on a platform where the last 25% of any given upload is viewed by almost no one, I gobbled up every last drop of this pee video without tabbing away or even looking at my phone.
Honestly, Cody, right after you reflected on your life choices, and right before you said "it's a wonder I'm still single!" my answer was that I thought "what a wonderful life!" I know not everything is in fact wonderful in ANY life, but your life sounds pretty cool to nerds like us.
Truth! I've thought that often while watching his vids. I get a big kick out of the variety of projects and ways to use practical things different from intended purpose. Plus, I'm a geo-nerd, and "let's try this to see what happens" person, so in my book he's living the dream.🍀
There are definitely many similarly weird ladies out there who would be incredibly excited about this sort of lifestyle. I've been around enough PhD students to know that beyond any doubt.
He just hasn't met anyone capable of getting anywhere near his power level yet. If he finds someone who could even match his power, the duo might just take over the world and I'm rooting for it all the way.
One amazing thing that Cody thought me is that random scientific approach in vastly different subject can have unexpected link. This video shows an unexpected connection between chemistry, fish keeping and managing waste in an autonomous colony. Mushroom growing, fish keeping, charcoal making, metal refining and so much more is a weird thing for a single person to do, but you never know how knowledge can transfer between various hobbies.
Aaand also very funny and educational etc, I think it's one of life's greatest things where it just keeps going. You keep learning and getting new ideas and insights and see connections 😊
There's still some sanity left. I was afraid he's gonna say "So... cheers!" at 8:58 but thankfully, this isn't tasty mercury and thus didn't require a taste test.
A genuine moment of silence and recognition for our science TH-camrs. These guys keep pushing the boundaries of what we currently know and understand, and they consistently provide not only us- but the entire world with new ways to apply various sciences to our daily lives and infrastructure. ❤
I love this ! I used to do a fishless tank cycles just by added ammonia to my empty water filled tank and just wait with the filter running testing for nitrites then nitrates and continue dosing with ammonia into it until it would remove 1 ppm of ammonia in 24 hours then do a 50 % water change and stock with fish :)
Ive been watching for around a decade and I still cannot guess what the next video will be about. Seeing a new upload in the feed is always a welcome surprise. Keep it up Cody, I hope to continue watching for decades to come!
For a future iteration you should add some nozzles to the pipe on top to increase spray surface area and oxidize faster. Maybe even a grid of pipes for more spraying spots too. Keep up the amazing work! Get projects done! Stay awesome
FYI, assuming there's enough organic mater to feed on, if the bacteria don't have enough oxygen, they will start to break down NO3 to oxygen and nitrogen gass, where nitrogen would be lost to the atmosphere (this is actually exactly what we do when treating waste water), so if the goal is to collect nitrogen, ideally the bacteria should have plenty of oxygen and never feel the need to search for alternative sources of oxygen
Another thing to remember is that nitrifying bacteria like the ones in wastewater treatment plants are usually autotrophic meaning they need bicarbonates as their carbon source. If you stabilized the pH with let's say sodium hydroxide the bacteria still wouldn't grow because they'd run out of carbon to make more of themselves
@@stickerbeat Yep, in fish tanks we buffer with sodium or calcium bicarbonate, or aragonite which is a species of calcium carbonate. Reef tank keepers will even add liquid carbon sources like vodka, vinegar, or more formulated products to feed the bacteria and then use a protein skimmer to remove the bacteria directly from solution as a de-nitrification method.
Cody this is probably my favorite of your experiments that you have done so far as it directly relates to my work selling aquarium fish. We would probably call what you've created a trickle tower in the industry, and that is the type of filtration we use to most efficiently oxidize ammonia to nitrates, while a submerged or wet/ dry filter may also offer some anoxic nitrification and produce nitrogen gas with different species of bacteria. I'm really interested in using something like this to explain the denitrification process to my customers (and even some of my coworkers!) who seem to believe it is some mystical process that requires praying to the bacteria gods and sleeping with aquarium gravel under your pillow. A few notes from experience: nitrosomonas and nitrobacter species will generally operate and live within the liquid temperature range of water, they are able to go down to 0C and up to 100C without the whole population dying. They do operate best in the range of 72-86F (sorry for mixing units) with activity increasing with temperature up to the upper 80s where they will drop off slightly. You are also experiencing what many fish tank keepers experience after they have not regularly cleaned their tank of fish waste, the organic acids produced are buffering your pH down and lowering the efficacy of your bacteria's chemical reactions. In fish tanks we would prescribe regular water changes with KH buffered water, usually using sodium or calcium bicarbonate as the buffering agent but sometimes aragonite is also used in the form of "crushed coral" products. The crushed chalk at the end is a very similar idea. This video has given me a lot to think about re: the nitrogen cycle process...
