Billionaire behind 5-hour ENERGY takes on new project

5-hour ENERGY Founder Manoj Bhargava has big plans outside the energy drink space. CNN Correspondent Rachel Crane finds out how the former monk and Princeton dropout plans to address the world's most pressing problems.

[@dixinears8004]

The world needs more people like this man.

[@rdbchase]

No, we'd be better off with no scam artists.

[@higguma]

@@rdbchase Fellow Thunderfooter

[@matthewhankins1577]

No thx we have plenty of crackheads

[@Prince-gu8or]

Billionaires 🤔

[@pete6705]

@@rdbchase I don’t know if I’d call him a scam artist, I think he just has a lot of ideas that don’t work. I don’t think he’s actually selling any of this stuff, they’re all just a bunch of failed concepts.

[@triplethreathighlights3266]

Coolest billionaire you'll ever see. So much LOVE in his heart. I wanna be like him

[@AdrianTap]

no Melon Tusk?

[@ematv1967]

I from Nigeria and we have a really bad electricity supply problem, almost every household uses generators which exhumes lot of carbon monoxide into the air and, sometimes, kills an entire family. Can the CNN crew please reach out to the inventor to introduce the light powering machine to the Nigeria market. thanks.

[@tange-lq5jg]

ema obas you have Wi-Fi use it to find him his name is on the video google his name you will track him down contact him yourself or his building

[@theyoungindians9027]

Ema's TV u can reach out to him directly through twitter / his website

[@globalsetdarkpool8276]

would be nice to have a underground..... crew using this invention for you all there. Hold on.... change is coming

[@anshumansingh7766]

Ema's TV plz come to india or u have to buy hans power back 300

[@Stephensouraski]

Right before my final, I took a extreme 5 hour energy, I felt like my heart was going to explode and could not concentrate.

[@billwang8502]

King Bladwin IV lmao

[@Jonathan-uo6ui]

King Bladwin IV that's weird cause it should be the opposite it should come up slowly not like red bull for example

[@TXLOVER]

King Bladwin IV I took 3 out of a 4 pack in one night. because it couldn't work on me. I kept feeling sleepy. then I nearly died from exhaustion.

[@cf2523]

Francisco Arredondo shit

[@zeusdarkgod7727]

@@TXLOVER you are probably add/adhd or a combination of the two.

[@aKidNamedBrady]

I've never actually tried a 5-Hour energy

[@vivekbarchha]

Don't it's a goddamn rip-off.

[@zeusdarkgod7727]

So i just read a forbs article on it. It holds about as much caffeine as a large starbucks coffee, but more then that the vitamins that are in it are designed to cause blood circulation and energy. So its definitely one of the best energy drinks you can get, just dont go chasing it with more coffee or redbulls or monsters, it can legit be dangerous. But every time you buy 1 you are giving this man more money to help the world as a whole, definitely the best energy drink to spend your money on.

[@alrodriguez7496]

@@zeusdarkgod7727 I take it right before I start my shift, it helps a lot..

[@urlilsolja]

One Billionaire that cares, is good enough for me lol.

[@ayofrtho7014]

urlilsolja they're all too selfish and I guess you're the type of person that'll never be satisfied so just shut up

[@MrSatrio24]

Where is he now? What about his stage 2 innovations?

[@DCFanatic7]

Much respect to a man that just wants to make a difference. No greed for money blinding what he feels is right.

[@higguma]

LoL

[@paulsevy]

Such a cool guy!

[@ematv1967]

it's a win-win you get fit/Exercise and get electricity

[@ioannisa.6368]

Do we have an update to this story ?

[@marc07112]

.............................slow clap for this man!

[@premasajwan5228]

Great, God bless this man.

[@Pedro-vo4gu]

"I don't really care" Exactly what I would of said.

[@stefanzlatanovic9885]

She just focused on how much money he will get from this. Like he gives a fuck.

[@Jonathan-uo6ui]

he's already busy with it for years

[@ahrangels]

Manoj Bhargava we are so grateful your an #agentofchange #Bighugs thank you for helping the forgotten.

[@minimcewen]

I don't sit up in the morning and take an hour to count my wealth either...I wouldn't know what to do with the other 59 minutes 45 seconds. Gotta admire a monk who became a billionaire.

