The raw materials for batteries needed to store the energy, is on the verge of becoming an ecological nightmare, along with a humanitarian nightmare in mining these raw materials. We need to find a way to change these things, to truly make solar, wind, and similar sources of energy be in fact the environmentally friendly way to go.
There is gravity storage, two reservoirs of water in different elevation. When there is excess energy, water is pumped up. When there is need, water is let down through a generator.
First of all, there are various different types of batteries. Secondly, coal or uranium also don't grow on trees. While renewables might also require some mining, they have a vastly smaller negative impact and many of the materials can be recycled (which is obviously not the case for fossil fuels or nuclear power).
I think that the folks who talk like this have no idea of the depth and scale that fossil fuels have been embedded in society. Yes, you can generate electricity with photovoltaics. But what about energy at night? Are we building out gigantic battery farms? Not that I noticed. What about replacing transportation fuels? What about the energy used to create materials like fertilizer, plastics, aluminum etc... The amount of renewables we'd need to replace all this is mind-boggling. Although he's right that we need A LOT more investment in this direction. Minimizing investment in fossil fuels doesn't help much though since we need them to build out the renewable infrastructure.
Yes, giant battery farms are already in use. Australia just replaced a coal plant with 850-megawatt battery. Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time. Pump stored hydro has been used for a century now. Lot’s of ways to store energy. There is no reason renewable energy can’t be used to build out more renewables. It’ll take some time, but the pace of change is accelerating.
Photovoltaics are only suitable for off grid. They do not have the inertia to enter the grid. Think of driving your car out your driveway as a truck attempts to enter. You go nowhere.
@@ClownCarCoup Inverters do not raise inertia. Think of it as you leaving your driveway in a car, at the same time a truck is trying to enter. Simple, truck wins every time. PV solar is your car.
We only use a narrow band width of visable light when using PV panel. And turning into a liquid fuel for transportation is expensive. Storing it up in a battery is heavy and dangerous.
I’m not holding my breath! Drink no poison water, breathe no prison air, eat no poisoned food 👉🏼it is not good for you, your family, your neighbors or animals✔️
@@artimidz3451 That sounds like fake news. Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) is produced by heating a variety of iron and lithium salts with phosphates or phosphoric acid.
@@ClownCarCoup I asked an open question of you since you seemed very knowledgeable and I get called a fake news follower. WTF? Anyway, it's good to know there are batteries that don't require mining. If that's true. Research really don't take a lot more time & effort than this did.
@@artimidz3451 I thought you were claiming that iron ore or lithium is not mined. Obviously it is, but far easier and cheaper than cobalt which is what the OP was concerned with
Materials needed for what? For coal power plants? Yeah, those are terrible. So much mining and environmental pollution. They keep destroying entire cities to dig for coal, even in the 21st century and in first world countries. Or are you talking about nuclear power? Even worse! Getting all this uranium from unreliable partners and all the nuclear waste that comes with it, that's just insane. For solar panels, there are various ways to build them with different raw materials. Also, many can be recycled already and development is extremely fast in this sector (in contrast to fossil fuels, which have been developed for centuries now and for which there is no way to make any significant further development whatsoever). There has a lot of research been done and the evidence could not be more clear and more convincing that there is absolutely no alternative to making an extremely rapid transition to renewables and to drop fossil fuels and the criminals behind that industry asap. Renewable alternatives are better in every single way. They are cheaper, they require less environmental pollution and destruction, and, most of all, they are readily available almost everywhere. (Which is of course a problem for individuals who don't want people to be independent.) Build some batteries and they are also reliable. (Batteries can be built from common salt now. New technologies are available and considerably more environmentally friendly and healthy than the conventional technologies they are about to replace.)
"...the cheapest way to generate power [...] is to point a sheet of glass at the sun." Maybe not. Number of factories on Earth: 1 million Number of off-grid solar-powered factories on Earth: 0
Make it so reliable and cheap enough that people will switch on their own, STOP PUSHING IT UNTIL IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL THAN FOSSIL FUEL..but not by undermining the FOSSIL fuel but by making solar so much more sensible and efficient. 😎
how about the giant pool of bubbling burning pools in Yellowstone...how about ring the outside of the park with small geothermal turbines. the loops are self contained and would not impact the park. Put the turbines in charming stone cottage buildings to fit in with the park. Put the wires underground in PVC pipes...continuous power...no interruption of seasons or day/ night!!!!
