How scientists turn lakes into giant batteries
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Discover the world’s biggest battery and explore how inventors are creating other giant batteries to help power the world- sustainably.
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As of 2020, the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery is hooked up to the Southern California power grid and can provide enough power for about 250,000 homes. But it's actually not the biggest battery in the world: a pair of lakes are. How can lakes be a battery? Explore how inventors are rethinking what a battery can be, and how these surprising solutions could help us achieve a sustainable future.
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This sounds like it’s going to be a fun series.
Can't wait
We used to see the geography of northern Scotland and the climate as problems.
Hydro, hydro pump, tidal, wind and we are getting heat from old mines.
Water is a lot more renewable than oil.
so where are these lakes?
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I love it when he says "batry"
@marinesailorz *Bri'h'ish*
How else do you say it???
@@azziebean4773 ba te ry
At least it wasn't "ba'ery". I've seen people say it that way.
Welcome to the original English accent.
Every time Ted Ed shows up I smile
True that !❤️
Same I love them sm
Same
Same who doesn’t
Same
So, there's a whole battery of different... Batteries.
@Egg Egg egg egg
Eggdit?
i love how this comment has more likes than ted-eds comment
Midi Music Forever
Came here for comments... I'm honestly not disappointed.
I once went to a museum about Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia (built at the site of his original home!) and saw his original "battery," which apparently he named after a group of soldiers (which was called a battery back in those days). It was, like, sixteen metal cylinders connected with wires.
Or, at least that's how I remember it. If I got any historical details wrong, feel free to point them out.
A shame how almost everything we need is destructive to obtain.
_Now Bacteria batteries on the other hand..._
We need to devlop nuclear and bacteria battery
@@abhayprasad9580 just imagine toxin and nuke generals of Command and Conquer combined.
"need"
well it uses paper so
@@abhayprasad9580 One of the major problems is the mindset shift of consumerism and the problem the current capitalist system that demands we buy more and more things to help power economy's. I have no idea of the answer but this is surely one problem needing to be understood and mindset changed - do we need 5 Tv's in 1 house or a new phone every year? which uses natural resources for example. (PS I'm not a left wing communist).
By reading the comments here...I get it that Nokia's battery is still the talk..
Damn girl
Always has been 🔫
Hey
@@sudeepmenon1596 h
Battery-
NOKIA: "Well it's small but actually big."
Apple: "This is the best iPhone ever."
@marinesailorz what is it?
@Milkieclouds tween
Best: yaaa,in terms of cost,you can say.
Can we take a moment and appreciate this animation?
yes
Yes
They don't even talk about how much rechargable lithium ion batteries degrade
And that the mining and production of batteries will result in release of huge amount of chemicals into the environment.
They also said California had the largest lithium ion battery when SA Australia has the largest
Isn't it amazing that humans even 30 years ago couldn't imagine that one day a computer(our phones) would be in everyone's pocket. There were many thoughts that it is not possible but it happened. Similarly, in the coming 20 years we might actually discover cleaner and more efficient energy that we are now not able to find.
Fusion!
@@paulmahoney7619 I've often thought about how if fusion becomes a reality since the major 'fuel' would probably be seawater they could build massive fusion reactor/desalination plants... imagine desalinating so much water for cheap due to fusion that you could fill large inland/underground fresh water reservoirs. I mean, this would be ideal in places like California and other coastal states/nations
U thought about it so it may not happen but something unrelated to our thoughts may happen
@@asrujith3784 I don't think so almost all the great inventions now need a lot of funding research and most importantly time
The lake battery mentioned in this video is in Virginia, but Irelands has one too; Turlough Hill water turbine powerplant. RealEngineering recently made an explanational video about the engineering behind it, very interesting!
The lakes in this video - 'the biggest battery in the world' - are located in Virginia, in Bath County. (0:25)
These are being used throughout the World, actually much more common than pop culture would allow.
@@sequoia22I've spent most of my life in Virginia and it blew my mind when I learned about this on Ted-Ed. They never taught us about these lakes in school. But I guess they didn't tell us because it doesn't fit this region's coal obsession.
Helms pump station in California as well. Visited there before super cool
When the narrator mention lake,, I suddenly remember Turlough Hill in Ireland.
Coolest battery design I've seen is a flywheel battery. Basically you use energy to spin a cylinder in a vacuum, and when you need energy you use the cylinder's momentum to create electricity. There's such incredible amount of energy stored in those things it's crazy.
