solar thermal desalination, steam powered electrical power and irrigation of local land... This is the absolute solution to climate change. It utilises a hugely rising sea, a vastly expanding desert and a huge supply of light/heat from our equatorial regions. developing countries in otherwise poorly resourced areas that are not dependent on huge monopolised energy corporations could easily lap this system up and become core producers and a strong economy. The molten salt is a good source of stored heat energy for overnight power, so it has some use as a byproduct. stuff like this makes me so optimistic for the world. We have solutions for so much in our grasp right now, but we all know what really stops global progress.
Scott Dann This is not something new. I've seen incredibly low powered farms, so much that they had to cover their equipment from the sun. Of course no funding from any government, it was all private investment. Sadly you're right, the ruling powers will do anything to keep the strength they have.
No they couldnt easily "lap up" a system like this. A state of the art facility like that costs money, money that doesnt exist in the developing world at least not without massive foreign investment so no certainly not easily done. Gas and oil is cheap as chips especially in the developing world so that will always come first over there.
huh. that tomato farm suprised me. It seems like something interesting to do a vid, going into more detail on. kinda shocked me that such a project could be assembled, let alone be profitable. the power of the sun, business and engineering can be more powerful than I realised...
Since it's Australia, the most simple explanation that this Green project went ahead is quite likely : *The government was not involved* *(Australian federal government is very pro-coal and HATES green energy projects, they regularly poo-poo and complain about wind power projects, it's embarassing how much they go on)
It's not that far from civilization. It's only 16km from Pt Augusta according to Google maps. In fact there's a bunch more food more conventionally grown further inland.
Well, the workers could supply the fertilizer and you could have chickens in the shade under the solar mirrors for an organic farm without chemical fertilizer. And all the excess from the tomato-farm, leaves, stems etc. could be composted by the chickens greening the desert.
+Meganought Von Brittanie; FullyCharged gives too little info in this video, no mention about Aalbord CSP. For some more details about the Sundrop farm, look up EuroNews "Growing tomatoes in the Australian desert".
So happy to see a new episode and finding out what is going on on the other side of the planet. Level four autonomy in buses being tested today, wow! It is going to take probably 5-10 years before this become common place and while being a bus driver may not be a job in the future, we have created so many more new jobs to replace thousands of old jobs in the past. The idea of being made redundant isn't new, but the idea to make something that can leave society better, cleaner and more efficient is something I am interest to see more of.
Hi Robert, On the day I went ride on the intellibus it broke down. As I stood there forlornly staring at the bus a sudden gust of wind blew through, I like to think it was the collective sigh of millions of bus drivers and their families.
Reminds me of when I went from Norway to Brisbane for a conference in August 2007: They'd had severe drought, but when we got there they got record breaking amounts of rain, and I caught a cold and had to buy warmer clothes. The rain was much needed though. And it was no problem hitting some mountain trails after the conference.
Grew up in Perth, but moved away a few decades ago. It's a "mediterranean climate" city, to have rain in February is *crazy* , but it's apparently happening more often. The summer rule for weather was hot *and dry as a bone* . Summer rain was almost unheard of back when i lived there, but the times they are - a - changing.
This type of automated bus will enable a lot of economic activity and new business opportunities. Imagine if Ikea starts to offer free bus rides to Ikea stores outside of town. They will increase their customer base and make a new option for the people too. Or imagine an automated bus trip for the people who go out late and book a bus to bring them all to the door of the home, on by one.
The solar farm/generator/desalination plant looked a lot more interesting than a muni bus. Please do a more in depth video of it, and similar green projects. I wonder, does the solar array have any side effects, say on migratory birds, or airplane traffic? Are all the mirrors fixed, or do they track the sun, how much electricity is produced? Keep up the good work, Robert, love these vids.
It would be nice, but I don't know how much time Robert has in Australia - not much, I expect! There's honestly about 15-20 episodes worth of content he could cover here. The downside is that they are scattered across all corners of the country, so that's a lot of travel, and a lot of money. The upside is that he would get to see a lot of cool places :)
I enjoy all of your videos Robert. There are certain videos, this being a prime example, where the microphone placement, the person speaking perhaps not being accustomed to making themselves audible for an audience, and ambient noise all combine to cry our for SUBTITLES to be added during the editing. Please. Thank you.
