I Built a PC That Turns Heat Into Electricity
What if your nine thousand gigafart PC's heat was actually useful?
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:20 I Built a PC that Runs on FIRE...
02:10 But it was stupid
03:34 What if it was smart tho?
03:52 Shopping for gigafarts at Micro Center
05:00 huge ultimate mega PC build 🤤
06:12 building the thermoelectric harvesting device
08:05 thermodynamics are so cool 🤓
09:00 TESTING THE INVENTION
10:41 What could this be used for?
10:52 Turning the heat into cold air
11:05 Powering ITSELF
11:44 Patent this?
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how does he even come up with this stuff? Its so absurd that i wanna keep watching, mans a genius
thas how inventors work they have a lot of bad ideas that don't work but ones in a time that work they can change the world
I think he should start producing this!!! It can quite literally change the technology industry for the better!!! 😂😊
This isn't even that crazy of an idea
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@@riku861 yeah but how many people have u seen do this tho
the idea of recycling heat to lower your overall power draw from the wall is a good idea
tbh should be made into a real product :')
@@itsRevela except the fact that the parts themselves cost over 100$ for less energy than a single 18650 Li-Ion battery. A 5$ solar cell with 5$ controller a 5$ lithium battery is infinitely more efficient and cheaper and power dense in comparison.
@@MaxC_1 If you got a few of those solar cells and stuck them to your window, could you save on power throughout the day. Depending on how much it costs to run your pc a day. Would it be worth it to have that power going into your pc and when your pc is off it goes into the battery to be used later? Not that it would be super efficient but it would be cool. I guess you would still need it hooked up to the wall because eventually it would run out of power. What kind of money could you save.
It makes < 2W and kills airflow. Upcoming GPUs and CPUs can easily use >400W combined. It's a fun video but it doesn't have any practical application, increasing efficiency by 0.5% at the cost of overheating components doesn't make sense.
@@michiman6757 you really cannot run most gaming pcs off solar panels until you have a lot of them. For stuff that consume so much power- the power from electricity grid would be far cheaper. But you can just grab a few solar cells for like 200$ from china (or local sellers which sell those) and some batteries and hook em up together and you should have enough power to run a general use pc (50W under use max) through the day.
Suggestion: build a steam generator to power a PC, and while you’re gaming, you have to shovel coal into the firebox to prevent the electricity from going out.
“Bro why does it sound like you’re shoveling coal we’re playing cod”
sorry guys cant play coals expensive right now
it would be worse if he ran a pc from a car engine bcuz fuel prices
@@FuZe. Everyday I'm shovelin'
@@DJFreshJuice 😭
Those impressions of all the TechTubers was actually spot on lmao
Right? that was the best part
he’s gained too much power, he’s doing the impossible. literally making infinite power
He's attained *perpetual energy*
Hes name is already on the list of every intelligence service on earth
He is too smart for his own good that it makes him average like us
I'm confused, did this guy invent some perpetual motion type shit?
guy casually breaks law of conservation
I feel like you could use a custom water loop to the gpu and cpu to get more heat directly to those modules over losing heat through the air. Probably would end up being more efficient and more compact since you wouldn't need a box for airflow you could almost just mount it directly to the top of the case
and more expensive
@@user-py9cy1sy9u In the long run, it could save money.
@@user-py9cy1sy9u he's basically already got one running on the side to cool down the cool side
@@CooperF No it wont save money. Do some math
I think you are onto something there.
That's actually super impressive. Heat is easy to produce, thus making it one of the easiest sources of power that one can feed back into an electrical setup.
heat is easy to produce? :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) also is one 'source of power' that cant be contained.
haha
The Peltier module actually doesn't work on heat alone but rather a thermal gradient. As long as one side is warmer or colder than the other, it'll generate electricity (goes without saying that a greater difference equals greater output) but basically what I did back when I was in middle school was just attach a bunch of heatsinks to the cold side and it created enough of a gradient to output 5V, however, the cost-to-benefit ratio would take a long time but hey, it works
bro this could actually end up being normal with pcs at some point. what a great invention. solid solution to a real problem
This is high quality stuff. I wonder what a manufacturer or LTT could do with the same concept
Linus literally heated his swimming pool using the heat from his server room/computers. So yes I could see this happening in a future project.
