For me the impressive part is that it's built out of lego. Compressed-air engines are nothing new - you could make one quite readily by modifying a regular car engine, or just buy an industrial compressed-air engine or turbine off the shelf. But to build it out of lego... I can really appreciate how much extra effort it took to design this and actually find somewhere to buy all the bricks.
novazee It's made to see if you have any idea of where you are going with your life. People who can answer this question promptly show concern about the future and ability to shape it as the want. Nobody REALLY wants to know where you are in ten years, that is not the point. If your dream is flying a jet, say that. Show you have dreams and find them reachable.
Sometimes I wish I were much younger and could hear these kinds of stories with the same wonder and optimistic view. Guys like him grow up to bring us great tech sometimes. It's never what they started with though so don't be surprised.
TheDecorama we bought a zoo movie...Q: why did you buy this place ? A: why not ? in the same movie Q: Why would a beautiful woman like you talk to a stranger like me? A: why not ?...is the most douche question don't judge from that...
TheDecorama we bought a zoo movie...Q: why did you buy this place ? A: why not ? in the same movie Q: Why would a beautiful woman like you talk to a stranger like me? A: why not ?...is the most douche question don't judge from that...
Excellent. I am really impressed, beautifully built. The joys of having decent natural levels of dopamine and serotonin. There are drawbacks to treating low serotonin. i.e. side effects that is why it is better to have good natural levels.
Lots of comments about how the compressed air is just shifting the carbon emissions to fossil fuel or nuclear based power plants, but the energy to compress the air could easily have come from renewable resources eg. solar panels or wind turbines. Quick research about storing excess renewable energy as either compressed air or liquid oxygen brings up loads of related results, mainly current research occurring at the uni of Leeds and attempts to integrate it into the UK's national grid. So yeah, I do see this as very clever and much needed application of this relevant technology
It sort of runs on air and sort of doesn't. Pneumatic hybrids is nothing new. They did it on Class 6 and Class 7 trucks before where using the idea of regenerative braking (where as you are slowing down, you are trying to either recover or capture or use the energy to do something else, whether it's recharging batteries or charging/pressurising air). You have a low pressure and a high pressure accumulator and his comment about how you can "pfff" fill it up and go -- where do you think that compressed air comes from? (You'll either have a compressor that runs on electricity or a gas powered one). So like electric vehicles, all you're doing is you're shifting the source of emissions from the "tailpipe" to a giant smokestack.
alpha754293 Well, it's still tonnes better then fossil fuels. It takes a LOT less energy to compress air then it does to extract, process and burn fossil fuels. It's all about progress. Don't diss it because it's not 100 per cent clean straight away.
BecomingfreeCOUK But where do you think the energy to compress the air is coming from? I mean....it doesn't just come out of nowhere, you have to make it. Which means you have to spend energy to compress it. Where is that energy that you're expending coming from? Even if you were to use PV cells, where do you think the silica for the PV cells come from? And the energy that's required to manufacture said PV cells? Think about it. That's all I'm asking you to do. If you really want truly clean energy, you'd have to make wind mills out of wood and paper (and even then, paper is still not all that great, but it's still better than the mining and refining processes involved in processing/manufacturing metals of all kinds). The only downside, of course, is the low specific power output from a wood-and-paper wind mill, which now you're back to running a water mill, which of course, the hydroelectric generating capacity is also very, very low. (And you can't build a hydroelectric dam because of the total environmental impact it has and all the fossil fuels you'd burn in the process of building said hydroelectric dam.) (I took a course in like environmental energy management when I was in community college, which, combined with the things I learned in energy systems lab and also dynamic systems 2 where you're looking at basically solving very large scale energy conservation equations and systems.) Gasoline has a lower heating value of 43.5 mega joules per kg. (Source: cta.ornl.gov/bedb/appendix_a/Lower_and_Higher_Heating_Values_of_Gas_Liquid_and_Solid_Fuels.pdf) What's the specific energy density of compressed air (as a function of P,T)? Think about it that way as well.
