The beautiful future of solar power | Marjan van Aubel 

@Hello Harold Baker, How are you doing?

Don't rest at being hopeful, please ♡ We need to demand the politicians of our cities, states, countries, to implement these things.

@@Yanaschaf so they can ruin the country you are living in? If this things made real sense like LED there would be no laws or politicians needed... It's just a trend called green that will make landfills fulls of a new kind of non recyclable trash... ♻️ from something that before were recyclable...

what's with the troll?

@@SolarControlFilms be nice to david, give him a chance to think things through

@@lilithanonymu425 just so you know...world population will stop growing at 11 billion. google rosling statistics. robots will take most jobs. that is a very bad prospect for the ultrarich 0.001 percent. So: mariuhana will be legal planet wide.,already equalling the facebooks, amazons and googles on wall street as investment goldmine. Why do you think that is ? to keep the masses docile, hooked on your rectangle (the one you are looking at right now), with a joint in hand... all those pro cannabis activists are being fooled big time.

@@lilithanonymu425 The federal Govt pays for it, you think we need to beg Jeff Bezos for his tax $ to pay for it? Hah!

I just retired after 35 years as a roofer. I mainly worked on commercial roofing. I ran a repair crew for ten years. That means I fixed the leak over your desk. I’ll tell you where you never put solar. Never attach it to the roof. Trust me it gives you a greater possibility of a leak. Anyone that lets some guy install solar / a satellite dish on your roof. And you see them with a tube of caulking. Run them off. I have one more roof to install. Mine. Then I will install solar at ground level. If you do have to install in the roof. Do the following 1. New roof 2. Attach solar on a floating support ( no holes ) with a protective material between it and your roof . 3. Have the power wires enter the structure below the roof. Maybe at ground level. 4. Now I can not say this enough. Silicone belongs in your bathroom . It does not belong on your roof. Or a outside surface. Enjoy solar it certainly has its benefits. On your roof is not the place for it. Its the right location being high up. 5. If you own a building with a flat roof . Remember to install a good protective material between the roof and mounting base for panels. Oh and pick up all the debris left from the heating and AC guys. They leave screws laying everywhere.

lars van dijk : And how much does it cost?

@@PAVANZYL a solar panel about that size goes around $200 .. $30 for some China made electronic boards .. plus extras .... or about $250 more than a regular table. It costs 50 cents a year to charge an iPhone .. if your whole family uses it every day, the table will have paid for itself in just over 50 years! .. such gadgets are only for fun, or for appeasing the obsessed, .. just not very practical.

@Iamathiest butiamgood no, it's a fraud.

I on the same way to you

NUCLEAR POWER NOW!

@James I was naturally referring to its' applications to designers to make them more appealing to the masses. Nevertheless, if you feel the need to make sarcastic comments in order to inflate your own eago then be my guest! :D I'd hate to get in the way of whichever digital prescription you've prescribed yourself to help get you through the day.

First of all predictable is not reliable, the best example for that is everyday when it gets dark solar predictably doesn't produce any power when demand is highest. And btw there are weather forecasts for wind as well as cloud coverage, so I don't see how wind is less predictable. And storage ... first of all do a back of the envelope calculation there is no way to store enough energy in summer to get reliably through winter. Also there is next to no capacity left for new pump-hydro-storage, every good location has been taken and new ones are basically impossible due to environmental protection and local resistance (people don't like to get their houses flooded). And yes there are other storage solutions that are way more expensive and way less capable and aren't gonna get build for the same reasons as pump-hydro plus the extra cost factor. Also advocating for big solar especially in northern Europe can only come from someone whose income depends on selling said solar because that has nothing to do with sustainability (those things need to be produced and that has a giant ecologic footprint as well and they don't last longer just because there are in the north ... so no longer lifetime just less energy in this lifetime). And keep in mind since solar+wind is so unreliable you would need to build giant overcapacity to get through bad days of clouds, short days and little wind as those conditions aren't uncommon in winter or keep a fleet of gas turbine power stations for those times

Solar is not reliable and is most of the time combined with natural gas. There is a reason those big gas companies are pushing for solar. We need reliable clean energy and for now only nuclear is up to the task.

