Correction: 1:40 "40,000 volts is a lot of energy that would drain the battery quickly". Volts is not energy. A high voltage system does not imply a high energy consumption system.
high voltage may not always mean high energy but you'd have a pretty hard time finding something in this world that can use 40,000 volts and not be over 1 amp.
@@psionx1 I'm not an electrical engineer, but there are Van der Graaff Generators and Marx Generators - and they're safe enough to zap students with. So there is mature tech for creating high voltage without high current.
*Scientist 1:* "Some birds get killed by the moving turbine blades, what should we do about it?" *Scientist 2:* "Let's build a huge electrified net instead!" *Scientist 1:* "Brilliant!" jk cool concept. ;) Edit: Wow, I don't think I've ever had so many responses; it was just a meme, I don't actually think it's bad for the birds, this just popped into my head. I realize power lines are already essentially an electrified net and nearly all of the time the birds are just fine.
@@MrKirner Those are 40KV and up, as long as they don't cross the phases they'll be fine. The amount of charge in an isolated wire fence like that wind generator is really small anyways.
@@MrKirner Yes if the bird doesnt create a connection with the ground then the electricity doesnt actually pass through them, these are closer to the ground though so animals like foxes etc might actually be at risk he has a valid point there.
Joe. You aren’t throwing cold water on ideas people are excited about. You are tempering people’s expectations. An essential service in science communication. Love you mate. Keep up the great work.
Years ago we were promised that the internet would make information available to everyone and everyone would be able to learn about anything I feel like shows like this one make that promise come true Good job sir thank you for the excellent content
Information is available to anyone and everyone. It's just that the means to get it aren't there. So the promise is very much fulfilled within those parameters. Have a problem with that? Start going after CEOs who get billion dollar richer by stealing money from their overworked employees.
@@aserta not just their employees, they steal from people who pay taxes. They're given a free pass to do by government around the world so they can. And you're right the information out there, but it's being suppressed by government's and big corporations. Or it's been smeared and discredited so if you talk about it people think you're crazy. Take for example Nikola Tesla supposedly invented free energy, he didn't. What he did discover was how to tap into the biggest producer of electricity that people have access to for now, and that's the electromagnet field of the earth. But because the robber barons couldn't make money by stealing from others. His financial backing came from J.P. Morgan, I believe who said it you can't charge people money for it, then it's of no use. Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant men ever born, but almost every one of the things he discovered has been suppressed, and it's not just him. Most people don't know Henry Ford invented a material that was as strong as steel just before WW2. It was made from hemp and was like fiberglass, some how the process of making it was supposedly lost. There have been two instances where men have discovered how to make a powder when poured in water make it flammable, and able to burn. And just so you know I didn't get any of this information from the internet or anything like that. Henry Ford discovery, and the first man with the white powder i read about in the 70's in a public school library. The second man I watched a news report from an Australian local news station. Both of the men with the white powder dissapeared, imagine that I wonder why. And yes it's possible for water to burn, after all it's called H2o for a reason.
@@aserta not just their employees, they steal from people who pay taxes. They're given a free pass to do by government around the world so they can. And you're right the information out there, but it's being suppressed by government's and big corporations. Or it's been smeared and discredited so if you talk about it people think you're crazy. Take for example Nikola Tesla supposedly invented free energy, he didn't. What he did discover was how to tap into the biggest producer of electricity that people have access to for now, and that's the electromagnet field of the earth. But because the robber barons couldn't make money by stealing from others. His financial backing came from J.P. Morgan, I believe who said it you can't charge people money for it, then it's of no use. Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant men ever born, but almost every one of the things he discovered has been suppressed, and it's not just him. Most people don't know Henry Ford invented a material that was as strong as steel just before WW2. It was made from hemp and was like fiberglass, some how the process of making it was supposedly lost. There have been two instances where men have discovered how to make a powder when poured in water make it flammable, and able to burn. And just so you know I didn't get any of this information from the internet or anything like that. Henry Ford discovery, and the first man with the white powder i read about in the 70's in a public school library. The second man I watched a news report from an Australian local news station. Both of the men with the white powder dissapeared, imagine that I wonder why. And yes it's possible for water to burn, after all it's called H2o for a reason.
When Joe speaks about damaging the environment when wind farms are being constructed, he's correct in certain areas. But, here in the midwest US those wind farms are almost always constructed in farm fields. Other than the initial moving of equipment, trucks and a substation, the environmental damage is minimal. Actually it's really neat watching the crews put up the turbines...pretty skilled workers making it look easy.
When a farm field near any living beings, such as horses or humans, are within range of the infrasound pollution, the horses if female tend to abort a valuable foal fetus, and the people's homes lose up to half their value.
@@albertrogers2506 >the people's homes lose up to half their value You've clearly never been anywhere rural. Homes anywhere near farm fields are usually surrounded by them for miles in every direction. I can't see anyone living that far out who'd raise hell over the slightest chance of lower property values from noise pollution. edit: especially given that crop dusters are a thing...
@@CubicApocalypse128 It happens all over Ireland, and in Cornwall. I lived in the first National Forest Park in Northern Ireland, where my father was the Head Forester in charge of making it so. I'm also a Scot, and have very little interest in going back, so much of it has been defiled by them. I also lived as a boy, for two years, in Aberfoyle. What happens is that absentee landlords of those fields you claim to know about lease them to subsidised profiteers. The people who live in the houses would sell them, but can't afford the loss in value. This I am quite sure can be confirmed from actual land value records.
Our approach to all forms of energy production is brutish and inefficient. that is because the DNA of energy production is just dumb luck by stupid people (Beverley Hillbillies?). You go against that you get the treatment. Don't know what I'm sayin 'bout "the treatment"? GOOD! STAY IGNORANT!
I am a wind turbine technician. I've worked around hundreds of wind turbines in many different States. I've seen a handful of dead bats and one bird. I would say the bird issue is a political one.
2:42 Each year 600 million dead birds from flying into buildings. (Stop building glass buildings! Yeah right.) And 2.4 billion bird deaths from cats. (Control the pet population!). Though he doesn't say it, autos are #3 at 200 million; wind turbines are #8 after power line collisions, cell towers, power line electrocutions, and agricultural chemicals.
@@paulreding6954 There is a ruling passed during Obama's term, to excuse wind turbines for the deaths of up to thousands of eagles. Please find other employment, wind "turbines" on a grid mean it desperately needs real turbines, spinning with enough spare capacity to take up the load that the wind is sure to drop sooner or later and without enough warning to get another generator up to speed. If you disapprove of "political" motivations, you should be aware that there is NO sound environmental or economic justification for wind turbines. I write this as a hard core liberal, lifelong environmentalist, and one who thinks that Al Gore underestimates the Inconvenience of the Truth about fossil carbon dioxide. Examine the effects of Germany's Energiewende, compared with the still existing nuclear dominance and far lower poisonous gas emissions of France. Yes, too much carbon dioxide dissolved in the sea poisons animals like oyster larvae and even smaller, by providing bicarbonate rather than carbonate ions in the water. Gas turbine emissions, which are inevitable from wind turbine use, do not reduce the AGW threat from atmospheric carbon dioxide. They merely slow the rate of worsening it, as compared with coal.
@@stiimuli I don't want to go to deep into details, but between harvest in autumn, and the next spring, the wires in a vineyard are mainly free of vines.
@@SiqueScarface I'm intrigued. I'm curious about practical details, like the effective range from the ground the wires should/can be; Positive/negative effects upon foliage on/near the wiring and how that foliage might affect the energy productivity; Whether birds, insects, curious children, clumsy vintners, etc. might endanger themselves with inadvertent contact; How high the voltage should be to create the charge, and how that voltage/current would need to be converted to transfer it for storage/usage. Higher voltage yields better wattage efficiency in transit, so smaller gauge cables can transmit a lower amperage (for similar net wattage) further before dissipating some energy as heat, and possibly melting the transfer lines. But, lower voltages are _less prone_ to *accidental electrocutions.* Well, I should say _less prone_ to *accidentally FATAL electrocutions.* *Every tradesman* that I've ever known, is bestowed the _honor_ from time to time, of bleeding for their profession, in the pursuit of perfecting their craft.
Um... He says wind is 5.5 % of all energy produced around the world. I don't have stats for all of the world. But... In Canada, wind is about 4.4% of ELECTRIC energy production. China is round about 4% of ELECTRIC energy production by wind. So is India. In the USA it's something like 2.5% of electricity production, at something like 300 billion kWhrs of wind electricity produced. But 439 million tons of coal is used per year in the US. At about 20 billion Joules per ton. Or round about 10,000,000 billion kWhrs of energy produced by burning coal. It's used for heating buildings, powering ships, smelting iron, etc. No, wind does not produce 5.5 percent of all energy generated. Even 5.5% of all electricity generated is kind of pushing it. Also: The birds killed by sky scrapers and eaten by cats are nearly all small birds. Like starlings, which we can spare. There are 200 million of them, and they are an invasive pest. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-invasive-species-we-can-blame-on-shakespeare-95506437/ Wind turbines get raptors. Like falcons an hawks. They don't understand the blades and fly into them. Wind turbines also kill lots of bats by screwing up their echo sensing. Five minutes into the vid and all he's done is virtue signal. Six minutes of an 11 minute vid before he even gets to the idea. Grounded? Maybe not so much.
