Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

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  • čas přidán 17. 10. 2011
  • www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.
    TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate.
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Komentáře • 487

  • @aarongrooves
    @aarongrooves Před 12 lety +3

    Greatest. TED. Talk. Ever.

  • @toomuchtruth
    @toomuchtruth Před 12 lety +1

    One of the best ever TED talks.

  • @gigisimbajon4625
    @gigisimbajon4625 Před 8 lety +3

    Scientifically eloquent indeed, with a heart!!!! The test of a genius is creating solutions from one's outpouring compassion..

  • @HenrySoinnunmaa
    @HenrySoinnunmaa Před 12 lety +1

    I just love the rhythm of his speaking. Really efficient.

  • @justrecklessproductions
    @justrecklessproductions Před 10 lety +1

    The ending was beautiful

  • @wmjessemiller
    @wmjessemiller Před 10 lety +1

    Use to watch all your videos back in the day. Just watched the interview you posted too.

  • @DaTux91
    @DaTux91 Před 12 lety +2

    What a motivation for this man. Even if this technology is not efficient enough (yet), loads and loads of respect.

  • @millomagno
    @millomagno Před 12 lety +1

    I'm always amazed when I see the amazing capacity of the human mind and the ability to solve so many problems. I've seen it so many times, solutions for energy, that sound so convincing, and that they're going to happen, soon even, and then ... where are they now? What I desire most of all now, is not so much free energy but a revolution of heart and mind. Without that we will remain static.

  • @BlowDevilUp
    @BlowDevilUp Před 12 lety +1

    Now that's the kind of dedication I like to see!

  • @AngilasGuy
    @AngilasGuy Před 12 lety +1

    Absolutely brilliant.

  • @DahSlayah
    @DahSlayah Před 12 lety +1

    Love this

  • @Boogieforme
    @Boogieforme Před 12 lety +1

    Oh my, this is brilliant!

  • @naybobdenod
    @naybobdenod Před 12 lety +1

    An excellent talk to say the least !

  • @lewislewis66
    @lewislewis66 Před 12 lety +1

    If we could put our collective ego's to one side perhaps we could just make this happen. Thank you for your humanity

  • @CelticWind88
    @CelticWind88 Před 12 lety +1

    Inspiring stuff. I hope I live long enough to see this technology become the norm.

  • @srgwarcock
    @srgwarcock Před 12 lety +1

    This... Is... Absolutly Amazing...

  • @GTR003121
    @GTR003121 Před 10 lety +1

    Wow, brilliant! Every person who can, should be contributing whatever they can to help this R&D move forward, through funding or whatever is needed! It doesn't require much if enough people get behind it. These are the kinds of solutions we need and which can change everything.

  • @134567123
    @134567123 Před 12 lety +1

    Wow...impressive! This is most definitely the way forward.

  • @superfunny1972
    @superfunny1972 Před 12 lety +1

    Wow...this is amazing

  • @tifius
    @tifius Před 12 lety +1

    Looking forward to see this implemented on scale

  • @heyitscaroline
    @heyitscaroline Před 12 lety +1

    Brilliant.

  • @gregg1321
    @gregg1321 Před 10 lety +3

    Good luck getting all the people profiting from the power industry to go along with this. They are going to pour every cent they need into making sure this doesn't happen.

  • @silentdoctorable
    @silentdoctorable Před 12 lety +1

    This guy is definitely onto something!

  • @Sal1981
    @Sal1981 Před 12 lety +1

    awe-inspiring.

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1
    @soulsanctuarymusic1 Před 12 lety +1

    AMAZING!

  • @JanisTreijs
    @JanisTreijs Před 11 lety +1

    Amazing!

  • @looseSpark
    @looseSpark Před 12 lety +1

    @Saesegral I wish TED was around when I was at school - I would have worked so much harder at it.

  • @IdoloR
    @IdoloR Před 12 lety +1

    Incredible

  • @TheSnobar
    @TheSnobar Před 12 lety +1

    Only if every one thinks this way !! i would love yo meet a person like you !