Oh I like RAC. They doing a lot of Great things in Australia. One time someone reported an #EVHOLE RAC LEAF parked all day at a Charging station and I contacted support and they had the LEAF moved in under an hour and they said they will explain the concept to their employees on how charging stations should be used. Only to Charge and not as "Parking Spots" Very Cool!!
Imagine going to a bus stop, but unlike a normal bus stop there's a little tablet attached to the stop. You enter in where you want to go. And Instead of a big bulky bus pulling up, one of these small self driving electric buses shows up. It takes you right to where you want to go and you don't have to sit through other stops or deal with other people or walk from the bus stop to your destination, because this thing will take you right to where you want to go! That would truly be an incredible future.
And imagine said tablet getting vandalised. Just use a smartphone app - although admittedly that may not help the elderly as much. A google maps overlay - with all the bus stops, your location, being able to request a bus etc. Although the point is you share the space with others. You're basically asking for public autonomous uber. Those things are in the works already. Having something that ferries multiple passengers, but semi on demand, and also allows individual trips if there's spare capacity makes more sense. The point is to reduce waste. There's also a much simpler, pure electric, efficient system for transporting people around cities - trams. We should just have more of them. If you have a good system of trams doing a circuit the whole time, you can get where you want to go quickly and cheaply. Not being stuck in traffic would be a good incentive for not driving.
MORE ON THE SUNDROP FARM, PLEASE! I've seen autonomous vehicles but I haven't seen desalination plant WITH a turbine electric generator powered by solar panels. This is brilliant! I guess it's fully heat powered, what if they added some photovoltaic panels as well?
Odd that you don't mention the buses' manufacturer - NAVYA - which is actually a French company, and their "ARMA" buses are starting to bee seen in a couple of places, apparently. Their website states that it's been running at Heathrow in January as a demonstration run. Funnily enough, If I recall it correctly, the first permanent installation of a Navya Arma fleet was on a French nuclear power plant (Civaux)... Anyway, I think we'd all love to see an episode about NAVYA some time soon :)
great episode, im glad you are updating the world about australia and renewable energy, maybe you could talk about the issues with power in Adelaide and South Australia
Charles Mafra the issues in south Australia had nothing to do with renewables if that's what you're implying. Storms brought down powerlines which would have cut the power even if the were using coal, and during the heat wave the backup coal generators failed.
I just said Adelaide and SA have power issues. I live in Adelaide and we had a few issues in the last few months. I am not saying renewables are the problem! All I am saying is that SA has a power problem. Perhaps renewables can even fix this problem with more battery systems that secure energy close to the consumption spots when deliver issues arise. Even the PM has declared that SA has a power problem!
Good video, sound production recording failure in the bus (camera mike only?). Please add open captions because some people don't know how to turn the closed ones on. (Or, at least instruct that in the notes.)
Very clever, witty, with searing insights, deftly popping the hyper liberal bubble of over-privileged pseudo environmentalism that I ram down peoples throats day in day out and try and put 'normal' people down with my elitist, globalist holier than thou views. Is that better. By the way, I utterly refute your pitiful analysis of who I am and what I do, but you guys won, you now rule the world so get used to being criticised and hassled for your reactionary, holier than thou stance pal.
What is that truck in front of the intellibus, the one with the yellow lights doing?.......seems to me that the intellibus is following that, or maybe its controlled by remote from that truck.
Noice, great test of technology. Now will we soon see it drive on long routes on public roads. Probably not that quickly. But at least it shows the technology is viable to a point.
I have seen many videos of self driving vehicle demonstrations, but I have never seen one that shows what happens if a person steps out in front of it when it is going full speed.
I was in Perth in March visiting family and got all excited on seeing the bus. I tried to get a ride in it, but it had lost its GPS signals that day and so couldn't run (it had forgotten where it was). Disappointing.
@FullyCharged; why is there no explanation that the level-4 self driving bus is made by French company Navya and used in several other cities in France, Germany and Schweiz?
It will be dropped back into the sea. BUT It won't be highly salinated as from previous experience on running a similar device you will get about 10% of freshwater out from the seawater so the remaining brine will be marginally more salty. And 10% is in the very very best you can get
I hope Rob mentions the dire state of EV's in Australia. No government incentives means manufacturers are not bringing in any new full EV's models apart from Tesla and Hyundai...
