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  • @TheRealKaiProton
    @TheRealKaiProton Před rokem +15221

    Every time Mehdi brings out part of a microwave, it gives me visions of his wife or children, walking into the kitchen looking to warm something up, and just finding a hole where the microwave used to be.

    • @karthikeyajavangula8423
      @karthikeyajavangula8423 Před rokem +167

      🤣

    • @BIGSMOKE-bl2lq
      @BIGSMOKE-bl2lq Před rokem +765

      His wife probably has a stash of new microwaves hidden away at this point haha

    • @LordDragox412
      @LordDragox412 Před rokem +134

      Why would his wife and children want to warm a microwave up? I don't get it. /s

    • @adamcastle3410
      @adamcastle3410 Před rokem +271

      It gives me visions of his wife and children, walking into the house just to find a smoldering corpse where Mehdi used to be.

    • @ok0_0
      @ok0_0 Před rokem +36

      @@LordDragox412 what is /s I see it everywhere why do so many people say this shit

  • @Goabnb94
    @Goabnb94 Před rokem +1418

    12:50 "The key is not to touch any voltage"
    Words to live by as an electrician.

    • @leobentley7056
      @leobentley7056 Před rokem +21

      And yet you still find a way to give yourself a wake me up every now andthen. 😂

    • @matthewtalbot-paine7977
      @matthewtalbot-paine7977 Před rokem +20

      Except he doesn't follow these words either. He electrocutes himself in every video.

    • @Mr.Leeroy
      @Mr.Leeroy Před rokem +7

      HV: no need to touch, I'll just break down air.

    • @nellymargaretha2597
      @nellymargaretha2597 Před 4 měsíci

      BTW, He is not an electrician.He is an electricale engineer

    • @cancelhandles
      @cancelhandles Před měsícem +1

      ​@@matthewtalbot-paine7977He dies in every video? That's a lot of funerals.

  • @stardustjustlikeyou
    @stardustjustlikeyou Před rokem +513

    Mehdi, you are the type of person that 150 years ago would have been leading electrical discoveries. I love your passion.

    • @CoffeeKillersClub
      @CoffeeKillersClub Před 5 měsíci +18

      To be fair he is not in his 70s yet. Between the trio of SmarterEveryDay, TheActionLab, and ElectroBoom, we could end up with a revolution XD

    • @SinfullyHera
      @SinfullyHera Před 6 dny

      @@CoffeeKillersClub We've already discovered everything...until we discover something new, that is.

  • @ashley2108
    @ashley2108 Před 7 měsíci +25

    Serioulsy, if you were our science teacher we all would have passed. We may have all died, but we would have passed lol.

    • @ahmedshaltout4992
      @ahmedshaltout4992 Před 28 dny +3

      *pictures a dead skeleton in a chair holding a report card with an A+ on it*

    • @ggsap
      @ggsap Před 11 dny

      Passed away

  • @smoothmasterz
    @smoothmasterz Před rokem +2387

    Mehdi: It's important to educate your audience on real science.
    Also Mehdi: I set the water on fire...

    • @theKashConnoisseur
      @theKashConnoisseur Před rokem +230

      The only difference between doing science and goofing around is recording your results.

    • @chipredacted
      @chipredacted Před rokem +48

      @@theKashConnoisseur Beautifully said.

    • @DarknessSwordmaster
      @DarknessSwordmaster Před rokem +5

      ...on a failed suicide attempt xD

    • @g96bento
      @g96bento Před rokem +24

      Water in the fire WHY

    • @artestichniifilin2701
      @artestichniifilin2701 Před rokem +16

      it was probs the oxygen and hydrogen created with electrolysis combusting

  • @Skizz101
    @Skizz101 Před rokem +1838

    Love how the science youtube creators have 0 real beef. They all just point
    to the expert of each topic.

    • @hgbugalou
      @hgbugalou Před rokem +243

      Science is like that. The truth is the truth. It's just a matter of finding people who respect the method.

    • @samibinol
      @samibinol Před rokem +39

      @@hgbugalou facebook wants to know your location

    • @gso619
      @gso619 Před rokem

      They're here because they're passionate about what they do and because they want to educate people on their particular fields. A stark difference to all the people who are just on here to try and get famous.
      That and I'm pretty sure half of them are autistic as shit.

    • @Ready_Set_Boom
      @Ready_Set_Boom Před rokem +98

      @@hgbugalouthe only real competition between creators is who can explain the science better. Since understanding is subjective and based on the audience everyone really wins in the end since creators get paid to stay innovative and people get to learn science from many great teachers.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns Před rokem +38

      @@Ready_Set_Boom When someone gets something wrong and have to be corrected, this drives traffic between them. Which is a win for everyone involved.

  • @aeviwright7846
    @aeviwright7846 Před rokem +205

    13:29 , depending on the type of salt used (table salt = sodium chloride) you are probably making chlorine gas as a bi-product. Drake at styropyro makes it quite often in his chemistry videos.

    • @Yeshellos
      @Yeshellos Před 10 měsíci +10

      Its probably just a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Water breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen when there is electricity in the water but he could probably also have made chlorine gas as well (if anyone wants to try and break down water, be careful the hydrogen and oxygen mixture is explosive)

    • @Howtheheckarehandleswit
      @Howtheheckarehandleswit Před 10 měsíci +22

      ​@Notwhitewolf While electrolysis of relatively pure water produces basically pure H2 (hydrogen) at the cathode and basically pure O2 (oxygen) at the anode; if the water is nearly saturated with sodium chloride (the primary component of table salt), something different happens. H2 and O2 are still produced, but the O2 is mixed with Cl2 (chlorine gas) and in the water (rather than bubbling out with the gases), NaOH is produced (sodium hydroxide, commonly used as drain cleaner and in various detergents and other cleaning products).

