Making Gigantic Ice Cubes In My Garage

[@HyperspacePirate]

Btw the channel has a discord now, because apparently that's a thing people do in 2024 discord.gg/yTJ78WJK

[@TheBcoolGuy]

From AD 1998

[@el_gator0927]

nice

[@ac7666]

Shits broke

[@el_gator0927]

i cant join the discord

[@philipdestroyer]

Expired

[@nextjaeger9271]

You are the singular reason i keep going to my thermodynamic classes in uni.

[@alexrogers9086]

Tell your professor about him

[@gplustree]

wholesome tbh

[@kir0nz]

Would have thought the opposite. Do your classes have practical(read: real world) applications like this?

[@ZoonCrypticon]

Are you a German?

[@nextjaeger9271]

@@ZoonCrypticon yes?

[@alexanderseiger2762]

That parelleling of compressors is exactly how grocery store refrigeration racks work! They have tons of compressors all in parallel, for both redundancy and capacity scaling.

[@graealex]

You claim to live in Florida, but your safety footwear when pouring molten copper says Australia.

[@stasi0238]

I don't see a difference

[@smarts53]

Or Pakistan

[@cyril.figgis]

as an Australian, we accept Floridians. backyard scientist is ours now too

[@axelBr1]

Safety flip-flops, very popular in South East Asia

[@aarongrantthebulk]

Also he uses metric…

[@defenestrated23]

Nighthawkinlight, Tech Ingredients, Tech Connections, and Hyperspace. The four horseman of the fridgepocalypse.

[@craftusmaximus]

I've been collecting science KZbin channels like thanos collecting infinity stones

[@johnjingleheimersmith9259]

How could you forget DIY Perks?!

[@joecrisp9060]

​@@johnjingleheimersmith9259Don't forget breaking taps and applied science.

[@blackbird8982]

Plus Electroboom, GreatScott, Styropyro, ...

[@iphone3gs96]

@blackbird8982and cody’sLab

[@seanscon]

that alligator in hurricane - the touch of detail

[@j.christie2594]

It never stops, life is Education. Children, help me learn most, reflecting on the Discovery, from ignorance and the Joy of learning and achievement

[@dudy_1004]

I need to see that man-made blizzard footage lmao

[@AldenVondyck]

frfr

[@spacewolfjr]

Dairy Queen.

[@thebamplayer]

Babe, come the fridge guy uploaded a new video.

[@ElectricalInsanity]

Literally told my wife that exact sentence. The eyeroll is the reward.

[@multiarray2320]

​@@ElectricalInsanitydamn, she doesnt appreciata a new video from the refrigerator guy? is she still your wife?

[@cybersholt]

Same here, I need this dude as my neighbor 🤣

[@porgrejefff6597]

Back to being fridge guy

[@German_overengineer]

My gf hates these videos.

[@thesquatchdoctor3356]

You can make serious money supplying large clear ice blocks for art. Just freeze it only from the bottom of the pot and insulated the sides well with the top open

[@frtls]

To make it clear, you need distilled water and it needs to be frozen from a single direction while insulating the other sides.

[@Flygtraktor]

Boiled water is free from dissolved gasses and will give clear ice.

[@Caterpie56]

You can use tap water if the directional freezing is slow enough, you'll just be left with some really gross water as all the dissolved impurities get concentrated in the liquid

[@MinkSquared]

No, you dont need distilled water dont be silly. You just need to make sure it freezes directionally

[@MinkSquared]

​@@Flygtraktorthis is also huge bogus

[@soundtrancecloud5101]

Distilled water has nothing to do with it

[@chrisracer2007]

0:46 you say ice is boring, well I actually find it quite cool

[@Tator_Soldier]

Nothing makes me happier than watching these videos. It's the perfect combo of funny educational and things I've never seen before

[@dragondemonsyne]

For the bath around the ice pot, you could use water + glycol antifreeze (either regular ethylene glycol, or propylene glycol if you want a non-toxic solution). That will handle temps a low as -60C, depending on the glycol concentration. You could even use a heat exchanger with the glycol solution pumped through it, instead of the coil around the pot. That way, there would be a great deal of flexibility on the size/shape of the freezing container, and the thermal mass of the glycol (assuming it's pre-chilled) + the flow of the glycol solution should freeze water quite quickly.

