Extracting 6,000 volts from Crappy Coffee (Coffinator 6000)
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Black coffee is disgusting. But, using it to create thousands of volts makes it a bit more bearable. I built a Lord Kelvin's Generator that is a work of art, and can run off a variety of liquids.
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Can you charge things with it? Like batteries? Why steel and not copper
how about making a scale model of the pyramid of gizah and test out the theory of that engineer that the pyramid could function as a device like this and generate a charge?
I'm interested in seeing how to create a magnet without using other magnets; basically, producing current without a magnet and using that current to create a magnet.
@@Beregorn88 use steel and rap it round with copper and bring the copper in contact with electric an you got an electromagnet
@@basdewank3555 I know how an electromagnet works, I wanted to see how to bootstrap an electric generator without having access to magnet and power plugs...
Well Jay, you litterally used coffee to get that extra jolt of energy !
May you make a video extracting energy from tomatoes
Did you ever fix the instant-exploding prop on your recent project? I lost it when that thing blew up o.o edit: only really came back to edit my comment lol.(the one on the video, not this comment... I'm shutting up lmao)
Use melting aluminum to build a rocket novels
Hey @Integza how about we try it with tomato pulp😂😎
And now you need to do it with tomatoes, much success!
Ooh! Almost missed this video! Awesome build!!!
Indeed :)
dooo a video i didnt get this.
Thanks Mehdisaurus Rex. Give the build a try. You can do it so much simpler than I did. Takes 10 minutes.
Yes son me too 😂🤣
@@PlasmaChannel yes
1:02 but switzerlands flag is positively charged! and Austria is negatively charged! and due to them containing Liechtenstein in the center of the System we can assume that Lichtenstein is the true neutral country
Cool
Damn that was amazing, really looking forward to your next video combining the previous models!! Kudos brother🙌🏼
Incredible! I'll have to watch a few more times to fully understand, but that's so cool.
That's fairly incredible, thank you so much for sharing this! I've always been a big fan of living off-grid, and while this is definitely not enough power to run anything large (at this scale), I'd be willing to bet you could extract some serious power over time with a large model. I'd love to see the voltage used to charge a larger high voltage capacitor (or maybe stepped down to charge a small battery)! Keep inspiring, man!
absolutely agree, what can we do with all the voltage to store it. absolutely cool stuff here.
I'd love to see this (your) whole setup scaled up using a tiny waterfall on a stream. You could practically power a house if you use solar power style charge controllers. Love it! Keep up the great work!
Wow, that is extremely curious, thank you for sharing ! Very useful in future !
Wow.... I'm going to build that someday... Wow... Wow...
Haven't seen one of these videos in a while, good job keep up the good work
Amazing breakdown, I love coffee...charges are everywhere.
Your videos just keep getting better and better Jay! Both in editing/structure etc AND in content! I can always expect fun rabbit hole adventures to follow after watching one of your videos. This one is no exception. Had never heard of this type of generator
Thanks Justin! I’m trying to mix things up a bit, because it’s why I started this channel in the first place! Glad you’ve stuck with me for so long, seriously.
@@PlasmaChannel It's been a great ride and I look forward to continuing on!
Yes sir I will be anxiously waiting the outcome of all the knowledge put together
In the past I made alot of Lord Kelvins Generators, but they never worked. Now I know what I need to do. Thanks!!
Yes i too built one but it never worked . Now it works thanks to this video
Can we know what mistake you did last time
The most often mistakes people make on super low power sources like this, is not taking into account sharp edges. You'll notice every single electronic component in my build is smooth, with no sharp edges. Sharp edges leak away high voltage charge really quickly. That's not an issue if you're dealing with high power levels. But these generators create a fraction of a single watt of power. Sharp edges may be your killer.
Been looking for ideas like this for a sailboat! Thank you 🙏
Yes, I would absolutely LOVE to see all three projects come together as one. I'd also love to see you take the results from that, and power an electrical device.
Never knew you could generate electricity that way! Amazing video as always!😊
I gotta say I'm always fascinated by what you do but I really love that I know that you do way more than what we see and I can tell because your hands are always really roughed up like mine are lol and that shows real determination
that was amazing.
You never cease to amaze. That was very interesting. Now on to build my own.
Thank you. if the video was shareworthy, feel free to share.
I haven't seen one of these this nice before. Work of art.