    • @Agrajag_Guitars
      @Agrajag_Guitars Před 9 měsíci +6

      I was just thinking this - its not boiling, its electrolysing. I wonder if Mehdi could smell chlorine. Plus, the flashes might have been sodium oxidation.

    • @beans9647
      @beans9647 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Learned this one the hard way...

    • @Yeshellos
      @Yeshellos Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@beans9647 you gased yourself didn’t you

  • @captaincat1743
    @captaincat1743 Před rokem +128

    This is totally hilarious. The comedy and presentation have really gone through the roof on this channel since I last watched.
    Thanks for making me laugh, I was having a bad day until now.
    Now I'm ready to take the world on again, cheers !

    • @jerry-hj2mj
      @jerry-hj2mj Před 7 měsíci +4

      He's like a non evil version of that guy from smurfs

    • @thelightinglegend
      @thelightinglegend Před 3 měsíci +1

      He is like dr. Doofensmitch exept for the fact that he doesn't call it something with inator

  • @skarloeyexpress4353
    @skarloeyexpress4353 Před rokem +694

    I love how mehdi just says "who cares about the rail gun this is more fun" and proceeds to do something he knows is dangerous for a laugh

    • @chris_piss
      @chris_piss Před rokem +22

      Every day life threatening electronics just don't phase him anymore

    • @nathanaelcadman-neu410
      @nathanaelcadman-neu410 Před rokem +14

      Meh... It was only 30v dc

    • @benjaminoechsli1941
      @benjaminoechsli1941 Před rokem +5

      @@nathanaelcadman-neu410 Right. Far from the most dangerous thing he's played with. Let him have a bit of fun. xD

    • @sapolsaikrasun2270
      @sapolsaikrasun2270 Před rokem +2

      If I would be in his shoes, then I would do the same. It's too much fun to not do it.

    • @ron.9039
      @ron.9039 Před 24 dny

      I like how 30V DC is not dangerous anymore in this context. Also fire and health hazard from the electrolysis (H2 + O) and sparks (circuit arcs)

  • @LW0001
    @LW0001 Před rokem +2129

    I love the way he goes “I think I made a battery” as if that’s a perfectly pedestrian happenstance for him

    • @playingwithdimethylcadmium2766
      @playingwithdimethylcadmium2766 Před rokem +32

      Is it not?

    • @gnp5278
      @gnp5278 Před rokem +20

      @playing with dimethylcadmium gotta ask....what is dimethylcadmium?

    • @Liamhvet
      @Liamhvet Před rokem +36

      @@gnp5278 cadmium with 2 methyl groups attached to it

    • @MotorcycleWrites
      @MotorcycleWrites Před rokem +17

      @@Liamhvet as someone who took chemistry 1001, this checks out

    • @OldManBOMBIN
      @OldManBOMBIN Před rokem +45

      ***Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in Baghdad***
      "أعتقد أنني صنعت بطارية."

  • @henrykurish
    @henrykurish Před 7 měsíci +13

    I love at 14:15 you were pretty much just welding with the broken motor

  • @HelloThere.....
    @HelloThere..... Před 9 měsíci +14

    2:30 this is used in genetic and proteomic testing using electrophoresis gel. The protein or gene strand is put into a gel with varying degrees of density as a current runs through the fluid and pulls the materials through. Based on the length of the genetic strand it will stop moving at a certain point in the fluid because of friction and you can use this to see if your sample has a gene strand or protein that matches your control.

  • @Epsilon3141
    @Epsilon3141 Před rokem +616

    I think him accidentally making a battery is the first thing to make me laugh out loud! Always love you vids

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před rokem +58

      Making an accidental battery is more impressive than an accidental antenna.
      I accidentally made an antenna the other day, I ran a 10Mhz CPU in a breadboard without any ground connection and the loop the CPU was doing created fun interference, the clock signal of the PLL just escaped, accidental radio transmitter

    • @BirdlessFlight
      @BirdlessFlight Před rokem +1

      I doubt it was accidental. That spoon wasn't suddenly introduced accidentally ;)

    • @AlexRickabaugh
      @AlexRickabaugh Před rokem +2

      That made me laugh out loud too, hahaha. Such a good moment.

  • @willwailes9298
    @willwailes9298 Před rokem +609

    I've never been so afraid for someone else's life. Absolute mad lad. You're a legend Mehdi. You should make electric/reusable fireworks for Canada Day.

    • @earthknight60
      @earthknight60 Před rokem

      If you think he's nuts, you should check out Styropro. That guy is certifiable.

    • @pawog04youtube3
      @pawog04youtube3 Před rokem +1

      Great idea!

    • @WarttHog
      @WarttHog Před rokem +6

      I dunno, this was tame compared to czcams.com/video/4opcNLIQqt4/video.html&feature=shares.
      I almost didn't make it through that one, my stomach was so tight. Way scarier than a horror movie lol!
      Also I'm glad that @Integza has started wearing goggles occasionally at least! XD

    • @Razgar_Voxel
      @Razgar_Voxel Před rokem +4

      @@WarttHog This is the video of his that led me to his channel. czcams.com/video/TwIvUbOhcKE/video.html
      Also found out him hurting or shocking himself in his videos is sort of a running gag of his. I happened on him around the same time as PhotonicInduction (I think that is the name of the channel) but he has been having a lot of personal things and dose not upload as much anymore.

