16 Inventions Getting Us Off Fossil Fuels 

Thinking outside the box of course.

Germany: *SWASTIKA TIME*

@@evohori thanx for remembering beyond...

Honestly its ineficient...

@@NoName-nr2iw no, you are not!🙏

LOL!

I didn't get it 🥺

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

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

@@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)).

@@juliansoni2439 btw r/woosh

@@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

Thanks

Yess

I would like to hear more updates about these renewable supplies of energy and I was wondering about the agriculture and using hemp and ethanol

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

Gotta send them the salmon cannon video.

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

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

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

@@CarlosAM1 lots of them will thou

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

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.

@@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.

And be highly space inefficient.

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.

Me too.

Same

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

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

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.

I need that one

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

Burning the gas generates pollution, getting it not so much. It wouldn't really help in terms of emissions.

@@trollenbier9278 Well its rather self sufficient we just put our household wastes into the biogas plant and it produces gas for cooking.

@@trollenbier9278I prefer biogas than putting our shit into the ocean

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.

@@rogerbarton497 lol! spare some for Michael too

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

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

Stonks

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?

@@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).

Show off 😉

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

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

I’m sorry 😕

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

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

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

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

Dude, youre going too deep into this

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

@@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

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

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" 🤦‍♂

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

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

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.

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

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

@@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.

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. 🙄

@@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.

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

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

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.

@@mikeyunovapix7181 only 30 years away

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

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

Floating on water turbines

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

more complexity for no real gain.

@@MDP1702 can u please stop being right

@@bernd8608 Happens unfortunately all too often ;)

Low budget Creat indipendent

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

super mario how do you possibly spell this many things wrong

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

And Tokyo

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

No, it can be converted by almost everything

I love it too..my favourite 🇦🇺

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

@@entx8491Kinetic through the flow of water

@@isubtothebest6020 and?

Hidralight is one time use

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.

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.

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.

Because a lot of the time they are not practical

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

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

Absurd

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

Sadly an example of low supply and demand, but it doesn't mean the process is inherently expensive

*SELL YOUR HOUSE* A little sacrifice we have to make for mother nature

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.

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

@@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.

@@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.

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

Yey

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

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

Emphasis on LITTLE

@@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?

@@CCPJAYLPHAN1994 you are 100% wrong

We aren't destroying the planet. We are destroying common sense.

Right!

Redditor

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

@@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.

@@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.

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

Batteries

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

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

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

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

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.

@@randominternetguy3537 😂

Ow no... but okay.

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

Nothing happening here

Its called solar cycles, its the source of the so called, climate change.

amazon ain't burning more than in 2018, fake news. amazon rain forest still is in danger, at least it's fake news with a good cause.

@@jjc5475 Do you live in Brazil?

I will, and I've been planning to, but I don't know what to call it. I don't want it to just be about climate change though. I want it to be about how are selfish and greedy decisions will leave us in a regretful situation. I will talk about environmental issues but I don’t know what to call the video.

Apq

Rockefeller happened

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.

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

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?

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

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

diego arana 💯

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

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

@@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.

SolOcean floating solar technologies

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.

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