I know that, but progress is better then no progress. Sure you should ask those questions, but it's not like we should say 'we're going to burn fossil fuels until it's 100 per cent green zero emissions including the manufacturing'. Progress in the right direction is always better then no progress at all. Or am I wrong?
BecomingfreeCOUK But is it REALLY progress if all you're doing is you're shifting the emission source onto something/someone else? That's the problem that I take with some of the people that participate in this sort of a debate is because they don't do the FULL systems analysis (from cradle-to-grave) of the ENTIRE ecosystem. It has been my experience that a LOT of people aren't very good at very large scale systems integration approach when doing these kinds of analyses. In isolated incidents, sure, having a Lego car that runs on compressed air sounds great, but if the source of the energy that's compressing the air to begin with is the Chinese coal fired power plants, and given that much of the pollution problem that China is currently facing IS from said coal fired power plants -- it doesn't really help, now does it? It's energy systems management. And I'm a huge advocate for alternative modes of transportation that's powered by something else, but as you can also tell/see, I'm not looking at the final stage (the transportation vehicle itself, since it only comprises ONE small piece of a MUCH larger puzzle), but rather than entire puzzle-as-a-whole and THEN looking at "okay, what can I do (being in automotive engineering) do make my contribution to the big picture a little bit (or a LOT) smaller?" And that's a VASTLY different question/answer because now I'm also looking for holistic synergies -- where efficiencies can be gained in many areas of the entire vehicle production and operation processes. My current 2013 Ford Fusion Titanium Hybrid (which in the UK will be the Mondeo Hybrid) gets about 5.9 L / 100 km, real world, combined driving, and NOT the silly NEDC. On some trips, I can get 0 L / 100 km (for trips that's less than about 1.5 km) and other times, it might be a little worse (depending on outside temperature, whether I have the A/C or the heater on, etc.)
Yes it is a good plan. I told my mom about it, and she said he could, but he would need lawyers, because gas companies would go bankrupt. Hopefully one day, we will be able to charge a car in 2 seconds.
***** .....and the energy released from the compressed air is equally minimal. For a genius surely he must realise the limitations of compressed air power. It is no more useful than using a spring to power a car.
"You sent me UA-cam message [...] then we had a Skype call and I never heard from you again." Leave it to a woman's rejection to drive a man into building a LEGO car that runs on freakin air.
He should release his blueprints and all his plans before this becomes legit and those big businessmen realise that and realise they will lose all their money and profit through oil and get him killed so we all still have to buy oil/gas, just look at all the other inventors who "vanished" who did the same.
"if i can design build and lunch something into outer space" One problem, that's a weather balloon. It never got remotely close to outer space. "i just built a jet engine" No, You purchased a old RC turbine engine and strapped it to a bike. As for the lego car, giant waste of money. Instead of building a realistic prototype you wasted 20 grand on lego's..... Besides Air powered cars are ignored because they are extremely inefficient.
People have to be so negative . This video proves it can be done with toys no less . Toss a few engineers in the scheme and look at what Peugeot did with it . It's not fully air powered , but , air power assisted and achieving 81mpg doing so . I think the technology could also be expanded on , making it more efficient and longer lasting . I see no reason not to incorporate a compressor that is driven off the wheels . I think it's a genius idea , and it works . I think it could eventually be utilized . This is a new technology . After all , the airplane was not a success for many years and it's still making advancements daily . Biggest problem : We are addicted to fuel . #2 Romania has just become a threat the US national security , LMAO
Just love how pure his dream is (or appears to be) at the end of the video.
found the master builder.
Imagine the sound of that car crashing....
Rudy Angulo And imagine having to walk out of wreckage bare-footed!
Fahad Al-Riyami A fate worse than death for sure.
Fahad Al-Riyami how much evil have you stored just for this comment >O
Click click click
Super impressive. I would hate to walk barefoot in his workshop.
Ann Le {Anneorshine} watch more videos on #IdiotsIdea+Vines
He's got a good point about the ingenuity to resource ratio in modern western society.
