Can someone take a block of aerogel and just put it in a body of water for me? I see a lot of people turning it into water proofing for objects, but I want to see how it just...floats.
@MokshithaG-blessed Says:
Your content is so useful, i wish this equipment comes in to market.
@bengriffin4027 Says:
"...this blocks dry air from getting in and this slows evaporation..."
Actually it isn't the dryness of the air that controls the rate. Notice that you can see the 'steam' (really not steam but condensed previous vapor or it wouldn't be visible) above the coffee/tea cup.
The rate of evaporation is driven by the difference in vapor pressure. Vapor pressure is driven largely by temperature.
It is really that cooler ait is blocked because cooler air will have a lower vapor pressure and vapor will be transfered over well beyond the air's ability to hold the vapor as vapor...therefor condensing and being visibly noticed.
This is why hot tubs lose water faster in the winter than in the summer. The summer air may be able to hold more water as vapor, but the transfer does not care about staying a vapor and is perfectly happy transferring to be seen as a fog. Hence lake effect snow/fog.
@Romgenas Says:
Scam
@watchit3746 Says:
idiotic...just make the water shallow, put a screen that prevents the light to reach deeper...problem solved...
@Cramnautica Says:
Can I have 2 i need to finish my prawn suit
@PanTrimtab Says:
I feel like Fresnel lenses are horribly underutilized in desal.
@celtofcanaanesurix2245 Says:
add those microtubes to tech needed to make a real life stillsuit
@PoopPants-b9k Says:
That’s a torch not a flamethrower
@Right_Supremacist Says:
It’s also the new asbestos.
@LinCalc Says:
As soon as I heard 2kg/m^2/h I verbally went "damn"
@killerbunny7206 Says:
That is obviously very cool, but wouldn't a bunch of bad concrete evaporators do more evaporating at the same cost?
@tongsam3555 Says:
I never knew my uni was doing this 😂
@martins4555 Says:
Won't the minerals/salt settle inside the microstructures?
@MilanStojakov Says:
Seems like a great place for bacteria and mold to grow in 👍
@martins.1584 Says:
I loled at "HUNDREDS... of microns". xD
@Formula1racingF1team Says:
Add a fan
@HqosbOLKvaoVI Says:
how will the fish stay warm if we take all their sunlight?
@XouXin Says:
Putting an AI filter over a Veritasium video is crazy.
@tomasvojvoda8420 Says:
I don't want yo vomment on whether this is amazing or great or whatever, but I have issue with the claim and ratio.
You say "standard" sunlight evapiration is horribly inefficient. with 40% efficiency.
To me that is not horrible, 4% would be.
Because now what you do with all this technology you are doubling the output.
Yeah double is great, but it's not breathtaking, is it?
You would get the same result by using double the surface... that's not too much. we are not talking about scaling 100fold or 10fold, but 'only' doubling and for that you will need high tech gear... instead of "just digging a bigger hole.
So how is this a breakthrough that eill change the situation?
I want it to be, I just don't see it.
@TheTruthPTT Says:
This is awsome I love it!
@AZZAMNO1 Says:
Uh won't salt form on tops of it, when the sun dries the salty water?
In the long term won't this clog up the pores?
@gamingdiamond168 Says:
the amount of misinformation in these comments is insane lol people actually think aerogel contains plastic when it's literally just made out of air and silica (naturally occurring in sand, quartz and plants)
@bouutiquems3578 Says:
The random music in the middle was too loud.
@notsrilanka Says:
maybe we just dont drink ocean water then
@DS-mz1gt Says:
🤔. So many uses...
@greenh609 Says:
Are you fuckin kidding me?? I swear we all think blowing your hot beverage actually cools the liquid!! But no, we are just blowing away the boundary layer to let thermodynamics do it's thing.
@ayoub-t9q Says:
he's getting old🥲
@stevensmith8151 Says:
This guy’s breathy artificial pauses are so precious an affectation that his message is destroyed for me. It’s a self involved cuteness invented (as far as I know) by Green Bros. Get over yourself cute boy.
@hakiyroi Says:
everytime i see a science video, i always wonder how the heck they figured these things out in the first place
science is fascinating o.o
@Stroncoba Says:
Donate to Mr. Beast? There must be better ways to support charitys
@jtu0929 Says:
Jesus loves you❤
@merick3395 Says:
Microplastics go brrrrr
@Gamebuddy242 Says:
What about the marine life in sea.
@JohnSmithh644 Says:
Awesome wow amazing so cool
@FoodiePlays Says:
Is the audio sped up?
@noblesavage42000 Says:
Wouldn't the salt build up in the ventricles?
@FoxDog1080 Says:
All this research to create…
A black sponge
@ocskopf Says:
It can't really be automated because if you do this to seawater you have to somehow get rid of the salt piles and extremely Concentrated leftovers pretty fast with an efficiency like that
@ChillGaminl Says:
I'm really into engineering and seeing stuff like this is awesome
@lisachristensen7938 Says:
It doesn’t matter if solar desalination is inefficient because passive solar energy is free.
@Cosmetic_Astro Says:
TeamTrees and now TeamWater?
@RiseUp_Again Says:
2 kg Water per Meter Square per Hour is a very Good Number
@chrisbeaulieu9904 Says:
Generate a saleable unit and market to the preppers and you will not need donations. I'd buy one.
@Psittaco Says:
another piece of technology that will probably never be used because it's not cost efficient enough for big companies
@ChrisRose-h5o5s Says:
❤
@tomk3732 Says:
That output cannot be right - its way over the top!
@cyannnhi Says:
hong kong mentioned ts so peak
@radeksvoboda6252 Says:
Sounds like a microplastic heaven.
@Hungwaylow-42 Says:
2 million people. There's 8 billion people on the planet. In other words you're doing something but not really doing anything.😮
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