How To Turn The Ocean Into A Battery | Answers With Joe

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   @sirjamesfancy

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   3:07 I thought you were going to say the boiling point changes with atmospheric pressure, why don't we do that also?

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   @stuartpocklington7107

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   If you take that energy out of the ocean (as it’s not creating new energy, it’s just moving it from one place to another) then what would the implications be to the ocean and the life within it

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   @jmgraydz

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   Sun stops shining at night huh.

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   @evilfinnigan

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   If it was the ultimate solution it would have more buy-in by now I think. IMHO. Molten salt thorium reactors such as Copenhagen Atomics’ equipment has more potential. Seems simple and if scalable to market soon it could be a game changer.

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   @ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   Its four years in the future and ocean surface temperatures have reached critical levels. Coral reefs are dying from the heat globally, beginning the death of fisheries that people have depended on from the beginning of time. Water temperatures in the summer of 2024 reached 100 degrees in freedom units (38 celsius). Fertiliser pollution from corporate farms has caused unnaturally large and devastating red tide and people are dying from vibrio grown on the pollution.

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   @flaminiolevyneto9613

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   OTEC is a hope for global warminng

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   @boomersezwhat

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   Electricity needs an overhaul. We're doing it wrong. Renewable don't scale up efficiently, but for end-user generation, they can make a big difference. Electricity should be a cottage industry, each household and business should generate as much of its own electricity as possible, take from the grid at need, and sell the excess power they generate. Use technologies like what is discussed in this show to provide an backbone load for the grid, along with hydro and nuclear. Turn the utility companies into grid maintainers and Electricity brokerages that keep track of the how m7ch is contributed or used, every roof should have solar panels and a small ethical axis wind generator. Property with water flow could grow electricity as a cash crop by building a small hydro plant.
   Combining mass distribution with decentralized generation is the only way to do this. Centralized generation is a dead end, and trying to keep it is blinding us to the obvious choices we need to make as a species.

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   @KaosProject21

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   hey ykno them clear glass solar panels we make watch faces from?

   can we float billions of them on top of the ocean?

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   @sussekind9717

   December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

   Living in Florida, I am all for it. We have to be good for something besides orange juice and internet memes.

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    @NicholasNerios

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    How much power does a hamster or mouse generate on a running wheel? How could we harness hamster power???

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    @13minutestomidnight

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    This would need to use specific geographic conditions with coastal cities nearby, but it could work. The low efficiency means that the plant would need to be rather large, but the high pressure in the deep sea can provide a pressure differential to work alongside the temperature differential, and the deep sea levels themselves would make a condenser basically passive. That said, the only way this really is going to be financially appealing is if it doubles as a desalination plant, which is when it really has great potential.. 

    All around the world people are having water shortages, and desalination plants that work through osmosis using a membrane, are all highly energy intensive, and boiling water isn't much better, in fact it's less efficient, but using the low pressure in the ocean to boil water would significantly improve efficiency. 

    The low efficiency of the energy generation doesn't sound like much, but the reality is that with grid energy, lower efficiencies don't matter so much as long as they can be compensated for with increased "volume" (although what that will mean for an efficiency this low is questionable). If you double it as a desalination plant, you're using the same space for 2 different purposes, making the entire process more efficient overall.

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    @joshuagharis9017

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Quite a title, Is it waves? Just starting video

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    @KeKe-bv8qv

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I'm suddenly imagining someone making an inland version of this, like a really deep dam with an OTEC in it.
    Thing is, for that to work, how deep would it have to be to reach the required cold temperatures and how much surface area would be needed for the required surface heat?
    I imagine a benefit of doing this inland, not at sea, would be less danger from storms and less biofouling meaning lower maintenance costs.
    Of course a lot of the benefits of having otec at sea would be lost but maybe at a lower cost?
    I'm not sure, especially about price.

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    @llort42

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Sigh tidal/wave buoyancy energy seems much more scalable and localable. But what do waves know?

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    @YTEdy

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I thought coal was trees. Oil was algae.

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    @moltoniron633

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    3:06 I guess it's Fahrenheit

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    @DrHoustonS

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Freedom units! 😆😂

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    @TimPerfetto

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I dont like your intro thing its very cliche and it scares my cat

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    @_PRAJAKTAJOSHI

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Wonderful!

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    @AlejandroFlores-vi8tl

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Here's an idea combine a concentrated solar plant with OTEC, couldn't now work anywhere?

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    @ashurean

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    These kinds of solutions only make a real difference if we starting making steps towards societal change to reduce our resource demands and waste output.

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    @viscache1

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Add solar and wind generation to the same system in the same structure and you have an energy assist that makes the generation ore efficient.

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    @DoubsGaming

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    another con I didn't hear mention is that if this idea took hold and went "mainstream" then we could be at the opposite end of the extreme where it's too cold. That would take a lot of time though.

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    @185MDE

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I ate Mac n cheese while watching this.

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    @musicmaniac32

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I had to pause the video after hearing "212 Freedom Units" because I was laughing so hard I couldn't pay attention to what was being said. "Freedom Units…" love it!

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    @patrickcampbell4504

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Children already does this you hack!

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    @PheOfTheFae

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Why are they not building these in southern California? Renewable energy gap filler and desalinization plant all in one?

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    @simonclement9272

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I love it. But people don't Wana give up theor ocean view for a bunch of water turbines.. it's a solid idea but blame the rich alone this hasn't happened yet, a poor man wouldn't give a shit. As said in the south

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    @TessaBaker-zg9vk

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Hi, I know that renewable energy can make green Hydrogen gas, why did you leave that out of the OTEC conversation!

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    @zapfanzapfan

    December 21, 2025 at 4:35 am

    So.. cost comparison with solar panels and batteries?

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