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Global energy demand will nearly double in the next 30 years. To meet that demand, we must diversify our energy sources.
The amount of energy stored in waves is enormous, enough to power every U.S. household, twice over.
Unfortunately, the ocean is a violent place, so wave energy is difficult to capture. Researchers are developing devices that are cost effective, efficient, and able to withstand a battering from the ocean.
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My first thought was that they should combine this with offshore wind farms, that way you can tap into two energy sources at once, without needing to build expensive infrastructure twice.
the natural thing to integrate wavepower in would be costal protection.
Great idea!
You put the wind farms right above the wave farms and you have a big ole power farm! Genius! You could take it a step further and please the greenies too by pointing out that by building on top of one another helps the environmental footprint. Downside is when a hurricane hits, it takes ALL power out. The 2nd problem is probably mitigatable problem though.
This biggest problem is moving parts and ocean salt is a bad combo
@@simondoyle1988 Plenty of materials that will not rust and be strong enough like Carbon Fiber.
For more on wave energy, check out www.freethink.com/environment/wave-energy .
I had this idea like 20 years ago! There would be a heavy ballast well under the surface, and then multiple pistons with floats on top would follow the waves. The ballast would (hopefully!) stay roughly in the same position, allowing the relative motion of the pistons to the ballast to be harnessed. Glad someone's doing something close!
Honestly wave power seems to be very accessible considering 70% of the world is ocean
Yes but all the places with the water are also the places without people
Interestingly, about 40% of the world's population lives near the coast. www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/methodology_sheets/oceans_seas_coasts/pop_coastal_areas.pdf
What will changing the oceans natural flows effect? Surly mass use of wave technology will effect the oceans natural flow. What will the effects on the environment be (after wide spread use)? That part is still unstudied and unknown, the same as wind powers ability to change wind patterns. True wide spread use is questionable at best. I like how we are starting to study it, hower I still have to ask questions.
@@thatoneguyholla1331 Io immagino che quand anche tutte le onde del mondo si appiattissero per strani marchingegni che ne succhiassero ogni energia, i venti sarebbero più veloci di un millesimo o di un centesimo, e il resto non cambierebbe. Quanto alle maree, se si bloccassero tutte per cavare energia, il rallentamento della rotazione terrestre sarebbe ridotto circa di un centesimo.
@@freethink Io ho resistito a ⅓ del video ma ancora non ha illustrato COME trarre ejergia dalle onde.
Most under appreciated technology by far...
There is a vortex design done by the University of Michigan that also works for small rivers with low speed flow rates.
This technology has been around a long time I remember seeing this on the History Channel 10 years ago or more
The trouble is that nobody has yet made it commercially viable - to address global energy needs in a clean/renewable way. That's what we're working on now.
I live right down the street from that wave research center at Oregon state. Here in Corvallis, Oregon. (I'm a big fan of tidal forces energy options and finding creative ways to convert wave energy. There's so much possiblity to tap into)
Noticed you had a number of clips of the Wave Swell generator. Developed by an Australian firm and tested at King Island. Didn't say that its located at King Island, Tasmania and not at Hawaii. It's already been generating and supplying power to the island for over 1 year.
Definitely aware of Wave Swell at King Island. Yes, probably should have been made clear what that was.
Whoa this is really great! I can't wait for the future of wave energy to unfold. The ocean is indeed full of energy just waiting to be harvested!
although this wont work if there is no oceans because there isnt oceans everywhere
@@fuzer4047 I think you should take another look at the world map
All that Deuterium would be handy too.
But there are oceans over 70% of the globe. Would be silly not to pursue wave and tidal energy.@@fuzer4047
Excellent video. Very encouraging.
As someone from a small country surrounded by seas, we could really use this.
Which country is that?
@@patrickcross8066 Singapore
A gentleman around here did this years ago. The nova scotia government made him shut it down though. The professor is a brilliant man.
Oregon’s coast has some very strong waves. It seems like that would be a next level of testing after the one in Hawaii. It’s certainly closer to the wave generator at OSU.
OSU is currently developing PacWave - a fully energetic, grid-connected wave energy test site, off Newport. Stay tuned - interesting projects will be coming there as soon as late 2025, or maybe summer of 2026.