One of the old-school ways to get useful nitrates is to spray urine on a loose pile of straw. If done correctly, the surface area of the straw pile would host bacteria and evaporate the water and form nitrate crystals. These crystals could be collected by gently shaking. Further processing is needed for making gun powder. My understanding is that one of the scandinavian countrie's king required subjects to pay tax partially in saltpeter so this sort of operation was going on somewhere on every farm.
A long time ago he actually did exactly that in a video, and if I recall correctly he took the nitrate crystals and made gunpowder from them. Dude is a legend
Cody did exactly that, made actual powder from it and hand loaded a single rifle shell with it, so of course YT took the video down. This video is about the closest you can get to the original source material without being censored
Hi Cody, I'm working on a selective breeding project involving Triops Cancriformis. From everything i'm learning about them in terms of their radiation resistance, rapid life cycle, storable eggs, adaptability to different oxygen levels and extremely easy care I reckon they'd be ideal for a martian aquaponics setup. They aren't palatable but they are edible and if you were to keep them in low temperatures post hatching say 3-10C, then they live much longer and grow considerably larger too.
We need cody to be involved in actual space mission. He proved to have all the knowledge and skills needed, he got also fit and muscolar over the years. His talent and vision need to be recognized!
I’ve been watching since the early days and I still think this is an underrated channel. It’s weird in my head. This is always like a really big channel, but never seems like Cody gets the attention he should I also like that this channel still feels like classic TH-cam. I know the world changes and that’s not necessarily a bad thing but there’s something about Cody’s lab videos. That really just are very much the same way they’ve always been.
i watched youre video where you made gunpowder from urine about 9-10 years ago. That had really inspired me to pursue this field. This video feels like a great throwback to it.
People who do aquaponics often start the nitrogen cycle in their biofilters, before adding fish, using aged urine. If the bacteria are numerous and detoxifying ammonia before the fish are introduced, it is less likely for the fish to suffer or die from poisoning by their own wastes.
There are much better bacteria-starter products nowadays than human urine, especially into a system that people will be eating the output of. Human urine can contain all sorts of contaminants and pathogens.
Nice! I've always transferred fish filter media to jump start a new tank, but never for personal waste processing. 😅 I love seeing all the interesting things you develop.
What about using pot ash instead of chalk to raise the pH? I put the ash from my smoker into my compost pile (along with all my pee). It produces compost very quickly with virtually no work (I never turn it) and no smell. And most importantly the plants love it!
Potassium carbonate could certainly be used, infact the charcoal contained some, but it has the potential to raise the ph too much. With calcium carbonate I really can't add too much, it's more of a set it and forget it. I could always add some potassium carbonate to the liquid and precipitate calcium carbonate leaving potassium nitrate in solution.
@@theCodyReederHave you ever tried just dilluting urine and putting it in the garden? works wonderfully for me and works perfectly in nature aswell. the animals aren’t killing all the plants with their pee. quite the opposite actually.
@@theCodyReeder Ah I see, makes sense. I assume that has to do with the solubility of CaCO3 vs K2CO3? Hmm, I have a sudden urge to go hunting for your video which shall not be named. xD
@@john_titor1 yeah maybe id its too concentrated and the area is too dry. my neighbors also had a dog who burned the lawn a couple of times but it recovers very quickly. otherwise the whole nature would be burned… in the long run it still acts like fertilizer and when i dillute it i have never had any negative effects on the garden.
Been watching you as long as I've had a youtube account and I take lots of inspiration from you in my projects! Thank you for the most amazing content I know
11:00 re: gunpowder, it's known that in the period of resistance to the Japanese in WWII, Chinese villages built latrines that harvested urine into bomb making materials. Oddly enough, those were only the third worst bomb used against Japan.
I'm glad to see you back on the Urine science again!! Haha!! (The reason he blew up, turning urine into gun powder.) Also, I'm very happy to hear you had a little vacation time! Much Love Cody!
The only signature on my open sauce badge, the only one I wanted. So happy to have met you and love all that you do. I hope when ww3 comes along, and I’m wandering the wasteland I happen to come across chicken hole base
Hey Cody. I don't have time to watch videos often these days (with the family and so on). Just wanted to say that I'm glad you're still around and seem to be doing well! Ill be sure to tune in more often. Love your content brother. You're one of the main reasons I pursued engineering, biochemistry and toxicology. Hope you have an awesome holiday season!
