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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know from House Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry over there this

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Speaker 1: stuff you should know? What was that? That was? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know a little extra something on top.

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Speaker 1: I guess little hot sauce. Yeah to Lula. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: we just got back from our wonderful tour of the

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Speaker 1: United Kingdom in Ireland and it could not have gone better.

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Speaker 1: And you may be hearing more about this in the future,

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Speaker 1: or we may never speak of it again. That's true too.

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Speaker 1: Oh before we go though, um, before we go, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're still we're just starting out. Before we get started. Um,

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Speaker 1: I started my own little personal Chuck Charles W. Chuck

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Speaker 1: Bryant Facebook page as a public figure. Yeah, I've got

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Speaker 1: one of those two you do. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's largely neglected. I should probably pay attention to it.

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Speaker 1: Huh So basically, you say, I have a haunted ghost

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Speaker 1: house that I feel free to walk by it right now,

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Speaker 1: and my house is populated by me, and uh go

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Speaker 1: like the page and I'm gonna be sharing a little

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Speaker 1: more personal stuff like my opinion on things and sharing music.

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Speaker 1: I like photos of your bare knees, photos of my knees,

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Speaker 1: photos of my animals, just a little more stuff like

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Speaker 1: that because I get yelled at now when I do

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Speaker 1: anything semi personal stuff. You should know page. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think I'll go and have in mind too. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: if you want a piece of me as gross as

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Speaker 1: that sound, look for Charles W. Chuck Bryan on Facebook

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Speaker 1: and uh, it's gonna be a party, it is. That's

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Speaker 1: the logo. Um, I do I neglect my Facebook page,

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Speaker 1: but I am fairly active on Twitter. Twitter thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a Josh underscore, um underscore Clark, of course it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that. I do the same thing on that though.

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Speaker 1: It's like I'm a little more opinionated and share more

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Speaker 1: personal stuff. We're a lot of real human beings exactly.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to be brand ambassadors. We can take

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Speaker 1: our sashes off, all right. So that's all for announcements

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Speaker 1: for me. So, Chuck, have you ever encountered water? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So you know that there's three states of matter, and

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Speaker 1: water is a great demo of these different states, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I encounter every morning when I washed my horse. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well you should share pictures of you washing your horse

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Speaker 1: on your Facebook page. Um, what's your horse's name? Uh

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Speaker 1: ganho ganev nice man. There's just a few hundred people

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Speaker 1: who know what you're talking about. Um. So when you're

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Speaker 1: washing gancho and that nice water is like coming down

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Speaker 1: all over his horsey body, it is in its liquid state, right,

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Speaker 1: And when it's in its liquid liquid state, it's density

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Speaker 1: more dense in its solid state. E g. Ice r

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Speaker 1: it up and turn it into steam, it would turn

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Speaker 1: into water vapor, right, yes, Then then it's in its

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Speaker 1: It's correct. So if you put that water in a

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Speaker 1: space and you froze it, it would shrink inside the space.

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Speaker 1: If you expanded it into water vapor, it would take

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Speaker 1: up more space. And as it takes up more and

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Speaker 1: more space, it's pressure increases. That's right. And if you

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Speaker 1: to harness that pressure. My friend, you would have harnessed

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Speaker 1: what's called steam power. That's right, and that is the

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Speaker 1: show for today. And uh Robert Lamb of Stuff to

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Speaker 1: Blow your mind wrote this one how steam technology works

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Speaker 1: on our website How stuff Works. It's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Robert can write a fine article that guy. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: let's go back in time a little in the old

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Speaker 1: way back machine steam powered one. Uh yeah, today it is.

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Speaker 1: Uh so it might take a little longer to get

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Speaker 1: these coal fires burning and sound different. But Jerry, it's

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Speaker 1: hard at work over their shoveling coal throwing the levers.