The inventor of the Ionic breeze is also a MIT graduate. Also invented a device that you could put in your car fuel line and get three times the gas mileage. He was given award for it at MIT and a car company came along and gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Goes to show you if something pops up that can help us it’s taken off the shelf and that’s what happen with his fuel device I love your show keep up the good work
"Why do people follow me?" < Because you're careful to temper our excitement about gee-whiz new science and technology stuff whilst also talking about it. You don't oversell, but you don't undersell. You tell us what it is and if there's an ounce of skepticism we need to have about it you tell us about that, too.
Partly because of your videos (And also Tim's) I was motivated to apply to the TU Delft in Aerospace Engineering. And guess what I was accepted (I don't really know why). But I do really want to thank you for your amazing content which really inspired me.
Wind Turbine bird strikes: Study determined that painting one of the blades black creates a visual effect that deters birds from flying near the blades and dramatically lowers strike deaths. Solid State Wind energy collector: Curious what effects the downstream environment would experience from a constant precipitation of anions...
I've read that purple is the best color choice for the birds, but yes, it seems that not painting them the color of clouds makes them more noticable to birds. It seems obvious in hindsight, really.
@@johannnyborg3998 first of all Mars barely has any wind and when there are dust storms it only goes 30km an hour on a weekly basis it goes faster then that where I live
@@johannnyborg3998 7m tall masts with wires generated 20mW, enough to run a battery clock radio for half an hour 5 days a week! Though cheaper, it is hardly worthwhile even if efficiency increases 1000 fold. Even on Mars where real estate is free, wires and masts have to produced by robots, as wires are heavy at that scale. If a robot can make one collector per day, in 1000 days the installation will have an output of 20W. While the robot will have spent in the neighbourhood of 20kWh per array, remember metals have to be chemically extracted and then smelted to make wires. In other words, 20MWh have been spent, which the array then will be 1 million hours, or 41700 days or 114 earth years to recoup, before generating a surplus! This tech is only for low power sensors on mountain tops, not utility scale on any planet. A NASA grade 60W solar panel can do the same thing at Mars solar radiation levels, weight 4 pounds and be deployed immediately.
It doesn't help the bats any, I doubt the 2-digit precision, but 28% of a thousand eagles is still too many. That's before we count the falcons and the ospreys. If one of the blades flies off and does no damage, the bird deaths from that device are reduced 100%.
Wind Turbines have far better ramp up times than coal or even gas plants. In the time the gas plant is fired up a wind turbine has turned into the wind ten times.
@@ErikB605 I wonder where you get your ludicrous information. You need to ramp up the power supply when the demand on the grid goes up. The one thing that wind and solar do less well than providing steady power, is responding to a need for more power. Owners of gas turbine generation, and managers of grid response, know perfectly well that it takes a gas turbine too long to synchronise with a 60 Hz AC grid, so both have arrangements to pay for the 30% of maximum power gas demand, that is needed to keep a gas turbine spinning in reserve. If your "renewables" are delivering 100 MW of power, you need about 100 MW of spinning reserve of this kind, power that the gas turbine can supply, but isn't actually delivering.
@@innouniversedoineedthis it's that kind of thinking that backs us into corners. Smart solutions are the solutions we should be pursuing so that we don't end up in another bad situation.
Never been tempted by Brilliant. But today I saw a showcase of what it is and how it works. Its a genuine slide into my DM's not like some of the other shameless channels that plug it.
Why is that sharper image filter such a strong random memory in my brain like I haven't seen that thing in years and I remembered every frame of that perfectly
On another episode there’s a different camera angle for a brief moment and you can just see a tiny label on the shelf. I was able to capture the image and enhance it pixel by pixel. It’s still not completely clear but I was able to make out some words. I think it says ‘This space reserved for over-inquisitive UA-cam viewer’s head in a jar’. Hope that helps.
I'm really excited to see this video. I will be working on this design for the next four years. This will definitely be exciting. I believe this will be the next solution for wind energy.
@@northernskies86 Plus giant electric fly swatters may be a tad disadvantageous for birds. But coupling it with the idea of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower would allow both a bird filter and a O3/NOx filter to be installed :-)
Just replied with the next line but went back and deleted it. It was a fun song when I was in high school, and catchy fo sho, but at the same time, let's remember this is our internet and we have the choice to debase it or make it beautiful. Now put your hands...
"40.000 Volts is a lot of energy" ... um, no! The voltage is just an energy potential, the actual energy consumption depends on the current, which in turn depends on the amount of air ionized by the engine. Sorry, but that sentence triggered me, because there is no massive draw on the battery just because of the high voltage.
So what you're saying is you can connect the wire to power, leave it open, connect the negative to a wire, leave that open and there would be no draw on the battery unless there is a resistance? This could potentially work until the battery life is expended? Would creating 20000v be difficult? Big generator also turned by the wind and Use a battery for a buffer system?
Yeah for some reason I thought it was about a Conquistador in the new world but I looked it up after reading your comment and your right, it's about a "knight" in Spain going on chivalrous adventures lol.
@@dustin628 It's not even set in Spain, Don Quijote is set in Castilla during the late stages of the Reconquista, much much earlier than the Spanish scramble for America. And it's a parody about the lowest rank of Castilian nobility (hidalgo) pretending to be more prestigious than they were by exaggerating the battles they participated in. This was mostly because there were some places in Castilla like the Señorío de Vizcaya where every free man born there would automatically become an Hidalgo.
@@supermaster2012 Sorry but Castille (Castila) is part of Spain. Cervantes is considered a Spanish writer. Possibly Don Quixote hadn't got the memo. See Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain?wprov=sfla1
@@gerardvila4685 I think Afto Kinito is talking about when the story was set, not when it was written. So it would have been 100 years before Cervantes' time, when the concept of Spain as a country wasn't fully in place.
@@magtovi It's a long long time since I read it, but my recollection is that the actual novel happens in "modern" (16th century) Spain, but Don Quixote, being mad, THINKS he's living in some glorious past era. I should re-read it one of these days.
Correction: 2:26 " that's 519 gigawatts of energy" the Watt (W) is a unit of power not energy. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a unit of energy. Think of it like this... You have a 100W lightbulb in your lamp that is on. At any one instant, it requires 100W of power to stay on. Energy consumption takes time into account. To power the lightbulb for 1 hour you would need 100Wh of energy (100W * 1Hr).
Had the exact same idea. There are farms in Australia bigger than some countries. I can't help but wonder what kind of power could be made using this tech on fences that stratch that kind of distance.
I was thinking the same. And it doesn't have to be a large setup, although that would probably be more efficient than a lot of little ones. I have a back porch whose screens I'd be happy to replace with a SWET setup. Alternately, there is a school in my area where one side of the building always, ALWAYS has a pretty stiff wind blowing past it. My point is that there are places we could tuck in smaller setups that wouldn't require the vast amounts of real estate that current wind farm technology does.
@@shurmurray Just put some mirror flakes in the top coat. Several bird repellents work by shimmering sunlight with mirrors. Though neighbours will have another thing to complain about besides ugliness and noise.
9:01 No you're not. Please don't say that about yourself, you're an excellent content creator who brings exactly the type of content I look for on youtube.
@@tara5742 You made me go dig out my copy of the CD. You are referring to the "HOORAYforBOOBIES" album CD which reads "ATTENTION: INSERT TONGUE IN CIRCULAR OPENING TO SIMULATE NIPPLE". If you think that is crude, you should see the cover of the song's single CD. It has a photograph of zebras mating. (And if you were offended by those, do not look inside their greatest hits album!)
@@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores My wife and I went looking for our old copy of Hooray for Boobies, but like the lost catacombs of Egypt, only God knows where we stuck it. #SorryNotSorry
Just knowing what is possible if not practical, is inspiring. It leads to practical innovation. I would have never known about this without your efforts, thanks.
When I saw this pop up on my feed, I thought it was going to be a generator using wires designed to resonate in the wind, attached to piezoelectric generators. Getting a net electric generation off wind + coronal discharge is really a surprise.
Same here. it's nice to see an idea I'd not come across before (thank you Joe). Comparing the two ideas without numbers for energy production, it would seem to me that the Idea Joe is talking about has simplicity and production costs on it's side.
@@reaganharder1480 Same with ocean waves, I would imagine. I wonder if we could tap into the jet stream with massive floating wind turbines getting net energy AND modifying the weather, moving energy from the atmosphere to the ground.
I've said it many places and many times before: Green energy won't ever really take off until every last drop of oil has been pulled out of the ground and sold. The oil companies will see to that as usual. It's sad but true :-(
potential energy is still energy man. and 40,000 of it is, technically, alot. (intentionally spelled that wrong to see if i could "trigger" anymore nitpickers)
@@adamsoltesz5237 saying 40000 Volts is a lot of energy is just as nonsensical as saying 40000 meters is a lot of mass. They're not the same unit, they cannot be equated. A high voltage (Volt) says next to nothing about an amount of energy (Joule), (or actually, power (Watt) in this case) because we know nothing about the amps.
Not sure about that. I have no real evidence to back this up but I assume birds die to buildings because they don't understand glass and they fly through wind turbines and get smacked because they don't understand motion at that scale. However birds seem to have no issues with flying and landing on fences, telephone and electrical wires to my knowledge.
@@KoalaProductions No they die because they are flying in the thermals that are generated around wind turbines. Thats also the reason why you can't use barebone statistics for bird deaths. The mayority of birds that die from wind turbines are large birds of prey. Which exist in way smaller numbers than the sparrows killed by windows and cats.
