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  • Why in the hell would someone dislike this? Dipshits.

  • whats holding Justin Hall back??? he seems to pretty much have all the pieces worked out. where is are free energy?

  • I've seen this single TedTalk almost a hundred times now.

  • Id love to see some numbers of how effective this is, is it working on a scale that will be useable?

  • This is amazing technology. Fantastic stuff. I've met one of the top people in the UT-Dallas engineering school and it does not surprise me to hear that they are involved in this. This is really impressive stuff. Bravo to U of Florida, UTD and TED.

  • This is amazing, simply and utterly amazing.

  • Very interesting, but I wish he'd gone a bit more in detail since I didn't quite understand the way this tech works.

  • 11:00 Justin Hall Tipping: "We can do better than this. It's just plain wrong" to picture of "Vulture waiting on baby African girl's death for lack of water."

    Jct: Yes, itis plain wrong but no you can not do better than that. You don't have enough money and not until you figure out how to grant her some purchasing power, there is nothing you can do. What morted her wasn't the lack of water, it was the lack interest-free credit to buy her life support. She couldn't afford the loan.

  • So you keep working on them cheaper energy and water while John the Banking Systems Engineer keeps working on getting them cheapest interest-free credit line at the bank based on time paid back when they grow up. And, "yes, they are why we have to solve our problems."

  • Good Video, Thanks for shared

  • Wysips, search for it!

    Some French dudes are trying to put it on smartphones by next year (phones you don't ever have to charge), go Frenchies! :D

  • Yeah, like this seems really cool, but where is it? Like, if these things can ALREADY be done, why are they not being done, at all? I have to kind of think that he is either making all this crap up, or idk.

  • @splendidrobthedisgus do you REALLY think that the giant oil corporations would allow this to pass through? PLEASEEE stop being so naive :)

  • With that disempowering viewpoint they have already won. If you want to see change in the world you must change you. Make a small step in using alternatives that are optimal for life.

  • @3035kimtw you're one of those douchers, right?

  • he could have used any other picture but he chose to use a black child from africa...he could of used one from america or russia or india or china or korea...but he chose africa...shame on you

  • @3y3n5tyn That's a Pulitzer prize photo he has, the original.

  • i am liking this guy

  • This man wins destiny.

  • Now that is what technology should be about.

  • And anoying

  • Music is to loud

  • I love the idea, but why have we not seen any prototypes? Are there problems in mass producing it, is it too expensive etc?

  • No to be a big asshole... but call me when you have some actual products... I've seen these things/claims, or similar, time and time again. But it would seem they never see the light of day out side the labs. Sadly.

  • @Superlortenar It's pessimists like you that never allows these ideas to be products, stop standing on a fucking pedestal and for a change just believe that it might actually work. You don't look smart or better than anyone if you always act as a skeptic. And please don't expect these people to shove these products up your asses, we have to put some effort in to it too.

  • @Superlortenar Ever heard of the word 'suppression'? Check it out, you might learn something.

  • @Superlortenar Might have soemthing to do with the largest industry in the world (energy) suppressing tech. *cough* Tesla *cough*

  • cold fusion is the only real answer that will solve the problem

    everything else is just an ad hoc band aid

  • @ricodelta1 Fusion is indeed a solution. Cold fusion was itself a fictitious claim

  • @ricodelta1 Thorium nuclear power using a fast breeder reactor, only prototypes have been made, but we have essentially unlimited thorium, it is cleaner than any other nuclear technology, and it can 'burn' existing nuclear waste. It will solve several problems, unlimited water, unlimited power, no CO2, and removes 95% of existing nuclear waste. The only issue is it is nothing like existing nuclear tech and will need an entire industry build around it from scratch costing $25billion minimum.

  • His research will be buried, bought out, or key people will be killed. The status quo/powers that be don't want this to happen. This will free the people and destroy their hold over us.

