Is Solar Power The New Oil?

[LOPEZdJUNGLIST]

Is Solar Power The New Oil?  YESSS IT FUCKING ISSS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN

[AtibbsSPARTAN]

Electric vehicles only make sense if you are getting your electricity from a smart source.

[ignacio54321]

A solar power car it's a really bad idea... If you are going to use batteries on a car, make sure they are as big as possible, and use solar powered electric plants to power this cars. This way you can make an affordable solar powered electric car for daily use with the present tech.

[ingaman]

@ignacio54321 Why not have solar panels charge a large battery? When I go to work I leave my car outside in the sunlight anyway. It would be nice to come back to my car to "full tank" lol. And there's no way in hell they'd let me plug my car in either lol.

[fireofenergy]

The cars themselves, no matter how light, consume more power than their surface area could ever provide by solar power alone... unless they sit in the sun, charging for like 20 times longer than it is used. A better choice is to use GaAs (30%) eff solar cells in concentrating arrays, stored in batteries... ALL MACHINE MADE... and build more powerlines (and extra grid components for nasty solar storm events). Then there could be 500,000 sq miles of install jobs...

[tyldesley2010]

I live in Manchester England , rains all the time!!!!!!!!!!! What will i drive to work in?

[oscarfish48]

@tyldesley2010 boat :D

[Salien1999]

Santa Clause certainly won't use it

[PerigeePower]

YES! :)

[Hashpotato]

yea its not gonna work in ireland...

[DwayneLeroice]

I really like this design. Best of any solar car I've seen.

[Yavor54]

"Studied EE and Physics"..obviously did not graduate..They make things called batteries which can actually store electrical power for use at night- it's amazing! Solar wont solve all out energy problems, but adding it to a diverse package of power sources will insure the stability of our supply. People have just eaten the FOX narrative from the oil companies- that solar is a marginal technology. Your TV and the ISS space station would not work if it were not for solar. The truth is always scary!

[Yavor54]

You've been mis-informed. There is no arsenic in PV panels..and they last for 50+ years. I have ones from the Carter Administration time (on the roof 35 years) and they are powering this laptop. The only thing solar panels do is threaten an endangered species, your monthly bill. Once the Oil companies manufacture solar panels, they will lease a system to you and you can keep paying your monthly bill.

[juscurious]

So my comments were removed because they were truthful. Wow, what's that say about the people posting. Solar Energy does next to nothing for transportation purposes. It's that simple. You can only get about 1KW theoritically per meter squared under the very best conditions. 1hp=746 watts. So under the best of conditions, you get 1-1/2hp or maybe 3hp on a car's roof. Do the math people, get educated and stop dreaming and learn about physics and technology.

[Yavor54]

@juscurious Stop eating Fox news BS and you might free yourself from being their wage slave. Electric transportation works by charging at home or at a parking meter etc. If I told you solar power made large quantities of the most posionous substance on earth and it will kill civilizations on earth 10,000 years from now, you'd have some real ammo against it. Sadly, that's nuclear power -the most arrogant disregard for human life there is. Solar works perfectly. It's Exxon's nightmare, not yours.

[juscurious]

@Yavor54 I studied Physics and Electrical Engineering and got 2 Degrees before Fox News was on the air. I've given you the facts but you prefer to live in the fantasy world. That's OK but people like you are dangerous What to you do to power a vehicle at night? Give me an answer. What do you do in winter when you have cold weather, short days, and long winter nights. Even if solar panels were 100% efficient it wouldn't solve the transportation problems. Altogether solar contributes less than 1%.

[mphello]

@juscurious That's what wind power is for. And reduced consumption.

Our one-time lottery ticket with oil is about used up. Coal is the #1 contributor to global warming.

All the electricity in the world (from ANY source: nuclear, coal, etc) won't do any good powering non-existent electric cars, airplanes, and boats.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics guarantees that creating ANY concentrated form of energy, such as nuclear, will cause greater DISORDER outside that local system (reactor).

