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My BS meter is off the charts on this one.
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.
60x 30% efficiency 😜 perpetual motion machines are outlawed for a reason
Their website looks like a crypto project
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.
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 🤣🤣🤣
These tiny spheres are best at harvesting money from investors.
I think I have some of these in my Tackle Box I used to go fishing with❤❤
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.
Their team of professionals sure looks ..... professional 😁 So much ESG expertise
@@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.
Its an Amerikano Tech tech scam. Is got investment potential in Nigeria !
These balls are bollocks. The Laws of Physics say no.
Oh Sam!
I thought you had at least a basic grasp of science and common sense!
This is BS.
Based on what you belived in that grasp? He is marketing Chad.
I didn't.
This dude has always been paid PR consultant for the renewable energy rent seekers. He just reads from company media releases and marketing material.
@@Guvament_bsYou are thinking too highly of him, he barely use source material for his videos.
@@Guvament_bs You are bs
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?
The Viking doesn't' do maths 😊
Sounds like a money grab grift to me. Super secret but it works! Just give us money for a big test.
Yeah, it's a little bit sad, that the Viking is technically unfortunately not very realistic.... sounds like a bunch of clickbait crap.
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 . . . 😳🖖🏽
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.
Company doesn't provide any test results and no hard numbers. This is striking me as one huge red flag.
ITS DONKEY TIME HONK. e
💪🏿😡👊🏿
A decent solar panel is 20% efficient- the greatest these could be is 5x greater- 60x makes no sense
@@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.
Idealistically ideas are NOT th limiting factor ITS GD SCALIING PRODUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY
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.
200x more efficient than 22% efficient solar panels? 5 times is more than 100%. Mathematics and physics still applies!
🏆🏆🏆
People wanna make videos, even if they are worthless!
@joen5000 - The problem with that is he's misleading other people who may also get sucked into investing.
You ever hear of the words, "if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is"?
Especially when the math doesn't work.
Please take down this video, it is lowering your credibility. I count on your channel as a resource.
you are braindead to belive he a) has such thing b) cares about it. Are you first time viewer perhaps?
Either he's not bright or there was a bribe, lol.
Well, there it sits, and if you continue to count on him, you deserve your fate.
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.
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.😊
Congratulations, you have just violated the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics. Your Nobel Prize in physics is in the mail.
Patent surely for sale ha
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.
E. V. Not paying attention during maths and physics? I suppose he'll fix this foolishness.
How tf???
Came here to say this... EXACTLY this!
Not if they combine it with ZERO POINT ENERGY harvesting!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😎
@@fritter63600x more powerful than zero? Finally a claim thar seems legit 😅
Perpetual motion machines are obsolete. This will replace them.
is it April already?
111th of april IIRC, that is, really, 92th, but hell
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.
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.
Scam, fraud, lies.
I wonder why Sam likes that kind of stuff? 😁
@@hardi.howdy.983 Do you know the song: then i saw her face and i am a believer!
@@manuelferreira4622 Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
if it makes them rich more power to them!
@@jackwickman2403 I couldn't leave her if I tried.
My "Carl Sagan Baloney Meter" is going crazy!
Somebody needs to take an elementary physics course.
Thought the same thing
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.
I have a Twinkie that can power the world and is ready to market. It goes well with Kool-Aid. Stock symbol is FOOL.
I just sprinkled half of your fusion power plant on my pepperoni pizza. srynotsry
@@beerstuff8019 Just keep it away from the jolly ranchers. If they come in contact it generates 1.21 Gigawatts.
@@beerstuff8019 Did the pizza get hotter?
Wow... i was workin on a similar concept except with fruit roll ups and string cheese
Sorry, this looks like a ridiculous scam to me.
PVs are already approaching 30% efficiency.
Clearly 6,000% efficiency isn’t possible.
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.
@@chriseidam7319 nonsense
@@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.
@@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%.
@@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.
Too good to be true.
Next up: Unicorn Farts replace petrol for pollution-free ICE cars!
Buuuuuuut, this is doom for EV's, can't have that!
And their exhaust smells like roses.
And Dolphins.
Magic Ferry balls!
you said it: "unbelievable" come on Viking.
Dude, really? This looks so scammy. What fact checking did you do to determine if this is legit?
fact checking??
he just reads such articles
easy money making, no effort 😁
I'm afraid I must agree wrt getting power from artificial lights. That just doesn't pencil out.
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.
They are just christmas tree decorations.
Wear them as earrings whilst you're yogic flying!