In a crazy world, innovation calms me down
I think this technology will make a huge splash on the future of our civilization.
I'd design a giant piston-engine that used the waters weight and pressure to sink and refloat the giant pistons.
Great work thank yoU
5:52 Robert Górski sobie dorabia za granicą xD
Wave energy has been around for a very very long time, why didn't this video come out 20 years ago ?
But it hasn't become commercially viable. Many of us are using modern tools to try to push wave energy in that direction.
was hoping you would show more ideas of how to harness energy, not just the flap!
It was a short video - hard to fit it all in. But yes, there are many ideas out there. Oscillating water column, overtopping, many types of point absorbers, attenuators ...no clear winners yet!
Finally, someone with actual ideas and not just narrative. The sheer amount of wasted inertia in waves seems like a tragedy in todays day in age.
Thank you - we're trying!
I just dislike the comments that we NEED to do this. We can and we want, but we don't NEED to.
I wish i could work on it. Its my thing, i believe in this,
yea.. this was in popsci in the 90s and its still apparently not here so im not going to hold my breath.
If I remember correctly France was doing this in the 50's
This could also be used to help dampen wave power near coastlines that was once being done by coral reefs.
Best of luck!
I haven't had time to go through all your vids but was wondering if you have done a piece on the SAFIRE Project?
Very interesting.
If they can convert that into $$$ for the US defense budget, I'm sure someone will be figuring it out.
I don't understand why coastal wave power is not already in use more: it does not stop day or night, much of humanity live on coastlines and it should be cheap to make the generators - no carbon fibre or pure silicon needed - mostly off the shelf parts.
Mainly because it's really difficult to do it in an economically viable way. A device (or array of devices) must be survivable and serviceable, while producing energy efficiently, to compete with wind, solar, and fossil fuels. We're not there yet, but many smart people are working on it!
Show more examples and how they work!
4th generation of nuclear plant is the answer. Physiological impossible to have a total meltdown with 4th generation of nuclear plants. In addition the fuel waste of 3th generation nuclear plants can be used.
Really hope the newest gen of nuke power will be adopted en masse.
They’re also the modular ones right? Like they could be scaled up with more units per facility to provide higher energy output over time?
I have a mind blowing Idea on wave energy..I am from INDIA🇮🇳 How can I contact you ?
GIANT underwater corkscrew acts as habitation and reef, translucent and slow moving, multiple levels, naturally forming underwater exterior decor, reuses partial energy for mono directional rotation nominalized by three directional harvesting
DID ANYBODY SAY OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES? OPTT!!
I don't understand how this hasn't already been mastered already. We have been using water wheels for thousands of years. Are there any known companies so I can look at other concepts?
Water flow is different from waves
Waves have tides, so you wont have continuous power at that times of day.
waves go back and forth, its not a linear stream, thats why they said theres alot of different wave energy converters.
And the last reason why we havent built one in the years is
the ocean is saline so it damages machines alot faster, makes things rust faster
We only recently got the decent enough tech to handle that.
Follow the money. I suspect big oil companies will do whatever they can to slow it down. It's not rocket science. A simple cable anchored to the ocean floor that spins a generator when the tide goes in and out. How much testing does this need. There have been working models of this for 40 years.
We not only need to diversify, but also to localize our energy, as well.
this idea has been known about for well over 40 years i remember top researchers talking about it when i was a teenager, sense then, we haven't come up with any new 'miracle materials' that will suddenly make this idea plausible; its to inconsistent, doesn't scale well, and has a high initial and maintenance overhead.
GL to anybody trying, but with our current tech, this will never get past the 'science project' phase of development
We'll see.
Wonder how long the bearings of the Flap will last ?? It seems lots of Wear and tear especially Sea water , wonder what kind of Metal is used ??
ride the wave as I always say
Wave energy is the result of WIND
Before this can actually take off, we have to find a way to trick companies that having these machines make more money than beaches
I can't wait until all the coasts of the world are covered in wave generator machines. Meanwhile, do you think we can pump more oil out of the ground now so I can drive to work?
