A Tesla Turbine

[p4r4b0l4]

not sure why but your closing sentence cracked me up. really great demo of a genius device though!

[MrGarbage83]

This is the pilot speaking, today we will be flying with tesla airways. Dude you sound like a pilot!

[JingleJoe]

I didn't know tesla wore a turban.

[teamerx]

What if ... the exhaust of the teals turbine is connected to a tube , that has bladed tourbine in it ? 2 in 1 ? more efficient ?

[p4r4b0l4]

@teamerx I'm not sure if it would increase efficiency because it would lower the pressure difference for the initial turbine.

[cojobo34]

can you tell me where to find the design plans for this? very nice work man.

[eluap]

You almost sound like a relaxed Arlo Guthry...that was a compliment.

Cool turbine, btw.

[TheFinlandnator]

The dialect makes this 50% more funny.

[BadRick951]

what made it spin is it connected to a current or an air compresser? intresting you should make more videos

[PlasmaStar9]

@BadRick951 Yes, it's connected to an air compressor

[craccky]

@BadRick951 Did you calculate effeciency? I made one as my Final Year Project in engineering that ran upto 14000 revs with 6 inch plates(dia) but never calculated its efficiency. Connect it with steam source (using parabolic solar collector) and generate electricity. Best possible alternate energy source.

[jfekendall]

I didn't realize this concept worked with air as well.

[demolishun2]

Edison was an excellent business man, inventor, and scientist (yes, scientist). He also realized he had made a mistake in not working with Tesla early on. If either Edison or Tesla had better people skills they could have done so much more together. This is a huge lesson for people today.

Knowing how to do something doesn't matter unless you know why you are doing something. That is why Tesla ended up broke toward the end of his life and Edison created an empire. Apples and oranges.

[sesaw4]

"In angrey voice " AIR BRAKES!!!!1

[samuski36]

what could this be used for?

[lollipopbrigade]

@samuski36 suppling power. which what a turbine is.

[snowman4839]

Tesla was the shit

[lacesz21]

Can u make smaller version?interested to buy 4 of those.cheepest prize pls

[malagarcha]

eficience????

[jimmyhackers]

for fucks sake its pronouced tur-bine

not turban you dumb hick

that what pakis an terrorist wear on their heads to hide bombs and drugs in

[chapel44]

is there any videos here on youtube that shows a tesla turbine working on steam. and does anyone have any perfect design. the exhaust here is open. if it were to use steam, the exhaust should circulate the steam so it can be reused as water for the boiler

[MmoComando]

dont get me wrong thats cool engine

[MmoComando]

O O

____ stick your dick in one of the holes, turn it on and masturbate with it

[BeybiPotsi]

why are you people just doing a like a toy why not make working model show how much power it can do work that way your viewer can benefit from what you are posting in the internet ?

[crazyivan030983]

have you ever measure which angle of nozzle is top of efficiency... and is tesla turbine same efficiency as other type of turbines? Thx for answer :)

[Shannariano]

woul this work as well with steam?

[STEVEDIGIBOYtv]

@Shannariano

Yes and water and other abrasive containing liquids. It is made today to pump liquids and also if you have gravity fed water like rapids you can turn multiple Ford alternators. People who mock this prolly don't even know they are only typing because Tesla existed when he did.

Could have been another 40 years before the stuff he thought out and then we would still be in transistors and vac tubes if lucky.

[bmschulman]

If you power the axle to such a device, do you get a strong breeze coming from it? In other words, does turning the axle at high RPM using an external power source provide thrust coming out of the discs?

[beancube2008]

You need casing so pressure leaking from the center. Four 20 psi jets distributed evenly from four pressure cookers can drive it really powerful. I guest low voltage high current lesser heat loss for electricity supply. How about using the free sunlight to heat the pressure cookers?

[jmm1233]

awesome , it almost flew away :)

did you get a good current from it ?

[mjspe1]

Even though he's doing tech talk, the accent still sounds like he's gonna kill my whole family.