Wow! That was awesome, I really enjoyed this one Keep on the good work💪💪
Thank you! If the video is shareworthy, feel free to share.
@@PlasmaChannel sure, all of your videos are shareworthy ! It's somehow strange why such interesting and easy expriments are not done in every school! Many kids would fall in love with science. The world's education systems needs an upgrade.
Your explanation is amazing
YES!! I've been wishing youd build one of these! And you didn't disappoint lol Great vid!
Ozymandias, thanks a ton! If it's shareworthy, feel free to share.
@@PlasmaChannel I shared it with all my friends
This is absolute genius !! Thanks a lot for this video !
Thanks!
Dude you truly are a perfectionist I am inspired by your truly beautiful setups and circuits.
Thank you. At this point im not sure if the perfectionism is helping me or killing me haha.
Thanks Jay.... another great video... That idea of using water to create a monster build sounds crazily interesting... Water, generator feeding a Mark's feeding a piped power extender.... I'd love to see that one....
you would upload this video after i spent the entire day before watching youtube videos about electrostatic generators, one of which depicted this very phenomenon you are demonstrating here. i can't get over these all-too-frequent synchronicities.
Exact same thing..
yes! 1 vote for bring on the complete Aquanator 5000 build.
Jay this was a potential Video with high voltage Bro awesome experiment, God bless keep the good work going.
This is too brilliant and insane I would've never thought It'd work without seeing it
Any sane person would agree with you. Falling water making high voltage? Sounds insane. Love the concept though!
@@PlasmaChannel I personally find a sick sense of enjoyment out of saying the most absurd statements that actually happened And my friend, that's not the most absurd way of saying that "Utilizing a single ion from water to generate a few kV by passing it through magnetic rings" is one attempt Everyone knows of hydro energy but omg who would've thought the random negligible difference would ever matter I'd say "the difference would cancel itself out before you can say "I thought you're not supposed to have water next to exposed electricity" Sorry for the rant but... It really is one positively absolutely brilliant chunk of insanity
That's super cool Jay , you'll be building something like moisture in a bubble and a nylon brush spinning wheel producing lightning next , not sure how though maybe warm air and cool moist air . Also probably explains why in my house growing up I got a small electric shock turning the shower tap off.
Best use of Crappy Coffee I have seen! That and as fertilizer...
That’s so compact. I’m building one. Thanks for the idea.
the best project that i never see :) good good work
Nice episode. You can eliminate the chance factor with the triboelectric effect. Just put a plastic ring/collar inside the top right and bottom left to strip electrons off the water on that side. I've seen this done with two pairs of rings, so that the water passing through the second one neutralizes before going into a container. This is the first time I've seen the containers used as capacitor for the discharge. That might be slowing your charge collection, but it's an interesting effect.
Connecting a high capacitance HV capacitor between the cups would have been great. Eardrum bursting BANG
Nice! It will be very interesting to see all the waiter devices come together. Usually people leak water into their electrical systems, however you leak electrons out of your water systems.
Some call me the master herder.
If you can combine all of those water experiments it will be truly innovative!
Another sort of related static generator in the video Armstrong's Electrostatic Boiler kind of reminded me of the Kelvin water dropper using partially condensed steam to create a charge or water droplets being swept out by escaping steam. In reading about the Armstrong Effect on Wikipedia, he also used compressed air producing a similar effect. The steam version produced 22 inch sparks and interestingly had glass legs that were 3.5 inches diameter and 3 feet high.
That's a really cool idea! Never heard of that, definitely doing a video on it now. Thanks
OMG THAT’S BEAUTIFUL!
I cant wait to see all of them combined...!!
COOL!!!!! I've always wanted to build one of those!!
That is just amazing 👏
Still no video notification (yes bell is on), at least this time i saw it on my main YT feed. I live for anyting plasma! keep up the awesome content Jay
wow awesome, science is like magic
probably would work better with salt water, just more ions to work with. Also, laminar flow seems to be the key if the apparatus needs to push the ions back upstream. Actually, the slowest laminar flow would be optimal. I love the idea of combining all your ideas together, cant wait to see the the updates.
Great video Jay!
Thanks!
U build amazing things bro 🤜
This is epic!
Thank you for making videos.
Thank you very much for watching them. It’s the viewers, like you, who make it worth the work.
