Breakthrough Solar Panels Store Energy Just Like Plants!

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@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

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@autohmae 2 роки тому

You might also want to look into: Hydrogen solar panels from University in Leuven, Belgium. They keep making good progress, looks to me like they might not need an other 10 years

@robertlee8805 2 роки тому

@Ricky Roy You know about the Squatty Potty? You think you could do a video on this or a mention of what it does? I noticed lots of folks who might need it.

@robertlee8805 2 роки тому

Oh never mind. Its an embarrassing topic here.

@user-tp5yb4hr4w 2 роки тому

What's actually easier is changing the infrastructure of housing to function with the current Tech we have now. Breakthroughs can take time, so while we're waiting we should also change our infrastructure, take for example how basic Earthship works , it doesn't require nearly the same as energy is a normal home, so if an entire nation was using one of these types of homes then it would be no problem providing them with power.

@harrickvharrick3957 2 роки тому

intro was a bit lame on this vid

@MrZoomZone 2 роки тому

Correction: "Most plants are green, meaning; they only ABSORB that part of the spectrum". Really? Think about that for a moment.....

@alsmith20000 2 роки тому

Indeed, plants reflect green light and are bad at absorbing it.

@marcussparticus8380 2 роки тому

Plants absorb all wavelengths of light but green, it has no purpose so it's reflected back which is why we see plants as green. It is also why greenhouses that produce crops that have specific illumination times can safely be viewed under green light without disturbing the plants rest or dark period. Most plants use Blue light during the growing period and Red light during the flowering or fruiting period.

@marcussparticus8380 2 роки тому

@@TDREXrx9 As an X weed grower, yes I know but it was a short answer to a complicated question, good enough for most viewer's. What do you do for a living, your knowledge of plants is at an academic level, do you work in the horticultural business. And thanks for the reply. It's a very interesting subject. I like Hydroponics but Soil produces a better product in my personal opinion. I had 2 allotments and grew salad using both methods but soil produced a superior taste.

@TDREXrx9 2 роки тому

@@marcussparticus8380 thanks I have been studying off and on at university as an open student with special interests in photochemical responses and stress responses. I still have a a lot to learn but you can and people do spend there life learning.

@Resist4 2 роки тому

I was like yeah, he got this wrong too. But Two Bit gets a lot of facts wrong.

@MrGonzonator 2 роки тому

Green plants absorb green light? I think you mean they reflect green light.

@MyMy-tv7fd 2 роки тому

yes, the absorbtion specturm is bi-modal, green light is actually rejected as most plants get more light than they need.

@WileHeCoyote 2 роки тому

I didn't wanna say it, but I was wondering 🤔 lol

@jasonmak113 2 роки тому

Plants absorb red and blue more efficiently and pass green light; that's why blue and red LEDs are used to grow plants indoors

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@jasonmak113 y’all outdated. Plants absorb most of the light INCLUDING green. They just absorb a little bit less of it. Green is definitely photosynthetically active radiation. Those “blurple“ lights were used out of the lack of information about how plants use certain types of light and when LEDs first came to be almost all available LEDs were single band emitting diodes. If you only look at the absorption curves of chlorophyll you’re mislead to think that plants don’t use green. Today’s most efficient grow lights all use white LEDs with supplemental high efficiency monochrome red LEDs.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@MyMy-tv7fd it really isn’t. Plants were just found to do well under monochrome light. But they do much better under white light. With tweaking the spectrum configuration you can engineer plants to your liking. E.g. Larger amounts of blue in the mix results in reduced cell size, shorter stems and smaller more dense leafs. Red enlarges leaves and usually makes stems longer (depends really on the type of plant). Green is just as photosynthetically active and the reason some of it is scattered is to tell plants and leaves that they’re below a canopy and therefore triggeres depending of plant genus different types of development. Either way a shade avoidance tactic. Overall it results in more healthy plants.

@peterhendry2154 2 роки тому

15 to 25% "Efficient" is better than 0 . Not capturing the sun's energy is like just leaving the tap on forever .

