My dad told me of his “kettle” in prison. 2 razor blades separated by matchsticks and connected to a wall socket. This was early 70’s.
@jeff6697 ай бұрын
a stinger, that is what I thought of too.
@Ian-mj4pt7 ай бұрын
Used that in prison 😅
@areyouastarseedtommy2toes1926 ай бұрын
Vcall them "stingers" here on pa jail prisons use all kinda stuff seen 2 shower drain plates ....
@driverjamescopeland5 ай бұрын
Never underestimate the ingenuity of a man committed enough to break the laws of man, when he's stuck in a box, with only the laws of physics.
@paulbrouyere17355 ай бұрын
@@Ian-mj4ptI saw school like prison, very happy to come here and learn more about science, with a very motivating teacher
@gerryjamesedwards12277 ай бұрын
Wearing armour while playing with mains power gives rise to a related phenomena; The Dumb-Ass effect.
@simonmasters32957 ай бұрын
I hear you
@tyfitzpatrick36067 ай бұрын
Ben Franklin would be proud.
@eddieelizabethhitler32597 ай бұрын
If it's earthed properly it's about as safe as you can get. They wear Faraday suits to work on power lines. I'd rather the current go through the metal around me than it going through my body.
@brad13677 ай бұрын
@@eddieelizabethhitler3259the problem is mains power wont just go through the surface of the armor even if grounded unless every piece has a good connection to the next you have a high risk of the electricity passing through your body in search fora path to ground. The Faraday suits those guys wear are specially designed to carry current evenly and the wearer is wearing an insulating layer underneath for more protection.
@eddieelizabethhitler32597 ай бұрын
@@brad1367 Even then, it'll just be localised burns rather than systemic. The armour will protect your heart, etc.
@erikt81a7 ай бұрын
"DC is AC at no frequency" I loved that phrase 😆
@whaddayawant2197Ай бұрын
Or is it : DC is ac at multiple certain frequency.? All sine waves canceling each other out except for the "dc" part. Something just to ponder on.
@Ma_X649 күн бұрын
When you take a differential of almost anything things are getting very strange. )))
@GodmanchesterGoblin7 ай бұрын
Just an important FYI - most variacs do NOT provide safety isolation. They are constructed as variable auto-transformers. One of the output leads is directly connected to one of the inputs. The other connects to the variable tap which will be at any potential between the two inputs but without isolation. A separate mains isolation transformer in addition to the variac would be my recommendation.
@davestorm67187 ай бұрын
I was about to mention this.
@RobHaag717 ай бұрын
Yep, not to not pedantic but people need to not think they receive protection from an auto transformer (Variac), they are not isolators
@deltab97687 ай бұрын
I think he was using it to control the voltage and because it had internal over current protection. You’re right though, variacs do not isolate from ground.
@GodmanchesterGoblin7 ай бұрын
@deltab9768 Not to be critical, and maybe you simply mistyped, but the point was it is their lack of isolation from the mains which presents a danger to the user.
@deltab97687 ай бұрын
@@GodmanchesterGoblin what I mean is that mains electricity is referenced to earth. The “neutral” terminal is grounded. That means you can complete the circuit and get electrocuted by touching the live terminal while also touching any random grounded object (dirt, a body of water, damp wood or concrete, metal framing of a building, etc) As far as I know this is the most significant hazard that would be removed by using an isolation transformer instead of a variac or in addition to it. The hazard of electrocution by touching both terminals (or touching water with a voltage gradient across it) would still be there. The overcurrent hazard (which is explicitly stated as what the variac is supposed to protect against) would still be there. If I’m missing something else let me know.
@iangeorgesmall7 ай бұрын
In Australia this technology is used in motel electric jugs The advantage is that if the jug boils dry it stops working without damage. The disadvantage is it’s a lot slower than a resistance coil. The jug uses stainless steel electrodes The water tastes normal
@PyramidHamed-ly3bk6 ай бұрын
Ur
@greenaum5 ай бұрын
Problem with stainless steel is that it sometimes contains chromium. The ions or atoms of which you really really absolutely DON'T want to ingest in your cuppa tea.
@gunsnwater26685 ай бұрын
Hotel jugs.
@isaacadams55706 ай бұрын
Dear Sir, I just wanted to drop a line to thank you for a terrific explanation of this whole process. You really have a gift as a teacher and your enthusiasm is positively contagious.