I have a feeling that if this ever became a cost-effective viable alternative to energy production, that the wires would be quite densely packed (although not so much to obstruct airflow) that it would be a visible "wall" of material that birds wouldn't fly into. Additionally, if there were problems, as this is immobile, it would be very easy to bird proof it (screen mesh infront of it for example).
I have built wind turbines as a hobby for approximately 60 years. All my windmills pump air and I store the compressed air in a huge tank, which becomes an air battery. The compressed air is then run through a small turbine or piston engine of my own design, another hobby and I can make any electricity you want for far less money than if I were to make electricity directly from the flow of wind as do the large wind-electric companies. Also, it does not cost me millions. Most people probably spend more on golf. It may help to know I live on a small farm on the Texas prairie; lots of open space, lots of wind.
“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do musicians, actors [and sports figures], civilization will jump to the next level.” - Brian Greene
@@mhoover He said "40kv is a lot of energy" which is untrue. e.g. a static shock from rubbing your socks on the carpet is around 20kv, but very little energy, a few millijoules (an actual unit of energy). Volts are the size of a door, current is how fast you move through the door, energy is how much stuff was actually moved through it. Little things can move through a big door. And lots of things can move through a small door if they move fast. People associate volts and energy because we find a big door is often the most efficient way to move lots of stuff and so they are often correlated, but not necessarily. Particularly in this case, because HV is also particularly good at ionizing particle and energy doesn't have anything to do with it. It's like a case where the big door was only needed because you had to move an air mattress through it.
This Solid State Wind Energy idea was worked on in 1987 by the Eco Guards Org in Canada. Because of funding issues, it could no longer be researched. That said, it's great to see we were right and that some other Organization took up the challenge, it interesting we still have our docs and findings.. It does not matter who produces it, as long as it gets put into production for all societies. Now we're working on other solid state energy harnesses, as well as waste plastics reclamation, and a new type of PPE.
Me too. The "fresh clean smell" is ozone. It reacts with anything and everything which is why it "smells" so strong. But might have the added benefit of fighting mold and mildew? But obviously, the levels would have to be very low for the product to be approved, especially in the US. So maybe not high enough levels to help keep the walls clean.
You can upload a video unlisted and have it as a planned to "release" then still share the unlisted link for your supporters and so on, that can cause funny looking things like this.
@@emersonharris142 Yeah Ive always assumed thats what it is when I see it. It just caught me off guard because I thought I was early and instead I was greeted by a bunch of time travelers lmao
...So we’re going to hunt for gold on the bearing sea? Live off the grid in some remote location? Maybe Alaska? Or test some myths out to see if they’re true? This song, or the discovery channel hasn’t aged well.
4:25 There are small wind turbines designed to be put on houses, and medium sized ones that individual land owners (such as farmers) can have installed also. The medium sized ones are very common where I live.
Voltage is not a measure of energy consumption, wattage is. Think of stun weapons powered by AAA batteries or whatever there source. It isn't necessarily voltage that kills you, it's amperage.
We are at the early stage of renewable energy, not so much like early cars 130 years ago. This is exciting. I live in Texas, home of the largest wind farms in America. Once cluster is in West Texas, another is around Sweetwater, in the northern panhandle. I travel through both of them sporadically, and I love to watch the windmills. Knowing that they provide 100% of my home's electricity.
I wish you had mentioned new study out of Denmark which found painting one wind turbine blade black reduced bird kill by 70%. Also some pilot projects have been developed to recycle ground up turbine blades.
@@lavasharkandboygirl9716 starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Twin_ion_engine I wrote "Twin Ion ENGINE", and last time I checked the "s" at the end of a word is what makes it plural, ergo the twin word must refer to the ion part of the SINGLE engine. MTFBWY, young padawan.
Great video as always. However, the reason wind turbines are so big isn't to offset maintenance costs. The reason is to capture more energy and remain competitive. Wind turbines capture wind that passes through their rotor area. The area scales with the square of the diameter, so each additional meter yields an exponential gain in energy production. Cost also increases exponentially with diameter due to loads, but not as quickly (until a certain equilibrium point is reached). Making larger wind turbines is the only way to significantly drive down the cost curve and remain competitive with solar, which also has a decreasing cost curve for other reasons.
Depends on the circuit. BTW he mistook voltage with energy. Common mistake. In case of the plane, I assume they used lithium batteries. A pack of those in a common arrangement has a few tens of Volts. Converting that to tens of thousands is a lossy operation. That's one reason, why it's not economical. But it was a cool experiment.
You're thinking of long-range power transmission. In the electrical grid, increasing the voltage reduces the energy lost in the cables. However, you cannot say that in general higher voltage means a more efficient electrical circuit. In a small device, energy lost to cables is tiny.
@@lukashann5025 Actually Lukas. I can say that.! In every single location where electricity flows. Higher voltage = greater efficiency. Not just the power grade. Although that is a perfect example. The only time high voltage can be thought of as being less efficient is in exactly the same way the comment before you're stated. Which is in converting low voltage into high voltage. Which is probably and exactly what they're doing to achieve that high of a voltage from something so small and light. Without using post quartz crystals. So let's not get into an Electrical Engineer off. Because what I am saying is not only common knowledge to anyone familiar with Ohm's law. But in every application where electrical efficiency is being taken advantage of.!
star trek,star trek, you realise,if,,we didnt have religion,for 7k,,dependance on oil,for 1k, but free education for all,& free medical.. WE WOULD NOW BE FLYING THRU THE COSMOS... stagnated advancement..
On the subject of birds getting killed by wind turbines, there was a recent study that found that simply having one of the blades painted black or another different color had a significant impact in reducing birds flying into windmills.
Nah man, I did a project on that bird thing lol, the birds are fine we need to worry about our Bat homies, their echolocation doesn’t pick up the blade in the right amount of time, and get swatted out of the sky alot lol. I feel kinda bad for em ngl
@@AndyFletcherX31 Not for big birds, and wind turbines are NOT a way to substitute for fossil carbon. They encourage shale fracturing for the gas turbine (real turbines) spinning reserve. But the gas is carbon tetrahydride, a worse infrared absorber than the carbon dioxide it produces when burnt.
@@albertrogers2506 Sorry gas is currently being used for balancing and when wind/solar is not available but this is starting to change with demand response, biomass and batteries. Expect big changes in the future with stuff like hydrogen being used to fill in for gas during times of low renewable production. As for shale fracking - this is an abomination which should never have become widespread as the CH4 leakage is high. If you want to know what is happening then I suggest you listen to the GTM Energy-gang and Interchange podcasts (USA), also the energy insiders podcast (AU) is well worth a listen.
@@albertrogers2506 To be clear - I'm looking from the perspective of overall decarbonisation of the grid. Anything which displaces coal, gas and other fossil fuels is good. I'm based in the UK where we have seen almost the complete closure of coal power plants and a reduction in gas power production. The balance has come from mostly wind along with biomass (somewhat questionable) and solar PV. There are several websites which analyse the long term migration from fossil fuels towards renewables. Gas is certainly better than coal (about 1/2 CO2/KWH) but renewables are by far the best. The use of gas for power does not imply that you have to use fracking - indeed it is better if you don't because of methane escapes. It is even better to store hydrogen (or ammonia etc) from excess wind/solar and use it when there is low wind. This is what the attention of the world is turning to apart from the USA which appears to be currently going backwards for many environmental issues.
@@AndyFletcherX31 yes, the US is currently RACING BACKWARDS, thanks (of course) to the Republican Party and their massive corruption (ever thirsty bitches for those fossil fuel dollars)
They actually are. There is the company neocomp in Bremen, Germany doing it. But they don't really recycle it, they just grind the blades up, mix them with leftovers from paper recycling and make cement from that.
@@mennovanlavieren3885 Seems like using aluminium would be better then? Cause worst case you can just re-melt it? Hmm... Honestly, I'm not sure how to re-use composits.
Throwing cold water again? Nah. You are just telling the truth. We LOVE it when people tell the truth! Plus, you do it in that wistful, "wouldn't it be great if the Jetson's tech finally arrived in everybody's backyard tomorrow" style! Go, team!
Honestly, I don't think Joe has the expertise needed to report on the topic until he does some research to get the fundamentals. However, there are already several UA-camrs that are science communicators and whom do a much better job than Joe. I love Joe, I think he adds much to his topics that increase their entertainment value but when I am looking for solid info from people who know their topics I tend to go elsewhere. I would recommend Arvin Ash for physics related stuff and Anton Petrov for more astronomy related topics.
@@glace5717 Absolutely, it seems like everything has been falling apart this year. It is as if things have got worse every year since 2016. However, things could always get worse. As bad as things seem; we live in a time when infant mortality is the lowest it has ever been in recorded history, as is global poverty and the number of people who lack access to basic services such as running water and electricity. In other words, progress is being made in the right direction; just not in those areas that affect the average American. As a result, if you are American and are old enough to vote; please do so. EDIT > Fraser Cain just released a video on the topic of life on Venus, he is also a person that does a good job of reviewing the latest publications in Astronomy.
@@cannibalbananas I think they mostly renovate houses and yell at each other while cooking food these days, but it's been a long time since I've watched the Discovery Channel.
