Designing a Futuristic Magnetic Turbine (MHD drive)

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Let's make a big one together.

I’d like to see a boat, but even more a comparison of efficiency between propellers and your drive.

The future of professional research: Videos actually showing the experiments and the outcome. I like how you structured this video and that you put all the charts and data to it.

It's brilliant because it's simple...well done jedi.

man, remember me when you're a billionaire, ok?

Just a tip for your demonstrations, try adding fine mica powder to the water instead of ink. The mica shows flow and looks really cool, but most importantly it shows basically every detail of turbulence, flow and direction very clearly. (Think of those cool paint mixing videos with the insane swirls and colors.) and they come in basically any color and you only need to add it once and it will just continue to work without constantly adding dye or particulates. We used this technique in school when we learned about fluid dynamics and I use them all the time for resin work, so they’re readily available now because of the popularity of epoxy crafting.

you have to go full Hunt for Red October and build an RC Submarine with your MHD thruster as propulsion. Maybe with a hydrophone you could see if it's as silent underwater as the movie suggests?

I've had many sleepless nights with magnetohydrodynamic thrust.

These would seem more interesting on a submarine rather than a boat especially since you could have them articulate in any direction for better 3d movement compared to a propellor

That's awesome! Also I think you just gave me an idea

honestly, i'd love to see it as a boat

A solar powered MHD kayak sounds like a great project!

Oh man, a boat with these things would be awesome! Not sure if you meant toy/model boat or something bigger, but it'd be neat to see how many it takes to move a canoe or something small-but-mannable

The lack of rotating components is actually a great feature of the turbine considering how damage prone a high speed propeller is to light impacts. This would also minimise marine wildlife incidents where props end up cutting and harming marine life. It also means that there would be significantly less maintenance and manufacturing requirement, and being sealed off as one part is a very good trait for something designed to be leakproof

The hunt for Red October

let's make a demonstrator boat, the performance of this app was great

Invented 1966 and tested with an submarine EMS-1 at the coast of California... Also Mitshubishi worked on it in the 1980-90s. They need about 4 Tesla to make it work. Probably does not work with sweet water rivers.

I definitely want to see you build a boat powered by your solid state thrusters.

Both a small scale boat and an underwater moped would be interesting too