16 Inventions Getting Us Off Fossil Fuels

[@theoculbert6212]

Rest of the world: solar panels in a perfect square arrangement China: SHAPE IT LIKE A PANDA

[@lastfirst5154]

Thinking outside the box of course.

[@greatthinker4209]

Germany: *SWASTIKA TIME*

[@demianlandleiter4788]

@@evohori thanx for remembering beyond...

[@bouganhagain8131]

Honestly its ineficient...

[@MARIALUIZA-vu3no]

@@NoName-nr2iw no, you are not!🙏

[@jjc5475]

5 windmills: north sea: that's cute.

[@greencoast2904]

LOL!

[@JasonM69]

Drives me nuts when ever I hear someone talking about collecting rain water as a new green source. Ive lived my whole life on a cistern...

[@randominternetguy3537]

Is this some other place joke that I'm too Michigan to understand?

[@juliansoni2439]

@@randominternetguy3537 A cistern is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater.

[@randominternetguy3537]

@@juliansoni2439 yea dude, ik that, I was just making a joke. I live in Michigan, where the great lakes are. Y'know, the largest collection of freshwater in the world? (Followed closely by lake Baikal (in volume of course)).

[@randominternetguy3537]

@@juliansoni2439 btw r/woosh

[@randominternetguy3537]

@@danielnicola7826 #1 he was wooshed before I came and unwooshed him. #2 you could've made that 1 reply #3 yes I'm cringe but youre cringer

[@patriotpilot]

That solar flower looks great! I want one!

[@19grand]

Me too.

[@dr_puffle]

Same

[@patriotpilot]

how can we get one? or two? anyone, any idea?

[@koruki]

I think last time I checked it cost more than an entire home solar system but with a 10th of the generation capacity

[@zeealpal]

Unfortunately, the solar flower is a perfect example of form over function. A single axis tracking setup with 4 solar panels would be massively cheaper and produce far more power with less maintenance. In terms of cost, fixed solar panels on a roof are far more cost effective and generate far more than the flower would, with close to zero mechanical maintenance.

[@ananya.a04]

Already existing or not, a bunch of us didn’t know about half of these technologies. So thank you for telling us about them 😊

[@veryconfused9768]

Yess

[@andresMadrid7651]

im thinking about putting a mini hydroelectrical turbine to a creek that we have close from our farm.

[@Whatmattersmarshall]

0:25 I remember in 3rd grade our teacher in science told us that whoever could come up with a way to get hydro power and not kill fish would be very rich.

[@iwanabana]

Gotta send them the salmon cannon video.

[@jamesaustralian9829]

Mesh grates in front of the intake pipes and a net along the face about 10m in front of the intakes.

[@JohanPohl]

Turbulent is great, but please also look at minesto's tidal and ocean current solutiond

[@CarlosAM1]

Yeah... that wont work to power a city tho. So no

[@samuelthornton9179]

@@CarlosAM1 lots of them will thou

[@PatBergsma]

1:19 Uhh, that kind of solar technology has existed for a while now. The only benefit is that looks nice and be placed in modern and urban areas and looks nicer.

[@finnleithomczyk5292]

Patrick Bergsma I guess that’s a plus. It adds another reason for governments to implement it

[@gnawershreth]

Yup, it makes no sense to get a "Smartflower" for example, needlessly complicated, needlessly expensive, needlessly flimsy, needlessly ineffective etc. We've had tracking solar panels for years already, there's no need to make that idea worse by making smaller panels that for whatever reason can "fold down", why would you ever need to do that? Solar panels can handle darkness, cloudy skies etc. No need to hide them, it just makes them worse, more expensive and harder to clean.

[@ecstaticasom]

@@gnawershreth also theres no info on the site about the units output. Just bullshit like its 40% more efficient. More effecient than what a tea bag? Design over substance.

[@rayh592]

And be highly space inefficient.

[@SomeGuy_Somewhere]

Yeah why do you need to make it into a weird moving flower when that just means its more likely to break and use more power itself.

[@skipeveryday7282]

I'm from Scotland and I can literally see those wind turbines from my house.

[@TCt83067695]

Show off 😉

[@RachelYong9YT]

People from Scotland are so blessed.... God bless you and Scotland...

[@michaelwachendorf2096]

So tell us about it. How do they handle in storms and have they made a noticeable difference on cost?

[@donnybrook8824]

I’m sorry 😕

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Yeah, loads in Fife, ever seen one explode? The storms from 2017 were a doozy

[@veggieboyultimate]

The homebiogas should definitely become common in urban areas of the world.

[@dice3704]

I need that one

[@nuhadar7485]

@@dice3704 In India we get subsidised bio gas plants for home from the govt

[@nuhadar7485]

@Orion Well its rather self sufficient we just put our household wastes into the biogas plant and it produces gas for cooking.

[@mysunshineisturningintoabl2307]

@OrionI prefer biogas than putting our shit into the ocean

[@m11nt]

@Orion It's better than putting the waste into our oceans and using piped gas instead. Lol. Use your brain?

