@@spyj1900 Could be, I think we need to coppice more trees as new wood and growth captures more CO2....so while you aren't actually reducing it you are providing a balance.
The orange refrigerant tank has a one way valve that prevents refilling. It's located directly beneath the green handle aka petcock. If you take a dremel or angle grinder and remove a small bit of metal around the petcock you can actually unscrew it from the tank, remove the check valve, and reinstall the petcock. Then the tank can be refilled.
@Muh boi you're clearly someone that has no idea of anything mechanical, your comment sounds like something a teenager would say. Maybe just play your Xbox and play with your dolls in future.
Wouldn't that just be using the same thing they have now, but putting wood in instead? But it shows you could use plastic as well. (My guess is they're likely running the motor on some form of ethylene gas when breaking up the plastic.)
@@AtlasReburdened I'd be surprised if that is the case but those bottles are PET (polyethylene terephthalate) not HDPE...and the combustion byproducts are way worse than wood. Not to mention the fact that they are also burning wood. This process makes an old inefficient gasoline engine seem environmentally friendly. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00268970802077876
@@kirkc9643 well, granted, the formation of the coumponds cited are burnable, a proper rig ( as in, not built by some slavs with rust covered iron and some scabby welds ), they wouldnt be a problem as they combust to co2 and c.
@@mrbanana7167 lol, maybe if you assess the effeciency of an impractical and isolated subsection of the system, but if you pay attenion you'll notice that the fuel is free, so the entiretly of the system assessed from the scope of the user, it's not onpy wildly efficient, it's over unity. Put in maybe 100 Kcal of work, get out kilowatt-hours of work, so any individual component or interfaces efficiency is beyond irrelevant. Besides that, any efficiency losses at the head, rectification, conditioning, and in batt losses pales in comparison to how much more efficiently an ebike can accelerate a human than a moped.
Inefficient. By running a generator to charge batteries you are compounding efficiencies and wasting vast amounts of power. Buring the wood to create the gas is a loss in power, running the compressor to fill the tank is an inefficient, but these steps are necessary. next burn the gas in an internal combustion engine which are notoriously inefficient. If you go the generator route then you add inefficiencies in the electromotive of spinning the alternator or dynamo to make electricity, then losses in the charger/power supply to charge the battery, losses in the battery chemistry itself during charging and discharging, and losses in any of the speed control circuitry of the ebike. Just burn it in the scooter engine, far more efficient.
@Multorum Unum Yeah thats because he doesnt understand compounded inefficiencies. The e-bike might be more efficient at acceleration using its direct fuel source (battery) that fact ignores the incredible losses compounded by the cascading inefficiencies. The engine on the generator used to charge the batter alone is maybe 30% efficient.
This video is so cool! I have always wondered why the world doesn't make fuel out of trash. Look where the ocean is at now. People make me sick, You my friends, have made a massive achievement!
You mean the methane, acetaldehyde, ethylene, formaldehyde, methanol, acetone, benzene, terephthalic acid, styrene (ethenylbenzene), ethanol, toluene (methylbenzene), xylene (dimethylbenzene), ethylbenzene, naphthalene, biphenyl and phenol...or the carcinogens from burning the wood?
Lol, i've been working in a soldering job recently for a couple of years and those lead fumes always entering my lungs not to mention I'm a heavy smoker. Talk about dumb ways to die huh 😂
@@Kasimeran Not depending on the size, but on the type of bottle. Single-use plastic bottle and alu cans are 25 cents, reusable plastic bottles are 15 cents and beer glass bottles are 8 cents.
And how healthy are these thermal decomposition products of PET? Not probably very healthy! There is also good reason for the one way valve on these tanks. They prevent air going inside. Air and fuel on same tank equals bomb.
We love you guys here in the states! Should come here and hang with us for a week or 2 and bring your battery powered bikes. Would be fun. Anyway keep up the good work. All the best from Your friends in Louisville Kentucky!
You guys are great and you got a lot of good brains power between you all. The humor is genuinely good and very intelligent and I honestly wish I had some fine friends just like you all! Keep up the good and imaginative work and stay safe. From your friend George in Alberta Canada. PS, you're all welcome to come and stay here if you ever visit Canada, I mean that! I live in the Rocky Mountains of southwest Alberta.
We need more guyz like you in my country Scotland bro keep the great videos up they are really good interesting like the ones you sort out a Stalkers Flat be great to see more like that keep your great videos coming great work guyz be proud of your knowledge and experience that your sharing with us all is great
the gas created from burned or cooked plastic must have been synthesis gas and if it was cooked batter with more componits you would be able to turn synthesis gas into pertrolum.
Cool so this is like "wood gas" burners, but with plastic bottles. Interesting guys. Have a go at making a motor bike run on wood gas at some point please. That would be awesome :)
This world is so unfair. You guys deserves more Views More Audience. Click bait RU-vidrs with SHIT content on youtube get more views than Real Content Creator
In Germany, they DO UNDERSTAND the value of the plastic. That's WHY they are willing to pay a few cents for each one. German engineers are the best in the world.
Nice job you guys. See if you can find a small car that can run on this fuel, build the car with an onboard retort and burner maybe. Or have it set up in a small trailer towed behind the vehicle. And do a cross country video. See how far across country you can get. Using generous donations of trash from people you encounter along the way. This could be an EPIC alternative energy challenge. If anyone can do it, you guys can
Mee too - from my old East German perspective. We had so many Trabants, Wartburgs, Simsons and MZs all running on two stroke that all petrol stations had mixer pumps. Everywhere else not. Many - even budget scooters - have oil pumps - you fill in the oil in an extra tank and the mixer puts it directily into the engine (next to the carburator) - so most likely this one in the video. Otherwise they wouldn't even have left the yard.
