1888 Rethinking The Tesla Turbine For Wind Power

I can hardly wait for the hyperbolic cone concept prototype! Facsinating!🤩

Another brilliant idea. You move so fast I'm still way back with Darwin but enjoy these videos so much. Thank you

Robert your channel is awesome, I wish I had the funds to membership to see how much more there is in this field. Truly appreciate all your efforts here man, truly thank you.

Great video Rob! It would be interesting to see smoke running through to see where it goes. How much passes through and how much exits back out the front. That might give some indication of efficiency.

I really really hope you do test to see how much torque it can manage to create!! Thanks for all the videos!!

Love it. The Gabriel's horns sound like a great idea as well.

Shauberger and Russell have travelled this path.

great idea, Robert - onwards and upwards! Having a solid foundation and being able to make derivatives of the basic model is a marvelous (you might say, "awesome") adventure. Pleased I'm on board!

Oh ho 👀!!! Rob, that's genius 😮. Bravo 👏. Exelent work 😎👍. keep it up pal 😃!

Oh lord! I haven't heard anyone mention prony brakes in ages.

Love the idea Rob.....🤔The 'Tesla Twist'(??),...... and thanks for all the vids, I love coming along for the adventure(s). Plenty of food for thought 👍😁

I love this guy's child like laugh! It's infections and makes me excited for science.

If you put bends, baffles, golfball dimples, or better yet put grooves that spiral down, like the threads of a gun barrel. Yhis would not only create more surface area to push on. It also directs the direction of flow. Love your channel brother.

Fundamentally beautiful. 👍

That's great Robert. You are a constant inspiration.

So Darwin intake for unidirectional wind capture, Venturi compression/acceleration effect duct (slightly offset) to a Tesla Turbine for capturing the fluid friction to generate the mechanical spin. Use the spin to generate electricity, use the electricity to heat a sand battery...

I had been experimenting with a similar concept, though I used half spheres stacked with the bottoms removed and a rolled edge on the bottom where cut. It works, maybe worth further investigation. My thinking was that a rotating sphere with air blown across it creates lift and pulls the air around the sphere, so why should it not work on the inside curve. It does make the air vortex and exit faster, thus spinning is faster. Hyperbolic cones for this are a brilliant idea. Thanks for the video Rob!

I love your rethinking approach! I never present a problem without at least a conceptual solution, so here is my offering. When you look at Tesla's actual concept question, it was about efficiency in maximizing power transfer. Thus by injecting a fluid into a cylinder, the near 90 degree angle of attack maximizes the available energy of motion to be captured. And like water draining in a sink, the vortex pattern was his inspiration... "What if I flattened the vortex funnel into a stack of layers and captured the mechanical energy with the disks?" That is the fundamental design question and solution. Based on his design theory/solution, a modification to your design would be a shroud on the face with vanes to induce as close to the optimum 90 degree angle of attack at the edge of the cones. I am thinking like a conch spiral shell (three or four channel?) to minimize back pressure losses. The whole idea is to recreate the initial confined rotation of the fluid's energy by the external casing of the turbine. And inclusion of a weak venturi collar at the exhaust would assist in preventing back pressure build-up from the mechanically spent working fluid. Once again, base concept is capture the most energy of a working fluid in rotation as it spirals in it's funnel vortex down a drain. So I see setting the initial optimal angle of attack as the problem to solve first, and the second being being the reduction of exhaust back-pressure as close to zero or negative if possible. I think you get the idea of the context of the design issues Tesla was trying to address. Angle and flow volume to translate linear differential pressure of a working fluid into rotational torque. Hence flattening the funnel and stacking the design with parallel coupling on a common shaft. Tradeoff is really efficient laminar flow coupling vs centripial force of the working fluid wanting to return to the outer edge. This means for a wind powered system, your design solution is intriging as long as you can get the air moving in the required rotational vector first.

Will anyone, everybody, who the f*** ever find this guy money to keep on producing these type of engineering/physics videos ! The U.S., U.K., EU, Corporations.... whoever/whatever, please fund this guy. His videos are truly inspiring, educational and practical. The world can never have enough engineers ! His videos are inspiring... 😊

This is my favorite video since your burner and heater videos! I really hope to see this design come to fruition.