I agree that large investments need to be made into geothermal power. Only reason we are not seeing those investments is it takes 3+ years to start seeing a financial return on the initial investment, much like nuclear which also is not seeing investment. Whereas oil makes a financial return within the year. Bankers burning the world down for an immediate profit for their quarterly statement…
This guy's body language feels like he is less than honest in several ways. Think we should be focusing on rebuilding topsoil via sequestered carbon: creating frequent rainwater harvesting bunds, check dams, swales, bioswales, etc, and regreening rather than demonizing all carbon emitting technology. We should put emphasis on freight and passenger rail. India is the only large country that comes close to adequate rail. Think we need to look at building general resiliency instead of hyperfocusing on renewable alone.
I love when sub-room temperature IQ folk like you suggest that we can just inject carbon dioxide in the dirt to save the top soil. Manipulate the weather to “create rainwater harvesting bunds”. While suggesting we invest in the railroad barons as if they are monetarily incentivized to invest in improving our rail system. Pure lunacy.
The solution to making renewables viable was never a 1 solution fix. It is multi faceted…solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, wave, tidal. The other solution is to change our habits, our appliances, the way we farm. Carbon farming, no till farming, permaculture…there are so many ways that can add up to the total solution.
Geothermal is another failed green mistake. They wasted billions in South Australia then pulled the pin because its unviable. Nuclear is the only clean energy.
No till is heavily dependent on outside imports of compost, which is really only viable because we produce so much food waste. I could be wrong though.
From battery manufacturers. They will be made from various materials depending upon application. Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries being used in cars today contain no nickel or cobalt. Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time.
I was thinking of aligning 10 car batteries in the shed out back in the shed to start. They have a 5 year warranty. Over the next 5 years I will replace them with the sealed gel ones that last 10 years. You can stay on grid and get paid for the energy you put into the system but when the grid goes down so do you.
@@jamesheitkemper1433 good luck with the car battery idea. Being connected to the grid doesn’t mean being without power when the grid goes down. Powerwall, for example, will operate in a grid failure and your home will automatically switch over to the batteries. Furthermore, if you have PV panels, if the sun is shining when the grid goes down, your solar system will continue to charge your batteries and stop sending any energy back to the grid
The transition must be made. That is true, but it should be made as smoothly as possible, not in a knee-jerk reaction driven by climate change alarmism. Big Fossil is aware that the change must occur and they are investing in it as they want to remain Big Energy for the future. Current renewable energy capture techs are coming in with lower costs/lifetime kWhr, depending on siting, but storage still needs work, and batteries may not be the optimal solution for energy storage except in a few applications-situations. Let's not panic because of climate change "chicken littles". "Haste makes waste." Let's just keep moving ahead, yes, maybe a bit faster, keeping up a strong R&D effort to develop optimal future energy techs and then get them installed fast enough, replacing fossil energy before it runs out.
All materials are mined, solar panels are expensive making them has a huge carbon footprint, the energy generated compared to energy required would mean covering the whole country in solar panels.
Multifaceted green solutions exist, as others have mentioned. The biggest obstacle to fully investing in renewables is the immediate loss in jobs. There are populations of the country which would lose their jobs overnight and those people will take up arms and rebel. There are older generations and less older ones, the largely rural people are the ones the "technological revolution" left behind and with fewer options for earning a living than before. Mining etc was the only job that pays above minimum wage in their area, which they do not want to leave. It's a huge issue and one that trump has exploited to the max. Jobs, well-paying jobs. There aren't any for many rural communities in the USA.
The idea that big oil is suppressing solar tech for their own interest is only partially correct. They are in fact the biggest investors in it. BP has quietly invested billions in off shore wind generated electricity. When I paid the electric bill I chose to pay a little extra for green power from wind power in Eastern Washington. There is no need to damn a river for power although the power generated is pretty clean. You don't need to be on the grid. Any house or structure can be off grid. In truth more energy hits the planet in a day than we need for a year. All you have to do is harvest the free energy and store it. I don't understand the resistance to the concept. Once you own the equipment required to harvest free energy forever. People bitch it is to expensive but have 2 vehicles in the drive way that depreciate $60,000 between them after 5 years and then they start the process again. They think nothing of this but bitch about a $40,000 solar set up you own for life. No electric bill, ever. The human is not a logical creature. We don't need to be on a grid at all. I am sure that scares the control freaks in government. When we go green it will be because like all technology it will become very cheap. Has nothing to do with the environment or government policy. The first flat screen I saw was at Sears. It was about 4 inches thick and mounted on the wall. It was $10'000. Almost no one could afford one. Today they are common, better, and maybe $100. Everyone has a flat screen. That's how new tech works in the market. A panel was $400. They are about $150 each now. They are just going to keep getting cheaper as demand goes up and more suppliers come on line.