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

True. Somebody is constantly tossing you chips of gold and you’re not holding your hands open.

@zorgestorm 2 роки тому

I dont think so polution added by windturbine and solar is bigger then coal electricity the true clean Power is nuclear and of course dam.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@zorgestorm what pollution are you thinking about exactly? What makes you think solar and wind would pollute more even than coal???

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@zorgestorm how do you justify having an opinion on this topic that you can share with others, what are your credentials?

@zorgestorm 2 роки тому

@@petergoestohollywood382 production if u move it to another part of the world and make polution there it dont change anything because global warming effect is global then utilisation windmills need to be change every 10 years if i good remember and solars the same both are hard to utilisation so it will finish in sea or on trashpiles in low income countries.Dams where u need tutbine its fixable and atomic powerplant is just big steam engine and waste can be store underground now china is using one witch can't explode so its clear energy.

@blackstar3453 2 роки тому

Hi im a student industrial designer from the UK .a year ago I design something similar based off bioluminescence I presented it to Phillips but the lockdown happened and the project was cancelled it good to know I was on the right track

@buzzofftoxicblog791 2 роки тому

👍🙂Keep up the good work 🌎 👏

@jamespaul2587 2 роки тому

Sounds like you were on to something, it might be the right time to see if there are others interested in your project

@dreamburn1 2 роки тому

At the risk of sounding pedantic: When you say “leaves are green meaning they only absorb light within that spectrum,” your video implies that plants absorb green light. I am pretty sure they absorb at least all light within the visual spectrum BUT green light, instead reflecting green light back to our eyes. Thanks for the informative video.

@stefanweilhartner4415 2 роки тому

yes. you are accurate.

@rogerfroud300 2 роки тому

I'm not convinced that hydrogen produced this way is really the solution to the energy problem. Hydrogen needs to be compressed to store it in any amount, and that takes a lot of energy. Then you're got the terrible efficiency of fuel cells to convert it to electricity. The only thing it's got going for it is energy density, the overall efficiency is much worse than the current Solar Cells driving motors, storing the energy in batteries. However, it might be the only way that enough energy is stored to make aircraft possible. That is, until a much lighter battery technology is created.

@thefastandthedead1769 2 роки тому

Or cooled. Consider that a 747 on a 10 hour flight takes off with ~180 tons of fuel. As it burns this the aircraft becomes more efficient, using less fuel for each subsequent mile. If you carry this as batteries your range will be terrible for the same takeoff weight. An empty battery weighs the same as a full one...

@harsha1306 2 роки тому

Also generating it into methanol is concerning. Even if they do carbon capture it's not going to reduce carbon emissions and it's use will just make it carbon neutral. Maybe it's better to just turn it into cellulose that can be used in place of plastics.

@filonin2 2 роки тому

@@thefastandthedead1769 If you have massless batteries that make up the structure of the aircraft this becomes irrelevant.

@thefastandthedead1769 2 роки тому

@@filonin2 It would be great. However the energy density is not there yet.

@wakannnai1 2 роки тому

You're missing the point. Transportation and power generation produce 54% of the US greenhouse gas emissions. We can maybe cut 10% of that through bEVs. Large transport like cargo rail, and airplanes switching to green hydrogen will cut another 15%. Powerplants switching to solar hydrogen generators will cut another 24% and provide continuous power in off peak generation hours. Overall that'll cut 53% and give us the ability to provide on demand 500kW to 2MW DC fast chargers which are essential for bEVs to take off.

@drew-shourd 2 роки тому

Great video, very informative, this technology is simply amazing. Being a farmer, ganja farmer, I do know that plants use more of the blue spectrum, like 380 to 480 nm, while in their vegetative growth cycle and more of the red spectrum, 620 to 780 nm. for flowering. Green light and Red light are closely matched for photosynthetic efficiency but one needs at least 10-12% Blue light to prevent stretching. Personally, I use full spectrum lights, which also incorporate the green yellow and orange spectrum, the 480 to 620 nm wavelength.

