2177 Gravity Batteries - Cheap, Easy, Robust And Awesome For Off Grid

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[@DerryManley]

Hey Rob. Just in case you didn't know, but your videos, knowledge, and character are amazing. Thank you

[@jondoe598]

100% he's a brilliant man seriously ie very thought and idea provocing all for good and passing the knowledge on

[@user-ov3gv8gd9k]

@@jondoe598 👉🔴What Do Muslims Believe about Jesus? Muslims respect and revere Jesus (peace be upon him). They consider him one of the greatest of God’s messengers to mankind. The Quran confirms his virgin birth, and a chapter of the Quran is entitled ‘Maryam’ (Mary). The Quran describes the birth of Jesus as follows: (Remember) when the angels said, “O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him (God), whose name is the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, revered in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near (to God). He will speak to the people from his cradle and as a man, and he is of the righteous.” She said, “My Lord, how can I have a child when no mortal has touched me?” He said, “So (it will be). God creates what He wills. If He decrees a thing, He says to it only, ‘Be!’ and it is.” (Quran, 3:45-47) Jesus was born miraculously by the command of God, the same command that had brought Adam into being with neither a father nor a mother. God has said: The case of Jesus with God is like the case of Adam. He created him from dust, and then He said to him, “Be!” and he came into being. (Quran, 3:59) During his prophetic mission, Jesus performed many miracles. God tells us that Jesus said: “I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I make for you the shape of a bird out of clay, I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God’s permission. I heal the blind from birth and the leper. And I bring the dead to life by God’s permission. And I tell you what you eat and what you store in your houses....” (Quran, 3:49) Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified. It was the plan of Jesus’ enemies to crucify him, but God saved him and raised him up to Him. And the likeness of Jesus was put over another man. Jesus’ enemies took this man and crucified him, thinking that he was Jesus. God has said: ...They said, “We killed the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God.” They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but the likeness of him was put on another man (and they killed that man)... (Quran, 4:157) Neither Muhammad nor Jesus came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in one God, brought by earlier prophets, but rather to confirm and renew it.

[@markjacksmarkjacks]

I watch this channel every day because I love to see him laugh.

[@mooneym.3642]

Thank you Robert. Albeit I was expecting to see the mechanical kind of gravity batteries with pulley and weight haha ^^

[@EastBayFlipper]

It may be less confusing to call these specific gravity batteries to indicate the density of the liquid is what the gravity is referring to. 😉👍 I'm planning multi day battery backup for my home and flow batteries are definitely on my radar 😀

[@jamesharrell4360]

Agreed.

[@CoincidenceTheorist]

Density. For sure. The dunce CAP Dynamo’s may be too dense to grasp the gravity of your words.

[@pauljs75]

Was thinking of a big chunky weight pulling on a cord wound around a spool and using some kind of multiplier gear. Technically that stores energy by use of gravity, and would qualify as such if you don't differentiate with such details.

[@TuttleScott]

When I saw the headline I thought it was going to be about weights and pulleys that run up and down with a generator.

[@Iam_Grim]

A tank type water heater design would lend itself really well to this kind of chemical battery design vis a vis replacement electrodes, system flushing, and inhibiting evaporation. Adapting the pressure valve to vent at a lower pressure than a typical hot water tank would prevent pressurization of the battery, too.

[@22fingers]

grubby hands on a treasured book triggers me ocd everytime lol love the vids

[@paulwright8378]

He won't respond bro so no point commenting or even watching anymore really

[@martyjenkins3631]

Bah! Treasured books, like recipies, clothing, sporting goods, homes, and anything used by humans, should all show the signs of use and modification. This is life, not a museum.

[@22fingers]

@@martyjenkins3631 lol yeah everything gets grubby one day

[@22fingers]

@@paulwright8378 why the negativity bro i dont expect him to reply but he has many a time in the past all the same

[@paulwright8378]

@@22fingers my dad died and he was like a dad too me,nothing more I can say really just sorry I guess

[@ClashBluelight]

Thanks for the heads up. I thought this was a video about making a long lasting gravity generator, like the ones used in old clocks and outdoor camping lights. I appreciate you clearing that up and not wasting my time.