[@yautja9486]

more power Mr. Billionaire. i hope other people like you may converge in to the idea of change for the betterment of this world.

[@zapple7205]

Dont take 5 energy it’d bad for you it makes your heart go faster and that’s not good

[@perfectandslow9689]

I Like This Indian. Hes Beginning To Be My Favorite Indian.

[@nishchaysrivastava6251]

ProducedByONE what about me

[@SameerKhan-nd5qb]

Anddd mEeeeee 🥺

[@HS-dx1jm]

What an amazing indian.

[@nanikmelwani3923]

Well thought of tecnology will surelly help the masses to improve the daily life.

[@markthomas6615]

Love this guy!

[@amaliez1205]

Amazing!!! Why are we not doing this?!

[@SeekoGT]

At the end, he say he has no idea how much money he has. Ballin!

[@0990noe]

RESPECT!

[@jeweljellyjolly]

God bless him ! The world would be a better place if we have more people like him than useless overly paid celebrities and athletes

[@mr_mack_indenver7807]

"Former Monk and Princeton dropout"... What did YOU do today?! Impressive fellow.

[@NavigatedChaos]

This is going to have to be one of the places I visit once I get my vehicle. It's in the same state so why not?

[@irishbrother5303]

Excellent

[@gidgettrophy]

awesome thought process,I want to work with this guy..

[@ferarribrown5752]

Helps me get through my 10hr days. But hey every wekeend is a long weekend

[@SaSaUrmULi1]

I can believe we’re still talking drought when his water invention exists 🤯🤯🤯

[@junito1008]

He said that He doesn't care and doesn't know how much is his fortune!?🤔 I'm sure He does !!

[@divyagupta4590]

Junito Punto Comm he donated 2 billion

[@harshrawat5589]

fabulous

[@silversurfer1967]

The cycle thing was just stuid even in 2015 when he came up with it. For a single light bulb all you need is a battery and a solar panel....this just shows over engineering to stupidity

[@MrDteer]

I was talking to my buddy Scott in 2010 about making a power water condenser. Using wind or solar to make water.

[@patrickbyrne2446]

MrDteer I once spoke to a friend of mine about flying an eagle to the moon...thought I would share something with you which is also pointless to say.

[@SeekoGT]

Why dont I get any sound from this video?

[@bootywurkkk]

that's kind of cool

[@dapencilshinobi]

IM SICK OF THE WORLD HIDING THIS GUY. IVE BEEN FOLLOWING HIM FOR 6 YEARS AND NOTHING YET !! THEY ARE MAKJ G IT HARD FOR HIM TO BRING THIS OUT !!

[@xxnotmuchxx]

put poor countries more in debt

[@sivadatokad8168]

Hey cnn we should probably take that guy more right?

[@dankmemes2263]

legend

[@Leo-bn3yg]

27

[@ianreyes3258]

Anyone watching this in 2021? 😁 I hope that bike is a reality.

[@2JZLS]

If i could make a super-car from scratch with Manoj Bhargava id have the best hybrid unit in the world.

[@lostmeme9862]

This dude invented caffeine in a small bottle, now it’s time for the rain maker and free electric

[@Ivan_Magana]

Want to like for this guy but then dislike for cnn, I'll just leave it alone this one time..

[@CaffeineAddict]

that's what we like to see:)

[@dapencilshinobi]

Now where is he ? ALL HIS IDEAS ABOUT THE FREE WATER ? Nothing since ? Hmm

[@josephld2260]

If I was rich like him I would be so similar.

[@edwindeleon1130]

can you make water powered car that stan meyers made or replicate it.

[@CrazyGame1]

DOES ANYONE ELSE FEEL THE URGE TO HAND SHAKE EM OR TO HUG EM?

[@lynns.1872]

wow!

[@TameTusker]

I am a Canadian of Indian origin. I am basking in reflected glory - Manoj Bhargava is an American of Indian origin.😊👍😊

[@saketbhushan5495]

Jai Hind

[@prashantbari776]

Where are you

[@VIKING33NY]

What an Incredible human being, He cares. Thank You, Sir!!

[@gopinadhmaddukuri6087]

I have another idea for that.