@dcheverie 2 роки тому

This is very intriguing. And thank you for mentioning the issues with cobalt. I was thinking about that from time you first mentioned it to when you talked about the issues with it.

@dyj321 2 роки тому

Awesome video! Keep it up! Very excited for all these upcoming technologies!

@chrissmith7259 2 роки тому

Thanks @Two Bit da Vinci I'm looking at the great things you have said in this video for the future, and not the green leaves mistake which is de minimis. I hope all of those experts who have commented start producing videos with content that is 100% correct. Great content, great video and great insight.

@michaelnagel2205 2 роки тому

Quality episode. Script, editing, and B-roll all good and delivered well.

@katiegreene3960 2 роки тому

Sounds like a great candidate for the co2 x prize.

@PhilipX2030 2 роки тому

I completely agree Katie. Is this something you’re working on?

@robertschroeder1978 2 роки тому

Great topic and very interesting technology for our “Awesome” future.

@markkoons7488 2 роки тому

You consistently put out excellent videos. Thank you! Can you suggest ways to invest in the development and implementation of these technologies?

@WileHeCoyote 2 роки тому

YOU FORGOT THE HYDROGEN DOPED PASTE/STORAGE METHOD SANDY MUNROE TALKED ABOUT! If a bacterial mode of synthesis or production is possible, it would be the ultimate space fuel system

@PhilipX2030 2 роки тому

Plasma Kinetics. look them up! Bacterial synthesis… There is the viral replication you are looking for

@earthn1447 Рік тому

Great vid - good info - thanks two bit, you’re wonderful

@andymacleod2365 2 роки тому

very good report on an under published area

@TheOleHermit 2 роки тому

But, an aquaponics greenhouse can minimize trips to the grocery store, eliminate the need for plastic packaging, eliminate shipping from farms to stores, and provide healthier non-GMO nutritious foods. That saves a huge amount of wasted energy. "A kilowatt saved is a kilowatt earned."

@peterolsen9131 2 роки тому

i like the way you think, maybe steal co2 from outside and enhance it inside the green house to promote growth? these idiots are trying to make a solar panel that does it the way plants do , how bout we just skip to using plants? burn the coal and gas and plant and help some trees! grow food faster, save the planet and get food/oxygen as a by product , i'm in!

@junovhs4646 2 роки тому

@@peterolsen9131 you can pack actively growing mushroom blocks in a greenhouse because they produce co2

@toddwmac 2 роки тому

"a beautifully designed evolutionary process"? How does that happen? Maybe "a beautiful result of the evolutionary process' :) Always appreciate your content. Thanks!

@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

great point :) I like to think of evolution as a natural designer … stupid I know… I should have consulted you before filming :)

@toddwmac 2 роки тому

@@TwoBitDaVinci :) Don't think many would ever associate the term stupid with your contributions.

@WGDO5805 2 роки тому

It is intellectual design. Because plants also have the fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio. You show the sun flowers. In the human body and animals as well. YT videos can show you.

@toddwmac 2 роки тому

@@WGDO5805 Not exactly my point, but thanks for contributing.

@fredbach6039 2 роки тому

Yeah I caught this kind-of mis-speak too. I believe in design. However, organisms could have been designed to adapt to the environment. We see this all the time in regular plants because of gene reshuffling during sexual reproduction. But such variation only goes so far. We do not observe one plant changing into another kind of plant. Another species? Sure. That's not a different kind of organism. Darwin's finches were still finches. Interestingly, we don't see very much variety in plants that just clone themselves like dandelions. Ever notice how they are all perfectly the same color?

@veritasvalere88 2 роки тому

You are right! Plants are noble and honorable for the most part…

@christianmechwart 2 роки тому

I just want PV clothing! emulating nature brings about the most interesting innovations and thanks to you, more people know now. Thanks!

@abbsguy 2 роки тому

what a great video, thank you

@gowanduff7501 2 роки тому

Thanks. We need to look at all possibilities.