[@mechanicalliteracyproject2508]

I began collecting various items along the railroad tracks out here in central California. One interesting item I've found are Edison battery oil bottles. They have Thomas Edison's signature embossed on one side. The railroads had large banks of batteries stored in concrete vaults burried in the ground usually near a signal crossing. I've always wondered what battery oil was. As always, no matter the topic, you provide informative and entertaining videos. I think this could become a good science fair project.

[@kgchrome]

always love these old style (of you, harkening back to the shed) and ye olden style (of the battery) videos. double throwback.

[@JohnBoen]

I enjoy building this sort of stuff, and you are a great source of new ideas for me. But man... my eyes are getting worse. As I age - I would appreciate a more frequent close-up.

[@jamesharrell4360]

I remember an old man saying "I ain't gonna spend my life staring at some little tiny screen in the palm of my hands". And I thought "yeah. We all need to put the phone down and spend more time looking at the world around us." But then he said "That's why I bought myself a big ass flat screen television." 🤣

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Thank you Robert, this is Fascinating and very inspiring!! Thank you for getting the old noggin working!!🙂👍

[@jaydiproy3363]

Thanks Mr Robert for demonstration of new process of deriving energy from old idea.

[@greatscott369]

This channel is fantastic. Like the teacher i never had

[@rewereset1584]

This Man is a Brilliant Teacher who's selfless enough to share all he knows seriously brilliantly chap 👍🏻

[@joohop]

Excellent Work Earthling ! ! Bless Up

[@pruhamed81]

Dinorwig is the biggest battery in the uk by miles - well by Gigawatt hours.

[@mikegLXIVMM]

I want to build a collection of large zinc-bromide cells and string them together to make 12V. With a power inverter added, it might be a good black out power source for my home.

[@stewartwoerle6351]

Hello Robert, another fascinating topic…..as usual. Love your thirst for knowledge and the enthusiastic way you go about finding it. Do you know anywhere that those volumes would be available, either in another reprint or as PDF downloads?

[@AdamBechtol]

Neat Robert. I love to find hidden ideas from the past, I suspect there are lot more in many other fields. Also It would be neat if the next breakthrough in battery tech comes from an amateur in their home.

[@jondoe598]

Absolutely Brilliant yet again seriously your a Diamond Geezer believe me your knowledge is worth more than gold itself and i mean that literally anyway Happy New Year Robert and i seriously wish you could open a school for people like you and me who can't stop learning etc brilliant job 👍🏻

[@harrypehkonen]

Can you imagine how well a book series like that would sell? Around Christmas? How many men would *not* want a set?

[@Tracysbrokenwing]

Excellent video!! Thank you for sharing❤

[@12thsonofisrael]

Thank for the the detailed demo! Good Job ❣ 👍

[@JohnDarwin7]

Wishing you a wonderful joy filled new year.🖖

[@villagevaliant]

You really, Truly enjoy your videos. Some of the things you do that I don’t think anyone really thinks twice about always have me cracking up😂. . . You put that glove on and realized how crazy it looked and took it back off a second later. Sir where is your PPE ( That one stuck up safety officer on the job)

[@hootiebubbabuddhabelly]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing! AGAIN!!

[@calvincheney7405]

It would be interesting to see the less stable battery charge the stable one then take it out for a walkabout to do some work & discover the efficiency Robert. Another genius series developing to be sure.

[@Ammoniummetavanadate]

Closest we have to this today is a zinc-air battery, primary or secondary. In the lab we had guys working on this for ultra low cost car batteries. Problem with secondary zinc being dendrites causing shorting, it is hard to suppress.

[@Jonathan-jo2xu]

This reminds me a bit of the Baghdad batteries they found from around 150bc although theirs, best we can tell, had copper iron a bitumun insulator along with some vinegar in a clay pot and produces about half a volt. Hook 3 of 3 them together and we have a cell

[@usmanansari738]

It was magical. I am in awe.

