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why are you using only one of the piston inputs? if u use both the 1 cylinder engine may have been more powerful

Dose anyone know if there is a size limit to an electric pedal powered 4 wheeled bike in England

That introduction accent... here have a like and sub

Kris Harbour built a wind powered generator.

SÖ, Where is the new video about the railway? :-)

9:11 Speaking of high center of gravity :-)

3:33 You were literally one step away from inventing the conveyor belt 😆😆😆

Yes, great, but what about using a rail-sleeper grid? You could pre-produce sections of rails with sleepers 5 meters long and create a Dedicated wagon for transporting more than ten such sections at a time, well, you know how the big boys do :-)

Yeah i think I'd just use the windmill to generate electricity. . Then you could use a low voltage element, maybe also add output from solar panels too.

very cool post! I was thinking could this be applied to a generator to charge a bank of batteries for say LED lighting in your home. The old girl run on an oily rag!

this chap invented a friction heater, maybe worth looking into . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._L._Baker

A mixture of glycol and water should eliminate your rusting issues and a screened settling chamber above your magnet may be helpful. Very interesting! 😊

i have finished my design for an 1880's buckboard style electric assist horseless carriage! thankyou for inspiring me!

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You've made a propeller in reverse. Some aircraft have constant-speed propellers that can turn themselves straight into the wind (called the "feather" position). You should be able to do that with this design.

Honestly I think all these ideas are a total waste of time until you have decided what you are driving with it particularly as you have stated you do not want to use a PMA or Alternator but harvest mechanical energy. First work out what kind of power output you want compared to the size of windmill you are prepared to build. Then work out how you need to gear it to produce the working speed and torque you need. Load on the turbine will act as a break to a point. Then you want some sort of clutch and mechanical governor to be able to regulate the rpm to your load whatever that is. You can also overspeed your load. You don’t need to feather the turbine blades you can just turn the entire turbine out of the wind and then mechanically break it with a clutch. I think electrical generation is the better option for you, then you can charge your car/bike from it.

Man I love the concept of this and the way it works, absolutely amazing

Smooth as silk clutch engagement system. Bring back the Allen Oxford! 📣

If you used high speed whisking, you could try to use the water as a fluid bearing and then a large wheel on the wind shaft and a small driven wheel, keeps speed slow for everything other than the water and parts that are suspended in the water... pumping for the water bearing would also add more heat. Plus, having say alternating counter rotating impellers or paddles or something would almost double relative speeds without increasing wear much... and then again, if you have a clever design or use oil, you could use fluid bearings which have very little wear. Probably just better to use a heat pump of some kind. Using electrical heat pump and a generator would mean you could match the load's mechanical resistance to keep the turbine spinning at a good speed, not to slow nor too fast.

Arrange the flap to move away from the wind against a spring tension so that the wind blows the flap out of the way when the wind is too strong.

Interesting! Looks like this is steel flats of some kind as opposed to the more usual girder-section track. Would that be tight? Keep up the good work!

make sure the windmill has a good system to always point forward or it will run unregulated until it overrotates and destroys itself

Hmm interesting experiment. My first impression would be electrical only because converting electricity to heat is always 100% efficient. I wouldn't use heating elements because that's boring, I would use a magnetron from a microwave. Spinning magnets would be cool. I wonder if instead of permanent magnets , you could use electro magnets like how an alternator does generate power. I would also try to induce huge Eddie currents in the steal somehow by rapidly breaking a magnetic field. But I do like mechanical heating to. I am no material scientist but I wonder if any other easily abtain material would have a higher coefficient of friction. Another trick being you already have a tower, if you could somehow use the height to pull a vacuum high enough to make water boil. .. though it wouldn't help with heating. Have you considered adding friction to your water between the plates by using something like salt water or maybe even graphite dispersed in the liquid. Maybe you could also use some that would help oxidize the steel and add rust particles to the water and etching the surface of the steel to keep it from smoothing down. Also instead of a liquid between your plates, would a solid give you more friction? Like filling your bucket with fine loose sand and use the plates to heat that up instead. Or maybe a non newtonain fluid like oblek , because you have such high torque. Also you could use your mechanical energy to drive a compression force, like a screw gear, and try to highly compress the water. If I remember right, the energy used in compressing water eventually turns to heat causing the water to boil. This is why it's nearly impossible to compress water... but I suppose you could do the same with any non compressable fluid. You can also try impact heating. Taking a volume of water and impacting it so hard and fast it turns to gas. ... might be weird but you might be able to shake a drum of water to boiling using a tesla oscillator. The earthquake machine. Idk. Sounds fun. Though.

not more than 40 diameters is the bearing spacing rule and not less than 20

I think it takes more heat to make those plates than any amount you can get out of them, before they turn into iron glitter. A better idea is using paddles on a more viscus fluid. Any energy used to churn the fluid, will be wasted as heat. So all you need is resistance in the fluid. I did consider churning sand, or mud, but those will ware out the paddles pretty fast. Oil and grease can catch fire, maybe a very fine clay would be the middle ground? But the best option in my opinion, is turning a heat pump with the mill, either an old air conditioner, or compress normal air in one container for heat, and release it in another to get some cooling out of it as well.

