ask yourself ... O- and O+ ions ... Oxygen the element that readily combines with pretty much everything else ... now it goes form moderate recombination levels to hyper-recombination think of it as going from a fractional exponent to one raised by 999999999999999999999.9999 .... yeah you go from the bottom of the recombination curve to the top and you take us from taking millennia to kill oursleves to doing it in a few years ... not something we should want to do ...
@@beniautomotive9702 stop and tnhink about it ... you are going to go from fossil fuels taking a thousand years to kill us to all those same gases being created so fast we will kill oursleves in a few years ... oxygen combines with most everything and has few exceptions ... now it takes a little time for it ... turn oxygen into positive and negative ions ... and it recombines so fast you go from the bottom of the curve to the top of an exponential curve of pollution .. VERY VERY BAD IDEA ...
Rather like promises by governments then, eh?, they should just come out and tell the truth, they NEVER intend to end restrictions, mankind will be extinct first.
@@AnonyMous-gt8vq Sure, agree. Hence "relatively" above. Less weight is more efficient, and efficiency definitely matters. But the tone of the video was about how this technology was so revolutionary it would enable electric air travel, which really isn't the case. We also don't know how heavy this setup would be compared to a conventional electric motor.
I guess with all these electric based thrust technologies they are all limited by low energy density in chemical based batteries. A portable fusion powered generator is the real holy grail. I hope ITER is successful in creating breakthroughs in fusion
You are very agree, but I have much more hope in the evolution of batteries than in nuclear fusion. Even if nuclear fusion will one day be feasible, I highly doubt that there will ever be a nuclear fusion power plant that is light and compact enough to power an airplane.
Fusion is not going to happen until 2040 to 2060 if it's possible -- and that's a big IF. By that, I mean fusion where the power generated is *greater* than the total power needed for running the reactor.
Batteries are progressing in terms of their energy density; maybe in a few decades the density will line up with chemical systems. At that point, the energy generation can still remain on the ground while the flying machines charge on the ground. I'm thinking of an induction plate rather than cables, since ground crews will help the pilot line-up the plane on the ground anyway.
The bit about conventional fuel is 43 times more energy per unit weight is true. Just to add to this, conventional jets get lighter as they go farther. Electric jets will barely get lighter. 🙂
@@Down915 well if you are keeping the hydrogen uncompressed then it will give you buoyancy so really just get hydrogen powered zeppelins (and then make them not go boom, but everything goes boom if you try hard enough)
France had been working on this type of plasma magnetodynamics way back in the 1980s, but never really made anything out of it, apparently. Japan had a boat propelled by magnetohydrodynamics in the 1990s (the yamato-1, built by Mitsubishi). But those accelerated the plasma-ified medium by running a current through it inside of intense magnetic fields directly, with no moving parts, rather than with a traditional compressor+turbine.
Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion runs current through the conductive electrolytic like substance it is traveling through like water (not distilled) to propel itself, exploiting said "magnetic fields" and such to push the water away. Not necessarily plasma. hydro = water
Something else to keep in mind about planes, they get more efficient as they use fuel and get lighter. Batteries don't get lighter when depleted so the plane would have to carry around that "dead" weight throughout the entire flight.
The fan shafts in the engines spin at an incredible speed, why not put magnets around them like a generator in a power station and there you have your electricity, to heat the air flowing through they could use an immersion heater like in your water tank except rated at hundreds of times higher wattage, may be less likely to melt the engine casing than this plasma/microwave idea.
@@BigBadJohn5358 Because that would slow the fan down?!!? Do you know what conservation of energy even means? Ever heard of Thermodynamics? A little FYI : Perpetual motion is not real and so is free energy...
@97denis97 You said basically what I was about to say. About perpetual motion. It's the same reason why an electric car can't generate its own power while moving down the road. In theory it seems like a great idea. But once resistance and working load come into play. It all but destroys any hope, of it being beneficial enough to even bother with implementing it into modern electric cars. Same for a windmill of sorts on a car, it's adding resistance, therefore negating anything positive, you gain. However, I'd like to see them put solar panels of some sort on a car. Maybe one day they'll have a solar paint that is capable of adding more miles to each charge. I'd love to see someone like Mark Rober, do something like that and test it. He's very good at doing those things and very good at explaining the process bit by bit. The entire way!
@@BigBadJohn5358 im not sure you really grasp the physics involved in this conversation. you cant have a parasitic generator hooked up to it for the same reason electric cars dont run their regenerative braking the whole time the car is moving. no generator is perfectly efficent, there are losses involved. to break it down, lets say you need 100 amps of energy to turn the shaft with the generator attached. and lets be very optimistic and say you have an 80% efficient generator. so for your 100 amps of input, you get 80 amps out of the generator. you have a net loss of 20 amps across the system that has to come from somewhere or the whole thing grinds to a halt. expand this to the airplane engine idea. lets say it takes 100 amps (probably a factor of 10x too little) to make the plane fly. now you want to hook up your 80% efficent generator to the engine and siphon off all 100 amps just to put 80 amps back in the battery. meaning you need a battery capable of outputting 200 amps, to make the plane fly, and run the generator, and all you get back is 80 amps. you doubled the weight of the airplane for a loss per unit time of half the capacity of the battery. its a non-starter idea. This is by the way why "free energy" and over unity ideas are all scams and fake. you can never get even 1:1 return on energy expenditure. much less 1:2 or any other fake scam numbers they show you if you buy their ebook for $9.99. in any mechanical or electromagnetic system, there are ALWAYS losses. electric cars can harness some of the losses in regenerative braking systems to steal a little of the energy back. What they are doing is turning the kenetic energy of the cars motion back into electricity by running the drive motor as a generator instead of turning the kenetic energy into waste heat by applying the mechanical brakes. you cant run regenerative braking and drive the car at the same time or else you will just be dead in the water and not go anywhere.
This is old news I was going to build a plasma jet (several inches across) in the 1960s and even had some parts fabricated.. The design was based on one in the November 1961 issue of Scientific American magazine pp 173-188
Going to be brutally honest, I am actually trying this right now for a UAV. Now I am technically 3D printing using a powder based printer parts for the engine. Now the problem is that the airflow is not really spectacular it needs to have high compression which require CFD analysis. Also if you use a gas that is already extremely compressed you get a substantial amount of thrust after ionization also this require multiple fin channels where airflow is occurring inside the engine in order to increase thrust as well. Moreover, the ideal solution is to use two technologies which the other I am using has already been demonstrated by multiple institutions and is clean. In regards the batteries that is an engineering problem but not as big of a problem as you might think. The risk of battery usage is that high strain such as high current draw can cause dendrites to form between the electrolyte and electrode inside the battery leading to shorter life and possible failures and this is a costly problem. The only thing that is stopping this from really progressing is actual funding or company interest and ontop of that manufacturing which is another animal.
@@robbin4380 simply no its still in the development prototype stage and its not something you can do at home. You need specialized equipment as well RF shielding in the engine body as this had ionization. Will post more when I have an update or possibly a video expect a couple months I have the body of the UAV and right now I'm working on motor control built my own hardware driver for the AC motors relating for the intake and working on power management rn. I am working aswell on the automonous segment and other parts of the operating system rn. Its hefty work tbh and its not easy one part such as the compressor could take weeks or months for calibration then integration with the components for RF which I am printing and this part is where most of the power gets consumed, however depending on how compressed the gas is the power will vary. Higher compression means less power consumption and more thrust.
Mate keep going with it, I'm also building what I hope to be a revolutionary electric engine while completing my physics degree, but to fill a different purpose, I know the struggles lol
Video will be worth a review in 10 years. Once enough engineers get their hands on it, plasma engines have come a very long way in the last 20 years, this is a very promising tech.