😂 I want photos as proof 😂😂😂
BS Spidey Sense buzzing so hard i passed out.
Scam 🎉
I knew it was a scam just from the thumbnail. Have I been listening to an electric dummy all of these weeks?
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.
200%
Nay, it's 60x times, so it's 6000% a scam.
80%???
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.
@@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.
Dude… just look at their website, their product description and their leadership. A 10’ pole is too short for this one.
Efficency increases even more, when you drop coins💲 into them or wrap them in dollar bills... 🤣🤣🤣
This sounds like something trevor milton would claim. 200x? calm down there. Gotta make it atleast semi believable.
Yep, like his "in motion" video of what turned out the be a truck rolling down a gradient.
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.....
The claims are so high it's passed the unbelievable line by hundreds of miles
I think solar panels are 18% efficient. 7 times as efficient is 126% efficient. That' quite a claim!
60 times more efficient 😂
Sooo, these spheres are 4000% effective!!! 😂😂
Another of Sam's hyperbole 😁
These balls don't absorb energy, they MAKE energy by just sitting there! "SFN" Spheres (Something From Nothing)
scam
Electric Viking has earned himself a Thunderfoot video.
My grandmother had these stored in a box up in the attic decades ago. She called them Xmas ornaments.
How do you think Santa gets the energy to travel around the world and deliver all those presents?
Solar Ball Technology!!!
Sam, no, no, no . . .
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.
^soot out your chimney.
Don't you love autocorrect.
yeah, this gives some heavy "christmas decoration glued to a cardboard box"-vibes... some mat silver spray paint in there too...
When PV has an efficiency of about 25%, this means, that it can only be four times more efficient than PV! 🤷♂
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.
I'd be surprised if they have any output at all
@@dustman96 I'm sure the box they're sitting on does. Probably several tool batteries worth.
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.
With 1000w/m2 and current solar panels running at 20%, you can’t get more than 5x that efficiency.
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!
The "solar flux" of these spheres changes 'ambient energy' into 1.21 Gigawatts
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.
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.
😂😂😂😂
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 ??
this is right up there with the CD disk device that stored hydrogen for powering cars...lol
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.
Thats the other 60x leaking out, with more funding they could probably get to 120x..
Since they somehow absorb more energy than is contained in sunlight they would be the blackest black. Maybe they are miniature black holes?
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.
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.
😂😂😂 I could find many other places to start
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
I appreciate your finding this new tech, but don't go wild until this is proven to provide the output you've indicated.
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.
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.
Great job Sam. You got heaps of comments. It worked.😅
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?
The company needs to provide test numbers, study data, and provide items for independent tests groups to test. This sound like a dream.
I looked at their Web Site. Looks like a "pipe dream". As another commented, maybe another Fisker?
Sounds too good to be true.
Literally.
It's mind blowing what people can do with a little bit of cheap plastic these days. What a time to be alive!
Cost per watt hour is the only measurable item to consider, not the underlying technology.
Micro plastics in my spheres .. Lol
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.
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
Extraordinary claims require independently verified evidence.
Until that's available I call bullshit.
Evey Hammond: Are you like…. a crazy person?
It sounds too good to be true ..
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!!!
Inside the spheres is a cold fusion perpetual motion reactor.
Hello mate I don't blame you
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.
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.
Two hundred times more? Slightly impossible. My friends are complaining. Three drops of blood and all every test done in five minutes?
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".
Sam, if you don't know how it works but still make it public, what does it tell about you?
Sam they put you on
No, he put their scam on. It's on him.
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 😂
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.
Do you never get tired of yourself? 😂
Apparently Sam didn’t even watch their video, or he would know how they pronounce the name of the company.
I believe it's pronounced SCAM😮 (regardless of spelling)
@@Neogentronyxbahaha 😂 nice one
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 !
Consider this. If it works as advertised, it could power spacecraft pretty much indefinitely.
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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.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan.
So if somehow I could wear this as a suit, I'd be Superman? Where do I sign up? 😂
I have Rooftop Solar Panels for 12 years now. Perfect. Need no sferes.
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
Sounds like another Theranos/Nikola/Tesla FSD situation to me. Too good to be true until we see it PROVEN to be working.
If they look like silver-painted Christmas tree decorations, they are sure to be effective even in winter.
If it doesn't pan out, they'll make lovely Christmas tree ornaments.
this shows how intense and incredible the energy market really is. Everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie
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.
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.
One thing I can see that doesn't make sense,
it is silver colour, that means a large portion of energy is reflected away.
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.
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.
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.