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Prius with an engine that runs on WATER

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by patsparks, Nov 19, 2008.

  1. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    you all know I have been a sceptic, but now I am a convert. I have really found an engine which runs on water!! I have had this engine on a bench and running for 3 days continuously without a hitch and all I had to add to keep it going was more water. There is no noise, no steam, no vibration just a smooth running engine.

    So to show you all this fantastic engine I recorded it on my phone and posted a short video on YouTube. Seriously you will love this and be amazed. If you work out how it works, keep it to yourself please. I am considering up-scaling this to generate electricity!!

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    Yes I need to re-record this with a tripod.
     
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    Hehe, it's a long time ago that I have seen this toy. But, in fact, it runs on solar energy...
     
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    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    Jesus that bird is HUGE, that those cups. My god they're enormous.
     
  4. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    In reality the entire planet runs on solar energy.
    It is in complete shade and even works at night with the lights off.
    I believe it draws heat from the atmosphere and runs on the temperature differential between the dry and wet end.
    The only fuel consumed is water.
     
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    I used to watch these things work at Times Square in the 40's I always wondered how they worked? Looks like now I'm going to find out.
     
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    OK here is the explanation.
    Are you sitting down and have plenty of time to read this because it is dead complicated.
    Ready?






    It's magic!!
     
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    A Dippy Bird has the following parts:
    • Two equal-sized, hollow glass bulbs
    • A long glass tube that connects the bulbs
    • Fuzzy, water-absorbent material covering the head
    • Two plastic legs with a pivot connection
    • Methylene chloride in the abdomen
      • Methylene chloride is an industrial paint stripper and solvent (one thing that dissolves easily in methylene chloride is caffeine, so you can use methylene chloride to decaffeinate things -- see Question 480). Methylene chloride helps makes a Dippy Bird work because it evaporates very easily -- it boils at just 100 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).
    To operate the Dippy Bird, you get its head wet. As the water evaporates, fluid moves up into the head, causing the bird to become top-heavy and dip forward. Once the bird dips forward, fluid moves back into the abdomen, causing the bird to become bottom-heavy and tip up.

    Here is how a Dippy Bird works:
    1. When water evaporates from the fuzz on the Dippy Bird's head, the head is cooled.
    2. The temperature decrease in the head condenses the methylene chloride vapor, decreasing the vapor pressure in the head relative to the vapor pressure in the abdomen.
    3. The greater vapor pressure in the abdomen forces fluid up through the neck and into the head.
    4. As fluid enters the head, it makes the Dippy Bird top-heavy.
    5. The bird tips. Liquid travels to the head. The bottom of the tube is no longer submerged in liquid.
    6. Vapor bubbles travel through the tube and into the head. Liquid drains from the head, displaced by the bubbles.
    7. Fluid drains back into the abdomen, making the bird bottom-heavy.
    8. The bird tips back up.
    If the bird dips into a cup of water, the fuzzy material absorbs water again and the cycle starts over.

    HowStuffWorks "How does a Dippy Bird work?"
     
  8. Rae Vynn

    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    We had a dippy bird when I was a kid. :)
     
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    I was too poor to have one as a child so I have one now.
     
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    Very cool and practical even with these lower gas prices. Just one question: what water do I use to run my Prius on? Regular tap water; Brita; bottled or do I have to get pure glacier water? LOL
     
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    The engine shown runs on Adelaide tap, a special blend of chlorine, fluoride and soil. Oh, there is some water too.
     
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    Almost. But you forgot about geothermal energy and those nasty nuclear energy plants...:p
    A plugin electric car powered by a nuclear plant might be the first car that does ultimately does not run on solar energy.

    It works on evaporation of water in a non-vapour-saturated atmosphere.
    In a closed room under these circumstances, it will eventually come to a stop even if it still has water (when the surrounding air reaches its vapour pressure). If you follow the enery flow long enough, you will end up with solar energy. Like you mentioned, the source of energy that drives almost everything on Earth, including your little bird...
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Not solar, but stellar. All that fissionable material came from some big star going bang. Then again, so did pretty much everything else.

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    We all have bits of stardust in our cells...
     
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    OK, let's play further. In that view, nuclear fission energy in fact is produced by gravitational energy...
    The ultimate and final authority in our Universe.
     
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    Vtie, I'm willing to bet we'd be good drinking buddies. As long as you had a wife or other responsible person to drive us from pub to pub, and take pity on us when we had the dry heaves
     
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    Pat, do you have any dippy-bird eggs?

    I'd like to make our farm more sustainable and I'm considering raising a flock of them.
     
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    You would be welcome to come to Ghent, my city. Plenty of good pubs all in walking distance, and the best beer of the world...

    :first:
     
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    Don't forget to take a dippy bird
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    An excellent point. The universe is a giant roller coaster. We started at the top of the hill, and we are coasting to a stop at the bottom.

    Tom