Four Weird Ways to Make Electricity

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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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  • @cherenkov_blue
    @cherenkov_blue 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +289

    "Even bones can be piezoelectric"
    _So that's why my joints crack like a glowstick_

    • @marcopohl4875
      @marcopohl4875 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I am Thor, the god of THUNDER!

    • @justingoodman9352
      @justingoodman9352 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I TOTALLY feel you on that!. I'm like a box of Rice Krispies... When I get up and move (especially in the morning) my body and joints immediately start to snap crackle and pop! 😂

    • @lindaseel9986
      @lindaseel9986 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​​@@justingoodman9352Mine too. So much so, I had to have a knee replacement.

    • @justingoodman9352
      @justingoodman9352 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@lindaseel9986 yeah I'm 36 and I went to the ER about a year or two ago because my left hip was just KILLING me and they did an X-ray and said I had arthritis set up in my hip but I'm pretty sure there are other things wrong too because I can hear it and feel it pop back and forth if I'm bending over to do something. I'm pretty sure it's a combination of where I tore my MCL in my left knee in high school and tried to come back and play sports before I fully recovered so my hip was probably over compensating for my knee and the biggest contributor is probably when I feel off the roof of a 2 story cabin and landed on my left side. I bruised or cracked some ribs because it hurt to even breathe for like 2 weeks and I had a huge limp for about a week. I gotta get some insurance and get it checked out. I would honestly love to be able to go ahead and get a hip replacement but I feel like it would just cost so much money.

    • @lindaseel9986
      @lindaseel9986 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@justingoodman9352 Wow! You have had a lot happen. Now, I am 66. I got my mom's genes for degenerative arthritis. That popping and clicking is arthritis and probably torn or loose tendons. I have that in my shoulder as well. I don't know if your income could qualify you for Medicaid. That would pay for doctors and surgery. I wish you all the best.

  • @waitselljones8068
    @waitselljones8068 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    I don't think I've seen this woman, Niba, in other videos but I actually quite liked her in this one. The way she speaks is right to the point, paced well, sounds smooth, and without any excess dramaticism. I wouldn't mind her in more videos.

    • @BigTimeRushFan2112
      @BigTimeRushFan2112 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      she's very easy to look at also...

    • @tauceti8060
      @tauceti8060 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I have a crush on her

    • @danmigneault6103
      @danmigneault6103 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      She is special !
      She really speak clearly and with the right words at the right place!
      Impressive and admirable!

    • @alanhelton
      @alanhelton 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      She could narrate my dreams! That would be sweet!

    • @michaelblacktree
      @michaelblacktree 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I agree, she has a great speaking voice.

  • @davidioanhedges
    @davidioanhedges 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    Clarification : piezoelectricity works on *changes* in pressure, not simply pressure, which is why sound is a good source

    • @smart_ledtv
      @smart_ledtv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It all is depicted in animations and clarified by Niba in later part of the video.

    • @PotionsMaster666
      @PotionsMaster666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait what ? Changes in pressure ?

    • @smart_ledtv
      @smart_ledtv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@PotionsMaster666
      Yes, it's all about internal vibrations (changes in pressure a.k.a. squeezing and stretching).

    • @davidioanhedges
      @davidioanhedges 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@PotionsMaster666 Just pressure on its own has no effect on these, they make electricity when there is a change of pressure, so a sound pressure wave will make electricity

    • @PotionsMaster666
      @PotionsMaster666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@davidioanhedges 😮 But why *change* in pressure tho ?
      The way the video explained it was reasonable that only pressure was required.
      I will Google it.
      Thnx for replies guys

  • @SAMURIADI
    @SAMURIADI 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +296

    that thumbnail is giving ElectroBOOM a aneurysm "THERE IS NO WAY TO GENERATE POWER OUT OF NOTHING"

    • @johnnychang4233
      @johnnychang4233 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      In the case of the cloud generated electricity is practically a controlled lightning rod.

    • @ajogar
      @ajogar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      well it's not nothing it's thin air (only thin air tho, thick air won't work)

    • @justlisten82
      @justlisten82 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      "Nothing" is just a concept in the end anyways🫠

    • @mandrakejake
      @mandrakejake 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The big bang disagrees 😂

    • @cujo.
      @cujo. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      *an aneurysm

  • @colinfew6570
    @colinfew6570 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    What a fantastic host.

