Thank you guys for finally explaining how the Tesla turbine works. So many people build them without any knowledge of how it's suppose to work.The two main principles Viscosity and adhesion is what Tesla based the design on. Very good gentlemen..
Interesting video and discussion. I read a book on Tesla years ago and it said quite a bit about his turbine. If I recall, the blade spacing was determined by the viscosity of the fluid. A thin fluid like air needs different spacing than a thick fluid, like oil. Also, the biggest limitation during Tesla's lifetime was the strength of the blade material which severely limited the size and power. Possibly the greatest genius that ever lived.
***** Second greatest genius in my opinion, I'd put Leonardo da Vinci as number 1 :) - undoubtedly the number 1 or 2 in the greatest painters of all time, probably the greatest mechanical engineer of all time,discovered newtons third law of motion 200 years before newton was born and his notes hint that he may have discovered evolution 300 years before charles darwin.
YTEngineer I disagree. It is Leonardo Da Vinci who invented useless contraptions. Not one invention of Da Vinci's is used today in modern technology. Not one! Yet Tesla is in every modern gadget today. Every! True genius!
John Smith Not one eh? How about the ball bearings that are in almost every machine on the planet? Even in Nikola Tesla's electric motors and generators ;).
The relationship between the rotating discs; creating centrifugal force which pushes the air to the outsides of the discs where it is compressed making the boundary effect more efficient has never been explained to me before. A brilliant educational video, for me a very easy subscribe and hit that bell for further updates. Thank you for posting.
My 1st impression about this turbine (yes, this is the first time I've heard about this invention) is that while it has really high efficiency at high RPM, it's not ideal to start this turbine with a high shaft load because air viscosity is too low to grab on the disks and make them turn, thus wasting a lot of fuel to get this turbine to start. I think that's the reason why we haven't seen them everywhere. Though the torque converter in car automatic transmission may have taken the idea from this invention
The Tesla Turbine gets plenty of torque. Charlie Solis has proven it with the Tesla turbines they make, even with just room temp compressed air. Real 3.75hp and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 from a dyno test and real sustained 1.2kW electrical load outputs on all the way down to 70psi even. At low rpm AND it’s geared UP to the generators too. Not down like everyone insists you have to with the Tesla turbine. Tesla never says you have to spin them fast for them to be efficient. That’s a misnomer about the Tesla turbine. He only says that it working as a pump sees increased performance as rpm is increased, just like ALL centrifugal pumps. But for the turbine Tesla says you must reduce the slip to increase the efficiency. This is done by increasing the surface area, and decreasing the discs spacing to get laminar flow regimes between the discs even with gasses. “Because irrelevant of the viscosity of the fluid, ALL FLUIDS, liquids and gases, can be forced to flow in highly efficient low Reynolds number laminar flow regimes given the right initial conditions and “flow cavity” parameters, such that turbulent boundary layer slip is eliminated, stream separation and counterflow is eliminated, rapid pressure changes from turbulence resulting in noise losses that can lead to early fatigue on discs and parts is eliminated, etc.”
Henri Schnauzer It is definitely on my list too, I want this one, it goes so unbelieveably fast. I also like the interchangable colors, and the overall small design. I have made Tesla Turbines before, but they are always slightly unbalanced and not built to go too fast. This turbine is made almost perfectly and would be really cool to experiment with.
I earned a Master's of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Arizona but only today I learned about "Tesla's Turbine" for the first time. This is a very informative video Thank you
Thank you Nikola Tesla. For being a man with enough integrity to care more about mankind then you did about your own ego. Even if in the end it may have been what caused a large delay in the evolution of science but you truly were a great man.
Nicely built model. Good sound explanation. Nice to see no goofy claims about over- unity or pyramid power here! I am a great admirer of Teslas's work.
I watched the valve video too, and as someone who works in the petrochemical field, I can definitely see refinery applications for both of these. Check valve failure can be disastrous in the industry, and the most common failure occurs with the moving parts. Another big money pit is inefficient turbines, most of which top out at speeds much lower, and run on recovered or generated steam, which costs money if you can't recover condensate, or vaccuum systems fail. Tesla was one of the greatest minds the world has ever known.
I kept thinking "oh, shit..." the higher it revved; not used to that ending on a good note ahaha. When it synced at 3:31 I deadpanned for a moment. Then grinned like a loon. XD Listening to the wind-down is equally awesome; it's like a two-stage engage/disengage sort of thing (I can't explain my thoughts well, blargh).
I love this,, I never knew other people tryed this stuff,, when i was a teen I made something similar in an experiment but the materials i had available to use gave way just over 30,000 rpm ,,, it exploded,, my hand was in the way,, no major damage ,, couldn't feel my left thumb for maybe two days.
Speaking as a rotordynamics engineer, I think what you are actually seeing at ~50,000 RPM is your turbine rotor going through it's 2nd lateral critical speed. One usually expects lateral vibration (and hence noise) to decrease dramatically after passing through a critical speed. Additionally, you can hear a similar change in noise and vibration behavior at ~25,000, where it seems to get rather choppy and then steadies back out. This would be the 1st critical speed of the rotor. Typically, one expects the 2nd critical speed to be at approx. twice the speed of the 1st, which what we have here.
Does the speed in which these critical speed thresholds happen, sustain a diminishing returns kind of pattern? ID: 25,000 = critical speed 1, 50,000 = critical speed 2, 75,000 critical speed 3, 80,000 critical speed 4 yada yada? Or does it pattern in the opposite direction? 25,000 is 1 50,000 is 2 and 3 is 200,000?
+RobwithaB Tag the person you want to respond so they do! I would be glad to give it a shot in helping you, although i doubt your inquiry was directed at me
Forgotten and/or hidden - yet he not only has a Wikipedia page (I'd guess about 6-7 printed pages), but Wikipedia literally has a separate "Nikola Tesla in popular culture" page of probably about 3 pages printed. No question he was a brilliant guy, but spare us the conspiracy theories ...
lwblack64 This engine type have practically no usefull torque/power. Yea it can spin light object rly rly fast. But the moment it try to move anything even a bit heavier or of there is actual resistance it just die out. So generally this turbine is just for being pretty much art not anything usefull. And some electric or combustion engine must power air pump firstly. So why waste power o weird system it's much better to just connect electric engine directly to fan.
+Czorńy Lisek G'day, Well, y'see, traditionally, the way Engineers deal with Contraptions which produce Stitpotsfull of RPMs with buggar-all Torque, like say for example Gas-Turboshaft Engines..., they generally fit a whopping set of Reduction-Gears, so their Turbine is free to spin at 60,000, 70,000 or 90,000 RPM, while the Airscrew revolves at 2,000 Turns per Minute, or so, and the Heligoflopter Rotor achieves 300 - 500 RPM... The challenge, apparently, is to cobble-up a Wind-Turbine to drive an Air Compressor, maybe using a length of 2-Metre Diameter Gas-Pipe as a Tower/Air Reservoir..., feeding a Tesla-Turbine running an Alternator, as a way of storing Wind-Power to generate Ekectrickities ON DEMAND, as "Dispatchable Power"... This has great possibilities, if nyet pissabolities, at the very least. Such is Life, Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !
