Controlling Fire With My Hands Using a Wimshurst Machine

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4 жыл бұрын

In this video I show you how to control fire with my hands by charging myself to 50,000 Volts to use electric forces to control the ions in the partial plasma of fire in order to bend and manipulate the fire with only my hands!
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@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 жыл бұрын

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

@ven5707 4 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it

@heartleak 4 жыл бұрын

Was about to post the same thing, bruhh

@Se_DakotazYT 4 жыл бұрын

Just Some Guy without a Mustache airbender

@FedeG86 4 жыл бұрын

The cap would be proud of you by that reference. 😁

@lengors1674 4 жыл бұрын

U are everywhere dude

@antonw.415 4 жыл бұрын

He: *charges himself so the flame is moving away from him* Firefighters: *We need this guy right now!*

@madisonbrown8851 3 жыл бұрын

Firefighters: _Write that down! Write that down!_

@Showtime5285 2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access 4 жыл бұрын

Well you know, sometimes in life you've just gotta control some fire with your hands using a Wimshurst machine

@manan-543 4 жыл бұрын

Electroboom wants to know your location

@MILPICS 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! I was searching this comment.

@ishantandon9167 4 жыл бұрын

3:25 It's interesting to see that the flame was initially attracted to the left electrode but after the breakdown due to voltage drop there was no attraction!

@jk7074 4 жыл бұрын

How to control fire: Just stay positive ;) Or negative that depends.

@tchgs11zdok15 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and that's a very good anology, cus of you are positive the fire(harm) stay away from you, and if you're negative... Well, you saw the video

@jk7074 4 жыл бұрын

@@tchgs11zdok15 I am glad that someone noticed, thank you.

@manan-543 4 жыл бұрын

Nice one 👌👌

@tchgs11zdok15 4 жыл бұрын

*if 😅

@gamerboyzack8486 4 жыл бұрын

Im always negative so if I’m near fire I will die and look like a burnt RAT

@good-gpt2-chatbot 4 жыл бұрын

Next Up :- Becoming the Airbender with my 100% knowledge.

@EnmaDarei 4 жыл бұрын

"Today I will connect myself to this device that generates 50,000 Volts which will cause fire to be attracted to my body." And that was the last we heard from James.

@adrianreyes2318 4 жыл бұрын

You should try this on a large scale and see if you can walk through fire

@annag3826 10 ай бұрын

ight imma head out

@Noconstitutionfordemocrats1 7 ай бұрын

@@annag3826imma head *in*

@ajolliet18 2 ай бұрын

You can run through fire

@randomcartoonschannel7685 4 жыл бұрын

5:39 🤣 “It won't burn me” (im dead)

@MammaOVlogs 4 жыл бұрын

wow, my son is the fire bender! l never ever knew!

@justarandomweebyay5372 4 жыл бұрын

Me watching some guy trying to get his fingers close to fire: *anxiety intensifies*

@pulsegamingbird3764 2 жыл бұрын

Me when he was making his finger have electricity shoot through it.

@abelsm6270 4 жыл бұрын

No one: Literally no one: Action lab: *OUCH*

@hyparh 2 жыл бұрын

That principle can be in great use for firefighters. For instance they can wear a small high voltage device which charges some sort of aluminized suit so it can repel fire (and heat) away.

@sayakdatta 4 жыл бұрын

Plot Twist: The fire🔥 was a paid actor.

@Axeman369 4 жыл бұрын

Look how the fire tries to burn me when I put my finger next "ouch" to it. Of course it's going to burn you "it's called playing with fire" hahahahaa

@mjames7674 4 жыл бұрын

Let's start charging up our firefighters so they become flame repelling.

@competingyevhen 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, bad idea. The fire will get away to another area.

@honkhonk9089 4 жыл бұрын

A true fire bender

@yousif3286 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing is really better than the action lab

@rnttreed 4 жыл бұрын

It’s so cool. I saw a video I believe called the fire bender to where he stepped on these charged pads and was able to split a flame with his hands. Was so cool.

@lakshaysingla2417 4 жыл бұрын

Can you please provide us the links of product you use in experiment

@freetheoranges 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of your best videos!