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Speaker 1: So let's go back. Uh we're gonna need a lot

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Speaker 1: of cold Jerry, because we're going back all the way

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Speaker 1: to a D seventy five shovel faster Jerry, how out

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Speaker 1: a true hero named Hero, the Great mathematician Hero. He

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Speaker 1: back to roosts at the right. It left for a

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Speaker 1: Clash of the Titans. Remember that little robot steam bird

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Speaker 1: thing that emerged from researching this, Chuck, is that, like

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Speaker 1: steam to make the piston go down. Double acting engine.

425
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: Pretty neat. Yeah, that was Those were enormous, enormous changes.

426
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: Again that laid a bunch of groundwork, Like they kicked

427
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: the thing forward and said, hey, twenty years from now,

428
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: get your inventors together, because we just came up with

429
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: some new ideas that you guys need to go build

430
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: better metal to contain it with. And don't forget about us. Yeah,

431
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: James Watt and I'm the other guy exactly. So what

432
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: this is what would set the table for the beginnings

433
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: of the industrial revolution which began in the textile industry.

434
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: Uh and and wolves specifically, for many many years had

435
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: been process by hand. Then they eventually took it down

436
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: by the river and had a water mill that would

437
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: that would you had a van by the river and

438
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: this water mill would would you know? You've all seen

439
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: how those work if you've been to any think still

440
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: Mountain Park here still has one pretty neat basically just

441
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: using hydro well les but say hydro electric, but hydro

442
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: power to spin a wheel. And they figured out, hey,

443
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: why don't we steam instead? And Bolton and Watts engine

444
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: works really well and people are using it like crazy.

445
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: But they were so early in the game. They had

446
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: all these patents that sort of made it hard, Like

447
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: these mines were going broke paying money on these patents

448
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: to to use this technology. What are they called royalties.

449
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: And so this other dude comes along, a guy named

450
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: Richard Trevorth Thick from Cornwall in England, I think it's

451
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 1: southwest south what yeah, known for their game hens and

452
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: they're supposed to have a great witchcraft museum there. I've

453
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: always wanted to go to but still have not been

454
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: able to make it. So they're known for game hens,

455
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: the Cornish engine which we're talking about, and a witchcraft museum.

456
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: Yeah not bad. No, that's not bad at all. Uh

457
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: and corn Yeah corn. So he was living in Cornwall

458
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: and he saw what was going on with all these miners.

459
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: He said, you know what I'm gonna do. Screw those

460
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: guys in their patents. I'm gonna just think of brand

461
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: new technology. That's better that you don't have to pay

462
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: royalties on their patents on patent. He had a real

463
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: bad attitude. Yeah, but he was smart. He was he

464
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: actually was super smart. This guy may have pushed them

465
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: further ahead than even Watt. And I've never heard of

466
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: the guy before you. No, I have the impressiment. He's

467
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: a national hero in England probably so um. But he uh,

468
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: he had some he he had the great fortune of

469
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 1: having some much more improved materials available to him. So

470
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: for a long time people had said, like, man, if

471
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: we could just get these containing vessels to hold really

472
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: high pressure, we could do amazing stuff with this. Yeah,

473
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: the new pressure is what drove the pistons. So the

474
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: more pressure the better, right, yeah, I mean if you could,

475
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: if you can, like you also, not only the more

476
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: pressure the better, the less um initial input you would

477
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: have to put in with energy would be more energy efficient, right,

478
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: you could just get right, So try to think. Um

479
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: had the advantage of having really good, better materials available

480
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: to him to make this stuff. So he um created

481
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: this Cornish engine, and the Cornish engine used higher pressure.

482
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: But not only that, it was a compounding engine, meaning

483
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: that UM it had it used the steam in more

484
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: than one way. Right, So rather than like one piston,

485
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: He's like, why not have four pistons and one piston

486
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: is fired and then some steam from that piston escapes

487
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: and fires another pistons, another and another, and all of

488
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: a sudden you're doing four times the work. I'm from Cornwall.