@TymexComputing5 ай бұрын
Ok - so is this whole experiment about a speed? IF i boil 1 litre with 1000 Watts for a minute with 2000Watts then i will need 10.000 Watts of power to boil it in 12 seconds :) - what do i get?
@dr.lexwinter86044 ай бұрын
Good morning sir
@fmas19784 ай бұрын
hey! that was supposed to be my comment!
@bigbadjohn107 ай бұрын
Seems to work like the electrode boiler. I recall seeing big one fitted in a large building in London in the early 1970’s. That one worked on three phase AC.
@aikiemarais66767 ай бұрын
Haha! This tech is actually old hat as nearly any kid that was in boarding school can tell you. We used it by wiring up a fork and a spoon to a plug and tying it to a piece of wood to keep it about an inch apart. Make sure it does not touch the receptacle your water is in and viola! boiling water in a trice. Thanks, I enjoy your channel a lot.
@interstellarsurfer7 ай бұрын
Classic jailhouse cookery.
@kingcosworth26434 ай бұрын
@@interstellarsurfer Boarding school, jail, same difference
@asherael3 ай бұрын
it's the same thing as a prison stinger, and far from free energy
@turfptax10 күн бұрын
Your videos rock even if they are about dumas inventions. Love the humor and the way you explain things, solid gold!
@edwinhageman93777 ай бұрын
You Always Have and Give GREAT topics that most people can comprehend = understand = and DIY themselves! "ROCK ON" ! .
@gordslater7 ай бұрын
safety note:- most variacs DON'T isolate from mains, they are merely autotransformers and so at high settings especially you are directly connected to mains with litte or no impedance between you and mains at all. For isolation purposes, you must preceed them with an isolation tranformer (suitably rated)
@neilgillies69437 ай бұрын
Yes, there's a marginal difference between safety and stupidity 😂
@chaosopher237 ай бұрын
Isolate the variac.
@simonmasters32957 ай бұрын
I Iike this subthread! As a dabbler in solar at 600v DC and 3kW PV inverters I have two questions (for you guys, and Robert): 1. What do we make of Robert's assertion "at the level of the cell...there will be *NO* electrolysis [or evolution of gas]"? 2) This resonance thing. Are we all happy saying 50Hz cannot have any resonance effect? Surely in a container capable of reflecting compression waves, 50Hz could easily generate multiple resonant frequencies due to constructive and destructive interference?
@chaosopher237 ай бұрын
@@simonmasters3295 Is this 50Hz sonic or electronic? Sonic 50Hz might be nicely resonant within a reasonable sized container (appx. A flat, first octave, fits in a piano), while 50Hz em will be gigantic (5,995.849 km, requires a small town).
@deltab97687 ай бұрын
He was using it because it had an internal breaker. He wasn’t attempting to isolate it from ground.
@justtinkering67137 ай бұрын
Way back in 1970, my wife had a hair curler/roller kit that used this method. The curler would heat up with the steam produced and she would wrap her hair around the curlers, and there you have it. It worked well, but it wasn't free energy. Had to descale it with distilled vinegar. .
@dontimberman54937 ай бұрын
those were a element heaters at least the one my wife had was.
@justtinkering67137 ай бұрын
@@dontimberman5493 I disassembled my wife's because it was working poorly after awhile. It had two separate electrodes in a tank of water. Each one connected to the mains. They were covered in minerals, I filled the tank with distilled vinegar to dissolve the minerals and it started working again. No heater element in hers.
@ericmc64827 ай бұрын
I remember electric jugs with two plates separated by about 1/4". Great advantage was no exposed element to burn out when the water got too low. I now wonder about the metals that got dissolved into the water ?.
@ronaldshomper23317 ай бұрын
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@choppergirl2 ай бұрын
In Rural Georgia our Dumass Effect is... when you hear your husband pull up and he's got a free water heater in the back of the pickup truck he found on the side of the road. What he didn't know is that people put out free water heaters because the replaceable sacrificial anode never got replaced, wore out, and they've rusted out and now leak. But it's free, so, yeah, you can't go wrong with free. New permanent lawn ornament in your yard. Thanks to the Dumass Effect.
@Ma_X649 күн бұрын
What is attractive in your videos is, despite all the "madness" of experiments you doing, you're definitely sane. Unlike many others I must say.
