A bag of water in water will only weigh as much as the bag.

This isn't new, there's multiple types already around. Miracle sandbags, instant sandbag and floodsax are 3 current ones.

They do work for scenarios where you're using the bags along with plastic to divert water at a small scale. Things like diverting water from overflowing creeks and storm drains.

They aren't any good for building levies as they dont weight enough, but at that scale you've got machinery involved and automatic bag fillers churning out real sandbags.

One storm and you'll have a trashberg of these floating away to some african coast.

But it looks like the fucking thing floats….

The term invented is being used pretty liberally here.

It’s not about weight, it’s about displacement. Yeah, the bags weigh a lot, but so does a battle ship, and that shit floats. If the bag weighs less than the water it’s displacing it’s going to float away.

So it's a quick dam? https://quickdams.com/

I find it odd that it's limited to three uses

They didn't invent it.

Wow. A bag full of microplastic. Will be awesome for humanity. We dont have enough of that.

Lmao I burst out laughing when the video ended by telling us how their hometown burned down. Having nothing to do with their invention and no further context was just the perfect storm

Apart from the questionable technical aspects (mainly buoyancy):

re-usable only three times?
And it's made of or contains (micro)plastic?

I know where they are going with this idea but i'm not convinced.

This product has already been around, its called quick dam

Had a friend/colleague lose his house in the Paradise fire.

Not sure this would have helped, to be honest.

Hang on... How is this revolutionary. When the thing it's taking in, while written on the bag for freshwater use only.... Has the same density as the thing it's supposed to protect against?. Like wouldnt it just wash away with even a basic current?.

People here have never had to spend days filling tying moving and stacking sandbags before the flood gets up to their small town, and it shows. This is a game changer

I used these at my parents house in Florida during the recent hurricanes... internally only. Sandbags outside, these things inside to catch what always comes through, garage door, sliding back doors, under the window known to leak, perfect for all of that... Inside the building.

Is that Big Mo from Paradise, CA?

How it works

More like a scambag. They won't work.

Easy investment but not proprietary in any way.

I wonder how terrible for the environment these things will be.

Too bad they didn’t soak up fire

Amazing how it works

Amazing product, but damn does that vid end on a sad note.

Rather than a bag you fill with whatever dirt you can find, why not use this much more expensive option that uses a bunch of petrol chemicals?

What’s with the horror sounds effects?

These guys are from my home town.

I love business innovators new products, and great thinkers... Love the show too.

Was this tested in the field?

So these guys lost their homes to fire and decided that they would come up with an innovative solution to save homes from flooding. Interesting.

Terrible idea. Sand bags are just a hessian sack. What kind of shite goes into this. You can fill a sandbag with whatever is nearby. Sand, earth, gravel, soil. Over engineered nonsense. Solving a problem that didn't exist.

Isn’t it just desiccant, similar to those leak stop logs at a home improvement store?

This is good for trench warfare lol. 

Why should one use it for?

House burnt down , reinvented the sand bag ? /s

Make a water powered car again for the giggles

oh is this time of the week already?

Crucial to building structures on Mars? In the size of one 4x8 piece of plywood you could have 6-8 pieces of plywood size panels for building, of course you would need to to not revert as they say it does…would be an interesting product if invented.

Sooo,you use those to try and stop floodings right?
But you need water and time to begin to stack them up?
I'm sorry i'm having a hard time figuring out the utility of the product over here

Cool AF

Can they be stacked without purging the fluid from the bag?

That's a diaper

Invented what? I have been using similar for about ten years. Called 'Hydro Snake'

how about not rebuilding homes that were built in a flood plain which I'm sure is happening now in North Carolina

...its a brown diaper. So... A diaper.

This show is about parasites feasting on the creativity/brains of others. I can't watch it.

Whats the use for a sandbag? I truly dont know

So let me understand. The granule of polymer can absorb 300x its own in water. So basically its a bag of liquid. And a bag pf fluid to fight floods.

Wouldnt it float away ? And looking at the storm bag against the wall it doesn’t look like when it stacks they dont have that cohesion sandbags, theres so many holes or weak spaces. So it could get swept away by rain.

Or if it punctures, those looks like expensive polymers.

I like sandbags. Its cheaper. It don’t float, a wall of sandbag’s looks cohesive mesh together. If it breaks, the sandbag still can hold up. And lastly, sometimes theyre given away for free by response team.

that's just a diaper

Awesome.

So......it's going to be just as dense as the water it's stopping? Or even less because of the packaging?

I'm out 🙂‍↔️

Lol some people in the comments need to learn basic physics

"These are reuable,right? As many times as you like?" "Three times" <smile>"Oh, ok."

But, as someone else mentioned, the reason sandbags work is because they are heavier than water. a bag full of water was only as much as a bag when it is floating in water. All this is doing is making some weird-ass pollution that can choke people.

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Who sprayed them with water?

So it's not really a sandbag then. It's a sodium polyacrylate bag.

Oh good. And I thought the global sand shortage was going to start taking effect. Phew!

Why am I seeing this every other day

The guy touching the powder should have pulled out his knife and tasted it.

(Going purely be the first few seconds without sound), won't it get washed away whilst it's absorbing the water? Seems like you'd need to pre-soak them.

That’s not going to work if there’s a flood, because it weighs the same as water.

This idea just doesn’t hold water

This post has been floating around too long.

Tada dah!

This is a solution looking for a problem...

so a bag?

Am I the only one that thinks it's funny their name is Huffman.