TESLA TURBINE | What happened?
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Not everyone knows this, but Tesla had a lifelong dream of being the first man to fly, of course, with an electric airplane. Little did he know that it would take decades for electric powered airplanes to come true and no, he was not the first man to fly.
But the dream was there, and he even patented schematics for an eclectically powered aerial transportation system to which I did my best to make this 3D model, so you my dear viewer can see it in detail.
Now, today we can spot many problems with his designs, but this was an idea that started taking shape back in 1886 which sort of justifies it.
Nevertheless, he got the patent in 1921 where he goes into detail describing this mode of transportation. The cool thing about it is that his machine allowed for vertical and horizontal takeoff except that vertical takeoff would most likely not work, but the again helicopters would only become a thing in 1936.
Ok, cool but what does this have anything to do with his turbine?
How on to your lunch my dear viewer cause things are about to get interesting.
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Dont start out with product placement, do it like half way through the video or at the end. When people see that they click away, better after they watch some.
It depends on the requirements for the product. Sometimes they require it at different time points.
If the content of the video is interesting enough I just jump over the product placement and go straight to the video.
@@zadinal if that's required, it could be circumvented by adding the convenience of a timestamp to skip it
If you are sponsored you don’t need youtube money. How about not money grub so much?
@@Tadesan If you have a paper route, why also mow lawns? Rent isn't that expensive. ;)
A bit of feedback: at theend of the video, please make sure the sound doesn't overlap so loudly over what you're saying.
WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
Agreed. That was going to be my suggestion as well.
Agreed. It really threw me off.
That and the labored pace and cadence of the discussion making it obvious he's stalling for ad time... You wait (skip) to 2 minutes in to actually get to the content... Oh, and if you title a video about subject 'A', hop to it and don't devote over half the video to subject 'B' (and advertising!) before you get to the title-indicated subject. Pin that stuff to the end with mentions in the main part.
Well I never heard of your channel until now, so TH-cam recommendations haven't let you down yet
same here! Also subscribed! :)
I have on a different account but never this one. So I've been recommended this channel at least twice.
Same here
Yeah, I just got here through TH-cam recommendations. So they're still working.
Came here from yt recommendations
Invention is like art, if left incomplete by the author , others will be quick to judge wrongly. Tesla was genius
There's a fine line between Genius and insanity, and he crossed that line a few times for sure.
@@Bob-of-Zoid I don't think there's a line between at all
@Fugp Basis had a good laugh thank you. What an incredibly ignorant statement 👏
Rather focusing on his failings or perceived failings, I prefer to respect the genius of people like him, who had the "spark", the vision, the dream, and the creativity to actually design and build up things to make those dreams into a reality, despite the limitations of his time. Sure, not everything works, but others come to pick up the torch.
I really cannot understand why some people need to be critical about others who raise above their peers to try to do greater things.
@@shinsetsusha The video never said Tesla was not a genius. He was, and was human too, so had limitations. I guess that recognizing a genius doesn't mean we should make him a perfect idol. The video is just mocking conspiracy theories, not mocking Tesla. Some people nowadays still believe in 100 year old ideas because couldn't keep up with the evolution of science, and create those theories to defend themselves.
That’s actually a really cool engine, I’d love to see this tuned, refined, and perfected with modern engineering. I bet this could get some pretty nice power output with all the technological advancements we’ve made over the century
It doesn't compare too well with the turbojets developed in the 1950s. It looks much worse when compared with anything newer.
One of the killer problems is that the a thin layer of the working fluid transfers energy to the surfaces of the disks. The output power is a function of that surface area. An engine with a lot of power will need many disks. The disks have to be smooth, clean, close together, and strong.
Maybe if you use ceramic discs instead of alloy metal?
@@hamjudo I'd say it's projected efficiency compares well. The problem is that it doesn't achieve that at low rpms. What I want to see is discs connected to each other in a tightly packed spiral instead of parallel discs so that you get some direct mechanical force on top of the boundary effect when a fluid is flowing through it, which should help it perform at low rpms.
@Ricky Barber no, I mean like imagine you take a normal Tesla turbine then cut a slot through all the discs all parallel to the shaft. Then you take all the discs and push one side of the slot down the shaft until it lines up with the other side of the slot of the next disc down and then weld it there so now instead of tight discs you have two stacked corkscrews. Now water flowing through it from the side will have to move laterally to some extent to progress to the other side of the turbine but wants to move straight and this will turn the turbine instead. It's now a hybrid tesla-impulse turbine that should perform better at low rpms.
@@krazykat90501 I was thinking the same, ceramic, carbon fibre, titanium…Carbotanium.
Sorry to hear that your channel isn't doing so well. I think the greatest strength of your channel are the sleek looking, detailed animations of machinery. What I'd like to see are more in-depth technical explanations of how these things work, utilizing those animations.
Gnoccy I agree. He doesn’t deserve it.
bro this channel suck. he has been wrong like 10 times in the video. i stopped watching at 7:54. due to his lies
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 can you please elaborate more? would be helpful for us less tech savvy plebs.
@@user-yy3ki9rl6i wireless transmission of electricity is completely doable. there is a lab in Texas currently digging up all this research they have the exact same Tower they're trying the exact same stuff. Got government funding they've been operating since like 2017. This kid is wrong on so many levels sad he's done zero research.
