If more children are desired, quit making it so hard to be parents. Most of the world has a social safety net; the US has women. We are being used as slave labor to take care of young children and aging parents. Young families with two children are paying around $40,000 a year for childcare. Assisted living facilities are around $5,000 a month. Do you really wonder why women are not wanting to have children? Affordable care for children and seniors who need it is really a requirement if the society wants more children. Women are not necessarily refusing to have children they are refusing to be used.

Solar thermal as well as excess renewable electric energy can be stored in this device.

Just imagine that you have a factory where every machine has a steam engine, but the heat is provided by portable and replaceable sand batteries that's charged at a central heating location. This enables each machine to operate independently for a few hours before their batteries needs to be replaced. The batteries themselves to back to the charging station until they get hot enough again. At the very least, this would make for some very whimsical steampunk setup. It doesn't even have to be that elaborate. It'd be awesome enough to just pull a hot cylinder full of sand from the fireplace, put it in some huge automaton and watch it come to life.

Kinetic energy generators can create power on your movement alone I got salt generators where you can power a wrist watch just by sitting in a glass of salt water so there's some technologies you can think of

Could more people joining the LGBTQ community cause some population decline?

We definitely need legislation around packaging to make recycling more cost-effective.

"What happens in summer when you don't need heat?" The Einstein refrigerator can create cold from a heat source.

Lastly, hint hint ... Howard Hughes invented and proved an engine that used no fuel, made no emissions, and gave all the free air conditioning you could handle...in his freon based turbine engine. The only requirement was to be on a warm planet near a star that doesn't make life impossible. The thing was essentially a steam turbine that boiled freon instead of water, and used a closed loop to recapture the freon and send to compressor stage for starting the loop over. The compressor was the part where energy had to be spent, so obviously the turbines made more energy than the compressor required. Something to think about (wink)

LHTPV batteries have some benefits over sand. For one, it's electric energy in and electric energy out.

I always knew they would fail. It’s a horrible idea on paper. Sun is free. Native soil and it’s nutrients are free.

Do a video on why the two cylinder robin golf cart motor is designed the way it is... Two cylinders, timed the same, both reaching TDC at same time, both plugs fire together, but the cam has the phases 180 degrees apart...plus there's a counterbalance shaft. Weird little motor but runs so smooth.

"sheds light on why this is perplexing...". Love it! Haha Wear and tear will result in bumps on the swashplate humps, making a rougher running and sounding engine the older it gets.

Great vids… where did you get your base…

Wait, why are sand battery silos built upwards and not downwards (into the ground)? Wouldnt that help with thermal insulation?

The message of having more kids will only lead to population rising and eventually it will hit a limit. We are already using 37% of the arable land. It can not go forever. Eventually we will have to stop. Should we stop when we deplete all the natural habitat? Should we stop when we heat up the planet? The only way to be on the planet is the sustainable way. Like all animals. Animal and species population is regulated by the chain of life, the life-death cycle, in relation to the available sources of the environment. Humans are out of that cycle due to consiousness. We are different as we don't like death of others for our livelihood, deep down, as we are empathetic by nature. The only way for prosperity is self regulation by design. We need to design human life as that is the gift nature gave us. The ability to find a better way of life than she does in the animal kingdom. I know it sounds weird but human population should be designed as it is THE MOST IMPORTANT parameter on sustainability.

I find my self disagreeing with your summary... Heat to electric is a silly compairison... Winter/summer.... Depends on the heatloss over time. (Unsure of the possibilities) If you can stire up your summer excess, and then use it in the winter that would be the holygrale

Just came back from Barcelona and do not want to go back for more. Be aware that what you see, usually from vlogers, may not match the reality. Barcelona is crowded, loud, busy, dirty city. Stay away from most attractions and you will find areas that are much nicer, pleasant with green parks. The food quality and prices in all tourist areas are high and lines for attrctions are very long. The prices and quality outside of the main fares are much better. No salad to be found anywhere, same with fruit on most of the menus. Not a place I would ever want to come back.

ya I'd be looking at their finances and payroll plus using less chemicals is messing with someone else's corruption of greed so yup it will fail because they will make it so

There are very simple solutions coming from small-scale entrepreneurs in Africa. I've seen UKposts videos where they melt unsorted plastics, add sand and make it into simple paving stones. The "stones" are very durable and non-flammable. They can be used for paths or areas in your yard, in parks or even in streets. I've seen similar videos where they make "bricks" for building. The more complicated it is, the less it will really happen.

