The Future of Energy | Taylor Wilson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Veteran TED speaker Taylor Wilson shares his thoughts on the future of energy.
Taylor Wilson was born in Arkansas in 1994. In 2009 at age 14, Taylor became the youngest person in history to produce nuclear fusion, and went on to develop many novel nuclear technologies including security, medical, and energy innovations, afterwards founding companies to commercialize these inventions. In addition to running his commercial endeavors, Taylor directs several academic laboratories for fundamental and applied research in nuclear science. Along with his commercial and scientific interests, Taylor studies the history of science and technology and works to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers to dream big and use technology to make the world a better place.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
I looked st a hundred of these comments criticizing this young man. I have news, if he spends his entire life trying to help people and he does not succeed at one thing he still lived a better life than any of us.
So true
Yep. You don't achieve anything without trying.
A genuine Genius that's an extrovert, able to communicate his ideas, and is a positive force for Good...Humanity's crown jewel.
Jason Smith For now. Let’s see what happens when life sucks away that altruism.
YES. I hope he will make electricity wireless. I also hope he joins forces Elon Musk & SPACEX.
@@TheJoineryCo. One day he'll run companies like Elon Musk. Better be ready to go long when that happens.
Then I'm here for SRAD research for energy-based direct weapons.
ok...but why are people talking about iron rods made from pressurised iron - to heat water and produce energy with no radioactive comeback being heard or called genius' a system that is an alternative to fusion and is similar to it...this approach produces energy infinitely - limited by how long you keep iron compressed - meaning it can produce more energy than is used for ignition...
I saw a post recently asking who would the next Einstein would be, and I think this young man may very well be the next Einstein, or maybe just the first Taylor Wilson. Amazing young man.
Einstein chose to work aganist the nature by breaking an atom. Tesla's build free, clean energy, but Morgan wanted money, and he destroid Teslas work.
You may well be right
What an amazing human being. He's adorable and insanely intelligent!! The way he speaks is so interesting and the things he's talking about are insanely cool. I appreciate his existence :)
Your right about this guy….Wow !
I disagree.
You mean intelligent?
+Grace Jones I really like your sarkasm :) this guy talks just about himself and then tells nothing new at all. And his way to talk is just average.
Grace Jones ...and his enthusiasm is great! I like that he’s able to convey his thoughts well. Seems so down to earth! I want to give him a fist bump! LOL
I’ve followed his progress since he was on the news in Texarkana AR. He has since his last talk that he is constrained by the same things past innovators were faced with. Major corporations that have patented his proposed technology while it was still on the drawing board. Corporations that are willing to fund your research will also want to own your research and whatever you develop. When someone as bright as this emerges corporations government wants to can find them in their own personal workshops. Whatever it is since his last talk he has learned something that is taking half the wind out of his sails. Observe the passion and excitement from his last talk compared to his passion and excitement in this talk.
Who is John Galt?
Time to GoFundMe him. Get him millions per each step. Not at all at once. Only after he proves what he has done.
If we have people like this Great Kid this World will be a much better place. I wish him good luck and success in his invention efforts.
Brilliant kid, more such people needed!
Somtimes when he said "fusion", I think he meant "fission". Great guy. God bless him. I studied nuclear engineering and I wish I will live to see his dream come true.
He meant 'fusion' . . . fission is the splitting of atoms, like in nuclear bombs.
Keep an open mine. Every science started with absurd ideas.
To anyone saying that there are no news, listen from 6:50. He himself said it's far away.
I'm not bothered by him being so self confident and smart.
I'm bothered by people that do not use their talent for something good but rather bad.
Awesome thanks for the good work
Why does this video not have more views :( this affects us all
brother, you are extraordinary person you are my ideal i am also hard working in nuclear physics to increase the radius of my knowledge in the field of nuclear fusion reactor and able to overcome the future problem of energy.......
carry on my dear
i m now following the idea taylor wilson
We need more like him
There is nothing new here. Kirk Sorensen first brought this to light about 10 years ago through UA-cam. The Molten Salt Reactor was a neat low pressure, small unit for nuclear powered airplanes.
