Next-Gen Solar Energy: Tapping Into the Sun’s Full Power | FD Engineering

[@Bob_Sacamano]

Lightyear already shutdown. sad. sono sion already dead too. Only Aptera is still alive with a chance to get to production.

[@flutieflambert]

And Aptera is more efficient than its failed competitors. Its drag coefficient is 0.13, the lowest of any passenger vehicle ever made.

[@johnreeves7261]

@@flutieflambert Not quite. Check out the 1964 Panhard CD LM64 with a cd of 0.12.

[@---nt5mb]

I had hoped to see a Q version of the Lightyear in the next James Bond.

[@SultanAlwadey]

I thank the owner of this channel for the useful information. I wish you success and success

[@JubletsKrublets]

Very awesome video! Really cool to see mega projects already collecting data in reality.

[@markcrook3220]

Love these documentarys

[@denisdufresne5338]

It is crazing to think that more technologies will fix everything while there are technologies that brought us to all the environmental problems we are facing today.

[@rudolphriedel541]

That lightyear car looks a lot like a VW XL1 from 2011. The XL1 was a production car with a drag coefficent of 0.186.

[@afonsomanuel1585]

What a great video.

[@MyrKnof]

For the lightyear: My bonnet has like 6 deep rock chips, 2 in my windscreen, and my car is barely 3 years old. Most of my km are not even highway/motorway or whatever EU equivalent is called. So how do they hold up to that abuse? I'd also call for solar panels on the side panels and doors as well now that you're at it, the price sure calls for it imo.

[@RollsFPV]

Some 40 odd years ago there was some floating pontoons off the east coast of Australia that took advantage of the temperature gradient in the ocean using it to cool a gas at room temperature to a liquid with the cool water from the bottom of the ocean and as it turns back to gas, spins a turbine generating electricity for free. I wonder what happen to them?

[@ChinchillaBONK]

This video seems dated though

[@GSSurry]

Music video with documentary?

[@keithjansen1734]

What would happen if the breaker were to sense clouds or planes? Can the system distinguish between different object in the sky? A very large portion of the earth is covered by clouds of several types and water within some of them would scatter light.

[@mrkeopele]

finally, maybe , the scarcity hoarding mindset can fall away and we can move forward without the violence of protecting our well being, thank you, no more colonial invasions for energy consumption

[@patrickstarnes2355]

Chernobyl I remember had many safety features Let's pray that they can install a few more on the project 🙏

[@daxhopkins7312]

Yes, but from my understanding, safety features were actively bypassed for testing. It's not the existence of safety features that was needed, it was using them

[@NickWindham]

Why use flat mirrors instead of parabolic dish shaped mirrors that focus the beam?

[@ypey1]

Cost efficiency

[@NickWindham]

@@ypey1 yeah, that’s what I figured. Was wondering if there was any other reason. Thank you though.

[@bradspring8332]

Why not hold this at night only?

[@malvinderkaur541]

Nature again gave desserts and middle east another abundant source without hindrance direct seating solar heat of melting point all they need now to do is get the best solar creators innovators and get going with their another big cache of stored energy apart from fuels

[@billynomates920]

maybe will work when oil is a bit more scarce

[@---nt5mb]

This video seems somewhat out of date, solar is now producing 13.4% of the world’s electricity in 2024.

[@johnreeves7261]

Wow! Would you be so kind as to provide a source for the 13.4% claim?

[@TheJamesRedwood]

2:36 It IS a nuclear reactor in the sky

[@denisdufresne5338]

More technologies request more natural ressources and more energy which lead to more environmental destructions.

[@ristube3319]

9:34 It sounds like it must be exhausting speaking that language all day 😳😴

[@ypey1]

So much money waisted by good intentions😢

[@Tomatriox]

Can't you just cover all roads with solar panels?Plenty of space there.

[@mrxmry3264]

solar freaking roadways? BAAAAD idea, for MULTIPLE reasons.

[@Tomatriox]

@@mrxmry3264 Not because 1 way don't work that it's not possible.

[@TheJamesRedwood]

The narrator is not American (even if it is AI). Why do you still call a liquid "gas"?

[@fredh3855]

Hey engineers! Has everyone’s homes been equipped with solar panels? If every house has solar panels and feed into the electrical infrastructure there is no need build anything. Until every house has solar panels on them all I can see in these projects is a waste of the limited resources by more engineers and corporations.