    • @b0ark1ng21
      @b0ark1ng21 Před rokem

      When I go to the pool with my friends

  • @alviorhgame
    @alviorhgame Před rokem +27

    5:31 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @migtouninvoluntario9381
    @migtouninvoluntario9381 Před rokem +8

    14:27 - Garbage ?!?! Not exactly... you can use this principle to move submarines without make any noise.. indeed, they already used that. Remember movie The Hunt for Red October ?

  • @YouCanHasAccount
    @YouCanHasAccount Před rokem +594

    I know it's a part of his schtick and he knows what he's doing but watching someone dunk a microwave transformer in water while holding it still gives me that vertigo sensation in my stomach. (even without the secondary winding)

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek Před rokem +44

      very salty water

    • @stuartcommon4651
      @stuartcommon4651 Před rokem +10

      @@Ass_of_Amalek mmmm salty

    • @ZGtx
      @ZGtx Před rokem +7

      In 6:10? I think that one is really unexpected.

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music Před rokem +32

      Yeah, a lot of times you can see it coming from a mile away, when he's holding something in a weird way, or placing his finger on a metal part (like he did when he shocked himself with the 30V DC), but he seemed genuinely worried when he was about to drop the thing in the water when he was using AC.

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek Před rokem +11

      I also like the part where he deliberately glued only a little popsicle stick to the rail as a handle, so that he almost had to dip his fingers in the water.
      btw he's clearly following a "no switches" rule in most of his videos

  • @andygardiner6526
    @andygardiner6526 Před rokem +471

    Excellent. Water *is* slightly diamagnetic so you could possibly get it to move if you used a massively powerful (probably superconducting) magnet driven by half a power station. I'm sure there's a handy one under Mehdi's desk somewhere ...

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 Před rokem +50

      It's time to disassemble the big microwave in the house

    • @ebnertra0004
      @ebnertra0004 Před rokem +21

      He probably stole the Red October from the CIA or something. That had a magneto-hydrodynamic drive in the book/movie

    • @auroraourania7161
      @auroraourania7161 Před rokem +4

      So just throw it in a particle accelerator?

    • @danilooliveira6580
      @danilooliveira6580 Před rokem +15

      I mean, scientists made a frog float with very powerful magnets, so its not impossible.

    • @DeconvertedMan
      @DeconvertedMan Před rokem +2

      ah that was the word I was trying to think of "diamagnetic" I was like "magneticphobic?" lol.

  • @gulutaalan8845
    @gulutaalan8845 Před rokem +26

    Yet another small correction: water molecules do have a magnetic dipole, too (besides the electric one) and these are, course, randomly oriented.But if you freeze the water under a strong magnetic field you'll get a weak magnet. I wrote another small correction to the light bulbs video (about halogen second glass layer, is not for aspect but for UV-cutting, the first quartz one doesn't), but I suppose is quite unlikely to find them... just in case, give back a signal, doing it just to improve your videos, which I follow.

  • @michalcz123
    @michalcz123 Před 10 měsíci +11

    6:00 Plastic pppppplate thingy.

  • @mikolaspesek
    @mikolaspesek Před rokem +790

    Salt water electrolysis produces Chlorine gas, hydrogen, oxygen and sodium hydroxide (which gets dissolved instantly) - but in quite inconsistent ammount. Also for the electrolysis to happen, you need around 1.3 Volts, at that voltage you are probably just frying the water, but I would do this outside just to be sure :)

    • @ninjacuttingonions5861
      @ninjacuttingonions5861 Před rokem +15

      Wouldn't it make HCl gas instead of Cl gas?

    • @albertochiusano96
      @albertochiusano96 Před rokem +60

      HCl doesn't like to stay in gaseous form, since you are in water Clorine from the salt can form HCl still in liquid form and then get airborne as Cl₂

    • @mernokallat645
      @mernokallat645 Před rokem +33

      You also need inert electrodes like lead dioxide, manganese dioxide, cobalt(III) oxide or platinum. Aluminum, copper and even stainless steel will react with chlorine forming chlorides in the solution, which react with sodium hydroxide forming sodium chloride and a precipitate of transition metal hydroxides.

    • @arvetemecha
      @arvetemecha Před rokem +13

      @@mernokallat645 I wanted to use the same kind of electrolysis to produce (Na+,ClO3-) but ended up with a nasty orange mixture due to the electrodes not really made of pure titanium but bad alloy. I suspect the solution contained quite a lot of bad Cr6 ions, which are carcinogenic...

    • @azzy-551
      @azzy-551 Před rokem +18

      @@arvetemecha mmmm hexavalent chromium my favourite

  • @WaveOfDestiny
    @WaveOfDestiny Před rokem +389

    3:03 still catches me off guard it's so good, you expect the shock to happen when he puts them inside the water not after the experiment has been done

  • @Solid_Jackson
    @Solid_Jackson Před rokem +24

    Just discovered this awesome channel
    Mehdi, fantastic work, you could make make paint drying entertaining
    The world needs more teachers like you

  • @drewpyeatt5231
    @drewpyeatt5231 Před rokem +2

    Your having such a good showing this, makes learning alot more fun when you learn from a MAD SCIENTIST.