So what did it do about the badly parked car? There is a cut in the video. Did it just go around? The guy implies that it didn't, by saying that it was programmed to go around marked parking bays if occupied.
I like that bus, but by what he explained, it's self driving abilities are very limited. The route, including where cars are allowed to park have been programmed in. Put it on any other road and it won't know what to do. But it's fully battery powered. That's great.
It will be dropped back into the sea. BUT It won't be highly salinated as from previous experience on running a similar device you will get about 10% of freshwater out from the seawater so the remaining brine will be marginally more salty. And 10% is in the very very best you can get
fair enough, but when reviewing other cars (e.g. BMW i.3) a general comparison with what is now in the market should be made. you simply can't review a car omitting to your audience that, for less money, there's already a car with 50% more range...
I wish the different objectives in the videos would be discussed a bit more in depth. Something that was also the case in the last video. To much marketing statements by the persons interviewed an to less technical information for my taste. Still keep on the good work ✌️
Switching to an electric drivetrain makes cars quite a bit more pleasant to drive and ride in, but the difference for buses is HUGE. Diesel buses are noisy, vibrate unpleasantly, and spew clouds of dark smoke. Converting them to electricity goes a long way towards making public transportation more pleasant.
Buses in Perth, where this intellibus was tested, already run on natural gas which is quiet but I have to agree electric buses are the end goal, especially as they have a lot of space on the roof for solar.
Actually we had emission free busses in out cities decades ago. The were called streetcars and trolley busses. But GM funded a company called National City Lines to buy up the streetcar companies in the US and eliminate streetcars so they could sell buses to the streetcar companies and make loads of money selling buses, tires, and diesel fuel in addition to replacement buses and parts.
they arent even growing the tomatos in the best way, Hydroponic farming would be far more efficient than what they are doing now, not to mention that it would take up less space, less water, no soil and they would grow at least twice as fast meaning that it would take les energy to grow them.
Hi Robert. Just let whatever happens... in the world... go mate. This episode shows the future... I don't like. You see, in the past people had to use their feet and hands to drive... Not anyone. In a bus, awesome, we just getting people unemployed, in a car... What's the point of having your own car if you can't drive it? (No Mr. C. impression this last sentence) Thanks for another episode.
nbkcq28 Not arguing with that mate. It's not about transportation at all. it's about life experience. You simply go along for the ride in the future, now, as opposed to interacting and being part of the getting there. If you can't understand... I'm not wasting time explaining it.
nbkcq28 they won't be "forced to stop driving", yet... it will happen, and it's a future I'm looking forward to. Every year over a million people die due to road accidents, with many more injured. Even if we cut the by 50% it'll have a huge impact. I understand that some people enjoy driving but I value safety far more.
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solar thermal desalination, steam powered electrical power and irrigation of local land...
This is the absolute solution to climate change. It utilises a hugely rising sea, a vastly expanding desert and a huge supply of light/heat from our equatorial regions.
developing countries in otherwise poorly resourced areas that are not dependent on huge monopolised energy corporations could easily lap this system up and become core producers and a strong economy.
The molten salt is a good source of stored heat energy for overnight power, so it has some use as a byproduct.
stuff like this makes me so optimistic for the world. We have solutions for so much in our grasp right now, but we all know what really stops global progress.
Scott Dann This is not something new. I've seen incredibly low powered farms, so much that they had to cover their equipment from the sun. Of course no funding from any government, it was all private investment.
Sadly you're right, the ruling powers will do anything to keep the strength they have.
No they couldnt easily "lap up" a system like this. A state of the art facility like that costs money, money that doesnt exist in the developing world at least not without massive foreign investment so no certainly not easily done.
Gas and oil is cheap as chips especially in the developing world so that will always come first over there.
eraldorh Still far cheaper than the costs of the consequences of *not* developing these systems.
+Andy Lee Robinson You really think a developing country gives a fuck?
Developing countries care more than the so-called 'developed' ones - and they don't have the inertia that holds them back.
