This is great - just found that lego set on ebay - I have a young relative who would get a kick out of this. Don't suppose you have a plan or any info on the pieces needed for the actual wind turbine structure? Sadly all my lego was gifted away some 25 years ago :)

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

The turbine structure is set number 10268 -- there are TONS of databases online that will list every piece you'd need to build it! (or you can try and find the set, but they're pretty tough to get a hold of)

@BarryTGash

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez Thanks!

you are criminally underrated

@singinsanity

3 жыл бұрын

Seconded

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

thank you!!

Excellent video Trace!

@nubskrub2311

3 жыл бұрын

kento bruhto

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kento!!!

@mubnathan5147

3 жыл бұрын

Wow Kento watches trace So cool!

@qzeqidk

2 жыл бұрын

Kento bento !!!!!!!!!:)

I've just discovered your channel because of Tom Scott, and I love it ❤️❤️

Would be cool to see you explore more ways to generate electricity and test it at home!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

That WOULD be cool!

3:15 Nailed the Wilhelm scream 😂👊

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

hahahah

Weird to think I've been watching you for almost a decade. Started with DNews, then here. Seeker doesn't have the same vibe anymore. All the vibes left with you.. Such a great guy.

Man this has answered so many questions I've been curious about, I find renewable energy fascinating. Great Video!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

SO glad to hear it!

love how coal is less efficient than lego >_

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing right?!

This video BLEW ME AWAY! But for real, Trace is the best.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

You’re just blowing wind up my turbine now

Just rework an old ventilator and put it on the roof. Works like a charm

@Joso997

3 жыл бұрын

It is cool it is made from lego but so was a car :P

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joso997 Ooooh interesting

I didn't know there was a myth that wind turbines slow down the wind :D

I found you through Tom Scott, and I love your science as well as you energy. Also, us AFOLs have to stick together

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Oh heck yeeeaah

The power of Lego!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

LITERALLY!

I can't believe Brick Experiment Channel didn't do it first. Great video!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Let’s try it again together!

Omggggg! I LOVE YOU TRACE💕 it’s meeeeeeee😁again your fav!

8:19... the "It's alive" moment.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

I WAS SO PUMPED

please build a nuclear reactor out of lego next! Or maybe a nice video on nuclear energy since its a very important low-carbon energy source needed to mitigate anthropogenic global warming

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

I've got one coming about heavy particle accelerators soon ! V excited for that

You are a blacksmith? Always learning something on your channel 😁

I want the wind power blimps (like in Big Hero 6) to work out cause they just seemed so damn cool. 8)

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Yesssssss

I was just wondering last night when a new video was coming. What a great surprise to wake up to!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@OsirisMalkovich

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez Indeed I did!

Tom Scott video sent me this way, I'm binging your channel and I've watched about 20 videos for now

The Vestas V90 actually isn't that large anymore. The largest onshore turbines are currently about 150 to 160 meters in diameter.

Every form of energy is solar energy one way or the other. Except for fusion. That would truly be creating our own sun. Fission isn't solar but in a way its stellar power.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Oooh I like that

Wait, you're a blacksmith? Please do a collab with How To Make Everything and make your own wind turbine from scratch.

Trace, keep up the great work! All your worry was for nothing dear!!! 💜

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU DEARRRR ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

@singinsanity

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez you know how to make your followers feel special! Made my day - I can’t wait to go home & show my LEGO obsessed roommate this vid (we have over 1k lbs of LEGO in our dining room!)

A few of my solar inverters sites are out there right off the 14! It's nice to see all the different types of renewables out there. I actually built a few of these lego wind turbines in school, we had local kids do a Wind Challenge up in the Columbia River area. Little fingers work better at winding those coils.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

whoa cool!

Feels like it's been a while. The channel really jumped up in sub count though. We can almost go quantum now.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

It's been about 60 days because I was working on an 8-episode series for PBS Digital Studios called Animal IQ! Check it out on /PBSTerra!

how are you SOOOO underrated. Your videos are SO good. Keep making!

So basically it looks like his Lego wind turbine design is almost at 1% efficiency😅🤣 Nah I’m just kidding, love you Trace!

underrated channel

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Windmill power has been used in Thai sea salt industries (or as literally translated, salt fields or salt paddies) as well. In fact, traditional sea salt making relies on two modes of renewable energy, wind and solar. Wind powers Archimedean screws to draw seawater into the fields, and solar energy does the evaporation job.

I just realized something.Theoretically, you could create infinite energy with this because the fan powers the power source to power it. At first you would have to move the turbine yourself then it would most likely start to work

"So at 8:00 we did it properly as intended and attached the correct parts, and it worked!"