  • @firstname4337
    @firstname4337 Před rokem +245

    can you imagine having this guy for your high school physics teacher -- best class ever

    • @fernando47180
      @fernando47180 Před rokem

      someone would die sooner or later, but yup, sure would be cool!

    • @hitechinc.7875
      @hitechinc.7875 Před rokem +13

      Most chaotic class yet so fun

    • @eroraf8637
      @eroraf8637 Před rokem +11

      I had an ADD pyro for that class. Mr. Moon was a fun guy!

    • @SoneNando
      @SoneNando Před rokem +11

      I imagine the school's administration complaining about him popping the breakers all the time

    • @ahyaan2552
      @ahyaan2552 Před rokem +8

      @@SoneNando they would probably have to give him a completely separate system

  • @adwitiyasharma1121
    @adwitiyasharma1121 Před rokem +416

    It's just the energy of mehdi that carries him throughout the video !! Absolutely love it 👍

    • @Genesis8934
      @Genesis8934 Před rokem +3

      The true perpetual motion machine.

    • @ThunderBlastvideo
      @ThunderBlastvideo Před rokem +3

      Energy......

    • @gubx42
      @gubx42 Před rokem

      Some energy carries through Mehdi at 12:38 too.

    • @foxrobinson818
      @foxrobinson818 Před rokem

      the dude involuntarily jump starts himself every video... n wonder he has energy...

  • @Mrsm1067
    @Mrsm1067 Před 9 měsíci +2

    This channel is perfect for learning and having a good laugh good job man

  • @dejanmilic8284
    @dejanmilic8284 Před rokem +205

    I am in the field of electrical engineering myself, working for the power distribution company in my country so i do get to watch massive sparks and loud explosions every now and then. Your videos are always a joy to watch. Been following since you were at like 800k subscribers although not really active in comments. This would be my first one. Keep up the great work!

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 Před rokem +12

      Seeing sparks and explosions in power distribution sounds exciting and also mildly concerning. ... just like Medhi lol. Also nice first comment :P

  • @homieboi5352
    @homieboi5352 Před rokem +947

    I love how he can jump between different areas of science so quickly while still being equally educational about all of it and finding ways to shock himself all in one video.
    He's clearly been doing this long enough to know how to get his audience engaged

    • @selvamd8861
      @selvamd8861 Před rokem +12

      He jumps at every electric shock. Notice carefully

    • @PotatoSofi
      @PotatoSofi Před rokem +9

      He instinctively knows how to shock himself at this point

    • @kalebross6033
      @kalebross6033 Před rokem +8

      He knows what he's doing, and that's why we love his content!

    • @RedStripeMedia
      @RedStripeMedia Před 8 měsíci +1

      Applied Science is his degree

  • @rickholzer708
    @rickholzer708 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Hi! I'm from Brazil! I got a Micro Bit from the BBC London project and I'm learning the basics of electrics and electronics by my own....your Chanel is amazing....thanks a lot for you and Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉

  • @MaterialEqualMe
    @MaterialEqualMe Před 6 měsíci +2

    1:28 It is...just a little bit.
    Even with strong magnet they move slowly

  • @Scott.E.H
    @Scott.E.H Před rokem +189

    Honestly my expectations were exceeded! Seeing it spit out the water when it was poured in was actually more than I expected.

  • @A_Casual_NPC
    @A_Casual_NPC Před rokem +156

    I love how mehdi says he hates being salty, while he is almost always salty already

    • @YoungPhysicistsClub1729
      @YoungPhysicistsClub1729 Před rokem

      @Lucifer Morningstar 🅥 you bastard

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music Před rokem +2

      Yeah, he reminds me a bit of Grover and Oscar, grouchy and inquisitive, silly but still informative.

    • @LikePhoenixFromAshes
      @LikePhoenixFromAshes Před rokem

      Brightens, with the power of the F_U_L_L B_R_I_D_G_E R_E_C_T_I_F_I_E_R!!!!1one (and microwave trafo, OFC)

  • @steeltough2744
    @steeltough2744 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Just have to say this guy is a absolute legend

  • @eclipsedtime385
    @eclipsedtime385 Před 8 měsíci

    I love how he acts like he doesn't know until the subject he talks about is shown, at which point he explains what happened/ is happening. Very good teacher, especially with the humor to help us stay engaged c:

  • @jerickho7795
    @jerickho7795 Před rokem +341

    I actually did a extended essay on magnetohydrodynamic drive and it is a propulsion device for ships (and a full scale ship has been made with it before). But of course it only works in salt water. Had a really hard time with weak school lab power supplies and lousy magnets to get readings haha

    • @josephzamora2267
      @josephzamora2267 Před rokem +9

      I just had what I thought was a great new idea to use it on a submarine or boat, but I guess not. Also, wouldn't a boat using that create chlorine, harming the ecosystem

    • @noalear
      @noalear Před rokem +17

      @@josephzamora2267 I'm pretty sure the gas thats coming off saltwater is a stoichiometric mix of hydrogen and oxygen. If you could channel the gas from anode and cathode into separate tubes and mix them at the end and light it off you could use this for additional thrust. HHO is pretty violent, so it'd probably be difficult to manage, but I'd pay to see it at boat scale. If you were to make this at boat scale and drop it in the ocean you'd need a hell of a lot of voltage. Also the cathode will eventually corrode away, leaving you stranded.

