My LEGO Wind Turbine MAKES ELECTRICITY!
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- I took a #LEGO Wind Turbine to an actual wind farm. It didn’t go well. So we tried something crazier… || This video was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Find out more here: gatesnot.es/2ZAebRP
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Wind power gets a lot of flack, far more than its #renewableenergy sisters hydroelectric, geothermal, or solar. What is it about #windenergy that’s so hard for people to grasp? In this video I build my own #windturbine and try out my creation at the Alta Wind Energy Center with spectacularly terrible results. Then I hit up my friend @NickUhas to see if we can build our own wind tunnel and try this again. You’ll have to see what happens…
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0:00 If you build it…
1:23 Wind Power Equation
1:48 Retrofit, Remodel, impRovise
3:05 Intro the wind!
4:10 Windmill v2.0
6:10 Build a wind tunnel & Windmill v3.0
10:41 How to Avoid Climate Change
12:16 Blowing Myths Away
13:38 Thank you! (Really.)
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How is electricity measured?
www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-...
Understanding watts, megawatts, kilowatt-hours, and more. Watts are a measurement of power, describing the rate at which electricity is being used at a specific moment. For example, a 15-watt LED light bulb draws 15 watts of electricity at any moment when turned on.
What makes the wind blow?
theconversation.com/what-make...
Wind has been whirling around the world since long before we’ve been here to notice it. It howls outside your window, toppling trees and stirring up storms that could snatch your hat right off of your head and send it flying through the air.
US Wind Turbine Database (this is amazing!)
eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/
The data were created by combining publicly available data sets from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), USGS WindFarm data from a prior effort, online sources, and data privately held by AWEA and LBNL. The locations of all turbines were visually verified to within 10 meters using high-resolution imagery. Technical specifications of the turbines are based on the make and model and other information collected.
Nanocoatings and other future deicing systems
news.mit.edu/2018/remove-ice-...
The usual de-icing sprays for aircraft and other applications use ethylene glycol, a chemical that is environmentally unfriendly. Airlines don’t like to use active heating, both for cost and safety reasons. Varanasi and other researchers have investigated the use of superhydrophobic surfaces to prevent icing passively, but those coatings can be impaired by frost formation, which tends to fill the microscopic textures that give the surface its ice-shedding properties.
Wanna build your own wind tunnel? Try Baal’s Wind Tunnel. (This is the design we started with)
web.archive.org/web/201207041...
This is the Baals Wind Tunnel. It can be built for under $200 and can get about 30 mph in the test section (where the plane is).
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This is great - just found that lego set on ebay - I have a young relative who would get a kick out of this. Don't suppose you have a plan or any info on the pieces needed for the actual wind turbine structure? Sadly all my lego was gifted away some 25 years ago :)
The turbine structure is set number 10268 -- there are TONS of databases online that will list every piece you'd need to build it! (or you can try and find the set, but they're pretty tough to get a hold of)
@@TraceDominguez Thanks!
you are criminally underrated
Seconded
thank you!!
Excellent video Trace!
kento bruhto
Thanks Kento!!!
Wow Kento watches trace
So cool!
Kento bento !!!!!!!!!:)
I've just discovered your channel because of Tom Scott, and I love it ❤️❤️
love how coal is less efficient than lego >_
Amazing right?!
Would be cool to see you explore more ways to generate electricity and test it at home!
That WOULD be cool!
3:15 Nailed the Wilhelm scream 😂👊
hahahah
Weird to think I've been watching you for almost a decade. Started with DNews, then here. Seeker doesn't have the same vibe anymore. All the vibes left with you.. Such a great guy.
Just rework an old ventilator and put it on the roof. Works like a charm
It is cool it is made from lego but so was a car :P
@@Joso997 Ooooh interesting
Man this has answered so many questions I've been curious about, I find renewable energy fascinating. Great Video!
SO glad to hear it!
8:19... the "It's alive" moment.
I WAS SO PUMPED
The power of Lego!
LITERALLY!
I found you through Tom Scott, and I love your science as well as you energy. Also, us AFOLs have to stick together
Oh heck yeeeaah
This video BLEW ME AWAY! But for real, Trace is the best.