  • Dude - Why do you show a picture of a nuclear cooling tower as evidence of "burning up the planet"? That is STEAM, harmless to the environment. Also, carbon is invisible, smog =/= CO2

  • I love the idea, however what is not mentioned is simple efficiency. What is the efficiency of such a unit in conversion and power density. Photovoltaics are 15% efficient and rely on that someone what steady 1000 watt meter square of isolation, this requires quite a bit area of area to generate sufficient power. This technology needs to surpass 15% efficiency and cost quite a bit less than other alternative energies. I do hope the research continues as this will undoubtedly be beneficial.

  • so when usa killing this person ??

  • Free energy? So the materials to build this shit is magical, it comes out of my ass? What about the finished product? It will just appear? Or does someone have to MANUFACTURE this. There's a thing called "capital expenditure".

  • This won't happen if lobbyists have anything to say about it. First you'll need to do away with lobbying and patents for this technology to stand any chance to truly happening.

  • I wouldn't count on fusion. 50 years ago they said it'd take 50 years to be commercialized, and NOW most scientists still say it'd take 50 years to be commercialized.

    Also, he's trying to solving the WORLD's energy problem, not the energy problem of technically advanced/rich states. There's no way for many of the world's countries to build anything related to nuclear fission for one reason or another. Not to mention they don't have the infrastructure to transport that energy to remote regions.

  • Nanotubes currently cost a hundred dollars per gram to produce. They are expensive because they require a crapload of time and energy to make

    Besides solar power isn't the densest energy source we can tap. There's breeder-fission which could be as cheap as a thousandth of a cent per kilowatt (see LFTR), and fusion via PNE which would litterally make money over operation time by transmuting fissile isotopes for a few lithium and deuterium (see PACER). All this could be available within 10 years.

  • Manufacturing those carbon nano electron-using materials is an expensive process, still, requiring quite some old-school energy. And investments, huge funding. Who does he think pays for that? Free is something we don't have to pay for. We *will* have to pay for this, either by the currency then existing, or by exchanging something else of value. Free my ass, Justin.

  • @Meowbay

    why, is your ass in captivity?

  • @mellamosean Actually, it is, in a way. Just like yours is. We're all captives of the guardians of the status quo on energy, work and money right now.

  • @mellamosean lmao

  • check this out.... thrive movement.com

  • Wow so amazing! The oil sector will kill this guy for sure!

  • @KonigKraft See response to ickybug below...

  • The guy is not a scientist, he's a business man (a venture capitalist), and this is one big advertisement for his company. He is getting out his photo of a dying kid while he has probably traded grain futures in the past. I'm skeptical of his claims and his sincerity. I hope he is sincere about keeping people from starving to death and creating free energy, but all the evidence would point toward him and his mates finding a way to make free energy incredibly profitable....

  • @aimloe That is because in our current state they need cash to fund and further advance the science behind it... some day when these and many other sciences are put into practical use they will pretty much make many jobs and things that people are employed to do obsolete... i wonder what will happen when the idea of money is finally irrelevant.

  • Have a read of the Board friends. Chair is a Christian nutter who also sits on a bunch of think tank/charity boards, one of which promotes intelligent design... A number of guys tied up with Morgan Stanley & Goldman Sachs, Defence, Intelligence, CFO is ex-Arthur-Anderson... AND WAIT FOR IT... Majority interest is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, the second largest producer of LNG in the US. I'd buy Greek bonds before giving them money. Someone tied up with Al Gore in there too. Green energy bubble?

  • It makes so much sense, let's do all of it now.

  • Justin - where are you....! You came to Goa and disappear too fast.........please make us know how to contact you..........India has the money - the man power - the sun and the desperate need of every thing your teem of geniuses are discovering.

    MARINA

    marina.avatr@gmail.com

  • great idea, too avant garde, we have to wait for at least another several decades to even just make these applicable even just in a lab

  • Yeah we need to develop this more and mass produce it. Like NOW!!! i hate how slow the world is becomming, afraid of change.

  • If we could put our collective ego's to one side perhaps we could just make this happen. Thank you for your humanity

  • Money is more important. I ,personally, can't make any money off this. If the choice is between the individual or the world, the individual will always fuck the world.

  • @14users Can't make money off of this? The new devices in the forms of high technology, transportation, electronics, water purification and so on that would become possible due to this would be beyond count. If you cannot see money in that then please never go into venture capitalism.