Nothing, this video is a joke
@@marcusmedina9940 youre a joke
@@marcusmedina9940 doubt
@@brychaus9059 yup always good to doubt when someone claims to have broken a law of thermodynamics.
from acog obsessed ash main to electrical major college drop out after 2 years in type knowledge, while being sponsored by one of the biggest computer sales companies in america, you have truly shown alot
love your videos man, you have to be the smartest youtubers ever. Thanks for working so hard on these videos.
please make a episode 2 where you make a 100% viable version w/ real parts and stuff. That would be epic. also I think I know what type of pc I am building lol
Okay now THIS is epic
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@@BasicallyHomeless gottem
NO U@@BasicallyHomeless
Y'all don't know how much I love this guy's videos
I've used Peltier plates a bit in school for an ISS related project to control water temps for growing food in space. We're definitely at the point of the components putting out enough heat that we can recover some energy back into the system. Haven't looked to see if you've already done this. I think the PSU part might be the most tricky piece of it. The much more efficient way would also be with a water cooling loop and water blocks instead, not with air and fans. You'd have to build a closed loop water cooling system which you know is a common thing in our computer enthusiast community. I just found your channel and man I really enjoy your videos!!!
Would love it if you continue this series...the best thing i ever saw on KZhead❤️
You could just do a custom water loop to transfer the heat to the peltier devices(much more efficient).
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Too early
This is actually a genius idea and I can see PC's utilizing this tech in the future to maximize their efficiency
Such a cool video, keep up the fantastic work.
This is an amazing example of being a nerd and making amazing inventions. Well done 👍
I could only imagine if there was a pc case specifically designed for this. Where it could only exhaust through a chamber for heat to go through and then the energy produced goes back into some sort of external battery that the power supply could draw from.
Finally! I've been trying to get someone to try this for years now! Now, what would happen if you removed ALL the moving parts from the system. Use the thermoelectric generation exclusively as the cooling system while feeding it all back into the psu.
Your videos keep me going my dude, hilarious yet genius = Glorious
You can tell that the potato trauma is still there. You have my fullest respect that you pulled through. 💪(🥔)
The employee going along with the Mr. Homeless’s totally original and not at all stale giga-fart joke made my day lol
as a microcenter employee we all do this :3
@@harusrl How many people come in trying to call things gigafarts like it's funny? Do they laugh at it when they say it?
umm this is actually insanely smart. like you could market this. like this is real potential.
We need a part two man!!!!
One day this man will power his PC from actual wishes and dreams. Lol
Using the human brains neurons and molecular energy to individually power particles needed to run a pc Btw this is just some mumbo jumbo
I want to live in a microcenter, just a little tent in the corner and a small astroturf lawn
You my friend are a certified legend! How do you come up with these ideas??
Wow I work right across the street from that microcenter in Richardson nice!
Honestly at this point this man is the mr beast of computer technology.
dont compare that dingbat to this guy please.
I wanna nominate this the most cringe comment on the internet i've read today.
@@Jackpkmn same lol
How
I thought this was going to be silly KZhead video for views but there are some genuine good ideas in here, I would like to see these the concept of using the heat to increase the PC's efficiency expanded apon in another video!!!
I was actually thinking about that at school when I was bored and you really did this
Everything works as it should, thanks
i see a few problems. 1 - it probably costs more to run the fans connected to the cardboard box, than you save from the heat 2 - pumping the air back into the pc is a bad idea, since the air won't be cooled by any significant amount
Holy crap Louis, I didn't know TEGs had gotten that efficient. Those things were small but outputted more than half a volt!
And together they outputted 300 mA at over 2 v!
they really aren't that efficient- you are just looking at no load voltage. Even 10ohm across them will drop the output by close to half or more. They have done numbers like these since a long time tbh
Surely sterling engines are still more efficient?
This is actually genius I hope something like this gets made into a commercial product.
This is brilliant! this is heat energy cycle. All you need to have is a battery kick starter and battery storage.
I love that we have gone from dumb siege beans challenges (the vids were great) to the craziest pc building video's
what you should be doing here is taking the first radiator out of the system. if you added a waterlocked to the heating side of the Peltier units and plumbed that into where your first radiator is, you'd get more efficient heat transfer and thus the opportunity to take more power from your setup. as it is right now, you are loosing a lot of your energy to the ambient air. you could even add a couple more of these modules onto that line to cool the pc better and collect more energy. in theory, you should be able to collect much more electricity since most of the energy the CPU is rated to consume is released as heat.
Fun fact, I used to pick up for that exact micro center. If you go down the access road a little it takes you to the dock in the back
Great video, love your humour and ideas
my man casually inventing a perpetual energy machine
Science hates those who do this one simple trick!
There's no such thing as perpetual energy
@@nick8231 not yet
@@firestargaming9521 it's literally physically impossible it doesn't comply with the laws of physics
@@nick8231 anything is possible
But you need energy to cool down the other side of the module with your water cooler. So the total loss is greater than the gain.
Yep Second law of thermodynamics.
Yes, it's like welcome to reality.
Well you can thank Peltier module's ( or TEG) ultra low efficiency for that.
Though similar approaches exists to increase efficiency. For example a triple expansion engine feeds the slightly less good heat into another cylinder to produce more work. The more interesting question is what the theoretical efficiency for a non-quantum computer is, measured in J/bit-flip.