@harrybrown48157 ай бұрын
Epsom salts and sodium bicarbonate 1 - 2 grammes of each in equal parts. Pmw 41khz - 44khz @ 24-48volt and 10 amps produces lots of hho dependant on surface area and the correct anttena used as a coil. My best result was 8 litres per minute but i have fail to replicate this so i missed something in that experiment. Do not ignite this gas it is highly explosive and can deafen when placed into even a small container..... I pint was enough to deafen for 2 days and lermenant lose to some lf my high end and mid range hearing. Car alarms set off and people coming outside to see where the bomb had gone off.
@marksmith92187 ай бұрын
This reminds me of my childhood in the 70s, 50/50 mix of oxygen acetylene in a 1 gallon metal discarded engine oil container, a bit of fuse wire and 30 yards of cable to a car battery to keep a safe distance, no car alarms back then, but plenty of bemused neighbours wondering if the IRA had visited, lol..
@amazingpower27617 ай бұрын
Acetylene and oxygen in a plastic bag, but be careful the static charges sometimes ignite it. Have found if you use instead of a melting wire you use high voltage Arc, the explosion as much more power , especially under some pressure like placed at the bottom of a garbage can full of garbage. It could reach some serious heights and give you a large mess to clean up! Speaking from experience. 😊
@leithmark9597 ай бұрын
About 40 years ago some scientists in Europe somewhere discovered that placing a length of brass tube about 4mm thick and about 100mm in diameter into liquid nitrogen. When they pulled it out they heard it resonating audibly. So they measured the frequency and then modified an amp and speaker to oscillate the tube at that frequency. The tube showed rapid temperature reduction until approaching the temperature of the liquid nitrogen. I think the show was called “beyond 2000” from Australia.
@petergravy68937 ай бұрын
I can remember many years ago, we used to have an open wound electric element on a kettle and when the element eventually broke, it would still continue to boil water, but it took much longer. The same type of effect as this.
@kingcosworth26434 ай бұрын
You would of got your daily intake of Nickel and Chrome
@enigma_77 ай бұрын
Before you said Peter Dave's name I was thinking about how the Dunas Effect is similar to what Peter made. It's the same thing. I've wanted to know how he did it for more than a decade now I know. Thank you so much for this. I'm like Dumas I'd rather give things away.
@toddaasen2872 ай бұрын
absolute funniest man and extremely intelligent at the same time great video
@Killianwsh6 ай бұрын
Great explanation of how these "effects" work Rob! Thanks!
@francisbacon24017 ай бұрын
electrolysis? separating O and H?
@Songwriter3767 ай бұрын
I'd say not with AC current. DC, yes.
@troyallen82236 ай бұрын
Yes and no. If current is more than 2.8 watts then it's just steam....amps play a role as well
@TimFSpears7 ай бұрын
Add a pinch of salt and it’ll heat a whole load quicker 😊
@marcus30607 ай бұрын
Chef
@quantumquatro7 ай бұрын
this is exactly how Vicks warm mist vaporizer's work. They use carbon rods just a bit longer than those used here
@grahamrdyer63227 ай бұрын
Hi, Big Clive did the same experiment some years with something he got online from China, It used two stainless steel plates and it boiled water in a cup to make tea, there was a bigger one for a Bath !!!
@deltab97687 ай бұрын
Hahaha I saw this one! Just don’t touch the bath water until you unplug it lol.
@HiltonBenchley7 ай бұрын
After you mentioned the Ohmic Array a year or two back I planned to try it out, and still intend to. Heatworks say that the current in the heaters is something like 100 amps, which is fine for plumbed-in instant heat but not fine for home experimenting. I did find a formula that related the sizes of the plates, the distance apart, and the resistivity/conductivity of the water with the current and amount of energy imparted into the water. I worked out that it would take around 40 minutes to heat a bath of water with a current limit of almost 13 amps (one of the standard fuse ratings in a UK plug), although I ignored heat loss from the water. I did acquire some cheap carbon-lead batteries but couldn't find cheap graphite plates, so whenever I get round to experimenting I'll use flattened tin material (oddly, most tins are bad conductors, but tins that have contained condensed milk have a different surface finish and are good conductors).
@PWARHOLM7 ай бұрын
Most modern food 'tins' have a plastic coating inside. This might be why you do not find them good conductors.
