The Hydro-Vac -BUSTED

the hydro vac or shall I call it the hyper vac is so simple so much simpler than the Hyperloop recently the Hyperloop demonstrated just how easy it is to build hundreds of miles of vacuum tongue build as the fastest way to cross the surface of the earth Hyperloop represents the greatest leap in transport infrastructure for generations well what if you could use that exact same system not to transport people but to generate an infinite amount of clean free power the principle of the hydro vac is simple water evaporates into a vacuum to give something called a vapor pressure if the water is then condensed water travels from point A to point B at almost the speed of sound a point that can be vividly demonstrated by actually making one of these devices and clear one of the bulbs down to about minus 50 Celsius however once you immerse this flask at minus 40 the water will instantly freeze on here and the vapor pressure on this one will go to 0 which means the the gas will absolutely scream across there we go it's fully open let's see what this does for us absolutely ballistic almost instantly this supersonic gas can then be used to spin turbines what great news the wolf has huge areas at this sort of temperature minus 50 that sort of thing they're called the poles and great news the wolf has large areas of water called oceans all you need is a Hyperloop tube connecting one to the other and boom instant free renewable power I'm kind of broke yeah no kidding the economy is in the toilet do you realize how many thousands of jobs this could create and sustain talk about a hypodermic adrenalin shot to the heart of the manufacturing and infrastructure sector and it pays for itself it's gonna be here sooner than you think well that's what I claimed in my scam starter which thankfully didn't raise the hunt so thousand dollars I asked for to build a power generating version but why isn't this actually a good idea then I could actually build in real space know some computer graphics I could actually build a working one of these in the lab you see there are actually a lot of true details here if you have water with vapor pressure at one end and zero vapor pressure at the other because it's at minus 50 Celsius or something then the water vapor moves from one end to the other at about the speed of sound because all gas molecules move at about the speed of sound and so if you make it as they can't really slow down in one direction if they're all being stuck to the side of the minus 50 vessel the gas moves from one direction to the other at about the speed of sound and you knew that fast moving gas to spin a turbine which in principle that you could hook up to a generator and generate electricity with this so why is it so impractical well oddly enough for many of the same reasons that the Hyperloop is so impractical building these really big vacuum systems is bloody expensive the great irony of course being is it would be much cheaper to build one of these type of AX than a Hyperloop firstly because you can put bends in it relatively easily sure not big bends if you want to maintain all I'm gonna flow or something but it's not like you're running Hyperloop capsules giant Hyperloop capsules that weigh 30 tonnes down this thing at about the speed of sound sister any slight deviation in the track will result in a 30-ton capsule going through the wafer thin wall and turning all of the passengers into chunky salsa so yeah this would be so much easier than building a Hyperloop but let's just briefly assume that we've got our vacuum tunnel that goes from the ocean to the North Pole why won't it work well pretty much for the same reason that the waters here would never work water SIA uses the environment around it to extract water from the atmosphere the water seer device is planted about 6 or more feet into the ground the metal sides of the underground chamber are cooled by the surrounding soil wind spins a helical turbine fan blades that direct air into a condensation chamber as the warmer air cools in the chamber the water vapor condenses onto the sides the clean safe pure water can be extracted from the reservoir through a simple hose and pump easy to turn water from liquid into gas takes a colossal amount of energy a point that everyone's aware of in the kettle is more or less a constant power device that heater turns out a steady rate of heat and everyone knows that it takes a relatively short period of time to heat that water from same room temperature up to boiling compared to how long it takes to boil that kettle try the calculations a trivial to do the energy it takes to heat one kilo of liquid water from freezing point to boiling point takes about 400 thousand joules the energy it takes to take that the same water at 100 degrees Celsius and turn it into steam at 100 degrees Celsius is about 2 million joules and while we're on the subject of numbers because this is going to be really relevant the energy it takes to turn water ice at 0 degrees Celsius and turn it into liquid water at 0 degrees Celsius is about 300,000 joules so more from this we can see if we have 1 kilo of steam at 100 degrees Celsius and turning into water at 100 degrees Celsius and we wanted to do that using melting ice then we would need about 10 kilos of ice to condense 1 kilo of steam and those values it turns out don't greatly change with temperature so if you got 1 kilo of water vapor at room temperature and want to condense it to liquid water at room temperature you will have to melt about 10 kilos of ice to do it and that's why the water would never work you see in this leaf you have cold soil and you pump your hot air in great the water starts to condense on the side but then after a relatively short period of time what you find is the heat of that condensation just heats up the side of the vessel and it doesn't condense water anymore the condensing water simply heats up the area around it till it's at the same temperature as the incoming air so how would this work with the Hydra fact well what you've got is a vacuum tube in your spray water in one end and it evaporates and the gas shoots down the other end Ernest it shoots down to the other end it's gonna spin a turbine which is gonna generate the electricity then when it gets to the other end it's gonna hit the cold surface where it's gonna convince back to water but as it condenses it's going to dump a load of heat into the ice and that's gonna warm up the ice and once it gets to room temperature all you've essentially got is a big vacuum tube with water at both ends and nothing is going to happen now there are actually ways you can get around this the most obvious is you stick the condensation part at the