Don't see that ending any time soon. Meanwhile, some of us will be working on the alternatives. Wouldn't it be great if the sort of money that goes into subsidies for fossil fuels could go to developing our marine energy ideas!
Reliability needs to be a high priority.
Yep! That'll be the key to economic viability.
I'd figure deployed mil forces would just use portable micro reactors, 'portable' via cargo container
Got a good idea...where you can deploy this anywhere ..using spring and a surface balloon and a string
Currant energy is greater And consistent than anything else.
But not as globally widespread as wave energy. Definitely worth pursuing, though, and many are!
Free think feels like Vice but better
The problem is with practicality of designs. The more moving parts the more maintenance and lower return on investment .
Low density energy harvesting devices will never recover the costs of their construction, installation, and continuous maintenance. There hasn't been a single wave energy project that has produced meaningful amounts of energy consistently.
True - so far. Should we give up, or keep learning and moving forward?
Why not exhaust common Energy sources, like Nuclear Thorium Coal Gas etc ,all the while developing the others like solar wind wave etc ?
The Navy Terawatt Fusion reactor might be of more use.
0:18 i can hear some static in the background. I have a solution for it (post-prod) wise
Just imagine folks, concrete structures dotting the shores of every beach in America 🤮 Start with Martha’s Vineyard!
It depend on the worth it as it cost a lot to maintain and research and train team to handle water. But I can guess like other jobs low pay. One is maintain cost and cleaning up build up or rust hardware. Lastly is area safe for people or wildlife. Lasted how long those hardware until replace at what cost? Is portable?
Why this people so obsessed with this kind of obscure, vague 'maybe, theoretically can be' pile of techs?
WAVE is an Israeli company traded on the NASDAQ that currently works on this concept.
This seems like a no brainer.
Honestly would be so easy to make a wave energy capture device… people are over engineering it for no reason. Should be a paneled tech.
The wave energy community would welcome your ideas!
has there been thoughts of using this in dam run-off channels?
like the perpetual motion glass birds from the 70's. japanese overflowing tilting cups waterfalls..overflowing container putting out random? amounts of flow, so the device cranks back and forth. Double use as much flow as possible
This is not a new idea, using wave energy. Remember Norway building a system of large diameter pipes containing 2 way turbines on a rocky outcrop on their coast. Wave surges pushed water up the pipes driving the turbine when the surge pulled back the water ran back driving the turbine again. Haven’t heard of it since was around 40 years ago. Just build nukes - new small scale with low risk of melt downs.
Solar , no moving parts , the way to go .
Convert cosmic radio waves into energy cough moray valve cough your welcome
More reasons for your electric bill to quintuple in the next 10 years. Doesn't matter how 'free' it is to generate, you can bet you will be charged more for every volt. Those in power will find a way to squeeze you to your breaking point and they will say it's because 'green power' costs more even when it doesn't.
Attach magnets rings to copper tubs; then attach the magnet tubes to any thing that floats; parked boats , plastic drums etc... ; just as long at the wave moves the magnets up and down the copper tubes; that would generate electricity .
All energy sources have trade offs, NP rises to the top when compared to the alternatives. It requires a fraction of the resources to deliver clean reliable power 24/7/365. NP really is the premier example of ‘dematerialization’ in which we actually use less to produce more.
NP is the way to go to provide clean, reliable power with the least harm. the evidence all demonstrates that historically, nuclear has been the fastest way to decarbonize, requires the least raw materials and land, and results in fewer deaths per unit of energy produced
Waves come from wind over water, why don't we just use wind turbines which are already proven to capture this energy
You are right that wave energy often comes from wind (though not always: oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/wavesinocean.html ).
That said, there may be other advantages of tidal power. They could potentially work at lower wind speeds; be less bulky and easier to transport (e.g. for the Navy), or serve as a complement to wind power at the same site. The specific advantages (and disadvantages) may depend on the particular type and design of each wave power generator.
This form of energy will be just another non-main-stream, like solar and wind, because it's embedded characteristics. See stability, accessibility and maintenanbility. Ultimately, nuclear energy will be the winner, another forms will be supplemental.
This has been around for 60 years....