@nuxboxen7 ай бұрын
You are one well studied man!!! you always amaze me
@laddcraner41704 ай бұрын
Always informative and thanks for explaining the how the difference in AC and DC affect the process in different ways.
@ColinWatters4 ай бұрын
If a heating element is totally immersed in water all of the energy it consumes and emits must be absorbed by the water. A very small amount might be conducted (thermally conducted) out down the wires but that will normally be negligible. Therefore ALL simple resistive water heaters are 100% efficient. This means that anyone claiming to have invented a better water heater (resonant or otherwise) is effectively claiming to have invented an over unity (>100% efficient) machine which isn't possible. What a lot of these "improved boilers" really do is only heat part of the tank, the water nearest the heating device, so you get localised boiling. Any boiler that puts energy into a smaller volume of water will boil that smaller volume faster. This makes it look like its heating the water faster. To do a proper test you need to stir the tanks to ensure all the heaters being compared are heating the same volume of water with the same amount of energy. Eg Apply a known amount of energy, then stop, stir the water thoroughly so it's a uniform temperature, and measure the increase in temperature produced. A microwave oven is less than 60% efficient so its far better to heat water in a kettle than a microwave oven. The exception being when you only want to heat a small amount of water eg less than needed to cover the element of the kettle.
@williamburdon69935 ай бұрын
I really enjoy learning from you, thanks for all the hard work!
@kingmasterlord7 ай бұрын
I can't help but think about that commercial where a guy was in a job interview to work for a law firm and he was talking about how excited he was to start working here at dumbass and dumbass, complementing Mr dumbass to his face. and when he finally finished talking dude leaned forward, looked him in the eye and quietly said, "it's Dumas"
@brynduffy7 ай бұрын
Brilliant video!
@leonhardtkristensen40936 ай бұрын
When I was an apprentice 55 - 60 years ago one of the guys connected a TV antenna connector to a couple of electrical wires, connected it to the net and put it in a cup with water. It worked fine as an instant water heater.
@soupflood4 ай бұрын
The electrodes should be graphite. Any other metals will slowly dissolve into the water.
@cortneyholt3 ай бұрын
Connected to the net? What net?
@leonhardtkristensen40933 ай бұрын
@@cortneyholt The mains net or 220Vac as it was in Denmark.
@soupflood3 ай бұрын
@@cortneyholt electrical grid / net
@PeterJ-ij6mm7 ай бұрын
Your instant hot water shower works this way by passing 230 volts though the water as it passes over bare electrodes. If you pass a current through water it will heat up. I don't see the need for fancy electrodes. Your meter will also register the current flow so it is not free.
@ferencszabo35047 ай бұрын
I thought that the resonance frequency of the water is 2.4 Ghz, that's why the microwave oven is using it!
@EtudianteAviendah2 ай бұрын
Brilliant! Exactly what I needed, especially the suit of armor visual! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and humor. Peace, Love, Joy and Blessings to all. 🌄♥
@liamredmill91343 ай бұрын
This was a fascinating science/engineering exploration,thank you
@msowdal7 ай бұрын
We had a vaporizer based on carbon rods in the latr 50's.
@thomasbailey69977 ай бұрын
They still sell them we got one in the garage right now.
@peppecurreriКүн бұрын
You can use carbon rod at 20/30v 150/800a for make magnetic gas
@peppecurreriКүн бұрын
You can use carbon rod at 20/30v 150/800a for make magnetic gas
@mikaelfransson36587 ай бұрын
Thanks rob. Always interesting and sound! Keep up the good work! I Just love it! /Mikael
@ronmartin72537 ай бұрын
no, it is all about resonance actually. this is why the trumpeter designed his bell thick - so it rang at 50 cycles. much easier, The cheap bell i bought was up in the 400s of cps so i drove it with an old audio amp ...at its resonance [the important part!!!!!!!]... > the sphere is rigid, the ~bellcover not so much >> cavitation in the cavity =-= DC for browns gas, AC for heating. even the best channels arent going to delve to deep into the true capabilities of resonance for efficiency without ending up behind a shad o bane
@marksmith92187 ай бұрын
Yep, you got it, it's all about the cavitation, that's where the magic happens....
@eddiepires39986 ай бұрын
I watch your videos from time to time because they are always so interesting . Really enjoyed this experiment and explanation 😊
@ThomasAndersonbsf7 ай бұрын
what I want to know is if the pure graphite plates you originally used, were losing any of the graphite into the water?
