The Future of Solid State Wind Energy - No More Blades
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So would you want something like a PowerPod for your home? And if you liked this video be sure to check out, "Are Stirling Engines the Future of Energy Storage?" th-cam.com/video/Be3FckQoDws/w-d-xo.html
For somewhere like Texas yes. For somewhere like NYC no.
Before installing any of these technologies in a residential area, noise generated from the unit would have to be considered.
I would install a PowerPod like that on my roof without a second thought. In the past, there was a chimney on the roof, but in the future there will be PowerPods like this. So why not, especially since they also produce electricity at night if the wind is blowing. The large wind turbines on land have an enormous disadvantage that cannot simply be wiped away: they actually disfigure the landscapes, are noisy, require a great, great deal of space and are death traps not only for birds but also for a wide variety of insects. It is therefore fair to say that wind turbines do not contribute to the preservation of biodiversity. Wind turbines at sea, on the other hand, make much more sense than on land, in my opinion. There are some birds at sea, but significantly fewer than on land, and insects are almost non-existent on the open sea. So why not PowerPods or similar power generators on the roof, especially as they are hardly visually disturbing and are the chimneys of the 21st century?
Between the names "Epstein" and "Sweat", seems that guy is the worst at marketing his product ;)
I can't find any technical details about PowerPod, no power rating, no plot, no anything
My girlfriend is apparently obsessed with bladeless wind turbines, she even has a prototype in her nightstand.
I like her don't let her go
Take advantage of the bug, with that you have a theme to use 7u7r
@@davidbeaulieu4815 Just a heads up, it was a dildo joke. :P
I want to take her as my wife
@@thegorn Bang ding ow
The fact that you could maintain an stratight face talking about the Dildotron 2000 Generator is amazing.
Dildotron lolol
You win the comment section for at least the rest of the day 🏆
Dildo hehehe
You said it best. LOL
BWWWWAAHAHAHAHAAAHAHA! Holy shit!!!
The main thing I learned is that peak performance of the column is based on stiffness, which is related to how it is blown. Thank you, I hope to apply this lesson to my personal life.
I see what u did there
I knew a joke was in there somewhere... while watching this.
@@oswaldfeurst5247 Yeah, it was a struggle. Not sure how it came out...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you need help in that area, well, I'm sure you'll find it.
Matt (& team), 1) Undecided is a brilliant name, reminding us to have an open mind - so important on many fronts. 2) Entertaining, detailed and thorough-ish, just when I was getting down on solar because of environmental concerns, you've opened my mind to the new potential of wind power. Thank you, dad jokes and all.
1960: in 2050 we'll have flying cars
2050: "wiggling columns" everywhere
That's hilarious, I just shot food out my nose laughing.
@JD Russell I rarely ever pay for gas because I never got around to getting a driver's license.
By 2050 everyone's gonna have Alzheimer because of that liquid they injected into your blood to prevent you from getting the 4th wave of flu.
@JD Russell big hero six feels
@JD Russell *richer.
I can imagine it now... Looking down the hill to the village as the sun sets. Atop each house sits a wiggling column. A gust of wind blows through, and the columns rejoice, adding a few more strokes to their wiggles.
work = force x distance
power = work/time
1 kW = 100 kg-meter/sec I hope you don't have a central AC system or a refrigerator. That column won't cut it.
@@melaniecotterell8263 Not sure why you're using kg-f rather than Newtons for the kW conversion... either way I get around 102kg-m/s when using kg-f* but yeah, you wouldn't be using a single 102kg mass - you'd either use something with a lot of mass (like 1000kg), or multiple columns. having one 200kg mass oscillate at a frequency that covers 0.5m every second wouldn't require much space and you'd already be producing more power than even the most power efficient solar panels.
And then Hastur comes out.
They shud redesign the column into artificial trees ...so no penis imagination around
I could see these being installed on properties with a lot of conifers. You place them in spots where the geography and trees form wind funnels.
Great work mate. All the facts as usual. You have assembled a great package of audio & visual .I love your work.
This is my first time enjoying your TH-cam channel. Great content! Looking forward to hearing more from you! Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!
"Wiggling column" 🤔 That's the most polite description for that solid state wind device. 😁
@ecmorgan69 Yes, they were going to call it Vortex-Initiated Aeolian Generation Resonant Apparatus, but decided against it. :-D
"Wind Dildo" is a more apt description. As in, "If not for the vibrating power of this Mega Wind Dildo 9000, the hospital surely would've had to close during the storm."
Paint it green with a few arms and call it a Saguaro (cactus).
😂 I tried to keep it clean … I knew there’d be a lot of good jokes in the comments.
@@UndecidedMF I am so childish. Couldn't stop giggling during that whole segment, while trying to understand the science. And it got worse in the comment section.
You sir, are a true bastard.