  • what if global warming is a hoax and we create a better world for no reason ???

  • @squeeks555

    then its still ganna be a better world

  • keep the picture of the starving kid in mind...and occupy the world

  • Anthropogenic global warming is a farce

  • Also I was annoyed by the way he's talking about electrical current, radiation doesn't produce electrons, it excites electrons so there's a current.

    Not to mention that third world poverty and lack of water is due to governmental and political oppression, not from lack of technology or resources.

  • The moment he started talking about global warming as if it was a scientific fact my red flags went up. As I suspected he never got to the point, how much energy a given panel of the material produces, compared to a normal photovoltaic one?! Sure it must be cheaper than a monocrystalline silicon panel, but how much efficient is it?!

  • @SuperFinGuy Well, global warming is now admitted by a large majority of scientists all over the world.

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  • This man is not only a scientist, he is a humanitarian. I cringe at what Big Oil thinks of this. In my lifetime I would LOVE to see the madness end, while intelligent thought and progress like this, take root in our world.

  • This guy is like a modern day alchemist. His fantasy window pane power plants are limited by the power provided by sunlight, which is sadly inadequate for our power demands. In other words, the amount of raw energy that falls upon your entire home isn't enough to power it.

  • @Applest2oApples However, the raw energy falling upon human infrastructure (cities, roads etc) is of many magnitudes greater than our energy needs!

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  • @Applest2oApples In other words, you're comically, completely wrong. Do you have any idea how much power is in sunlight? Maybe you should use your brain for a moment... how can someone today power their home by only covering half of their roof with solar cells with only 15-25% efficiency.

    If you could capture all the power provided by the sunlight that falls on one house, you could power many houses. You just made an epic logic fail... I feel embarrassed for you.

  • @tooosweeet Hehe, this reply you made to someone else I know. But please allow me to perhaps pique your interest in this little invention that has been around for many years, but was never used due to the 80's oil crisis and lack of funding, enjoy.

    ing.dk/artikel/104139-saesonla­gring-af-ubegraenset-solvarme-­er-mulig-hvem-griber-chancen

    Use google translate, if that does not satisfy, I will gladly translate words or sentences.

  • WE need to build huge MIRROR in space that can give us a ONLY light NOT HEAT at night. Do, that is how we can save some energy. Great video!

  • This very much looks like the big change, IF governments decide to think of the world population.

    Its a shame that something like this will never happen when oil is around...

    A big question for me is : Whats the production cost of all this?

  • @vanakes Any start up costs would be enormous. It's in the 'longterm' savings that the benefits would occur. Once mass production and consumption occur, costs would eventually lower.

    Creating a new infrastructure, disassembling the old one, and handling the surge of initial unemployment is another 'cost'.

    It's daunting but not impossible. If we live to see it happen we'll also suffer through it as well. It's our children, possibly our grandchildren that would truly benefit from this change.

  • This... Is... Absolutly Amazing...

  • 0:15 thank me later

  • Great, inspiring talk, but too much swooping. We love gratuitous powerpoint transitions, don't we?

  • 41 American oil and gas company CEOs disliked this video.

  • @ickybug One of the board members of Nanoholdings is a rep of the CEO of Chesapeake Energy bro.... Do some research.

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  • Just to make that clear; One of the members of the Board of Directors of Nanoholdings (the company the guy above, Justin Hall, part owns, and the company that is patenting all of these great ideas so it can no doubt monopolize 'free energy') represents the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, the 2nd largest Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) producer in the US.... The perfect sell; ending poverty through free energy. Who could criticise a bloke selling that... Don't accept anything without using your brains first

  • @aimloe

    using my brain hurts

  • @ickybug The oil and gas CEO's are the biggest supporters of green energy technologies. They are the ones that fund this kind of research because they intend on dominating this market as well as the oil and gas markets.

  • @TheTruthNothinMore I'm sorry but there is far more evidence of oil and gas companies suppressing alternative energy much more than supporting it. Feigning support was one way of killing the electric car.

    No sensible energy company is going to support tech that gives people un-metered energy imo

  • @daicon1v They will if they can sell the tech, they can sell this tech. It would take many many gears to kill them anyway, no one is honestly afraid of that.