[itbeshowinlikeamotha]

haha yeah

[wuhlei]

so this is a generator? can it be used like on planes like a jet?

[sharadeth]

In theory it could but it would have to have a separate combustion chamber that creates design challenges

[myjavec1]

YES!!!!

[panama13]

what gas was used?

[myjavec1]

tetrachlorideoxygenium with natriumdioxidhelium :o)

[nicagoro]

what is the COP of this turbine?

[kjs12224]

r ya from texas yee haaw

[afdhalatifftan92]

Nice accent!!

[ellegene]

AIR BRAKES...LMAO

[bobuck39]

How big an air compressor do you have to pull around with you

[999CATZ]

Nice... why don' t recommend this idea of yours to the car hybrid researches

[ohnickoli]

Description -> A small model of Tesla's bladeless turbine.

[RaptorSM]

The point of this is that if you propel it with exhaust gases from a combusion chamber, you can get 60% efficiency out of petrol or any other fuel, rather than the 28% anybody has been able to get from a recipocrating internal combusion engine.

Tesla did that in 1909.

Take an electric car, replace half of the batteries with a small Tesla Turbine and a small fuel tank, and you get the most fuel-efficient hybrid ever made.

[ohnickoli]

Why would anyone put a fuel tank on an electric car? Kinda the opposite of the whole idea isn't it?

[levisthahousecat]

well thatsss thee euhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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end. haha

[islandhopper2]

I love this guys accent

[vBotics]

I think the purpose is to add lights to air powered tools ;-)

[vietnegro]

yeh wtf is this for?

[ThrowMidgets]

i dont understand what this could be used for

[BOREDUMBAS]

Try bouncing a neodyme between 2 larger magnets using coils to throw it both ways & if your magnets are strong enough & you can set your system with enough power to throw the centre magnet HARD against the outer ones with efficient coils around the point where the magnetic field compresses at each end to pick-up that energy (Plus secondary coils around coils throwing the centre magnet) you're going to make a vibrator or perhaps something more...

St Tesla...

[rodstartube]

as he speaks, seems to be drunk

[8bittt]

Heh tryin to get away from you.

[p3snooper]

Why do you talk like a jerk?

[rodstartube]

hahahha

[red33410]

You used MORE energy pressuring the air than you were able to GET from the pressurized air.

[clerlic]

no shit, I'd like to see you do the opposite.

[red33410]

Say what? What is the opposite of an inefficient turbine? *laughter*

[clerlic]

The opposite of getting less energy back than you put in. Which would be a perpetual motion machine.

[red33410]

YOU'RE the one asking ME to do the impossible! *laughter*

[clerlic]

Are you high? With all the laughter and stuff it seems that you're not really understanding what's happening here.

You arrogantly said that this turbine produces less energy than it is necessary to compress all that gas and therefore is useless. That is true for ALL TURBINES, ANY TURBINE WILL PRODUCE LESS ENERGY THAN THE ENERGY NEEDED TO COMPRESS THAT GAS.

[red33410]

Right! When compared to a bladed turbine, however, it's going to be less efficient. THAT'S all. *shrug* It's GREAT that the guy put this video online for all of us to see! My textbooks TRIED to explain how a Tesla turbine worked, but when compared to this video, they all fell short!

[red33410]

Do some REAL work with it! *laughter* These "tesla turbines" are nothing!

[boxa888]

poor tesla i started researching his turbine. that disc leads to the jet engine and also probably the best jet engine ever built. its would be hard for the engine to fail at the simplicity and efficientcy that it creates. i read that the tesla turbine aircraft would make a powerful vortex of air above the craft like a string holding the craft and allow it to just hover like ufos! the vortex was a pull along method instead of the push method of propellers! poor tesla makes me so sad!

[HimalayanHigari]

Thomas Edison is the con-man of the millanium.

[xcenotaph]

I ll second that

[chaz706]

Thomas Edison invented for the purpose of profit. He was also not a scientist.