Ok, but with that same argument, it wouldnt be good to hook these batteries to your solar panels in the first place. You would WAY better to use heat directly through mirrors or lenses instead to store the heat. In a way, that would over come your limits of your 30% because lenses are passive meaning they should last times longer than even tbe best solar panel. Heat also comes from the other spectrums meaning you can have dark sand and capture 100% of the light that goes to hit them allowing you to heat anything directly, and anything left over to power. To me, this seems like the biggest over sight when it comes to grid level power generation. Make a pool size lens over a pool of stand, let it heat up the and to 1000+ degree and then run water inside to heat up creating steam. You can control the amount of heat and pressure base off the amount of power you want to make store the rest as a gas/pressure tank.

thermal photovoltaic? Dr. Fraas 'Midnight Sun' uses GaSb glass.

Randy with ITH builds, sells, & rents lots for $200 on most lots. You're mainly focusing on California. So there are areas that make it cost effective, but you're wanting to sell a service so of course you'd use California as your main example.

You need some heat in warm climates as well to heat up your warm water, unless you like to have cold showers.

C'mon Ricky, this isn't like you. You left out literally tons of evidence of foul play. Of course there are always some idiots posting crap, but there is so much evidence that cannot be debunked why did you not cover the whole story. So just saying congratulations you just became part of the coverup.

I love the idea. There is also company called Caldera. They were doing 'smaller' sand batteries called WarmStone - sand sealed in a vacuum chamber. 2 tons of sand +500C deg and insulation of that void was so good that you could touch the battery with hand. They wrote that you could use it in your house heating system for even a month. They abandoned this product for homes and shifted to store and deliver heat for brewery and other big companies. The thing is this requieres 2 things. Hight class materials - heating elements, prepared sand without moisture, very good insulation - that vacumm was a sweet spot, but its hard to manufacture alone, so you need to build almost like a new house with ceramic coating and thick insulated walls. Secon is amount of sand - something like 10 tons should be a good starter. Plus good pumps, pipes, sensors etc. Then good plan to take that heat out and plut into waterboiler and floor heating system etc.

Complete garbage.

It would probably not be very efficient to cool the sand to low enough temperatures. A resistive heating element is extremely simple and efficient. Heat pumps are very efficient only at low differentials.

Idk if you slowed down your speech, but this was a lot more understandable than usual 😅 You're awesome. Thanks for everything!

Couldn’t we find a way to harvest wasted solar energy from deserts around the world?

I guess many plants already grow vertically to maximize the landusage... Imagine a Tomato or cucumber plant growing horizontally on the ground

Thanks for the effort, but the case study is absurd. Why would you build a tiny house that close to a city center? The entire point is to go further out to reduce expenses and do at least some of the work yourself. A few years ago my wife and I bought some land from her parents in rural Vermont, a state and town with favorable zoning regulations. The site had a preexisting septic from another house they had moved. I was able to pay for the whole build out of pocket, doing a lot of the work myself (I'm not an expert, but I learned a lot). I never could have done that with a full sized house. The house sits on eight foundation piers, so not classified as an RV but as an actual home dwelling. It will only lose value if I don't maintain it, which is far easier and cheaper with a tiny than with a full sized house. Prior to this we were living in a small city, paying over $20k a year of rent to live in essentially a filing cabinet. That savings now goes back into the house as upgrades (deck build this summer) and maintenance, with plenty left over for student loans and property taxes. It would be ridiculous to expect my experience to be replicated by someone in LA, but the math definitely checks out for us.

