Making a Water Railgun

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  • @TheRealKaiProton
    @TheRealKaiProton ปีที่แล้ว +15380

    Every time Mehdi brings out part of a microwave, it gives me visions of his wife or children, walking into the kitchen looking to warm something up, and just finding a hole where the microwave used to be.

    • @karthikeyajavangula8423
      @karthikeyajavangula8423 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      🤣

    • @BIGSMOKE-bl2lq
      @BIGSMOKE-bl2lq ปีที่แล้ว +772

      His wife probably has a stash of new microwaves hidden away at this point haha

    • @LordDragox412
      @LordDragox412 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      Why would his wife and children want to warm a microwave up? I don't get it. /s

    • @adamcastle3410
      @adamcastle3410 ปีที่แล้ว +274

      It gives me visions of his wife and children, walking into the house just to find a smoldering corpse where Mehdi used to be.

    • @ok0_0
      @ok0_0 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@LordDragox412 what is /s I see it everywhere why do so many people say this shit

  • @Goabnb94
    @Goabnb94 ปีที่แล้ว +1454

    12:50 "The key is not to touch any voltage"
    Words to live by as an electrician.

    • @leobentley7056
      @leobentley7056 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And yet you still find a way to give yourself a wake me up every now andthen. 😂

    • @matthewtalbot-paine7977
      @matthewtalbot-paine7977 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Except he doesn't follow these words either. He electrocutes himself in every video.

    • @Mr.Leeroy
      @Mr.Leeroy ปีที่แล้ว +7

      HV: no need to touch, I'll just break down air.

    • @nellymargaretha2597
      @nellymargaretha2597 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      BTW, He is not an electrician.He is an electricale engineer

    • @cancelhandles
      @cancelhandles 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@matthewtalbot-paine7977He dies in every video? That's a lot of funerals.

  • @stardustjustlikeyou
    @stardustjustlikeyou ปีที่แล้ว +541

    Mehdi, you are the type of person that 150 years ago would have been leading electrical discoveries. I love your passion.

    • @CoffeeKillersClub
      @CoffeeKillersClub 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      To be fair he is not in his 70s yet. Between the trio of SmarterEveryDay, TheActionLab, and ElectroBoom, we could end up with a revolution XD

    • @SinfullyHera
      @SinfullyHera 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@CoffeeKillersClub We've already discovered everything...until we discover something new, that is.

  • @aeviwright7846
    @aeviwright7846 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    13:29 , depending on the type of salt used (table salt = sodium chloride) you are probably making chlorine gas as a bi-product. Drake at styropyro makes it quite often in his chemistry videos.

    • @Yeshellos
      @Yeshellos 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Its probably just a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Water breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen when there is electricity in the water but he could probably also have made chlorine gas as well (if anyone wants to try and break down water, be careful the hydrogen and oxygen mixture is explosive)

    • @Howtheheckarehandleswit
      @Howtheheckarehandleswit 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@Notwhitewolf While electrolysis of relatively pure water produces basically pure H2 (hydrogen) at the cathode and basically pure O2 (oxygen) at the anode; if the water is nearly saturated with sodium chloride (the primary component of table salt), something different happens. H2 and O2 are still produced, but the O2 is mixed with Cl2 (chlorine gas) and in the water (rather than bubbling out with the gases), NaOH is produced (sodium hydroxide, commonly used as drain cleaner and in various detergents and other cleaning products).

    • @Agrajag_Guitars
      @Agrajag_Guitars 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I was just thinking this - its not boiling, its electrolysing. I wonder if Mehdi could smell chlorine. Plus, the flashes might have been sodium oxidation.

    • @beans9647
      @beans9647 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Learned this one the hard way...

    • @Yeshellos
      @Yeshellos 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@beans9647 you gased yourself didn’t you

  • @smoothmasterz
    @smoothmasterz ปีที่แล้ว +2423

    Mehdi: It's important to educate your audience on real science.
    Also Mehdi: I set the water on fire...

    • @theKashConnoisseur
      @theKashConnoisseur ปีที่แล้ว +233

      The only difference between doing science and goofing around is recording your results.

    • @chipredacted
      @chipredacted ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@theKashConnoisseur Beautifully said.

    • @DarknessSwordmaster
      @DarknessSwordmaster ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ...on a failed suicide attempt xD

    • @g96bento
      @g96bento ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Water in the fire WHY

    • @artestichniifilin2701
      @artestichniifilin2701 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      it was probs the oxygen and hydrogen created with electrolysis combusting

  • @skarloeyexpress4353
    @skarloeyexpress4353 ปีที่แล้ว +700

    I love how mehdi just says "who cares about the rail gun this is more fun" and proceeds to do something he knows is dangerous for a laugh

    • @chris_piss
      @chris_piss ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Every day life threatening electronics just don't phase him anymore

    • @nathanaelcadman-neu410
      @nathanaelcadman-neu410 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Meh... It was only 30v dc

    • @benjaminoechsli1941
      @benjaminoechsli1941 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nathanaelcadman-neu410 Right. Far from the most dangerous thing he's played with. Let him have a bit of fun. xD

    • @sapolsaikrasun2270
      @sapolsaikrasun2270 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If I would be in his shoes, then I would do the same. It's too much fun to not do it.

