Cody's Methane Generator Part 2: I Have Gas!

[@TheKingofRandom]

I'm loving these updates Cody

[@ah-ray]

Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" I like turtles!

[@brycederp4741]

Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" Hello.

[@Patrick1245]

Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" vs cody... hmm time to have a competition..

[@lokaokill]

Hey

[@or-what]

Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" The king has spoken

[@Nighthawkinlight]

That's some impressively fast production! Enough to be practically useful. Way to go Cody

[@Psyt0s]

Love your videos Man!!!!

[@GetMurcD]

It's not practical. You're heating water, that takes a ton of energy. You're getting very little back. That tiny flame would not be enough to heat the approx. 20 gallons of water in the bottom of that barrel. If you instead used a wood fire or coal, etc. it would just make more sense to use that heat energy rather than from the methane produced. If this were large scale like a brewery vat with a wood fire underneath I could see it being viable.

[@Jazzafritsch]

hes only heating it cause its winter and he wanted to work on it

[@GetMurcD]

@@Jazzafritsch I haven't had to use the word duh in a while but it comes to mind. You can't assume that there will be mild weather all the time. Sometimes you need heat to make this process work, making it impractical IN THIS CLIMATE.

[@joshuanorris5860]

@@GetMurcD it doesent take much to heat it because it only needs to be warm and it is very well insulated. And what he said, shit heats itself.

[@brothyr]

It's really great seeing Doc Brown's early years.

[@gg5115]

This one wins the internet today.

[@buddykane22]

Oh my god Adam you're right. It's Doc Brown... Sweet baby jesus I must tell my friends. lol

[@mihaim3587]

In a few years he has to go to the past, for the real part of the Hollywood remake.

[@cnerde]

Check out his new video about the wax - and why he bought it. Fusion Reactor...

[@jacobopstad5483]

I'm pretty sure the fusion reactor on the time machine was inspired by a methane generator...

[@markog1999]

so this thing eats food, digests it, and metabolises the food to keep itself warm so it can digest more food. All it needs is the ability to reproduce and it counts as a living organism.

[@anim8dideas849]

but it has to grow and feed itself so it more of a home or an ecosystem/habitat than a life form

[@klaus239]

Actually bacteria are living organisms :)

[@ravenc703]

@@klaus239 I think he was referring to the digester as a whole

[@MisterBones223]

Still closer to an organism than viruses lol jk

[@robertketcham9576]

In a way it is kind of a organic-microbiologic-cyborg. How fucking cool. Way to go Cody!

[@salvatornado]

Cody, humanitys last hope and future king of mars!

[@ThreeLetters3]

salvatornado lol so true

[@kebabgubben1]

imagine Cody and Elon Musk teaming up

[@jamesluck2969]

you should Check out The real Martian, his channel is not as close to codies but follows a different path, in the idea of new growing methods and more.

[@El_Chompo]

I was actually just thinking while watching this something similar. Monarchys are thought of as bad since one person rules over everybody else. However they can be the best form of government depending on who your ruler is, if you have a good one. I would feel comfortable if cody was the monarch of earth haha.

[@SenorEscaso]

Future *president of Mars. Cody is too smart to support a monarchy. ;)

[@SuitsMgGoots]

"It would be impolite for me to release this into the atmosphere" - I love you man

[@Hailfire08]

I would say I'm shocked Cody is doing more for the environment than the entire oil and gas industry... But I'm not.

[@-danR]

"I have gas." Yes, people, sometimes Cody does make jokes.

[@Njennings42]

sometimes? :P

[@Marizyth]

tubeist- dan they had gas in germany too and that didn't go well

[@hobblingoblin2813]

TheMarijn27 *Slow Clap*

[@-danR]

Yup. Like not ever never.

[@somtamang9805]

+M Msaiu bif

[@BobbyDukeArts]

Mass of "material" = ball of rabbit turds.

[@TheAce5399]

I was just thinking when your next video was coming out! I am always excited what new project you have planned next.

[@theCodyReeder]

next video? I probably should tackle the " hot thing vs item" craze.

[@MuzikBike]

Not sure if I should dread that or be excited.