For me the impressive part is that it's built out of lego. Compressed-air engines are nothing new - you could make one quite readily by modifying a regular car engine, or just buy an industrial compressed-air engine or turbine off the shelf. But to build it out of lego... I can really appreciate how much extra effort it took to design this and actually find somewhere to buy all the bricks.
I hate that fucking question. "where do you see yourself in 10 years?" I don't fucking know, I can't see the future, what do you think I am? Jesus?
novazee Yeah they should rephrase it as "where do you hope to be in 10 years?"
novazee In the mirror.
novazee I hate it when they ask that in job interviews.
novazee It's made to see if you have any idea of where you are going with your life. People who can answer this question promptly show concern about the future and ability to shape it as the want. Nobody REALLY wants to know where you are in ten years, that is not the point. If your dream is flying a jet, say that. Show you have dreams and find them reachable.
novazee Exactly, dafuc he's dude playing with lego having good time and you go to screw up the dudes awesome head.
Sometimes I wish I were much younger and could hear these kinds of stories with the same wonder and optimistic view. Guys like him grow up to bring us great tech sometimes. It's never what they started with though so don't be surprised.
"its about the will to do it", such simple words yet so difficult to incorporate
I like how proud he is @ 1:40 :D
Q: 'Why do you do this (invent things)?"
A: "Why not?"
TheDecorama we bought a zoo movie...Q: why did you buy this place ?
A: why not ? in the same movie Q: Why would a beautiful woman like you talk to a stranger like me? A: why not ?...is the most douche question don't judge from that...
TheDecorama we bought a zoo movie...Q: why did you buy this place ?
A: why not ? in the same movie Q: Why would a beautiful woman like you talk to a stranger like me? A: why not ?...is the most douche question don't judge from that...
We need more people like Raul :D
That engine is a work of art
he will do it, he will go to space in 10 years, i am sure
That was pretty hilarious. This is quality humor, people.
If Godzilla ever turns out to be real, having him accidentally step on this will be our only hope.
This is the master builder
ne-ai facut mandri, prietene
Excellent. I am really impressed, beautifully built. The joys of having decent natural
levels of dopamine and serotonin. There are drawbacks to treating low serotonin. i.e. side effects that is why it is better to have good natural levels.
Keep doing what you do!
3:41 is that an eye on the left hand floor panel?
matprlz Those are called shadows. And it barely looks like an eye. Illuminati NOT confirmed.
matprlz Illuminati 100% surely confirmed!
5howDown The video is 4:20 long.
matprlz Bill Cypher
matprlz now look for more clues..!!
A bike with a jet engine?!! Now that's riding in style! :)
Lots of comments about how the compressed air is just shifting the carbon emissions to fossil fuel or nuclear based power plants, but the energy to compress the air could easily have come from renewable resources eg. solar panels or wind turbines. Quick research about storing excess renewable energy as either compressed air or liquid oxygen brings up loads of related results, mainly current research occurring at the uni of Leeds and attempts to integrate it into the UK's national grid. So yeah, I do see this as very clever and much needed application of this relevant technology
Did you saw the engine?, it just amazing!
Truly an inspiration for future developers.
Full respect to this guy (bow)
I see my self as, not on earth - excellent
In 1980 we called these cars "air jammer road rammer." They've been around a long time.
brilliant
He's a Lego maniac.
That street was dirty, but the project is great.
It sort of runs on air and sort of doesn't. Pneumatic hybrids is nothing new. They did it on Class 6 and Class 7 trucks before where using the idea of regenerative braking (where as you are slowing down, you are trying to either recover or capture or use the energy to do something else, whether it's recharging batteries or charging/pressurising air). You have a low pressure and a high pressure accumulator and his comment about how you can "pfff" fill it up and go -- where do you think that compressed air comes from? (You'll either have a compressor that runs on electricity or a gas powered one).
So like electric vehicles, all you're doing is you're shifting the source of emissions from the "tailpipe" to a giant smokestack.
alpha754293 Yeah, but most people are too dumb to realize this. No exhaust on the vehicle? MUST BE CLEAN AND GREEN!!!
alpha754293 Well, it's still tonnes better then fossil fuels. It takes a LOT less energy to compress air then it does to extract, process and burn fossil fuels. It's all about progress. Don't diss it because it's not 100 per cent clean straight away.
