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  • Опубліковано 17 сер 2024

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  • @johnnychromatic
    @johnnychromatic Місяць тому +1071

    My BS meter is off the charts on this one.

    • @mb-3faze
      @mb-3faze Місяць тому +49

      Agreed. Regardless, there is a maximum amount of solar radiation coming from the sun per square meter. It's roughly 1kW per square meter. That's the best you can get. For an average car with, what, a max of 5 sq meters of usable surface exposed to the sun that's 5kW - 6.7 horsepower.

    • @chrisborns5972
      @chrisborns5972 Місяць тому +62

      60x 30% efficiency 😜 perpetual motion machines are outlawed for a reason

    • @FilipWinter
      @FilipWinter Місяць тому +23

      Their website looks like a crypto project

    • @gdonepercent
      @gdonepercent Місяць тому

      Same here. I would bet up to $1,000 at 10 to 1 odds there is something rotten in denmark on this “magic spheres”. I hope it’s legit, but I doubt it very much.

    • @olafschermann1592
      @olafschermann1592 Місяць тому +25

      Just imagine applying magic salt which even quadruples that output. Or putting those spheres under holy glass pyramids which further improves energy harvesting by 5 times 🤣🤣🤣

  • @universeisundernoobligatio3283
    @universeisundernoobligatio3283 Місяць тому +561

    These tiny spheres are best at harvesting money from investors.

    • @gordonwardhaugh8266
      @gordonwardhaugh8266 Місяць тому +7

      I think I have some of these in my Tackle Box I used to go fishing with❤❤

    • @ristekostadinov2820
      @ristekostadinov2820 Місяць тому +4

      As long as they don't milk public money, let them do it. The problem is some government will fall for this bs, like they did for the hyperloop.

    • @patrickd9551
      @patrickd9551 Місяць тому +5

      Their team of professionals sure looks ..... professional 😁 So much ESG expertise

    • @andrasbiro3007
      @andrasbiro3007 Місяць тому +3

      @@ristekostadinov2820
      Hyperloop never got beyond prototypes, and it was mostly privately funded, so if they got any government funding, it must have been trivial compared to everyday waste.

    • @styx1272
      @styx1272 Місяць тому

      Its an Amerikano Tech tech scam. Is got investment potential in Nigeria !

  • @audience2
    @audience2 Місяць тому +102

    These balls are bollocks. The Laws of Physics say no.

  • @RoryCJames
    @RoryCJames Місяць тому +270

    Oh Sam!
    I thought you had at least a basic grasp of science and common sense!
    This is BS.

    • @potencjalnypracownik2966
      @potencjalnypracownik2966 Місяць тому +6

      Based on what you belived in that grasp? He is marketing Chad.

    • @simonmiller5118
      @simonmiller5118 Місяць тому +4

      I didn't.

    • @Guvament_bs
      @Guvament_bs Місяць тому +8

      This dude has always been paid PR consultant for the renewable energy rent seekers. He just reads from company media releases and marketing material.

    • @itsyo42
      @itsyo42 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@Guvament_bsYou are thinking too highly of him, he barely use source material for his videos.

    • @IanPham-e8p
      @IanPham-e8p 13 днів тому

      @@Guvament_bs You are bs

  • @Phtang-phtang
    @Phtang-phtang Місяць тому +477

    Sounds like a load of balls until they have real life data. If solar panels are 20% efficient, how can these be 60x or 200x?

    • @Alantj22
      @Alantj22 Місяць тому +56

      The Viking doesn't' do maths 😊

    • @sirbum1918
      @sirbum1918 Місяць тому +29

      Sounds like a money grab grift to me. Super secret but it works! Just give us money for a big test.

    • @chriswilliams8607
      @chriswilliams8607 Місяць тому +36

      Yeah, it's a little bit sad, that the Viking is technically unfortunately not very realistic.... sounds like a bunch of clickbait crap.

    • @tgdomnemo5052
      @tgdomnemo5052 Місяць тому +6

      multi layer (perovskites, sealed from "the elements" ?) 7:53 , thus, wave lengths, refraction (the "dimples" in the domes ?) , reflection > two faced "cells" ...
      maybe even a cooling/blower unit in that "fat"base🤔box .. ?
      if the standard siliconslats are ~21% .. the easier .. so much potenial for improvements ..
      60! X , though . . . 😳🖖🏽

    • @kennethferland5579
      @kennethferland5579 Місяць тому +18

      Yea clearly they don't have any advantage over Panels, I suspect that they are using a Bullshit measurement metric. The devices look to have PINHOLE lenss at the tops for light to enter. If multiple suns of high intensity light is applied to this pinhole they might get 60x more power out then a conventional panel could achive were that same light intensity applied to one tiny spot on a panel. But they are not showing the whole setup, a large focusing lens would be needed which would make it obvious that these little trays of balls packed like egs in a carton are a lie, it would be more like the Heliostat mounted Sterling engine systems. They are likely also cheating with the 'artificial light' harvesting, by using monocromatic light ideal for their device rather then sunlight. The only legitimate efficiency number is normal intensity and specta of light perpendicular to the device, that is the standard to which all panels are tested.