:1:40 Also called the "no-slip condition" which states that as a fluid flows over a surface, the velocity of the fluid approaches zero the closer you get to the solid surface.
Edison hired brilliant young engineers. They made the cool toys, not Edison. His genius was in matching the right people to the right project. Edison also had a very good grasp of what the public would like to see re: modern miracles. Only two Edison patents are know: Using electromagnets to separate iron from trash and a type of collapsible concrete forms for making houses. They both smart, but in very different ways.
It's statements like this... two things. it makes you seem smarter than you are, but only to people dumber than you. It tells the people as smart or smarter, that you're not only dumb, but willing to prove yourself so in order to... what?
Consider this: Tesla figures that low voltage applications require lots of amps. Higher voltages require less amps to do the same amount of work. So he makes a graph, draws a line way off the page, and says that if the voltage is higher the wires are thinner, and if the voltage is high enough, maybe we dont need wires. but how do we do that...? then he says: if i make AC current, i dont have to push so much electricity through a device, i can push and pull it, and if i push and pull it fast enough (increase the frequency) then a high enough frequency will make for better power transmission and smaller capacitors can be used. Maybe if i make a graph and go far enough, with a high enough freq, then i wont even need a capacitor, but how will i do that?.... Then he makes a turbine that turns mechanical wind into super high spinning turbine... and being the Genius he is, he would take a light wind, convert mechanically to super high speed freq, to super high voltage, and distributed that energy to where ever on the planet he wanted it to be. a super efficient means of transmitting any wind power anywhere. I think this is what he was trying to do.
Well, that's part of how it would work. In essence, he was proposing to use the atmosphere as the dielectric and the earth as the conductor in a huge coaxial cable! Hit the right frequency, and the Earth/atmosphere system will resonate like a tuned circuit. Or a singing wine-glass. The energy exchange would be pretty good, but for it to work there could be no radio broadcasts. Any strong localized broadcast would disrupt the sky-field, and the transmission effect would become unsteady or even cease. You could have had free power broadcast all over your World, or you could have had only Radio. Guess being entertained is worth more than free power.
@@pirobot668beta except that the system resonant frequency wouldn't be affected by frequencies above that. Besides, Tesla's wireless power was to use the longitudinal wave to pull power and radio uses the transverse. Radios would still be able to work, but Tesla's system could be used as a carrier wave to transmit programming along with power.
little baffled but somehow it makes sense considering that crystal radio circuits I read on work on EM wave energy when they are in proper resonance somewhere somehow that might be possible
If you possess the knowledge for good. You are entitled to share such knowledge. I am a very strong man physically. people expect me to help lift push and pull things all the time because of my skill. You have a brilliant brain? you better share it punk. 70-80-90 + years of life goes very fast.
I used Tesla`s patent design and had a machine shop produce a Tesla Turbine for use as a micro- steam turbine generator. The turbine spun extremely well,and sounded really cool, just like the video demonstration, except for one thing... In our experience, the 11".00 diameter multi-rotor spaced exactly like Mr.Tesla indicated, would not actually pull a load applied to it, to our great disappointment. With 250 pounds of steam running through it ,we just could not get the blasted thing to function and do useful work. On paper,and in theory, with molecular adhesion and all that, it simply would not turn a genset, even with gear reduction.
🤭 brah I’ve already pushed 4.25kW with the 10 in plastic and aluminum TesTur prototype on just room temp compressed air… and never hit over 40psi at the nozzle. Also pushed 2.65kW electrical load at only 9000rpm on room temp compressed air and never went over 20psi at the nozzle. Even 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm too. AND I have the turbine geared UP to the generators too 🤭 not down, the exact opposite of what everyone demands has to be done for the TesTur to work. If I had to guess the reason yours didn’t work was because of your nozzle geometry design and not the turbine itself.
There are no genuine Tesla deathbed quotes. He died alone in his room in the Hotel New Yorker. He did say that his turbine was his best invention, but not on his deathbed.
jokerrabit Both ... right after they took all of his good stuff and hid it from the public. His Wardenclyffe Tower scared the hell of of them. Energy from the solar wind. Free unlimited energy. They put a stop to that in a hurry.
Ramon Preston Nothing is "free", there is always a cost. Try running a powerful tesla machine in your home with out stuff plugged in.. The tesla coil powered everything that wasnt plugged in, raised hell with computer stuff. In the time when his lab was shut down people were not ready for the concept of free energy. Yet it isnt truly free. You still have to create power to run a tesla coil. You get a better free from solar or wind power. Yet you still have to create solar panels or live in a windy area with a created wind turbine.
dlwatib I believe that but No he didnt. Do some research. Hitler sent out two SS Generals acting as reporters. Nikola was murdered, made it to look natural, which is easy watch CSI...they then stole all his research. The General who did it even admitted to it
You mean the guy who designed hundreds of flying machines, but failed to discover the Bernoulli principle? This motor is just as useless to power, as Da Vinci drawings are to flight. Once a load is applied this motor fails; just like all fairy tale RUclips energy videos. Their basis of continuum is momentum.
Most air powered dental drills turn at 400k on a simple fan style turbine. Speed isn't the big factor. Torque is what's needed to perform work. An air dental drill's speed drops by around 40% as soon as it touches a hard surface. An electric hand piece only travels at 200k but has no noticeable drop in speed when it contacts a surface.
frank_f thats a neat story you got there and all but I was just saying for essentially a toy 80k is pretty impressive. I was just saying in this scenario I was thinking like 20k tops
Tesla designed his turbine to have a tesla valve at each inlet to prevent backflow. At this scale it does not matter but a larger turbine would need something.
YTEngineer the valve he made was designed to use a fuel source.. he even shows how you can get around the pressure issues by having a spark chamber, the valve was a flashback arrestor
@paul austin at the Time When Tesla invented AC electricity , Edison used to electrocuted animals ( An Elephant ) in public using AC electricity to show How dangerous it is. Just to over through Tesla that much cruelty is shown by industrialist. Radio is invented by him, Marconi was his apprentice during invented radio, Marconi patented that on his own name
As lovely as a fast spinning turbine is, it needs to spin for a reason. I would love to know whether it has enough power to spin something like a generator at a usable rpm and if there is enough force to get something useful spinning from a standstill. I'd love to see comparisons between bladed and a Tesla turbine for practical applications.
Even Tesla’s initial prototypes got out 100-200 HP, nevermind what what they can do with modern materials. Edison nuked Tesla’s investor possibilities back then, and Modern indistries are just super entrenched on blades.
Charlie Solis has proven real power and torque outputs even at low rpm. 2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm on only 150psi room temp compressed air and 1200watt electrical load output tests on all the way down to only 65psi... all on a plastic and aluminum Tesla Turbine prototype…. AND it’s geared UP to the generators too. Not down like everyone insists you have to with the Tesla turbine! For the turbine Tesla says you must reduce the slip to increase output and thus the efficiency. This is done by increasing the surface area, and decreasing the discs spacing to get laminar flow regimes between the discs even with gasses. “Because irrelevant of the viscosity of the fluid, ALL FLUIDS, liquids and gases, can be forced to flow in highly efficient low Reynolds number laminar flow regimes given the right initial conditions and “flow cavity” parameters, such that turbulent boundary layer slip is eliminated, stream separation and counterflow is eliminated, rapid pressure changes from turbulence resulting in noise losses that can lead to early fatigue on discs and parts is eliminated, etc.”
