ROCKET that LITERALLY BURNS WATER as FUEL
Summary
TLDRThe video explains how to split water (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis and explores burning hydrogen for fuel. The creator experiments with various designs to improve hydrogen gas production, including using scouring pads, gyroid lattices, and conductive materials. Challenges with conductivity and corrosion are faced, but a more efficient generator is built. The video concludes with a test where hydrogen is used in a DIY rocket engine. The project highlights hydrogen's energy potential and how 3D printing can play a role in engineering solutions.
Takeaways
- đ Electrolysis is the process of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity, which can be done by placing two metal pieces in water and connecting them to a battery.
- đ„ Hydrogen is a highly powerful fuel, containing about 34,000 calories per kilogram, which is three times more than gasoline.
- đ The creator's goal is to burn water to build a powerful rocket engine using a 3D-printed stainless steel rocket design.
- đ§ By using gyroid lattice structures, the creator aims to optimize the surface area of electrodes, which are crucial for generating hydrogen efficiently.
- â ïž Hydrogen and oxygen are highly explosive together, making this experiment dangerous and requiring careful handling.
- đ§Ș The creator experimented with sulfuric acid as a water conductor instead of the more commonly used sodium hydroxide, but found it caused issues with the electrodes.
- đĄ The creator developed an innovative stacked-disc electrode generator that outperformed the previous gyroid design in gas production efficiency.
- âïž To power the generator, various batteries were tested, but the high current demand ultimately destroyed several of them.
- đš Electroplating with silver was used to prevent electrode corrosion, but chemical reactions during the experiment caused a buildup of sludge on the silver surface.
- đ The creator is giving away a 3D printer in the video, encouraging viewers to comment with ideas for future video themes to enter the contest.
Q & A
What is the process used to break the H2O molecule and why is it important?
-The process used to break the H2O molecule is called electrolysis, which involves using electrons to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. This is important because hydrogen is a powerful fuel, and when combined with oxygen, it burns very effectively.
Why does the speaker want to 'burn water,' and how does stoichiometry play a role?
-The speaker wants to burn water to build a powerful rocket engine. Stoichiometry is important because splitting water produces the perfect ratio of hydrogen and oxygen for combustion, ensuring an efficient burn.
What makes hydrogen a particularly powerful fuel compared to other fuels like gasoline?
-Hydrogen has an extremely high energy density, with 34,000 calories per kilogram, which is about three times more than gasoline. This makes it a highly efficient fuel, although it's challenging to store due to its low density in gaseous form.
What design improvements does the speaker want to make to their HHO generator?
-The speaker wants to improve the HHO generator by maximizing surface area and reducing the resistance between electrodes. They plan to use a gyroid lattice structure for the electrodes, which allows for more efficient gas production due to the increased surface area and proximity of the electrodes.
What is the significance of the gyroid structure in the context of the HHO generator?
-The gyroid structure is significant because it has a high surface area and divides space into two separate volumes, allowing electrodes to be placed close to each other without touching. This design maximizes gas production efficiency by minimizing the distance between electrodes.
Why did the speaker switch from sodium hydroxide to sulfuric acid, and what problem did they encounter?
-The speaker switched to sulfuric acid because it makes water more conductive than sodium hydroxide. However, the problem they encountered was corrosion, as the sulfuric acid damaged the silver coating on the electrodes, which led to poor performance.
What did the speaker learn about the reaction of silver with sulfuric acid during the experiment?
-The speaker learned that silver does not react with sulfuric acid directly but does react with sulfur released during the electrolysis process, which forms a sludge that covers the silver electrodes and reduces their conductivity.
Why did the speaker ultimately abandon the gyroid lattice design, and what was their alternative solution?
-The speaker abandoned the gyroid lattice design because it became covered in a non-conductive sludge, making it ineffective. Their alternative solution was to stack thin metal discs with small gaps between them, which offered a simpler and more efficient way to achieve a large surface area for electrolysis.
What challenges did the speaker face with the power source, and how did they address them?
-The speaker faced challenges with the power source not providing enough current for the electrolysis process. They initially used a lithium battery, which overheated, and then upgraded to a more powerful battery, but it still couldnât handle the high current draw. The problem remains unresolved.
What are the safety concerns mentioned in the video regarding the production of hydrogen and oxygen?