  • @johnwenzel2003
    @johnwenzel2003 Місяць тому +250

    Company doesn't provide any test results and no hard numbers. This is striking me as one huge red flag.

    • @TheThetruthmaster1
      @TheThetruthmaster1 Місяць тому

      ITS DONKEY TIME HONK. e
      💪🏿😡👊🏿

    • @kevinstulp3715
      @kevinstulp3715 Місяць тому +7

      A decent solar panel is 20% efficient- the greatest these could be is 5x greater- 60x makes no sense

    • @jackwickman2403
      @jackwickman2403 Місяць тому

      @@kevinstulp3715 My guess is that there is a tiny black hole inside each sphere that sucks is all the light in the area that might otherwise pass by the collector.

    • @sparkysho-ze7nm
      @sparkysho-ze7nm Місяць тому

      Idealistically ideas are NOT th limiting factor ITS GD SCALIING PRODUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY

  • @jazzjohn2
    @jazzjohn2 Місяць тому +81

    Even if one of the 4 inch spheres could harness 100% of the solar energy falling upon its entire surface, it would only produce 32 watts.
    Hyperbolic click bait.

  • @olafschermann1592
    @olafschermann1592 Місяць тому +51

    200x more efficient than 22% efficient solar panels? 5 times is more than 100%. Mathematics and physics still applies!

    • @sparkysho-ze7nm
      @sparkysho-ze7nm Місяць тому +1

      🏆🏆🏆

    • @joen5000
      @joen5000 Місяць тому +1

      People wanna make videos, even if they are worthless!

    • @Tedeeb4-Legend_in_his_own_mind
      @Tedeeb4-Legend_in_his_own_mind 5 днів тому

      ​@joen5000 - The problem with that is he's misleading other people who may also get sucked into investing.

  • @SonicCommenter
    @SonicCommenter Місяць тому +83

    You ever hear of the words, "if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is"?

  • @tkosta08
    @tkosta08 Місяць тому +235

    Please take down this video, it is lowering your credibility. I count on your channel as a resource.

    • @potencjalnypracownik2966
      @potencjalnypracownik2966 Місяць тому

      you are braindead to belive he a) has such thing b) cares about it. Are you first time viewer perhaps?

    • @kem8651
      @kem8651 Місяць тому +13

      Either he's not bright or there was a bribe, lol.

    • @not1word331
      @not1word331 Місяць тому

      Well, there it sits, and if you continue to count on him, you deserve your fate.

    • @Guvament_bs
      @Guvament_bs Місяць тому +13

      This video shows his true nature. He has always been a pr promoter of no substance or scientific or engineering knowledge. I hope you have finally woken up.

    • @malcolmrickarby2313
      @malcolmrickarby2313 Місяць тому +6

      Congratulations to Sam for the most entertaining story in years. Just the five hundred plus comments that it’s picked up in the first few hours after posting must be a record. Why anyone bothers to keep posting the same comments after each other makes them look like they are the truly gullible ones.😊

  • @lesbrunswick5137
    @lesbrunswick5137 Місяць тому +42

    Congratulations, you have just violated the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics. Your Nobel Prize in physics is in the mail.

  • @user-dc5qc1vb9c
    @user-dc5qc1vb9c Місяць тому +36

    The solar energy falling on an area is limited. If a solar panel is 20% efficient, the absolute (unattainable) maximum energy would be 5x. 60x is defying the laws of physics.

    • @cmw9876
      @cmw9876 Місяць тому

      E. V. Not paying attention during maths and physics? I suppose he'll fix this foolishness.

    • @sparkysho-ze7nm
      @sparkysho-ze7nm Місяць тому

      How tf???

    • @beforebefore
      @beforebefore Місяць тому

      Came here to say this... EXACTLY this!

    • @fritter63
      @fritter63 Місяць тому +2

      Not if they combine it with ZERO POINT ENERGY harvesting!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😎

    • @jacek-jan
      @jacek-jan 20 днів тому

      ​@@fritter63600x more powerful than zero? Finally a claim thar seems legit 😅

  • @kamra99a
    @kamra99a Місяць тому +48

    Perpetual motion machines are obsolete. This will replace them.