You paint that "wiggling column" the right shade of green and it would blend right into any desert as just another cactus.
put two little arms and a sombrero and watch ppl go crazy
Or in citties and it blend in as modern "Art"
In 2050: What do you mean by "It's not a cactus"?
On that Thneedville type beat
Is it super windy in the desert??
I always thought the bird issue wasn't the number but the type.
Cats and windows kill small common birds while wind farms were killing large birds of prey which are fewer in number
Yes. It's unfortunate that ppl lump all the various feathered animals into one classification -- "birds". When my daughters were kids they would see a "bird" in the garden and call out "Dad, there's a bird in the garden". I'd ask them if it was a penguin or an ostrich or a cassowary . . .
Super important point that should have been considered in this video.
@@hughoneill9861 It is scientifically accurate to call them birds and I'm sure your kids just LOVED you being obtuse for no good reason :)
@@vinchinzo594 Yeah and it is scientifically debatable to call a a plucked chicken a human but not particularly useful. The same thing would be the case with how using scientifically accurate Latin nomenclature to describe everything even in everyday conversation would be accurate but incredibly ungainly and wildly unpopular. Context matters.
If we were to say "Housecats cause billions of deaths per year!" without mentioning the specific species that were dying? That would be a scientifically accurate but effectively useless statement. Essentially "Misinformation".
Besides, OP has a point, I don't give a damn how many bloody pigeons get salsa'd each year by wind turbines but if we have incredibly rare/endangered birds getting splattered that's a big effing problem.
@@monkeymonk666 "it is scientifically debatable to call a a plucked chicken a human"
No it's not. You're not very intelligent.
Your videos are getting me excited about the future. Thank you for your eloquent and fascinating presentation. 😊
I think put together 2 power pods and the wiggler and you've got yourself a party.
I snorted a little bit of the drink i was trying to swallow when i read that.
well played.
Frat Row will have a bank of these on every rooftop!
💀💀💀 so immature
You could put more LED lights on the wiggler
Omg...the image....hahaha! Good one!
5:04 "Warning, it looks a little weird."
Just wait until they start installing spherical batteries at the base to store excess power. You know, in pairs. For redundancy! 😁
I'm worried the spherical shape batteries wouldn't have the surface area to keep them cool and efficient. They should probably be contained in a flexible housing that would shrink when cold and expand when hot for more surface area.
@@djdickey LOL
can not thumbs up more then once
a shame
Prototaxites
@@djdickey But most importantly, the top of the generator should squirt a small amount of a non-toxic, white liquid to indicate that it has been stimulated to maximum power generating capacity. :)
Thanks. I like the pod system. I've heard of people who live in extremely windy locations who have trouble with windmills tearing themselves to pieces. Looks like the pod could overcome this especially if the aperture could be automatically adjusted to close down a bit. Jim Bell (Australia)
Came here to make sure I liked an subscribed. Thanks for doing your best to educate the masses.
I remember when the Guardian covered the Vortex Bladeless design, calling it the "Skybrator."
Omg lol
That's a clever one. I like it.
It's silly and would damage any building you attached it to.
Frankly, the unreliables (wind and solar) would be great if we had more cheap storage. Anywhere with the topography to support a gravity battery (water pumped uphill) and a good wind resource should be loaded up with wind turbines.
The places in the world with the most unreliables are also the most expensive energy markets. Germany, for example, has 3 times the electricity costs. Meanwhile China added over a hundred gigawatts in 2020 in coal. In China, coal is king. Whatever we do will be undone by them.
The oscillating one could be painted green and multiplied to probably resemble grass rustling in the wind, which I'm pretty sure is universally more pleasing than its current design.
I believe it's called the Wind Augmented Natural Generator.
I say we could just embrace its beauty and maybe add some intricate branching paint lines along the side (you know, like adding speed stripes to a car, but I'm thinking a deeper red or blue color to really make it pop) and a retractable fabric cover at the tip to protect it. And it's going to get covered in dust, so instead of being bright white, maybe paint it a light beige to hide the dust. Obviously it makes sense to add a hole at the top in order to allow the necessary lubricant oil to slowly drip out (a pre-lubrication phase) and recirculate down the sides, followed by a few strong squirts of oil every ten minutes or so to shower the device to ensure proper operation. I'd want to do the full oiling more often, but I think if we squirt the oil too often though the pumps needed won't have time in between to cool down. Finally, if we could make it portable, that would be awesome. We could build a more manageable version, maybe 8-12 inches long, and replace the permanently rigid shaft with a collapsible one containing bladders that we can fill with fluid to recover its rigidity. Then the portable version would also include two detachable spheres (low surface area to save on manufacturing costs) to house the generator and inverter.
I'll start focusing on building a prototype and see if I can find any photos online that look similar to the redesign.
giant vibrator go brrrrrrrrrrrr
It could also have two balls below it to store the energy.
