Tesla Turbine For Water Desalination

This is a part of my ongoing water desalination challenge

[@danieljordan4320]

I love the older videos where you go into all the extra details on what you are doing step by step. I really learn a lot more from those little comments than you would think.

[@RoadRageLive]

This is a gem of a video. I don't know how I missed it. I see what I am doing this weekend.

[@oddjobbob8742]

The Dread Mad Scientist Robert is a wizard as well. It is like you conjure fresh water out of the air. Even more powerful, you conjure fresh water out of a vacuum… out of nothing. I really enjoyed this KZbin!

[@jvarella01]

You have helped me in so many ways; you are one of the most important sources of information in a 15 year saga with the objective of freeing the poorest people on the planet from the energy poverty.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

thank you for taking the time to write and say that mate - cheers

[@RoadRageLive]

Boiling the water in a vacuum for desalination, awesome concept. Instead of plastic, I am going to use old computer equipment . I like using the aluminum platters from old desktop hard drives for projects like this and I have built a tesla turbine with them. I even used the spacers and electric motors in the drives to make the tesla turbine into a generator. My issue has always been building the case that makes up the body of the unit, I never thought of laminating plastic but it makes sense. In the past I have tried bamboo from bamboo flooring, 4 inch drain pipe cut compressed into a small diameter, metal pipes of different diameter but laminating plastic never came to mind. Thank you!

[@johngile1198]

Robert, great video, as always. Thank you for sharing your inventive skills. You make a difference!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@19rocket64]

love the use of the bits for the tight fit casing.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@aarondingus3548]

Love this idea! It's essentially using outside energy to create a cold steam pump which is awesome. I think it might be possible to use this as a desalination device and a generator concurrently. If a heat differental was setup between the input and output, then a Tesla pump was added to the same shaft of the turbine, you would essentially have a heat engine generator and desalinatior. I may have bungled the explanation, but I'm basically combining the main ideas presented in this video with some newer videos from the channel IEnergySupply. Anyways, great video as always! I'm truly amazed at the value brought forth by this channel and the great minds that run it

[@ovidius2000]

theGlassErlenmeyerFlaskNeedsToBeHeated?OtherwiseHowDoYouGetSteam?

[@jamesbushell9363]

Brilliant except the boot lace broken moment made me laugh out loud. Its a wonderful project Robert thanks for sharing this l am fascinated entertained and inspired by all your wonderful projects.

[@jprice1122]

Bravo! Now that you have a Tesla Turbine on your bench I shall repeat myself... Way back I posted that I would love to see the T. Turbine with the blades coated with your SWAG ink - voltage potential is proportional to velocity. Maybe do a run through with the ink, let it dry, presto! Conductive ink coated turbine.. Not sure where you would place connections to check output, but since you have all of the materials on hand - I figure you are the best man for the job. I know you are a busy man and I promise not to pester... Cheers!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - I am thinking of doing exactly that mate!

[@actudoran]

Robert Murray-Smith wow ... that'll be something :) looking forward to that !

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

actudoran it'll be a while - you should see my workload lol

[@actudoran]

I know ... been busy myself but your work feeds my appetite for moking arround with stuff :) ... eagerly waiting for the first installment of dosh for our plant .... will invite you over to see our operations in their full might :)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

actudoran defo mate - love to see it

[@austinmesta9862]

For the Americans... Cyanoacrylate glue is super glue.

[@taz069]

What a brilliant idea.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

taz069 cheers mate

[@andrewballantine]

As ever, very interesting and informative. A little tip to help you locate your chuck key; place a small magnet on the casing of the pillar drill and use it to park the chuck key. Then the chuck key is always to hand. Hope that is useful to you. Cheers.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

+Andrew C. Ballantine i like that mate - very nice suggestion - thanks

[@oddjobbob8742]

I think, if I recall rightly, Robert can leave his lathe chuck key in the chuck because he has a very clever lathe that won’t start if the chuck key is in place. That’s why he is able to safely leave the key in the chuck.

