My gosh. it's amazing how graphene can do everything....except make it out of the lab in the first place.
@andrewkaiser7203
2 жыл бұрын
Graphene Manufacturing Group is doing it. They make graphene from natural gas inexpensively. They have graphene-aluminum coin cells out to customers for testing. The results have been very good (or better) so far, and they have started making pouch cells. Shares for the company are still cheap right now. Just sayin'.
@Mordalo
2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewkaiser7203 So still a carbon based process.
@hm5142
Жыл бұрын
@@Mordalo But very little, I think. Remember the material is only one atomic layer thick, so you can cover big areas with almost nothing.
@andrewkaiser7203
Жыл бұрын
@@Mordalo Yes, but not CO2 intensive. It's the production of the CO2 form of carbon that's the problem. Battery storage maximizes the efficient use of energy, letting us use less of the forms of energy production that create CO2.
@Mordalo
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewkaiser7203 True to some degree. (see what I did there? 😅) That said, there is no issue with CO2. There were studies 70 years ago that pointed out that oil is abiotic.
@deanwatt
2 жыл бұрын
In the spirit of "game changers" that never actually change the game, I would love to see an episode where you revisit some of the projects you covered in the past that sounded exciting and give a breakdown of where they are at now. Have they progressed? Have they folded? Was it a scam? Did they succeed?! It's important information to have, with a few 3D graphics and fancy science speak, people can promise the world and yet what do they deliver? Thanks
@human_isomer
2 жыл бұрын
totally agree, I think this would shed some more light on all those "great disruptors".
@vulcanhobo2147
2 жыл бұрын
i just learned how these nuclear diamond batteries he talked about once are sort of a scam lol
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
We will indeed be doing some of those in the future, probably starting with Energy Vault (spoiler alert - it hasn't gone well for them!)
@chrisdodt
2 жыл бұрын
it's called filling space to earn an income on KZitem. i.e. clickbait. next.
@vulcanhobo2147
2 жыл бұрын
@@JustHaveaThink Oh yeah, I saw a couple videos by Adam Something and Thunderf00t. Not looking too good for em haha
@gefginn3699
2 жыл бұрын
Great post my friend. Exciting times ahead. Stay strong, free, happy and healthy. 🌞
@chaitanyabhatraju
2 жыл бұрын
The Intro...🤣😂 It made my day! I appreciate your hard work to keep the viewers engaged! And as usual a great video!
@armandsimonis7992
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, funny impersonation of Robert Llewellyn of Fully Charged
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it! :-)
@anders21karlsson
2 жыл бұрын
As always a Great video!! 👍🏿 Thank you.
@2hedz77
2 жыл бұрын
@@JustHaveaThink honestly that and the mommy/daddy/cupcake thing was hysterical. Totally cracked me up. Nice work on this one!
@paulskaar8556
2 жыл бұрын
"Vaguely science-based"... endearing humility and even more endearing content and intent.
@patrickhaye8882
2 жыл бұрын
"Aluminium" was at one time more expensive than gold due to the difficulty and cost of refining it, aluminum. Hopefully graphene will move in the direction.
@DrJambonius
2 жыл бұрын
Napeleon was presented a full aluminum armor (If i can remember) and said (Paraphrasing): i want 1 for every of my soldier. Then the scientist said: Sorry that armor took all the country's aluminum supply. Of course that was when aluminum had to be naturally found without chemistry treatment, meaning it was rare. The advantage with graphene, its cost is high because the way it is currently created, the basic material (carbon) have a near 0$ cost. By using cheaper method, i can see that really coming to market
@brianfranklin9163
2 жыл бұрын
The cap of the Washington Monument was extremely expensive.
@dianapennepacker6854
2 жыл бұрын
Rare earth minerals are expensive for the same reason I've read.
@DrJambonius
2 жыл бұрын
@@dianapennepacker6854 Not exactly, but its not a bad comparison, most rare mineral are so "rare" that they cannot be extracted "alone". Sometime, like Indium (Used in phone screens) are a biproduct of Zinc mining (Basically you open a zinc mine, then when extracting it, you get a very small % of other minerals, but it is not your main extracting mineral). Also, minerals like Germanium have a annual world production calculated in KG rather than tons or millions of tons.
@Acheiropoietos
2 жыл бұрын
There is a nickel deposit in Canada, it is believed to be the remnant of a nickel-iron asteroid impact. There’s a lot more cheddar in the asteroid belt, trillion$ of it.
@stumckhall
2 жыл бұрын
Sila is sending the right message by building batteries with renewable energy bravo! Now all you need to do is charge with renewables and you’ve got the cleanest transport in human history
@rogerbarton497
2 жыл бұрын
I started out as a computer engineer in 1970, before integrated circuits were ubiquitous, in 1960 hobby magazines were still describing projects using valves (tubes) and generally you had a choice of four transistors for your more modern projects: OC44 & OC45 for RF and OC71 & OC72 for AF. If you were skint you bought red-spot transistors. IIRC In 1960 a transistor cost 10/- , £16 in todays money. I've just bought a stabilised variable power supply from Amazon for £17 For me the biggest advance has been in the reduction in size of various devices, when I started in 1970 hard disk drives holding 80Mb were the size of a small washing machine and ran off 3 phase mains. You had to allow 28 days for delivery on anything you bought mail order. I ordered that power supply at 21:00 yesterday (Saturday) and it was here today at lunchtime.
@stellieford6183
2 жыл бұрын
Cross platform and inter disciplinary co-operation could facilitate faster adoption and application of all this new technology...if only profit schemes would allow it
@gregbailey45
2 жыл бұрын
And you're younger than me! Imagine how I feel!