I wasn't aware that there were such programs already happening here in Australia. Quite happy to hear about it. Thanks a lot for your videos.
huh. that tomato farm suprised me. It seems like something interesting to do a vid, going into more detail on. kinda shocked me that such a project could be assembled, let alone be profitable. the power of the sun, business and engineering can be more powerful than I realised...
There's money to be made "farming tomatoes"...
Since it's Australia, the most simple explanation that this Green project went ahead is quite likely : *The government was not involved*
*(Australian federal government is very pro-coal and HATES green energy projects, they regularly poo-poo and complain about wind power projects, it's embarassing how much they go on)
It's not that far from civilization. It's only 16km from Pt Augusta according to Google maps. In fact there's a bunch more food more conventionally grown further inland.
Well, the workers could supply the fertilizer and you could have chickens in the shade under the solar mirrors for an organic farm without chemical fertilizer. And all the excess from the tomato-farm, leaves, stems etc. could be composted by the chickens greening the desert.
+Meganought Von Brittanie; FullyCharged gives too little info in this video, no mention about Aalbord CSP. For some more details about the Sundrop farm, look up EuroNews "Growing tomatoes in the Australian desert".
I think i saw the same tiny bus here in switzerland. Loved seeing it driving around in the city. Love the Sundrop Farm, awesome work there...
+David Spörri; Are you in Sion Schweiz? There is the same Navya ARMA bus used.
I was during my vacation, yeah.. thought it looked similar
=I am so grateful you have visited my city Perth!! I wish I knew you were here!
The Sundrop farm segment is fascinating. I've never heard of that before. It would be a great system for desert areas.
Another great episode.
So happy to see a new episode and finding out what is going on on the other side of the planet. Level four autonomy in buses being tested today, wow! It is going to take probably 5-10 years before this become common place and while being a bus driver may not be a job in the future, we have created so many more new jobs to replace thousands of old jobs in the past. The idea of being made redundant isn't new, but the idea to make something that can leave society better, cleaner and more efficient is something I am interest to see more of.
Hi Robert, On the day I went ride on the intellibus it broke down. As I stood there forlornly staring at the bus a sudden gust of wind blew through, I like to think it was the collective sigh of millions of bus drivers and their families.
Sigh of relief I should say!
I like the padded cell they put you in!!
That nice little bus is already perfectly suitable for driving around people on large company areas.
Sundrop Farm looks like something out of a scf-fi movie!
Perth, my home ! I regularly see that intellibus trundling up and down the South Perth foreshore.
Reminds me of when I went from Norway to Brisbane for a conference in August 2007: They'd had severe drought, but when we got there they got record breaking amounts of rain, and I caught a cold and had to buy warmer clothes. The rain was much needed though. And it was no problem hitting some mountain trails after the conference.
Robert,
You need to pitch recording your Kryton voice for use in autonomous vehicles. It would make you rich.
A Kryton GPS. I would buy that.
My goodness so much amazingness in 6 minutes! I love this channel!
Grew up in Perth, but moved away a few decades ago. It's a "mediterranean climate" city, to have rain in February is *crazy* , but it's apparently happening more often. The summer rule for weather was hot *and dry as a bone* . Summer rain was almost unheard of back when i lived there, but the times they are - a - changing.
This type of automated bus will enable a lot of economic activity and new business opportunities.
Imagine if Ikea starts to offer free bus rides to Ikea stores outside of town. They will increase their customer base and make a new option for the people too.
Or imagine an automated bus trip for the people who go out late and book a bus to bring them all to the door of the home, on by one.
Shout out from Perth. Yes, it has been relatively pretty cold here recently!
The solar farm/generator/desalination plant looked a lot more interesting than a muni bus. Please do a more in depth video of it, and similar green projects.
I wonder, does the solar array have any side effects, say on migratory birds, or airplane traffic? Are all the mirrors fixed, or do they track the sun, how much electricity is produced?
Keep up the good work, Robert, love these vids.
It would be nice, but I don't know how much time Robert has in Australia - not much, I expect! There's honestly about 15-20 episodes worth of content he could cover here. The downside is that they are scattered across all corners of the country, so that's a lot of travel, and a lot of money. The upside is that he would get to see a lot of cool places :)
@Barry Kaine; look up "Aalborg CSP tomato australia". However I also find the Navya bus interesting.