Unfortunately incorrect, as far as using this technology for jet planes. The daunting problem must also be solved of how to provide massive quantities of cheap, safe, light weight, reliable, compact, smooth electrical power to the inductively-coupled plasma engines. That is easy enough to do in a ground installation, but doing it on a jet plane is simply not possible. If one is going to install massive electrical generators in a plane, then they might as well also use those generators as the plane's engines, and skip all of the extra heavy, bulky, expensive equipment, which is what the world does now. And it can be (has been) mathematically proven that the inherent limitations of any battery technologies that could possibly be invented in the distant future, could never provide that kind of power and total energy, and still be cheap, light weight, compact, safe, and very quickly recharged.
I don't think the plasma jet engine will be lifting its power supply anytime soon. Most of the video footage of plasma engines are actually footages of ordinary jet engines. On my channel there are about 40 videos of a series of ion thrusters that are patented for lifting their power supplies against Earth's gravity. They really work as described and have lots of potential. They will not be replacing jet engines though anytime in the near future. They are valuable in other ways.
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I agree with the MIT professor. Most of the practical applications of this aren't possible without major breakthroughs in energy technology and material sciences and likely new physics that we haven't discovered yet. Not to mention the scale required. The tallest structure man has built is the 1000 foot building in Dubai. You simply can't pile up another 1000 feet on it given our current knowledge and cost of materials. This is not how engineering works.
I agree that this technology has no immediate practical use for our global society, but the research has great value for future projects. Humans will have to switch from fossil fuels sooner rather than later anyway. If future technological innovations made this form of flight more efficient and practical, then we should continue to explore possible uses for this technology in the coming decades.
Well, probability says that there is a slim chance that no single water droplet hits the match during the entire time you are in the shower. Not very big of a chance, but it exists.
missed ... the emissions of ionized oxygen now recombine with everything and what do we have ... super destruction of our atmosphere and environment because the oxygen now is working on the high end of the exponential scale to kill us instead of the bottom end of that scale ....O+ and O- ions will combine with so many different things in the atmosphere we will return ourselves to a time before the great oxidization extinction of earths long dead past ... essentialy we go from killing our planet in millennia to doing it in a few years ...
Even if using imaginary super batteries and super cables carrying the power to the engines, you'd be using fossile fuel-powered grid electricity to charge the batteries. And we are not even close to changing that fact.
@@evanbarnes9984 of course of course. China is slowly but surely becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and I think most countries are actually worried about this
Nah the energy density of chemical batteries is so poor that youll never see electric engines on an aircraft. Battery development is at an physical limit right now so they start to play around with the interior design, to get the last bit of density out, but its finished. Youll never get the same amount as hydrocarbon fuel from a battery
@@97denis97 Honestly there are plenty of battery technology "improvements" and "discoveries" today. A large variety of these "new" battery technologies could still propose drones with this technology rather than commercial planes.
I mean... we kinda are... things are no longer so simple to answer with it "cant be done" anymore. It'll take time but In alot of cases science fiction is probably going to turn into just science.
Well rn ur using a powerful supercomputer orders of magnitude more powerful than the computers at nasa which commanded the apollo missions. Notebooks, reminders, encyclopedias, books, camera, phone, gps system all in the convenience of ur pocket.
Most engines start off as nearly useless lab curiosities. Most never make it out of the lab. But every once in a while, someone who is both an engineer and an entrepreneur sees an opportunity to build something that fills a need. And that's where the money and creativity come from to develop these engines to practicality. Will that happen here? Who knows?
I'm not sure about the entrepreneur bit, as any engineer or physicist will tell you: capitalism kills innovation. As it only allows finished products to be marketable, leaving no money for the engineering process. Not to mention the politics involved in big companies trying to kill smaller companies with better products like Hoover tried to do with Dyson.
@Timothy Rurak one day at a time. First the helium balloon, now sending rocks in cosmos. Feel free to participate and improve what Adam started. Engineering is a steady pillar.
The moment an electric powered army and missiles can beat an oil powered one, the dollar, linked to oil, would totally collapse. Every time there is an innovation in batteries they seem to disappear.... like the lithium glass battery and the english aluminium air battery.
@@sus5651 nah, bitcoin scam already become such a thing here, it is no wonder that yt are starting to targeting those stuff, see, his comment are gone already.
We already have a technology that can convert electricity to thrust highly efficiently: the propeller. There are already multiple models of electric planes that are powered by electric motors attached to propellers. Propellers are simple, light weight, reliable, and the most efficient known method of converting torque to thrust. The only drawback is that you need batteries to power the plane (which can be quite heavy), but that applies to plasma jets as well.
@@rushikesh2320 learning is different and ideas being born in ur mind is different. I was just seeing my book on inventions that I had written. Aero india 2007 inspired me to invent and solve existing problems in our world.
@@rushikesh2320 all fancy inventions bro. Some defy even laws of physics 😂. Not just in aerospace but in robotics, AI, automobiles, trains, clean energy ( nuclear fusion and all) . I'm a Mechanical engineer btw! Ps; I was lazy too 😂. So I used to ask my mom to write for me when I used to get bored writing. Only if smart phone existed back then.. speech-text is so good 😂.
Because I have exactly zero expertise, but I am on the Internet, this will solve the COVID crisis and will make it possible to deliver meals across continents, revolutionising the way we live.
Plasma arcs have been used for the incineration of hazardous solid waste for many years. At the exit of the incineration chamber, a turbine is sometimes placed to recover a portion of the energy consumed in generating the plasma. This is the same but with no waste to incinerate . The limitation of this concept is not the development of the engine itself but the energy density of batteries. State of the art batteries have a energy density about 500 Wh / kg while Jet-fuel (or diesel fuel) has a energy density about 11.000 Wh / kg In a car that difference in energy density although important can be admited firstly because the weigh in a car is not as critical as it is in a plane and in second place because electric cars avoid the thermodinamic cyle while plasma jet engines doesn't
It could be possible if you compress the air similarly on the same scale as a jet engine and convert to plasma... The only way to heat that quickly is a fusion reactor and a heat exchange system... The closest thing to that was the thorium aircraft reactor experiment and so far it was cancelled because ICBM rockets was cheaper and safer... The air force went a different way...
The only thought I had was that if you're able to miniaturize the nuclear reactor, would it not be more efficient to utilize some other form of propulsion like directly heating something like hydrogen? Regardless, loved the concept, and looking forward to seeing what comes of it in the future!
Hydrogen was fuel of choice for the first demonstration of the jet engine. However it was deemed unsuitable at the time for flight by the Germans (Ohain), and instead another fuel was used for airborne flight. Plasma jet technology is definitely the future. Almost every industry is waiting on a battery breakthrough, aviation not an exception.
Nuclear thermal rockets and jet engines were built and tested on the ground in the USA. A nuclear reactor heating hydrogen could provide double the ISP of most conventional rockets. An airplane heating the air with nukes could stay up indefinitely. As they mentioned in the video they couldn't shield the crew and if such an airplane ever crashed it would be a disaster. For better or worse the idea was simply abandoned.
'We've invented a jet engine that doesn't burn Kerosene to produce thrust, just heat air to plasma with electricity!' 'Where do you get the electricity?' 'Kerosene powered generators!'
I had this idea years ago lol - airflow aside (it could be placed inside a high bypass engine to generate the needed pressure) the problem of course is energy storage density, hydrogen would be best, but then... Why not just burn the hydrogen directly rather than converting it to electricity to power a microwave to burn the air to get your heat/expansion? Ahh, because of the NoX emissions. There's no free lunch, but it will be exciting to see how this all develops.