bottom of melting glacier where there is a constant supply of zero degrees Celsius water well that's not bad however it turns out that even at freezing point water has a significant vapor pressure you see for this thing to work at maximum power what you need is a hundred percent vapor pressure of water at one end which is what you're gonna get off water in a vacuum and at the other end you want it to be as cold as possible such that the vapor pressure is as low as possible at the other end that way you're gonna get the maximum flow down this tube however even at zero degrees Celsius water still is a vapor pressure of about five millibar it's not so good what you need is for that end to be really cold this is why with my version of the Hydra pack when I just cool one end with the ice it works but it's not so great this is room temperature Worf by the way nothing special about this tool now what happens when I pull this down a bit so this is just I'm putting a little bit of ice on on this vessel there you go however one age cool it to minus 40 it goes like a train however once you immerse this flask at minus 40 the water will instantly freeze on here and the vapor pressure on this one will go to 0 which means the the gas will absolutely scream across there we go it's fully open let's see what this does for us boom look at that goes absolutely ballistic almost instantly okay so how about this I get some massive heat exchangers that just pump some coolant around giant radiator fins that call it down to the Arctic air temperature at minus 40 and then I pump that liquid around the end of my tube so the end of my tube is essentially at minus 40 let's just ignore the construction cost for a moment will that solve our problem well not quite the first thing that's gonna happen is that as ice condenses ice is actually a pretty good insulator so the surface temperature of the ice will a very rapidly rise till it's at 0 degree Celsius of freezing point a which point back to the original problem that the Hydra VAX just not going to be that efficient the second problem that you're gonna get is that the inside of your coal the end of the chamber is just gonna fill up with the giant block of ice now even though it's not impossible to get around with some nice sophisticated air locks in the such like that you can maybe swap out the big ice block shift them how sticking you end on the vacuum chamber and so on but do you see why one on paper is actually a perfectly fine and workable machine in practice comes out with quite a lot of practical difficulties now it's true that engineering is strewn with examples where people have come up with machines that are just riddled with practical difficulties like the internal combustion engine the the technical challenges you have to overcome to get that thing to work a phenomenal I mean most obviously you've got a flame burning at about 3000 degrees Celsius in the middle of your engine how do you stop it from melting your engine power exhaust now think about the engineer car all the explosions are synchronised together to make that one constant engine roaring sound but at the end of the day you can still make such machines but some problems you just can't solve with a clever little bit of heat flow building hundreds of miles of vacuum tube will never be economically viable and trust me I knew my vacuum chamber is almost as well as I know my thermodynamics and even the little ones are a pain in the ass to maintain but even if that wasn't true the Hydra vac still wouldn't work and let's just say I've got a millibar vacuum in this chamber before I inject the water which would be an outstanding vacuum for such a machine so that's about the proposed running pressure of the Hyperloop that means about one partner thousand - this chamber is regular air so what's gonna happen is initially all the water's gonna rush down to one end and it's going to start condensing but as it condenses it's going to leave the air molecules which are going to build up and eventually create a barrier of 20 millibars pressure air between the cold convincing surface and the water vapor now will it still work yes but diffusion is a dead slow process compared to condensation a giant machine like this we're just drawing to a halt in seconds but what if we built a much smaller system not something that runs hundreds of miles to little Pole or something but a much more limited system they just ran a tube up the side of a mountain to where it's cold and now let's just assume that we can pump the tube down which is in itself expensive and we've got the tube insulated everywhere or it needs to be insulated and let's assume that we've got all the infrastructure in place for running the heat exchangers and extracting the ice how much potential power could this thing gyrate and let's just say the gas troubles more or less at supersonic speeds from point A to point B so a kilo traveling at the speed of sound contains about 54,000 joules and let's be generous and see that this thing runs at 10% efficiency so that means that we're gonna get about five thousand joules out of one kilo of water well your average American gets through about ten thousand kilowatt hours per year some forty five billion joules but we're gonna go for one of the other first worldly type nations because it's gonna meet the maths simpler so the typical first world country uses about five thousand kilowatt hours per year which is about eighteen billion joules or about five million joules per day yep I told you to simplify the maths that means that your typical Western person gets through enough energy to boil about two and a half kilos of water per day oh yeah mind that there are six billion people on the planet so how much ice would you have to convince to supply just one person with all of their energy needs well five million joules per day about five thousand joules per kilo means you're gonna have to condense about 1000 kilograms of ice one ton of ice per person per day give or take that about a cubic meter of ice more or less the entire size of one of those ice fridges that you get in a supermarket which maybe doesn't sound so bad until you think about doing this for a reasonable size placed in the mountain say for instance Denver they've got some nice mountains in the background there's about half a million people in Denver so you would have to convince about half a million tons of ice per day further there are issues with the water cans your typical American get through almost half a ton of water per day which is kind of on the high side across the world nonetheless even at that you would be about tripling your water consumption per person although technically you're getting the water back in