-The safety concerns involve the danger of producing hydrogen and oxygen together, as they are highly explosive when mixed. The speaker warns viewers not to try the experiment at home unless they are fully knowledgeable about the risks.
Outlines
đŹ Hydrogen Production and Rocketry
The script begins with a discussion on the process of hydrolysis, where water molecules are split into hydrogen and oxygen using metal electrodes and a battery. The narrator explains the concept of stoichiometry and the efficiency of burning hydrogen produced from water. The high energy content of hydrogen is highlighted, comparing it to other fuels like gasoline and bananas. The goal of the video is to build a rocket engine using hydrogen as fuel. The narrator shares their experience with 3D printing metal parts for the rocket and discusses various HHO generator designs found on YouTube, ultimately deciding to improve upon them using a gyroid structure for maximum surface area and efficiency.
đïžââïž Fitness and Personal Training
In the second paragraph, the narrator shares their personal fitness journey, emphasizing the importance of regular exercise and how it improved their sleep and reduced the desire to overeat. They recount their experience with hiring a personal trainer and how it helped but was expensive. The narrator then introduces Train, an app that connects users with personal trainers at a lower cost. They discuss the benefits of the app, including custom workout plans and direct communication with trainers. The video then transitions back to the main topic, detailing the process of creating a 3D model of a gyroid structure. The narrator explains the challenges faced in modeling and printing the gyroid and how they overcame them with the help of an expert in implicit 3D modeling.
âïž Experimentation with Electrolysis
The third paragraph details the narrator's experimentation with electrolysis to produce hydrogen and oxygen. They caution viewers about the dangers of mixing these gases and emphasize the importance of safety. The narrator tests their generator design using various power sources and observes the amount of gas produced. They encounter issues with the silver electrodes corroding and research alternative solutions, eventually settling on sodium hydroxide to improve water conductivity. The paragraph concludes with the narrator building a new generator design using steel discs and spacers, which they test and find to be significantly more effective than their previous attempts.
đ Rocket Engine Testing and Challenges
In the final paragraph, the narrator successfully tests their improved generator, which produces a large amount of hydrogen and oxygen gas. They then proceed to connect the generator to a homemade rocket engine and conduct a test, which results in a loud detonation. The narrator faces challenges with the power supply, as it is unable to handle the high current draw of the generator. Despite these challenges, they remain optimistic about the potential of their design and encourage viewers to explore similar projects. The video concludes with a giveaway for a 3D printer and acknowledgments to the sponsors and viewers.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄHydrolysis
đĄHHO generator
đĄStoichiometry
đĄGyroid
đĄElectrodes
đĄSilver plating
đĄSulfuric acid
đĄ3D printing
đĄRocket engine
đĄConductivity
Highlights
Burning water involves splitting H2O molecules using electrons, a process called hydrolysis.
By using two metal electrodes and a battery, hydrogen and oxygen gases are produced, which burn very well together.
Stochiometry ensures that by splitting water, the perfect ratio of hydrogen to oxygen is achieved for combustion.
Hydrogen is a highly powerful fuel, with 34,000 calories per kilogram, making it three times more energy-dense than gasoline.
A kilogram of hydrogen requires either a large storage space as gas or a 10L container when liquified at -250°C.
The creator tests a 3D metal printing service to build parts for a homemade rocket for only âŹ35.
Using stainless steel scouring pads as electrodes in an HHO generator increases the surface area, which boosts gas production.
Sodium hydroxide is commonly added to water to make it more conductive for efficient electrolysis.
The creator experiments with using gyroid 3D lattices as electrodes to maximize surface area and efficiency without the electrodes touching.
Gyroid structures divide space into two interlocked volumes, which can serve as efficient electrodes for gas generation.
The creator successfully electroplates a 3D-printed lattice with copper and then silver to make it resistant to sulfuric acid.
A solution of sulfuric acid makes water extremely conductive, allowing more efficient hydrogen production.
The creator encounters corrosion issues with silver electrodes due to the presence of sulfur released during hydrolysis.
A redesign using thin steel discs and gyroid spacers allows for more surface area in a compact cylinder for the gas generator.
The new generator design vastly increases gas production, generating significant amounts of oxyhydrogen for use in the rocket engine.