Of all the problems with this idea, the temperature of the plasma jet is NOT one of them. The combustion zone inside any turbine engine (whether turbojet, turbofan or turboprop) is already far hotter than 1000 degrees C - the flame inside the combustors easily gets to 1500 degrees C, perhaps more. This is of course more than enough to melt the turbine blades, but they don't melt, because they are not exposed to this temperature directly: Only a small proportion of the air drawn into the engine by the compressor is used to burn the fuel, with the rest being used to dilute the combustion gases down to a temperature which doesn't melt the turbines. Some air even goes directly from the compressor to the turbine blade roots, where it is forced through tiny holes down the middle of the blades, cooling them from within. The same techniques could be used in a hypothetical engine using electrically generated plasma.
think about about ... turn oxygen into plasma ... side effect .. you now have oxygen (an element that combines with pretty much EVERYTHING else) in a state that will allow it to combine so fast with everything in the air that fossil fuel emissions over a thousand years would be less than the plasma emissions over a few years ... you thought global warming was a problem .. what about trying to live in an acid sky or sulfur dioxide air ... we would be undoing many billions of years of oxygen production in extremely short order ... look up our history and one of the first mass extinctions on this planet called the great oxidization event ... where a bunch of lil microbes started using sunlight to make energy to live and the waste gas was oxygen that reacted with the volatiles of the time and killed off 96% of all life at that time ... Nope this is NOT a good idea for an engine or even a long term sustainable atmospheric propulsion
Basically something called a compressed tapered waveguide is a fancy metal container shaped in such a way that when microwaves from a magnetron are shot into the cube like cavity, one end of the cavity sends them at an angle to compress them into another rectangular prism area of the apparatus (compression region) where a quartz tube or glass tube has air running through it (perpendicular to compression region). Simple spark it and you have the plasma torch.
@@efexzium hard to say since it’s presently known as both a great start for clean future propulsion and substitution for if not all possible conventional jet engines, but also many others claim it’s a joke or literally “a load of hot air.” So it’s definitely still in its prototype, under development, experimental era right now, but concept wise based on what we know now, yes. But it’s closer to drones than it is for commercial airplanes and flight.
Why not to use propeller instead of lossy clunky plasma drive to get the plane off the ground and make things more complicated. As already prop power planes have been a reality..what do you guys think about it
The plasma exhaust from his engines will mean a new and more durable form of runway will have to be built. The asphalt and concrete and fall apart immediately. Another problem just maybe this new engines replacement for air travel in general. The thrust from these engines may have another problem with the superheating of the atmosphere with the exhaust from these aircraft. I do really hope that we make this technology viable.
Fusion reactors, like fission reactors, aren't going to happen on planes either. Require the same amount of shielding since they are quite radioactive.
@@Nice_Person7379 Im pretty sure that they release single neutrons as a waste as well as Helium, meaning that a lot of shielding is needed to contain these high velocity neutrons.
Is any of this actually more practical than "just" powering a jet with renewable hydrogen? Not saying hydrogen is easy, but this plasma jet gismo and the necessary energy storage seems even more far-fetched.
I think the bigger problems isn't what type of engine we will use to increase the speed we explore the universe, it's the source of the energy. Advances in what we use for fuel and how we store the fuel/energy will allow greater advances in technology. Solid state batteries seem like a great advance if we can scale them to commercial size. If we can find ways to create and store hydrogen from water at a much lower cost or find a energy system to create gravity field to propel spacecraft. I do hope we do see an increased use of pulse engines though since they are much more efficient than conventional gas combustion engines. I would love to see pulse engine cars!
Plasma jet engine is a lot of hot air, metaphorically and in reality. Plasma is a conductive gas, it can be cold. The Wuham engine which is going viral, no pun intended 😁; is just not going to cut it, why not just start with hot plasma which can be produced by RF supply. Good video, with great research.
Hans von Ohain: In 1947, Ohain was brought to the United States by Operation Paperclip and went to work for the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In 1956 he was made the Director of the Air Force Aeronautical Research Laboratory and by 1975 he was the Chief Scientist of the Aero Propulsion Laboratory there. During his work at Wright-Patterson, Ohain continued his own personal work on various topics. In the early 1960s he did a fair amount of work on the design of gas core reactor rockets which would retain the nuclear fuel while allowing the working mass to be used as exhaust. The engineering needed for this role was also used for a variety of other "down to earth" purposes, including centrifuges and pumps. Ohain would later use the basic mass-flow techniques of these designs to create a fascinating jet engine with no moving parts, in which the airflow through the engine created a stable vortex that acted as the compressor and turbine.
So true. The amount of energy the plane needs does not change. The only thing that could hold the amount of energy needed is chemical or nuclear energy... So, welcome back kerosene!
@@damonsisk4270 Wrong. Solid state lithium will make medium haul flights entirely practical. IE the energy density shown by Prof Goodenough was over 1MWH per tonne. He has near doubled that. But let's take 1MWH for a 777 sized aircraft. 94MWh for the one which has 94 tonnes of fuel. More for the larger one. How much would the engines need? About 40MW while cruising near double when climbing/taking off and 10% when landing. So a range of 1600KM+ with enough to redirect. That's at MGW by the way. Lessening the load could extend that by 800+km in a passenger only configuration. If Goodenough gets his 2MWH per tonne cells working reliably then you can double the range to 5000km.
@@gordonlawrence1448 I hope so. It would be amazing to improve the energy density of batteries that far! Unfortunately, theory and experience often do not merge. I will not hold my breath in the meantime.
@@gordonlawrence1448 ermmm... but kerosene specific energy density is 12.8kWh/kg if you consider the higher heating value, so your 94tonnes will contain 1.2TWh. 12.8MWh/tonne actual is a very long way from an as yet unproven 2MWh/tonne. Am I missing something in your analysis?
What I thik is that the jet technology is just evolution..when it made first time steel today its just upgrade not any more now what aviation really need is that revolution not evolution.. In short whole new kind of engine... Again what i think... If you want some unique inspiration and just take a look to Museum of alien video.. 🙂
This may be off topic, but someone might find it interesting. Piston style over unity electric generator. By AMA Motor segment: 1 motor with bar connected to it standing vertically circular disc connected to bar that has magnets embedded in it surrounded in high permeability material to focus magnets outward pushing force in an upwards direction from top of disc. Power Bar segment (Just name I gave it) Hollowed out cylindrical Bar of material horizontally positioned. donut shaped material with openings around its flat edge for magnets surrounded in high permeability material to be embedded. place these all along the cylindrical bar connected to it solidly. except at far ends of bar. At both ends of bar rings of material that can be magnetically repelled in specific locations (magnetically repelled in specific location is in reference to outside of ring area that faces away from center of bar)(Other side of same ring facing in towards center of bar is capable of magnetic repulsion all around) are connected solidly to bar. points of repulsion on these rings is off set from each other on each end of bar. 3 Hollow donut ring structure with connecting bar: Ring structure has all magnetic repulsion on inside of donut shape & and can rap around the main bar so that the bar wont be causing friction on things as it moves back and forth. 1st positioned around far left of bar, 2nd position center of bar & 3rd positioned on far right of bar. Tube structure is constructed in two parts that fit together on top of each other length wise over main structure & has openings for bar to the Ring structure that is connected around the main bar keeping it from causing friction on structure with it's magnetic padding. This tube structure is designed with material that does not block magnetic fields. Perhaps some type of transparent material glass or other. At both ends of the tube structure there is a built in groove that will house a disc, the groove has 4 points, top bottom left and right that has small magnets embedded in it on the inside so that the pushing force from magnets is pushing in towards the edge of disc that goes in this spot. The disc has ring around it that is repelled by magnetic fields so the 4 small magnets will keep it lined up but it will be able to spin without causing friction on structure. The disc has openings on it's flat side that face inside of tube and magnets surrounded in high permeability material are embedded in this disc. The disc has small bar that is connected to it that goes all the way to the other end of Power bar structure through the center of the hollowed out bar and connects to disc on other end. Disc on other end is set up the same but magnets embedded in it are off set in comparison. As first disc spins the magnetic fields will push against specific spot on disc connected directly to bar, pushing bar in other direction, once bar is fully pushed over, further spinning of disc will then align the other sides magnet to push it back. Tube structure also has half moon shaped protrusion on inside and on both halves so when tube is connected they line up to make a full ring shape on inside of tube, these half moon shaped protrusions have at least 1 small round opening on it's side in middle of curve that faces away from center of bar. The opening has a small magnet embedded in it so magnetic force is repelling out sideways away from center of bar. The protruding ring is positioned to line up slightly further in towards center of bar then the ring of magnetically repelled material connected directly to bar. This way when bar moves to right this magnet will act as a stopper keeping bar from going to far & same setup on other side will keep bar from going to far to left. Copper coil setup: copper coils are wound up as if wound around the width of wood board for a distance equal to width of magnetic ring setup on bar. Wound copper coils are then looped around the tube like a donut lined up perpendicular to magnetic fields. Ends of copper coils are connected into separate construct that will allow electrical current to flow somewhere else. Circular construct is built like a stand that goes around the outside of motor segment. Circular construct has flat ring of high permeability (magnetic field shielding) material that has small openings that will allow magnetic fields through specific locations. Top of circular construct has groove to allow the power bar to balance on. Circular construct can also be placed on other end of power bar so it is balanced. The motor segment is positioned so the disc connected to the bar that is connected to the motor is lined up so the disc passes under the power bars disc that is at end of power bar. The high permeability material keeps the magnetic field from the embedded magnets exerting their force upwards from hitting into the disc in the power bar until just the right moment when the impact will cause the disc in power bar to spin which will perpetuate the piston motion in the power bar. More power bars of the same design are built and positioned around the motor segment in a circular fashion all the way around. The bar connected to the motor can be increased in length to desired height and more of the exact same setup is repeated higher and higher up maximizing the over unity potential of the construct to ridiculous proportions. :D Current from the power bars is diverted to power the motor as needed and all other current is diverted to power my game console or the world. :) Interesting variation to this design would be to connect the spinning discs on far ends of power bar to main bar that magnets are connected to so the magnets spin instead of getting pistoned back and forth. So long as moving magnetic fields are perpendicular to copper wires it should work. By AMA
Would energy of that level put off enough UV to damage your eyes? Arc welding's more than enough to, and I'd imagine this is even more energy, so I'm just curious.