[@ShafaqIftikhar-pw9ld]

Lovely video Robert thankyou for the upload!!!

[@amphibiousone7972]

Good Stuff, Keep'em Thinking and Tinkering . Thank You Sir 🙏🤝🇺🇲

[@Wandera1970]

Stuff like this I find fascinating. Like the Oxford Electric Bell battery thats has lasted for over 180 years and still ringing the bell.

[@stuffoflardohfortheloveof]

Nice one Rob. Thanks for reminding me that I should have taken more interest in chemistry at school 😢🙂

[@SaltGrains_Fready]

Very interesting & Perfect for running LED's OFF Grid Lighting source for sure. The first battery type can be used to charge the second battery type.

[@jamesharrell4360]

🤔 hrmm...

[@sparkysho-ze7nm]

Genius Mr Robert tytyty great video

[@kennedy67951]

Awesome video Robert. You keep me captivated with your knowledge sir. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊10 out of 10 Robert if I ever make it to Australia I’m coming by your shop and shake your hand sir. Thank you for your service to our world.

[@jay90374]

LOL, 🤣😅🤣 good luck, he's in Great Britain!

[@kennedy67951]

@@jay90374 okay

[@Johny40Se7en]

Brilliant experiments as always. To make it more efficient, practical and stable for automotive use it would be worth trying to make it into a thick gel. A sort of graphite gel battery.

[@brentonrowland8613]

Yahoo! Batteries again - and not a 3D print in sight.😁

[@peterfelecan3639]

Nice. Scavenging not only energy but also knowledge. As usual, Robert gives precise quantities and measurements :-) I loved the oil sealing ! Well, I didn't get why this kind of batteries are qualified "gravity".

[@orionbetelgeuse1937]

they are more gravity assisted batteries.

[@markirish7599]

Because gravity separated the different liquids based on viscosity I think

[@jay90374]

@@markirish7599 Close, not viscosity, specific density.

[@markirish7599]

@@jay90374 thank you jay

[@stevenspitzer3829]

Robert is the best of his kind.

[@greg33033]

really like this idea, and also your video's.

[@list1726]

Thanks for posting

[@astikennel]

Watching the video because knowledge is power and is the one thing the government cant take away or tax 😂 Besides, your charisma is worth watching!

[@andy07899986]

Excellent video thanks 👍 I wonder what the capacity is or could be in amp hours

[@mariem5990]

Great video ! Thank you

[@TheTruthPlease100]

Love your videos! You need a camera man to work with a zoomed in camera and a zoomed out camera so when you do detailed workings we can better see what your doing. Your introduction zoomed out but everything else needed to be zoomed in. I could hardly see what you were doing. That goes with many of your videos. Hope this can help. If you have no one use a remote. Again, love your topics and everything else!

[@oLoGoS]

would love to hear your take on Ed Leedskalnin's PMH

[@happyhsu140]

Hi Mr Smith. I love how you show us how to make awesome stuff we can make at home as everyday people. However, I would love if you zoom in more on the project so we can see how exactly items are been put together. Not saying we don't want to look at you but I am having hard time following and imitate. Thank you robert

[@Midas-fw1gp]

Great work 👍

[@MrFujack103]

Loved the token rubber glove 😂😂😂

[@roymurray2587]

Love the content. 👍

[@mikeharrington5593]

How stable is the battery? Does it have self-limiting maximum charge?

[@trevorlewis9975]

When you said 'Turn of the century technology', I was expecting something from about 2001!

[@R2NOTU]

Hi great video can you do another one then charge it off the atmosphere with the on off switching from the patent? That would be so cool atmo charging 🥃

[@markirish7599]

Fantastic video.