I thought of a few applications that this tech could potentially be used for: 1. Fences that save you money on electricity. 2. Weird hybrid planes and jets that save companies on gas. 3. Drone-satellites with solar panel wings that save companies money on having to throw tech into orbit. Minimal moving parts means maintenance could be a monthly thing.
Yep, came to say "why on earth would 40,000 volts drain anything quickly".. only if you know the amps in addition to volts do you get a sense of how fast a battery would be drained. 40,000 v @ 0.000000amps would be a long time.
Actually, Don Quixote had nothing to do with those, the character was an "hidalgo", a minor descendant of a noble family with no inheritance; he was delusional, yes, but he thought he was a knight in armor like the ones in his books, not a conquistador :-)
@@hugofontes5708 That makes no sense. To form a 40kV electrical field takes virtually no energy. The energy part happens when a current flows. And without knowing what current flowed between the wire and wing, we know absolutely nothing about how much energy the plane used. Zero information. You can easily charge nF capacitor to tens of thousand Volts. W = 0.5CV² 0.5 times 1x10-9 x 20,000² = 2 Joules That's absolutely nothing.
I have a little negative ion producing thing with tufts sticking out of the back. I live in a boat and it's meant to keep smells away. Now I understand how it works!
The reason birds get caught by wind turbines isn't just the height; It's the light. Every wind turbine has an aircraft warning light(s) on the nacelle. Birds are confused or drawn to the light. Same problem with high-rises and windows in general (of course the reflective surfaces often don't help either). A probable solution is to move lights to surround a wind farm instead of mounting them directly. I may get flack from some pilots out there for this advice but here's the thing: I am licensed pilot myself. This is a safe alternative for all concerned... including the birds and the environment.
Dude, in the first two and a half minutes of your video you manage to say that both "volts are energy" and "519 gigawatts of energy". I appreciate that you are bringing sciency stuff to non-scientists, but you can't, as an educator, confuse units like this. I know you're a smart guy, and I'm sure that if you stopped to think about it, you would never say that. It sounds like you're a bit fuzzy on what power, energy and voltage actually are, but then you're totally into science, so that can't be the case. I don't get it, but won't somebody please think of the children???
Jeez go easy on the poor guy, everyone makes mistakes... Dont have to jump down his throat about it "think of the children" ?? Man thats so insulting... Maybe you should also think before you speak my friend... He thinks of Everyone, but this isnt a childrens channel anyways, too much adult innuendo.
Correction: 1:40 "40,000 volts is a lot of energy that would drain the battery quickly". Volts is not energy. A high voltage system does not imply a high energy consumption system.
Oh hey it's you
@@TremixNeo No, this is auto-bot comment Dave.
Comic Book guy from The Simpsons?
high voltage may not always mean high energy but you'd have a pretty hard time finding something in this world that can use 40,000 volts and not be over 1 amp.
@@psionx1 I'm not an electrical engineer, but there are Van der Graaff Generators and Marx Generators - and they're safe enough to zap students with. So there is mature tech for creating high voltage without high current.
*Scientist 1:* "Some birds get killed by the moving turbine blades, what should we do about it?"
*Scientist 2:* "Let's build a huge electrified net instead!"
*Scientist 1:* "Brilliant!"
jk cool concept. ;)
Edit: Wow, I don't think I've ever had so many responses; it was just a meme, I don't actually think it's bad for the birds, this just popped into my head. I realize power lines are already essentially an electrified net and nearly all of the time the birds are just fine.
Yet, I'd really want to now about the impact of this fences on birds and other animals.
Birds are usually okay on power lines, right?
@@MrKirner Those are 40KV and up, as long as they don't cross the phases they'll be fine. The amount of charge in an isolated wire fence like that wind generator is really small anyways.
Doubles as a bug zapper.
@@MrKirner Yes if the bird doesnt create a connection with the ground then the electricity doesnt actually pass through them, these are closer to the ground though so animals like foxes etc might actually be at risk he has a valid point there.
Joe. You aren’t throwing cold water on ideas people are excited about. You are tempering people’s expectations. An essential service in science communication.
Love you mate. Keep up the great work.
Years ago we were promised that the internet would make information available to everyone and everyone would be able to learn about anything
I feel like shows like this one make that promise come true
Good job sir thank you for the excellent content
Information is available to anyone and everyone. It's just that the means to get it aren't there. So the promise is very much fulfilled within those parameters.
Have a problem with that? Start going after CEOs who get billion dollar richer by stealing money from their overworked employees.
@@aserta not just their employees, they steal from people who pay taxes. They're given a free pass to do by government around the world so they can. And you're right the information out there, but it's being suppressed by government's and big corporations. Or it's been smeared and discredited so if you talk about it people think you're crazy. Take for example Nikola Tesla supposedly invented free energy, he didn't. What he did discover was how to tap into the biggest producer of electricity that people have access to for now, and that's the electromagnet field of the earth. But because the robber barons couldn't make money by stealing from others. His financial backing came from J.P. Morgan, I believe who said it you can't charge people money for it, then it's of no use. Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant men ever born, but almost every one of the things he discovered has been suppressed, and it's not just him. Most people don't know Henry Ford invented a material that was as strong as steel just before WW2. It was made from hemp and was like fiberglass, some how the process of making it was supposedly lost. There have been two instances where men have discovered how to make a powder when poured in water make it flammable, and able to burn. And just so you know I didn't get any of this information from the internet or anything like that. Henry Ford discovery, and the first man with the white powder i read about in the 70's in a public school library. The second man I watched a news report from an Australian local news station. Both of the men with the white powder dissapeared, imagine that I wonder why. And yes it's possible for water to burn, after all it's called H2o for a reason.
@@aserta not just their employees, they steal from people who pay taxes. They're given a free pass to do by government around the world so they can. And you're right the information out there, but it's being suppressed by government's and big corporations. Or it's been smeared and discredited so if you talk about it people think you're crazy. Take for example Nikola Tesla supposedly invented free energy, he didn't. What he did discover was how to tap into the biggest producer of electricity that people have access to for now, and that's the electromagnet field of the earth. But because the robber barons couldn't make money by stealing from others. His financial backing came from J.P. Morgan, I believe who said it you can't charge people money for it, then it's of no use. Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant men ever born, but almost every one of the things he discovered has been suppressed, and it's not just him. Most people don't know Henry Ford invented a material that was as strong as steel just before WW2. It was made from hemp and was like fiberglass, some how the process of making it was supposedly lost. There have been two instances where men have discovered how to make a powder when poured in water make it flammable, and able to burn. And just so you know I didn't get any of this information from the internet or anything like that. Henry Ford discovery, and the first man with the white powder i read about in the 70's in a public school library. The second man I watched a news report from an Australian local news station. Both of the men with the white powder dissapeared, imagine that I wonder why. And yes it's possible for water to burn, after all it's called H2o for a reason.
In reality the spread of disinformation like this has simply made millions into complete unthinking retards.
@@thebigdog2295 the Tesla electric generators need to move through the magnetic field and it creates drag, so it doesn't provide any extra energy.
"A new spin on wind energy"
I see what you did there
But isn't the spin the old thing, and ionic solid state new? lol
Wind turbines are a revolution. Or even a few revolutions a minute. Who can tell for sure?
When this pun was first pointed out, I had to go back and look to see what they were talking about. Because it was 100% an accident.
@@joescott ... just a happy little accident ... You are like the Bob Ross of UA-cam puns.
@@joescott Glad folks could point out a different twist on your video.
This concept has been around for years. It's nice to see it's still being explored.
When Joe speaks about damaging the environment when wind farms are being constructed, he's correct in certain areas. But, here in the midwest US those wind farms are almost always constructed in farm fields. Other than the initial moving of equipment, trucks and a substation, the environmental damage is minimal. Actually it's really neat watching the crews put up the turbines...pretty skilled workers making it look easy.
When a farm field near any living beings, such as horses or humans, are within range of the infrasound pollution, the horses if female tend to abort a valuable foal fetus, and the people's homes lose up to half their value.
@@albertrogers2506 >the people's homes lose up to half their value
You've clearly never been anywhere rural. Homes anywhere near farm fields are usually surrounded by them for miles in every direction. I can't see anyone living that far out who'd raise hell over the slightest chance of lower property values from noise pollution.
edit: especially given that crop dusters are a thing...
@@CubicApocalypse128 It happens all over Ireland, and in Cornwall. I lived in the first National Forest Park in Northern Ireland, where my father was the Head Forester in charge of making it so. I'm also a Scot, and have very little interest in going back, so much of it has been defiled by them.
I also lived as a boy, for two years, in Aberfoyle.
What happens is that absentee landlords of those fields you claim to know about lease them to subsidised profiteers. The people who live in the houses would sell them, but can't afford the loss in value. This I am quite sure can be confirmed from actual land value records.
Our approach to all forms of energy production is brutish and inefficient. that is because the DNA of energy production is just dumb luck by stupid people (Beverley Hillbillies?). You go against that you get the treatment. Don't know what I'm sayin 'bout "the treatment"? GOOD! STAY IGNORANT!
Great, now I have to go listen to The Bad Touch. This is great, just real freaking great Joe.
That song will be stuck in my head for days now ... 😑
Me too.
The killing birds stat was interesting. That gets thrown around alot, but in tiny in comparison.
I am a wind turbine technician. I've worked around hundreds of wind turbines in many different States. I've seen a handful of dead bats and one bird. I would say the bird issue is a political one.