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 It seems you does NOT done enough research on tesla. He built the tower for EARTH transmission. 1%loss compared to 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% atmospheric loss. See the massive difference yet?
Wake the f up.
*Quality* > *Quantity*
Superb videos, keep it up.👍
Did I hear someone talk about the Tesla turbine?
Your 3D models are amazing (Blender right?) and you did a good amount of research. Great video!
The Tesla turbine has some flaws and still lacks a well-defined application but I'm convinced that with some research it will find it's purpose in modern days.
Also, I think you just gave me an idea for a video!
@F a car exhaust, chemical factories, geysers
I think the time where it would have shined was the era before steam engines and internal combustion engines were well developed. When steam engines were just becoming relevant they were horribly inefficient and large. It was difficult to get rotary motion without lots of parts and joints. Pistons were just being invented in near the 1700s era and it was the invention of pistons that allowed steam engines to go from being a demonstration model (Heron's engine) to being actually useful.
In this era even lower efficiency from lower RPMs and less sophisticated materials being used, a very basic Tesla Turbine could have been made more easily than a piston based engine (pistons have rather tight tolerances for the era) and probably been more efficient than most steam engines of the era. It would have been perfect for light industrial and domestic applications.
TH-cam algorithms just brought me to this video. The quality of the video and subject matter, earned a subscription from me.
This turbine seems perfect to turn a generator and create small-scale electric power. Anyone who could create pressurised steam via, for example, wood scraps, solar reflectors or process waste heat, could generate a portion of their own electricity needs. It works with water as well, so hydro is also an option. Turning it on its side, wind could possibly be channelled in via several fixed funnels it to create an efficient and nearly silent wind turbine.
Yes!! Charlie Solis makes real actual power and torque outputting TesTurs! And he’s still only using just compressed air for the initial tests too! 🤯
Sooo much more possible with the same design and higher temp steam since the viscosity of gasses goes up with temps, so the fluid will “grip” the discs wayy more.
Not to mention the polar H2O steam molecule adheres to metals discs MUCH better than the non-polar O2, N2, CO2, etc molecules in compressed air. 🤭
So molecular adhesion to the disc faces is even higher for even better grip on the discs.
Using hydroPHILLIC surface coatings on the discs should also further increase the fluid adhesion to the disc faces reducing slip and increasing efficiency.
And that’s just talking about the increase in isentropic efficiency of the turbine. That’s not even accounting for the further increase in thermodynamic efficiency from using higher temps 🤤
"Best known for his contributions to the band AC/DC"
That would be funnier still if any of the band could prove that they were related to his family.
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He’s better than shit music
@@lastyfirst3788Are you calling them shit? You sound like a deadbeat! Well done...
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As I remember it from books I've read about Tesla, he came up with the idea, or part of the idea, when he was a kid and swimming in a lake with his friends. There was a dam and he noticed that when he got into the flow of the water, it wanted to push him and take him over the edge of the dam, he panicked and tried to swim away, but the current was far too powerful. He managed to get his body pressed up against the damn to the side of where the water flows over and found that the water no longer affected him at all, it merely flowed around him. Yet, when he tried to move it body away from the dam, he could feel the force of the water was very powerful. He inched his way away from the flow of water keeping his body pressed up against the dam. This effect of the water really made him think. He thought there was something very curious about the principles of water and came up with the theory that when water pushed the turbines which generate power, they can only turn the turbine as fast as the flow of water because the water will also slow the turbine down as the turbine comes back around hitting the water, thus the turbine would never be able to speed up. But, since a smooth surface created less resistance when it comes back around, it might be possible to speed up the turbine in the same way a you can push a person on a swing and keep adding more energy to that person with each push until it becomes quite easy to push the person.
Where did you read this? Can you share please?
The production quality on this channel is through the frickin roof!
It always amazes me what one man using mostly free 3D software can achieve nowadays.
That's some professional documentary level renderings and graphics.
TH-cam needs to push more quality content like this!
Ha! TH-cam pushing quality content, you're a funny one aren't you?
facebook knows how to keep me locked in so i imagine google isn’t far off on their viewer preference algorithm these vids are awesome
Bravo commentary .
Welcome to Brazil .
What software does he use?
@@vinnyfromvenus8188 now this man is based
I think the turbine could be very effective if run by a waterfall and connected to a generator to produce free electricity. The gear reduction to reduce the speed to become compatible w/ the generator would produce incredible torque, and the mechanical drag necessary to spin the generator could maintain a safe operating speed.
I agree, but where do we find the turbines?
@@AndyTulenko My Father and several of my Uncles were Master Machinists. Any of them could have fabricated one easily, but they have long since passed.
Any turbine that depends on friction in the fluid will be less efficient than turbines that don't. There are already very efficient turbines for water that outperform the Tesla turbine. It's not because engineers are stupid or that they don't know of the Tesla turbine, the reason for using Francis, Pelton or other types but not Tesla is simply because the other ones are more efficient.
@@skunkjobb I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that’s patently incorrect. All bladed turbines have just about the same total surface area on the inside of them that the motive fluid drags on and would still suffer stator and drag losses moving across the surfaces.