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

We put the wheels on this box and wow it is a car now! Too bad I didn’t succeed at anything!

Thank you for sharing this. I very much enjoyed a lot of the content you posted which was done as part of bigger channels. Your own channel has taken your clear technical proficiency at presenting content and amplified it with your sincerity, authenticity & enthusiasm. I often find that skilled presenters who produce a *lot* of videos are great, and yet when they present content in which they're personally involved - and you've clearly spent a lot of time, effort and brainpower on getting this concept to work, never mind get the video to look and sound good - that the result is so much more enjoyable. You have a charm, boyish enthusiasm and infectious clarity which I think makes your content so refreshing and endearing. Thanks for sharing what you do and please keep us smiling in otherwise grim times :) (And I wish I had room in my flat for the Vesta set; I've envied and coveted it for a long time.)

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nathan! 💕

Missing you buddy ❤️

Friggin awesome man.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

THANKS!

Hey Trace, got sent by the poppy seed video. I couldn't help but smile the whole video so wanted to stop by sub and say hi. Can't wait to watch your videos. Thanks for being so positive!!

Brilliant work ☺️ X

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Wow I remember watching you on “test tube” years ago. Good stuff!

As a kid I wanted Lego's so bad. After asking my for them so many times my parents gave me these weird blocks that didn't even stick together at all. I was devastated. My brothers were friends with the kid next door and one day I tagged along to find that the kid had a huge bucket of legos. I desperately wanted to play but, was too shy to ask. Now as an adult I see why I didn't get legos as a kid. They're expensive!!!

Oh look, you can do something Texas can’t do.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Shh don't mess with them they'll get upset and continue to forget that "don't mess with Texas" wasn't about how tough they are but a way to get texans to stop littering

How much pollution is created in the manufacturing and transportation of a wind turbine? Also the maintenance and replacing parts?

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

How much pollution is created in the mining, refining, transportation, and burning of fossil fuels? Probably more.

I'm feeling your excitement Trace when it started spinning

Whenever anyone says that Windmills dont produce any emissions i shed a single tear, for they do "produce" emissions in line with their production. Of cause this is still massively cheaper CO2 per Kw/H wise, in the 100x margins, sometimes more/less. But to say they produce nothing is false

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

They produce nothing. The supply chain that build, creates, disposes/recycles their parts does not. If we want to include that for all forms of power then how does that apply to coal mining, natural gas drilling (including exploratory and pipelines)? We don't include that anywhere else, so why here?

Trace more videos please!!!

Trace still has an impressive receding hairline.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

why thank you, I'm surprised it's not going further. At some point I'll reach the "high school music teacher" line a.k.a the Einstein Line and I can just let the rest go wild

We need a carbon tax! Immediately.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

YESYESYES

What if you need more electricity suddenly because everyone flipped on their lights? Coal power? Ok thats what i thought.

@wolflegion_

3 жыл бұрын

Coal plants also have a massive start up time, so you’re really not making a good argument for coal anyway.

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

And you could just have a big ol battery

@BarryTGash

3 жыл бұрын

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity effectively acts as a battery. Can go from zero to peak output in under a minute, just open the dam. It can be reset when demand reduces, utilising power from intermittent sources (wind/solar) to pump water back to storage. When to 'turn on' such a solution is the job of a countries national grid - populations are surprisingly predictable. Here in the UK, our national grid knows when we'll all be switching our kettles on for a cup of tea (after football, after news, after a soap opera etc). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/05/uk-really-experience-power-surges-soap-operas-finish/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

there are numerous solves for this, the easiest is a smart grid with batteries, compressed air storage, pumped hydro storage -- all 'charged up' using excess energy from wind and solar that is gathered during periods of less-than-peak usage. Coal and Natural gas plants have to plan ahead to have enough coal and natural gas on-hand to meet demand and need to be prepared for edge cases as well (see: Texas) so 'coal power' is only one of many solutions. Several of those solutions are renewable or carbon neutral over time!

@macdietz

3 жыл бұрын

@@wolflegion_ not making an argument for coal. There is just a lot of virtue signaling about green energy around every corner with very little recognition that this will be (and has been) a transition that will take time and has huge kinks to work out. Better energy storage systems would be a huge step, for example. The third world will suffer as green energy gains prominence in the developed world. Theres no way around it. Just saying, there are things to consider before we start legislating more expensive and unreliable tech into law. It seems like people cant understand at all that these things are very complicated and tend just pick a side of an imagined line to stand on so they have a place to yell at other people from. Again, i never made an argument FOR coal 🤔

This video was so good

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I recently discovered your videos, and I am loving them, can't wait to watch more, you are the a fun science teacher I wish I had

A really good episode. Greetings from the Mitten State.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Hi fellow Michigander!

