I have been meaning to repost this for absolutely ages - I finally got round to it
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@gardencompost25911 ай бұрын
As a teen , I tried my hand at making fireworks. The local pharmacy had most of the chemicals I needed. However, I ran the pharmacy out of saltpeter, so I had to turn to my homemade stuff. Fortunately I lived in an agrarian area, and a neighborhood sheep pen needed cleaned. And you get the rest of the story. Thank you for sharing this bit with us. I enjoy your posts, a lot.
@ogi2211 ай бұрын
Hahaha, What young people do to make things go "boom" 😁 Don't worry, i had my fair share of fun with saltpeter and sugar propelled things (we loved to put this stuff in hard liquor caps, poke a couple of holes and light it with a bit of match head stuff used as an ignition source). We even made competitions, who's cap will fly higher :)
@joecrowe706211 ай бұрын
When was that u cant buy that from the pharmacy anymore, the good old days are gone
@ogi2211 ай бұрын
@@joecrowe7062 You still can buy saltpeter in a bulk in gardening stores ;)
@CCoburn311 ай бұрын
In medieval Europe, there used to be people who made a living collecting urine. There were so many uses for urine. But to make saltpeter, they used the saltpeter beds you described. It's interesting that people used to know how to use "waste" products to create useful materials. We certainly need to do more of this. For instance, we COULD be using sewage sludge to create biogas instead of burying it in landfills.
@WarkWarbly11 ай бұрын
Interesting you mentioned this, as the county I live in is testing this as a renewable/green energy source. They mostly just bake into charcoal briquettes and then burn it in coal reactors. Kinda like a steam train.
@VojvodinaNet11 ай бұрын
khm, khm...they might be already doing just that :) And the water too :)
@TheHappinessOfThePursuit11 ай бұрын
They collect, refine, and sell out urea from city water facilities. They also sell our poop back to us to spray on fields and big farming loves it.
@binra378811 ай бұрын
Biosludge - in US sold as 'organic' contains all kinds of chemical pollutants. So be aware that profit plunder operates any ruse to dump out toxic consequences to the masses as green virtue. 'Solutions' that are real become an effective mask or marketing pitch. fake 'solutions' are problems or toxic debts repackaged and sold as 'appreciable assets' or credits. Human ingenuity set in war & plunder - or getting for self-at expense of others (& whole) seeks always to game or hack the system, and the minds of all who depend on systems.
@turkeytrac111 ай бұрын
In the part of Canada I live in, the sterilized sewage sludge is used as fertilizer on non root crops. It's used to amend the soil in which wheat, rye, and peas are grown.
@paddyfolan11 ай бұрын
This was a great chemistry, and science lesson. Wish could’ve had you as a teacher Rob. Great knowledge you’re passing on!
@Hawkewood11 ай бұрын
We'd darn sure be outdoors more than any science class I was ever in.
@roncarter773711 ай бұрын
from the blue ridge mountains in se usa, robert murray-smith you be awesome !! thank you for who you are and the gifts you so freely share
@alexanderrjn1882 ай бұрын
Show low AZ here!
@jasonmorello137411 ай бұрын
you can also change the sheets for straw or chaff. If you make this mostly a waste reprocessing system, you can get more than salt peter out in some builds, but even more, after the leeching you can compost it, with most ash, and remaining materials are almost all fertilizers. leftover nitrogen compounds, broken fiber materials, rare earth oxides, and if you were careful about the lime amounts, useful calcium salts.
@RPRosen-ki2fk11 ай бұрын
I enjoyed that you switched up the science, from the recent fare. Robert, another AMAZING thing about your channel is, the learning doesn't stop when the video end, but continues in the ... comment section.
@pixelrancher11 ай бұрын
Nitrification bacteria convert ammonia into nitrates in aquaponic systems as well. The first bacteria turn the ammonia into nitrites, then the second turn the nitrites into nitrates.
@randycrowe497811 ай бұрын
That was fascinating. Thank you again sir for sharing your knowledgd and wisdom. God Bless you and your family.
@timw403011 ай бұрын
Thanks Rob, for the entertaining explanation and history.
@angrydog437911 ай бұрын
love this channel so glad I found it.
