The creator, a PhD in fusion energy, explains how 70% of the world's electricity needs can be met by using water as a thermal battery. He presents his open-source designs, details how a solar-powered heat pump system can provide nearly free heating and cooling for a home, provides a complete cost breakdown of the system, and contrasts it with expensive traditional methods. He concludes by highlighting the global economic and environmental impact and offers a call-to-action for people to either build the system themselves using his free plans or join his training course to make it a career.
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If anything happens to me, I have posted all of the information you would need to do this yourself for free on our Open Source Ecology Wiki.
Using thermal batteries could save your household a huge amount of money. Add solar panels to this set up, and you're generating 'free' electricity, forever.
Now imagine scaling this globally. This set up is now possible because the cost of the components has fell drastically in recent years.
If you want to make this your career and be one of the only contractors offering this service, check out our Builders Crash Course at learn.opensourceecology.org
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Transcript
Your energy bills are being kept high, but they don't need to be. When I explain this to people, they have two reactions: Worst, they don't believe me, then they change their life. 70% of the world's electricity needs can be saved by using water storage as a battery. How do I know this? I have a PhD in fusion energy, and I believe we can display 70% of the world's electricity needs simply by using water. This means that everybody good save huge amounts of money and save the planet. Before I explain how this works, I need to tell you that I published everything online for free, and anyone can use these designs for themselves. If one day for example I could not continue this project, this information is all out tier. But here's how you can build your own. Current clean energy methods like solar are intermittent, meaning they only generate electricity when it's daytime for example. So we need to store this energy for the nighttime or when the wind isn't blowing. Currently we use batteries, which are extremely expensive. The Earth already has a natural thermal storage system. Better. Water is very effective at storing energy, and about a 100,000 times cheaper than batteries. So how would this work for your home? A solar powered heat pump, which costs about $6,000 would heat water during the day. This water is then stored in insulated containers. A heat exchanger then extracts this best, or cold, from the better, which can be used throughout your home. This can work for cooling as well. A heat pump can both cool and heat the water. How much would a system like this cost? It's just a heat pump, dollars 6,000. Storage containers, dollars 100 a pop tier 16. Plumbing, dollars 500. And heat exchangers, dollars 1,000. So this costs less than your furnace, water better, and air conditioner the thermal battery replaces in the first place, and you're using free energy forever. Heating, cooling, and hot water are 70% of a building's energy needs. So at scale, this system could cut 70% of the world's electricity needs. This is huge. Electricity production accounts for 40% of all primary energy use of humanity. The missing piece has been water all along. If this sounds too good to be true, it is because this became possible only recently, as PV costs have dropped drastically to power such a system. So the electricity costs are near nil. But the secret is, if you get contractors to do this, good luck. Nobody builds them, Nobody has heard of them. And the industry loves to rake in the cash using expensive energy guzzling systems. So the only way you can get this installed at very low cost is if you do it yourself. I've published all of the instructions and plans on how to build one of these for free on opensourceecology.org. I'm building a team to install these for people, but if you want to learn how to do this yourself or maybe make a career out of this, you can sign up for our Builder Rank Course at opensourceecology.org. See rank in our bio.
