Can Aerogel Insulation cut down our energy bills?
Aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. Around 99.8% of this material is air making it an excellent insulator. Aspen Aerogels embedded tiny particles of aerogel into fibers to create flexible insulation blankets that is 5 times better than standard insulation!
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0:00 Introduction
1:04 How its made
1:31 Properties of aerogel insulation
3:05 Advantages of aerogel insulation
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7:28 Conclusion
Aerogel is an incredible invention with many advantages. It is lightweight, elastic, it can be formed into any shape and it has a superior thermal and acoustic insulation power. However, since it’s mainly made of air, aerogel is very brittle and fragile. To make aerogel more resilient and versatile for the construction industry, tiny silica aerogel particles are embedded into a flexible fabric made of polyester and glass fibers. These fibers are also called a non-woven batting material. They are bonded together with the help of heat, pressure or chemical binders. They provide a flexible and durable support for aerogel particles, and turn a fragile material into a useful product.
Aerogel insulation has an R value of 10.3 per inch, which is much higher than R2.7 per inch for fiberglass insulation, R3 per inch for Rockwool insulation and R5 per inch for XPS or extruded polystyrene insulation.
The exact price of Spaceloft insulation depends on your location and the quantity being purchased, but in general, it costs around $7 to $20 per square foot, much more expensive than traditional insulation like Rockwool which costs around $2 per square foot. This is the biggest hurdle to mass adoption.
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What do you think about aerogel insulation? Would you like me to cover wood-inspired aerogel and transparent aerogel in another video? Also check out my video on "The beginner's guide to aerogel": kzhead.info/sun/mc6fZ9qciomYlXA/bejne.html
Yes, please do more aerogel videos
I don't think it's really there yet as there is already PIR insulation in the market, which is still relatively new, but very promising, as it doesn't degrade, all the bubbles are closed in this foam, so no moisture inside of it. It does not burn and provides excellent insulation properties compared to common materials like polystyrene, or rockwool Mainly it's not the problem with insulation itself, but the combination of factors, like the way it's applied, or which doors and windows are being used, and if there is a heat recuperator in the ventilation system installed. Besides, why use a more expensive material in the first place, if you can use just a bigger quantity of a cheaper material. Its also worth mentioning that it's an equation where you balance the financial cost to implement this Vs the energy savings, we achieve way more cost benefit if improving the cheaper issues first like roof insulation or installing double glazed windows as a mandatory procedure in all newly constructed buildings. Besides such expensive materials need even better performing workforce on the ground, where it's already lacking in many countries in the quality of work concluded. Why use more expensive materials in the first place if a typical builder can mess up the insulation process while already using cheaper materials, if there are mistakes made in the way the building is constructed, it eliminates all the extra quality material costs involved.
Yes, aerogel has been touted for years as the best insulation but so far there are so few commercial uses. The building you spoke about is the first I have heard of it being used commercially.
I think aerogel insulation would be great for use in projects where space is limited, such as in container home construction. That said, it sounds like it needs to be more generally available and less expensive.
Do you know something about its capabilities when it comes to acoustic insulation?
Did a remodel many years ago where, once the sheetrock was removed, the walls were meticulously covered with taped on newspaper. Each page was, with very great care, fitted around and onto the walls and studs. An amazing sight as whomever did it was, without doubt, eccentric.
Aerogel is such a fascinating material. Extreme cold-weather gear made with areogel insulation is incredibly thin compared to the very bulky gear with other types of insulation. It is so effective that it can actually cause overheating very easily if it is used in temperatures above zero.
I had not considered clothing as a possible use for this stuff. Is the dustiness somehow contained within whatever sleeve/pouch the aerogel might be woven into, or do they use a different binding media than the fiberglass for walls?
This sounds amazing for insolation in boats / yachts, where moisture and compression are high, fire-resistant and space is a premium!
Yes, please make a video on the other aerogel products. Thanks for all of your great videos, Belinda.
Belinda you are truly in your element when explaining these technologies to simple-minded humans myself. If you could combine the podcast with on location exhibits like this, interviewing the players at the warehouse, boy, that would be incredible. Thank you for this, very interesting material and if they could hit a price point, even if its a bit higher, the advantages would out weigh the cost.
Awesome to see you posting a video again. Keep it up at a pace that works best for you and your family.
Incredible product, Belinda. Thank you for introducing us to it. I can see this being VERY useful in the US midwest, where winter heat and summer cooling are large concerns.
Thank you Miss Carr for another very interesting and well produced video! Very informative.
Great video, thank you for your patient and balanced evaluation of these materials.
I love aerogels!! Thank you for the update. It's so cool and exciting to see new forms, I'm blown away by the fact that they managed to make one that is both hydrophobic AND fire resistant. It makes me happy that folks are working to bring the material costs down. I definitely want to knw about the wood inspired and clear products too. Off to research! I love your videos
I’m always impressed with the amount of information you share in your video thank you
More aerogel videos! Love this material and I think it could be a big game changer in future architecture.
