There's nothing new here. Ford did similar back in the 1900s, only to be crushed by the steel moguls of the time. He was utilizing hemp fibers to make car body parts. The stuff was so strong, light, and durable that the steel industry saw a big threat to their potential market. The whole thing went into oblivion.
The people who cannot be criticised that own DuPont and some of the oil companies didn't like it, as well as those same people in the pharma industry. Hemp was a multi-industry threat and is to this day. Cotton as well.
Back when sailing was the dominant way of traveling and trade, ppl kept repair kits which consisted of hemp seeds and pinetrees among other things to grow then have the necessary materials to continue on...
@@jchastain789it was apparently used as a material for construction of parts. Someone claimed even Henry Ford did this but was stopped by people who claim to be the chosen ones and were all nothing 🤷
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It would be easy to criticize the jet ski manufacturers as showboating, but I commend them. They are doing the right thing. Thank you. You are so brave!
It reminds me of the first digital products that were expensive and not reliable. Now they are in everything and everywhere. You have to start small and grow. Maybe this will help with less plastics. I am sure other plants could be used as well like hemp that are faster growing.
Yes hemp is one of the fast growing plants and can be utilized for severel things like cloths, plastic. And others. I still don’t understand why is not being used.
It's ironic that the theme of this video is a reduction of CO2 and plastic waste yet the product focussed upon is a small part for a machine which has no practical value other than for the amusement of the owner.
You’re missing the point. The new lighter and stronger material can be used on cars, aircraft and electronic devices to make them more fuel efficient. This is only the beginning, it’s just testing, basically.
@@Jin88866 You are missing my point- Yamaha are producing what is really a toy, which is adding to CO2 emissions by burning fossil fuel. Agreed, the new material has the potential for a lot of beneficial uses, I just don't think this example is one of them.
There is no HEMP PLANTANTION enough in JAPAN dude!!! But HEMP is one of the strongest celulose fibers and the easy to obtain (if legally permitted). The HEMP PLANT is the world must efficient vegetal growth cultivation in terms of weight/square meters mass production AND in TIME, because in sunny areas of the world HEMP can produce to the "commercial harvest" 4 to 5 crops per year!!! And one curiosity, the historic larger producer of HEMP was the USA government during the II WW, but that time the "production" was mainly to craft ropes to the US NAVY ships all made of HEMP due this fast production characteristics mentioned ABOVE!!!
Hemp has been the answer for this environmental shit show we have found ourselves for decades . But due to corruption and political red tape they will drag there feet until its too little too late.
Thank you for sharing this news and also thanks to these brands for investing in change. We are past awareness and now need to start and spread using materials like this.
This is all a bit confusing: "five times as strong as steel" presumably means "five times as strong as the same weight of steel". But that would make it as strong as carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is around forty times as strong as the same weight as cellulose fiber by some comparisons I've seen so I'm missing something here.
ruclips.net/video/lAzQWtkPzbI/видео.htmlsi=YRO_29_N7Xa2WgB9 Here...nano cellulose fiber. But it can destroys ecosystem with over plantation like this : ruclips.net/video/dhvOJrkhh8I/видео.htmlsi=HiWI5RtFnIcIydJy
Why would anyone compare them by weight? If you have need to make a car door, it is the size and shape you'll look at. Wood is much, much lighter than steel at the same size.
@@CaptainSnackbeardI find your question really, really odd: weight considerations are hugely important in engineering. Not just in the totally obvious fields like aerospace but for cars, boats, bicycles, sports equipment, musical instruments, architectural materials, military equipment... anything that moves or regularly has to be lifted in fact. I'm building a carbon fiber sailing vessel myself and keeping it as lightweight as possible is critical to its success.
@@chrisgrill6302 weight is important, still secondary to form in most applications. You can't make humans smaller or larger to suit forms, and engineering is (usually) about serving humans somehow. Presumably your boat can't be made 5x or 40x smaller / larger so you can achieve some ideal weight. For example unless you have some kind of hydrofoil thing going on, then without a long keel it doesn't matter how light you make it, it won't go as fast a because of displacement/hull speed limitations. As to the comparison, Carbon fiber is expensive, difficult to work with, is human made, and creates waste. Wood is cheap, grows all over, is easy to work with, and is itself a carbon sink.
If those strength to weight ratios are accurate, the stuff should have a role in aviation. That requires light, strong materials with little concern for price.