[@markhodgson2348]

You could make a holder for that Stanley blade, a great idea rob awesome

[@ufoengines]

Cool! Tesla's Disk Turbine are fun! Been a fan of the gizmos for years.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

me too lol

[@travismoore7849]

A good idea using a vacuum to distill water.

[@AshleyMillsTube]

This is awesome, thanks :D

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@robertjames1259]

Wow, that is amazing how you made it and pumped up the rpm . To do what vacuum. ???

[@Bladedragonlord]

+Robert Murray Smith, again thank you! Can we please see the finished, obviously when done desal system and pump, Thank you! :D

[@thagrit]

OK here's a suggestion you can use. Go to your pound store. We have the 99 cent only store here. Get a vacuum cleaner belt . They come in flat band belts or round ones. The flat ones could be turned into a few thinner belts that would take the stresses of running at high speeds. And they will be cheap.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@itanc1]

really nice build, video and style i will be sciving off most of my work tomorrow to watch some more thanks

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome lol

[@mrozi7669]

Great explanation....the better is to be clear picture of the video.

[@uniclicksyringe]

Agreed. now lets do it.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

ok

[@TwoForFlinchin1]

21:02 were you using the CDs on the desk for disks before cutting them yourself?

[@lorenbush8876]

Would that work to separate the sodium out of urine? Urine works pretty well for fertilizer but some plants are very sensitive to the sodium. Thanks Robert

[@markhodgson2348]

Great idea for making pancake coils let you work out the rest lol

[@ceejayc6502]

Hi Robert, just seeing this in my feed. Fascinating. Is it just me or do you tend 'get it right' the first time often with your one-off manufacturing? This is an amazing tool. So i have studied this tesla turbine for practicalities and unless i am mistaken, the power required to obtain this ridiculous RPM is what makes it so special, therefore making this a potentially viable method of desalination.... Have you done anything more with this in the intervening 5 years?

[@wazittuyoo2147]

I liked your reference from 'Space Balls'. Thanks for your insights in relation to rotor housing relations, and how to simplify construction. Ping me and I will tell you how to increase Tesla efficiency. As per patent applications.

[@JohnWilkinsonTesla]

I had the same idea!

[@sk8pkl]

wow veery nice!!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

sk8pkl cheers mate

[@wazittuyoo2147]

Proof of concept confirmed. Hear hear.

[@yaka2490]

Hi Robert i am trying to replicate this test mate and i am at the point were i have a balanced rotorset in a case and i now need to drive it up to very high RPM's. I have a dremmel and i can 3D print the pulleys ect. did you ever make a better device? outcomes? very curious as the level of vacuum you manged to reach ect. many thanks Si

[@MG.50]

Interesting to build a Tesla turbine just to pull a vacuum on the flask to cause the water to boil. Hmmm... Intriguing project and good shop work. I think I would be more inclined to purchase a vacuum pump (I was looking at some a few weeks ago on the surplus market at very reasonable prices), unless part of the challenge was to make a project using a Tesla turbine. I assume the point was to distill water, since making a desalination system was mentioned. I really like the use of a vacuum to boil the water rather than heat. Pressure modification could certainly have advantages if you were working with heat sensitive chemicals. Thank you for providing several thought provoking directions to pursue! OH, I almost forgot to ask. How did the discs hold up in the turbine over time? It sounded as if you were limiting the running RPM, which would get past the notorious "discs flying to pieces" issue associated with the Teala turbines, but I wondered about long duration stress. Thanks.