[@TheAce5399]

Ah, I meant this video. But I should have worded that better. Though no matter what I'll check out whatever you post! Keep up the great work!

[@macro820]

Red hot mercury?

[@Steve_Just_Steve]

Tackle? Knowing you a violent quarterback sack resulting in a game winning safety and an unfortunate QB's head to have been knocked clean off is much more likely, metaphorically speaking of course.

[@rayrevolta6198]

Still waiting for part 3, I really enjoyed this more than I should have.

[@sontapaa11jokulainen94]

Still waiting.

[@elijahk.82]

@@sontapaa11jokulainen94 I hope we get a part 3 when he uses something like this at chickenhole.

[@kennethkeys2248]

Plot twist: Cody's name is actually Cody 'Slab.

[@oreole9608]

... I have Etho vibes.

[@kennethkeys2248]

Oreole1 ???

[@dots5641]

Kenneth Keys etho's lab. Minecraft player

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

Ethoslab on youtube. minecrafter. Sometimes called Etho 'slab

[@Jackkane71]

minecraft shit

[@Kugos27]

Cody, this methane generator is absolutely genious. I love that you're doing it in your home, it makes it seem like such a viable project for myself too. I love the efficiency of it all, the waste products going to your garden to help create crops which you will eat, and the scraps will once again eventually return to the digestor. All the while you're producing enough gas that a constant flame can be run. It would be interesting to see how much energy and useful fertilizing material could be produced on a much larger scale. Keep it up, your channel is something real in a sea of blind thought

[@KeystoneScience]

How many watts of power is the flame of the methane produced? ( like I mean the from the constant output of the methane generator, not the stored Methane flame from the beach ball )

[@caffeinatedspider3224]

It's not electricity, so you would probably get its energy in Joules (watt-seconds).

[@boggless2771]

TopQuark - If you get the rate that the gas comes out cc/s you would convert the cc of methane to joules - then divide by 1 second giving you your wattage

[@sebimoe]

+TopQuark I think you are confusing things

[@collinbarker]

Watts is power, so you could find the amount of methane per second produced and multiply it by 50.1 kJ/g. to get joules/second, the rate of energy, also known as power

[@Durp88]

It's awesome to see someone who spends their time doing some of the most interesting things at home and sharing them with us. Always look forward to the next video, Cody.

[@thebugcast]

We're back to the Cooking with Cody days

[@MuzikBike]

EthosLab does Cooking with Etho, Cody'sLab does Cooking with Cody... damn scientists and their cuisine

[@antonhelsgaun]

Muzik Bike - Geometry Dash and stuff but ethoslab just does Minecraft

[@cowboy_k3147]

Don't Starve Together: Etho + Guude + VintageBeef + PauseUnpause

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

Terraria is Ee Zed. (with Etho and Zisteau)

[@ATSExperience]

Cody, will there be a part 3? Did the heater work?

[@addfoxy]

I'm pretty sure he said in a video that it was a failure unfortunately. I really enjoyed this project too.

[@sethada1846]

7EvilAdams actually he didn't say it was a failure Only that there would be a part three

[@jaxkson1]

sethada1846 he meant in a later video. Something about he forgot about it, and the power went off and all the bacteria died

[@drippingwax]

So, it did not produce enough methane to heat itself?

[@princenephron7546]

@@jaxkson1 Wut. Even if the thing froze solid, the bacteria would survive. They can be frozen solid and be fine once thawed.

[@Marc83Aus]

If my calculations arent totally off You're making somewhere around 150 litres of methane a day. Around 100 grams, at .6 grams per litre. 5.5 MJ per day, which is 1.5 Kw... So your heater is using the entire energy production of the reactor. Edited because I screwed up the calculation.

[@netravatpendsey]

Marc83Aus Well according to my calculations (using your given volume) he is making less than 107 grams of methane a day.

[@Marc83Aus]

That's much better, I must have used cryogenic compressed methane in the calculator i found earlier.

[@netravatpendsey]

Marc83Aus I just use 1 mole = 22.4 liters.