[@rudiepotgieter1]

Can you please notify me, when you have a video of harnessing gravity directly. Do you know if a Pyrex container will work? Do you know the molar mass and PH? Google search results seems to be lacking in this regard. Great channel. Keep it up ❤

[@dungbetel]

A bit off-topic, but I remember many years ago seeing a report on TV about a pilot scheme set up by one of the Australian universities to use lead-acid batteries in cars (nothing new), but replacing petrol stations with stations where you could change the electrolyte. The "petrol stations" could recycle the used liquid for later re-use. Seemed a pretty good idea to me (a total layman I must admit)

[@kimorsel686]

Wow, that's awesome....

[@Dr3_X]

Hey there, love the videos!! You're awesome, and I've been watching your videos for a while now. Have you seen the KZbin videos of this liberty infinity motor. I was wondering if you could explain that one for me and maybe debunk it??? Thank you!!

[@justinklenk]

A true gravity battery, wherein a weight is raised, to provide later energy by its descent powering electricity generation, is the most ideally efficient battery we have - the only losses are any infinitesimal friction on the way up/down, and the loss of energy in the raising mechanism's energy transfer/powertrain and the loss of energy in the conversion of the descent to electricity to use, that last one obviously being the biggest, and in fact the ONLY truly significant loss in the whole system. That's why they are the (theoretical and actual) best possible battery that can exist, PERMANENTLY retaining 100% of its originally-stored energy (so it's not subject to electrical batteries' depotentiation over time in storage, nor even long-term chemical breakdown like gas or reagents, nor container seepage like hydrogen, nor pressure loss over time like air pressure, nor loss of a compressed material's springiness/rebound potential - it's just PERMANENT, PURE potential kinetic energy, eternally waiting for its triggered descent and simultaneous conversion to kinetic energy)... And, end-to-end, something like a 99.something-percent systemic storage efficiency, in practice.👍 It's god damn perfect!!

[@SasquatchTrevor]

Robert, I'm curious. The carbon filled hdpe you are using, is it called velostat or linqstat?

[@MrFujack103]

Have you thought about wheel weights for zinc? Most tyre shops have buckets of old ones?

[@Daraghfly]

Brilliant

[@TheZigZiggy]

What do you think about Stanley Meyer's water powered car? It supposedly used a water fuel cell.

[@michaeldinkins9145]

Very good

[@sbjchef]

why hasn't anyone combined flotation displacement with tidal ranges to generate electricity, if a tide lifts a ship of 100,000 tonnes 11 metres like the severn estuary does twice a day that must be harvestable through a simple rack and pinion

[@mikeconnery4652]

Very interesting

[@crazyguysadvice]

i was thinking of using aerobic compost piles of livestock manure and hay/straw with actinomycetes (the potentially flammable "firefang" lower fungus that can cause spontaneous combustion in compost piles) that heat up to 32-60 degrees celsius, releasing methane and carbon dioxide. If you could harness the methane while separating it from the carbon dioxide also released by the actinomycetes' aerobic composting process, you could burn the methane to generate electricity in a type of rocketstove system of pipes with a long elongated slope to run the length of, zigzagging slowly upward, the inside of a glasshouse to warm the plants organically so that you don't need non-organic energy from external supplies to heat glass houses of plants like say tomatoes or strawberries in winter..., while releasing but trapping the carbon dioxide inside the glasshouse to feed the plants so they can convert that into oxygen, this while generating electricity by heating water with the burning methane elongated zigzagging rocketstove to heat the glasshouse interior, to turn a turbine to heat sand batteries for longer term storage of the heat/energy generated by the actinomycetes of the aerobic compost pile? The sand batteries the heat of which is not used to heat the glasshouse as is the previous stage of the system mentioned? It could also power lights inside the glasshouse to extend the daily photoperiod of the plants to increase their vegetative growth cycles (of photoperiod plants), thus preparing enormous plants with renewable localised energy supply, generating electricity and heat and compost in one go, in the middle of winter even prior to spring? I'm not really sure about separating the methane from the carbon dioxide generated by the aerobic compost pile, though. Only a small amount of photosynthetic available radiation (PAR) is needed to fool the plants into thinking they are experiencing a longer day cycle I wonde if it could generate enough electricity though (The compost pile, to have a machine turn itself in its container inside the glasshouse? I mean aerobic compost piles need to be turned to continue the process successuly.

