@Sean Embry very true

For me it was when it had the 8-9pm spot on Science channel on Wednesday because it was two episodes of this then switching to Discovery for that week's new Mythbusters.

I love watching this series, every episode feels smart

I had spinal fusion surgery to correct scoliosis and was out of commission for 6 months, I watched a ton

I came to comment that, water is not a lubricant at all

was just about to write the same. Jay Leno perfectly explains it in one of his many steam car videos.

Shell makes it, you can get it in big vats for full size engines or teeny bottles for steam powered models.

Exactly right. Water has no lubricating properties. Maybe a water soluble oil would do the trick

@@Kevin75668 I think it can reduce friction like hydroplaning but it doesn't prevent contact between 2 coarse matterials riding on each other

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he's on vacation lol

@@kakakakikiki6933 disgusting and irrelevant

@@kakakakikiki6933 what the fuck is this link about. It has nothing to do with a steam engine. Get a life

Isn't that a lost gay porno?

They're very inefficient. Not by any means quiet. Take sometime to get to operating temperatures & pressure. Freezing condensers, unless you introduce glycol & that's a little special hell of it's own. They're really only applicable as waste heat generators and even then typically more trouble than they're worth. A little honda generator will do you leagues better & it can run off essentially anything as well, given a bit of tinkering.

Your best bet for a generator is an old diesel tractor with healthy batteries and glow plugs and a pto generator or a good old school generator. Something quality. Gas or propane powered is fine for small portable units. How much time do you run a backup generator..?

@@tacomas9602 Not too often thankfully!

@@Porphyrios1 Honda or Briggs, only brands I'd ever trust.

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Fr lol 😂 entranced is the perfect word to describe it. You’re so smart

use anti-freeze additive to water to prevent freezing.

@@wahyutriwibowo1803 Hot antifreeze is very corrosive...

yeah the multiple "so much cleaner/less greenhouse gases" claims are just outright lies lol.

@@toxicity4818 about the only way I can think of that it could be “cleaner” than any new internal combustion engine car is with natural gas, or maybe propane. That’s a pretty far cry from toss whatever waste oil you want at it and produce lower emissions though.

Admittedly I’d want to look up this product before actually buying one.

@@toxicity4818 they aren’t actually, lower burn temperatures and pressures releases less NOx. This is a huge problem with jet engines as their combustion chambers run at extremely high temperatures and pressures

This engine has some serious issues to it that would be pretty quickly apparent to anyone familiar with steam power. Burning fuel at lower pressures reduces NOx emissions, but that's more of a smog gas than a greenhouse one to my knowledge. The biggest problem I see with this thing is that it has no variable cutoff, the valves just open and close at the same part of the stroke no matter what. Such an engine will spin and develop power, but will do so horribly inefficiently, so much so that several of the key advancements in the steam age related to how steam was carefully admitted into the cylinders to take advantage of the expansion of the gas and not just it's head pressure. Corliss valve gear is the most refined that I'm aware of, and it seems much better than what's shown here. I'm also doubtful of their total condenser recovery, it's not easy to do even with huge radiators, unless this was a completely static system, and then why bother with that? Reciprocating steam engines can have uses in industry, but I don't see these being them.

It has to be one of the worst designs I've ever seen. They used a water tube boiler, great. Condensing, beautiful. Single expansion, wtf. No cutoff, wtf. No lubrication, are they high? Oh god, I looked it up. 30% thermal efficiency and "over 1000 hours of runtime". So it won't last more than a few months and it's barely more efficient than a gas ICE at best.

@@herpnderpn2484 It seems like it's supposed to be a small, low cost steam engine.

Really what would be the use of this "machine"? They compared it to a ICE, but as a generator, it would suck, a vehicle wouldnt move a bit and even in an RC model it would eat ass with that huge open flame. And for a show piece the machining and finishing would be too crude. Is this even more than a fidget thingy that wastes steam?

@@rubiconnn I get it, but there are already cheaper and more compact forms of power. No improvement in fuel economy, and nobody knows how to work on it. It seems DOA though. They haven't updated their website copyright since 2015 and the last activity was 2017.