@rogerbarton497
2 жыл бұрын
@@stellieford6183 I could rant on all day about this. I think there ought to be be a "Minister for Inter Disciplinary Co-operation", but no other ministers would cooperate with him! One example would be in the production of hydrogen by electrolysis, apparently they just throw away the oxygen produced. They burn propane to produce CO2 for greenhouses, why not use gas from a bio digester to drive an engine to generate electricity and use the exhaust in the greenhouses? The list is endless.
@rogerbarton497
2 жыл бұрын
@@gregbailey45 I guess you're lost in a cloud of confusion and amazement, I'm heading that way.
@solapowsj25
2 жыл бұрын
In Medicine, nanoscale science replaced our hospital labs, staff and lengthy corridors with a glass slide with channels leading to compartments where a set of tests are done; biochemistry, hematology, microbiology, etc. It's lovely 😊😊😊.
@leftcoaster67
2 жыл бұрын
First mention of graphene I've heard in a while. Samsung was supposed to be really pushing that technology but it seems to be tougher to put into commercial production.
@paulslevinsky580
2 жыл бұрын
Pfizer and Moderna were apparently able to put it into mass production.
@leftcoaster67
2 жыл бұрын
@@paulslevinsky580 ?????
@bmlbigbang
2 жыл бұрын
Having worked as a researcher in nano electronics, this sort of thing was always the stuff of dreams.it is great to see industry now taking scientists more seriously to get the things we need done. We should encourage and strive for leaps ahead rather than modest improvements as we really lack the time.
@farmergiles1065
2 жыл бұрын
Searching for improvements, modest or otherwise, is always a good thing to do - as long as it's not the only thing you do. We also need to search out new ideas, new methods, and work where there is a solid promise of breakthroughs. Leaps ahead are usually the result of a lucky discovery that was unanticipated. Except that I don't really believe in luck. If you're doing solid work, exploring the unknown always takes you into caves and over cliffs, but it also tends to produce that luck that gets you where you never knew you wanted to be. Incremental improvement research makes for more predictable progress, but it doesn't get you the big bang. You need both. It really doesn't matter if we "lack the time". Good work takes the time it takes, and discoveries come when they will, needed or not. All we have control over is doing the work. Needless to say, you also want to work as smart as you know how.
@newsgeekus1216
2 жыл бұрын
When I started driving it was not a given you could get the car started in the winter time. Fuel Injection was a game changer
@Enn-
2 жыл бұрын
I'm of a similar age to you, and certainly agree that change is growing ever more rapid. That said, I'm also rapidly coming to the age where I'd much rather tap the icon on my phone and have the shuttle pick me up, rather than bothering with driving, or car ownership. I'm sure my driving won't get any better over the next 20 years, which makes me an increasing danger on the road - and I know I'm still a much better driver than a distracted youth.
@gregbailey45
2 жыл бұрын
I'm 74 and am still a much better driver IMHO than 90+% of the road users I come across. Every time I drive Sydney to Penrith (NSW Australia) on the M4 motorway, I have this proven to me!
@Enn-
2 жыл бұрын
@@gregbailey45 I'm not going to say that's impossible, but for a 74 year old to be a better driver than 90% of the other drivers on the road would be a statistical anomaly.
@sandybanks2865
2 жыл бұрын
So you base your agreements on how it will make your life more comfortable at your age then the outcome of the generations to come ?
@Enn-
2 жыл бұрын
@@sandybanks2865 the only statement of agreement I've made is that the pace of change is increasing, and that has nothing to do with my comfort.
@SeeNickView
2 жыл бұрын
Love your humor Dave, never change lol
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers Nick :-)
@RussCR5187
2 жыл бұрын
Letting the market sort out which technology wins means letting those with deep pockets influence the outcome. The profit motive doesn't always lead to the right choice initially. At this point, the climate emergency is such that we need to make all of the right choices as soon as possible.
@alphaxfang
2 жыл бұрын
like anything in research world, any breakthrough technology doesn't guarantee it will be the best technology for the masses... it can be stuck with high producing cost, supply issue, can't be scaled up, hit the development limit, etc... letting the market sort it out means at the very least the product already have the capability to scale up... for the rest of the factor only time will tell if that technology hit the jackpot or not...
@LoanwordEggcorn
2 жыл бұрын
The market is often the most efficient way to discover the "right choices." Not always, but very often markets do that more efficiently than central planners. It is impossible for a central planner to know all of the information of every market participant. Therefore the central planner can't set prices as efficiently as all of the people in the market, which means the central planner can't allocate resources as efficiently as a market. This is very basic economic theory. When markets are distorted by economic regulations, those efficiencies can be and often are reduced.
@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665
2 жыл бұрын
@@LoanwordEggcorn Markets are driven by inertia Patents and people playing speculation games via automated trading systems ... and protecting their own interests and profits even if it means hostile takeovers and asset stripping. So society has to step in to make sure the naughty boys and girls who only get paid to make money move to make them money actually A/dont mess up the good ideas and teams that can actually make something... B/ tell them whats needed and by when so that the rest of the population of the planet can tell them whats actually needed rather than them and their clever advertising friends endlessly selling us useless throw away junk and unrealistic life styles for a species that is litteraly running out natural basic resources, soil clean drinking water and Air you can breath without it damaging your life.
@sudeeptaghosh
2 жыл бұрын
there is no better way than letting market decide .. don’t try to patronize .. that’s the most organic way of development ..