[@indyola9738]

The math is all bad. The bike will generate about 100 watts while being ridden hard by a healthy rider. Doing this for 5 minutes will generate about 8.33 watt hours. Using that over 24 hours gives us about one third of a watt, if we have a battery that can store it and give it back with 100% efficiency. (We don't)

[@ryanrodrigues6127]

Thank you Bhargav

[@keisha5542]

👍

[@sammybwoy]

Black mirror coming in to fruition

[@turboagua3188]

👏👏👏👍

[@sprsae9003]

5 hour energy? try some powder and you'll have a 10 hour energy!

[@AracaneLive]

He’s an idealist kinda like me

[@kirtipandit2010]

Gujarati....rocks

[@rohitchaudhary9155]

kayp kayp It a just human ,By the way it belong to usa

[@bushgreen260]

why would you need that secondary heart thing

[@neil8250]

they explained it in the documentary, Billions in Change, it suppose to mimic the heart and work with your heart sooo in time your body has more easier time circulating the blood throughout the body

[@bushgreen260]

Neil P yes but who would need it? is it for old people or people with weak hearts heart problems?

[@zeusdarkgod7727]

@@bushgreen260 yes, as well as a host of other problems, strokes i believe could benefit from it as well.

[@matthewhankins1577]

This guy is like "Pfffp I dont count my money cause I spend it all on crack"

[@chitibusu]

1h of pedaling = 24 hours of house energy, abouy 3-4-5-6 Kw/day ???!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Prove it!!! Maybe if SUPERMAN is on bike!!!!

[@Litt13F00t]

*1 hr of pedaling AFTER you drink a 5 hour energy ;)

[@juanperezweb]

Only for a 15w led bulb

[@shshankking]

$45000 :-O

[@user-sj7sc4jh9e]

मनोज भार्गव या उनके ओफिस का नम्बर दिजिऐ

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

He got the idea for the bike generator from Soylent Green.

[@STEVEN-GULLA]

Smart dude 👌🏽👍🏽👏🏽

[@totenkopfkatzen6904]

One of the few persons that deserves to be rich

[@carolynepatrick6728]

I bet Jeff Bezos,Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg are not into what he's been doing..Just sayin.

[@axelfoley1406]

True...But have ANY of his ideas been brought to fruition? Or is it all just talk so simple minded folk will buy into it? They are great ideas, but hardly new.

[@christophergray3424]

Vote this guy for president please

[@nasgothus]

Why don't schools teach us about people like him? For the very same reason we are not taught about Tesla.

[@electrodacus]

Bike to generate energy is one of the most stupid idea ever. A typical 250W PV panel that costs less than $200 will produce as much energy as two or three fit people on two or three of those bikes. So a person will need to pedal for 4 to 5 hours a day for the next 25 to 35 years and produce as much energy as a less than $100 worth of solar PV panel will do over the same period.

[@electrodacus]

You need cables and battery with the bike also and bike is probably more expensive than PV panel. A professional athlete can not sustain more than 200W for a few minute. So assuming this best case then you get about 16.6Wh in 5 minutes of intense pedaling and that is good enough to fully charge a smarphone or to power a very small 2W LED light for 8h. Most people will probably need to pedal intensely for 10 minutes to get the same amount of energy. A 250W PV panel can do the same while sitting in the sun for 5 minutes. If that rural household has such a low energy demand probably just some low power LED lights and a radio not much more at 0.2kWh/day based on the athlete pedaling for one hour a day. Same amount of energy can be produced by just a 50W panel in an average day outside and that can cost probably less than $40 So comparison here is between the bike (not sure the cost) + one hour per day intense exercise vs a single $40 PV panel that can do this for the next 25 to 50 years (the bike and the person will probably not last more than the panel for sure). I'm an EE and I design solar equipment you can see my youtube channel. I understand well this numbers. I also live offgrid and my house is fully powered by solar and soon even the heating (in Canada) will be provided 100% by PV panels. We do not even use horses anymore for their energy so not sure why someone will want to enslave humans to generate that insignificant amount of energy.

[@electrodacus]

The idea is that whatever else is needed in therms of storage will be the same in both case and what is different is as I mentioned on one side a $40 PV panel and on the other side the bike and generator + the work human needs to do every day. The physical work alone of one hour workout each day for the next 25 to 50 years is not worth just $40 the cost of the PV panel. Human energy is just to valuable to be used lighting up an LED light.

