4, holy smut did that thing have some zap! For anyone that wants to screw around with such things, night shift at a foundry could be a good job! Wonder why I got fired... oh yeah, lit up a pile of magnesium shavings and burned down the tire shed, worth it!!
In our induction day into high school we were given magnesium to react with some weak acid, we also had bunsen burners going for some other reason. I left a good hole in our desk after finding out what magnesium does when put in fire haha
Old knowledge from electronic engineering in the late 80's, so bear with me. Certain metallic batteries have different characteristics. The main ones are recharge/regeneration rate, 'memory' or regeneration resistance, and power flow capability. Zinc or nickel cadmium have HUGE power transfer capabilities, but bad memory and slow regeneration. Lithium Ion batteries have great regeneration rates, almost zero memory, but limited power flow. liON mitigated that with parallel cells in series (rows of parallel cell groups, then pit in series to reach proper voltage), and that works pretty darned well even if it sacrifices a bit of power density in the process. This made NiCad obsolete for most things. I still think my old NiCad power tools have more oomph than the LiION ones. but that recharge time does suck.
"We have some for you to drink"
"Yeah I'd be happy to... well no but I know it won't harm me"
"So will you drink it"
"No I'm not stupid"
...Ok then
Love you so much. Amazing Dr. Randy of our age.
Back in the 90's Australia had a tech tv show called Beyond 2000. They ran a story about aluminum battaries once. That project had an actual EV running on replacable aluminum plates. Sounded great but clearly never made it to market. So as you said, not even a remotly a new idea.
So we used to make these things called "Amish Bombs" where we'd put aluminum foil inside a 2 liter, toilet bowl cleaner, lid on and shake it up then throw. BOOM!
"You can drink it, it`s harmless!"
"Ok, drink!"
"No Im not an Idiot"
legit
totally off topic, but you can use beer as a photo developper, meaning you _can_ drink some photo chemicals. You still need a fixer, which gets pretty nasty once it is used because some of the emultion is left in it.
Dr. Mason is wrong and Moore is right - about glyphosate, but will he talk to other experts about what he seems to think is so fucking funny?
Glyphosate is pretty much inert as far as we're concerned, from my recollection the molecule is just too large to get into our bodies and the amounts we're exposed to are vanishingly small.
If anyone's self-owning here, it's Phil and I've asked him repeatedly to come on a video call with some specialist, doctoral level scientists and experts in this field and defend his position.
I'm a big fan of Phil's but hubris can get to us all.
@@marcdraco2189 I agree - this is one of the few times that he has it wrong and whilst I think his debunking videos are generally great, this is one area where he needs to be a bit more careful.
@@thisismonitor4099 I've "challenged" him, asked him to provide evidence to back up his claim.
I'm just a science writer but I've assembled a team of close friends who do specialize in this and GMO, who are quite happy to correct him.
So far, "crickets...."
Honestly for a guy with such a smug attitude, refusing to come and discuss this even in private, really speaks volumes because I refuse to believe that he isn't aware. One or more of his own sycophantic fans must surely have pointed out how funny it would be to make me look silly.
I'm just trying to find the time to debunk this clip (and Dr. Mason's claim) once and for all because the real danger isn't ignorance, it's willful ignorance - particularly when that comes from a respected scientist.
@@marcdraco2189 I agree with you. To be honest perhaps he just hasn't spent enough time looking at it. It is extremely hard to be a true scientific polymath and not sure I know of a single person who is - I think Feynman was but that was 50 years ago and the total scientific space has grown exponentially since then (at least in terms of literature if not in terms of genuine scientific merit).
the whole world is still waiting for that free lunch.
I prefer to clean my aluminum with hydroflouric acid, at 95 percent, with no gloves or ventilation, with my face as close as possible to the beaker, while taking deep breathes, and stirring with my finger.
Please don't.
RidTheWorld was killed by the Oil Industry!
What do you stir with now?
brutal
So glad to see that the BBC are spending licence payers money wisely.
It is unfortunate that a national company will allow itself to be lead astray by a bare faced liar.
At least with the click bait pages, I can give them the benefit of the doubt and think they aren't retards, they just don't care if what they write is true as long as it gets clicks, but the BBC doesn't have to give a shit whether anyone watches it, and doesn't seem to either.