@steammachine306111 ай бұрын
Back in my early Internet days I had a thing for potassium nitrate. I used to watch how to vids on smoke bombs and had a go myself. Occasionally they fell over and shot across the garden lol. I'm much more grown uppy these days though. But I like to imagine theres still a file on me in some government department with the heading "harmless nutcase" due to the copious (probably not that much comparably) amounts of potassium nitrate I used to order on ebay.
@TheBaconWizard11 ай бұрын
It's also what traditionally makes cured meats (eg bacon!) pink when cooked. It is reduced by good bacteria (lactic acid bacteria) into potassium or sodium nitrite and then into nitric oxide, which binds to myoglobin in the muscle in the same way as oxygen does, thus, the same colour: Pink/red. This reduction process preserves the food while it's active, enourages good vs bad bacteria, and generally provides a safe environment while salt removes the water from the meat, the salt makes its own way-in (osmosis) and while the meat is air-dried or smoked. If anyone is concerned about nitrites remaining in bacon that they eat: It's a fermentation process, where none is remaining at the end. Vitamin C is added to be sure of this, in modern production, and anyway the answer would be to have a glass of orange juice or some tomatoes with it. Nitates and nitrites are also present in vastly larger quantities in green leafy veg (eg spinach) Don't BURN the bacon, however, or a lifetime of doing-so hightens the risk of cancer. Here endeth the bacon lesson, but between preserving food and gunpower, one can see that civilization has been founded on this substance in a big way, alongside several other important ones of course.
@Hawkewood11 ай бұрын
Nice, interesting tidbit.
@exploreseafaring11 ай бұрын
I'll never look at a bacon butty the same way ever again.
@AlyxGlide10 ай бұрын
using sodium nitrite & nitrate in food preservation is not traditionally from antiquity it is via our rather new additive curing process around the 1900s & is debated in safety as they are listed to generate higher nitrosamine carcinogens listed across food safety regulation .. & to say that they exist in higher quantities in leafy greens than processed meats is bizarre
@AlyxGlide10 ай бұрын
& if you believe that sprinkling sodium nitrite equates to sprinkling fennel seed then I hope you're not a chef..
@TheBaconWizard10 ай бұрын
@@AlyxGlide It is a fact. Nitrates have been in use for hundreds of years at least, as Potassium Nitrate, almost certainly thousands as my research in The Dead Sea and the production of salts for curing during Roman occupation lends further evidence for. And green leafy veg contain more of it than is used for curing, especially if they are somewhat light-stressed such as winter spinach. Not just slightly more. VASTLY more, like perhaps 6000ppm vs the 80ppm that is the minimum needed to cure (although unreliable at that level unless using NaNo2) note how some products are sold with this as a marketing point; beetroot juice for example. You maybe be confusing it with the fact that THE MECHANISM of conversion from KNO3 to KNO2 or NaNo3 to NaNo2 by bacterial action (respiration) was discovered in the late 1800s leading to artificial fertilizers and curing compounds. It is entirely possible although not always desirable to cure meats using only vegetable powder as I showed DEFRA while in consultation for them concerning proposed regulation of nitrites in organic curing. Celery seed power is one of the most reliable but is a common allergen and of course has a flavour although not as strong as one might think after curing. Furthermore, the final product in curing is neither nitrate nor nitrite but nitric oxide. This is ALSO produced during smoking from the combustion process itself and is the reason for a traditional "smoke ring". It is possible to cause that smoke-ring to cover the entire piece of meat all the way to the centre for smaller cuts as was a source of research I did for did for Danepak, but proved too expensive to do commercially (in their market) as special equipment is needed and it is a slower process. ALSO viable in technical terms is the direct addition of Nitric Oxide, however it is very dangerous as any leaks will result in Nitrous Oxide which is deadly. Not to mention that it is not approved for food use.
@danabourgeois543911 ай бұрын
Double thumbs up! Entertaining and informative at the same time.
@BenTheMotionist7 ай бұрын
I came into this video with questions. I leave with them answered, but with more scientific enlightened questions on the brow of the hill. Safe to say, I have learned something, and left with the thirst for more knowledge on production and history of saltpetre. Thats a great format and enlightening!