Even worse the cavities are wide and can allow for wide turbulent boundary layer losses in bladed turbines.
When designed properly the flow between the discs in a Tesla turbine is ALWAYS supposed to stay laminar to get extremely high efficient torque transfer of the motive fluids energy through the shear stress forces to the static layer of the motive fluid just off the surface of the discs.
And “loss” in this part of the operating condition result in heat from shear stresses.
However this will predominantly happen in the periphery where the pressure in the turbine is the greatest and the motive fluid still yet to fully expand through the spiral pathway.
Ergo the heat generated from any “slip” is recovered through a “built in Brayton cycle recoup” through the spiral pathway, when using elastic motive fluids, like combustion and steam.
This is known as the “Reheat Factor” of a given TesTur.
Even more, most people don’t realize that gasses have a viscosity trend with temperature that’s the opposite of most liquids.
Gasses actually get more viscous as their temp increases.
So as you increase the temp of the motive gas/steam you will increase the viscosity, ultimately decreasing the slip on the discs and raising the isentropic efficiency of the TesTur.
Then on top of that the higher temps bring about higher Thermodynamic efficiencies in the whole TesTur it’s self too.
Charlie Solis has more than proven this with his latest TesTur builds.
Ummmm no
Wow, the fonts, animations, kerning, line spacing… just EVERYTHING is insane in this video. What a great presentation. Top quality design work. You are a very rare talent. Great work
What's keming?
Insane production quality! This is one of the few channels that actually goes into depth on the subjects and the production quality is insane. One of the best channels I've found this year.
Wtf is this content he wasted my 6 minutes just explaining things i already knew
Sad to hear about your channel not doing so well :/ must be the algorithm at play, since your content is spot-on perfect!
TH-cam is throttling him for making deepfake videos
A financial YT channel was talking about ad placement in videos. They said that "Allowing mid-roll ads" started to give them more views. Why? YT wants to make that ad money. Do what you gotta do, Subject Zero Science. We are still here for your content!
This channel just popped up in my
recommended maybe there's hope
Your channel doing very well..
This so great information...
Welcome to Brazil, Now is great oportunitty for investiment in cleanner electric energy turbine .
Welcome to Brazil...
3d printed materials for this could solve this issue that are strong enough for this.
Subject Zero. Installation00. Just found your channel. Very glad I did. You're my kind of content creator! Love the technical animations and deep looks into the various aspects of machinery and the like. Great stuff. Subbed. Looking forward to more.
Oh hey been subbed to 00 for a while now and this is the first vid I've seen from zero haha
This was explained so well it made me realize it's quite close to fluid dynamic coupling, so I'd say pretty top tier content yis
I think some tanks like the Abrams M1 use it to store energy (coupled to a flywheel), and some ship systems too, especially for laser systems energy storage.
Tesla turbine flywheels are very energy efficient, as the turbine and flywheel are 1 piece of machinery
I think powerplant old and new, today use these turbines to covert steam to rotary power to turn electric motors
@@dash-4150 no they used traditional turbines
No they don't.
Seriously, science channels like yours, Nurdrage, etc. are just so damn interesting. Shame that the algorithm doesn't promote science channels as much.
I agree
@@yellowmartian ...brother?
Interesting. When I first heard about Tesla, his turbine either wasn't mentioned or it was just a footnote. Later I'd stumble on videos of them and think man, this guy made everything!
Stumble on his idea of one-way valve... He was genius... Lots lf this can be used today... Especially in countries rich with geothermal activity.
No he didnt
@@gowdsake7103 yes he did 🤭
Actually it would seem to have a great application as a power recovery turbine for internal combustion engine, since it does appear to have very good torque at low rpm.........which makes it much easier to gear down to normal crankshaft speeds of an engine. 110hp from something weighing only 4.5kg at 10,000rpm is actually perfect. It only needs 5:1 reduction to reach crankshaft speed instead of 30:1 for other designs. thanks for the video )
Right! Charlie Solis has been doing a lot of work dispelling a lot of the repeated myths about the Tesla turbine with his TesTur builds!
Just for the record, and I have copies of the legal affidavits from the test at the Edison pant that I got from the museum, Tesla did his 110hp test with the 9-3/4 in diameter turbine at 18,000 rpm. Which would still be around 8:1-10:1 gear ratio for 60hz AC but that’s still reasonable.
I know Charlie has been gearing his TesTurs UP to his generators just to prove to people they do in fact output plenty of torque. The latest room temp compressed air tests did +5ft-lbs of torque at 6000rpm and peaked out at ~4.25kW between 6000-12,000 rpm.
And the air pressure at the nozzle never even went over 40psi too! 🤯
All auto matiç transmission have tort convert
@@darrillangley6129 torque converters don’t rely on the fluid adhesion to the rotor for torque. They just rely on a high viscosity fluid smashing between blades to provide torque.
@@Lotusrk123 thats a good question, that needs investigation and real measurements to clear up any remaining controversy.
@@Lotusrk123 Tesla turbines get plenty of torque at low rpm.
I love that you respect Tesla's intellect without exaggerating what his inventions were actually capable of. Just because a few of his ideas wouldn't've worked doesn't mean he wasn't a brilliant man, he most definitely was, but that doesn't mean he invited free energy and that information was just disappeared by the powers-that-be or whatever other crazy things people try to put on him... when people do that I just end up feeling like, he's brilliant in his own right, you don't have to do all that to prove it, it's self evident. Besides by lying about him, you do him no favors. So thanks for not doing all that. I respect your work, and will look further into your channel.