[@electrodacus]

Even if there is less sun there will still be solar energy. The most overcast day at my location will still produce about 5 to 10% of what a full sunny day will. I have an extremely energy efficient house that I designed and build and I use 3x 240W panes plus a 2.5kWh LiFePO4 battery that provides me with an average of 60kWh/month enough for all my appliances including electric cooking. The sort of power consumption they where talking about is good for a small LED light and a laptop working about 8h/day nothing else that is about 10x less energy than my house uses so my small system can power 10 of those house. A lot of athletes and a few of those bikes running for hours will be needed to power my small efficient house. When I will also fully heat my house I will need to increase the PV array to 10kW (battery will remain the same size) since energy for heating will be stored in a much more inexpensive thermal mass storage. If you are curious about my system check my current Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/electrodacus/digital-mppt-and-solar-bms-for-a-net-zero-energy-h and see the first pdf presentation there.

[@electrodacus]

As long as there is day even if sun completely obscured by clouds there will still be energy produced by solar PV panel and quite significant amount as mentioned before. Thus even if is overcast for months a PV panels will still be more cost effective by large margins. Say you oversize the PV array 10x so 500W instead of the 50W panel that will do the same as you pedaling for a few hours a day. Say for the next 30 years x 365 days you pedal 4h a day to produce as much as a 50W panel in relatively sunny location or 500W panel in completely overcast locations and that 500W panel cost $400 probably same as the bike (but say bike is free so you just need to pedal). 30years x 365 days x 4h = 43800 hours of pedaling and now $400/43800 = 0.9 cent/hour so a bit less than 1 cent per hour is what I will pay you to pedal for me so I do not need to get the panels :) and also bike is free. Is just not comparable. Bike to generate power is as I mentioned a realy bad idea.

[@rejuvenatingsoul3498]

A solar panel is a commodity in poor countries, they could get stolen, plus if its monsoon, you're out of electricity for couple of months. Also solar panels requires installation, a trained person and technical labour is expensive in poor countries. With these bikes, you can distibute them 20 villages a day, with solar, you have to visit each household, which gets expensive overtime.

[@scottpaynter9779]

Anyone know how to get a hold of this man ? I am wanting someone to help share my free energy turbine with the world , (RHEP)reverse hydro electric propulsion .50,000 pounds of trapped constant energy × 2 ,24/7 no b.s. just want to get this to someone who will share it with the world ,I'm not able to make it happen and I'm sure he could, any help would be greatly appreciated

[@zeusdarkgod7727]

Twitter him or Elon musk

[@ericlaforge9445]

I count my money because it's easy with my 10 fingers. one billion I hope you don't count.

[@miningminds4christ]

those are expensive for the poor overall great innovation .

[@Neojhun]

This is the prototyping stage where all the real hard work is done. These projects seem to be no where near production stage. Hopefully the production versions will be much cheaper.

[@dasalekhya]

@Dato 20 years ago people like you said the same thing about *smart phones* ... with mass production, now even beggars have them

[@kingwillbisthebest]

CNN girl is hot.

[@mrbigolnuts3041]

Shes a babe

[@rajeshpratapsinghsingh500]

Angel God

[@saltymonke3682]

Fake news?

[@safuulicious-youngfirepit8870]

this video is old man

[@patrickbyrne2446]

wtf who's going to lay $250 for a bike to power 1 bulb for a few hours?

[@CodeGr88n]

Pat B. lol you're too simple minded to see how this could transform the world over time. you also didn't pay attention when he said stage 2 will allow them to subsidize the bike to lower income families.

[@patrickbyrne2446]

S James you can only subsidise the cost if you sell them in stage 1 as I'm certain he's not opening up a charity. so I think you don't know anything about business otherwise that would have been your first thought rather than reply to my obvious critique. I guess over time I'll get proved right and you'll sound like an idiot. good bye small minded person.

[@patrickbyrne2446]

S James oh and I didn't even point out there are better cheaper ways of producing more energy from other companies out there....a nice bit of PR for his energy drink business though.

[@ZubinB]

Pat B. Noone. This guy is an attention seeker and nothing more. It's not like he can grow his profits any further from his energy drink so.

[@TsarOfRuss]

Can i paddle it for 1 hour and run my TV for hours too?

[@saltymonke3682]

Fake news?