The sun delivers more energy to earth in one hour than all of humanity uses in an entire year. How can we make this power more accessible to everyone, everywhere? Solar designer Marjan van Aubel shows how she’s turning everyday objects like tabletops and stained glass windows into elegant solar cells — and shares her vision to make every surface a power station.
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Another feel good vision of the future. This one driven by feminist ideology it seems. It won’t provide the energy at the cost we need to prevent poverty and decline. We need energy that can drive our industrial processes and agricultural needs, not turn on lights.
You can stick a few solar panels on them shoes she wearing.
I do not think solar panels are Ugly. They are symmetric and flexible.
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So grateful it exists in 2020."
One of my favorite TED talks tbh
I can across this video on Ewans energy roadmap – there are many great videos there that will help out
I think both the climate deniers and the Greens work together, to stop people thinking up a real solution. Climate deniers have such stupid arguments that they can be easily dismissed, which means Greens can be self righteous just fending off idiots. But that leaves their own brand of idiocy, never thinking through whether renewables could work.
I can across a good collection of videos that may help you at Ewans Energy Roadmap
What happens when you use the table as …a table and put stuff on it. Do you have to clear the table to power up your phone?
I do admire Amsterdam Women (a bit of a sexist name) for thinking about solar energy and how to integrate it in our lives not only Amsterdam women should do that we all should do that I'm sure some ideas would be practical and useful.
Is her dress white and black or gold and blue?
Great work!!
The Sun produce enough energy in one hour to power the earth for a year. Talk about wasting power.
Cool
how could we deal with the solar panels toxin during production and after use?
Solar does not meet the demands in extreme weather, is not biodegradable, causes toxins to make or destroy and the new size of hail will cost millions in replacements…who is getting rich ?…aint the average joe!!! Agenda 2030 your death sentence
Her work is amazing, that is the question that always in my mind "why solar panels have dark navy in color?", "Do solar panels should always in a rectangular shape?". And yeah suddenly I found this video, I really support what she has done in designing a solar panel
This is so cool.
HELP!
Does anyone know about the PID 'potential induced degradation' on solar panels ?
This is nice for consumers, but to sustainably power society, nuclear is our only option.
So you can produce DC power for a phone using your ideas. What about AC power? And last time I checked, solar panels are really inefficient when level with the ground and when perpendicular to the ground. I can still hear the electrical engineers chuckling in the distance.
You are very creative and imaginative. I have never seen such beautifully designed solar panels before. The table charging station and the transparent solar windows are brilliant ideas. Imagine if everyone had them to charge up their phone and other electronic devices, how much energy that will save. You give me hope that working together we can solve the energy crisis.
I get sick and tiered of this word sustainable …
It's overused, a LIE and thought up by people who can't see the polution lurking at the end…
Thought up by people who spend the majority of their lives INSIDE!?!
Now integrate this technology with farming robots and every high rise tenant can have fresh self-grown vegetables on their plates every day
Watch at 1.25X..
What a brilliant technology, thanks mam
Tell whats the next lvl of solar panles ??isnt there any porgress?
Nuclear is the only way. Making the US 100% solar energy would be 24 trillion dollars not including the massive amount of batteries needed. The amount of mining to manufacturing these panels would cost too much for the environment as well.
Anyone saying solar panels are ugly are hideous creatures
Let's face the truth: Solar is a wonderful solution for remote places and for portability, it isn't the solution for sustainable energy. They cost quite a lot of resource to make and aren't very efficient. These panels are hard and costly to recycle.
next step is recycling solar panels waste…
There's no solar panels with an efficiency of 44%!
Two photographs chosen to dishonestly prove that solar is ugly. I can provide hundreds of photos that prove the opposite.
They are not always ugly mostly far from it.
its hard to explain my feeling towards your brain & personality. I admire you, I hope one day I can meet you 🙂 Thanks
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I love seeing this coming into play
that booty
These are the kind of videos that make me happy amidst all the depressing climate change ones.
my ideas …. I am really happpy
I love solar energy! It brought us COAL!
Lunacy. She is ignoring the embodied energy of the materials, all of her projects will use more energy than they produce in their lifetime I'd wager. Solar panels need to be south facing, angled correctly for their latitude and placed in full sun. Theres also no point conserving a little water to grow plants inside a steel, plastic and glass building that took tons of CO2 to produce.
Thanks, very smart approach. I still love my old flat rectangular panels.
With Perovskite this applications will be more adopted on mass because flexibility and cheaper solution to harvest light , solar and indoor light
Mobile Solar Power, Will is a Youtiuber with great DIY solar systems with everything you need from education, step by step, and Amazon based buys.
Hey great content, amazing work!
U should look into suncontract, they are a decentralized energy market, u can have ur solar on some place at your country and send it to your house or flat in the city (currently active in Slovenia and Italy this year, but working on more partnerships and expanding in EU and Asia) http://www.suncontract.org
the design aspect is nice but obviously has no experience with hydroponics, Using a clear container and tubing with hydroponics will very quickly become an experiment in growing algae.
Heating pads on a large scale wont be as clean as you think. It's a lot worse than plastic to deal with as trash.
She and Elon Musk; a synergistic couple!
Wow! This is awesome. How can someone setup a small plant in Pakistan to make solar panels you design?
It’s going to take more time but it can happen if battery technology improves. They have to be cheap . Governments have to start giving back the taxes they collect on resources companies. We could use the carbon bucks to buy solar panels . Taxing the people just shows how little they care.