[@DarkAttack14]

Glycol antifreeze has much lower heat capacity than water salt mix though

[@dragondemonsyne]

@@DarkAttack14 Not by that much. Heat capacity by mass of a 50:50 water/propylene glycol mix is around 90% of pure water. And it's even closer by volume, as the glycol solution is denser than pure water.

[@JamesChurchill]

Lower heat capacity is beneficial in this case, as it's used for direct thermal transfer.

[@stazeII]

Being in Florida suddenly explains how many ac units you have or can get for cheap. Might suggest a pump to circulate your water bath. Would help with slushing and heat transfer.

[@ICanDoThatToo2]

Maybe also a stirrer inside the pot?

[@ВасилийКоровин-г9э]

16:17 Now add a dozen gallons of vodka, orange juice, a piece of sewer pipe and an umbrella.

[@tookitogo]

At work, I was working on a laboratory chiller whose control electronics failed. It was filled with ethanol, and I just turned on the compressor and let it free run for a while. By the time I stopped, it had reached -40C (which coincidentally is also -40F), and I put a small bottle of water in the ethanol bath. It froze in just a few minutes. :) Fun stuff. Fun fact about laboratory ultra deep freezers, according to a poster at work: a small freezer at -80C uses as much electricity as four average Swiss family households. Increasing the temperature to just -70C reduces energy consumption by 30%.

[@markom.4201]

Very cool. Have you thought about making a pykrete (ice+sawdust) cube with this setup? Would be interesting to see its alleged strength in this big block format

[@cherylm2C6671]

Ditto!

[@henry_tsai]

Time to do a colab with a guntuber!

[@nowan71730]

You could cool a big house with that setup if it was pyekrete. refreeze at night and run off the ice during the day. Heard of a Library out west that uses a system like that.

[@NiHaoMike64]

@@nowan71730 What's the advantage over just plain ice? I'm doing research in using thermal storage for solar powered HVAC.

[@cherylm2C6671]

@@nowan71730 Thank you for your comment! I am reminded of the Reagan Library, and I think the Ghetty also had a similar facility. I think it a great idea!

[@BlazedFan83273]

17:00 is... is that a 3d-printed firecracker...

[@Thing.Appreciator]

Your little cartoons are getting better and better, the accurately represented Tuareg tribesman is 10/10

[@ecoista1373]

Fridge go brrrr

[@TheTdw2000]

Finally a rendition of the birrr meme that actually makes sense

[@davidgilpin5200]

Pirate's next door neighbor: "Honey, he's at it again! WTF? He's making huge ice cubes... Maybe trying for the world's record giant Old Fashioned?"

[@Nukle0n]

Worlds biggest dram.

[@chrismayer8990]

A day in Florida, fantastic! A day in Florida with HyperspacePirate is priceless!

[@moth.monster]

Florida Man experiences ice for the first time

[@michelgrenier1878]

The only issue with parallel compressors is uneven oil return , Supermarkets systems have an elaborate oil level return system on the parallel pacs .

[@Chiberia]

I do a lot of brewing, if making your own copper coils, fill them with sand (or a frozen water/soap slush mix, but that's harder) and you'll find them much easier to coil around your form. braise or tack them every couple of coils to keep the form

[@Blocka025]

I think it would be interesting to see how much water you can supercool at once. How sick would it be if you supercooled 50 L of water at once. Distilled water that you stir the crap out of… your setup is basically perfect

[@ReTrace1]

Great video! So to increase the process efficiency do a separate isolated environment where you keep water liquid just above freezing point. This way you can just transfer the almost freezing water to the ice making pot, being able to freeze that water in a much shorter time, or even use a much weaker system for freezing the almost frozen water (just to get it solid). This way, while you freeze the cold water, you also prepare new cold water to rapidly freeze the next block and make yourself a nICE production line 🧊🧊🧊 If people would be cool, they will come to buy your ice blocks just for fun or for various other reasons. You can also sell the ice blocks pre-packed with firecrackers, cool LED lights and much more big ice awesomeness.