  • @katehook7587
    @katehook7587 Před 9 lety +3

    This gives me hope for the future. Not only because it makes perfect sense but because here is a scientist motivated by a picture of a little girl dying of thirst, more than any other motivation.

  • @missartist123
    @missartist123 Před 12 lety +1

    YES! I knew someone would be able to create night vision lenses! :D i was waiting for this for over 10 years

  • @FernandoSV
    @FernandoSV Před 11 lety +1

    I WANT THIS in my house, this is beautiful

  • @benjamingresko957
    @benjamingresko957 Před 9 lety +18

    What I have a problem with in these TED talks is there is nowhere to buy these materials. All the labs make behind the scenes deals and make the material unavailable and/or highly expensive to the everyday person. If they made these materials "open source" and allowed the masses to innovate with it, more people would become wealthy and more technologies would emerge. "Take my money" is usually never an option. If anyone knows where to buy these materials. LET ME KNOW

    • @lindacarroll6849
      @lindacarroll6849 Před 7 lety +4

      Benjamin Gresko ....you'll never get them mate, your here to serve. Anyone coming out with this simple technology would be & have been assassinated. It started at your birth.........your birth 'certificate', your an indentured servant. Your here to serve the system, your a slave & so are your children & your children's children. Wake up bro 👊

    • @sigma682
      @sigma682 Před 5 lety

      That's kind of the point of TED talks, is showing people what companies are doing with cutting edge technology, usually decades away from commercial application. Chances are if an invention threatens a lucrative business, it won't see the light of day.

    • @sigma682
      @sigma682 Před 5 lety

      Justin Hall-Tipping is CEO of Nanoholdings, LLC. Their slogan on their website (nH2.com) is "We invent and commercialise" so i't's not a completely altruistic company, they are in business to make a profit. However, Tesla is also a for-profit business, yet it's not their mission to make a profit, it's simply a means to an end.

    • @astrogirl7616
      @astrogirl7616 Před 3 lety

      its a R&D field under development and research this is nanotechnolgy in these years and it has problem in mass production because it is new little bit mysterious but recently a lot of companies are working on it so this is logical

  • @mastertheillusion
    @mastertheillusion Před 10 lety +1

    This right here, is the answer to one of humanities greatest concerns. Clean Energy.
    Blown away here, again! This should be copied, shared mentioned, redistributed everywhere.

  • @myfavization
    @myfavization Před 12 lety

    @Vortex42 # thanks for our response. I get your points. Much appreciated.

  • @TuiNaMassageCambria
    @TuiNaMassageCambria Před 9 lety +2

    Very encouraging! We were waiting for a new concept beyond the acid-lead battery---you mean storing energy in the window carbon film, instead? Redirecting light, even moonlight, great! Let this go viral~~~

  • @TheSnobar
    @TheSnobar Před 12 lety +1

    I freakin love u !! just incredible !

  • @rowiian
    @rowiian Před 12 lety +1

    Pure genius.

  • @MonkeyRecords
    @MonkeyRecords Před 12 lety +1

    This guy is a visionary

  • @callum1131
    @callum1131 Před 9 lety +4

    Where are we with this project as of December 2014?

  • @OculusQuestFun
    @OculusQuestFun Před 12 lety

    I support this.

  • @George4943
    @George4943 Před 12 lety

    Wow! Just Wow!

  • @jwilferling
    @jwilferling Před 11 lety +1

    This guy doesn't need money. I've heard he's got D.O.D. contracts already.
    This is the kind of thinking out world needs.

  • @CetraTJ
    @CetraTJ Před 12 lety

    wicked cool!

  • @DaBamBamMan
    @DaBamBamMan Před 12 lety

    Awesome

  • @darlahauschild
    @darlahauschild Před 12 lety +1

    Fantastic.
    Lord God, please bless this man's work and further his ideas!!!!

  • @rigamortis1066
    @rigamortis1066 Před 12 lety +1

    Wow! This technology, in conjunction with; space based solar power, geothermal power, high altitude wind power, and (hopefully sometime in the near future) nuclear fusion, would be my dream for energy production. Good to see some folks are working away with aspirations to make their technology affordable, clean and efficient. More power to you!