The video could be improved by comparing CNF with materials of similar price. We already know that CNF is stronger than plastic, but since it's expensive, it would be helpful to compare it with other high-priced materials like carbon fiber or metal alloys. This way, we can better understand its value and how it competes with those materials in terms of performance.
If cnf comes to everyday use, is it not a threat to forest. Already paper industry consuminng the forest cover though theydo commercial forest. Can anyone explain.
This is not the only cellulose resin composite being used in modern transport. China has developed a new material based on bamboo and resin. This is now being used for high speed train carriages and in construction. In the latter the new composite increases the durability of buildings from 100 to 1000 years. Compared to the Japanese wood used here the Chinese use of bamboo has three great advantages. Namely, the much faster rate of growth of bamboo, the much lower cost of this material its light weight.
At 10:10, I notice that the Kuril Islands are included in the map of parts of Japan that are forested. The Soviets occupied them at the end of WW2 and refused to leave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
I'm also very confused by this. "Five times as strong as steel" - I'm assuming for the same weight - is the same as claimed for carbon fiber. But cellulose fibers are nowhere near as strong as carbon fiber. So the whole thing sounds fishy to me and they have made a long video which totally avoids explaining what we really want to know. I daresay these cellulose fibers are plenty strong enough to make this jetski part though, I don't doubt that part.
When you carbonize CNC/CNF's, you essentially get a nature closer form or version of lab engineered/made carbon nanotubes, but in much higher bulk amount for much lower cost compared. Obviously the carbonizing process uses a fair amount of energy, but that could be done with evacuated/vacuum insulated Solar heaters in combo with direct Solar panel DC to resistive heating, basically using the direct heat of the sun + Solar PV generated electricity to carbonize the material pretty cheaply and cleanly.
I can argue with a 100 reasons why this is a not as big a deal as it is being made out to be. Hemp fiber is infused with epoxy resin also and is very strong. Plastics and resins are still needed in lesser amounts may be. And this decarbonization gimmick is a hoax.
It really isn't that big of a deal, but it's renewable, lighter and stronger. Japan doesn't have huge tracts of open land to grow your hemp either. Also, the decarbonization myth itself is a myth. If you were one of their consultants you'd be fired.
@@subcitizen2012 I don’t subscribe to the environmental hypocrisy. I am not saying Japan should grow hemp. The part that was being made and was glorified in the video is insignificant in its function and it won’t have any positive impact on the environment. I regard Japan very highly and was surprised to such meritocracy from such a large reputed company. Show us something truly remarkable, not something so lame that is embarrassing.
@@subcitizen2012 to be fair, hemp grows more fibre per m² soil than wood, so it is more efficient than a forest. Not to speak about the more frequent harvests.
There are different levels of strength. CNC/CNF impregnated epoxy composite will be noticeably stronger at lighter weight than hemp cloth epoxy infused composite. Carbonize the CNC/CNF material and even more so, especially with the stiffness strength. But hemp, bamboo, and/or balsa would be a bulking material for structures that need to have very high stiffness and/or some thermal insulation, sound blocking, or the like.
What this should replace is structural parts requiring metal. And where plastic parts are already used, you could possibly use less material with the new stronger CNF material. No one like cheap plastic that breaks over time or becomes brittle. (Some are bad from the getgo)
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l was expecting you to say that the body and shell was made from the resin. was not expecting just one small part. but i imagine you have to start somewhere.. hope the tech gets cheaper and they can start doing something more with it and be able to replace resins. and that this ends up planting more trees. not sure i want it in my food though..
IMO something that lasts for generations is more environmentally friendly that something that has to be replaced often because of planned obsolescence.
@@neamtialin You're completely right. Our society has completely lost track of what is actually the main cause of our garbage and pollution issues: consumerism.
@@neamtialin "IMO something that lasts for generations is more environmentally friendly that something that has to be replaced often because of planned obsolescence." Planned obsolescence really has nothing to do with the fact is something biodegradable or not in the long term. It's just about deliberately engineering things to broke as soon as possible after the warranty period, if there is any. For instance, one wooden chair can last literally for hundreds of years, unlike bunch of plastic made ones a lot of people use nowadays that become brittle after just one summer in the sun.
Just the new 25% lighter engine cover. This is a rather in-depth exploration of a somewhat mundane, but apparently somewhat novel composite material. I don't know. It's an odd little film. Injection molded fiber reinforced composites are certainly not new, but it's interesting to get a rather in-depth look at this hyper specific variant that someone apparently thinks is really important.