Hey there. Thank you for being a Tesla fan and for exploring his ideas in a practical way. A couple tips on video quality: We need some background sound...talking would solve this, even if it was a synthetic voice. This would help with the other problem, overlays and text on the video. Again, thank you and I am subscribed. Looking forward to more, Cheers.
Great idea, take a lot of electricity, turn an electric motor with it, use the motor to turn a compressor and then use the air to run a Tesla turbine hooked to a generator that will produce way less energy than you started with to run your compressor. What would be the point?
If you design them correctly they produce plenty of torque even at low RPMs. Charlie solis has proven it with Tesla turbine dyno and electrical load tests. Peak 3.75 horsepower and 6.22 ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 rpm and 150 psi room temp compressed air. AND real sustained 1.2kW electric load tests on even all the way down to 67psi!
I'd be interested to see the effect of blocking the other input or the exhaust holes. Also if you use an air blower on a bicycle pedal it spins at quite a great of speed
I've followed Tesla's work for over 20 years now. "2 is 1, 1 is none." Connect 2 turbines using the valves as regulators. The valves will not allow air to flow back which I'm sure you already figured out. They will allow you to control the rpm. The Turbine can push 100 times what you are pushing with it. You have to use the valves as regulators to achieve full potential. And it wasn't meant to be used with air. Air holds density/moisture and will fail. Your model is excellent.
"When Tesla was on his deathbed....." Wasn't he found dead in a motel room and had been dead for days before anyone knew it? Exactly who was there to ask him questions 'on his deathbed'?
Thank you so much for the video. Would a magnetic levitator floating axle reduce the friction caused by the bearings? It would seem to me that the centripetal force of the air would lock the turbine discs to the center? Thank you for this inspiring video.
we used to have fun with bearings and air blowers at work. Just pick up one hold it within your thumb and point finger at the center and blow the rim with air. You can speed it up a lot and just release and watch it hits the ground and jets off foward going up walls and make cool sparks along the way. Its quite fun.
WOOOW. That was TOTALLY inSANE, how it took off. Apart from that, Tasla is the modern Da Vinci. Had he been born,in '57, the World would be a whole different place...
Nice. But I wonder where this concept can be of value. For example, if efficiency is 97% of the turbine output but the RPM needs to be in the 70K+ range, then powering a car through air pressure would be an efficiency challenge due to the necessary transmission of converting RPMs down to a usable number. Also such turbine would have to be rather large to output meaningful power. And how does such concept scale in terms of power and efficiency vs RPM?
It would only be good as a hybrid motor, it's not good for directly running things.. the goal was to reduce friction so power generation is more efficient, it wasn't to make anything move directly.. you can modify it and add fins, but that drops it's efficiency
@@greenthizzle4 where do you get the idea it isn’t for driving Anything directly? Tesla applied for a patent on a car powered by a Tesla turbine. It was turned down with needed revisions and he never resubmitted it. It’s in the “Unresolved Patents of Nikola Tesla” book from the museum. Also he has 5 improvements patents for the turbine that he patented in 1921, 10 years after the original and a decade of R&D. Patents GB 186,082 (improved discs stack, It DOES NOT include “fins” or blades to get added torque, what everyone erroneously claims are needed), GB 186,083 (improved combustion + steam turbine with recoup boiler on the exhaust), GB 186,084 (combustion steam super heater and multi fluid concentric mixing nozzle for the turbine where the steam jet envelopes the combustion exhaust always drawing a slight vacuum on the pipe to counter centrifugal head in the turbine), GB 174,544 (hybrid Tesla and Parsons reaction turbine for recouping the “reheat factor” and increasing overall thermodynamic efficiency. This one is meant for ships and boats), US 1,655,114 (VTOL Aerial Apparatus powered by Tesla turbines that counter rotate from the main lifting propeller to cancel out any gyroscopic effects of the prop that even helicopters still have to counteract). I think there’s one more I’m forgetting too but anyway… Tesla 100% meant for them to directly drive loads. Charlie Solis makes real actual working, power and torque outputting even at low rpm, TesTurs that are more than capable of directly driving a load. Dyno’d at +4.25kW between only 6000-8000rpm and peak torque of 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 rpm all with a plastic and aluminum TesTur run on room temp compressed air and never going over 40psi at the nozzle either 🤭 Even did real electrical load and efficiency tests all the way up to 2.65kW at 9500 rpm and never exceeding 20psi at the nozzle.
So nice to see more Tesla.. Wish I could think has he did and a shame someone so important is largely forgotten by the general public.. He is in our life everyday, right next to us.. Thanks for the clip, impressive..
For the people who did not get it Tesla did make a working turbine that run on steam and produced electricity. and no it was not itty bitty, the turbine can be any size, turbine size is limited by how fast it goes and what material the turbine rotor is made of. He also had one that burned fuel for that one he invented his one way gas valve. His turbine can also be used as a pump.
This sound, the sudden increase in acceleration when this thing hits that sweet spot at 50k rpm melts me. The sound of countless molecules in near perfect procession, driving a series of disks like billions of hamsters driving towards the tightest possible march - and suddenly - light speed. It's beautiful, YT
this is 1 of the coolest and simplest turbines ever. .would love to see a torque curve with variable load and the same air flow/pressure. goes to show in engineering and design the "KEEP IT SIMPLE!" option is always best 80,000 rpm from this GODDAMN MY COLLAGE PROFESSOR WAS RIGHT. time to eat humble pie.. haha...subbed str8 away to see more cool stuff like this.
Charlie Solis has a few dyno acceleration tests that show the power and torque curves of his Tesla Turbine builds. 3.75 horsepower and 6.22 ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm. As well as real electrical load output tests up to 1.2kW.
@@nono547 the Tesla turbine works just fine. Just because other people don’t understand how to design it properly does NOT mean it doesn’t work well or effectively. Charlie Solis is proving all the common myths about them wrong. Real power and torque outputs at low rpm. AND his is geared UP to the generators too not down like everyone insists it has to be used because “it only gets low torque at high RPMs, but since you have to gear it down there’s too much losses for it to be practical…” he’s already proven all those claims are completely false.
1, Tesla didn't invent the radio, but invented all the parts of the radio. Marconi put them all together and made it into a radio. Tesla was later credited for his part. 2, One of my biggest pet peeves, is the term " centrifugal force". It's really centripetal force, as centrifugal force is described as the naturally traveling in an orbital direction. We know this is only possible with an outside force being applied, otherwise objects would travel in a straight line. Example, take a ball on a string and twirl it overhead, it travels in an orbit, like planets around the sun. Now, cut the string, the ball travels in a straight path from the point that the string was cut. In the movie "Wanted", they showed an impossible scenario or "curving" a bullets flight trajectory, by firing the gun while swinging their arm, holding the gun, while firing. We know, without a doubt, that the bullet can only travel in a straight line from the point it leaves the barrel. That's centripetal force. Even the planets, traveling their elliptical paths around the sun, are under the influence of gravity. Otherwise, they would also continue on in a straight line, from the point of impact during the big bang, and life would never have existed, and we would never had existed to make such arguments!