  • @velcrobrother1788
    @velcrobrother1788 Před 12 lety +1

    this is great, where can we get updates on development of this? No news often means bad news so please keep us updated :)

  • @powerchess20002000
    @powerchess20002000 Před 12 lety

    @Clarensee
    A google search would have sufficed, but 1\AA (angstrom) is about the dimention of one atom, so 2 nm is about 20 \AA or 20 atom diameters.

  • @5Pip
    @5Pip Před 12 lety +1

    This is the sort of thing I want to work on

  • @Noezil
    @Noezil Před 12 lety +1

    That's one of the best video i've ever watched. I learned a lot from it. To me it has the answer to my question: Can Africa feed the world?

  • @N3rdyDav3
    @N3rdyDav3 Před 12 lety +1

    This talk has no less than 3 different world changing breakthroughs, if they all come to fruition. New TED record?

  • @RishiGangoly
    @RishiGangoly Před 12 lety

    Brilliant

  • @AlienScientist
    @AlienScientist Před 10 lety

    Check out my recent interview with Justin Hall asking some in depth follow up questions on themes presented in this talk!

  • @xinlo
    @xinlo Před 12 lety

    @Clarensee
    Yep, and that's why we're reaching a bit of a roadblock in Moore's Law. Instead of just doubling the number of transistors again and thereby making each gap even smaller, we're just doubling the amount of cores on the CPU.

  • @OliverDamian
    @OliverDamian Před 12 lety +1

    Now that is what technology should be about.

  • @roflex2
    @roflex2 Před 12 lety +1

    Id love to see some numbers of how effective this is, is it working on a scale that will be useable?

  • @aarongrooves
    @aarongrooves Před 11 lety +1

    I can't understand why this doesn't have 100 million views and 50 million likes. Our current cultural climate sucks. And it makes me sad.

    • @michaelrobbins2706
      @michaelrobbins2706 Před rokem

      its not any better 10 years on. but overall, this video is still better than gold.

  • @TheCommaQuote
    @TheCommaQuote Před 12 lety +1

    @MarkArandjus Absolutely correct. I dont know if you follow the zeitgeist movement, or the venus project, or if you're just incredibly informed and think things through clearly, but you nailed it, amigo.

  • @grimslider75
    @grimslider75 Před 12 lety

    @IHighLikePlane
    I remember 2 years ago there were little comments on youtube about the zeitgeist movement and the resource based economy. Now, I see it on practically every video related to the depletion of resources. Great how things turn out =)

  • @Airbiscuitmaker
    @Airbiscuitmaker Před 8 lety +1

    Well, this is already 4 years ago. So, where is this seemingly marvelous technolgy he is heartly speaking about.

    • @nowonmetube
      @nowonmetube Před 5 lety

      Purrscratchheadbutt carbon nano tubes, hard to mass produce still and expensive

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1
    @soulsanctuarymusic1 Před 12 lety

    @SuperFinGuy my bad, but whatever they are currently made of, i was trying to suggest that the more conductive the material, the more efficient they would be at absorbing solar energy. Or is that incorrect?

  • @aichi337
    @aichi337 Před 8 lety +1

    omg can we already use this?

  • @AtheistSid
    @AtheistSid Před 12 lety

    The title of this video reminds me of Iain M Banks Culture series. They use something called 'the Grid' to get nearly unlimited energy. In the scifi series this is supposedly a grid between universes.

  • @Galicz
    @Galicz Před 12 lety

    please implement NOW!!!!!!!

  • @ninadbhatt
    @ninadbhatt Před 12 lety

    @HarrysMusicBlog so fucking true brahh word up... may god bless this man with unlimited resources

  • @SuperFinGuy
    @SuperFinGuy Před 12 lety

    @soulsanctuarymusic1 Conductivity is important but what is most important is the photovoltaic effect of the material. You can have say a superconductor but it won't build an electric tension is it doesn't have a photovoltaic effect.

  • @YawnGod
    @YawnGod Před 12 lety

    @Vortex42 But you have to also consider everything related to oil corporations, and other corporations. Many corporations are interconnected, or part of a conglomerate. They can't stop competition, in theory, but they can advertise against, it, buy politicians to stop it, attempt to buy them out (imagine if Salk were coerced to sell the patent for the Polio vaccine to Bayer or some pharmaceutical corporation), and other things. Can you power your car with home energy sources? Farm food? Water?