You’re just blowing wind up my turbine now
please build a nuclear reactor out of lego next! Or maybe a nice video on nuclear energy since its a very important low-carbon energy source needed to mitigate anthropogenic global warming
I've got one coming about heavy particle accelerators soon ! V excited for that
Omggggg! I LOVE YOU TRACE💕 it’s meeeeeeee😁again your fav!
You are a blacksmith? Always learning something on your channel 😁
I want the wind power blimps (like in Big Hero 6) to work out cause they just seemed so damn cool. 8)
Yesssssss
The Vestas V90 actually isn't that large anymore. The largest onshore turbines are currently about 150 to 160 meters in diameter.
Every form of energy is solar energy one way or the other. Except for fusion. That would truly be creating our own sun. Fission isn't solar but in a way its stellar power.
Oooh I like that
I can't believe Brick Experiment Channel didn't do it first. Great video!
Let’s try it again together!
Tom Scott video sent me this way, I'm binging your channel and I've watched about 20 videos for now
Oh look, you can do something Texas can’t do.
Shh don't mess with them they'll get upset and continue to forget that "don't mess with Texas" wasn't about how tough they are but a way to get texans to stop littering
I didn't know there was a myth that wind turbines slow down the wind :D
Feels like it's been a while. The channel really jumped up in sub count though. We can almost go quantum now.
It's been about 60 days because I was working on an 8-episode series for PBS Digital Studios called Animal IQ! Check it out on /PBSTerra!
I was just wondering last night when a new video was coming. What a great surprise to wake up to!
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@TraceDominguez Indeed I did!
"So at 8:00 we did it properly as intended and attached the correct parts, and it worked!"
We put the wheels on this box and wow it is a car now! Too bad I didn’t succeed at anything!
Trace, keep up the great work! All your worry was for nothing dear!!! 💜
THANK YOU DEARRRR ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
@@TraceDominguez you know how to make your followers feel special! Made my day - I can’t wait to go home & show my LEGO obsessed roommate this vid (we have over 1k lbs of LEGO in our dining room!)
Wait, you're a blacksmith? Please do a collab with How To Make Everything and make your own wind turbine from scratch.
A few of my solar inverters sites are out there right off the 14! It's nice to see all the different types of renewables out there. I actually built a few of these lego wind turbines in school, we had local kids do a Wind Challenge up in the Columbia River area. Little fingers work better at winding those coils.
whoa cool!
Friggin awesome man.
THANKS!
how are you SOOOO underrated. Your videos are SO good. Keep making!
Windmill power has been used in Thai sea salt industries (or as literally translated, salt fields or salt paddies) as well. In fact, traditional sea salt making relies on two modes of renewable energy, wind and solar. Wind powers Archimedean screws to draw seawater into the fields, and solar energy does the evaporation job.
I just realized something.Theoretically, you could create infinite energy with this because the fan powers the power source to power it. At first you would have to move the turbine yourself then it would most likely start to work
underrated channel
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We need a carbon tax! Immediately.
YESYESYES
Hey Trace, got sent by the poppy seed video. I couldn't help but smile the whole video so wanted to stop by sub and say hi. Can't wait to watch your videos. Thanks for being so positive!!
I recently discovered your videos, and I am loving them, can't wait to watch more, you are the a fun science teacher I wish I had
Thank you for sharing this. I very much enjoyed a lot of the content you posted which was done as part of bigger channels. Your own channel has taken your clear technical proficiency at presenting content and amplified it with your sincerity, authenticity & enthusiasm. I often find that skilled presenters who produce a *lot* of videos are great, and yet when they present content in which they're personally involved - and you've clearly spent a lot of time, effort and brainpower on getting this concept to work, never mind get the video to look and sound good - that the result is so much more enjoyable. You have a charm, boyish enthusiasm and infectious clarity which I think makes your content so refreshing and endearing. Thanks for sharing what you do and please keep us smiling in otherwise grim times :) (And I wish I had room in my flat for the Vesta set; I've envied and coveted it for a long time.)