[mphello]

@mphello In other words, the Second Law of Thermodynamics GUARANTEES THAT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THE SAME LEVEL OF PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION AND LIFESTYLE THAT WE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO. (Unless we also reduce world population at a rate proportional to per capita consumption by mandatory birth control (mandatory vasectomies), which I have advocated since 1970s.)

Hence, better to conserve, go solar and wind, and NOT waste colossal energy on boondoggles like nuclear and tar sands.

[mphello]

@mphello And, yes - *I* have relevant degrees: BChE (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering)

MS and PhD (Mathematics)

A.S. (Associate of Science in Biotechnology)

And I have published peer-reviewed math papers.

[Lightsbladeuk]

Solar power is technically impossible to be used world-wide at the scale we would need it to be. Solar panels use arsenic, which we simply do not have enough of on our planet to support massive use of solar panels.

To top it all off, they also only have a lifespan of some 15 - 20 years, and I dunno about you, but I don't fancy having toxins loading up my garage once they're no longer usable.

If anything, they are a short-term fix until we have harnessed either hydrogen power or nuclear fission

[KCrenshaw09]

Nope.

[baksterski]

yes it is:)

[BatusaiJack]

1:59 I'm gonna have to buy that yacht 

[BatusaiJack]

0:36 I want that bike

[Slyz3r24]

The oil companies will just force the companies to sell the pantent and kill the idea, or make them incorporate using oil in some form in the vehicle. Oil giants control the world.

[ma701apm]

Is Solar the new Oil? Well for sure Oil is the old Solar, meaning that oil is the decayed matter of plants and animals that could only have survived with energy from the sun, and afaik ALL energy we receive is from the sun.

[SaverioB]

Having all cars running on solar energy is probably impossible:

Google for smartgridelectronics "solar car"

and look at the computation about how much space is needed to provide the necessary energy for all private transportation.

However, sometimes this solution can be intelligent, and should be explored.

[NickandDom1]

this is truly The Future

[ketakuzo]

exacley tha's the purpose of our to use solar energy before we get intoxicated with gas

[johnsconstruction116]

There will not be electric cars in your lifetime, unless you can outlive the Big Oil and Coal-mining Corporations who own the government and the news-media shell gave of Left vs Right. About 750 more years?

If the brains and hearts of the Liberals are at perpetual war with the muscles and souls of the Conservatives, then what human can see the pink alien in the room? Make a grave for the unknown soldier. The war is over. Corporate slavery has won! Yet humans still die for KingOil.

[47f0]

@johnsconstruction116 - uhhm - economics? The supply/demand ratio for fossil fuels is going to keep getting worse. The notion that we will run out of oil is just wrong - but oil will continue to get more and more expensive to explore, extract and process as we drain off the "easy" oil. At some point, considerably before the next 750 years (more like the next 50) other options will become cheaper and take over the market.

[fittingciobb]

True Free energy devices exist,But a few ppl make too many billions from our energy needs to let this technology be known,Get a motor that needs no gas or electric input at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Free yourself!

[TRISTAN1095]

i garee with the comment that says spam cause its not spam

[49bobbyk]

You can't lubricate moving parts with the sun.

[JGMURPY1]

The problem I see with all this elctric car hype is... How will we make all that extra elctricity?! That will just make more coal plats, making gases and so on.

[Yavor54]

Realize that electric transportation is so much

more efficient than gas-powered devices- it is total win-win situation. Just put a 20 foot array on top of your carport and plug the car in when you park. Even if you charge it off the "mains", it is much better on the environment than refining oil into gas and burning it. In a gas engine, you have to get rid of the excess heat (radiator) caused when the engine converts 25% of the gas into waste heat. The engine would seize in 3 minutes without it

[djsubliminalreeve]

that first car could pull the girls and be green i want one.

[Solarpoweredfish]

yes solar power is the new oil!