[@theCodyReeder]

Ah good I was hoping someone would check my numbers. I actually calculated that the gas is not more than 50% methane and so got a value about half of yours. which is perhaps not quite enough to keep it heated but will offset most of the power requirements. (assuming 100% efficiency which is unlikely)

[@netravatpendsey]

Cody'sLab Is the assumed volume correct by the way? And wow! Cody replied

[@tinytimbo456]

I wish I had a science teacher that made learning just as fun and interesting like you do, your truly a unique character.

[@KoalaProductions]

I just realized cody has made a little shop of horrors, soon the generator is gonna start talking to him, "Feed me, Cody! Feed me!"

[@gc4152]

14:02 that's precisely what I love in your experiments: the mixture of simplicity and ingenuity (without forgetting the duck taped flash light in the background!). Thanks Cody!

[@davidburwell4218]

flame goes out, room slowly fills with methane...

[@amindnew527]

BOOOOOOM!!!

[@tjyoyo3]

or possibly just like with house's gas there is a sulfur additive incase of leak so any humans can be alerted there is a gas leak. Essentially instead of sulfur there are other stinky molecules being produced by the bacteria so if he smelt the stinky bacteria, he's smelling methane. It's not like hes completely filtering it off it will still smell no matter what @@amindnew527

[@memejeff]

@@tjyoyo3 The room is not airtight, The rate of production is probably not high enough for that to happen.

[@noaha8915]

I know this is old, but for new readers, a lot of higher grade scales of this implement a valve system specifically to avoid this.

[@figboot]

@@noaha8915 Writing new comments on old videos is not futile :)

[@steampunk888]

Truly impressive when you got the steady blue flame from a beach ball. On the other hand, your refrigerator hygiene is egregious! Good vid.

[@festerallday]

Add some anti foaming agent (even the kind used in spas will work). That will give you some use out of the foam. It will re suspend and get further broken down. Add another tank for stage two. it will give you more gas and separate your outputs, distill them if you will, into the separate tanks. Then you can collect methane, phosphates, and alcohols from one tank while getting ammonia gas, acetone, and nitrogen from the other.

[@pprophet]

festerallday genius

[@LoveShaysloco]

Cody I made one like yours and my garden and I love it. I use the methane it makes to keep it warm. It also took care of my pea husk problem

[@Kannamoris]

What happened to part 3? Still going to happen or did something go wrong?

[@papashakeshake6268]

i like your shows not because what you do needs to be done but because it can be done. thank you

[@Digimer]

"Ahaha!" - That's the laugh of someone realizing their hard work. Well done.

[@dz-]

I was trying not to breathe through my nose when you were going through the food waste. I swear I could smell the rotten milk. And thanks for the update! I love following your projects on here.

[@SiviVolk2]

Cody, where's the part 3? Still waiting for the results of your methane heater... :)

[@CrashTestCoder]

The bacteria died during a power outage

[@lightdark00]

@@CrashTestCoder There was an update showing it froze, I think. I hope this gets revisited soon for his mars life plan.

[@donaldgoodwin8615]

Cody, Love your ingenuity. Mega Earth saving idea. Methane generator that utilizes methane it has produced for its own source of heat. The excess can be used however you like.

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

So that's how you disposed of the bodies. Everything makes sense now.

[@gestaltengine6369]

These days he switched to Will it Charcoal series for that.

[@sirflen2133]

Or he could just use lye

[@sirflen2133]

Worked for me

[@nickkurzy2246]

No, no, no. Remember, he said meat has to be added in small ammounts, he must have done something else with them.

[@assasinpatates8066]

@@nickkurzy2246 He feeds the meat to the rabits so he can feed their poo to the generator.

[@bjornssondj]

when you put out these really long videos I think "Ahh I'll just quickly scrub through it" but I pretty much always end up watching the entire thing.. it's just so darn interesting!

[@zeke1123456789]

But nobody noticed him call the ends of the bread poison😂😂

[@matsveritas2055]

Noticed, and thanked him. _/|\_ What are the white poisons? Disaccharides such as Sucrose, Lactose and Maltose Gluten(Glutein-Gliadin), White Rice, Processed(Bleached) Flour & Pig Fat Are there more? I guess certain "non-saccharides" in this age are quite dangerous, such as Aspartame, heck, most petrochemistry shouldn't be consumed, full-stop.