one way shape or form in that once it goes on top of the mountain it's eventually gonna melt and come back down again and yes it's true that you could spin this as you're going to rebuild the glaciers by pumping ice to the North Pole or on top of glaciers or you're gonna use the cooling here to run air conditioning for people and so forth indeed arguably the best way to get the energy out of the water vapor is already in use use wait for the water to evaporate in the environment and then it convinces and falls down on top of the mountains you collected in reservoirs and then run it through turbines or even better use weight with the atmosphere then heat up in some places and cool down in others and as the air moves from one place to the other you put some wind turbines indeed the hydro vac is a little more than a fancy version of this it just requires many more billions of dollars of infrastructure to build so what was the point of all this well in part to highlight how a really stupid idea which has a few kernels of solid science can be made to sound plausible and if you're thinking no it couldn't all they have poor gullible people are the only people who can be duped out of their money you're wrong what you're looking at here is Elizabeth Holmes from theranos this is kickstarter for rich people you think that duping people are too familiar few million dollars for something which the most superficial research would show it is really really dumb it raised over a million Aussie dollars on Kickstarter not to be outdone almost two million dollars on IndieGoGo hold my beer says Elizabeth Holmes the Walton founders of Walmart put up a hundred fifty million dollars media mogul Rupert Murdoch stumped up 155 million dollars yep Thoreau knows did for billionaires what's local did buffer thousands of times more money the DeVos family as in Trump's Education Secretary Betsy Davos sunk a hundred million dollars into the theranos vision all to make this woman the youngest self-made female billionaire on the planet based on what was essentially bogus promises like the one I made in my original Hydra franc video her company at his peak was worth about ten billion dollars now it's worth it's zero billion dollars and if you think that's a rounding error no it's worth zero dollars how do a video on it sometimes because quite frankly it's amazing it puts the juice arrow pulling in a hundred and twenty million dollars for this to shame and the great irony about all of this is that if I was less knowledgeable about this sort of thing I might actually believe that I'd stumbled on some great world energy solving device and for certain if I was less scrupulous well I say if I was more reluctant to make the bombastic claims that are the absolute core of every single viral Kickstarter campaign you're right they fire up the engines they pull the supports down so this stays completely in the same place but there's all this magnetism that's saving everybody while the earth is shaking wildly under it the earth is like okay I'm done the supports come back up everything's good so we were like of course you could probably with a million engines lift anything but that's gotta cost a fortune thirteen dollars and ten cents that's what we're talking about what it would take to hover a house anyway no kidding the economy is in the toilet do you realize how many thousands of jobs this could create and sustain talk about a hypodermic adrenalin shot to the heart of the manufacturing and infrastructure sector and it pays for itself you may think it's too good to be true but here I am sitting on the proof this chair is made from air carbon a material that's doing its part to protect the Earth's ever warming climate Hyperloop represents the greatest leap in transport infrastructure for generations a South Korean designer claims to have invented an oxygen mask which can draw air from water as you swim called Triton the mask is a mouthpiece respirator that allows users to breathe underwater simply by biting on the mouthpiece Howdy's never having to fill your car with gas again sound by simply replacing your engine with a system that runs on thorium one of the densest materials known to man you'll only need to refuel once a century there is a real chance that I could have raised millions of dollars off of this sadly that's not the case I don't scam people out of money I expose people who be superb his claims that they're gonna solve will energy crises with magic beans this week's cute little science toy is a humidifier and so what it does is it creates a nebulizer water you can see there it's written the laser light and it's got a fan and the reason these are quite funny she can actually see all of the heat flow on the thermal camera here so down at the bottom you got the nebulizer and a fan and you see it's generating heat at the bottom to run all of that but the this seems to be a little cool and this is one of the cute little demos you do is you turn the the nebulizer off all right down and the paper is just going to show us where the hot things are so a little demo if I put my hand behind the paper you can see where the hot stuff is and if I move that in to the the exhaust here you can see that's actually putting out heat however if I then turn that to nebulize you can see the instantly gets cold and what's more if I now shake it once it's got a bit nipple eyes dwarfed on it it gets even colder and it keeps on getting colder until all that waters evaporated off so you see it start seeing the evaporating here now and it'll take a few seconds and eventually you'll get back to a homogeneous piece of paper again so I actually got these things some time ago to test the efficiency of the various claims yeah I was hearing about these things acting as coolers and as cool as locally they're pretty good you put your hand in there and it's refreshingly cool but for cooling the whole room forget about it these things just cannot evaporate enough water and this humidifiers were the full reservoir for a single room they're actually pretty good so if you like that sort of thing I'll leave some Amazon affiliate links below if you like this video give it a thumbs up and if you don't want to miss out on the largest debunking video of all time ten billion dollars hit that subscribe button and definitely bring the notification valve and we'll haast but not least if you appreciate 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Keywords: free, energy, scam, water, zero, kickstarter, indiegogo, busted, hydrovac, hydro, ice, steam, elizabeth holmes, theranos, hoverboard

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Length: 23min 25sec (1405 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2019