    • @EllAntares
      @EllAntares Před rokem +1

      If I'm not mistaken, magnetohydrodynamic turbine also quite complex - it's rather a coil gun than a railgun?

    • @leothecrafter4808
      @leothecrafter4808 Před rokem +4

      @@noalear Nope, if it's regular salt then what's comming off is hydrogen and chlorine. They are also energetic, much more so than regular HHO, but that mixture can combust when exposed to strong light even and is also poisonous.

    • @Perky_the_Great
      @Perky_the_Great Před rokem +1

      A fan of Clive Cussler and the Oregon Files?

  • @Fizzfaldt
    @Fizzfaldt Před rokem +25

    1:11 "So I guess I should be thanking these fakers?"
    I saw this coming but it still made my day

  • @ShubhamShubhra
    @ShubhamShubhra Před 9 měsíci

    I wish you made videos when I did EC engineering. I love the Full Bridge Rectifier.

  • @alexoja2918
    @alexoja2918 Před 11 měsíci

    Try a dimmer with your deathdapter rectifier. That's how I made an adjustable power source for my DIY light thing. Even works without a fuse!

  • @tarakyarluvsumod5143
    @tarakyarluvsumod5143 Před rokem +126

    Thank you Mehdi. I was having a stress induced stomachache and panic attack from studying, but it helped a bit to watch this video of a man shocking himself for science.

  • @jefffan9379
    @jefffan9379 Před rokem +79

    Thank you Mehdi, I have been watching your stuff on and off for almost a decade now. "I think I made a battery" put me into a laughing fit just like I remember your content doing back when I was 15.

  • @labeebfarooqi7548
    @labeebfarooqi7548 Před rokem

    I just discovered this guy yesterday and loving him already so please stay safe (I mean, safe enough to be alive)

  • @Idkaname-co9oh
    @Idkaname-co9oh Před rokem +4

    12:44😂😂 guess he’s never stuck a 9 volt to his tongue.

  • @dire284
    @dire284 Před rokem +64

    "I wonder if all these gases, coming from the water, are poisonous or not!" He says with joy.

    • @kjetiltrondsen8242
      @kjetiltrondsen8242 Před rokem +21

      And they are. He is using table salt - natrium cloride. The cloride part becomes a poisonus gas....

    • @voidseeker4394
      @voidseeker4394 Před rokem +1

      You can feel it way before it becomes dangerous.

    • @billmight5662
      @billmight5662 Před rokem

      If you make a much more powerful one that it's a water jet cutter, does it make it a venomous gas if someone sticks their hand in it?

    • @TubaHorse
      @TubaHorse Před rokem +5

      @@kjetiltrondsen8242 "Natrium chloride" 🤓 Just say sodium chloride

    • @OctyabrAprelya
      @OctyabrAprelya Před rokem +4

      @@kjetiltrondsen8242 Now that's an old school way to say sodium

  • @b127shorts
    @b127shorts Před rokem +31

    14:10 🤣🤣🤣

  • @takatominemoto7703
    @takatominemoto7703 Před 4 měsíci +1

    words cannot express how much i this guy's videos
    he's like a mad scientist bent on educating people instead of world domination

  • @martinschulz7885
    @martinschulz7885 Před rokem +8

    14:04 The moment when the child comes up in you, priceless🤣🤣🤣

  • @Roblox-Content
    @Roblox-Content Před rokem +21

    5:31 LOL THIS GOT ME LAUGHING SO HARD

  • @walkermott1750
    @walkermott1750 Před rokem

    These types of videos are good for people looking to inovate instead of just make something that already exists. I am sure someone with enough time could find a way to make this "water railgun" viable in some form

  • @TheUboni
    @TheUboni Před 8 měsíci

    I love how he seemingly has everything planned out, but every once in a while something unexpected happens like getting shocked with 30V and he just sits there confused for a minute.

  • @DerClouder
    @DerClouder Před rokem +77

    I love how Mehdi is channeling his inner scientist from victorian England testing with this new incredible thing called "electricity"🤣 I have a fear for electric outlets and messing with any electric appliances due to childhood accident involving my nightlight and a faulty extension cord, but these videos are such a treat! 😁

    • @Text_Lydia_Elise
      @Text_Lydia_Elise Před rokem

      @official_Electroboom
      👆🏽write me✍️You won something special🎁🏆

  • @soggybaguette8457
    @soggybaguette8457 Před rokem +212

    Thanks to you Mehdi, I went to Purdue University to study Electrical Engineering. I just recently completed our introductory general engineering program (which we call FYE, or First Year Engineering) last semester and now that I’m in my desired program, I’m absolutely loving it! It’s so cool to see the things I’ve learned in school correlate with your videos, and vice versa. Thanks for inspiring me, Mehdi!

    • @bagochips1208
      @bagochips1208 Před rokem +8

      boiler up

    • @pranavghantasala6808
      @pranavghantasala6808 Před rokem +5

      Ayy, Boiler Up!

    • @Steven-bd1fv
      @Steven-bd1fv Před rokem +4

      Purdue sent me a deferral for EA when I applied last year (class of 22) but Cornell accepted me. Go Big Red! nah who am I kidding this place is fucking depressing

    • @jz4774
      @jz4774 Před rokem +2

      bro has to take ece 2k1 💀

    • @Steven-bd1fv
      @Steven-bd1fv Před rokem +2

      @@jz4774 nahhhhh I decided to do CS instead. It won't really matter for me since im planning on getting an MBA after anyway to make more money on the business side of things and cus I dont really see myself coding my entire life.