Man it'll likely be great whenever humans get the first operational fusion reactor, if the amount of energy per space can get high enough, we shouldn't need fuel based generators ever again.

Great video,keep it up!🔱⚜♻️

Great Episode Trace!! I gotta get my hands on that lego set. Wonder how many of them it'd take to power my house. 🤔 Loving your work with PBS Terra as well. So happy to get to learn more from you and to see you. You make your content so good, the heart you put into it is felt. Now I need to find that Tom Scott video with you, I apparently missed.... Can't wait for your next video.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Boose!!

❤️U Trace! 😋

I want one in my backyard.

Great!!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

THANKS

Subscribed. First video watched, liked the content, and I also miss watching DNEWS weekly 8/7 years ago.

Wind + nuclear == the future.

VESTAS v90s are my favorite wind turbines from VESTAS 4:54

Love you bro

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Blake 💕

Why not try a blade off of a box fan instead of the blade that came with it

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Well that would have been LEGO then 🤪

To hell with collectors, it was made to be played with!

The reason why it didn’t move before you attached the other blades is down to aerodynamics’ there is a possibility to modify the original blades to pitch’ my slightly smaller wind turbine is fragile with a thin tower but the blades are amazing.

Yes

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed

great video

Saw ur channel in tom scott. Ur actually kinda cool

So, just a thought: Hydro energy is so efficient because we can channel the water, right?. Did someone think about channeling the wind, like canyons or something like that? As I said, just a thought.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

We sorta did that here!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Though my guess is wind doesn’t naturally channel the way water does. You can’t easily build a dam and trap a bunch of wind behind it until you have need

@TheJesterOAO

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez as I am think Ing about, building a hundred meter tall dam filled with wind turbines wouldn't be exactly good for wind. But it would be fun to watch 😀

At 0:26 you say “no emissions what so ever” doesn’t it make a lot of emissions in the process of mining all the materials to make a giant windmill then the process to build them then there’s the truck that drives it to the site where it’s built then the crane that puts it up. I want to know how many emissions that puts out and how long it would take the windmill to cancel out all of emissions it created before it was ready. Can you answer this? Please?

Yo Trace! Where are the new videos

20 years and a billion wind turbines later.......... earth's rotation shifts becouse of drag (there will always be an new problem haha) (nvm my fantasy)

👍👍👍

What a nice guy, Bill Gates, making a book, that we have to buy, so we can save the world, and he can take credit for it... 😌👏🏿

It is sad that most parts from windturbines actually can't be re-used and is just being dug into the ground, polluting the ground and the areas around it. Wind is great as a supplement, but if one really want to make an impact on climate change, nuclear is the best option right now, until more, better solutions are made. I've been inside many winturbines and the off-shore nacelle towers are the size of a 4 bedroom apartment, packed with non-recyclables - But! Offshore windturbines are the better option compared to those on land, that have less uptime and they're killing wildlife and birds. Of course we could also as humans start consuming less red meats if we want to make a difference tomorrow. Great video.

love from india

I just heard that you will be back hosting a new PBS show?

@sraldleif

3 жыл бұрын

Does that mean no more creative freedom? :(

blacksmith?!

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Yep! I used to run the blacksmith shop one day a week at the historic site I worked at.

There was a clip on a Trevor Noah recent episode on filibusters that used your voice and clip, so I came to your channel to see the rest of the video by searching “filibuster” or “civil rights”. It may be on Seeker or Dnews or some other channel. I wanted to watch the rest of that episode.

3 months ago, "likely the hottest"...... last week, record highs all over the western US.

Turbine, not windmill. A windmill mills grain.

Why aren't you uploading news videos ? :-(

Climate change is "happening" until our models are proven lacking. Our current models are built on historic data which had no human made CO2. There is still no way of knowing if the current trend of warming will change on its own. The point is it may happen and because of the reason that we don't know I would much more like for green energy tech to be advertise for cleaning the air and cleaning the oceans instead of stoping climate change.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Are there scientists who say this? If so: how many? Where are their papers? In a review of 60,000 papers of climate change research, only a few hundred said it wasn't caused by humans or declined to say one way or another. Almost ALL of them said positively that humans are causing climate change. With the amount of carbon in our atmosphere today -- even if it stopped right now -- we'll be feeling the effects for decades to come. Let's say you're right: should we continue to add and contribute to this "natural warming" as you call it? Your argument that the house is on fire so we should just turn on the gas on the stove doesn't really work for me.