@oliversparks1459 2 роки тому

Loved Your Enthusiasm

@TheKobiDror 2 роки тому

One little error occurred. Plants convert all of the visible light, except green. That's why they look green. Artificial growing lights use violet and blue leds for a reason 😉

@tetrodotoxin3863 Рік тому

Ahh this is my exact thought. Thank you for validating my understanding.

@MrFoxRobert 2 роки тому

Thank you!

@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

You're welcome, and thank YOU for being awesome and being a subscriber :)

@michaelginever732 2 роки тому

Thanks for another excellent video. Platinum group metals could be the answer. Rare on Earth and so expensive as you point out. However, when we go exploring the resources in space we may find an asteroid to mine that contains an almost unthinkable amount of PGMs. They are such great catalysts, that if they were inexpensive, we might be able to do a whole mess of stuff with them including this.

@tomkelly8827 2 роки тому

It does seem to be an interesting field of study to be sure! I am not at all convinced that these are necessary though. I think that centralized electrolysis plants that can use the excess electricity to make hydrogen from all excess electricity and be stored in large underground salt caverns is the way to go. Then the process can be reversed to resupply electricity back to the grid if there is not other tasks for the hydrogen to do like fueling aircrafts, blimps, ships, etc. It can also be a form of seasonal storage, summer to winter..

@davefisher1840 2 роки тому

So interesting 👏

@JuanGonzalez-nj7cs 2 роки тому

Thanks for the informative video. Small nit at 7:20: plants are not green because they absorb the light but rather because of reflection.

@matthewpopp1054 2 роки тому

Be neat if he did a video on space mining and then went through the periodic table showing each planet or asteroid that would be a good source of those elements

@sybo10 2 роки тому

Makes perfect sense to copy plants, the future for sure

@TariqAdil 2 роки тому

This channel speaks my language & reads my thoughts

@ladyselenafelicitywhite1596 2 роки тому

This sounds brilliant. I hope this technology becomes widely used.

@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

Showing great promise!

@KaranChecker 2 роки тому

Thanks for the great video. Could you quote the source of the photosynthesis molecular video source?

@sipsofhell9018 2 роки тому

7:18 Plants are green cause they dont absorb green light

@fanman421 2 роки тому

Oops.... “green, meaning they only absorb light within that spectrum”.... 🤔 if they absorb the green, then why are they perceived as the green they are reflecting rather than absorbing? Need to rethink that one.

@MrZoomZone 2 роки тому

Yes, I commented on that too - then spotted your comment. This is also backed up by the fact that some hydroponic food plant nurseries use blue and red (magenta) LED illumination, although I am sceptical that might be a bit of a gimmick.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@MrZoomZone „blurple“ blue and red lights were used back when indoor growing with LEDs just started and people were still unaware of the fact that plants actually do absorb green light as well. It’s just that they absorb a little bit less of it. Green definitely is photosynthetically active radiation. If anything plants are infrared, that’s what they scatter the most usually. The most efficient modern grow lights all use white LEDs with supplemental high efficiency monochrome red LEDs.

@gospelofthomas77thpearl22 2 роки тому

Sounds great! 🖖🏼

@Emu-co5qh 10 місяців тому

Great info

@sinisterfire6641 2 роки тому

Great video!

@rbfreitas 2 роки тому

Great video

@MegaWilderness 2 роки тому

When we use renewables exclusively, there will always be the situation where we produce too much energy (all the batteries are charged). This excess can be converted to hydrogen.

@oliversparks1459 2 роки тому

Mind Blowing

@VitalVampyr 2 роки тому

3:20 Oxygen from photosynthesis wasn't so clean when they first started, it caused the first known mass extinction.

@0151Master 2 роки тому

Didn't know that, would you care to elaborate or give a link?

@VitalVampyr 2 роки тому

@@0151Master It's called the Great Oxidation Event. All of the earliest forms of life were anaerobic and oxygen is poisonous to most of them.

@0151Master 2 роки тому

@@VitalVampyr Ohhh, wait now that you mentioned it. I heard of that some time ago, thanks for the quick reply 👌

@nathanlewis42 2 роки тому

Yes but it's clean now unless you are anaerobic.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

Be grateful it happens otherwise you wouldn’t be here today.