@JehuMcSpooran11 ай бұрын
Farmers still do that thing with peas. My uncle who was a farmer was telling me a lot of farmers would plant a crop of peas and then mulch them back into the soil before they started to produce any pods as the pods growing depletes any nitrogen in the plant. Then they would sow their wheat crop soon after the mulched the pea plants.
@davidblyth549511 ай бұрын
Another very interesting show - certainly a change from the normal.
@matthewgreen115211 ай бұрын
@Robert Murray Smith, good to see you again my good sir! I fell out of the internet back when you obtained the 3D printer. i just wanted to say thank you again for the time spent sharing the 2k+ videos with everyone that all hold good knowledge in what i call, "the advancement of energy conversions" i do believe its my final study as well as the most important knowledge to have, is just knowing its importants. As a primary direction of knowledge needs to become more common worldwide.
@BJL214211 ай бұрын
great work rob! fascinating :)
@ancapftw911311 ай бұрын
In Victorian England there were people who would collect dog poop from the streets because their were so many stray dogs. Once the poop formed white crystals on the surface, saltpeter, you could extract that to make gunpowder.
@simongross312211 ай бұрын
Wow, that really is fascinating. Thank you.
@VojvodinaNet11 ай бұрын
Amazing story, thanks!
@Vibe77Guy11 ай бұрын
HCl and saltpetre will form what's known as Poor Man's Aqua Regia, and will dissolve gold.
@KayakingVince11 ай бұрын
Fascinating stuff!
@lagunafishing11 ай бұрын
I think there is a mine under the North Sea where there are huge deposits of fertiliser. Mine entrance is from Lincolnshire.
@ShafaqIftikhar-pw9ld11 ай бұрын
Love the video Robert.
@htmagic11 ай бұрын
RMS, your audio was weak this time. I had to crank my volume to maximum and then you were audible. Since you don't use a clip-on microphone, a boom type microphone might be a good investment. Always interesting topics. As a Chemical Engineer, I studied nitrate production for the Civil war. They were using bat guano out of the caves and converting to KNO3. Cheers!
@jonbutcher980511 ай бұрын
Hmm. It came through loud and clear for me. Maybe a local glitch in your system? I'm sure others will comment on the audio issue to narrow it down. But for me... Crystal.
@kadmow11 ай бұрын
Agreee, quiet audio.
@richardsandwell228511 ай бұрын
I once went out in an old BMW car of a friend of mine, it was winter, we went walking in the snow and ice and after many hours arrived back at the car just as it was getting dark, on getting into the car I was astonished, has he started the engine, instant hot air came from all the vents, in a few seconds the ice just fell off the windscreen, when I asked what was going on, he said it had a Phase change heat store which dumps 45000 watts of energy instantly into the engines coolant circuit. After doing some research it was basically a box surrounded by Aerogel insulation containing a eutectic mixture of Potassium Nitrate and Lithium Nitrate, I would love to replicate it.
@JehuMcSpooran11 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Got a link to any other descriptions or patents?
@emariaenterprises11 ай бұрын
very useful for learning how to make good soil too.
@captainhornswoggle11 ай бұрын
Interesting. I just used it to make smoke bombs which often turned into rocket motors.
@stewartjones217311 ай бұрын
That villainous saltpetre that many a good tall fellow hath destroyed so cowardly. Henry the Fourth : Part One.
@schinderiapraemeturus623911 ай бұрын
A topic of interest to me as well, it's crazy that we pay sewage plants to actually reduce nitrite and nitrates back to N2, would it not make sense to arrest the process once nitrates are formed and extract them? The Ostwald process is great but quite energy intensive. Thinking an aquaponic digester would speed up the natural process a bit, and nitrosomonas bacteria can be found in the brown slime algae that forms on the surface of rocks in a stream, especially where the stream pools a bit. Cheers
@bigmouthstrikesagain405611 ай бұрын
Interesting.... could thos be used in a sort of home mass production way by harvesting the bacteria?...
@rosseryn821611 ай бұрын
Very interesting stuff as always. Sound seems really quiet, tried listening on 3 different devices, gave up and used the closed captioning, which I appreciated.