Transcripts
go look at
that whoa you know burning water is
actually very
simple you don't burn it like this of
course what you do is you break the H2O
molecule in half using electrons that
process is called hydrolysis and all you
have to do is stick two pieces of metal
into water and connect them to a battery
the gases that come out are hydrogen and
oxygen and those two together burn very
well
this video was brought to you by train
this design is of course a little bit
crappy but I have a great idea to make
this better we'll come back to this in a
minute well now why would I want to burn
water well one of the reasons has a
weird name stock geometry stochiometry
means that by splitting
water you get the perfect amount of
oxygen to burn the perfect amount of
hydrogen that's needed all but that's
not the real reason why I want to burn
water the real reason is hydrogen is
really really powerful
this is 1 kg of bananas which has around
900 calories and calories is a unit of
energy and energy is universal meaning
that it works for food but it also works
for fuels so I can basically say that
this kilogram of gasoline has 11,000
calories that's worse than peanut butter
can you imagine how many calories
there's in a kilogram of hydrogen well
it would make you fat pretty quickly it
has 34,000 calories that's three times
more than the amount gasoline has we
should probably use hydrogen for
everything right well it's not very easy
to get a kilogram of hydrogen you see a
kilogram of gasoline fits neatly inside
a soda bottle but to get 1 kg of
hydrogen you would have to fill an
entire room okay maybe not this room
probably Harry Potter's room hydrogen is
normally a gas and gases are not very
dense but even if I went to the extreme
of cooling it down to- 250° C to make it
a liquid it would still need a 10 L jug
just to get a kilogram water on the
other hand has a lot of hydrogen already
has oxygen to burn it and it's pretty
easy to find I want to burn water
because I want to build a powerful
rocket engine come here you see I found
this service online called jlc 3dp that
3D prints stainless steel parts pretty
cheaply how cheaply do you ask well I
designed a simple rocket to give it a
test and order the part using the
website and it only cost me
âŹ35 for metal 3D printing isn't that
insane yes it is the part arrived pretty
quickly and I got very excited
the rocket looks great and the
dimensions were spot on also I got this
spanner wrench ring that I designed
myself finally I have a way to 3D print
metal that doesn't cost me my house if
you want to 3D print these um you can
find the files in the description okie
dokie I have my rocket and now I need my
fuel and by Fuel I mean an HHO generator
like I said before this design is a bit
crappy I need to improve it so I went to
the place where you go to get good ideas
YouTube I found some cool stuff some of
these designs use washers and they stack
them up to get more surface area and
thus more gas water is not really good
at conducting electricity so almost all
of them use sodium hydroxide to make it
more conductive hands down my favorite
design was made by B from the YouTube
channel Night Hawk in light he uses
stainless steel scouring pads as
electrodes and it's genius because
they're super cheap and they have an
insane amount of surface area which
means a lot of gas great I can just use
two scouring pads as electrodes and I'll
get a lot of gas right yes and no well
after seeing all of that I got an idea
by putting sodium hydroxide in the water
you're making it conductive but there's
still a resistance the farther away the
electrodes are from each other the more
voltage you need to push through that
resistance meaning you want the
electrodes very close to each other what
I need is a design that is like two
scaring pads interlock with each other
without touching each other so I can
produce a lot of gas very efficiently
I thought about it for a while and then
it hit me lates more specifically 3D
lates they are these self-repeating 3D
structures that are normally light
strong and have a lot of surface area
and the queen of the lates is this one
the gyroid the gyroid is an infinitely
connected triply periodic minimal
surface long category it was discovered
by an ASA scientist in the70s called
Alan Shon Shen Shon
this is a very lightweight strong
geometry that is used in many structural
applications but I'm not interested in
that I'm interested in the fact that it
has a lot of surface area and divides
space into two different volumes this is
a gyroid block if I feel the space
inside of it I get these two volumes
blue and orange now if I remove the
gyroid I'm left with these two lates
that intertwine with each other very
closely but never touch do you see where
I'm going with this I can use this anti-
gyroid as electrodes and get exactly
what I want sponsor time this is me 4
years ago and this is me L year the
difference is that I started going to
the gym and what I did at the gym didn't
really burn a lot of calories but what
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I felt better and I didn't really feel
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first time was the fact that I didn't
really know what to do or how to do it