489
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: It was amazing, and he was. There was an American

490
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: and men her name Oliver Evans, who was kind of

491
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: doing similar things in the United States, and then a

492
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: guy named Arthur wolf I'm sorry, Arthur Wolfe was the

493
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: when it came up with a compounding Oh right, yeah, yeah, Travis.

494
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: His main contribution was basically just making a more rock solid, cheaper, lighter,

495
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: more efficient engine that used high pressure Yeah, it's a wolf.

496
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: Have you O O l F Virginia Woolf not wolf?

497
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: Well wolf, It just seems funny looking. Uh. He was

498
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: a brewery engineer. He made beer, and he's the one

499
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: that said, yeah, why don't we get all these pistons going,

500
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: pistons firing more pistons, pistons everywhere? It just made total sense.

501
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: Should we take a break? Yes? All right? They got

502
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: steam coming out of everywhere, steam engines, they're working there,

503
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: they're turning pistons and so all of this eventually would

504
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: lead to used to move things and people around. People like,

505
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of walking my legs for so bad?

506
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: Can you take the steam technology and like make a

507
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: steam powered car? And apparently people have been working on

508
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: it for a while. There's some debate over who created

509
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: the first steam powered vehicle, And supposedly there's a guy

510
00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: named Ferdinand Verbist who's the verby Ist fir to end

511
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: he supposedly created a steam car in sixteen seventy two,

512
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: but I guess that's up for debate. Um, there's a

513
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: lot of like you could draw a schematic of something,

514
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily mean you actually created it. I

515
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: think is the issue, Like we we have no idea

516
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: what was actually on the other side of a newcomb

517
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: in um steam engine. We just because none of the

518
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: diagrams ever mentioned it. It's all about the steam engine itself.

519
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: They don't talk about like the pumps, so we don't

520
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: really know what kind of pumps they were using. That

521
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So if we go back, we can't

522
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: say for certain that this guy did it. It's possible,

523
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: but I think widely the guy named Nicolau Joseph Kuno,

524
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: who is a friend inventor, obviously created a steam powered

525
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: vehicle in seventeen sixty nine. But steam powered cars they

526
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: went virtually nowhere. That's like when I've been at the snowboard,

527
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: I thought, because evidence by my crayon drawing the skiboard,

528
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: and then we heard from people who said, sorry, the

529
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: snowboarders actually before that even so whatever, But like you said,

530
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: I created that in a vacuum, a vacuum created by

531
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: condensing water vapors. So as far as I'm concerned, I

532
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: did in the snowboard. Sure, yeah, you're tapped into the zeitgeist.

533
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: People wanted to go really fast on a skateboard down

534
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: a mountain while it was snow covered, and you just

535
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: wanted to deliver on that. In six year old Chuck

536
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: and Stone Mountain, Georgia, it was I was so keyte

537
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: to see a water wheel, right, I'd seen my first

538
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: ski movie, which one Now I was just kidding, but

539
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: those were big back then. Sure remember Better Off Dead? Yeah,

540
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: sure that was a ski movie of sorts. Yeah, part

541
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: that was. Someone said something funny on Twitter today about

542
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, some politician, he said,

543
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: reminds him of an eighties ski movie villain. It was

544
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: really good because every ski movie the eighties had a

545
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: bad guy. Oh yeah, it was always the developer looking

546
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: to build condos at the ski resort. Exactly. All right,

547
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: So you're right, the car is one thing, but what

548
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: if we could make something larger? Uh? Treviorthik actually was

549
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: kind of key in this, and he said, you know what,

550
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: we've got these things they whether, they don't call them

551
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: railroad tracks yet, they just called them rails on the ground.

552
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, and you hook a donkey up to a cart. Yeah,

553
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: and it's to help. It's really to help the donkey, sure,

554
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: because they're so stupid they can't walk in a straight line. Really.