    • @NotesByNiba
      @NotesByNiba 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thank you so much! ~

  • @btfilther
    @btfilther 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    She somehow manages to be both soothing and engaging. Nice video.

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And wrong... 😬
      At the minimum incomplete if we're being generous.

    • @smart_ledtv
      @smart_ledtv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a nice example of her *infectious enthusiasm and passion,* but she's not perfect either... with her proprioception of index fingers. @2:42
      Just watch it in slow motion - I love it! 😉

    • @lachlanchester8142
      @lachlanchester8142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Unmannedairhow so

    • @Macachee
      @Macachee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@UnmannedairNo she’s not.

  • @TimeSurfer206
    @TimeSurfer206 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Niba, I need to point out that, at about 5:55, the 12V car battery you compared the leaf to is comparing 6 cells in series, with the single cell that the leaf is. So, the leaf cell is closer to 1/10th the voltage of the car battery, than the miniscule amount your comparison suggests.
    Also, the voltage of the leaf cell might be easily raised with different materials on the cathode and anode.

    • @DrakiniteOfficial
      @DrakiniteOfficial 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      This also misses the CRITICAL piece of info that voltage does not necessarily mean power. Car batteries have a relatively low voltage (compared to other electrical systems) but can provide an insane amount of current and therefore power. Meanwhile, you can create static electricity with hundreds (or thousands?) of volts, but with a minuscule amount of energy stored within.
      Somehow I doubt that 10 plant leaves would be able to generate more than a couple milliamps at best. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though, it would be very cool.

    • @siliconplay5
      @siliconplay5 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That is just a battery with a plant electrolite, and in that case we already have the classic lemon or potato battery...

    • @ori_05
      @ori_05 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How much current can these leaves push

    • @h3lladvocate
      @h3lladvocate 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Watts should prob be the comparison used

    • @Baked42L0ng
      @Baked42L0ng 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@DrakiniteOfficialnow if we could genetically engineer the plants to develop the structures themselves and us just “farm” electricity thatd be cool, but that is probably more in the realm of science fiction currently

  • @EV01D
    @EV01D 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love the new sets so much. The green screen stuff was great, but this feels easier to digest

  • @SuperStrikeagle
    @SuperStrikeagle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Its been a while since i last watched scishow, WHATS THAT SET! THATS AMAZING! Great production guys!

  • @Alice_Walker
    @Alice_Walker 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's so comforting to me amongst all the climate change disasters to see content about the ingenuity of science exploring alternative ways to power things 🙌🏻

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Dang, and here I was hoping for one of them to be "Potato". :(

  • @mattdangerg
    @mattdangerg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Dang new host is a wonderful speaker

    • @NotesByNiba
      @NotesByNiba 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      aw, thank you!

  • @michaelzatarga5157
    @michaelzatarga5157 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well done Niba...I truly appreciate your approach and straightforwardness. Great job

    • @NotesByNiba
      @NotesByNiba 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you!

  • @RogerKelman
    @RogerKelman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She's brilliant, really breaks things down so even newer concepts that weren't in my physics A-Level are easy to grasp

  • @iBeast_M0de
    @iBeast_M0de 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    A fun fact about Piezo electricity, it can be used to create motion with electricity, like in a quartz powered clock or watch. There are (diesel) injectors that are actuated not by solenoids or other electrical means but by Piezo electricity, which has multiple advantages; the main one being the fast acting nature compared to something comparatively high mass as an solenoid and also the longevity is a large factor.
    I own a car with an engine that has that (an VW 1.9 TDI, an inline 4 turbo charged diesel, engine code ASZ) and it has racked up 540k km or around 335k miles with the original Bosch injectors from the factory. Let's be generous here, with the fact that it has mostly done highway miles at around 70 mph. It does about 2000 revolutions a second. Since it's a four stroke it means every other revolution a combustion event occures. That equates to about 290.000.000(!) ( 335.000 miles / 70 mph * 60 minutes * 1000 injections per minute ) injection cycles on each of all four injectors. Mind you that in semi-modern diesels it's not unheard of for an injector to file up to 7 times every combustion event. It's not hard to imagine the actual number might be closer to a billion actuations, especially if you consider the average speed is actually lower which means more firing events per mile.. It boggles my mind when I think about this.