@Joso997

3 жыл бұрын

​@@TraceDominguez I am not saying that humans are not having an effect but the fact is the temperature where raising since we exited the mini ice age, we have only sped the process up. One of the scenarios that are likely to happen is instead of having continuous rising sea levels and temperatures, since the temperature is soon (in few hundred years or so) going to peak, we are going to have accelerated entrance into an ice age with the collapse of ocean currents.

@Joso997

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez So since we don't know the correct scenario what is going to happen since it never did in the long term sudden decrease of CO2 might do more harm than good.

@Joso997

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez I think 2020-2021 is the perfect example of what happens when we suddenly stop human activity with snow in Texas and Spain (which did not have such snow in decades), 100-year flood in China, and massive earthquakes in all the new places.

@Joso997

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez my argument is too advertise green energy not for fixing climate change but for cleaning the enviroment. You are not an easy person to have a discussion with

Who is disliking this? Why?

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Bill! Bill! Bill!

"renewable..." *cough cough* magnets. Unfortunately this technology is years or decades away from being environmentally friendly, or renewable. The environmental impact from neodymium mining alone is massive quantities of radioactive byproduct, and these types of turbines need HUGE magnets. Ultimately until we can make turbines out of materials other than metal and neodymium, or recycling those materials at scale becomes effective, "renewable" is just a political buzzword. Unfortunately we will have to continue driving this technology forward, despite the overall negative impact on the environment, until it becomes a feasible source of widescale power.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with your argument that magnet-mining isn't are not renewable. But you're forgetting: Almost all energy generation works the same way: Magnets are turned through a coiled wire by mechanical energy. Steam does this for coal, nuclear, natural gas and other fossil fuels, and fluid pressure does it in nature in the case of hydro and wind. ALL of these generators need the magnets you speak of. All of them. If we're polluting to get the magnets for our generators either way then let's spin that generator in a thing that doesn't MAKE MORE POLLUTION to do so.

I was expecting a lot of climate change denial and just anti green energy in these comments. But for once, I am pleasantly disappointed. Big thanks to Tom Scott for introducing me to you Trace, you are AMAZING!

6:20 uhh... No masks?

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

COVID testing was widely available and negative tests were ensured prior to filming!

Why the lack of masks?

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

We got negative covid tests and isolated before (and after) we filmed so we didn’t need to wear our masks, but I assure you, we had them!

@lexicalgap5191

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez Ahh! Thank you for the clarification. 💜

Bro please call them turbines theyre turbines

Thanks for blocking my comment criticizing the sponsor.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t actually, but if you used one of several dozen words that are blocked by the channel then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trace Dominguez? More like trace amounts of opiates from that drug bagel

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

Shhh don’t tell my boss

It's weird that you say that windmills don't slow wind. Of course they do, that's thermodynamics. Whether it's enough to impact climate is another question, but your basic statement is deeply wrong.

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

He did say that it was not enough to impact the climate.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

If we were talking about space exploration and the opponents say, "We shouldn't explore space because rocket launches slow the earth," you'd laugh in their face, wouldn't you. It would be deeply wrong to say they don't at all (because they do), but it would be even more deeply wrong to acknowledge their argument in the least because they're not related. Rocket launches don't slow the earth in any way that matters. Wind power does not slow the wind in any way that matters. Wind power harvesting is so immaterial relative to the mass of the atmosphere that it is not worth talking about unless you're being pedantic. Instead, that’s a message that is about protecting fracking, polluters and the status quo . I'd say protecting polluters is "deeply wrong" and rate my statement as "mostly true, but not entirely." thanks for watching!

@perfsev

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez But in multiple studies wind has been found to impact local climate, here's just one article: www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind-power-found-to-affect-local-climate/ But hey, thanks for calling a fan pedantic.

@emceeboogieboots1608

3 жыл бұрын

He did mention that there is so much mass and volume of air above a wind farm that the energy extracted is insignificant. I would say deeply wrong is an over statement

You can stop watching at 10:59 because then he’s just expressing his opinion strongly about climate change

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

lol my opinion

@rowanmcbrearty9041

3 жыл бұрын

lol, sorry I’m just a kid that disagrees with your opinion sorry. I am a subscriber and will still watch and love your content!

I am a simple man. I see Bill Gates I downvote.

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@BarryTGash

3 жыл бұрын

@@john.d.rockefeller2538 As he said, he's a simple man.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

I downvote your downvote -- and as we all know in math two negatives = a positive :D

@kjdude8765

3 жыл бұрын

Great own goal there Ti.

@88888888tiago

3 жыл бұрын

@@john.d.rockefeller2538 a billionaire that is about to own more than 50% of all US farm land seems dangerous.