@daveh63567 ай бұрын
As I understand it, microwave ovens use GHz resonance to heat water courtesy of water's dipolar nature. The Dumas effect just seems to be an uninsulated resistive heater.
@pauljs757 ай бұрын
Apparently ohmic heating isn't the same as the claimed resonant heating. But a lot of people likely have a resonant heater in their kitchen if they happen to heat up or cook things with a microwave oven.
@LateralThinkerer7 ай бұрын
Look up an old-school Vicks warm-vapor vaporizer; plates immersed in water boiling nearly instantly (and generally getting a lot of scale buildup). The newer ones may use closed heater modules but I spent a lot of winters cleaning out the plate variety..
@paulbame8657 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember de-gunking those in my youth, which is over a half century ago. Always added a pinch of salt. It's just a resistor really (I'm not sure how the graphite/de-ionized water one gets started). The same "tech" is used as giant loads/resistors for, for example, dynamometers or high-power radio transmitter testing, or welders, and iirc a crude version's been used to boil water for tea in one's jail cell.
@princedemiterios24887 ай бұрын
Amazing , well proved with best explanation too, all the best.
@markpennella7 ай бұрын
Great explanation!
@sidster647 ай бұрын
It's a great understanding. Very little ever has to due with true resonance . Even electrically. Solid magnet's i have gotten to resonate using pulse Dc PWM module. I am reluctant to expand on my finding. Resonance without a way to harness is just noise. the geometry of ferrite does matter as well as distance. great video thank you as always.
@mikemotorbike42835 ай бұрын
My friend and I enjoy discuss concepts. I've since deployed the prophylactic strategy of asking him not to tell me if he manages to succeed at making an over-unity device, as a general principle. You can use it quietly in your own home, but not sell it. For selling, I suspect the rule of thumb is you can improve a product's efficiency by no more than 10% judging by available products whose inventors indicated awareness of certain principles, who then become respectfully quiet.
@moineagu17 ай бұрын
❤❤❤ brilliant project congratulations ❤❤❤
@historyisfake91537 ай бұрын
Mind blowing. Gonna be thinking bout this for a while xx
@pikachu51887 ай бұрын
_I'm subscribed _*_now_*_ because this is not my first visit to this channel and you are doing a great personal job sharing basic science._ 🐾 Montréal 🇨🇦
@Alfred-Neuman7 ай бұрын
T'es pas mal cute mon pti Pikachu! :D
@pikachu51887 ай бұрын
@Alfred-Neuman, c'est gentil de ta part. Tu veut jouer avec moi ? 😸
@Alfred-Neuman7 ай бұрын
@@pikachu5188 😳
@NotAvailable_na3 ай бұрын
Dude, you are awesome! 👍
@groovedodger7 ай бұрын
Interesting thanks. If it were possible to create a heater that used this method but was encapsulated in a package the same size as a standard immersion heater so straight swap ?
@dr.lexwinter86044 ай бұрын
They do these with tubes with holes drilled in them to make steam, instead of hemispheres like this. Idk where they came from but my father taught me about it in the 80's as a small novelty to build in the shed. So I suspect it's older than we realise. There's nothing to do with resonance or magic, it's just cavitation. The 'ohmic' and the example you showed is just electric heating, the spinning hemisphere, etc, you'll notice the inner one has holes missing, that's causes the cavitation. It's better with cylinders because you push the water through it so it's way more effective.
@noblemagi7 ай бұрын
Years ago I read that water's frequency is 1.5 tera hz. You can get there but you need to make a wobble phase.
@RaymondLohengrin6 ай бұрын
I was born in New York lived in Cuba for a few years. In Cuba, people made water heaters like this using two different size tin cans, one inside the other and use a piece of rubber from a bike tube to separate the cans. Placed in a bucket of water it would heat the water quite fast! I purchased there an nicely made unit (I still have it) that looks like a water filter. Inside it has two stainless steel plates separated by a piece of rubber. Each plate is sustained from the top by a connector bolt. I tested the unit at home and it used a tremendous amount of energy compared to the standard heating element in my small water heater. I never installed the unit at home.
@scottdowney43184 ай бұрын
I imagine it would suck down the amps.
@joeolejar7 ай бұрын
Back in the 50s, we had a vaporizer that worked in the same way as your carbon rod version. It separated the rods with a ceramic barrier.