  • @BillyNoMate
    @BillyNoMate Місяць тому +41

    is it April already?

  • @richardzeitz54
    @richardzeitz54 Місяць тому +20

    Without providing any kind of explanation of how they work plus promising 60x the performance of solar panels, this company is basically telling us it's a scam. I'm surprised you've dedicated an entire piece to this highly doubtful product.

  • @dopeleracad1454
    @dopeleracad1454 Місяць тому +11

    Sam, please think about what you are saying. "200 times more efficient" Current solar panels have an efficiency of about 20%, ie they produce electrical energy equivalent to 20% of the sun's energy hitting the solar panel. So 200 x more efficient means they produce 40 times more energy than the energy of sunlight hitting them.

  • @Withnail1969
    @Withnail1969 Місяць тому +173

    Scam, fraud, lies.

    • @hardi.howdy.983
      @hardi.howdy.983 Місяць тому +8

      I wonder why Sam likes that kind of stuff? 😁

    • @manuelferreira4622
      @manuelferreira4622 Місяць тому +2

      @@hardi.howdy.983 Do you know the song: then i saw her face and i am a believer!

    • @jackwickman2403
      @jackwickman2403 Місяць тому +1

      @@manuelferreira4622 Not a trace of doubt in my mind.

    • @robertmartens7839
      @robertmartens7839 Місяць тому

      if it makes them rich more power to them!

    • @robertmartens7839
      @robertmartens7839 Місяць тому

      @@jackwickman2403 I couldn't leave her if I tried.

  • @AllDogsAreGoodDogs
    @AllDogsAreGoodDogs Місяць тому +60

    My "Carl Sagan Baloney Meter" is going crazy!

  • @user-tz3yx8dr1j
    @user-tz3yx8dr1j Місяць тому +44

    Somebody needs to take an elementary physics course.

  • @tyharris9994
    @tyharris9994 Місяць тому +18

    Went looking for some articles on this. " The company doesn't get deep into how the technology works..." Obviously if it's real it changes human history going forward. Cheap abundant energy for all the world. They'll have to compete with me though, as I have recently created cold fusion using Jolly Ranchers and Parmesean cheese. Can't release any details on my proprietary system just yet, but am accepting money from investors.

    • @newguy6935
      @newguy6935 Місяць тому +1

      I have a Twinkie that can power the world and is ready to market. It goes well with Kool-Aid. Stock symbol is FOOL.

    • @beerstuff8019
      @beerstuff8019 Місяць тому +2

      I just sprinkled half of your fusion power plant on my pepperoni pizza. srynotsry

    • @tyharris9994
      @tyharris9994 Місяць тому

      @@beerstuff8019 Just keep it away from the jolly ranchers. If they come in contact it generates 1.21 Gigawatts.

    • @jackwickman2403
      @jackwickman2403 Місяць тому

      @@beerstuff8019 Did the pizza get hotter?

    • @Nahte-uno
      @Nahte-uno 26 днів тому

      Wow... i was workin on a similar concept except with fruit roll ups and string cheese

  • @fredbloggs5902
    @fredbloggs5902 Місяць тому +108

    Sorry, this looks like a ridiculous scam to me.
    PVs are already approaching 30% efficiency.
    Clearly 6,000% efficiency isn’t possible.

    • @chriseidam7319
      @chriseidam7319 Місяць тому +1

      It could be be more than 100% efficient if it is collecting greater total band wavelength of light.
      As far as I know, solar collects UV light. I'm not certain about that. But that is my understanding. I should know the answer because I've worked in solar for 10 years.
      But I know for a fact it doesn't collect the entirety of light wave frequencies in all bandwidths.

    • @fredbloggs5902
      @fredbloggs5902 Місяць тому +4

      @@chriseidam7319 nonsense

    • @chriseidam7319
      @chriseidam7319 Місяць тому +1

      @@fredbloggs5902
      After I posted that, I decided to verify that I was correct about the bandwidth. Yes, it's basically ultraviolet light and purplish light. But The majority of available light is not collected.
      When panel manufacturers are talking about efficiency, I think they're talking about efficiency at capturing the target bandwidth of light on the light spectrum, not the entire spectrum.
      There is far more light energy available than is created and offered by ultraviolet light and the slightly less purplish light.
      Prove me wrong.

    • @fredbloggs5902
      @fredbloggs5902 Місяць тому +3

      @@chriseidam7319 99.8% of the Sun’s radiant energy is emitted in a very narrow bandwidth from 20 to 2500 nanometers, this consists of 5% ultraviolet light; 42% visible light and 53% near infra-red. The TOTAL energy at sea-level is around 1 kWh per square meter. Of this total energy, PVs typically capture 20-30%.