    • @ron.9039
      @ron.9039 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like how 30V DC is not dangerous anymore in this context. Also fire and health hazard from the electrolysis (H2 + O) and sparks (circuit arcs)

  • @ashley2108
    @ashley2108 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Serioulsy, if you were our science teacher we all would have passed. We may have all died, but we would have passed lol.

    • @ahmedshaltout4992
      @ahmedshaltout4992 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      *pictures a dead skeleton in a chair holding a report card with an A+ on it*

    • @ggsap
      @ggsap หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Passed away

    • @BluLober
      @BluLober 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      And we would die really happy lol

  • @HelloThere.....
    @HelloThere..... 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    2:30 this is used in genetic and proteomic testing using electrophoresis gel. The protein or gene strand is put into a gel with varying degrees of density as a current runs through the fluid and pulls the materials through. Based on the length of the genetic strand it will stop moving at a certain point in the fluid because of friction and you can use this to see if your sample has a gene strand or protein that matches your control.

  • @Epsilon3141
    @Epsilon3141 ปีที่แล้ว +617

    I think him accidentally making a battery is the first thing to make me laugh out loud! Always love you vids

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Making an accidental battery is more impressive than an accidental antenna.
      I accidentally made an antenna the other day, I ran a 10Mhz CPU in a breadboard without any ground connection and the loop the CPU was doing created fun interference, the clock signal of the PLL just escaped, accidental radio transmitter

    • @BirdlessFlight
      @BirdlessFlight ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I doubt it was accidental. That spoon wasn't suddenly introduced accidentally ;)

    • @AlexRickabaugh
      @AlexRickabaugh ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That made me laugh out loud too, hahaha. Such a good moment.

  • @Skizz101
    @Skizz101 ปีที่แล้ว +1844

    Love how the science youtube creators have 0 real beef. They all just point
    to the expert of each topic.

    • @hgbugalou
      @hgbugalou ปีที่แล้ว +243

      Science is like that. The truth is the truth. It's just a matter of finding people who respect the method.

    • @samibinol
      @samibinol ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@hgbugalou facebook wants to know your location

    • @gso619
      @gso619 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're here because they're passionate about what they do and because they want to educate people on their particular fields. A stark difference to all the people who are just on here to try and get famous.
      That and I'm pretty sure half of them are autistic as shit.

    • @Ready_Set_Boom
      @Ready_Set_Boom ปีที่แล้ว +98

      @@hgbugalouthe only real competition between creators is who can explain the science better. Since understanding is subjective and based on the audience everyone really wins in the end since creators get paid to stay innovative and people get to learn science from many great teachers.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@Ready_Set_Boom When someone gets something wrong and have to be corrected, this drives traffic between them. Which is a win for everyone involved.

  • @henrykurish
    @henrykurish 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I love at 14:15 you were pretty much just welding with the broken motor

  • @alviorhgame
    @alviorhgame ปีที่แล้ว +29

    5:31 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @andygardiner6526
    @andygardiner6526 ปีที่แล้ว +474

    Excellent. Water *is* slightly diamagnetic so you could possibly get it to move if you used a massively powerful (probably superconducting) magnet driven by half a power station. I'm sure there's a handy one under Mehdi's desk somewhere ...

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      It's time to disassemble the big microwave in the house

    • @ebnertra0004
      @ebnertra0004 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He probably stole the Red October from the CIA or something. That had a magneto-hydrodynamic drive in the book/movie

    • @auroraourania7161
      @auroraourania7161 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So just throw it in a particle accelerator?

    • @danilooliveira6580
      @danilooliveira6580 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I mean, scientists made a frog float with very powerful magnets, so its not impossible.

    • @DeconvertedMan
      @DeconvertedMan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ah that was the word I was trying to think of "diamagnetic" I was like "magneticphobic?" lol.

  • @LW0001
    @LW0001 ปีที่แล้ว +2134

    I love the way he goes “I think I made a battery” as if that’s a perfectly pedestrian happenstance for him

    • @playingwithdimethylcadmium2766
      @playingwithdimethylcadmium2766 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Is it not?

    • @gnp5278
      @gnp5278 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @playing with dimethylcadmium gotta ask....what is dimethylcadmium?

    • @Liamhvet
      @Liamhvet ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@gnp5278 cadmium with 2 methyl groups attached to it

    • @MotorcycleWrites
      @MotorcycleWrites ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Liamhvet as someone who took chemistry 1001, this checks out

    • @OldManBOMBIN
      @OldManBOMBIN ปีที่แล้ว +45

      ***Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in Baghdad***
      "أعتقد أنني صنعت بطارية."

  • @michalcz123
    @michalcz123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    6:00 Plastic pppppplate thingy.

  • @hanfo420
    @hanfo420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'm surprised you are still alive.