[@nathanielbradford548]

It’s all good but all those products have metal in them, as a metal fabrication engineer I can tell you first hand they all require coal to make those products

[@sssssnake222]

You are correct, unfortunately, green energy produces more harm to the environment per unit of energy, then fossil fuels.

[@mikeyunovapix7181]

I think we should focus a bit more improving the efficiency of green tech, improve and implement methods of capturing emissions, increase reforestation. This could buy enough time to phase out fossil fuels more smoothly. Bonus if we perfect nuclear fusion.

[@sssssnake222]

@@mikeyunovapix7181 only 30 years away

[@0subswithnovideos775]

@@mikeyunovapix7181 nuclear nergy exists, its way better than solar and use windmills to generate power.

[@eliahaj2233]

@@sssssnake222 and what if they pay the energy cost of thier production and provide a lot more free energy?

[@smokinace926]

I wonder what would happen if we put windmills behind an airport runway... Edit: 1/31/21 - Dang I wasn't expecting this to get replies. But I read all of them and some of you make some good points and others are just flat out rude. However, I was definitely kidding when I wrote my op. So for all of the "Scientist" and "Engineers"in the thread, you can retire now...

[@rogerbarton497]

When a plane wants to take off they could use the windmill to suck or blow it along the runway using electricity which is less polluting than turning the engines up full. Time for my medication.

[@lolbots]

@@rogerbarton497 lol! spare some for Michael too

[@peterf282]

you would generate energy less efficiently than if you'd just used a paraffin generator?

[@coreymicallef365]

You'd have planes trying to take off or land but being blocked by the turbines.

[@radioactivet-rex286]

Stonks

[@georgescuadrian4102]

Two words: Fusion reactor Pros: -generates a ton of energy -safe -clean energy Cons: -need to go to moon for helium-3

[@QuantumPhanatic]

You don't actually, and also we can improve nuclear reactors, which we already have

[@QuantumPhanatic]

@dontknow actually they can work and we already have functioning fusion reactors, we just can't keep them running

[@georgescuadrian4102]

Dude, youre going too deep into this

[@starfirejordan9875]

Fun fact: if it when into a meltdown the gas would cool down and disapait harmlessly

[@starfirejordan9875]

@@QuantumPhanatic true but fusion might beable to make double maybe even triple the energy and nuclear even tho its super safe now, has left a negative mark on the industry because of meltdowns for more then 30 years ago, so fusion would have the fresh start and be more welcomed

[@larryparrott5451]

These are easily achieved. Anyone with the desire can do this. Simple well thought out and a great self confidence builder.

[@KpopXMashups]

What do you mean by that? Can you tell me the steps a person can put their ideas into an actual product?

[@baluchon2505]

This videos illustrates perfectly why scale and ROI are important aspects to consider. Otherwise any high tech prototype can be used for greenwashing.

[@jacobmaez277]

Oh wow this was a negative comment. Scale and ROI are always going to be an uphill battle for not just green technology but any new technology. The important thing to note here is how these inventions solve problems with current “green” energy sources. Water turbines that don’t kill fish? Awesome. Wind turbines that do less harm to birds? Great news! These new technologies will present their own problems including scale or ROI, but that doesn’t mean we should discount it before giving it a chance. Now about this “greenwashing” comment. I assume you are referring to green brainwashing? That’s a funny way to put it. Imagine if that same argument had been used 100+ years ago but with the automobile. “Oh that Henry Ford fellow, he’s just out there autowashing everybody. He doesn’t understand simple math. You can not make a car affordable to the middle class man.” Doesn’t that sound so archaic? The thought that automobiles would become the predominant transportation means was surely fought against but it still happened. The question becomes, where do you want to stand. The fight against progress? Or the fight to guide progress?

[@baluchon2505]

@@jacobmaez277 I agree with your point and I get what this video is about. Behind my comment is the fact that we have to take a big problem into account : climate change, which is basically a race against time so we can't really hace your car argument for every technology (even if he remains relevant in the economy field alone). Right now, considering the time we have and the finite amount of money a country has, there are better ways than other to tackle climate change. Ex : in France installing an heat pump in every house that is heating itself with oil would have been a much better economical choice to tackle climate change than replacing nuclear with wind and solar power which does nothing regarding climate change (since solar panels are mostly made in China and have a bigger carbon footprint than nuclear it's actually even worst). I agree with the fact that technology will and has to grow to help us to better than what we have but mostly this isn't going to allow use to keep going the way we do. These things on the video aren't gonna to "get us off fossil fuels". Sobriety and relocalisation mostly will. Let's not forget that fossils still represent 80% of the total energy consumption in the world (same numbers for France or USA).