[@AL-fl4jk]

@@matsveritas2055 what are you going on about? 🤦‍♂️ zero difference between the end pieces and the rest of the bread

[@MisterBones2910]

@@AL-fl4jk Yeah, it's hippydippy shit about white bread being bad in general, not specifically the heels. Of course it ain't great but thousands of generations of civilized people lived almost entirely off of bread before us and the lack of grain husks and seeds these days isn't making much of a difference. Of course he either missed the joke there that "the ends are poisonous" and thought Cody was talking about the same drivel or simply chose to misinterpret it.

[@neilteskey2433]

Cody's heating pot with the forks and tin cans is outstanding seriously this guy dose not like waste

[@peideano]

Damn I can do this just by including cabbage in my diet.

[@Brandywine6969]

I absolutely love the bent fork feet on the lantern. I love watching your projects anyhow, but I have to admit, I lol'ed a little when I saw the forks. I can't wait to see more on this project.

[@taggartm6469]

cody where is part 3 I have been waiting for months!

[@rockyrafty]

Taggart Maher 11 months later

[@Invenciblemario]

12 :(

[@rockyrafty]

ye :(

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

17 months later

[@dylanjohnson2315]

19 lmao

[@blacklightning3200]

Putting out that flame with your fingers at the beginning like a boss.

[@AspenSavage]

Where's part 3 at though

[@dirkhirbanger4153]

Don't worry, I'm still waiting

[@0osk]

He said in a later video that it didnt work and the bacteria ended up dying.

[@kitsurubami]

oh, thanks.

[@aeroscience9834]

Oosk what was the video?

[@S.PaulMentzer]

From what I've seen of other digestor projects, a tube of compressed steel wool can be used as a filter for removing the hydrogen sulfide from the gas mixture. It was also suggested in those projects that the purpose of doing so is more to protect components from corrosion than for the clear olfactory benefits ;) Just use your nose to determine when it's time to change the filters :D

[@jackmcnally6430]

You should burn the flame in a contained environment and collect the water produced in a bottle, then use the CO2 that's produced to carbonate it. If you get it to be one big automated setup, it should make free carbonated water for you!

[@alextaylor9746]

yummy carbonated poop water...

[@MisterBones2910]

@@alextaylor9746 He's drank worse.

[@imaginary_Kyle]

Approaching 1 million subs! Well done, Cody!

[@TomsLab]

Cody'sLab is the best KZbin channel ever #codyislovecodyislife

[@TomsLab]

Cody should do more "Cooking with Cody," too!

[@GenesisRussell-jt2rp]

me too

[@backcountryexplorer552]

Cody, your projects never cease to amaze me. Great job and thanks for sharing!

[@pvc988]

I like these heater stands made of forks.

[@stealerob3420]

Good idea for a greenhouse heater.

[@Kasslim11]

Cool project! Even if no part 3 😅

[@UpLateGeek]

The orange coloured flame seen around 3:07 suggests the lantern mantle isn't getting enough oxygen to burn completely. You'd get a brighter mantle using an air/gas mixing nozzle, although it might be difficult to find or build one designed for such low gas pressures.

[@occamslaser5050]

Part 2 of Cody's jenkem workshop.

[@yanfishtwig2356]

I wish cody was my neighbour hes such a great dude

[@aaron-becker]

7:39 "and today, in cody's kitchen, we are serving some..."

[@jackradzelovage6961]

ITS RAW!!

[@MOTHERSKYWOOD]

I saw a diagram for a cooling circulation system for our school once. I think there were two or more check valves to get better flow by isolating the heated zone and cooled zone(s). this may work well for the methane burning heater.

[@TheEightBitLink]

If you have one or can make one easily, why not make a bunsen burner sort of thing? The lantern mantle is wasting energy in what is almost pure conversion of gas to heat AFAIK by instead converting heat to light. Additionally, you could make it failsafe by putting a bit of platinum wire in the gas stream. If the flame ever went out, the gas would be catalyzed by the platinum wire, and would reignite.