  • @willwailes9298
    @willwailes9298 ปีที่แล้ว +611

    I've never been so afraid for someone else's life. Absolute mad lad. You're a legend Mehdi. You should make electric/reusable fireworks for Canada Day.

    • @earthknight60
      @earthknight60 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you think he's nuts, you should check out Styropro. That guy is certifiable.

    • @pawog04youtube3
      @pawog04youtube3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great idea!

    • @WarttHog
      @WarttHog ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I dunno, this was tame compared to th-cam.com/video/4opcNLIQqt4/w-d-xo.html&feature=shares.
      I almost didn't make it through that one, my stomach was so tight. Way scarier than a horror movie lol!
      Also I'm glad that @Integza has started wearing goggles occasionally at least! XD

    • @Razgar_Voxel
      @Razgar_Voxel ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@WarttHog This is the video of his that led me to his channel. th-cam.com/video/TwIvUbOhcKE/w-d-xo.html
      Also found out him hurting or shocking himself in his videos is sort of a running gag of his. I happened on him around the same time as PhotonicInduction (I think that is the name of the channel) but he has been having a lot of personal things and dose not upload as much anymore.

    • @b0ark1ng21
      @b0ark1ng21 ปีที่แล้ว

      When I go to the pool with my friends

  • @mikolaspesek
    @mikolaspesek ปีที่แล้ว +790

    Salt water electrolysis produces Chlorine gas, hydrogen, oxygen and sodium hydroxide (which gets dissolved instantly) - but in quite inconsistent ammount. Also for the electrolysis to happen, you need around 1.3 Volts, at that voltage you are probably just frying the water, but I would do this outside just to be sure :)

    • @ninjacuttingonions5861
      @ninjacuttingonions5861 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Wouldn't it make HCl gas instead of Cl gas?

    • @albertochiusano96
      @albertochiusano96 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      HCl doesn't like to stay in gaseous form, since you are in water Clorine from the salt can form HCl still in liquid form and then get airborne as Cl₂

    • @mernokallat645
      @mernokallat645 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      You also need inert electrodes like lead dioxide, manganese dioxide, cobalt(III) oxide or platinum. Aluminum, copper and even stainless steel will react with chlorine forming chlorides in the solution, which react with sodium hydroxide forming sodium chloride and a precipitate of transition metal hydroxides.

    • @arvetemecha
      @arvetemecha ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@mernokallat645 I wanted to use the same kind of electrolysis to produce (Na+,ClO3-) but ended up with a nasty orange mixture due to the electrodes not really made of pure titanium but bad alloy. I suspect the solution contained quite a lot of bad Cr6 ions, which are carcinogenic...

    • @azzy-551
      @azzy-551 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@arvetemecha mmmm hexavalent chromium my favourite

  • @gulutaalan8845
    @gulutaalan8845 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Yet another small correction: water molecules do have a magnetic dipole, too (besides the electric one) and these are, course, randomly oriented.But if you freeze the water under a strong magnetic field you'll get a weak magnet. I wrote another small correction to the light bulbs video (about halogen second glass layer, is not for aspect but for UV-cutting, the first quartz one doesn't), but I suppose is quite unlikely to find them... just in case, give back a signal, doing it just to improve your videos, which I follow.

  • @Solid_Jackson
    @Solid_Jackson ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Just discovered this awesome channel
    Mehdi, fantastic work, you could make make paint drying entertaining
    The world needs more teachers like you

  • @YouCanHasAccount
    @YouCanHasAccount ปีที่แล้ว +595

    I know it's a part of his schtick and he knows what he's doing but watching someone dunk a microwave transformer in water while holding it still gives me that vertigo sensation in my stomach. (even without the secondary winding)

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek ปีที่แล้ว +44

      very salty water

    • @stuartcommon4651
      @stuartcommon4651 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Ass_of_Amalek mmmm salty

    • @ZGtx
      @ZGtx ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In 6:10? I think that one is really unexpected.

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Yeah, a lot of times you can see it coming from a mile away, when he's holding something in a weird way, or placing his finger on a metal part (like he did when he shocked himself with the 30V DC), but he seemed genuinely worried when he was about to drop the thing in the water when he was using AC.

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I also like the part where he deliberately glued only a little popsicle stick to the rail as a handle, so that he almost had to dip his fingers in the water.
      btw he's clearly following a "no switches" rule in most of his videos

  • @dejanmilic8284
    @dejanmilic8284 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    I am in the field of electrical engineering myself, working for the power distribution company in my country so i do get to watch massive sparks and loud explosions every now and then. Your videos are always a joy to watch. Been following since you were at like 800k subscribers although not really active in comments. This would be my first one. Keep up the great work!

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Seeing sparks and explosions in power distribution sounds exciting and also mildly concerning. ... just like Medhi lol. Also nice first comment :P

  • @drewpyeatt5231
    @drewpyeatt5231 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your having such a good showing this, makes learning alot more fun when you learn from a MAD SCIENTIST.