BecomingfreeCOUK
But where do you think the energy to compress the air is coming from? I mean....it doesn't just come out of nowhere, you have to make it. Which means you have to spend energy to compress it. Where is that energy that you're expending coming from?
Even if you were to use PV cells, where do you think the silica for the PV cells come from? And the energy that's required to manufacture said PV cells?
Think about it. That's all I'm asking you to do.
If you really want truly clean energy, you'd have to make wind mills out of wood and paper (and even then, paper is still not all that great, but it's still better than the mining and refining processes involved in processing/manufacturing metals of all kinds).
The only downside, of course, is the low specific power output from a wood-and-paper wind mill, which now you're back to running a water mill, which of course, the hydroelectric generating capacity is also very, very low. (And you can't build a hydroelectric dam because of the total environmental impact it has and all the fossil fuels you'd burn in the process of building said hydroelectric dam.)
(I took a course in like environmental energy management when I was in community college, which, combined with the things I learned in energy systems lab and also dynamic systems 2 where you're looking at basically solving very large scale energy conservation equations and systems.)
Gasoline has a lower heating value of 43.5 mega joules per kg. (Source: cta.ornl.gov/bedb/appendix_a/Lower_and_Higher_Heating_Values_of_Gas_Liquid_and_Solid_Fuels.pdf) What's the specific energy density of compressed air (as a function of P,T)? Think about it that way as well.
I know that, but progress is better then no progress. Sure you should ask those questions, but it's not like we should say 'we're going to burn fossil fuels until it's 100 per cent green zero emissions including the manufacturing'. Progress in the right direction is always better then no progress at all. Or am I wrong?
BecomingfreeCOUK
But is it REALLY progress if all you're doing is you're shifting the emission source onto something/someone else? That's the problem that I take with some of the people that participate in this sort of a debate is because they don't do the FULL systems analysis (from cradle-to-grave) of the ENTIRE ecosystem. It has been my experience that a LOT of people aren't very good at very large scale systems integration approach when doing these kinds of analyses. In isolated incidents, sure, having a Lego car that runs on compressed air sounds great, but if the source of the energy that's compressing the air to begin with is the Chinese coal fired power plants, and given that much of the pollution problem that China is currently facing IS from said coal fired power plants -- it doesn't really help, now does it?
It's energy systems management. And I'm a huge advocate for alternative modes of transportation that's powered by something else, but as you can also tell/see, I'm not looking at the final stage (the transportation vehicle itself, since it only comprises ONE small piece of a MUCH larger puzzle), but rather than entire puzzle-as-a-whole and THEN looking at "okay, what can I do (being in automotive engineering) do make my contribution to the big picture a little bit (or a LOT) smaller?" And that's a VASTLY different question/answer because now I'm also looking for holistic synergies -- where efficiencies can be gained in many areas of the entire vehicle production and operation processes.
My current 2013 Ford Fusion Titanium Hybrid (which in the UK will be the Mondeo Hybrid) gets about 5.9 L / 100 km, real world, combined driving, and NOT the silly NEDC. On some trips, I can get 0 L / 100 km (for trips that's less than about 1.5 km) and other times, it might be a little worse (depending on outside temperature, whether I have the A/C or the heater on, etc.)
Amazing work Raul!!
By the way Jay Leno collects air cars. He might be interested in something like this.
The one answer I can't fucking stand to a "Why would you?" question is "Why not?"
Respect
everything is awesome
it is cool it's like it has a real engine with gears.
Woohoo! Epic! Good job guys
I have been gifted with the power to see where I will be in ten years
Bravo bhai baiatule........ :D Sper sa primesti finantare pentru proiecte si sa te faci remarcat.Toate cele bune amice !
how come he has only 30k views??
Powerful...
Brilliant!
this amazing guy
Awesome!
Now he needs to use his abilities to make something that can sell, so he can make big money.