[@crazyguysadvice]

no I don't wish to marry Greta Thunberg, I have enough problems. Thank you for your sanity and positive energy. It helps...!

[@irritatedconsumer]

for prior work on this topic, look up "Jean Pain"

[@giovannip.1433]

What about a phase change heat engine? E.g. an object moving through a fluid/ fluid moving past an object. Drop the object generating energy from 'falling'. Energy is then put into the object - inflatable - changing its density to generate power on the up stroke. Such a system can utilize a heat source - sun, fire - any heat source which is greater than the ambient temperature...

[@edmundzed9870]

Hello Robert, storing our own solar energy is very very interesting, maybe - if you have a website - you can make a suggestion page for people to propose ideas. We can discuss it and maybe you can test the most interesting promising ideas?

[@thesentientneuron6550]

Hey Rob! Your videos on Zinc Bromide batteries were really intriguing, and it got me thinking about iodine (as in a zinc-iodide battery) but I found something even cooler. There’s a paper on Nature titled “A four-electron Zn-I2 aqueous battery enabled by reversible I−/I2/I+ conversion” by Y. Zou et. al. It discusses the formation and stabilisation of the ICl interhalogen allowing for an additional electron transfer reaction by the I+/I2 couple on top of the existing I2/I- couple (the latter mirroring the Br2/Br- couple of the Zinc Bromide battery). Please take a look and see if it lights a bulb over your head.

[@jamesharrell4360]

This reminds me of how potassium chloride makes a better "salt water capacitor" than sodium chloride.

[@thesentientneuron6550]

@@jamesharrell4360 Could you please elaborate?

[@jondoe598]

​@@thesentientneuron6550 Hey why not make a battery with a fizzy drink like 7up or iron brew cos that's what you've described my friend it'll never ever work

[@StrategyYouDidntKnow]

Oil for example and water mixed in vacuum could emulsify as a carrier.

[@dsm5d723]

Motor oil = boundary conditions? To keep evaporation of the water from changing the system parameters?

[@TimeSurfer206]

I just did a quick google shopping check for appropriate vessels, and believe the best are simple single wall borosilicate labware beakers. I found one source that's offering 1 Litre specimens for $10 Yank each.

[@bobcalhoun3714]

Forgive my confusion, but the second battery could be connected to an accumulator like a small solar panel for charge/discharge cycles? What would be the maintenance on that?

[@EGDD-42]

There's a company in Silverstone (UK) who are developing commercial flywheel storage - just wondering if you can get a tour of what they do?

[@SteelWolf13]

1151 - Gravity Battery/Generator MK2 - It Works! VS 2177 Gravity Batteries - Cheap, Easy, Robust And Awesome For Off Grid Will the real Gravity Battery please stand up.

[@christophersherratt7299]

Rob i was watching something the other day a bloke used a old car battery took out all old sells then filled it with charcoal then distilled water and charged it or you could use old sulphuric acid from old battery get it started what do you think ???? he said would last for years with top ups

[@consciousrealitycreator8774]

thank you! what are the titles of the additional books? i want to purchase them

[@pauldent3059]

There was me thinking you were going to show us you throwing stuff of a cliff tied to a generator

[@jitone1]

Do you think using wax on the top would work better than using oil

[@mauriceupp9381]

Question if that was in a larger container could you put two carbon electrodes and two zinc electrodes in the same container but connect a wire across from one carbon to one zinc and then take your power out of the other two and make a series battery that would be double the electricity output

[@orionbetelgeuse1937]

no

[@SasquatchTrevor]

I saw the title and knew what it was about.

[@OwnGrid]

these things were forgotten about for good reason and that is energy density not only efficiency kills ideas there are other factors that kills them as well

[@nattsurfaren]

Hey Robert! Have you ever heard about the Gravity Light developed by the UK firm Deciwatt? I think this is something you would really love as a DIY project. I'm Curious Too. I could only find one guy doing a DIY video about this but it is big an clunky. I bet you could improve it a lot. Happy new year Robert!