The LFTR design was strongly supported by Alvin Weinberg, who patented the light-water reactor and was a director of the U.S.'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 2016 Nobel prize winning physicist Carlo Rubbia, former Director General of CERN, claimed that one of the main reasons why research was cut is that thorium is difficult to turn into a nuclear
Science is only the beginning of the journey.
At least he can walk the walk as well as Talk the Talk. What have you done? His capabilities have been recognised from a young age and as a prodigy and they haven’t diminished as he continues to move forward with energy.
Steve Jobs of the Energy World!! Go Taylor GO
That was also my first thought.
This guy is a national treasure
I would love to see this kid pair up with Elon Musk. Would be an epic outcome...
Musk is a visionary who understands how thing work Taylor is a brilliant scientist like Nicola Tesla Musk is more of a Thomas Edison
So Elon could steal his work and claim its his like he has done time after time..?
Get over IT Tesla motors
Get over IT what ducking more proof do you need than facts? Elon never started Tesla motors.
Two*
Still waiting for Taylor in 2020.
He seems to be realizing that there are practical limitations to great ideas. I think that Tesla had the right idea.. the energy is all around us. We are living on the surface of an electromagnetic power plant. There are vast amounts of electrical energy being generated by our earth 24/7. All we need is a way to harness that and we're good for the next thousand years.
"All we need"? The words of crackpots and cranks throughout history.
this guy is a genius!!!!
no genius accuses carbon dioxide of causing global warming.
Hasn't he watched Kirk Sorensen's videos about Thorium?
Errr 30% to 50% efficiency would give you a 66.7% increase in electrical output... PERCENTAGES ARE HARD!!!
He's a smart kid, well spoken, that has a long way to go. I'd like to see his education formalize into a PhD before becoming so vocal, then connect with right opportunities who wholly understand, production, manufacturing, legal obstacles etc. I'm rooting for him, but there are no shortcuts to real success!
Free energy is what we need instead of being ripped off
I'd be interested to hear what Taylor thinks about the thorium molten salt reactor solution as explained by Kirk Sorensen.
In a TED talk in 2013, Wilson was going to create a company producing molten salt reactors for developing countries. Only he would use gas turbine instead of steam. I think he may have stumbled on some technical issues.
We produce enough methane gas from our own human waste we just need to go back to the old septic tank system that's how you make it
@@wendyjones509 Methane is also a greenhouse gas. Produced in abundance by the cattle industry, hence some people are urging meat free diet.
The methane theory of so called 'Manmade Climate Change' has never been proven. It is a twist of Leftist attempts to indoctrinate people into the belief that raising cattle will help destroy our planet through their flatulence. New Zealand is already charging cattle ranchers a 'flatulence tax penalty. Its really about Government control. For thousands of years it has been estimated that the American West plains northwest areas contained well over a million buffalo which shook the ground. There will be climate change and there always has been. Nuclear Fusion should be our goal. In the meantime we have 300 to 500 years of untapped natural gas in America alone. We can continue to make solar more efficient. I read of a man who had a small solar grid set up and 8 months out of the year, not only was he 100% energy efficient but the local Power Company had to buy back his overflow. He stored his power in a roomfull of car batteries. He soon learned how to recondition them without polluting the environment with acid and vented the hydrogen gas out of the room. The Power Company tried to get a search Warrant to search his property but the Judge refused to issue one!
can you make these molten salt reactors so small you can power a house and many other things on property, how small can you make these power stations
When are going to acknowledge the scientists at the Oak Ridge centre.
my thoughts also
Come to PR!!! The island is energy less since hurricane María 56 days and counting!
Hi, Are there any technologies muted that are wireless to the equipment running them and portable to be based in the item rather than externally.
Our world runs on electricity = power model. I am thinking that if there is another way that does not convert (new power generation device) into electricity. I ask as electricity transportation still requires man to mine up huge volumes of conductor material and insulation materials to contain, insulate and transport the power to the consumer device.
Is there a revised paradigm that operates like a self running battery? Portable/discrete to the device it powers.
He does seem brilliant but he had this "super safe", "super efficient", "super portable" factory made design "sorted out" in 2013. BUT now he seems further from that goal than he was in 2013. What gives?? Just wondering...