@@TheBreed010 I agree with you on most points, apart from: - I'm not involved in any way with selling/producing solar panels, I honestly think that even in best scenarios we still need some 4th gen nuclear power plants (not yet implemented) or even better fussion poer plant (far from implementation, ITER will still be mostly scientific experiment) - wind is less predictable than solar power, depending on day or even weeks, there might be long periods with no wind created electricity at all, where solar panels even in worst scenarios generate some power, my parents life near wind turbines, they look nice, they don't disturb their lafies in any way, but even when there is a lot of wind not always all of them all on (probably due to servising), and when there is not enough wind they don't work at all - storing, I agree on water solution, I'm not really into this, I just heard about this and rolling stones up and down a slope, probably there are another reasonable solutions, but I simply don't know them - "northen europe" was my wring, I meant central, in germany solar power is very cheap, but I doubt that it will be reasonable in scandinavian countries, at least norway has 97% their electricity from hydro power plants

@@TheChrisaige Yes and no, how about hydro power plants in places like fiords? Also, 3rd gen fusion reactors are good but not that brilliant, 4gen will come soon, those should be brilliant, if I remember correctly, 95% less waste, and 4th gen can reuse waste from previous generations as a fuel. There is always question of fission power, which might be avaible in 10-25 years, we don't know that, but there is one promising sign, private sector has started to develope them, so some companies think that tehnology is nearly good enought, so there is some hope for incredibly cheap electric power. My intend of that comment was: "it's not really about designing solar powers to make them look nice what can make them really into really important source of electricity, what we need to do is improve them and make them cheap"

well fusion is at least 50 years away from noteworthy contribution (20 years till DEMO and at least 10 years for 1st gen development and a decade of building up the numbers). 4th gen fission is also at least 15 years away probably even more, also I don't think that a closed fuel cycle with such high efficiency is possible (but it's also not needed). Regarding nuclear waste, you can reduce that by about 90% or so by just reprocessing the spent fuel which mostly doesn't happen because of political reasons but even if you don't do that the amount is miniscule due to the high energy density of the fuel but getting rid of it is again not a technical issue but rather a political as it turned out. To sum it up at least in Europe going nuclear is certainly not an option due to political unfeasibility. I don't think fjords carry that much water to really justify the destruction of the landscape but even if I don't think Norway is interested in destroying their fjords for a couple extra GW of power for other countries and they certainly can't power the rest of Europe or even a significant part of it. My bets are on some form of carbon capture and maybe a bigger role for nuclear but I have a hard time seeing that. I would recon we will most likely just don't do a whole lot about it until it really starts to impact many nations (with higher economy) and then maybe a big international carbon capture effort on the cheap but I haven't seen cheap CC for such a massive scale but ... we'll see

Yeah, about time

This isn't science it's design and science fiction... Nothing to be proud of.. it's more likely a fraud

Both at the same time. People are more willing to buy something if it is beautiful and doesn't cost too much. Practicabilty and cost effectiveness doesn't have to be ugly. We're just indoctrinated that beauty is only for the wealthy.

You used the right words... this feels like but it's not.. at all... it's in real a steb back and it makes people more dependent on multinational companies... Just imagine If this glass becomes mandatory ...

@Hello Abed Elkassih, How are you doing?

it depends in a city environment when theres a lot of skyscrapers blockin light, it may not be economical

Solar is NOT free!!! when you take production and storage over night in batteries into account its a very expensive energy source. At least in most areas

Solar LIGHT is free. When you have to convert it into useable energy, it becomes a whole different cost picture...