Can't make batteries or solar panels or roads or bridges or buildings or electric cars or tanks or weapons or airplanes or helicopters or cruise ships out of sunlight, Bill...!
The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a metric that attempts to compare costs of different methods of electricity generation on a consistent basis. The LCOE of solar fell below NG (the cheapest fossil fuel) in 2020. This cost gap will only widen into the future
Bright Green Lair. This hack is a vassal of Greenwash Capitalism. This show and ball-talk about renewables is all by burning cheap fossil fuels thru n thru.
Intermittent, not constant, energy sources. Energy return on energy invested ratio for various rare earths will fall as ore grades get worse, as is already happening with copper. These are non renewable elements within so called “renewables”. They are not renewable at all. It’s not that they will be completely exhausted…they will be “functionally” exhausted with very poor EROIs(energy return on energy invested). Supply decreases while demand increases. This is eventually a brick wall. Overpopulation/overconsumption + any growth rate+ invested leadership + one small exhausted, increasingly poisoned, FINITE Earth = Overshoot. William Catton(Overshoot), William Rees, Alice Friedemann, B. Sid Smith, William Patrick Ophuls, Tim Garrett, have material on Overshoot, on UA-cam. Easy to find. I absolutely do not believe Bill Mcgibbon, or whatever his name is. He is irrelevant. There are several solutions to this predicament. The one we’ve chosen so far is War. So, no. We are not ready to ditch oil, gas, or coal. Even if it kills us.
@@YourMom-cu8ytYou don't know what you're talking about. In the BEST of days, 'green' is 8% of the energy supply. Most of what 'green' energy contributes is ESG Tax Credits, and CC&T GreenMail. Wind and solar energy on the grid is often dumped, either because it destabilizes regional subgrids, or the 1,000s of competing inverters can't lock on frequency, so they literally extinguish each other at the sub-station level. You were sold a bag of poo. Go ahead. Go off-grid! _BUT YOU WON'T!!_
WE also don't need to drive a car two miles on average ten times a day. But the Average American does sit that. Mr. McKibben, might we begin to teach out to ski every every day, out every door? Might this be a good redesign of our physical literacy education policy if indeed we want people to commute more with human power? What kind of skiing would be best to commute with sir? Skate, Classic or SpikeBoarding Skiing? You are the skiing expert. Let us know. What roller skiing are you using to ski around Vermont to work and friends houses?
Renewable diesel can be made from direct hydrogenation of sewage sludge, corn stover, sawmill offcuts, municipal solid waste, etc. or carbon monoxide hydrogenation of syngas produced from them. High temperature nuclear hydrogen would increase the yield of liwuid products by 27%.
Why are there serious scientists out there saying that wind snd solar are not enough for a transition ? I want yo see every house fitted with solar panels snd small wind mills and then we can talk .
We already leave big holes to mine other minerals? Not all batteries are made with minerals, but those that are can be recycled. The batteries needed for power grids can use sand, salt, or pumped hydro and other gravity based batteries.
@@mikewebb3256 look up ‘hydro batteries” - using solar and wind power to pump water up during the day and let it back down to power turbines at night or when needed.
@@ClownCarCoup And they all use motor oil or petroleum of some sort I've worked around them I recycled the oil under blue sky environment. I have helped with bio diesel. You still have to have some kind of acid R oil For the gears to turn grease
@@mikewebb3256 no one is saying we won’t need oil to make all sorts of things like plastics and fertilizer. We don’t _have_ to burn it for energy though
When I tried to teach my ex BF about this stuff he said I must be dating a black man now hahahahha. Im like ..noooooo.....not dating anyone ! Lord the ego
That is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard. We are all more stupid for having heard it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
@@Love_N_Let_Live agreed. Although, I think his point is, we can minimize the amount of fossil fuel we use over renewables. Unless we use something like hydrogen, there will always be a need to burn/produce energy when they were are not in full swing. There are numerous other cleaner options than fossil fuel. The only reason they are not widely used, is because we do not make it so. Just like they made gasoline widely used, you have to build out the infrastructure to take advantage of everything.
