Solar Revolution

Michio Kaku: I believe in solar power, but there are problems that we have to face, and one of them is low efficiency. Michio Kaku: Some people think that th…

25 thoughts on “Solar Revolution”

  1. Really screw up the weather? We would be so lucky if that was the biggest
    problem. What about the plummeting biodiversity because of the loss of
    habitat for land and marine environments. Or the food and water insecurity
    that will face all humans when crops become more and more difficult to
    produce, driving global wars.

  2. Is it possible to make synthetic oil or recreate it using chemicals and
    materials we have? 

  3. I’d gladly put out a few solar panels to put a dent in the FPL bill, but
    local building covenants won’t hear of it without denying me homeowners
    insurance. Also, the solar panels are not covered if a storm damages them.
    This is a deal breaker in S. Florida, along with often cloudy weather that
    limits the panel efficiency even more. 

  4. Solar Cells, sure, but Heliostat (Thermal Solar), work fine. The only real
    issue is space. 

  5. wouldnt fusion power have even more problems with transportation and
    storing then solar ? There will be hundret times fewer fusion reactors then
    solar plants so you will need to deliver this power across larger
    distances… And if stored – you will have same battery problems

  6. Hello! Have you tried – Maxim Earth 4 Energy (just google it)? Ive heard
    some interesting things about it and my work buddy got strong returns with
    it.
    

  7. Remarkably short sighted in many ways. In less than two years lots of what
    he said has already not followed his predictions, and he leaves out so
    much! He talks about oil, but neglects to talk about natural gas, which
    has changed the entire picture through fracking. And he does not even
    mention the cost of oil wars like Iraq which cost us a trillion dollars! If
    we had put a tiny fraction of that trillion dollars into solar and
    electrical storage development, we would never have gone into Irag, and the
    Saudi’s would have little leverage on us instead of the stranglehold they
    now have.

  8. 3:45 … fusion power is a boondoggle. The sales pitch is “Oh, look, we
    can use the same process as in the sun, to harvest ginormous amounts of
    energy from the most common element in the universe!” But the reality is
    “We use *super rare* isotopes of hydrogen, build *billions of dollars*
    worth of lasers to shoot it with, pull *terawatts* of power firing those
    lasers, and *hope* against hope that somehow the reaction will produce
    slightly more energy than we put into it. Oh, and neutrons.”

  9. SempiternalScientist

    I always find it hilarious whenever some dipshit claims that global warming
    is a scam designed to make people who own wind farms and produce solar
    panels rich, not realising that oil barons have even more vested interests
    in preserving the status quo, no matter how much that screws our children
    over. The scam isn’t investing in renewable energies, it’s an over reliance
    on a finite and relatively scarce resource which demands we support
    dictators and implant puppet Arab governments in order to continue mining
    that resource. 

  10. Michio Kaku On #solar #power and the hurdles we have to take before it
    is a major source of #energy 

  11. martin shervington

    *We will never run out of oil, except oil will become more expensive…*

    Although Dr. Michio Kaku appears to believe in solar power, he arises a few
    problems that we have to face and one of them, in his opinion, is low
    efficiency.

    #sciencesunday #solarpower

    PS: +carey g. butler this video reminds me the discussion we had the other
    day :)

  12. The Prof makes me eager for this wonderful future! I actually definitely
    heard that through cumulative discoveries and supplies that in the next few
    years there will be an oversupply of oil to some degree. The solar paint is
    something to look for until fusion.

  13. global warming? you mean little ice age!. CO2? really ? the problem is that
    there is no serious scientists in our days to lead ours ways.not the oil or
    the global crisis.He manipulate our thoughts just for the profit of the
    elites.
    always keep an empty basket with you….

  14. emanuel cristian Mocean

    Michio Kaku explaining vital , critical energy problems gets under 1milion
    views . Lady Gaga doing monkey business gets over 100 milion views. And we
    still wonder about evolution … :)) :)

  15. I’m not sure how nuclear fusion would be integrated into the grid as they
    would probably suffer from the same problem that regular uranium nuclear
    fission plants do today; increasing of decreasing electrical generation in
    acccordance with current demand wihich is the reason why nuclear usually
    only generate base load electricity with the exception of some plants in
    France. And you can increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic cells all you
    like but without the ability to storage that solar energy for times of low
    production, it’s not really going to matter

  16. There is a problem with fusion power. Clean energy won’t stop global
    warming. It will ACCELERATE it. Because fusion plants will pump water vapor
    into the atmosphere. Water vapor is the major contributor of global
    warming. But CO2 is the last drop to cause a runaway warming effect. So we
    need fusion and solar power that do NOT heat the atmosphere. We have
    special air conditioner solar panels now. They cool the homes and radiate
    the heat directly to space WITHOUT transferring to the troposphere.

    http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/april/fan-solar-cooling-041513.html

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