@mrjasonjneal 2 роки тому

Sounds like it will be MUCH more efficient at using up water than standard photovoltaics..California needs that.

@markrigoglioso 2 роки тому

If you add in the waste we produce, the landfills of the world, including sewage and solid waste, we can use solar power to produce a variety of clean, carbon neutral synthetic fuels. Add next generation nuclear power to the mix and solar/electric begins to recede in the long-term plan for sustainable energy systems.

@glennwoolum9457 2 роки тому

In regard to the degradation issue, my immediate thought was: Why not just use plants??!!! We don't necessarily need an artificial pathway (but it's very interesting). Let plants do what they do, but we can figure out how to harness it! BAM!

@hammerheadyak 2 роки тому

The issue with this is that you would literally have to go down to a cellular level. And how would you harness this energy? The sugars produced inside the plant is within the cell, and opening the cell would kill it.

@alexwan811 2 роки тому

Hey just a question. Light that we see is light that is reflected, aka not absorbed. If plants are green, shouldn’t it means that they are using all colors of the spectrum except for green, as it is the color frequency that is reflected and not absorbed. Time stamp 7:20. So instead or being limited, they are actually high in their capacity to absorb photons.

@verylongtrain 2 роки тому

Yes, this is why you use a blue/red mix LEDs when growing indoors, making the light purple. Plants are still very inefficient, but yes... green is what they DON'T capture.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@verylongtrain Im afraid but that is not exactly correct! They absorb most of the light INCLUDING green. It’s just that they absorb a little less of that part of the spectrum. Green still is definitely photosynthetically active radiation. Because of that modern indoor growers have distanced themselves from blurple lights. If anything plants are infrared, because that’s what they usually scatter the most! Even much more than green.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@verylongtrain todays most efficient grow lights utilise white LEDs supplemented with ultra high efficient monochrome red LEDs.

@scotteladd2537 2 роки тому

We just might have a bright future!

@FranCarreira 2 роки тому

Plants are green which means they absorb the full light spectrum except green, as we can only see what is reflected into our eyes.

@johnearly1727 2 роки тому

Photosynthesis is a process that uses sunlight to produce organic compounds including sugars, cellulose and lignins. It is a process that sequesters a substantial amount of carbon in the biosphere. For example: an acre of corn sequesters eight tons of carbon each year, provided that the silage is in fact sequestered and is not used for animal feed or burned. It was interesting that the narrator spoke about the efficiency of solar panels without mentioning the efficiency of photosynthesis. Most solar panel manufacturers now produce solar panels with efficiencies greater than 20%. In contrast, photosynthetic energy conversion efficiency is only about 2%. Tests, analysis, and studies have conclusively demonstrated that, with measuring all inputs including manufacturing, resource allocation, installation, and disposal, an acre of solar panels is 15 to 28 times more efficient that an acre of corn at producing energy. Ironically, the narrator concedes that the researchers had to switch from organic compounds to silica in order to efficiently use the incident sunlight, which is exactly the same technology and resources that solar panels use. Furthermore, solar panels can be and are used to drive electrolysis processes to generate and store hydrogen, which is not a product of photosynthesis. Existing electrolysis processes have already achieved their ideal thermodynamic efficiency of 80%. In comparison steam regeneration in coal fired power plants operate at 65% efficiency. Combining solar panel efficiency with electrolysis results in an overall efficiency of 16%, which is eight times more efficient than photosynthesis without even considering the costs of producing and extracting energy from photosynthetic processes. In short, the narrator proceeded to a point that we are already at with no further research needed for his proposed solution of using molecular hydrogen as a store of energy. We should be relying on photosynthesis for its true value in sequestering carbon and not wasting resources on a project that ultimately will never be a suitable alternative to solar panels.

@andreashertting8545 2 роки тому

I hope this story will be updated from year to year and gets more interesting in last a decade ahead.

