INVENTOR Reveals BREAKTHROUGH Boat Motor - IS it REAL!? 

Adult toys have been doing this for years😂

4 million years the jellyfish has no brains gives some people hope

Diaphragm or curtain type technologies are notorious for wearing/tearing down much more quickly than other technologies take for example speakers and fabrics used in different things.

"Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please."

So, the jellyfish propulsion with no brain could explain our current Commander in Chief and how he moves about. Looks similar, too.

Jellyfish do not strike me as "fast"

My son did a science fair experiment in middle school on MHD propulsion using varying amounts of salinity. He ended up going to the Intel ISEF competition in 2010 with it. It was really a lot of fun and exciting to see this principle in action. The most astounding part was the incredible amount of corrosion on the electrodes in a very short period of time. It is a very interesting concept with the limitations as outlined in the video still needing to be worked out.

When i see a 80k ton container jellyfish , i will believe.

You'd think someone would have built a mechanical dolphin or tuna tail as propulsion by now.

4:40 high magnetic field strength is not the only way to make these drives more efficient. There are 3 ways, read the papers that modeled the ducted scale model. That being said, more electric topologies that aren't bladed are good as long as the acoustics are minimized as well.

Very interesting, please keep us updated on this technology. I'm a subscriber and really enjoy your videos.

Interesting: I like the idea of no moving parts, which would be far safer for all marine life. Also it is wise to look to nature as it has been around far longer than humans! Thank You. 👍

Very cool. Would love to see more on this design.

🟦... The concept @ 2:20 appears to need a top & bottom cover so as to utilize BOTH SIDES of the Membranes for thrust rather than just ONE-side of each.

Very interesting ideas. Thanks for posting.

This is an amazing solution in search of a problem.

Longevity will be its downfall. Oscillating mechanical components fatigue. Electrical components corrode.

Interesting, thank you for sharing.

The existing FinX outboard looks interesting, especially if they can come up with a membrane material that is more resistant to seawater. The wavy fins I suspect will have too many moving parts exposed to the water. It MIGHT be good for fresh water use. As far as an MHD drive, The Plasma Channel and a few others have already built small units, and the USN has experimented with them on a larger scale. As you stated, a HUGE power requirement as well as corrosion issues were/are major drawbacks. As is a very limited amount of thrust. The corrosion problem MIGHT be able to be fixed, or at least mitigated, if literally everything in contact with the water is coated. Possibly with a thin layer of ceramic.

Very cool that they are looking for new power sources

...... nature leads , science follow . As usually thank you , your videos are always highly educational .

My 4 cycle air cooled outboard has a hand finished aluminum propeller and has been modified to troll. It burns 7 OZ of gas per hour and the boat is correctly trimmed with the weight in center instead of the stern. No diaphragms or waves are necessary.

Looks interesting

The little drum engine doesn't seem effective to my engineering sensibilities but I could be wrong. What about an actual dolphin style fin instead. That should be large enough to have some traction and should be rather quiet. Might be hard to beat a continuous rotating prop though.

The worm drive!

we already use fin type systems on kayaks for shallows, maybe we should scale that up instead using buoyancy neutral materials to reduce the energy needed to move the fins, or maybe use moving air and water to make them move by controlling buoyancy to create force, either way this would be way quieter than a propeller with far less depth or energy restrictions if mastered

Ive had thougt about this and i was thinking about dolphins and how they move in water and why haven't emulated their movements . The ultimate efficiency !

I think Sharrow propellers offer significant advantages.

I like my air cooled Chinese 168F diesel and a metal propeller. It charges a boat battery very well. Your motor crates about as much water power as a catfish.

Interesting, for sure -

I think it’s another exercise in design capability. Can you imagine how much drag that thing would create in the water? And like others have said, I ain’t never seen a fast jellyfish!

Look ma, no propellers. And its faster than a jelly fish!

If there is a length stuck in the water, it can snag something still....

Cool concept. But if something has to be lit up by internal led's i am skeptical. Also imagine plants or trash being sucked into it.

It's the Little Susamu mark 1! Right out of a fantasy book.

No mention of Resonance flow. Nor, positive feedback. Think basic servo principles; feed-forward a proportion of rear thrust to water intake. Voila, the vessel's weight momentum provides auto modulated +ve feedback oompf .

It’s like the diaphragm of an air pump

As chain revolves ball berrings compress ramps pushing down on diaphragm springs return diaphragm to open position

Cool!

DARPA is only persuing the MHD, as you kinda hinted but perhaps didn't fully realize yourself, because of the virtually nonexistant sound profile. There is almost no scenario in which MHDs make sense other than stealth.

Membrane is a no go. Way to easey to wear out/damage. Great idea though. Maybe kiddi pool toy

I dont see this going anywhere soon

Those motors are gonna be SUPER popular with the ladies.

Low frequency noise pollution would be disastrous to the environment.

Anything that moves us along better than what we have now worth a shot.just maybe big pay-day.

will this make that Jetson's sound?

looks like a Dyson fan

It's not bionic unless there's an actual jellyfish,that is cybernetically enhanced, running the thing.

I think if darpa is doing something with it they will make it better.

