How Materials Science Can Help Create a Greener Future – with Saiful Islam

42 thoughts on “How Materials Science Can Help Create a Greener Future – with Saiful Islam”

1. I have a family friend with the same name so I got excited haha. Unfortunately, it wasn’t him, but it was a great talk regardless!

2. Shouldn't that be a DC Cobra?

3. It seems that anyone can speak nowadays in the RI

4. You want a "greener" future? Release more stored carbon dioxide. It's just that simple. The more carbon dioxide that is available, the more that plants will thrive. Don't buy into the bullshit.

5. 8 light seconds, damn, they've implemented significant upgrades to the speed!

6. So many great achievements and yet John still isn't deemed Goodenough for the Nobel Prize?

7. The problem is we want the cake, and the cookie, AND eat them too!!! Maybe if everyone has solar panels that it makes sense to have them. And wind turbines, maybe eve hydroelectric generators in storm drains! Collect the water in a resivor from storm drain system, and generate power with that water! And it will usually be generating the most when there is little sun! We can't keep looking in to profiting money wise from it, we need to get past the profiting so much from things we must have, its like charging a spouse for groceries, when they both need it, and both pay in the end. Or charging a big price for something you will endup paying for your self! We need to be collecting energy everywhere it is to be collected! Houses, streets , building roofs, skyscraper roofs, wind turbines on the corners of skyscrapers, putting a large wind turbine on top of sky scrapers may be something else! I wouldn't want to be putting it up!!! What feels like, 10,000 feet up !! But several smaller turbines on the roofs with rows of solar panels basically being the roofing of the building, we could get rid of the coal power plants, and maybe the gasplants, except for emergency plants, and if the higher ups, want profit, they can make it by charging for maintenance and repairs, it would be like a regular power plant. Only scattered over the city ,county ,state,, ppl wise, they would always be maintaining the system, and there would still be a grid! Only power would be going out from houses and buildings, as well as in to them! It would be a huge undertaking, but it is possible, the bigoil and power will not like it!!

8. Worst jokes ever !! 😉

9. 2:41 Watts new, nice pun

10. We can now, do partal charge, in the time for a potty break, or while eating or shopping. It's possible to charge 30-40% in 10-20 minutes or less, that should be plenty, we just need charge stations, maybe mobile charge stations! Capable of 100kwh, or so. Would be great. I only usually travel within 20 miles a day, and about 60 miles a week, normally, but I have done over 100, in town in a day. But my town is scattered, and covers a large area. Like near 20 miles across town, being just out of town driving into town and back, a couple times a week, so near 20 miles a day, 40-60miles a week, so ev would make sense. We need to offer ethanol, and have ethanol turbine engines, or even piston engines, for range extenders! Ethanol can make alot of power, like used the race car engines, burns clean, a engine designed to run on ethanol can make alot of power in a small engine, use that to generate power, over propelling the car, would make more sense, and the enging at a constant speed, would be more effiecent, generating power to charge the battery and power the car, something like 80+kw should be easy and with a small piston engine, possibly smaller with a turbine engine.. Basically using motorcycle engine technology, to power a generator, I don't see why this isn't available Now!!!

11. If one doesn't already know the subject, then this talk doesn't make any sense. Just words salad.
    If one already knows the subject, than the talk is redundant. Just a random Captain Obvious recap.

    No matter what, you lose (about an hour of your life).
    😮

12. Electric cars and short journeys are all well and good.
    But nobody can afford more than renting a crappy flat with no parking or less parking spaces than how many flats there are.
    I own my flat, we have 15 parking spaces and 50 flats and the housing association will never install charging points unless it's at gunpoint.

    They won't even fund our hospitals, police and firemen anymore.

    When are they ever going to spend the umpty billion pounds on digging up all the pavements and car parks, both public and private, for anybody but those who can afford to live in a house with a garage in a village or suburb.

    You know, almost all the people born after 1980.

    A token handful of barely standardized, usually broken, charging points at a Welcome Break aren't going to cut it.

    Oh and unless we're lucky our economy is about to be sacrificed in the name of some angry Brexiteers. Can't see the surviving corporations buying me a charging point.