Thank you so much for sharing Belinda! Your content is awesome
Thank you again for such a great video! It's such a pleasure to learn from you -- you make it easy and give us just the right amount of detail: never too much, never too little. And I find aerogels fascinating, so please! Another video on them!
Just last night I looked through every video on Aerogel on KZhead for the last 2 years to see whats new and how far have come. Is it useful for regular Joe. And today you make a video on it! Thank you!Yes, make another video!
Hello from Romania, I was reading a book about isolation for cold climates and I arrive at your video. I make economic bills. I like the presentation of the new material Aerogel Insulation. It is worthing to have in small spaces like a bathroom.
Wooo new Blenda Carr video! Love this channel it's so informative
This is a great and pleasantly delivered video!🎉
I would love to hear about all the other aerogel products. Especially the windows!
the innovations sound very compelling. couldn't find mutch about using it as cloth. thank you very mutch for this one. now looking forward for even more insights if i may
As a builder videos like these are pretty interesting to me. To see innovations opens the mind to possibilities, but as always, cost is typically the biggest hurdle for most homeowners (for good reason). So hopefully they can get the cost down on this stuff or other innovations in the same vein so I can sell it to my clients. Thanks for your work!
This is an excellent channel! Please make another video about “Innovations in Aerogel” those ideas sound awesome. Would love to see prototypes or hear from the people working on these concepts.
amazing! Cant wait to see new materials be developed with this and graphine.
Your content is so wonderful! educational and you just have a great spirit about you!
Very interested in the idea of a natural aerogel. One of the problems with a lot of advanced materials is disposal, so something can be naturally broken down would be awesome.
I would love to see more Aerogel products that you mentioned. Also, keep us updated on new aerogel insulation products especially if it becomes cheaper.
Yes! I want to know more about it, thank you!
Yes please, I want to see all the other aerogel products you have found. Also add airloy and plasticised aerogel products too if you can get samples...
I live in an older home who construction predated modern insulation techniques. As a consequence, there is not a lot of room between the exterior walls and the matrix on which the lath and plaster are anchored. As we have needed to excavate walls to replace original plumbing, electric, etc, we have encountered spaces unsuitable for most insulation products. This could be a good solution. Thank you for discussing!
Very interesting. Look forward to learning more
I can't even imagine how expensive aerogel-ICF will be 😂😂😂
Very thorough presentation - thank-you!
Would love to learn more of the insulated bricks. Thanks
This would be amazing for some applications, but definitely limited in it's current incarnation! I'd love to hear more about some of the other developments happening with this technology.
I'm definitely interested in those potential videos on aerogel innovations you mentioned at the end :D
Love your videos, more videos on other aerogel products will be appreciated thank you :)
Thanks for the video. I'd love to see more info about the other aerogels. Especially transparent aerogel.
Very cool. Great video. Thank you. ❤
Lok-N-Blok should consider filling the cavity of their product with Aerogel or another high-grade insulator for added R/RSI-value. Hopefully, Aerogel insulation will become available for consumer-wide use in the U.S. soon. Thank you for the informative videos Belinda!
In Switzerland is often used on historical buildings due to his reduce thickness. Unfortunately is insanely expensive
Thank you for introducing me to aerogel. I am interested in hearing more about how the product is used.
The Window application of aerogel would be very interesting, since upgrading windows is a pretty common way to make an existing home more efficient.
Thank you for an interesting video!
Very interesting. Yes, please tell us more about aerogel novelties. Thanks.
From what I know of aerogel the pressures needed to produce it are very high. I would think that this would bee one of the big hurdles in reducing the cost. I also wonder how it compares in longevity to rockwool or fiberglass insulation. As always an excellent video
Another excellent info video
I would love to know more about these other aerogel products. I will keep an eye out for your upcoming video.
Well done! Nice presentation as a launch to this a additional products with Aerogel. And yes, I would encourage further videos as follow up measures while enhancing this first experience with the product. Personally I’m looking a agricultural environment and isolated buildings that are exposed to strong environmental influences. Thank you
WOW! I so like watching your videos! very interesting and insightful.Hazzah!
Thank you!
Very interested in learning more about aerojel, especially as a home insulator.
Great stuff! Please, do a video for the varieties of aerogel you mentioned. Thank you!
1. I love your program, and 2. yes to an aerogel product pisode. Thanks for making me look smart!
Aerogel, eh? 🤔 Love the concept and would definitely love to try it! It would be great to hear more about this. Thank you for the great information!
Duuude, this sounds rad! I love fantasizing about owning a home and utilizing materials like this 😅
I like the idea of Aerogel. I think it will be a popular product once production costs are lowered. I would like to see more about the other products you mentioned as well. BTW, are samples available for the general public?
IIRC 14yo boy invented a way to make it with $200 in hardware store parts. Before that, it cost $10k/cu
really informative. we need more on aerogel/
Thanks! Working on it
Thank you! Please make a video on natural aerogel, transparent aerogel, and aerogel bricks.
Very interested in more aerogel applications!
Yes I would love to find out more about airogell please
Seems like a great use case for attaching to exterior sheathing. Maybe someday there will be a similar product that uses this like Zip-R.