@@leonardhall7203 Well. sort of. The point of a radio is to transmit information, not electrical power. To transmit information you must modulate the signal somehow so that different signal states map to different information meanings. To transmit electrical power this is not needed - a steady, unmodulated signal is best. That transmits no information - it has one state: "on". You can mash up the two and one example is RFID where part of the transmission to the tag is used to power the tag and the tag then modulates the otherwise unchanging power signal which the sender can then detect to "read" the tag. That's how retail store merchandise tags and library book tags work. In this scheme the tag in the book or on clothing doesn't need its own power source. Transmitting any significant power is hard. Transmitting information is easier because that can be relatively low power.
AnonymousTubes He was a great man, among the greatest of men. Check out this updated version of the turbine, it shows all of its capabilities - Nikola Tesla's Turbine
You’re right a pylon bearing impregnated light weight ceramics place in perfect nth degree race in - race out+ 36 volts turning from my 12 volt drill thus itself plus 4 ratio
I believe the more usable device would be a high-efficiency LOW speed wind turbine that could be coupled to a generator or pump. (alternative or off grid uses)...There are lots of types...but none are that efficient with low to moderate wind pressures...Key points to bear in mind: a) ability to run at low wind speeds b) small footprint c) low likelihood of injuring wildlife d) low noise e) some sort of a fly-off regulator to stop overspeeding in higher winds...GO for it. I'll be watching your page!
+gageoninja Hehehe, gotta love VTEC POWER BABY! I'd love to revive VTEC on a massive American engine one day, I love Honda all the same, but I can't imagine how practical and badass a Ford Coyote engine would be when VTEC kicks in.
Is it practical to have the exhaust air from the 1st turbine powering a second turbine? So effectively you could have multiple turbines running off 1 energy input.
I suspect at 'peak efficiency' the air pressure coming out is nowhere near sufficient. It sounds like there's an exact pressure to achieve maximum surface drag. I'm confused why these aren't used. Why wouldn't you just have a compressor fill a tank and then stick a generator on it.. and have the generator power the compressor to keep the loop. Obvious there's energy loss and you'd eventually need to plug in the compressor to keep the tank pressurized.. so you swap the tank. Compressed nitrogen costs pennies. Why aren't there portable generators using this?
@@sammadison1172 because energy density is a big problem of engineering. Compressed air does a poor job of energy density, and compressing the air costs more energy than you can recover from the gas. It's more weight, size, and cost efficient to run AA batteries than pneumatic power. We used to do pneumatic power where applicable for big jobs. For instance, a trompe being used to power pneumatic tools for a nearby mine. It's simply more effective to use electricity.
If, hypothetically, you spun the shaft at ~80k, how good is it at pumping air? (technically, what kind of pressure drops can one achieve across the two hose inlets?)
Wow it's fast! Nice design! But I'm surprised no one asks about the big purple gorilla in the room....what are it's practical uses? Can it run a generator? Be used to produce energy? How long can it run at that speed? Got any ideas someone can run with or add upon? Let's open this up for discussion, otherwise this is just a shiny pretty thing to show people
Charlie Solis has made some pretty awesome advances with the Tesla turbine builds of his. Real power and torque outputs too! 2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm on only 150psi room temp compressed air and 1200watt electrical load output tests on all the way down to only 65psi... all on a plastic and aluminum Tesla Turbine prototype….
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For a few seconds when it got to 70000 r p m i thought this thing is going to explode. What a genius that man Tesla.
Thank you for the insight, this has always been one of my favorite inventions by this genius!
Thank you guys for finally explaining how the Tesla turbine works. So many people build them without any knowledge of how it's suppose to work.The two main principles Viscosity and adhesion is what Tesla based the design on. Very good gentlemen..
Thank you for breaking this down visually. It's a fantastic principle and such a shame that he was not appreciated more in his time.
Interesting video and discussion. I read a book on Tesla years ago and it said quite a bit about his turbine. If I recall, the blade spacing was determined by the viscosity of the fluid. A thin fluid like air needs different spacing than a thick fluid, like oil. Also, the biggest limitation during Tesla's lifetime was the strength of the blade material which severely limited the size and power. Possibly the greatest genius that ever lived.
***** Second greatest genius in my opinion, I'd put Leonardo da Vinci as number 1 :) - undoubtedly the number 1 or 2 in the greatest painters of all time, probably the greatest mechanical engineer of all time,discovered newtons third law of motion 200 years before newton was born and his notes hint that he may have discovered evolution 300 years before charles darwin.
YTEngineer I disagree. It is Leonardo Da Vinci who invented useless contraptions. Not one invention of Da Vinci's is used today in modern technology. Not one! Yet Tesla is in every modern gadget today. Every!
True genius!
John Smith Not one eh? How about the ball bearings that are in almost every machine on the planet? Even in Nikola Tesla's electric motors and generators ;).
***** Do you remember which book? I'll give it a read. :)
Sujit Joshi Alas, no. I had read two or three books about Tesla at the time.
ive been into RC stuff for years, but it is still amazing how long ago tesla made the 1st RC boat.
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Lol, and people thought a pet monkey was driving the boat
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I drive a honda and i find this funny. Tought the same
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The relationship between the rotating discs; creating centrifugal force which pushes the air to the outsides of the discs where it is compressed making the boundary effect more efficient has never been explained to me before. A brilliant educational video, for me a very easy subscribe and hit that bell for further updates. Thank you for posting.
When Tesla cultists try physics: this video. 🤡🤣🤪🥳.
He's also selling kits and free energy generators. The jokes writes itself.
My 1st impression about this turbine (yes, this is the first time I've heard about this invention) is that while it has really high efficiency at high RPM, it's not ideal to start this turbine with a high shaft load because air viscosity is too low to grab on the disks and make them turn, thus wasting a lot of fuel to get this turbine to start. I think that's the reason why we haven't seen them everywhere. Though the torque converter in car automatic transmission may have taken the idea from this invention
The Tesla Turbine gets plenty of torque. Charlie Solis has proven it with the Tesla turbines they make, even with just room temp compressed air.
Real 3.75hp and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 from a dyno test and real sustained 1.2kW electrical load outputs on all the way down to 70psi even.
At low rpm AND it’s geared UP to the generators too. Not down like everyone insists you have to with the Tesla turbine.
Tesla never says you have to spin them fast for them to be efficient. That’s a misnomer about the Tesla turbine. He only says that it working as a pump sees increased performance as rpm is increased, just like ALL centrifugal pumps. But for the turbine Tesla says you must reduce the slip to increase the efficiency. This is done by increasing the surface area, and decreasing the discs spacing to get laminar flow regimes between the discs even with gasses.
“Because irrelevant of the viscosity of the fluid, ALL FLUIDS, liquids and gases, can be forced to flow in highly efficient low Reynolds number laminar flow regimes given the right initial conditions and “flow cavity” parameters, such that turbulent boundary layer slip is eliminated, stream separation and counterflow is eliminated, rapid pressure changes from turbulence resulting in noise losses that can lead to early fatigue on discs and parts is eliminated, etc.”