My internet was down for 4 days and then a ton of videos to catch up on but this is the first I wanted to see and it sure was not a disappointment. I knew of this effect before but never tried it. Got an email today that the scope I won is due early to mid-August! Can't wait... : ) PS- I dislike coffee too...
Excellent
Nifty AF ! & as always. Though IMO the absolute simplest/DIY HI voltage apparatus is friction gizmo consisting of a piece of fur rubbing a spinning pvc pipe near a tinfoil comb on a copper pipe plus a Leyden jar type cap. 6+ in sparks are possible with a well designed one. Just Say'n, perhaps even Supa Saiyan. 😅
Amazing!
Nice presentation
Very nice implementation of Lord Kelvin's generator! Imagine beefing up that spark by collecting the charge in a capacitor, and feed the capacitor output in series with the spark gap and primary winding of a Tesla coil... you see where I'm going with this right? Water / coffee powered Tesla coil! Though the sparks would be intermittent, every several seconds you should get some very brief streamers out of the secondary topload. If that works, perhaps use the output of the Tesla coil to further ionize the water tray that is the source of your Kelvin generator.... more power!
This is the first time I didn't got notified about your video
Do it!!! Combine it!!! New subscriber here thanks to that tomato 🍅 loving guy himself… Integza!
omg. this is incredible
Just a small positive and negative ions can cause distructions...🔥🔥..Jay, Accelerate the early cycle by adding some positive and negative ions to the steel cups..also explain how did you add them ...
I really love this channel as you are playing with high volts😃🤓, I would like to call you as real life flash.⚡⚡⚡
Awesome video
1) Why is there only a small difference in voltage, despite the size difference. 2) How much can you increase the power of your smaller scale model? 3) Can you combine the power of more than one of the small ones, and generate more power? 4) Can you reach 10kv, without increasing the size of your model? 5) Can you store that energy in a battery for later use? 6) Finally, what practical uses are there in this application (It is small and compact, pleasant to look at and easy to build)
love your spin on this mate, and look forward to seeing you power you water based marx generator with it, but your bound to have some serious frustrations getting them all to play nice. But how can you not like coffee? you must not have any decent coffee there because the stuff i drink is like nectar of the gods.
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When gluing acrylic, to avoid the 'watching paint dry' wait. I have a thought that it can be sped up to almost instant using an aerosol of......... umm well unfortunately my knowledge hasn't allowed for the retention of just exactly what is in aerosol form, but trust me it does exist. Just an idea for you I thought I'd share. Keep up the fantastically interesting and informative videos. Andy, NZ.
Amazing.
Good job
That would be awesome if you did a video combining all of your water based projects
You mentioned that it’s the minute charge imbalance between the streams that kicks things off. Could you help this along with some electrodes and a bit of DC in the top tank? Love the way you blend science and art
Thanks a ton! I'm starting to realize i'm more of an art channel than a science channel haha. Yes, if you kick start the process manually, it would help.
Cool project jay
Thank you!
That’s awesome! I wonder if there are any potential uses of this energy device.. would building a bigger slightly different version of this generate enough electricity to be useful to society? Also what happens to the electrically charged water in the capacitors and can you recycle the water for more energy? You could easily do another video on this explaining more of the physics and practicality, what if’s, etc..Your channel is great keep up the good work!
I don't know who you are and where you are from... But, i would have really loved to learn science from you... Brilliant!! Hats off to you... Amazing demonstrations ... Lots of Love from India... 🌹🌹🌹
When Veritasium made a video about this, a few years ago, I started building some components for building one. I never finished it, but I might start again now. Thanks, and well done !
Hi Timo, yeah I think I know what video you're talking about. It always bugged me that their setup was so big, yet had such a small spark. Thanks for the compliments.
I seen a high school girl do it years ago, she was using a 2 speed water pump and when the pump is on high it creates a spark faster. My landlord told me my contraption had to go. So it all got taken apart.
Jay have you ever made a calibrated electrostatic voltmeter (you know like the 2 pith balls type of thing)? It would be great to actually measure the voltage generated by your devices, using a similarly simple meter)
cool experiment.
I have always considered these to be somewhat mind boggling myself. Just the thought that a few stray charges can self amplify a field with a small input of energy. Amazing.
That's what I thought too. Just amazing. A self-feeding cycle. I love physics.