Using wood as a source material for CNF is an expensive endeavour, probably motivated by Japan's desire for resources autonomy. Separating Cellulose from lignocellulose a.k.a. wood seems to be preferred to starting out with much less ligneous bast fibers from faster-growing forbs such as Kenaf, Cotton, Flax, Ramie, or Hemp for which there isn't much available agricultural land in the highly forested Japanese Archipelago. This otherwise excellent documentary says nothing about the technology employed to extract and purify Cellulose from the coniferous wood that is shown, but I'd like to find out some more about it.
RUclips: Saying in 20 minutes what you could have summarised in 1 minute just as easily... "We got permission at the plant to make this report." Well, obviously. Nobody cares.
It remains embedded in the plastic / CNF matrix. It this matrix is truly recyclable, as claimed, and the recycling process expands to add recycling of CNF composites, then the CO2 will stay in solid form (like it once was in coal, but likely in a less concentrated form)
@@Iowa599 The plastic is not holding 'CO2'. It is holding carbon in other, more complex chemical bonds than just carbon and oxygen. If you look at the chemical representation of petroleum products, like plastic, they primarily consist of carbon and hydrogen, normally, with a minimal presence of oxygen. In the process here, the tree captured the carbon dioxide. Through a process that's termed dissociation, it separated the carbon from the oxygen, released some of the oxygen into the air, but kept the carbon in order to make cellulose. That cellulose, as well as the plastic itself largely consist of carbon. For that matter, gasoline consists mostly of carbon and hydrogen. When its burned, it combines with oxygen from the air to create CO2. The company here is using the natural process of plant to capture CO2 and then convert it into both carbon (in a solid or liquid form) and oxygen (in gaseous form) CELLULOSE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose PLASTICS COMPOSITION: www.bpf.co.uk/plastipedia/how-is-plastic-made.aspx#:~:text=Plastics%20are%20high%20molecular%20weight,silicone%20hydrogel%20for%20optical%20lenses. You mentioned 'dry ice'. Some companies market 'carbon capture' mechanisms which extract the carbon from gaseous CO2. Cooling air to an extremely low temperature in order to condense CO2 into a solid (i.e. dry ice') is one possible method. But I doubt that method is used because it likely requires far too much energy to be efficient. I am unfamiliar with what method they use, but here are some relevant links. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture
they always use weight as the base for X times stronger than steel. how about volume instead cause most everything stronger than steel is actually weaker by volume. is a 1/2 synthetic rope stronger than a 1/2 inch steel wire rope?
10:48 - this is not how a 'regular' bread looks like. And I'm not sure that I need high tech wood pulp (you may call it CNF) in my bread. If I need fibers I buy whole grain bread. Proven to be safe by centuries of use unlike CNF.
its wood fibers 5x stronger than steel and 20% lighter than plastic. huge new tech. We can create new body armor, vehicles, and everything in between for defense and recreation use.
Great to see Yamaha innovating - hopefully the attitude will rub off on their motorcycle division as after the incredible reinvention just over ten years ago from the launch of the mt09, in the last 3 or 4 years they have been a little too cautious. How does this cellulose material compare to alloys used in bike frames, handlebars for strength and weight? Get some in the bike and maybe improve handling at the same time by introducing better controlled flexibility rather than total rigidity.
I wonder if they could do this with industrial hemp? Some locations 3 crops per year and 1 acre of hemp removes more Co2 then 19 acres of trees. Hemp may be more profitable and sustainable
If it's possible to get it from bamboo might be even better. Also I think the public need to be informed how to handle CNF polymers so it gets recycled properly. I doubt it can be dumped along with common high density plastics.
The problem with recycling is not whether the product is based from plastic, as pretty much all plastics can be recycles. The issue is humans. We are simply too lazy and most don't bring back the bottles, rather we throw it away in nature. Cellulose fibers are not gonna change that. Also not totally sure if you should add nano fibers too food already as we know very little about it long term usages. We only recently find out about micro plastics and the issues it creates in animals and humans. Who is too say that the same doesn't happen in 50 years with these fibers? But it is an interesting product.
The big problem to use CNF on car body is just it's higher resistance to deformation, in a car crash it matters that the kinetic energy of the impact it will NOT be absorb by the car SO the slowdown impact on the passenger BODY will be MUCH HIGHER!!! SO using the CNF body on a JETSKY make much SENSE as the driver in a accident will be ejected to the water... NO HARM DONE...