  • @rickholzer708
    @rickholzer708 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi! I'm from Brazil! I got a Micro Bit from the BBC London project and I'm learning the basics of electrics and electronics by my own....your Chanel is amazing....thanks a lot for you and Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉

  • @WaveOfDestiny
    @WaveOfDestiny ปีที่แล้ว +390

    3:03 still catches me off guard it's so good, you expect the shock to happen when he puts them inside the water not after the experiment has been done

    • @Dudeimdew
      @Dudeimdew ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I jumped when I first watched it 😂

    • @hithisishandle
      @hithisishandle ปีที่แล้ว

      Ik

    • @engrvarsi3774
      @engrvarsi3774 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I freaked 😂

  • @firstname4337
    @firstname4337 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    can you imagine having this guy for your high school physics teacher -- best class ever

    • @fernando47180
      @fernando47180 ปีที่แล้ว

      someone would die sooner or later, but yup, sure would be cool!

    • @hitechinc.7875
      @hitechinc.7875 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Most chaotic class yet so fun

    • @eroraf8637
      @eroraf8637 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I had an ADD pyro for that class. Mr. Moon was a fun guy!

    • @SoneNando
      @SoneNando ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I imagine the school's administration complaining about him popping the breakers all the time

    • @ahyaan2552
      @ahyaan2552 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@SoneNando they would probably have to give him a completely separate system

  • @MaterialEqualMe
    @MaterialEqualMe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1:28 It is...just a little bit.
    Even with strong magnet they move slowly

  • @Mrsm1067
    @Mrsm1067 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This channel is perfect for learning and having a good laugh good job man

  • @adwitiyasharma1121
    @adwitiyasharma1121 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    It's just the energy of mehdi that carries him throughout the video !! Absolutely love it 👍

    • @Genesis8934
      @Genesis8934 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The true perpetual motion machine.

    • @ThunderBlastvideo
      @ThunderBlastvideo ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Energy......

    • @gubx42
      @gubx42 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some energy carries through Mehdi at 12:38 too.

    • @foxrobinson818
      @foxrobinson818 ปีที่แล้ว

      the dude involuntarily jump starts himself every video... n wonder he has energy...

  • @homieboi5352
    @homieboi5352 ปีที่แล้ว +947

    I love how he can jump between different areas of science so quickly while still being equally educational about all of it and finding ways to shock himself all in one video.
    He's clearly been doing this long enough to know how to get his audience engaged

    • @selvamd8861
      @selvamd8861 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He jumps at every electric shock. Notice carefully

    • @PotatoSofi
      @PotatoSofi ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He instinctively knows how to shock himself at this point

    • @kalebross6033
      @kalebross6033 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He knows what he's doing, and that's why we love his content!

    • @RedStripeMedia
      @RedStripeMedia 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Applied Science is his degree

  • @eclipsedtime385
    @eclipsedtime385 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how he acts like he doesn't know until the subject he talks about is shown, at which point he explains what happened/ is happening. Very good teacher, especially with the humor to help us stay engaged c:

  • @TheUboni
    @TheUboni 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how he seemingly has everything planned out, but every once in a while something unexpected happens like getting shocked with 30V and he just sits there confused for a minute.

  • @jerickho7795
    @jerickho7795 ปีที่แล้ว +341

    I actually did a extended essay on magnetohydrodynamic drive and it is a propulsion device for ships (and a full scale ship has been made with it before). But of course it only works in salt water. Had a really hard time with weak school lab power supplies and lousy magnets to get readings haha

    • @josephzamora2267
      @josephzamora2267 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I just had what I thought was a great new idea to use it on a submarine or boat, but I guess not. Also, wouldn't a boat using that create chlorine, harming the ecosystem

    • @noalear
      @noalear ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@josephzamora2267 I'm pretty sure the gas thats coming off saltwater is a stoichiometric mix of hydrogen and oxygen. If you could channel the gas from anode and cathode into separate tubes and mix them at the end and light it off you could use this for additional thrust. HHO is pretty violent, so it'd probably be difficult to manage, but I'd pay to see it at boat scale. If you were to make this at boat scale and drop it in the ocean you'd need a hell of a lot of voltage. Also the cathode will eventually corrode away, leaving you stranded.

    • @EllAntares
      @EllAntares ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If I'm not mistaken, magnetohydrodynamic turbine also quite complex - it's rather a coil gun than a railgun?

    • @leothecrafter4808
      @leothecrafter4808 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@noalear Nope, if it's regular salt then what's comming off is hydrogen and chlorine. They are also energetic, much more so than regular HHO, but that mixture can combust when exposed to strong light even and is also poisonous.

    • @Perky_the_Great
      @Perky_the_Great ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A fan of Clive Cussler and the Oregon Files?

  • @tarakyarluvsumod5143
    @tarakyarluvsumod5143 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Thank you Mehdi. I was having a stress induced stomachache and panic attack from studying, but it helped a bit to watch this video of a man shocking himself for science.