Very informative
More aerogel!!!! Thank you!!!
More videos on aerogels, please!
Yes I would like more on aerogels. I have to think this is a game changer for rich people renovating big old houses in colder climates.
please xo a video of the different types! its really interesting! also isnt glass fibers bad? or fiberglass? or are they different
Clear Aerogel for windows! I need to see it! Also I'm curious about installation, how it can avoid thermal bridges!
I keep waiting for aerogel winter clothes. 10 years ago, I read an article where test users complained the jackets were too warm.
Would love a video on different applications for areogel:)
I cannot wait until my Hvac pipes are insulated with aero gel instead of Fiberglass. I HATE fiberglass insulation. For now it is the cheapest option but I hope that changes. Thank you for another interesting construction materials video!
I am considering building my new home with only with mini splits units. With the overall cost of a single unit compared to a centeral air it would be overall cheaper and better. Since I am doing a single level I am opting to install a filter system. I have not decided if I want in stall one large mini split and then add more per additional rooms. I am looking at a direct solar connection to the mini splits that can run solar only mode, grid only or a combo of the 2. Right now they only come in 1 ton and 2 ton single head units. The company that makes them also sells water heaters that are the same way as wel. Either way I plan on installing a filter system that is like an hvac system yet runs on direct DC and then another one that runs on AC. These will be small hvac system that start in a filtered ceiling return box then spit out to several small 4 inch lines to vents in each room and then around the other areas. This will help filter the air during the day time via just solar. I am working on a prototype project right now. I will have several of these in my home. Which will be covered by over 2 feet of blown insulation. Right now our current hvac system is in the crawl space with is cool and there is little insulation around each pipe.
@@kameljoe21 Link please, I'm looking at ac/dc mini splits that can run on solar or grid, but I need the water heater too.
Yes please, having recently bought a 400 year old stone Thatched Cottage I'm interested in internal wall insulation that doesn't greatly impact on the internal dimensions - keen to see how progress on this technology and pricing can make it a viable solution
RoVa insulation and yes to insulation you spoke of at the end love your videos
Great video as always! Asbestos in Australia is a multigenerational issue - from the unfortunates who mined and manufactured original products, to those living in deteriorating buildings today. What risk does aerogel pose to residents, manufacturers and installers given it has a silica component?
Sounds fantastic! How would it do as a campervan van conversion insulation?
Thanks!
Please do aerogel window insulation.
Interested in other aerogel forms; building bricks, etc.
Yes, please help with researching the natural aerogel. I am interested
Please do a video covering the products aerogel was used with, like the bricks. This is very interesting. 👍
Seems like this would be a good solution for areas of construction where thickness is discouraged like laminated doors.
Interesting to learn about the dustiness, and iritation of throat and lungs. Makes me wonder if it's the next asbestos. That is a wonder material for heat resistance too. But now it's known to be dangerous to health, and fairly costly to remove because people are so scared of it. I hope aerogels don't become a future problem in a similar way.
Maybe only use silica aerogels in large solid form with PPE to avoid silicosis: Silicosis - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
Very interesting !
Please make these videos regarding innovative aerogel products. Thanks you
I would like to find some (.5") to use as a rain screen, before we apply the siding for when we build our OFF-grid home!!! Liked#186 and subscribed!!!
Pyrogel XT E is a high temp version. I am using on my boiler and other high temp applications.
As far as the building being retro-fitted with Aerogel, you would think someone would have noticed before the building was finished that no insulation was being installed. 😄
The sad reality of this is the trades don't care, if it doesn't affect them then they won't say anything.
Oh hell yes! Please can I have more aerogel information?
What are the acoustic qualities? I would love it if you talked about the other aerogel products.
More aerogel info, also includ some building or places it was used in shown in the video.
If rockwool costs 2 $ / sqft and aerogel costs 10 $ / sqft this would be a gamechanger since aerogel is 5 times better. Would love to see a video on bricks and windows with aerogel!
Good vid! And yeah the only real problem with aerogels is the cost and it’s rather hard to make
Whats the R-Value of half a foot of Desert Sand? Because there is a LOT of free sand, to be had out there. No disposal issues, just vacuum up as needed.
I look forward to aerogel being economical to use for everyday insulation.
Im definitely interested in the brick.
More aerogels please! How does its sound deadening performance compare to rockwool?
It's interesting it's benefit to older construction. Our house is 150 years old and one issue with doing a lot of DIY is that much of the modern building materials and methods are designed to make the building airtight. This is okay to a certain degree, but with older houses some air and vapour flow is necessary to allow things to dry and not rot.
Clear aerogel seems like the big application. Windows are where most buildings loose the most heat and where making things thick is tough.
Great video! Are the costs you mentioned in board foot (1“ thick)? Do they make aerogel blankets 1"+ thick or are multiple thinner blankets required? Love your work. Very informative.
Seems like thinner layers, so more like $7 * 3 or 4 for an inch thick per sqft… that’s a lot of money for r10
Gonna have to do some experiments... Could make an interesting material for composites.
Seems like it would be good in freezers to allow more internal space.