This is great! The old gunpowder from urine -video is still one of my favorite side projects. So glad to see the urine saga continuing - within TH-cams guidelines 🤣
nope, the maths are correct. Might be easier to understand if youd calculate backwards, 1000 ml with in it 100 ml of other stuff, devide by 100, every ten ml has one ml of other stuff, 10 to 1, 1/10
He said “1 to 10 dilution” meaning going from a unit volume to a final diluted volume 10 times as big as the original amount. He didn’t mean 1:10 pee to water. It’s 1:10 pee to total solution.
I initially thought the same thing too, but Cody is correct here. In laboratory settings, when someone says they are making a "10 to 1 dilution" and bringing it up to 100 ml, they often mean they are creating a final volume that has the equivalent dilution effect, not strictly adding 10 times the sample volume in water. By diluting the 10 ml sample to 100 ml total, the concentration is effectively reduced by a factor of 10, which is often referred to as a "10-fold dilution" or a "1:10 dilution."
Dear Cody I have some suggestions for improving your bio-reactor system. 1.) Improve top dispertion system, to make fine mist instead of large drops, that will cover surfaces a lot more evenly. Like this, U have just a few percent of activated carbon with active bacterial cultrue. If U change to fine mist, FULL VOLUME of top barel will be active. 2.) Air Inlet to bottom tank can be Oxigen enriched by Oxigen paramagnetism. - Enriching system can be build just by layering Steel plates with magnet and 2-5 layerrs of aluminium mesh. Oxigen near alumiunium mesh, wil be preferencialy atracted by extending magnetic field. Saturated steel plates disipate magnetic field thru aluminium mesh AND guide Oxigen enriched air to your pump inlet. 3.) Temperature is also very significant variable. Make a small volume Experiment with Your bacterial cultre. Where (temperature) Perform the best. Try my improvements in video PLS if U can. ;) 10:25 Reasons why geniuses reprodusces so rarely. :D
at the end I see you take the bacteria from your fish tank filter in order to have it colonize this new setup. How did you originally get this type of bacteria that oxidizes urea into nitrates? Is it naturally present on the charcoal and grows naturally when fed with waste or did you have to introduce it yourself from another source?
If anyone is confused, the title of the video used to be "I am the fish." It was changed, and now that title is being used for a patron only version of this video.
Don't screw up your channel or anything but I'd be willing to bet theres a core base of fans like me that would enioy a weekly (or more) half hour podcast/stream to keep up with you! It would be fun to ask some questions and such!
Just be careful getting that stuff on your clothing (especially boots) if you are ever wearing it on a plane. I have a pair of workboots I wore during a mine tour in the mud around the blasting face that I can't bring on planes anymore because the nitrates set off the swab tests.
I love the waste recycling stuff. I cant recall if you have ever touched on microbial fuel cells. There is a paper discussing a wireless transmitter powered by a foot pump and waste products that you may have heard or read that was absolutely fascinating to imagine and speculate on. It would be interesting to see a future where we ourselves can create some form of usable energy just by using our byproducts.
Honestly if people who own septic tanks could offset their urine and grey water going to the septic tank this could possibly save people a lot of money and have a liquid nitrogen source to use instead of chemical fertilizers. I think this is pretty darn amazing!
NileRed's a bit famous for it. I recommend Hyperspace Pirate's video "Refrigeration from Pee" where he makes ammonium nitrate from urine and tries to use it to keep a can of soda cool.
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Knowing Cody, I was anxiously waiting for him to take a sip.
Same! Glad I was not the only one being like that.
No lie, I kind of thought he was gonna, and was afraid.
I was hoping he’d cut to him drinking a liquid from a cup at 4:28 with a thumbs up 👍 and then say “now to test the water”
Should have had a cup of lemonade a cut swap drinking it :p
Nasty lol
This gives off big "They took my video down by force so I'll repost the process without explicitly stating what I'm going to use it for" vibes
Was this an older video or a newer one? I must have missed it.
Pee to pew pipeline
drinking water...
@@videogamescoverftw The moment he said there was pee, we all knew. I actually started laughing out loud at that point.
@@jonathancheesman8385 it was several years ago.
How much do you like Cody’s Lab?
“I immediately watched an entire video about a pee tower.”
A PEE TOWER
In Disco Elysium two old men are found playing pee tank
on a platform where the last 25% of any given upload is viewed by almost no one, I gobbled up every last drop of this pee video without tabbing away or even looking at my phone.
And it was unironically very interesting as well!