[@benshuetrim9640]

TheEightBitLink Where to obtain platinum wire Sir?

[@jackradzelovage6961]

@@benshuetrim9640 see codys metals from catalytic converters video... or metals from the road :)

[@B4119812B]

I'm already waiting for part 3, this is exciting !

[@lomk4424]

-Cody: I have gas! -Russia: You sure got enough?

[@dots5641]

Titou1384 omg I'm dying x_o

[@omerodiaz922]

heyy noice joke m8

[@lomk4424]

Omero Diaz Thank you moite :P

[@Ethanisgood4u]

You did say that I hoped I enjoyed the video...I feel lost. But for real, loving this series.

[@BasementBen]

Bunny poop will save the world, one pellet at a time!

[@bringer-of-change]

Methane production from humanities farming is actually destroying the world. They continue doing things the old way. I could guess a bunch of reasons, but for some reason they wont harvest all that cow-shit methane. Theres enough to maybe solve the energy crisis, and it burns nice and clean.

[@Nuovoswiss]

Can you bubble the methane into a large dewar of liquid nitrogen to store it as a solid? Also, is methane soluble in liquid nitrogen or oxygen? If so, will a mixture of methane and liquid oxygen explode on ignition?

[@jaredlancaster4137]

Liquid oxygen and methane might explode without ignition. Storing them mixed would be super dangerous.

[@CSX4772]

Liquid oxygen and liquid methane might produce a hyperbolic reaction. Where as just as soon as the 2 mix you get a reaction. An example would be the rocket engine used in the Saturn V rocket. It used liquid kerosene and liquid oxygen. Just as soon as they mixed, it produced a severe hypergolic reaction. That created a lot of force.

[@knicknacks]

@@CSX4772 The Saturn v engines were not hypergolic. AFAIK liquid oxygen is not hypergolic with any fuel. A good example of a hypergolic engine would be the ones on the Russian proton rocket. It uses dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetric monomethyl hydazine.

[@Revoku]

your entire channel...can't...stop...binge watching... Also, got a project for ya, the diesel generators you have runnin at the ranch, could you grow a plant that makes seeds suitable for vegetable oil production and run the generators off it(most diesel engines will run on vege oil or other typical oils with no modification)

[@davidqrobinson5696]

what do you think would be the most practical use of the gas produced?? first thought that comes to my mind would be to make a methane gas powered kiln for smelting ore from your mine,,,you've already got the stuff to compress it into a tank,,would be cheaper than propane

[@wanderingzanzey2126]

I would use it to store and power a Gassifier, which i would then use a Methane and Syngas ratio for fuel in a Solid oxide Fuel Cell for my house. Using waste material as the feedstock makes a newable system.

[@wanderingzanzey2126]

nah, cryogenic liquifaction is much high yield. Although cool experiment for cody to try! Maybe subject the Methane to a Mercury bulb for a few days and see how much Ethane is produced?

[@glgina6]

Just wanted to say that I appreciate your use of the word polite.

[@comradegarrett1202]

10:50 those chunks of mold worry me. I'd try to avoid putting mature penicillium in a bacterial culture but maybe you know something I don't.

[@theCodyReeder]

Ah good point, hadn't thought about that, I doubt a small amount would kill a significant portion of bacteria now that I have a good strong and very large culture going but I might should avoid that in the future.

[@addisonshinedown]

Cody'sLab what is your intended use for the methane when you've got this generator completely finished?

[@frotwithdanger]

Cody'sLab the surviving bacteria might be more resistant to penicillin now. Cody's building his own superbug! 😄

[@Frozlix]

Garrett Norris Molds are in general very bad at surviving in an anaerobic environment.

[@AdairGalloJunior]

Maybe Cody is a mad scientist villain. hahaha

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Cody: There's a book specifically on home-built methane systems. It's called "The Handbook Of Homemade Power" It talks about using some of the gas to heat the mass to maintain temp... and still get better gas production (assuming you have enough material to fuel faster production) 2 temp zones I remember 90 F and 120 -130 F the higher being high production. Love it! Keep up the good work!

[@Rictoo]

Cody, are you sure that's safe? it looks like your insulation is made of highly flammable material. wouldn't be fun if a flame reached the barrel.