@kaos338310 ай бұрын
My pawpaw taught me how to make my own fertilizer with it back in the day.
@idjles11 ай бұрын
Guy Fawkes had to be very wealthy to get so much gunpowder.
@theminer49erz11 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Is there a faster way to do it now beaides the freezer method you spoke about at the beginning?
@AmandaBrecc11 ай бұрын
Yup, it's good for the boom stick, there's a different kind of powder, not boom but just as amazing. Baking powder, if you are worried of some thing happening. It changed just as much as boom sticks.
@arkansasrob974511 ай бұрын
I keep some at the house,black powder making,lots of people don't know what it is. When I go buy it have to look for stump removal
@gfbprojects107111 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video. Very interesting. 30,000 chinese labourers in the early 19th century were tricked into believing they were travelling to the gold fields of California and were indentured on the Chincha Islands off the west coast of South America to mine guanno. A huge number died of accidents and lung diseases associated with the hellish conditions on those islands. Sailing ship crews would spend their off duty hours high in the rigging while the ships loaded, rather than suffer the horrendous fumes below decks. Small wars in the Americas were fought over possession of this stuff.
@philip594011 ай бұрын
Shocking story. There was abuse of Chinese on the Canadian railway also .
@johndelong557411 ай бұрын
So CONVENIENT!
@Veritequiparles11 ай бұрын
I've a feeling this video is leading into novel ideas on saltpetre can be used in energy generation and storage... I continue to watch with anticipation :) Thanks Rob, always appreciate your work
@bigmouthstrikesagain405611 ай бұрын
I winder if there would be a way to do this with modern methods and automation to speed up the process to a month or two?
@bigmouthstrikesagain405611 ай бұрын
Maybe gmo bacteria that are better at converting the nitrogen or adding air stones and a heating or cooling system to a compost aerator bin that can be spun to aerate it?
@eXeYeZ-40411 ай бұрын
Would passing pipes thru the heating from the pile reclaim some of the heat for some other purpose while keep the pile st a steady temp?
@philip594011 ай бұрын
I've come across hot water produced by running pipes through beds of composting material. I think the fella told me getting horse manure for the bacteria was key but my memory could be corrupted there, cause why not cow manure ? Surely there must exist manure specialists.
@suzannehartmann94611 ай бұрын
Please turn the volume up a trifle for us with a bit of trouble hearing? Others can adjust their volume down. Thanks.
@Nickle31411 ай бұрын
is there a modern approach? For example, pumping air into a liquid mix, to get the saltpeter out that way?
@joecrowe706211 ай бұрын
Can you do a video on using compost piles to heat a house...while at the same time making soil beautiful idea
@mariem599011 ай бұрын
❤
@lashark0611 ай бұрын
You'd be a fantastic alchemist!
@Katz200111 ай бұрын
I hope you'll take a look at this, maybe a new thing? Using cement and black carbon to make a super capacitor?
@cymacymulacra230111 ай бұрын
Rob, can fuming nitric acid increase the nitrate energy level any? I ask b/c this is a strategy with ammonium nitrate (fertilizer), and a reason that fertilizer cannot be sold, or bought, in the U.S. beyond 13% strength without a federal license.
@magabesse11 ай бұрын
Funny thing about the US, you cannot buy ammonium nitrate for your garden, BUT it is legally sold without a license as a Tannerite kit
@kevwills85811 ай бұрын
In North Korea, children have to take the house faeces to school, to collect for fertilisers .. as mentioned in Yeonmi Parks recent autobiography ..
@willcool71311 ай бұрын
I believe bat guano deposits in many caves are also a rich source of potassium nitrate.
@bigmouthstrikesagain405611 ай бұрын
Also a rich spurce of deadly viruses like rabies and Marburg virus... so you'd probably want to wear a chainlink suit or hazmat suit and a respirator to harvest that?
@partciudgam847811 ай бұрын
Yes, but Wayne industries has the monopoly on that...
@emariaenterprises11 ай бұрын
@@partciudgam8478 LOL!
