Quantum Battery: BUSTED!

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[Huojunta]

The fact that they're spending more time talking about why you should invest in it rather than how it actually works should be a hint to anyone that it's a scam.

[MrKornnugget]

I know Thunderfoot is right, but imagine if he wasn't. I would have a self filling water bottle in my Jetson flying car, living above the clouds in my floating building. Instead, I am stuck with this gold hammer.

[laurentdrozin]

As long as the number of people believing in magic crystals exceeds the number of people who actually understand what quantum means, this type of salesmanship has a great future.

[SpaceStickwithSpaceTick]

I am very interested in this "make bank account go up machine". The tech seems really revolutionary and game changing. Where can I input my debit card info to buy one?

[No-ucfg]

Remember. In order to make any sci-fi machine sound plausible to the general population, just add "Quantum" to its name. Quantum Drive, Quantum Generator, Quantum Batteries, etc.

[petersmythe]

"This *efficiency of plants* "
Photosynthesis is remarkably inefficient.
Biology stores energy pretty densely but biological autotrophy as an energy source is like... fractional percent efficient. Compared with ~10% for the cheapest photovoltaics money can buy.

[brahnt]

I lost it at the bullet holes. "Still not convinced? Now we animated a lava stream flowing around the battery. See, it still works!"

[atft]

The best feature of this Quantum Battery is that it can be in two states simultaneously: fully charged and absolutely empty.

[andrewboktor]

@thunderfoot, for every 10 busted videos, you should make one "here's a cool piece of technology that actually works" video.

[KeplersDream]

Patrick Stewart once asked one of the TNG staffers how warp drive works. The guy gave him a few tentative ideas from then-current physics, but admitted that nobody really knows how to make a spaceship go faster than light. "Nonsense, " said Sir Pat. "All you need to do is say 'engage'."

[alexoja]

Thunderf00t, you should invent the vacuum battery that draws energy from a "volumetric vacuum otherwise only found in space" and will retain this vacuum permanently. No leakage current. In case of failure, it will not only not explode, but it will implode, preventing any damage. Production is very cheap as well, as the vacuum material used in the battery is very abundant and production actually produces breathable air as a byproduct, making it very useful for space applications.

[JustinC]

For some reason, I think a quantum battery as one that can be fully charged or dead. But it's actual state is not known until you try to draw power from it. In which case it is most likely dead.

[DulksVenee]

The moment you hear about "limitless energy" or such, you can immediately debunk it by simply citing the second law of thermodynamics.

[dvarjen]

This totally reminds me of a really effective compression algorithm that I saw online. It could compress anything down to a couple of bytes.

Sadly, there was no way to decompress since the program just chucked out all data.

[oxydator]

"Endless supply of energy"
To me, this sounds a lot like the failed limitless energy experiment of the Ancients in Stargate. If even in science fiction it is deemed impractical, how could it ever work in reality?

[zephaniahgreenwell]

Thunderf00t does sometimes post videos showing how you CAN improve technology. He's not always trying to crush people's hopes and dreams. Society will only improve when we invest in sound science instead of falling for BS marketing with a pretty CGI video.

[Perplexer]

The BS on the Internet is more and more nicely "packaged" and expensively produced. It's so easy to fall for all of it. I'm glad there are people like Thunderf00t out there helping us keep our eyes open and brains working.

[Absaalookemensch]

The battery, like so many other "too good to be true" devices, could scam millions of dollars from suckers.
When someone says "up to", double, triple and quadruple validate with reliable sources. Once validated, consider walking away anyway.

[fishmcfly]

I love the fact that you included one of the worst youtube channels in existence, Ridddle. The first time i saw a thumbnail and a video from them i couldn't believe that anyone takes their bullshit serious, but the sad fact is that they generate sooo many views. I despise that channel so much... thanks for calling out stuff like that!

[EEVblog]

The Jesus battery! It's called that because that sales pitch is the financial technical equivalent of evangelical creation theory.