This new SWET idea creates a place where birds can sit. 🤩
2:42 Each year 600 million dead birds from flying into buildings. (Stop building glass buildings! Yeah right.) And 2.4 billion bird deaths from cats. (Control the pet population!). Though he doesn't say it, autos are #3 at 200 million; wind turbines are #8 after power line collisions, cell towers, power line electrocutions, and agricultural chemicals.
It's the Orange Turd's favorite attack on carbonless energy.
@@paulreding6954 There is a ruling passed during Obama's term, to excuse wind turbines for the deaths of up to thousands of eagles. Please find other employment, wind "turbines" on a grid mean it desperately needs real turbines, spinning with enough spare capacity to take up the load that the wind is sure to drop sooner or later and without enough warning to get another generator up to speed.
If you disapprove of "political" motivations, you should be aware that there is NO sound environmental or economic justification for wind turbines.
I write this as a hard core liberal, lifelong environmentalist, and one who thinks that Al Gore underestimates the Inconvenience of the Truth about fossil carbon dioxide.
Examine the effects of Germany's Energiewende, compared with the still existing nuclear dominance and far lower poisonous gas emissions of France.
Yes, too much carbon dioxide dissolved in the sea poisons animals like oyster larvae and even smaller, by providing bicarbonate rather than carbonate ions in the water.
Gas turbine emissions, which are inevitable from wind turbine use, do not reduce the AGW threat from atmospheric carbon dioxide. They merely slow the rate of worsening it, as compared with coal.
This means that every vineyard can be an electric source too.
The vines might disagree
@@stiimuli I don't want to go to deep into details, but between harvest in autumn, and the next spring, the wires in a vineyard are mainly free of vines.
Might give an extra spark to the vine, win win situation for you right there.
I wonder if that would add a distinct flavor. Ionic wine.
@@SiqueScarface I'm intrigued. I'm curious about practical details, like the effective range from the ground the wires should/can be; Positive/negative effects upon foliage on/near the wiring and how that foliage might affect the energy productivity; Whether birds, insects, curious children, clumsy vintners, etc. might endanger themselves with inadvertent contact; How high the voltage should be to create the charge, and how that voltage/current would need to be converted to transfer it for storage/usage.
Higher voltage yields better wattage efficiency in transit, so smaller gauge cables can transmit a lower amperage (for similar net wattage) further before dissipating some energy as heat, and possibly melting the transfer lines. But, lower voltages are _less prone_ to *accidental electrocutions.*
Well, I should say _less prone_ to *accidentally FATAL electrocutions.*
*Every tradesman* that I've ever known, is bestowed the _honor_ from time to time, of bleeding for their profession, in the pursuit of perfecting their craft.
"Why do people follow me?"
Because you give us a dose of positivity while also keeping us grounded.
... I'll see myself out.
Come back! I also think so
This deserves a round or applause. 👏👏👏
Puns are the best!
@@PnlBtr He will feel amped up if you applause
Um... He says wind is 5.5 % of all energy produced around the world. I don't have stats for all of the world. But...
In Canada, wind is about 4.4% of ELECTRIC energy production. China is round about 4% of ELECTRIC energy production by wind. So is India.
In the USA it's something like 2.5% of electricity production, at something like 300 billion kWhrs of wind electricity produced.
But 439 million tons of coal is used per year in the US. At about 20 billion Joules per ton. Or round about 10,000,000 billion kWhrs of energy produced by burning coal. It's used for heating buildings, powering ships, smelting iron, etc.
No, wind does not produce 5.5 percent of all energy generated. Even 5.5% of all electricity generated is kind of pushing it.
Also: The birds killed by sky scrapers and eaten by cats are nearly all small birds. Like starlings, which we can spare. There are 200 million of them, and they are an invasive pest.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-invasive-species-we-can-blame-on-shakespeare-95506437/
Wind turbines get raptors. Like falcons an hawks. They don't understand the blades and fly into them. Wind turbines also kill lots of bats by screwing up their echo sensing.
Five minutes into the vid and all he's done is virtue signal. Six minutes of an 11 minute vid before he even gets to the idea.
Grounded? Maybe not so much.
The inventor of the Ionic breeze is also a MIT graduate. Also invented a device that you could put in your car fuel line and get three times the gas mileage. He was given award for it at MIT and a car company came along and gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Goes to show you if something pops up that can help us it’s taken off the shelf and that’s what happen with his fuel device
I love your show keep up the good work
"Why do you people follow me?" - for the Bloodhound Gang references. Thank you.
It's all about respecting your partner when watching TV together.
Something like that.
@@k1dicarus comment gets 2 thumbs up
Was Mr. Bloodhound ever in?
I also saw Donkey Hotay.
Adam Sanders I never saw the wonderful blue penguin of everything needed
"Human innovation is always something to cheer for."
Yes, Joe. Hell yes.
Thank you for your content. Keep it up.
I suppose you fellas aren't too familiar with the history of military innovation--including dual use military tech.
"Why do people follow me?" < Because you're careful to temper our excitement about gee-whiz new science and technology stuff whilst also talking about it. You don't oversell, but you don't undersell. You tell us what it is and if there's an ounce of skepticism we need to have about it you tell us about that, too.
Partly because of your videos (And also Tim's) I was motivated to apply to the TU Delft in Aerospace Engineering. And guess what I was accepted (I don't really know why). But I do really want to thank you for your amazing content which really inspired me.
I see your name. I hear this. ua-cam.com/video/qmacAJfnQXc/v-deo.html
Wind Turbine bird strikes: Study determined that painting one of the blades black creates a visual effect that deters birds from flying near the blades and dramatically lowers strike deaths.
Solid State Wind energy collector: Curious what effects the downstream environment would experience from a constant precipitation of anions...
They also have a reflective paint that works well now.
Maybe they'll get struck by lightning a bunch?
@@icedragonaftermath good thing they're grounded, like most radio towers.
Ozone? I don’t claim to know anything about it, though.
I've read that purple is the best color choice for the birds, but yes, it seems that not painting them the color of clouds makes them more noticable to birds. It seems obvious in hindsight, really.
Joe, you're a national treasure. Always interesting! All good wishes.
A silent, solid state wind energy harvester would be quite the game changer.
Tesla needs to start making these.
@@wattlebough Well it will work on Mars, even in a dust storm.
Until those bird people start complaining about all the poor birds being injured by the 17 gauge (guillotine) wire strung everywhere.
@@johannnyborg3998 first of all Mars barely has any wind and when there are dust storms it only goes 30km an hour on a weekly basis it goes faster then that where I live
@@johannnyborg3998 7m tall masts with wires generated 20mW, enough to run a battery clock radio for half an hour 5 days a week! Though cheaper, it is hardly worthwhile even if efficiency increases 1000 fold. Even on Mars where real estate is free, wires and masts have to produced by robots, as wires are heavy at that scale. If a robot can make one collector per day, in 1000 days the installation will have an output of 20W. While the robot will have spent in the neighbourhood of 20kWh per array, remember metals have to be chemically extracted and then smelted to make wires. In other words, 20MWh have been spent, which the array then will be 1 million hours, or 41700 days or 114 earth years to recoup, before generating a surplus! This tech is only for low power sensors on mountain tops, not utility scale on any planet. A NASA grade 60W solar panel can do the same thing at Mars solar radiation levels, weight 4 pounds and be deployed immediately.
They discovered that if they paint one of the blades black of a wind turbines, that bird deaths are reduced by about 72 per cent.
It doesn't help the bats any, I doubt the 2-digit precision, but 28% of a thousand eagles is still too many. That's before we count the falcons and the ospreys.
If one of the blades flies off and does no damage, the bird deaths from that device are reduced 100%.
@@albertrogers2506 w h u t
albert rogers do you, by any chance have a cat, or a house with windows?
Wind Turbines have far better ramp up times than coal or even gas plants. In the time the gas plant is fired up a wind turbine has turned into the wind ten times.
@@ErikB605 I wonder where you get your ludicrous information. You need to ramp up the power supply when the demand on the grid goes up. The one thing that wind and solar do less well than providing steady power, is responding to a need for more power.
Owners of gas turbine generation, and managers of grid response, know perfectly well that it takes a gas turbine too long to synchronise with a 60 Hz AC grid, so both have arrangements to pay for the 30% of maximum power gas demand, that is needed to keep a gas turbine spinning in reserve. If your "renewables" are delivering 100 MW of power, you need about 100 MW of spinning reserve of this kind, power that the gas turbine can supply, but isn't actually delivering.
Ima keep an ion THIS technology.
Obligatory: ta-dum-tss
Is this produce Nitrous oxide? There is Nitrogen in the air 78%. Will this poison us & our world?
Kudos for talking to the source material author
Everything that changes our dependency on fossil fuels is good.
There are a lot of poor ideas and bad implementations of renewable energy. How about we just do the smart things?
@@milesrideout974 smart things aren't an option, we're on limited time
@@innouniversedoineedthis what's an easy way to drop your carbon footprint? I've quit driving, so at least there's that...
@@innouniversedoineedthis it's that kind of thinking that backs us into corners. Smart solutions are the solutions we should be pursuing so that we don't end up in another bad situation.
@Paraponera that's why we have to keep developing them, no new technology will instantly be fully effective.
Never been tempted by Brilliant. But today I saw a showcase of what it is and how it works. Its a genuine slide into my DM's not like some of the other shameless channels that plug it.