[@toothpaste295]

hvac tech here, do you have a EPA universal refrigerant certification? Just winding since your tearing apart stuff with refrigerant, and you seem to have a decent enough basis of cooling cycles on different units, keep up the great vids!

[@colefoster9280]

love the wow refrence at 17:28, im literally leveling my character on the new classic server as i watch this

[@RT-qd8yl]

As a commercial HVACR tech, this is one of my favorite channels on youtube. 😊

[@glossywhite8634]

The burning acetylene test was a great idea.

[@cherylm2C6671]

Thanks for that clarification! Then there was the magnet and filings, which might be magnetite anyway.

[@DrewskisBrews]

I love hearing the antics of someone who's hobby involves vapor compression cycles!

[@ericlotze7724]

2:12 …but what about Crescent Moon Ice / Pellet Ice / Cube Ice? The ice lore, i NEED IT

[@ThantiK]

So happy to see other Floridaman in their natural environment.

[@darksu6947]

He's not in jail 😂

[@darkmann12]

that's not a goddamn cube smh

[@PraxZimmerman]

Should have spent more time in geometry 🙄

[@MichalHalczuk]

Although hilarious idea, here are some improvements that could probably speed up the process: 1. You could add some stiring device into the water, for greater cooling potential. With some auto-turn off just before freezing, or even large magnetic stirrer. 2. Circulation pump for coolant bath. 3. More insulation via air-gaps. Air has similar insulation properties as foam, so instead of using tons of foam, just making many thick air gaps would be better.

[@jaceyrector9320]

I’ve worked on ancient furnaces that were twinned together. On top was one large evap that went to two condensers just like your diagram so it has been done before.

[@gragaloth6237]

I've been watching some electroplating videos recently and that would be right up your alley. Getting something sent out to an electroplater costs hundreds and an at-home kit costs well over $1000, but electroplating is incredibly simple, it's just a power supply and electrolytic solutions. I feel like plating some cursed things in platinum, gold, or silver would be kickass and right in line with your channel

[@toolscientist]

12:47 so 61.4MJ energy removed. If it was a constant 1550W, then you used 133.9MJ of electrical energy, so about 46% system efficiency. I'm guessing the power reduced as it got colder, though. Did you log the total input energy?

[@ReadTheShrill]

I saw a guy making crystal clear ice blocks at a winter carnival once (for later carving). He used an aquarium bubbler to bubble air through the water as it froze. I'm not certain, but I think the idea is that the relatively large bubbles from the bubbler combine with the tiny bubbles in the water, and then float to the top. So you don't get any gasses in your cube.

[@AaronFrederick843]

I really want to see what your bloodwork looks like

[@s.kammerer1206]

awesome! an old 80's ice make used an a steal drum to flake ice and a cutting bar. point being it was a flooded drum w refrigerant. use an trash can and the stock pot for a flooded evaporator. txv and large accumulator is required for flood back!

[@PrebleStreetRecords]

4:51 What you’re describing is basically a water jacket still. Basically a big stock pot with a double wall that hot water/oil can pass through, allowing better thermal transfer to the mash you’re distilling and preventing hot spots. You can buy one for less than you probably spent making the copper coil.

[@jimsvideos7201]

14:04 BigStackD has entered the chat.

[@alleycatw9l641]

Hey, an interesting experiment to try would be to freeze water and sawdust in a 50/50 ratio. Apparently sawdust insulates the ice enough that it helps it last a heck of a lot longer frozen. There was some experiment back in the 40's that led some people to believe in the military that they could make a floating ice burg of the stuff as an aircraft carrier.

[@gresvig2507]

The ice dropped into the pool made quite a satisfying bloo-bloop.

[@RicoElectrico]

And scientists couldn't figure out source of the bloop they head in their hydrophone array... SMH /jk

[@ronaldkrijnen1911]

with a multi compressor setup all you need to watch out for is that one doesnt get all the oil in the system but that can be fixed with a tube at the max hight of the oil of the compressor

[@removechan10298]

the trimethyl borate is cool - nice video!