He’s 100% correct on the profit motive. The reason renewables have not been scaled up and made widely available is because someone’s making money off of burning fossil fuel and they have lots of it to lobby.
Bright Green Lair. This hack is a vassal of Greenwash Capitalism. This show and ball-talk about renewables is all by burning cheap fossil fuels thru n thru.
Do you have any idea how hyperbolic and childish you sound when faced with the terraforming that has been done in the pursuit of oil? “Cut all the mountains down” lol what an incredibly ignorant statement.
Sun, wind is a great supplemental energy, but insufficient and unsustainable as a main source. Current technology does not allow for a transition from fossil fuels. The energy demand just in the US is too much.
Bright Green Lair. This hack is a vassal of Greenwash Capitalism. This show and ball-talk about renewables is all by burning cheap fossil fuels thru n thru.
@@terryjones1718 I love you pretend that you have done the math. Several reports that analyzed our power needs versus the amount we can produce with renewables already prove that we can leave oil in the dust and marginalize its use with the proper amount of investment in renewables. Quit playing stupid for your fossil fuel mouthpiece.
@@terryjones1718 I'm here to tell you you're wrong, not educate you. All the information you need is freely available, you not knowing is 100% on you 🤡
No we are stop trying to frighten people who don’t any better that tactic may on school real do need to school and learn what excately carbon do’ s for the planet and stop talking rubbish.
"Everybody understands that we are in a desperate fix" He starts with a lie and continues lying. But he is lying to himself as much as to anybody else because he is delusional.
The raw materials for batteries needed to store the energy, is on the verge of becoming an ecological nightmare, along with a humanitarian nightmare in mining these raw materials. We need to find a way to change these things, to truly make solar, wind, and similar sources of energy be in fact the environmentally friendly way to go.
The problem is using the energy at night.
There is gravity storage, two reservoirs of water in different elevation. When there is excess energy, water is pumped up. When there is need, water is let down through a generator.
If only they’d figure out a good non toxic battery & not mine quartz to make the panels.
China is now making Sodium Ion batteries.
First of all, there are various different types of batteries. Secondly, coal or uranium also don't grow on trees. While renewables might also require some mining, they have a vastly smaller negative impact and many of the materials can be recycled (which is obviously not the case for fossil fuels or nuclear power).
@@manuelpopp1687
Not an expert, but we can get sodium from salt water, the oceans. May be the answer.
Rockefellers and standard oil is the elephant in the room
I 've read that China is starting to mass produce EV's with Sodium-ion batteries. Easier to obtain, and not super-flammable like lithium!
I think that the folks who talk like this have no idea of the depth and scale that fossil fuels have been embedded in society. Yes, you can generate electricity with photovoltaics. But what about energy at night? Are we building out gigantic battery farms? Not that I noticed. What about replacing transportation fuels? What about the energy used to create materials like fertilizer, plastics, aluminum etc... The amount of renewables we'd need to replace all this is mind-boggling. Although he's right that we need A LOT more investment in this direction. Minimizing investment in fossil fuels doesn't help much though since we need them to build out the renewable infrastructure.
Yes, giant battery farms are already in use. Australia just replaced a coal plant with 850-megawatt battery. Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time. Pump stored hydro has been used for a century now. Lot’s of ways to store energy. There is no reason renewable energy can’t be used to build out more renewables. It’ll take some time, but the pace of change is accelerating.
@@ClownCarCoup Thanks Teddy. I'll have a look at the things you mentioned.
Photovoltaics are only suitable for off grid. They do not have the inertia to enter the grid. Think of driving your car out your driveway as a truck attempts to enter. You go nowhere.
@@brianjohnston6716 Most PV are connected to grid already. How can this be? Because inverters mostly address the inertia problem.
@@ClownCarCoup Inverters do not raise inertia. Think of it as you leaving your driveway in a car, at the same time a truck is trying to enter. Simple, truck wins every time. PV solar is your car.
We only use a narrow band width of visable light when using PV panel. And turning into a liquid fuel for transportation is expensive. Storing it up in a battery is heavy and dangerous.
I’m not holding my breath!
Drink no poison water, breathe no prison air, eat no poisoned food 👉🏼it is not good for you, your family, your neighbors or animals✔️
You should be holding your breath. The power you used to write this comment likely comes from a coal plant poisoning your air. Wake up!