THAT is cool. 😃👍
It makes me so happy that people are getting so creative and unorthodox with batteries. I was amazed to hear about the skyscraper battery, and the spit activated battery. Spit seems odd, but when explained suddenly makes perfect sense, and it’s great.
Put a bacteria battery in a school and it will last forever.
*-Max Planck*
How
@@anonymousdude2550 its relating to how school is boring for many people
@@sidharthvitthanala9935 I thought it's cuz schools spread diseases easily because you're with lots of people in the same room for multiple hours a day
@@sidharthvitthanala9935 oh 😂😂😂 so true
My new phone is a bit bulk, but I'm sure it will survive a day or two!
P.S. I don't actually have a new phone
@@TristanSamuel LOL
#deadchat
@@nascarfanwith24andaceattor83wow so funni
The animations are always so nice to see
2:33 Was that suppose to be the Energizer/Duracell bunny?
I believe so.
Good thinking lol
Biggest Battery 🔋 for our Brains
TED-Ed 😊
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@@jaison7094 *[Simp lifeform Detected]*
@@Sumirevins 😐i ain't simp
The dislikes are from the batteries in I-Phones
i dont get it
I don't get the joke
@Puss On Loose Oh I thought the joke was that iphone batteries explode
JPnewPic88.Men
This episode of Real Engineering is sponsored by Nebula.
If there's no money to find, there will be no quality video!
that crane that lifts blocks during the day and lowers them at night is actually pretty clever
No they are not.
If you give more thought on that, you would see why.
@@apurvmj can you please elaborate? I'm not able to see what can be too wrong about them
@@AaronChristopher869 Efficiency of this crane system depends on difference of height that block will be moved. Bottom blocks will have lesser energy transfer than top blocks.
When blocks are put down from top locations they need to be spread around that increase lead and horizontal movements only adds to inefficiency.
Then there is issue of balancing of loosely stacked blocks due to wind, non vertical alignment of block etc.
@@apurvmj I see, thank you!
@@apurvmj idk what that means but thanks for clearing up
Humans: We need to save water for drinking
Me be like : We need to save water for electricity
Dyson Sphere: and i took that personally
Shall we take a minute to appreciate ted ed animators❤
Usually I'd agree, but I'm not a fan of "alegria". Too simple, and "get it done this hour".
I like that subtle nod to Starry Night and how it helped scientific discovery in the field of turbulence, implying that there could be another Starry Night for electricity
What I thought: water=bad with electricity
What Ted-Ed says: water=big boi battery
Best battery in the world, a Thorium reactor. It's safe, produces little waste, and it can't be weaponized.
*proceeding to investigate*
@@agustinfigueroa2516 samONella is all you need to learn more about how thorium rocks
Thorium is awesome. But it’s not a battery, it is a source. Batteries are reversible stores of energy. Thorium is a one-way fission reaction, turning heavier atoms into lighter ones.
Rather than a battery it's more like a generator
While i am a huge fan of thorium reactors, they're not really a "battery". A battery is a means of storing energy for release on demand, not a source of energy. A nuclear reactor, thorium or otherwise, is a source of energy only. I mean sure in theory it might be possible to use some kind of crazy fusion reactor (aka, core-collapse supernovae) to remake thorium fuel again from it's spent byproducts... but something tells me that's not the kind of readily useable tech that we are likely to see any time in the next 1000 years.. if ever... lol
The Narration and music at best ❤️
Before this day, I never think a battery in that much detail. Sometimes I think how this questions triggered in their mind?
*Me seeing the title*: "They gonna talk about them hydro batteries?"
"Yuuup"
A guess like an arrow in the center of the dart 👌💪
@@mzakeee xD yeah, when you follow these kinds of videos and some of them are like "the new thing in field x" you generally have heard about it at the very least.
Uh well ,it’s not as powerful as my grandma’s Nokia battery
The sound design is on point and satisfying.
Last time I was this early, lithium was still in fashion
plz Himani watch my videos!
you will love them Rawat, I promise!
@@elonmusk8245 stop promoting your own channel in the comments. Its obnoxious and unrelated.
@@Legitgaming838 just watch them buddy, and comment over there.
You won't believe what's happening.
The extraterrestrial presence on earth is true.
@@elonmusk8245
There are no aliens on earth(unless you count animals and fish, which does not apply because they are from our planet)
@@Legitgaming838 just watch my videos for god's sake
*Congratulations!* if u find this then you’re pretty early:)
Gravitrocity is one of best method to store energy I have every come across
i’m sorry, but the fact that this is an ad on youtube is great.