    • @jackwickman2403
      @jackwickman2403 Місяць тому

      @@chriseidam7319 Isn't the latest panel design stacking 2 different cells that each absorb different parts of the spectrum? Together they have a wider bandwidth, so more power.

  • @stratblacknosugar.5125
    @stratblacknosugar.5125 Місяць тому +39

    Too good to be true.

  • @jamesgazin9447
    @jamesgazin9447 Місяць тому +17

    Next up: Unicorn Farts replace petrol for pollution-free ICE cars!

    • @kem8651
      @kem8651 Місяць тому +2

      Buuuuuuut, this is doom for EV's, can't have that!

    • @jackwickman2403
      @jackwickman2403 Місяць тому

      And their exhaust smells like roses.

    • @bwfvc7770
      @bwfvc7770 Місяць тому

      And Dolphins.

    • @williamreese6642
      @williamreese6642 Місяць тому

      Magic Ferry balls!

  • @andders2477
    @andders2477 Місяць тому +15

    you said it: "unbelievable" come on Viking.

  • @glenw3814
    @glenw3814 Місяць тому +57

    Dude, really? This looks so scammy. What fact checking did you do to determine if this is legit?

    • @hardi.howdy.983
      @hardi.howdy.983 Місяць тому +7

      fact checking??
      he just reads such articles
      easy money making, no effort 😁

    • @aclearlight
      @aclearlight Місяць тому +2

      I'm afraid I must agree wrt getting power from artificial lights. That just doesn't pencil out.

  • @redjohn20001
    @redjohn20001 Місяць тому +17

    Seems very suspect to me. The full summer sun delivers around a kW of energy to 1 sq m of the earth's surface. A solar panel is around 20% efficient so 5 sq m delivers 1 kW. I don't see how some thing so small could capture the amount of energy suggested.

  • @philflip1963
    @philflip1963 Місяць тому +15

    They are just christmas tree decorations.
    Wear them as earrings whilst you're yogic flying!

    • @5nowChain5
      @5nowChain5 Місяць тому +1

      😂 I want photos as proof 😂😂😂

  • @ronhill8941
    @ronhill8941 Місяць тому +11

    BS Spidey Sense buzzing so hard i passed out.

  • @paulakass1269
    @paulakass1269 Місяць тому +105

    Scam 🎉

    • @rvanbeau2009
      @rvanbeau2009 Місяць тому +2

      I knew it was a scam just from the thumbnail. Have I been listening to an electric dummy all of these weeks?

  • @jonmichaelgalindo
    @jonmichaelgalindo Місяць тому +71

    That is 100% a scam. Revolutionizing energy, but they have enough spare bandwidth to "design" a forest-fire preventing drone? I have a bridge to sell you, friend.

    • @MaxMisterC
      @MaxMisterC Місяць тому +6

      200%

    • @WarmheartedKyubey
      @WarmheartedKyubey Місяць тому +6

      Nay, it's 60x times, so it's 6000% a scam.

    • @sparkysho-ze7nm
      @sparkysho-ze7nm Місяць тому

      80%???

    • @smalltime0
      @smalltime0 Місяць тому

      See, after revolutionising energy they decided in their spare time to also mitigate the effects of climate change.
      That's how legit this company is.

    • @jonmichaelgalindo
      @jonmichaelgalindo Місяць тому +1

      @@smalltime0 Actually, just planning to revolutionize energy, you know, once they actually get this thing working. Then they decided to take a break from all that hard energy planning, and plan a drone instead. I wrote a thesis on Theranos back when investors were all still in love with it, and I couldn't believe how obvious it was that the whole company was a scam. Investors will believe anything if you use the right buzzwords.

  • @rickmellor
    @rickmellor Місяць тому +13

    Dude… just look at their website, their product description and their leadership. A 10’ pole is too short for this one.

  • @eg6841
    @eg6841 Місяць тому +11

    Efficency increases even more, when you drop coins💲 into them or wrap them in dollar bills... 🤣🤣🤣

  • @mrnadra6843
    @mrnadra6843 Місяць тому +29

    This sounds like something trevor milton would claim. 200x? calm down there. Gotta make it atleast semi believable.

    • @michaelfink64
      @michaelfink64 Місяць тому

      Yep, like his "in motion" video of what turned out the be a truck rolling down a gradient.

  • @markmercieca5569
    @markmercieca5569 Місяць тому +16

    Hahahahahaha....... Is the CEO's surname Holmes? I have a machine that with just a drop of blood I can tell where you were last night, LOLOLOL.....