  • @ninjovich
    @ninjovich Před 12 lety +1

    @hpearson902 The water is brought up because it needs energy to make drinkable water out of polluted or otherwise undrinkable water (like the case he brought up, salt water).
    And the "energy maker" is that size as a proof of concept, not the final deal most likely :P
    The changing of color absorbs or lets through light.
    If you can reflect light you can reflect energy, hence the "beaming" energy where you need it.
    That's how i understood it atleast :)

  • @BishweshJoshi
    @BishweshJoshi Před 12 lety

    @ennot I live in Minnesota and according to the professor at my university the cost of solar cells per kilowatt hour will be cheaper than using other sources within this decade. Based on research, to power the entire state of Minnesota, we would need 144 sq.miles of solar panels (15% efficiency). For the sake of comparison, Minneapolis-stpaul area is 6000 sq.miles. If you include only the area of roofs and glass panels in buildings in Minneapolis you could power the entire state.

  • @ElectronicCalifornia
    @ElectronicCalifornia Před 12 lety

    @jbdyoni
    I am excited for you! :)
    I am still a freshmen in college. Science and technology is my passion, but i don't know where i want to go yet.

  • @VortexMotiveVision
    @VortexMotiveVision Před 12 lety +1

    @jbdyoni That sounds like a good mixture to me, JB. I wish you the best with that, and look forward to benefitting from your contribution to society! :D

  • @jpmthemonk
    @jpmthemonk Před 12 lety +1

    He had me at a minute and thirty seconds.

  • @VortexMotiveVision
    @VortexMotiveVision Před 12 lety

    @phaedrusalt That's a fair point well made - Solar radiation on the ground depends much on your region and the ability to capture it, on the efficiency of your capturing technology. However, to suggest that non-grid electricity generation of this kind can't be done is short sighted. First, we don't know efficiency of tech here, & second, we don't know how it's applied - Also, it appeared to be capable of more than generate power alone - Also of regulating temperature of building & storing power.

  • @RynaxAlien
    @RynaxAlien Před 10 lety

    Where I could find more information or even order that night vision???? 7:00

  • @phaedrusalt
    @phaedrusalt Před 12 lety

    @rigamortis1066 Good point, but I suggest you take a look at the Japanese space-based solar work. Although solar in space would seem to be ideal, there's then the dual problems of getting the collectors into space, and then getting the energy back down to the ground. Sadly, it doesn't appear to be cost-effective anytime in the near future.

  • @GrahamTVdotNet
    @GrahamTVdotNet Před 12 lety

    Free Energy True Freedom !

  • @tommy605
    @tommy605 Před 12 lety

    @Vortex42 How much oil is used in the material in that laptop?
    This idea of a greener power source is great, and I'm all aboard. I've been doing everything i can to reduce my carbon footprint. Well, I could probably do more, but we all could.
    The problem is, reducing our dependencies on oil energy is only a percentage of the solution, and yes, I agree, it's a start.
    The use of fossil fuel needs to be reduced across the board. As energy source and building material, etc.

  • @LeonidasGGG
    @LeonidasGGG Před 12 lety

    @khatack Amen to that.

  • @ranjithark86
    @ranjithark86 Před 12 lety

    Its good that crowd was silent just to hear what he says not today but atleast 75yrs later his stuff would be revolutionary cuz now no one wil realise the killing of natural resources

  • @LeonidasGGG
    @LeonidasGGG Před 12 lety +1

    This guy just drop, not one, but two atom bombs of nex-gen technology AND said, in a very kind way, FU to all those who tried to stop him... great man, may you live long and prosper.

  • @eughtyph
    @eughtyph Před 12 lety

    WOW

  • @jahrleriksen
    @jahrleriksen Před 12 lety

    0:15 Pure genius, unlike TED intro

  • @Lundix
    @Lundix Před 12 lety

    @Lundix eh ... maybe not really "anything". But pretty dang close.