Thank you so much you really help me :)
this was an idea I had like a year ago, thanks for making it into reality! Also, what about sound to energy?
Same bro
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That's called a microphone.
I am actually shocked at how he keeps making more and more insane PC builds.
This would be great for living off the grid. Saving power is important for that life style where you can't "just plug it in". Really would be cool to get a solid PC build or attachment that would do this. Preferably not built out of cardboard.
you know what is actually solid and cheaper? 100$ worth of Lifepo4 batteries, solar panels and a cheap charger controller. You are getting atleast 5 times more output for same price
@@MaxC_1 This would be additive. Any additinal power saving options are nice for being on the road. Also there is no way high end computers are currently easy to work with off the grid. You have to settle for something smaller.
@@noisynixx this is barely additive- you get like 0.5W power at most but all you're doing is heating up the pc more by pushing in the hot air into PC again and also using that pump and all for the air will cost you more. It is just basic thermodynamics Also you can use a decently powerful GPU+CPU combo even when offgrid. I mean a lot of offgrid systems are easily capable of running 1kW+ of heaters so a gaming PC that can run 1080p/1440p very well can be arranged at under 300-400W so you will definitely not want to run the highest end stuff- but anything in between should work fine
wow dude i love u, it really works!
Thats an insane idea
LTT crossover episode? Sounds like a job for the new lab!
They've made videos on TEGs before..afaik the loss of efficiency makes it unworkable/inefficient. But maybe they've gotten better
Genuinely incredible. This could honestly be the future. That's wild
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Given that it's 300ma at 1 volt, and that the fans probably take more than that anyways, this is arguably less efficient, fun proof of concept and build anyways, but a $10 solar panel produces more power
@@lucasewing3702 look i realize that. I mean it's 3 of those small heat to energy converters *and* it's built inside a cardboard box. Claiming that this is part of the beginning baby steps then it's certainly an understatement.
Thermal energy is one of The types of renewables, so it doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is that people don't do more with it. Probably the least developed renewable resource on the planet, but even more available than sunlight.
Very good for big underwater datacenters if you have a temperature difference you use it
Thank you for this video! I was thinking of doing the same thing but with my cars engine to power the accessories to save the EV battery
as a time traveler, pcs are now ran by themselves because of this discovery
He’s like the Tony Start of the video game world
In theroy this is awesome, in practice you are under prepared As heck
With proper insulation you could put the generators in the middle wall, and when the air makes its way back in the system passes by these cool pads cooling it without any addition fan.
it hurts me that he can just buy a computer just for this
He got the parts for free to do this
He's probably gonna have to turn it back to the store for them to sell at used price. But he get to keep the box (generator) and the video though
With each video, Mr. Homle's head gets larger...and his intelligence is the of all time.
Just slap those generators on to anything on the computer that produces heat and make a watercooling loop to cool the generators from one side and it will be very efficient(also slap some more on the heatsink of the watercooling loop.
Someone finally did what I was thinking 🤔. If anythink, it could help with heat displayment.
Why do I feel like Microcenter is already done with Him, like they see him walk in and go 💀
You need way higher temperature difference to get any meanigful power out of them.
YES AGREED! You need to drain the life from components much faster in order for companies who sell them make huge profits off of this types of tech..
What if you watercool everything but not using water but some liquid with a low boiling temperature, so the coolant boils and turns a turbine? Maybe if boiling liquid is bad inside cooling blocks. You can use watercooling, and heat transfer to a low boiling point fluid, like a relay type thing. Pretty much 100% of electricy computers use turn to heat, and steam turbines are apparently up to 90% efficient, so in theory you could reduce electronics power usage to 10% of original?
Using peltier devices to cool a room would be a badass project. I spend 3x as much on power in the summer here in Cali...
4:06 That employee needs a raise for going with your humor without skipping a beat
Another hummus man W
aight no joke this isnt haha hes a genius haha meme! this is actually really smart and i can see this being used in the future. Imagine a little box you put on top of your pc to power xyz while youre gaming or browsing the internet etc. im excited to see if a company will run with this idea and create something like this in the future
Part two when? I am invested. Big times
This is beyond EPIC!
What if you redirected the power into a huge battery, that you then could plug into your pc? So the battery charges and powers the pc while you're gaming. That could potentially work (without knowing anything about power 💀💀)
yes that is possible, i actually tried a concept like this but with a cheap 20 dollar set of usb solar panels, i used solar panels to charge a set of 18650 lithium ion batteries in a usb charger which i then took and connected them to an energy inverter to turn the batteries DC Voltage into AC voltage and used this to power my pc, it ran for about 15 minutes before the battery died which was more than i was hoping for but less than i had planned out due to efficiency losses. When the energy was transferred from source to source it was loosing quite a bit of power along the way because of these losses, from the batteries to the inverter it is only about 75% efficient, then from the converter to the pc it was about 80% or so efficiency as my pc's power supply is 80+ rated, then from the pc power supply to the components there must be some other losses as well that i'm not sure about. Overall it was definitely a fun experiment as it was amazing that it was running on essentially nothing but sunlight but ultimately quite pointless when wall power exists and the batteries take 4 hours to charge.