  • @ickybug Now there is 51 republican who hate this video... and those brilliant ideas...

  • Historians will refer to this video.

  • 41 dislikes? Are they suicidal?

    

  • @tomfarr56 No, they know that their income will decrease and it's more important to them, than human lives.

  • most likely they are already utilizing some form of this technology concerning beaming microwaves to Earth.

    Thanks for uploading this Very informative.

  • It sounds great. Where can I find a more detailed description abuot this?

  • The water solution is already with us right *now* -

    and it is not down to what scientists can do -

    but to what Politicians *refuse* to do !

  • This is greatly inspirational - but there is a long history to the cover up of free energy - stretching back 100 years and more. One also needs a view of the "larger picture" to understand why the sort of technology that Justin Hall Tipping is developing has not been in general use already. Part of the reason that most are unaware of is that this sort of technology has already been developed, weaponised and used - Google Dr Judy Wood 9/11 and Free Energy.

  • LOVE this idea

  • Yeah but how much money does this energy storing grid cost per household. If it's expensive as those solar panels, then most people will ignore it, never mind the rhetoric talk on imagination and wonders of what ifs' land.

  • Waht can I do?

  • I know one of the guy in audience.. I volunteered at his "NGO"! *ahem*

    I like how Justin Hall thinks! :-)

  • If you do a YouTube search for Nanoholdings you will find more of Justin Hall-Tipping's videos

  • I got slightly chocked up watching this! Fucking bravo that man, Make this man fucking President of the world NOW!!!!!

  • AMAZING!

  • I want to work with these people. I will do anything. I have a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering. Please PM me with anything!

  • mankind is not going to prevail, but evolve into a godlike being capable of immortalizing himself in this particular universe.

  • Can someone let me know where I can find a job building stuff like this?

  • wow. inspirational stuff. I agree with the comments re the corporates' claws into our govts making any changes more difficult. time for a massive rethink eh?

  • Brilliant.

  • this reminds me of the ZEITGEIST movement

  • godly

    

  • the last few lines justify the gravity of thought in this talk. Remarkable!

  • How much energy does the film produce? Unanswered.

    Without knowing that the whole presentation is useless.

  • @Hallibutbouy The conductor is 1000 times more conductive than copper, so in effect could collect solar energy up to 1000 times more efficiently than today's current solar panels.

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1 Copper has a static resistivity of 1.68*10E-8 ohm-meters. That is very conductive. 1000 times greater doesn't gain you much, and what does conductivity have to do with what he's talking about?

  • @jgoemat maybe if you read what i was replying to, you might get your answer

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1 Solar cells are not made of copper... They are made of semiconductors which produce the photovoltaic effect.

  • @SuperFinGuy my bad, but whatever they are currently made of, i was trying to suggest that the more conductive the material, the more efficient they would be at absorbing solar energy. Or is that incorrect?

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1 Conductivity is important but what is most important is the photovoltaic effect of the material. You can have say a superconductor but it won't build an electric tension is it doesn't have a photovoltaic effect.

  • free energy why don't we dump our entire national budget into this, you can't go wrong

  • This is why science > religion.

  • @gregory06 I like how you missed the point by a mile.

  • @schustar322 The point? I know the point. It's to make this a better world. Religion is tearing it apart.. That's why science > religion

  • @gregory06 seems to me that is comparing apples to oranges, science helps us live better/easier, where as religion in its best sense helps us act/behave better and offers an idea of what comes after death.

  • @AwayFromTheWorld No, no it doesn't.

  • @AwayFromTheWorld I act/behavior better without a religion than most do WITH a religion, so whats the point of religion again?

  • ...but we need a government smart grid to control and watch you!

  • Fantastic speech.

  • Nikola Tesla did better than this.

  • @depro9 Nikola Tesla was a clever man, but, even if he did better, we are not able to benefit from his free power if it even existed in the end.

    This is real, and also possible.

  • @fireinthemountains are you seriously questioning Dr Tesla!? To his dying day he said it was possible to implement his world system only it would cost a bit of money & will of those in power. This system proposed by Hall is a red herring.

