1995 Archimedes Wind Turbine With Magnetic Bearings 

That combined with your previous pen nib bearings and in a drainpipe would make an awesome hydrogenerator

This is a good idea! Smaller turbines require less wind to rotate than large turbines. This could be scaled up with several small turbines in a fence and then have a screen around it to prevent birds from flying into it.Also it could be built into architecture such as bridges and property fencing to reduce optical blight. Awesome idea!

Finally a power generator driven by hot air - we should strap one to every politician’s mush

The exact video I needed as a follow-up to the last. Great work as always Robert!

Possibly also create a magnetic or electromagnetic stabilizer, so it's completely frictionless.

Marvellous !! I love the joy you show about your working project. Makes me laugh in sad times. Thank you.

Hello, from Kalamazoo Michigan Robert . Archimedes turbine, 1 ball bearing as pivot, magnets, some opposing. Wind powered generator, using only human breath. I can see lots of school science projects coming from this and many other projects that Robert has done.

Dear Robert, Here in Chearsly , Bucks, we have a three phase supply lines to an empty disused and unconnected old pig unit. A hillside location, where two telegraph poles hold the transformer above the removed old metre Inside the building are lots and lots of electric fans, some quite big Millling ones, grain bins etc. others ventilators So from what I have learnt from your lessons; I hope is: It would be mad not too collect all the biggest motors Four biggest for first morning Get them on the Hill by the power box Support them facing upwards (as high as possible) Use farm made barrel turbines. Out of plastic 50 gallon barrels Or whatever’s best under trial Get a bod and electrician too collect the whole lot together and open a new power company account metre below transformer for them to connect too and start feeding power back down lines Robert , assuming that the sparkys know there stuff ;right this and that wires etc and the fans turned with the prevailing wind I can’t see what’s not to like Am I mad or not Using barrels would protect motors from rain up on two gate posts Love what you do Sincere one Henry P.S I’ve worked on the farm for twenty seven years, but my channel videos make it look like I am a rock star I am not. Only for fun.

Interesting concept. Look forward to a scaled up practical implementation.. your enthusiasm & energy are contagious, keep up the great work.

Scaled up equals more bearing magnets and even less friction. Love the turbine too.

Many wind turbines have one problem: high winds. As the wind speed goes from a normal speed to 80 - 120 miles per hour, the turbine spins so fast that it can be torn apart. In the large 3 bladed wind turbines the blade changes position relative to their mounting hub. The more the blades rotate relative to the hub the less force the wind can exert on the blades. When the blades are parallel to the wind direction, the wind turbine stops rotating and the high speed wind won't destroy the turbine.

Well, that prop design in a chamber could be used to propel a boat I think. But in reverse. Brings in large amounts of water, compresses it and ejects it to the rear. I will not say it would be quiet underwater.

If i did that much huffing and puffing i would have passed out from hyper ventilation😂

This might be a waste of magnets but my thinking on the magnetic bearing with the pen is to add repelling magnets all the way around and tighten them up closer together to reduce the wabble.

Interesting concept. Look forward to a scaled up practical implementation.

Imagine putting it in an exhaust pipe to generate electricity, probably won't save the world, but every little bit helps

I love the idea. Compared to your model, an actual magnetic bearing turbine would need a perfectly balance turbine. Yours was not balanced which caused friction from the wobble to slow it down. I would love to see a perfectly machined/balanced replica of this!

Have I just watched a new measure of power invented? 1 RMS = the puff power required to light an LED for X amount of time.

Do you think it reasonable to use a pointy insert on the end that floats into a matching cone-shaped dent in the frame, and then fine-adjust the distances so that the point would enter the dent just enough that it stopped the excessive wandering around of the floating end?

The Texas Engineer has the US Patent on the Tornado Turbine many years back. . It is regarded as the best windmill design for generating electricity. Photos of it are included in wall posters of various designs of windmills. Looks like a farm silo at a distance with small upper 360 degree automatic directional vanes catching the breeze and the air swirls down inside the spiral large vanes to the main large electrical generator that is above your head. The fast air exits out the sides at an upper level.

Thank you for sharing this piece of information.

Fabulous. Thank You.

Watching Robert blowing while trying not to laugh is so funny🤣

Could you constrain the wobble with magnets around the axle?

Attach these to the hood of your car, like hood scoops, to use as a driving generator for hybrid & electric vehicles

Theoretically, could a few small and virtually disposable generators can trickle charge an EV or house battery system?

I will say, it's always fun to see your face light up like a schoolboy at the little joys...like huffing and puffing away on a new toy. 🫶

That is really cool! I wonder if you can put enough magnets to make it so strong it could have a pulley and belt, or a sprocket and chain added to it?