If one could use a nuclear reactor on the plane, fusion or fission, turning the nuclear heat into electricity and then back into heat in the form of plasma would be a waste of energy and weight.
@@sid1234213 The experimental functional nuclear jet engines made by the USA had two circuits, but yeah, they used the heat from fission to heat the air.
This reminds me of the repulsors used by ironman. Where he turns excess electrons into muons and generate ion plasma. Which is a self-sustainable way to generate thrust even in space.
A problem you've missed, plasma can result in the creations of Ozone and Nirogen Oxides. This will directly contribute to acidifying water sources, degradation of air quality, and to an increase in outdoor bacterial and viral spread, by virtue of reducing UV reception from the sun. This may also lead to vitamin D deficiency in under developed countries. It would be easier and better to utilize swaths of open ocean to grow algae for biofuels that reabsorb their own emissions.
gas plasma is not same as radioactive elements . IIRC , plasma is very hot gas ( dangerous only when hot ) , whereas radioactive elements such as Uranium 238 decay radioactively even when uranium is at room temperature or at any temperature. BTW , those plasma in the China jet experiment is not hot enough to cause nuclear fusion ( which needs to be millions of degrees Celsius hot in a fusion reactor or 80 times the mass of Jupiter to happen ).
Simply apply for the job today and hand in your resume from the year 2035. If you can presently demonstrate a history of forward time management you can hire yourself, as you are the CEO of the company you started 10 years from now.
Frankly all pure research has value. Often it's the next person or the person after that who realizes that this might have another capability. And so while Fleming's research discovered Penicillin in 1928, it was Florey who purified it and turned it into a practical medication effectively inventing the modern industry known as antibiotics. Both changed the world.
I don't know who, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability
Beautifully said, I tell my folks these words everyday. It's good to save money but most people don't understand the market moves and tend to be misled in facts like this and always depend on money in the bank.
I understand the fact that tomorrow isn't promised to anyone, but investing today is a hard thing to do because i have no idea of how and where to invest in these?
@@isabellahall4117 Hey, this is a computer age. Peeps who aren't even traders make money from the crypto and forex markets ,how many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Well if batteries are the problem then once batteries get decent, we can just attach a propeller to a DC motor to make an electric plane.also add some solar panels on the wings to increase range.
First they excite you, then tell you it can’t be made.
not YET. as it was for the rockets and ISS in 1900
Giving it a try , will Worth it
ask yourself ... O- and O+ ions ... Oxygen the element that readily combines with pretty much everything else ... now it goes form moderate recombination levels to hyper-recombination think of it as going from a fractional exponent to one raised by 999999999999999999999.9999 .... yeah you go from the bottom of the recombination curve to the top and you take us from taking millennia to kill oursleves to doing it in a few years ... not something we should want to do ...
@@beniautomotive9702 stop and tnhink about it ... you are going to go from fossil fuels taking a thousand years to kill us to all those same gases being created so fast we will kill oursleves in a few years ... oxygen combines with most everything and has few exceptions ... now it takes a little time for it ... turn oxygen into positive and negative ions ... and it recombines so fast you go from the bottom of the curve to the top of an exponential curve of pollution .. VERY VERY BAD IDEA ...
Rather like promises by governments then, eh?, they should just come out and tell the truth, they NEVER intend to end restrictions, mankind will be extinct first.
On a serious note - the propulsion part of electric flight is relatively easy. As they pointed out, it’s the energy storage that’s hard.
Power density of electric motors is also an issue though. In flight both power density amd energy density matter massively.
Yeah it’s about compressing that energy
Nuclear powered airplane? No? Just kidding, been there done that, probs not a good idea if it ever decides to stop working mid air lol
@@AnonyMous-gt8vq Sure, agree. Hence "relatively" above. Less weight is more efficient, and efficiency definitely matters.
But the tone of the video was about how this technology was so revolutionary it would enable electric air travel, which really isn't the case. We also don't know how heavy this setup would be compared to a conventional electric motor.
@@FallLineJP Agreed.
I guess with all these electric based thrust technologies they are all limited by low energy density in chemical based batteries. A portable fusion powered generator is the real holy grail. I hope ITER is successful in creating breakthroughs in fusion
You are very agree, but I have much more hope in the evolution of batteries than in nuclear fusion.
Even if nuclear fusion will one day be feasible, I highly doubt that there will ever be a nuclear fusion power plant that is light and compact enough to power an airplane.
Fusion is not going to happen until 2040 to 2060 if it's possible -- and that's a big IF.
By that, I mean fusion where the power generated is *greater* than the total power needed for running the reactor.
Nuclear Fusion is what I see everything running on about 100 years in the future or maybe 200
Batteries are progressing in terms of their energy density; maybe in a few decades the density will line up with chemical systems. At that point, the energy generation can still remain on the ground while the flying machines charge on the ground. I'm thinking of an induction plate rather than cables, since ground crews will help the pilot line-up the plane on the ground anyway.
Green Hydrogen is a easy energy storage
The bit about conventional fuel is 43 times more energy per unit weight is true. Just to add to this, conventional jets get lighter as they go farther. Electric jets will barely get lighter. 🙂
hydrogen is twice as energy dense...
anti-matter as fuel perhaps ?
@@danzjz3923 per kilogram it is more than jet a1, but since hydrogen is not dense at all so you'd need a much larger volume
@@danzjz3923 making hydrogen isn't that efficient, however for energy dense applications its probably the best way for now.
@@Down915 well if you are keeping the hydrogen uncompressed then it will give you buoyancy so really just get hydrogen powered zeppelins
(and then make them not go boom, but everything goes boom if you try hard enough)
France had been working on this type of plasma magnetodynamics way back in the 1980s, but never really made anything out of it, apparently. Japan had a boat propelled by magnetohydrodynamics in the 1990s (the yamato-1, built by Mitsubishi). But those accelerated the plasma-ified medium by running a current through it inside of intense magnetic fields directly, with no moving parts, rather than with a traditional compressor+turbine.