@@IKucheINtortIE seems like a toy. Steam is fun but impractical on a small scale. Modern thermal effiency of steam is 80-90%.

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Go to Harbor Freight, buy a pneumatic wrench or ratchet, connect the boiler output to the in feed and the condenser to the out feed of the wrench and you have a steam engine.

from a steam engine design stand point this engine is a toy at best, the single acting pistons, _no lubricant_ (idk what the hell they were thinking on that one beyond it being to hard for them or smthn) and fixed valve openings mean that it would be either extremely wistful of steam and positively anaemic for the amount and pressure of steam it consumes, Stephenson's rocket would out perform it by far if they were both run off the same boiler.

@@crestfallensunbro6001 yeah, looks like a very lame design. Hence the reason we never heard anything more about it...

@Sean Embry Distill it down to chemically pure water, add any desired chemicals to inhibit corrosion, inhibit foaming, etc., and call it feed water. Anything that you don't use for boiler feed simply add some of the minerals back in, brominate it, and call it potable water. Of course, this works MUCH better when you have steam available in large quantities to distill the water, and you are floating around in vast quantities of rather salty feed stock.

No . I think the efficiency is quite high, higher then a diesel engine for sure

You are correct, a compound engine this size is only about 12% efficiency, it would be very unlikely this single expansion engine could achieve more than 10%. FYI: Cyclone was never a legitimate company and it is defunct after Jharry Schoell diverted investments into the construction of a new luxury yacht (powered by Diesel engines)

​@@robertlindsay9826Absolutely not, the Rankine Cycle can never achieve higher efficiency than the Diesel Cycle, this is prevented by the Laws of Thermodynamics

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Sad that people prey on others looking to benefit the environment.

@@NoosaHeads Anyone genuinely interested in benefiting the environment needs to take a seriously hard look at biggest problem, which is global overpopulation. Not many have the courage to be honest about this threat to the environment.

Which channel do you think this is?

@@General_Griffin I know exactly what channel this is... Just go look at this... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZhnm8iHut6ogWw.html

@@Quickened1 Yeah, that's the wrong channel...

If anybody reads this, don't bother clicking on his link. It's only a low quality version of this same video... One that *wasn't* uploaded by the Science Channel.

@@General_Griffin you obviously missed the point... I don't care what channel it is, or how high quality the video is, the point is, that same exact video, produced by Science Channel's, How it's Made, was uploaded on Dec 20, 2013! Which means, since being a bit dense I have to spell it out for you, the technology depicted in this current video is not new, nor has it advanced in the last 8 years!!! Get it???

I think I figured out what reeve valve is for on top of the piston. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong but when the Piston goes in the downstroke I'm sure there's there's some pressure there when it's going in the downstroke so it needs to relieve the pressure

@@willhe86 Close.. The reed valve opens during the up stroke to release the steam pressure into the crankcase. The reed valve is closed during the downstroke.

this is *_not_* a good design on steam engine, its missing basic parts like the regulator and lubrication and waists one of the biggest advantages of steam, double acting pistons which give more power and efficiency.

@@crestfallensunbro6001 Im simply sillying around, no sane man would build a full sized steam engine in their backyard

@@Narcrate140 understandable, it just annoys me how bad this one is and still being shown off as if it was revolutionary

Are you aware that steam is hot?

@@kylesenior I was referring to when the engine wasn't operating obviously. However now that I think about it I suppose electric heaters could prevent damage during down time in freezing temperatures.

@@robotswithryan8348 Fair enough. It seems strange to me to run the system intermittently, but if that's what you're doing. I'm not sure water would pool inside the pistons either when not in use.

@@kylesenior yeah I'm not sure where the water would pool either. One of the examples was a vehicle and those are usually run intermittently.

@@robotswithryan8348 Vehicles seem like a poor choice to me. It would be better for stationary power such as powering a remote home.

I love your sarcasm.. Harry Schoell was indeed exposed as a fake and his company is defunct.

screw toob algae rhythm is total poo

Umm...why do I need a carbon monoxide detector in my house for my natural gas furnace, then? Pretty much all combustion produces CO.

