Farms: Top 10 Energy Sources of the Future

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1. Funny how we are still discovering fusion. The plants have been using the process to harvest sun energy for millions of years. By the way, using algae IS using fusion.
2. Hydrogen is NOT an energy source, it is an energy storage medium only.
3. Great job you include sources for your top ten you have gained my trust.
4. forgot the molten salt reactor and thorium
5. What is with Darkmater?
6. it is 11 sources not ten you should add arabic kings فسو in the near future
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8. First I would like to commend you on the excellence of your presentation. The energy concepts are very interesting and appear to be cutting edge. I would like to see the pros and cons of each of these concepts, wouldn't you? I am pro-solar, wind, and hydro but I think we need to examine the side effects of capturing each of these. Thank you for creating this presentation.
9. Most of these ideas are already in use in countries like japan followed by others.
10. Growing switch grass will work if it is grown in multiple 50 story hexagonal skyscrapers with a footprint of 1 acre apiece. Each floor would be an indoor switch grass field. That would be like taking the huge land mass of Russia and standing it up vertical. Why not?
11. Good information, but the background music is very distracting.
12. Let the author of this video study some more.
    10. Solar power from space is utter nonsense.
    9. Human energy will contribute virtually nothing. (16 tons of CO2 per capita per year in the USA today)
    8. Wave and Tidal energy has been developed for 60 years now, and is still ten times more expensive than solar/wind.
    7. Hydrogen is NOT an energy source, it must be made first. In the end, the energy efficiency of a fuel cell car is worse than petrol (gasoline).
    6. Geothermal plants have been in development for 100 years (!) and are severely limited by some locations that have steam coming out of the ground.
    5. Nuclear fission power is a very viable option indeed. This is basically the single viable option for what is called baseload electricity generation.
    4. Solar power is useful for areas that receive a large amount of sunshine (e.g. Southern USA) but doesn't contribute very much to the needs of countries with lesser solar irradiation. Germany is halting the installation of solar.
    3. Biofuels contribute directly to the destruction of the rain forest. Their efficiency (from source to use) is dramatic, in the order of 0.1 %. This is an energy source that should be stopped as soon as possible.
    2. Floating wind turbines have been in development for thirty years. They are nothing new, but simply to difficult to engineer, and therefore extremely expensive.
    1. Nuclear fusion is best left to the sun. The conditions needed here on earth to replicate that process are completely unattainable. In other words, it is just too difficult to do, and this difficulty will make it extremely expensive.
    
    In the absence of real competition for fossil fuels, in other words, cheaper than coal, and just as reliable, humankind will just continue to burn the fossil fuels. There's no way around this, except new nuclear options.
13. You forgot SPAM, the greatest energy source on earth and still working fine.
14. Really really like your choice of background music...ahhhh..
15. Cool documentary, and well presented
16. I'd like to hear updates and/or new developments on the topics you covered a year or two years ago, such as this video about energy sources, the video about city megaprojects around the world, and so on.
17. just saying for anyone who wants to know more about Fusion, it is also known as Cold Fusion because more heat comes out of the system than was put in. Just google "Cold Fusion" and you can find some interesting info.
18. Rather than continuing to build isolated solar farms all over the world, why don't we build a ring of solar panels ten miles wide around the earth at the equator ? This would assure sufficient sunlight would shine onto the greatest possible number of panels at any one time. It would also eliminate the lose of power because of clouds or even nightfall. We could then either locate manufacturing plants closer to the new source of power or, using land lines, conduct it to every part of the world. This, in itself, would reduce the need for all other power generation projects, except for small units used for special purposes. It would free up land for agriculture and produce no pollution, once enough power is available to operate other solar cell production plants.
19. We need to harness energy better..been using the turbine now since the start. Nuclear/fusion,,and water,geothermal...all just simply turn a shaft. If we could harness it similar as we do solar(directly) then it would be huge and new.
20. Future energy is thinking outside of the box, is what makes real inventions. some crazy ideas that people think wtf thats crazy..