@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665
2 жыл бұрын
@@sudeeptaghosh The markets are a large part of what got us into the Environmental and economic messes we find ourselves in .... Economists and businesses are inevitably simplistic and short termist. Political and Economic ideologies just dont stand up and deliver when you are facing complex Environmental and global problems. Ive studied both economics govt and commerce as well as Earth/Environmental Sciences Agriculture and Forensics .... and in that time ive also seen human population double in that time and the Ecological damage increase and spread in every continent and global system. We have reached the tipping points because those market driven systems mostly work in the same tunnel vision myopic ways. ..and are largely controlled by the same sorts of Get rich get power driven individuals. I was born at the heart of The Industrial revolution and that made a lot of the stuff that the largest Empire the worlds seen, invented and traded for better or worse... and the wealthy and power hungry will always take risks with other peoples lives and failed to take due care . They also always try patronising those who really do stand back learn and watch and disagree with the repeated patterns and history created and realise we need to take a longer view. There are few more educational practices to observe than forestry and food production.... but i could also lead you through countless industries. Economics is not a science, no more than a lot of Social science they are attempts to explain and quantify behaviour. The behaviour of many of the individuals involved is faulty if not deviant in the larger context. Governing populations so desperate and short lived they repeatedly fail to develope a more mature overview of the fact that we collectively need to grow up and plan what solutions will work given the life support thermostat is starting to switch off... and is being poisoned ... by the same people as your advocating should be given carte blanche again, to do what they've been doing for millennia .....before even Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations.
@bearalohalani
2 жыл бұрын
That vacation did you a lot of good - you could almost say it was A GAME CHANGER. Thanks for starting my Sunday with a laugh. :-)
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Hehe. Glad you enjoyed it :-)
@Nightowl5454
2 жыл бұрын
@@JustHaveaThink you're getting a HUGE amount of SPAM scammer comments on this video.😥
@visheshrbana781
Жыл бұрын
Your delivery is great. Its soothing. You have just gained another subscriber. Cheers!
@leegibson5469
2 жыл бұрын
I will believe it when I see it. I have been hearing about "game changing" batteries for years now. Solid state, graphene.. 80% efficient solar panels that can be painted on. I am waiting on the Arc Reactor myself.
@BrBill
2 жыл бұрын
Flux capacitor or bust!
@-_James_-
2 жыл бұрын
@@BrBill I think both of you will find only a functioning Arc Reactor can provide the 2.21GW the Flux Capacitor requires to operate. ;)
@BrBill
2 жыл бұрын
@@-_James_- Sold
@mushroom-madness1
2 жыл бұрын
I’m just waiting for sodium ion batteries for grid scale power storage
@robanatta
2 жыл бұрын
the company Hydrograph is able to mass produce graphene, cheaply!
@Joe-lb8qn
Жыл бұрын
Me one year later ; "looks around and sees complete lack of magical graphene batteries"
@shawnr771
2 жыл бұрын
One good thing about the price of fossil fuel being high it drives people to look for alternatives. None of these solutions maybe perfect but these companies should get something to market at a reasonable cost. Like VW did prior to WW2 a low cost short range say 2 to 300 mile range commuter design with little to no frills would probably sell well.
@incognitotorpedo42
2 жыл бұрын
300 miles isn't exactly "short range" by the standards of today's EVs. Graphene batteries are unlikely to be cheap any time soon. Lithium Iron Phosphate is likely to be the go-to for low cost EVs.
@jessemcelroy5266
2 жыл бұрын
I think that a huge piece of the transportation puzzle of the future that is overlooked a lot is how the people will shop, communicate, work, play, and even get medical advice online in the future which will make physical transportation less of a necessity at least on an every day basis , this will definitely have a huge impact on how transportation will evolve.
@portlandsound1
2 жыл бұрын
I sure do appreciate your channel. Thank you for coming up great material consistently
@Dudleymiddleton
2 жыл бұрын
It's almost getting to the point where charging with electric is at the same energy transfer rate as filling with liquid fuel - but lots of amps are needed though! Thank you for sharing.
@AndreVanKammen
2 жыл бұрын
And there lies one of the biggest problems, the electricity grid needs to be scaled up to support those high power stations. Those stations will need their own batteries to buffer and fill when the energy price is low. So much to do, tech is here but market is flooded with so many solutions it get's very hard to pick the right one. Even if you pick the right one at that moment it might be obsolete before you reach the Return of Investment point.
@MarcoNierop
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, people do not realize that when filling up a 100Kwh battery in 1 minute either needs to be extremely high amps or very high voltage.... When my Model Y is charging up at 600 amps initially is already scary high!
@@AndreVanKammen Yes, with more EVs, more electricity will be needed, but your assumption that it will require more "high power stations" is flawed. A future smart-grid will be more decentralized. It is the combination of load management and demand balance that needs to be developed. Solar, Wind, and Hydro have a better LCOE. In this case ROI is insufficient (ROInt required). Also, it took decades to develop a petroleum industry to service the growing number of ICE vehicles. Even today refinery capacity is a limiting factor.
@TheLosamatic
2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisconklin2981 still no urgency?
@andrasbiro3007
2 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that the only people who care about EV charging speed is those who don't drive EVs. Once you try it, you realize that this obsession with charging speed is silly. In practice it's rarely a concern. Same with range. 300-400 miles of EPA range is plenty enough, and a lot of EVs can do that now. The real challenge now is cost and scaling. We need to replace all gas cars, and that won't happen with $60K Teslas, nor at 1M per year production capacity. We need $20K cars and 100M a year of them. Fortunately scaling up production also lowers the cost, so the main concern is scale. And the limiting factor is mining the special materials that batteries need. So the focus of research should be using more abundant materials, and better mining techniques. On good example of that is the LFP chemistry. It has worse energy density than the traditional NMC and NCA chemistries, but it uses more abundant materials, and a lot cheaper as a consequence.
@chrisdodt
2 жыл бұрын
you nailed it. well said.