Tesla was a Scientist, who researched stuff that even we wouldn't understand.

Edison invented the lightbulb and got no farther, but we remember him. Tesla invented the modern electricity grid and hardly anyone knows his name.

[xlerosx]

@chaz706 Spread the Word....I do in my travels.

[lollipopbrigade]

@chaz706 i remembered Tesla before Edison. However I am Canadian, Therefore better schooling and less inbreeding :P

[yllnmyntsk]

@chaz706 Thats because Tesla invented the same technology abused by governments such as scalar technology used in unwarranted experimenting and harassment, the same who also control what goes in most textbooks. The same reason few people know what I'm talking about.

[gen81465]

@chaz706 A correction to the comment: Thomas Edison did NOT "invent" the light bulb; he simply created a reasonably good, long lasting filament in October 1878. There were 22 other inventors before him that had worked on what we consider a "light bulb". As for the comment on Nicola Tesla, you are correct: Tesla invented Alternating Current (AC), while Edison worked only with Direct Current (DC).

[PlasmaStar9]

Hah! Jim Varney--one of my heroes. The comment "AIr Brakes!" came from Ernest Saves Christmas.

[mightytalon28]

Really neat job, thanx for sharing it. Your not Jim Varney are you?LOL post more

[sam1983h]

you gotta cool acent

[litopenaeus163]

Yay! :)

[ParaglidingManiac]

Can anyone explain to me how it works, and what it produces please?

[rb1205]

Wikipedia is your best friend. Search Tesla turbine.

[ftorresgamez]

"Can anyone explain to me how it works, and what it produces please? " It uses the principle of superficial tension of fluids. Fluids have viscosity (stickiness) depending on the electrical attraction of their molecules to themselves and other things. The Tesla Turbine uses thin disks barely separated from each other, allowing just enough for the fluid to flow but close enough to take advantage of the fluid's viscosity to drag the disks with it. The simplicity makes for an efficient machine.

[iamcondescending]

you could put that in a bike and usingan air pump run a motorcycle with that

[screwball3z]

this is awesome, i read the patents but the scan qualities are always bad. Seeing your model has at least given me a better idea of how these would look. I may have to use this later on.

[anthacdc]

nice engine/turbine keep up the good work!

[ibreido]

nice ta know other people out there are still building there own engines !!nice work

[shanon844]

Air Brakes!

[marceltony]

very nice indeed...thank you for sharing that

[stopsuspendingUsCom]

cool! :D

[dave486]

Isn't a tubin what muslems wear on thier heads? its a TUR BINE l2 speak english

[JamboyStu]

Nice design. I like the sound it makes. Are there many modern day appliances that use this kind of turbine?

[sb6lb3]

sadly no. the blades at the high temperatures that steam turbines and gas turbine run at would warp the blades in this type of engine

[josephdupont]

why not use used radial saw blades.

[FieldMarhsall]

it would slow it down. the smoother the blade is, the faster it will turn.

[gto65l]

Awesome job!!

[GaryPretorius]

u hill billy, go shoot some bull frogs!

[game1guru]

a tesla turbin? wtf u hill billy

[gto65l]

At least this "hill billy" has enough culture to know what a Tesla Turbine is. Go read a book and make yourself smart instead of making ignorant comments.

[clumma]

Nice work!

[CollinstheClown]

Air brakes!

[Arky208]

you guys are geeks

[drummerdudex017]

20k rpm wow.

[ColdOneK]

how much power does this little bugger generate?

[qqstarz111]

6volts

[tulcod]

power != volts

power is measured in watts. not in volts.

[alekasandarr]

or in VAs, but never in Volts!

[tulcod]

VA = W

do your physics plz

[WolfieStorr]

I liked his accent, it's got a certain charm.

I've seen terrible videos here showing how to do stuff, and the person speaking either had a terrible voice or it was poorly recorded...

or had music playing over the voice, rather than under it.