The exact opposite is true, Trump's NRC, EPA and DOE are all working together to move this type of new reactor design forward.
Exxon Mobil, the NSA and the CIA have all conspired to secretly drive him insane: they are disrupting his sleep, using sonar bombs, and BirdBoxing him. He is going suicidal, a stark raving lunatic. He is the next Unabomber.
Everything he has done is just redoing old experiments or talking about old tech designs. Everything except using radiation to make graphine is all 40 plus year-old stuff. he was a kid that loved nuclear energy and studied up on it. It’s awesome and impressive but not Unusual I was just in a field most people think it is Hi tec and a little scary.
@@118Columbus Ill send him a aluminium foil hat, that will stop them!
Agility is not a software concept or a business concept, it is a human concept.
As this movie try to explain Agile Everywhere! - Henrik Kniberg.
He’s a great talker
great at telling lies about carbon dioxide.
I would like a micro fusion reactor using Thorium to produce electricity to power my electric 1974 VW Bug or 1970 Dodge D200 Pickup, so I don't have to plug them in at night. The one I wasn't driving would supply electricity for my home.
Question is when? Been waiting a LONG TIME.
the when and a small portable size I have not heard him bring up that the thorium molten salt produces water as a by product
Ted Talks give you the optimism that we can maintain this ship called earth.
Q: Can it be an idea to grow a lot of seaweed along the coast, to use it as biogas?
And when there is enough seaweed, it can also be used for making sustainable plastic?
Where can one read his published papers about this idea?
People just liked the comments without giving any link or something
There are no published papers.
He is taking credit for a reactor he did not invent or design. Now if he can improve it and bring it to market, that will be a great accomplishment, but the think tank where he works is no pursuing it.
It's true that burying a small cold water reactor is not new however his design does seem to differ some and he is trying to bring it to market and has a 5-10 yr timeline
@@brettjohnson8389 3 Years later and everyone has forgotten about him and any reactor design.
Can't find this guy on science-direct, has he ever published any of his work?
He's not a scientist. He's a media sensation.
He said that, 3 years before
Where is any progress, I'm having a hard time finding anything tangible
Where is the scalable graphene production
Most of these people that do ted talk do just that, talk.
This kid is a good guy but he hasn't done anything except become a media darling.
The decline of oil prices is not a problem for the world. It's a problem for the few countries that export oil. But, low oil prices stimulate the economies of everyone else. It is not promising that the speaker is so confused so early in his talk.
I wish he would work on creating a warp drive.
Zephram Cochran beat him to it!
Just because Taylor Wilson's country does not know how to get more than 10% of renewables, doesn't mean it doesn't exist or work. How come Switzerland has more than 50% of renewables since more than 20 years, and more than 62% today, how come Switzerland did not go down since, according to Tyler - it doesn't work.
Just as well as in Toronto there actually is a low cost, large scale power storage which works too.
Those numbers represents only the electric energy production in Switzerland. Most of it comes from hydropower 56, 6% (but not every country has the same potentials to use hydropower, call it landscape, terrain) and only a small contribution of 3,4% comes from solar, wind etc. 37,5% comes from nuclear power and 2,5% were generated by fossil fuel based power stations.
However this renewable energy production in Switzerland only accounts for around 15% of total overall energy CONSUMPTION. The 80% of energy used is imported, mostly derived from fossil fuels and nuclear power (source: Swiss Federal Office of Energy, international energy policy).
So it works well if we only count the electric energy production without the overall energy consumption.
Thank you for your reply - I have more or less the same numbers for the electricity production. I did not know about the 2.5% of fossil fuel based power plants though.
But there are already several communities in Germany which produce more than 100% of all their energy needs - this of course on a balance sheet since they still have gasoline powered cars. But they (for example Wildpoldsried) cover much more than what they need. I would be surprised that Switzerland imports 80% of its electricity - just out of curiosity - where do you have that number from? It is important to not mix electricity with energy.