[@thetraitor3852]

That pink thing is made from glass.

[@SenorEscaso]

It's fiberglass. Non-flammable.

[@DamianReloaded]

I was just about to post this. I'm pretty sure the blanket isn't noncombustible. If it managed to fall and catch fire the tank could asplode.

[@typ8723]

My neighbors home caught fire, all that was left was that pink shit.

[@adamgolden1802]

"that pink shit" made me laugh, thanks

[@auroravivyn4827]

Hello Cody, I know it has been a while since you made this video and I do not know if you will be looking at comments from older videos, but I thought I would give it a chance regardless. Over the past few months I have been thinking about how it would be possible to make liquid hydrocarbons (diesel, for example, especially given prices currently) using the Fischer-Tropsch process. My full idea is to use a methane generator like this or woodgas from charcoal production to produce the raw feedstock. This would then be cleaned and then broken down into hydrogen and carbon monoxide to feed into the Fischer-Tropsch process. Obviously the system would not be very fast, even though parts of the process are used industrially, and likely not economically viable, but I thought the idea might be interesting to test or at least think about. I don't expect a video on this or anything, I just remembered this video and thought the idea fit.

[@Luminaring]

Love your..."artificial cow stomach with artificial teeth"...

[@Andoryuuu]

Looks like my assumption of the orange peel acting as a food source for the bacteria was correct, I'm glad it didn't mess up the balance and you ended up getting methane out of this.

[@JavierChiappa]

Cody, it's 2019, where is part 3?? Or at least what happeneed to it.

[@benjaminschabel4847]

I assist this request, tempus fugit :D

[@noaha8915]

The bacteria died and he didn't feel like bothering rejumping it

[@mjstecyk]

cool project cody, this is some real "transported back to medieval europe" revolutionary stuff. really cool results from very uncomplicated ingredients.

[@thegreatpopas8348]

we want a part 3!!!

[@InDmand]

Gotta love that custom stand on the coil can.

[@technocardy]

Late 2019 reporting in! Anyone have eyes on a Part 3? Cody? Anyone?

[@rainbowananas5040]

That's cool! I have worked in a plant that produces biogas. You should convert a generator or oil heater to use biogas! But remember to have detectors for gas. Have had a few near misses with leaking gaskets.

[@LeahLundqvist]

Can you put dead body in it? Asking for a friend...

[@alexandercarvunaris846]

oh good idea

[@extrastuff9463]

Rekky Rek remember the carbon ratio of stuff to add with meat he mentioned, since I guess that's pretty much what flesh is. Bones and stuff I don't know what that'll do. But you'd need a very big tank or a lot of patience for your presumably hypothetical scenario. Also the feed tube diameter is small probably look for a bigger blender too

[@lorsayden2403]

Also remember that for every pound of meat, you need at least 10 pounds of green stuff. This makes it a bit harder to do unless the dead person is a gardner, if it is, then you are good to go with the process of recycling people.

[@ahaveland]

+ Lorsayden Good use for climate deniers. The only thing they're useful for!

[@alexandercarvunaris846]

it would finally give the president a good purpose.

[@BeardedBored]

Very cool build Cody. I hope the water heater works. If so, you might be able to make a furnace of sorts out of fire brick to house the copper coil and retain more heat during and after the burn.

[@cyancoyote7366]

1:42 It would be WHAT to release it into the atmosphere? I'm learning english, and I couldn't understand that part. A bit of help would be appreciated :)

[@skippy6703]

impolite

[@cyancoyote7366]

Thanks :)

[@skippy6703]

cyancoyote so where are you from ?

[@cyancoyote7366]

Hungary

[@skippy6703]

cyancoyote cool, I've been there a couple of years ago. I'm from the netherlands

[@blockhandler]

Cody you sir are one awesome dude! Please keep making videos and never stop being a nerd!

[@awesomedrockg8939]

Cody It's 2018 where is part 3

[@lightdark00]

It's 12019, still no part three. I think they lost power, the methane generator froze, and that was it. There might be a small update about it in another video somewhere.