[longhairedartist]

You forgot the Zap car, they have a utility truck with a solar roof panel integrated. Unlike the others, it's affordable at less than $15,000 and can be purchased right now.

By the way solar has a bright future with infrared... nano size antennas can receive infrared radiation with as much as 80% efficiency. And infrared still shines at night.

[walter0bz]

Solar power for vehicles is ridiculous - thats why plants don't walk.

[Blazingcomentz]

the FIRST CAR LOOKED LIKE A COOL ASS LAMBO...cant belive somebody actually said it looked lame.

[dtripakis]

The problem is the battery...

But I guess if it becomes massively used, then there MIGHT be an eco-friendly way to build and recycle those too.

[UnFriendlySniper]

your all wrong, in the future, our vehicles will be powered by Chuck Norris.! worship his third fist!

[eastcoaster54]

solar panels convert like 6-12 % potential power. I see lot's of room for improvement.

[Yavor54]

@eastcoaster54 - 16-18% for commercial PV panels and 33% for ones used in science (NASA etc). Germany is going all PV solar. They have 1/2 as much sunlight as the USA. Germans are not stupid people. Our FOX dis-information system has confused people on behalf of big oil and has made it fashionable to be a Bubba dumb-ass retrograde. Luckily, we scientists have more input on policy. We just have to overcome

religious superstition and political money stealing scams.

[NME113]

the first one loos like a lame lambo

[done698]

Solar - Revolution Welcome !!!

Save our Planet !!!

God bless you ! oOo

Love and peace forever - Fuck the Petrolmaffiosis

[ndyt]

solar panels on a car will always be a gemic. There is just not enough surface area. Although, I think every car could use it to keep the battery from dieing when you don't drive a car for a long time. Most cars cant go much more then 2 weeks before the battery dies. Though if the car is inside it wont help :P

[edstar83]

@ndyt I wouldn't say it will always be a gemic. apart from obviously recharging the batteries like you said, I'm pretty sure they have, and have had for a long time way more efficient solar technology supressed from the public. Just as they do rechargable battery technology.

[ndyt]

@edstar83, even if the panels were 100% efficient there still wouldn't be enough surface area to power a normal car. You need to get educated and stop listening to these retarded conspiracy theories.

[edstar83]

@ndyt you need to learn to get your point across without being a asshole.

[ndyt]

@edstar83, the first response should have been enough for you, asshole.

[edstar83]

@ndyt fuck off troll

[minteko]

Is Solar Power The New Oil?

Yeah like no oil was used to construct this car.

[dhymers]

On-car solar power to power a commercially viable vehicle is a ways off yet, say at least 50 years. The efficiency of cells is just too low at the moment.

But large grid tied systems to power electric cars is here, not perfect but here now. Lots of work to be done.

Lithium and other battery chemicals/precious metals will become the new oil. As one resource runs out we will find others and so on .....

[aetjdgj]

Even if the efficiency of the on-car cells is low they would be a very nice "support" power to charge the battery, even, if not specially, when the car is parked. Grid power is not too portable, but of course trains trams and metro systems are good infastructure.

I agree with you though that battery chemicals is a serious problem.

[DarthCormac]

I saw designs of fusion reactors that look so impressive I wanted to donate money to the company that had it on their site.

And therein lies the magic. Take something that sounds plausible, draw some pretty looking pictures of it, throw in a few snazzy looking equations to fool the layman, and the donations will pour in.

Solar cars are the "new fusion". The industry can't turn a profit, and will only last as long as the subsidies from the govt. flow in.

I rated it 1 star because I cant do 0.

[pvelectric]

yep, no future in solar, since the oil and mining digging-in-the-dirt-only-is-go­od corps. have proven this by hundreds of $million$ of PR.

meanwhile they say up is down, freedom is slavery, war is peace, Greenland's ice cap ain't melting, the North Pole expeditions will come again soon, father knows best 'cause he sold insurance, as did Beaver's dad. AIG is the globalization King of the Universe!

or aint' it. duhhhhhhhhhhwheee...duh duh duh duh, chitty chitty bangarooooo

[4Mengineering]

the petroleum industry receives more subsidies than biofuel, wind, geothermal, and solar combined.