  • @vwlz8637
    @vwlz8637 Před rokem +1

    Breaker: pops to save his life
    Mehdi: *sighs in annoyance*

  • @FURIAfdx
    @FURIAfdx Před rokem

    educational and fun! keep it up mah man! I wanna see the day u supparce the "making a pencil fired from inside"

  • @klitibehluli9976
    @klitibehluli9976 Před 9 měsíci +1

    5:06 RIP electronic danger noodle 😂

  • @husseinhasan8296
    @husseinhasan8296 Před rokem +21

    13:40 I think I will have a hard time sleeping tonight...

  • @rishvarma
    @rishvarma Před rokem +178

    You always brighten our day, Mehdi!

  • @eliasoviedo539
    @eliasoviedo539 Před 11 měsíci +1

    There's been a while since i don't check on your channel. Your hair became white but your experiments still amazes me. Back in the day I was in high school and I used to watch your videos with my father and he would explain me what you were talking about. I just wanted to thank you for such good and funny content. I work as an electrician and I attempt to graduate as an electrician engineer here in Argentina. So thank you so much 🤝

  • @matty101yttam
    @matty101yttam Před 6 měsíci

    Seems like a part of the problem is water flow at the start, only the areas by the magnets generate water current so the starting area is at a deficit of water compared to the end.
    If there was some way to widen the inflow area to be bigger than the outflow area it should give the water more pressure i would think.

  • @Yastro
    @Yastro Před rokem +22

    3:02
    Holy Fudge! I almost had a heart attack...

  • @jordonAh
    @jordonAh Před rokem +24

    @14:17 luigi came out

  • @christopherkerr2254
    @christopherkerr2254 Před rokem

    Awesome after 12 plus hours a day man thank u for all your videos

  • @johhau4
    @johhau4 Před 5 měsíci

    thanks for the video, you are one of my favorite youtubers. there is so much idiotic stuff on youtube it makes my head spin, but watching your videos is like fun therapy for me

  • @ehsantagman
    @ehsantagman Před rokem +41

    I'm not an electrician and I really don't understand many terms you use and even explain but I usually watch through your whole videos like this one. Good job.

    • @skip485
      @skip485 Před rokem

      Most electricians probably don't know most of what he's talking about either. It's more electrical engineer than electrician

  • @Ass_of_Amalek
    @Ass_of_Amalek Před rokem +16

    5:00 one of the scariest electroboom scenes in my opinion 0_O

  • @eblman5218
    @eblman5218 Před měsícem

    Dude legit almost shocked himself to death at least 5x
    I think he should go talk to an electrical engineer before he unalives himself.

  • @Axolotl_Ethy
    @Axolotl_Ethy Před 9 měsíci +8

    Is no one going to talk about on the thumbnail? It said click bait.

  • @randolphtwells1360
    @randolphtwells1360 Před rokem +25

    6:06; Please don't try this at home if you are a professional and educated engineer that deals with electricity. Also, Mehdi, don't hold the microwave transformer on one hand to test it by plugging it on; otherwise, the plates that open sideways, and it explodes.

  • @MinequestLeon
    @MinequestLeon Před rokem +12

    "I don't know whether these gasses are poisonous or not"
    Does nothing to prevent him from breathing them.
    True engineer

    • @DonkenAndToivolaRR
      @DonkenAndToivolaRR Před rokem +2

      Knowing that water molecules are split into hydrogen and oxygen by the electric current takes away a lot of fear of poisoning (and brings up other ideas which are involving playing with fire). Only danger present is the salt which can produce some small amount of chlorine gas. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you don't run this experiment for hours and stick your nose close to the gas bubbles.

    • @mernokallat645
      @mernokallat645 Před rokem

      @@DonkenAndToivolaRR Chlorine will form more easily than oxygen but you can smell it before the amount reaches poisonous levels.

    • @voidseeker4394
      @voidseeker4394 Před rokem

      @@DonkenAndToivolaRR yeah, you can't die or have irreversible injuries from slow chlorine buildup. You will run away crying long before it reaches dangerous concentration. The only situation where you can get seriously injured or die from chlorine is when you're instantly exposed to high concentration of it and you have nowhere to run. Then you'll cough your lungs out. Literally.

  • @sethseth8417
    @sethseth8417 Před rokem +4

    Rest in peace cabal 5:08 😢😮❤

  • @zackorymoore7642
    @zackorymoore7642 Před rokem

    Bro I used to love ur old vids I’m glad ur still making vids

  • @letsdosomething6691
    @letsdosomething6691 Před rokem +29

    Mehdi just casually reinventing top secret submarine technology lol. He basically built a form of caterpillar drive. Super cool.

    • @Kenniedy
      @Kenniedy Před rokem +4

      if mehdi goes missing we know why

  • @macrismariano4010
    @macrismariano4010 Před rokem +66

    Mehdi is the sole reason i got into studying electronics
    Been watching him since 2018

    • @agentburningbutters3655
      @agentburningbutters3655 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Props to him, your going to be a cool dude!