Utilizing the electrostatic field instead of the em field has a bigger potential in every meaning of the word...
Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion runs current through the conductive electrolytic like substance it is traveling through like water (not distilled) to propel itself, exploiting said "magnetic fields" and such to push the water away. Not necessarily plasma. hydro = water
Something else to keep in mind about planes, they get more efficient as they use fuel and get lighter. Batteries don't get lighter when depleted so the plane would have to carry around that "dead" weight throughout the entire flight.
The fan shafts in the engines spin at an incredible speed, why not put magnets around them like a generator in a power station and there you have your electricity, to heat the air flowing through they could use an immersion heater like in your water tank except rated at hundreds of times higher wattage, may be less likely to melt the engine casing than this plasma/microwave idea.
@@BigBadJohn5358 Because that would slow the fan down?!!? Do you know what conservation of energy even means? Ever heard of Thermodynamics? A little FYI : Perpetual motion is not real and so is free energy...
@97denis97 You said basically what I was about to say. About perpetual motion. It's the same reason why an electric car can't generate its own power while moving down the road. In theory it seems like a great idea. But once resistance and working load come into play. It all but destroys any hope, of it being beneficial enough to even bother with implementing it into modern electric cars. Same for a windmill of sorts on a car, it's adding resistance, therefore negating anything positive, you gain. However, I'd like to see them put solar panels of some sort on a car. Maybe one day they'll have a solar paint that is capable of adding more miles to each charge. I'd love to see someone like Mark Rober, do something like that and test it. He's very good at doing those things and very good at explaining the process bit by bit. The entire way!
@@BigBadJohn5358 im not sure you really grasp the physics involved in this conversation. you cant have a parasitic generator hooked up to it for the same reason electric cars dont run their regenerative braking the whole time the car is moving. no generator is perfectly efficent, there are losses involved. to break it down, lets say you need 100 amps of energy to turn the shaft with the generator attached. and lets be very optimistic and say you have an 80% efficient generator. so for your 100 amps of input, you get 80 amps out of the generator. you have a net loss of 20 amps across the system that has to come from somewhere or the whole thing grinds to a halt. expand this to the airplane engine idea. lets say it takes 100 amps (probably a factor of 10x too little) to make the plane fly. now you want to hook up your 80% efficent generator to the engine and siphon off all 100 amps just to put 80 amps back in the battery. meaning you need a battery capable of outputting 200 amps, to make the plane fly, and run the generator, and all you get back is 80 amps. you doubled the weight of the airplane for a loss per unit time of half the capacity of the battery. its a non-starter idea.
This is by the way why "free energy" and over unity ideas are all scams and fake. you can never get even 1:1 return on energy expenditure. much less 1:2 or any other fake scam numbers they show you if you buy their ebook for $9.99. in any mechanical or electromagnetic system, there are ALWAYS losses. electric cars can harness some of the losses in regenerative braking systems to steal a little of the energy back. What they are doing is turning the kenetic energy of the cars motion back into electricity by running the drive motor as a generator instead of turning the kenetic energy into waste heat by applying the mechanical brakes. you cant run regenerative braking and drive the car at the same time or else you will just be dead in the water and not go anywhere.
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Very well explained. I'm a RF engineer and loved the prototype.
Such a cool sounding name for an engine, and I was impressed with ' hemi '.
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This is old news I was going to build a plasma jet (several inches across) in the 1960s and even had some parts fabricated.. The design was based on one in the November 1961 issue of Scientific American magazine pp 173-188
then your cat ate the instructions one day?
Leave it to the Chinese to invent something that's already been published decades ago.
There's a substantial difference between theoretical design and supposedly successful prototype testing.
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Going to be brutally honest, I am actually trying this right now for a UAV. Now I am technically 3D printing using a powder based printer parts for the engine. Now the problem is that the airflow is not really spectacular it needs to have high compression which require CFD analysis. Also if you use a gas that is already extremely compressed you get a substantial amount of thrust after ionization also this require multiple fin channels where airflow is occurring inside the engine in order to increase thrust as well. Moreover, the ideal solution is to use two technologies which the other I am using has already been demonstrated by multiple institutions and is clean. In regards the batteries that is an engineering problem but not as big of a problem as you might think. The risk of battery usage is that high strain such as high current draw can cause dendrites to form between the electrolyte and electrode inside the battery leading to shorter life and possible failures and this is a costly problem. The only thing that is stopping this from really progressing is actual funding or company interest and ontop of that manufacturing which is another animal.
Hello, could you please explain more??
@@robbin4380 simply no its still in the development prototype stage and its not something you can do at home. You need specialized equipment as well RF shielding in the engine body as this had ionization. Will post more when I have an update or possibly a video expect a couple months I have the body of the UAV and right now I'm working on motor control built my own hardware driver for the AC motors relating for the intake and working on power management rn. I am working aswell on the automonous segment and other parts of the operating system rn. Its hefty work tbh and its not easy one part such as the compressor could take weeks or months for calibration then integration with the components for RF which I am printing and this part is where most of the power gets consumed, however depending on how compressed the gas is the power will vary. Higher compression means less power consumption and more thrust.
Mate keep going with it, I'm also building what I hope to be a revolutionary electric engine while completing my physics degree, but to fill a different purpose, I know the struggles lol
Video will be worth a review in 10 years. Once enough engineers get their hands on it, plasma engines have come a very long way in the last 20 years, this is a very promising tech.
Unfortunately incorrect, as far as using this technology for jet planes. The daunting problem must also be solved of how to provide massive quantities of cheap, safe, light weight, reliable, compact, smooth electrical power to the inductively-coupled plasma engines. That is easy enough to do in a ground installation, but doing it on a jet plane is simply not possible. If one is going to install massive electrical generators in a plane, then they might as well also use those generators as the plane's engines, and skip all of the extra heavy, bulky, expensive equipment, which is what the world does now. And it can be (has been) mathematically proven that the inherent limitations of any battery technologies that could possibly be invented in the distant future, could never provide that kind of power and total energy, and still be cheap, light weight, compact, safe, and very quickly recharged.
This is nowhere near being an engineering problem. This is more right now in the domain of basic research.
Already built a big one in my shed last year, sorted the battery out a few years before that, $1000 for the engine, and $500 for the battery ono
@@UR_HR post a video
@@UR_HR yeah. No you didn’t
answer: I can't imagine jetting off on a holiday on any powered aircraft, anytime soon
The research and development of this video is inspiring keep up the great vids!
I don't think the plasma jet engine will be lifting its power supply anytime soon. Most of the video footage of plasma engines are actually footages of ordinary jet engines. On my channel there are about 40 videos of a series of ion thrusters that are patented for lifting their power supplies against Earth's gravity. They really work as described and have lots of potential. They will not be replacing jet engines though anytime in the near future. They are valuable in other ways.
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Without a single cited source, cool !
I agree with the MIT professor. Most of the practical applications of this aren't possible without major breakthroughs in energy technology and material sciences and likely new physics that we haven't discovered yet. Not to mention the scale required.
The tallest structure man has built is the 1000 foot building in Dubai. You simply can't pile up another 1000 feet on it given our current knowledge and cost of materials. This is not how engineering works.
The Burj Khalifa is way taller than 1000 feet lol
I agree that this technology has no immediate practical use for our global society, but the research has great value for future projects. Humans will have to switch from fossil fuels sooner rather than later anyway. If future technological innovations made this form of flight more efficient and practical, then we should continue to explore possible uses for this technology in the coming decades.
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if you can imagine it now - one day it will be a reality - me
The laws of physic are strictly enforced. I can imagine lighting a safety match in the shower... but it's never going to happen.
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Well, probability says that there is a slim chance that no single water droplet hits the match during the entire time you are in the shower. Not very big of a chance, but it exists.
@@eddydogleg in fact you can, there are matches that can be lighted under the water
@@Player-ix7rx Yes there are matches that can be lit under water; that is why I specified a safety match.