    • @ZedaZ80
      @ZedaZ80 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That really is a fun fact :0

  • @MorgenPeschke
    @MorgenPeschke 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I can think of a bunch of situations where the environment is colder than a human body, and running out of light is a Very Bad Thing.
    If that headlamp fueled by body heat is reliable, it could literally be a lifesaver

  • @andreyrumming6842
    @andreyrumming6842 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Weird ways we make electricity:
    1. Sound (Piezo electrics)
    2. Heat (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators or RTGs)
    3. Light (Solar panels / Photosynthesis)
    4. Air (Enzyme Hydrogenase turning hydrogen into electricity directly / Clouds and humidity)

  • @seaside3218
    @seaside3218 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great video and fantastic ideas! These wonderful solutions have been around for years and I applaud the great minds that strive to get them put into action. Just one thing, selling electricity is a business. Until each country regulates this and recognizes that electricity is a basic human need to power society, nothing will change. EVER. Greed is the problem, not the incredible minds of science.

  • @outlawbillionairez9780
    @outlawbillionairez9780 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I make electricity shuffling across carpet in slippers.
    Then getting hit with 40,000 volts when I touch refrigerator. ⚡

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We're walking around on a 4000 volt potential just being outside... This b******* article completely lacks any sort of depth or context. She pulled this article out of the same thin air that she pulled the science out of

  • @robertparkinson2102
    @robertparkinson2102 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Piezoelectric is used in atomic force microscopes and scanning tunnelling electron microscopes. The samples are moved relative to a sharp probe. The ultra fine movement is controlled by varying the voltage applied to the crystals. These sort of microscopes were used in 1989 to write IBM out of 35 atoms.

  • @DoctorX17
    @DoctorX17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Missing piece of info for the “leaf battery” thing - what sort of current (amps) does it generate? Putting them in series could get you to 12v, but it definitely won’t generate as much power as the car battery

    • @jonaswox
      @jonaswox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      pretty relevant info :D

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, that leaf battery thing, we're talking microamps here. You wouldn't even be able to measure using standard electrical equipment. Definitely not with your run-of-the-mill multimeter. Lol

    • @DoctorX17
      @DoctorX17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, decent oopsie to make XD I’m sure some people are thinking they could charge their phone with a line of plants, lol

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​​​@@DoctorX17 I mean, technically you could, if you could wait for about 5.6 million seconds... That's about 128 days for a 10% charge. 😅

    • @DoctorX17
      @DoctorX17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Unmannedair it just put more plants in parallel XD

  • @pauls5745
    @pauls5745 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I haven't found much on growing plants to be the electrolyte, or literally a battery for some really green power. Bio electricity is exciting! What about how eels can make power?

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That chemistry isn't that efficient.

  • @ericmorris312
    @ericmorris312 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I read a research paper about the “Photo flexoelectric effect” recently. I think it’s worth a look if you liked this video.

  • @RotX1
    @RotX1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The humidity one, if fully matured, would deadass be such a GODSEND in the majority of south east asian countries

  • @clickrick
    @clickrick 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's definitely exciting stuff, but I love those little asides - makes the presentation really cute!

  • @HotelPapa100
    @HotelPapa100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    That electron flow animation illustrating the thermoelectiv effect can't be right. That would lead to high voltage and charge between the warm an cold end of the circuit in no time.
    In this, like in any other electric circuit, electrons flow along a circular path.
    The two metals present in the thermoelectric jucnction create a voltage difference that changes with temperature, which creates the electric "pressure" that forces electrons around.

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah she botched a lot of stuff in this... LoL
      Heat flows down the wires like that though. But there's a differential electrical pressure at the wire junctions and that's what causes the current to flow.
      Heat is transmitted from electron to electron in a wave much faster than the actual electron velocity and the wave velocity is independent from the charge velocity. I think that's the distinction you were looking for. So the heat flows like her diagram but not the charge

    • @kristyanne719
      @kristyanne719 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My thoughts exactly. When I saw that I was like WTF!

  • @averywhitaker3513
    @averywhitaker3513 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Mycobacterium _WHAT_ ?!

    • @MikeWMiller
      @MikeWMiller 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      came for this. wait, not literally...