Save our home!!!!!!!!!!.
Absolutely.
Sure buddy you ever look at what it takes to build a battery from scratch your dreaming
But we cannot make the batteries without cobalt, can we?
Yes we can. Nearly half of Tesla vehicles produced in Q1 were equipped with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, containing no nickel or cobalt.
@@ClownCarCoupSo Tesla battery doesn't contain any MINED material?
@@artimidz3451 That sounds like fake news. Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) is produced by heating a variety of iron and lithium salts with phosphates or phosphoric acid.
@@ClownCarCoup I asked an open question of you since you seemed very knowledgeable and I get called a fake news follower. WTF? Anyway, it's good to know there are batteries that don't require mining. If that's true. Research really don't take a lot more time & effort than this did.
@@artimidz3451 I thought you were claiming that iron ore or lithium is not mined. Obviously it is, but far easier and cheaper than cobalt which is what the OP was concerned with
One must take onto consideration the materials needed for this sham.
Research Research Research.
Materials needed for what? For coal power plants? Yeah, those are terrible. So much mining and environmental pollution. They keep destroying entire cities to dig for coal, even in the 21st century and in first world countries. Or are you talking about nuclear power? Even worse! Getting all this uranium from unreliable partners and all the nuclear waste that comes with it, that's just insane.
For solar panels, there are various ways to build them with different raw materials. Also, many can be recycled already and development is extremely fast in this sector (in contrast to fossil fuels, which have been developed for centuries now and for which there is no way to make any significant further development whatsoever).
There has a lot of research been done and the evidence could not be more clear and more convincing that there is absolutely no alternative to making an extremely rapid transition to renewables and to drop fossil fuels and the criminals behind that industry asap. Renewable alternatives are better in every single way. They are cheaper, they require less environmental pollution and destruction, and, most of all, they are readily available almost everywhere. (Which is of course a problem for individuals who don't want people to be independent.) Build some batteries and they are also reliable. (Batteries can be built from common salt now. New technologies are available and considerably more environmentally friendly and healthy than the conventional technologies they are about to replace.)
"...the cheapest way to generate power [...] is to point a sheet of glass at the sun."
Maybe not.
Number of factories on Earth: 1 million
Number of off-grid solar-powered factories on Earth: 0
Save our souls
SOS?
You want to phase out fossil fuels? Support the nuclear energy sector. Nuclear energy + renewable energy will be quite a synergetic combo.
Uranium is absolutely-incompatible with wind and solar.
Make it so reliable and cheap enough that people will switch on their own,
STOP PUSHING IT UNTIL IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL THAN FOSSIL FUEL..but not by undermining the FOSSIL fuel but by making solar so much more sensible and efficient. 😎
Tell that to the corporate congress swines and the warmongers in the Pentagon.
how about the giant pool of bubbling burning pools in Yellowstone...how about ring the outside of the park with small geothermal turbines. the loops are self contained and would not impact the park. Put the turbines in charming stone cottage buildings to fit in with the park. Put the wires underground in PVC pipes...continuous power...no interruption of seasons or day/ night!!!!
I agree that large investments need to be made into geothermal power. Only reason we are not seeing those investments is it takes 3+ years to start seeing a financial return on the initial investment, much like nuclear which also is not seeing investment. Whereas oil makes a financial return within the year. Bankers burning the world down for an immediate profit for their quarterly statement…
Sorry, but Yellowstone has been getting closer and closer to blowing it's top. It's getting more volatile every year.. look it up..
@@robbie3333Even better. A geothermal power project would cool the magma chamber and relieve the pressure in the Yellowstone caldera.
I agree. But I think congress banned geothermal power development in Yellowstone in the 1970s. We need to re legalize it.
Amen
Been saying for 15 yrs now - if removing ground water has affected the earths rotation... wtf is removing a cooling layer like oil doing?!
This guy's body language feels like he is less than honest in several ways.
Think we should be focusing on rebuilding topsoil via sequestered carbon: creating frequent rainwater harvesting bunds, check dams, swales, bioswales, etc, and regreening rather than demonizing all carbon emitting technology.
We should put emphasis on freight and passenger rail. India is the only large country that comes close to adequate rail.
Think we need to look at building general resiliency instead of hyperfocusing on renewable alone.