so back in 2021 I got a personal trainer
and it worked but it was a bit expensive
it doesn't need to be though by the end
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regret it back to the video this is a
unit sell for a gyroid I had to watch a
tutorial to model this and because the
gyroid is self-re repeating I can just
copy and paste this cell in all
directions and subtract it from a shape
to get the anti- gyroid or so I thought
to get a lot of surface area with this
lattice I need to make this sells very
tiny which means I need thousands of
them I tried modeling this on my 3D
modeling app but when I tried to purn
this in all directions the app pooped
dis spants and crashed apparently to 3D
model lates like this you need another
type of 3D modeling it's called implicit
3D modeling and I know that because of
Tom not that Tom the other Tom I met Tom
at this 3D printing convention called
form next he works in a company called
metap fall 3D they are experts in 3D
lates and implicit modeling they
basically help help other companies and
researchers solve engineering problems
with lates it was actually Tom that told
me about the anti- gyroid lettuce it's
not called anti gyroid lettuce by the
way it's called i2i lettuce but I think
anti- gyroid sounds cooler I asked for
his help and he let me use their
modeling app to get my anti- gy void
their cloud-based app is awesome and it
didn't poop its pants by the way I got
my file and I use my most precise
printer to print it this is the form
four from form Labs it's fast it's
precise and it prints resin right I have
my 3D printed lettuce in resin but now I
have a problem which is resin is not
conductive and my electrodes need to be
not to worry though I have this problem
before a few videos ago I used Electro
plating to add a layer of copper to my
ion Thruster that was also resin 3D
printed to do that you paint the part
with an electrically conductive paint
you put it in a copper solution and you
pass electricity through it the problem
is that in that project I use this
conductive spray paint and in this case
I can't really spray paint that to get
all the surface covered I need to dip
I smelled the spray and I got some hints
of varnish acetone and graphite okay you
got me I read the label I tried several
combinations of varnish graphite and
acetone but it was taking a lot of time
to get mediocre results the paint was
either too thick or not conductive
enough in the words of my grandfather if
the grips are more expensive than the
wine just buy a bottle so I bought a
bottle I actually bought several bottles
of different brands of conductive paint
I tested them all and the best one was
this one called leaky wire is very thin
and super conductive I gave it a test
using this model of an handsome man I
found online and it worked pretty well
now do you remember how I said that
normally everyone uses sodium hydroxide
to make the water conductive I actually
found a much better solution to sodium
hydroxide with just a little bit of this
thing you can make the water very
conductive and I kind of understand why
other people wouldn't like to mess with
it it's eye concentration sulfuric acid
if you had just a teeny t beat of
sulfuric acid to distilled water it
makes it super conductive the only
problem is that the acid is very
corrosive meaning it's going to destroy
my copper layer to solve this I bought
this solution that adds a thin layer of
silver metal to Copper part just like
that it's like magic and the best part
about this is that silver is immune to
sulfuric acid oky doie my silver lattice
is now ready for testing I put it inside
this very well-sealed acrylic enclosure
so I can see what's going on inside now
before I test this I need to say
something this is going to produce
hydrogen which is a very powerful fuel
but it's also producing oxygen and the
two together are super dangerous don't
try this at home unless you know exactly
what you're doing I never say this on my
channel but this is an exception okay so
this already has conductive water I
connected the generator to syringe so I
can measure how much gas I'm generating
per minute and I have my power supply
here uh let's give it a go I'm going to
start with 3 volts
oh it's
going and that's 1 minute okay about 50
cc per minute I'm not even sure if
that's great or not um
yeah
oh
whoa whoa okay I'm going to give it a
try with this uh lithium battery it has
seven .4 volts and I think it allows
more current so we should get more gas I
think I'm getting limited by the power
source W look at the
difference yeah I'm guessing I was
limited by the current wow the battery
is getting
hot look how red that is I don't even
know what's happening there I'm guessing
the silver is oxidizing and is leaving
behind the copper but then again I
thought Silver was more resistance to
corrosion than copper so I have no idea
so I was curious about that red stuff
that was forming uh I thought it was the
Silver coming off but it's not it's some
kind of deposit because I can wash it
away look you see okay so I did some
research and apparently silver doesn't
really react with sulfuric acid but it
does react a lot with sulfur which is
being released during the hydrolysis I
didn't know that um I just read that on