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly what it sounds like. First identified in genital secretions.
      "It was first reported in November 1884 by Lustgarten, who found a bacillus with the staining appearance of tubercle bacilli in syphilitic chancres. Subsequent to this, Alvarez and Tavel found organisms similar to that described by Lustgarten also in normal genital secretions (smegma). "

  • @B_Ahmed1234
    @B_Ahmed1234 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That last one, would be great in Florida.

  • @dmondot
    @dmondot 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @5:57: "but multiple leaves can be strung together to create a circuit"... Yeah, technically that would be possible if the leaves are either detached or belong to different plants that are electrically isolated. But in practice, you can't string together multiple leaves from plants all connected by the same soil. At most you will get half a volt, and that's too little to be usable for any electronic today. You need at a minimum a diode drop (0.7V), or in practice 1.5V to start to make any higher voltage.

  • @garyt123
    @garyt123 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love Niba! What a great presenter 👍

  • @percival413
    @percival413 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    really loving the new set

  • @catatonicbug7522
    @catatonicbug7522 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is great! Now the Cloud can power itself!

  • @h7opolo
    @h7opolo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this is my favorite topic.

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's my favorite topic too and she butchered it. 😅

  • @chronus4421
    @chronus4421 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Should have mentioned the push-button BBQ grill sparker as an example.

  • @archionblu
    @archionblu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd love a more in-depth video about the final method (the synthetic clouds)!

  • @marsovac
    @marsovac 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Hydrogen is extremely reactive and does not like to float by itself in the air. Most of it is bonded in water vapor. So the technique to oxidize it to extract energy is a bit overly optimistic. This is already happening by itself in the air without us being able to extract energy from it, and we would be trying to oxide the remaining scraps.
    BTW oxidizing is the same as burning.

    • @white_isnt_a_race2338
      @white_isnt_a_race2338 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We already have hydrogen fuel cell cars that do exactly that

    • @dagnation9397
      @dagnation9397 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you put a little oil in the pan and stir the hydrogen around a lot with a spatula when you oxidize it, it will just blacken a little around the edges and stay yummy on the inside.

  • @jodyknight
    @jodyknight 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really like this presenter and it was a very interesting video, thanks.

  • @The-One-and-Only100
    @The-One-and-Only100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Can't wait to get an RTG powered car

  • @corlisscrabtree3647
    @corlisscrabtree3647 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you 🙏

  • @riccardo9953
    @riccardo9953 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when water molecules in the air "rub" against the walls of the pores they should loose kinetic energy that then becomes the electricity. this would thus cool down the water molecules. would this not cause condensation to for form in the pores which would then become trapped because of the capillary effect until it evaporates?

  • @wiggletonthewise2141
    @wiggletonthewise2141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sci show list show, sci show list show!!

  • @mrtienphysics666
    @mrtienphysics666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is how ultrasound works. this episode is great!

  • @AdityaMehendale
    @AdityaMehendale 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1:38 --> animation is likely incorrect; the hexagon "stretches" - no reason for the ions to get displaced relatively, due to pressure.

  • @teardowndan5364
    @teardowndan5364 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Since photosynthesis needs the electrons it generates from sunlight to split carbon from CO2 and make sugar from it, extracting energy from the process almost certainly disrupts it.
    The "cloud" generator sounds like by the time you get something bigger than micro-power from it, you may as well put a small wind turbine in: the cloud still needs wind or convection to passively move moist air through.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Natural photosynthesis is really inefficient, so using energy the photosynthesis isn't is a good source.

    • @teardowndan5364
      @teardowndan5364 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thekaxmax Even an inefficient process can still work out if it scales in a cost-effective manner. Can't really imagine organic PV being cheaper per mW nor more convenient though.

  • @PaulADAigle
    @PaulADAigle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm aware of a 'thin sheet' to collect water for consumption, now I'm wondering if that 'thin sheet' can gather electricity as well as water. Looks like I'll be surfing the net.

  • @Farhan-mw4os
    @Farhan-mw4os 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks

  • @marki-l4c
    @marki-l4c 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    is there much free hydrogen at sea level? it’s so light….
    does the humidity cloud stop working once the entry side is saturated with water? how does one refresh it? can it dehumidify a room. that seems useful too
    i heard of microdevices in ppl that could use glucose in the blood for power and thought what if they made just to lower glucose during a spike. it could waste the energy on whatever maybe broadcast it out of the body

  • @cicad2007
    @cicad2007 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It seems a slight contradiction has creeped into your dissertation. At 4:00 you state that the internal temp should be hotter than the external to generate electricity. Then, at 4:33 you further state about wandering a dark forest at night. At night, the forest would be colder than the daytime, while the internal temp would still be hot, so why would you need additional batteries? Of course, you could be referring to the extreme cold of space or Mars, but that did not come across. Also, the student that created light from her own body heat would still work in a dark forest, perhaps even better.