You should of put that in between the cpu and the heatsink
I was thinking of adding those things on the back of a solar panel so I could collect more electricity as it heats up in the sun
the meme of an extension wire plugged into itself crossed my mind, but this is on another whole new level
Fun idea, however you can't forget that there is more energy being used to pump the water to cool those blocks than the system can generate
Exactly needs a passive heat transfer instead of a pump that is as efficient as the pump for it to be viable.
Copper tubes would be effective and using a fan
Imagine if every gas hob cooker had one of these, converting the heat from cooking into electricity... 🤔
hummmus literally never ever dissapoints. love your vidyas brah
Dang he should sell his innovations, that's awesome. (just found this after seeing the invisible pc video, that was amazing)
I swear one day heel probably make like a pc that works under water
Such a thing already exists, it's called a water-resistant box and conformal coating helps too.
Looks like someone hasn’t seen the toilet pc video
@@robdobble6672 ive seen it but im talking about the water directly in contact with the conponent
I’m gonna be screwed by heat when I upgrade my PC, I live in Australia and very rarely get to use my AC.
Remember under volting is a thing. Under volting my 3080 saved 140watts and I lost 5% performance. I cap mine at 140 fps so no actual loss in game. And amd software auto under volts my 5900x per core 4.55 ghz on 12 cores
If you use high-quality and more efficient peltier elements in a pair with a more thought-out design, it can make a lot of sense for use in a laptop! You can improve efficiency and battery life many times over!
i need a high quality version of this
Pure genius, this guy should be an engineer at TSMC
But this is just 0,7W that are coming out of that thing. Thats not really worth it. You would need much more efficient peltier elements than these. Peltier elements are better at pumping heat from one side to the other side. They are mainly used for camping freezers or other coolers, but even there they are inefficient, because of the very low efficiency 🧅
r/whooosh
@@ChloeCake "I build a gaming computer inside of Minecraft"
The hardest part about a perpetual motion machine is hiding the batteries.
That is actually a good idea given that pc are nearly 100% efficient at turning electricity into heat. If we had a way to fully capture the heat and turn it into electricity that be awesome.
Dude you have inspired a crazy as idea cpu and gpu direct mount E-Gen-Cooler hahahha let know if come up with anything viable... Great video as you said this only a prototype but the potential for more exploring maybe need dig out some old parts to test 😀
Someone hire him, he’s actually so genius. This is so smart 😅
No it's not, there's a research about this topic 5 years ago and their results is the same as his. You barely recover any power from exhaust heat
Infinite power glitch
Right, A, Right, Left, Right, Rb, Right, Left, A, Y
That is actually very cool!
I would visit Microcenter if it was closer. Shame they don't have more stores. I do not want to drive 3 or 4 hours to get there even though I know they have it all.
This is dangerous. It reminds me of the time I tried to make a water-powered personal computer. I didn't even have to plug it into the wall and it generated more than enough power to stay on as long as I had water. It was flawless. I decided to show my friends and they built similar rigs. They started to boast about it online which gained the attention of certain groups. My one friend with the largest following spread his build everywhere. One day, it all stopped. He disappeared. A week after his disappearance, he was found dead. Suicide. He had shot himself three times in the back of his head then drove out in the middle of the desert. Once he reached his destination, he lit himself on fire and stuffed himself inside his trunk. "What could possibly lead someone to do this to themself?" I thought. Then it all became clear to me. I figured that once he saw his power bill after using a computer that runs on water, he went utterly insane due to how low the cost was. I mean when I saw my bill for the first I went absolutely mad. After that, I had vowed to never touch a water-powered PC ever again. Homeless, I just want you to be careful. Maybe an expensive power bill is worth it.
And I own 3 Nimitz-class Aircraft carriers.
this reads like an AI wrote a shitpost
tf did I just read
Be honest, even Linus wouldn't come up with these kinds of idea.
Not like he did it like 5 year ago or so
I love this dude!
you're a madman xD i love it
That's actually a great idea. Just how to make it work efficiently in a real world scenario. I mean almost all of the energy we use to run our PCs just turns into heat, and we use more energy to cool it down. If only, somehow there was a way how to turn most of the heat back to electricity...
Saddly, the thermoelectric generators he used only have an efficiency of ~5% so it won't be possible before a while
Basically homeless single handedly solving the energy crisis
He's turned electricity into heat (computer) and heat into electricity (thermal generator). Good job, you made an energy loop.
"i was like, i was like vibrating out of excitement" got me me laughing so hard and i new i was watching a banger