[@callmeanythingbutlatefordinner]

You can also use the compressor from an old fridge to fill a standard propane bottle!!!

[@DrGibs347]

Yayyyyy I survived until the year 12018 to finally see part 2! ;)

[@coen555]

That is an incredibly cute little water heater! Love the forks.

[@JimmothyJr]

How's the methane generator going. Haven't heard much about it in a long while! Are you still producing a decent amount and have you found some good uses for it?

[@corbonzo1]

wow. was not expecting that much of an output. AMAZING! thanks for introducing me to this technique and science

[@Jennralize]

Hi Cody. Please can you invent a contraption that means your rabbits can sit up high and their shit automatically mixes with melting snow, to feed the machine, with a wind/solar powered actuator keeping the mix up and a self-perpetuating ecosystem feeding the rabbits?

[@luxuriousllama3084]

Cody I was going to make something like this and was wondering where did you get the bacteria in the start? Loving the videos so far and can not wait for 1000000000 subs good luck

[@18-242]

Where is part three

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Yay Team ! 23 years ago I bought a Toyota Stout with a 6 Cyl 142 Cu. In. Holden "Red" Motor, running on LPG (search my "Mad Scientist" Playlist, for "The Rolls-Royce-Holden-Toyota Helicopter Stout !", to see it...!) ; and because it ran on Gas, & because I live 10 miles from the biggest Concentration-Camp for Cattle in Oz (Ranger's Valley "Feed Lot"), I did once crunch the Numbers on running "a 6-Cylinder Family Car" on Methane. It was an old Book I read, predating the Continuous-Flow system you're using ; but what I discovered taught me much about the nature of "Methane-Power", as seen in the 2nd & 3rd Mad Max videos. It seems that using "Batch Digestion" to run such a Vehicle 100 Km (60 miles) per week, one needed to build a 4-Chamber Digester, with each Chamber comprising a 1,000 (US) Gallon Tank, buried in a Hole lined with Insulation, and 2 Ft of Insulation overtopping it, equipped with a Mechanical Agitator & Heating Tubes... ; 3 Chambers were to be Brewing at any one time, with the other one being emptied of Sludge & recharged with 1 Ton of Fresh Moist Cowpoop. So, it only takes playing with 1 Ton of Cowturds going in, plus 750 Litres of Sludge being removed from the system, weekly ; to generate enough Bio-Gas to be able to scrub it of C.O.-2, and run it in a Water-Cooled Spark-Ignition Engine from a Gasometer, to turn a Water-Cooled 3-Stage Compressor to squeeze the Methane to 2,000 PSI to go in long narrow Steel Cylinders, with which to feed the Engine of the Fire Chariot...., and, all the Hot Water carrying the "Waste-Heat" from the Methane-Engine/Compressor combination has to be pumped through the Chambers of the 3 "working" Chambers... Your Continuous-Flow Design means that if you postulate a single suitably-plumbed 5,000 Gallon buried & insulated Poly-Tank, with two adjoining Gasometers for the Biogas & Scrubbed Methane, & the Engine/Compressor...; then to drive your classic "Normal Car" 60 miles per Week will *"only"* require you to shovel 320 Pounds of Cowshit per day into the Tank, while adding 50 Gallons of fresh Water & removing 60 Gallons of Sludge... I'm sorry, I'm a lazy Hypocrite & I run my Fire-Chariot on 22 Litres of Fossil-sourced Petroleum per week, to drive 250 Km (156 Miles) or so...; but I do have a 30 Watt "Mk-8 SunFoil" on the Roof, which may be saving me between 1 & 3 Litres per week... I don't get to say that I'm "driving Fossil-Free" on Carbon-Neutral Methane, but I don't spend my life shovelling Cowshit, either..; and I'm covering the same Road, with the same Load, at the same Speed, on less Motion-Lotion. And all it takes is adding a Streamlined Solar Array & Battery Charge-Controller to the Automobile Battery, in parallel to the Engine-Driven Alternator's Regulator. Every time the Alternator's Regulator "sees" Solar Current at the (Fully Charged - while sitting in the Parking-Lot...) Battery-Terminals, the Alt's Reg. decides the Battery is already full, and reduces it's Output.... And, every Vehicle burns a lot less Fuel, when the Alternator is not loading-up it's Driven-Pulley with Electromagnetic Drag, trying to quickly finish recharging the Battery (which had been sulphating while part-flat, since the last time the Engine was shut-down before the Battery had finished being Recharged....). So, um, I love your Concept & Design for a Continuous-Flow Methane Producer...; but I don't want to spend my life collecting & shovelling & disposing of Shit, just(ifiably ?) to get around... I suspect a Tricycle Land-Yacht, and waiting till the Wind is "Fair" for the Journey, until the Road Network collapses (soon). Such is Life, Have a good one.... ;-p Ciao !