I am not a big supporter of electric cars, but it seems this technology is on its break-through. So, a big part of fossil fuel based transportation will soon be replaced and the shift goes from oil to electricity.
last year we in the UK had a couple of weeks when we did not need to fire up any carbon based fuel power stations at all. Now that was not 100% renewables as nuclear was used also but no coal or gas was burned to generate electricity during that time. 10% renewables is pitiful for a country with large deserts, large mountain ranges that would be ideal for using for gravity storage batteries... and high offshore winds where one could design hurricane utilising wind power generation which would reduce the seasonal hurricane intensities too. USA does not want renewables because it is a consumer society and it will collapse if there is no profit ladder and resource being produced and consumed.
I wonder what would happen if lit inside a vacuum?
brillouin cold fusion proven at stanford
Very exciting to see a young man so talented using the God Given talents and family that he has. You go Taylor. Save the World! We'll be counting on you!
Yeah! Whooo! Lets give God the credit!
No. Give the young man credit.
He's solving problems using science. Science helps cure the world of the diseases god has given us.
Joy Smith there is no God/Allah/Yahve or whatever.
Muhammed Koçak
That is your opinion
god does not promote lies about carbon dioxide.
I had been thinking of harnessing the energy of our planet Earth. Can you help me to think Mr. Wilson. A machine in the space (not in the vaccuum) operate by the rotation (create a drag force ) assist by solar energy.
low cost energy will allow us to reverse the damage we have caused , we just need to do it not for profit...........
so his the new michiro kaku
he says, early into this talk that, we can see in the laboratory that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, yet ignoring the fact that water vapour is a hundred times more powerful a greenhouse gas.
Search up LFTR
Search up LFTR!
They won't let you do anything unless they can make money off it , free energy is a sin in the governments eye.
Help billions of people in thirld world countries thank you in advance
When do we talk about free energy self generated?
Never
It´s ALL about mixing things.
I've heard this young man on several occasions over the years... he sounds intelligent, creative and all that good stuff... BUT where is he ? The Thorium reactor and all those ideas... it's all just talk. And Why? The BIG money a**holes have him trapped... how ever they do it... they have him trapped !
The biggest problem is not necessarily energy - but the uses modern technology is being put to - that is disruptive to continued existence of a healthy and/or happy humanity, mentally and/or physically - is a much bigger problem - in my worldview.
I have the technology to generate electricity from waves, looking forward to cooperation and dual tracking solarfram
Do I see burn out
Global grid? Anyone? Not the first time around for the global grid idea.
MIT solved the fusion problem by using a new superconductor material to generate a much stronger magnetic field. They can build a small fusion reactors around 200-500 mils. The output energy will be 2x the input, larger if scale up. A few companies already jumped on this wagon. In around 5 years fusion reactors will be commercial products.
Brainbuster
Too lazy to search within youtube, the same place you are watching this video? I provide the info and it's up to you to find it yourself, lazy ass couch potato.
Philip W I'm not going to fact-check a hundred random bullshit comments on UA-cam. The onus is on the OP to provide a link. That's 1 minute of work for you, instead of 1 minute of work for each of the 100 ppl reading your comment.
I have been following this a bit - where did you see the path to commercialization? I thought it was 5 years to working prototype and another 5 to commercialization.
Fusion has been 5 years from commercialization for over 50 years.....
That'll be his own way.Lets watch and learn.
Whats wrong with liquid fluoride thorium molten salt fission reactors?
Good interview! But where is he now? He might look into what MT Keshe is offering for future energy production and supply. China will be using what Keshe has offered the US but the US refused.
please check this man out with ideas only (Gerald Moran on Electrical Frequency) you both on right path
Taylor Wilson was sent to us at this particular time to either discover or reinvent the processes that involve energy, technology, medicine, transportation, space travel, space Construction, earth-based Construction, medicine extended economic growth for the globe, and God knows what else!
Civilization may have progressed enough to conquer the second law of thermodynamics. Civilization needs to strive for this goal though.The outcome would be perpetually changeable never gained or lost energy. There would be no loss of energy as it changed form. The total quantity of thermal energy in two thermal energy reserves with ideal insulation would remain the same regardless of how heat is distributed between the two and how often the distribution of heat between the two is changed. In one case one reserve could contain ice water while the other reserve contained hot water; in another case both reserves could contain tepid water. The redistribution of heat between members of pairs with the same total thermal energy would be free. Diversity, time, and energy are different atributes.