It's not a matter of speculation. Morgan, Warburg, Rockefeller, Gates (Maxwell), Rothschild, all responsible for and dominant over present day paradigms. They orchestrated the great depression and brought in the federal reserve. Tesla called them moneymen, and if they found out you couldn't readily meter and dominate people with it, they would have withdrawn funding. Donald Trump's uncle ended up reviewing what papers he still had after his death.
But... wireless energy is real. In the 1980s we were able to wirelessly transmit electricity 13 miles to an airplane called the Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform. We can even transmit energy all the way from space. This is a well researched topic.
@@SchemingGoldberg , did you notice the post date? It was a year ago... I'm not re-watching just so I have the context to reply. My instinct is to say 'nobody said otherwise'... but perhaps the video says he wasn't trying to transmit wireless power *with some said specific invention*... so I'd have to re-watch... this is the problem with replying to old comments that aren't still an ongoing discussion. It's stuff like this that makes it an annoying thing to do. So now you've been explicitly educated on the reasoning behind the internet etiquette of not bumping old posts. Most people simply wouldn't've replied to you. I mean to be doing you a favor by typing this. Some people need social ques spelled out to them. I don't judge, I just help.
@@binaryglitch64 The video did severely dismiss the idea of wireless electricity. It basically calls Tesla crazy, and says that it's a "conspiracy theory" that the tower could wirelessly transmit electricity. This is a public forum, I'm not just commenting to you, but also to the thousands of other people who might see this comment in the future, just like how I saw your comment.
"Just not physically possible"
Birkeland: hold my beer
Supposedly tesla turbines are often used, even in cars, for oil pumps due to the high viscosity of the fluid, and the low maitnence.
@@nikola.tesla.r.and.d.centre normal turbines can reach the low 90s percent efficiency
@@nikola.tesla.r.and.d.centre you gotta make a video
I have a torque converter instead of the usual gearbox, its amazing how it gives me almost 50hp for "free", a torque converter works using the same fluid-dynamics principle, except it doesn't convert pressure to torque, just rotation to more torque.
@@michaelofmanitoba3844 Go find the plastic tesla turbine video.
@Mr. Morningstar you are very limited in your sight.
Wireless charging for electric planes on the fly while wanting to be the first man to fly... Wow...
And he wasn't wrong. Just so far ahead of his time, and not a good business man.
@@M33f3r
Yeah all his designs are clearly flawless, and wold work if built today, yes?
If only evil big -insert your conspiracy here- wuldnt have sabotaged his work, he would have clearly made a VTOL plane work without any way to counteract toque created by the propeller, he would have surely been capable of gathering power from pulses of longwave radio incoming a few times a second (as opposed to gazillion times a second with stuff like microwave power transmission), and he would have surely found some way to get around the issue, that longwave electromagnetic radiation spreads out in al direction, thus the farther you are the source, the large area its spreaded thin over - unlike light, microwaves and similare stuff.
When "you have no clue what you are talking about" you are not "a visionary ahead of his time", you are a deluded fool.
Cue in quotes from lord kelvin, about the impossibility of heavyer than air flying machines, about the age of earth in reply to darwin, and the epic fail two clouds speech starting with: "The beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory, which asserts heat and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds." (realtivity and quantum mechanics were the "two small clouds")
Or fahrneheit... when you NEVER wrote down, and later forgot what you used for the calibartion for your zero, thats not an achievemnet worthy to be called agenius.
@@martonlerant5672 atleast people remeber his name aha man was a visionary, as the rules get 'bent' and 'broken' and more advancements are made in the right places anything can happen its small mind people thinking inside the box that are the real joke.
@@M33f3r It's sad but I can somewhat related to Tesla, I invented some of the best idea in my field for Drones - Gimbal technology a few years ago, but Im not a good business man which ended up I couldnt sell anything for profit to keep up the funding for my work. Some company even took my 4 axis gimbal idea and ended up making $300 000 from it. It's hard to balance things you can be one or another you just cant be both, you need a different mindset for business. Inventor mindset are mostly concentrate on ideas and dont care about anything else, they usually live alone and do things alone, and thats the down fall of most inventors, unless you have a close friend or someone in your family that is rich and a business man able to support your ideas, then you can be a winner.
@@AuroraCypher Yeah, it's true, I'm in the software industry, and the maxim there is that ideas are pretty much worthless. A good idea is a pre-requisite, but success is almost entirely determined by implementation (including things like marketing and sales on the tail end). Tech companies are constantly buying out other tech companies-- less because they want to own their ideas or products, but more because they want to own their capacity to implement ideas (ie employee talent and experience)
One of the greatest advantages of the Tesla turbine is how amazingly easy it is to manufacture in comparison to other types.
Disagree. The greatest advantages is that they actually work the way Tesla said and even at low RPMs. People just don’t know how to actually design them properly for lower viscosity motive fluids. I have a degree I. Physics and have been doing R&D on this for the last few years and have been seeing VERY successful results. My latest tests have shown 2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm on only 150psi room temp compressed air and 1200watt electrical load output tests on all the way down to only 65psi... all on a plastic and aluminum prototype….