an article right now okay I guess I'm
going to go back to the sodium hydroxide
yeah I found this Alchemy spell online
that uses salt baking soda aluminium and
boiling water to remove tarnish from
Silver that's what's going on here in
the meantime I'm going to use my
replacement ladders oh yeah of course I
have a replacement what do you think I'm
an idiot I'm an idiot yes but I'm a
prepared one actually I'm prepared
because I know I'm an idiot pouring
water into my
generator let's hope it doesn't get
destroyed this time because this laders
is a lot lot of work to do this time
instead of red is turning black is that
better or worse yeah this is no longer
conducting electricity something is
wrong so it's happening the same thing
again the silver is not getting
destroyed but it's getting covered in
this sludge I don't know what it is and
I don't know how to fix it this was a
good idea but it was shortlived it works
but just for a while uh it doesn't
matter because I just realized something
this is not the best way of getting the
most surface area of a certain geometry
just think about it if you have a
cylinder the best way of getting the
most surface area in there is to stack a
bunch of very thin discs on top of each
other they are separated by a very small
Gap half is connected to positive the
other half is connected to negative and
Chad perfect generator my lattice is
contained in a cylinder of 60 mm in
diameter and 100 mm in height and it has
about 132 Square in of surface area to
get the same area with 60 mm discs
provided that I use1 mm sheet steel I
would only need 15 discs to get the same
area even if I use 2 mm space in between
them that would only be 32 mm high now I
have to test this I guess I'm building
another generator to make the disc I
only need to print out a template glue
it to a 0.1 sheet of steel cut it drill
it and repeat that 15 times it's boring
but very simple for the spacers I could
just use an outer wing with holes on the
perimeter but the still discs are too
thin and need support all over and not
just on the Outer Edge instead I
designed the 1.3 mm thick gyroid spacer
in this way the disc has support all
over and because of the unique geometry
of the gyroid the gas doesn't get
trapped I am actually pretty proud about
this design nonetheless the gyroid
spacer is stealing a little bit of
surface area so instead of 15 I did 30
the spacers I printed in my form four in
batches of 10 that was easy the hard
part was removing all the support
material by hand it took me an entire
morning to do that don't forget to
subscribe so this works like this this
Rod will be connected to positive and
this one will be connected to negative I
place a spacer and a disc the disc has a
small hole and a big hole that is so it
touches one of the rods but not the
other on the next disc I do the opposite
big hole on this side and small hole on
this side right now I have a positive
disc and a negative disc now I just need
to repeat this 14 more times
the last
one nice it's looking good I'm really
hoping this works because this was a lot
of work okay this is ready to go I'm
really hoping this works let's give it a
go new design New
Hope three two
one
go look at
that wow that's so much more gas the
battery is getting though I'm going to
have to
stop but look it did 150 and a minute
hasn't passed by yet design this design
is a
win look at
that oh my
god did you listen to this it doesn't
even compare to the other one this is
100% oxyhydrogen
Jesus okay now it's time to connect this
to my rocket engine for the injector I
machine the plate in aluminum I couldn't
feed a regular spark plug in here so I
made one myself using a steel Straw from
Ikea some plaster and copper wire it
works pretty well okay I know this is a
little bit of a mess right now this is
still not wired but I'm using an uo to
control uh the arc glider that is going
to do the spark um the relay that is
going to control the generator and the
electro valve uh the generator is going
to be switched on and off uh when the
valve is on so I can save current and
also be safer I also have a flashback
arester valve and the generator is down
there to be also safer let's give it a
go
poor
Joel okay I need to update you on
something so first of all there's no way
the sound I'm hearing here is
translating to there to you because this
is so loud this is pure detonation I
mean this kind of reminds me of my pulse
detonation engine so second of all um my
power source wasn't really handling uh
the amperage this was pulling so I used
this battery which is a 12vt battery
that can um basically discharge 40 amp
which is a lot but still couldn't make
it it got destroyed after three tests
this pulls a lot of current so I
upgraded to its Big Brother this one
which is a 15v battery and can pull up
to 400 amp and still couldn't make it it
died um this is pulling too much current
I don't really know what's the solution
for that right now but this is really
promising I just really need to find a
solution I guess this was an insane
project and I guess this is just the
beginning maybe you can improve on it
with a little bit of creativity and 3D
printing if you don't have a 3D printer
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