    • @bopcity5785
      @bopcity5785 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      its not necessary that internal is hotter than external, only that there is a significant difference. This doesnt occur much on Earth(atleast compared to space) hence the dark forest example where body and forest temp are similar (even if the forest is a bit colder)

    • @aliengeo
      @aliengeo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where I live, the air in the middle of the night is often only 10° C cooler than a person walking through it. I don't think that's a large enough differential for the tech to work from the way it was phrased.

  • @Docosi
    @Docosi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’ve been powering my house with my beet fields for decades. Get on my level

  • @Zack16611
    @Zack16611 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    “A single car battery” phrased as if it’s not a 25+lbs power source 😂

    • @vyvianalcott1681
      @vyvianalcott1681 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lead acid batteries have a relatively low energy density, modern batteries have 5x or more the available power. Using car batteries is just a commonly known reference point, like how some people use bananas for photograph scale. Good comprehension though, you did understand the word battery! Way to go, buddy!

  • @Sarappreciates
    @Sarappreciates 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SciShow: When you think of new ways to generate electricity...
    Me: EELS!?
    SciShow: No.

  • @realvanman1
    @realvanman1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0.28 volt from the leaf, but how much current??

  • @Shaden0040
    @Shaden0040 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    materials that compress can create electricity makes sense now what if we could figure out a way to harness gravity waves The compression say something say like quartz crystals or quartz rods that are like a mile long I wonder if that could generate electricity? Anybody done any research on that?

    • @EinsteinsHair
      @EinsteinsHair 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As I recall, one of the things that took so many years before they got LIGO to work was that they had to detect a compression that was less than the size of a proton. I don't think it would move the atoms of a crystal enough.

  • @ni-9945
    @ni-9945 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've been watching this channel regularly for five years and just realized I wasn't subscribed.

  • @dreadlordken3824
    @dreadlordken3824 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No mention of 1950s sound powered phones?

  • @antivanti
    @antivanti 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't think the main issue with those leaves is the low voltage but the very low amperage they can generate. Even if you string a bunch of them together to get 14 volts you wouldn't be able to drive the starter motor for a car engine or even generate sparks in the sparkplugs. So the comparison with a car battery (which can melt a wrench btw) is very oversimplified

  • @RSKofficial-267A
    @RSKofficial-267A 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Could we use any of these to power our needs?

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not really. They aren't practical for grid scale power. But there are niche applications for things like powering sensors or keeping batteries charged. Think of heat-powered sticker-sensor you could slap on a pipe, for example, to monitor the temperature and send a radio message a couple of times an hour - no wiring required. Or a motion-powered strip across a road that counts cars and sends the readings back to traffic control. Or a remote control that is powered by the motion of pressing the buttons so it never needs new batteries.

    • @marcopohl4875
      @marcopohl4875 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On a small scale: Definitly, some of them are in use already.
      on a large scale: Not yet, but I hope soon.

  • @alamrasyidi4097
    @alamrasyidi4097 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i kinda wonder if we'll one day harness electricity from ATP

  • @OverwoundGames
    @OverwoundGames 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    now look at Garret Moddel's Casimir force generator...

  • @bensmith7536
    @bensmith7536 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Science puns hit different.

  • @vyvianalcott1681
    @vyvianalcott1681 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I hate commenting on people's appearance but that blouse is fantastic

  • @SCUBONZIES
    @SCUBONZIES 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    NICE SET , Midnight Marauders Tour Guide😃

  • @raphaelgarcia9576
    @raphaelgarcia9576 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about piezoelectric generators along freeways, or really loud places like schools😅

    • @chrisbelkosky5466
      @chrisbelkosky5466 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That has been done in a few case studies

  • @thurlravenscroft2572
    @thurlravenscroft2572 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Saying .28 volts doesn’t tell us much. How many watts are created?

    • @yakustone6356
      @yakustone6356 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Saying watts doesn't tell us much. How many joules are created?