Thank you Nathan! 💕
Great Episode Trace!!
I gotta get my hands on that lego set. Wonder how many of them it'd take to power my house. 🤔
Loving your work with PBS Terra as well. So happy to get to learn more from you and to see you. You make your content so good, the heart you put into it is felt.
Now I need to find that Tom Scott video with you, I apparently missed....
Can't wait for your next video.
Thanks Boose!!
Whenever anyone says that Windmills dont produce any emissions i shed a single tear, for they do "produce" emissions in line with their production. Of cause this is still massively cheaper CO2 per Kw/H wise, in the 100x margins, sometimes more/less. But to say they produce nothing is false
They produce nothing. The supply chain that build, creates, disposes/recycles their parts does not. If we want to include that for all forms of power then how does that apply to coal mining, natural gas drilling (including exploratory and pipelines)? We don't include that anywhere else, so why here?
Wow I remember watching you on “test tube” years ago. Good stuff!
Trace still has an impressive receding hairline.
why thank you, I'm surprised it's not going further. At some point I'll reach the "high school music teacher" line a.k.a the Einstein Line and I can just let the rest go wild
As a kid I wanted Lego's so bad. After asking my for them so many times my parents gave me these weird blocks that didn't even stick together at all. I was devastated. My brothers were friends with the kid next door and one day I tagged along to find that the kid had a huge bucket of legos. I desperately wanted to play but, was too shy to ask. Now as an adult I see why I didn't get legos as a kid. They're expensive!!!
So basically it looks like his Lego wind turbine design is almost at 1% efficiency😅🤣 Nah I’m just kidding, love you Trace!
I'm feeling your excitement Trace when it started spinning
Missing you buddy ❤️
This video was so good
Thank you
Brilliant work ☺️ X
Thank you! 😊
What if you need more electricity suddenly because everyone flipped on their lights? Coal power? Ok thats what i thought.
Coal plants also have a massive start up time, so you’re really not making a good argument for coal anyway.
And you could just have a big ol battery
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity effectively acts as a battery. Can go from zero to peak output in under a minute, just open the dam. It can be reset when demand reduces, utilising power from intermittent sources (wind/solar) to pump water back to storage.
When to 'turn on' such a solution is the job of a countries national grid - populations are surprisingly predictable. Here in the UK, our national grid knows when we'll all be switching our kettles on for a cup of tea (after football, after news, after a soap opera etc).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/05/uk-really-experience-power-surges-soap-operas-finish/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
there are numerous solves for this, the easiest is a smart grid with batteries, compressed air storage, pumped hydro storage -- all 'charged up' using excess energy from wind and solar that is gathered during periods of less-than-peak usage. Coal and Natural gas plants have to plan ahead to have enough coal and natural gas on-hand to meet demand and need to be prepared for edge cases as well (see: Texas) so 'coal power' is only one of many solutions. Several of those solutions are renewable or carbon neutral over time!
@@wolflegion_ not making an argument for coal. There is just a lot of virtue signaling about green energy around every corner with very little recognition that this will be (and has been) a transition that will take time and has huge kinks to work out. Better energy storage systems would be a huge step, for example. The third world will suffer as green energy gains prominence in the developed world. Theres no way around it.
Just saying, there are things to consider before we start legislating more expensive and unreliable tech into law. It seems like people cant understand at all that these things are very complicated and tend just pick a side of an imagined line to stand on so they have a place to yell at other people from.
Again, i never made an argument FOR coal 🤔
Great!!
THANKS
Subscribed. First video watched, liked the content, and I also miss watching DNEWS weekly 8/7 years ago.
Man it'll likely be great whenever humans get the first operational fusion reactor, if the amount of energy per space can get high enough, we shouldn't need fuel based generators ever again.
How much pollution is created in the manufacturing and transportation of a wind turbine? Also the maintenance and replacing parts?
How much pollution is created in the mining, refining, transportation, and burning of fossil fuels? Probably more.
A really good episode. Greetings from the Mitten State.
Hi fellow Michigander!