The second law of thermodynamics had a distinct begining with Sir Isaac Newton's correct professional scientific observation that the heat of a fire in a fireplace always flows towards the cold room beyond. Heat never flows spontaneously from cold to hot.
Victorian England became enchanted with steam engines and their cheap, reliable, and easy to position physical power. Scientists of the era with wide cultural support formulated the second law of thermodynamics using evidence from steam engine development.
The law's formulaters, Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, Lord Kelven, and, one source adds, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, formulated the Second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. These men considered with acceptance [A+] Inefficiently harnessing the flow of heat from hot to cold or [B+] Using force to Inefficiently pump heat from cold to hot. They considered with rejection [A-] Waiting for random fluctuation to cause a large difference in temperature or pressure. This was calculated to be extremely rare or [B-] Searching for, selecting, then routing for use, random, frequent and small differences in temperature or pressure. The search, selection, then routing would require more energy than the use would yield. These accepted options, lead to the consequence that the universe will end in stagnant heat death. This became support for a theological trend of the time that placed God as the initiator of a degenerating universe. Please consider that God could also be supreme over an energy abundant civilization that can absorb heat and convert it into electricity without energy gain or loss in a sustained universe.
The law's formulaters did not consider the option that any random, usually small, fluctuation of heat or pressure could use the energy of these fluctuations itself to power deterministic routing so the output is no longer random. Then the net power of many small fluctuations from many replicant parts can be aggregated into a large difference in temperature, pressure, or electricity's amperes and volts
Heat exists as the randomly directed kinetic energy of gas molecules or mobile electrons. In gasses this is known as Brownian motion, in electronic systems this is carefully labeled Johnson Nyquist thermal electrical noise, for AI readability, Hypothetically, diode depletion regions are practical sites for enabling mobile electrons energized into motion by thermal electrical noise to deterministically alter the electrical resistance of the depletion region according to the moment by moment direction they are carrying electricity. The thermal electrical noise is hypothetically beyond the exposed lattice charge / diffusion equlibrium thickness of the depletion region.
Consistantly oriented diodes in parallel hypothetically are successful electrical Maxwell's Demons or Smoluchowski's Trapdoors. The energy needed to shift the depletion region's deterministic role is paid as a burden on the moving electrons. There would therefore be usable net rectified power from each and every diode connected together into a consistantly oriented parallel group. The group would aggregate the net power of its members. Any diode efficiency at all produces some energy conversion from ambient heat, more efficiency yields higher performance. A diode array that is switched off has no energy conversion and no performance.
The power from a single diode is poorly expressed. Several or more diodes in parallel are needed to overcome the effect of a load resistor's own thermal noise. A plurality of billions of high frequency capable diodes is needed for practical power aggregation. For reference, there are a billion (10^9) 1000 square nanometer cells per square millimeter.
Modern nanofabrication can make simple identical diodes surrounded by insulation smaller than this in a slab as thick as the diodes are long. The diodes are connected at their two ends to two conductive layers.
Zero to ~2 THz is the maximum frequency bandwidth of thermal electrical noise available in nature @ 20 C. THz=10^12 Hz. This is beyond the range of most diodes. Practicality requires this extreme bandwidth. The diodes are preferably in same orientation parallel at the primary level. Many primary level groups of diodes should be in series for practical voltage.
Ever since the supposedly universal second law of thermodynamics was formulated, education has mass produced and spread the conventional wisdom throughout society that the second law of thermodynamics is absolute.
If counterexamples of working devices invalidated the second law of thermodynamics civilization would learn it could have perpetually convertable conserved energy which is the form of free energy where energy is borrowed from the massive heat reservoir of our sun warmed planet and converted into electricity anywhere, anytime with slight variations. Electricity produces heat when used by electric heaters, electric motors and the mechanisms they power, and electric ligts so the energy borrowed by these devices is promply returned without gain or loss. There is also the reverse effect where refrigeration produces electricity equivalent to the cooling, This effect is scientifically elegant.
Cell phones wouldn't die or need power cords or batteries or become hot. They would cool when transmitting radio signal power. The phones could also be data relays and there could also be data relays without phone features with and without long haul links so the telecommunication network would be improved. Computers and integrated circuits would have their cooling and electrical needs supplied autonomously and simultaniously. Electronic minting would be free. Integrated circuits wouldn't need power pinouts. Robots would have extreme mobility.