[@nedshead5906]

will lawn clippings generate methane?

[@theCodyReeder]

yes but needs to be mixed with high nitrogen items.

[@nedshead5906]

Thanks Cody, so a methane powered lawnmower running off its own clippings is possible, that's awesome!

[@arjenvandewalle975]

I think a lawnmower would need a bit too much energy for that :)

[@nedshead5906]

I don't mean running directly from the digester as the methane is being produced, I mean building up a supply of methane over a couple of weeks (I mow approx once a fortnight here in Aus) and then using that gas to power the mower. all I need is about 10 minutes mower runtime a fortnight to get my lawns done

[@arjenvandewalle975]

I see what you mean. But you would't be able to get the amount of energy requiered to run your mower from the grass you would cut with the mower, see what I mean? Ofcourse you could run anything on energy produced by a methane generator but I was talking about the input being to small in the generator itself

[@madcatlover7554]

This has been fun to watch Cody, thanks

[@MRblazedBEANS]

how did he not burn the shit out of his fingers pinching off the molten plastic???

[@theCodyReeder]

Because I am fire proof. ;)

[@ethankinser4819]

His fingertips are probably all callus at this point.

[@Parszafs]

Cody'sLab so when youre building one of these, is it exploding or melting a possibility?

[@shaolindreams]

asbestos fingers

[@Parszafs]

Cody'sLab also if the fire were to backtrack through the tube, what would happen?

[@ChristieNel]

I am super impressed with this follow-up and tempted to make one myself. I would love to see some numbers, such as how long it would need to run to cook a meal or produce a minute of shower water.

[@sfh792]

I'm really interested in that too.Could it make enough to store and somehow be used to run a stove

[@porta7340]

Still waiting for part 3 man hurry up! lol

[@acada6594]

Great project you have here. Put it on latrine, get some propane fridge (I think it can run on methane too). And you have your self powered cool food and drink. Or you can do some plumbing and have lights in the house (just like in last centuries in old towns).

[@AWildKevin]

You just used your fingers to put out a flame and melted tube. How does that not hurt you? :o Unless, of course, your fingers were wet.

[@nathanielholland-pass4618]

KevFive as he said in another comment, he's fire proof

[@MuzikBike]

How does he do it? We may never know. First a magnetic finger, now this....

[@Matt_10203]

KevFive It starves the flame of oxygen fast enough that it goes out instantly and the heat from the tube probably dissipated extremely quickly because plastic isn't great at keeping heat.

[@tron-8140]

Low temp flame, low temp air. Probably was about as hot as hot glue.

[@hunterprovencal1684]

Tyler - I got burned really bad from hot hlur

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

1:40 ouch at that molten plastic squeeze! Did it not burn?

[@JoshuaZitoJZ]

"I have Gas" referring to methane of course

[@rosselur]

otherwise known as fart gas.

[@rosselur]

i said fart. HAH!

[@charlesmcgahee8250]

cody don. always a pleasure to see your videos ! keep it up for the future many new found science love of science. is inspierd from you ." my deepest respects and support".

[@MrApple-zw1kb]

this is lit

[@hayleyxyz]

That heater is so Cody. Couple of tun cans with forks stuck to them for legs Never change 😂

[@riderbrs]

When are you going back to work at the mine?

[@riggit1880]

I think he said when its not winter anymore, also the fact that his mine is pretty far away.

[@newvictim]

it is too cold right now. freezing temperature, have to wait for spring / summer for those videos.