  • @rhodesphotoco
    @rhodesphotoco Před 12 lety

    You makes some good points, and this is definately the type of discussion that should be going on everywhere right now. You mentioned that energy abundance would cause the pop. to explode, but abundance and freedom from want of necessity slows the birthrate dramatically as there isn't a struggle to pass genes into the future like there is in the 3rd world. Global energy abundance would amelierate most human woes. Plus, low-impact and high-efficiency energy would cure enviromental woes, duh.

  • @flyingaroundabit
    @flyingaroundabit Před 12 lety

    @depro9 I agree with this statement. It is seemingly the will of corporations to crush innovation over profits. So, the will will have to come from somewhere not guarded by selfishness. The money likewise.
    It is unfair to call this a red herring, but perhaps it is overstated. It is hard to see how all of our electricity can come from surrounding solar light, when this is of less energy than is needed to power devices of varying sorts.
    It could still help though. 1 kW less is still 1 kW

  • @stevecav1138
    @stevecav1138 Před 12 lety

    Batman's night vision contacts! Hell yeah!

  • @purugigi
    @purugigi Před 4 lety +1

    Is research on this still ongoing?

  • @phaedrusalt
    @phaedrusalt Před 12 lety

    @mrh112 Could not agree more! Well said.

  • @YawnGod
    @YawnGod Před 12 lety

    @PederPadde "They can't allow this" is referring to corporations' responses towards interests, not only contrary to the interests of the corporations, but contrary to the survival of the corporations themselves.

  • @VortexMotiveVision
    @VortexMotiveVision Před 12 lety

    @phaedrusalt Thanks - I'll check it out.

  • @anubis2814
    @anubis2814 Před 12 lety

    @hpearson902
    His energy maker is just cheap night vision goggles. But if you mix the technology with large sheet of nano film it will produce a lot more energy, especially if you were to coat your house with it. The color change film is becoming available soon and will save in heating and cooling especially in large buildings. Line of sight means basically, the extra energy will be put back into the IR window film and make it glow, someone across the street with the same tech absorb it

  • @hastalueguito
    @hastalueguito Před 12 lety

    @ennot if those in power are rotten, we must take the power from them.In the energy issue, we can build alternatives inside our community, which provide us with at least a small part of our needs. Solutions (real ones) won't come from them, we must start to build them ourselves.Basically all the world's major issues are due to carelessness for people versus money.what do you think of the rest of my arguments?centralisation vs resilience,complementing different small sources,reducing consumption

  • @makeitgo
    @makeitgo Před 12 lety

    @vanakes Any start up costs would be enormous. It's in the 'longterm' savings that the benefits would occur. Once mass production and consumption occur, costs would eventually lower.
    Creating a new infrastructure, disassembling the old one, and handling the surge of initial unemployment is another 'cost'.
    It's daunting but not impossible. If we live to see it happen we'll also suffer through it as well. It's our children, possibly our grandchildren that would truly benefit from this change.

  • @phaedrusalt
    @phaedrusalt Před 12 lety

    @Vortex42 (Don't know if you got my reply, the server ate it.) This is the point of our disagreement, this doesn't have the potential to become powerful simply because there isn't enough power density there to do anything with. It's like the gold in the ocean, there's enough there to make you the richest man alive, but it's so distributed that you'd go broke trying to get it.

  • @EnslaveTV
    @EnslaveTV Před 10 lety +1

    Fantastic. Just fantastic. The nanotech-revolution is upon us.

  • @jgoemat
    @jgoemat Před 12 lety

    @soulsanctuarymusic1 Copper has a static resistivity of 1.68*10E-8 ohm-meters. That is very conductive. 1000 times greater doesn't gain you much, and what does conductivity have to do with what he's talking about?

  • @dreaminginnoother
    @dreaminginnoother Před 12 lety

    :D:D:D:D. Amazing! I want it now!

  • @VortexMotiveVision
    @VortexMotiveVision Před 12 lety

    @phaedrusalt Where are you getting this 200W/m^2 figure?

  • @roflex2
    @roflex2 Před 12 lety

    I love the idea, but why have we not seen any prototypes? Are there problems in mass producing it, is it too expensive etc?