Running engines off of sun and water -- science or science fiction: Cliff Ricketts at TEDxNashville
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2014
- Cliff Ricketts has been at Middle Tennessee State University since 1976. As a professor, he's been working on various alternative fuels for the better part of 35 years, coming ever closer to his ultimate goal. In March 2013, Cliff and his team drove coast to coast on only sun and hydrogen and were featured by more than 100 TV stations and hundreds of publication and articles on the internet.
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Either bad filming or bad editing or both. The slide show may have been interesting.
great content thanks
The camera man is missing a good show. He's not showing the slides at all.
Very interesting but where the F are the pictures of these vehicles?
We must be on a need-to-know basis. If they thought we needed to see them, they would have showed them to us.
Spoiler alert. This is a storyline from the Dukes of Hazzard television series of the 1980's. Remember the one where Bo and Luke asked cousin Daisy to flirt with their shade tree mechanic Cooter to coax him into hooking up uncle Jesse's chicken coop to the General Lee, so it coulld run off bird poop. You see, Boss Hogg had ordered Sherrif Roscoe P. Coltrane and his Deputy Cletus to raise the price of moonshine being sold as gasoline at the filling station. In order to evade the law, the boys jumped the General over the town's landfill whlie chicken feathers flew out the tailpipe and the narrator made a sweet bird pun. By the end of the episode, fuel prices had been stabilized thanks to the additional revenue raised from tourist speed traps. In fact, one such trap snared the touring bus of Merle Haggard who was nice enough to do a set with the band (Emmylou Harris singing lead) at the Boar's nest while the bus was topped off with white lightning. Of course, I could be way off...It could have been Waylon Jennings who did a duet with Tany Tucker. Hey, Ted Talks: The Love Boat had a great episode with Mac Davis wanting a divorce from Barbara Mandrel until they wrote new material together for their act. Perhaps you could use that episode to do a talk about restoring the rain forest.
Nothing here but a folksy tale about a hydrogen powered car travelling coast to coast while supported by a petroleum powered truck carrying refilling tanks of hydrogen following after it.
Solar powered electrolysis of hydrogen from water is nothing new and is certainly not portable enough to service a hydrogen powered car enroute to any significant degree.
Wow. One of the longest winded and least informative talks ever. What this guy tries to say, I believe is using the process of electrolysis to split water into 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen and collecting/compressing the hydrogen only to later use as a fuel. I missed how exactly he uses solar energy to power the electrolysis, but that's what this yokle is talking about.
4:31 - This guy, in all honesty, just sounds like a slippery salesman; he inspires distrust in me. And 150%???? Of course he meant "proof," but come on - get it right.
I lost my time watching this.
Save your time, peeps, this guy is all folksy homily, and no science.
I got about 5 minutes in. Boring.