[@r_sonic_1489]

I wonder why such amazing things just remain in KZbin's corner and never make it to the world😒

[@gnomsrepnay]

Because a lot of the time they are not practical

[@benni5541]

Also 1/3 of them are scams. It it sounds to good to be true it is. Like the bladeless windturbine. Look for EVVBlogs videos on the topic the electrical calculations just dont check out. Its always just a scam to get money from technic illiterat people

[@probablynotanagent5594]

Because the people who make choices for us are too busy fighting eachother instead of improving off eachother

[@PrimatoFortunato]

Absurd

[@albertdoan6483]

I know tge guy who made the smartflower hmu if you want to buy one

[@1.minted52]

I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.

[@Diepotatoes21]

Invention: exists Fish: aight imma head in

[@AnimAsians]

The video is literally about “16 Inventions Getting Us Off Fossil Fuels” and not “16 *New* Inventions Getting Us Off Fossil Fuels”

[@darknight264441]

Well it didn't include "new" in the title

[@soup5344]

@@darknight264441 wElL iT dOeSn'T iNcLuDe NeW iN tHe TiTlE They treat it like it's new and that they are the first to report on it.

[@timeless74]

If you were not aware of the existence of a certain invention then it is new to you. No need to get you panties in a bunch over it. 🙄

[@soup5344]

@@timeless74 key part is "To You" The point you and many people cant understand is that we mean that they treat it like it's new to everyone and they are the first to talk about it.

[@josuasiagian]

@@soup5344 i dont see it like you said. So you are wrong

[@razony]

As a teenager in the 70's, renewable energy (solar/wind/water) was exciting. It felt great to be independent, self sufficient and young...in a dream. Life doesn't always work out the way you want. This is getting exciting all over again. New technologies, old basics and we are reinventing ourselves out of that cave. At least it stays lit when the rest of the valley caves are dark. 😊

[@Zeroneii3]

Dual wield renewable energy by making wind turbines blades made of solar panens

[@Stephen-uz8dm]

Floating on water turbines

[@subtopewdiepie4028]

Is it possible to connect the solar panels in a way that won't cause large amounts of sparking though?

[@MDP1702]

more complexity for no real gain.

[@bernd8608]

@@MDP1702 can u please stop being right

[@MDP1702]

@@bernd8608 Happens unfortunately all too often ;)

[@mmatss]

Energy engineer here, I would love to have a conversation about how exactly the Saphon bladeless wind turbine design would end up as cheaper, the mechanism looks way more intricate with a lot more moving parts than a conventional tried and tested rotor wind turbine.

[@michaelhomes8049]

Questionable right?!? What do you think about the "kite" turbines? The ones attached to wires and fly like kites

[@jakobtheiner6329]

I'm not sure which one of those are the "cringest"... The power generating tiles are also ridiculous. Yes, they will produce power and yes anything that produces power can be used to charge a Tesla, please do a calculation of how many million steps need to be taken on the tile to charge a tesla from 0 to 100%. And then please also do a calculation of how many people are going to get hurt by tripping because they didn't expect the sidewalk to give all of a sudden. It really hurts my soul to see something like this named as one of the products to "get us of fossil fuels" 🤦‍♂

[@Camnorand]

unfortunately it looks like investments in renewable energy is aiming more into marketing and looks than actually doing as good as claimed.

[@sergiusamxander4615]

@@jakobtheiner6329 i think the point was to power eg bus stop screen,street lights etc

[@allendavenport2164]

I read about this as a young man, and 60 years later it is still in planning stage. Making something work in normal life is hard because most want to save money, and dont have it to spend freely.

[@NDKBRUZICEO]

2:23 Time Square NY would generates tons of energy

[@snakeinabox7220]

Yeeah um 5w a step can power one light Yah new time sqeare can run one house We need something big the only acuely relevant thing is Wind farms in the sea Nuke energy is the future And it DOSENT crate Co2 The harmful shit we show it deep in the ground so it harms literally nothing And a meltdown is not gna happen with up to date reactors The Light water nukeler reactors were cheep to make but high chance of failure know with New models are safe and also nukeler is the cheapest tipe of energy

[@indilbibblebones6430]

super mario how do you possibly spell this many things wrong

[@CarlosAM1]

@@snakeinabox7220 it can happen tho. Thats why we need lftr tech

[@priscillajimenez27]

And Tokyo

[@David.d.d.d]

@@indilbibblebones6430 English may not be his first language, but.... I think I had a stroke reading his comment

[@ghod2035]

Politicians: Oooops I didn't saw that 👩‍🦯

[@bronxgirl4-015]

My great great grandfather built the water wheel in milford pa. He was way ahead 9f his time but then again they came from Holland which is why he had the innovative knowledge to use water for power. Xoxo

[@CCPJAYLPHAN1994]

Despite all the negativitied in this world, I'm positive we can achieve 100% renewables in our lifetime

[@Menelutorex]

so naive. My country made 90% energy from coal. No way we sacrifice our lives for 100% renewables... it is like lost half our incom

[@CCPJAYLPHAN1994]

@@Menelutorex If your country is 90% stupid, would you give up on being a little bit smarter?

[@andrewtran4237]

Emphasis on LITTLE

[@CCPJAYLPHAN1994]

@@Menelutorex I got one more. If 90% of your country's 'ECONOMY' runs on drug dealing, slave trading, would you give up on other methods of getting income?