@@danielwalther5841 I think you are proposing to make an void internal structure to make the material to better schock-absorving BUT as a rigid material it can absorb better AND remain higher resistant to deformation? Or crumble? I don't know, but IF possible to achieve the correct balance may be a solution to SEEK... I agree with you...
The CNF is compounded in as a filler. The carrier, in this case polypropylene (PP) is a hydrocarbon. So what sort of environmental savings is that? And don’t forget; you’ll need to cut down trees to make your CNF. The only advantage that I see here is that it has lower density over traditional mineral fillers in plastics
So I guess it is about the process to extract the nano fibers instead of specific types of trees that it has to be extracted from, they never mentioned a specific type of tree anyway.
Overall, I like this idea, but I don't like the part about adding CNF to food. -And will the toilet be able to flush, or will we get new problems with "floaters" ?
There's nothing new here. Ford did similar back in the 1900s, only to be crushed by the steel moguls of the time. He was utilizing hemp fibers to make car body parts. The stuff was so strong, light, and durable that the steel industry saw a big threat to their potential market. The whole thing went into oblivion.
The people who cannot be criticised that own DuPont and some of the oil companies didn't like it, as well as those same people in the pharma industry. Hemp was a multi-industry threat and is to this day. Cotton as well.
fiberglass is another obvious composite. cellulose nanofibers though are another cup of tea.
true, but only japan has the initiative to make it happen.
you are so correct.
I think the model t steering wheel was made from soy
Back when sailing was the dominant way of traveling and trade, ppl kept repair kits which consisted of hemp seeds and pinetrees among other things to grow then have the necessary materials to continue on...
Soybeans were also used. If they would leave off the paint we could eat the used parts.😅😅
@@Glenn-F-Rice I'm unsure of what you are trying to articulate
That's really interesting, I can see how they'd use it if you had nothing else.
@@jchastain789it was apparently used as a material for construction of parts. Someone claimed even Henry Ford did this but was stopped by people who claim to be the chosen ones and were all nothing 🤷
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It would be easy to criticize the jet ski manufacturers as showboating, but I commend them. They are doing the right thing. Thank you. You are so brave!
It reminds me of the first digital products that were expensive and not reliable. Now they are in everything and everywhere. You have to start small and grow. Maybe this will help with less plastics. I am sure other plants could be used as well like hemp that are faster growing.
Yes hemp is one of the fast growing plants and can be utilized for severel things like cloths, plastic. And others. I still don’t understand why is not being used.
Hemp and also bamboo seem as a very good choice.
It's ironic that the theme of this video is a reduction of CO2 and plastic waste yet the product focussed upon is a small part for a machine which has no practical value other than for the amusement of the owner.
It’s the beginning..
Not all boaters are leisure boaters. Some fish to feed their families.
@@barthanson3043 The 'personal watercraft' featured is hardly ideal for any kind of fishing.
You’re missing the point. The new lighter and stronger material can be used on cars, aircraft and electronic devices to make them more fuel efficient. This is only the beginning, it’s just testing, basically.
@@Jin88866 You are missing my point- Yamaha are producing what is really a toy, which is adding to CO2 emissions by burning fossil fuel. Agreed, the new material has the potential for a lot of beneficial uses, I just don't think this example is one of them.
They should try hemp cellulose fibers
Excellent idea!
There is no HEMP PLANTANTION enough in JAPAN dude!!!
But HEMP is one of the strongest celulose fibers and the easy to obtain (if legally permitted).
The HEMP PLANT is the world must efficient vegetal growth cultivation in terms of weight/square meters mass production AND in TIME, because in sunny areas of the world HEMP can produce to the "commercial harvest" 4 to 5 crops per year!!!
And one curiosity, the historic larger producer of HEMP was the USA government during the II WW, but that time the "production" was mainly to craft ropes to the US NAVY ships all made of HEMP due this fast production characteristics mentioned ABOVE!!!
Or linen.
Hemp has been the answer for this environmental shit show we have found ourselves for decades . But due to corruption and political red tape they will drag there feet until its too little too late.
They'll stop working and order takeout and listen to Jimi Hendrix. Lots of Hendrix San!
I can't wait for my nano cellulose pie
yaaaaaaaaa-umie!
You may have had one already 😢
It's in grated Parmesan cheese read a label
Including wood fibers in plastic was known and used in the 1960s that i know personally. I suspect it was in use many years before.
Monocultures are bad
This report is 5 times longer than it needs to be.