@Spinningininfinity7 ай бұрын
The best current event programme I've ever seen😊
@tanneraerospace73017 ай бұрын
What are the joules in ( electric pwr) vs joules out (Heat)?
@djnucker7 ай бұрын
How does the power consumption compare to a traditional heating element when raising a given volume of water from a given starting temperature to boiling ?
@Chimel317 ай бұрын
I don't get why you mentioned free energy at all. Does it heat the same volume of water faster than a resistance, or is it just boiling the tiny volume between the 2 plates faster?
@jansharples90887 ай бұрын
Is the current and voltage not transferred through the water making it dangerous as pipes taps ect would be live?
@goldcountryruss70357 ай бұрын
FYI, APV developed Ohmic heaters for food manufacturing at least 50 years ago. It would have been a better demonstration if you had an ohmmeter in your circuit.
@onradioactivewaves7 ай бұрын
Its not in there? An Ohm-meter is resistivity.
@amazingpower27617 ай бұрын
How are you going to use an ohm meter? Temperature is the best test
@markkevin72455 ай бұрын
Blown my mind again!
@ebaab99137 ай бұрын
The resonance of the water molecule is used in microwave ovens. My question about this water heater is, what voltage, current and frequency is optimum? I thought of another question, would share waves work better?
@HaloWolf1027 ай бұрын
I'm surprised there isn't a whole lot of videos on the topic of the Dumas Effect. Thanks for your contribution!
@-LightningRod-7 ай бұрын
just brilliant stuff friend.
@user-bw3xj3ni6r7 ай бұрын
Fantastic video, great stuff %)
@David_Mash7 ай бұрын
I'm not even half way thru yet, but since the first minute, I've been waiting for an "April fools" How is this not just electrolysis or HHO generator making tiny bubbles? Edit: @Rob you killed us with suspense in this one haha. I hope we get tons of comments!
@David_Mash7 ай бұрын
Ok, Rob covers electrolysis with this in the last third of the video
@TimeSurfer2067 ай бұрын
Because it isn't. Those tiny bubbles you see aren't HHO, they're Steam. This is how we make a hot water stinger in Prison with a pencil, cord, and 2 razor blades. It takes a DC Current through it to make it an HHO Generator. THAT is the ONLY difference. Apply AC, get heat...
@andrepolomat24207 ай бұрын
@@TimeSurfer206 Except you can do water electrolysis with AC current, it'll just be less efficient and it doesn't separate the hydrogen and oxygen. Conversely, applying DC does heat up the water too.
@TimeSurfer2067 ай бұрын
@@andrepolomat2420 Show me. I been an Electrician over 40 years, and worked Battery systems for many of those. You are right, but still absolutely wrong. Yes, the water WIL be electrolyzed. BRIEFY. Because as soon as the CURRENT is reversed (ALTERNATING Current, remember?)_the PROCESS is reversed, too!_
@Benoit-Pierre7 ай бұрын
Electrolysis always happens, DC or AC, even in de ionised water. But deionized water is much less efficient at the start. But ... Here electrodes are much closer than usual. The very intense voltage differential makes electrolysis possible and intense because the low ionization is compensated by - high voltage - high proximity Plus : water ALWAYS has ions. Always. Water can be purified to be low ionized, but it's never 100% deionised. =» electrolysis happens here. But the Dumas effect does not rely on electrolysis. It relies on basic water being a resistive conductor. The trick to make water boil 5x faster is just ... Close plates. Close plates with large surface at less than 3mm will encap bubles. The proximity of plates will trap bubles on plates and surface tension will make bubles stick to plates. Once the bubles stick to borders of plates the water in the middle is trapped, and the water in the middle can heat up to 100 or 120° C via basic resistive effect. Because of bubbles, the water can't flow or renew. You produced an entrapped hot water zone that can boil locally. Outside the plates, the water remains at room temperature. That's how you obtain water boiling and.producing bubbles at room temperature. You are not boiling the whole glass, but just a thermally isolated part. It's spectacular because you are producing intense bubbles 5 times faster. It's just using proximity and surface tension to produce thermally isolated zones. At some point, it's also not far from Meissner effect. And of course, electrolysis helps producing small bubbles to isolate . There is no free energy. Just a nice story to fool people who enjoy confirmation bias.