Nice

We have tons of weeds in the water here. I'd love a system like that!

So far props are best

Anything that reciprocates, wastes energy, so is inherently inefficient>

Maybe oars are the highest tech development yet?

check back in a few years

Instead of a Tesla motor, inventors could use something lighter, much more powerful and compact, like Koenigsegg's Dark Matter motor. That would be a great test!

Gears, Bearings and propelers will outlast this. How fast does the membrane, has to compress to archieve 30 Mph, much less 60 Mph. Caterpillar drive for a Submarine or a paddle boat.

You get one barnacle in there and its done.

Basicly a chainsaw, ball barrings, ramps, and springs

I would think it would work in aquatic farming

One ping only Vascilli.

"Bionic propulsion" LOL. That motor has no living components.

The only propulsion technologies that well survive must ptoduce in excess of 85% efficiency or will become obsolete shortly!

Let me know when someone comes up with a new electric motor for big boats that actually works. What you showed in this video is not a breakthrough, they are stepping stones.

Jellyfish hardly travel quickly

If nature could create propellers, it would have done so long time a go already I think. Interesting idea but I doubt it can be ever better propellers/impellers. Kind of like with power production, why go to rotation if oscillation would be better..

Obviously too early to think about something when there is not even an existing prototype yet.

It looks like a plumbus from Rick and Morty.

Magneto drive.. From front of the boat to the back.. Inside hydrogen will be made and that will fight to rise inside the tube. Longer tube = Catch more hydrogen. Less than in salt water but extra boost if using a mini-cold steam boiler system. A small container for hydrogen and a tiny tiny fire in a tube run through water under vacuum. Cold steam vacuum boilers can throw excess turbine energy to send condenser water back to boiler + maintain vacuum once going. If good enough? Produce too much fuel like the sun. It will safely rise.. *Points at the Heliosphere around the sun* Hahaha.. That's why we have ultrasonic microphones on probes while lying to claim no sound in space. Gas medium..

Best to just capture a dolphin and ride it like a horse.

This kind of reminds me a an antigravitational engine I wish to one day R&D which has a success percentage of at least 60% or more. At the very least it would be able to hold slightly more than it's own weight meaning it could float around under it's own weight but actual propulsion would need to be figured out. I do have a much more reliable anti-gravitational idea which could work allot better meaning it should be able to hold more than 100 times it's own weight but I'm not so sure what effects it could have on the environment but theoretically it could possibly leave behind some sort of electro magnetic trail which could interfere with other electronics like cell phones or it could do even far worse damage to the environment or perhaps it wouldn't do any damage but it's just the way it would be designed to work which concerns me. As an engineer I love to build stuff but mankind has a bad history of allowing inventions to have negative effects on the environments we live in hence just because we may build technologies to make our lives easier doesn't mean it's worth the negative impacts on our environments. The less effective anti gravity engine would be allot safer/no real impact on the environment. As far as how long it would be able to stay in the air I could say more than 10 minutes for a prototype but with normal improvements over time I'm sure hours could be eventually reached. Propulsion is still something to be figured out otherwise there would only be a floating engine not moving very fast but at the very least it would be a great start. When it comes to technological advances virtually anything is possible with the right amount of insight and ingenuity.

It will ripped up and deteriorate quickly, forget it now.

I think we should skip straight to MHDs

Didn’t the soviets already make a submarine utilizing that. Theirs even a movie about it

AI says piston rings now last for the life of the engine . Try harder

:00 bio-memetic is NOT bionic

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I wonder if this contraption could be scaled up and used as a warp drive powering starships to the edge of space and time.

Hahah three grand I’ll stick with my fossil fuel contraption👌🏻

It's a simple problem to solve

Sorry if you compare a Jellyfish's propulsion system to its body weight it is 100 to 1, so would it work mechancially or electromechanically, the answer will be no, very simple answer.

Dont do the chinstrap bro. You're better than that. Add the stache.

Just make a "pop-pop boat"!😂 I used to play & build this when I was a child. Sorry but its just the same design principle with what you just claim "breakthrough invention" for a boat propulsion😂😂😂😂😂😂.

no.

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very easy to clog up

No just no

well lets just put two mechanical flippers to push the boat geash what stupid shit

Looks like a bitch to maintain and expensive to repair when it hits something, because it will happen. And i wonder what people will be interested when it's currently on a small outboard equal to a 4hp. 3000usd pricetag compare to maybe a third of that if you get a conventional outboard.

Thumbs down for saying "not a universal solution". Utterly sick of hearing that in every tech video.😑 my 2c

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All the energy has to be stored in a flexible membrane. Lol. Will never work. Just like the spin launch.

More "solutions" looking for a "problem" to solve 5 years from now, you won't hear of any of this nonsense.

Everything in this video is nonsense and junk. Spinning propellers will be around for a long time, until perhaps magneto hydro dynamic drive is put into an outboard

Another "breakthrough" nonsense video from Tech Planet. Lame. Put "game over" in the title too, why don't you.

I got distracted by the face in the clouds top right side of the stranded ship picture 👌👌👌🤣🫶🙏😇🥰🥰❤️&Light