Why is that sharper image filter such a strong random memory in my brain
like I haven't seen that thing in years and I remembered every frame of that perfectly
It played on loops for years. I remember waking up to it often ,on repeat, when I would fall asleep with the TV on.
Rampant consumerism and the marketing that follows it. They played those commercials on loop for years
More importantly who has that much dirt in their air, lol.
Everyone: I wonder if this will work!
Me: WHY IS THE BOTTOM LEFT SHELF EMPTY
But seriously why though?
We need answers!!!
It's not empty, it has a random assortment of objects but they're invisible
Bottom left shelf empty???
On another episode there’s a different camera angle for a brief moment and you can just see a tiny label on the shelf. I was able to capture the image and enhance it pixel by pixel. It’s still not completely clear but I was able to make out some words. I think it says ‘This space reserved for over-inquisitive UA-cam viewer’s head in a jar’.
Hope that helps.
I'm really excited to see this video. I will be working on this design for the next four years. This will definitely be exciting. I believe this will be the next solution for wind energy.
That corona-discharge might be a PR-problem...
Only among absolute...
Oh.
You may have a point.
Well it actually is a real problem. All that coronal discharge will create a ton of ozone and NOx.
@zapfanzapfan IDK, I think Aurora Tropicos would be pretty awesome. 😎
Mads Horn Absolute Vodka? No, it’s just Corona, a light beer. ;-P
@@northernskies86
Plus giant electric fly swatters may be a tad disadvantageous for birds.
But coupling it with the idea of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower would allow both a bird filter and a O3/NOx filter to be installed :-)
Lmao you got that song stuck in my loves head and now I gotta play it :P Whatta recent classic lol Awesome vid as always team, we love you too Joe!
Sweat baby, sweat baby! 🐵😅🤣
@@josephdavis9204 sex is a Texas drought
And you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about
Just replied with the next line but went back and deleted it. It was a fun song when I was in high school, and catchy fo sho, but at the same time, let's remember this is our internet and we have the choice to debase it or make it beautiful.
Now put your hands...
@@NOTNOTJON LOL! The internet will always be debased. It is what it is. Go outside if you want beautiful.
I appreciate your realistic take on this and everything else. There's no point in getting excited about it if it isn't going to work.
"40.000 Volts is a lot of energy" ... um, no! The voltage is just an energy potential, the actual energy consumption depends on the current, which in turn depends on the amount of air ionized by the engine. Sorry, but that sentence triggered me, because there is no massive draw on the battery just because of the high voltage.
Correctly pointed out.
I was coming down in the comments to say this very thing.
Noticed that too. And was wondering whats the actual power consumption when ionizing the air like this.
So what you're saying is you can connect the wire to power, leave it open, connect the negative to a wire, leave that open and there would be no draw on the battery unless there is a resistance? This could potentially work until the battery life is expended? Would creating 20000v be difficult? Big generator also turned by the wind and Use a battery for a buffer system?
Just like my fly/mosquito/wasp torture/killing racket runs of 2 AA batteries without a problem.
2:10 The quixote was more a satire of knights rather than conquistadors, but yeah, very acurate nonetheless
Yeah for some reason I thought it was about a Conquistador in the new world but I looked it up after reading your comment and your right, it's about a "knight" in Spain going on chivalrous adventures lol.
@@dustin628 It's not even set in Spain, Don Quijote is set in Castilla during the late stages of the Reconquista, much much earlier than the Spanish scramble for America.
And it's a parody about the lowest rank of Castilian nobility (hidalgo) pretending to be more prestigious than they were by exaggerating the battles they participated in.
This was mostly because there were some places in Castilla like the Señorío de Vizcaya where every free man born there would automatically become an Hidalgo.
@@supermaster2012 Sorry but Castille (Castila) is part of Spain. Cervantes is considered a Spanish writer. Possibly Don Quixote hadn't got the memo. See Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain?wprov=sfla1
@@gerardvila4685 I think Afto Kinito is talking about when the story was set, not when it was written. So it would have been 100 years before Cervantes' time, when the concept of Spain as a country wasn't fully in place.
@@magtovi It's a long long time since I read it, but my recollection is that the actual novel happens in "modern" (16th century) Spain, but Don Quixote, being mad, THINKS he's living in some glorious past era. I should re-read it one of these days.
Correction: 2:26 " that's 519 gigawatts of energy" the Watt (W) is a unit of power not energy. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a unit of energy. Think of it like this... You have a 100W lightbulb in your lamp that is on. At any one instant, it requires 100W of power to stay on. Energy consumption takes time into account. To power the lightbulb for 1 hour you would need 100Wh of energy (100W * 1Hr).
So the SWET is just a self generating electric fence
Had the exact same idea. There are farms in Australia bigger than some countries. I can't help but wonder what kind of power could be made using this tech on fences that stratch that kind of distance.
Reece Flowers would be hard to transport that far I feel like
@@p8nisman-not fair point, no one needs a fence with cables that thick
makes you wonder if you could use it like one
I was thinking the same. And it doesn't have to be a large setup, although that would probably be more efficient than a lot of little ones. I have a back porch whose screens I'd be happy to replace with a SWET setup. Alternately, there is a school in my area where one side of the building always, ALWAYS has a pretty stiff wind blowing past it. My point is that there are places we could tuck in smaller setups that wouldn't require the vast amounts of real estate that current wind farm technology does.
One way to save birds is to paint one of the 3 wind blades black bird deaths drop by 50%
That's a thing?
And by 50% more if one more blade painted rainbow.
@@shurmurray Just put some mirror flakes in the top coat. Several bird repellents work by shimmering sunlight with mirrors. Though neighbours will have another thing to complain about besides ugliness and noise.
@@antiisocial Yes it is a thing
@@shurmurray That only works on the homophobic birds. The gay ones head right for it out of sheer desperation to finally be accepted in bird society.
9:01 No you're not. Please don't say that about yourself, you're an excellent content creator who brings exactly the type of content I look for on youtube.
Next to the awesome information, things like 6:09 are just top notch in your videos. NEVER stop doing that! :D
I remember owning that CD XD when you put your finger in it to hold it, I vaguely remember some crude joke on the CD hole.
No! Just DON'T do that any more!.
@@tara5742 You made me go dig out my copy of the CD. You are referring to the "HOORAYforBOOBIES" album CD which reads "ATTENTION: INSERT TONGUE IN CIRCULAR OPENING TO SIMULATE NIPPLE". If you think that is crude, you should see the cover of the song's single CD. It has a photograph of zebras mating.
(And if you were offended by those, do not look inside their greatest hits album!)
@@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores My wife and I went looking for our old copy of Hooray for Boobies, but like the lost catacombs of Egypt, only God knows where we stuck it.
#SorryNotSorry
@@boomerrob9223 yep it was crap and distracted me from what he was talking about
You get all my internet points for the day for the Don Quixote reference.
And he gets mine for the bloodhound gang reference.
Obvio
yeaaaa. but not a conquistador.
Starting it for the first time!
Just knowing what is possible if not practical, is inspiring.
It leads to practical innovation.
I would have never known about this without your efforts, thanks.
When I saw this pop up on my feed, I thought it was going to be a generator using wires designed to resonate in the wind, attached to piezoelectric generators. Getting a net electric generation off wind + coronal discharge is really a surprise.
Is this a thing? If not, that sounds like such an interesting idea!
Same here. it's nice to see an idea I'd not come across before (thank you Joe).
Comparing the two ideas without numbers for energy production, it would seem to me that the Idea Joe is talking about has simplicity and production costs on it's side.
I suspect there's a lot of different ways wind could be used that aren't very well explored at this point.
@@reaganharder1480 Same with ocean waves, I would imagine. I wonder if we could tap into the jet stream with massive floating wind turbines getting net energy AND modifying the weather, moving energy from the atmosphere to the ground.
My favorite Joe videos are the ones about interesting ways to create energy. Just so interesting
Art Bell talked about this almost twenty years ago. RIP Art. We miss you.
Only 50k subscribers left till the big 1 million.
Was here in the 200ks :)
@@gurumage9555 yea I remember when he first got started and his channel was called something different. Can't remember what it was called anymore?
Joe references Bloodhound Gang. Twice!! My life is now complete.
Great job on the vid!!
SWET, baby, SWET!
I've said it many places and many times before: Green energy won't ever really take off until every last drop of oil has been pulled out of the ground and sold. The oil companies will see to that as usual. It's sad but true :-(
I don't know when that collector stood at the TU Delft, but I haven't seen it at the location in the pictures the past 3 years
Looks like it should have been around in 2012-2013
"40000 V is a lot of energy"
*Cries in engineer*
Negative Voltage is a potential difference, so when you're already using 20kV, then -20kV is much easier to get.
I can see a react video from ElectroBOOM coming...
It's really too bad. I thought Joe had a lot of potential...
potential energy is still energy man. and 40,000 of it is, technically, alot.
(intentionally spelled that wrong to see if i could "trigger" anymore nitpickers)
@@adamsoltesz5237 saying 40000 Volts is a lot of energy is just as nonsensical as saying 40000 meters is a lot of mass. They're not the same unit, they cannot be equated. A high voltage (Volt) says next to nothing about an amount of energy (Joule), (or actually, power (Watt) in this case) because we know nothing about the amps.
Let me just say , we watch you because you are smart and self aware! I personally love that! Cheers!