13. #Si

14. Moltex Energy's SSR salt cooled reactor can vary it's output between 150MW and a few GW by melting a sodium vat.
    It uses the heat from the reactor and/or hot salt to run its turbine.
    High temp gas turbines too.
    And it's hot fast neutrons too, great for directly making hydrogen and desalinating water (important here in the UK)

15. 28:20 Barack Obama believed in Science and killing people

16. PatheticTrump hate!

17. A well conducted lecture, charged with inspirational intellect. The current state of solar energy is amazing! Also, with all those puns, I wouldn't be shocked if Saiful is a potential fan of Master Thereon.

18. Too much side talk

19. 24:42 I don't understand that graphic…WattHour/Kilogram of material, from 265 efficient to 300 efficient and the car can doble the miles?
    I'm just going to guess he didn't mention something else like lighter materials to build the car and more efficient engines with less wasted energy and all that.

20. Half the video was a bit of a long intro most people would just aboid it, is all the basic you learn on any other battery introduction.

21. First Hydrogen Atom: "Good heavens, I've lost an electron!"
    Second Hydrogen Atom: "Are you sure?"
    First Hydrogen Atom: "I'm POSITIVE!"

    (Sorry, couldn't resist!) 😀

22. When I think of Entanglement I keep coming up with something hard and massless. Waves need time hard things move all at once. Hard isn't real anyway even though it kinda is.

23. #poppahTea

24. I was wondering why he didn't apologize for the the messed up slides, but they are only in the video, the ones projected in the room are fine. So it's the video editor's fault. Slide presentation software often handle changing aspect ratios very poorly. Since the RI is most likely to keep projecting in 4/3 aspect ratio, and the videos are gonna stay at 16/9, you should really be more careful in the future.

25. i like how he acknowledged our last president, not our current one: edit, guess he gave this lecture the year it all went wrong…. 2016

26. JUST A HEADS UP TO Ri. your intro is very tortuous to the sensory systems of us highly sensitive people. it almost drives me away from the channel.

27. 31 mins in and he finally talks about the subject of the video. Come on now.

28. A bit too much filler, maybe 25% filler content. Puns not so bad.

29. One of the best speakers on Ri, loved the puns.

30. 22:10 "… he had to fly back to Russia …"
    LOL, not in 1889 he didn't.

31. 8 minutes for light to get to Earth from the Sun not 8 seconds for those who didn't know.

32. Excellent clear talk. Liked the slides on battery and solar cell materials (and the puns!).

33. Fantastic lecture – it achieved it's purpose of appealing to a wide audience. You didn't need any knowledge of the subject before watching as there was enough introductory material to put in context. I watched this with my 91 year old mother in law, my teenage son and my non-scientist husband. I myself am a scientist working in a different field. All of us took something from the lecture and were interested throughout. I recommend this as a good watch.

34. It's wonderful that this resource is online and accessible to all – beyond the 400 or so lucky individuals who were in the audience at what was an extremely enjoyable event. The attendees were peppered with Faraday Institution HQ staff and researchers who work in this field, but Saiful has such a gift of making science accessible and engaging to everyone – young or old – whether they have a scientific background or not. Well worth a watch.

35. Another brilliant Ri talk from Saiful on one of the toughest challenges of the modern world. Congratulations!!

36. Great lecture form an absoluetly top class scientist who knows his stuff and can get across the key points with a sense of humour. Thank you.

37. Really lovely lecture, well done.

38. Really enjoyed this. Thanks Saiful

39. @56:58 shame on who if you spell Institvtion? Pun went wrong 😛

40. 15 minutes in… is this guy going to actually tell us anything or just blah blah blah? Looks like he is finally about to actually tell us something. This is incredibly long winded. 23 minutes in. I can't take this guy anymore. He isn't really telling us anything. It's like he was asked to give a talk and just filled an hour with random sequencial history in chemistry. Waste of time. Material science can help create a greener future. OBVIOUS! 27 minutes is basics of batteries. Maybe the last 5 minutes of his lecture might tell us something but he has wasted enough of my time. PS: Shakespeare sucks and who cares?

41. "Saiful has asked the Q&A not to be published" what happened there then a pun competetion got out of hand?

42. Saiful i salam

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