The reason why it didn’t move before you attached the other blades is down to aerodynamics’ there is a possibility to modify the original blades to pitch’ my slightly smaller wind turbine is fragile with a thin tower but the blades are amazing.
I want one in my backyard.
Yes
Indeed
Trace more videos please!!!
To hell with collectors, it was made to be played with!
VESTAS v90s are my favorite wind turbines from VESTAS 4:54
❤️U Trace! 😋
Why not try a blade off of a box fan instead of the blade that came with it
Well that would have been LEGO then 🤪
Love you bro
Thanks Blake 💕
Great video,keep it up!🔱⚜♻️
great video
Saw ur channel in tom scott. Ur actually kinda cool
So, just a thought: Hydro energy is so efficient because we can channel the water, right?. Did someone think about channeling the wind, like canyons or something like that? As I said, just a thought.
We sorta did that here!
Though my guess is wind doesn’t naturally channel the way water does. You can’t easily build a dam and trap a bunch of wind behind it until you have need
@@TraceDominguez as I am think Ing about, building a hundred meter tall dam filled with wind turbines wouldn't be exactly good for wind. But it would be fun to watch 😀
Wind + nuclear == the future.
love from india
20 years and a billion wind turbines later.......... earth's rotation shifts becouse of drag (there will always be an new problem haha) (nvm my fantasy)
I just heard that you will be back hosting a new PBS show?
Does that mean no more creative freedom? :(
At 0:26 you say “no emissions what so ever” doesn’t it make a lot of emissions in the process of mining all the materials to make a giant windmill then the process to build them then there’s the truck that drives it to the site where it’s built then the crane that puts it up. I want to know how many emissions that puts out and how long it would take the windmill to cancel out all of emissions it created before it was ready. Can you answer this? Please?
What a nice guy, Bill Gates, making a book, that we have to buy, so we can save the world, and he can take credit for it... 😌👏🏿
blacksmith?!
Yep! I used to run the blacksmith shop one day a week at the historic site I worked at.
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Yo Trace! Where are the new videos
3 months ago, "likely the hottest"...... last week, record highs all over the western US.
It is sad that most parts from windturbines actually can't be re-used and is just being dug into the ground, polluting the ground and the areas around it. Wind is great as a supplement, but if one really want to make an impact on climate change, nuclear is the best option right now, until more, better solutions are made. I've been inside many winturbines and the off-shore nacelle towers are the size of a 4 bedroom apartment, packed with non-recyclables - But! Offshore windturbines are the better option compared to those on land, that have less uptime and they're killing wildlife and birds.
Of course we could also as humans start consuming less red meats if we want to make a difference tomorrow. Great video.
There was a clip on a Trevor Noah recent episode on filibusters that used your voice and clip, so I came to your channel to see the rest of the video by searching “filibuster” or “civil rights”. It may be on Seeker or Dnews or some other channel. I wanted to watch the rest of that episode.
Turbine, not windmill. A windmill mills grain.
Climate change is "happening" until our models are proven lacking. Our current models are built on historic data which had no human made CO2. There is still no way of knowing if the current trend of warming will change on its own. The point is it may happen and because of the reason that we don't know I would much more like for green energy tech to be advertise for cleaning the air and cleaning the oceans instead of stoping climate change.
Are there scientists who say this? If so: how many? Where are their papers? In a review of 60,000 papers of climate change research, only a few hundred said it wasn't caused by humans or declined to say one way or another. Almost ALL of them said positively that humans are causing climate change. With the amount of carbon in our atmosphere today -- even if it stopped right now -- we'll be feeling the effects for decades to come. Let's say you're right: should we continue to add and contribute to this "natural warming" as you call it? Your argument that the house is on fire so we should just turn on the gas on the stove doesn't really work for me.
@@TraceDominguez I am not saying that humans are not having an effect but the fact is the temperature where raising since we exited the mini ice age, we have only sped the process up. One of the scenarios that are likely to happen is instead of having continuous rising sea levels and temperatures, since the temperature is soon (in few hundred years or so) going to peak, we are going to have accelerated entrance into an ice age with the collapse of ocean currents.