@gunlimitedammo388811 ай бұрын
I made some KNO3 the old fashioned way, many years ago. That was perhaps the most vile thing I’ve done in my life. My end product was poor, probably contaminated with NaNO3. It’s good that we now have the Haber Process.
@saidutube11 ай бұрын
invaluable!!!! Thank you!! Please work on the sound quality of the videos. The sound is rather low and muddled throughtout the presentation of many of your expertly explained content.
@308dad811 ай бұрын
During the American “civil” war the South mined Potassium Nitrate from caves with large bat populations. Visited a couple in Arkansas with that history as part of the tour.
@justtinkering671311 ай бұрын
What video is the one on the magnetic stirling? There are so many videos I can't find it.
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
I removed them when i did the short - they weren't very well watched and all the basic info was in the short - guess I can redo them
@justtinkering671311 ай бұрын
@@ThinkingandTinkering thanks. I'd like to make one. The short was so short I missed most of it .
@BradKarthauser11 ай бұрын
If you want to have some fun get a copy of "Magic with Chemistry" by Edward L. Palder from the mid-60's. Spent many hours of my misguided youth following it's recipes for fireworks, instant fire and flaming ice cubes. Of course today I'd recommend it for "entertainment purposes only." It's amazing I still have all my fingers. 😂
@philip594011 ай бұрын
The Young Chemist publication goes way back too into late 1800s . The russian publication Experiments without Explosions is intriguing to read .
@Hawkewood11 ай бұрын
There is also a phase in aquarium cycles where waste ammonia is converted to nitrite, then nitrate, then nitrogen by an third bacterium. This process could modified to stop at nitrate. Still not a small scale hobby to produce a useful amount.
@Barskor111 ай бұрын
Dandelions are high in potasium nitrates feed that to rabbits etcetera and you are off to the races a lap ahead.
@brothernorb858611 ай бұрын
I really love your stuff. Being American and not having the equipment to hear your very low volume, I simply can't get enough to understand which makes it pointless
@russellzauner11 ай бұрын
Ah. *starts designing nitrification into aquaculture scheme*
@russellzauner11 ай бұрын
(nitrate and other extractions could replace molecular sieves, which aren't self-cleaning but collection is literally the process of cleaning so the waste can be reprocessed in-situ, tightening the "closed-ness" of the system)
@simonsimon-gq3rk11 ай бұрын
je serais curieux de voir comment tu utilises le kno3 pour les batteries et supercapacitors... 1) on peut faire du charbon actif dopé 2) il est intéressant comme électrolyte 3)facile à récupérer et très peu cher dans le monde agricole (8€/25Kg !!)
@igorschmidlapp698711 ай бұрын
Captain Kirk found nice deposits of saltpeter when he fought the Gorn in TOS: "Arena"... ;-)
@martinsaint999911 ай бұрын
In the 18th century they even used old graveyard soil to extract saltpetre. I have read this in an old book.
@rfiskillingussoftly656811 ай бұрын
Be careful... The salt peter...can take the lead out of your pencil! Lol! The navy used it in food on ships to keep the sailors from.....well you know....getting any stiffness in their...joints! Lol!
@philip594011 ай бұрын
Potassium bromide? Prisoners talked about bromide tea . I'm avoiding details of the nitrates taken orally. In Australia anyway, we had Ford Pills once . I got snippets about it and quarantined any further looks in .
@ancientsage407111 ай бұрын
There are also tales of witches who used it to keep their men faithful.
@KM-es4yx11 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@travismoore784911 ай бұрын
I wonder if strait urea, sulfur and carbon would work like black powder.
@rogerc796011 ай бұрын
Caesium nitrate is better explosion The exhaust fumes of diesel and gas turbines contain NOx Potash is plasma separated Is there any urine chemistry reactions? Sewage treatment chemistry to produce explosives?
@philip594011 ай бұрын
Have you watched Cody's lab.
@WarkWarbly11 ай бұрын
This is really cool, but the sulfur is the real issue. Is it readily available within nature? Is there a means of extraction, precipitation, or some similar process to chemically separate it from random earth?