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It is definitely on my list too, I want this one, it goes so unbelieveably fast. I also like the interchangable colors, and the overall small design. I have made Tesla Turbines before, but they are always slightly unbalanced and not built to go too fast. This turbine is made almost perfectly and would be really cool to experiment with.
theLuigiFan0007 Updated model with even more capabilities - Nikola Tesla's Turbine
I earned a Master's of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Arizona but only today I learned about "Tesla's Turbine" for the first time. This is a very informative video Thank you
that is sick! the simplicity of the design. Nikola is a pure genius.
Thank you Nikola Tesla. For being a man with enough integrity to care more about mankind then you did about your own ego. Even if in the end it may have been what caused a large delay in the evolution of science but you truly were a great man.
Nicely built model. Good sound explanation. Nice to see no goofy claims about over- unity or pyramid power here! I am a great admirer of Teslas's work.
I watched the valve video too, and as someone who works in the petrochemical field, I can definitely see refinery applications for both of these. Check valve failure can be disastrous in the industry, and the most common failure occurs with the moving parts. Another big money pit is inefficient turbines, most of which top out at speeds much lower, and run on recovered or generated steam, which costs money if you can't recover condensate, or vaccuum systems fail. Tesla was one of the greatest minds the world has ever known.
Thats really neat when its synced up!
I kept thinking "oh, shit..." the higher it revved; not used to that ending on a good note ahaha. When it synced at 3:31 I deadpanned for a moment. Then grinned like a loon. XD Listening to the wind-down is equally awesome; it's like a two-stage engage/disengage sort of thing (I can't explain my thoughts well, blargh).
I love this,, I never knew other people tryed this stuff,, when i was a teen I made something similar in an experiment but the materials i had available to use gave way just over 30,000 rpm ,,, it exploded,, my hand was in the way,, no major damage ,, couldn't feel my left thumb for maybe two days.
What a great and exiting video! Great work, congratulations! Thanks for sharing!
One man can't possibly produce so many new tech that 100 years later we still trying to reproduce.. He MUST be from the FUTURE!
80,000 rpm plus! Absolutely awesome!!
Speaking as a rotordynamics engineer, I think what you are actually seeing at ~50,000 RPM is your turbine rotor going through it's 2nd lateral critical speed. One usually expects lateral vibration (and hence noise) to decrease dramatically after passing through a critical speed.
Additionally, you can hear a similar change in noise and vibration behavior at ~25,000, where it seems to get rather choppy and then steadies back out. This would be the 1st critical speed of the rotor. Typically, one expects the 2nd critical speed to be at approx. twice the speed of the 1st, which what we have here.
TheGlitchyCorgi Cool thanks for that. I must look into critical speeds.
Does the speed in which these critical speed thresholds happen, sustain a diminishing returns kind of pattern? ID: 25,000 = critical speed 1, 50,000 = critical speed 2, 75,000 critical speed 3, 80,000 critical speed 4 yada yada? Or does it pattern in the opposite direction? 25,000 is 1 50,000 is 2 and 3 is 200,000?
Robert J. Wiltshire The first pattern (25k, 50k, etc.).
So you might be able to give me some insights into turbine design?
+RobwithaB Tag the person you want to respond so they do! I would be glad to give it a shot in helping you, although i doubt your inquiry was directed at me
A true genius and thanks for sharing this with us
I had wondered how that worked.Thanks for the explanation.
Very well done…I've always thought Tesla was short changed as an engineer. His insight may someday set us free for the unending grip of the "grid".
Tesla was a true genius, he has been forgotten by the whole world and never given the recognition he deserves
Ron Wylie not forgotten but hidden from the public
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Exactly.
I wonder if he wasn't so far ahead of his time that we are still not able to understand his works
He was forgotten because he knew about free energy for everyone ,,powers that be !!
Forgotten and/or hidden - yet he not only has a Wikipedia page (I'd guess about 6-7 printed pages), but Wikipedia literally has a separate "Nikola Tesla in popular culture" page of probably about 3 pages printed.
No question he was a brilliant guy, but spare us the conspiracy theories ...
Usually not big on tech mimes, but this was a solid presentation, thanks.
Great demo ... thank you!
Would make one hell of a vacuum cleaner.
I was thinking that to. i wonder if u can drift it with a engine/motor of some sort and use it as wacum sucker to create wacum ?
I was thinking replacing jet turbines with this. Think Ram Jet on steroids. 97 to 98% eff. good gravy!
What was the psi at the inlet?
lwblack64
This engine type have practically no usefull torque/power.
Yea it can spin light object rly rly fast. But the moment it try to move anything even a bit heavier or of there is actual resistance it just die out.
So generally this turbine is just for being pretty much art not anything usefull.
And some electric or combustion engine must power air pump firstly. So why waste power o weird system it's much better to just connect electric engine directly to fan.
+Czorńy Lisek
G'day,
Well, y'see, traditionally, the way Engineers deal with Contraptions which produce Stitpotsfull of RPMs with buggar-all Torque, like say for example Gas-Turboshaft Engines..., they generally fit a whopping set of Reduction-Gears, so their Turbine is free to spin at 60,000, 70,000 or 90,000 RPM, while the Airscrew revolves at 2,000 Turns per Minute, or so, and the Heligoflopter Rotor achieves 300 - 500 RPM...
The challenge, apparently, is to cobble-up a Wind-Turbine to drive an Air Compressor, maybe using a length of 2-Metre Diameter Gas-Pipe as a Tower/Air Reservoir..., feeding a Tesla-Turbine running an Alternator, as a way of storing Wind-Power to generate Ekectrickities ON DEMAND, as "Dispatchable Power"...
This has great possibilities, if nyet pissabolities, at the very least.
Such is Life,
Have a good one,
;-p
Ciao !
Tesla was easily the smartest man in our known history! And certainly the one who's had the most profound impact to our modern way of living.
FOAD RIGHTNOW what about Newton?
and kanye west?
FOAD RIGHTNOW
Donald J Trump
lol newton ! lmfao
+FuckYouGooglePlus .....huh?
Wow that invention is truly beautiful. BTW the sound of the parts spinning sounds like the portals of chrono trigger.
:1:40 Also called the "no-slip condition" which states that as a fluid flows over a surface, the velocity of the fluid approaches zero the closer you get to the solid surface.
3:32 "N2 at 20, introduce fuel... Engine start..."
😎I understood that... nice
Egt rapidly rises through past 815
Tesla. Was by far the greatest inventor Edison could even come close to being as good
Edison hired brilliant young engineers.
They made the cool toys, not Edison.
His genius was in matching the right people to the right project.
Edison also had a very good grasp of what the public would like to see re: modern miracles.
Only two Edison patents are know: Using electromagnets to separate iron from trash and a type of collapsible concrete forms for making houses.
They both smart, but in very different ways.
It's statements like this... two things. it makes you seem smarter than you are, but only to people dumber than you. It tells the people as smart or smarter, that you're not only dumb, but willing to prove yourself so in order to... what?
P.s Sorry I went off on one without saying how excellent your video was. Brilliant work.
Awesome video. Clear and concise.
Consider this:
Tesla figures that low voltage applications require lots of amps. Higher voltages require less amps to do the same amount of work. So he makes a graph, draws a line way off the page, and says that if the voltage is higher the wires are thinner, and if the voltage is high enough, maybe we dont need wires. but how do we do that...?
then he says: if i make AC current, i dont have to push so much electricity through a device, i can push and pull it, and if i push and pull it fast enough (increase the frequency) then a high enough frequency will make for better power transmission and smaller capacitors can be used. Maybe if i make a graph and go far enough, with a high enough freq, then i wont even need a capacitor, but how will i do that?....