Excellent balanced video! Not just hype but well thought out and researched
missed ... the emissions of ionized oxygen now recombine with everything and what do we have ... super destruction of our atmosphere and environment because the oxygen now is working on the high end of the exponential scale to kill us instead of the bottom end of that scale ....O+ and O- ions will combine with so many different things in the atmosphere we will return ourselves to a time before the great oxidization extinction of earths long dead past ... essentialy we go from killing our planet in millennia to doing it in a few years ...
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Yeah, this is _way_ less simple pop-sci than I expected.
@@0623kaboom
That... doesn't make sense. Are you saying that planes are going to ionize the entire atmosphere?
Even if using imaginary super batteries and super cables carrying the power to the engines, you'd be using fossile fuel-powered grid electricity to charge the batteries. And we are not even close to changing that fact.
We don't know exactly what they'll come up with. Let's not underestimate their technology, hopefully it's for peaceful purposes.
Who?
@@nicolasnunez8388 I assume he's talking about Chinese scientists. But obviously we shouldn't underestimate them, China is a technological superpower.
@@evanbarnes9984 of course of course. China is slowly but surely becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and I think most countries are actually worried about this
We talking about humans in general, and i doubt most powerful technology they make now will be for peace
Yeah.... A new fighter jet engine.....☮️🖖
Honestly this sounds so cool!
It's a way off before we get this technology, but I think the concepts and testing are a great sign for the future!
Nah the energy density of chemical batteries is so poor that youll never see electric engines on an aircraft. Battery development is at an physical limit right now so they start to play around with the interior design, to get the last bit of density out, but its finished. Youll never get the same amount as hydrocarbon fuel from a battery
@@97denis97 Honestly there are plenty of battery technology "improvements" and "discoveries" today. A large variety of these "new" battery technologies could still propose drones with this technology rather than commercial planes.
Thanks commenter
It feels like we're going to the Sci fi Age!
It's already here!
I mean... we kinda are... things are no longer so simple to answer with it "cant be done" anymore. It'll take time but In alot of cases science fiction is probably going to turn into just science.
Every single day! I feel you
Well rn ur using a powerful supercomputer orders of magnitude more powerful than the computers at nasa which commanded the apollo missions. Notebooks, reminders, encyclopedias, books, camera, phone, gps system all in the convenience of ur pocket.
Because an electric prop or ducted fan is just way too efficient.
Brilliant! A video that isn’t slightly longer than ten minutes. Kudos and thumbs up.
Most engines start off as nearly useless lab curiosities. Most never make it out of the lab. But every once in a while, someone who is both an engineer and an entrepreneur sees an opportunity to build something that fills a need. And that's where the money and creativity come from to develop these engines to practicality. Will that happen here? Who knows?
I'm not sure about the entrepreneur bit, as any engineer or physicist will tell you: capitalism kills innovation. As it only allows finished products to be marketable, leaving no money for the engineering process. Not to mention the politics involved in big companies trying to kill smaller companies with better products like Hoover tried to do with Dyson.
Thank you for the honesty instead of only hype. I hope we can have electric jets somehow, but I'm also realistic.
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they invented Tony Starks Patented Repulsor Lift Technology.
If only they could invent the Arc reactor in a miniature size aswell lol.
@Timothy Rurak an Iron Man costume it's already real. Adam Savage from Mythbusters made one. You got to check that out.
@Timothy Rurak it's a real life prototype that in the future could have a lot of improvements.
@Timothy Rurak one day at a time. First the helium balloon, now sending rocks in cosmos. Feel free to participate and improve what Adam started. Engineering is a steady pillar.
But did they BUILD IT IN A CAVE.....WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS??
The moment an electric powered army and missiles can beat an oil powered one, the dollar, linked to oil, would totally collapse. Every time there is an innovation in batteries they seem to disappear.... like the lithium glass battery and the english aluminium air battery.
I really like your videos dude.
Very educational.
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We already have a technology that can convert electricity to thrust highly efficiently: the propeller. There are already multiple models of electric planes that are powered by electric motors attached to propellers. Propellers are simple, light weight, reliable, and the most efficient known method of converting torque to thrust. The only drawback is that you need batteries to power the plane (which can be quite heavy), but that applies to plasma jets as well.
@@RobLaMacchia And when something goes wrong, you have a highly explosive plane!
@@prich0382 and that doesn't apply to an aluminium tube full of kerosene?
@@keithhoughton4308 A tank full of liquid fuel won't explode unless there is enough oxygen, it'll just burn slowly otherwise
I had thought abt this when I was in 5th grade.. I recently graduated . 😂
@@rushikesh2320 learning is different and ideas being born in ur mind is different. I was just seeing my book on inventions that I had written.
Aero india 2007 inspired me to invent and solve existing problems in our world.
@@rushikesh2320 all fancy inventions bro. Some defy even laws of physics 😂. Not just in aerospace but in robotics, AI, automobiles, trains, clean energy ( nuclear fusion and all) .
I'm a Mechanical engineer btw!
Ps;
I was lazy too 😂. So I used to ask my mom to write for me when I used to get bored writing.
Only if smart phone existed back then.. speech-text is so good 😂.
@@rushikesh2320 yeah.. since I didn't know laws of physics properly, mind was free to think, without any restrictions 😁.
Right? I'm pretty sure i invented hybrid technology when i was 11 but society told me it wouldn't work. Fast forward a decade....
@@hugh_jasso well its easy to make it up in your head rather then building it...
Dang - another great idea foiled by facts.
This video is a long way to go to say "no, it cannot power an airplane."
Because I have exactly zero expertise, but I am on the Internet, this will solve the COVID crisis and will make it possible to deliver meals across continents, revolutionising the way we live.
Very P L A N E L I K E
Plasma arcs have been used for the incineration of hazardous solid waste for many years.
At the exit of the incineration chamber, a turbine is sometimes placed to recover a portion of the energy consumed in generating the plasma. This is the same but with no waste to incinerate .
The limitation of this concept is not the development of the engine itself but the energy density of batteries.
State of the art batteries have a energy density about 500 Wh / kg while Jet-fuel (or diesel fuel) has a energy density about 11.000 Wh / kg
In a car that difference in energy density although important can be admited firstly because the weigh in a car is not as critical as it is in a plane and in second place because electric cars avoid the thermodinamic cyle while plasma jet engines doesn't
It could be possible if you compress the air similarly on the same scale as a jet engine and convert to plasma... The only way to heat that quickly is a fusion reactor and a heat exchange system... The closest thing to that was the thorium aircraft reactor experiment and so far it was cancelled because ICBM rockets was cheaper and safer... The air force went a different way...
This is how most great inventions get started. Start small, test, and re-test and hope for success.
The only thought I had was that if you're able to miniaturize the nuclear reactor, would it not be more efficient to utilize some other form of propulsion like directly heating something like hydrogen?
Regardless, loved the concept, and looking forward to seeing what comes of it in the future!
Hydrogen was fuel of choice for the first demonstration of the jet engine. However it was deemed unsuitable at the time for flight by the Germans (Ohain), and instead another fuel was used for airborne flight.
Plasma jet technology is definitely the future. Almost every industry is waiting on a battery breakthrough, aviation not an exception.
@@absbi0000 Wich wont happen...
Nuclear thermal rockets and jet engines were built and tested on the ground in the USA. A nuclear reactor heating hydrogen could provide double the ISP of most conventional rockets. An airplane heating the air with nukes could stay up indefinitely. As they mentioned in the video they couldn't shield the crew and if such an airplane ever crashed it would be a disaster. For better or worse the idea was simply abandoned.
@@97denis97 that's an astoundingly arrogant and stupid statement.
'We've invented a jet engine that doesn't burn Kerosene to produce thrust, just heat air to plasma with electricity!'
'Where do you get the electricity?'
'Kerosene powered generators!'