@schinderiapraemeturus623911 ай бұрын
yes, sulfates and sulfites can be reduced back to elemental sulfur, and sulfides can be oxidized similarly. Calcium sulfate (gypsum) would be a readily available source. However for making black powder, I prefer modern substitutes that contain no sulfur whatsoever, i.e. Triple 7, Blue MZ,
@WarkWarbly11 ай бұрын
@@schinderiapraemeturus6239 You lost me at gypsum 😅
@partciudgam847811 ай бұрын
Sulphur is extracted in asia from volcanoes, and sold in hardware stores as a vermin remover
@steammachine306111 ай бұрын
Onions and most of the allium family in particular are high in sulphur. It's the reason they make your eyes stream when you chop them. I'm sure they're not the only plant that contains them. Both nitrates and sulphur can be had in one form or other from a garden centre anyway as both are used as plant food. Nitrates I believe are used for strong leaf growth. Nettles will often grow where theres nitrate rich soil as well so as well as the soil beneath nettles are probably high in nitrates.
@philip594011 ай бұрын
Sulphur is readily available in nature still . Heaps of places like in Indonesia Spain Italy Germany Russia China....
@ClownWhisper11 ай бұрын
Chicken coops would grow in my chicken coops on the bottom layers of straw and it would be quite prevalent you could see it if you put it in a big garbage can and soaked it you could fish out the straw and cook down the water
@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic654211 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation! (~_^)-b
@SuperRama6667 ай бұрын
So hows phosphorus made from urine?
@dvhx11 ай бұрын
Potassium = Pot ash (wood ash put in a pot with a water)
@nunyabidniz286811 ай бұрын
But in the modern context, how did we go from the ammonia created by the Haber-Bosch process (yes, I know we've gone beyond that now, but I'm talking about a century past, the beginning of the "modern era") to get the nitric acid to get nitrate fertilizer? [Again, in modern context we use the nitric acid to make nitrocellulose "smokeless" powder; but the nitrates for fertilizer is the actual important commercial process since w/o it the world would be starving...]
@hubrisnaut11 ай бұрын
Germans... Ostwald process, the catalytic conversion of ammonia to nitric acid.
@salilsahani272111 ай бұрын
:)
@ClownWhisper11 ай бұрын
It was also known as a niter bed
@Wake-upCall-zc8id11 ай бұрын
All that work or take leafs from Coltsfoot plant (Tussilago farfara) that already as a high content of saltpeter and sulfur...
@crabby76689 ай бұрын
Ah crop rotation, turnip Townshend rules.
@mechanoid573911 ай бұрын
Ohhh! So that's what the white stuff is on the clods in my bag of compost!
@ashleysmith310611 ай бұрын
A common source of saltpetre in the 1800s was __ batshit ! "It was for the salt-peter, to be used in making gunpowder that guano deposits in many caves in Missouri were worked during the Civil War" (Bat Guano and its Fertilizing Value. Wm. A. Albrecht. 1921) There were large Bat Guano deposits worked in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia in the 1800s, mainly for fertilisers (Diversity and Biogeography of Subterranean Guano Arthropod Communities of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Timothy Andrew Moulds )
@kevwills85811 ай бұрын
During covid here in Australia there was a shortage of Ad Blue Diesel additive re a shortage of Urea not being shipped from China .. How weird when we could make it ourselves essentially ... Thats one thing a bout Australia that I despise, We have no manufacturing industry here...
@CubbysAquatics11 ай бұрын
Anyone with an aquarium at home has had plenty of experience producing and trying to get rid of nitrates. 😂
@patrickdocherty245611 ай бұрын
Have looked at abblue
@oddjobbob874211 ай бұрын
The ingenuity of the human mind is always astounding. My favorite example is cheese making. To gelify the casein protein you need rennit. Rennit comes from the dried stomach of a 2-3 day old lamb or kid. Any older and they won’t be feeding on the colostrum from the mother sheep or goat, and the stomach lining is no longer rich with rennit. Who was it, I wonder, and why was it, that someone thought, we should kill a new baby lamb tip out it’s stomach, dry it, break off a bit, grind it up and mix it into fresh milk. To quote Napoleon Hill: Whatsoever the mind of man Can Conceive, And believe, It can Achieve
@koaasst11 ай бұрын
the fig tree would also be found to gel out the casein, the latex when you broke a stem was ready to go at it. another rabbit hole for those interested.