[@therealchriscunningham]

making an acetylene torch out of an ice cube and burning it on your front porch facing the city is 100% mad science and 100% Florida.

[@liamfoxy]

I'm Canadian, i saw ice cover lakes and snow drifts the size of houses 6 months of the year, every year.. and yet here i just watched with undivided attentionsm, a Florida Man try to make a giant ice cube for 20 minutes

[@TheCinderDude]

Crazy omen that video intro was. Now some parts of Florida have 8 inches of snow! Hope you're doing alright over there

[@TheCinderDude]

Also I did this by accident by leaving a Tide powder bucket outside when It rained last week, then my whole state froze over

[@internet155]

This would be a good thing to use in summer, if you run the cooler with solar panels during the day to make bulk ice, you can use the blocks at night to help cool down the house, probably with a pump and a radiator fan combo.

[@ronaldduck7567]

I came to say the same thing. Oversize the system a bit to get ice AND air conditioning during the day. Replace the salt water slurry with antifreeze and pump it around to radiators. Minimal battery storage needed to only run the pump and radiator fans.

[@Falcodrin]

Def stick with a heat exchanger setup for that though. I have heard many people complain about the days my university used massive ice blocks with a duct system to keep a theater cool with 3k people in it. It gets humid af.

[@anthonywilliams7052]

New challenge, giant CLEAR ice to make a 10 foot Sun magnifying lens to generate power, keep things frozen and make extra power. If 10 feet isn't enough go larger! Maybe even fresnel lens.

[@operaatio5117]

I think you could make clear ice by only freezing the pot from one side. That would make the freezing take longer time, but a humoungous clear ice block would be kinda cool ngl.

[@soundtrancecloud5101]

Add a small pump to move the water on top so the ice freezes from bottom up, will make it clearer.

[@removechan10298]

13:50 amazing shot!

[@memejeff]

Beautiful results. 10/10.

[@muhdiversity7409]

4:40 Sounds like you need a Full Metal Jacket, private Pile. I'll be here all week! 😆

[@BiglyWeenis]

See if you can degas the water before freezing to make a crystal clear ice cylinder!

[@DrewskisBrews]

You could use this to help people understand just how much energy is transferred by a central air conditioning system. Make three tons of ice, then show that melting 3 tons of ice over 24 hours is the same cooling as a 3 ton AC running constantly for 24 hours. It would be a helpful comparison when dealing with scam cooling products and those "bright ideas" involing coolers full of ice and fans.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Absolute classic Hyperspace Pirate content, love the perfect balance of science, crazy and humour. Even the sponsor message is entertaining.

[@alex4alexn]

such a cool concept, please continue making huge ice blocks and doing cool stuff with them

[@ellieallen115]

14:08 [spends months designing maximum power freezer contraption] [makes giant block of ice] “okay let’s put hot stuff on it for fun!” This is the content I come here for

[@emilienamaury3839]

This end, is just legendary

[@human_shaped]

Next time you should degas the water and make beautiful clear ice. Cool.

[@chadwickemcphearson]

Storing dead bodies got me, thumbs up Florida Man, you earned it.

[@PixelatedPro214]

16:06 ICEBERG DROIT DEVANT 😂

[@HingleMcCringle35]

Much more interesting than I was expecting!

[@zyeborm]

2 suggestions. 1) Degas the water to make giant super clear ice because that'd be cool. 2) gas the heck out of the water to make a clathrate so you can have a giant burning ice cube.

[@lwb8149]

I know exactly why you're doing this; to start a Christmas tree farm in southern Arizona using giant ice cubes for water and temp control.

[@putrid.p]

Boil the water first to get clearer ice. Maybe. The borate burning on top of it was awesome.

[@Slein-bs6ty]

I really like your videos, you do a great job! Please turn of the auto-translation of the video title, i almost didn't click on this video because the title was in my native language.

[@djfaber]

Try circulating the water while its freezing with some vinyl pipe hooked to a small water pump, the motion should allow more gas to escape during freezing leaving you a crystal clear block

[@jttech44]

Obviously the next step is to go much bigger, and then do some reverse urban sledding. Pretty simple to freeze a pull point into the block itself, along with a load plate. Just remember the first rule of reverse urban sledding, it's not about how fast you can go, it's about how fast you can stop.