Boogie boards don’t use electricity.
How about we not Interfere with nature more than we already have😅
Waves are like wind, not constant. In Hawaii there is about 2 ft tide so not much problem there, in Canada there is about 12 ft tide, predictable and constant. Wave energy here would not work because the energy diminishes in depth by the tides. Here you could produce power with a large barge in a bay by the rise and fall on pilings.
The bottom-fixed flap featured in the video wouldn't be a great solution in a high tidal range area. Quite right. Perhaps if it was moored with a tension leg system and could ride up and down on the tides.
How Much Energy Is Effected Or Released In Total From The Ringing Of A Large Bell?
What about all the other technology that they have? Bob Lazar knows what I'm talking about
I see ocean garbage being a major factor for this tech to overcome
WOAJ
Harnessing the power of gravity
Would turning the flap upside down make more sense for longevity?
Do you mean making it into a floating device, with the flap suspended and hanging down from the surface?
@patrickcross8066 yes, only because some coastal shelves are deep. By tying it to land,maintenance would be easier im guessing. You can adjust for wave/tidal conditions by raising or lowering the flaps. I had to re watch it to remember tbh.
Usher in the Electric ships and charging stations
everybody gansta until moon leaves earth atmosphere 💀
There is no one solution, excuse the pun, in Architecture the word vernacular is used a lot, ‘of the place’ perhaps it’s also relevant to green energy generation…
Yeah, Californians won't complain at all if you park 10 million wave energy machines in the shallow waters off the coastline 😂
Early dags??? They have been testing for decades all around the globe.
Isn't this already a product that can be bought in the EU
Not that I'm aware of.
just stick with Nuclear, most efficient and the Navy already uses it.
This is a 40+ year old concept and it's still in the developmental phase but hey, good luck to ya!
Fortunately, modern numerical tools, materials, and people can achieve success with ideas that have been around a while. Or - maybe you're right - we should just throw in the towel, burn up the rest of the fossil fuel, and see what happens.
Surely wave power would have happened by now if it's at all feasible. Maybe it's maintenance that makes it even harder than even being able to do it.
I love the engineering efforts these people are making and applaud their ingenuity, but at a commercial scale this is a joke
@@MorganBrown This impractical idea brought huge hope before it failed during the 70's but look how people are eating it up! The correct term for this is clickbait.
@@mikev2116 if you are going to go to the trouble of placing expensive electrified equipment in a harsh, salty sea, I've always thought that tidal hydropower would be more practical. Just excavate "fjords" in a large tide area, build a small hydrodam, and collect power in a fairly predictable manner. Who wants to steam clean the turbines twice a month? 🤣
I work for an oil & gas producer, but we are attempting to get into geothermal. If you think oil & gas is hard, try geothermal! We don't really understand what constitutes a "reservoir" rock, and I suspect the drilling success rate is much lower than we are accustomed to. And the facility costs are quite high. I suspect we will mess with it for a few years, then give up.
@@MorganBrown I won't ask why your company is considering geothermal, I think I know the answer, I also think all the anti oil people should go invent cars than run on rainbow sprinkles & unicorn piss, go live in mud huts & never touch anything produced in a factory - because of fossil fuels.
Maybe things will change before your company drops too much $ into geothermal but I think your prediction is right. Now it's time to turn on the AC here in sunny California & do my part to stress out the grid. Oh, and my cars say thank you!
@@mikev2116 The reality of geothermal for us is not completely cynical. It's really one of the few profitable alternative power generation techniques. You'd be surprised how little government has subsidized this field -- primarily because it's kind of in the wheelhouse of oil & gas. We think we may have some in-house capabilities that would make us competitive in geothermal. Though we really would prefer to partner in the actual construction/operation of a power plant!
However, to the cynical point of view, it's undeniable that having an alternatives portfolio gives us some "green" bonafides when talking to partners/governments/funders. We are a private company, so not under the same scrutiny as a Shell/Chevron/Exxon.
The Navy will develop this. Some "entrepreneur" will get the license to exploit it. Then s/he will find a way to avoid taxes for paying the government back, because they did this on their own.
