25 Responses

1. You guys have so much technological toys in your hands that you become
   picky and whine even with the most insignificant things… These so called
   new green technologies must be explored deeper before we can securely
   spread them to public, in effective ways. 

2. My I ask what the official name of your job is? Cause I like computers a
   lot and want to become a Computer Engineer, but your job looks like a lot
   of fun. XD

3. Oooh Mista Linus gettin’ steamy in dis mudduphucka!

   Basically, you don’t fk wit’ dis white boyee!

4. Another company using “Green” to sell their shit 

5. STAY AWAY: these guys are not being honest. The cores will only charge a
   regular iphone 3 or 4 times then they are dead until you can buy another
   one or buy a hydrogen charging station for over £300, so thats £140 for the
   reactor (with 2 cores), £12 per additional core and then another £300 for
   the charging station. Think thats bad enough, I havent even begun to state
   that the tech is untested, the descriptions and figures are misleading and
   condradict each other, they over rate the amps and power capacity. For
   example Brunton say it outputs 2amp charge but on the packaging they state
   1amp yet in reality its less that 0.4amps and is too small a charge flow to
   even be able to begin charging most devices. Plug an ipad into it with a
   completely full core and you simply get “not charging” on the ipad screen
   this is the same with most high capacity smartphones.

   This is misleading, expensive, virtually unusable and bad for consumers. In
   the future we will rely on tech like this but at the moment most consumers
   will invest, have a bad experience, then go off and bad mouth hydrogen
   power and everyone will run a mile from it. This tech is not ready yet and
   Brunton are basically selling products that are still in testing stage,
   even worse they are selling them at excrutiatingly high prices that will
   seal the nail in the coffin and make it very hard for future pioneers of
   the technology to sell their products even when they are perfected. Please
   stay away from it at the moment and do not let them pull the wool over your
   eyes people, this is not ready for consumer use and will not perform as you
   expect it too.

   Oh and there are also reports coming through regarding Bruntons so called
   treat it like its indestructable guarantee not being worth the paper its
   written on. They promise to replace items that are “underperforming when
   buyers compare the item to Bruntons spec / stats”, there is no offers of
   refunds. Customers are simply being told we will send you a replacement,
   then are left waiting for weeks if not months with no sign of any
   replacement product and no communication from Brunton. Some consumers have
   reported waiting over a month and sending numerous emails just to be
   totally ignored.

   I do not usually go to lengths like this opposing green products but like I
   have said this is damaging to the technology and will ensure a bad
   experience for consumers who purchase the products. Please save your money
   and wait till the tech is perfected and capable of doing what it is
   intended for and until the prices begin to fall and become reasonable for a
   mobile power device.

   Thanks for reading, feel free to contact me via my channel should you wish
   to discuss.

6. Wait.. So the battery is 0.4amps, but is really 2.4amps, but is actually
   2amps, but (wait there’s more!) is ACTUALLY 1amp. one word for you Brunton.
   MINDFUCK.

7. Bit late to the party on this one as I only saw it for the first time in a
   store today. Though my own research came to similar conclusions as this
   video. All in all it is a tech in it’s infancy that some companies are
   trying to cash in on with lot’s of fancy terms to draw folks in with. I’m
   glad you did a direct comparison with power packs on weight/output etc, but
   you did forget one final thing that for me really puts the nail in this
   products coffin.

   Even if you go ahead and spend the $400 needed for a full reactor and
   recharging station, you still need power to make the station work. The most
   likely option will be a home desk mount where you charge your cells before
   going away and then charge them upon returning home, this sounds wonderful
   until folks understand one minor fact. A battery pack operates in exactly
   the same way, I plug it into my pc the night before a trip to charge, and
   then do the same to again charge it when I get home. So this hydrogen
   method still requires the same if not more electricity from a mains/battery
   supply as the battery pack method, in no way is it any greener than the
   cheaper/lighter/smaller/more powerful alternative we already have.

8. Okay it’s true that most of his videos are computer tech related,
   however, I swear, Linus is a god on anything in the electrical, and
   computer engineering fields. He has videos ranging from RC cars, to
   photography, to everything computer related, to even something like this –
   fucking hydrogen reactor fuel cells lol. Take almost everything talked
   about on VSauce, make all that into a person, and you get Linus. He has got
   to have an IQ up near 180 or something, it’s like he is a field
   manual+encyclopedia of every engineering branch and their sub-branches. 

9. Lol, what a piece of shit.

10. I mean, if you could make the whole process of the fuel stick thing mobile,
    ditch the sticks and make a resevoir that you could pour water in it would
    be 10x better. but making it run on pee would be >9000x better.

11. You should see the factory in China where Brunton makes all this crappy
    stuff. Stand around outside long enough and you will die of cancer. Stay
    around a bit longer and someone will jump off the building a commit
    suicide. All so middle class American white guys can watch Youtube videos
    on the shitter at work. ‘Murica!

12. They had no idea who they were messing with. 

13. I always wanted to work with hydrogen fuel cells but after seeing the
    advert for one of these in Maplins I honestly cant understand what
    advantage this has over a Lithium rechargable in terms of size, weight and
    power.

14. This sounds like blatant false advertising. They have a ton of lawsuits
    coming if they aren’t already being sued…

15. Anyone know why my CPU voltage is soo high. Intel i7 4770k at 4ghz using
    1.280V. I can’t over clock it anymore. It always freezes!!

16. Brunton dislikes this video.

17. If only you heard about the amazingly priced Xiaomi Mi Power Bank…… 

18. Horizon invented all hydrogen tech in this unit- especially the PEM cells

19. You know what I think would be a useful product? Have you ever had to go
    somewhere and realise your phone isn’t charged, but there’s no time to wait
    for it to charge? What I’d really like is some sort of battery bank with a
    supercapacitor inside that you hook up to, say, a 250 watt power supply. It
    charges almost immediately, and you can then use that cap to charge your
    phone. I’d like that. That’d be useful.

20. Added, based upon your review i will avoid this product. They lost a sale
    and i view their other products as suspect.
    To fix they need to sell recharge station for $150 which may itself be tooo
    much.

21. hey linus what 7/0? thankss

22. Try to review the machine that will turn dog poop into power. I saw it on
    TV, it was some kind of inventors show.

23. Linus. Please fix the audio. :L

24. If you’re an environmentalist, that’s what you deserve. Oil rocks.

25. when they stop making lithium ion portable chargers thats when ill buy a
    hydrogen charger. that or ill buy a rock and hide beneath it.