@@nxj18xbmc You can paint your poo whatever color you like; It's still CRAP( like these wind turbines)
@@spensert4933 😂🤣🤣
My granddaughter graduates in June in environmental engineering. I'm thrilled to see the evolution of wind and solar energy in my life time. We have so much talent in America. Keep up the search for more efficient power supplies. 😎😍🎶🎶🎶
So many youtubers have taken alot of your info here and made it their own. Kudos to you 👏
The EWICON was installed when I studied in Delft. I was looking at it at with some friends while guessing wat it was. A professor overheard us and explained what it was, with a dissapointed tone he said that the proto type doesnt work but that they learned valueble lessons in the building proces. They never even bothered to attach it to the grid.
That's part of research! If the result were a foregone conclusion there would be no need to prototype. Failure is a vital learning experience, see Thomas Edison and the many filiments he tried for an example. Thanks for your iinteresting post.
@@obfuscated3090 Didn't THomas Edison not mainly just buy inventions and ideas from others?
@@dmg1849 ... what are you even on about? What on earth is even scientism zealotism and what made you decide to hurl me in with them? Look up wikipedia That guy was mainly known for buying up inventions, it is not something that is up for debate.
@@AnneBerkheij presumably inventions that may or may not work/be commercially viable.
Love the housecat to wind turbine bird killing ratio argument....let me know when you see a housecat drag a bird that typically soars on the thermals where windmills are placed...
Also, could you walk me through the eco friendlyness of a solar panel?
Netherlands: giant eco-friendly building with solar and wind power ft skybar
Spain: hehe wobbly wind didlo generator go brrr
Spain is at the forefront of passive solar electric generation, and they (and Portugal and Scotland) are doing cool things with wave/tide generation. Don't be too quick to find fault.
that wobbly thing is actual real science.... the giant donut is some company lobbying for taxpayers money by promising a building that apparently does everything, but in practise most of it is unlikely to work
Im not pointing fingers, im just saying the wind stick looks funny
Now I want one and want to paint it like a penis and put 2 balls at it's base
@@andrewgodly5739 would be a nice message if it could actually generate power for your needs
Thank you Matt, and I just subscribed. Keep it up!
I like the tether flying wing generating system.
Relatively quick to install/implement in the right area high power output.
With a FRU(Field Replace Unit) maintenance/repair. Also the footprint of the base generator unit is reasonable.
Could see theses units, with a small storage system to "Smooth" the power distribution feeding into the
power grid in states like Texas & Arkansas.
They should call it a "Solid-state Wind Electric Energy Transformer" That would be SWEET!
I like the dancing phallus . Wind Oscillating Orbital Dancing Infrastructural Energy = WOODIE
Dynamic
Integrated
Carbon
Killer
Solid-state
Highly
Integrated
Technology
No it would be SSWEET.
@@yourrightimsooosorry884 Hey dude, that thing in DELFT is in my country. We do not have SHIT presidents, that is your problem. They are far too conservative. All of them. What you need is change. Lots of it.
Today we proudly present to you, the wiggling column! (AKA The Shivering Shaft)...*In the background, theme music starts* "Im pickin' up good vibrations..."
Boring..once understood..is a rollercoaster.gn ladies
Lol. Great song pick.
Or the the dancing dildo
I love how all these ideas are essentially the reverse of the existing home appliance, i.e. reverse air-purifier and a reverse "toy", such good example of innovation
It's all very interesting, and I particularly like the hydroelectric solutions for use on the ocean floor, but I can't help but feel like technology has (in some way) done a loop back to the windmill days 😆
well, a good thing never realy gets old, it only gets modernized. look at the knive for example, the shape and design of it hasnt realy changed during the history of mankind. Why? Because its just a great design. Having wings that catch wind, might be a similarly universal concept. And if you want to be extra critical, you could even call the move from windmills to coal/ gas powerplants, a technological loop back to campfires.
5:19 Just imagine driving past a field of hundreds of these things, all of them wiggling in synchrony.
The dick field
@@JA9339 The Porn Field :D
😂bruh
Penis farm.
Beautiful
I like the solution that teenager on an island came up with. He strings ribbons between two masts in a window frame. One end of each ribbon is tied statically to one mast, while the other end is tied to a rod magnet that is mounted to the other mast by a rubber band. The magnets ride inside copper coils connected to a battery, capacitor, or electricity-stabilizing circuit as needed for the application. When the wind blows the ribbons shake, causing the magnets to translate back and forth inside the coils, thereby generating electrical current. It's enough to power a few devices, but it can be cheaply and easily expanded to provide power for a small house. Smart kid!
That's awesome
Sounds cool. Is there a link for me to watch it
@@andyjohnson3790 Never saw one myself, but it's easy to draw a mental picture -- probably easy enough to make one one's self. I don't remember where I read it years ago, but I was like, "Huh... that's pretty damned smart!"