@@CharlieSolis Great work!! There is no need to disagree. I mentioned only one of the greatest advantages.
When I first discovered this channel, I was attracted to the thumbnails. Then when the animations were better than I had even hoped, I subscribed. That is all excellent. My one criticism is that the dialogue meanders. You begin to finally talk again about the Tesla turbine at around 7 minutes. Honestly I'm not discontented with your videos, I'm just trying to make suggestions so you keep making videos. They're always so well done.
That first draft for a VTOL flying machine also predated the tail sitters like the XFY, and XFV testbeds. (Also, the Treibflugel, Coleoptere...) The main problem from an aeronautical standpoint was the diameter of the air-screw. As the diameter increases, the Area effected goes up by the Square. Double the length of the wings, and you quadruple their lift surface. In this model you had a 4 blade propeller. That doubles the lift surface, and doubles the Weight of the rotor. This is why most early helicopters, and autogyros had long 2 blade rotors. Modern quad-rotors get around this with the Square/cube-root law. Effectively, if you make the drone 1/10 scale, it's got 1/100th the lifting area, but 1/1000th the Mass.
Because of the Patent War between Edison, Tesla, and Marconi, a lot of those 1st generation engineers had to find work-arounds to avoid Patent infringement. That's why a lot of Edison, and Tesla patents aren't used today. The Tesla Turbine is heavy, and inefficient. Compared with any other pneumatic turbine, but because it was a Tesla patent, other engineers made lighter more efficient turbines by Avoiding it. Ultimately, that's why this didn't catch on: It's heavy, and inefficient.
I can think of an application.
Once pulse detonation wave engines are made, they should be more efficient than current gas turbine generators, only it's going to be difficult to convert pulses of high speed gas impacts into rotational and electrical energy. I think Tesla turbine is the only thing capable of surviving these pulses and turning their energy into rotational (which is then easy to turn into electrical).
Even if he lived today, Tesla would be ahead of his time. Greatest Serb that ever lived!
Actually he would have invented a time machine by then...
Tesla's mind was so immensely brilliant that he could of travelled 1000 yrs into the future and step out of his machine still the smartest man alive.
Moze da nam ga duvaju turbinom! 😀
The reversability of the turbine makes pumping a good application. The speed of the shaft can obviously be controlled to a level that will not threaten failure. As long as the fluid isn't abrasive or lumpy, it should work. (Cement, possibly, concrete, definitely not.) I have not been able to find is any design guides for engineers to calculate stresses, ideal separation between disks, &c. Materials science has advanced considerably in the last century, so it should be possible to run much higher RPM now.
Disc pumps are actually used for abrasive slurries, high viscosity or when there's lots of particles. They are not very efficient so if you're pumping some normal clean liquid, you better use another type of pump.
Picture this for use: Right now we have compressed air and electricity to power bench grinders and angle grinders and similar tools. What if some industrial facility that was already consuming water for some use, would pipe that water through a tesla turbine powered bench grinder? That would mean that the grinder would be spinning all the time (unless an extra pipe and valve would be used to send it past the grinder when not needed). The advantage would be less need for electricity, or compressed air. Or alternatively, the turbine would probably work just fine if it was powered by compressed air. So it could be used to replace all sorts of electrical equipment. The advantage is that a compressed air leak is not deadly, but electricity can kill.
I really liked your video. I hadn't heard of this invention yet, it's really cool.
Totally got a new subscriber in me. Keep up the great work.
I agree with Gnoccy, your animations are really good!
Tesla didn't fail. We have only scratched the surface of what the Tesla turbine was capable of!
Must say.....this guy is incorrect on many levels.....
It's truly ridiculous that your channel has not exploded in popularity already! These are some of the best 3d animations I've seen on a TH-cam video period!
it's lyes..
do your research
not to mention Im one minute in and Im like I cant listen to this guys accent
sorry not sorry
Obligatory comment for the algorithm's sake. Even if that means copying someone else's comment.
Obligatory sub-comment.
Also, why the hell are we not using this today?
same tbh
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They actually use this type of pump to pump thick fluids like oil. It's useful because it can pump contaminated fluids, whereas a normal pump would get clogged.
The Tesla turbine works JUST FINE! I literally make them and get usable power, AND TORQUE at low RPM. My latest 10in diameter plastic and aluminum prototype turbine is literally getting 2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 RPM on room temp compressed air. All these fake claims that it doesnt work is doing a disservice to Tesla’s prestige…..
This was beautiful in every aspect, the animation, the information, the narration, the presentation, everything.
Sad to hear about how the algorithm isn't favouring you. I absolutely love what you bring.
Your blender animations are absolutely amazing! They always look so good!
AlphaNinerGamer are you sure he uses blender?
@@tonysamaniego7875 "All Animations are done in house with Blender EEVEE by Zer0"
Great video !
Thanks for renewing interest in Tesas work.
He was one of my personal heros and I've always wanted to duplicate his 1931 Pierce Arrow that JP Morgan killed.
Please keep your videos coming and inspiring many to dream big.
Absolute novice here ; could you use the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine to move a Tesla turbine with no trade off ?
