It would be really useful if you guys could create a template letter to send to our MPs (in a similar vane to Martin Lewis’s templates), that way it would be easy to start bombarding our representatives with similarly factual letters? Just an idea.
Robert covered contacting MP's with Quentin Wilson's help - fully charged video called make charging costs fair. In the video details, there is a link to Quentin's Find Your MP facility :)
I'm so glad I moved to where I am currently. My MP here seems to be more concerned about the environment than my last one, who ironically does own a recycling plant but that's probably more just to make money rather than anything else
I built an energy park for Keele university about a year ago, solar wind, battery storage, it now powers half the university, i have thought for years that every small farm should have a medium wind turbine, i put up about 200 throughout the country, until stopped by the ninby government moratorium on onshore wind, the company i worked for had over 400 jobs in its pipeline, we spent the next month telling people that their turbine was no longer possible. Why on earth is the position that if you build a house, or have a planning permission for an extension, solar and battery storage should be one of the conditions in that planning permission. We don’t have joined up thinking, or in the governments case , thinking at all.
I would like to see planning laws revised to require ALL new buildings to have solar panels installed. This would reduce the load on national Grid. I am dismayed by the amount of large warehouse and factory buildings that could be generating electricity.
@@johnford3825 Let's face it, Rather than giving energy rabates (I'm a recipient) If the government had seen this coming (they knew) a programme to instill just 1 large panel on every roof, plus a 5kWh battery "under the stairs" could have taken many homes off the grid during peak times and would probably cost less. Even if it was more, the security afforded NEXT TIME would be worth it.
@@geoffhaylock6848 Geoff, Geoff, Geoffr! Take a look at the growing battery production lines - at this time CATL and BYD have half thier production capcity unused as they have expanded so rapidly whilst you were wiritng your comment. Now there is even more in the pipeline!
Fully Charged is your strongest branding - need to use it on all your offerings - eg - Fully Charged Everything, Fully Charged Podcast, Fully Charged Rants etc etc - keep up the good work!
Lol, your Kardashian rant is EXACTLY what I think...... oh no, does this mean I'm in a social media echo chamber and therefore I need to watch the Kardashians.....!!!!!🤣
If renewables operators are to be liable to winfall taxes then they should also be allowed a rebate for any spending on storage. Also glad to hear thet there are developments going on using vanadium flow batteries some of which are home grown and are built on the outskirts of Glasgow.
I have a 7.2kw PV solars on my roof, with 12.8kw of battery storage plus hot water Eddie. I save approximately £1800.00 per year. Plus have an Hyundai Ioniq car, I save £1200 in fuel, £140 in road tax, at least £300 in running costs. Total cost of PV and batteries, Eddie and charging point £15,500. If I could get a smart meter I would be able to save loads more money! I should get my money back within 5 years even without a smart meter.
Thanks Robert, a very interesting "chat". The main problem is "Timemus mutationem" (We fear change : Google translation) The irrotational human element that will attempt to resist almost anything even if it's for our own good. You are right, informing the general population of the provable facts ( not my truth or my facts) is the way to change things. Keep up the good work.
Sadly it is the irrational people that can't do simple maths that are pushing us down a "renewables" path that is simply unsustainable that are the problem because no "renewables" project to date has ever been used to produce more solar panels or wind turbines and power the local cities that are pushing huge subsidies for them as well. Until that circle is squared we are simply stealing subsidy money from poor people to hand to rich people.
"MyEnergi are not like the Kardashians" I'm not sure they're going to be rushing to put that quote on all their promotional materials, Robert. Even though, yeah, it's perfectly true and speaks very well of them.
I envy@@IDann1 if he doesn't know who Kardoucheians are. There are symptom and cause of what's wrong with society, at least they're not involved in politics much.
Our FERC - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the US is working on rule changes right now, trying to deal with the large number of connection requests, and building transmission.
I hope that many solar farms are built in the near future so that the public protests against them being built causes a change in the building regulations. The requirement to fit PV panels on all new roofs- east, south , and west facing is essential, and should become a normal technology in building construction.
And as an illustration of how the UK wastes opportunities, I've read that BritishVolt are in financial trouble. Edit: And had arranged investment from the Govt prior to their difficulties. Because of this they've asked for a small percentage of the money early. This Govt is refusing. So they could go under before they even get properly started.
Great to hear you are a vegetarian Robert. Food type and quality has yet to come to the forefront like the tech solutions have. "The people" on the whole are still very ignorant about food and land management. I have been vegetarian since 1978.
Ironically, Sharp DID have a solar panel manufacturing plant in North Wales but it shut down a few years ago as it couldn't compete on price with Chinese made solar panels. As far as I know, that facility has remained empty ever since. A real shame. North Wales could really do with the local jobs.
Radlett in Hertfordshire campaigned to stop a solar farm in their area! Save our green space they said! Now they have a new sign up saying stop the houses save our green space! Not sure if they managed to stop solar but I know what I prefer!