Boeing? Boeing is your example of QA/QC and icon for safety? With planes full of humans dropping out of the sky, whistleblowers being silenced, proven FAA collusion, and documented mechanical failures, Boeing is your benchmark of safety? OK🙄 This video is not going to age well. And one doesn't need to be a materials expert or a structural engineer to know that sub design was an idiot's folly and a fly-by-night disaster waiting to happen. A fool and his hubris are soon departed.

Stop adding music and sound effects. It's nothing more than a distraction. I'm really interested in the video, but I'm constantly distracted by these sounds. I gave up watching it. Please STOP IT!!

Maybe the long certification process is causing more harm than good, encouraging the continued use of older less safe modified designs instead of newer designs.

Really interesting technology, but don't see it's implement in the future

I'm not sure this is being applied properly. Tiny homes aren't really a good match with a young family in a city as a permanent home. Where I do see tiny homes... actually quite a lot of tiny homes now, in California (in the Bay Area), is actually on city-owned lots to house the homeless. In otherwords, as last-resort housing to get people off the streets. This is the typical setup: * Tiny home community, anywhere from 10 to 40 or so tiny homes. * NO external utilities to the home. No sewer, water, or utility-sourced electricity. At the most a single AC circuit that is utility-sourced, depending on the build. * A Propane tank and propane heater for each tiny home (if no utility power hookup). * Community (public) toilet, shower, and water facilities on premesis... on the lot, but not in the home. * In situations where no utility power is available, wired for small-scale solar ... maybe 200W on the roof and a power station, basically, to run lights, a small fridge, and appliances provided by family / aid-groups. But not much more than that. A small fridge requires roughly 400Wh/day so the minimum solar panel configuration is 100W, but to really make it work well you need around 300W worth of solar panels. And that is pretty much all she wrote. This seems to be having a level of success here. It houses formally homeless people, gives them a private space for their stuff and to sleep, some amenities, but at very low cost and also very low maintenance. These homes cost the city $20K or less each and the city spends money running power, sewer, and water only to the public facilities on premesis (though I see some lots where power is run to each tiny home as well). And the city provides propane maintenance. -- What you are talking about is low-cost housing suitable for family groups or at least couples. This is NOT something really suitable for the city environs because of the things you mention. Not just the lot, but all the utility hookups, sewer, power, water, waste disposal. It adds up and its expensive enough to pretty much blow away the actual cost of the tiny home. To the point where it makes very little sense to actually build a tiny home on the lot. But I do see tiny homes in rural areas by DIYers and couples who want to live away from the city on the cheap. Those are the ones that add larger decks, a larger solar system, more suitable plumbing, a water supply or water tank, and so forth. And the tiny homes tend to be a bit larger... modestly small rather than really "tiny". Something you could bring in on a flat-bed truck but not so small that it could be put on a trailer towed by a pickup truck. -Matt

You miss the big picture! 650 000 homeless in USA say something else! /Mikael

I am more interested in their stocks

It was not a cyber attack, as nothing that controls large ships can be hacked. They are almost totally under manual control, and even the automatic controls are local onboard the ship- there is nothing connected to the internet. Even the bridge can not directly control the engineering plant.

And bout time you make an adu;) it’s like someone said that the first time I came over

Dang that’s crazy. Hidden costs are real for sure

Bro really just stole Kyle Hill’s vid 😔

Not to temper enthusiasm but as mentioned in a couple of other comments, the process either needs to be economical or someone has to subsidize the process . It would be useful to show an energy balance on the current pilot plant to show how much energy is needed to transform the waste plastic into a useful products/feedstocks. The balance would show the gap that must be closed to make it economical. In the meantime, we should continue to recycle plastics to provide the folks developing this technology to have (slightlly) less expensive feedstocks to prove out the technology that could hopefully evolve to handle the more diverse platstics.

The most grotesque crappies dogs breakfast church in history.

600 degrees Celsius or 1100 degrees Fahrenheit

At 6:12 the guy finally starts talking about the engine. Your welcome

Why construction sand? There's a shortage of construction sand. Desert sand is abundant. Will it work?

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This is WONDERFUL! I hope this takes off.

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