[@beyondfossil]

I totally agree we need more residential solar. Because producing solar locally and using it locally reduces stress on the grid. Every watt generated and used locally is a watt that doesn't stress a distant power plant to generate, also does not stress the grid to transmit that watt either. Residential and commercial rooftop solar is simply magical! No other energy source can blend so seamlessly into the urban environment like solar can. But residential solar is _not_ a prerequisite for large- utility-scale solar. In fact, residential solar should work to complement large-scale solar: (a) Large-scale solar is the most inexpensive form of energy in history right now (b) large scale solar can scaled up much faster than residential can. China right now is building the equivalent of 5 nuclear power reactors worth with large-scale solar every week! Residential solar is not growing as fast as utility grade solar and we need huge amounts of energy to displace fossil fuels wherever we can get it. Speed of deployment is critical given the immediate existential threat of global warming.

[@ernvxto]

@@beyondfossilvery well said

[@catherinepoloynis]

Yes, if it was part of the construction building codes, like earthquake retrofits, they would be everywhere. However, doesn't the production of solar panels comes with a list of environmental assaults... like lithium mining?

[@beyondfossil]

​@@catherinepoloynis Solar panels don't require lithium. Moreover, every human activity at large industrial scales, has some "assaults" on the environment. But the point is that renewable technology has less of it. More critically, renewable technology, including solar panels & batteries, can be recycled to form a "circular economy". On the contrary, fossil fuels require a 24x7x365 ongoing expense of investments, subsidies, and human labor to explore, drill refine and distribute petroleum. That already incurs major environment degradation and energy expenditure all before a single drop of fuel is burnt. Then, when burnt, we get 20-lbs of CO2 per gallon of diesel and a lot of toxic emissions: CO, NOx, SOx, benzene, PM2.5, a host of volatile hydrocarbons all blown right into our faces in the cities where we live, work, and play. The fossil fuel economy is an unsustainable one-way linear economy from deep in the ground to polluting of the atmosphere. The biggest thing electrification and renewables bring to the table is a "circular economy" where recycling is pivotal.

[@larrytroy3758]

may be able to replace fossil fuel, but you will never replace petroleum completely... almost everything is made of plastics.. plastics are made from petroleum.

[@DaveBuildsThings]

Better to use for goods rather than burn it? Just a thought.

[@maikrolf9356]

the Dutch car maker lightyear is last year already bankrupt and does not exist anymore

[@catherinepoloynis]

That's a shame. I like their focus on practical use for the consumer.

[@gsestream]

pretty cool, but does not capture the heat energy

[@geoms6263]

Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings has launched a pilot project to recycle heat generated from Bitcoin mining to warm a community in Finland. The 2MW data center, energized at the end of May, is located in the Satakunta region, home to 11,000 residents.

[@beyondfossil]

Yep, photovoltaics is just one branch of the whole solar tech tree. There are rooftop solar water heaters that save tremendous amounts of joules of energy since it takes a lot of energy to heat water (4184 Joules per kg water per degree Celsius). Then there's large scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) that uses a large array of mirrors to super heat a tower where sodium is melted into a liquid to store power for a steam turbine. CSP can operate into the evening with the stored daytime heat.

[@MarkParker-z1d]

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[@Winghay.Y13]

First!!!!!

[@jigold22571]

Why not do something which is not obscene and irrelevant to Our current state of affairs like a solar skin to retrofit monstrosities that we build..Definitely the Earth has enough tunnels that we could drive to the moon..

[@beginnereasy]

Wated boils at 212 c and a magnifying glass does 1440 c

[@ChinchillaBONK]

What are you talking about? Water boils at 100°C.

[@muhammadghazi4644]

Wate of resources

[@TheresaMitchell-v4r]

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[@yx5881]

Dangerous putting those in the water…a boat could hit them in the day or night..what gives them the right to take over the waters ? …i say no way…youre putting people in danger and also taking over waters we all own, not just you..fisherman, boaters, everyone..not just you..i say stop this nonsense..

[@geoms6263]

we need to stop people like you. Progress must to go on without you.

[@geoms6263]

we need to stop people like you

[@hlvlslon2739]

Not yours either. You don’t own USA. USA owns you

[@tatsm847]

its not just coastal waters thou. They said they could be placed on dams and reservoirs and also it benefits everyone to produce "green" electricity

[@kenyanvoicenews4579]

​@@tatsm847green energy is just a hearsay