Science Shack - When The Oil Runs Dry

Adam Hart-Davis wants to create a luxury bath time of the future with Hot Water, Chilled Champagne and a bath tub "without using a drop of oil or fossil fuel." Sorry the Mission briefing is missing
1:16 Farmer Rupert Evans hydroelectric station 5:26
1:40 Dr Robin Curtis' Heat Pump (extracting heat from normal river water) 2:20 4:40 6:58 17:19 21:27
3:07 Home made Solar Barbeques 22:50
5:56 Hydro-pneumatic (?) power (water turbine driving an air compressor)
7:23 Incandescent Light Bulb cooker 24:37
8:51 Pedal power generator
11:27 Alternative plastics or Alternatives to plastic Casein, Starch biopolymers, Recycled plastic
12:34 Recycling plastic coffee cups
14:50 Biodiesel/Cooking oil for fuel (the law on biodiesel duty/tax has changed since filmed)
16:36 Solar electric panels
17:54 Compressed air Vortex tube for cooling and heating at the same time
19:17 Howard Atkin's Hand wound battery charger (similar to Clockwork Radio)
23:25 Cooking with Thermite
Originally Broadcast 09/11/2001 (Open University Repeat)

[@techtinkerin]

Always remember this episode as it's full of great ideas😊❤️

[@iandavis6742]

Still a very enjoyable program thank you A H-D

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

Adam has a waybof making something complicatedvand maybe boring into an easy to understand topic. I saw this on telly years ago and found it on here tonight, just had to watch it again. I still cant quite workbout how that compressed air coolerbthing works though. Great vid Adam.

[@moffitdevon]

I miss this TV programme

[@burgersnchips]

Who needs oil when you can have a slave outside your house peddling a modified exercise bike to run your house.

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

Especially the slave peddling in the gym 😍😍

[@jasperedwards3341]

seen on tv many years ago

[@littlebigmanlbm]

The whole project seems to rely on plastic tubes which are made from oil and the bath is made with an hydraulic press that runs on oil

[@edbadyt]

littlebigmanlbm to be fair, when we run out of oil, the plastic tubes that already exist won't disappear

[@SamIves85]

Thanks for the upload! Thoroughly enjoyed it :)

[@billrichardson2565]

liked this a lot. food for thought ;O)

[@themadplotter]

The girl on the bike was so 2000s hot

[@MatthewPlato91]

Excellent stuff! I miss Adam Hart Davis's shows, needs to make more! Though isn't using a modern fridge made of plastic kind of defeating the purpose haha? Still really cool to do all that

[@AlexanderEdoh2013]

For a second, I thought he was Rolf Harris

[@jasperedwards3341]

have u still got the trice

[@LOPEZdJUNGLIST]

ahd rules