Brilliant, great to see.
In the UK they'd spend £3.2 million just talking about it, then hand it to the Daily Mail for deep analysis. :-)
Drove past the solar array in Port Augusta at Christmas, very impressive.
This amazing and we should and need to do more of this on a large scale.....
Interesting to see it working in the rain. My understanding had been that this was a big problem for Lidar.
We have those little busses driving around in the Netherlands. With actualiteit paying passengers...
I enjoy all of your videos Robert. There are certain videos, this being a prime example, where the microphone placement, the person speaking perhaps not being accustomed to making themselves audible for an audience, and ambient noise all combine to cry our for SUBTITLES to be added during the editing. Please. Thank you.
Making electricity and water AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!! WHY AREN't WE FUNDING THIS !!!!
If you like that There's also Carnegie Wave Energy who make a wave powered generator that can desalinate water at the same time.
Because fuel giants still need to make billions.
Political barriers.
+Gerolamo Zanchi; I am sure Aalborg CSP would be ready to build a second system at another location that you fund. ;-)
Because other things still make more money, but some day it will be wide spread.
Oh I like RAC. They doing a lot of Great things in Australia. One time someone reported an #EVHOLE RAC LEAF parked all day at a Charging station and I contacted support and they had the LEAF moved in under an hour and they said they will explain the concept to their employees on how charging stations should be used. Only to Charge and not as "Parking Spots" Very Cool!!
So, is that a Johnny bus. Or a really big Johnny cab?
A Bobby bus...
Without the Johnny!
Yay! great to see some french tech in oz!
I didn't realise the Royal Automobile Club were do so much in this area. ;-)
Imagine going to a bus stop, but unlike a normal bus stop there's a little tablet attached to the stop. You enter in where you want to go. And Instead of a big bulky bus pulling up, one of these small self driving electric buses shows up. It takes you right to where you want to go and you don't have to sit through other stops or deal with other people or walk from the bus stop to your destination, because this thing will take you right to where you want to go! That would truly be an incredible future.
And imagine said tablet getting vandalised.
Just use a smartphone app - although admittedly that may not help the elderly as much.
A google maps overlay - with all the bus stops, your location, being able to request a bus etc.
Although the point is you share the space with others.
You're basically asking for public autonomous uber. Those things are in the works already.
Having something that ferries multiple passengers, but semi on demand, and also allows individual trips if there's spare capacity makes more sense.
The point is to reduce waste.
There's also a much simpler, pure electric, efficient system for transporting people around cities - trams. We should just have more of them.
If you have a good system of trams doing a circuit the whole time, you can get where you want to go quickly and cheaply.
Not being stuck in traffic would be a good incentive for not driving.
nice develo0pment .. we need one in Alvito Portugal.for my coffee morning run .
MORE ON THE SUNDROP FARM, PLEASE! I've seen autonomous vehicles but I haven't seen desalination plant WITH a turbine electric generator powered by solar panels. This is brilliant! I guess it's fully heat powered, what if they added some photovoltaic panels as well?
Odd that you don't mention the buses' manufacturer - NAVYA - which is actually a French company, and their "ARMA" buses are starting to bee seen in a couple of places, apparently. Their website states that it's been running at Heathrow in January as a demonstration run. Funnily enough, If I recall it correctly, the first permanent installation of a Navya Arma fleet was on a French nuclear power plant (Civaux)...
Anyway, I think we'd all love to see an episode about NAVYA some time soon :)
The bus was neat, but the Sundrop Farm I think deserved far more screentime and coverage depth.
This is so awesome
Why have never heard anything about the solar tomato plant! It's amazing!
Did anyone notice the two trucks with the warning sign "attention driverless bus ahead"? One was in front and one was following.
We have those buses in Sweden as well. Not many but we have them.
great episode, im glad you are updating the world about australia and renewable energy, maybe you could talk about the issues with power in Adelaide and South Australia
Charles Mafra the issues in south Australia had nothing to do with renewables if that's what you're implying. Storms brought down powerlines which would have cut the power even if the were using coal, and during the heat wave the backup coal generators failed.
I just said Adelaide and SA have power issues. I live in Adelaide and we had a few issues in the last few months. I am not saying renewables are the problem! All I am saying is that SA has a power problem. Perhaps renewables can even fix this problem with more battery systems that secure energy close to the consumption spots when deliver issues arise. Even the PM has declared that SA has a power problem!