I’ve been preaching wave power for years…someone just had to involve the government and their money for it to work😑
I didn't really see much content. Nothing about the challenges that need to be overcome, nothing about the efficiency, nothing about the current technologies (only one is being presented). Just an empty shell.
same thoughts, this series has the resources to put out so much more insightful content. follow the scientific method, problem, hypothesize, test. share some published findings, im sure the researchers will be glad to share
I got the impression this was more of an introduction video. Nothing more.
MIGHT*
This video gives 0 information about actual topic, like dive a bit deeper man....
This one covers tidal potential:
czcams.com/video/qii8nhCFI4M/video.html
Go to 3:53 and pause. The guy in the middle isn't too bright. He's a liability.
If you quell waves by tapping their energy... are you compromising ecosystems that rely on wave energy? No such thing as a free lunch... Interesting that there is no mention or comments on this very simple observation...
That's nice and all but what about the environmental impact?
It's a good question! Similar to wind or solar, they can be broadly good for the environment while still having localized drawbacks. Here is an exploration of the impacts of one set of projects in Northern England: nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9776/1/WOLF_-_environmental_impacts.pdf
A key part of the research that many of us are involved in around wave energy deals with just that - understanding the potential environmental impacts. When deployed in large numbers, there very well could be some, and we're studying that. There is also the environmental impact of NOT pursuing marine energy - rising CO2, ocean acidification, ...
Lots of generalities very little specific information.
This video said nothing specific… learned nothing I didn’t already know…
God said the climate will be fine.
Genesis 8:22 -
While the earth remains,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat, summer and winter,
day and night, shall not cease.”
How do you get to hell?
Very simple: claim that you're innocent.
How do you get to heaven?
Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus. It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 -
"The soul who sins shall die."
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died on the cross for you.
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*Honest questions are welcome.*
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This inventor's path may interest you. It may lead to a wonderful new energy source.
Do you think it is reasonable to consume a lot of energy by cyclicly moving a large thermal mass (say a sealed container of water) back and forth between a stove and a freezer both requiring electric power? You aren't making any permanent changes as you alternately melt and freeze the water. The unreasonableness of this waste is a challenge to the second law of thermodynamics.
I have been on a quest to disprove the second law of thermodynamics after a distinct inspiration in 1964 from Isaac Asimov's carefully unpacked factual but imaginary depiction of machines that fully conserve energy [View from a Height Doubleday 1963]. When Asimov continued unpacking, moving his text to entropy, I disengaged. His example there that dropping an egg was irreversible was too cluttered for me.
Please consider a thought experiment that may work because it avoids the failing features of Maxwell's demon thought device and Feynman's paddlewheel, pawl, and ratchet wheel thought device while assembling the working features. The purpose of the experiment is to create self powered thermal diversification. This would refute the second law of thermodynamics. The thought experiment is impractical but easy to visualize and check for mechanical workability.
Sketch made with keyboard characters:
COLD ROOM ())--:::WALL:::-->> HOT ROOM
>~1000 NM<
Key
()) = Paddlewheel.
-- = Axle. (Continuous from end to end)
::: = Axle tunnel going through a wall.
>> = Lumped friction element
Please visualize two roome full of air separated by a very thin wall that allows the rooms to hold their heat independently with minor leakage through the wall. The wall is thin to delicately support billions of separate nanometer scale short axles running straight through loosely enough to rotate freely but not leak very much heat so the rooms can hold separate temperatures.
On the left side, a very small paddlewheel is mounted at the left end of each axle. On the right side, lumped friction elements are mounted stationary in place on the wall, one for each axle, for the right end of each axle to run through. The lumped friction elements connvert the mechanical rotation of their axle into heat.
Brownian motion (a nanometer scale effect) turns the paddlewheels at random speeds randomly clockwise or counterclockwise. This random rotation is turned into heat by the lumped friction elements. The lumped friction elements do not impart Brownian motion to their axle.
The committed functional roles of the paddlewheels, axles, and lumped friction elements in differnt places should systemically produce a divergence in the thermal energy in the two rooms without adding external energy.