[@DigGil3]

What a brilliant idea! Don't know how I never thought using vacuum to boil water without wasting energy in heating it! Does any commercial desalination method or plant works like this?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - quite a few - do a google search

[@thagrit]

Guess I should have watched the whole vid before suggesting today.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@phi9249]

Very clever indeed

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@KimberlyRPeacock]

Excellent work. It's amazing what you can do with just a few tools and some creativity. Virtually everyone can afford a vacuum pump. I would use a piston pump, diaphragm, or aspirator pump as the roughing pump, then use the Tesla as the roots blower. A little edwards vacuum pump system, which you don't have to give up a months pay for. The lathe trick is like on a wood lathe, where you could attach the razor to a wooden handle and use a support, or one could mount it to a grinder motor and do the same thing. This looks like such fun. I might be tempted to mount an electrostatic motor to the Tesla turbine to drive it, and use a lord kevin's thunderbolt, from the condensing water vapor to drive it. Electrostatic motors are ideal for this type of application whereby you want high speed but do not need high torque.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

i like the motor idea - I have been looking for an excuse to make one lol

[@KimberlyRPeacock]

I am thinking that you are going to be a happy camper when you do this and add graphene to the mix. That is a hint. I leave you the pleasure of discovery. :) If you want a better hint just nudge me. You are going to have fun.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Kimberly Peacock lol - that's just teasing! - i will look at it soon!

[@cyprianserapion2022]

Robert Murray-Smith Use blank CD-R or DVD-R, then you can save yourself all the work with the cut. Is this your new pipe heater there in the background?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Michael Zieger it doesn't save much mate - you still need to get the cds on a spindle and drill out the vent holes - it saves alittle time but the time it saves you lose having to make a spindle to fit the cds and then fit that to a set of bearings - and yes it is

[@VadoVoodoo]

Absolute genius! How much fresh water can be made from your little model?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

John Banks cheers mate - I am afraid I had to stop work on it for a little while - so i don't really know - but i will be picking it up again soon

[@actudoran]

Dude ... good skills :) clean execution ... love it !

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate - it's basic stuff for people who don't know where to begin on doing something like this - there are people out there much better and a hundred different ways of doing it - but it's a few tools and a plastic sheet - who can't make one from that

[@actudoran]

You make it sound so easy and natural ... I've been working as a motorcycle mechanic and know the challenges of making something out of nothing ... much like the wife lol

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - it's the thinking it through - i usually do a couple of versions to work out the problems - not too difficult when working in plastic - but it does take a while - what youtube sees is the finished version - you should see my trash can - full of early attempts lol

[@actudoran]

Robert Murray-Smith hahaha ... i got a full trunk of stuff from failed experiments :))) the missus has given up by now in trying to convince me to part with my wires and magnets and stators and loads of other s..t ... raspberry pi and various different modules :) Couldn't patent my hybrid telescope or a nice wing I designed for an ultralight due to lack of time and let's be honest ... funds ... for now... getting them built and used is much higher of a priority than patents - which will prolly never file for

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

well you know what i think of patents mate - if I am not going to use something I normally put it up on here so others can take it and run with it if they want - i am never going to be a millionaire lol

[@markhodgson2348]

You could spray water or WD40 as coolant

[@gr1f1th]

I always knew you would make an excuse to make a tesla turbine one day Robert. ;P BTW you need a 3d printer for this stuff. That way you can source us to make models for you and/or you build a model that every can test and make better. They are sooo nice for prototyping the things your about.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

one day mate - when i can afford one lol

[@ryanjamesloyd6733]

So it occurred to me watching this- you know your swag cells? and I think you said the faster the sea water runs over them the more they generate, right? what do you suppose would happen if you made your turbine plates into swag cells and pumped sea water through them? might be something to play with at some point.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I agree mate and I have been doing a bit of cleaning and run across a couple of Tesla turbines I built - hmmm - lol

[@Candyman97]

I could be wrong, but I'm thinking you have been married for a long time! I listen to your words, and the way you said them!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

you are right i have been married for a long time

[@Candyman97]

One of the things I keep harping on, is listening! It is a lesson, that I keep having too learn myself!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Eflat Productions true enough mate

[@localbroadcast]

what kinda resin do you prefer to use?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

+localbroadcast whatever works mate - i don't have a preference

[@thagrit]

Hey Robert! Since you are using a hole saw in the first place; why don't you just cut the plastic into strips and then drill the disks out of the strip? It would reduce the steps to make your project.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

i use the squares to make the body

[@nobodyyouknow3669]

Approximately how much more efficient is the Tesla pump method of boiling, than using a heating element? WattHours per gallon is the question, I suppose. I know further testing has to be done, but, just a ballpark figure. I presume you initially perceived a benefit significant enough to warrant investigation.

