Energy Island

[newtongrace]

Innovative idea - WIN

Speaking with enthusiasm so as to engage and excite others about your idea - FAIL

[Begbucks]

You invent it ~ I market it!

[MillyVanillification]

one question. why isn't the thermal energy used which is in the upper crust? who needs energy on a REMOTE SITE? nobody! power plants must be put there where the energy is needed. in cities and towns. not somewhere offshore in the middle of nowhere with storms and freaking waves. Damn it.

[clbeav]

@MillyVanillification You sound like Thomas Edison defending DC transmission. You do realize that we have transmission lines and a grid right?

[frepi]

The idea might be brilliant but the narrator voice tone and flow make the video look very amateur and hinders the chances to be taken seriously

[rahulforworld]

commentator sounds like dumb.....

[TheWindGinProject]

Wonderful!

[UncleKennybobs]

This bloke's voice is so boring I could not listen to it any further.

[Sosserian]

A great idea and nice video!

[boxa888]

nikola tesla talked of this 100 yrs ago! look up "increaseing human energy"by nikola tesla! he talks of all of the renewable energy sources and also his wireless energy transfer system which would give wireless power to everyone on the earth! i even did a 20 ft wireless energy transfer which is key to showing how his system works! this system would give thousand miles range of energy for everyone to obtain like a radio but with industrial power being tranfered!

[thebestsumoeva]

@boxa888 You lose 80% of your energy transmitting wirelessly over a few feet. Expand that to a thousand miles and you might as well make a generator put it in a box and ship it to poor people.

[boxa888]

@thebestsumoeva tesla wireless power is not radio waves, that is why wireless power is possible. radio decreases with the square law of fields. teslas system decreases with the resistance of the wire conductor which can be the earth when he created wardenclyffe tower. everyone search this, tesla was not using radiowaves. he was using one wire conductors liek the earth, that is why teslas wireless was possible

[thebestsumoeva]

@boxa888 And he controlled where the current went how?

[boxa888]

@thebestsumoeva the use of resonance causes waves propagation within the earth to align in paralle concentric circles around the earth so energy is obtained with these waves which can be every mile and even caused to be everywhere at once. think of a wave of water in a bath tub, it moves to the end of the tub and then reflects back to the source where it started.thats the tesla system in simplicity

[thebestsumoeva]

@boxa888 When it reflects back it is dispersed over a much larger area than the semi point source which started it hence much of the energy is lost. You can create nodes in the propagation, but you will always lose energy in the transmission so much so that running a long conducting cable is much more effective and efficient. There is some truth to your ideas, but they are stupid compared to what we do now. Just because something is different doesn't mean its better...

[boxa888]

@thebestsumoeva that is not true also. the more thick a conductor is the actual less resistance there is. there is even equations that show this. that is why the earth strangely enough is acutally an exelent condutor hitting a million volts with proper grounding techniques. it is better, tesla wanted to outdo his own AC power system with his wireless power technique. it is hard for u to understand only because you were not taught these principles in school. its OK

[thebestsumoeva]

@boxa888 It's hard to understand because it doesn't make since. Then again maybe I was brainwashed by the giant green fairy. BTW Tesla's tower was trying to transmit electricity through the air not the ground. If this ground transmission idea makes so much since why don't you build it and try it out?

[boxa888]

@thebestsumoeva i already did, that is why i challenged your view on wireeless pwoer. on my youtube i show the whole system, i transmitted 20 ft to show a small model , i light up a bulb more farther away than the bulb that is closer which also shows a violation of the square law of fields and thats sweet.

[thebestsumoeva]

@boxa888 That doesn't just violate the least square law, that violate conservation of energy. Next you'll be saying you can make energy from nothing. Where is your video btw I'd like to see it.

[dkellers]

@thebestsumoeva Tesla also transmitted through the ground.

[jonathasnyder]

@dkellers I didn't say it's impossible to transfer energy through the ground. I more or less stated it's incredibly stupid to do so given the inefficiency of it all.

[heyshutupyou]

@thebestsumoeva he wanted to use the spinning of the earth to generate a free electric current in the upper atomosphere and have stations on earth to conduct in downward into you home. The whole earth as a battery.

[thebestsumoeva]

@heyshutupyou To produce a current from a magnetic field you need to move a conductor relative to the field. IE if your field and conductor are moving together then no current is produced. The earths magnetic field is quite strong as a whole, but pretty weak per area. If it was as strong as you believe air planes wouldn't be able to fly straight because the large magnetic field would constantly be trying to push them in a BxV direction.

[enicao]

I looked at the website at the end of the video

and this system can't work:

where is the energy needed to boil sea water coming from.

it's written evaporation vacuum chamber, where is the energy needed to make a vacuum coming from? you need enormous amounts of energy to boil water at 25°C

and suddently the steam from the vacuum becomes pressurized steam to make the turbine turn.

make an island, with wind turbine, wave energy collector, water current turbine, solar panels, but forget the OTEC

[m3141592]

"where is the energy needed to boil sea water coming from."

Water isn't boiled, it is used to boil a separate refrigerant.

Basically you set up some pipes so you can get cold and warm seawater in the same place, then you use the temperature difference to drive an engine.

There are various engines which could be used, this seems to rely on a refrigerant which boils at the temp of warm seawater.

[jacobsjostrand]

This is a really great idea! Good job! :)

[ChemicalMikeUK]

excellent idea!

[prodeckman]

I seriously can't wait to see that thing afloat in real life! good job!