I would like to see this content to be recycled ♻️
Lololol
Thank you for sharing this news and also thanks to these brands for investing in change. We are past awareness and now need to start and spread using materials like this.
Let's go Japan! 👏👏👏
I just see another type of plastic or resin but it will have a longer time in nature and wildlife.
Great video! Looks promising!
Fact: Writing "HIGH OUTPUT" on something gives it high output.
That is an interesting material. If it makes it into automotive products, it's future will be bright.
I was drawn to this video by looking at these straight trees being stronger than steel.
The straighter the softer.
Hemp could replace "cellulose nano-fibers", plus has plastics substrates.
This is all a bit confusing: "five times as strong as steel" presumably means "five times as strong as the same weight of steel". But that would make it as strong as carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is around forty times as strong as the same weight as cellulose fiber by some comparisons I've seen so I'm missing something here.
Click bait exaggeration, perhaps?
ruclips.net/video/lAzQWtkPzbI/видео.htmlsi=YRO_29_N7Xa2WgB9
Here...nano cellulose fiber. But it can destroys ecosystem with over plantation like this :
ruclips.net/video/dhvOJrkhh8I/видео.htmlsi=HiWI5RtFnIcIydJy
Why would anyone compare them by weight? If you have need to make a car door, it is the size and shape you'll look at. Wood is much, much lighter than steel at the same size.
@@CaptainSnackbeardI find your question really, really odd: weight considerations are hugely important in engineering. Not just in the totally obvious fields like aerospace but for cars, boats, bicycles, sports equipment, musical instruments, architectural materials, military equipment... anything that moves or regularly has to be lifted in fact. I'm building a carbon fiber sailing vessel myself and keeping it as lightweight as possible is critical to its success.
@@chrisgrill6302 weight is important, still secondary to form in most applications. You can't make humans smaller or larger to suit forms, and engineering is (usually) about serving humans somehow.
Presumably your boat can't be made 5x or 40x smaller / larger so you can achieve some ideal weight. For example unless you have some kind of hydrofoil thing going on, then without a long keel it doesn't matter how light you make it, it won't go as fast a because of displacement/hull speed limitations.
As to the comparison, Carbon fiber is expensive, difficult to work with, is human made, and creates waste. Wood is cheap, grows all over, is easy to work with, and is itself a carbon sink.
If those strength to weight ratios are accurate, the stuff should have a role in aviation. That requires light, strong materials with little concern for price.
Well done Japan !!!! This is how the resources of the world should be used to make life more comfortable for us all.
It's a non structural part. It's purely aesthetic. Why not remove the part entirely.
If you were introducing a new material wouldn't you do it on a non critical system so you can see how it performs in the real world?
You want mud bikes without mudguards?💩
5 x stronger than steel
20% the weight
Im sure it will be used in a structural part
Let’s take fenders off of cars, too, eh?!
That was my first thought, but it does give the material real world exposure/testing without being a critical component.
The video could be improved by comparing CNF with materials of similar price. We already know that CNF is stronger than plastic, but since it's expensive, it would be helpful to compare it with other high-priced materials like carbon fiber or metal alloys. This way, we can better understand its value and how it competes with those materials in terms of performance.
Wood alcohol was used to make bakelite. I wonder if it could help this.
Awesome technology and use of old sustainable material like wood / wood fibers ❤❤
Great video
I would like cellulose nanofibers in 3D printing filament. Are there any filaments now?
Sounds like what rebar with cement is to concrete, cellulose NF is for polyethylene.
What’s the carbon footprint of making the resin?
If cnf comes to everyday use, is it not a threat to forest. Already paper industry consuminng the forest cover though theydo commercial forest. Can anyone explain.
Yes keep moving forward
This is not the only cellulose resin composite being used in modern transport. China has developed a new material based on bamboo and resin. This is now being used for high speed train carriages and in construction. In the latter the new composite increases the durability of buildings from 100 to 1000 years. Compared to the Japanese wood used here the Chinese use of bamboo has three great advantages. Namely, the much faster rate of growth of bamboo, the much lower cost of this material its light weight.
Why is footage of the battery thing from "2021" so grainy?
At 10:10, I notice that the Kuril Islands are included in the map of parts of Japan that are forested. The Soviets occupied them at the end of WW2 and refused to leave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
Building panels with sheets of CNF-polymer composites with aerogel cores would be cool af
Most useful aerogel materials are expensive AF. Meanwhile, CNC/CNF can be made fairly easily and cheaply at home.