@tibbs1990
This makes me wanna be younger so I can see even more cool creations
very cool, what editing software do u use?
i wonder if the salt extracted from the desalination could be melted directly and the gold and so-on extracted
Seems properly futuristic but I imagine it will often stop at an obstacle and strand the passengers until a technician comes around to control it.
Full autonomy in my lifetime. Wow!
Seems to be a great idea with just a few questions, what is the distance from the sea regards shipping the tomatoes anywhereWhat powers the pumps?
Obviously the steam powered turbines supply the juice for the pumps. What happens to the extracted salt?
Does the Intellibus usually need a petrol driven pick-up truck front and rear?
Good video, sound production recording failure in the bus (camera mike only?). Please add open captions because some people don't know how to turn the closed ones on. (Or, at least instruct that in the notes.)
Oh Robert, did you ruin the weather in Perth ?
He brought some with him from England :)
Very clever, witty, with searing insights, deftly popping the hyper liberal bubble of over-privileged pseudo environmentalism that I ram down peoples throats day in day out and try and put 'normal' people down with my elitist, globalist holier than thou views.
Is that better.
By the way, I utterly refute your pitiful analysis of who I am and what I do, but you guys won, you now rule the world so get used to being criticised and hassled for your reactionary, holier than thou stance pal.
+Neal Archer
Humour bypass....
+Neal Archer
I was accusing you of a humour bypass, not Rob.
"How the hell do they do it?" sounds like an explicit version of something vaguely familiar...old habits? :)
What is that truck in front of the intellibus, the one with the yellow lights doing?.......seems to me that the intellibus is following that, or maybe its controlled by remote from that truck.
Nice, but down with bird cookers, you have to clean them more often than standard PV.
Noice, great test of technology. Now will we soon see it drive on long routes on public roads. Probably not that quickly. But at least it shows the technology is viable to a point.
I have seen many videos of self driving vehicle demonstrations, but I have never seen one that shows what happens if a person steps out in front of it when it is going full speed.
I like how he is saying: "programmed", not something else. Yes the "AI is just another program, not a breathing being.
A true horizontal elevator.
Fly with your drone through the concentrated solarbeam ;)
how do the tomatoes taste?
I was in Perth in March visiting family and got all excited on seeing the bus.
I tried to get a ride in it, but it had lost its GPS signals that day and so couldn't run (it had forgotten where it was).
Disappointing.
the Intellibus needs to be used on college campuses in place of the buses they use to move people around the campus.
@FullyCharged; why is there no explanation that the level-4 self driving bus is made by French company Navya and used in several other cities in France, Germany and Schweiz?
nice
what do they do with the saline sludge left over?
It will be dropped back into the sea.
BUT
It won't be highly salinated as from previous experience on running a similar device you will get about 10% of freshwater out from the seawater so the remaining brine will be marginally more salty.
And 10% is in the very very best you can get
Wait a sec. I thought desalination as byproduct of solar power plant is quite obvious and efficient idea. I thought it's already widespread.
I hope Rob mentions the dire state of EV's in Australia. No government incentives means manufacturers are not bringing in any new full EV's models apart from Tesla and Hyundai...
No need for government incentives. The tech will be cheaper in just a few years.
Wow. I wish we could get more news from Australia to replace the dross coming out of America right now.
What do they use the yellow LEAF for that you passed early on in the ride at 3:01
Jean-Pierre White RAC, Royal Automotive Club's vehicle.
I figured as much, its the same color as the automated buses. I just wondered what the LEAF was used for.
So what did it do about the badly parked car? There is a cut in the video. Did it just go around? The guy implies that it didn't, by saying that it was programmed to go around marked parking bays if occupied.
I like that bus, but by what he explained, it's self driving abilities are very limited. The route, including where cars are allowed to park have been programmed in. Put it on any other road and it won't know what to do. But it's fully battery powered. That's great.
nbkcq28 Yep. It's cool. Though I would feel safer in a self driving vehicle that uses artificiall intelligence that learns from its mistakes.
Similar system in American been in operation for many years producing electricity.