I love when sub-room temperature IQ folk like you suggest that we can just inject carbon dioxide in the dirt to save the top soil. Manipulate the weather to “create rainwater harvesting bunds”. While suggesting we invest in the railroad barons as if they are monetarily incentivized to invest in improving our rail system. Pure lunacy.
McKinnon is a Greenmail Doom Porn author. Somebody disturbs his rock.
The solution to making renewables viable was never a 1 solution fix. It is multi faceted…solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, wave, tidal. The other solution is to change our habits, our appliances, the way we farm. Carbon farming, no till farming, permaculture…there are so many ways that can add up to the total solution.
Geothermal is another failed green mistake. They wasted billions in South Australia then pulled the pin because its unviable. Nuclear is the only clean energy.
Don't forget about gravity, as well as compressed air and pumped hydro for energy storage.
No till is heavily dependent on outside imports of compost, which is really only viable because we produce so much food waste. I could be wrong though.
How about some hydroelectric and geothermal action... with some nuclear sprinkled in for the extra flavor?
Mmmmm nuclear. 🍩
The good Lord, what an idiot
The greens keep blowing up hydroelectricity dams while fawning over fish.
Where will the storage batteries come from and how will they be made?
From battery manufacturers. They will be made from various materials depending upon application. Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries being used in cars today contain no nickel or cobalt. Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time.
I was thinking of aligning 10 car batteries in the shed out back in the shed to start. They have a 5 year warranty. Over the next 5 years I will replace them with the sealed gel ones that last 10 years. You can stay on grid and get paid for the energy you put into the system but when the grid goes down so do you.
@@jamesheitkemper1433 good luck with the car battery idea. Being connected to the grid doesn’t mean being without power when the grid goes down. Powerwall, for example, will operate in a grid failure and your home will automatically switch over to the batteries. Furthermore, if you have PV panels, if the sun is shining when the grid goes down, your solar system will continue to charge your batteries and stop sending any energy back to the grid
Compressed air and pumped hydro
The transition must be made. That is true, but it should be made as smoothly as possible, not in a knee-jerk reaction driven by climate change alarmism. Big Fossil is aware that the change must occur and they are investing in it as they want to remain Big Energy for the future. Current renewable energy capture techs are coming in with lower costs/lifetime kWhr, depending on siting, but storage still needs work, and batteries may not be the optimal solution for energy storage except in a few applications-situations. Let's not panic because of climate change "chicken littles". "Haste makes waste." Let's just keep moving ahead, yes, maybe a bit faster, keeping up a strong R&D effort to develop optimal future energy techs and then get them installed fast enough, replacing fossil energy before it runs out.
All materials are mined, solar panels are expensive making them has a huge carbon footprint, the energy generated compared to energy required would mean covering the whole country in solar panels.
welcome to the 60's - all we needed was to hear from you.
Multifaceted green solutions exist, as others have mentioned. The biggest obstacle to fully investing in renewables is the immediate loss in jobs. There are populations of the country which would lose their jobs overnight and those people will take up arms and rebel. There are older generations and less older ones, the largely rural people are the ones the "technological revolution" left behind and with fewer options for earning a living than before. Mining etc was the only job that pays above minimum wage in their area, which they do not want to leave. It's a huge issue and one that trump has exploited to the max. Jobs, well-paying jobs. There aren't any for many rural communities in the USA.
I understand the situation we are destroying the planet from 1982 this was obvious we are losing time every minute
Bypass all that. Give us the Tesla Free Energy. It was meant to be for all of humanity. Don't settle for wind and solar. Free Energy.
The idea that big oil is suppressing solar tech for their own interest is only partially correct. They are in fact the biggest investors in it. BP has quietly invested billions in off shore wind generated electricity. When I paid the electric bill I chose to pay a little extra for green power from wind power in Eastern Washington. There is no need to damn a river for power although the power generated is pretty clean. You don't need to be on the grid. Any house or structure can be off grid. In truth more energy hits the planet in a day than we need for a year. All you have to do is harvest the free energy and store it. I don't understand the resistance to the concept. Once you own the equipment required to harvest free energy forever. People bitch it is to expensive but have 2 vehicles in the drive way that depreciate $60,000 between them after 5 years and then they start the process again. They think nothing of this but bitch about a $40,000 solar set up you own for life. No electric bill, ever. The human is not a logical creature. We don't need to be on a grid at all. I am sure that scares the control freaks in government. When we go green it will be because like all technology it will become very cheap. Has nothing to do with the environment or government policy. The first flat screen I saw was at Sears. It was about 4 inches thick and mounted on the wall. It was $10'000. Almost no one could afford one. Today they are common, better, and maybe $100. Everyone has a flat screen. That's how new tech works in the market. A panel was $400. They are about $150 each now. They are just going to keep getting cheaper as demand goes up and more suppliers come on line.