Gobbled up or drank it down? @@ZennExile
Well NileRed is now on notice that his title of "TH-cam's foremost piss chemist" could be under threat
I was thinking exactly the same. But knowing Nigel, he'll be relieved to have lost that title to our Cody here.
Quite the fancy and massive piss jug, tbh.
He still is the king of new, never before opened bottles of anal lube, so there's that.
@@pmccoy8924 "All produced from my morning pee!"
@ yes. Thats why we love this savage.
The most ominous Cody title I’ve yet gotten in my notifications
🐠 ☘️
Is it wrong tho?
this is not the most ominous any title, just the most ominous cody title?
I assumed from the title he was going to say he got mercury poisoning, so this is better lol
Thank god for DeArrow, never have to worry about this kinda stuff
Numerous times during this video, I was concerned he was about to drink it.
He would never filter it then.
Okay good, it wasn't just me.
Don't worry, it's just an early prototype Fremen stillsuit from Dune. He won't drink it until many design iterations later
He's in the desert so would just drink from the source
I was right there with ya....especially when he lifted the cup at one point, as if to say Cheers.
I just realized I've been watching this maniac for over a decade 😂
Good times and good content.
Right? It's crazy I've literally never met the guy but I feel like he's an old friend
@@I_eat_a55that is a sign of mental illness.
I bet since he did some creazy stuff over the years God himself was like... Nah I know it could kill him but I want next episode
Not to mention that he showed up out of nowhere and staretd posting good sciency videos that got immediate traction.
me too:)
Some of us remember. Some of us were confused when we couldn't watch it again, and later understood. Some of us are happy that this is back.
i was there.... 3000 years ago...
I'm really surprised how many people remember that years old video
We've all been watching for a looong time I guess haha
@@Apocaloptimisto 😂
Honestly, Cody, right after you reflected on your life choices, and right before you said "it's a wonder I'm still single!" my answer was that I thought "what a wonderful life!" I know not everything is in fact wonderful in ANY life, but your life sounds pretty cool to nerds like us.
Are you a woman? Would you like to volunteer to be his? 💍
Truth! I've thought that often while watching his vids. I get a big kick out of the variety of projects and ways to use practical things different from intended purpose. Plus, I'm a geo-nerd, and "let's try this to see what happens" person, so in my book he's living the dream.🍀
A lady appeared in a couple of chicken hole base videos a while back, wondered if she was still in the picture. Guess not.
There are definitely many similarly weird ladies out there who would be incredibly excited about this sort of lifestyle.
I've been around enough PhD students to know that beyond any doubt.
Can confirm
Expected him to taste the sample any second
Definitely wondered if he was about to Bear Grylls it for a moment there 😅
"Some of the best charcoal I've ever made ! " - Cody
Years ago (maybe 200) doctors tried to see what urine tasted like (if it was sweet) to determine whether someone had diabetes
@peterelwert5598 diabetes is one of the first documented illnesses because of this. very ancient method of diagnosis, like 5000+ years old.
It's a wonder I'm still single ... hahaha
I can't believe a hottie like Cody is still up for grab. Ladies get yourself a man who processes his own urine into industrial chemicals.
I was lookin' for this comment haha 10:40
Had the same thoughts when I saw the chainmail anti-covid suit, I approve but one has questions!
It's a crying shame all his viewers are male lol
He just hasn't met anyone capable of getting anywhere near his power level yet. If he finds someone who could even match his power, the duo might just take over the world and I'm rooting for it all the way.
One amazing thing that Cody thought me is that random scientific approach in vastly different subject can have unexpected link.
This video shows an unexpected connection between chemistry, fish keeping and managing waste in an autonomous colony.
Mushroom growing, fish keeping, charcoal making, metal refining and so much more is a weird thing for a single person to do, but you never know how knowledge can transfer between various hobbies.
Aaand also very funny and educational etc, I think it's one of life's greatest things where it just keeps going. You keep learning and getting new ideas and insights and see connections 😊
He's finally gone mad. he's the fish.
There's still some sanity left. I was afraid he's gonna say "So... cheers!" at 8:58 but thankfully, this isn't tasty mercury and thus didn't require a taste test.
Clearly gone fishy :p
@@LordDragox412 or cyanide or heavy water...
the pee pee science is a tragic red flag indeed xD
erm yellow*
The only famous youtuber I know that doesn't include ads in his videos, very very rare these days.
If he ever takes a sponsor, you know either he sold out or he's deadass madly in love with whatever company.
@LokiScarletWasHere true
What did one fish say to the other fish?
"Alright everyone, Cody here"
There's plenty of fish in the sea, but only one of them is making fertilizer out of their urine.
Are you sure you know how to drive this tank?