@Jonathan-jo2xu3 ай бұрын
Man I have been thinking this would work for ages and I'm such a lazy bastard and I never tried it! As I'm watching your videos I'm realizing so many of the, as my friends and colleagues have put it "dumbass" ideas that I've had over the years are actually valid and that I need to do more than just thinking and start tinkering! Thank you for your motivation and inspiration, you truly are making a positive impact on this world. Be safe Robert, there are some folks that are not as grateful for such ambitious contributions.
@paulman797 ай бұрын
The low resonant frequency of water if about 2,4GHz, as microwave oven works. If you apply more than 1,2V between 2 electrodes into distilled water, you electrolise it (voltage varies slightly depended on the distance between electrodes) . Its HHO gas what this steam is (losses heat up the liquid water). Electrolysis can happen with AC current, but gasses are mixed (NO DC needed). It would be interesting to see if this steam is flammable (carefully).
@cyberknightmk3 ай бұрын
Water doesn't have a resonant frequency. Microwave ovens heat water because of dielectric effect (fast changing of the electromagnetic field direction.) The current explanation is that the hydrogen bond progressively changes as frequency increases. Dielectric loss of water at 2.4 GHz is over 40%, but it'd require frequencies of almost 1 THz to get less than 10% loss (there'd be losses in the device, instead of from the water dielectric heating, so it'd be basically not worth it, even if terahertz technology was cheaply available.)
@barrymayson24927 ай бұрын
Will it work with other liquids?
@pauldent30597 ай бұрын
I remember hearing a story once of someone boiling a cup of tea with a couple of pencils and I'm assuming you've just explained how that was.
@haroldemmers64287 ай бұрын
Great reminder of what we all learned in physics class at school, but took for granted. In other words --(as we say in the Netherlands)--> A great lesson in looking further then your nose is long.
@stewartpalmer24567 ай бұрын
Great explanation DR. Smith. You compared AC and DC as DC just doesn't have frequency. Great comparison. Think about this: Light is said to be electromagnetic. If you can manipulate either the E or the B you can directly affect the other. This might be what plants do within their chlorophyll. They emit green, which means they use the other wavelengths to affect the energy collected. Some how they are manipulating the magnetic.
@hotgusano617 ай бұрын
As always a fan of your videos and the back history of your demostrations. It ocurred to me if the Dumas method can be applied to melt iced water with the same principle. It will be fun to see how fast does this resonance melts ice. Cheers
@tl4ever2627 ай бұрын
I learn about this set up. It was called a jail house water heater. 1 electric cord, 2 Prince Albert can tops, 2 wood match sticks and a bit of thread.
@TnTOmnibus7 ай бұрын
i mention that in the video
@sidster647 ай бұрын
top of the morning . I've worked on turbines stream and it seem to me two bell create a super heated layer which in turn creates a faster heat up in the second dome. so geometry has it's benefit's. This also explain's many other principle. Water will boil at different atmosphere's . That's really cool. Nothing to due with resonance. Great vid as always thanks
@ThomasAndersonbsf7 ай бұрын
man that is a massive Variac, makes me a bit jelly ;) (*I have a 3amp one that is like 1/4 size wise to that, luckily its good enough for testing at least LOL)
@michaelbrukley13117 ай бұрын
I wonder if u hook up a zvs driver if it gets hotter faster.
@dogphlap67497 ай бұрын
Back in 1974 in Australia you could buy a water boiling jug that used a pair of flat metal plates as electrodes immersed in tap water. Just how far before 1974 these became available to the public I have no idea. They worked OK (a bit slow) and did not burn out as the similar jugs that employed a naked wire heating element (nichrome ?) eventually did.
@johnnymcgeez56477 ай бұрын
I am from europe and we had those untill like late 90s.. They were made out of thermal plastic and at the bottom were two stainless steel plates. Anyways they were marketed as quick way to boil water for coffee or tea.. But, i was a kid at the time and one time i put metal spoon in it.. Which was the time i realized that electricity feels like truck hitting you..
@mikenezumi17057 ай бұрын
As others have no doubt pointed out: this seems like a pretty standard electrode water heater/boiler, apart from possibly the electrode form factor. Fun fact: this type of water heater was in widespread use for DHW in Eastern Europe in the "good" old days of the USSR.
@kbbacon7 ай бұрын
There was a hotdog cooker that used the hotdog as the heater. Basically each end of the hotdog was connected to its own electrode and the hotdog was the resistor.