TALK ABOUT HOW VIBRATIONS CAN LITERALLY MAKE THINGS LEVITATE!!!
huh
@@jtiumproductions7629 he/she isn't technically wrong, just practically wrong... (it requires that the thing being levitated is in a medium and together they need to be in a gravitational field.) look up how sound waves fall up... or the "levitating" upside down boat experiments... really, to an extent this is basically what you see when you shake a pan of rocks and sand... the small sand grains go down, pushing the large rocks up, even if the density of the rocks is greater than the density of the sand grains. (to an extent)
0:36 A battery is:
A unit of guns or any other heavy equipment
A lot of stuff
Unwarranted touching of people
_When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth._ -Sherlock Holmes
*_Nuclear fusion!_*
💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌
Wait until they blow up /s
@@Nnm26 chernobyl flashbacks
@@shaileshsakhre343 that only happened because there was little to no regulation in chernobyl.
@@shaileshsakhre343 that was nuclear Fission, nuclear fusion is an entirely different thing
@@Nnm26 nuclear fusion reactors blowing up is very unlikely because the reaction that takes place in fusion would simply stop if energy flow is cut off. In nuclear fission, chain reactions are much more likely even when energy is reduced, this makes them more dangerous
I just clicked on the video when it appeared in the notification bar
Every Videos are Very Helpful....
Does netherland does the same by buying cheap enegy generated by solar energy by its neighbours and pump it up
I love watching these videos. All these sustainable ideas he talks about are riddled with flaws and proven not to work yet he talks about them like they are viable. They are not!
I think that it is possible to use the sea waves to produce electricity. I mean they are moving all the time, day and night. I imagine things like walls around the shore pushing vertical plates like walls towards the shore that may rotate gears to produce energy and the recoil after the water pulls back.
I really like this new format! Although not original, the TED content makes it awesome. Please keep it coming!
Is it just me, or does the music remind you of Purah's Lab from Breath of the Wild?
JPnewPic88.Men
Revolutionary battery tech is THE most needed development
I’ve visited the Helms pump station in California before. Very cool.
I would rather take some time to appreciate the animators behind this video....it's just awesome ...reminds me of cartoons I watched as a kid ....now that it has turned to educational videos ..but this marvellous animation gave me the same curiosity I had as a child
....also the voice of the presenter is deep and cool👍
Now this video gave me loads of new ideas. Thank you for your hardwork making this video.
Thank you these videos are superb!
There are many ways that a sky scraper can be used to generate electricity. One day all the windows of a skyscraper will be solar powered cells, capturing the energy of the sun while being see through at the same time. The tops of skyscrapers are windy so put a lot of windmills up there. Also, instead of a water mill put a sand mill inside the skyscraper. This means have tons of purified grains of sand held in a chamber at the top of the skyscraper and have the sand pour down until it hits a sand mill. This is just like a water mill but instead of water turning the mill, the gravity of sand does it instead. Below the sand mill is a funnel catching the sand and below the funnel is another sand mill catching the sand and forcing the sand mill to spin. This process is repeated all of the way to the ground. These funnels and sand mills are gigantic with tons of sand going through them constantly. Attached to each sand mill is are electric generators producing massive amounts of electricity. At the bottom of the skyscraper is a chamber to hold the purified sand. Some of the electricity generated powers an industrial strength but efficient vacuum system that sucks the sand back to the top chamber of the skyscraper. It may need to do this in stages until the sand makes it to the top. Because of the efficent vacuum system and because of the numerous sand mills gathering electric energy all the way down...there is a net gain of electricity. These sand mills being turned by sand can also be astecaccly pleasing to the patrons of the skyscraper. The arrangement of the sand mills and funnels can be put behind glass and arranged in artistic ways. The funnels themselves don't have to have a round lip at the top but could be flattened at both ends and also put behind glass panels. The skyscrapers of the future will have shops and restaurants and recreational facilities at the bottom and offices in the middle and hotels and apartments above that. This is so that one could live their entire life in a skyscraper without ever leaving it. There are so many ways that a skyscraper produces electricity that they are essentially a power plant themselves. They can make money my selling power back to the grid.
POWER GRID: I am the world's biggest battery
ENERGIZER BUNNY: Mine's cheaper by the dozen
lmao
Ok but the musician was so keen in this :) It totally fits with the theme and the narrator's tone!