The water in the sealed container could be endlessly cycled without cost between melting from the heat of the lumped friction element side and freezing from the cold of the paddlewheels side. The second law of thermodynamics must be retired.
l was granted US patent 3890161 DIODE ARRAY, for a refrigerator that absorbs thermal energy in an insulated compartment and releases a corresponding amount of electrical energy using the intermediary of rectified Johnson noise (the Brownian motion of electrons) aggregated by a multitude of consistantly aligned diodes. It has been open for anyone to develop since 1992. I had a report of a working very low power prototype in ~ 1980 but l naively lost the prototype. It was made from a chip containing ~1400 gold pillars abutting N type GaAs. A U VA Charlottesville department made it. They could not align very small diodes well enough in 1980 to make ~1 um dia diodes individually so they made them in patches. I found a lab that put conductive paste on the face of one patch chip to bring all the diodes in parallel and test it in an oil bath in a sealed test chamber. They went out of business but I thought they should keep the prototype because they had the test chamber. I lost contact with them and never received the prototype. U VA refused to sell me any more patch chips and stopped making them.
It may be easier to develop a newer concept with the working name thermic array. Anyone may develop it because I am releasing the concept for free decentralized independent development.
The thermic array mainly consists of two electrodes closely face to face (~1 micrometer) in a vacuum wired to an external electrical circuit. The face of the [Emitter] electrode is covered with a uniform array of LaB6 tipped small diameter carbon nanotubes grown straight out. The face of the [Absorber] electrode is covered with small scale graphine flake char. [Rice U 2014]
Thermal energy mobilized unattached electrons tend to free themselves outward from the emitter tips and drift at ~1 million meters / second @ 25 millivolts (thermal electron energy @ 20 C) to the absorber which tends to collect them.
A negative charge accumulates on the absorber. This repels oncoming electrons slowing their forward drift, cooling them. The absorber electrode charge is simultaneously the repelling cooling and the electrical circuit voltage. The drift current and wire current are the same. The DC electrical power consumed by the electrical load depends on the load resistance. Thermal energy absorption always equals the electrical yield (Wire resistance is a practical loss not a true loss so lt is overcome by added thermic array output). The performance of the device is expected to be modest in the beginning but improve rapidly. Even early devices are expected to last a long time. There is little place for obsolence if the first installed thermic array works adequately. They will withstand being short circuited indefinately.
The thermic array needs protyping by smoothly functioning nanofabrication teams to see if it works. Initial prototype funding could come from crowdfunded grants managed by sophisticated teams. The details of any prototyping I am involved with will be released to everyone freely. I hope a lot of teams everywhere will produce a working prototype and announce it in full detail after cautiously waiting to make sure the output power is true and stable.
This would be breakeven perpetual motion. Heat would be absorbed from ambient air, water, or ground. Cooling and equal power would be coproduced. The supply is everywhere all the time though performance is greatest during tropical days and least during polar nights. There is no direct greenhouse gas emission. Most uses of electricity release equal heat so this is extremely sustainable. It is scalable from microtiles to gigawatts. Costs are unknown now but should drop with experience and succession in the production foundries and along the supply webs.
I think thermic arrays should be manufactured in AI operated human managed cooperative (both internally and externally) coglomerates. Business details would be open public knowledge. Associated people should freely talk and move as negotiated. The semicustom products would be sold at honest accounting commodity prices. No wealth draining top commanders are needed. This may be an organic industry operating for the overall betterment of civilization.
It is more symmetrically elegant for freezers to release energy as they cool any initially warmer thermal mass put inside them.
Nomads with little money could carefully manage their possessions?. Most equipment would be self powered so it could be demonstrated during trade and put to use immediately. Cell phones wouldn't die or need power cords or batteries. They would cool when transmiting radio signal power. Frozen food storage would be reliable and free or value positive. Vehicles wouldn't need fuel or fueling stops.
Thermic arrays would not be unreservedly good. Some foresight of the consequences is needed. For a gentle example, endlessly powered boomboxes would be so portable and easy to operate that very young children could carry them around and make a lot of disturbing sound. This could provide teaching moments where children learn to consider more effects of their actions. Music talent may emerge too.
Civilization may suddenly advance.
Charles M Brown lll
Kilauea, Kauai, HI 96754.