30 seconds in and I can see this is going to be a climate change narrative. I guess I shouldn't be surprised coming from MIT. I'm out.

you mean single joke engine

So we just found a complete new explanation for THE most relevant process for modeling climate change? And the old climate change models still were true, yes?!

I do not understand it.

Explains why plants are green. To conserve as much water as possible.

Days one and two of the Genesis prologue, then.

There's no way this isn't Nobel worthy

This is old news.

Let's discuss cloud seeding and the real reason these weather patterns and disasters are happening... and not just what big institutions would prefer.

This looks kind of obvious though....

This looks kind of obvious though....

8:17 50% at a 90º angle. Twist by 90% ? 90º

11 minutes to explain a 60 second concept

This video made me laugh quite vigorously! Over 30 years ago while taking Meteorology in College, I posed this (my theory of photons creating evaporation in water) to my meteorology professor. Her answer was (at that time) “Interesting but not plausible”. After college when computer power became more advanced, I did modeling of this and it was indeed plausible. Again, LMAO I find it funny it took over 30 years for this to be researched. Why is it scientist have been sitting on their arses for so long. New discovery my arse. :-)

That doesn't explain why Ice in my frozen food evaporates... AKA Freezer burn.

the same thing happens on a refrigerator very low temperature and 0 light...... to me it has to be electromagnetic effect because on the poles the ice cops does evaporate as much ask it do in regular refrigerators.

its real, It's the ancient pyramid technology. Solid state thermionics.

8:29 you mean 90° instead of 90% ;-)

Isn't this just recognition that light energy is more efficient than other energies that were converted to heat? Isn't that covered in a 101 class?

Let me get this straight - the MIT physicist do not understand that heat is also an electromagnetic wave, just with a longer wavelength than the visible light. This would explain why they were clueless for so long about the ability of specific resonant frequency of (sun)light to directly interact with a water molecule and give it enough kick to dislodge it from the other molecules and allow it to evaporate. My god, the MIT guys are SO overrated. You don't really need a STEM degree to know that it's possible - a common sense and a bit of physics knowledge from high-school is ALL you need to figure that one out.

You don't even mention any % that this effect already HAS in "normal sunshine evaporation". My suspicion at this point is that this is negligible. If 45° is "the best angle"... why is the antarctic still full of ice ? Sun been shining on it for millions of years now. Apparently with little effect. One angle I CAN see... and it isn't 45°: it probably will pay handsomely deceiving the public when space lasers are flown into orbit "for desalination".

Best solution is keep check on city sizes world. Wide. Make sure that economic activity does not occur only in few metropolitan area. Expensive cities are the main reason of population decline and infalation as they increase the cost of leaving and trigger all other costs up

MIND BLOWN!!! Thank you for this.

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I always thought that it was just light getting focused into a small spot while getting refracted in the water

Why do some still want to make fuel the go to source of energy? Mhh let me think in BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco…. Just let me think…

Very interesting. I'd love to know the impact of this on the climate models in more detail. I do think it's a good example against the "solved science" group, it just goes to show science is never settled. Now, they probably have some kind of proxy variables based on observations, so I don't know how much the models will actually change, but it's still very relevant.

I'd like to see a study of celestial events during this time. I got to see the northern lights a while back, which haven't been visible in my region for many decades. We also had an eclipse, which probably doesn't effect much, but I'm not qualified to say. What's going on with the sun? Many scientists that focus in the field of climate aren't positive, or can't say with any certainty, that the sun isn't the main force driving climate change and subsequent weather. It would be really freaking fantastic if we could have a grown up discussion about this and get it detached from politics 😢. We're becoming very arrogant by assuming we know anything for certain and refusing to acknowledge differing theories.

I’ve always noted this with evaporation (sublimation) of snow from sidewalks in cold Minnesota winters.

Still gonna burn fossil fuels at the end of the day. The, we're back to square one.

Could this be part of the reason why plants choose to be green. For cooling and aiding the evaporation of water.

Ultraviolet light breaks the chemical bonds of H2O.

Water will evaporate in total darkness too just slower

LIGHT PHASE - remoning a step in the process? Is it a SPECIFIC phase that is optimal OR is it ANY single phase? If the later then you do not need to rotate the light, just send the different phases from a grren light source to different water surfaces.

Explanation starts at 5:45

This commentary sounds like it was generated by AI.

So there could possibly be more planets with atmospheres throughout the universe... And is it likely that the photomolecular effect is in action and interacts with all known and unknown matter...

I bet it would be more accurate to say that the people at MIT finally finished some experiment/study/whatever that fully explains how/why it happens, cuz I'm 100% certain this has been known for a long time. If you live in a place that gets snow you'll notice that even when it's warm enough to melt snow/ice, if an area is in shadow, it takes a long ass time for it to melt cuz the sun isn't shining on it.

I'm not going to lie, it feels like I just woke up in a parallel universe and everyone already knew this in my old one. At least, this seemed really obvious to me. Maybe not the specific wavelengths and conditions, but if you break it down to into a more simplistic thought process it is logical to assume that, while heat is simply active energy, the most common form of it that can be measured is radiation. Specifically Infra-Red radiation. Infra-Red radiation is a form of non-visible light. And Light is an electromagnetic wave. Thereby it should have been common sense. Not to mention the amount of futuristic sci-fi technologies which utilize a combination of Sound and Light to clean and dry objects and people in fiction. It just seemed to me like something that was well established.

>green, polarized light at 45 angle can evaporate more water than heat! It revolutionises weather predictions! Sunlight is neither green, polarized, nor at 45 angle. It has no bearing on weather. Vant w8 for this shit to go nowhere, just like graphene

Heat is light aswell

Don't let the cultural idea of modernism fool you, it's all ego, we exist in a dark age of knowledge compared to what can be. At some point science became settled on a great many things, on the conclusions of minds that are getting on to be a century old or older. Question everything, we need to get back into the space of competing to create new games instead of just replaying old ones. AI sets up a scary paradigm concerning the future if we just accept that it knows everything, it's knowledge is only as good as it's sources and we've delivered to it a dangerous mess of contested and partially sorted concepts. For that reason we dare not defer to it as an authority. Original thought comes from us alone, it only reacts and makes use of what it thinks to be consensus.

if air is what helps break the bonds of h2o mollecules, could it be pumped through a mesh screen below the film of water, where light is being shone on it, to aid in the photomolevular process?

Make a black plastic dome place a water source under it place a collection ring around the edge of the dome you can get up to 3 liters per square meter per hour on a normal warm day

Let's move away from fossil fuels already 🥱

Wait if it can be used as a cooling technology as well then might it be a more long term and efficient method to cool pc's?

@Two Bit da Vinchi - Did you just say that adding enegry through light to a system is not to have an expected outcome of energy added? Well heck, lets forget about infra red heaters then. This whole thing is stupid and nothing is new. I think they need to get thier heads out of the lgbt plus ultra instinc clouds.

Phenominal discovery. I'm wondering if this has any implications for transport fuel energy's. For me, as a Sikh our belief in logic and science is paramount and this discovery goes to show God, the true architect of life/science/laws is extraordinary and we're only touching on a few percent of his creation. No, this isn't a theology rant, just my thoughts. Cannot wait what's next.

wait... so climate models aren't credible yet? just kidding.. they all run hot compared to what is happening... so much so that they need to "adjust" the measured temperature to make it look like the models are correct.

The power density is amazing