  • @depro9 I agree with this statement. It is seemingly the will of corporations to crush innovation over profits. So, the will will have to come from somewhere not guarded by selfishness. The money likewise.

    It is unfair to call this a red herring, but perhaps it is overstated. It is hard to see how all of our electricity can come from surrounding solar light, when this is of less energy than is needed to power devices of varying sorts.

    It could still help though. 1 kW less is still 1 kW

  • I just love the rhythm of his speaking. Really efficient.

  • don't think the energy crops would allow this :(

  • wow !!!! so good

  • WOW

  • "The power-plant of tomorrow is no power-plant" [Pause for applause.] .... crickets

  • @BadMothafrakker187 HAHAHAHAHA sinner xD

  • @BadMothafrakker187 God I hope you are joking...

  • this dude could be talking about a tits powered telekinetic plasma screen video game system with quantum rocket launchers and stealth pineapple, and it would still put me to sleep.

  • 39 people are oil tycoons.

  • 6:20 - "the total width of it is six hundred times smaller than the width of a decimal place."

    This sentence is retarded.

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  • its not like this carbon isotope is new though, I think it won the nobel prize last year.

  • @SamieOld its not an isotope. what you mean is allotrope. the carbon nanotubes he refers to were not the subject of last years Nobel - that was graphene. carbon nanotubes were discovered shortly after "fullerenes" ....C60 (buckyballs) & the like

  • Hey Assholes at 10:17! What's so fucking funny?

  • @jarthos123 That looks suspiciously like Stefan Sagmeister, designer extraordinaire. Anyone else?

  • @jarthos123 they know what he is saying is bullshit! Tesla said we could pull water from the atmosphere cheap & easily using only electricity. They do this in Abu Dhabi to make it rain now & then.

  • I clapped when he was done..

  • Where can I buy stock in this man's company??

  • One of the best ever TED talks.

  • @kei87 lol.. true..

  • don't inhale these windows for the love of god

  • I had to stop after the first two minutes were complete bullshit. Has this guy never even thought about remedial statistics? The fact that an event can take 50-100 years to recover from does not mean that it's abnormal, it could very well mean that it is an event that normally happens once or twice every hundred years! I fully accept AGW, but he is still a crank.

  • @opcn18 Whether that's a fact or not, he was merely establishing a point about what we perceive as 'normal' and by no means did he base the rest of the talk on it, you missed an eye opening speech and should put that small error to one side and watch the whole thing. I honestly can't wait for the day this technology becomes viable and is widely used

  • @xSkitZx ? He has injected false information and used it to reach a false conclusion and that false conclusion is the basis of his appeal. That's not something you brush off.

  • @opcn18 How to stunningly miss the point you moron!

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1 Yes calling me a moron makes you sound so much more correct.

    I didn't miss the poitn, I just didn't address it because it is irrelevant to the concern I raised, that's a point that you missed. No matter what he is arguing for when he presents bull like the first two minutes of his talk he should be called out on it. Nothing excuses injecting false information into your argument.

  • @opcn18 It wasn't bull, you interpretation is just wrong.

  • @soulsanctuarymusic1 go back to your bridge troll.

  • hes speaking too slowly

  • wow, I started clapped at the end, till i realized i was staring at a computer screen.

  • Batman's night vision contacts! Hell yeah!

  • Being all things are manipulated(silly humans), the freeing energy, must come down to a mfg. capability ro the same as a small buisness, this is where pricing stays low due to over participation. Get the process down to where 50K$ can set up a Carbon Vaporizer for deposition and then there will be no 20 years for ROI, no interest for GE to try to contain the buisness.

  • I'm in. Sign me up.

  • General Electric, 3-M, Duke Energy and southern Electric will assure the pricing will include a ROI only after 20 year, effectivley, eliminating a water starved child in Africa from participating. "Too difficult, too expensive".. and now they are going to give it away? No. Consumers will care less whether Coal or NG or Carbon tubes deliver the "Electron".. and they will be charged for it, inproportions comprable to Coal, NG and grid supplied "Electrons".

  • @BurnsRubber go on