555
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: But but if they're pulling a cart on rails that

556
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: have already been laid out on the path they're supposed

557
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: to follow, they're fine. Just give him a couple of

558
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: carrots and maybe a nice scratch behind the ear and

559
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: they're okay. Yeah, they were called tramways officially. I was

560
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: just kidding. So Trevior think is like, hey, let's let's

561
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: put something steam powered on these tracks. Brilliant, and he

562
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: tried it. He actually came up with something UM called

563
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: Trevor Thicks portable steam engine, which he called the Puffing Devil.

564
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: That was his name for it, and uh, it worked.

565
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: He did a demonstration where it hauled ten tons of

566
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: iron for ten miles. You know how huge that is

567
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: at the time. Sure, yeah, amazing because everything, everything up

568
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: to that point had been hauled by donkeys horse power, Yeah,

569
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: literal horse power. Right, um yeah, obviously not just donkeys.

570
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: There were horses too, but everything was very much localized.

571
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: And I don't think we've said it yet, but steam

572
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: power was the um the literal engine for the industrial revolution.

573
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: This is where it all started, you know. And the

574
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: way that it started was you could suddenly take timber

575
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: in this area and move it over to this area

576
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: hundreds of miles away. The coal in this area to

577
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: power these steam engines over here changed the course of history.

578
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: It did water turning into water vapor and containing that.

579
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: It's amazing and it's it's started it in England. Yeah,

580
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: it's just pretty neat. You're pandering. No, it's true, the

581
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: like over here in America. We're like, yeah, the Industrial

582
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: Revolution really picked up in the nineteenth century with America.

583
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: But I mean it's it's roots are definitely further back. Yeah,

584
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: this is in uh what eighteen o four? I think

585
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: I learned that England cannot be flattered, right, flattery, don't

586
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: pander to us? All right, so it's eighteen o eight,

587
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: you've got what do you call it? The the Industrial Revolution? No,

588
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,720
Speaker 1: the Devil's puffer, the puffer devil, the puffing devil, puffing devil,

589
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: like the Devil's puffer. Sure that is, uh miner's friend.

590
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: You got those got a party? Uh so this is

591
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: a portable steam engine. He takes it to London, Central London,

592
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: puts it on a circular track and everyone goes blind, me,

593
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: what is that it is of the devil? It's a

594
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: puffing devil. Yeah, and it's amazing. Uh And that was

595
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: an engineer there named George Stevenson and a couple of

596
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: decades after Treviorthick, he said, you know what, I'm gonna

597
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: take that and I'm gonna like everyone else before, saying

598
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it better, more efficient, And all of

599
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: a sudden things got so good. They actually opened up

600
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: what I think is the first town to town railroad

601
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: line between because they're trying to move coal from Durham

602
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: to Stockton at a shipping port and it works so well,

603
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: they said, all right, let's do this. Let's let's put

604
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: in the infrastructure, build what this guy is calling a

605
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: locomotive track, and that was I think the very first

606
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: operating locomotive track rail line and it didn't just carry cargo,

607
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 1: it carried six hundred passengers. Yeah. Yeah, so why don't

608
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: we put people on that thing? And they're like, is

609
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: this safe? And he's like, no, not at all, But

610
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: I really have a lot to prove. So just pick

611
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: six criminals who cares, Yeah, don't sit near the boiler

612
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: and you'll be fine. Yeah. Uh So in the meantime,

613
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: there's people are still tinkering around with the steam car

614
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: that didn't go away, but it never took off. No,

615
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: and um, the steam locomotive was just this beautiful design

616
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: to think about it. So let's go back to all

617
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: the steam engines we talked about. It's um, steam moving

618
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: a piston back and forth, back and forth, right or

619
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: up and down, of course, sure, but in this case

620
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: it's going um, it's moving horizontally. The piston is and

621
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: the piston is attached to a bar that's attached to

622
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: a wheel, and if you want to get kind of fancy,

623
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: you can attach several wheels to this bar. And as

624
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: the pistons moving back and forth, this bar is actually

625
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: making an a lipse and as far as the wheels

626
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: are concerned, they're making circles. And you're moving forward as

627
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: this is happening. And again, go to animated Engines dot

628
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: com and look up a steam locomotive and it's just

629
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: amazing and it's design like these people really just got

630
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: in there and roll up their shirt sleeves and they

631
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: had like cold dust down their faces and really they

632
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: were doing like some real engineering. Oh yeah, I'm just

633
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: so impressed with the guys who who made this stuff.