100 years ago, windmills were a common sight across rural America. They were usually used to pump water, but they were often adapted to produce electricity.
All the windmills in our area are derilict. You can see what is left of them when driving by.
And they were superseded by more powerful efficient engines. That is why they went out of use.
Wind turbines are massive versions of the old windmills, and irritatingly more noisy. Thus, the need for something else.
And they didn't use batteries. You keep forgetting that part.
There is also barotrauma-internal injuries caused by exposure to rapid pressure changes near the trailing edges of moving blades
The wiggling column is great for the Southwest; it can be disguised as a Saguaro cactus!
Imagine every fence post in everyones backyard having a small version on top lol.
Great idea!
Using one vibrating column on the roof of a building, to power hundreds of similar devices inside of each apartment.
Every car reseller could power his offices self-reliantly.
Another advantage to Savonius "egg beater" turbines is that they can operate in higher winds. Ironically, traditional "propeller" type turbines have to engage brakes and stop in very high winds or the extra forces can damage or destroy them, but egg beaters just go faster. They're attached at the top and bottom, usually, so they're more stable.
We thoroughly studied egg beater turnbines when I worked at GE. Egg beater turbines are much less efficient because they always have one blade that is turning into the wind.
It's a trap! You can have a small-scale design that can withstand high wind speeds. And consequently the power can be UP TO certain nice value in watts as power increases cubically with wind speed. But isn't the actual issue with wind power the lack of wind that the product can be designed to withstand or utilize?
@@CelBloxICF Yes, not only that, but they are typically mounted at lower heights so they receive less strong winds, though they are usually used in areas where high structures are barred (and consequently don't kill migratory birds or bats). But the durability of having a single axis in order to stay optimally oriented rather than two is pretty compelling.
@@mattihalme81 So you're saying too much wind is less significant than no wind? Depends on where you are of course.
@@mattihalme81 Well, there's a big problem with having to stop the turbines once the wind gets too strong ... the output goes from maximum to zero very very quickly and for the whole farm (and the other ones near) at the same time. That's a huge hit to the power net.
As always thank you for the great contact.
Beautiful and highly informative video. Thanks so much, watching your videos excite me every time.
Possible clickbait title: Birds will love this Spanish wind energy generator
or: see how huge dildo save birds.
Be les feg pliz
Hahahaha
Bird haters hate this new Renewable energy generator
By birds I assume you mean single moms in your area.
If you have ever had to stand on the side of a major highway , you quickly notice the wind and air movement created by the passing cars. What a great place for wind pods, maybe integrated into some kind of safety barriers placed between the opposing lanes for maximum effect.
Already in use. I don't remember which country but I saw it over a year ago. Cars and trucks going east make it spin one way. Cars and trucks going west keep it going. So no opposing forces. Pretty neat.
@@jfrodgers7858 Why not put the generators on top of the cars and bypass the transmission lines. :-)
@@drzman6901 I was less than 10 years old when I designed a go kart that was even better than a perpetual motion machine. A battery would power a motor that would move the go kart while a generator would charge the battery. It didn’t work. 😩
@@kennethjackson7574 That is due to energy loss from Friction sadly :( If we could figure out someway to have 0 friction in a turbine and vehicle. Would be incredible. But sadly it just isn't possible.
Sounds great, except that the wind energy (great) is generated by massively wasteful fossil fuels (the cars). Instead, put a wind turbine, solar panel, batteries, and electric storage heaters in everyone's house, garden and flat. And ban fossil cars, to allow electric for long journeys, bicycle and foot for short (day-to-day) journeys, plus public transport for everything else.
Great video! Working in turbine development myself, and I'd love to see more large companies diversifying in concepts and markets
Check out harmony turbines and let me know what you think.
I see conflict of interest.
The problem with most of these is the low life expectancy and reliance on batteries. It can only work as supplemental energy and it is by no means clean.
Hi Matt, I'm in the UK and wind farms here are mainly offshore, making their upkeep even more expensive. The government arent doing anything to help the energy rape taking place here, whilst in France the energy firms have had their increase capped at 4% here in the UK we are looking at a 200% price hike in energy costs. Thanks for your informative channel, I would probably opt for 6 of the Powerpods along my house ridge, but a planning permission application is £400 ($500) and that covers just one device, each additional device is another charge. So you see they would let me fit them - but they want their cut of my investment and my savings. We are all being charged.
You are all being controlled. It's about (gov't.) power, not progress. Otherwise you wouldn't be stuck under the thumb of gov't. officials and regulators telling you how you can and can't improve your life and what you have to pay them for the privilege of doing so.
In Australia we also have huge power price increases due to high cost of renewable power. Power companies are closing down coal stations while we still have 400 years of coal in the ground.