Hey! I love the stuff you’ve been putting out. Don’t let those analytics discourage you from making more stuff like this, you’ll get there soon enough! It’s videos like these that have kept me motivated to get through engineering by reminding me we all have setbacks to deal with. Keep up the good work!
Finally, a decent video about the Tesla turbine!!!
I heard about the turbine 10 or so years ago. All my Web searches showed built mostly running on compress air or steam. No video or web page actually calculated the efficiency of the engines. It is interesting to find out Tesla was claiming greater the 80% efficiency.
Has anyone seen modern testing and statistics of a Tesla turbine?
I've been a follower of your channel for a bit, and have loved it from day one. You have some serious talent in making these videos, I truly hope your dream can be realised soon because you deserve it
Use it with compressed air. As it moves to the center of the turbine it creates friction turning into steam. Connect it back into another turbine through the center as it moves out it creates solidification. Loop the whole system and put it in a sealed pressurized system. That would take load off the whole system which would keep the blades from warping at high speed, along with composite materials.
Great animation work. Well done!
Hi there! I'm new to your channel, and I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for making it! Never heard of the Tesla Turbine before, so this was a really good introduction.
After watching your video I looked up the Tesla Turbine on Wikipedia, and it says there that one of the uses Tesla envisioned was using it as a pump in geothermal power generation. That seems like a pretty good idea to me. Geothermal power is all about pumping hot water, so a bladeless turbine that's basically a pump would seem to be ideal.
Another more modern application mentioned on WIkpedia is using the Tesla Turbine as a blood pump, so maybe the future for this machine is in integrating very small versions of it into biomedical technology.
Great cat picture on your profile. Scratch an ear for me. Cats rule :)
I find it hard to believe that such an amazing device isn't used for applications. What if you used one to power 4 other similar turbine's. Could you get more power back than used. It would take just one single water pump to run it all. Or since it spins so fast, have quartz on the end of the rotors to create and use the piezo electric effect. Put pressure on quartz and you get power. The rich don't want energy independence. Example, Jay Leno's garage has a 1916 Owens Magnetic car that is a HYBRID. We had a hybrid car since 1916 but no major production. Meow kitty... so cute... virtual ear rub... purrr.
I am in love with your videos. Clean, well made animations along side great explanation. Very informative.
You definitely deserve more views, and I believe you will achieve it soon.
Please, keep up your great work. )
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours. I loved how good the animations were
My uncle was famous for saying “it’s all just a tug boat.” Mostly because infamously started several projects to fund other projects to eventually purchase and captain a tug boat.
He never did get that boat…
I've known about the turbine for some time now, but I had no idea about the significance of the power density. I believe the material science technology does exist now in the form of metal matrix composites. Unfortunately, the matrix needed cannot be bought and would need to be made by hand. Thanks for the inspiration. I'll be looking more closely at this problem.
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Keep it up man, the quality of your videos is amazing!
Criminally underrated channel. 7:00 was such an apt description and "AHA!" moment in this video.
That intro... killed it for me. I clicked away and decided to come back and leave a comment.
Your loss.
I have always envisioned it being used in hydro-power system and controlling the RPM velocity with valves to restrict the flow water reducing Volume and Pressure at the inlet to prevent over speed of disk, now with 8inch (203mm) Diameter pipe with 100feet (30.48M) of head height... that would be 43Psi (298Kpa) x area of the pipe, 50.8 sq inches (1290.32 sq mm) 8inch that's 2175LBs of water coming out of an 8 inch pipe. If that is your input, I wonder how big of a Tesla Turbine would be and how many KW output could we get out of it theoretically.
Never heard of this channel until TH-cam recommended to me I’m subscribing now
i miss the old youtube without algorithm.. but then i might not have found a lot of good channels
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Maybe it could be useful in machines with heavy hydraulics. Or, whever there is steam excess from other processes.
I know how much effort goes into the animations, I think i actually ended up on your channel because i was trying to get updated on some of the new blender stuff.
I know youtube's recommendations also benefit channels that put out a lot of content.
maybe its worth doing a second channel with b-roll stuff that you could do more often, even if its just problem solving the issues that im sure you run into doing the animations in blender, im sure there is an audience for that too. describe the problem, walk through the solution, maybe give a couple examples of other ways people are using the technique. I'm sure you're doing most of that work already, you just need to clip it and do a bit of narration.
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A number of years back I had a vivid dream about a mansion where everything was powered by a boiler in the basement. Something that stuck with me was a blender that was powered by a Tesla turbine and would plug into steam sockets in the wall. I still want to build one
How did I miss this guy’s channel for so long. Thank you TH-cam algorithm for finally suggesting something other than crazy cat videos
Just found your channel through TH-cam recommendations. This is the first video I've watched, but I'm about to go check out what else you've got. I thought this was very well made, I liked the animations with the historical photos, and I like your conversational tone. Music at the end is very loud, though.
The Earth can be used in a one wire broadcasting system, the wardenfliff tower did just that. The Earth is conductive to high voltage without any losses. Put in resonance it can be maintained at low power. No conspericy just electrical facts.
Steam powered? Check.
High rpm? Check.
Just slap on a turbine
Prateek Karn If coal powered power stations in developing countries still use steam to power their turbines... would this devise not increase the output and therefor decrease their emissions?