@quackyman796 4 жыл бұрын

3:11 this is more like controlling electricity with fire

@MrV705 4 жыл бұрын

Finger: come here pls Fire: ⁿᵒ

@archanamotagi1675 4 жыл бұрын

*Instructions unclear, ended up burning my neighbor's dog*

@itsmepxl1151 4 жыл бұрын

I know thats you, Dio

@okktok 4 жыл бұрын

Archana Motagi I mean, who didn’t

@JoshHopkinsYT 4 жыл бұрын

Happens to me all the time. My neighbor has to get a new dog like every month. The FBI keeps monitoring me and they put cameras and shit in the neighbor's animals and i keep disecting them and i swear i'm super close to finding one but he always comes out and he's sucha jerk about it.

@VladTepesh409 4 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty cool effect.

@joe1489 4 жыл бұрын

“Ouch” I felt that

@DeaconSmithGames 4 жыл бұрын

Please can you make a video explaining why fire is hot that would be great always have wanted to know. Keep up the good work👍🏼 love you videos.

@nikhilkohli3870 4 жыл бұрын

Firemen with negativly charged suits?

@ven5707 4 жыл бұрын

Does this mean that if you cover yourself in electricity you can survive a house fire? (Ignore the toxic gases please)

@voice4397 4 жыл бұрын

im not sure but i think if you charge yourself with that much electricity it will jump from your feet to the ground either way if we ignore that you'll be cook for the heat of the closer fire

@ZirJohn 4 жыл бұрын

Youll probably melt still. If youve ever been near a big flame you know how hot they are even at a good distance

@archanamotagi1675 4 жыл бұрын

@@ZirJohn Even the hot air is repelled, not just the flame. He said so in the video

@ZirJohn 4 жыл бұрын

@@archanamotagi1675 oh didnt hear that my bad

@pikomonde3933 4 жыл бұрын

@@archanamotagi1675 Hmm.. How about heat from radiation (not from air)? I don't know the comparison between heat from radiation and hot air though..

@empmachine 2 жыл бұрын

you should totally revisit this and record the flame response with both your IR camera and schlieren imaging.

@masoncraft09official36 3 жыл бұрын

I love your channel

@Apokalypzx 4 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to do this with Schlieren Photography? I think seeing the gasses and vapors coming off the flame could be informative...and awesome!

@Abhishek-kz5gq 4 жыл бұрын

You are amazing bro love from India🇮🇳

@darrellpidgeon6440 4 жыл бұрын

I still have a Wimshurst machine I bought back in the 70's, from a company called Edmund Scientific. I need a new leyden jar, and some work on the collectors. The device could generate 75,000 volts. There are so many experiments that can be done. Once, I even tried to attach a motor drive so I could have both hands free. Not enough torque, though. I may revisit that attempt one day.

@paul_warner 4 жыл бұрын

Absolute mad lad

@orderlyhippo1569 4 жыл бұрын

That’s why it’s good to always stay positive

@tomascontrerasjr 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing use for a wedding ring!

@RomanoPRODUCTION 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mrs Action Lab for offering such a nice Xmas gift to your husband but you're early it's not Xmas yet 💟

@vyas2004 4 жыл бұрын

*Finally found a way to burn firecrackers safely* Btw nice video 👍

@hata6290 4 жыл бұрын

I love you man

@grimmota2103 3 жыл бұрын

“The dark side of the force leads a pathway to many abilities.Some consider to be“ *Unnatural*

@estuart76 4 жыл бұрын

Cool. Now we need to use the science of this to control wildfires. Make them stop or even reverse direction. Some sort of clever electrical fencing maybe.

@God-sk3dv 4 жыл бұрын

what a *bright* video

@davidvwilliamson 2 ай бұрын

if you take away the charge collecting stuff you can sense the electricity on the wheels with your finger& thumb if you put them near 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock; if you do it in a totally dark room you can see sparks coming off the wheels onto your finger & thumb. Simplifies the setup to the point where it becomes really mysterious and magical. Also incidentally much safer.

@THENETESH 4 жыл бұрын

amazing

@JustaReadingguy 4 жыл бұрын

Now use the high voltage to make an electrostatic percipatator. That is a tube with a wire in the center wire and foil lined on the part of the tube. The let a smokey flame through the tube and the smoke will be attached to the foil and the flame smoke will stop polluting. I understand that power plants use this to stop polluting. I built one as a kid and it worked very well.

