2235 The Flow Battery And Energy Storage That Actually Reduces CO2

[@meowzic]

Thank you for explaining things in a way that even someone with limited knowledge like me can understand.

[@brucemoffatt]

Thank you! There's no way I would have been able to understand this without your video.

[@mikaelfransson3658]

Thanks Robert! this is 1kWH fore a few quids! It give hope! /Mikael

[@TheWorldBelow360]

Whatever we do, we need to feed the Oceans. I like big tuna sandwiches and I don’t want to ever have to run out.

[@FRZ5951]

Thanks. You can't beat a good battery video.

[@Warp9pnt9]

Potentially exciting for municipal scale renewable grids, to store as much excess energy as possible, to even out demand spikes with equivalent battery supply, minimizing reliance on fossil fuels. The small scale could be used for off-grid houses, or all on-grid houses, to decentralize and distribute excess power capacity. I could buy panels, or ground based wind power, rely on battery power more, and sell excess power during extra sunny or windy days.

[@joohop]

Bless Up Lad ❤

[@ruhanhuman3190]

Hi. Enjoying your videos very much. Can you please have a look at the plastic to oil consept. I'm very interested.

[@timnunya9810]

would it be possible to make a car battery into a flow battery by adding an external tank of battery juice?

[@jheo267]

Thnk you kind sr❤

[@bryanoneill5047]

The video seems to skip over the step required to make the graphite into an electrode, did you attach it to ? and then dip it in resin, so many questions.

[@phillipshorter7751]

Graphite works just fine as a short-term electrode without any treatment at all.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

that's exactly what i did mate

[@gj7685]

Have you tried it with charcoal Robert instead of graphite?

[@MrFujack103]

4:22 put that pot on your head and say “just like that” again haha 😂😂

[@DavidPaulNewtonScott]

I have figured out once and for all how to power my house in Portugal. The problem i have been trying to get Robert to do is produce a device that will generate 50 to 100 watts. I realised that did it 54 years ago. I had a honda 50 motorbike and I fed the output of the gas stove lighter into the carburetor. I the turned off the petrol and it used up all of the petrol in the carburetor. It then carried on running happily on tickover. Now how much gas was it getting ? Well if you can imaging a flame the size of a candle but as thin as a pencil about 1 inch long. That's it a pilot light basically. Ok now buy a generator and repeat the whole thing with propane or butane gas bottle feeding a small generator then you are home and dry. Now just put a tiny load on it like charging a cordless power tool battery and it will not stall the generator. So how much power are we talking about here? A candle is about 80W so lets say the gas is more efficient and say we are getting 25% efficiency so we are getting 25W. You can run a lot on 25W 24/7 just running at that rate that gas bottle is going to last a long time. Of course you could even use biogas. I will put it on my channel sometime in September when I get back to Portugal.

[@mikeguitar9769]

I’m thinking that if you charge a supercapacitor in an electrolyte of Sparkling water and then discharge it in an electrolyte of non-sparkling water it will generate electricity.

[@RupertBruce]

Strange comment section... I like the idea of the sequestered gas producing fertilizer!

[@Struthio_Camelus]

Good afternoon!

[@jrazzarelli]

you know what other method of energy storage reduces CO2? Trees. Yep. Trees...

[@garyl6031]

Interesting, wonder if this could be used in place of lithium hydroxide cartridges to absorb co2 on something like the ISS.

[@TechnoCrat-s4p]

How do u select the topics for video?

[@TheKlink]

whim, i think.

[@adespade119]

The negative electrode is the Anode ? in your diagram ? at 1:39 Don't worry, I won't tell anyone :)

[@colleenforrest7936]

I saw a video from the university of Michigan there they stated that they were getting results from a certain form of activated carbon that was performing close to ... And I can't remember if it was platinum or palladium, but it might be worth someone wanting to investigate. The video was on biofuel cells using soil bacteria

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

i might have seen the same thing - i will have to dig around!