@@wezwezzo Tesla turbines power the Niagra Falls.
There is a "fish" turbine based on the tesla design. Used to pump fish from a transportation tank into the wild.
It baffles me that we get to watch this for free such clean and consistent 3D modelling.
I get to know your channel from recommendations so just keep such quality content up bro👍
*Great content, narration and editing!*
Doing my part, the comments are helping then algorithm - this was in my recommended feed.
I appreciate your videos, and the effort you put into this channel. Thanks.
Hey this is a great channel with good animation to go with the presentation. For Tesla and his tower, he was mainly interested in transmitting resonant energy and theorized tapping into many layers of potential energy in the earth and atmosphere. His overriding interest was in electromagnetism regardless of mode. It may yet make sense, don’t count the idea out yet. Check out W. Carlsons’s biography on him.
Hello good sir, may i know what did you use to make the 3d models? Thanks i am interested to learn more about that
If you watch the video to the end, you'll see that he used Blender.
@@ianhaylock7409 thanks!! I think i missed it yesterday
I wish I was alive in Tesla’s time. I would have enjoyed having a conversation with him
Judging by a quick search for how TH-cam recommends videos, my hunch is that a quicker release cycle is rewarded much more than quality. Since I guess nobody here wants you to drop what is your strength, this means more firepower is needed if you indeed want to go for more views: can you maybe get help by some volunteer for either modeling or research in order to decrease your workload per video?
Given your audience is most likely a mixed bunch of nerds and engineers some of us might be of help on researching specific topics. In case you are interested in something similar, I can use some of my free time to help with the subject of digital electronics and how chips are designed.
i kinda agree with this, also i'd think he should limit those text descriptions because people will be confused either to read it or listen to your (different) narrative. i'd say let google automatic english caption do its work and focus on articulating each word clearer.
Or how about stick to the topic?
I've seen channels that release one video every 3 months and get millions of views. I think if he tweaks things here or there as time goes on the channel may do better. Just listen to comments with ideas or criticism like this one and if it makes sense maybe give it a try.
Back on topic, maybe releasing videos on a schedule might help. For example, one a week or month or even every two months. Just keep the timing constant.
I liked the video so thanks for sharing. I did notice that the very nice 3D model of the Tesla turbine, appearing at several points in the video, has nowhere for the fluid to exit. It does illustrate the main design features very nicely though, so I'm OK with it. Like you, I'd love to see it have a practical application. The fact that it doesn't, kind of makes me suspicious that there is some major thermodynamic design flaw with the Tesla turbine. Why do we use bladed turbines for power generation rather than this seemingly better design?
Its supposed to spiral inward, and exit from near the shaft or through the actual shaft - another design headache, last thing you want is steam near the main bearing
Im new to the channel. Just want to say that as a new subscriber, I really like your format and subject choices. Keep at it.
Wow, I think I am on your channel for the first time, and I am shocked. The quality of video is astonishing. Your work is really visually pleasing. Great work!!
"Just not physically possible"
William .C. Brown and Raytheon : Drinking their beers and saying - been there done that...
I really can't beleive that your channel isn't going as expected... I find your content to be flawless with massive detail and perfect explanation... I'll be watching all your videos over and over again... also sharing it because more people get all this information...
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7:01 scared me. I thought it was my computer making that noise.
From what I heard the tesla turbine can be used in reverse as a water pump. It has some practical applications too
some it is more practical than the current turbines we use in dams ... but the rich would lose profit which their addiction to money and power wont allow them to do
@@kaboom-zf2bl that statement is just stupid. Using something more efficient will increase their profits, thus they will choose to use it. There must be some deficiency which makes them not to use it.
@@ChangingHorizons no it would decrease their profits as they no longer have the excessive repair and maintenance their other interests now gain ... and they no longer have the ability to increase pricing to cover the cost of the continual repairs ... you are thinking like a person NOT a greedy little person who has many companies and wants more money and more power and to make those you deem lesser to pay for it all ....
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a more efficient turbine in the long run would be best yes ... BUT the rich dont want long term they want NOW just like all the Melennials
I love the guy who does the narration is so funny
It's probable that the RPM's are so high that 100 years ago developing a transmission to reliably transfer power was too difficult.
Brilliantly made and fantastically explained!
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I have no idea how you've been under my radar for so long!!
This is the 1st video I've seen of yours, and I'm totally amazed by the quality and your beautifully presented work,
I'm about to binge watch your uploads,
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great video as always! maybe next time you could explain more clearly how the turbine actually works:)
Given the advances in materials technology since Tesla’s time, I would imagine 100,000 RPM would be easily obtainable now. Is it any good as a pump/compressor?
Suspect the spool up response would be too slow for a turbocharger, but that’s just a guess.
think CD-rom drive ... even 36krpm would be enough ... and it just so happens that cd's could make a proof of concept tesla turbine no problem ...
I like how this video asserts that wireless power isn't physically powerful and yet in 2021 multiple EV circles are talking about exactly this to some extent.
Or the fact that in the 1980s we were already able to wirelessly transmit electricity 13 miles away to power an airplane called the Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform. Wireless energy transfer isn't new, it's a very old technology.