    • @MrFroggster
      @MrFroggster Před 8 měsíci +2

      Because you dont want to explode or burn your house, right? 😅

  • @user-lv7ph7hs7l
    @user-lv7ph7hs7l Před 11 měsíci

    You built a "Whisper drive" from the Red October :) Though in the book it's just a pump jet but the movie it's exactly this. Wouldn't work of course, the Red October would probably top out at 10 knots or so. Still pretty good but it's super inefficient, you could just drive a prop at low rpm, get way better efficiency and it won't make too much noise. Besides a magneto hydrodynamic drive could be noisy too. The quietest submarine ever built used a stirling engine and a comventional propeller. Swedish boat. Sank a US carrier in a war game. Carrier never saw it. A simulated torpedo just appeared out of nowhere and the Swedes surfaced grinning like idiots.
    It's the reactor itself in a nuke boat that's nousy too. High pressure steam, turbines etc... lots of vibrations and noisy vs a stirling engine moubted on rubber feet. That boat was about 1/4 sound dampening material.

  • @jackkauffman9417
    @jackkauffman9417 Před 2 měsíci

    Love the concept! It seems like it's just electrolysis with extra steps. Still cool though, I wonder how big you could step it up?

  • @flyback_driver
    @flyback_driver Před rokem +17

    Tech Ingredients did a wonderful video explaining this.
    Also, you should consider getting a foot pedal for turning on some of your projects. Like a momentary switch from a tig welder so you can have your hands free. When you were holding that mot over the saline solution with the cord in the other hand I was really worried about you buddy.

    • @jamesphillips2285
      @jamesphillips2285 Před rokem +3

      Never sure how much is a bit showing you "what NOT to do" and how much is real carelessness.

    • @BobWidlefish
      @BobWidlefish Před rokem

      @@jamesphillips2285exactly.

  • @leogreck9984
    @leogreck9984 Před rokem +8

    11:15 you know you are pushing things when the damn water starts burning XD

  • @user-lt7ve7fd6o
    @user-lt7ve7fd6o Před 7 měsíci

    I am at the edge of my seat watching your experiments

  • @davep8366
    @davep8366 Před rokem

    I love your videos... Not sure if I am more entertained or educated by them ;)

  • @apathtrampledbydeer8446
    @apathtrampledbydeer8446 Před rokem +75

    It's people like this that give me hope for the future, yet I get slight anxiety everitime Mehdi releases a new video. Electricity is no toy, but he sure knows what he is doing.

    • @wade4501
      @wade4501 Před rokem +7

      If I'm not mistaken he has a master's degree in electrical engineering... he definitely knows what he's doing :)

    • @azarshadakumuktir4551
      @azarshadakumuktir4551 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@wade4501 Yeah, I don't remember well but I think he even passed it a second time in the UK to find work.

  • @iholland
    @iholland Před rokem +97

    Thanks for a great video as usual! This doesn't need a fancy name - it's a simple example of the right-hand rule (the Lorentz force F= qv x B associated with a charge moving in a magnetic field producing a force as the cross product of those 2 vectors). As -ve ions move towards the +ve plate they will experience a force along the channel. The +ve ions move in the other direction across the channel, but because they are of opposite sign, the effective current is in the same direction and so they also experience a force in the same direction along the channel and so the entire body of water is pushed along the channel. Yes the gases are poisonous (chlorine if you used table salt) - far safer to use sodium bicarbonate to make it conductive, but when has danger ever stopped you from experimenting! 🙂 A cool thing I created back in high school, along the lines of what was shown in the debunked video, was to make the water spin - put the water in a petri dish and line the interior wall with foil, place a magnet under the dish and another with the opposite pole above the dish, suspend a pin from the top magnet that dips into the the center of the water, run a radial current from the foil to the pin (via a connection to the top magnet) and viola, you've got a model cyclotron. 🙂 Cheers.

    • @EllAntares
      @EllAntares Před rokem +4

      Yeah fancy names are just historical. Railgun - the simplest and earliest example of Lorentz force use by someone who tried to conceive an electricity-powered gun. Originally it's what engineers call "linear motor" and concept of railgun was introduced in 1910s. Gauss gun or coil gun - uses same rule but force is created by inducted currents. This "water railgun" was originally conceived in early 80s and quickly replaced by "water coilgun" - a.k.a. electrohydrodynamic turbine.

    • @bluefates58
      @bluefates58 Před rokem

      I am learning about the right hand rule in college right now and was wondering if you could explain it to me, I know your thumb faces the same direction as the current but what does your pointer and middle finger represent and how do you know what direction they go in?

    • @iholland
      @iholland Před rokem +1

      @@bluefates58 Plenty of videos online covering this. Most use 2 fingers and your thumb but I prefer using the fingers of the hand to represent the magnetic field lines and their direction and the palm or bent 2nd finger to indicate the push - e.g. czcams.com/video/47uESIjJSTg/video.html - be careful with exams as they almost always give problems that make it easy to use your left hand by mistake.

  • @shigaraja
    @shigaraja Před 8 měsíci +1

    i know that this is what he does... but i am convinced that Death is just over his shoulder saying " you have a lot of nerve being alive!"

    • @absurdengineering
      @absurdengineering Před měsícem

      "YOU HAVE A LOT OF NERVE BEING ALIVE!" Death always speaks in capital letters. Always.

  • @edwardelric9649
    @edwardelric9649 Před měsícem

    I just discovered this guy while watching some old linus tech tips videos. It just freaksme out whenever sparks and shortcircuits occurs, I even stand away from the display😁, but is entertaining, fun and educational so fine by me. Just be careful.

