How to make a real arc reactor / Plasma reactor like Iron man
Real arc reactor
That's palladium 0.15 grams? This suggests the arc reactor might actually be nuclear technology since some palladium is radioactive, Unfortunately, it's also highly carcinogenic and toxic so I'm not about to play with palladium for a fictional technology Now the power output specified is also kind of ridiculous What could it generate? If my math is right? And it always is. Three gigajoules per second. Joule per second is just a fancy scientific way of saying a single watt, which means the arc reactor produces three gigawatts of power That's almost three times the power output of a time-traveling DeLorean from Back to the Future 1.21 Jigawatts! In fact, If we were to sell that energy back to the power grid the same way I sell solar energy from my roof it would be the equivalent of 833-kilowatt hours, which would generate 250 dollars per second of income or 21.6 million dollars per day basically if I were to invent a real working arc reactor all of our funding issues would be solved and we'd be well on our way to building a real-life arc reactor Iron Man suit or More realistically.
Our entire company would be assassinated by the big oil companies. So it's pretty much impossible to make a real working arc reactor. So let's build a real working arc reactor All right Now before we build the arc reactor, let's take a look at a 3D model using some augmented reality tech, not unlike Tony Stark himself Pretty cool, right. Let's take a closer look Now it looks like the electricity is being generated in the final ring of the assembly But I guess the real question is if we're building a Real arc reactor / Plasma reactor like Iron MAN.
Real arc reactor like Iron MAN
How are we going to make a Real arc reactor / Plasma reactor like Iron MAN? Let's get some paper out and actually do some calculations by hand So to sustain an arc of electricity around the arc reactor we're gonna need a lot of voltage The diameter of the arc reactor is around 75 millimeters across which gives us a circumference of around 241 millimeters Which would be the path the electricity actually has to follow now It takes approximately three million volts to ionize air for an arc to form across a distance of 1 meter That's roughly 30,000 volts per centimeter. So with the 24.1-centimeter travel path, we'll need approximately 723,900 volts of electricity Luckily, we have these little high voltage transformers which produce about 80,000 volts each There are 10 segments in the arc reactor. So that would be about 800,000 volts This might actually work. Let's start assembling it They do need to be close together so I might thicken up that divider wall. Yeah, that'd be good Smells nice. Yeah, I don't know what that is, I think it might be acrylic but Most realistic arc reactor ever Yeah, so these wires They're not very thick, but if they're mixed with each other. They don't make an arc As long as there's a need else there.
Plasma reactor is same as arc reactor
The most realistic thing about this arc reactor is the number of wires coming off of it because if it was actually producing that much electricity You'd need some serious Current carriers to get that energy some are useful All right so we've got the arc reactor all set up and we have a clamp meter to measure the current flowing through the wires As we do a start-up sequence 20 amps! All right, so obviously I don't have a hole in my chest so I can't actually wear this arc reactor So I thought it'd be nice to make a nice kind of like a display case that we can use For when we're actually powering stuff using the arc reactor All right, so we've got the arc reactor in its box now and we've actually got the switches on the box So let's open it up All right, so main power is this switch here and we'll try and do a startup sequence Alright let's see if it can power a phone All right, let's see what else this can power All right, so we're here at the main circuit breaker for my house and we're gonna plug in the arc reactor All right, let's turn it on and see what happens All right, so these are the power meters for the house and as you can see that's how many kilowatt hours we're using, All right, let's reconnect it to the grid All right, so obviously it's not actually producing enough power to do anything useful But it certainly looks cool and sounds terrifying We'll be using it for some future gags in the upcoming vlog.