Then he makes a turbine that turns mechanical wind into super high spinning turbine... and being the Genius he is, he would take a light wind, convert mechanically to super high speed freq, to super high voltage, and distributed that energy to where ever on the planet he wanted it to be.
a super efficient means of transmitting any wind power anywhere. I think this is what he was trying to do.
Well, that's part of how it would work.
In essence, he was proposing to use the atmosphere as the dielectric and the earth as the conductor in a huge coaxial cable!
Hit the right frequency, and the Earth/atmosphere system will resonate like a tuned circuit. Or a singing wine-glass.
The energy exchange would be pretty good, but for it to work there could be no radio broadcasts.
Any strong localized broadcast would disrupt the sky-field, and the transmission effect would become unsteady or even cease.
You could have had free power broadcast all over your World, or you could have had only Radio.
Guess being entertained is worth more than free power.
Jason Duffy nice concept, the first one ive seen what could be applied beyond a theory that makes sense
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Advertisements will destroy the human race.
@@pirobot668beta except that the system resonant frequency wouldn't be affected by frequencies above that. Besides, Tesla's wireless power was to use the longitudinal wave to pull power and radio uses the transverse. Radios would still be able to work, but Tesla's system could be used as a carrier wave to transmit programming along with power.
little baffled but somehow it makes sense considering that crystal radio circuits I read on work on EM wave energy when they are in proper resonance somewhere somehow that might be possible
So much admiration for Nikola Tesla. The man has done too much for mankind.
Yes,and he got nothing.....
If you possess the knowledge for good. You are entitled to share such knowledge. I am a very strong man physically. people expect me to help lift push and pull things all the time because of my skill. You have a brilliant brain? you better share it punk. 70-80-90 + years of life goes very fast.
Correct. That is why we do not see it. Simple.
It sounds so right when it synchronizes!
NIce video, great graphical explanations.
I would love to have met the man!
80k RPM? Holy moley, that's quite something to build, nice job.
a 3 foot turbine disc turning at 80k rpm would have it's moving along at roughly 8,563mph a little over mach 11.
I used Tesla`s patent design and had a machine shop produce a Tesla Turbine for use as a micro- steam turbine generator.
The turbine spun extremely well,and sounded really cool, just like the video demonstration, except for one thing...
In our experience, the 11".00 diameter multi-rotor spaced exactly like Mr.Tesla indicated, would not actually pull a load applied to it, to our great disappointment.
With 250 pounds of steam running through it ,we just could not get the blasted thing to function and do useful work.
On paper,and in theory, with molecular adhesion and all that, it simply would not turn a genset, even with gear reduction.
🤭 brah I’ve already pushed 4.25kW with the 10 in plastic and aluminum TesTur prototype on just room temp compressed air… and never hit over 40psi at the nozzle. Also pushed 2.65kW electrical load at only 9000rpm on room temp compressed air and never went over 20psi at the nozzle. Even 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm too.
AND I have the turbine geared UP to the generators too 🤭 not down, the exact opposite of what everyone demands has to be done for the TesTur to work.
If I had to guess the reason yours didn’t work was because of your nozzle geometry design and not the turbine itself.
Now this is a worthwhile video. Tesla is so under rated for what he could achieve.
There are no genuine Tesla deathbed quotes. He died alone in his room in the Hotel New Yorker. He did say that his turbine was his best invention, but not on his deathbed.
yea who asked him? the CIA or the military?
jokerrabit
Both ... right after they took all of his good stuff and hid it from the public. His Wardenclyffe Tower scared the hell of of them. Energy from the solar wind. Free unlimited energy. They put a stop to that in a hurry.
Ramon Preston Nothing is "free", there is always a cost.
Try running a powerful tesla machine in your home with out stuff plugged in.. The tesla coil powered everything that wasnt plugged in, raised hell with computer stuff. In the time when his lab was shut down people were not ready for the concept of free energy. Yet it isnt truly free. You still have to create power to run a tesla coil. You get a better free from solar or wind power. Yet you still have to create solar panels or live in a windy area with a created wind turbine.
Ramon Preston "they" hee hee.
dlwatib I believe that but No he didnt. Do some research. Hitler sent out two SS Generals acting as reporters. Nikola was murdered, made it to look natural, which is easy watch CSI...they then stole all his research. The General who did it even admitted to it
The only other human to compare to this man's genius: Leonardo Davinci.
And Viktor Schauberger
You mean the guy who designed hundreds of flying machines, but failed to discover the Bernoulli principle? This motor is just as useless to power, as Da Vinci drawings are to flight. Once a load is applied this motor fails; just like all fairy tale RUclips energy videos. Their basis of continuum is momentum.
@@bornfree2237 I believe his successes in AC power generation, motor design and invention of the radio are enough to warrant my accolades.
You should also read about the ancient scientists of india
Davinki??
Great video and explanation!
thank you for the information. Great work
Not going to lie, my jaw kinda dropped when I saw it hit 80k +
Most air powered dental drills turn at 400k on a simple fan style turbine. Speed isn't the big factor. Torque is what's needed to perform work. An air dental drill's speed drops by around 40% as soon as it touches a hard surface. An electric hand piece only travels at 200k but has no noticeable drop in speed when it contacts a surface.
frank_f thats a neat story you got there and all but I was just saying for essentially a toy 80k is pretty impressive. I was just saying in this scenario I was thinking like 20k tops
I was surprised that it didn't fly apart at that speed.
@@dbmail545 Yeah - I was backing away from the screen when it started to go above 10K rpm. Wow.
@@StCreed You can watch it safely, no need to back away from your screen. Americans....
So with the 2 inlets, do they need check valves to prevent air from escaping or are they just free flowing?
Tesla designed his turbine to have a tesla valve at each inlet to prevent backflow. At this scale it does not matter but a larger turbine would need something.
Awesome, thanks for replying!
could you provide the blueprint? i would like to make one my own :)
YTEngineer the valve he made was designed to use a fuel source.. he even shows how you can get around the pressure issues by having a spark chamber, the valve was a flashback arrestor
Great channel guys !
Just when you think it cannot sound more intense, it sounds more intense. What a sound!
the man was a brilliant genious and left Edison in his dust
The world lost a great man when he died
And WHO confiscated ALL his writings, documents, the works? With respect to you friend. Think "deeper."
I also wonder if there was a lightening storm the time of his death.
Dont know about lightning storm but murder maybe
Edison was a fraud.
His assistant lewis latimer was a genius but via jp morgan, edison stole the credit for all things electric in those days.
@paul austin at the Time When Tesla invented AC electricity , Edison used to electrocuted animals ( An Elephant ) in public using AC electricity to show How dangerous it is. Just to over through Tesla that much cruelty is shown by industrialist. Radio is invented by him, Marconi was his apprentice during invented radio, Marconi patented that on his own name
As lovely as a fast spinning turbine is, it needs to spin for a reason.
I would love to know whether it has enough power to spin something like a generator at a usable rpm and if there is enough force to get something useful spinning from a standstill.
