Learn about stainless steel arrays for making hydrogen with expert tips and advice on making hydrogen in this free video series on alternative fuels. Expert: Michael Raines Bio: Michael Raines is an expert in fabrication, engineering, and designing. Filmmaker: Louis Nathan
This is one method of making hydrogen gas out of stuff you would typically find around your home. Parts include: Aluminum foil Thick Copper Wire DC Power Supply (ie power brick, anything around 6-30V DC, up to perhaps 3 amps of current) Tub of Water (Tap water works fine) Table Salt (electrolyte) Container for the gas (ie water bottles) Zip Ties x 2 Bendy wire (for securing electrical wires) PLastic Clamps
Video Rating: 3 / 5
@bernuga The more amps you draw, the hotter the water gets.
Does the water becomes hot?
we need video number
Yep its the dude from the colony
isnt this the guy from the colony ?
wasn’t this the guy in colony???
nice job!
please number this videos !!!!!!! i can’t find the order
omg 138622 videos
That is a combination of fuel (H2) and Oxygen is very dangerous (very explosive, needs only 20 micro joule of spark to create an explosion ,Wikipedia: “oxyhydrogen”, It’s more dangerous than the caustic soda you are telling the kids to avoid earlier. My point here is: to be more safe, you need to separate the gases from a well shape electrolyser, a U-tube container. You collect H2 from one opening and O from the other opening. Ok?
@storkfmny The accepted convention is that while electrons (which have a negative change) flow from negative to positive, current flows from positive to negative. Current is defined as charge per time, and as charge can be both negative or positive, we define current to be the flow of positive charge, independent of the charge carrier (the electrons).
your the dude from the colony!!!!
Current flows from negative to positive, not what you said.
Numbers and shorter video description would help a grate deal!
but other wise looking good sofar!
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Lack of information, link to rest of videos.
@frosty1433 Got it! Here is the full epsidoe split it only 2 parts; watch?v=t5oNg3-0SOM&list=PLD28172D9785E9579&feature=plpp
Haha, season one ‘colony’ participant…. Reminds me to watch that electric bike wipeout : P
Pretty workmanship on your array. The main trouble is that it’s built for 2 volts as every plate is 1 gap away from it’s ground. This array is built for high amperage and 2 volts.
IF YOU HAD a regulated power supply that put out only 2 volts and higher amps, this array would make sense. For running on an auto’s 12 volt system, your array acts as a “short” that would produce a lot of heat and not much gas per waat of electricity.
dude, you’re making oxyhydrogen. it’s pretty damn volatile. not only that, but if you were to store it you would waste 33% of your container space with a gas you can pull out of the environment.
Have you tried aluminum? if so how did that work?
@bobsoriginal1 its expertvillage that fails, not youtube
Another random interesting video with no clue on how to find the NEXT video. Poor and chaotic layout by Utube. Not good…although the video is good. Typical bad user interface with the hated frames.
I love your video. I have been messing with hydrogen for 4 years now. Very clear cut and proffessional, two thumbs up. I started using adsense through google to help generate extra income, and it was worth it. powerzap69.
dude i was making hydrogen with lye and aluminum i got lye on my skin it is pure pain!!!!
I couldn’t watch the whole video so annoying. “um….., so…., now…… Btw I’ve never produced green stuff with my hho. why are you afraid of getting to hands wet? what is your purpose of making this hiding gas Oh and in my experence: salt.worked better for my experiments.
Use baking soda instead of salt. Proven to be much safer.
thank you and my house is now explode
@Myka138
There will be a change but water is consumed in making H2.
BUT if you use a little sulfuric acid instead of salt (along with your inert electrodes), you will *not* produce any poisonous gases. You would only get hydrogen at the negative electrode and oxygen at the positive electrode. The H2SO4 will act only as a catalyst and not take part in the reaction. You could leave the current flowing all day and all night and get hydrogen and oxygen without corrosion and without poisoning yourself.
i think i feel a little dumber now after watching this video
it’s really NOT that hard to make hydrogen. And, as for the person who said to use stainless steel electrodes, they will corrode too LOL. You need to use graphite or platinum in order for the positive electrode to not become part of the reaction. When doing this, however, clorine gas will be produced, which is poisonous
This was lame
this is more painful to watch than growing grass
make a hydrogen bomb
hydrogen is lighter then air so you can just take the bottle out and you wont loose any gas
oh Jilpana
As the gas displaces the tube, does the water in the bucket rise?
copper and aluminum will corrod the best metal to use is stainless steel
i use 2 A and 7v it fills 1 glass bottle about 3h lol
If you have a very concentrated soution of salt in water instead of oxygen you would get chloride in the positive
god your boring to watch!
@MaxikingNimero If the battery is getting hot, Internal resistance & the thermodynamic principles of battery operation come into play. Heat from the battery is not a bad thing as long as it does not reach thermal runaway for the particular battery chemistry. If it is a wet cell lead acid, like a cheap lawnmower starter battery, They work great for short Bursts of High current use. They get DAMM hot under any extended high current load.
@sacmichael12 Intelligence does not automatically = I haz iMovie
Not bad Video however. But at least it is here for peer review and that always leads to people making better videos of the whole thing. It’s funny how people in the 1900′s overcame most of the problems we face today. Yet with all the stuff around us, we find it hard to duplicate simple battery technology or even simple ways to make hydrogen that have been proven safe and simple years ago.