[@szogun1987]

Comment posted just after seeing the title: is it about feeding algae with fumes?

[@lightcapmath2777]

Stored energy in fluids. Perhaps new filling stations will evacuate old and pump new liquids in..Ummmmm DVD:)

[@selfcorrected-Bobby]

What if we could obviate the need for 'storage'? What if as in 1874 the magnets of the AC generator ARE the store of value / energy? I love video 1874. Earnshaw's theory is dependent on the shape of the magnet. Although is dependent on spin. The field is active and not a static thing, and its this invisible motion of the magnetic field that requires balancing through spin and design of the magnet, and voila a frictionless magnetic bearing-rotor. But isn't magnetism just a form of ''non-general gravity''? I'm no scientist. As a quack however I do love to try and get things right. Awesome show. No but really, the magnets as the store of value. The coil could be decoupled even though the generator still spins (say in a negative pressure vacuum on the moon's low gravity, or in a room with atmosphere on earth). Or, the levitating magnetic rotor-bearing is decoupled from the base so as to preserve the magnetism longer, kind of like an OFF switch. However the magnetic field can't be switched off, it's say a property of the alloy, tetreanite and oh well, this could be molded (domains aligned while molten) so as to keep it levitating and spin in place without as according to earnshaw's law, drift to the side. The design should focus on giving lift, spin, and retaining a centered location for this spinning. So you won't NEED a battery. The "battery" is the magnetism of the magnets itself, of the generator, whose magnetism retains that potential kinetic energy which can be decoupled, as a store of value, id est, battery. I'm a huge fan of tetrateanite as it's such an apparently simple alloy to make, and I'll say again that I think maybe it was due to the magnetosphere of celestial bodies that aligned its magnetic domains while it was still molten and flying through space. I may be wrong, I don't know. I'm not a scientist. I prefer to identify as a quack so that I can't be held accountable for any of my postulations. I just need a gorillion dollars and I can build a doddy-drive factory! Later it can be implanted into a gyroscopic system so it can be used on ships, too!

[@selfcorrected-Bobby]

Simplicity is key I say. These videos are just so educational. I always wish that Luke would make an Edutainment series where he raps science lessons for younger learners, would be a true classic, with slides and all. Rap News is SO good. I'm sure it is possible to put it all into rhyme somehow.

[@selfcorrected-Bobby]

I think we should leave CO2 to plants. Thank God! Mind blowing video though.

[@thehazelnutspread]

Plants NEED CO2 therefore WE need CO2.

[@Tasmantor]

This is a joke right?

[@thehazelnutspread]

@@TasmantorCO2 is NOT a pollutant. It is a VITAL gas for plant growth. Our levels are very low despite all the fear mongering going on. Greenhouses pump in CO2 to help the plants grow. This is BASIC biology. If the levels get too low then plant life dies, then so does the rest of life.

[@jacekolejniczak8726]

@@Tasmantor No, this is the truth. All that climate histery is only in USA and EU, countries under Rothschilds rule. The rest of the world laughs at idiots destroying their economies and continues to build steel mills, mines and coal-fired power plants.

[@Alkimi]

Did it make ya laugh? 😏 Did you hear the one about ecological equilibrium and atmospheric homeostasis? Ecological equilibrium and atmospheric homeostasis walk into a bio-dome and Pauly Shore says "what is this, some kind of a joke?"🎉

[@killbubbatm5983]

This comment section is a mess. Like some flow batteries even in large scale could dent the amount of co2 we pump into the atmosphere. Its good tech, too bad it has expensive catalysts.

[@pauljenkinson1452]

Yeah, I think people are coming to the end of their rope about CO2 being the problem especially as this is causing us to use less efficient energy generation resulting in a drop of quality of life. The innovative ways to store CO2 seem madness when view with nature's solution. I am all for new technologies especially if they are more efficient, reduce maintenance, reduce environmental impact in their construction, longer service life but I think this CO2 insanity needs to stop. A better focus would be to make Britain energy self sufficient and not relying on other countries. That is something I would get behind. On a positive note, the flow battery is very interesting so I liked the video based on that engineering.