Can't make batteries or solar panels or roads or bridges or buildings or electric cars or tanks or weapons or airplanes or helicopters or cruise ships out of sunlight, Bill...!
Do you make building, cars, and tanks out of oil?
Do you have any idea how pathetic you sound? Reach harder brainwashed peasant.
I’ve heard solar is misleading because it takes up just as much energy to make the panels?
The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a metric that attempts to compare costs of different methods of electricity generation on a consistent basis. The LCOE of solar fell below NG (the cheapest fossil fuel) in 2020. This cost gap will only widen into the future
@@ClownCarCoupBut solar is not consistent. It is cyclical on a daily and seasonal basis, and it's efficiency is weather dependant.
@@don2deliver ‘consistent’ refers to LCOE in terms of comparing lifetime costs per kWh produced, not the timing consistency of generation.
@@ClownCarCoup You need Fossil fuels to offset the downtime of solar, specifically NG.
@@don2deliver true. That doesn’t change the fact that of lower LCOE of solar
Vote Trump!!!
Two words," sand batteries!"
We are no where near ready to ditch oil, gas, or coal because wind and solar energy are not sustainable to support energy consumption
Bright Green Lair. This hack is a vassal of Greenwash Capitalism. This show and ball-talk about renewables is all by burning cheap fossil fuels thru n thru.
So you don't understand anything, got it 👍
We are literally there… then Thomas comes out to say “nUh Uh NoT tHeRe YeT, i Am SmArT”
Intermittent, not constant, energy sources. Energy return on energy invested ratio for various rare earths will fall as ore grades get worse, as is already happening with copper. These are non renewable elements within so called “renewables”. They are not renewable at all. It’s not that they will be completely exhausted…they will be “functionally” exhausted with very poor EROIs(energy return on energy invested). Supply decreases while demand increases. This is eventually a brick wall.
Overpopulation/overconsumption + any growth rate+ invested leadership + one small exhausted, increasingly poisoned, FINITE Earth = Overshoot.
William Catton(Overshoot), William Rees, Alice Friedemann, B. Sid Smith, William Patrick Ophuls, Tim Garrett, have material on Overshoot, on UA-cam. Easy to find.
I absolutely do not believe Bill Mcgibbon, or whatever his name is. He is irrelevant.
There are several solutions to this predicament. The one we’ve chosen so far is War.
So, no. We are not ready to ditch oil, gas, or coal. Even if it kills us.
@@YourMom-cu8ytYou don't know what you're talking about. In the BEST of days, 'green' is 8% of the energy supply. Most of what 'green' energy contributes is ESG Tax Credits, and CC&T GreenMail. Wind and solar energy on the grid is often dumped, either because it destabilizes regional subgrids, or the 1,000s of competing inverters can't lock on frequency, so they literally extinguish each other at the sub-station level. You were sold a bag of poo. Go ahead. Go off-grid!
_BUT YOU WON'T!!_
WE also don't need to drive a car two miles on average ten times a day. But the Average American does sit that. Mr. McKibben, might we begin to teach out to ski every every day, out every door? Might this be a good redesign of our physical literacy education policy if indeed we want people to commute more with human power? What kind of skiing would be best to commute with sir? Skate, Classic or SpikeBoarding Skiing? You are the skiing expert. Let us know. What roller skiing are you using to ski around Vermont to work and friends houses?
How do we feed 8 billion people with solar? Electric farm tractors?
Everything is possible, but not wanted.
Renewable diesel can be made from direct hydrogenation of sewage sludge, corn stover, sawmill offcuts, municipal solid waste, etc. or carbon monoxide hydrogenation of syngas produced from them. High temperature nuclear hydrogen would increase the yield of liwuid products by 27%.
Why are there serious scientists out there saying that wind snd solar are not enough for a transition ? I want yo see every house fitted with solar panels snd small wind mills and then we can talk .
Number of factories on Earth: 1 million
Number of off-grid solar-powered factories on Earth: 0
Change that number from 0 to 1, and then we can talk.