I can confirm this.
I'm an aging, delusional conquistador.
Obviously, la Anglais es su segundo idioma.
delusional
nice horse
Likewise
I know I’ve seen that movie but I can’t remember the name. Could someone enlighten me.
Im from the TU Delft, that thing got torn down years ago
Wow! You're from the technical university of Delft? Did they build you in one of their labs?
affirmative
Imagine how many birds would die in massive grids of wire strung out across the planet...
Not sure about that. I have no real evidence to back this up but I assume birds die to buildings because they don't understand glass and they fly through wind turbines and get smacked because they don't understand motion at that scale. However birds seem to have no issues with flying and landing on fences, telephone and electrical wires to my knowledge.
0 birds can sit on pylons no problem they don’t have an earth
@@KoalaProductions www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/collisions/electric-utility-lines.php#:~:text=It%20is%20currently%20estimated%20that,long%2Dstanding%20bird%20conservation%20issue.
@@KoalaProductions No they die because they are flying in the thermals that are generated around wind turbines. Thats also the reason why you can't use barebone statistics for bird deaths. The mayority of birds that die from wind turbines are large birds of prey. Which exist in way smaller numbers than the sparrows killed by windows and cats.
I have a feeling that if this ever became a cost-effective viable alternative to energy production, that the wires would be quite densely packed (although not so much to obstruct airflow) that it would be a visible "wall" of material that birds wouldn't fly into. Additionally, if there were problems, as this is immobile, it would be very easy to bird proof it (screen mesh infront of it for example).
2:56 just as Joe was saying nice things about them birds, one of them in the stock footage pooped!
... I wonder if you could make a device to catch falling bird poop, if you could generate more electricity then that SWET grid.
Blades are actually recyclable. GE has closed a deal for them to be recycled in the US
I have built wind turbines as a hobby for approximately 60 years. All my windmills pump air and I store the compressed air in a huge tank, which becomes an air battery. The compressed air is then run through a small turbine or piston engine of my own design, another hobby and I can make any electricity you want for far less money than if I were to make electricity directly from the flow of wind as do the large wind-electric companies. Also, it does not cost me millions. Most people probably spend more on golf. It may help to know I live on a small farm on the Texas prairie; lots of open space, lots of wind.
“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do musicians, actors [and sports figures], civilization will jump to the next level.”
- Brian Greene
we also need for kids to look up sports figures like adults look at scientists nowadays
"fourty thousand volts" is not energy. It's voltage.
kinda like PSI is not gas, but actschually pressure.
i mean... c'mon. volts are voltage?
thanks for the clarification.
I scrolled down to comments just to see how many people say this. Joe's gonna be hearing about this for a while.
I'm sure he meant it takes energy to make the voltage.
@@mhoover He said "40kv is a lot of energy" which is untrue. e.g. a static shock from rubbing your socks on the carpet is around 20kv, but very little energy, a few millijoules (an actual unit of energy). Volts are the size of a door, current is how fast you move through the door, energy is how much stuff was actually moved through it. Little things can move through a big door. And lots of things can move through a small door if they move fast. People associate volts and energy because we find a big door is often the most efficient way to move lots of stuff and so they are often correlated, but not necessarily. Particularly in this case, because HV is also particularly good at ionizing particle and energy doesn't have anything to do with it. It's like a case where the big door was only needed because you had to move an air mattress through it.
Yeah, electron pressure
This Solid State Wind Energy idea was worked on in 1987 by the Eco Guards Org in Canada. Because of funding issues, it could no longer be researched. That said, it's great to see we were right and that some other Organization took up the challenge, it interesting we still have our docs and findings.. It does not matter who produces it, as long as it gets put into production for all societies. Now we're working on other solid state energy harnesses, as well as waste plastics reclamation, and a new type of PPE.
Imagine how many bird could be killed, if the blade where made of glass, and we would attach cat on them!
Impressive numbers I would guess!?
add bird seed for maximum effect, lol
Or we could just get cats and mount lasers on their heads, cats with lasers . . . . .
It's a good idea, but I think strapping the cats to the blades would just limit their effectiveness
I had one of those ionizers from Sharper Image and loved it!
Me too. The "fresh clean smell" is ozone. It reacts with anything and everything which is why it "smells" so strong. But might have the added benefit of fighting mold and mildew? But obviously, the levels would have to be very low for the product to be approved, especially in the US. So maybe not high enough levels to help keep the walls clean.
@@gandalf40_tbm30 nigga ozone is literally poison 😂
This is your first video that I have watched. You have succinctly explained it. Thank you.
This video: posted 3 minutes ago
The comments: posted 10/11 hours ago
You can upload a video unlisted and have it as a planned to "release" then still share the unlisted link for your supporters and so on, that can cause funny looking things like this.
@@emersonharris142 Yeah Ive always assumed thats what it is when I see it. It just caught me off guard because I thought I was early and instead I was greeted by a bunch of time travelers lmao
6:10
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
(Do it again now)
...So we’re going to hunt for gold on the bearing sea? Live off the grid in some remote location? Maybe Alaska? Or test some myths out to see if they’re true? This song, or the discovery channel hasn’t aged well.
4:25 There are small wind turbines designed to be put on houses, and medium sized ones that individual land owners (such as farmers) can have installed also. The medium sized ones are very common where I live.
Joe: the plane has no moving parts
The ions: am I a joke to you?
OH HELL NO: "forty thousand volts is a lot of energy that would drain the battery quickly" - that makes no sense three different ways!! ARGH!
Voltage is not a measure of energy consumption, wattage is. Think of stun weapons powered by AAA batteries or whatever there source. It isn't necessarily voltage that kills you, it's amperage.
Sorry, their, not there. The world needs editors now more than ever.
...damn I wish I knew half that much about electricity.
You can get 40,000 volts with a 9 volt battery. Calm down Dr electric
We are at the early stage of renewable energy, not so much like early cars 130 years ago. This is exciting.
I live in Texas, home of the largest wind farms in America. Once cluster is in West Texas, another is around Sweetwater, in the northern panhandle. I travel through both of them sporadically, and I love to watch the windmills. Knowing that they provide 100% of my home's electricity.
"Why do you even follow me?" Exactly because of that :o your neutral and critical look at these topics, even when you are hyped
A Don Quijote reference AND a Bloodhound Gang reference in the same video?!?!? My geeky millennial cup runneth over !!! 😂😂😂😂
I wish you had mentioned new study out of Denmark which found painting one wind turbine blade black reduced bird kill by 70%. Also some pilot projects have been developed to recycle ground up turbine blades.
TIE fighter: Twin Ion Engine... Way to go, George Lucas!
Coincidence?
I think not.
TIE fighters have 1 engine
@@lavasharkandboygirl9716 starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Twin_ion_engine
I wrote "Twin Ion ENGINE", and last time I checked the "s" at the end of a word is what makes it plural, ergo the twin word must refer to the ion part of the SINGLE engine. MTFBWY, young padawan.
Swet baby swet baby...
Me: chokes on coffee 😂
Great video as always. However, the reason wind turbines are so big isn't to offset maintenance costs. The reason is to capture more energy and remain competitive.
Wind turbines capture wind that passes through their rotor area. The area scales with the square of the diameter, so each additional meter yields an exponential gain in energy production. Cost also increases exponentially with diameter due to loads, but not as quickly (until a certain equilibrium point is reached). Making larger wind turbines is the only way to significantly drive down the cost curve and remain competitive with solar, which also has a decreasing cost curve for other reasons.
Actually Joe.! The higher the voltage the more efficient the electrical circuit. !
What you're thinking of is current. Or amps.!
Was wondering about the same, thought I was wrong
Depends on the circuit. BTW he mistook voltage with energy. Common mistake.
In case of the plane, I assume they used lithium batteries. A pack of those in a common arrangement has a few tens of Volts. Converting that to tens of thousands is a lossy operation. That's one reason, why it's not economical. But it was a cool experiment.
You're thinking of long-range power transmission. In the electrical grid, increasing the voltage reduces the energy lost in the cables. However, you cannot say that in general higher voltage means a more efficient electrical circuit. In a small device, energy lost to cables is tiny.
@@lukashann5025 Actually Lukas. I can say that.! In every single location where electricity flows. Higher voltage = greater efficiency.
Not just the power grade. Although that is a perfect example. The only time high voltage can be thought of as being less efficient is in exactly the same way the comment before you're stated.
Which is in converting low voltage into high voltage. Which is probably and exactly what they're doing to achieve that high of a voltage from something so small and light. Without using post quartz crystals.
So let's not get into an Electrical Engineer off. Because what I am saying is not only common knowledge to anyone familiar with Ohm's law. But in every application where electrical efficiency is being taken advantage of.!
@@besenyeim Excellent point.! Good call.
This won't be a thing... it never came up on Star Trek.
star trek,star trek, you realise,if,,we didnt have religion,for 7k,,dependance on oil,for 1k, but free education for all,& free medical.. WE WOULD NOW BE FLYING THRU THE COSMOS... stagnated advancement..
TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM!
Star Trek uses antimatter. You know, shit so powerful you can atomize the entire earth with a teaspoon of it. Good luck with that, LMAO.
@@phantomwalker8251 the conservatives may have slowed us down, but they cannot hold us back.
True.
On the subject of birds getting killed by wind turbines, there was a recent study that found that simply having one of the blades painted black or another different color had a significant impact in reducing birds flying into windmills.