@LewdCustomer 2 роки тому

Even if we got lots of free hydrogen, it still faces a huge problem with storage and transport. Will be expensive all round.

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

H2 -> methane And/or H2 -> ammonia Both are much more easy to store and readily used in the industry.

@PhilipX2030 2 роки тому

The UK has two cities piloting replacing CNG/methane with Hydrogen in the gas piping system. Boom. Zero emissions transformation overnight. It’s working. We need that in the US and to be a world leader again

@petergoestohollywood382 2 роки тому

@@PhilipX2030 replacing methane in the natural gas grid comes with some severe drawbacks and only works up to a certain concentration. If you’re interested I can go into more detail why that is.

@bru512 2 роки тому

@two Bit da Vini. Can you provide a reference for your photosynthesis efficiency claim at 3:00?

@mikejf4377 2 роки тому

435W LG Neon R solar panel, Have you seen these? There is a company converting carbon onto a disk to produce hydrogen in Australia that can be put on a shelf to plug into a hydrogen car.

@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

Nice that their top of their line?

@PhilipX2030 2 роки тому

Plasma Kinetics

@mikejf4377 2 роки тому

@@PhilipX2030 have you approached Two Bit da Vinci or other companies about this? I have no game in this.

@lancheloth 2 роки тому

If you have a water plants,you can observed how fast photosynthesis happens when the sun light hits the plants.. It is almost instantaneously create oxygen bubble.. I can't believe the efficiency is only 1 percent

@chippysteve4524 2 роки тому

Fascinating technology .Thanks for sharing. A couple of small points- 1. Leaves are green because they reflect i.e. do not absorb green light even though our star is rich in the green wavelengths.This is because that would risk burning up at midday.Rather they have evolved to absorb every other wavelength in or around the visible spectrum so they don't get scorched and can gather other wavelengths in the morning and evening when the sunlight is ;filtered' through more of the atmosphere. 2. Regarding hydrogen as a fuel source for vehicles;check out Plasma Kinetic,a US company that changes all that. UKpostsr. 'E for Electric' does a brilliant vid explaining it in an interview with the inventor .

@trentallman984 2 роки тому

Great intro, in 1985 those shirts were cool.

@claudespoliakoff3388 2 роки тому

Excellent bioinspiration

@wncmartin 2 роки тому

Very thought provoking. Sign my up too!

@dansmif 2 роки тому

Those hand warming gadgets that crystalize and produce heat when you snap the metal popper inside them make me think that there must be some liquid out there that could absorb sunlight and slowly crystalize. Then when power is needed, it would release its energy directly as electricity rather than heat. Is such a material feasible?

@MathieuDeVinois 2 роки тому

I can't give you the answer. But think of those pads you mentioned. Connected to a Stirling engine. And the Klick is made machanicaly with an electric motor. powered by a battery just big enough to power that Klick maybe two or three times and then recharge from the then produced electricity. Even if it's just bunch of big heating pads what instantly give away heat. They still could store much more energy of the hot ours and level the production by powering the Stirling engines through the colder hours. .... Just stupid thinking

@jamespaul2587 2 роки тому

Fascinating video (as always) Ricky. Would photosynthesis by algae or phytoplankton be a simpler process that could be more easily replicated?

@Bbq7272 2 роки тому

Yes that's what I think. Something like algae can be brewed into liquid fuel, even if burning it emits co2 but making it removes co2 in same proportion. Very convenient.

@ZACH12311 2 роки тому

Photosynthesis is only about 3-6% efficient. So it is an inefficient process thankfully for the leaf, it dissipates the rest of the waste heat so it's not damaged.

@JudkinsMatthew 2 роки тому

Would we use these sort of things at out homes similar to PV panels?

@chuckbryan590 2 роки тому

Very interesting technology.

@ericwood319 2 роки тому

sounds good

@curlymycloud9735 Рік тому

Great speaking voice. Wish I had your voice as an option for my text to speech apps. I killed my grape vines by covering them with 90% blue shade cloth. (Needed to divert rain water and stop berry splitting when ripe.) They are happy under green and black shade cloth.