@@junoguten being a reporter and being a scientist are at opposite ends of the 'scale of reality' and never should the two come in contact with each other . Besides , one is a discipline that requires one to understand how things work , the other is simply gobshite that provides a medium to sell advertising space/airtime in .
BBC: Biased Broad Casting
Thunderfoot: The reason we can't have nice things. Like solar freaking Roadways!
Thunderfoot gives you something better and cheaper: truth.
Well if Thunderfoot wasn't around we'd already have Thorium powered cars so we wouldn't need aluminum batteries.
Yea, because basic practicality and the laws of thermodynamics wouldn't stop them, but some random scientist that makes youtube vids can! lol
When I heard about this, I thought: "Okay, a Thunderf00t video on this is probably already in the making".
Fun fact. I went to school at a Bauxite High School. The entire town was built around the mining of Bauxite during WWII.
My homemade aluminum ingots don’t seem so stupid now.
Maybe you can sell small ones for way above and beyond the price of aluminium to retard "science" "journalists" to show their believers while clickbaiting.
Hey @Thunderf00t, regarding your bit between 18:00 and 19:00, you were right when you originally said electrons. There are no ions moving from one electrode to the other, it's the electrons that transfer, hence the current. However, in most batteries, you have ions being created and vice versa. In the case of your example, elemental aluminium atoms are being reduced into ions and copper ions in a small coating of rust on the wire are being oxidized into elemental copper.
Furthermore, later in the video, part of the reason your NaOH solution got so hot is exactly because of what you demonstrated with its reaction with aluminium.
I also want to add - the main product of the reaction between Al + NaOH + H2O is NaAlO2, sodium aluminate, not aluminum hydroxide.
Lastly, you should also consider the contribution to voltage due to the reaction between Al and hydronium even though the electrode potential between Al and Cu ions is higher...this is why batteries tend to be made up of two cells separated by a barrier, eg., A salt bridge.
I like your videos, have been watching for years... Regards.
One of my favorite experiments to do for kids is dropping aluminum foil into a solution just made with some washing soda, covering it, and then lighting off the hydrogen for a nice bang.
I thought you needed zinc to get hydrogen, which i'm too lazy to get.
He may very well have come up with a way to make an aluminum-air primary cell not self discharge so quickly. If so, there could well be a practical use for this. It wouldn't be for electric cars, however. It would be for something that is sort of "use once and throw away" and could be helped by more energy per unit mass.
i.e. some smoke detectors come with non-rechargeable preinstalled batteries that last years
I would never have imagined that a Daily Mail article could ever get it so wrong! Haha
It's for Daily Mail readers. They believe in quack science and Brexit.
ahahha good one :)
next up: the thermite-powered battery
"And you can drink the electrolyte."
Me: yeah if your electrolyte is salt water sure.
And now for my next invention a self charging Tesla! I'll just put an alternator on it so it recharges the batteries while driving. Free energy, guys. I can't believe no one has come up with this one yet.
Engineer runs up to CEO. Said I've done it. I've found a way to make a self driving electric car with 1500 mile range.
CEO how did you do it?.
Engineer I took all that empty space used by the driver and passengers and filled it up with batteries.
Stop before some ass wipe actually tries this
Tesla, hire this man.
@@Circuitssmith too late, they're already removing the seats to replace them with tanks of compressed air
Technically some garage engineers have already self modified their own vehicles to have enormous electric range by stacking the trunk and rear seats full of batteries.
@no privacy
Yeah, its great.
Some of your videos like this are so good
5 minutes of content in a 40 minute video. You've really outdone yourself this time.
Well at least we did not have to watch the same two seconds from some teaser 5000x.
The moment I saw the "1,500 mile battery" headline I couldn't wait for Thunderf00t video.
As a boy we made hydrogen balloons using lye and aluminum. I mean I did. Gets pretty hot.
Strap a half dozen of those along with a oxygen acetelyene balloon together with a slow burning fuse and you can cause some serious unexplainable noise a few blocks downwind. Along with some very curious police presence.🤓
The way the gram of platinum cooled down after being heated ( 22:31 ) was pretty amazing, we use platinum equippment in the microbiology lab because of how fast it heats and cools down to sterilaze it instantly, but watching a full gram square was pretty unique
I assume also because it's reasonably hard i.e. durable and unreactive at normal temperatures (barring aqua regia)