"Welcome back to Cody's Tank..."
"Alright everyone, Cod here"
Cody, you are genuinely the coolest person living. You never cease to impress me.
Always a good day when I listen to Cody's voice and his train of thoughts
i wanted to stop by and say I love you Cody. I've been following you since i started my degree and that was about 10 years ago. You're a legend
The piss pot purifier:
Landlords And Public Health Agencies Hate This One Weird Trick
and aquarium water-column fertilizer companies
I just pee directly under my bushes, so much easier! 😊
Fish looks over to other fish with full chain mail
The other fish are actually wearing scale mail
@@tjfreckles1995And I would assume the snail is wearing snail mail.
As for the can of Luncheon meat, I would guess it is wearing Spam mail.
@@tjfreckles1995The electronics are wearing e-Mail.
Placoderm?
Ah yes, the long awaited sequel to a Beatles classic! (original title of the video was "I am the fish")
Kukukachoo
Let her Pee?
I am the walrus
that's where I went when I read the title.
Maybe Cody will do the whole White Album.
The walrus was paul
A genuine moment of silence and recognition for our science TH-camrs. These guys keep pushing the boundaries of what we currently know and understand, and they consistently provide not only us- but the entire world with new ways to apply various sciences to our daily lives and infrastructure. ❤
"its a wonder i'm still single" 😂 bless your heart cody.
Never change Cody. Great content. Love from the Netherlands!
I love this ! I used to do a fishless tank cycles just by added ammonia to my empty water filled tank and just wait with the filter running testing for nitrites then nitrates and continue dosing with ammonia into it until it would remove 1 ppm of ammonia in 24 hours then do a 50 % water change and stock with fish :)
do you tense?
He is the fish
HE IS JUST A FISH!
Knowing Cody, I was sitting on the edge of my seat, scared shitless he would take a little sip. Great video!
Ive been watching for around a decade and I still cannot guess what the next video will be about. Seeing a new upload in the feed is always a welcome surprise. Keep it up Cody, I hope to continue watching for decades to come!
For a future iteration you should add some nozzles to the pipe on top to increase spray surface area and oxidize faster. Maybe even a grid of pipes for more spraying spots too. Keep up the amazing work! Get projects done! Stay awesome
Having run a spray aeroponics rig, I can see why he doesn't. It'd be an aromatic bugger to unblock...
FYI, assuming there's enough organic mater to feed on, if the bacteria don't have enough oxygen, they will start to break down NO3 to oxygen and nitrogen gass, where nitrogen would be lost to the atmosphere (this is actually exactly what we do when treating waste water), so if the goal is to collect nitrogen, ideally the bacteria should have plenty of oxygen and never feel the need to search for alternative sources of oxygen
good tip
Another thing to remember is that nitrifying bacteria like the ones in wastewater treatment plants are usually autotrophic meaning they need bicarbonates as their carbon source.
If you stabilized the pH with let's say sodium hydroxide the bacteria still wouldn't grow because they'd run out of carbon to make more of themselves
Hint: cheap alcohols are a great liquid carbon source ;)
@@stickerbeat Yep, in fish tanks we buffer with sodium or calcium bicarbonate, or aragonite which is a species of calcium carbonate. Reef tank keepers will even add liquid carbon sources like vodka, vinegar, or more formulated products to feed the bacteria and then use a protein skimmer to remove the bacteria directly from solution as a de-nitrification method.
you can get liquid ammonia and nitrate tests that are much more accurate if you want specific values
This is such a cool concept that could have such an amazing use in the agricultural sector.
Cody this is probably my favorite of your experiments that you have done so far as it directly relates to my work selling aquarium fish. We would probably call what you've created a trickle tower in the industry, and that is the type of filtration we use to most efficiently oxidize ammonia to nitrates, while a submerged or wet/ dry filter may also offer some anoxic nitrification and produce nitrogen gas with different species of bacteria. I'm really interested in using something like this to explain the denitrification process to my customers (and even some of my coworkers!) who seem to believe it is some mystical process that requires praying to the bacteria gods and sleeping with aquarium gravel under your pillow.
A few notes from experience: nitrosomonas and nitrobacter species will generally operate and live within the liquid temperature range of water, they are able to go down to 0C and up to 100C without the whole population dying. They do operate best in the range of 72-86F (sorry for mixing units) with activity increasing with temperature up to the upper 80s where they will drop off slightly. You are also experiencing what many fish tank keepers experience after they have not regularly cleaned their tank of fish waste, the organic acids produced are buffering your pH down and lowering the efficacy of your bacteria's chemical reactions. In fish tanks we would prescribe regular water changes with KH buffered water, usually using sodium or calcium bicarbonate as the buffering agent but sometimes aragonite is also used in the form of "crushed coral" products. The crushed chalk at the end is a very similar idea.