634
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Speaker 1: It was amazing. You know there, of course, there's no surprise.

635
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: But there are I don't know what they call themselves,

636
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: but there are big time train officionados that go and

637
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: just watch trains, trainoids. They might be called train watchers,

638
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: even train spotters. No, are you sure? I don't think so, probably,

639
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: but they trainees. I can't remember where I came across it,

640
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: but it was in another podcast I was researching and

641
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: found this whole subculture of people that that find these

642
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: old you know us. I mean they watch all kinds

643
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: of trains, but mainly they what really like get them going,

644
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: We really get some out of in the morning. It

645
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: really gets there's their miner's friend up. Yeah, it's the

646
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: promise stuff, the promise of an old fashioned steam locomotive

647
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: that's going through town because they still have them. You know,

648
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's pretty cool. I mean, I get white

649
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: people do it. It's sort of like birding, you know.

650
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: It's a very solitary kind of quiet thing. Yeah, and

651
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: then that train rumbles by, and I mean, like I

652
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: I understand, I've never been into trains or whatever. I'm

653
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: more just I think the steam engine on a steam

654
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: locomotive is amazing. Yeah, and you like to take trains. Sure,

655
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: we took a train from Manchester to Edinburgh. Lovely. It

656
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: was a really nice ride to the English countryside. In

657
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: Scottish I couldn't tell the difference. I could. I was like, yeah,

658
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: we're in Scotland now I know, all right. So the

659
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: steam engine is chugging along. Um Stephen, they called it

660
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: so so cool. He was a conductor on locomotion number one.

661
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: That one was six center passengers. Yeah, it's just so

662
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: cool that they named it like locomotion number one. This

663
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: is the very first time they've been done. They were

664
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: very prescient. Just so cool. It's like the first plane

665
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: flight or something. We need to do one on the right, brothers, Okay,

666
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,959
Speaker 1: I'm happy to do that there from Ohio. No. Sorry, ever,

667
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: would't even say their name, So Chuck the steam locomotive is.

668
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: It was pretty much an out of the gate hit.

669
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: Some poor people were still working on the steam powered car.

670
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: But in the meantime other people are like, what about

671
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: steam boats, let's come up with something like that, and um,

672
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: some people have been kicking around the idea for that

673
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: as well. And apparently it followed pretty closely the evolution

674
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: of the steam locomotive too. Um, just people building on

675
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: ideas and people coming with proof of concepts. And it

676
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: was an American guy named Rob Fulton who created the

677
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: first steam powered paddle wheeled boat that showed that it

678
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 1: was actually capable of moving up and down rivers. Yeah,

679
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: and that there was There was a guy in England

680
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: and about forty years earlier named Jonathan Hall who had

681
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: the first steam powered tugboat, but it didn't work too

682
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: well because again the technology with these newcomen and savory

683
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: engines just weren't good enough. But it was really Fulton

684
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 1: who said, you know, come aboard, how quaint is this? Yeah?

685
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: Do you like my captain's hat? Yeah? Traveling up and

686
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: down the river with a paddle boat? How quaint. They're like, well,

687
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: we don't have any future things to compare it to,

688
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: so it's just contemporary to us. Well in dudes that

689
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: were professional oarsmen were like, no, I really like the

690
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: looks of this exactly. It's wonderful. So Fulton created, um,

691
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: the first one. But it was a guy named WILLIAMS.