This guy is a LIAR !
Then what do you do with the batteries? Throw them in the ocean?
Making all these batteries is gonna be a bad thing. Leave in big holes in the grounds and try to dispose of him
We already leave big holes to mine other minerals? Not all batteries are made with minerals, but those that are can be recycled. The batteries needed for power grids can use sand, salt, or pumped hydro and other gravity based batteries.
@@ClownCarCoup But you still have to have alkaline or some kind of acid Before it to run through even the jail batteries have it
@@mikewebb3256 look up ‘hydro batteries” - using solar and wind power to pump water up during the day and let it back down to power turbines at night or when needed.
@@ClownCarCoup And they all use motor oil or petroleum of some sort I've worked around them I recycled the oil under blue sky environment. I have helped with bio diesel. You still have to have some kind of acid R oil For the gears to turn grease
@@mikewebb3256 no one is saying we won’t need oil to make all sorts of things like plastics and fertilizer. We don’t _have_ to burn it for energy though
There's not enough metals for massive renewables projects and battery energy to replace fossil fuels.
When I tried to teach my ex BF about this stuff he said I must be dating a black man now hahahahha. Im like ..noooooo.....not dating anyone ! Lord the ego
THE GLASS WE AIM UP TO THE SKY,, OVER HEATS OUR ATMOSPHERE!!!
That is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard. We are all more stupid for having heard it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Lunatic.
The only way to fix it is to wait for Jesus to get here!
Can't go "green" unless we find a replacement for plastic. It's a derivative of oil. Give me a solution to plastic and I'll come to the table.
Not talking about the same thing. We don’t make or burn plastics for fuel and energy.
This is a completely different subject, but it's a lot more complicated than what this man is making it seem in the video too.
@@Love_N_Let_Live agreed. Although, I think his point is, we can minimize the amount of fossil fuel we use over renewables. Unless we use something like hydrogen,
there will always be a need to burn/produce energy when they were are not in full swing. There are numerous other cleaner options than fossil fuel. The only reason they are not widely used, is because we do not make it so. Just like they made gasoline widely used, you have to build out the infrastructure to take advantage of everything.
He’s 100% correct on the profit motive. The reason renewables have not been scaled up and made widely available is because someone’s making money off of burning fossil fuel and they have lots of it to lobby.
What does plastic have to do with creating energy?
No, renewables cannot replace fossil fuels. Not even close. He's peddling a fantasy.
No he is absolutly right and tells the truth. But you are an ignorant and don't want to accept the truth.
Going just as God has planned... Are you ready?????
Strange plan, ain’t it?
Then we can do a energy dance. 🤡
Tap the Vacuum.
Madman profiteer!🤯
Hydrothermal Carberization is the true green energy of the future.
What a maroon!😂😂😂😂
Sure, cut all the mountains down and make more batteries, PV and concrete windmills.
Bright Green Lair. This hack is a vassal of Greenwash Capitalism. This show and ball-talk about renewables is all by burning cheap fossil fuels thru n thru.
Do you have any idea how hyperbolic and childish you sound when faced with the terraforming that has been done in the pursuit of oil? “Cut all the mountains down” lol what an incredibly ignorant statement.
Sun, wind is a great supplemental energy, but insufficient and unsustainable as a main source. Current technology does not allow for a transition from fossil fuels. The energy demand just in the US is too much.
Bright Green Lair. This hack is a vassal of Greenwash Capitalism. This show and ball-talk about renewables is all by burning cheap fossil fuels thru n thru.
Are you trying to be wrong? Because it's working
@@nikm5628 What's wrong and what's working, exactly?
@@terryjones1718 I love you pretend that you have done the math. Several reports that analyzed our power needs versus the amount we can produce with renewables already prove that we can leave oil in the dust and marginalize its use with the proper amount of investment in renewables. Quit playing stupid for your fossil fuel mouthpiece.
@@terryjones1718 I'm here to tell you you're wrong, not educate you. All the information you need is freely available, you not knowing is 100% on you 🤡
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No we are stop trying to frighten people who don’t any better that tactic may on school real do need to school and learn what excately carbon do’ s for the planet and stop talking rubbish.
"Everybody understands that we are in a desperate fix" He starts with a lie and continues lying. But he is lying to himself as much as to anybody else because he is delusional.
Gee, a billonaire telling us how to live. GFY