[@lolbots]

@@CCPJAYLPHAN1994 you are 100% wrong

[@DiogoF.]

Thank you science and all the great minds behind these projects.

[@dansierrasam79]

Indeed! Each and everyone of us deserve to have our minds blown at least once a day, as Neil deGrasse Tyson says!

[@pastychomper4939]

A hydroelectric turbine generating energy? That's really impressive. I thought they could only convert existing energy between kinetic and electric.

[@isubtothebest6020]

No, it can be converted by almost everything

[@melanieparis8697]

I love it too..my favourite 🇦🇺

[@entx8491]

That is kinetic energy being converted into electrical energy...

[@isubtothebest6020]

@@entx8491Kinetic through the flow of water

[@entx8491]

@@isubtothebest6020 and?

[@GoGreenPost]

Sustainability seems to be about going back to the old way of doing things, but using modern technology to get there. Solar power for energy, bacteria to break down waste, rain for water....the list goes on!

[@in7minutesorless]

#16: The battery can make, supply and store it's own energy Me: iLl TaKe yOuR EnTiRe sToCk!!!

[@priscillajimenez27]

Right!

[@josefish5193]

Redditor

[@Plainsman1300]

May I suggest another video showing how much "fossil fuel" went into construction and transportation, mining, smelting, stamping and forming and all the other things needed to build and install, wire, control, and run them.

[@poruatokin]

You seem to have forgotten that in most of the developed world (Europe, Asia) railway systems are electrically powered, many types of mining machinery are electric, as are arc furnaces, stamping machines, CNC machining centers etc, etc. So a huge portion is already being powered by electricity, and apart from the backward USA, the rest of the developed world has already shifted to renewable generation systems.

[@timo4258]

@@poruatokin actually I checked just this week that 94% of transportation in Europe is run on oil, so... good try.

[@poruatokin]

@@timo4258 So, most of the stuff you referred to in your OP was non-transport. Stop cherry picking. A typical wind turbine pays off its carbon debt in the first five months of operation. Try again.

[@timo4258]

@@poruatokin 1. I'm not the guy who posted OP 2. To build a wind mill you need a lot of fossil fuels. Mining, processing, moving. You can't construct wind mills from ground up with a wind mill.

[@poruatokin]

@ferkemall There is data if you look for it, the carbon payback is about 5 months.

[@goodperson7427]

That footstep one is really amazing

[@alexanderpietralla6619]

Almost everything I see here needs fossil fuels to exist.

[@royormonde3682]

Wow...are you invested in fossil fuels or is your brain just mush? Let me see now...it took 150 years for fossil fuel industry to develop and it will take the same for the next generation of energy production. It will come to a point when there's enough of it to produce it's own components. So what exactly are you trying to prove to all the scientists and developers of this green technology...please enlighten all us dummies as to the failures by going green and trying to figure out a way of replacing a ever increasing cost and unpredictable source of energy and our reliance on 100 million year old rotting vegetation. Please do because it's all from this planet, it all takes money to make or produce, it's either a mineral or plant, it all has an impact....you see the biggest reason for me, has always been that these new forms of energy don't spew toxic gases and sludge into the air we breath or the water we drink. Yes unfortunately it still takes fossil fuels to make those products...what will be your argument when it doesn't?

[@alexanderpietralla6619]

@@royormonde3682 not sure what you try to achieve with an insult. As a chemical engineer I work daily on the energy transition we all have ahead of us. We will need fossil fuels for a very long time to maintain prosperity levels we have become accustomed to and vilifying them is in essence anti-human development, but maybe that’s the goal of the green army anyways. Btw., you are invested in fossil fuels as well...just call your government pension plan admin.

[@royormonde3682]

@@alexanderpietralla6619 No one has said it won't be around for a long time, I certainly said it will take a long time. Why does everyone who wants to make a point think that the ones changing over to green tech.don't know it's going to take a long before it makes a difference or that it has been made with fossil fuels. Everybody knows that, I didn't succeed in my line of work to be able to afford the $30,000 it cost me for my systems being dumb and stupid. For a smart guy there Mr. Chemical Engineer, you got nothing better to do than state the obvious and make it sound like going green is a waste of time. Maybe if going green tech. for our energy needs doesn't fly with you or your just think it's a waste of time then don't watch these vids and don't make useless comments. Your not the only one suggesting it takes fossil fuels to manufacture green tech., the comment section is full of just that, so what's your goal in stating the obvious? I have 7000 watts of solar 1500 watts of wind, a small hydro generator in a creek nearby, use ground source heat, I haven't used fossil fuels for my electrical and heating for years, I bought this all off the shelf and have saved thousands after the first 5 years of paying it off. My carbon footprint is almost nothing and video's like this interest me, maybe there's more that I can do, am I wasting my time, have I made a mistake? So when I hear guys like you degrading the purpose of going green, trying to be smart, stating the obvious, whatever your reasons are, stop it because to the ones that are trying to make a difference, you all sound stupid.