[@horrorhotel46290]

The design and build phase: wow super cool Playing with the ice: barely whelming, bordering on under

[@MrBiron1]

Part way through the video.... You can get vacuum insulated thermos.... Use it as evaporators. Break the vacuum run tie it after the needle valve or tube cap.... Ideally you should probably test if it can handle more then 15 psi too lol 😆

[@seeigecannon]

You might be able to freeze faster if you use a heavy chamber, a cold trap, and a vacuum pump. Once the non-condensables are removed the vacuum pump won't need to do much so long as the cold trap can kind of keep up. With the non-condensables removed the water will boil and will do what it can to match the temperature of the cold trap/finger. If you have a way to scrape the ice off without breaking vacuum then you wouldn't need to worry about the ice insulating itself and should pretty much be able to maintain max cooling power.

[@owend7212]

There are methods to getting clear ice that size I believe it has to do with having the water be moving while it freezes to prevent bubbles from forming

[@DigitalIP]

And now i know how my ice maker works lol. They definitely come in handy if you want clean ice and a lot of it.

[@BenjaminMaggi]

You're my hero, this video reminds me of the good old times of yt

[@Rooey129]

What happens if you put the coils in the pool for a week with the pump running?

[@smn368]

You should see if you can find a dual compressor, Two-stage rooftop or package unit at the dump or from a local HVAC company doing a demo/ change out somewhere. It's got all the things you need and I would love to see somebody mess with one like this

[@p.0-npcg.248]

When I was a kid and made my first "detonator" I found out that no matter how large a ice block is it doesn't contain the explosion while even thin aluminium can handle it

[@renevile]

how about thermite vs ice cube? ;)

[@anthonywilliams7052]

How soon before you make a pycrete ship?

[@Throefly]

I'm sure this seems really awesome for most people, but I can do this outside half the year with any large container. More than that, I don't even have to go very far and I can do it on large naturally existing containers. Must be fun to do it with an outdoor pool though.

[@haraldclark6206]

Brilliant work!

[@kennyholmes5196]

You should try freezing a block, thawing it out, and then re-freezing it to get a solid chunk of clear ice.

[@Superkuh2]

This video makes me appreciate my region's winters where freezing 5 gallon buckets of water outside happens overnight.

[@wolfwind9658]

You can wrap and shape tubing easier by filling it with soap and water and freezing it first.

[@purpleidea]

If you do all this effort, you should make clear ice, which is used for sculptures. It's easy to find out the trick about how to get it clear =D

[@drecknathmagladery9118]

as somone who used to take those plastic pretzel barrels and freeze them because college can have boring days yeah just tossing a giant ice cube in the pool makes a great game my favorite thing to do with those was to pop the plastic with a sharp knife i also used to do it with 2 liter bottles i specificly remember the thing that took the longest to freeze that being one of them cheeze ball/puff containers it took a good 4 days to fully freeze and it was intresting to watch how it froze

[@conundrum51]

The fact that the thumbnail isn’t your adorable corgi in the giant pot is a crying shame

[@beautifulsmall]

You have the tools. in 2020 hindsight, rolling the ice cylinder might be easier than pushing flat. Always a pleasure to see how dificult some things are, like wrapping copper tube, looks easy on paper. what about really cold.

[@miklov]

You have so much fun, thanks for sharing it!

[@l.v1473]

Now this is a proper 2:33 at night video

[@Dek1G40]

Man I would LOVE to see you build a freeze dryer. Not like those crappy dry ice tiny ones on other videos but a proper one with a vapor trap

[@Ammoniummetavanadate]

I have worked on these, they are a nightmare.

[@TheAruruu]

can't say i've ever seen sooty ice before. well done.

[@astronautdyno3120]

I dont normally comment but its so cool what you do, i appreciate it keep up the good work!

[@Benetheburrito]

Dude i just took thermodynamics and hearing the refridgerants like R22 gave me flashbacks to my final