43 Responses

1. What are you using for a boiler?

2. What turbine design are you using?

3. @MisterDirectX11 the flicker is caused by the frequency of the generator
   and the camera’s refresh rate being perfectly or near synchronous. much
   like the blades of a propeller or a helicopter rotor to appear stationary
   when turning at a certain rpm.

4. HI….how do you maintain the pressure from your boiler..

5. Thx for randomly ending the vid

6. Very Cool! Think this would make a good steam turbo electric drive for a go
   kart?

7. that is wounder-full. I am a believer in solar thermal Gen-sets, cannot
   build my own , commercial system of 5 to 10 Kwatts are 20K dollars in USA ,
   i am in the middle east ,and that is a fortune to waste on a none stable
   system, a Gasoline Gen-set is a lot cheaper , and the market window has
   disappeared as Iraq settled down. still there is a market, but with those
   prices ,…. never I encourage you to continue and hope for you all the
   best , and if there is any thing i can do please email.

8. Thanks for the video. I have shared this video in my blog.

9. Wow! That’s pretty impressive! Any idea what type of rpm that turbine wheel
   is spinning up to?

10. I would suggest you get a 3 phase motor and connect your turbine to it,
    then convert it to DC so you can take the DC and make 60 Hz AC you can get
    better energy results from it

11. What type of turbine is this? Do you have a link or a design i can look up?
    Great job btw, and thanks :)

12. Why does the light flicker so much? Is it unstable frequency or too low
    voltage? Or voltage dips because of the pump?

13. Great, thanks! I will post another video when I get the condensate system
    complete.

14. beautiful thanks for sharing .

15. HI, thanks for watching. The turbine is a simple design, made of two
    aluminum pieces machined to accomidate the rotor, and bearings on each end.
    I have a video of how it goes together, and an early optest with LP air, as
    well as a video of the rotor which I re-designed with curved blades. All of
    the videos are on my channel, sohackitj

16. Thanks, I saw your interest in johnnyq90’s turbine. In the future I plan on
    re-designing the turbine to increase the efficiency and hopefully get more
    power from it. I’m also working on a condensate system to complete the
    steam cycle and re-use the water.

17. No problem, thx for the random comment.

18. Hi, thanks for the interest in my video. Since I made this video, I reduced
    the ratio from 4:1 to approx 3:1, and shot both the generator and turbine
    with a digital RPM gauge. At 60hz the generator spins at 3600 and the
    turbine at approx 10,200. I can run the turbine by itself and attain rpm’s
    of 15,000 or greater.

19. 40% of ocean waves are NON STOP they have been in motion since water has
    been on Earth & will continue to do so until the end of Earth. 40% of ocean
    wave action will power all the worlds energy needs FOREVER , without
    pollution & end poverty by putting ^$ILLION a year back into the worlds
    economy. This technology has been known since 1799 !

20. bad idea try again,, you failed 

21. Unless you can build a large and elaborate solar array to reflect light to
    a super heater, photovoltaic panels are lest costly, easier to maintain,
    and more efficient. There are no moving parts in panels, and moving parts
    are the weakest link in virtually any power generation system. A
    reciprocating engine is expensive to operate and maintain, and there are
    considerable losses of energy expended on the friction of the moving
    parts. A turbine is a far more effective and efficient, when a stable and
    continuous level of power and speed are required. The point is – it is
    more efficient to capture energy and to convert it ONE TIME, than to keep
    converting it over and over again. A photo voltaic directly converts light
    energy to electric power – which then can be utilized as needed. Using
    Steam requires the light to heat a medium, vaporize it, transfer it to
    mechanical energy, then convert the mechanical energy to electric power.
    Look at all of the extra processes required to do the same thin as a PV –
    which can do the same thing in one step. Steam would make sense if
    there is waste energy that can be utilized, or sunlight is not available. 

22. @HonKyTanKMaN Only causes a problem if hes switching direction in rotation
    or possible at the start otherwise shouldnt be a problem.

23. Very lovely sound!

24. :-)

25. Where did you get the steam engine you’re using? :] Thanks!

26. verry knwledgable

27. And the point is ????

28. Nice set up, did you make the engine yourself and if so are there any plans?

29. steam = pressurized air? Same thing, use your imagination.

30. Darn, thats powerfull stuff. Great work Erik

31. @trance183 The camera is a Casio Exilim EX-F1, Id does HD, SD and Super
    high speed slow motion. Canon Makes some WONDERFUL still cameras that
    double as AMAZING HD CAMCORDERS. Search Canon EOS 7D one youtube, you will
    see some amazing night shots. I think SLR styled cameras will take over the
    camcorder market on the upper end. I also have an Canon XH1A, good for low
    light, but the EOS has it beat, half the price too. The Casio is not a good
    low light camera but great for SLOW MOTION.

32. AAAYYY ! uh ! whre the heck is the steam ? this is useless. wheres the fire
    and smoke ??? The hard part is making enough steam to make a useable amount
    of power

33. Stop calling your pneumatic engines ‘steam’ engines!! I am sick of
    searching for steam engines and getting your channel…

34. tractor diesel sound

35. could you use huge funnel shaped mirrors to concentrate the heat of the sun
    into an area used for heating the water to turn it into steam?? ahha…that
    could be true free energy! just curious if you think this could work?

36. Very nice*

37. Working on a source. The smaller ones are difficult to find (excluding toy
    versions). Lower velocity and volume of steam cannot keep a turbine
    spinning with a load. They will make a lot of noise and get good RPM (toy
    versions) but are less efficient than a steam engine. Large scale the
    turbines are more efficient and lower maintenance. The solar required
    (tipping point to efficiency) is around 10 sq M of sunlight to activate a
    reasonable turbine.

38. do you have a motor that will power it up yet?

39. steam engines have been around a couple hundred years, what interests me
    more is the solar powered boiler. what is your idea. have you mocked up and
    test to see what your output would be. what size do you expect it will need
    to be to produce any useful power?

40. I think you need an idler pulley on your chain if you ever plan to set this
    up for any long term use. That chain looks like it wants to fly off at you!

41. Holy S**t! this is awesome!

42. Next time it wil run on real steam? :) Very nice though

43. did it ever work with actual steam or steam from solar collectors ? just
    curious