[Sonyoooo3]

Floating solar power can also be the next generation of earning money. And a home/house at the same time .

[pvelectric]

John Lennon in a song: no problems, only solutions. A Roman Caesar said this a few thousand years back too. As they vomited their way back from their orgies, so as to rise like a Phoenix to eat yet some more back at their suburbs, they died alot and got stupid from the lead poison in their drinking water pipes, as their hired legions marched back victorious in foreign wars to a greeting by the Huns, Visigoths and Vandals who had awaited in the cities to there slaughter them all real good.

[onlinesniper]

0:50 i hope this is just charging cos i dont think you will see this bike cutting through traffic lol

[Davedude2000]

Incorporating solar into car ports, roofs, driveways, parking lots and roads seems like the perfect solution for generating power especially for transportation. Using it on vehicles roofs can power electronics in a vehicle but not the vehicle itself.

[DEKAROHHO]

Why will costs come down? Do not believe that myth! Texaco bout out Ovionics which makes thin film solar cells, with that in mind was it done to get us cheaper prices? NO!! Solar, batteries and electric is the new oil! The big players will swallow up every maker of cheap stuff so that they can sell it to us at oil prices. Get a brain cell overhaul! Just because the nature of cars will change it does not mean the game has changed

[gukonni]

With cars btw it will be about battery capacity and life. That's where we need the improvement. We can already reliably get 100+ miles per charge. Batteries WILL get better. Costs WILL come down.

[gukonni]

Solar thermal won't work because it has to be concentrated on new land. The environmentalists won't let this happen. The only way solar power will work is if you put it on your roof and on your current property. Use the land you already have. This will mean we don't have to put them in wildlife sanctaries. We won't have to eat up new land to power our homes. That's the beauty of solar power. You can put it anywhere!

[gukonni]

He's right, there's not enough surface area on a car for this to work very well. On the other hand, it would help! The real place to put the solar film of the future will be at home. Cities will coat their buildings with it. Nanotechnology and new materials will bring production costs down to a affordable level. With solar power it will be about putting the films everywhere, not about concentrating it in one small place. Gotta think big and non-centralized - that's what solar power will be.

[Yavor54]

Actually, All we have is solar power. All power is solar power. The further you get from taking it directly from the sun, the more loss you have. 15 years from now we will look at gas-fueled cars and wonder how we ever used them. Smoking, noisy, un-reliable and about 22% efficient. All vehicles will be electric. The cities will be quiet and the air clean.

It doesn't matter what Joe Q. Public says or thinks. You'll drive the electric vehicles we design for you , or you can ride a horse. Done..

[greenenergy4life]

15 years is a bit short to take al gas cars of the way.

i think it wil be in about 25 years.

[Anothercoilgun]

Hahaha nice one. As long as Big Oil dominates solar power then solar power will be then dominate power.

[ultimazer1]

@Yavor54: well said

[TRISTAN1095]

@Yavor54 electric cars ruin the invirment either way wellbe out of resources those huge batteries when you throw them away and taken to a land fill they are an ecological disaster

[Yavor54]

@TRISTAN1095 - What you attempted to say is just

Glen Beck burping. Lithium battery -powered vehicles

are extremely efficient and totally recycle-able.

Lead-acid batteries are almost 100% recycled now.

The Nissan Leaf is out this month and is a lithium-battery

vehicle that rocks. 95mph, 300+ effective MPG..and

you charge it in your garage. The future has arrived

so just follow us.

[mphello]

@Yavor54 Great comment! I did my part this week. Got over my great fear of giving up my car and purchased ($1584) an electric-assist tricycle, which will serve as my new car, once I build up my strength and stamina pedaling it to all the places to which I now drive. Peak oil and global warming cannot wait. There is a learning curve to ALL technology (once my trike arrives, it will take a few months making the mechanical adjustments to suit me as well as learning motors, batteries, etc).