Where does Sundrop farm put it's waste highly salinated water?
It will be dropped back into the sea.
BUT
It won't be highly salinated as from previous experience on running a similar device you will get about 10% of freshwater out from the seawater so the remaining brine will be marginally more salty.
And 10% is in the very very best you can get
I expect something very similar will appear at _Disneyland_ RealSoonNow.
What are the 2 yello truck doing LOL
wow
I live in Perth I have been on the rac intelabus I have a certivici
Well, it looks like they are coming for the bus drivers jobs in the near future.
take 50 1 v Hutchinson crystal cells and a bank of super capacitors, use them to power the compressors of the tanks of an air powered engine
good
is it just me or is there a city in the clouds @ 1:41 in the top right corner...
Intellibus currently on trial in Christchurch Airport. They plan to use it to take people to and from the carparks.
wow new record for me 4 mins
2:43 Yellow car!
the autonomous bus bit is very hard to follow, bad audio. Sad!
Where's the Chevy Bolt review?
It's not for sale in the UK or Australia. I expect he'll get around to it when his schedule and funding permits.
Though Opel Ampera E (which basically is Bolt rebaged for european market) is already NEDC tested. So it will be on the market soon.
fair enough, but when reviewing other cars (e.g. BMW i.3) a general comparison with what is now in the market should be made. you simply can't review a car omitting to your audience that, for less money, there's already a car with 50% more range...
I wish the different objectives in the videos would be discussed a bit more in depth. Something that was also the case in the last video. To much marketing statements by the persons interviewed an to less technical information for my taste. Still keep on the good work ✌️
For more information about the SunDrop farm, check out this link on the ABC TV's Landline website at
www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2016/s4547781.htm
Looked like a truck was in front of the bus running interference.
That's where I live😃
that englishman's voice sounds like its breaking ...between ozzy and brit
Switching to an electric drivetrain makes cars quite a bit more pleasant to drive and ride in, but the difference for buses is HUGE. Diesel buses are noisy, vibrate unpleasantly, and spew clouds of dark smoke. Converting them to electricity goes a long way towards making public transportation more pleasant.
Buses in Perth, where this intellibus was tested, already run on natural gas which is quiet but I have to agree electric buses are the end goal, especially as they have a lot of space on the roof for solar.
Actually we had emission free busses in out cities decades ago. The were called streetcars and trolley busses. But GM funded a company called National City Lines to buy up the streetcar companies in the US and eliminate streetcars so they could sell buses to the streetcar companies and make loads of money selling buses, tires, and diesel fuel in addition to replacement buses and parts.
An Ad for chevy pick up truck before the video...
Be careful! Do not turn on closed captions! Unless you can read french!
wooow
The sound quality inside the bus is awful! So hard to hear over the creaking. It sounds like it's failing apart! Other than that, sweet ride!
Why is NSW always behind in R&D when compared to other states.. Sydney is a city with just a traffic jam packed - expensive housing. Thats it.
IN GOD WE TRUST
they arent even growing the tomatos in the best way,
Hydroponic farming would be far more efficient than what they are doing now, not to mention that it would take up less space, less water, no soil and they would grow at least twice as fast meaning that it would take les energy to grow them.
You mean as opposed to growing them in coconut husks?
even "global warming" can't help the Australian summer
farm was cool, the bus thing... not so much
Hi Robert.
Just let whatever happens... in the world... go mate.
This episode shows the future... I don't like. You see, in the past people had to use their feet and hands to drive... Not anyone.
In a bus, awesome, we just getting people unemployed, in a car... What's the point of having your own car if you can't drive it? (No Mr. C. impression this last sentence)
Thanks for another episode.
you could sleep on the way to work! I would like this option
B Hew I rather sleep at home in my bed comfortably. It's a much better option.
nbkcq28 Not arguing with that mate. It's not about transportation at all. it's about life experience.
You simply go along for the ride in the future, now, as opposed to interacting and being part of the getting there.
If you can't understand... I'm not wasting time explaining it.
nbkcq28 they won't be "forced to stop driving", yet... it will happen, and it's a future I'm looking forward to. Every year over a million people die due to road accidents, with many more injured. Even if we cut the by 50% it'll have a huge impact. I understand that some people enjoy driving but I value safety far more.