Nah man, I did a project on that bird thing lol, the birds are fine we need to worry about our Bat homies, their echolocation doesn’t pick up the blade in the right amount of time, and get swatted out of the sky alot lol. I feel kinda bad for em ngl
I suspect the loss of bird habitat and pollution from coal mining far exceeds the harm from wind turbines.
@@AndyFletcherX31 Not for big birds, and wind turbines are NOT a way to substitute for fossil carbon.
They encourage shale fracturing for the gas turbine (real turbines) spinning reserve. But the gas is carbon tetrahydride, a worse infrared absorber than the carbon dioxide it produces when burnt.
@@albertrogers2506 Sorry gas is currently being used for balancing and when wind/solar is not available but this is starting to change with demand response, biomass and batteries. Expect big changes in the future with stuff like hydrogen being used to fill in for gas during times of low renewable production. As for shale fracking - this is an abomination which should never have become widespread as the CH4 leakage is high. If you want to know what is happening then I suggest you listen to the GTM Energy-gang and Interchange podcasts (USA), also the energy insiders podcast (AU) is well worth a listen.
@@albertrogers2506 To be clear - I'm looking from the perspective of overall decarbonisation of the grid. Anything which displaces coal, gas and other fossil fuels is good. I'm based in the UK where we have seen almost the complete closure of coal power plants and a reduction in gas power production. The balance has come from mostly wind along with biomass (somewhat questionable) and solar PV. There are several websites which analyse the long term migration from fossil fuels towards renewables. Gas is certainly better than coal (about 1/2 CO2/KWH) but renewables are by far the best. The use of gas for power does not imply that you have to use fracking - indeed it is better if you don't because of methane escapes. It is even better to store hydrogen (or ammonia etc) from excess wind/solar and use it when there is low wind. This is what the attention of the world is turning to apart from the USA which appears to be currently going backwards for many environmental issues.
@@AndyFletcherX31 yes, the US is currently RACING BACKWARDS, thanks (of course) to the Republican Party and their massive corruption (ever thirsty bitches for those fossil fuel dollars)
The big question is: why aren't wind turbines refurbishable?
Fiber composites. Those blades get weakened by micro cracks (and maybe other stuff, idk) over time and how do you recycle those?
@@mennovanlavieren3885 No the real question is why haven't they figured out ways to recycle those?
They actually are. There is the company neocomp in Bremen, Germany doing it. But they don't really recycle it, they just grind the blades up, mix them with leftovers from paper recycling and make cement from that.
@@niklas6576 not recycle, refurbish. And or create from material that is refurbishable.
@@mennovanlavieren3885 Seems like using aluminium would be better then? Cause worst case you can just re-melt it?
Hmm... Honestly, I'm not sure how to re-use composits.
Throwing cold water again?
Nah. You are just telling the truth.
We LOVE it when people tell the truth! Plus, you do it in that wistful, "wouldn't it be great if the Jetson's tech finally arrived in everybody's backyard tomorrow" style!
Go, team!
"40,000 volts is a lot of energy ..." ain't quite right.
watt??
Watt are you trying to imply here?
Jooeeeee Make A Video about the possible discovery of life on the Atmosphere of Venus soo exciting
Honestly, I don't think Joe has the expertise needed to report on the topic until he does some research to get the fundamentals. However, there are already several UA-camrs that are science communicators and whom do a much better job than Joe. I love Joe, I think he adds much to his topics that increase their entertainment value but when I am looking for solid info from people who know their topics I tend to go elsewhere. I would recommend Arvin Ash for physics related stuff and Anton Petrov for more astronomy related topics.
thanks man, this topic is just so good amidst 2020 stuffs 😂
@@glace5717 Absolutely, it seems like everything has been falling apart this year. It is as if things have got worse every year since 2016. However, things could always get worse. As bad as things seem; we live in a time when infant mortality is the lowest it has ever been in recorded history, as is global poverty and the number of people who lack access to basic services such as running water and electricity. In other words, progress is being made in the right direction; just not in those areas that affect the average American. As a result, if you are American and are old enough to vote; please do so.
EDIT > Fraser Cain just released a video on the topic of life on Venus, he is also a person that does a good job of reviewing the latest publications in Astronomy.
Why do we follow you? Ur giving real facts. And not overhype things.
Ur video's are real.
Joe flirting with demonetising playing music... 😂😂😂 cut off just before the algorithm can detect it 😂 swet baby swet
He ain't nothing but a mammal ...
@@danieweir9588 With an automated drip...
I just thought he stopped there cuz the lyrics aren't all-age appropriate. Who needs to hear what animals do on the discovery channel? 😏😂
@@cannibalbananas I think they mostly renovate houses and yell at each other while cooking food these days, but it's been a long time since I've watched the Discovery Channel.
@@kevincrady2831 haha! true
Is it me or is Joe looking really guilty by the end? I mean, guiltier than usual?
I thought of a few applications that this tech could potentially be used for:
1. Fences that save you money on electricity.
2. Weird hybrid planes and jets that save companies on gas.
3. Drone-satellites with solar panel wings that save companies money on having to throw tech into orbit. Minimal moving parts means maintenance could be a monthly thing.
1:00
How would this work in the rain?
VOLTS ARE NOT THE MEASURE OF ENERGY!!!!!
Best wishes from Veritasium btw
Thanks I was looking for this
Yep, came to say "why on earth would 40,000 volts drain anything quickly".. only if you know the amps in addition to volts do you get a sense of how fast a battery would be drained.
40,000 v @ 0.000000amps would be a long time.
I think a Chinese university demonstrated direct Thrust generation using Electricity recently.. perhaps before MIT
Quixote is not a "conquistador" but a "caballero" (Knight)
Don Quijote
"They also make excellent sparring partners if you're an aging, delusional, conquistador. "
Actually, Don Quixote had nothing to do with those, the character was an "hidalgo", a minor descendant of a noble family with no inheritance; he was delusional, yes, but he thought he was a knight in armor like the ones in his books, not a conquistador :-)
wtf as I scrolled down to read some comments, I started to read this at the EXACT moment Joe said this in the video. comment subtitles ftw haha
Lol, nitpicking aside, great Don Quixote reference.
sparring* sparing is when you spare
@@MrRyanroberson1 thank you grammarly. ;) It has been corrected.
When I heard about the plane, reversing that system was my first idea/wish. Thanks for the coverage, the links an reaching out to the author.
Kind of surprised you didn’t address Venus news. this is still very interesting though!
'40 000 volts is a lot of energy.'
'Volt' is not a unit of energy.
Yeah, he probably meant it takes a lot of energy to move around enough charge to get 40kV on two pieces of metal
Ewww that name bruh,
@@hugofontes5708 That makes no sense.
To form a 40kV electrical field takes virtually no energy.
The energy part happens when a current flows.
And without knowing what current flowed between the wire and wing, we know absolutely nothing about how much energy the plane used.
Zero information.
You can easily charge nF capacitor to tens of thousand Volts.
W = 0.5CV²
0.5 times 1x10-9 x 20,000² = 2 Joules
That's absolutely nothing.
I have a little negative ion producing thing with tufts sticking out of the back. I live in a boat and it's meant to keep smells away. Now I understand how it works!
“Overblown” 😂😂😂
5:05
Could he be Solomon Epsteins ancestor
Expanse fans I call upon you
seems like an early Epstein drive to me :-P
S.S WIND was my thought idea back in 2008!
Mine harnessed the static charge from the wind, except my idea was focused in desert environments.
Missed opportunity, rewrite: “If this works...the Epstein Drive becomes reality!”😜😎
Sasa ke, bosmang?
in that case, Epstein DID kill himself.
beltowda!
@@CSHarvey Was about to mention that if this works too well he'll need suicide-watch...
I understood that reference. #TheExpanse
I am the first
Or am I (Vsauce music starts playing)
The reason birds get caught by wind turbines isn't just the height; It's the light. Every wind turbine has an aircraft warning light(s) on the nacelle. Birds are confused or drawn to the light. Same problem with high-rises and windows in general (of course the reflective surfaces often don't help either). A probable solution is to move lights to surround a wind farm instead of mounting them directly. I may get flack from some pilots out there for this advice but here's the thing: I am licensed pilot myself. This is a safe alternative for all concerned... including the birds and the environment.
Dude, in the first two and a half minutes of your video you manage to say that both "volts are energy" and "519 gigawatts of energy". I appreciate that you are bringing sciency stuff to non-scientists, but you can't, as an educator, confuse units like this. I know you're a smart guy, and I'm sure that if you stopped to think about it, you would never say that. It sounds like you're a bit fuzzy on what power, energy and voltage actually are, but then you're totally into science, so that can't be the case. I don't get it, but won't somebody please think of the children???
Yep, love what you are doing Jo, but Fraser is correct. (Plus windmills can be recycled- please do a video on this!!!)
Jeez go easy on the poor guy, everyone makes mistakes... Dont have to jump down his throat about it "think of the children" ?? Man thats so insulting... Maybe you should also think before you speak my friend... He thinks of Everyone, but this isnt a childrens channel anyways, too much adult innuendo.
@@HustlinHugh the comment about children is a simpsons reference. Its a joke.
@@jamie7472 ok, well alot of folks dont sit infront of the boob tube anymore lol, how was I to know :P
@@HustlinHugh its ok. you are forgiven.