[@alexanderpietralla6619]

@@royormonde3682 that’s great for you to be able to afford this. I lived through the Energiewende in Germany and have seen what the shift to renewable meant for the average consumer to their energy bills. Those with a fixed income had to make some hard decisions between staying warm and eating. Same happened in Ontario so fossil fuels are not only a source for a myriad of consumer products but also keep energy cost low which increases well-being for societies. Your condescending arrogance towards your fellow citizens who can’t afford what you can disqualifies you completely to find a balanced approach.

[@royormonde3682]

@@alexanderpietralla6619 Oh I see....so your and other peoples condescending comments on how fossil fuels are involved in the production of green tech. and you assume most people don't know that, is ok because you can't afford it. But for those ones that can should just shutup because it's not fair to you and the others. I try and let you down gently, I worked hard, saved lots, invested wisely, built my home and grow my own food. So this doesn't disqualify me, it excites me. It wasn't always like this, it took me 35 years to get to this point, so your the one that is disqualified from enjoying what can be, to just commenting on what should be. We all chose our own paths and nothing is free or no one is entitled to have what others have on the simple fact that they can't afford it. Vote Green, I always do, that's a choice you could make for the future, for starters. Don't knock governments for trying, many do. Certainly lay off the rhetoric about fossil fuels and their uses. It's people that don't care, don't want to pay for it through taxes and blame the last generation for not seeing the future and acting on it when they had warnings, the last 3 generations have done just that. It's never too late to care and make choices. When you buy a house, tack on another $30,000 onto the mortgage and you too can become self sufficient, the savings alone will pay for the extra cost in the mortgage and then some. Most of the green tech today is geared to home owners or small businesses because they believe undeniably, most do anyways. Convincing a whole country to pay for an upgrade is a totally different thing.

[@doublezmtnman]

I read an article years ago about something similar to the energy producing walkway blocks except they could go into highways. Considering the traffic in this nation seems like we could have a significant power source from this technology, has anyone else heard of it.

[@donaldtrump6491]

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only go between states. Even ignoring the maintanance, you would just get the energy from the engine of the vehicle, thus causing more fuel to be used and thus be less green. Overall it would be more effective to just connect fuel driven generators straigth to the grid.

[@dustinsmith2021]

donald trump you would get the energy from gravity. Why this can work with vehicles is because you are basically creating pot holes in the road. Super bumpy road ruin vehicles life span.

[@lakshmim.p.8548]

• Clean and green energy💚🌱 • Use energy right,make future bright 👍💫

[@The_General_Zubas]

0:45 Wave Energy. Its 24/7.

[@CarlosAM1]

Its also really unefficient, works only in coastlines and generates little energy

[@CountingStars333]

@@CarlosAM1 Doesn't really matter does it.how the hell do you know if it's inefficient if it's the first of its kind.

[@francestod.tandocjr4092]

@@CountingStars333 It's not really a new invention. The problem is scaling it enough to produce sustainable power. It's also unreliable for it depends on the current flow and inaccessible to some. We don't really have reliable batteries to store the excess power either.

[@mattaut88]

one more is "Energydach" it is a roof with integrated solar thermic and PV on it. really innovative.

[@benni5541]

my parents have that since they build their house in 2002 lmao so innovative. Sometimes the heatregulator glitched out and in summer we got even on coldest setting 40°C water in the shower but on other days its really neat.

[@tomkelly8827]

This was a great video, I love seeing the interesting solar arrays. Panda's and sunflowers add a nice touch to an excellent technology. The salt water light is really interesting too. I think you missed a couple good ones though. Ocean Thermal Energy Converters (OTEC) convert warm/cold ocean water into electricity, geothermal is similar to that and also missed, interconnected grids, Hydro dams as energy storage on a grid scale, LFTR and SMR reactors, and in 50 years of course there will be fusion

[@marksmith4346]

Shouldn't it bother us that they are making them look a certain way to attract children? If it was really practical and fiscally smart, they wouldn't have to dress it up. Reminds me of Joe Camel.

[@grpper7700]

I love how the windmill works. It doesn't spin but generates alot of power. 👍😊

[@nadiaho-sue6388]

Amazing, loving the lantern that runs on salt water!!

[@otapi]

The biggest benefit of the fossil fuel, it stores the energy with very high density. That means, relatively easy and cheap to store and transfer the. If you want to replace fossil fuels, then you need to find something to store energy with at least the same efficiency. The question is not how to create energy, but how to store it?

[@MrBoromir123]

Batteries

[@sborro]

What if the choice is to destroy the planet or keep improving these green technologies

[@otapi]

@@sborro What are the options? Batteries are everything, but not green.

[@francestod.tandocjr4092]

@@MrBoromir123 Current batteries aren't enough. Also, scaleable solar energy is expensive and requires a lot of land.

[@UltraCasualPenguin]

@@francestod.tandocjr4092 Seems to be enough here. I live not far from not one but two hydro power plants on same river.

[@luddity]

Seems like those tiles could easily be combined with animal agriculture in some way.