Great Robert! But that is a few interesting ideas how you jump over! it can be for it's not good enough ! or something else If the motor/generator is self-feeding in a Bedinimotor/generator in top of the VAWT and a ball floting in the Bucket in the bottom of! the same VAWT! /Mikael PS. the example you show is real Good! But this is a dilemma you cant get all good ideas in one film! But it is always in that manor we take one good Idea at on film! And you do it so good So thanks Rob. DS

That would make an excellent design for a water turbine, have you tried yet ?

one design adjustment ... then ends should to be swap-able the Metal Bearing end will probably wobble less with the generator magnets attached then the free float magnets end you have way to much fun

Love it! Was a lil concerned about you passing out though, Rob.😂

Robert Murray-Smith the Happy Inventor Genius

Interesting, as i was watching this i was thinking about how most people in subdivision and such are forbid from having a wind tubine. Then the idea popped in my head of how the air flow in an attic works .... cool air in the soffit and hot air out the ridge vent ..... Would it be possible to put a turbine in front of the ridge vent if we could get them to spin freely enough to produce energy and not be seen?

I've asked the question on multiple videos of people demonstrating this floating axel setup: Can the point contacting the retainer plate be replaced with 2 opposing force magnets, making it a contactless axel? What fails if the axel has an outwardly facing south pole and the retainer plate has an inwardly pointed , opposing, south pole? One would assume that the 2 magnets could be arranged so that the tip of the axel is magnetically floating above (beside) the magnet on the retaining plate, making the entire axel a truly floating mechanism. Seems logical in my head, but I've never performed the experiment. If you have a few minutes to set that up, it would be great to see the results.

Contrarily- study the oscillating as potential xtra collection

This is a very interesting design Robert. I see great potential for this design to provide ultra efficiency output for the owner

Would love to see a 3d printed fluidyne engine! Using household copper for the receiver and running on solar energy. A Great channel for the young engineers like me!

That looks like a Viktor Schauberger design

Hi Rob, been noticing lately some audio lag/out of sync soundtrack, anyone else notice anything? no big deal though

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Fascinating, as always! If I get the assembly, the ballpoint bearing is on the windward side of the turbine, so the wind thrust would pull the bearing away from the bearing surface. Would turning the turbine around allow the bearing to carry the wind thrust? That might stabilize the wobbling a bit and support the thrust.

Ball point bearings!!!! Always a joy to watch

Curious as to how it would work if the Turbine was reversed so that you blew on the big end like a Jet Turbine?

The issue with magnets for bearings is: The rotor wanders a little. When trying to generate electric power, this can cause The rotor to contact the stator since you want the gap as tight as possible for maximum efficiency. Also when the electrical load changes the gap will change again. Fun for demonstration purposes but not practical in real life.

I think you would do good as an infomercial pich man. You got good energy and great punchy voice. Love the vids 🥰🥰😊😊

Spins good, does seem to wobble a bit though! The pen is mightier than ..., like your new way to utilize it!

How would that work with serious winds? A normal turbine would lock down in high winds, but that one might just fly off...

Prediction: This will lead to the use of magnetic gears(?)

Try this same design vertically...

What happens if you combine the 2 designs. Use the "pen style" and then use opposing magnets at each horizontal end of the turbine?

Is it possible to exploit a system like this with air bearing, i don't know how to impliment this mechanism of ultra low friction but I think air bearing can be exploit more

At 1:32 all you need to do is clamp the rotating shaft with another 4 magnets above the shaft magnets this should stop most of the wobble. Basically duplicate the bottom plate above the shaft. Ultimately you should clamp the rotating shaft in place totally with 10-12 magnets and no ball bearing the only friction would be with the air.

I think you might just be the modern Thomas Edison, take other people’s ideas and add them to your own creation and you have a great product, I would really like to try and fabricate a giant version just to power a electrolysis unit for fuel for a mower

Great video, love the tinkering. I had an idea that you might perhaps try out. I'm curious to see the flow rate of your modified Darwin project connected to a output tube (keep the diameter constant), apply a hair dryer for hot air & measure end of tube flow, then try with cool air (getting same input flow rate) & measure air output flow rate. I wonder how different lengths of tube would change the rate (slower is some function of longer tube due to friction perhaps?). I wonder how hot or cold air may change the flow rates per length of tube. Kicker could be... Would a Tesla (scientist, not company) Value aid in increased flow rate? At beginning or mid or end of output tube? What about by varied tube lengths &/or heated or cold air?

Amazing! I was recently thinking how a Di Vinci Aerial screw between magnets, thank you for being awesomely innovative, and ingenious.

Always cool stuff, Thanks!

Eskandar-e-Kohjesag when he Burned Persepolis he stole 2 copies of Zend-e-vesta that he burned one copy and he took another copy to Greece. Zend-e-Vesta was not only religious book but had lot of other parts like chemistry and science (the one copy that Eskandar stole now it is in the basement of VATICAN). How do you know this Wind Turbine is not from the 12000 Cowhide that zend-e-vesta was written on?? HOW? -------------those Greek geniuses most of them were thieves.

Put the gear in a tube and put the whole thing on the bonnet of your car... free led lights. Just don't drive it at night.