@@TexDrinkwater I probably should have worded that better. CO generation occurs even in regular combustion processes but in WAY less quantities than internal combustion engines. It's a product of incomplete combustion due to a lack of oxygen in the environment it burns within which IC engines tend to create. When I was making that statement, it was under the assumption that the fire was like a campfire at a steady state where it was nearly smokeless and thus burning cleanly with comparatively little CO.

given how many basic components its missing, not a lot

And knowing is half the battle!

It didn't fail. It was failed.

Cyclone was not a legitimate company, it was a classic example of vaporware investment scam and penny stock "pump and dump"

The steam just turns back into water and recirculates

@@ally-gh3hv not in the cylinders it shouldn't, this engine is just embarrassing a hobby model steam engine form around 80 years ago would be 10x better than this, the only reasonable part are the boiler tubes.

The reed valve on top of the piston opens during the upstroke.

because id bet this engine barely runs, its missing like half the basic components of a steam engine.

I would say it’s probably closer to a power plant rankine cycle then a piston cylinder cycle. Basically a power plant but the turbine is replaced with the pistons.

Steam powered, piston engine...

awful, its missing like half of the basic components of a steam engine like the regulator and proper lubrication.

@@crestfallensunbro6001 but what if I happen to WANT to sit close to a source of superheated steam with no regulation, no obvious pressure relief valve, and no obvious safety valve?

:D Anything that burns..."Oh No!" Actually, the flexibility allows the designer to make choices that may be better than what a gas or diesel engine produces. Of course, it may be worse. It really is up to the designer and user.

@@dclark142002 the point is we used steam long before ICE yet they are treating it like it's a new invention.

@@cravenmoorehead5636 It's not that they are treating the use of steam as new, but the engine they developed to use it... Problem is, this video is over 8 years old, and it's still nowhere to be found....

The first trains were camel trains and the like, 1 to 2 thousand years bc. The first steam train was by Richard Trevithick in 1804

Define "better".

Nope.

you dont want _this_ steam engine, you might want a steam engine (they are great) but not this one, this one is god-awful.

@@crestfallensunbro6001 it look expensive, I look at their website but no price were giving

This engine is a useless scam, if you cant see that from this video then you should probably stay far away from the technology.

Because it's not efficient or greenhouse friendly.

It is and it isn't. Thermal power plants (coal, natural gas, nuclear, biomass aka wood, geothermal, etc) use steam regardless of the heat source, for the most part. The most efficient way natural gas is typically burned for power, for example, is with a combined cycle gas turbine, which is a gas turbine (similar to a jet engine but optimized for shaft power, not thrust), and a steam turbine combined together. The waste heat of the gas turbine heats boilers which drive the steam turbine. Gas turbines are far more efficient when driven with high temperatures, than steam on high or low temperatures, but the waste heat is still quite hot and can still be used for steam power. As for the small scale shown here, I doubt that steam engine is all that efficient, although I could be wrong (after all, that is quite the super heater in that boiler). Highly efficient piston steam engines are quite complex and maintenance heavy. When steam locomotives were phased out the diesels that replaced them actually were less efficient, but their far lower operating costs and greater flexibility made it quite worth while. Today, small internal combustion engines are probably way more efficient simply due to higher combustion temperatures, and certainly less maintenance intensive, but with that steam engine shown lacking any real control gear you would usually expect for throttling or achieving efficiency at anything besides flat out operation, it might not be too bad for maintenance cost. The generator used for charging off grid battery systems looks like the most interesting application due to it not needing particularly fine control. Btw, when they said in the video that the water was the lubricant, that was probably a flat out lie. The (I assume) graphite pistons are probably the lubricant, graphite is a good dry lubricant. Oh and emissions. The low combustion pressure (and probably low temperature) reduces things like nitrogen oxide emissions, which is a big part of acid rain. Nitrogen oxide free in the air will eventually oxidize to nitrogen dioxide (once cool), which then reacts with water in clouds to make nitric acid. This has almost nothing to do with greenhouse gasses as CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas by a long shot in this case. Hope that was somewhat helpful and that I didn't get anything too wrong.

Because governments are made up of predators that believe that the only solution to any problem is you losing your rights. Hence the climate hysteria BS.