  • @aspjake123
    @aspjake123 Před rokem +9

    @ 13:35 EB just revealed the caterpillar drive technology

  • @zardoxop9427
    @zardoxop9427 Před rokem +17

    13:58 elctrolysis (h2 and cl2gass + naoh in solution)

    • @n-steam
      @n-steam Před rokem +5

      Where did the Chlorine go

    • @idrawfox8032
      @idrawfox8032 Před rokem +5

      @@n-steam into his lungs ahahah

  • @Varggoth
    @Varggoth Před 20 dny

    Man, I love your videos! They're fun and informative at the same time! But doesn't getting constantly hit with electricity affect your health? I remember times of working in a repair service and there were two guys. They mainly fixed photocameras. And they mainly were always forgetting to discharge the capasitor of the light flash. And they both got something like arrhythmia if I remember correctly

  • @Mr.Engine993
    @Mr.Engine993 Před 10 měsíci +9

    Electroboom is the absolute madman that tries all the dangerous things we've thought of but weren't crazy enough to actually do. Stuff explodes right in his face, he's like "yeah it's fine I'm still not going to wear any safety equipment lol" and I love that attitude (ok but seriously I think you should get eye protection at least)

  • @Lampe2020
    @Lampe2020 Před rokem +11

    7:05 "Aaaand the resistance of the salt water is... like... What? Minus two megaohms?"
    If I had a resistor with minus two megaohms of resistance I could put it in a low-power circuit to bump it up XD

  • @umakemerandy3669
    @umakemerandy3669 Před rokem +9

    10:37 made me jump. My high power subwoofer slammed in my car. Tons of bass! 100 amp of bass, 1000 watts of bass, 10000 smiles. Well, closer to 75 amps really.

  • @aaronmarko
    @aaronmarko Před 8 měsíci

    Gotta give a shout out to this man who's spent the past decade shocking himself to explain things about electricity that I will never have a hope to understand

  • @SamsonKing9
    @SamsonKing9 Před 8 měsíci

    Maybe think of it this way. There's a one-way valve in the pipe which obviously is magnetic, it moves up and down while taking water with it..

  • @Dr_Doctor_Lee
    @Dr_Doctor_Lee Před rokem +40

    congrats. you managed to set water on fire.
    this was a great video as always.absolutely love them.
    stay safe ^-^

  • @jonathanouyang
    @jonathanouyang Před rokem +9

    13:31 yeah actually at high salt concentrations there's enough chlorine anion that it overtakes oxygen production so you get pure chlorine gas and hydrogen gas, as well as sodium hydroxide in the water. Concentration is probably way too small to cause harm here but it's an industrial process to produce hydroxide and chlroine iirc (chloralkai or smth)

  • @chamikayatawara
    @chamikayatawara Před 8 měsíci +1

    Sometimes this guy scares the hell out of me more than horror movies😂

  • @arendellecitizen208
    @arendellecitizen208 Před rokem

    Watching ElectroBOOM putting himself and his equipment into dangerous situations again and again is not unlike watching a horror movie.

  • @multibusa
    @multibusa Před rokem

    Dude I have just found your channel. I wish to make a complaint as watching these videos has made me laugh so much that I hurt myself. After watching your fail compilations I have come to the conclusion you are clearly immortal as any normal person would be dead by now. Total respect.

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus42 Před rokem +12

    I keep thinking of the caterpillar drive in "Search for Red October".
    If a nuclear powered sub used huge magnets then the flow of the salt water would cool everything keeping the magnets below their Curie temperature
    It'd have to use batteries as a generator would be too loud.
    You'd only need a couple of knots to make a totally silent drive worthwhile.

    • @pascalabenius2018
      @pascalabenius2018 Před rokem +1

      That it's actually a thing in real life, but it's very inefficient.

    • @allmycircuits8850
      @allmycircuits8850 Před rokem +1

      With superconducting magnets it's feasible though still impractical. Also chlorine bubbles would be well detectable. In theory if strong running magnetic field was generated making kind of induction motor with water as its rotor, it wouldn't have any electrolysis and bubbles of gas. But I'm not sure it's possible. Usually superconducting magnets generate static magnetic field...

    • @andreasu.3546
      @andreasu.3546 Před rokem +1

      @@allmycircuits8850 Chlorine gas production apparently can be controlled with a catalyst from Iridium oxide and Manganese oxide. Wonder if efficiency could be boosted by collecting the hyrdogen gas and feeding it into a fuel cell.

    • @antisoda
      @antisoda Před rokem +1

      Glad to see there are several commenters here with good taste in movies. :) BTW: It's The _Hunt_ for Red October, just to be pedantic. ;) Released in 1990, it was based on the 1984 novel by Tom Clancy, directed by John McTiernan and starred Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, and Sam Neill. Thanks for coming to my I-just-recapped-the-Wikipedia-article TED talk. :) That movie still holds up today, I think.

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 Před rokem +1

      @@antisoda I thought it looked wrong when I wrote it! Thank you. It was long time ago that I watched it. I'll have to watch it again... 🚗🐛

  • @Devtrek
    @Devtrek Před rokem +10

    As I understand it one of the major problems with the rail guns in military development is the arcing that happens at the end of the barrel when the projectile is breaking contact. I think I saw a little of that effect going on in the water railgun!

  • @libertytreerevo
    @libertytreerevo Před 5 měsíci +1

    Electrolysis! That's the burning/boiling!

  • @wariotube
    @wariotube Před 26 dny

    13:35 "what an incredible flow"