  • @mileshodkinson9983
    @mileshodkinson9983 Місяць тому +7

    The claims are so high it's passed the unbelievable line by hundreds of miles

  • @davidlloyd1526
    @davidlloyd1526 Місяць тому +16

    I think solar panels are 18% efficient. 7 times as efficient is 126% efficient. That' quite a claim!

    • @pauld3327
      @pauld3327 Місяць тому +1

      60 times more efficient 😂

  • @vekaterava-jd2ui
    @vekaterava-jd2ui Місяць тому +22

    Sooo, these spheres are 4000% effective!!! 😂😂

    • @hardi.howdy.983
      @hardi.howdy.983 Місяць тому +5

      Another of Sam's hyperbole 😁

    • @jacetorii1452
      @jacetorii1452 Місяць тому +1

      These balls don't absorb energy, they MAKE energy by just sitting there! "SFN" Spheres (Something From Nothing)

  • @hebalott
    @hebalott Місяць тому +75

    scam

  • @kennethferland5579
    @kennethferland5579 Місяць тому +4

    Electric Viking has earned himself a Thunderfoot video.

  • @carlwest859
    @carlwest859 Місяць тому +5

    My grandmother had these stored in a box up in the attic decades ago. She called them Xmas ornaments.

    • @AWildBard
      @AWildBard Місяць тому

      How do you think Santa gets the energy to travel around the world and deliver all those presents?
      Solar Ball Technology!!!

  • @douglascutler1037
    @douglascutler1037 Місяць тому +17

    Sam, no, no, no . . .

  • @iRwatcher
    @iRwatcher Місяць тому +6

    I heard that you get even better efficiency with these if you hang these on pine trees. In the winter, the performance will blow the door out your chimney.

    • @iRwatcher
      @iRwatcher Місяць тому +1

      ^soot out your chimney.
      Don't you love autocorrect.

  • @spenzasequenza
    @spenzasequenza Місяць тому +5

    yeah, this gives some heavy "christmas decoration glued to a cardboard box"-vibes... some mat silver spray paint in there too...

  • @minimalist_h
    @minimalist_h Місяць тому +6

    When PV has an efficiency of about 25%, this means, that it can only be four times more efficient than PV! 🤷‍♂

  • @hughbrackett343
    @hughbrackett343 Місяць тому +5

    These xmas decorations appear to reflect at least half of the light hitting them. I'd be surprised if they can match the output of a conventional solar cell with the same footprint.

    • @dustman96
      @dustman96 Місяць тому +1

      I'd be surprised if they have any output at all

    • @hughbrackett343
      @hughbrackett343 Місяць тому

      @@dustman96 I'm sure the box they're sitting on does. Probably several tool batteries worth.

  • @mrblurleighton
    @mrblurleighton Місяць тому +8

    The best solar panels turn about 25% of the light coming in into electricity. That means that a perfect device would at most capture 4x the amount of energy.
    Maybe one day we'll have solar panela that are 99% efficient like many transistors etc currently are, but that day is not today, and physics still exists. I'm halfway through the video with no explanation yet as to where all the extra energy comes from. I'm very disappointed in the amount of BS Viking has been hyping lately.

  • @Andysfishing
    @Andysfishing Місяць тому +5

    With 1000w/m2 and current solar panels running at 20%, you can’t get more than 5x that efficiency.

  • @_winston_smith_
    @_winston_smith_ Місяць тому +6

    Might as well start showing videos on perpetual motion machines next. The solar flux per square meter must magically change in the vicinity of these spheres!

    • @jacetorii1452
      @jacetorii1452 Місяць тому

      The "solar flux" of these spheres changes 'ambient energy' into 1.21 Gigawatts

  • @ristekostadinov2820
    @ristekostadinov2820 Місяць тому +5

    If your average solar panel is 18-20% efficient, 60x means this will work at 1080-1200% efficiency (which is as real as alchemist turning anything into gold). CPV (concentrated photovoltaics) do exist where a multijunction solar cells is placed inside a lens that concentrate solar light into the cell and it works at 35-40% efficiency. BUT and there is a big but, it costs lot of money to produce multijunction solar cell (maybe in the future when Longi and other manufacturers crack the nut on the tandem silicon perovskite cell the story will be different) + the lenses and the sun tracking system is way more expensive than just using more land.

  • @thisismyname9569
    @thisismyname9569 Місяць тому +8

    This is exciting. If you put enough of them in the room with you you could make more energy than you use and sell the excess to the grid.

  • @rare_wubbox360
    @rare_wubbox360 Місяць тому +9

    Love your channel… but please be a little sceptic to everything that sounds to good to be true
    Todays solar panels are 23% efficient… so there is no way they can be 60 times better…..
    or can they get over 100% efficiency ??