@lowrads3653 2 роки тому

Hydrogen is hard to transport and store. One interesting thing our cells do is rely on stepwise, intermediate reaction products, whereby they go down in energy levels a little at a time, and try to use that energy efficiently. If there was a way to take an organic product or an element with multiple oxidation states, as in flow batteries, and rely on a photocatalyst for regeneration, then you'd have a reliable source of power for applications that are more economical, such as electronics. They might be the perfect companion for camping or away expeditions, or any app where you want energy that can be transported or transferred in a simple way.

@kingmasterlord 2 роки тому

mkay, yggdrasil/Mana Tree style offshore geothermal facility, zeppelin style hydrogen airships attached together as active lifting support for a space elevator as the tree seems to sprout. outside surface is coated in these panels and as surplus is achieved start branching out and eventually becoming leaves that detach into airship hulls

@tobins6800 2 роки тому

What strides have been made in hydrogen storage? Last I had heard, we don't have anything that can store it for long term.

@vanceblosser2155 2 роки тому

Good video. At 10:40 you state that the benefits of this technology cannot be understated. I believe you meant overstated. Understated implies that no matter how low you believe the benefits are, you aren't aiming low enough.

@geminirat60 2 роки тому

this is something the world could use!

@ryanatkinson2978 2 роки тому

I agree, hydrogen is the energy store of the future. We just need to keep researching. Using ammonia, formic acid, or many other things is a great way to store the hydrogen produced without directly handling it

@truecolors967 2 роки тому

If that Material is 70% Efficient compared to 20% solar then THAT WOULD Make HUGE SENSE to " Coat " your whole Electric Vehicles in it. The Aptera Vehicle would score big with this Tech all around it

@buzzofftoxicblog791 2 роки тому

Wow yes 👏 🙌 😍

@skirkwood 2 роки тому

I don't think these percentages are comparable. One is the amount of energy from the sun converted to directly to electricity vs percent theoretically efficient at doing some chemical process.

@ldezo 2 роки тому

"Most plants as we know are green, meaning they only absorb lightwaves within that spectrum." Sure...

@philippeillinger6287 2 роки тому

Hi...What do you think about NH3/NH4 ?

@user-fv1uf9bf4r 2 роки тому

The technology of my dreams ... Only it seems to me that instead of trying to recreate plants, why don't we change them in the way we need. Nature has already found all the solutions.

@papacowboy 2 роки тому

Very interesting! I am also a fan of hydrogen, though I think if the infrastructure is put in place, it might take over the car industry. Vancouver already uses kit in their public transportation. Still has some kinks to work out to be a game changer, but it has great across the board potential. By the way, plants actually absorb high energy ultraviolet light and moderate it with lower energy ired and infrared, but reflect green,giving them their green color. But that has been kindly mentioned in previous comments. Still, well done and good news!

@ivanostellato9478 Рік тому

solar panel on tubes .. or inside the inner layer of tubes with cleer water flowing through

@MultiWoodturner 2 роки тому

How pure does the water have to be? Will impurities eventually gum up the system? Currently making pure water is expensive,

@youdodat2 2 роки тому

Thank God.

@fjauge2465 2 роки тому

On the photosintesys cell i really dont see it unless they have found something speciall about using photons directly to extract hidrogen from water. In other case any process that they apply can be applied to fotoelectric and photoelectric has the first mover advantage. Also if they find a chemical way of storing energy, the same can be applied to chemical batteries and you dont need to put the two things together. Perhaps there is a case for unmantained energy supply but even that i doubt it.

@Blaxjax21 2 роки тому

I once read that the goal was to break 40% efficient was the breakthrough point where it could replace oil.

@stephenpahl7538 2 роки тому

Yr 2100, there are over 100 different Solar Energy collecting , storage and distributions design being used, many of them a mix of available systems to handle the resources 24/7, store it in short and long term storage (public and private, stationary and mobile) and supply short and long term needs (air, land, sea and space) along side a mature 3rd or 4th Gen Nuclear (fusion for Earth, Fission and Fusion for space). Mark my words, if I'm wrong, I'll man up about it.