This video has given me a lot to think about re: the nitrogen cycle process...
One of the old-school ways to get useful nitrates is to spray urine on a loose pile of straw. If done correctly, the surface area of the straw pile would host bacteria and evaporate the water and form nitrate crystals. These crystals could be collected by gently shaking. Further processing is needed for making gun powder. My understanding is that one of the scandinavian countrie's king required subjects to pay tax partially in saltpeter so this sort of operation was going on somewhere on every farm.
He did that AGES ago. One of his earlier attempts of making nitrate.
A long time ago he actually did exactly that in a video, and if I recall correctly he took the nitrate crystals and made gunpowder from them. Dude is a legend
I remeber that video, w recall
Hypothetically all this charcoal is going to be saturated with nitrate
Cody did exactly that, made actual powder from it and hand loaded a single rifle shell with it, so of course YT took the video down. This video is about the closest you can get to the original source material without being censored
Hi Cody, I'm working on a selective breeding project involving Triops Cancriformis. From everything i'm learning about them in terms of their radiation resistance, rapid life cycle, storable eggs, adaptability to different oxygen levels and extremely easy care I reckon they'd be ideal for a martian aquaponics setup. They aren't palatable but they are edible and if you were to keep them in low temperatures post hatching say 3-10C, then they live much longer and grow considerably larger too.
We want you to be successful Cody, I watch all your ads and like all your videos. Hopefully TH-cam treat you well.
It's hard to find good informative entertainment anymore. Cody does it! Thanks!!
I been pissing on plants for years and i have not died yet
Never forget: piss has value and always has
You probably spread it around and it gets diluted with rain. My system is relatively small and sealed.
@@theCodyReederread again
@@theCodyReederI use half a liter of urine diluted in 5.5 liters of water for my veggies and they love It
@@MWilk098Sam is tough.
We need cody to be involved in actual space mission. He proved to have all the knowledge and skills needed, he got also fit and muscolar over the years. His talent and vision need to be recognized!
What a treat! 3 CodysLab videos in like 2 months!!!
thanks for doing what you do. for some reason the way you present your experiments makes me remember the principles behind them.
Cladistically speaking, you *are* a fish!
finally someone said it
almost everything is a fish if you are taxonomically correct.
My dive bladder is acting up
@@giuseppebonatici7169bacteria is bigger than fish, and thus our tank is kept smelling fresh
This channel has evolved in such an interesting way
Out of all the piss buckets I've seen yours is the most advanced.
The ending where you were just building it was delightful!!
Great video Cody!
You know I used to think I was the fish and then Cody was like no sir
We are all fish, biologically speaking
Man, this is so cool. I had no idea about the relationship between nitrate refining and bacteria. Using a starter from the fish is awesome
You gave golden shower a new meaning.
donOld tRump will be stopping by, he’s a huge fan!
@@canadiangemstones7636 bruh, shut up... go lick justin turdo rear if u care that much about politics.
I’ve been watching since the early days and I still think this is an underrated channel. It’s weird in my head. This is always like a really big channel, but never seems like Cody gets the attention he should I also like that this channel still feels like classic TH-cam. I know the world changes and that’s not necessarily a bad thing but there’s something about Cody’s lab videos. That really just are very much the same way they’ve always been.
How is the finished product extracted? Do you just leave the barrel to react for a few days and collect in batches?
I was thinking of having it overflow to the next stage and then eventually to the algae farm.
Logic checks out
@@theCodyReeder Nice. I'd love to see an update to the algae farm!
You need to incorporate a urinal into the barrel
@@theCodyReeder Yes the output of this is excellent fertilizer!
i watched youre video where you made gunpowder from urine about 9-10 years ago.
That had really inspired me to
pursue this field.
This video feels like a great throwback to it.
People who do aquaponics often start the nitrogen cycle in their biofilters, before adding fish, using aged urine. If the bacteria are numerous and detoxifying ammonia before the fish are introduced, it is less likely for the fish to suffer or die from poisoning by their own wastes.
The last time I cycled in a fish tank, I used household ammonia, rather than having to let pee rot.
There are much better bacteria-starter products nowadays than human urine, especially into a system that people will be eating the output of. Human urine can contain all sorts of contaminants and pathogens.
Nice! I've always transferred fish filter media to jump start a new tank, but never for personal waste processing. 😅 I love seeing all the interesting things you develop.
