Name: Perpetual Power
Uploaded: 2022-05-12 00:22:55
Duration: 51 min 34 s
Description: All over the world, engineers and scientists are racing to solve one key problem; how to safely and efficiently store electricity at a huge scale but at a low cost. The quest is producing some truly remarkable ideas and this episode details three of them.

A new breed of visionaries are creating extraordinary machines to help the planet and humankind in the future.

This film follows the emerging world of Electric Vehicles, the infrastructure needed for them, and the radical change we must make to the way we think about transport.

Electric Vehicles

Some episodes of ETF are about entire industries, some about individual companies. This episode is different, it's about an idea, the Metaverse. The Metaverse is the successor to the internet. It will change the lives of almost every human on the planet.

The Metaverse

Virgin Hyperloop is a train that runs inside a steel tunnel. This revolutionary new vehicle floats along the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag. It's fully autonomous and enclosed.

Hyperloop

A new era of space is dawning where small satellites no bigger than a shoebox will be deployed not in one or twos, but in their thousands - referred to as satellite swarms.

The Race to Space

All over the world, engineers and scientists are racing to solve one key problem; how to safely and efficiently store electricity at a huge scale but at a low cost. The quest is producing some truly remarkable ideas and this episode details three of them.

Perpetual Power

Construction currently accounts for a staggering percentage of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This film explores the mind-blowing world of timber buildings for a more sustainable future.