    • @jamesrobinson9176
      @jamesrobinson9176 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Breathe deeply and slowly. You can do it 🙂

    • @yallprettysus
      @yallprettysus ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good luck on your studies! May the cramps kindly fuck off

    • @peterdodge8590
      @peterdodge8590 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Literally same here

  • @SamsonKing9
    @SamsonKing9 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe think of it this way. There's a one-way valve in the pipe which obviously is magnetic, it moves up and down while taking water with it..

  • @Fizzfaldt
    @Fizzfaldt ปีที่แล้ว +26

    1:11 "So I guess I should be thanking these fakers?"
    I saw this coming but it still made my day

  • @Scott.E.H
    @Scott.E.H ปีที่แล้ว +189

    Honestly my expectations were exceeded! Seeing it spit out the water when it was poured in was actually more than I expected.

  • @ShubhamShubhra
    @ShubhamShubhra 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish you made videos when I did EC engineering. I love the Full Bridge Rectifier.

  • @steeltough2744
    @steeltough2744 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just have to say this guy is a absolute legend

  • @jefffan9379
    @jefffan9379 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Thank you Mehdi, I have been watching your stuff on and off for almost a decade now. "I think I made a battery" put me into a laughing fit just like I remember your content doing back when I was 15.

  • @A_Casual_NPC
    @A_Casual_NPC ปีที่แล้ว +156

    I love how mehdi says he hates being salty, while he is almost always salty already

    • @YoungPhysicistsClub1729
      @YoungPhysicistsClub1729 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lucifer Morningstar 🅥 you bastard

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, he reminds me a bit of Grover and Oscar, grouchy and inquisitive, silly but still informative.

    • @LikePhoenixFromAshes
      @LikePhoenixFromAshes ปีที่แล้ว

      Brightens, with the power of the F_U_L_L B_R_I_D_G_E R_E_C_T_I_F_I_E_R!!!!1one (and microwave trafo, OFC)

  • @alexoja2918
    @alexoja2918 ปีที่แล้ว

    Try a dimmer with your deathdapter rectifier. That's how I made an adjustable power source for my DIY light thing. Even works without a fuse!

  • @FURIAfdx
    @FURIAfdx ปีที่แล้ว

    educational and fun! keep it up mah man! I wanna see the day u supparce the "making a pencil fired from inside"

  • @randolphtwells1360
    @randolphtwells1360 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    6:06; Please don't try this at home if you are a professional and educated engineer that deals with electricity. Also, Mehdi, don't hold the microwave transformer on one hand to test it by plugging it on; otherwise, the plates that open sideways, and it explodes.

  • @b127shorts
    @b127shorts ปีที่แล้ว +34

    14:10 🤣🤣🤣

  • @shigaraja
    @shigaraja 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i know that this is what he does... but i am convinced that Death is just over his shoulder saying " you have a lot of nerve being alive!"

    • @absurdengineering
      @absurdengineering หลายเดือนก่อน

      "YOU HAVE A LOT OF NERVE BEING ALIVE!" Death always speaks in capital letters. Always.

  • @migtouninvoluntario9381
    @migtouninvoluntario9381 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    14:27 - Garbage ?!?! Not exactly... you can use this principle to move submarines without make any noise.. indeed, they already used that. Remember movie The Hunt for Red October ?

    • @PersonCuber
      @PersonCuber 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wait really? That's so cool actually

    • @migtouninvoluntario9381
      @migtouninvoluntario9381 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@PersonCuber whatch this v=nFsiydplCtw

  • @Roblox-Content
    @Roblox-Content ปีที่แล้ว +21

    5:31 LOL THIS GOT ME LAUGHING SO HARD

  • @martinschulz7885
    @martinschulz7885 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    14:04 The moment when the child comes up in you, priceless🤣🤣🤣

  • @Axolotl_Ethy
    @Axolotl_Ethy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Is no one going to talk about on the thumbnail? It said click bait.

  • @jordonAh
    @jordonAh ปีที่แล้ว +27

    @14:17 luigi came out

  • @soggybaguette8457
    @soggybaguette8457 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Thanks to you Mehdi, I went to Purdue University to study Electrical Engineering. I just recently completed our introductory general engineering program (which we call FYE, or First Year Engineering) last semester and now that I’m in my desired program, I’m absolutely loving it! It’s so cool to see the things I’ve learned in school correlate with your videos, and vice versa. Thanks for inspiring me, Mehdi!

    • @bagochips1208
      @bagochips1208 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      boiler up

    • @pranavghantasala6808
      @pranavghantasala6808 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ayy, Boiler Up!

    • @Steven-bd1fv
      @Steven-bd1fv ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Purdue sent me a deferral for EA when I applied last year (class of 22) but Cornell accepted me. Go Big Red! nah who am I kidding this place is fucking depressing

    • @jz4774
      @jz4774 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      bro has to take ece 2k1 💀

    • @Steven-bd1fv
      @Steven-bd1fv ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jz4774 nahhhhh I decided to do CS instead. It won't really matter for me since im planning on getting an MBA after anyway to make more money on the business side of things and cus I dont really see myself coding my entire life.