@dvlishos7532 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect firefighters needs this.

@yaasirabdikarin5073 4 жыл бұрын

Plasma channel made this fire bending and even water and air it is really awesome

@nathanlopez8949 4 жыл бұрын

“this shouldn’t really hurt me” *gets vaporized*

@blaylockr1 4 жыл бұрын

I'm curious as to what would happen if you held a pin in your hand an performed the same experiment. Also, would love to see this filmed with a thermal camera.

@dominicestebanrice7460 6 ай бұрын

Another really interesting video. Thank you! I wonder if the effect would still occur with a blue gas flame? I suspect the luminous, yellow portion of the candle flame contains charged soot particles and free radicals - the net positive charge is a strong clue. FWIW, this flame is not really a plasma*. Of course, the effect seen when you increased the spacing still happens with charged particles and does not require an electron-rich plasma. *From the Royal Society of Chemistry: "In fact, some very hot flames do contain plasma - when the energy inside them is sufficient to ionize enough of the air molecules. A classic example is the flame generated by burning acetylene in oxygen, which reaches an eye-watering 3100˚C. The paltry 1500˚C flame produced by a wax candle, on the other hand, is too low to be considered a textbook plasma."

@theseed2199 4 жыл бұрын

The fourteenth century peoplebe like . . .

@xiaoshen194 4 жыл бұрын

be like??

@kiandemonteverde4121 4 жыл бұрын

They be like: "Witchcraft! Kill him!"

@riftraft2742 4 жыл бұрын

Firefist has been reborn

@wariorwarior3115 4 жыл бұрын

It's very interesting what if we make some things by this for fireman

@tallixhendo8245 4 жыл бұрын

1:37 Did somebody say "youtube scientist of da year?" Edit: just realised its almost new year so this would be a perfect idea for Y.T to do some kind of channel of the year award for each passing year

@burnroe6611 4 жыл бұрын

Will the plasma move away if its in a vacuum.

@immanueln3 4 жыл бұрын

Do an experiment with the works and aluminum and explain it please.

@ramanpawar3001 4 жыл бұрын

Veritasium did same exp

@owaismalekji6033 4 жыл бұрын

That's cool

@nyan2317 4 жыл бұрын

To control fire, first you have to *crank that* Soulja boy: i felt that

@timpfister8205 4 жыл бұрын

During the Iraq war, Sadam set the Kuwait oil fields on fire. They ended up using explosives to put them out but I wonder if they could have used this technology? It was hard to even get close enough to set the explosives. You could easily push electrodes in to push the flame with needing to get too close. I wonder if you could pulse the voltage maybe using as AC waveform to disrupt the flame? Could be helpful in future for many applications.

@MasoodOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

How far can we go with the voltage? Controlling fire from 1 meter?

@MasoodOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

@Iliya Moradi Birgani ok then I am gonna try that later!

@MasoodOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

@Iliya Moradi Birgani yes not from Iran tho, btw thanks for your answer to my question...

@MasoodOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

@Iliya Moradi Birgani bale

@MasoodOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

@Iliya Moradi Birgani hahaha ni ma irani nestam

@didinedi8473 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Im nine and I think your videos are great.

@user-be4yc2vr5c 4 жыл бұрын

If a space rocket(etc.) put this in it's tip could it use that to help with thermal dispersion on reentry or other high resistance application? Or maybe if not powerful enough for full dispersion at least some dispersion but also with possible refocusing of thermal energy generated?

@melcosta92 4 жыл бұрын

Would this work in a big scale? Would electrically charging paths, walls or houses repel fires? Could this be somehow used to combat wild fires or something?

@DarkningBolt 3 ай бұрын

You should hold something metallic like a fork or something and poke the other end into the flame so it doesn't burn you

@gabrielrusso6920 4 жыл бұрын

I love your channel. Ouch ... ouch ... ouch!

@Zxavioure 3 жыл бұрын

Fire suites reinvented with positive ions? Maybe a good idea.