What about using pot ash instead of chalk to raise the pH? I put the ash from my smoker into my compost pile (along with all my pee). It produces compost very quickly with virtually no work (I never turn it) and no smell. And most importantly the plants love it!
Potassium carbonate could certainly be used, infact the charcoal contained some, but it has the potential to raise the ph too much. With calcium carbonate I really can't add too much, it's more of a set it and forget it.
I could always add some potassium carbonate to the liquid and precipitate calcium carbonate leaving potassium nitrate in solution.
@@theCodyReederHave you ever tried just dilluting urine and putting it in the garden? works wonderfully for me and works perfectly in nature aswell. the animals aren’t killing all the plants with their pee. quite the opposite actually.
@@jfiekms You've never heard of urine burn before? Animals absolutely kill plants with their pee all the time!
@@theCodyReeder Ah I see, makes sense. I assume that has to do with the solubility of CaCO3 vs K2CO3? Hmm, I have a sudden urge to go hunting for your video which shall not be named. xD
@@john_titor1 yeah maybe id its too concentrated and the area is too dry. my neighbors also had a dog who burned the lawn a couple of times but it recovers very quickly. otherwise the whole nature would be burned… in the long run it still acts like fertilizer and when i dillute it i have never had any negative effects on the garden.
Been watching you as long as I've had a youtube account and I take lots of inspiration from you in my projects! Thank you for the most amazing content I know
Its actually a great design, like a wet and dry filter. I think if you change the charcoal with pumice you will get a greater biomass of bacteria.
Big ass barrel of K2 or bioballs. Nitrate factory. Run the pump 24 hours a day with a solar battery.
Im so glad TH-cam is putting you back into my feed!
11:00 re: gunpowder, it's known that in the period of resistance to the Japanese in WWII, Chinese villages built latrines that harvested urine into bomb making materials. Oddly enough, those were only the third worst bomb used against Japan.
Nice to see Cody is maintaining his chaotic neutral alignment nicely.
That’s the coolest gamer bucket I’ve ever seen!
I'm glad to see you back on the Urine science again!! Haha!!
(The reason he blew up, turning urine into gun powder.)
Also, I'm very happy to hear you had a little vacation time! Much Love Cody!
The only signature on my open sauce badge, the only one I wanted. So happy to have met you and love all that you do.
I hope when ww3 comes along, and I’m wandering the wasteland I happen to come across chicken hole base
I wouldn’t get within 20 miles of Cody in an apocalypse
Thanks for sharing and preserving knowledge for others this channel has loads of information
In order to learn how to defeat The Fish, one must learn to become The Fish. Empty your mind Cody.
You Are The Fish
Hey Cody. I don't have time to watch videos often these days (with the family and so on). Just wanted to say that I'm glad you're still around and seem to be doing well!
Ill be sure to tune in more often. Love your content brother. You're one of the main reasons I pursued engineering, biochemistry and toxicology.
Hope you have an awesome holiday season!
What an absolutely unhinged video showcasing your piss fountain. I love it, never change cody
Iam happy when Cody load up a new video. props
To be fair, he is THE fish.
Oh.. are we doing ..hrrm.. *that*, again, are we? Cause I missed those videos. They were peak TH-cam. Always great to see a new Cody experiment.
the _digester_ has a nice ring to it.
Hello Cody. Always happy to see a new video notification.
This is great! The old gunpowder from urine -video is still one of my favorite side projects. So glad to see the urine saga continuing - within TH-cams guidelines 🤣
That is the sort of reactor I planned to build, so perfect you protyped for me! I will indeed be making one now!
Thanks for showing the making of it!
I love this video and love your content, please keep these going as long as possible!
Wouldn't 100ml and 900ml make a 9 to 1 dilution? It should be 1 in 10, but 9:1.
ye, i was thinking he would go to 110 since he said 10 to 1, so it should be 9 to 1.
nope, the maths are correct. Might be easier to understand if youd calculate backwards, 1000 ml with in it 100 ml of other stuff, devide by 100, every ten ml has one ml of other stuff, 10 to 1, 1/10
He said “1 to 10 dilution” meaning going from a unit volume to a final diluted volume 10 times as big as the original amount. He didn’t mean 1:10 pee to water. It’s 1:10 pee to total solution.
I initially thought the same thing too, but Cody is correct here.
In laboratory settings, when someone says they are making a "10 to 1 dilution" and bringing it up to 100 ml, they often mean they are creating a final volume that has the equivalent dilution effect, not strictly adding 10 times the sample volume in water. By diluting the 10 ml sample to 100 ml total, the concentration is effectively reduced by a factor of 10, which is often referred to as a "10-fold dilution" or a "1:10 dilution."