  • @takatominemoto7703
    @takatominemoto7703 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    words cannot express how much i this guy's videos
    he's like a mad scientist bent on educating people instead of world domination

  • @labeebfarooqi7548
    @labeebfarooqi7548 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just discovered this guy yesterday and loving him already so please stay safe (I mean, safe enough to be alive)

  • @captaincat1743
    @captaincat1743 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    This is totally hilarious. The comedy and presentation have really gone through the roof on this channel since I last watched.
    Thanks for making me laugh, I was having a bad day until now.
    Now I'm ready to take the world on again, cheers !

    • @jerry-hj2mj
      @jerry-hj2mj 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      He's like a non evil version of that guy from smurfs

    • @thelightinglegend
      @thelightinglegend 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He is like dr. Doofensmitch exept for the fact that he doesn't call it something with inator

  • @rishvarma
    @rishvarma ปีที่แล้ว +178

    You always brighten our day, Mehdi!

    • @BobWehadababyitsaboy69
      @BobWehadababyitsaboy69 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Don't Read My Profile Picture Nobody cares

    • @gcl2783
      @gcl2783 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Especially when he's _salty_

  • @klitibehluli9976
    @klitibehluli9976 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:06 RIP electronic danger noodle 😂

  • @eliasoviedo539
    @eliasoviedo539 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There's been a while since i don't check on your channel. Your hair became white but your experiments still amazes me. Back in the day I was in high school and I used to watch your videos with my father and he would explain me what you were talking about. I just wanted to thank you for such good and funny content. I work as an electrician and I attempt to graduate as an electrician engineer here in Argentina. So thank you so much 🤝

  • @ehsantagman
    @ehsantagman ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I'm not an electrician and I really don't understand many terms you use and even explain but I usually watch through your whole videos like this one. Good job.

    • @skip485
      @skip485 ปีที่แล้ว

      Most electricians probably don't know most of what he's talking about either. It's more electrical engineer than electrician

  • @Yastro
    @Yastro ปีที่แล้ว +22

    3:02
    Holy Fudge! I almost had a heart attack...

    • @_ayushmehta
      @_ayushmehta ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same 😭😭

    • @Descension.
      @Descension. ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Y'all must be new here, it's s common occurrence by now

    • @Yash_Bhosale
      @Yash_Bhosale ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Man like it jumpscared me lol

    • @pranav_OO567
      @pranav_OO567 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same

    • @Cheesecake-2018
      @Cheesecake-2018 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Holy FUDGE!!!

  • @jackkauffman9417
    @jackkauffman9417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the concept! It seems like it's just electrolysis with extra steps. Still cool though, I wonder how big you could step it up?

  • @oesiusdeus9157
    @oesiusdeus9157 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder if this idea could be used for quiter propulsion systems in ocean waters 🤔

  • @zardoxop9427
    @zardoxop9427 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    13:58 elctrolysis (h2 and cl2gass + naoh in solution)

    • @n-steam
      @n-steam ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Where did the Chlorine go

    • @idrawfox8032
      @idrawfox8032 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@n-steam into his lungs ahahah

  • @flyback_driver
    @flyback_driver ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Tech Ingredients did a wonderful video explaining this.
    Also, you should consider getting a foot pedal for turning on some of your projects. Like a momentary switch from a tig welder so you can have your hands free. When you were holding that mot over the saline solution with the cord in the other hand I was really worried about you buddy.

    • @jamesphillips2285
      @jamesphillips2285 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Never sure how much is a bit showing you "what NOT to do" and how much is real carelessness.

    • @BobWidlefish
      @BobWidlefish ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamesphillips2285exactly.

  • @christopherkerr2254
    @christopherkerr2254 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome after 12 plus hours a day man thank u for all your videos

  • @user-en8jp1hc9w
    @user-en8jp1hc9w 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the gasses created are H2 and O2 so they are not toxic but if you create enough H2 it is going to explode by a spark. but the percentage of H2 needs at least to be at about 4% in the air and you don´t have to worry

  • @husseinhasan8296
    @husseinhasan8296 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    13:40 I think I will have a hard time sleeping tonight...

    • @danek_hren
      @danek_hren 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😡

    • @ozzy9223
      @ozzy9223 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Make it your lock screen

  • @apathtrampledbydeer8446
    @apathtrampledbydeer8446 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    It's people like this that give me hope for the future, yet I get slight anxiety everitime Mehdi releases a new video. Electricity is no toy, but he sure knows what he is doing.

    • @wade4501
      @wade4501 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If I'm not mistaken he has a master's degree in electrical engineering... he definitely knows what he's doing :)

    • @azarshadakumuktir4551
      @azarshadakumuktir4551 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@wade4501 Yeah, I don't remember well but I think he even passed it a second time in the UK to find work.