I had this idea years ago lol - airflow aside (it could be placed inside a high bypass engine to generate the needed pressure) the problem of course is energy storage density, hydrogen would be best, but then... Why not just burn the hydrogen directly rather than converting it to electricity to power a microwave to burn the air to get your heat/expansion? Ahh, because of the NoX emissions. There's no free lunch, but it will be exciting to see how this all develops.
Of all the problems with this idea, the temperature of the plasma jet is NOT one of them. The combustion zone inside any turbine engine (whether turbojet, turbofan or turboprop) is already far hotter than 1000 degrees C - the flame inside the combustors easily gets to 1500 degrees C, perhaps more. This is of course more than enough to melt the turbine blades, but they don't melt, because they are not exposed to this temperature directly: Only a small proportion of the air drawn into the engine by the compressor is used to burn the fuel, with the rest being used to dilute the combustion gases down to a temperature which doesn't melt the turbines. Some air even goes directly from the compressor to the turbine blade roots, where it is forced through tiny holes down the middle of the blades, cooling them from within. The same techniques could be used in a hypothetical engine using electrically generated plasma.
It will happen.
Electricity slowly wins over other forms of energy.
think about about ... turn oxygen into plasma ... side effect .. you now have oxygen (an element that combines with pretty much EVERYTHING else) in a state that will allow it to combine so fast with everything in the air that fossil fuel emissions over a thousand years would be less than the plasma emissions over a few years ... you thought global warming was a problem .. what about trying to live in an acid sky or sulfur dioxide air ... we would be undoing many billions of years of oxygen production in extremely short order ... look up our history and one of the first mass extinctions on this planet called the great oxidization event ... where a bunch of lil microbes started using sunlight to make energy to live and the waste gas was oxygen that reacted with the volatiles of the time and killed off 96% of all life at that time ... Nope this is NOT a good idea for an engine or even a long term sustainable atmospheric propulsion
@@0623kaboom NASA been doing it for years. Just another hype video for CCP propaganda and tech theft.
Oh really, how?
@@TheTechiemoses those are ion drives, this concept is very different
What year is this video! RUclips don't say anymore!
Please make a more detailed and graphical explanation of how the plasma engines work.
Basically something called a compressed tapered waveguide is a fancy metal container shaped in such a way that when microwaves from a magnetron are shot into the cube like cavity, one end of the cavity sends them at an angle to compress them into another rectangular prism area of the apparatus (compression region) where a quartz tube or glass tube has air running through it (perpendicular to compression region). Simple spark it and you have the plasma torch.
@@arkohmay the basis for a light saber in 500 years.
@@efexzium oh nah lightsabers are a different type of shame lmaoo
@@arkohmay could this propel a vehicle?
@@efexzium hard to say since it’s presently known as both a great start for clean future propulsion and substitution for if not all possible conventional jet engines, but also many others claim it’s a joke or literally “a load of hot air.” So it’s definitely still in its prototype, under development, experimental era right now, but concept wise based on what we know now, yes. But it’s closer to drones than it is for commercial airplanes and flight.
Why not to use propeller instead of lossy clunky plasma drive to get the plane off the ground and make things more complicated. As already prop power planes have been a reality..what do you guys think about it
The plasma exhaust from his engines will mean a new and more durable form of runway will have to be built. The asphalt and concrete and fall apart immediately. Another problem just maybe this new engines replacement for air travel in general. The thrust from these engines may have another problem with the superheating of the atmosphere with the exhaust from these aircraft. I do really hope that we make this technology viable.
Professor: Pressure cookers don’t fly.
Me: Hold my beer...
Fusion reactors, like fission reactors, aren't going to happen on planes either. Require the same amount of shielding since they are quite radioactive.
But fusion reactors don’t release radioactive waste do they?
@@Nice_Person7379 Im pretty sure that they release single neutrons as a waste as well as Helium, meaning that a lot of shielding is needed to contain these high velocity neutrons.
Nuclear plasm with combination of petroleum plasma is unique!!
Is any of this actually more practical than "just" powering a jet with renewable hydrogen? Not saying hydrogen is easy, but this plasma jet gismo and the necessary energy storage seems even more far-fetched.
I think the bigger problems isn't what type of engine we will use to increase the speed we explore the universe, it's the source of the energy. Advances in what we use for fuel and how we store the fuel/energy will allow greater advances in technology. Solid state batteries seem like a great advance if we can scale them to commercial size. If we can find ways to create and store hydrogen from water at a much lower cost or find a energy system to create gravity field to propel spacecraft.
I do hope we do see an increased use of pulse engines though since they are much more efficient than conventional gas combustion engines. I would love to see pulse engine cars!
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Plasma jet engine is a lot of hot air, metaphorically and in reality.
Plasma is a conductive gas, it can be cold. The Wuham engine which is going viral, no pun intended 😁; is just not going to cut it, why not just start with hot plasma which can be produced by RF supply.
Good video, with great research.
Plasma is a hot(heated) gas which is conductive..not cold gas.
Petroleum is still the heavy-lifting champion, and will be for a long time.
Hans von Ohain:
In 1947, Ohain was brought to the United States by Operation Paperclip and went to work for the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In 1956 he was made the Director of the Air Force Aeronautical Research Laboratory and by 1975 he was the Chief Scientist of the Aero Propulsion Laboratory there.
During his work at Wright-Patterson, Ohain continued his own personal work on various topics. In the early 1960s he did a fair amount of work on the design of gas core reactor rockets which would retain the nuclear fuel while allowing the working mass to be used as exhaust. The engineering needed for this role was also used for a variety of other "down to earth" purposes, including centrifuges and pumps.
Ohain would later use the basic mass-flow techniques of these designs to create a fascinating jet engine with no moving parts, in which the airflow through the engine created a stable vortex that acted as the compressor and turbine.
Really a non-starter, even though I wish it could happen.
So true. The amount of energy the plane needs does not change. The only thing that could hold the amount of energy needed is chemical or nuclear energy... So, welcome back kerosene!
@@damonsisk4270 Wrong. Solid state lithium will make medium haul flights entirely practical. IE the energy density shown by Prof Goodenough was over 1MWH per tonne. He has near doubled that. But let's take 1MWH for a 777 sized aircraft. 94MWh for the one which has 94 tonnes of fuel. More for the larger one. How much would the engines need? About 40MW while cruising near double when climbing/taking off and 10% when landing. So a range of 1600KM+ with enough to redirect. That's at MGW by the way. Lessening the load could extend that by 800+km in a passenger only configuration. If Goodenough gets his 2MWH per tonne cells working reliably then you can double the range to 5000km.
@@gordonlawrence1448 I hope so. It would be amazing to improve the energy density of batteries that far! Unfortunately, theory and experience often do not merge. I will not hold my breath in the meantime.
Entire video felt like those Facebook ads that suggest a child has made a life changing device, when really they haven't.
@@gordonlawrence1448 ermmm... but kerosene specific energy density is 12.8kWh/kg if you consider the higher heating value, so your 94tonnes will contain 1.2TWh. 12.8MWh/tonne actual is a very long way from an as yet unproven 2MWh/tonne. Am I missing something in your analysis?
this is inevitable tech, we may not see it in our life times but it will happen. they've been working on this since the 50s.
I think the research should continue but currently this sounds like more pie in the sky.
Wouldn't be the first time a big announcement came from China only to be withdrawn due to fraud.
Why nto biofuel airlplanes
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What I thik is that the jet technology is just evolution..when it made first time steel today its just upgrade not any more now what aviation really need is that revolution not evolution.. In short whole new kind of engine... Again what i think... If you want some unique inspiration and just take a look to Museum of alien video.. 🙂
This may be off topic, but someone might find it interesting.
Piston style over unity electric generator. By AMA
Motor segment:
1 motor with bar connected to it standing vertically
circular disc connected to bar that has magnets embedded in it surrounded in high permeability material to focus magnets outward pushing force in an upwards direction from top of disc.
Power Bar segment (Just name I gave it)
Hollowed out cylindrical Bar of material horizontally positioned.
donut shaped material with openings around its flat edge for magnets surrounded in high permeability material to be embedded.
place these all along the cylindrical bar connected to it solidly. except at far ends of bar.
