Why Fuel Injectors are AWESOME (28,000 fps Slow Mo) Part 1 - Smarter Every Day 281

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It's so hard to explain how fuel is delivered to a vehicle if somebody has never seen it actually happen. This is literally the best showcase of how fuel injectors work. Amazing job. as always!

I have a PhD in internal combustion engines. I can only say that I love how you approach a subject from its basis. You are an eager experimentalist and the passion you show in your content is inspiring and contagious

The thing I think people are most attracted to in all of your videos is the fact that you've managed to retain your sense wonder and excitement into your middle age. It's quite infectious, in the best way, and I've tried to do the same thing, myself. Your son is a luck young guy to have a father who is so enthused by things like carburetors and fuel injectors (and the refractive qualities of water, and pneumatically-propelled baseballs, and so on and so on).

I love how Destin goes from nuclear submarines to tractor parts to apollo mission technology to tractor pulls to the incredibly wide myriad of subjects on his popular videos list. This guy is just a grown up curious little kid who gets to explore all of his dreams and take us along for the ride!

I adore you and your work so much

Those slo-mo burning patterns were so beautiful. Came for science, stayed for the art.

Hey Destin, my family had a small business dealing with Cetane testing, so we spent a LOT of time working with various fuel injectors. We even produced some high speed footage of auto-ignition in a combustion chamber by using a quartz window back in the early 00's. High speed cameras have come a long way since then. I think the cameras we were using were something like 180px horizontal resolution, haha. It's super cool to see the flame propagation through air with such detail! Very cool to see this being covered!

That was awesome to see!!! Thanks for sharing!

When you have fire and nervous giggling, you know you’re at the cutting edge of science.

This is my favorite episode of Smarter Every Day. The music, the visuals, and the mechanical engineering - I love it all. Thank you for this video.

Listening to Destin giggle like a kid in a candy store is great. Proves that he is amazed making these vids as we are watching them.

I love how your accent saturation changes depending on when you are narrating vs talking to people. Do you have a saturation dial you turn to adjust how southern you sound. I love it.

9:52 Destin's slow motion reaction is so far the best thing I've seen this year.

Hello there. I'm a mechanical engineer building HP Boilers in Uzbekistan. I must say that I love your videos. You inspire the curious child in me with wonder and awe of the world around. Also, I'm glad to see the Bible references at the end of each video. Thank You very much.

I ran into Destin about a year ago right up the street from my house. I tell you what, he is as nice and genuine in person as he is in his videos. I was honestly star struck and probably a bit awkward. But he engaged in a great conversation with me about his videos when he went out on the subs with our US Navy. He is just a great guy. Thanks for more great content, Destin!

Well, today I learned some of the fundamentals of fuel injection. Also, I was not expecting those finale slo-mo's to be as extraordinary as they were.

That slow motion video of the flame moving towards the camera was insane. Really mesmerizing

Dude, you are so easily entertained. That is so freakin cool. I've spent 40 years in turbine engine engineering and the combustor / fuel nozzle arena has always been black magic. I totally enjoyed this video. Thanks Destin.