@@again5162 If we keep burning coal at the rate we are, we wont be around in 400 years
I’m wondering what sort of sound those wrigglers make. I’m betting that thing flapping around is not silent.
yep, I guess that's why they aren't targeting the private home market.
I want some on my property, an army of wiggling vibrators making me energy!
It say's "oh yeah!" non stop
i was wondering the same. noise pollution is a real thing. it drives many people living close to wind turbines crazy.
*fap fap fap*
My girlfriend has one of those "wiggling columns" in her bedroom. She says it energizes her.
best comment, dude!!!
@doreybain If your GF has the need for a "wiggly column" in her bedroom that really means you are a complete failure at satisfying her needs and I don't know which is dumber... You not realizing that, or you posting it...
@@nonyabuziness1582 Yikes. No sense of humor.
@@nonyabuziness1582 I think it was a joke.
@@herbb8547 her name is none ya business. She’s a Karen
I honestly believe those Vortex Bladeless can finally be the solution to harnessing waves and tides to generate electricity. IDK if their current models are watertight, but maybe someday.
Hi, I love your informative and well paced videos. My take for the wind would be the power pod with the Frea coming in a close second.. like you I am not sure about the vibrating column thing in my yard or on the house seems like a lightning rod LOL . All around good info as always Thanks for sharing your knowledge and curiosities. :)
Spanish researchers: "The future of wind energy is wiggling columns."
Don Quixote: "Challenge accepted!"
Researcher say what they want to promote their research. Who can believe that a small column work in vibration would be the future technology. I am researcher by the way
@Buster head Surely not kidding. At the begining of the video , he said the efficiency is still very low.Any drag wind turbine is like that and what if it is a small area like this columns.
@@mohamadcheayb485 wind power ended with steam engines RE=SCAM energy Density == NUCLEAR POWER #1 YOU IDIOT!
Very underrated comment!
@@briancam_2000 you seems too rude and stupid. No comment
It would be interesting to see a comparison of the wind and mechanical noise each of these systems emit.
That was the one thing I wondered about as well
I like the sound of the wind Mills
The good thing is regardless of noise the majority of these structures would be placed in places like the ocean or very rural areas like the current windmill farms across the Midwest. Only highways and farm land in the area really.
@@eyetvideos467 Really depends on the country I suppose as mine is a little different.
@@eyetvideos467 did you watch the video? They are/were putting them on fences, buildings, homes, skyscrapers.. not the ocean and open fields. Honestly I’d take one of these on my roof and a solar panel or two if I had the money. Homestead idea gets better and better.
It would seem that having the least moving parts would be the most advantageous from a durability standpoint. A way to quantify that as a basis of comparison might be a good way to pinpoint one of the technologies presented here as having great promise. Obviously, noise, safety, complexity of design, cost, size, etc would be additional considerations. Thank you for introducing these many approaches I had no knowledge of prior to seeing this video.
This is just amazing that this even works. Look forward to see when this will be able to compete with rotation windmills.
It's great that those vibrating shafts don't require greasing to maintain stiffness.
Hahaha good observation
Nice
Is it just me or does this sound sexual? 😂😂😂
@@JennWest-Liberty no its just you, Jenn
soo lube
I'm so glad we can finally harness the power of the wind with the Wild Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man.
!!! Intergalactic Proton Powered Electrical Tentacled Advertising Droids !!!
Passing the power onto youuuuu... !!
Living in a place like San Francisco, it seems a bit absurd that there aren't PowerPods or Savonius turbines all over the place. They seem like the perfect local alternative to rooftop solar in a place where the sun can be hard to find but the wind is basically a given.
cuz its a scam lmao
LUV the POWER POD design!! CAN'T wait 2 get my hands on a couple of those!! They R GREAT low maintenance units tht R small yet mighty & move much like the breathers on a roof top. AWESOME concept in my opinion!!
One careful consideration in wind marketing power/energy output numbers is where they're pulling their available wind energy data from. Most of the time they use data from an airport at 50m, which is much higher than what you would experience on a roof in a suburb at 20m. This is a very common practice in marketing, so be sure to perform a wind energy analysis if you're interested in wind power at the exact location. There are ways to estimate power at lower heights if anyone is interested.
Obviously those structures would need to be in the valley where winds are constant. The whole point of the structure is to prevent birds being killed by wind turbines.
3:07 first thing that i think when i heard his name was "didn't kill himself".
Well done memes. well done.
Yup 😂
I woudlve changed my last name by then
@@piggynatorcool668 To "Cool", I guess.
Every time I hear "Epstein Drive" on The Expanse...
I thought SWET is unfortunate but Epstein that is really unfortunate.
Well done, Matt, for getting through that video. You have more willpower than me.
Thanks for your work, this kind of stuff gives me hope :)
"warning, it looks a little weird"
Lady Dimitrescu- where did I leave my back massager
“Back massager” sure, whatever you say.