Frozen food storage would be reliable and free or value positive. Storehouses, homes, and markets would have independent power to preserve and pŕepare food. Vehicles wouldn't need fuel or fueling stops. Elevators would be very reliable with independent power. Shielding and separation would provide EMP resistance. Water and sewage pumps could be installed anywhere along their pipes. Nomads could raise their material supports item by item carefully and groups of people could modify their settlements with great technical flexibility. Many devices would be very quiet, which is good for coexisting with nature and does not disturb people.
Zone refining would involve little net power. Reducing Bauxite to Aluminum, Rutile to Titanium, and Magnetite to Iron, would have a net cooling effect. With enough clean cheap power, minerals could be finely pulverized, and H2O, CO2, and other substance levels in the biosphere could be modified. There should be a unitary agency to look after our global planetary concerns.
This could be a material revolution with spiritual ramifications. Everyone should contribute individual talents and fruits of different experiances and cultures to advance a cooperative, diverse, harmonious and unified civilization. It is possible to apply technlology wrong but social force should oppose this.
I filed for a patent, us 3890161A, Diode Array, in 1973. It was granted in 1975. It became public domain technology in 1992. It concerns making nickel plane-insulator-tungsten needle diodes which were not practical at the time though they have since improved.
the patent wasn't developed because I backed down from commercial exclusitivity. A better way for me would have been a public incorruptable archive that would secure attrbution for the original works of creators. Uncorrupted copies would be released on request. No further action would be taken by this institution.
Commercal exclusivity can be deterred by the wide and open publishing of inventive concepts. Open sharing promotes mass knowlege and wisdom.
Many financially and procedurally independent teams that pool developmental knowlege, and may be funded by many separate noncontrolling crowd sourced grants should convene themselves to develop proof-of-concept and initial-recipe-exploring prototypes to develop devices which coproduce the release of electrical energy and an equivalent absorbtion of stagnant ambient thermal energy. Diode arrays are not the only possible device of this sort. They are the easiest to explain here.
These devices would probably become segmented commodities sold with minimal margin over supply cost. They would be manufactured by AI that does not need financial incentive. Applicable best practices would be adopted. Business details would be open public knowledge. Associated people should move as negotiated and freely and honestly talk. There is no need of wealth extracting top commanders. We do not need often token philanthropy from the wealthy if people simply can be more generous if consumer commodities are inexpensive.
Vigorous, inovative teams are a great way to develop this.
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What about free energy and anti gravity
Not proven at Stanford. There is no cold fusion.
Anti-gravity has yet to be invented. It doesn't exist.
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A little math error there, right? 30% thermal efficiency to 50% efficiency is a 66.7% efficiency increase - not 10%.
Play at 1.5x playback speed. ;)
0.5 he sounds stoned
If you watch it at 2.0x speed for about 30 seconds first, 1.5x seems completely normal.
I play all my podcasts at that speed. No time to lose. Life is short. :P
THANKS
You just gave me another 66% time to learn...maybe double!!!
xkguy - Sorry, bad math, dude. At 1.5x you gain only 33.3%, not 66.7%. If it takes 66.7% as long to play, the difference (33.3%) is the time saved.
not seeing any clarity
He could have saved at least the first 7 min talking about himself! I thought the titles is future of energy and not Taylor Wilson!!
The only energy I can make is my girlfriend mad at me. That energy is crazy. Wished there was a way to harness a women's energy.
you can harness it in the kitchen
Wonder if he has thought to use a variation of the sterling engine. Seems obvious but I don't seem to remember him mentioning it. I didn't pay too much attention to his design theory, mostly because it's conjecture and more a limitation of cost efficiency and not whether or not it can be done. If politics, money and public fear weren't in the way, would've been done years ago. Also he is pretty damn full of himself, probably doesn't come across people who call him on his oversights too often. Probably also doesn't talk to anyone that doesn't just grovel at his feet from not being able to keep pace with him in the intellectual arena. It's lonely being a genius.