This was nicely done.

Clever gadget too.

[I'm Aussie]

Wolfie!

[AdiGeorgescu22]

How did you make the discs? Material? Method?

[Orcinus24x5]

You can actually use old harddrive platters. They're machined VERY smooth and would work quite well in a turbine like this. (I've seen one in operation)

[blower05]

Can you show us with some paper strips the airflow direction of the turbine?

[austinpowers1977]

cool motor mate

[KnowYourSelfs]

you the most annoying FUC*ING VOICE EVVER!!

i would slap with you with a baseball bat!

fucking its pronounced Tur-by-n , NOT F*CKING TURBEN (AS IN OSOMA BIN LADEN)

[fuckysuckyjamtits]

You say tomato, he says nob jockey.

[joesmoe71]

Nice job!

[JingleJoe]

I have never heard someone with a stronger "hill billy" accent but was so unlike thier stereotype XD keep up the good work old chap :)

[GardenDiva75]

@JingleJoe The stereotype is false,Hillbillys,Rednecks,etc are poor and lack formal education but can perform incredible feats with machinery,welding,inventions. I watched a couple of young hillbilly kids build a racecar from scratch using a pipe bender,homemade battery welder and parts from 2 wrecked cars in the course of a weekend. The car was incredible.I thought this was unique but after moving to the southern US I have found that most Hillbillies/Rednecks can work on any mechanical device

[bendavis575]

thats the uhhhhhh... end. lol

[uhresearcher]

excellent

[AdiGeorgescu22]

what if the surfaces of the disks were rough instead of being smooth? would it give a better efficiency?

[EgadsNo]

that would create more turbulence and that would lower the efficiency by increasing vibration as lowering surface area of high pressure air in contact and also in uniform direction

[AngriestAmerican]

my question is: Can you make a compressor run off of this turbine, making it perpetual? The turbine supplies electricity to the compressor motor?

[AdiGeorgescu22]

it is impossible. take into consideration the losses thru friction, heat etc. you canot build a machine that sustains it's movement without energy from the outside. that would be (if i spell it corectly) a perpetuum mobilae

[FieldMarhsall]

no, it is impossible. thereis only one thing that is truely perpetual. my secret though, lol, but losses through friction etc stop perpetual motion.

[donkey2lathe]

Thanks for posting your vid ,very interesting and informative ,plus like the southern states accent

[TommeyLeeReed]

If you want high pressure with 120 psi then look at my 1500+ psi for you turbine.

[osvcoira]

Es una interesante opción para tener en cuenta en el desarrollo de motores de aire comprimido. Nice Job

[OmarThePug]

compressed air to run a turbine that powers some sort of hydrogen generator powering a piston engine. Hmm.

[bluudygreg]

Already being worked on ... Tesla Engine Builders Association

[cribcat1]

That's pretty damm cool!

[Dominicos84]

the generator he was using was a small electric motor you can yank one from remote controll cars for a decent amount of watage. drill motors are awesome but need too much torque.

[tribesofisrael]

19000 RPMs with only 20 PSI... WOAH

[callmeRambo]

thats with no load, normal steam turbines run that fast loaded ;)

[Obelix6]

Any idea of how much torque is produced?

[nbm34]

wHAT IS BETWEEN THE DISCS AND WHAT IS THE DEVICE BEHIND THE TURBINE TO LIGHT THE BULB???

IS IT A DYNAMO OR SMALL ALTERNATOR ????

APPRECIATE REAL INFORMATION ON HOW TO BUILD THIS

TESSLA TURBINE. tHANK YOU

CAN YOU PLEASE SAY WHAT METAL THE DISCS ARE MADE OF. aLUMINIUM OR STAINLESS STEEL THANKK YOU

[nbm34]

What is being used to turn the turbine is it compressed air?????

Why could you not show how this is wired up, to light the bulb, and generate electricity.

It would be a service if the full design and build is shown hoe this is done.

Wil the person who made this vid supply such detailed information.????