@robindumpleton3742
2 жыл бұрын
Even at ,$20k, there are people who have never bought a new car. I drive E85. Fuel at the moment is 60c a litre and only 15% gasoline
@nekoJens
2 жыл бұрын
It is tempting to see the future as an extension of the past, e. G. to do with EVs the exactly the same thing as with ICE, but it does not have to be that way. So the scale of the problem may be far less daunting. 1. With more car sharing services coming up, ownership rates could drop by over 90%, studies have shown a shared car can replace 18 owned cars. Which is a far better use of capital, since a personally owned car is only driven very little and parked 90-95% of the time. Ownership is actually far more expensive than people assume, like 200k$ over 20 years on average, taken together everything. 2. For cities automotive transport is highly inefficient in its number of people moved, land use, congestion, accidents, infrastructure cost etc... So obvious solutions like well developed public transport and bicycle lanes could reduce the required amount of cars even more... Meaning the actual number of electric cars needed could be a tiny fraction of the number of current ICE cars.
@robinherrick2177
2 жыл бұрын
The charging speed determines the infrastructure. At the moment, it can barely cope with the tiny number of EVs on the road. 100% EVs will be chaos but with a fast charge we could keep our existing "filling station" approach.
@markthomasson5077
2 жыл бұрын
Surely with a faster more frequent charge, you can accept smaller batteries which = more EVS?
@redstarsrbija
Жыл бұрын
I love that you're having fun with your videos; just please dont overdo it!
@jeffarnim
2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the fun you had with this issue. Love your work!
@dennisstrasburg7105
2 жыл бұрын
Good job as always . . . fully appreciate your channel.
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers Dennis. Much appreciated :-)
@TCGill
2 жыл бұрын
I love the humour and wisdom mix here :) Great work on educating many of us on topics that will change our worlds and lives.
@hynjus001
Жыл бұрын
I love that there's a US and British version of a friendly, soft spoken bald guy teaching us about renewable energy.
@jimwatkins1664
2 жыл бұрын
You are an especially good teacher. I appreciate the way you explain complex subjects to non-specialists.
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@McSkumm
2 жыл бұрын
I heard once that if you can't explain something complicated to a random person sitting next to you so that they can understand it, do YOU really understand it?
@calicoesblue4703
2 жыл бұрын
@@McSkumm Well, that is not necessary true. People didn’t always understand Srinivasa Ramanujuan🤷
@haarpanoid
2 жыл бұрын
@@McSkumm not everyone would make a good teacher, even when they know their subject.
@aaronknight1009
2 жыл бұрын
It gets even more exciting when combined with the Aptera solar car...we live in amazing times
@willm5814
2 жыл бұрын
Great summary as always, thank you!!
@MightyElemental
2 жыл бұрын
9:18 "you will own nothing and you will be happy" - W.E.C. Truly a nightmarish future.
@widescreen8964
2 жыл бұрын
Loving the M83 ref ❤️
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Nicely spotted :-)
@theglz505
2 жыл бұрын
This is one of my fav channels. Brilliant👏🏻👏🏻🥂✨
@RedBatteryHead
2 жыл бұрын
Great to see you so positive here. The tech everyone is working on really is. Just the Outlook on live as we now still saddens. Politics are the sand that grinds us down.
@romapires
2 жыл бұрын
The Feynman pic with Debian logo and “bunsenlabs linux” is funny
@williamfraser
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to hear your take on hybrid supercapacitors. Part lithium battery, part EDLC. I have just started testing a few samples of 4.2V 4000F cells from China (Gonghe Energy). It seems to have similar specific energy as lithium cell, same discharge voltage curve, same limits on charge and discharge current. By all accounts it is a lithium battery with a ridiculously high cycle life if the spec sheet is correct.
@infinateU
2 жыл бұрын
would you consistently expose yourself to 3 MilliGausse (from Magnetic Field) in a Tesla Car for 10+ years ???? you do realize every sidewalk in Los Angeles California has a MilliGausse reading of between 1.5 - 6 MilliGausse? so far this mG exposure is causing the homeless bums to lose control of their bowels. this is why these people keep shitting and pissing in place.
@johnburns4017
Жыл бұрын
Are you _sure?_
@infinateU
Жыл бұрын
@@johnburns4017 of course this is LOW Level Exposures. Currently there is no research on this. Generally anything considered "carcinogenic"/"bad" will cause problems/cancer within 10 years. These are odds & probabilities.
@theblackhand6485
2 жыл бұрын
It is strange that companies as Varta and Siemens don't show up with battery solutions. They are one of the experts in this field.
@SeeNickView
2 жыл бұрын
It'd be interesting to compare the differences these alternative anode topologies make on batteries of different cathode chemistries. There's Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt (NMC-333 or -111, -433, -523, -712, or -811), Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminum (NCA), Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LiFePO4), and all of the other ones like Lithium-Sulfur. Most electrified public transit fleets use LiFePO4, so I wonder what increased anode volumetric battery density could do for those since this cathode type doesn't store as much as NMC - which you find in most consumer EVs. Could decrease costs even more and allow for more onboard battery capacity, meaning greater travel distance, better grid demand response during bus downtime, and maybe even smaller fleet sizes if recharging/switching out buses isn't as much of an issue. It looks like this tech is mostly aiming towards the consumer vehicle market though, given the focus on charge times, but this is still a worry for a lot of ICE users. Reducing charge time will indeed lower the barriers to entry and better persuade portions of the population to make the switch. I'm still betting most of my money on better public transit and rail, but climate change won't wait for society's best wishes. A silver buckshot of a tapestry of solutions is best
@paulskaar8556
2 жыл бұрын
Along those lines, I'd like to see a broad peek at tech with the most abundant materials (e.g., carbon, silicone, iron, calcium, aluminum) vs. tech that relies on precious/rare/hazardous substance (lithium, silver, cobalt, platinum, rubidium). I'd expect the former to be making headway on a route to dominance since cost, including life cycle and environmental costs, will IMHO ultimately decide the winner(s).
@LewisCowles
2 жыл бұрын
Summoning a vehicle, you don't own, that takes you where you want to go, with only the people you choose to go with, sounds ideal. If they can control the cost and ensure they aren't all breaking down, that is the most exciting version of green-transport tech I've heard of.
