Man In A Shed - The Car Special - Episode 9

Episode 9 This video is an omnibus it includes;

[hippie-io]

Love your historical analysis. Rob, would you consider adding some more research into the following ideas>
1. Does the emissions from automobiles in big cities have any health consequences? If so, would electric autos mitigate some of that?
2. Are there any modern battery chemistries that are eliminating non human friendly ingredients such as cobalt?
3. What exactly are the percentages of electric vehicle charging that come from coal, oil, gas, home solar, commercial solar and wind hydro?
4. Is it possible that personal electric mobility, such as electric scooters and bicycles have mitigated some pollution and made some form of transportation available to a population that formerly had none?
5. What is the full cycle energy equation of producing hydrogen? Certainly its production is important. Maybe best used making steel?
6. Is the "virtuous" cycle of recycling autos to produce new ones even possible?
7. And probably, the most important question for me, .... what happened to the Twizzie?

[wazittuyoo]

Rob, I'm rewatching the video a year out, resparking old ideas, thanks again.
Would you please give your thoughts on recovery of the Aluminum, and Potassium from Uyenos Method? Posably making it a circular economy.
I'm thinking a Thermite reaction, cone mold capture, scavenging the heat, and specific gravity separation. ?
Please respond.

[johnmckeel]

I appreciate the research you put into your presentations.

[wazittuyoo]

Nighthawk In Light replicated Cornish's experiment. But he generated Carbon Monoxide. He used a Carbon arc generator and water.
Flammable gas.

[Warppnt]

Forgot GM's EV1 which was before Nissan's Leaf by about a decade... Other than that, loved the overview of all these ideas for locomotion. The Zinc-Halogen batteries seem interesting, especially with catalysts...

[zafod]

Rob there must have been a lot of redundant horses when the car became wonder where they all went 🤔😂😂

[supergobblin]

Unfortunately most ammonia production still uses hydrocarbons

[HAZZA]

I have a Nissan Leaf and buy wholesale power, this way the power is significantly cheaper when there is more renewable energy in the grid.
With windy weather and low grid demand the renewables can be 80% of the grid supply where I am and charging my car at home can be 1/6th the cost of public chargers and occasionally the power price dips into negative so I get paid to charge my car.

[hfymlhd]

Watched your exploding water videos a while back, looked like a lot of fun. Would sure be cool to see you put that idea into a water-filled cylinder to push a piston driving a flywheel. On a totally irrelevant side note, it makes my OCD tingle watching you walk into a shed that already has the door left ajar and then again leaving the door open behind you. Like nails on a chalkboard every single time even though I know it's coming. Sure is a nice shed though, I've never had a garage with that much window area.

[dinosaur]

Thank you, Robert....
Hydrogen is interesting but should be handled by experts only...

[troyallen]

Can you do a video on Paul Pantone (plasma field) and implosion instead of explosion, ambient air exhaust burns an array of fuel types. {Geet Engine} Thanks this has kinda died over the past ten years. Revival please 👍🏼✋🏼

[isoguy.]

When things come to pass electric cars will be seen as environmentally disastrous. Pull into a fast charge station and the first thing you see is a huge diesel generator. Generating electricity this way is far less efficient than burning the diesel in the vehicle in the first place because of the generators internal losses, battery charging losses and electric motor inefficiency, I believe this to be in the order of about 40%. Thus, creating 40% extra emissions and burning 40% extra diesel over the diesel car burning the diesel directly. How is this environmentally better? Though I'm not a Proverbial "tree hugger", I do believe in not polluting the planet for future generations. It just seems that scientific fact over political side-stepping doesn't seem to count.

[VeniceInventors]

I have a working design for a water-powered car which only consumes water to move forward, no electrolysis, no chemistry, not even electricity. The indisputable proof is that it can run indefinitely, as long as more water is added, so it can also be powered by rain water. Unlike all the fake ones, I'm not seeking investors and I'll even put the design in the public domain because it's so inefficient and thus impractical that there is probably no market for it.

Ok, so, what's the catch?

While it is true that it only consumes water, it's actually powered by gravity. Basically put a big water tank high up, say 4m/12ft high, run a pipe down pointing at a Pelton wheel/turbine connected to the transmission, and connect the "gas" pedal to a valve on the pipe to control the flow of water. It won't be fast, it won't get far, but it will move. Since you only need to add water to get moving, it's kind of true that it's water-powered, and if you refill it with the rain, it's actually solar-powered 🙂

[daveh]

Whilst not up with Iceland or Norway (~100%) the UK domestic electricity supply is over 55% renewable and you can use a green electricity retailer to ensure your EV is charged with 100% renewable electricity (in addition to any home generation). So I don't buy the 'EVs still use dirty electricity' narrative. Also, modern EVs have moved to LFP chemistry so no Congo cobalt and no battery fires.
Love the salt battery idea but a shame it's not a reality yet.

[selfcorrected-Bobby]

how about MAN IN A VAN? seriously. anyways have some shrooms doddy here I know i pissed you off but o well it can't be helped you see a hobbit like me wen it knows there are jewels to be gotten garantua'yeed, we don't let go, yet we do. It is only the milling of the pond that we are concerned with and its disregard for ourself.

[pendarischneider]

Water as fuel — why are we talking about "water as fuel" when all the examples had to use some other form of energy to have the water do anything. The snapping shrimp example is no different to the steam engine... put energy into water and let the water move the next component in the drive chain. We should start with the thermodynamics, ie., from where the energy comes. We are familiar with hydrocarbon as fuel where the energy was invested in ages past and we release it by burning. We understand batteries as energy invested to separate ions and these migrate back when the battery delivers most of that energy back. Water is the result of burning hydrogen, nobody has shown a way to "burn" this further to get energy. Please stop the nonsense of calling a process that needs energy to be invested into water to get energy from the water as being somehow water powered.

[roystonbarton]

hydrogen in making 2 ltrs hydrogen and 1 ltr oxygen into