I'd love to see comparisons between bladed and a Tesla turbine for practical applications.
Even Tesla’s initial prototypes got out 100-200 HP, nevermind what what they can do with modern materials. Edison nuked Tesla’s investor possibilities back then, and Modern indistries are just super entrenched on blades.
Charlie Solis has proven real power and torque outputs even at low rpm.
2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm on only 150psi room temp compressed air and 1200watt electrical load output tests on all the way down to only 65psi...
all on a plastic and aluminum Tesla Turbine prototype….
AND it’s geared UP to the generators too. Not down like everyone insists you have to with the Tesla turbine!
For the turbine Tesla says you must reduce the slip to increase output and thus the efficiency. This is done by increasing the surface area, and decreasing the discs spacing to get laminar flow regimes between the discs even with gasses.
“Because irrelevant of the viscosity of the fluid, ALL FLUIDS, liquids and gases, can be forced to flow in highly efficient low Reynolds number laminar flow regimes given the right initial conditions and “flow cavity” parameters, such that turbulent boundary layer slip is eliminated, stream separation and counterflow is eliminated, rapid pressure changes from turbulence resulting in noise losses that can lead to early fatigue on discs and parts is eliminated, etc.”
I've seen those before and thanks to you I know who "made them" etc
another great presentation. amazing turbine. simple physic. I don't understand why his technology is so ignored even today.
3:34 Shift man!
Does not matter what people say: HE WAS A GENIUOS, HE'S INVENTIONS ARE FOR LIFE AND CIVILIZATION ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEM.
Terrific video - thank you.
Hey there. Thank you for being a Tesla fan and for exploring his ideas in a practical way. A couple tips on video quality: We need some background sound...talking would solve this, even if it was a synthetic voice. This would help with the other problem, overlays and text on the video. Again, thank you and I am subscribed. Looking forward to more, Cheers.
couple that with a mini BLDC motor (RC drone motor) for a teeny generator.
Tesla turbine generator - ruclips.net/video/dfyWB4XuATM/видео.html
Great idea, take a lot of electricity, turn an electric motor with it, use the motor to turn a compressor and then use the air to run a Tesla turbine hooked to a generator that will produce way less energy than you started with to run your compressor. What would be the point?
Won't work
So, how useful are these with a load on them? Could these be utilized in wind traps of sorts? (Thinking of Dune)
If you design them correctly they produce plenty of torque even at low RPMs.
Charlie solis has proven it with Tesla turbine dyno and electrical load tests.
Peak 3.75 horsepower and 6.22 ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 rpm and 150 psi room temp compressed air.
AND real sustained 1.2kW electric load tests on even all the way down to 67psi!
I'd be interested to see the effect of blocking the other input or the exhaust holes. Also if you use an air blower on a bicycle pedal it spins at quite a great of speed
I've followed Tesla's work for over 20 years now. "2 is 1, 1 is none." Connect 2 turbines using the valves as regulators. The valves will not allow air to flow back which I'm sure you already figured out. They will allow you to control the rpm. The Turbine can push 100 times what you are pushing with it. You have to use the valves as regulators to achieve full potential. And it wasn't meant to be used with air. Air holds density/moisture and will fail. Your model is excellent.
3:23 sounds like a sports accelerating.
"When Tesla was on his deathbed....."
Wasn't he found dead in a motel room and had been dead for days before anyone knew it? Exactly who was there to ask him questions 'on his deathbed'?
Citizen Kane ? who heard his last word?
Perhaps it was the bed that he died on, but not when he was dying?
@@DopeSauceBenevolence woah shit....i might be on my deathbed right now.
The guy that killed him!
Nikola Tesla, what a genius. What a fine piece of engineering. Best to come.
This beauty would churn up the aether very well :O
What was the p.s.i. used?
Thank you so much for the video. Would a magnetic levitator floating axle reduce the friction caused by the bearings? It would seem to me that the centripetal force of the air would lock the turbine discs to the center? Thank you for this inspiring video.
I would imagine so yes, the rotation of the air would center the discs.
What you used for air force pls?
we used to have fun with bearings and air blowers at work. Just pick up one hold it within your thumb and point finger at the center and blow the rim with air. You can speed it up a lot and just release and watch it hits the ground and jets off foward going up walls and make cool sparks along the way. Its quite fun.
Interesante demostración.
WOOOW. That was TOTALLY inSANE, how it took off.
Apart from that, Tasla is the modern Da Vinci. Had he been born,in '57, the World would be a whole different place...
Nice. But I wonder where this concept can be of value. For example, if efficiency is 97% of the turbine output but the RPM needs to be in the 70K+ range, then powering a car through air pressure would be an efficiency challenge due to the necessary transmission of converting RPMs down to a usable number. Also such turbine would have to be rather large to output meaningful power. And how does such concept scale in terms of power and efficiency vs RPM?
It would only be good as a hybrid motor, it's not good for directly running things.. the goal was to reduce friction so power generation is more efficient, it wasn't to make anything move directly.. you can modify it and add fins, but that drops it's efficiency
Draka Von there are ways to reduce eddy currents down to almost nothing or even have it work in your favor if you do things in the right way
@@greenthizzle4 where do you get the idea it isn’t for driving Anything directly? Tesla applied for a patent on a car powered by a Tesla turbine. It was turned down with needed revisions and he never resubmitted it. It’s in the “Unresolved Patents of Nikola Tesla” book from the museum.
Also he has 5 improvements patents for the turbine that he patented in 1921, 10 years after the original and a decade of R&D.
Patents GB 186,082 (improved discs stack, It DOES NOT include “fins” or blades to get added torque, what everyone erroneously claims are needed), GB 186,083 (improved combustion + steam turbine with recoup boiler on the exhaust), GB 186,084 (combustion steam super heater and multi fluid concentric mixing nozzle for the turbine where the steam jet envelopes the combustion exhaust always drawing a slight vacuum on the pipe to counter centrifugal head in the turbine), GB 174,544 (hybrid Tesla and Parsons reaction turbine for recouping the “reheat factor” and increasing overall thermodynamic efficiency. This one is meant for ships and boats), US 1,655,114 (VTOL Aerial Apparatus powered by Tesla turbines that counter rotate from the main lifting propeller to cancel out any gyroscopic effects of the prop that even helicopters still have to counteract).
I think there’s one more I’m forgetting too but anyway…
Tesla 100% meant for them to directly drive loads. Charlie Solis makes real actual working, power and torque outputting even at low rpm, TesTurs that are more than capable of directly driving a load. Dyno’d at +4.25kW between only 6000-8000rpm and peak torque of 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150 rpm all with a plastic and aluminum TesTur run on room temp compressed air and never going over 40psi at the nozzle either 🤭
Even did real electrical load and efficiency tests all the way up to 2.65kW at 9500 rpm and never exceeding 20psi at the nozzle.
So nice to see more Tesla.. Wish I could think has he did and a shame someone so important is largely forgotten by the general public.. He is in our life everyday, right next to us.. Thanks for the clip, impressive..
For the people who did not get it Tesla did make a working turbine that run on steam and produced electricity. and no it was not itty bitty, the turbine can be any size, turbine size is limited by how fast it goes and what material the turbine rotor is made of. He also had one that burned fuel for that one he invented his one way gas valve. His turbine can also be used as a pump.