@exoplanet2013
2 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate the content and style in presentation .Keep up the good work!
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)
@FrancisdeBriey
2 жыл бұрын
Most probably, no big disruptive technology but rather continously improvement over the years.
@haxi52
2 жыл бұрын
Charge times are nice, but I feel its the wrong focus. People keep thinking of EVs like gas cars. Most of the time (save for road trips) you just don't need fast charging. I wake up with a "full tank" every morning and don't even think about going somewhere to "fill up". Hydrogen, battery swaps, 6c+ charging... no thank you. Energy density and cost are far more important areas to focus on.
@onur6233
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely! I mean, who drives 500km, takes an 8-minute break, and then drives another 500km? I need my half-hour break to eat/drink/stretch my legs anyway. This can be useful for semi trucks though.
@autohmae
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I keep telling that to people as well, but I guess for a lot of people they just don't have a parking space where they can charge near their home.
@tomsemmens6275
2 жыл бұрын
That might be true in Europe, but in the USA, Australia, Canada, NZ etc people need vehicles capable of fast refuelling over 1000km trips.
@autohmae
2 жыл бұрын
@@tomsemmens6275 The US is the exception actually. Australia the average is still only 36.4 km (21,5 miles). The average is much more interesting than the outliners, if we can reach for example 80% of the world drivers with this kind of charging we've already come a long way.
@onur6233
2 жыл бұрын
@@tomsemmens6275 excuse my ignorance, but do you really drive 310 miles, take an 8-minute break, and then drive another 310 miles? I mean, for me, that would be 6 hours of non-stop driving, a pee break and another 6 hours of driving. How do you drive over there?
@elaphantykid8016
2 жыл бұрын
very interesting stuff, came across this doing research for my year 11 chemistry assignment on graphene embedded LED's, how funny this was released so recently, definitely worth a subscribe
@john-wiggains
2 жыл бұрын
This is really exciting! I hope that their technologies do well. Takes me longer than 8 minutes on most road trips to get out and stretch my legs.
@incognitotorpedo42
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. If it took 15 minutes, that would be fine for the vast majority of people on a road trip. I can't even use the restroom and buy a coffee on a road trip in less than 10 minutes unless it's the middle of the night. (Rest stops in the US are often crowded, and Starbucks is slow.) Most charging should be done overnight when the car is not in use, which doesn't require speed.
@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. And fueling stations would like it because most of their profits isn't fuel, it's the stuff people buy in the store. 8 minutes of shopping/ eating, and off you go.
@juskahusk2247
2 жыл бұрын
At fuel stations there is often a que for each pump despite it only taking 1 minute to fill a tank. What will the ques be like when it takes 8 minutes? It would cause chaos both with the line stretching down the road and with disputes between drivers.
@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475
2 жыл бұрын
@@juskahusk2247 Firstly, we have to realize most people will not fill a completely empty battery. Usually 50%, so 4 minutes. That's not too different than a gasoline pump. Most time is taken unscrewing the cap and doing the transactions. EV can securely connect payment info directly through the charger without any additional steps. Second, many charging areas either resemble or are in parking areas. There are far more charging outlets than gasoline nozzles. Overall, this technology has the potential to reduce fueling times. But is that so important? Are we better off with McDonalds and e.coli recalls than when there were family owned actual restraints all over?
@juskahusk2247
2 жыл бұрын
@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 A lot of the time people make assumptions and blame their food poisoning on the place where they bought their food but a lot of the time it is caused by eating with unwashed hands.
@sarcasmo57
2 жыл бұрын
Gosh you have a soothing voice.
@45coopaloop
2 жыл бұрын
Loved your video, as always! You're doing a great job of explaining this kind of material and making it enjoyable for the masses to learn about :)
@johngordon1175
2 жыл бұрын
Ownership of one’s method of transportation has always applied to the public and advancing the technology has been an indicator of sophistication hence value.
@alanpmasters
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the graphene battery news. I haven’t long owned my EV but I feel sure that even within its lifetime a replacement battery could well increase its range from its ‘current’ 104 miles range to one that could cover a whole day’s driving.
@aowi7280
Жыл бұрын
For only $10,000.
@FalkinerTim
2 жыл бұрын
21st century science, 19th century intellectual property laws.
@patrickdegenaar9495
2 жыл бұрын
Inductive charging is probably a no-no environmentally! Even at a 80-90% efficiency (for the wireless bit, not for the rest of the system), that will probably add 20% to the electricity power requirements at peak road congestion times rather than buffering when energy is available from the grid.
@LoanwordEggcorn
2 жыл бұрын
Also largely unnecessary. Conductive charging is fine for most uses.
@brucenadams1
2 жыл бұрын
In the mid-1980's, I worked for a contract engineering company. Their specialty was evaluating emerging technology. Toyota asked us to look at a "Paper Only System." Solar panels worked during the day to charge a battery pack in the garage which, at night, would recharge the car. We told Toyota that the practical implementation would be 35 to 50 years. I guess we were not too far off the mark.
@anilkapur1584
2 жыл бұрын
I like your explanations, they are lucid and to the point, you make it as simple as possible for us to understand and your voice is so soothing.
@danburnes722
2 жыл бұрын
Game Changing Dave!! Great video, always educates me and gives me more ideas. I do think ubiquitous electrification will continue to win out over niche hydrogen with all of these new exciting battery developments. On another note with nanotechnology… Space Elevators!!! Imagine a world where we take space elevators to move people and stuff to orbits and transport quickly across the world without emitting atmospheric GHGs.
@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475
2 жыл бұрын
"Space Tourism" is going to destroy the ozone layer before space elevators could come online. Selling Earth atmosphere to billionaires was a catastrophic mistake. I'm not even sure who would fund space elevators. Whatever we need to do to end "Space Tourism" though, I'm all for it.