  • @kenindenver1
    @kenindenver1 Місяць тому +4

    this is right up there with the CD disk device that stored hydrogen for powering cars...lol

  • @theirisheditor
    @theirisheditor Місяць тому +5

    I get the impression that someone misread 60% as 60X !
    Even then, one big red flag I see is the spheres being shiny, i.e. clearly bouncing off most of the light, which does not make sense for something that's suppose to be collecting light. Generally the whiter or shinier an object is, the more light it reflects away, which is why both solar PV and thermal panels are generally very dark or black in appearance.

    • @bazzmond
      @bazzmond Місяць тому +1

      Thats the other 60x leaking out, with more funding they could probably get to 120x..

    • @dustman96
      @dustman96 Місяць тому

      Since they somehow absorb more energy than is contained in sunlight they would be the blackest black. Maybe they are miniature black holes?

  • @rhankes
    @rhankes Місяць тому +5

    IF (and it's a big IF), they can deliver on their projections; it will be game changing. I have 60 solar panels on my roof and generate 120-130 KWH on a sunny day in June (longest days). Imagine replacing that entire solar array with a single panel that generates that level of energy! Sounds too good to be true.

  • @itsyo42
    @itsyo42 Місяць тому +5

    Sam, if you really don't put the minimal effort to fact check your sources, I'll have to start reporting those videos for misinformation.

    • @JerHAMM
      @JerHAMM 18 днів тому

      😂😂😂 I could find many other places to start

  • @abelincoln3261
    @abelincoln3261 Місяць тому +2

    The spheres, which resemble tiny Death Stars (or, perhaps for a more niche Star Wars reference, normal-sized training remotes), are 30 times smaller than solar panels, with 7.5 times the output. Astoundingly, she said they are more than 200 times more efficient

  • @richardgreen8003
    @richardgreen8003 Місяць тому +7

    I appreciate your finding this new tech, but don't go wild until this is proven to provide the output you've indicated.

  • @themogget8808
    @themogget8808 Місяць тому +5

    I have seen similar claims from other concentrating photovoltaics. Sure, you can get twenty or more times better energy per square inch of silicon, but that is not what matters. If you include all the square inches of the collectors, lenses, mirror balls, or whatever around the sensor, the energy per square inch of the total system is only some ten or twenty percent better. Then when you figure in the added weight, cost, and complexity of install it costs more per watt in the end. That is assuming this isn't just a complete scam.

    • @kennethferland5579
      @kennethferland5579 Місяць тому +2

      Yep this looks like a concentrator which is being shown without its large collecting lense. The egg carton trays of Balls are clearly a lie.

    • @escaperoomoz-firstonsunshi6945
      @escaperoomoz-firstonsunshi6945 Місяць тому +3

      Great job Sam. You got heaps of comments. It worked.😅

  • @jeffbarkley8360
    @jeffbarkley8360 Місяць тому +3

    When I see a company displaying a voltmeter to show how much their design creates, it screams scam! Without seeing how much current is produced, it means nothing. The lighting inside a home doesn't produce enough energy to do pretty much anything. Sure you can run a tiny calculator or watch, but nothing major. I won't be holding my breath waiting for this to arrive :). As others have said, solar panels are currently 20 - 20% efficient, so how can this be 60x as efficient?

  • @cjsunburnedsavage2873
    @cjsunburnedsavage2873 14 днів тому

    The company needs to provide test numbers, study data, and provide items for independent tests groups to test. This sound like a dream.

  • @garycard1826
    @garycard1826 Місяць тому +4

    I looked at their Web Site. Looks like a "pipe dream". As another commented, maybe another Fisker?

  • @BittermanAndy
    @BittermanAndy Місяць тому +3

    Sounds too good to be true.
    Literally.

  • @sadito_374
    @sadito_374 Місяць тому

    It's mind blowing what people can do with a little bit of cheap plastic these days. What a time to be alive!

  • @rhettoracle9679
    @rhettoracle9679 Місяць тому +3

    Cost per watt hour is the only measurable item to consider, not the underlying technology.

  • @rudolphvanrooyen2655
    @rudolphvanrooyen2655 Місяць тому +6

    Micro plastics in my spheres .. Lol

  • @environmentalcanadian2338
    @environmentalcanadian2338 Місяць тому +3

    Current solar panels, like the ones on my home's roof, max out at about 23% efficiency at capturing the sun's energy. Just looking at the mathematics, these spheres could at the very best be 4 times more efficient than solar panels. Just the opinion of this Canadian climate scientist. Peace, Calvin.