3:31 - Vtec kicking in
I wonder what the slippage is when a load on the turbine is introduced.
Thanks, now I finally understand what the Tesla Turbine is all about ;-)
This sound, the sudden increase in acceleration when this thing hits that sweet spot at 50k rpm melts me. The sound of countless molecules in near perfect procession, driving a series of disks like billions of hamsters driving towards the tightest possible march - and suddenly - light speed. It's beautiful, YT
I don't know why I can't remember
You can think it, make it happen, commercial success is another matter.
this is 1 of the coolest and simplest turbines ever. .would love to see a torque curve with variable load and the same air flow/pressure. goes to show in engineering and design the "KEEP IT SIMPLE!" option is always best 80,000 rpm from this GODDAMN MY COLLAGE PROFESSOR WAS RIGHT. time to eat humble pie.. haha...subbed str8 away to see more cool stuff like this.
It may seem like a cool turbine, but it's terrible for actual purposeful work because its efficiency plummets under load.
jason vallance ,
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Yeah sorry as some one who un the turbomachines, i have to say the tesla turbine is... Not great to put it nicely.
Charlie Solis has a few dyno acceleration tests that show the power and torque curves of his Tesla Turbine builds. 3.75 horsepower and 6.22 ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm. As well as real electrical load output tests up to 1.2kW.
@@nono547 the Tesla turbine works just fine. Just because other people don’t understand how to design it properly does NOT mean it doesn’t work well or effectively. Charlie Solis is proving all the common myths about them wrong. Real power and torque outputs at low rpm.
AND his is geared UP to the generators too not down like everyone insists it has to be used because “it only gets low torque at high RPMs, but since you have to gear it down there’s too much losses for it to be practical…” he’s already proven all those claims are completely false.
I got my idea for how a perpetual motion machine could work after seeing this thumbnail. Thankyou!
1, Tesla didn't invent the radio, but invented all the parts of the radio. Marconi put them all together and made it into a radio. Tesla was later credited for his part.
2, One of my biggest pet peeves, is the term " centrifugal force". It's really centripetal force, as centrifugal force is described as the naturally traveling in an orbital direction. We know this is only possible with an outside force being applied, otherwise objects would travel in a straight line.
Example, take a ball on a string and twirl it overhead, it travels in an orbit, like planets around the sun. Now, cut the string, the ball travels in a straight path from the point that the string was cut. In the movie "Wanted", they showed an impossible scenario or "curving" a bullets flight trajectory, by firing the gun while swinging their arm, holding the gun, while firing. We know, without a doubt, that the bullet can only travel in a straight line from the point it leaves the barrel. That's centripetal force. Even the planets, traveling their elliptical paths around the sun, are under the influence of gravity. Otherwise, they would also continue on in a straight line, from the point of impact during the big bang, and life would never have existed, and we would never had existed to make such arguments!
Tesla was the first to transmit electricity wirelessly. That is exactly what a radio system is.
@@leonardhall7203 Well. sort of. The point of a radio is to transmit information, not electrical power. To transmit information you must modulate the signal somehow so that different signal states map to different information meanings. To transmit electrical power this is not needed - a steady, unmodulated signal is best. That transmits no information - it has one state: "on". You can mash up the two and one example is RFID where part of the transmission to the tag is used to power the tag and the tag then modulates the otherwise unchanging power signal which the sender can then detect to "read" the tag. That's how retail store merchandise tags and library book tags work. In this scheme the tag in the book or on clothing doesn't need its own power source. Transmitting any significant power is hard. Transmitting information is easier because that can be relatively low power.
3:14 VTEC KICKED IN YO!
I Think Tesla Drove A delorean Into The Future! That Guy Was SMAARTTTY!!!
I love you guys! I want to build one in Tesla's honor. He was a great man!
AnonymousTubes He was a great man, among the greatest of men. Check out this updated version of the turbine, it shows all of its capabilities - Nikola Tesla's Turbine
It makes a cool sound.
3:31 VTEC kicked in yo
magnetize the blade and let it spin in a field of coils.
You’re right a pylon bearing impregnated light weight ceramics place in perfect nth degree race in - race out+ 36 volts turning from my 12 volt drill thus itself plus 4 ratio
@@keitharnold1381 lmao
I believe the more usable device would be a high-efficiency LOW speed wind turbine that could be coupled to a generator or pump. (alternative or off grid uses)...There are lots of types...but none are that efficient with low to moderate wind pressures...Key points to bear in mind: a) ability to run at low wind speeds b) small footprint c) low likelihood of injuring wildlife d) low noise e) some sort of a fly-off regulator to stop overspeeding in higher winds...GO for it. I'll be watching your page!
The VTEC kicked in at 3:32
3:31 vtec kicked in.
+gageoninja Hehehe, gotta love VTEC POWER BABY!
I'd love to revive VTEC on a massive American engine one day, I love Honda all the same, but I can't imagine how practical and badass a Ford Coyote engine would be when VTEC kicks in.
3:51 and then add some NOS
+gageoninja yo!
+gageoninja VTEC YO!
4 years late but I am laughing my azz off bro!!!!
Is it practical to have the exhaust air from the 1st turbine powering a second turbine? So effectively you could have multiple turbines running off 1 energy input.
I suspect at 'peak efficiency' the air pressure coming out is nowhere near sufficient. It sounds like there's an exact pressure to achieve maximum surface drag. I'm confused why these aren't used. Why wouldn't you just have a compressor fill a tank and then stick a generator on it.. and have the generator power the compressor to keep the loop. Obvious there's energy loss and you'd eventually need to plug in the compressor to keep the tank pressurized.. so you swap the tank. Compressed nitrogen costs pennies. Why aren't there portable generators using this?
@@sammadison1172 because you live in a planet controlled by the oil industry's
@@sammadison1172 because energy density is a big problem of engineering. Compressed air does a poor job of energy density, and compressing the air costs more energy than you can recover from the gas. It's more weight, size, and cost efficient to run AA batteries than pneumatic power. We used to do pneumatic power where applicable for big jobs. For instance, a trompe being used to power pneumatic tools for a nearby mine. It's simply more effective to use electricity.
My thoughts exactly, perhaps adding a vacuum could make it even more efficient
@@jordanruark3993 if they implemented a vacuum wouldn’t that increase the output force caused by the air?
Thanks for the mostly audio less video. Love the silence
Truly a man before his time.
3:13 VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO
FordBoy332 lol
A/C power is way more interesting really.
If, hypothetically, you spun the shaft at ~80k, how good is it at pumping air? (technically, what kind of pressure drops can one achieve across the two hose inlets?)
Wow it's fast! Nice design! But I'm surprised no one asks about the big purple gorilla in the room....what are it's practical uses? Can it run a generator? Be used to produce energy? How long can it run at that speed? Got any ideas someone can run with or add upon? Let's open this up for discussion, otherwise this is just a shiny pretty thing to show people
Charlie Solis has made some pretty awesome advances with the Tesla turbine builds of his. Real power and torque outputs too! 2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at only 4150rpm on only 150psi room temp compressed air and 1200watt electrical load output tests on all the way down to only 65psi... all on a plastic and aluminum Tesla Turbine prototype….