Just forwarded this video to my father, and we both said the same - why can't RU-vid or indeed something like BBC Four (while we still have it!) repeat some full episodes of vintage 'Blue Peter'? They would be so interesting and enjoyable to watch. At most we get the odd 'highlights' compilations over the years but they are usually the same old clips, but now literally for historical interest if nothing else a run of full episodes would be fascinating. And baring in mind how much other stuff the Beeb wiped over the decades, BP is one of the few programmes to survive relatively intact due to the way it was archived. (Indeed, clips of a few sadly missing 'Doctor Who's and such, only survive now through having been shown on 'Blue Peter').
could hardly show this now could they? 🤣🤣🤣 probably same goes for others I'd imagine.... like many things you couldn't get away with now... we're trying to save the planet 🤣
@@boredweegie553 Maybe or maybe not - it would have to be shown as a "of it's time" and with a modern wraparound putting the vintage programmes in context. Any such repeats would appeal to their generation and wouldn't be aimed at current children. But the idea never caught on so I think we're hopefully safe. 😆
@@ianmcnamee5243 I can't look at Saturday nights - because I haven't watched any television for quite a few years now, for those very low standard reasons. So many channels, so little of any actual quality. :D
Oh, you would like upsetting her, it's what makes you get up in the morning innit? It's not a cult, it's reasonable science. What you are doing is plain old reactionairy thinking, because people like her and her protests you think it must be bad, pure emotional reactionairy action. How simple and futile lol!
@@TheEsseboy Like every one of the Goblin of Doom's cult (which you may or may not be but you have obviously swallowed the nonsense blindly from somewhere), you immediately get all emotional and jump to ad-hom attacks in your response. You assume so much. You know nothing about me or what I know about the fake climate emergency. There is climate change. Man contributes to it. The UK can make a 1% maximum impact to the global increase in CO2 with the economic and lifestyle suffering of the poorest that we now see coming now from 4 years of politicians falling at the goblin's feet on net zero. Meanwhile other countries economically increase their domination by not playing ball. Unilateral net zero in the UK is about as sensible as unilateral nuclear disarmament, and that consequence is clearly demonstrated today by Putin and his activities. Net zero is no different, they will just carry on as normal and we will absolutely get annihilated in global markets. See the US baulking at mining lithium in the filthy way other countries do when satisfying your hunger for green energy storage. The money goes to China for that, 80% of it and increasing. 2 dollars a day for the kids dragging it out of the ground and causing massive pollution. Where are you going to Bury 33,000 x 11 ton plastic and glass fibre blades from wind turbines currently not recyclable and with a maximum life of 20 years (all at sea have a lot less)? Very green indeed, but is ignored in the real drive behind climate emergency hoax - the route to Marxism. Even St Greta let her mask slip in one speech... must have lost her script provided to her that day. There is no emergency. More people will die in the cold this year for definite because of net zero policies making life unaffordable. As your masters say, "can't you see that, are you stupid or are you heartless?". Try not to let emotions get in the way of reality. We have real emergencies to afford and address today. No need for predictions of doom based on cherry picked data and dodgy models. Evidence of it taking place now is staring us all in the face as clear as there is climate change but no emergency and no need to punish ordinary people for it.
Whilst it’s admirable to see the inventor coming up with alternatives to petrol driven cars this would be a safety hazard if another car crashed into the back of it, but perhaps the inventor was aware of that and just wanted to test to see if his idea worked. But I love the retro colour blue on this Ford Capri.
@@grandtourerpt is right - this was actually quite common in areas away from reliable fuel supply and/or during wars and depressions. Although we're used to using "natural gas" at home these days, in years past there was a local plant that roasted coal or similar (pyrolysis) in sealed chambers to generate a blend of mostly carbon monoxide and hydrogen that was used to power lanterns, stoves, furnaces, etc. This is the same idea, just less filtering (using high sulfur coal will make sulfuric acid and eat the engine eventually) as it's portable but good if you have a lot of wood or coal but no gasoline.
@@grandtourerpt yes, exactly. I believe such systems are in use in North Korea today, since they're too poor to import fuel. The part mounted at the back of the car is called a gasifier and it's role is too partially combust solid fuel to create gaseous fuel. It's a well established technology.
It wasn't even a prototype, it was a proof of concept. If it had gone to prototype, there wouldn't have been all the gubbins sticking out the back like that.
@@Edgel-in6bs you are obviously not a fan of opinions because you like the current BBC and your not allowed any opinions on there any more. In the 70s the BBC had a series on BBC 2 called the open door programme. Here they made and paid for a broadcast quality programme that let pressure groups totally have their say. What a fantastic bit of self promotion for a group, vegetarians, politics right and left. Nudists, animal rights etc. That's what's called bloody good democratic telly. Can you just imagine anything like that now. Have your crappy dumbed down, pc facist BBC, but I don't see why I should have to pay for it, as its not meant for people like me.
I think I want one. As one ton of coal is 104 dollars. That is 44 fills and at 100 miles per 45 pounds that is 4400 miles from a ton of coal. And a price of about $2.36 for hundred miles.
Have fun doing maintenance on it too. Cleaning out the soot and carbon in the engine, then shoveling out the ashes each morning. Do you want the dusty coal delivery on your driveway or in your coal bunker (basement)?
