The Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About | Terraform

We're in an energy and climate crisis, it's paradoxical. Hydrocarbons are powerful and portable, but limited and environmentally costly. For Episode 36 of S³ Terraform Industries goes in-depth and reveals how they're making natural gas from thin air.

0:00 Our energy paradox
1:56 The maths
3:39 The master plan
7:07 1/4 Reactor
10:55 2/4 Injection system
11:51 3/4 Direct air capture
13:33 4/4 Electrolyzer
14:37 Next milestone
17:38 My thoughts...

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[MoonMoon-guge]

im subbing just because dude's verbal bandwidth smokes the competition.

[sagemagick]

See kids ADHD isn't necessarily a restraining factor when it comes to innovation and creativity if you apply it in the right way you too can be like this guy

[NadimBraun]

Watched this at 0.75x speed. 😂

But holy smokes! Casey is amazing and clearly a genius. I'm blown away by Terraform's proposition and I hope they can crack it, especially the $1/kg Hydrogen.

[askill]

I love this dude!
Incredibly smart, loves what he is talking about, loves teaching about it, he understands the economics, he understands the engineering and how they fit together. I love that energy!


And how you presented him and his company was amazing too, you let hm tell the whole story, that is a great interviewing skill. S3 has already become my new favorite engineering channel. Very much reminds me of the honeypot documentaries but for engineering stuff and not for software.
I can't believe this channel is as young as it is.
Please keep on doing what you are doing for a long time. ❤

[jackwilliamburgess]

6:35 "Door or no door" 😂😂 Love the recent news reference

[noelkelly]

It's all about cost. Five plus years ago I saw a story about someone doing similar in Britain. They were doing direct air capture and water electrolysis, the only difference was their reactor creates liquid hydrocarbons for use in an ICE tractor. Their rector setup wasn't cheap.

[Zach_Films]

In over 10 years of watching YouTube this is the first video I’ve watched entirely through on 0.75x, that’s impressive

[minozemstan]

Man... you are becoming my favorite channel. Each video is such a top class content. I really wish you the quickest road towards few millions of subs.

[Enhancedlies]

greatest youtube channel i ever stumbled upon... I'm so inspired every time. I would love to work with this man, he is the best type of teacher if you are genuinely curious

[Arcticwhir]

wonder what the entire efficiency of the system is, seems like it involves multiple energy-intensive steps, direct air capture, water electrolysis, and the conversion of hydrogen and carbon dioxide to hydrocarbons.

[wpkwhuj]

one thing that is always forgotten in schemes like this is the transportation of the end product... natural gas and that to transport large amounts of it quickly so pumps and pipelines are needed, one also must not forget that both natural gas and hydrogen MUST be liquified to be of any practical use in motor vehicles (land, sea and air) and even when liquified (which also requires a huge amount of energy (NG requires about 40% of the energy content to cool and compress) that it must be kept refrigerated, not just below freezing but below dry ice temps... so long term storage in not practical... an NO discoveries will change this fact as the critical temps of both NG and H are physical laws and their overall densities are much below gasoline and diesel fuel so require much more room to store, 4-5x for H2 in liquid form,

[AJTarnas]

"you'd really struggle to feed even one household with 5 acres of farmland" 😂 no dude, you got that one wrong. the average american household contains roughly 3 people, and if those 3 people need 2500kcal/day that works out to under 3 million kcal/yr. a subpar acre of wheat will yield 4 million kcal/yr. corn will yield 2x and potato will yield 3x. not even getting into tree crops or polyculture. 5 acres of diversified crops in rural idaho will easily cover the calorie needs of 5-10 households. in LA prior to urbanization, 5 acres could support over 60 human diets annually. for someone who is spitting numbers so fast, your error here undermines the rest of your pitch.

[varshneydevansh]

Finally I watched it completely and this is just amazing. 17:00 speaks the volume and depth of his genuineness.

Man Casey is one of the most interesting and genuine person that I have seen for quite a long time. Just wow!!
So thank you for an awesome video and for sharing the work they are doing!

[cheermablury]

Its like looking at Bezo's before he was filthy rich.

[jasont]

The technology seems really promising, but I need to see the numbers. Does the solar generation minus the conversion and transportation losses provide significant value over just using the solar directly on the grid during the day?

[nicolo.lazzaro]

Incredible video! Thanks to S3 and Terraform Industries for sharing

[AunRAbbas]

Is this not just wrapping our larger problems in a new cloth, we still will be burning natural gas, further increasing our carbon emissions. Is this not just a temporary solution ignoring the larger one?

[lyledal]

"We're bottling it at the source!"

I love that.

[andrewjohnston]

If this is sitting somewhere in the desert, where does the large volumes of water come from that is required?