Y'know you think about this stuff, and wonder why the gov just doesn't devout the most to clean energy. All these amazing ideas, not enough time or funds. The technology warming the Earth took its time to evolve as well; So I think normalizing the weaknesses of clean energy is a better way to get used to them, rather than take a decade to produce one great clean energy source. What I mean is, the more little clean energies, the greater clean energy at the present. Even if it only runs for a couple of hours, implement them in a city in every state and we will be on our way. Not everyone can afford an electric car, but everyone still uses electricity.
1:48 correction, it's actually 40 billion.
great video btw
I have built windmills as a hobby for over 50 years. I also build small engines, which operate on compressed air. All my windmills compress air and I store it and what I call an air battery, which is nothing more than a giant receiver tank. I don't see why this wouldn't work commercially. There would be much less maintenance, fewer moving parts and everywhere I've ever been there is air.
2:36 that’s an adorable bunny
Define battery, a group of like objects that function as one. E.G. An artilery battery is 2 gunss or mor3e set up in a position to fire at the same target.
so, yes, in a way, two lakes set up to ":store" energy could be called a battery. Those things you put in electric devices are electric cells. If you have two or more in th3e device, you have ONE battery.
The topics from TED-Ed are all so interesting!
The same concept was already explained by Tom Scott, but focusing on other concepts and other insights. Very interesting having both points of views
A British voice over in a Ted video is something I never thought I'd hear or need. Man this is good.
I just finished binge watching almost all of teds vids and this came up lol.
The far fetch solution is Thorium-based power plants, before we find a better way for harvesting energy directly from the Sun aside from photovoltaic cells (the cleanest solution so far.)
That crane solution is unfeasible compared to the actual "hydraulic" batteries, it demands a lot of maintenance and generates a lot of unrecyclable material (concrete blocks) amongst other issues.
"sky scraper batterym solar powered crane"
nothing wrong with the video up to that point, and then it had to mention this pice of feasible fiction
lol... I know hey! instant face palm
Home UPS system, but connect with the internet. Meantime the UPS will sync with the generator factory. Which everyone in the city had their own battery. Because of the data synced, each UPS will be able to charge in a different timeline/occupation. So it will significantly help the due to power usage peaking and power supply shortage.
Best channel on RUclips .
Very informative and interesting 👍
Whilst this was very interesting, that clarinet in the background was really chill
Glad to see TED Ed still going in 2021
Ted-Ed has taught me more than what my school did in this quarantine
Teachers: *TRIGGERED*
To be fair, your teachers make far less than the people who run Ted-Ed. Failure to learn something is a reflection of effort made by the learner.
@@theywalkinguptoyouand4060 but we must also take into account the syllabus and education system which is horribly ineffective when it comes to teaching.
I just can't stop loving Ted Ed just like I love mother nature 💚🌳❇️.
Thank you Ted Ed ❤️🙏
OH MY GOD THIS IS FANTASTIC
What is the energy loss of the lake battery? How efficient is it?
Nice video. Few notes though: that skyscraper builder failed and was never better than water/lakes. There are many other solutions, compressed and/or cooled air, underwater pressure, non litium batteries, etc. Grid needs very different properties than handheld devices, the only reason for litium is the economies of scale. Also nuclear batteries are actually power sources not batteries, you cant recharge them.
I never miss Ted Ed videos
Innovating energy sources is something engineers will have to face in the future, it seems brilliant minds are on it already. Thanks Ted-Ed!
Only one thing can possibly solve this problem:
*graphene*
Nuclear. Clean, efficient, small and works all year round. Solved your problem.
The animation is really good
Yep, potential energy. Lakes, dams, water towers, fly wheels, weights & pulleys etc. All are batteries, anything can be, you just need to decide which form of energy to store it as.
I didn’t expect that
Ted Ed video's are awesome 👍😎
I looove this energy-series videos
I live the quotes at the beginning!!
I love this narrator. Dunno what it is about his voice, but it’s just great
1:24
I still couldn't understand.
How could it be called that we create energy when we had used an equal amount of energy to pump the water up?
Rain
TY ☺️
Wait ... if a cattery is where you keep cats, shouldn't a battery be where you keep bats?
Whatever it is, you guys have the best intro music. At least for me 😀☺️
Hamster running on a wheel is the best way to generate electricity
2:35 Yes! I have that toy
Wow , amazing video !!
Bro this soundtrack is amazing.
The animation! Damn🙌🏾
Wow I didn't know bat trees were so interesting thanks ted
Love this channel especially the animation
Hey what about Liquid state lithium batteries that John B. goodenough "invented"
i have a job interview today and im already on queue...
but TedEd videos are more important.
best RUclips channel ever!
Thank you so much.
（for my review: 0:30）