NO BIG DEAL if you're A REAL off-gridder. I experimented with wood gasification years ago. My relatives used THIS EXACT technology in WW2 as did QUITE A LOT of people in Australia.
And on Thursday we will show you how to make one for your parents using a squeezy lemon washing up liquid bottle , some old toilet roll spools and some sticky back plastic
Not sure why he's acting like its amazing. Its essentially the same concept as the vehicles that were converted to wood gas fuel during the war, especially in germany, due to fuel shortages, for plenty of necessary vehicles like farm tractors and such. It wasn't a new concept at all, even when this was filmed
A finessed version of a WWII necessity - but the nasty old gas producers of the 1940s used wood gas and required vast canvas bags on the roof to contain enough of it to splutter about town while ruining your engine.
The Japanese used it to power their vehicles in WWII, as all petrol was used for the military. In fact in the film Yamato film from 2005 the bus that collects the solders has the same contraption behind.
@@straightpipediesel still does to this day, several woodgas groups over there I'm friends with a few guys that build and run them in Sweden and Slovenia. Guys I learned how to build from when I made my first woodgas truck
And now we can have hydrogen powered vehicles which only give off water vapour. However, anything alternative to linking with petroleum or oil is suppressed by those giant corporations.
I do recall the presenters would often be up the clock at the close to get there "On the next show..." spell out in time before cut of transmission. John was probably on "and at XXX point you drive off out the studio mode" and stuff everyone else. 😂
Fab car! I wish I'd seen one when I was buying a car in 1974. Not sure how eco-friendly a car running on coal gas is? Maybe wood gas as used in Germany during petrol shortages in WW2 Germany would be better? Good fun though. How innocent Blue Peter seemed in those days.
Wondering how that car has a Maltese cross badge at the back, considering that it was practically a new British vehicle at the time of this episode. Would be nice to receive any replies if anyone can explain that. Thanks
It is a 1971 model so had been on the road for four years, I wonder if it's one the Beeb had in their line-up for outdoor filming (hence the converted nature of the car), so maybe had travelled a bit on assignment. Just a guess.
@0:11 kind of rare to see exterior/outdoor shots filmed on the expensive studio tube cameras. Exteriors around this time were usually shot on 16mm film.
A few BBC & ITV dramas, comedies & news items were shot on VT around the early/ mid 70s either on OB units using tube cameras or the relatively light weight cameras that Sony & Thorn EMI were making , it allowed for much faster production time as 16mm had to be processed.
This is old technology. It used to be part of a process where steam and air were blown alternately over white hot coke producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide known as water gas and producer gas. As one reaction is exothermic and the other endothermic the process was self-sustaining. It fell into disuse with the advent of natural gas from the North sea.
Looks perfectly aligned with today's emissions and safety standards. Effectively, it's a small steam locomotive on the public roads. (With a bucket of red hot coals, ready to capitulated)
Odd thing to say, coal gas was produced in towns 100yrs ago for all the houses gas lighting and during WW2 lots of vehicles were converted to tlrun on Coal gas, there's nothing 'April fools day' about it at all. Blue Peter was a children's educational program.
look into woodgas and char gas. More plentiful and cleaner then coal for on road use, I built a truck that runs on wood. Way better then buying gas to get to work!
Hope the inventor didn’t die in ‘mysterious’ circumstances like Stanley Myer did. Progress censorship is, sadly, a thing - especially where big business/oil is concerned. Look at the last 100 years’ geopolitics and the motivation behind the scandalous decision making for confirmation.
@@seansands424 you are stupid too if you think electric cars are dirty than combustion engines. Every wheel to well analysis shows EVs are significantly cleaner, from how they are built, the raw material, to transmission losses, to the fuel that generates the electricity.
Amazing what you can make out of a couple of squeezey bottles and some sticky backed plastic. Oh, and your rear number plate is obscured, so, nice big fine for that if you took it on the road! Look on the bright side, if Shep took a dump on the backseat, you could drop it in the gasifier too, should be good for an extra couple of yards!!
Very old technology, basically the same as the Gas Producer used on my grandfathers' car in the 1940s. Here they weirdly seem to be pretending that it's something new, quite odd content for a kid's TV show.
Just think of it as a road steam locomotive. Steam drives the cylinders up and down and their motion provides the propulsion. The cylinder and “tin” at the back are the equivalent of the steam locomotive’s tender, which carried the coal and water) and t furnace at the bottom of the contraption is what would be a firebox on a steam locomotive. The main difference is that, on a steam locomotive, the water flows into the boiler and the fireman brings the coal to the water via the firebox to heat it up whereas, in the car, the water is passed over the coal. Either way, the steam is continuously sent to the cylinders. The actual injection of steam into the cylinders is controlled by valves which open and close in sequence to admit steam, use it and then expel it. Each little “puff” advances the wheels a little bit. Each cylinder is mechanically arranged such that one is opening as another is closing, again and again and again.
- It literally says "Blue Peter" in the title, - there's a massive Blue Peter logo at the back of the studio, - the hosts in the clip are Blue Peter hosts, - the clip ends with the Blue Peter theme tune - and the final image is the Blue Peter logo. And yet those are still not enough clues for you?
@@thomasm1964 it's not using steam, the coal is heated to produce Hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the hydrogen is what's being sent to the engine it passes through the water tank to filter and cool it prior to being mixed in the carb. as a side effect you get coke as a left over which can be used for running heating boilers