[@rj5umit107]

I loved the Pavegen Kycoera and Hydralight!👏🔥

[@randominternetguy3537]

Hidralight is one time use

[@greenlife5713]

Nice video. Keep the nice work.

[@MBDillan21]

Well... All of these inventions are amazing... But why are they not popular ? I mean... All these inventions combined together could easily help a whole population and stop pollution..

[@GrennKren]

That lamp powered by salt water was extraordinary

[@willythemailboy2]

And fake. It's not extracting power from the water at all; all the of the energy in the system is put in creating the metals used to make it. The water is simply an electrolyte, not a power source.

[@cornpop7805]

I work in electro-mechanical R&D and therefore am forced to be realistic about inputs vs outputs. Everyone wants their pet technology to be the answer, but the very people who swear their allegiance to SCIENCE are willing to throw science out the window for the HOPE that a new or newly modified technology will suddenly save the world from the imaginary pending mass extinction. Niagara Falls was the first real power plant. It worked and still works well. So, hydro is good, but environmentally challenging. Wind is all but useless in 80% of the continental US. The farms that do exist and look cool are operating at about 15% output and are of no real benefit. It's a feel good technology. Say what the will about electrical storage, but it's not there yet and no amount of speculation will change that fact. Water mountains work really well for load to source balancing and are 75% to 80% efficient. But this idea that electrochemical batteries are weeks away, is just ludicrous. They've been talking about revolutionary batteries for 100yrs and still the most common battery for cars is lead-acid. The lithium based batteries used in EVs really only last 6 to 7 yrs on average. The Original Edison battery (Nickel-Iron) is far better for stationary storage but they are huge: 8x to 10x the size of Lithium based or lead acid batteries. However, there are some that are +100yrs old. See Iron Edison brand batteries for today's version. So hydro is +100yr old tech and Iron batteries are +100yr old tech and both represent the best we've got. Yes, solar continues to evolve quickly, but the fact remains that it outputs power during mid day, while our demand is morning and evening. Without tax subsidies (forcing others to pay for our stuff), solar still pays for itself a few years before its end of life. PVs are made with toxic chemicals that china vents into the atmosphere and the panels themselves are toxic waste. Eventually it will cost to dispose of hundreds or thousands of pounds of that waste, for every rooftop your see them on.

[@RaphaeLoh01]

That step power is genius! Also working as the sensor to activate a streetlight, they'd make streets safer and more efficient...

[@divinesoulsentertainment]

What about the Hemp vehicle made along time ago by Henry Ford.

[@Brutaltronics]

Rockefeller happened

[@divinesoulsentertainment]

Well just imagine if we the people would start our own small business working with hemp. And make small changeeasy change the stereotype of hemp. And Start posting in 2nd party apps like depop or etsy.

[@ceicidumoi3807]

Love these ideas. I would live to see these everywhere and to live in a world such this...

[@doddyi3133]

Low budget Creat indipendent

[@stevenikitas8170]

I've seen all this type of stuff before, for decades. None of it works anywhere near the way it is ideally portrayed.

[@TheTraveler33]

Yeah, but as ALWAYS, this "free power" sure is expensive! Lol!

[@diegoarana5862]

thanks to right wing legislation who are best friends with the oil executives.

[@fouad-ok]

diego arana 💯

[@PaintedCavern]

@@diegoarana5862 The same ones who subsidize solar and wind with huge tax breaks and tax funded rebates?

[@diegoarana5862]

@@PaintedCavern the same ones who Trump has already planned billion dollar subsidies for if he wins reelection?

[@PaintedCavern]

@@diegoarana5862 If I fill my car up with gas I pay more for it because of added gas tax. If I buy an electric car I get a big tax break. My electric bill is higher because of tax added which goes to rebates for those buying solar panels. The whole system is set up to make solar and wind cheaper. Because it is too expensive on its own. That's how I see it.

[@kimlibera663]

This actually looks very intuitive. Some of this can take the pressure off the grid on a local scale but it would be hard to obtain 100%. The problem with turbine things is that turbines are designed only to work with 30 mph winds before the thing comes apart. Some of this definitley looks eco-friendly for family use & creating an architecture within a city to reduce the buildup of the heat island would go along way. I know some places for instance use solar panels to run street lights & signals & that's a good move to use from the sun & cut down on the entropy from the typical grid wires.

[@praveenap3357]

Apq

[@Reppo80085]

Man I wish I was smart enough to figure myself how these works and create it for myself

[@Ornzora]

Fun fact: You actually can build them/atleast you think so, but don't have proper equipment or too lazy to do it, or don't have place to do so

[@tracesprite6078]

Inventors are having so much fun coming up with all these ideas. Jeremy Rifkin has written a bestseller, "The Green New Deal: why the fossil fuel civilization will collapse by 2028 and the bold economic plan to save life on earth." With all this creativity, it's all happening.

[@shadowbanned5164]

0:09 pure genius in its simplicity perfect power source for third world remote areas.