@dissonanceparadiddle 4 жыл бұрын

And this ladies and gentlemen is why fire benders can lighting bend

@harvyxgaming5177 4 жыл бұрын

Soon you will become the avatar

@grahampawar 4 жыл бұрын

So does this mean that Magneto is a lie??? Or haven't yet explored his true potential*wink * wink

@peterwarren1824 4 жыл бұрын

Finally you have revealed why lightening appears around Kaiju.

@loganthesaint 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you could use this to make fire Line fences to combat forest fires.

@aComedicPianist 2 жыл бұрын

3:20 Since redstone is just electricity in Minecraft, fire is just a redstone repeater for electric sparks.

@ashfaqvevariya3613 4 жыл бұрын

Parents-don’t play with fire. *le kids-4:49

@sizaint 4 жыл бұрын

Could this be used to extinguish a flame with enough power? By moving it far enough away from the fuel source?

@forgettube1234 4 жыл бұрын

This would make an awesome movie James: The Last Firebender,

@franciscosalazar8753 4 жыл бұрын

Could you build a machine to create an impulse large enough to attract fire towards water, and extinguish a large fire that way?

@mykulpierce 4 жыл бұрын

Were you grounded during this? You may want to be on a stool so you don't lose charge. You get a more dramatic effect unless you have a faster charging source or higher potential.

@Druwoods 4 жыл бұрын

I envision positivity charged suits for firefighters that push the flames away.

@The.Plague 4 жыл бұрын

What would've happened if you had stuck your finger between the electrodes, with them that far apart? Would your finger not complete the connection just like the flame did?

@sidjoosin6549 4 жыл бұрын

Paraphine is excellent isolator, try to do this without paraphine - may be there there will be sparks. Also paraphine is very strong diamagnetic - it runs away from all kind of electromagnetic field, as well as water or glass. i think largerly this interesting effect not because of plasma itself but cause of diamagnetism of paraphine.

@maingron 4 жыл бұрын

Could you in theory walk through flame walls like that? o:

@AS-ug2vq 4 жыл бұрын

Flame is plasma, it has lots of free electrons to conduct electricity. I've been experimenting with high voltage a lot, try using a HDPE plastic bottle cap, and make the arc go around it, soon the arc will go through the bottle cap instead of bending around it as the cap catches flame and turns into plasma

@JohnnieHougaardNielsen 4 жыл бұрын

Filming it with a schlieren camera setup would make it more interesting.

@georgeisinyourbankaccount4236 4 жыл бұрын

Will oobleck be have like solid in a vacuum chamber?

@servancastillo986 4 жыл бұрын

this would be useful at a campsite to always make fire

@Leon-ge4tu 4 жыл бұрын

What if you connect your one hand with the negative and one with the positive part? Could you create the sparks between your fingers?? Or would that kill you?

@elih2246 4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@jlwillett 4 жыл бұрын

Um it says you posted this 8 minutes ago but the video was posted 6 minutes ago.

@sebastjansslavitis3898 4 жыл бұрын

maybe fireman could be protected by wearing some special charge up suit. Build one!

@ugurunver2403 4 жыл бұрын

I have some questios. Why it doesn't spark when you firstly put the candle between spheres. Was it conducting electric charge so slow and continuously and we were not seeing a spark? Or you just didn't turn the disks enough to create a spark load?

@siryoda3231 4 жыл бұрын

I can see a superhero firefighter using this

@tchgs11zdok15 4 жыл бұрын

*So this explain why in avatar the last Airbender fire benders can preduce and control lightning*

@VoluntaristSociety 4 жыл бұрын

@adamdozsa3028 4 жыл бұрын

then they are not fire but electricity benders

@tchgs11zdok15 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@tchgs11zdok15 4 жыл бұрын

I was joking 😜

@tchgs11zdok15 4 жыл бұрын

@@adamdozsa3028 + they have shown abilities of lightning( electricity) manipulation

@elviseinstein5944 4 жыл бұрын

Oh shit that’s cool

@ZirJohn 4 жыл бұрын

Could this work on a large scale and not be super expensive to control fires?

@somnathpaul1468 4 жыл бұрын

It’s called corona discharge or electric wind. It happens because of the discharging action of the charged point. The air molecules near the electrode get an opposite charge due to induction and are attracted, upon closer approach they share charge with the electrode and acquire the same charge and get pushed away in considerable speed, giving it an appearance of ‘wind’ coming out of electrode.