Sure. You are referring to the male phallic dominance we have seen throughout history. Finally, someone added some life to it.
LMAO
Why is wind energy always so ugly? This one literally looks like a dildo. Lets just stick with building better solutions like solar.
@@TylerWitucki aah yes , the design is more important than saving the planet
cheers !!
I like how you couldn't mention the "wiggling column" with a straight face, LOL
Fantastic video. You speak my language. I hit subscribe on the first of your videos seen. Love the name of your channel also! I would absolutely consider the powerpod.
Thank you for that. So often those novel ideas are presented in ways that simply trigger my sceptical bone. You provided some numbers that start to make sense of the giant vibrator and vertical turbine designs. I'm still not too sure about the charge transfer techs, though.
One time I saw a bird smash right into a 2nd floor window and fall directly into a dumpster that was conveniently placed below the window. After seeing that and thinking about it I believe the universe has a sense of humor.
@GeeDee no but that would have made it funnier.
Bird, wakes up: "Oh no! I've died and gone to Hell!"
Rat, om noming: "Nah bro. This is Heaven."
@@thetruth45678 sounds about right, heaven isn't really that great.
@@TheoneStanband it just gets a little boring towards the end, ya know?
@@keefjunior4061 humans wont be around during the end of the universe, you guys would have long since brought your self's to extinction.
The powerpod is safe for wildlife. So I guess there will be a bird or wasp nest not to long after installation xD
That would be a real middle-finger to tri-blade windmills wouldn't it, if all over the place you ended up with powerpods with bird nests on top of them :D
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The power pod is restarted at first I was thinking cool something to bring camping. You’d need a truck to haul it.
@@DKeith2011 Well, given that the blades are so closely spaced on the inside, I'd think there would have to be something like that anyway, because leaves and stuff getting inside would probably be even worse.
Imagine if they were so big people could live inside them.
Awesome vid, Matt, some of these concepts were seriously cool! & Wowza those bird #s in comparison to domestic kitties. It'll be even better to lower that figure with wind generators of the future 🌬⚡💚
I just bought a home on three acres with very few trees on a rise above most of the nearby homes. There is a garage with a south facing roof perfect for Solar and Arkansas has some nice incentives.
The wind this Spring has been great for things like those Power Pods. I think if I put up a traditional windmill my neighbors might revolt. A few of those power pods on poles, like Swallow houses could be pretty well received. I could do both here but I would need someone to do the wiring to bring it all back to an inverter in the garage and tie it to the grid.
Hmmm, I wonder if a huge O-shaped building with the inside of the O filled with thin metal wires won't be pretty darned bad for birds...
That building look like a big wake-up light from Philips.
Instead we have an O- shaped building with wiggling columns inside. Seems more natural, maybe the birds won't mind. I've known many wiggling columns and not a one has killed a bird.
Many Birds can detect magnetic fields so they would likely avoid this structure.
Perhaps putting a model of a giant hawk on top of it would be a deterrent. I read of a building in Sydney that has several at the top to prevent pigeons nesting on it.
as opposed to the glass buildings they already pound themselves into on the regular?
1:56 - Most modern turbines are direct drive, eliminating the gearbox.
Simon WoodburyForget relative to what? A solar panel?
There is no gearing from the hub to the motor, only gears would be for variable pitch
@@SimonWoodburyForget I'm referring to your earlier comment that a direct drive wind turbine still requires lots of gears. By design, there is no gearbox and thus no cooling or lubrication of a complicated gearbox. think of it as a large electric motor and its hub attached to the blades. Less points of failure and less maintenance.
Hello brother, I love wind turbines and the ideas in your video are wonderful and I enjoyed them.
Would love it. We live on the water front of Pamlico Bay NC. Lots of wind. Power Pod sounds very doable. We will keep an eye on it. I lived of wind power 35 yrs ago on my sailboat. Could generate up to 30 amps at 12V. Everything on the boat was low draw. A big part of living off grid is keeping down your loads on the systems. Would start generating at about 7 kts of wind. Their down side was noise. And as it was on a moving item, a boat, precessional forces had to be watched in heave seas.
I remember hearing of the vibrating towers and people joking in a post-apoclyptic world where they forgot their origin and praying to these diving beings for the energy they provide through their wiggles.
Just like every religion lol
@@jamescollins3647 Every religion prays to vibrating towels?
@@aarondavis8943 Your misspelling of 'towers' to 'towels' made this ten times funnier lmao
Sounds like a perfect "South Park" joke. People praying to vibrating penis towers, not understanding how they work, just that they get light from them in the town nearby.
@@rabidhellhound9714 well almost half of the human population does does already lol. Due to sex toys countless women say oh god without even believing in religion.
"This next design looks a little weird."
*sees design*
Me: Eh, it's slightly phallic but I don't see what the big deal is.
*it starts wiggling*
Me: Oh.... Oh no...
DEAD.