[@DonalldArmentor]

No problem for the elites,they are exempt. Only problem for the greedy deplorable peasants who want to live above their station I life. The lower class activist footsoldiers for the church of green earth😊 jush haven't realized their place will be with the rest of the deplorables

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

i agree mate

[@papaspeleo]

No CO2 no plants no plants, no life All the best

[@bikerfirefarter7280]

Simpleton.

[@xmysef4920]

Not sure if this is a joke or not but it’s because there’s too much of it.

[@papaspeleo]

@@xmysef4920 brainwashed. I can’t help you. Good would be to start learning how much co2 plants need to survive (it is their oxigen) 2nd you could look at the greenland and antartic ice samples to know how much their was in the past, 3d you could see at physics and determine what are the most prevelant greenhouse gasses, for how much do they contribute, 4th for how much are humans responsible. If you answer al this questions honestly you will start te see true the propaganda. All the best to you.

[@papaspeleo]

@@bikerfirefarter7280 also all the best to you, man off few words.

[@bikerfirefarter7280]

@@papaspeleo 'of'

[@KRAKEN777-u7b]

COME ON ... C02 is 5KAM.. TO FLEECE THE SHEEP

[@rodkeh]

It is self-destructive to limit CO2. CO2 is plant food and the more the better for all life!

[@keithfloyd1178]

and CO2 is plant food.... so there's that.

[@budtonyrip]

not seen it, but reducing co2 is bad, it is good to have more co2, why do you want to reduce this beneficial substance ?

[@adespade119]

So the elites can control what human populations are allowed to do

[@Delchursing]

90Whr/kg, let's compare that to the oil, which is 11kWh/kg, more than 1000 times energy dense. The thing with the green electric future (perfectly balanced supply/demand) is the lack of energy in case of shocks to the system. Living in a city in the past, the street had candles, coal, oil, gas and gad enough energy to adapt when there were shocks. It would be good to keep oil infrastructure, so that everyone in a city could have access to high energy in an emergency (a barrel of oil is a 1.7MWh battery) and a large European refinery will process 500 000 barrels a day. That's close to a TWh of battery each day in the system as a buffer against shocks. Edit: OK, 122 times as energy dense. I was getting a little carried away. But the point still stands. It is not about perfectly balancing renewables vs consumption in normal times but having energy buffer in tough times, especially in cities.

[@cannabearr]

CO2 is good for plants. Pollution on the other hand..

[@ShivaTD420]

Indoor grows need to raise CO2 levels to 1800 ppm to see 30 percent more growth. To reach this 30 percent you need 30 percent more fertilizer, water, sunlight and heat. We are already seeing less rain causing mass droughts. Soil fertility won't support 30 percent more available nutrients. Sunlight isn't going to increase either. This co2 is good for plants thing is a myth. Is your concern that we will deplete all atmospheric CO2 ? I can understand that concern but it seems a non issue while atmospheric CO2 is still rising.

[@shickakaper8028]

😐 scotch tape rips ions apart.. u can prolly just run scotch tape through CO2. If u actually care.

[@k9slayer]

why would anyone reduce a life-giving gas CO2?

[@czechyorker]

I was about to ask the same question. If we reduce the CO2 what will we eat and breathe? Those silly scientists. Who’s paying them to produce this nonsense?

[@D-B-Cooper]

I use nature’s co2 batteries, trees. I then use my cordless heat pump, stove, to pump out heat.

[@turkeytrac1]

Because too much traps heat. Too much heat does huge amounts of damage through all the various life giving systems on earth. Rather simple actually.

[@vidard9863]

Shhhh! You are not supposed to think for yourself, trust the government blindly!

[@ShivaTD420]

​@John-kj5whthere is no natural balance. That's why atmospheric CO2 is rising. A balance would be achieved when this value stays the same.