Submitted 11 months ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csb-AFD58ww
As always, don’t forget to enable subtitles.
The most fascinating part of this video, is how the design is a failure.
In the comments he points out that the air pressure produced was less than the old design.
So many hours of work for a failure, and he still makes an amazing video with it. It’s incredible.
i wonder if it’d be easier to use with some sort of gear assembly and then a foot pedal or something - that one handed rotational method looks really tiring
Probably less tiring than the alternative method with pulling the strings. With the new setup you could build a little platform over the blower so you could sit on top of it and save yourself from extending your arm so much.
The biggest problem with this setup is making the blades as close as possible to the walls to reduce drag and eddys.
He says in the video or comments that this method was much more exhausting than the string method.
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
His focus on iron age temperature goals with neolithic tech is so strange.
Skua@kbin.social 11 months ago
I think his interest is just in seeing what he can make by himself with what he can gather from nature, rather than specifically in replicating neolithic technology. In that framing it makes sense to push at the limits of what he can do even if it's not the most practical way to solve that problem. He knows he can run a furnace and make neolithic-level things with it, so why not see if he can go for something a bit harder? Historically it was solved with a bunch of teamwork, sure, but he's not trying to re-enact history.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Why?
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
Just feels backwards.