  • @jmg7785
    @jmg7785 Місяць тому

    Fact that they push applications ( car powered by spheres, drone powered by spheres) more that the product it’s self says it’s all cap. It’s a magic box

  • @bahb00
    @bahb00 Місяць тому +2

    Extraordinary claims require independently verified evidence.
    Until that's available I call bullshit.

  • @alanjoseph9814
    @alanjoseph9814 Місяць тому +3

    Evey Hammond: Are you like…. a crazy person?

  • @Stan_144
    @Stan_144 Місяць тому +4

    It sounds too good to be true ..

  • @ianclarke4945
    @ianclarke4945 22 дні тому +2

    Well obviously negated the Shockley-Queisser limit! Obviously able to convert more than just the 400 nm to 1100 nm bandwidth! Obviously what normally becomes heat must now become electricity! Obviously something does not add up here, but yeah the Theranos style figures/demo/hype (and a CEO all in black) is really inspiring!!!

  • @charlesmiller6281
    @charlesmiller6281 23 дні тому +2

    Inside the spheres is a cold fusion perpetual motion reactor.

  • @mrmawson2438
    @mrmawson2438 Місяць тому +7

    Hello mate I don't blame you

    • @Guvament_bs
      @Guvament_bs Місяць тому

      Yeah, someone pointed a weapon at him and made him make this video. The dude is a few Roo's short in the top paddock and always has been. But EVangetists love him.

  • @litestuffllc7249
    @litestuffllc7249 Місяць тому +9

    OK lets at least start out with Solar panels are usually 20% efficient; so the most you could do is convert all photons into electricity that is 5% higher than typical current solar panels - you can't get more than 100% efficient cant you? So one may presume 60x is impossible.

  • @markrowland1366
    @markrowland1366 25 днів тому +1

    Two hundred times more? Slightly impossible. My friends are complaining. Three drops of blood and all every test done in five minutes?

  • @mikeazeka1753
    @mikeazeka1753 25 днів тому

    Every year, a "breakthrough" is announced, but 2 years later, no commercial product. Most of the time because the cost to produce is too high, this looks like one of those "breakthroughs".

  • @Alarix246
    @Alarix246 Місяць тому +4

    Sam, if you don't know how it works but still make it public, what does it tell about you?

  • @renedalmeijer8260
    @renedalmeijer8260 Місяць тому +5

    Sam they put you on

    • @not1word331
      @not1word331 Місяць тому +1

      No, he put their scam on. It's on him.

  • @Palisades_Prospecting
    @Palisades_Prospecting Місяць тому +1

    Here is the bait and switch Sam. Measure the opening at the top of the ball in millimetres (probably a prism). Then divide a solar panel area by those square millimetres. This gets you their ridiculous numbers. As long as you don’t take into account the diameter of the balls 😂

  • @blusox78
    @blusox78 Місяць тому +1

    I couldn't find any patents under the various company names or the people mentioned on their websites. It would be interesting to see what is inside the spheres, but there are no pictures. At a guess I'd say the interior is lined with photovoltaic cells and the lens on top spreads the light to them from any angle. The increase in efficiency would not have to be in the conversion/generation rate of the PV cells, but how much power they could generate per m2 as the spheres internal area is larger than the spheres footprint, therefore you could cover an area the size of a regular solar panel with spheres and achieve a greater PV surface. Still sounds a little bogus though.

  • @fritslevie4461
    @fritslevie4461 Місяць тому +3

    Do you never get tired of yourself? 😂

  • @mnhsty
    @mnhsty Місяць тому +10

    Apparently Sam didn’t even watch their video, or he would know how they pronounce the name of the company.

    • @Neogentronyx
      @Neogentronyx Місяць тому +9

      I believe it's pronounced SCAM😮 (regardless of spelling)

    • @SUI-AnimoConscii
      @SUI-AnimoConscii Місяць тому +1

      @@Neogentronyxbahaha 😂 nice one

  • @ichschi
    @ichschi 24 дні тому

    I checked the date - cause I got to believe it´s 1st of April !
    Solar panels : 20% efficiency, this plastic balls 200 times as much = 4000% efficiency.
    Ever heared about: 100% is the absolute maximum?
    I fully agree to all the others calling this BS. 4000% of BS !

  • @paulrandolph8469
    @paulrandolph8469 Місяць тому

    Consider this. If it works as advertised, it could power spacecraft pretty much indefinitely.

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      @SimplotElbie Місяць тому

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      @NadineSigle Місяць тому

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      @LydiaShad Місяць тому

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      @NadineSigle Місяць тому

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    • @BoshersYarzabal
      @BoshersYarzabal Місяць тому

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  • @HelloHumanIAlsoAmHuman
    @HelloHumanIAlsoAmHuman Місяць тому

    This is what happens when a tech company stacks it's board with executives and salespeople instead of engineers. Companies driven by engineers - like Apple and NVidia - won't even mention a new project until it's released and operational.