[blogologist]

Wouldn't roughing up the blades make it more efficient?

[EgadsNo]

oddly no- because roughness would create more turbulance and lower the ratio of high pressure air moving uniformly in the right direction (a spiral from outside to center)

[HybridWorm]

what kind of use could one give this in a car, for example why not try a tesla turbine design for the turbo of a car instead of the blade design, how much difference is between them two?

[alaxantemusic]

bla bla bla...

[plamena1]

I just found about Tesla turbines and don't understand what they are used for? Do they produce more power than the power needed to compress the air?

Thanks

[joekuta]

lol yes, they output more power than is put in.

the physics are indisputable.

[goodluckfox]

No. That would be physicly impossible. They can however be cheaply constructed and use low pressures,

[pkscolax]

Holy smokes 19000 RPM!?!?!?!?

[72jamminjimmy]

would STEAM run this also? Cool little machine man way to go!

[PlasmaStar9]

Steam would work great if it didn't have a plastic housing. THanks

[GrimReaper1305]

shouldn't the holes be more close to the middle?

[PlasmaStar9]

Technically your are correct, but there's a 3/4 in dia spacer disk between each of the larger disks. If you make the holes closer to the center they are blocked by the spacers.

[AnselmoFanZero]

Nice turbine...

Your voice sounds like a character from family guy. Awesome xD

[sb6lb3]

"its also reversable!" lol the way u said that was great

great turbine btw, been thinkin bout buildin my own

[legonoitall]

sounded kinda like a flight attendant

[TommeyLeeReed]

Nice...

[santi103]

buen modelo..h

[klexn]

I don't believe this is your work..

I've seen the original footage of this motor without your hickory voice breathing in a microphone.

Nice try tho.

[SKarmytech]

yes indeed

[GetShitDone]

What kind of torque can one expect from a Tesla turbine of a given diameter/runner count?

[billysandals]

you being drunk doesn't impress anyone. try being sober next time if you want people to take you seriously.

[timg455]

I wouldn't be too impressed if he was sober.

[babbagagga]

hes drunken

[NumbersSCcom]

Great accent (Appalachian?) and great little machine!

Have you thought of making it any bigger?

[PlasmaStar9]

Thanks. Texas, actually. It's a pretty handy size. I might try smaller though.

[mighell]

are you drunk? =\

[technik733]

I'm sorry, but your accent really does bug me. But it could be worse. Nice job on the turbine though, I wonder if it has any practical application.

[duckjock]

tur BINE not turban....

[asumazilla]

Rather than just machining, turbine disks can also be made by casting processes. I　know this is the case for aeroengines, which are cast from alloys able to withstand high temperatures. Thanks.

[HLSDK]

airbrakes!

[dietcoke3396]

Airbrakes! lol

[ungryjosh]

Lets crank it up!

Homo

[funkee77]

Very cool, nicely made unit... congrats. Was wondering if water instead of air might produce more surface tension (fluidicity?) and thus more torque for the generator??? Forced water injected into unit probably cheaper to source and run than compressed air

[panzarw]

hey heres a question to think about: if tesla created that turbine then it must be more effective then the propeler turbine right? or did he invent it to replace the propeller for cheaper disc turbine ?

[sn1pe352]

very cool stuff

[XxbombradierxX]

aka "THE HIK JET" lol lol

[saiello2061]

Why can't you use the disks from a computer hard drive? They're already accuratley machined and stacked.. ;o)

[kougra1314]

you can theres instruction for one on instructables too :)

[crazyllamaboyintight]

This is pretty cool. I am in the planning stages of building a small propane powered tesla turbine engine useing SS for the disks. if all gose well it will have three burners and may even power a small R/C vehicle. the beauty of the tesla turbine is its simplicity and scaleability.

[HVC001]

I like it, good job!

[Altecss]

God I love it...Air brakes. LOL. I got a good chuckle outa that one.

[yourmumsuncle]

You have a calming voice :D