Welcome to the AGE of MAGNESIUM

Everyone deserves someone who cares as much about them as this guy cares about magnesium.

About 20 years ago , Dr. Gorny developed a magnesium alloy that was stronger than 6061 aluminum and got it to not catch fire.

In the 1970's I mowed lawns with a Lawn Boy that had a mower deck made of magnesium. They were **much** lighter than steel deck push mowers and lasted a really long time. When we replaced our venerable old soldier I took it apart and cut some chunks of the mower deck off and by hand ground up large mounds of magnesium. That fueled my "energetics" experiments for years with my own raw materials and boy HOWDY that sho'nuff do burn GOOOOD... We used to do that sort of stuff as kids. Now they would call you the "T" word and law enforcement would be involved and you would never have a sense of discovery.

"I am here to inform you about something" "What is it?" "The magnesium revolution has started" "0mg"

Imagine a world without zinc

Ah Magnesium the metal that burns so hot Lithium looks like a birthday candle.

We Americans want lawns on the Moon!

About 15 years ago, I read a report on vehicle light weighting by Lotus. They said that the economic value of removing 1lb from a car was about $3. At the time, removing 1lb from a commercial aircraft was $1,000 and removing 1lb from a satellite was $10,000. So there is not a huge economic driver for the automakers to use light weight design. Some of them realized that light weight is key to vehicle performance though, and that made light weight design more valuable. The Mazda RX-7 (FD) had all aluminum bodywork. Some Miatas and WRXs have aluminum hoods to help move the center of gravity rearward. An important design concept that I think is too often ignored is that low density materials can often result in lighter, yet stiffer structures. Stiffness of a section of material is a function of its thickness raised to the third power. So for a given mass of structural material, the lower density one can be thicker and will make the stiffest structure-- assuming you can actually fabricate the material into that structure. Magnesium rivals carbon fiber in density, so I see some applications where a low density metallic construction may be an advantage over the composite construction. One nice example of this is XTR mountain bike brake calipers. A cast magnesium caliper must be far easier to produce than a composite one would be.

Lawn Boy was making mowers with Magnesium decks in the 1960s. I also remember my brother’s Chevelle SS having Magnesium wheels in the 1970s.

Who's that handsome strong man lifting the magnesium casting? 😁

As soon as battery capacity’s quadruple manufacturers will stop caring about vehicle weight again

I would've loved to see an infographic of the strength to weight ratio for the new magnesium alloy compared to steel and aluminum, but generally this was peak YouTube 👌🏻 thanks

Imagine you get into a fiery accident and your entire car starts to glow like the sun.

I am doing my masters in environmental engineering and researching magnesium based materials for decontaminating soils and water. it is showing amazing qualities that i would not have expected at all better than even conventional materials

Been making aircraft parts out of magnesium alloy for decades. The problem with magnesium is it loves to corrode. That of course isn’t an issue for a car manufacturer who would love you to need to buy a new one every 10 years.

Very glad the algorithm sent me here.

I live about one freedom unit (1.6km) from the R.O. plant in SoCal. It's fine, I surfed there a lot and they raise mussels to eat. It used to be an energy plant which burned kerosene, but they put solar & wind in the east county, reversed the polarity, and now I get mussels, waves and magnesium. And water.

Magnesium in automotive isn't new, infact it's quite old. Even old alloys were implemented as engine blocks. Now saying corrosion is "solved" is a misnomer. In comparison to aluminum, the best alloy of magnesium is still quite reactive. The challenge is more on the design side. Metallurgy can still be improved, but the impact is where and how you use each metal in a vehicle. That's not to say the increasing demand for lightweithting isn't a new shift in industry. Indeed, new developments in casting techniques and Metallurgy will allow the implementation in good designs. I can easilly agree with your assessment of production. However, I think alot of people forget the importance of market circularity in emerging demand. Good design and Metallurgy should consider the requirements of recycling for recovering already extracted materials.

It turns out that stamped aluminum car bodies do exist, they just never caught on at a large scale. The reason for this might be that, despite improving fuel efficiency, they also increase cost, and for gas cars, nobody cares about fuel efficiency. The high pressure die castings should have broader appeal, as they decrease the cost of the vehicle, in spite of using a more expensive material, thanks to large reductions in fixed costs

Really a treat to come across an informative video that’s eloquent, logical, concise, well structured, thoughtful and well researched while still being laid back enough to be pleasant to watch.