  • @PassportToPimlico
    @PassportToPimlico Місяць тому

    "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan.

  • @stoner27th
    @stoner27th Місяць тому

    So if somehow I could wear this as a suit, I'd be Superman? Where do I sign up? 😂

  • @willeisinga2089
    @willeisinga2089 Місяць тому +1

    I have Rooftop Solar Panels for 12 years now. Perfect. Need no sferes.

  • @DavidJohnson-yg8qm
    @DavidJohnson-yg8qm Місяць тому +1

    I remember a detector invented by a UK manufacturer that the government bought hook line and sinker. I can't help thinking we're being suckered again

  • @SandyRegion
    @SandyRegion Місяць тому +1

    Sounds like another Theranos/Nikola/Tesla FSD situation to me. Too good to be true until we see it PROVEN to be working.

  • @kansaIainen
    @kansaIainen Місяць тому +1

    If they look like silver-painted Christmas tree decorations, they are sure to be effective even in winter.

  • @Ottee2
    @Ottee2 Місяць тому

    If it doesn't pan out, they'll make lovely Christmas tree ornaments.

  • @AlexanderA-gx1ke
    @AlexanderA-gx1ke Місяць тому

    this shows how intense and incredible the energy market really is. Everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie

  • @MAGICJACKATX
    @MAGICJACKATX Місяць тому

    I'm keeping an open mind because I respect the work you put into your posts. You did ask what we thought so you are obviously open to critiques. I want to hear more about it.

  • @wesbaumguardner8829
    @wesbaumguardner8829 19 днів тому

    Step #1 in making the most efficient solar collector possible: prevent 98% of the light from contacting the effective surface area of the device. This should work about as well as gluing aluminum foil backed cardboard to 98% of the surface of your solar panels you are about to install on your roof.

  • @Radio_FM_3123
    @Radio_FM_3123 Місяць тому

    One thing I can see that doesn't make sense,
    it is silver colour, that means a large portion of energy is reflected away.

  • @paulfrayne6519
    @paulfrayne6519 Місяць тому

    To all those who say this is fake, i actually heard about solar panel material that would work 24/7 due to the design of the cells, so this is obviously possible and I'm not surprised that such technology has come out, i haven't got solar panels or an EV yet, i just see and think that the current technology is not mature enough for practical general use.
    So I'll continue to monitor this technology to see the progress in the future but at the moment i won't be pulling the lever to make the change as yet.

  • @ScottyDMcom
    @ScottyDMcom Місяць тому

    They imply a lot, but give no specifics.
    #1: Harvesting the "wasted" light within a room. Electrical power into a fixture produces light. Some light falls directly on your work, but far more of it bounces off the white ceiling and pale walls. This bounced light is not wasted, but contributes to lighting your work. If you "harvest" this light, say by sucking it from ceiling and walls, then you're gonna need a much brighter light fixture (and more energy in) to have enough light to work. Might as well paint your ceiling and walls with Black 4.0. Also, no energy conversion is ever better than 100%. So let's say 100W of electricity into your high-efficiency light fixture, you capture every last photon not directly illuminating your work, even with a high-efficiency "solar sphere" you're only getting a fraction of the original 100W back, and you're sitting in a very dark room.
    #2: This looks like it could be the business end of a solar concentrator---meaning you'll need concentration optics to make it work. The "hole" looks like about 3 square cm. How much light energy can you get to fall onto 3 square cm? Nothing can reach out and suck in light. You gotta get it into the hole. None of the required optics are shown, beyond insanely bright flashlights held against the holes. No optics = no usable output. The demo is complete bullshit.
    #3: Attaching several of these balls to an EV without multiple square meters of light-gathering optics per ball, is useless. Aptera can only do what it does by being so efficient (as an EV) that 2 or 3 square meters of solar conversion surface is sufficient to trickle charge the car. But that's hardly enough to keep the car running down the road. Remember the solar racers of past years? More square meters of solar coupled with lower power requirements than the Aptera. A far cry from today's EVs.
    Conclusion: The demo and the story told by the company are damned lies, which makes me think this is a scam.

  • @newguy6935
    @newguy6935 Місяць тому

    Though I'd love to be optimistic, I'm a bit skeptical after watching their video on their website. However, I did run across an article from 2003 titled "Small Spheres Make a Big Signal" with the caption "A theory proposes that three tiny spheres can concentrate light into a small space and intensify it by a million times." So, for now, I will try to keep an open mind at least.