These Engines Were Going to Change the World but..........

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The laws of thermodynamics are still undefeated!🥊🏆

Awesome video Josh. Alot to think about. To see how things progressed with the engines. The new ideas. Thank you for the shout out and support Josh. You are a great friend. Cheers man. 👍👊💪👍🔧🔩

In the '60s I saw the turbine car with manufacture's plate in my town near the PA turnpike.. It definitely had the turbine whine. We also had two 400 kw turbine generators at work. They ate so much fuel, they were changed out for diesels.

The part about an exhaust turbine has been done, detroit did it on the high hp dd16 engines and it was basically a turbine after the turbo that went through a torque converter and gear box that directly put power into the gear train, i think it added 100ftlbs of torque but was mostly gimmicky costly and broke a lot

There was actually an aircraft engine that used multiple turbines geared to the crankshaft to recover energy from the exhaust. It supposedly increased the fuel efficiency by 15-20%. The engine was the Wright R-3350.

Steve Lehto wrote a book about the turbine car

This is like the gas vapour kit’s people were putting on their cars and claiming 100+ mpg, yet the math didn’t add up, and what do you know, people stopped trying to convince us of something that is impossible

I remember hearing about the "100 mpg" carburetor myth back when I was a teenager. Mid 40's now so... yeah!

Back in the fifties, Rover company made gas turbines from Frank Whittle designs. Rover put one in their car, the engine was reckoned to cost 50% more to produce than their regular engine , but it also suffered from slow acceleration because it was single shaft type, and used a perforated ceramic disc revolving between exhaust and intake to attempt some heat recovery, still being thirsty. Not sure how few were made. Alternative fuels, my college lecturer in the early eighties claimed that in the early sixties he drove a mini with a sterling cycle engine that used a radioactive isotope for the heat source. The isotope would last about three years before needing return to the British nuclear research facility at Harwell for a new isotope ( sealed in its lead jacket) . The downside was a top speed of 45mph. Water fuel, many early engines used water ingestion to reduce combustion knocks, a few even had the air intake inside the cooling hopper to ingest steam. Using alternator output to reduce water via electrolysis,,,,, really,, the engines driving the alternator which itself isn’t very efficient, and the engine still only 35% efficient at best. As said, ‘ye canna change the laws of physics’. Let’s go one step further, hydrogen 😖😖 first you gotta make it, then you gotta compress it, A LOT. From the manufacturing point onto the transport, off the transport to the retailer, from retailers to your vehicle, each step is either a reduction in pressure, or needs heavy pumping. And that’s assuming there’s no bulk storage as we have with oil. Some in depth studies by highly respected researchers suggest about 60% of the hydrogen that reaches your vehicle is actually used for propulsion, the other 40% was used for making and transporting. And after all that, due to the size and physical requirements of the high pressure tank in your vehicle, the range is not much different to an EV battery system. Hybrid drives still seem the best option, diesel/petrol powered generator with electric transmission for distance and batteries for both around town, and hill climb boost.

I remember the turbine car at the 1964 Worlds Fair !

thats interesting, never heard of that before! you should look into some DD15 engines, some of them have a exhaust driven turbine that drives the rear gear train, (axial power turbine), or something like that. supposedly they get 200 ft/lbs of extra torque out of it!

Don't forget GM made turbine class 8 trucks in the 70's one of my old boss had two of them too test out. His company hauled powder cement with them.

Have you heard of the hot vapor engine that Smokey Yunick designed

Have you ever watched mountain men? Eustis, a homesteader has a pick up he converted to run off wood somehow. I think it runs off the smoke, he has a stove in the bed, he builds a fire in it and when there's enough smoke or whatever it runs off of the engine will start and then he drives it around. Thought it was pretty cool, but not practical.

Do you know about the 1960's Ford Turbine powered Semi tractor? If not you should check it out.

One problem with a lot of these ideas is that they seem to rely on what they usually refer to as "extra" or "waste" electricity your alternator is supposedly already making whenever the engine is running. To me, this underscores a lack of understanding about the load that the alternator puts on the engine when it's actually generating electricity, and how much additional fuel it takes to compensate for that additional load. There's no free lunches, boyo.

@18:00 20 years or so ago , I told him ONCE that it was impossible ,but he insisted. So I sold him all the stuff to build the pickle jar . He worked his way up to a 100 gallon fish tank and a bunch of batteries, then SUCCEEDED, in smashing all the glass in his van and narrowly avoiding the shrapnel .

Great video Josh. I'm gonna watch the film about the turbine car.

20:10 Stirling engines can be used, another liquid that boils at a lower temperature can also be used.