6 meter of this railway is cheaper than 90% of H0 locomotives!

Youd end up with a lot of metal particles in your water from that

Bro builds railway better than the LNER dose

It has already been done. John Schaffer took out the patent in the 1950’s for a steam generator. It used water hammer a principle to induce steam.

An interesting experiment my only distraction is that your accent reminds me of Mr Bean. No insult intended :)

What extension cable did you order.Thanks.

It wouldn't be practical with a wind mill because the friction creates a force that acts against the wind force called drag or resistance. If you have a plate full of magnets with alternating poles alternating hooked to the crank shaft and open ended copper tubes stationary, coiled, and weaving in-between the magnet plates, it will produce heat and heat up the water with less resistance. This would be more practical with a wind turbine.

I would love to see that engine power a Frick Saw Mill

Tim have you thought about a battery powered locomotive for your railway? You could charge it with the windmill and it would have a lot of torque in a compact package. For a person like you that would be a quite easy project as well i think, i mean you build an air powered locomotive. I can't provide links or anything but there are lot's of video's of homebuild electric locomotives. Warm greetings from The Netherlands!

Love your vids. To heat water directly from the windmill, how about just getting a regular boring shop air compressor, cover the cylinder with insulation, and then connect the hot exhaust air to a radiator,. Then flow water around and through the radiator to heat the water? Keep the air pressure (and therefore hot air temp) inside the radiator pipes. Hopefully, the radiator wouldn't leak. The windmill would drive the air compressor...👍👍👍

I think its wonderful to take from existing ideas (proven ideas) and make them into your own. Always enjoy your videos. Greetings from The Netherlands.

I was really impressed when you mentioned that the car isn't just a toy but a practical alternative to a full size car. I had a couple of questions: How is the stopping power of the disc brakes? Have you ever experienced brake fade as the vehicle is 70kg? I picked drum brakes to build my recumbent trike but I had been considering discs...greetings from Germany!

I think you're a bit of a genius.....There, that's what I think.

Looks like it needs a flywheel to keep it from slowing as the wind gusts

Watched a video from UA-cam channel, 'Disruptive Investing' of a company called Kite-X. This might give you some insight?

Howsabout a vertical axis wind turbine to avoid some gear losses?

radiation losses are 5.67x10^-8 x (ET^4-et^4) where E= emissivity of the tank (use 0.7 for mill finish steel sheet) e= emissivity of the surrondings (0.9 for a dirty workshop) T=surface temperature in kalvin and t= surface temperature of your surrondings in kalvin

The simplest self regulating for a windmill is to have the tail on a pivot and off center of the axis of the windmill blade hub and use a spring to keep the blades into the wind strong wind pivots the blades out of perpendicular turning the blades away from the wind this is the most common mechanism that the most common windmills like areomotor and demster used my favorite windmill design is the railroad eclipse windmills used in the American southwest to supply water to rail road water towers the state of Texas historic building survey made blueprints for the cannon ranch eclipse windmill back before it was retired and moved to the national ranching heritage museum

I think this second solution is a lot more robust becouse of the less friction.

What do I think? I’m just glad there’s no test and otherwise I’m in awe

at 3:30 when you were trying to see whether the weights on the blades were working, I was thinking maybe you could mount a small go-pro or something to the hub of the windmill, filming one of the blades as the windmill rotates (if you have a camera small enough to attach that way). This perspective would allow you to clearly see and more accurately gauge how well the weights are working and compare different design ideas.

Ingenious solution! The best ones are often the simplest. I was thinking of a regulator style apparatus linked by gears to an expanding concentric disk that pushed the sails into a more open position, or open windows on the sails to reduce the area. (Think that makes sense). Another alternative would be fabric sails with a tensioner that is relaxed when the centrifugal force increases, thus reducing the "grab" of the sail.

I worry about additional rotating weight - but then I'm a cyclist.

Thank you for this very important work.....I hope that your hard work and engineering continues to educate us, and blazes the trail to a brighter future.

How do wind pumps work? They have a tail vane at an angle to the main blades. Guessing it simply turns the axis away from the direction of wind.