@tehKap0w 2 роки тому

So.... this fuel of the furure is going to require water to work? *_Nestle has joined the channel..._*

@ZsOtherBrother 2 роки тому

Trying to create a mechanism that uses "artificial photosynthesis" to capture and store energy "just like plants", sounds a bit like trying to create a machine that is fed plant material, and produces milk "just like cows"... both of these "machines" already exist, plus they are self-replicating, self repairing, and self powered :D The video itself is very informative and well made, thank you for making it.

@bakedbeings 2 роки тому

10:42 :s/understated/overstated/

@anydaynow01 2 роки тому

These panels would be amazing to put up in the western USA in deserts and over dam reservoirs to make H2 in what would otherwise be unproductive space!

@justinbroderick4126 2 роки тому

70-80% effective at photons to hydrogen is promising, but to further get that to usable electricity is likely far lower. Very interesting tho, maybe a hydrogen fuel cell car in 10 years covered with these and then literally just add water?

@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

Interesting right?

@MrMrAnkur 2 роки тому

Mimicking artificially photosynthesis is a good thinking, but if we direct harness fuel or power from plant?

@Jalu3 2 роки тому

Also let's remember that photosynthesis led to one of the earliest great extinctions!

@wjhung2 2 роки тому

I'm pretty sure you meant magnesium instead of manganese. Magnesium is in chlorophyll molecules. Also, if a plant appears green, that means is reflecting green light. Plants primarily use red and blue light for photosynthesis. Anyway, I knew what you meant. Thanks for the interesting video.

@_kmm690 2 роки тому

almost got half way but the background noise [music] got to me again.

@rjaquaponics9266 2 роки тому

A leave is green because it reflects green and absorbs all other wave lengths.

@cmilkau 2 роки тому

I wonder why you don't hear about that ultra black coating anymore that allegedly allows traditional PV to extract up to 80% of solar light energy to electricity by converting most of it to a narrow frequency band

@WalterKaan 2 роки тому

Super interesting article. The company that gets photosynthetic conversion of CO2 to production has quite a bright future I would think! You'd be mad not to buy some shares!

@johnstubbe3113 2 роки тому

1986 patent on miro antenna converts sunlight to dc power ,the antenna were 4 angstroms by 17 angstroms ,

@Baddad53 2 роки тому

I have 14 solar panels and a Powerwall. Haven't been on the grid since (two months). Son who lives in El Cajon wants to get a system also. He called the Drone solar company you featured awhile ago and no reply for over a few weeks. They still in business?

@mikaljan316 2 роки тому

Photosynthesis converts CO2 and Water to Glucose and Oxygen, this is different from what your video implies, which is more like electro-hydrolysis of water and does not involve CO2.

@TwoBitDaVinci 2 роки тому

Yeah it’s not exact we wouldn’t want what plants want. But hydrogen is very interesting

@andrewmattox1233 2 роки тому

If they are making Methanol (CH4O or CH3OH), then it would involve CO2. I'm not sure about the details of the reaction, but something like: 4 H2O + 2 CO2 ---> 2 CH4O (liquid) + 3 O2 (floats away to be used later in combustion) *Needs 2 water molecules worth of H, per Methanol molecule. *A way to pull 1 Oxygen off of CO2, to get CO *Add the 4 H to CO to get CH4O The Electrolysis, is the first step. For some applications, just the electrolysis might be good enough. The desire to make Methanol, is that it is a liquid, and is easier to store, than H2. Which makes is more desirable for cars/trucks/planes etc. -Potentially in hybrid configurations for cars. *Or have their system making CH4O, and putting it into a Fuel Tank (a.k.a. chemical battery) and have another type of engine (possibly steam) that uses fuel out of the tank. -During peak production times, the tank would fill up. -And be drained during lower production times. Hydrogen can have really good power density, but I think it takes cryogenic temps, or incredibly high pressures. Neither of which are good in mobile applications (especially if there is a reasonable chance of a crash, such as cars).