At both ends of bar rings of material that can be magnetically repelled in specific locations (magnetically repelled in specific location is in reference to outside of ring area that faces away from center of bar)(Other side of same ring facing in towards center of bar is capable of magnetic repulsion all around) are connected solidly to bar. points of repulsion on these rings is off set from each other on each end of bar.
3 Hollow donut ring structure with connecting bar:
Ring structure has all magnetic repulsion on inside of donut shape & and can rap around the main bar so that the bar wont be causing friction on things as it moves back and forth. 1st positioned around far left of bar, 2nd position center of bar & 3rd positioned on far right of bar.
Tube structure is constructed in two parts that fit together on top of each other length wise over main structure & has openings for bar to the Ring structure that is connected around the main bar keeping it from causing friction on structure with it's magnetic padding. This tube structure is designed with material that does not block magnetic fields. Perhaps some type of transparent material glass or other. At both ends of the tube structure there is a built in groove that will house a disc, the groove has 4 points, top bottom left and right that has small magnets embedded in it on the inside so that the pushing force from magnets is pushing in towards the edge of disc that goes in this spot. The disc has ring around it that is repelled by magnetic fields so the 4 small magnets will keep it lined up but it will be able to spin without causing friction on structure. The disc has openings on it's flat side that face inside of tube and magnets surrounded in high permeability material are embedded in this disc. The disc has small bar that is connected to it that goes all the way to the other end of Power bar structure through the center of the hollowed out bar and connects to disc on other end. Disc on other end is set up the same but magnets embedded in it are off set in comparison. As first disc spins the magnetic fields will push against specific spot on disc connected directly to bar, pushing bar in other direction, once bar is fully pushed over, further spinning of disc will then align the other sides magnet to push it back. Tube structure also has half moon shaped protrusion on inside and on both halves so when tube is connected they line up to make a full ring shape on inside of tube, these half moon shaped protrusions have at least 1 small round opening on it's side in middle of curve that faces away from center of bar. The opening has a small magnet embedded in it so magnetic force is repelling out sideways away from center of bar. The protruding ring is positioned to line up slightly further in towards center of bar then the ring of magnetically repelled material connected directly to bar. This way when bar moves to right this magnet will act as a stopper keeping bar from going to far & same setup on other side will keep bar from going to far to left.
Copper coil setup:
copper coils are wound up as if wound around the width of wood board for a distance equal to width of magnetic ring setup on bar. Wound copper coils are then looped around the tube like a donut lined up perpendicular to magnetic fields. Ends of copper coils are connected into separate construct that will allow electrical current to flow somewhere else.
Circular construct is built like a stand that goes around the outside of motor segment.
Circular construct has flat ring of high permeability (magnetic field shielding) material that has small openings that will allow magnetic fields through specific locations. Top of circular construct has groove to allow the power bar to balance on. Circular construct can also be placed on other end of power bar so it is balanced. The motor segment is positioned so the disc connected to the bar that is connected to the motor is lined up so the disc passes under the power bars disc that is at end of power bar. The high permeability material keeps the magnetic field from the embedded magnets exerting their force upwards from hitting into the disc in the power bar until just the right moment when the impact will cause the disc in power bar to spin which will perpetuate the piston motion in the power bar. More power bars of the same design are built and positioned around the motor segment in a circular fashion all the way around. The bar connected to the motor can be increased in length to desired height and more of the exact same setup is repeated higher and higher up maximizing the over unity potential of the construct to ridiculous proportions. :D Current from the power bars is diverted to power the motor as needed and all other current is diverted to power my game console or the world. :) Interesting variation to this design would be to connect the spinning discs on far ends of power bar to main bar that magnets are connected to so the magnets spin instead of getting pistoned back and forth. So long as moving magnetic fields are perpendicular to copper wires it should work. By AMA
Love this video. Please can you make a video on maglev trains and how they work
Nice video, but why the hate for fossil fuels? They are an important stepping stone for future technologies.
Would energy of that level put off enough UV to damage your eyes? Arc welding's more than enough to, and I'd imagine this is even more energy, so I'm just curious.
Yes definitely, although plasma in of itself doesn't necessarily; some lower temperature electrical arcs are fine to glance at for short periods.
The solution to the battery problem could be hydrogen fuel cells. That brings up the point that rocket assists can also be environmentally friendly.
If one could use a nuclear reactor on the plane, fusion or fission, turning the nuclear heat into electricity and then back into heat in the form of plasma would be a waste of energy and weight.
You can directly use the heat from the fission by directly conducting it.
@@sid1234213 The experimental functional nuclear jet engines made by the USA had two circuits, but yeah, they used the heat from fission to heat the air.
This reminds me of the repulsors used by ironman. Where he turns excess electrons into muons and generate ion plasma. Which is a self-sustainable way to generate thrust even in space.
The fact that this concept came out of a Lab In good old WOOOOO HANNNN China tells me ALL I need to know
No, no it doesn't.
Oscillate Wildly. I caught that! Nice!
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Tang jet. Now that’s a good sign of a new era. 👍
Looks like spinning a propeller with that juice would be more efficient lol
A problem you've missed, plasma can result in the creations of Ozone and Nirogen Oxides. This will directly contribute to acidifying water sources, degradation of air quality, and to an increase in outdoor bacterial and viral spread, by virtue of reducing UV reception from the sun. This may also lead to vitamin D deficiency in under developed countries. It would be easier and better to utilize swaths of open ocean to grow algae for biofuels that reabsorb their own emissions.
Nice video :)
Him : Can you imagine flying on a Plasma Jet engine plane ?
Me : NOT if I land radioactive ! LOL
gas plasma is not same as radioactive elements . IIRC , plasma is very hot gas ( dangerous only when hot ) , whereas radioactive elements such as Uranium 238 decay radioactively even when uranium is at room temperature or at any temperature. BTW , those plasma in the China jet experiment is not hot enough to cause nuclear fusion ( which needs to be millions of degrees Celsius hot in a fusion reactor or 80 times the mass of Jupiter to happen ).
@@papaburger I was talking about the onboard "Atomic 'HEATER' " that would be needed for the Plasma engine to work.
It seems to me it makes more sense to make synfuel out of green hydrogen and use that instead.
leaving a trail of oxides of nitrogen in its wake... hmmm just saying..
Is there something better than the jet engine? I'm sure scientists in the 1930s were more innovative.
I had this same exact concept in high school back in 2014, I still have the drawing
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Once human conquer the design of fusion energy, electric power planes will be feasible.
but probably using props
How can i become a futurologist?
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Frankly all pure research has value. Often it's the next person or the person after that who realizes that this might have another capability. And so while Fleming's research discovered Penicillin in 1928, it was Florey who purified it and turned it into a practical medication effectively inventing the modern industry known as antibiotics. Both changed the world.
Until someone creates a light compact power source that doesn’t cause harm to the atmosphere or user like nuclear fusion
I feel this is beautiful technology
I don't know who, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability
Invest globally in bitcoin, gold, silver, forex market, commodities. Just don't be left out and save yourself
Beautifully said, I tell my folks these words everyday. It's good to save money but most people don't understand the market moves and tend to be misled in facts like this and always depend on money in the bank.
Pure wise comment
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Compression before ignition is the key to this tech. How to do that with 'electric-powered turbines'?
I think normal elecric engines driving fans are more likely to be useful and efficient.
This is probably going to take a 100 years to come to fruition.
I love your voice
This sounds pretty huge!
Well if batteries are the problem then once batteries get decent, we can just attach a propeller to a DC motor to make an electric plane.also add some solar panels on the wings to increase range.
And then they said.... we’re waiting for fusion to make it work XD
I like the name '' plasma jets''
The thing is, there is no mention of exhaust products. If this plasma engine leaves a bunch of NOx and O3 in it's wake, then how green is it really?