Yes it is a good plan. I told my mom about it, and she said he could, but he would need lawyers, because gas companies would go bankrupt. Hopefully one day, we will be able to charge a car in 2 seconds.
AMAZING!
mind of a genius
How do they compress air though? Does it take more energy to do that? Cause then the car being air powered is pointless.
*****
.....and the energy released from the compressed air is equally minimal. For a genius surely he must realise the limitations of compressed air power. It is no more useful than using a spring to power a car.
Its true an air powered engine are the future of all engines
Bravo !!!!
keep going
awesome
bravo frate! ne faci mandri :)
4:20 blaze it
btw nice talent
Please do a interview in 4 years
Imagine forgetting what the car is made out of and stepping in barefoot.
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! 10 YEARS UNTIL LEGOS TAKE US TO SPACE! FROM THE MAN HIMSELF!
3:29, haaa Destiny
be careful, don't crash =)
Everything is awesomeeeee xD
space makes people go far
sunt roman in anglia si team vazut!!!!
420
imagine being pulled over in that
"why not?" that's the kind of answers that led technology to be where is today
"You sent me UA-cam message [...] then we had a Skype call and I never heard from you again." Leave it to a woman's rejection to drive a man into building a LEGO car that runs on freakin air.
Drags in lego cars
This guy is a fucking genius...
This is exactly how everyone acted when *Stevenson's rocket* was invented
I thought this video came out like 2 years ago
Interviewer has a nice voice xD
Why does the shape of Romania looks like that at 00:32? It misses a part.
Now i want a lego car
can it steer tho
This sounds like a snap judgement podcast for some reason.
wow
I wonder how it would do in crash testing?
***** the other driver will be critically injured by 500,000 flying lego pieces
Google should hire him.
I'm so jealous
4:20 blaze it
Video length is 4:20 #blazeit
SHOW MORE CAR.
4:20 :P
FAQ that's impressive!!!
Colin Furze, Jet bike???
4:20 lenght of video. Cannabis user.
Yo it has a V256
Lapis Gaming that engine is radial configuration there's no V to it
anyone noticed the video time? :)
He should release his blueprints and all his plans before this becomes legit and those big businessmen realise that and realise they will lose all their money and profit through oil and get him killed so we all still have to buy oil/gas, just look at all the other inventors who "vanished" who did the same.
Eco-friendly? Well, not really.
What?
ArnArmor The Lego pieces don't grow on trees.
Philip Cooper but they are very durable, and can be recycled.
Philip Cooper You realize he did it to show people there are other ways of energy rather than fossil fuels?
Philip Cooper it does not have to be legos the point here is engine dumbass....
look guys is 4:20
4:20 Blaze it
I will pay 1k for that lego engine
Never heard from this guy again!!!! smh Government shut em down like they did to the guy who created the hydro powers car.
He aint running on gas, but he's running on gas.
Elon Musk approved.
This puts the Toyota Mirai to shame.. since the mirai is fueled by bs
"if i can design build and lunch something into outer space" One problem, that's a weather balloon. It never got remotely close to outer space. "i just built a jet engine" No, You purchased a old RC turbine engine and strapped it to a bike. As for the lego car, giant waste of money. Instead of building a realistic prototype you wasted 20 grand on lego's..... Besides Air powered cars are ignored because they are extremely inefficient.
420 Boyz!
People have to be so negative . This video proves it can be done with toys no less . Toss a few engineers in the scheme and look at what Peugeot did with it . It's not fully air powered , but , air power assisted and achieving 81mpg doing so . I think the technology could also be expanded on , making it more efficient and longer lasting . I see no reason not to incorporate a compressor that is driven off the wheels .
I think it's a genius idea , and it works . I think it could eventually be utilized . This is a new technology . After all , the airplane was not a success for many years and it's still making advancements daily .
Biggest problem : We are addicted to fuel . #2 Romania has just become a threat the US national security , LMAO
It's Lego not Lego's. The plural of Lego is Lego!
It definatly isn't "lego is"
connor mcb Maybe Lego's are just very possessive?
Why is everyone so angry at him?