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Oh, that's very intriguing indeed!! I'd be happy for a link or maybe a hint in order to find this!! I've just had a quick look, but so far I've not found anything... We can blame Me and my lack of Technical Savviness certainly! Best Wishes and Kindest Regards, Andréa and Critters. ..XxX...🙂👍

[@AndreaDingbatt]

I think that I might have got the spelling wrong, so I'm going to write it out onto paper and trying again in the interwebs!!

[@308dad8]

So these batteries you explore are any of them more practical than lead acid batteries or NiCad batteries?

[@chiperchap]

i honestly thought a gravity battery was a weight lifted up to slowly release its potential kanetic energy lol seemsa very simple easy battery rob thanks for that

[@steventrog1078]

Mr Muray is there any free energy genetator which will power my off grid canin

[@dennisbrown4551]

I asked an AI chatbox to compare the Zinc-Bromide battery to modern batteries. It came back with it being on par with the best Li batteries today and research is ongoing.

[@explorster]

That's just not true.

[@dennisbrown4551]

@@explorster AI Chatboxes don't always tell the truth. If you know it is not true, can you supply the right answer to the question?

[@CarlBarratt-mk2lk]

carl the blind guy. i'm not confused. liked the demo. more please and can you give a link were i can get the mags. not to good at searching the net. PS. have you heard of Jim MUrrey? like your opinion, carnt follow to well

[@blg53]

What would be the short circuit current from either of those batteries?

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

The only thing I thought of when I read gravity battery was the mechanical ones that would store potential energy... didn't realize they had chemical based ones.

[@Xero1of1]

12:31 I think if you wanted to use the first battery in an automotive or 'moving' endeavor, you'd have to find a way to gel the liquids. Not so thick that they can't flow, but thick enough that a couple jolts or potholes won't make it splash out...

[@kadmow]

- accident safe is also a nice feature to engineer in.

[@BiscuitWaite]

At first I was like "who would think you could harness gravity for electricity?" but then I remembered the internet.... But I did think you were going to discuss using weight and a gearbox to spin a motor to generate electricity.

[@dalotos]

We must both be working on the same project.

[@williamarmstrong7199]

Just an idea that might work or be fun to try. . If you make a long tight coil of copper wire and drop a strong neodinium magnet down it it will produce power which can be stored in a capacitor and then fed to a motor driving a worm drive raising more magnets to the top, where they run down a slope before dropping into a funnel at the top of the coil to drop the next one down and produce yet more power etc etc.. Obviously the worm lift would need to be made from plastic or wood and the tube the magnets ride up of simalar none magnetic material. Just think it might make a fun perpetual motion device? Or if not actualy perpetual then a small winding handle or a switchable battery to raise a number of magnets to the top ot the coil, to "prime" the system.

[@ekeretteekpo3004]

Amazing video. I wish I could get to building the electrically rechargeable one to use with my solar panels as batteries have become quite very expensive for me. 😢 Well, I'll like to know if that is tap water you are using. 🤔

[@KennyBain-bu2dz]

De-ionised water, I expect. As purchased in filling stations ( and supermarkets) for topping up lead acid car batteries.

[@cathrynmartin4395]

If you hooked the second battery to a small solar panel, say between 2 and 5V, would that be a good way to charge it for a possible emergency light source during power outages? Just curious if that might be a practical use for this particular home made battery?

[@jamesharrell4360]

Would probably only charge it if the load on the main battery was less than the power sources from the solar panel. But I like it.

[@nigelwilliams7920]

Playing with solar panels direct to loads is a tiresome and unhappy experience. Run the panel thru a MPPT charge controller first and use the resulting output to do your job.

[@SteelWolf13]

I thought gravity batteries were a weight on a rope/chain that slowly turned something to generate power off grid. This looks more chemical battery-ish?