[@googlebarbaralernerspectre2581]

Money is nothing if we can't look after our planet. Eco friendly. None planet damaging is the only way forward folks :)

[@Dadniel1st]

Green-wash aka BS Until we find a cheap way to store excess wind and solar energy nothing will change. Here in the UK already had a massive blackout because of a wind farm.

[@JakO_Ob]

And because of eind farm we are killing birds by thousands and witu solar panels we heat our planet more and with water turbines we are killing a lot of fish and flooding vilages where people live aand old material which solar panels are made that can't be recycled is toxic AF and can't be disposed of any way cuz it doesn't decompose and doesn't stop being toxic ever... We still can't use reneweables without damiging our planet... Hell nuclear power plants are more eco friendly than reneweables... And thx to reneweables taxes go up AF

[@marcelramsden3082]

Everyone else watching this: wOw So CoOl Me: How do you think the materials being used are made?

[@willschab9414]

I mean... What else are we suppose to do? We can only make advances by using the technology we already have. At one point people used campfires to produce metal, then used this metal to produce furnaces to make metal more efficiently. Tech stacks, we use what we currently have to progress.

[@MrDARVOUDIS]

5:05 what did I just watch? Free energy from salt water? WTF? Somebody plz explain me...

[@ksc1406]

I think it's basically a dried out carbon battery cell, when you add salt water it acts as the electrolyte and starts off the chemical reaction that generates the electricity. I highly doubt it's reusable once its been wetted.

[@eleethtahgra7182]

@@ksc1406 Thats...the problem with this...so called green-energy. It used too much of our hype for eco-friendly energy to sell its product, that still produce some sort of waste. Its probably what you said, a battery thats activated by salt water. Well...better use a realy battery-powered lantern.

[@manoeljacquemin2189]

@@eleethtahgra7182 or a simple dynamo lantern

[@eleethtahgra7182]

@@manoeljacquemin2189 That also works.

[@farheen_18]

Where do we buy certain gadgets shown in the video? Kindly provide the link also.

[@sukritgarg1954]

these inventions are SOMETHING!

[@avatarkorr9854]

I was thinking about an idea like this I just didn't know it's already existing...

[@muhammadroychan1140]

2:16 Rick made this man im telling ya

[@The_General_Zubas]

2:00 Solar Panels, ON lakes and the Ocean? Wind Turbines work good out there. Lets try it out. Lakes first. Then Oceans. Because Salt.

[@Lud-369]

SolOcean floating solar technologies

[@vickyjunus3307]

These innovations can save our planet thus help people live more affordable & free..

[@raviwolfboy]

Awesome Inovation ❤❤❤

[@akalion213]

Wow so the third invention is literally just a regular solar station that we've had forever just shaped like a flower... Great invention guys.

[@1hard2findbro]

I hope these ideas aren't too expensive or high maintenance. I want to implement some of them… 🤔

[@gregorygraham9371]

These are all nice for supplemental; but the facts are clear: getting off fossil fuels altogether will require a major development of nuclear energy -which has clearly demonstrated risks. A carbon footprint is not as bad as a radioactive one.

[@thebuddha4208]

It doesn’t matter how amazing these inventions are utilizing all of this and more we could power our planet with almost just sunlight but as long as people are making billions of dollars off oil will never stop using

[@francestod.tandocjr4092]

I don't think oil is the problem, but question of how to store renewable energy

[@tagoreji2143]

known so much.Thank you Tech Insider

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

2:22 "They produce 5 watts of power per step. This is a meaningless statement of somebody who does not understand power. That's not what "Watts" means.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

@Seth Meyers Indeed. They should have indicated an amount of energy per step.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

@Seth Meyers One way or another, Watts is a measure of power, which doesn't last for the duration of a foot step. The logical extension of that would be that if you walk over it really slowly, so that your foot step lasts an hour, you will be generating 5W for an hour. I don't think that would be the case. I reiterate what I said above - 5 watts of power per step is is a meaningless statement by somebody who does not understand power. But there are lots of meaningless notions of electricity around. Battery capacity is invariably stated in amp-hours - but what does that tell you? A 3V, 5Ah battery has a very different capacity from a 12V 5Ah battery. They should be measured in Wh. When I was looking for a wind generator for a yacht, the salesman tried to impress me with "It can generate 20V". I can generate several hundred volts by dragging my shoes over a nylon carpet.

[@greatthinker4209]

Nuclear power is green when you know how to actually design and build one

[@franchocou]

Y try building on your own backyard

[@dusscode]

You've never heard of nuclear waste, haven't you?

[@greatthinker4209]

@@dusscode ever heard of thorium reactors?

[@dusscode]

GenericTroll ever heard of optimism? www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium

[@SimonZellox]

@@dusscode nuclear waste is green. We dug up radioactive materials and put them back into the earth. The products just decay a lot quicker than uranium.

[@LiterallyMark1]

This is all good and all until we realise how little power they produce.

[@anubis1119]

the sun flower one is such a good idea!

[@MegaSnail1]

Wow! So great. How can a municipality get hold of these technologies? Please share. Thank you.