I need good coffee..lol. Nicely done. Pretty cool.
Thanks 👍
Lord Kevin would be proud of your elegant design. Have you checked the acrylic for a surface charge? Now, if you could pump the water back up but the stream would have to become drops so the water is isolated electrical, that would make a very nice improvement.
I agree, should give that a try. As for the acrylic having a surface charge, that likely is the case
I love building these things =)
Around the 5 minute mark, the Polar Molecule Static Electric Field Demo video has a comparison of polar and non-polar liquids, how they respond to static electricity. It was interesting to see how the alcohol compared to water.
Thanks, I'll take a look
Love The hat!
That's such a wild concept. Can you add a funnel to keep the water from diverting too far outward and widen the spark gap to get bigger sparks? May have to try this
This is just too cool. I had never heard of this generator, so thank you for sharing this. If you grew out your hair and grew a beard, Kyle Hill would have competition as to who really is Science Thor. PS - I still need to dig that old 90s bug zapper out of my basement.
Haha Kyle kill needs a bit more muscle. I need a bit more hair though..
ok that was pretty sweet. never seen that one before
It's a really unique way to create power.
Nice!
OMG, it also works without coffee! Water only mode!
Lord Kelvin's thunderstorm! Yay!
The problem with your theory of operation is that whilst, at any given instance, one stream may have more (say) +ve ions than the other stream, over a short period of time the number of +ve and -ve ions in either stream will balance out, unless there's some mechanism that drives ions of a particular charge to one specific stream. The operation reminds me of the Wimshurst machine, and I suspect it's more closely related to the operation of that than to what you suggested.
Great video! Will build one very soon 😃 Could I use any conductor between the cups and rings, or does it have to be water?
Wire would do better. I just wanted to add my own twist. Plus the tubing is more flexible.
Finely a new intro
Enjoyed!! Thank you! What make you think to use coffee?
I guess… just to try something new
Hey Jay! I am amazed and I never thought of water carrying charges. I am still a little puzzled for some reason how the waters charges are extracted from the Hydrogen and 2 parts Oxygen and the mineral contaminants. How does it do this exactly? How does the charges get extracted from the Hydrogen and 2 parts Oxygen and Mineral contaminants? Or are you using distilled water? This is quite fascinating to me and I am puzzled a little bit. Where do the charges gather and where do the charges get stripped from? I think a video going in depth on this topic is definitely needed. This is pretty cool stuff. I am interested in seeing a video on what the limits are on this kind of high voltage power supply. I am also interested in seeing a video that uses all of these water methods in creating a circuit. One that could be used very nicely. I am also interested in seeing what this is capable of as far as what the maximum voltage level is for this kind of thing if it indeed has a limit. I liked the clips showing what how you acted right when it finally works. It shows just how much people like you and me put into experiments and projects and what a relief we feel when we finally figure it out. I loved the additional clip about the plexiglass and how long it takes for these take to cure and weld together. This is quite the video and I loved the new transition scenes you used with the oceans and the backgrounds. This was a great step and I like it. Keep up the great work Jay, and keep it classy and sparky :) - Mr. Smith Stay classy :) I'll see you in the next video. And I hope to see a video on these being tested to their boundaries and to see if a better laminar flow and a higher fall distance effects the voltage or current generated. It would also be interesting to see what current is being delivered from the charges building up. It would be interesting to see if one were to happen to be shocked by this, would it be a shock like one from a whimshurst machine, or if it would be like a shock from a moderate standard tazer.
When it comes to coffee if I'm drinking it for the energy I'll go black and if I'm drinking it for enjoyment I'll add just a little bit of sugar and sometimes creamer or 'creamer'. The type and brand of coffee is also important, I've never been a fan of Maxwell House coffee (others seem to love it). I have always liked Folgers for a cheaper coffee and Starbucks actually does make some good higher end coffee (I know there's probably better high end coffees out there but I'm usually cheap and when I do want something higher end Starbucks is the easiest option).
Cool!
Finally my coffee addiction can be put to use!
That is a super sweet build...One question about the build when the water or coffee flow's through...do you remove the cups and refill the reservoir at the top?
Yes I do, correct. It's a bit messy, and water / coffee gets everywhere, but that's the general idea. Glad you enjoyed the video!
if you had not explained the physics behind this concept, I would have thought its magic!
Nice ❤️