    • @thurlravenscroft2572
      @thurlravenscroft2572 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yakustone6356 watts tells me a whole lot more about what this setup can produce at any given time. Joules tells me what the setup can produce over an extended period of time, which to me isn’t as useful.

    • @yakustone6356
      @yakustone6356 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thurlravenscroft2572 Not really though. For generating energy and energy measurement is more useful. Think of a capacitor vs a battery.

  • @roninbadger7750
    @roninbadger7750 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oxidizing hydrogen's? Isn't this how our cells break down Carbs? Cleaving the carbon and Hydrogen, making Co2 and H2O with the oxygen we breath. This sometimes creates free radicals that need a donor Electron from Anti Oxidants.

  • @srwapo
    @srwapo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has anyone tried destroying all the planets in the solar system to build a sphere of solar panels around the sun?

    • @Macachee
      @Macachee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have!

  • @VictarisGX
    @VictarisGX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So, according to this video, Florida is set to become the US' newest power station!

  • @rsmorex
    @rsmorex 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Little worried about how giddy she got over crushing bones 😳

    • @Zaihanisme
      @Zaihanisme 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      BONE BROTH POWDER

    • @rsmorex
      @rsmorex 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Zaihanisme it’s called stock. If you use bones it’s a stock not a broth.

  • @fishyerik
    @fishyerik 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well, you can't extract energy from a single state, like static pressure won't work for piezoelectric power generation, or air just being humid won't provide any energy for you. You need a difference, a change, something that "happens". The weaker and more dilute this difference is, the less likely it is it to be meaningful to try to extract energy from it.
    None of the principles have reasonable potential to make a difference on grid scale, the Seebeck effect is useful for power generation in very specific cases, the rest is nowhere near that. The piezoelectric effect is used for sensing, and can technically be used to generate some power, but it's not practical. We have great technologies for converting sunlight into usable energy. "Up to" value of open circuit voltage is in itself meaningless, harvesting meaningful electric power directly from photosynthesis is not possible, as far as we know. Meaningful in this context requires, among other things, being a relevant alternative to photovoltaic power generation.
    Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the episode, despite some of the technical "details" were wrong, and suggested potential usefulness that isn't real.

  • @hobojesus6288
    @hobojesus6288 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wouldnt harvesting the energy in a plants leaves prevent them from pulling carbon out of the air as effectively. i was under the impression all that energy is used to turn carbon dioxide into sugar?

  • @RedScaledKnight1
    @RedScaledKnight1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We miss you, John and Hank. Thank you so much for your legacy

  • @saivinaypavanan7334
    @saivinaypavanan7334 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Weird!

  • @CompletelyNormal
    @CompletelyNormal 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I suppose it's no surprise that the person who made the flashlight powered by the difference in temperature between her body and the surroundings was in Canada.

  • @thefurbyman
    @thefurbyman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is so disrespectful for Nichola Tesla 😓

  • @CorbiniteVids
    @CorbiniteVids 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What was that soil bacteria again? Hm?

  • @Vile_Entity_3545
    @Vile_Entity_3545 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I never thought we would be getting electrons from smegma

    • @Macachee
      @Macachee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Huh?

  • @derride4n614
    @derride4n614 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    if we are harnessing electricity out of plants, how far are we technologically from getting it from other beings?. also, is there are reason not mentioning the term "nuclear fission" when talking about the plutonium-238 engine?

  • @marvinochieng6295
    @marvinochieng6295 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    alright then, this presenter is gorgeous and has a good voice. love the good work. keep it up

  • @mrdonetx
    @mrdonetx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who thought you could? Pretty much everyone who worked on the projects and many others who know that energy is energy doesn't matter what form it happens to be. It's converting that energy into energy we can use for our own purpose efficiently is where it becomes a problem.

  • @hyperionsama
    @hyperionsama 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Question about sound energy. Does this mean a guitar (or some other instruments) can power themselves? Can my electric guitar power itself and have a speaker made in/with it???? 😅

    • @tru7hhimself
      @tru7hhimself 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      your guitar already powers itself. it has no power source but transmits electric signals to your amp.