[@1y1y88]

2:27 They clearly took that idea from Rick and Morty anyone else is a fan and understands this?

[@laser4beam430]

This may be wrong but is it the thing inside of the quantum car battery?

[@1y1y88]

​@@laser4beam430 yeah it is those little people stepping on the pads of the battery

[@1y1y88]

@@laser4beam430 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqfFenarnrOaaa8 watch it on 0:36

[@prmikey]

The flooblecrank

[@juangal7569]

I've seen some of these a year ago

[@1953beetle]

Also,have a read of "How to live without electricity and like it" by Anne Wigmore.More hands on.

[@randominternetguy3537]

No thanks, electricity is sort of, y'know, revolutionary and I need it to warm up my house. Michigan is a shit show when it comes to temperature changes. We went from ~0°F to ~86°F real temp. I forget when but I left the house in a thicc jacket and I had to change because it was 70 not 13-19 like yesterday.

[@1953beetle]

@@randominternetguy3537 😂

[@CountingStars333]

Ow no... but okay.

[@alfianfahmi5430]

Pavegen tiles: Exist Covid-19: Also exists Pavegen tiles: 😔🔫

[@robertmills4478]

You are correct , the "FLU" does exist !!

[@jimc.63]

I may have missed it and I can't find it on the site. What is the max watt power surge. Thanks

[@The_General_Zubas]

3:35 Yuuup! Offshire1 Wind and Solar. Hell, I bet we coudl even try Geothermal on the water if the Conditions are right. Geothermal is the backup for the backup.

[@Tyler_0_]

#12 is bs, it's just a crappy disposable battery that requires you to fill it with salt water.

[@andersonleandro3210]

Ótimas invenções para o mundo, e essas tecnologias renováveis os governos não querem infelizmente pq sabe o pq né??💸

[@real_Pinoy]

We had these innovations for years but we still use Fossil fuels

[@deborahduthie4519]

I love watching the fantastic changes at can make a world a different, better place to live.

[@MrSummitville]

You cannot afford this device, most people cannot ...

[@margaretneanover3385]

The whirlpool turbine is awesome .great All are nice to see the course to having enough.

[@The_General_Zubas]

3:40 Oof. Thats gonna be in Jeopardy.

[@victorious276]

Here's an idea: instead of trying to emit fewer emissions, why not turn the amount of annual emissions into a negative number? What we need is not something low-emmision or carbon-neutral. We need something *emission-negative,* or *carbon-consuming.* We need gadgets that *consume* carbon emissions and turn them into useful compounds that can be used to make things that won't pollute the planet.

[@davidborges2193]

yes. its called plants

[@VoltsRu]

It all looks very cool!

[@kauboy8190]

How to make that 6th one .... Really good work by the team .

[@brentevje5939]

I would dare to say none of the 16 things hear wear made 100 percent from solar or wind still need oil and gas!

[@localnyraccoon]

6:52 so a knockoff of the Tesla Powerwall

[@seasong7655]

3:45 None of them actually work

[@sailRichard]

Prove it

[@seasong7655]

@@sailRichard click the number

[@tomkelly8827]

@@seasong7655 It looks like they are newly installed but not yet connected to the grid load so the brakes are on to keep the electricians from being electrocuted while they are wiring it all together. If they were turning while someone was wiring, the shock would kill them.

[@CarlosAM1]

First of all they are being installed, second, this shit cant power a city.

[@CountingStars333]

@@CarlosAM1 You like big Oil Carlos. Work in a gas plant?

[@andrewemerson1613]

curious about how densely those blade-less turbines can be arranged in a wind farm because they would have less impact on the air flow around them so you could put them closer together. like I wonder if even if each one is less powerful, if they would yield more electricity per acre of land, or water used

[@jamesroyal1739]

Those tiles could be made to be used on the highway, that would be cool

[@mohammadtipu7094]

2:15 I were thinking about to make electicity by this way. But now I see someone already make it.

[@talha1943]

I had the same idea, but I knew someone would have already thought that.

[@bigblue2216]

4:58 What a joke "Blade less" I'm not an engineer and I can see this is hokum !

[@jmt6137]

Big Blue ,dude seriously the blades are covered and wind is made to flow through it so yea it is BlAdeLess

[@nuclear_fission]

@@jmt6137 well you see, If you would pay more attention in physics class......, then you will get why this is bad idea.

[@ilikepizza1211]

6:16 that's a gasoline car

[@graysonreeves6114]

@@CarlosAM1 gasoline aand diesel are not the same and are incompatible with each other

[@mrgibbs2088]

@@CarlosAM1 simple reminder one makes car go vroom the other makes truck go vroom

[@CarlosAM1]

@@graysonreeves6114 perhaps the car shown was a diesel car

[@CarlosAM1]

@@mrgibbs2088 yet again, perhaps the car shown was a diesel car

[@TheDailyLife-y3o]

Please more of this content. I love it!

[@abdulmohammed3645]

These inventors are the real heroes