[ndyt]

There is not enough surface area to power a normal car.

[Anothercoilgun]

The efficiency of cells will grow when nano and multi layering kicks in. The cells need not directly power the car but for sure can charge it while sitting idle. People only drive an hour or two while their cars get super hot sitting in free sunlight 8+ hours a day. Well in Cali anyway.

[ndyt]

Anothercoilgun, even at 100% efficiency (the max) there is not enough power from sunlight falling on the surface of the car over an 8 hour period to charge the battery even 1% of what it would take to move the car 40 miles. Wake up and get some education.

[otherworldtrader1]

@ndyt that attitude is what got the electric car kille dyears ago, it also is the theme song for big oil

[ndyt]

@otherworldtrader1, it takes more the the right attitude to create a viable product. You sound like a creationist.

[joshuago8]

solarpower has been taking off as long as the electric motor or even longer but people have not been taking an interest in it entil now

[ecoherbalism]

Solar power will never take off. This is a Corporations nightmare. How long have we had solar power? 100 years?

[MagicTimeVideos]

I agree.

That 1930s worlds fair that promised video telephones will never happen either and I have always said that if man where meant to fly god would have given him wings...

Whats that? Really?

umm maybe this solar car thing might just happen one day too:-)

P.S. photovoltaic panels emerged in labs in the 50's and 60's - about the same time the internet was getting started

[brlt21]

NEW Batteries Lithium Titanate can be charged in 5 minutes, life 10 to 20 years, cycles 6000 to 9000, no runaway, no explosion, no problem at high and low temperatures.

See: -Altair USA Nanosafe and -Toshiba Japan SCiB.

[TheUdders]

Lol how can u have solar pannels on a glider?

[MagicTimeVideos]

the wings of a glider has a lot of unused surface area to mount solar panels. Also, you wouldn't go soaring on cloudy, rainy days anyway so it makes perfect sense to put solar panels on the wings of a glider.

there are some designs out there already. Do a google search for "Solar Plane Set to Soar" for pictures of one

[submonbkey]

thats a nice car!!!!!!

[regreg88]

I believe so. Our solar system is powered by it..we should be too.

[EV1Forever]

Yes It Is. I know people who have 2.5Kw Solar setup that cost about $10,000 on there roof tops that power there entire house of 2,600 Square Feet and two toyota Rav4 EV's and have not payed for electricity, Oil Or Gasoline for over two years

[kungfool69]

i was wondering if we can draw power from our road systems through thermal conductors that convert to electricity somehow (using the sun and friction from cars)

[RaySquirrel]

"Is solar power the new oil?"

Until there is a cost effective means of storing the energy, I doubt it. Though, with all we know that discovery could be made tomorrow. There have already been some major breakthroughs. Just look at some of the things that have been discovered at MIT regarding solar technology.

[22512587]

no.

[boxa888]

hey everyone you should look up nikola teslas "utilization of radiant energy"patented 1901. it was the first solar panel in human history. i remade it and show you how to build one for yourself for free, so you can have a little historical technology on your property. its very interesting, 110 yrs old and looks and functions just like a solar panel!!!

[Cchange4us]

yes

[cZ14XpE]

J'ai équipé la maison de mon père au Portugal en panneaux solaires pour la production d'électricité, de chauffage & d'eau chaude. Dans la sud du pays, il fait toujours beau. L'hiver, il fait entre 15 à 20°C ; l'été 25-35°C.

C'est très avantageux & économique. La Comission Européenne nous a subventionné pour l'achat & l'installation à 50% du prix !

Cela fait 2 ans & demi que l'on gagne de l'argent, sans rien faire & sans payer d'impôts !

[shalimamenon]

can any body say which song's playing in the background ? who's the artist ? its a cool one.. and nice consiousness to bring in solar initiative...

[energyadvertiser]

The song is called Sunshine and it's by Keane. Its a fantastic song from a fantastic group. Thanks for watching!

