Tesla Energy Future Became Bigger; Elon Musk: 2 Years to Shortage; Room Temperature Super Conductors
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2025
- If you'd like a master's level class in the absolutely stunning developments in energy production, storage, efficiency and more, this is that conversation. Brian Wang is a noted expert in the superconductor space and in the nuclear energy world.
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Randy, you are as impressive as your guest for asking the quality questions. Your curiosity and learning attitude are amazing.
Brian is the man
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Randy great information. Excited about our future.
My company SPX Corporation made lots of components for Nuclear Reactors. One Project they were experimenting was using smaller wires to transport electricity by using argon cooling and it worked. More electrons transported by super cooled wires.
Too many awesome parts. Really interesting. Enough for at least 10 good PBS documentaries.
I was thinking of the pressure and cold for superconductors, another reason for deep sea work. Imagine modular components dropped to sea floor. Oil companies know how to do it. But with improved bots, much safer. Plus you commit to clean up area ecologically, work on restoration of coral reefs, etc.
If you were powered by floating solar, tidal, you could probably build an area to increasingly cleanse that ocean area.
Drop a few modular small nuclear and you could probably mine the minerals that have radiation.
Nuclear in France has slowed down too. The EPR at Flamanville was set to begin operation in 2012 at a cost of €3.5 billion. Instead, it is still under construction and costs have ballooned to €12.4 billion. Poor profits, unreliability and maintenance issues mean that recently their nuclear power company has effectively been nationalized to try and stabilize it.
Just an idea: ask Brian to estimate the size of the Magacharger business opportunity.
Brian and I are in agreement on this. $400B sales. $100B Profit by 2030
@@RandyKirk_UA-camChannel Megacharger, not Megapack.
In the UK there is a case or having a small data centre located at a leisure centre, to use Solar to power the data centre and to use heat pumps to heat the swimming pool
4:30 You can't assume that changing oil for electricity will be a one for one replacement, as EV's are more efficient than their ICE equivalents.
For example an ICE Mini is rated at 46.3 mpg (combined cycle) and an electric Mini rated at 110 mpge.
Assuming this holds true of most EV's, then you don't need as much energy to power an electrified fleet as you did to power an ICE fleet.
how much energy will be stored (unused) in BEV's and homes etc. soon? Can extra energy in cars be used in an emergency? Wind and solar improving fast? Everything motors, batteries, transmission better every couple yrs. Nuclear... nat gas? Cathie Woods says there will be energy abundance. Humm? We need fusion or ?? ocean waves or ??
I think Brian is awesome. Good work both of you. I have a couple of comments:
What about fusion? When will fusion start to contribute to the supply?
Replacing the ICE fleet in a few years? Not going to happen for at least 15 to 20 years. New ICE cars are still being sold and will be sold for many more years, and they will last for 15 years.
What about the increased demand from Optimus? 3kw/hr battery for 8 hours of productivity x millions or even billions of bots - plus all the now not working humans using more energy for whatever they will be doing.
ICE cars having a life of 15 years is meaningless if nobody wants to drive them.
Fusion has been ‘real soon now’ since the 50s, so don’t hold your breath.
By the end of this decade practically all new cars will be electric. And then all existing ICE cars will be converted to EV, because it will be cheaper than the fuel and maintenance cost. Today a conversion rarely worth it, it's expensive and the range is limited, but in 5-10 years batteries will be much cheaper and much more energy dense.
The government is installing solar at Federal facilities but like every with the government, the government moves a lot slower than the private sector.
Average home uses 10,800 kWh per year. My solar panels generate 40 kWh average per day. I am making more power than I use. plan to replace Clothes dryer to electric and water heater to electric also. I use an inductive stove to cook. More people need to install solar panels on their house
I calculated that Tesla’s 100 Exaflop DOJO will eat up 200 Megawatts! So that’s 4.8 GIGAWATT HRS /day!
With a large fleet of power satellites it could make more sense to beam power directly to the customer. Like how Starlink communicates with terminals today. That reduces the risk of hitting cities with a multi-GW directed energy weapon. Accidentally, or deliberately.