ON!!!😅🤣🤣
That's the most practical one too...
It wiggles when it gets blown.
I checked to make sure this video didn't come out April 1st.
I worked for a wind repair company. I can tell you the solid state windmill is such a necessity. The traditional bladed windmills that you see on wind farms are a net *loss* of resources. I view them as a stepping stone to something better. That is where the solid state or vortex comes in.
As it it cost more to make then the the electrify they produce is worth?
@@randybobandy9828 yes. The payoff on a windmill is about 20 years and the lifespan of a windmill is about 10 years.
We develop wind turbines in our company. Our calculations show that in terms of energy, they start producing net positive after 18 months. Lifetime is 25 years. We earn them back (on very conservative power forecast prices) in about 10-15 years.
@@randybobandy9828 don't know what the other guy is talking about but certainly not. Even if financial payback time is 20 years (which in most cases its not). That takes into consideration blade replacement and maintenance.
Co2 payback is in the region of 6 months for modern designs, energy around 1 to 2 years depending
Lab calculations and on-site performance (i.e., marketing vs. reality) are two totally different things. Wind turbines never perform anywhere near their marketed "calculations". Making them in China doesn't help their longevity either, lol.
Very interesting and informative! Thanks for producing this video.
Put a wiggling column on your roof and find out how mature your friends family and neighbors are.
or find out how long it takes it to vibrate a hole in your roof lol.
I would be totally immature about it. And then I would have one installed on my roof.
i'd rather have no electr i city than a moving dil do on my roof
@@joecostner1246 i'd rather have a wiggling dildo on my roof than no erectricity
I am apparently not mature enough
Really appreciate the details you provide in your videos. Keep up the great work!
Really appreciate it! Thanks for watching.
@@UndecidedMF hey can you give me some news article or journal link of solid state wind energy I never heard about this big fan from India 🇮🇳❤
@@UndecidedMF 😎 I came, I saw, I liked, and SUBBED! 👍
You misspelled: false claims made by scam artists.
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 tf are you talking about
Awesome. Yes now everyone needs to do a little more . Little things that we can do today in our home . I'm going to buy one of these wind generators to go with my new Dome home I'm building. Thank you again.
Great video. I started work in 1977 for the UK Department of Energy, and wind, wave and solar power were all being researched way back then, but it was probably the oil and gas industries lobbyists that killed the ideas off otherwise they would have been here sooner and be more advanced. Thank you!
I'm sure they didn't kill the ideas off, as much as they buy up all the good stuff (alt tech) shelve or develop the concept but not
Bring it to market. And when they finally run outta oil and gas they will roll out there clean energy alternatives.
I think I'd go with Vortex bladeless and two Power Pods either side to catch as much wind as possible. o!o (snicker)
Only to maximise energy production, of course.
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(. Y .) (shocked face)
Obviously pointing it away from “that” Neighbour.......lol
Someone needs to get pokey off yt smh
All they had to do was put some flags for arms and dots for eyes and they'd have an energy generating "wacky wavy inflatable arm flailing tubeman" to sell us
Instead we got the shaft
Clever lad
Better than getting sold defunct nuclear tech that is gonna deteriorate and melt down one day tho...
Shit I’d buy that. Could sell used cars at the same time!
LOVE THE TITLE OF YOUR CHANNEL.
you really earned it and i want a power pod.
5:16 I do not understand how you are able to either keep a straight face and/or narrate this "vibrator technology" without LOL hysterically. Too funny!
7:54 go on a hike just to see a bunch of women standing around these not knowing they are for wind power!
You mean the vibrating "dick". LOL. 🤣🤣🤣
depends upon how mature your mind is.
No way this is serious! Thousands of giant erect Dildos in the South-East desert, while illegals are running between, dodging border patrol agents???
@@johnabuick mind doesn't have to serious all the time! It's healthy to laugh!
It feels like the advent of wind traps is around the corner.
Prepare for any Harkonnen attacks!
Prepare to ride your worms!
Spicy
Na nA ni naaaa
Let me grab my sound cannon.
Powerpod - cant wait for it to come out on market - fantastic idea and so easy to integrate into so many different locations
wow i love the idea of the power pod!
Can't help but feel that energy pod is going to get packed with dead bugs until it seizes up.
Make the internal turbine non stick coated and watch colonies of spiders rejoice for the diced and sliced meals raining down into their nets.
Just add some fly screens to the funnels.
It generates energy and Crunchy snacks. Win win
@@lonestarr1490 it would cut out the power in half I bet
with the wobbly blade i was thinking a curious small critter decided to venture in.
Please consider doing a video on permaculture and urban food forests.
Double that
Agreed, I'd love to see you talk about some of the concepts in permaculture and food forests.
Quadruple that
Septuple that
Gogolplextuple that
Fascinating. I'm interested in learning more.