692
00:41:52,800 --> 00:42:00,479
Speaker 1: Symington who gets credit for the full first fully steampowered passenger. Yeah,

693
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: the Charlotte dun Duss and uh, Fulton's was the Claremont

694
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: yea and uh in eighteen nineteen, what what they would

695
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: do with these these sailing ships, because they would now

696
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: outfit them with steam power for when the wind was

697
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: down and just to augment the wind. And it worked

698
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: out great in in eighteen nineteen, the Savannah became the

699
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: very first steam powered ship to make a transatlantic crossing. Yeah,

700
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: and apparently this theme power was such a threat to

701
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: sail makers that this is a consortium of salemakers lobby

702
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: the British government saying hey, can you can you do something?

703
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: Can you stifle the steam technology? Can you shut down

704
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: this amazing evancement because we make sales? Yeah, it didn't work.

705
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: That's you know, every time something is automated, like the

706
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: A t M or something and people say, oh, people

707
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: are gonna lose jobs, you're looking at history, buddy. That's

708
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: all his tree has been is one advancement that puts

709
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: people out of work, creating a new industry where people

710
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: can work. And it's sad in a way, but it's

711
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: just part of it, you know. Yeah, it's called moving forward. Yeah,

712
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: too bad, So sad for the sale industry, sale making industry,

713
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: but you know, there's people still sale recreationally. Sure. Yeah,

714
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: so now he gets the best part in my opinion, Chuck, Yeah,

715
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: I like the locomotive. So the steam turbine, the electricity

716
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: producing steam powered turbine. Yeah, there's a good argument for that.

717
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: I love it. Remember how electricity works episode So electricity

718
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: is created when you spin a copper coil inside a magnet, right,

719
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: And Michael Faraday created what he called a dynamo, which

720
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: is basically that, And he said, hey, steam guys of

721
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,959
Speaker 1: the future, I got an idea for you. Go ahead

722
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: and come up with a steam power our dynamo. Can

723
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: you do it? And they set about trying to make

724
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: that happen. Um. Part of the problem though, is they

725
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: figured out that with a steam powered piston, which is

726
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: what all steam power or steam engines powered were pistons

727
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: up to that point, you could only do so many

728
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 1: um cycles. Yeah yeah, and that's you need the dynamo

729
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: going pretty fast to create some electricity or enough to

730
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: use on an industrial scale. So this dude named um

731
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 1: Charles Algernon Parsons who's British. In four he figured out

732
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: that there was a new type of steel available and

733
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: you could create a pretty nice turbine from it. And

734
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: if you took that turbine and went all the way

735
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: back to basically Hero's original idea, which was spinning, but

736
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: rather than having the steam spin the actual vessel, you

737
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 1: had vessel vessel creating steam that you're shooting out at

738
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: the turbine. You can spin a dynamo pretty fast. Eighteen

739
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: thousand revolutions a minute was his dynamo, and in Jack

740
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: that was enough to generate electricity, and they installed it

741
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: forthwith at the Fourth Bank's power station, and the rest

742
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 1: of Europe said, holy cow, we have electricity. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah.

743
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact that something like eight

744
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: percent of the electricity in the United States still today

745
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: is made through steam steam turbines. Amazing worldwide is made

746
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: through steam turbines. So like this, this guy changed the world, um,

747
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: along with Faraday. Yeah, of course and everyone else before, right,

748
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: because everybody's building on the work of everybody else, and

749
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: all the women who supported those men who probably had

750
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: better ideas, who were like, we could have come up

751
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: with this years ago. So we mentioned a few times

752
00:45:55,719 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 1: that this was dangerous, uh, exploding boilers or a problem man.

753
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: Even when they figured out safety valves. Um, early safety

754
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: valves wouldn't work. Actually, later safety valves have proved to

755
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: not work on occasion in the case of Three Mile Island.