I love Japan
coton is natural pure cellulose fibers, so they create coton by purifying woodfibers at hight energy cost ?
Just a question pls , how much trees is going to be sacrificed to make one engine cover made od a cellulous nanofiber?
I wonder if CNF can be the next exotic material to replace carbon fiber?
Very impressive and really good news
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Its stronger than magnesium alloys. Wow.
Doubtful
What is the thermal transmittance value…..and fire rating? I’m thinking along the lines of a high performance rigid insulation for buildings.
there is no comparison to main competitors like carbon fibre, or carbon nanotubes.
what is the strength, cost, weight differences.
I'm also very confused by this. "Five times as strong as steel" - I'm assuming for the same weight - is the same as claimed for carbon fiber. But cellulose fibers are nowhere near as strong as carbon fiber. So the whole thing sounds fishy to me and they have made a long video which totally avoids explaining what we really want to know. I daresay these cellulose fibers are plenty strong enough to make this jetski part though, I don't doubt that part.
When you carbonize CNC/CNF's, you essentially get a nature closer form or version of lab engineered/made carbon nanotubes, but in much higher bulk amount for much lower cost compared. Obviously the carbonizing process uses a fair amount of energy, but that could be done with evacuated/vacuum insulated Solar heaters in combo with direct Solar panel DC to resistive heating, basically using the direct heat of the sun + Solar PV generated electricity to carbonize the material pretty cheaply and cleanly.
I can argue with a 100 reasons why this is a not as big a deal as it is being made out to be. Hemp fiber is infused with epoxy resin also and is very strong. Plastics and resins are still needed in lesser amounts may be. And this decarbonization gimmick is a hoax.
It really isn't that big of a deal, but it's renewable, lighter and stronger. Japan doesn't have huge tracts of open land to grow your hemp either. Also, the decarbonization myth itself is a myth. If you were one of their consultants you'd be fired.
@@subcitizen2012 I don’t subscribe to the environmental hypocrisy. I am not saying Japan should grow hemp. The part that was being made and was glorified in the video is insignificant in its function and it won’t have any positive impact on the environment. I regard Japan very highly and was surprised to such meritocracy from such a large reputed company. Show us something truly remarkable, not something so lame that is embarrassing.
@@subcitizen2012 to be fair, hemp grows more fibre per m² soil than wood, so it is more efficient than a forest. Not to speak about the more frequent harvests.
There are different levels of strength. CNC/CNF impregnated epoxy composite will be noticeably stronger at lighter weight than hemp cloth epoxy infused composite.
Carbonize the CNC/CNF material and even more so, especially with the stiffness strength. But hemp, bamboo, and/or balsa would be a bulking material for structures that need to have very high stiffness and/or some thermal insulation, sound blocking, or the like.
@@MannIchFindKeinName So doesn't bamboo.
Oh wow, a part of a part of an engine is partly made from a part of wood! What a revolution!
Like to see the strength test in hot 100° down to cold minus 70° ..then let's see if its 5x stronger than what steel J235 ?
This technology should be researched and replicated in Brazil.
What this should replace is structural parts requiring metal. And where plastic parts are already used, you could possibly use less material with the new stronger CNF material.
No one like cheap plastic that breaks over time or becomes brittle. (Some are bad from the getgo)
With a projected 10billion global population by 2050, where are you going to grow such wood with competition from food production?
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It's not bc. It's PC for Pacific columbia
l was expecting you to say that the body and shell was made from the resin. was not expecting just one small part. but i imagine you have to start somewhere.. hope the tech gets cheaper and they can start doing something more with it and be able to replace resins. and that this ends up planting more trees. not sure i want it in my food though..
What I would do please put opposite rotation bamboo
Hemp is a fantastic product for house construction, but not used on any volume anywhere. Insane
Anderson Windows has been using wood nano-fibers for years trademarked "Fibrex". Light, strong and rigid and long lasting.
Don’t trees when cut down release the co2 they absorbed?
Is this not the same material that Ford made in 1931 using Henp olants?
Może części do rowerów dało by się wytworzyć.
At some point Mercedes did biodegradable wiring in their cars, ask the owners about the issues...
So just give up because someone else got it wrong?...lol.
IMO something that lasts for generations is more environmentally friendly that something that has to be replaced often because of planned obsolescence.
@@neamtialinWhere's your documentation on this supposed occurrence?
@@neamtialin You're completely right. Our society has completely lost track of what is actually the main cause of our garbage and pollution issues: consumerism.