@synapticaxon930311 ай бұрын
See: Birkeland-Eyde or Nodon Process.
@jimlipscomb323611 ай бұрын
Your sound level of this lesson/video forced me to turn subtitles on. I'm curious why we are making saltpeter since this is an energy production/heating channel, not so much a make-things-go-boom channel
@justtinkering671311 ай бұрын
Controlled booms, can run an engine.
@dermotbalaam535811 ай бұрын
Nothing wrong with the sound.
@philip594011 ай бұрын
Nitrates are good fertilizer and the potassium variant ain't hygroscopic. It's a neatly packaged source of potassium and nitrogen, it's magic for plants .
@sparky608611 ай бұрын
Saltpetre? What possible use could it have beyond rotting tree stumps?
@carllito1211 ай бұрын
Add some sulfur and charcoal to it light a match and find out
@sparky608611 ай бұрын
@@carllito12 !!!
@ClownWhisper11 ай бұрын
It's really easy to substitute this with a colorate salt that can be made through electrochemical method quite easily albeit slowly but it's very very dangerous and unstable when you add sulfur. Now if you take it all the way to a perchlorate by changing the amperage per square centimeter or whatever it is it's been a while you were able to stabilize the mixture but you lose some of the bang for your buck. So it's really not a viable alternative in my opinion map 4 home use that's for sure it's too damn dangerous
@TheStevewhelan11 ай бұрын
Excellent video... but... Charles The Second wasn't dethroned. His father (Charles The First) was with the aid of some rather extreme surgery.🙂
@patrickdocherty245611 ай бұрын
Have you looked ad blue
@patrickdocherty245611 ай бұрын
Sorry have you at adblue for Diesel
@philip594011 ай бұрын
@@patrickdocherty2456it's urea . Sold also as fertilizer, once cheap but the russian escapades have escalated the price .
@Yezpahr11 ай бұрын
I like the conclusion, that we need something equally revolutionary for the problems we have today. But there aren't enough big brains on the planet to concoct a plan. For starters, power is already centralized and that means "free press", or "free speech" means nothing anymore because "we" mean nothing. To make better use of our resources is a must. We cannot use this planet indefinitely the way we treat it now. 8 billion people isn't too much, no matter what anyone says, but CEO's and governments would rather have you believe their cuban cigar / income is well-earned.
@paprjam11 ай бұрын
I just thought I had a Crappy job.
@Barskor111 ай бұрын
Cities are gold mines for resources and they will pay you to take those resources from them it is insane.
@tehPete11 ай бұрын
So Rob & team, how long until we see a video on LK99? You wouldn't happen to be baking some yourself, perchance? 😉 Also, Integza's latest video on a Tesla Turbine is worth a look - they generate 1200w using motors from an electric RC car and air at just 20psi, it's quite something!
@ICallBullTV11 ай бұрын
When its proven real
@William_Hada11 ай бұрын
What do they use to compress air to 20 psi? The power required to run an air compressor would have to be subtracted to determine the net output of the system.
@ICallBullTV11 ай бұрын
@@William_Hada A compressor was used in the example, but steam would be used in real world
@philip594011 ай бұрын
We gotta stop to think when Tesla name is used these days. Especially if cars and electricity are also in context ,
@philip594011 ай бұрын
Lk 99 might be that latest superconductivity craze . Their was another craze in 1986 for barium, copper, ytrium and stuff cooked up in ovens and superconducting in liquid nitrogen. Sabine Hoff...... recently gave her take on it .
@mercedescamper30811 ай бұрын
make your nitrate in a fish tank
@igorschmidlapp698711 ай бұрын
Saltpeter... the Anti-Viagra... ;-P
@patricklyons768311 ай бұрын
Handy =GunZenBomZ=
@sean-or1nc11 ай бұрын
Volume is so low
@kankikankkinen267011 ай бұрын
Sewer water harvesting,
@nonoyorbusness11 ай бұрын
Charles II died as king.
@stephenowens537511 ай бұрын
Im guessing Chinese snow and Columbian snow are not the same 🤔