[shalimamenon]

thanks a lot. and keep posting such useful videos with such beautiful background that attract everyone.. Thanks again.!

[EdwardRommel]

@energyadvertiser How hard would it be to apply a thin photovoltaic film to the outside of a chevy volt and then the car could recharge itself while parked at your work place or while being driven on the road?.

These cars in this video seem to incorporated photovoltaic cells into their exterior so I am wonderin why Chevy did not do that with the Volt. How much more efficient would it make the Volt?

[KingOrmond]

Don't forget, USA Uncle Sam need raise TAX Rich for share poor income because solar, Robot, Machine, computer are hurt economy, mathmatic, account, share, budget data system.

[fuzzywzhe]

As an engineer that had to take aerodynamics to get my degree, I have to ask the question.

Did every single car designer FAIL aerodynamics, or did they just not bother to take the course?

[tommy407]

how does it fail aerodynamic? u sir are stupid

[fuzzywzhe]

> how does it fail aerodynamic? u sir are stupid

The car is more aerodynamic driving BACKWARDS than forwards.

Do you know why?

The most aerodynamic shape that can exist is the same shape as a raindrop. It's blunt on the front, and tapered at the end.

Is the front blunt, or tapered?

You see, ACTUALLY stupid people have been trained to think cars are aerodynamic, but it's the complete opposite.

If you want to see an aerodynamic car, look at the Aptera.

[tommy407]

when my girlfriend sits in my car she doesn't care about aerodynamic

[fuzzywzhe]

> when my girlfriend sits in my car she doesn't

> care about aerodynamic

That's because she has a brain the size of a walnut.

[44sd44]

haha,i'd rather have a gf with a walnut brain than no gf at all

[fuzzywzhe]

> haha,i'd rather have a gf with a walnut brain

> than no gf at all

Then do an internet search on google for "real doll". Same thing, except you don't have to feed it, and it doesn't bother you with stupidity coming out of it's mouth nonstop.

A woman without a brain is nothing more than a fuckdoll anyhow and who wants that? I guess you do.

[44sd44]

lol,,you must troll around MIT,brown,caltech if youre honest

[fuzzywzhe]

> lol,,you must troll around MIT,brown,caltech

> if youre honest

I live in Silicon Valley.

[energyadvertiser]

Hi Juscurious! Thanks for commenting! The panels don't run the car, they help with the charging of the car. I acknowledge they don't usually completely charge the car however they increase efficiency. You're right about the wattage but it's not mean't to completely charge it. It just assists with charging. Stupid video or not it's a 5 star rated stupid video.

It also depends how much you use the car. If you use it for a few miles once a week, then it will run the car.

[NerdMafiaman]

@energyadvertiser who drives a few miles once a week?

[backspace8908]

they have taxes on rain near my house

[Saphiregun]

you can't be serious

[backspace8908]

i am. its about 7 bucks a month. and the bill was made to get money from big companies with lots of land. but they have to charge everyone

[iMBBonlyone]

actually, the bill was made to keep people from collecting and/or selling their own water without regulation. which has its benefits and its drawbacks like everything else.

have you ever seen the movie Tank Girl where the Evil guy puts that thing in that guy's back? wicked!

[llahneb10]

I'd love to see some of these vehicles in action soon, I think they'd be very popular for making a statement regardless of their efficiency/economics.

[energyadvertiser]

The Fisker Karma is being released in 2009.

[TequilaShot]

BIG OIL knows solar is the future, this is a major reason why they're milking us as bad as they are right now.

[gothisntem]

yes let the future in our lives.

[energyadvertiser]

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[cZ14XpE]

La prochaine étape, récupérer l'eau de pluie & changer l'installation au gaz pour la cuisine & en électrique depuis l'alimentation électrique. On a vendu notre ancienne Peugeot 406 pour une Prius avec panneaux solaires rechargeable sur l'électricité 220 volts.

[Bernd1964]

let the future begin...