756
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: But um they it got a bad rap in the press,

757
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: of course, and that probably um slowed progress a bit,

758
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: but progress continued nevertheless. Well even today there's boiler explosions,

759
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: like there's a big one at a plant, a Danta

760
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: Corporation plant in Tennessee, just blew up like a significant

761
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: portion of the plant. And it's it's not just um

762
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: that it's like throwing hot water out everywhere. The the

763
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: pressure that can build up in these high pressure systems, uh,

764
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: in these vessels, if the vessel gives when that when

765
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: that steam hits the regular atmosphere, it expands right, and

766
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: you have basically I think I read something like a

767
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: ten m vessel of water, which is what you would

768
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: find on like a steam locomotive. If it blew up,

769
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: it would blow up to with a force equivalent of

770
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: one ton of TNT. Crazy. Yeah, so it's a it's

771
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: a big deal if you're blower blows up. And it

772
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: all comes down to the safety valves and whether or

773
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: not they're allowing too much pressure to build up, and

774
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: then your vessel's ability to withstand that added pressure pretty scary.

775
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: It is kind of scary, but it's yeah, no, that's

776
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: my scense there. Scary. I don't want to be evolving

777
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: a boiler accident. Uh No, I don't think anyone wants to. UM.

778
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna finish, I think with this, right

779
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: unless you have other stuff beyond super critical fluid. Oh,

780
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: I do kind of all right, we'll finish with that then,

781
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: but right now, super critical fluid we'll talk about it.

782
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 1: Is earlier when you talked about solid, liquid and gas

783
00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: each having their molecule distribution at different densities. Um, something

784
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: really strange happens, as Robert points out, when you heat uh,

785
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: when you when you go through the from solid to

786
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: liquid to gas, and if you heat up that gas enough,

787
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: those molecules actually eventually are forced back together and it

788
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: becomes like a liquid again, but it still has the

789
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: properties of a gas. Yeah, it's kind of like a

790
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: plasma state or something almost. It's super critical fluid. Yeah,

791
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, that has its own name. So when when

792
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: water in particular hits its um, its critical point is

793
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: that seven and five degrees fahrenh height and two seventeen atmospheres.

794
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: So it's very high temperature, very high pressure. When it

795
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: goes beyond that point and it starts behaving quite weirdly. Um,

796
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: you actually can get more steam power out of less

797
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: initial fossil fuel input. So it's a sleep, it's more um,

798
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: it's more efficient when you can heat something to these

799
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: higher pressures, these super critical pressures, way more. Yeah. So again,

800
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: the reason that you can do this is we could

801
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: have always done it. We could have heated it up

802
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: to this this amount, but we never had the materials

803
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: to hold it. Now we have the materials to hold it.

804
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: And they're they're um creating more and more electricity with

805
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 1: supercritical steam. Yeah. And here's a little mind blowing fact

806
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: for you. Uh. This water to create the supercritical liquid

807
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: fluid is heated at such a high pressure that it

808
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: doesn't even boil. No, it goes right from water to

809
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 1: water vapor. That's fast. And apparently they're figuring out now

810
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: that you could actually use c O two instead of

811
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: water because it has a much lower critical point. It's

812
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: like um five degrees fahrenheight and seventy three atmospheres, which

813
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,959
Speaker 1: is like nothing, and they're figuring out, we'll wait a minute,

814
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: we could use a bunch of c O two in

815
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: lieu of water vapor and get even more um energy

816
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: out of this, Yeah, but from less input. So they're

817
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to how to use supercritical

818
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: c O two to create electricity now to power steam turbines.

819
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: It's a decent band name, super Critical CR two. Sure, sure,

820
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: it's not bad. You got one more tidbit? That was it? Oh?

821
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: That was a tidbit? Yeah? Oh great? Can I go home? Yeah,

822
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Speaker 1: in just a minute. Uh, since we don't have anything else.

823
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Speaker 1: If you want to know more about steam power, you

824
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,319
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825
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826
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