We could also use giant orbiting mirrors to illuminate large solar farms at night. Mirrors in space can be extremely thin, which drastically reduces the launch cost. And it would look seriously cool too. And this technology could be used in other ways too. Any time you need a lot of light anywhere outdoors, you could get it for essentially free.
Nope.
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I have heard that in a couple of years at its current rate of increase, solar panel manufacturing will consume 100% of the silver mined every single year. Silver is also extremely important in all "green" & AI technology, esp computers & BEVs bc of its superior conductivity. How will we meet the demand for silver? Most large & easily mined silver deposits have already been mined for many years if not decades. Where will we get all the silver we need? Will we see silver spike to >$100/oz (from ca $25/oz today)? Is silver another huge growth play? I am hoping it will be and have bought both physical silver and silver stocks (I like First Majestic for both).
The other field I like is nuclear power, specifically uranium stocks (no one will sell me physical haha!)
Also, given how we 100% know that there will be such a huge surge in demand for electricity, I can't help but feel that fossil fuels will remain hugely important for several more decades to help us bridge to renewables. Imho this includes oil, coal, natural gas and propane. There is no way we can transition without these. And even after the transition we will still need oil for plastics, medicines, fertilizer and countless other chemical products. I don't see how we will switch heavy construction, transportation & farming equipment to all electric very quickly. Those machines start at $250k and easily cost nearly $1m: no one will simply abandon those, even as fuel gets more expensive. I think a huge proportion of that fleet will remain fueled by diesel, probably for decades. And as oil products become more expensive it will be more profitable to mine/pump them out of the ground.
Copper has 97% the conductivity of silver.
EVs currently contain between 25 and 50 grams of silver. ICE cars have 18-34.
Robotaxis will at least halve the total number of cars.
I’m not seeing the problem.
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1. Fossil fuels will be gone in 10 years. Even with triple energy demand. Solar will be so cheap and so abundant, and fossil fuels are already struggling to stay competitive.
2. Plastics and fertilizer doesn't have to be made from fossil fuels, it's just cheaper at the moment. But with abundant cheap energy it will make more sense to synthetize those from more basic feedstock, like CO2, water, nitrogen, etc.
3. The savings with using electric equipment is so huge that anyone who doesn't switch will go bankrupt. Usually most of the cost is fuel, maintenance, and operator wages, not the purchase price. The first to is mostly eliminated by going electric, and the second is by AI.
4. It's also possible to convert machines to electric and autonomous. It's already being done in some cases, and will be more and more desirable as batteries are getting better and cheaper.
The best way to build reliable energy, is to decentralize it. Every house with solar and storage. Plain and simple, each and every person is responsible for their own destiny. All new homes built with solar and storage, price gets added onto the mortgage. It's cheaper on the long run, and you'll have no electric bill, so being added onto the mortgage, you'll actually be saving money from day one if it's amortized over 25 years....
Photovoltaic solar in the desert, today is less than 1/3 the cost of average US power. And it is fixed for 25 years (see Gemini project in Nevada). Adding massive battery packs (i.e. Tesla megapacks) assuming current automobile battery cost, still produces power less than average US current. Big need is to free up the regulatory complexity for big transmission lines to population centers. Accounting for this cost plus transmission losses and it is still cheaper. And no yearly inflation increase. And the solar panels and battery costs are going down each year. Tesla recommended the transmission line improvement for inclusion in the Inflation Reduction Act. The US and rest of the planet does not lack for deserts. What is lacking is a plan.
Mind blowing:
Tesla skateboard going to the moon.
Wow, do to a work injury, i have lots of u tube time.. Im a former nuc submarnier, as a factory rat, None otherther than Sandy M. None of u live in factories like Sandy did, and i still do! On the plant floor, thats happens wben u take an elecrcia n, and he becomes a floor enginner.
Talks too fast and says too little
Overexposer. Quality over quantity.
I have a hard time understanding the words coming out from this guest's mouth. Maybe just me.
Try using CC?
Yes, it's you.