[@leonardjanus7599]

Could a TeslaTurbo work like a VortexTube? So separate hot air from cold air? grumble, grumble..

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

dunno mate

[@cushionofair]

The Hungry Goriya perhaps you could send the air you blow out of it into a vortex tube

[@leonardjanus7599]

Hi Rob Where you parked your Spitfire!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@localbroadcast]

more specifically.... what monomer(s) and which activator(s)?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

+localbroadcast again - i don't think it matters much mate

[@localbroadcast]

Robert Murray-Smith methyl cellulose, hypromellose, or pva?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

+localbroadcast play with what you think is best mate

[@localbroadcast]

+Robert Murray-Smith unfortunately I've run out of funds because I've been using that approach.. it gained me understanding of the theory behind these devices, but now I really just need a straight forward method so I can build some units.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

+localbroadcast there are lots of recipe videos mate - this channel is about experimentation if you just want a recipe pick one and go for it - i even give a few - but i am guessing that is not what you really want - what you really want is a world beating best ever recipe - no one is going to give you that mate - i am sorry but that's the way it is - everyone is looking for that as millions are involved and no one is about to share that i am afraid

[@warmateawoloye7135]

Rob do you have a spare time for visitation please

[@mycroftselene3326]

Hey what the heck are you doing there? I'm so dang impressed by you! Where, when, how did you get to learn all of what you know? Are you a good man who does his homework? You must be, eh? And can you tell me more? I sure would like to be your apprentice but I might be too old by now. Anywhoo, I almost never got to know about you until I started to research energy production in my own home in ways that are not going to break my wallet. Y'know what I mean, right? Ttys my friend. Aus

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - thanks for taking the time to post mate - and good luck with your projects

[@misteragreeable8360]

A cheap ready made source of disks, stainless steel to boot, pizza cutters. Get them from the dollar store and they'll probably be cheaper than the sheet of plastic.Also much less in the way of prep work.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate - aren't they a bit small?

[@misteragreeable8360]

Robert Murray-Smith Just a jumping off point. As is a plastic Tesla turbine. The only commercially produced TT's I'm aware of used disks a mere inch and a half across. (3.8cm) A quick trip to the kitchen with a ruler resulted in the measurement of 8.5 cm for my cutters.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Edward Borley 3.8 is a bit small but 8.5 would work well - cheers mate

[@GUEST-qw4te]

OK so you took a Tesla turbine and converted it into a vacuum pump.

[@momothromycin8506]

That extracts pure water from sea water without filters. Focus on the big picture here He literally wrote "This is a part of my ongoing water desalination challenge" - if youve watched his other videos, youd know why this is exciting.

[@leonardjanus7599]

Hi Robert Did you make some calculation on efficiency of desalination with teslaturbine/vacuum? For example, is more or less efficient of solar evaporation in artificial pod like this: www.solwa.it/en/technology/solwa

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

no mate - still working on it

[@EVZebra]

Robert, I wish I could have told you this before you did all that work to make those discs. A CD is the perfect shape and you can just buy them....sorry : )

[@ryanjamesloyd6733]

yeah, but then you don't get the perfect sized housing

[@MrKitesurfercharlie]

Nice workmanship, I would have used the pile of CDs on your desk though.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Ever tried drilling a cd?

[@KimberlyRPeacock]

Lord Kelvin Thunderbolt 10 to 20 KV kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaOUqGWkicuKj7s

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

it is a remarkable thing!

[@actudoran]

you make me realise how many interesting and wonderful stuff i am yet to find out about ...

[@joelmartote4855]

perdi 23:08 minutos e oito segundos do meu tempo assistindo essa porcaria.