@@Troublesomeadam The tenfold dilution, is a good word for it, it has 10 units, with 1 sample and 9 dilutant. but it's still 1 to 9 dilution :D
Dear Cody I have some suggestions for improving your bio-reactor system. 1.) Improve top dispertion system, to make fine mist instead of large drops, that will cover surfaces a lot more evenly. Like this, U have just a few percent of activated carbon with active bacterial cultrue. If U change to fine mist, FULL VOLUME of top barel will be active. 2.) Air Inlet to bottom tank can be Oxigen enriched by Oxigen paramagnetism. - Enriching system can be build just by layering Steel plates with magnet and 2-5 layerrs of aluminium mesh. Oxigen near alumiunium mesh, wil be preferencialy atracted by extending magnetic field. Saturated steel plates disipate magnetic field thru aluminium mesh AND guide Oxigen enriched air to your pump inlet. 3.) Temperature is also very significant variable. Make a small volume Experiment with Your bacterial cultre. Where (temperature) Perform the best. Try my improvements in video PLS if U can. ;) 10:25 Reasons why geniuses reprodusces so rarely. :D
LOOK AT ME. I AM THE FISH NOW
Awesome content Cody! Hope you are in great health and even greater spirits!
at the end I see you take the bacteria from your fish tank filter in order to have it colonize this new setup. How did you originally get this type of bacteria that oxidizes urea into nitrates? Is it naturally present on the charcoal and grows naturally when fed with waste or did you have to introduce it yourself from another source?
I really appreciate the "b-roll" build at the end of the video.
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At 4:25 my auditory dyslexia flared up and i thought Cody said "lets go taste it". With how extreme that man is, i had to do a double take.
"It's a wonder that I'm still single." Best line I've heard on YT this year.
The chemist, living off the land! 👍
If anyone is confused, the title of the video used to be "I am the fish." It was changed, and now that title is being used for a patron only version of this video.
If you leave the urine in the sun it grows in amonia content. Colonial Americans used to do that with horse urine to whiten the mens clothes.
Yep, decomposing the urea into ammonia which forms ammonium hydroxide, a pretty decent all purpose cleaner.
"Chamber lye"- as seen on Townsends!
@@Pygar2 I'll have to look for that one. Townsend's are a good pairing with Cody's content. 🍀
@@erinmac4750 FWIW the "Maggie" woman was enacting as a laundress.
@@Pygar2 are you telling me there's a spinoff of TURN: Washington's Spies? That was one of the best mini series I've ever seen
just the best science channel outthere
8:45 bro who hired this Sommelier?
Don't screw up your channel or anything but I'd be willing to bet theres a core base of fans like me that would enioy a weekly (or more) half hour podcast/stream to keep up with you! It would be fun to ask some questions and such!
Just be careful getting that stuff on your clothing (especially boots) if you are ever wearing it on a plane.
I have a pair of workboots I wore during a mine tour in the mud around the blasting face that I can't bring on planes anymore because the nitrates set off the swab tests.
Pouring a full gallon, wow.. You living life good brother..
6:30 how is it a 10:1 ratio if you added 90ml to 10ml? wouldn't that be 9:1?
Shhh
if you look at the scale carefully, he actually filled it to 109g, so he added roughly 100ml.
But you're correct, what he said was wrong
It would be a one in ten solution as it's one part of the total ten
Oh wow you got him. He better fold the channel up.
The channel, and Cody, has come so far from the old days of 5 gallon buckets and solar evaporation 😉 👍
"it's a wonder I'm still single!" rofl
I love the waste recycling stuff. I cant recall if you have ever touched on microbial fuel cells. There is a paper discussing a wireless transmitter powered by a foot pump and waste products that you may have heard or read that was absolutely fascinating to imagine and speculate on. It would be interesting to see a future where we ourselves can create some form of usable energy just by using our byproducts.
I kept thinking he was gonna take a sip
Thank you for being curious and sharing these experiments with us
Honestly if people who own septic tanks could offset their urine and grey water going to the septic tank this could possibly save people a lot of money and have a liquid nitrogen source to use instead of chemical fertilizers. I think this is pretty darn amazing!
I mean you can collect the urine and use it as is.
I used it in my garden, worked quite well.
Never figured that I would ever enjoy watching someone experiment with their own urine.
NileRed's a bit famous for it. I recommend Hyperspace Pirate's video "Refrigeration from Pee" where he makes ammonium nitrate from urine and tries to use it to keep a can of soda cool.