Great video!! First one of yours I saw, subbed right away
Thanks for the sub!
According to the Powerpod's website, the company "lacks the ability to produce a quality, custom blade to place in the powerpod." So, predictably, they're asking for kickstarter money -- for engineers, more development, etc. In other words, the product doesn't actually exist. As with nearly every other green energy "breakthrough" out there right now, it's basically someone's pet science-fiction idea cosplaying as an "invention," and the patent owners are hoping that all of us will invent it for them by paying other engineers to figure it out. Don't expect it to be "available by the end of 2021," as the video above suggests.
Beautifully put.
Yea other pod designs have all been bunk from my understanding too. 3x from same area also seems pretty sketchy
@@TechnMagician spot on Betz limit is the absolute limit - air starts to stack up and block thus creating a theoretical maximum which is 59%
Yet these silly things - typically not created by aerodynamic engineers or similar - that make these claims.
Even beyond that a design with high aspect ratio blades (long vs width) is very efficient. Fan like turbine disc would be far inferior. Add the tunneling etc. It would perform really badly - if it even existed.
Doesn't sound scammy at all, all in!
A bladed wind turbine where the blades are inside a pod and is more efficient than a regular turbine? it seems a little too nice to be true. The other ideas appear much more plausible *because* they have drawbacks (and are made by experts in the field).
The power pod looks promising from a home owner's perspective, but I'd like to see a roof top model that also takes advantage of attic heat. Call it a combo pod.
No pun intended but if you attic sucks to much it literally can suck all the heated or cooled air out of your house. the house would have to be designed with no penetration's to the attic space
you‘d better improve the insolation of your roof
@@paperburn Attics are typically vented to the outside along the edges.
@@Markle2k also could pass-through /ridge and Cupolas but that changes nothing. the attic can vent to a negative pressure and suck air from your house. This is something that you do not want to occur. I mean you could design around this problem but I believe retrofitting would be way to costly. but it is an interesting thought problem.
Thank you really much for this video! I haven't heard of some of these before watching it. I m not just wanna install one to my house but we are planning an eco-town with only these kinda stuff generating power :) Hope to see more content liek this here! :) Thanks mate!
Very interesting!! Thank you, i hope you keep uploading videos like this😃
The power pod is essentially a jet engine that's been retrofitted to change how air intake works, but otherwise uses the same basic concepts of compression along internal blades to produce massive amounts of force and spin them faster. Presumably with magnets inside a loop of wire to generate electromagnetic fields. It's actually quite brilliant but also probably works best on flat, horizontal surfaces rather than on angled rooftops in subdivisions. I'd love to see it progress and get notoriety, though.
I think its small size and portability makes it have potential to supplement or replace solar panels on travel trailers or mobile tiny homes. Imagine picking up juice while on the road!
@@LeMayJoseph Agreed. Even on buildings, however, it's still incredibly useful if they have flat tops. Also, if you can adjust the air intake angles, you can easily make them operate sideways and attach them to the sides of buildings. Predominately, those that don't face towards the sun. Depending upon the exact design, you may even be able to produce column long ones that lay against the side of the building like a water/electrical pipe and catch crosswinds to passively generate power.
If I ever one a lottery and became a multimillionaire, I would love to set up an airponics farm and use experimental solar and wind technologies to power it. Like, INDUSTRIAL scale, not small little home scales. Then record all data and release it to the public for free to provide real world data on how possible it is to grow food and go green using far less invasive or poluting methods. Show up all of these billionaires *claiming* to want to help out the earth by going to space by ACTUALLY helping out the earth by providing real world data on stainabilty for large societies (not just hermit huts) and what steps we need to improve upon it.
I wonder about some energy loss through friction and turbulence. Some tiny part of the wind might even bounce off. But perhaps these effects are minimal thanks to that long experience they have and so a optimal design, as you mention.
You are only going to see that either on a college campus or on a computer monitor.
I wonder how loud they are though
Big respect to you for using Metric for your measurements.
I personally find it annoying when people talk in imperial expecting the rest of the world to understand.
We had a talk at University (Physics studies) regarding the possibilities for utilizing the air electrostatics and fluid mechanics. Good to see that it is finaly put to use.
I am waiting though to see first sky anthenas that use the potential difference between ground and high air. But this is very theoretical idea for now...
Fascinaing! Thank you.
"But warning, it looks a little weird"
5:11 Me: "Get your mind out of the gutt..."
5:20 _Mother of god_
The fact it literally has "vibration" in the name kind of made that predictable though.
But yea. Reverse vibrator; _produces_ electricity from vibrating.
6:50 Those looks like giant fungi from the fungi forests era. Imagine those coloured with some trippy designs. It is only weird if its only one.
PowerPod sounds like an awesome idea; and I hope that maybe if I could buy one of these things for a property; I could make sure to have no need to worry about power outages for the house; and run the things i want