Couldn't we use this on the sea bed, to generate electricity from ocean currents ? Better than the windmill type devices that kill fish and whales etc. Some mods would obviously be required, perhaps depending on the rate if flow of the ocean current you are aiming to tap in to ? Ocean current operate 24/7/365 so no need for so much storage. Am I too late to take out the Patent on this ?

If several of these were inside of a tube, all facing the same way, and the air inside the tube would be protected from counter currents. Wouldn't the spiral of this air help propel the next? Obviously I am no scientist and don't understand the physics involved, or else I would probably know the answer.

The Anthony Hopkins of science

i think part of that giggling 4:36 was inspired by the hyperventilation.....i speak from experience, but it's an avocational hazard of having so much fun tinkering.

It's not a turbine but just a windfang. A turbine is used to work against a force to produce energy. How do you want to transfer this energy without pushing your mechanism out of the magnetic field?

Hopefully when you get into the 2030s I'll stop having my brain think the video title references a year

how about running the current back into a small electromagnetic floating bearing to strengthening it. Till a certain level of power level is achieved. then release the remaining to power the light. while still strengthening the bearing. achieve high speeds, more stability?

Very good video, but you need to practice blowing the turbine without laughing. I'm sure it would be more efficient.

Hello i asked ChatGPT to create All in one multiple hybrid closed loop energy system and it gave me different options and more i watched your projects and there are great please try a combination All in one closed loop system and efficiency like wind generator, hydrogen generator, solar multiple hybrid that produces drinking water and use sound waves, frequencies different new mixed materials the wind turbine and hydrogen create in closed box with electric turbocharger for compression and hydrogen combination with different fluids and turbocharger compressed flow have fun building and have a lovely day😀

I think blowing through a straw is more acceptable vs huffing and puffing Mr Wolf.

put that in a tube and attach the wire to the base plate...put in front of a wind source..

Very interesting, thanks

HEY !? I SEE THE EFFORT TO UNRAVEL [THE FRICTONLES DRIVE!!!] HOWEVER, THE TECH HERE IS VERY FAR OFF!!!...[CONGRATS!

Omg you are my idol! I never knew someone could do this as a job… Now I have a goal !

Just curious... Are You aware of electrogravitics? My dad worked on it with TT Brown. The piece featured on My channel discusses it.

Guy's got COPD can't breath. find a doctor friend...

Loved it! 5️⃣

You should see and talk to the fella who dose a wind turbine ln the ezygrowgarden video, the owner of the invention.

The energy you used was more than it created. Kind of like the fusion test at Livermore.

Your video is very interesting; you remind me of the first steps of Mr. Gernot Zippe (Mr. Steenbeck's son-in-law), when he was looking for the right compromise to build his first centrifuge. For the record, he used the magnet (1948/1952), and the needle at the bottom was made of piano wire steel, to make a beautiful little needle, (like the needle of the phonograms of the time) the needle turned at the beginning in a small concave oiled container! Finally, it is also the fact of creating a vacuum in this process which allowed great reliability of the rotations...

Very creative.

Wouldn’t this work better in the ocean with the earths currents

_"For quite a long time."_ Even around three seconds by golly. 03:44

meh, how much energy is conserved?

There's no way I'd have blown on that turbine with a straight face either. 🤣

can a gear box be added to this?

You would think that an engineer would be smart enough to know that he shouldnt blow into a microphone

looks more to me like a victor Schauberger invention 😎

Cant wait for this to become the next new breakthrough in turbine disign. "Insert toroidal prop joke here"

How many of those would it take to power a EV charging station?

Now try putting a velocity stack in front of your spiral turbine

First time watching, thanks for the upload :)

What about to make a similar one in a vacuum chamber without air friction ?

Why couldn't you take a cone magnet and use it for the end and machine a female to the cone tip that was the same polarity either as a magnet or a piece of iron with a magnet attached to give it the polarity desired? The cone "should" provide a constant on both ends without the need to touch on either end. This would remove all drag. You could even stand it upright and further reduce gravitational interference.

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Having a disk of magnets impairs the flow of wind however. Still a fun experiment.

Wouldn't electromagnetic bearings be the answer?

For our drones we need a compact replacement for the propellors...

I love all your inventions, and the joy you bring to these videos. When the "Mad Scientist" is the good guy: "I'm going to bring unlimited clean energy to the WOOOOOORLD! HAHAHAHAHAAA!" Meanwhile at the Justice League: "Well now he's just making us look bad." 😉

Could you please, Robert, run that tri-blade Archimedes screw in reverse to turn it into a propeller and do a whole episode on this propeller concept’s performance? That means the blunt side will be the front that scoops the air in and the pointed side becomes the back where the air exits. Use physical bearings, though, rather than wobbly magnetic ones for this experiment. I imagine it will be super quiet and very efficient! Please. 🙏

Nothing to do with this video, but the folded tower arrangement of solar cells is supposed to be SO much more efficient. I don't see it. Most of them are in the shade of the top few. \ / \ /