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Arthur C. Clarke would be very proud of you Dan :-)
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
2 жыл бұрын
I will stay forever on the fence about space elevators. If it ever becomes truly viable, the cost of building one will be prohibitively expensive for a long time to come.
@kentneumann5209
2 жыл бұрын
What if an air locked tube from earth to the vacuum of space were built? Load up the transport module. Shove it in the airlock. Close the sealed door. Open the top. And whoosh! It gets sucked up into space using the vacuum of space as its propulsion to lift it. Or would gravity prevent it from lifting off?
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
2 жыл бұрын
@@kentneumann5209 Haha, you're funny. Check out aerostatic pressure, it explains why things are not as you imagine.
@aureaphilos
2 жыл бұрын
I saw a Rivian R1T pickup on the streets near my hometown, recently. I was excited to finally see one in the real world, but just think of how archaic its battery technology is, when compared to the technologies in this week's episode!
@casualobserver3702
2 жыл бұрын
Good one. I do think ideas abound, commercializing their production is hard and time consuming. I like to think of a lot of the new concepts in a form for storage beyond the vehicle. We need a couple of really heavy duty storage technologies for grid and factory level storage.
@gregbailey45
2 жыл бұрын
There are some good ones already: Small-scale distributed off-river pumped hydro. Liquid metal batteries (Ambri) Solar thermal Molten Salt
@jeanmacdobea2614
2 жыл бұрын
better batteries for cars must mean better batteries for computers phones and so on .. I LOVE IT A LOT !!.. ELECTRIC-CAR A LOT BETTER TO HAVE AND A PLUS FOR THE ENVIROMENT ..
@carlbrenninkmeijer8925
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, your presentation is excellent. It is indeed so that there are many ways to produce better batteries. The number of degrees of freedom is high. One major degree of freedpm is the nanotechnology. The number of possibilities or schemes to store hydrogen seem to be much more limited. So my best bet is electric cars with batteries.
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers Carl. Much appreciated.
@thekaxmax
2 жыл бұрын
There is existing tech for making, storing, transporting, and using H2 with some ease. New catalysts make making H2 easier and cheaper and more efficient, making ammonia for transport using new catalysts (this is more volume-efficient than liquid H2 and doesn't need to be cryogenic and can use existing mature transport methods), a new catalyst for reforming ammonia to H2 at the user's end. All developed by CSIRO, and in combination make H2 infrastructure entirely possible and cost-effective.
@carlbrenninkmeijer8925
2 жыл бұрын
@@thekaxmax Thank you !
@guybedau
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation, no nonsense and very exciting to see another battery factory planned for the US to compete with all the progress happening in China...
@drewcipher896
2 жыл бұрын
I honestly thing the current rapid charge speeds( ~25ish minutes for 10-80%) are fine. But It'd be amazing to see these improve the already good lifespan of batteries to something great. Kinda like how new oled tvs are being improved just by lamenting a better cooling solution to the stack. Which leads to lower operating temps and less degradation/burn-in. Less battery degradation means you can go with that lower capacity model saving money and environmental cost without loosing much range in 5-10 years. Also need the kw/mile efficiency to improve and for car makers to stop putting gearboxes in EVs.
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
2 жыл бұрын
Same applies to solar panels. Hardly ever is cooling installed while on hot sunny days the efficiency decreases by up to 50% due to the temperature of the panels, they get burning hot by the radiation that is not converted to electricity. With a simple cooling solution you can get double the power out of your solar panels!
@steve6375
Жыл бұрын
Charging stations are currently badly designed. They can only charge one car in one space and you have to wait for the car to be moved afterwards. As charging times decrease, we will need one charger shared over say 6 parking spaces connected by 6 cables all at the same time. The charger will cycle round, charging each car in order of their connection time, automatically read the cars ID required charge and charge rate and deduct $ from its account whilst the owners get a coffee, etc. The top of each charger will show the estimated waiting time for each charger so on arrival you can choose an empty charge space which shows the shortest waiting time if you are in a hurry. Encouraging people to spend whilst taking a charge break will be big business.
@ingemar_von_zweigbergk
2 жыл бұрын
the world is not rapidly changing, it's just humans rapidly realising what's happening on this world
@annunacky4463
Жыл бұрын
Graphene raised my credit score by 50 points. Does it all.
@glasslinger
2 жыл бұрын
Short charging times mean higher current from the electrical grid. With the grid now at capacity in many areas it will be interesting to see the rolling blackouts that happen when everyone gets home from work and plugs in their car!
@umangdave8200
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks sir for your knowledge sharring
@jamiearnott9669
2 жыл бұрын
Great video and I'm definitely interested in all science and engineering based KZitem channels, especially liking this one. Indeed as I'm interested in green hydrogen being place as part of my country the UK industrial and energy plans. On nanotechnology I understand that as part of a fourth industrial revolution, possibly maybe lots applications for quantum mechanical processes/ properties that improve energy efficiencies?For example quantum dots for photovoltaics, just maybe the tip of the iceberg!? 👌😛
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. There's lots of transformational tech in the pipeline
@offgridsolaruk843
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed, I have emails from both BP and Shell stating this is the direction they are heading as part of their strategy. Although personally I feel mass ownership of individual vehicles is not a long term solution anyway. If you want a good read, tomorrow's energy, Hydrogen fuel cells by Peter Hoffman
@joshuajackson6442
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@davidlemieux615
2 жыл бұрын
In the case of consumer products like iPhones, apple watches and possibly laptops, volumetric performance matters. No one wants a watch the size of a fridge. However for cars, buses, semis, laptops, aircraft and such, gravimetric matters far more as it affects cargo capacity and range. In the case of aircraft, price premium for high gravimetric performance is quite tolerable as aircraft engines aren’t cheap by any measure.