@@janvanput Ok then Coal, Gas and Uranium is also "free" as long as we dont convert them into usable energy :D

Talks like these contribute to make it viable by economies of scale. Just like Tesla roadster came before the model S.

The cost of unsubsidized solar is already lower than coal in many places and the cost of solar is reduces by 75% every 10 years (Swanson's law). Solar is entirely viable right now and will blow past old forms of power in the coming decade. As for storage, let us just power all of daytime use before we have to worry about that.

Let me enlighten you... Solar is dark because it need to absorb light not reflecting it... and pannels are square ⬛ for a simple reason, easy to package, uses lesser space to transport and it's stackable, it cost lesser to produce ... And overall it can fill your rooftop better than any other shape or design... Any other questions?

@@fireworm91 wow thanks for ur clear explanation!! When I asked that questions, actually i was wondering before that by looking at her design, why cant we use colorfull and not square-shape solar panel like her work so we can have customized design. So the 'conventional' solar panel is basicly for functional & efficiency purpose.

Designing new models is good. But I think, to produce efficiently 1000's of gigawatts to our world it's possible with off grid projects with standard solar panels. 😊

Check the dial on your wallet for a quite different experience

@@PLF... sorry but I don't understand

Realistically it's 20-30% efficency for a good solid fixed position solar panel

SunPower makes the highest efficiency panels at 23% efficiency, anything higher than that can only be found in a lab at this point in time.

SunPower solar PV panels are also Cradle to Cradle Certified for clean chemistry, clean disassembly and remanufacturing in a "circular economy".

Tim van Neijenhoff she is talking about Multijunction solar cells made of exotic and expensive materials used for Space satellites application, the best solar PV cell in the world

37% now.

You should look into the one that talks about Nuclear Power

at this point it's very clear no government is willing to step up and do anything of real impact.

@@FranciscoSciaraffia true.

Change is inevitable!

I think the solar panels are on the floor of the greenhouse but again will be blocked by the plant pots, foliage, holding structure, led lights, wires and water pipes. So yeah, it will not be efficient at all. Better leave the solar panels outside unblocked from direct sunlight. She is not an engineer, she is trying to make it pretty at the depends of efficiency and cost.

Cool, you can make anything sound stupid if you only selectively hear. Remember that it had hydroponic functions as well, it wasn't just to power lights. Also, plants are more receptive to some wavelengths of light than others, so by being able to control that wavelength you could increase the efficiency of the photosynthesis. By doing it right, you could speed up the growth of the plants by a substantial amount. It might not be the best use of the technology, but it isn't as dumb as you tried to make it sound.

Hey, it was computer generated, and as with all things computer generated especially with kick starter, they are totally LEGIT and feasible regardless of the laws of physics.

Integration destroys culture.

​@BLAIR M Schirmer It's a TEDx talk, so it's independantly organized. But yeah, to make this forum for ideas about diversity and gender isn't really helping the goal. Why do they only invite smart people?! Discrimination! ;P ​ Big Gus We started with a million cultures in separate tribes and are on the way to a more and more united world. Different cultures are what wars were fought for...

@@biggus6633 changes, not destroy. too much fear involved.

Jelani Olamina Solar for Idiots and Solar for Gullible. They say the same thing.

Doesn't exist...

*yet

@Hello Rick Harold, How are you doing?

Recycling.

Yeah, but it is mostly pie in the sky view from a designer, not a down to earth and practical view from an engineer with plenty of stats and ETA on availability.

Cosmic what's your solution? You seem to have a problem with this brilliant optimistic speaker and her ideas, what's your solution? I'm sure you have a Ted talks of your own coming soon but I just can't wait that long. Please enlighten all of us.

Kaleb Markstrom nuclear is the only solution

So... Beautiful landfills filled with radioactive Pistons? How do you think nuclear power works? Multi tier approach is probably the right thought process. Maybe with enough smart people like you thinking about a diverse group of ideas we can collectively solve our energy problem.

Recycle it

Hehe