Man wires up 400 car batteries in ‘insane’ experiment to see what would happen
One man decided to take it upon himself to wire 400 car batteries up in a wild experiment, all in the name of curiosity.
We live in a world where petrol and diesel-reliant cars are slowly decreasing in numbers, with the rise of electric vehicles (EVs).
The American content creator is known for his extreme video concepts, as a self-described 'science maniac' who 'loves building huge lasers and playing with electricity and chemicals'.
Having built some of the biggest lasers ever seen in the social media space, the science-enthusiast has decided to have a go at playing with car batteries and seeing just how much power he can generate.
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A chemist by trade, the YouTuber knwon as 'styropyro' likes to push the limits of safe experimenting.
Real name Drake Anthony, he wanted to find out how powerful cars can be, when it comes to blowing up a piece of metal.
Some quick maths reveals that 400 car batteries together will be able to generate over 160,000 amps - the standard international unit for measuring electric current.
Unsurprisingly, there was no ready-made car switch on the market which could withstand such power, meaning that Drake would have to make it himself, with the use of over 1,000lbs worth of copper.
You're probably wondering about the use of car batteries instead of regular old electrical circuits, to which he had a very good explanation.
“When it comes to making huge currents, most people think of using capacitors,” he said.
Drake added: “But interestingly, car batteries don’t fall that far behind in terms of max currents. The benefit with car batteries is that they can dump those currents for far longer than a brief pulse.”
The science nut showed how you can warp a pipe with the sheer power that's generated, explaining that the energy can be concentrated enough to bend materials.
He did fail a few times, with the electricity destroying the pipe completely instead of bending it.
Eventually, with the help of magnetic pulses, he destroyed the pipe.
Drake went on to test materials such as bismuth, titanium, and tungsten rod, with satisfying explosions.
In the long-awaited finale though, he used Ferrofluid to make a hugely satisfying fireball explosion, because who doesn't want to see things blown up?
He admitted that it was 'the coolest thing I’ve ever filmed in my life', explaining: "In the span of a 10th of a second, nearly the entirety of the dish of ferrofluid was slammed up against the pipe while the total circuit power rose to over 10 million watts."
The final shot looked like something out of Oppenheimer, though on a much smaller scale, and the most amazing thing is that nothing went to waste.
No, all the car batteries were intact and could be used for other purposes.
Who said controlled explosions and sustainability couldn't go hand in hand, eh?
Joshua Nair