@davemartin9912
2 жыл бұрын
You made my coffee come out my nose at 1:32. :-)
@dropshot1967
2 жыл бұрын
I love these video's of yours. The channel "the limiting factor" did a video this week about Sodium-Ion batteries And why it will always take between several to 10 years to scale up production of a new type of battery. It was very interesting, but the takeaway was that it usually takes about a decade because not only does the scaling up of the production of the new technology need to be scaled up from lab to pilot to full production in 1 location, to production in multiple locations. Look at tesla, it took them more than a decade, and even they have trouble with scaling up their latest form factor. Another important complicating factor is that the supply of resources for this new chemistry needs to scale up, with its own bottlenecks and problems. I recommend you to watch this video from "the limiting factor. it goes into much more detail. In short, I don't think it is likely these new batteries will be in a significant percentage of cars within 10 years.
@martinweitzmann8341
2 жыл бұрын
This is only true if you want to make money by restricting knowledge (secrets) or its application (patents). Otherwise a lot of people could work with the same technology in parallel and independent of each other - sharing further insights. And parallel means fast. See open source development, or implementation of standards (ISO, DIN etc.). That means slow development is artificial because the limitations are intentional.
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
2 жыл бұрын
They usually start small, like AA/AAA and coin batteries. Then larger and larger.
@موسى_7
2 жыл бұрын
@@martinweitzmann8341 You mean government should develop the batteries? Alongside the private sector?
@martinweitzmann8341
2 жыл бұрын
@@موسى_7 no
@ShneekeyTheLost
2 жыл бұрын
My only concern about graphene is economical production at a scale that will be in any way relevant. A single Lithium Iron Battery takes meters of anode and cathode material, rolled up in a 'jelly roll' and placed in a 'can'. It takes hundreds or even thousands of them to run a single vehicle. So now we're talking about kilometers of the stuff per vehicle produced. If you're wanting to hit any sort of production tempo, you're going to need to be able to produce kilometers of the stuff every minute, just to keep up with vehicle production. We still aren't there yet. We don't really have a plan for how to get there yet. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see that there have been improvements in graphene manufacturing, but it still has a very long way to go before we start seeing it in practical applications.
@mojoneko8303
2 жыл бұрын
This technology might even make me seriously consider an EV. I didn't want to be an early adopter of the EV tech and since I discovered sail boats over 40 years ago I drive cars as little as possible, less than 6k miles a year now. The two ICE vehicles I have would last me another 20 years at the rate I'm putting miles on them...
@AdlerMow
2 жыл бұрын
Whats up with the sailboats? Also, your cars wont last that long because in about 8-10 it will be nigh impossible to find parts for them.
@gawni1612
2 жыл бұрын
2:14 sorry I just appreciate the sense of humor behind this. I laughed.
@carlbrenninkmeijer8925
2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the biggest advance is more kwh per kg. Some electric cars carry battery packs of 800 kg ! No joke. Fast charging appeals to a smaller group of customers. Those with a dog anyway do not care to charge the car so fast, they need some time to lead their dog into the bush for a discharge...
@simongross3122
2 жыл бұрын
If only we could use puppy urine for fuel :)
@carlbrenninkmeijer8925
2 жыл бұрын
@@simongross3122 it is a good fertilizer for growing biofuels
@simongross3122
2 жыл бұрын
@@carlbrenninkmeijer8925 Yes it is. I want to see a dog-led revolution in biofuel production. I imagine a forest with lots of trees with special puppy-pee collectors. As a bonus, the trees will extract co2 for us. We're onto the next game-changer :)
@twotone3070
2 жыл бұрын
Why not plug the dog directly into the car? Use it's walk as a means of generating electricity and collect the dog output to be used in an inbuilt methane converter?
@simongross3122
2 жыл бұрын
@@twotone3070 I like the way you think. But some dogs do prefer a nice tree. Perhaps we can incorporate a tree in the car somehow
@liammurphy2725
2 жыл бұрын
Having been around for quite a while, I have seen an awful lot of ''New Stuff'' Non stick frying pans, Helicopters on Mars and Boris Johnson's resignation. But it's the stuff I won't live to see that promises the most. I love the science. I love this show. Thank you.
@JohnSmith-kf1fc
2 жыл бұрын
"Vaguely science based channel" haha!
@mikeharrison1868
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@adrianflower3230
2 жыл бұрын
Great to hear. Does this mean a GAC car with an 8 minute charge can use todays Fast Charge networks, or will they require specialist, high output chargers 🤔
@4literv6
2 жыл бұрын
The latter, as the gac displayed last year was done off one of their custom built 480kwhs chargers. Publicly right now 350kwhs is the max and that is well under 5% of all dcfc world wide. Growing quickly for sure, but still fairly rare overall.
@LizardVideoDude
2 жыл бұрын
Special high-output chargers will be needed. Not just for this car, but in general. The majority of current public chargers are _not_ capable of delivering several hundred amps/kilowatts. And the electrical grid will need to be massively upgraded. It currently struggles under the higher demand caused by increasing AC use as summer days get hotter. Adding thousands of electric cars (in just one "region") simultaneously drawing 100kW - 500kW each (just guessing at future needs) will blow up the current system.
@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475
2 жыл бұрын
@@LizardVideoDude EVs also stabilize grid systems by mopping up excess energy in the grid, reducing baseload power stations and stand-by power generation. Excess wind and solar power, plus return-to-grid stabilization. EVs don't typically need to charge at any given set time, especially since the actual use is 1/30th of the day, typically, so can be used for grid balancing. "Smart grid" efficiency may be more important than size. I think your concerns will be more for long trips and vacation travellers, freight transport. Either way, yes, the electric grid was built when there were 2 Billion people on planet Earth. It's not designed to handle 9 Billion people. Especially when 1 billion of them waste power like there's no tomorrow (and seem hell-bent on making sure there literally isn't one.)