@@neamtialin "IMO something that lasts for generations is more environmentally friendly that something that has to be replaced often because of planned obsolescence."
Planned obsolescence really has nothing to do with the fact is something biodegradable or not in the long term.
It's just about deliberately engineering things to broke as soon as possible after the warranty period, if there is any.
For instance, one wooden chair can last literally for hundreds of years, unlike bunch of plastic made ones a lot of people use nowadays that become brittle after just one summer in the sun.
It can start for niche market like aircraft.
So is the whole watercraft made from it or just that small piece on the engine?
Just the new 25% lighter engine cover. This is a rather in-depth exploration of a somewhat mundane, but apparently somewhat novel composite material. I don't know. It's an odd little film. Injection molded fiber reinforced composites are certainly not new, but it's interesting to get a rather in-depth look at this hyper specific variant that someone apparently thinks is really important.
Yamaha is like Toyota's even more obsessively perfectionist cousin.
Using wood as a source material for CNF is an expensive endeavour, probably motivated by Japan's desire for resources autonomy. Separating Cellulose from lignocellulose a.k.a. wood seems to be preferred to starting out with much less ligneous bast fibers from faster-growing forbs such as Kenaf, Cotton, Flax, Ramie, or Hemp for which there isn't much available agricultural land in the highly forested Japanese Archipelago. This otherwise excellent documentary says nothing about the technology employed to extract and purify Cellulose from the coniferous wood that is shown, but I'd like to find out some more about it.
This is great. How many forest are there in Japan. This material will revolutionize manufacturing.
RUclips: Saying in 20 minutes what you could have summarised in 1 minute just as easily...
"We got permission at the plant to make this report." Well, obviously. Nobody cares.
To make wood celulose pulp make more polution in the process using strong chemicals ...
So we replace plastic with…more plastic. But this time we’ve cut down a bunch of trees to mix in…
Whatever, hippie. Cry more. lol
The difference, plastic lasts hundreds of years whereas nano fiber decomposes
😊 also can use rice case in it include in steel or fiberplastic
This is more about making materials more local and affordable. While still charging the same or more. Climate change is being sideline as the cause.
And someone is being gaslighted.
So this is like a recyclable carbon fibre. or a closer to graphene alternative
頑張れ🎌
Obvious use case would be body armour
What happens to the co2 absorbed by the cnf?
It remains embedded in the plastic / CNF matrix. It this matrix is truly recyclable, as claimed, and the recycling process expands to add recycling of CNF composites, then the CO2 will stay in solid form (like it once was in coal, but likely in a less concentrated form)
@@gregparrott so it holds the co2, yet is recyclable, & the co2 becomes solid?
so does it just get bigger, or does it ooze dry ice?
@@Iowa599 The plastic is not holding 'CO2'. It is holding carbon in other, more complex chemical bonds than just carbon and oxygen. If you look at the chemical representation of petroleum products, like plastic, they primarily consist of carbon and hydrogen, normally, with a minimal presence of oxygen. In the process here, the tree captured the carbon dioxide. Through a process that's termed dissociation, it separated the carbon from the oxygen, released some of the oxygen into the air, but kept the carbon in order to make cellulose. That cellulose, as well as the plastic itself largely consist of carbon.
For that matter, gasoline consists mostly of carbon and hydrogen. When its burned, it combines with oxygen from the air to create CO2. The company here is using the natural process of plant to capture CO2 and then convert it into both carbon (in a solid or liquid form) and oxygen (in gaseous form)
CELLULOSE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose
PLASTICS COMPOSITION: www.bpf.co.uk/plastipedia/how-is-plastic-made.aspx#:~:text=Plastics%20are%20high%20molecular%20weight,silicone%20hydrogel%20for%20optical%20lenses.
You mentioned 'dry ice'. Some companies market 'carbon capture' mechanisms which extract the carbon from gaseous CO2. Cooling air to an extremely low temperature in order to condense CO2 into a solid (i.e. dry ice') is one possible method. But I doubt that method is used because it likely requires far too much energy to be efficient. I am unfamiliar with what method they use, but here are some relevant links.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture
@@Iowa599 it came from tree, and tree get bigger because that's where the CO2 is solidified. 80% of a tree mass is CO2.
@@xponen the Nikkie film turns into a tree?
I get that the term 'decarbonization' is in reference to plastics, though it seems misleading considering that cellulose is also carbon.
they always use weight as the base for X times stronger than steel. how about volume instead cause most everything stronger than steel is actually weaker by volume. is a 1/2 synthetic rope stronger than a 1/2 inch steel wire rope?