  • @vwlz8637
    @vwlz8637 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Breaker: pops to save his life
    Mehdi: *sighs in annoyance*

  • @elynaindahbudiasih3279
    @elynaindahbudiasih3279 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hey bro, maybe you can use a capacitor from a former water pump or washing machine motor and so on, that might reduce the level of short circuits, and can prevent excess current for the load

  • @johhau4
    @johhau4 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks for the video, you are one of my favorite youtubers. there is so much idiotic stuff on youtube it makes my head spin, but watching your videos is like fun therapy for me

  • @DerClouder
    @DerClouder ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I love how Mehdi is channeling his inner scientist from victorian England testing with this new incredible thing called "electricity"🤣 I have a fear for electric outlets and messing with any electric appliances due to childhood accident involving my nightlight and a faulty extension cord, but these videos are such a treat! 😁

    • @Text_Lydia_Elise
      @Text_Lydia_Elise ปีที่แล้ว

      @official_Electroboom
      👆🏽write me✍️You won something special🎁🏆

  • @macrismariano4010
    @macrismariano4010 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Mehdi is the sole reason i got into studying electronics
    Been watching him since 2018

    • @agentburningbutters3655
      @agentburningbutters3655 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Props to him, your going to be a cool dude!

    • @MrFroggster
      @MrFroggster 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because you dont want to explode or burn your house, right? 😅

  • @amandelx
    @amandelx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this guy, so entertaining!

  • @matty101yttam
    @matty101yttam 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seems like a part of the problem is water flow at the start, only the areas by the magnets generate water current so the starting area is at a deficit of water compared to the end.
    If there was some way to widen the inflow area to be bigger than the outflow area it should give the water more pressure i would think.

  • @Ass_of_Amalek
    @Ass_of_Amalek ปีที่แล้ว +17

    5:00 one of the scariest electroboom scenes in my opinion 0_O

  • @dire284
    @dire284 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    "I wonder if all these gases, coming from the water, are poisonous or not!" He says with joy.

    • @kjetiltrondsen8242
      @kjetiltrondsen8242 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      And they are. He is using table salt - natrium cloride. The cloride part becomes a poisonus gas....

    • @voidseeker4394
      @voidseeker4394 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can feel it way before it becomes dangerous.

    • @billmight5662
      @billmight5662 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you make a much more powerful one that it's a water jet cutter, does it make it a venomous gas if someone sticks their hand in it?

    • @TubaHorse
      @TubaHorse ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kjetiltrondsen8242 "Natrium chloride" 🤓 Just say sodium chloride

    • @OctyabrAprelya
      @OctyabrAprelya ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kjetiltrondsen8242 Now that's an old school way to say sodium

  • @sethseth8417
    @sethseth8417 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rest in peace cabal 5:08 😢😮❤

  • @libertytreerevo
    @libertytreerevo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Electrolysis! That's the burning/boiling!

  • @iholland
    @iholland ปีที่แล้ว +97

    Thanks for a great video as usual! This doesn't need a fancy name - it's a simple example of the right-hand rule (the Lorentz force F= qv x B associated with a charge moving in a magnetic field producing a force as the cross product of those 2 vectors). As -ve ions move towards the +ve plate they will experience a force along the channel. The +ve ions move in the other direction across the channel, but because they are of opposite sign, the effective current is in the same direction and so they also experience a force in the same direction along the channel and so the entire body of water is pushed along the channel. Yes the gases are poisonous (chlorine if you used table salt) - far safer to use sodium bicarbonate to make it conductive, but when has danger ever stopped you from experimenting! 🙂 A cool thing I created back in high school, along the lines of what was shown in the debunked video, was to make the water spin - put the water in a petri dish and line the interior wall with foil, place a magnet under the dish and another with the opposite pole above the dish, suspend a pin from the top magnet that dips into the the center of the water, run a radial current from the foil to the pin (via a connection to the top magnet) and viola, you've got a model cyclotron. 🙂 Cheers.

    • @EllAntares
      @EllAntares ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah fancy names are just historical. Railgun - the simplest and earliest example of Lorentz force use by someone who tried to conceive an electricity-powered gun. Originally it's what engineers call "linear motor" and concept of railgun was introduced in 1910s. Gauss gun or coil gun - uses same rule but force is created by inducted currents. This "water railgun" was originally conceived in early 80s and quickly replaced by "water coilgun" - a.k.a. electrohydrodynamic turbine.

    • @bluefates58
      @bluefates58 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am learning about the right hand rule in college right now and was wondering if you could explain it to me, I know your thumb faces the same direction as the current but what does your pointer and middle finger represent and how do you know what direction they go in?

    • @iholland
      @iholland ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bluefates58 Plenty of videos online covering this. Most use 2 fingers and your thumb but I prefer using the fingers of the hand to represent the magnetic field lines and their direction and the palm or bent 2nd finger to indicate the push - e.g. th-cam.com/video/47uESIjJSTg/w-d-xo.html - be careful with exams as they almost always give problems that make it easy to use your left hand by mistake.

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus42 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I keep thinking of the caterpillar drive in "Search for Red October".
    If a nuclear powered sub used huge magnets then the flow of the salt water would cool everything keeping the magnets below their Curie temperature
    It'd have to use batteries as a generator would be too loud.
    You'd only need a couple of knots to make a totally silent drive worthwhile.

    • @pascalabenius2018
      @pascalabenius2018 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That it's actually a thing in real life, but it's very inefficient.