  • @KennethKolano
    @KennethKolano 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really wish we got some deeper analysis here. Squeezing a bunch of tech in does make for a clickworthy video, but without diving in a bit deeper it's hard to evaluate these techs.
    For instance I;d presume the humidity one is likely very dependent on variations in such to work out, and would only get 1 to 2 cycles per day depending on if it worked in reverse. I'd also presume that the sorts of structures that make it work well in one direction or the other, likely make it hard to reverse (i.e. drying out a wet thing, or wetting a dry one).

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All the sources are listed in the description for further reading :)

  • @domenicperito4635
    @domenicperito4635 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    oxidation is burning. they are the same.

  • @bowez9
    @bowez9 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Charge difference is the only way.

  • @michaelblacktree
    @michaelblacktree 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wait. There's a bacterium named after smegma? LOL 🤣

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Running things on plants isn't that weird. We all made potato batteries growing up in science class, right?

    • @augstradus
      @augstradus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's one of the things that always baffles me as a European.
      I always thought that was a Hollywood thing, we just don't do that here.
      And then the narrative that the average US Citizen is dumb af.
      It just doesn't add up.

  • @davidlundy2312
    @davidlundy2312 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She's pretty 😁, hopefully that wasn't rude and is well received. Thanks for all the great vids and content 👍

  • @zagarak
    @zagarak 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would have been funny if he said "Hey vsauce Michael here". 😂😂

  • @bensoncheung2801
    @bensoncheung2801 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ⚡️⚡️⚡️

  • @UPLYNXED
    @UPLYNXED 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about a vacuum? Only theoretical as of yet as far as I'm aware, but Quantum Energy Teleportation is a fascinating concept. It's not magically generating energy, but to an observer on just one end of the transaction it might as well be.

  • @josephdonais4778
    @josephdonais4778 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    P238?, WB's Marvin the Martian would have a field day with it.

  • @jackielinde7568
    @jackielinde7568 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The RTG power units aren't anything new. NASA used them on both Pioneer space probes because they were going someplace where sunlight was not a viable option.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not new, that's not the point. Is not well known, that's the point.

  • @Buddhaspot8
    @Buddhaspot8 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The same way we have a sound powered telephone... I could think of that

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, that’s how microphones work. The sound compresses the piezo which gives off a minute signal. It still needs amplification before it’s useful and far too low to run the cell signal.

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CarFreeSegnitz No, there is such a thing as a sound-powered telephone. It's just coupled moving coils: You talk loudly in to one, and you get sound out the other. Faint, but good enough to hold a conversation. It's the electronic version of two cans and a piece of string. Only good for short cable runs and point-to-point operation, but they can operate with no external power and are very reliable, so they have a niche in emergency communications. Especially marine applications - even if the ship's electrical systems are utterly dead, the sound-powered telephones still connect vital locations to the bridge. Batteries have a finite lifetime and may be neglected during servicing, but the sound powered telephone will always work so long as the cable isn't broken.

  • @FZs1
    @FZs1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The problem with hydrogen is not that you have to burn it (oxidising is the same as burning anyway), but that you have to make/extract hydrogen from something. Making it from water requires all the same energy you get back when you burn it, while getting it from fossil fuels is cheap but not green at all.

  • @Infernoraptor
    @Infernoraptor 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wait a second, "mycobacterium smegmatum"? As in "smegma"? Really?

    • @daviefebus6123
      @daviefebus6123 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that smells gotta come from somewhere

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, because that's where the bacterium was first discovered, which is a common way to name bacteria. :)
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_smegmatis

    • @Infernoraptor
      @Infernoraptor 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @greensteve9307 I figured as much, but, come on, you KNOW the scientists were snickering when they came up with that name. (And I am not blaming them in the slightest XD )

  • @fishybusinessco.8398
    @fishybusinessco.8398 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do you know we’re using a radioactive rock more than 10,000 miles away to run a machine it’s crazy. We are crazy.

  • @mtkoslowski
    @mtkoslowski 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The United States Air Force uses piezzoelectric detonators on their aerial b ombs to detonate them.
    Impact with a hard target compresses the crystal sending an electric charge to the explosives causing detonation.

  • @isaaclove1144
    @isaaclove1144 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about the triboelectric effect? th-cam.com/video/I9ICGDY3FC4/w-d-xo.html

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack10 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7:35 we allready have hydroness,
    and crazy people are trying to kill them!!!
    (dark humor?...).

  • @DanH-u3f
    @DanH-u3f 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lightning can be harnessed and the energy stored one day.