10:48 - this is not how a 'regular' bread looks like. And I'm not sure that I need high tech wood pulp (you may call it CNF) in my bread. If I need fibers I buy whole grain bread. Proven to be safe by centuries of use unlike CNF.
its wood fibers 5x stronger than steel and 20% lighter than plastic. huge new tech. We can create new body armor, vehicles, and everything in between for defense and recreation use.
Great to see Yamaha innovating - hopefully the attitude will rub off on their motorcycle division as after the incredible reinvention just over ten years ago from the launch of the mt09, in the last 3 or 4 years they have been a little too cautious. How does this cellulose material compare to alloys used in bike frames, handlebars for strength and weight? Get some in the bike and maybe improve handling at the same time by introducing better controlled flexibility rather than total rigidity.
Very nice presentation as usual, but this time I subscribed
Seems the cost compares to carbon fiber is a good indication...if not stronger.
I wonder if they could do this with industrial hemp? Some locations 3 crops per year and 1 acre of hemp removes more Co2 then 19 acres of trees. Hemp may be more profitable and sustainable
If it's possible to get it from bamboo might be even better. Also I think the public need to be informed how to handle CNF polymers so it gets recycled properly. I doubt it can be dumped along with common high density plastics.
I agree that bamboo and hemp are better and more sustainable. Let the trees soak up C02 like they are doing now.
The problem with recycling is not whether the product is based from plastic, as pretty much all plastics can be recycles. The issue is humans. We are simply too lazy and most don't bring back the bottles, rather we throw it away in nature. Cellulose fibers are not gonna change that. Also not totally sure if you should add nano fibers too food already as we know very little about it long term usages. We only recently find out about micro plastics and the issues it creates in animals and humans. Who is too say that the same doesn't happen in 50 years with these fibers?
But it is an interesting product.
The big problem to use CNF on car body is just it's higher resistance to deformation, in a car crash it matters that the kinetic energy of the impact it will NOT be absorb by the car SO the slowdown impact on the passenger BODY will be MUCH HIGHER!!!
SO using the CNF body on a JETSKY make much SENSE as the driver in a accident will be ejected to the water... NO HARM DONE...
But the design of the 3D printable components can easily be made shock-absorbing.
@@danielwalther5841
I think you are proposing to make an void internal structure to make the material to better schock-absorving BUT as a rigid material it can absorb better AND remain higher resistant to deformation? Or crumble?
I don't know, but IF possible to achieve the correct balance may be a solution to SEEK...
I agree with you...
The CNF is compounded in as a filler. The carrier, in this case polypropylene (PP) is a hydrocarbon. So what sort of environmental savings is that? And don’t forget; you’ll need to cut down trees to make your CNF. The only advantage that I see here is that it has lower density over traditional mineral fillers in plastics
If they use this to make every day stuff, it would sell a lot.
Great invention but where is the electric wawerunner?
So I guess it is about the process to extract the nano fibers instead of specific types of trees that it has to be extracted from, they never mentioned a specific type of tree anyway.
Overall, I like this idea, but I don't like the part about adding CNF to food.
-And will the toilet be able to flush, or will we get new problems with "floaters" ?
Thank you very much for video!
I can see this being used in the aircraft industry.
I don’t understand how C02 from plastic production will triple by 2050, which is the net zero year and plastic use is already going down
Plastic use is not reducing. The opposite.
But plastic is already being reduced and phased out quickly. And any uses which do remain will be carbon free no doubt
@@nicka99 evidence?
@@iscadean6038I left it at your moms last night
@@nicka99 she said the dog ate it.
I'm surprised they aren't using hemp, much easier and cheaper to grow and harvest.
make parts for expensive machines, like missiles. Lighter than the metal part. Stronger.
Amazing.
Japan should sell the technology to the US. That is the only way to make it viable for commercialization.
Its a resin composite, so its plastic with cellulose fibers in it. Just like carbon fiber, impossible to recycle.
So what was going on when we had high temps and the same issues before plastics and cars and whatever else is deemed monsters.
Plastic containing cellulose nanofibers? So it's not 100% CNF then?
We have to be creative to survive. We have no where to run to. We need more good creative minds.
We will not survive in this conditions, humans are by definition a virus.
20,000 parts at 5 pounds each isn't such a big deal, but it's a start, I suppose.