@amazingpower27617 ай бұрын
And that works very well also because of the salt as a conductor inside the hot dog sausage.
@johnmarks24087 ай бұрын
Would this work with tap water ?
@weorldedit7 ай бұрын
If you make this into a water heater, the power would depend a lot on the conductivity of the water. In my city we have two different water supplies. So I would get about double the power of my neighbours in the next street over. Where a normal water heater produces the same amount of heat everywhere.
@DrazenHosman7 ай бұрын
Do not even accidentally try to apply it to the hot water boiler, the ELECTRODES UNDER VOLTAGE are immersed in the water, which means that all the water is under voltage, and therefore deadly, unless you have very good grounding in the apartment, you will just have to replace the fuses...
@Vibe77Guy7 ай бұрын
I once saw a few videos of the HHO electrolysis, in the presence of an ac magnetic field that supposedly increases the efficiency of the process by orders of magnitude.
@niklar555 ай бұрын
Back in the 60's when I was in the RAF, we used to make our own mug water heaters. A couple of stainless steel knives, ''borrowed'' from the mess, with a piece of wood between the blades, thick enough so the handles don't touch, wrap insulating tape around the blades to hold them together, and pop the handles into a pint pot/mug of water! A cable with two crocodile clips, onto each blade and 220v plug on the other end. Plug in and switch on and in a minute or two you have a pot of boiling water. Remembering to switch off, and then remove the knives from the pot, and you can then add your tea or coffee! No resonance, patents or problems! Cost? Zero, as all the bits were scroungeable. .
@CKILBY-zu7fq3 ай бұрын
Two spoons back to back, isolated, plugged directly into a 120 circuit, always worked well making coffee, ect, for prisoners.
@lambda76527 ай бұрын
How is limescale reducing the "efficacy" it might slow down the energy transfer but its not absorbing energy
@dodobarbar3 ай бұрын
Known old thing. But you explained it magnificently! Thumbs up.
@officialdiadonacs7 ай бұрын
I haven't commented in some time good sir, but these experiments are a lot of fun and I couldn't resist chiming in. Have you considered thermo-acoustic and kinetic resonant frequencies from liquid/gas phase shifts? There are Thermal differences in the cell and convections happening in the cell right? Getting spectroscopic analysis of the water as it's running with power challenging for us citizen scientist from my own personal experience.😅 Hope you explore this more in particular plasma phase transitions with pulsed DC.😊 Ofcourse, I am pretty bias in wantingto see more of those types of experiments. Thanks for sharing as always kind sir and I hope you are able to enjoy every present moment to the best of your abilities.
@MacGuffin16 ай бұрын
Yeah , dont they have ultrasonic stuff too?
@dontimberman54937 ай бұрын
So need to see at what frequency water boils the quickest. Also at higher frequencies should get less electrode erosion.
@chaosopher237 ай бұрын
There is a kitchen gadget, no longer made, called the Hot Dogger or something like that. The hot dog gets put on two metal cones, and the lid is closed. 120 vac gets passed through the hot dogs, and in a very short time, you have lunch. It is no longer made. It was one of those Ronco or 'as seen on TV' things. It was highly unsafe.
@felixaudet58607 ай бұрын
So how would you call this device, a capacitive ( rather than pure resistive ) heater?
@jimwoods2933 ай бұрын
Is it any more efficient or are you just boiling it locally in the water will it boil a litre of water any quicker or with less energy
@adespade1197 ай бұрын
I actually discovered this eftect, by coming to your channel and watching this video.
@justrelaxing15017 ай бұрын
You sound like "Granville" "Open all hours" (David Johnson). And I love it!
@antoniosanford46757 ай бұрын
Can the dumas device be made of aluminum, because aluminum wont tarnish in salt water!
@derrelllipscomb6936 ай бұрын
How do you isolate the mains power from the shower with this kind of water heater . . . that’s in direct contact with both?
@terratrekker24 ай бұрын
Hi what is the voltage that you are using and what is the lowest voltage to make it work? Thank you for your time
@KaliFissure7 ай бұрын
Do you actually want them close? Or can a large distance force ALL of the electricity into heat? The higher the resistance, the more action held in between
@theTeknoViking7 ай бұрын
As always, a pleasure dear sir! Thanks a million for sharing your knowledge and positive energy (pun intended). 😁