@@TraceDominguez So since we don't know the correct scenario what is going to happen since it never did in the long term sudden decrease of CO2 might do more harm than good.
@@TraceDominguez I think 2020-2021 is the perfect example of what happens when we suddenly stop human activity with snow in Texas and Spain (which did not have such snow in decades), 100-year flood in China, and massive earthquakes in all the new places.
@@TraceDominguez my argument is too advertise green energy not for fixing climate change but for cleaning the enviroment. You are not an easy person to have a discussion with
Who is disliking this? Why?
Bill! Bill! Bill!
Why aren't you uploading news videos ? :-(
6:20 uhh... No masks?
COVID testing was widely available and negative tests were ensured prior to filming!
I was expecting a lot of climate change denial and just anti green energy in these comments. But for once, I am pleasantly disappointed.
Big thanks to Tom Scott for introducing me to you Trace, you are AMAZING!
"renewable..." *cough cough* magnets. Unfortunately this technology is years or decades away from being environmentally friendly, or renewable. The environmental impact from neodymium mining alone is massive quantities of radioactive byproduct, and these types of turbines need HUGE magnets. Ultimately until we can make turbines out of materials other than metal and neodymium, or recycling those materials at scale becomes effective, "renewable" is just a political buzzword.
Unfortunately we will have to continue driving this technology forward, despite the overall negative impact on the environment, until it becomes a feasible source of widescale power.
I agree with your argument that magnet-mining isn't are not renewable. But you're forgetting: Almost all energy generation works the same way: Magnets are turned through a coiled wire by mechanical energy. Steam does this for coal, nuclear, natural gas and other fossil fuels, and fluid pressure does it in nature in the case of hydro and wind. ALL of these generators need the magnets you speak of. All of them. If we're polluting to get the magnets for our generators either way then let's spin that generator in a thing that doesn't MAKE MORE POLLUTION to do so.
Why the lack of masks?
We got negative covid tests and isolated before (and after) we filmed so we didn’t need to wear our masks, but I assure you, we had them!
@@TraceDominguez Ahh! Thank you for the clarification. 💜
Thanks for blocking my comment criticizing the sponsor.
I didn’t actually, but if you used one of several dozen words that are blocked by the channel then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bro please call them turbines theyre turbines
Trace Dominguez? More like trace amounts of opiates from that drug bagel
Shhh don’t tell my boss
It's weird that you say that windmills don't slow wind. Of course they do, that's thermodynamics. Whether it's enough to impact climate is another question, but your basic statement is deeply wrong.
He did say that it was not enough to impact the climate.
If we were talking about space exploration and the opponents say, "We shouldn't explore space because rocket launches slow the earth," you'd laugh in their face, wouldn't you. It would be deeply wrong to say they don't at all (because they do), but it would be even more deeply wrong to acknowledge their argument in the least because they're not related. Rocket launches don't slow the earth in any way that matters. Wind power does not slow the wind in any way that matters. Wind power harvesting is so immaterial relative to the mass of the atmosphere that it is not worth talking about unless you're being pedantic. Instead, that’s a message that is about protecting fracking, polluters and the status quo . I'd say protecting polluters is "deeply wrong" and rate my statement as "mostly true, but not entirely."
thanks for watching!
@@TraceDominguez But in multiple studies wind has been found to impact local climate, here's just one article: www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind-power-found-to-affect-local-climate/
But hey, thanks for calling a fan pedantic.
He did mention that there is so much mass and volume of air above a wind farm that the energy extracted is insignificant. I would say deeply wrong is an over statement
You can stop watching at 10:59 because then he’s just expressing his opinion strongly about climate change
lol my opinion
lol, sorry I’m just a kid that disagrees with your opinion sorry. I am a subscriber and will still watch and love your content!
I am a simple man. I see Bill Gates I downvote.
Why?
@@john.d.rockefeller2538 As he said, he's a simple man.
I downvote your downvote -- and as we all know in math two negatives = a positive :D
Great own goal there Ti.
@@john.d.rockefeller2538 a billionaire that is about to own more than 50% of all US farm land seems dangerous.