@TheLosamatic
2 жыл бұрын
@@LizardVideoDude the simple answer to that is all EV’s must be plunged in all the time that’s the part of the grid that needs grid grade access with control. So all the parts of the whole system knows what to do by knowing what all the other parts are going to do! The cars will make a net gain to the power capacity of the grid at any given time, mass transit of kids with school buses could be beneficial to everyone built be more a portable grid storage device that also provides safe clean transportation for the kids! But that could shut petroleum down hardly worth mentioning amount but still they fight like hell to choke the air the kids have to breathe like it’s nothing to everything. When of course it has the only means to poison everything it touches! What else in nature naturally changes the climate this fast?
@hg60justice
2 жыл бұрын
mr geothermal here. it's interesting what is here but actually not here.😀 i found in ALBERTA they are finally doing a geothermal project with closed lop 130C temp system for power and heating a farm project. now if we only had 100 fold more investment in it at least.
@nevadaxtube
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the videos. I hope I live long enough to see these developments.
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
I hope so too!
@johnwang9914
2 жыл бұрын
If only it was actually 500 mile travel in 8 minute travel time...
@vermontsownboy6957
Жыл бұрын
Agreed with the "Hold on to your hats folks...." This is a terribly exciting time to be alive to witness this disruption.
@tomharper5547
2 жыл бұрын
Loved that M83 reference!
@dr.mikeybee
2 жыл бұрын
I think graphene molecules are spinels. That means the crystal that forms has "empty corridors" through the crystal structure, so electrons can pass through unhindered. That is to say, there are paths where a charged particle won't encounter barriers while passing through the crystal. This results in faster charging, but also, the crystal is less likely to form the stalagmite-like growths that destroy lithium batteries.
@chrispapadakis3575
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info....keep those clear words coming!
@gerry343
2 жыл бұрын
Rugby played at Lords- that would be a game changer!
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah...I think you might be coming at this a bit too literal Gerry :-) LOL
@geoffgeoff143
2 жыл бұрын
Its amazing what can be achieved when you imprision researchers families.
@martinfoster5163
Жыл бұрын
Great video. I'm already an EV convert (mountain bikes and electric motorcycles) and I'm reasonably content with today's tech (li-ion). That being said, who wouldn't want more capacity of less weight or both. Plus a faster charge time. That being said, I wouldn't change my riding much. So less weight would be my number one wishlist. However, if it costs more than li-ion then I doubt could afford it.
@drpk6514
2 жыл бұрын
It is not all about which technology is going to be the best but unfortunately as in the past it is going to be highly influenced by the giant oil and energy companies. Remember we had electric cars back in 70s that were removed thanks to the oil companies and were replaced with massive, heavy and high-fuel-using cars. Maybe this time China actually does some positive role in this area.
@autohmae
2 жыл бұрын
Actually, EVs used be more popular than ICE in the 1800s and very early 1900s. I suspect we'll be adding some super capacitors as well to new EVs for regenerative breaking.
@incognitotorpedo42
2 жыл бұрын
EVs from the 70s were not "removed" by "oil companies". They were grotesquely impractical because the battery technology of the day was crap.
@eddy4shot
2 жыл бұрын
Hi thanks for making your videos, gravitricity plus Tower of Babel
@JustHaveaThink
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them! I'm doing a 1 year review of Gravitricity and Energy Vault (tower of babel) in a couple of weeks times :-)
@nigelweir3852
2 жыл бұрын
Not required but will come but the game has already started and evs being built at an ever increasing rate . By end 2022 ev production will be at the multi million production without these levels of charging . Main limiting factor is the chargers to deliver 350 kw are few and far between and cost tens of thousands . It would be cheaper to install 7- 22 kw ac charge points in their hundreds at parking spaces at shopping centres , work places and keep fast chargers like Tesla does to major roads for the majority of cases. As most vehicles will have 200 miles as standard within the next 3 years , faster onboard chargers 22 kw for example will solve many of the charging problems along with more reliable points
@Derpy1969
2 жыл бұрын
RemindMe! when this product actually ships.
@elkaro5
2 жыл бұрын
"it's gonna be a game changer". That was spectacular!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
@UnknownUser-rb9pd
2 жыл бұрын
The transition that is taking place is no different than the transition that took place in the late 1890s to the late Edwardian period when the number of horses plummeted and the number of cars on the road increased exponentially, particularly in the USA but also in Europe. At least the new cars are still identifiable as such. The change from a living animal that was creating real issues with its "waste mountains" in cities, to mechanical vehicles that generated a lot of noise and hydrocarbon rich gas, must have been quite shocking to most people.
@eugenegee2148
2 жыл бұрын
The solution with the graphene battery is to eliminate the need for lithium.
@tradetech7889
2 жыл бұрын
First Graphene Ltd in Australia is a large supplier of high performing graphene base products. They manufacture around 100 tonne/year
@seannewell397
2 жыл бұрын
THE M83 REFERENCE THO. YASSSS!
@mikefagiani1407
2 жыл бұрын
Great work as usual. Now, I was able to watch on my tablet and finally subscribe.
@tommclean7410
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for keeping it real with the "game changers".
@philiphtube
Жыл бұрын
It's all very well having a battery that can charge really quickly but you still have to pump all the energy into it somehow. So to recharging a battery really quickly will require enormous current and hence the cabling involved will have to be really substantial. It will also mean that the supply to the charging station will need to be adequate as well. I don't know how that is going to work with an electrical supply system that's built around residential households using a maximum of 60 amps peak. There's also going to be a fair bit of heat generated in all the cabling involved.
@IamCoalfoot
2 жыл бұрын
Large scale Fusion charging wide adoption electric vehicles is the future, and we really do seem to be in spitting distance of both...
@portentouslad5051
2 жыл бұрын
01:35 yeah, no idea who you were imitating there. :'D
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