Will never forget his contributions to AC/DC loll.. oh man this is so intriguing. Truly a genius
10:09 in this spin turbine effect, the same feature can be applied using very little energy, image an air pump, filling a vehicle piston internal chamber, with air, the way fuel is burned inside it to combust, only its slower like a hydrolic ( or air-drolic force), but paddles the same starting axel rod, with very high paddle force as converted into strenght, before transmission into speed. The classic universal way of engines, was to use up extremely high power to pedal a pistons to the axel SO fast, then a transmission to slow it down into horse-power, thus using MORE energy to gert a ratio of strenght/knots/horse power, for speed.
The turbines work but it takes modern materials or they explode.
@@jjw5165 thats not true. They do not need to be spun fast to work. This is the biggest misnomer everyone propagates about the Tesla turbine.
@@jjw5165 In fact increasing the rpm increases the centrifugal head and therefore increases the back pressure on the nozzle. This ultimately reduces the pressure gradient across the nozzle, reducing mass flow rate and reduces power out. High rpm can bring efficiency but they do so at the cost of power. But even then. You don’t need high RPMs to get efficient and powerful + high torque Tesla turbines. You have to reduce slip to do that. Increasing surface area, reducing the disc spacing to eliminate slip and any turbulent flow losses between the discs and increasing the number of disc spaces to increase total flow area, lastly increase the fluid speed relative to the discs. If you spin the turbine super fast to get a power out you have to have a motive fluid faster than the discs to get drag.
The only thing that is supposed to spin fast is the Tesla pump/centrifugal compressor, as all centrifugal compressors performance is dependent upon their tip speeds squared. So high rpm lends itself to higher performance but if you don’t have a long enough path length to accelerate the fluid to the discs speed you create too much turbulence and have lots of loss.
1 min and 45 seconds into the video and the video hasn't started... I've lost interest and put your add in the middle of your video and get straight to the video
Go cry somewhere else snowflake.
So you have the attention span of a 2 yo?
@@rockroll9513 Sounds a lot like you're crying because someone else didn't like something. That's way more snowflake-like.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames so by your own logic you have become the snowflake here. Because you just criticized me of what you are doing. Also, you're a hypocrite.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames This isn't being a snowflake. This isn't crying because someone else didn't like something. That someone dislikes something without any valid reason, that's what epople are mad about.
This video is amazingly thorough and well-researched. Thank you for giving a fair and well-balanced analysis of Tesla and his inventions, instead of deifying him, as many others like to do. He had lots of innovative ideas, many of which were great and many of which were not. People like to treat Tesla as an unparalleled genius who would have revolutionized the world if he wasn’t thwarted by the establishment. While he certainly had a great impact in the field of electrical engineering, there are many others who had equal, if not greater impacts, yet receive little recognition for their work.
You said something about finding a modern application for a steam driven motor, I thought of two immediately. Nuclear power. It creates steam which drives turbines that turn generators. If this is so much more efficient wouldn't make since to use a bank of these to turn the generators? Another option would an off the grid generator driven by coal, wood, or gas to generate the steam needed. Just 2 quick thoughts.
you have to know it can be a option, but it doesn't have reason to overtake existing turbine
the truth is morden steam is just as effective as tesla turbine can possibly be
temperature reduction is the big bottleneck to limit efficiency, turbine will have trouble to run at high temperatures, so it is limited to about 500 degrees(and that should also be the same for tesla turbine), and that waste a lot efficiency since coal burn much higher temperature than that
in short, if anything can improve steam power plant efficiency to more than 50~60%, it have to withstand higher temperatures
Let's see how scientifically honest this guy is whether he says tesla was through the air Or through the earth... As it truly was, being able to send virtually full power to the receiver...
And in Tesla's own words, he could take 1 kilowat and produce 5 MW, but only with the dampened wave. Otherwise one kilowatt continuous yields one kilowatt and nothing more.
This design is used for oil and gas extraction. Apparently it works very well for viscous fluids containing lots of debris.
That's actually called the Tesla Pump
If the disc’s and housing were made out of more sophisticated and contemporary materials and used current manufacturing methods, I am certain that the Tesla Turbine might actually be a useful machine for a variety of needs. I suspect that many of the components could be fabricated out of titanium including the housing and much higher rpm’s could be sustained without the turbine tearing itself apart. It surprises me that no one has revisited this invention and put it into practical use.
Thank you for posting these videos!
Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️
You are probably getting throttled by TH-cam for making videos tagged wkth deepfake
Can you explain this please?
My uncle owned the corn, potato farm next to Tesla's lab in Shoreham. My uncle had difficult time flooding the field after each crop to start next season. The pumps were slow piston syphon. Tesla built 2 large size of this design for my uncle frank. They were mounted to a frame that mounted to the steam tractor. Each one connected to the output shaft on each side. Only used 2 pump wells instead of the 14 hand pumps. What took a week now only took a day. I inherited the pumps and the great unwritten history from my uncle who considered Nik his best friend. Also my uncle told me when Nik would test the tower uncle franks crops grew better specially the corn. Bigger, sweeter and more ears per plant.
I have a die grinder powered by a small Tesla turbine. It spins at 100,000 rpm but has very little torque.
02:51 - on screen text: "(Tesla) is best known for his contributions to the Band AC/DC" - LOL