Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

http://www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.

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[TheTruthNothinMore]

@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.

[mellamosean]

@Meowbay

why, is your ass in captivity?

[squeeks555]

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

[samster92]

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

[roflex2]

@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.

[roflex2]

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

[Hwy6AandM0]

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.

[Chimmy912]

This is amazing, simply and utterly amazing.

[TheUnchainedMind]

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

[daicon1v]

@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

[kingofthepaupers]

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." 

[kingofthepaupers]

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.