    • @allmycircuits8850
      @allmycircuits8850 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      With superconducting magnets it's feasible though still impractical. Also chlorine bubbles would be well detectable. In theory if strong running magnetic field was generated making kind of induction motor with water as its rotor, it wouldn't have any electrolysis and bubbles of gas. But I'm not sure it's possible. Usually superconducting magnets generate static magnetic field...

    • @andreasu.3546
      @andreasu.3546 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@allmycircuits8850 Chlorine gas production apparently can be controlled with a catalyst from Iridium oxide and Manganese oxide. Wonder if efficiency could be boosted by collecting the hyrdogen gas and feeding it into a fuel cell.

    • @antisoda
      @antisoda ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad to see there are several commenters here with good taste in movies. :) BTW: It's The _Hunt_ for Red October, just to be pedantic. ;) Released in 1990, it was based on the 1984 novel by Tom Clancy, directed by John McTiernan and starred Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, and Sam Neill. Thanks for coming to my I-just-recapped-the-Wikipedia-article TED talk. :) That movie still holds up today, I think.

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@antisoda I thought it looked wrong when I wrote it! Thank you. It was long time ago that I watched it. I'll have to watch it again... 🚗🐛

  • @Idkaname-co9oh
    @Idkaname-co9oh ปีที่แล้ว +4

    12:44😂😂 guess he’s never stuck a 9 volt to his tongue.

  • @zackorymoore7642
    @zackorymoore7642 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro I used to love ur old vids I’m glad ur still making vids

  • @jonathanouyang
    @jonathanouyang ปีที่แล้ว +9

    13:31 yeah actually at high salt concentrations there's enough chlorine anion that it overtakes oxygen production so you get pure chlorine gas and hydrogen gas, as well as sodium hydroxide in the water. Concentration is probably way too small to cause harm here but it's an industrial process to produce hydroxide and chlroine iirc (chloralkai or smth)

  • @aspjake123
    @aspjake123 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    @ 13:35 EB just revealed the caterpillar drive technology

  • @noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024
    @noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    less salt, more plates, higher voltage, more magnets. battery psu and put under a boat to see if it moves. bonus points for catching the o2 and H then diverting them to a real engine

  • @aaronmarko
    @aaronmarko 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gotta give a shout out to this man who's spent the past decade shocking himself to explain things about electricity that I will never have a hope to understand

  • @Dr_Doctor_Lee
    @Dr_Doctor_Lee ปีที่แล้ว +40

    congrats. you managed to set water on fire.
    this was a great video as always.absolutely love them.
    stay safe ^-^

  • @Lampe2020
    @Lampe2020 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    7:05 "Aaaand the resistance of the salt water is... like... What? Minus two megaohms?"
    If I had a resistor with minus two megaohms of resistance I could put it in a low-power circuit to bump it up XD

  • @edwardelric9649
    @edwardelric9649 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just discovered this guy while watching some old linus tech tips videos. It just freaksme out whenever sparks and shortcircuits occurs, I even stand away from the display😁, but is entertaining, fun and educational so fine by me. Just be careful.

  • @davep8366
    @davep8366 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your videos... Not sure if I am more entertained or educated by them ;)

  • @leogreck9984
    @leogreck9984 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    11:15 you know you are pushing things when the damn water starts burning XD

  • @czf1k
    @czf1k ปีที่แล้ว +12

    11:00 scared the life out of me

    • @danek_hren
      @danek_hren 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      11:04

  • @allyoucando8486
    @allyoucando8486 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like to invent part in my case rc hobby, but this men give to much knowledge and adding fun part of science you have this men

  • @user-lt7ve7fd6o
    @user-lt7ve7fd6o 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am at the edge of my seat watching your experiments

  • @Devtrek
    @Devtrek ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As I understand it one of the major problems with the rail guns in military development is the arcing that happens at the end of the barrel when the projectile is breaking contact. I think I saw a little of that effect going on in the water railgun!

  • @umakemerandy3669
    @umakemerandy3669 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    10:37 made me jump. My high power subwoofer slammed in my car. Tons of bass! 100 amp of bass, 1000 watts of bass, 10000 smiles. Well, closer to 75 amps really.

    • @Rowan-Explains
      @Rowan-Explains 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No speaker setup needs 100 amps nor 75 amps

    • @umakemerandy3669
      @umakemerandy3669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Rowan-Explains incorrect

  • @PiersLawsonBrown1972
    @PiersLawsonBrown1972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You have demonstrated the theory behind the propulsion system fitted to the Red October submarine.

  • @walkermott1750
    @walkermott1750 ปีที่แล้ว

    These types of videos are good for people looking to inovate instead of just make something that already exists. I am sure someone with enough time could find a way to make this "water railgun" viable in some form

  • @letsdosomething6691
    @letsdosomething6691 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Mehdi just casually reinventing top secret submarine technology lol. He basically built a form of caterpillar drive. Super cool.

    • @Kenniedy
      @Kenniedy ปีที่แล้ว +4

      if mehdi goes missing we know why