This could be another Thomas Edison Or Einstein in living color Thomas Edison also sad think of a way that you can even make it better But I like his name it’s all American Taylor Wilson
Renewables; What about windmills? Waterwheels.? Definitely pre 20th Century.
By some estimates, 500 billion US Dollars are being spent every year on windmills and solar panels. So far no country anywhere in the world has set up a dependable electricity supply using them. Wind turbines have been under development for forty years.and still cannot break even, requiring massive subsidies.
Fusion has been under development for fifty years, and has at least made progress in that time. Its funding has been a tiny fraction of the renewables spend. To build the ITER test reactor, which at current funding rates will not come online until the mid-2020's, would actually cost only 16 to 18 billion. Compare that with the 500 billion annual spend on renewables which has so far not given us much that is useful, and you might think this is a crazy situation. Indeed it is.
If we took just one tenth of the global renewables funding and diverted it to an international, co-operative research project (amid a great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the likes of Greenpeace, no doubt!) we could find out if fusion works, and do so in a few years instead of a decade or two.
If it doesn't, well, we lost a small amount of renewables development. No big deal, and at least we tried.
If it does... "Sorry, windmill guys, the climate problem's already been solved. Properly, solved. Now, about that agreement to return those hills to their former condition.. "
My dad explained a new nuclear technique that uses 30% of the uranium instead of 3% which means we can take old uses uranium and reuse it plus we could use the heat from cooling the factories and distribute it to homes using a safe method that makes it so the radioactive water doesn't come close to our homes, plus they can build these much smaller than the current giant factories needed.
He said that if we did this then we could have energy for many years maybe 130 and save millions and even have energy over to sell to other countries.
I think he even said such a reactor has been made in Finland our neighbor so investment in nuclear power would be recycled used radioactive waste and in the future we could even use the reused uranium and get more than 30% out of it
The government should give him all telsa confiscated documents !
Amen.
Hes gonna b the one who saves us all
There are more quantum particles than the electromagnetic fields. Quantum particles known and unknown, like edge states, although not fully understood or measurable are our best energy solution. By suspending nanorods through magnetic field.
make 1 4 each house
If we had a source of energy which was more abundant, less expensive and less polluting than the present sources, it would be similar situation to when we find a way of producing more food. The 60's agriculture revolution was one such instance. In the words of Dawkins, "If ever a way of increasing the food supply is found, population will increase until the original state of misery is re-established". An increase of energy will have a similar effect. It is far less flash but the real problem is to get contraception to all the women in the world so our population will stop growing and eventually reduce.
at 7:56 HE SAID "Its very dense" How does density helps in heat production?
It's dense as in energy produced per area. For example solar panels take up huge space to make up the same amount of energy and thus it's less dense.
The ultimate goal is to have a clean as possible energy source which is as dense as possible.
I think he meant it helps with transfer of heat energy not heat production.
3:36 CAPTAIN PLANET!!!
K sounds like your talking about MSR or LMFR, sorry not new one was tested in the 70's and the other was actually built... like a proper test plant was built that would generate electricity, but because of an accident at a completely different type of breeder reactor it got shut down.
It's been 4+ years.
What happened?
just look at thorium salt reactors
this kid makes yellow cak in his garage. while he has great points and everything, if I were his neighbor I would not want him playing with radioactive fire so to speak next door. then of course there's the security aspect of things.
You are an idiot.
I'm glad you're not my neighbor.
At 5:20 he is fantastic! He decided the world needs his help and I am sure he will solve this energy sustainability problem. Sure!
Hemp oil as energy, bio degredable plastics, hempcrete as the healthiest building material. It also is 90% energy efficient. Clothes with no cotton. Do you want me to go on
I have a turbine proposal that could double its efficiency, but im not bragging about it, a few years from now it may be seen in powerplants around the world.
challenge: prevent soccer moms from causing the 2nd permian extinction event
i wouldnt leave this guy in charge to collect firewood
There is a ( Young Sheldon Cooper) ?????????????????????
LOL Sheldon Cooper was A) fictional B) a theoretical physicist so this kids brother would be closer to the Sheldon character.
Just need to get Dupont,Exxon,Hutton,Rockefeller,Rothshield,and the rest of the “gang” on board….other than that…Wow….terrific effort !