Well, the two could've been combined to provide both homes and power, [not mutually exclusive], although I do agree appropriate siting is an important aspect.
Quality rant about the Kardashian's! I absolutely agree. It's sad how many people wrongly associate money and stuff with happiness, and the Kardashain's TV shows are fueling that delusion.
Talking about batteries and storage is important. My concern is that we are creating large grid storage batteries using lithium ion batteries, which are going to be limited, and maybe aren’t necessary for grid storage, but are needed for electric cars. Also, we need to remember that as people transition to electric cars, they will automatically have a good sized battery to use, so don’t need one under their stairs. However we have to convince EV makers to add vehicle to grid capability.
Robert, I agree with you about the Kardashians. I look up to you and others that are sharing things about how to change our lives around to live in a more sustainable way.
In Australia, the housing design emphasis is on insulation but the builders are still building houses without solar panels, no provision for battery location and gas hot water and heating. Houses without solar etc. can still score high on environmental standards.
Since you briefly mentions biomass it would be worth mentioning that a solar farm yields more that 20 times as much electricity as you can generate from the same area of crops.
Next door to Leeds Bradford Airport is Leeds Bradford Airport Industrial Estate - when built in the 1930's this was the largest building in Europe. It has a giant flat roof. It is just crazy that it is not covered in solar panels. Just one example there should be a tax on not having solar on industrial flat roofs.
Hi. Love all the content and learned lots of stuff, however (possibly contentious). Solar is great, I have it, its a game changer on our house, all new builds should have it, all new commercial buildings should have it as part of planning, and all existing warehouses structurally sound enough should have it. I would also suggest floating solar in the middle of lakes is a good idea, however for now personally i am hesitant about installing solar on green land. Not saying I am against it but i think there are far better places to stick panels up 1st. On shore wind surely will take up less land than solar farms?
40:05 "Spot the Australian house without solar" you just have to spot the rental property. Can't really put solar, or do much of anything really, on a rental property in Australia.
roidroid, It is sad that a renter can not get the landlord to approve a solar system for the property! I guess the landlord can get it installed, and pay for it, then raise your rent a bit to cover the monthly cost - say $50 a month. Then the renter can save $50 or $75 a month in electric bill.
Robert, PV penetration is now over 3 million homes out of 9.8 million households, or about 30.9% but batteries are only 1.1% so 98.9% of people do NOT have any batteries because the cost is SO high... Consequently, this PV is sold to the grid for (mandated feed in tariff) 5.2 cents but people buying PV power (in huge surplus and poorly used) may have to pay 3 TIMES off the feed-in tariff. MANY people claim RE is cheap but it is only generating returns on 1/3 of the time. In USA, Wind LCOE average is $133.02 and for solar LCOE is $78.92. These are 300-400% that of coal or gas... Actually I highly recommend you interview Gerard Reid & Laurent Segalen of Redefining Energy. People simply do NOT understand that each PV farm & wind turbine makes the next PV or wind farm LESS viable (in terms of returns).
There's been a planning application to build a new solar farm near me, on some pretty scrappy farm land. You would not believe the objections from some of the locals. On the other hand they're building 3000 houses three miles from me. Not one of them has Solar, they are all heated by gas and none of them have EV points fitted. When I built my house 2 years ago the planners demanded I installed an EV point (which I would have anyway, despite not owning an EV at the time) and they also wanted me to install a wood-burner so I had an alternative heat source to back up my Air Source Heat Pump, There's no logic to the way planning works and the government doesn't give a toss
Your spontaneous rant about the Kardashians create a ripple effect and caused a Kardashian rant in our household too, I felt better after that, you have to let it all out.
Interesting point about land used for animal feed but was disappointed that no mention of mineral extraction for batteries and how the two compares. I appreciate the amount of land worldwide used for inking is small but must be appreciable.
Got a few ideas while listening. rainwater capture off solar farms to water the plants under farm. North side of solar farm have a tower for long distance wireless internet. 7 miles away is a tower on a hill that we could connect to for internet (still use at&t as its a few dollars cheaper). I was thinking a whole network of these would allow for fast low cost unlimited data where ever users are, even if they travel. could be powered by solar and batteries on site. plus $$ from internet business would cover cost of installing fiber to site and allowing them to monitor site easily. Another plus is even though your installing fiber infrastructure to all these sites you won't need it for end users where ever they are.
Hi all we hear about is we must reduce our emissions,carbon zero ,tbh we are worlds away from achieving that ,just recently there was cop27 ,same old rubbish, what’s happened after cop26 ,as far as I see not a lot ,haven’t we just had the hottest summer 🙉let’s be honest ,right at this moment ,the very last thing that the general public are thinking about is reducing emissions, for the average day to day person ,just being able to afford to pay for the basics ,just last night watching the news ,they are talking about not enough chimney sweeps, so more needed to be trained ,another person said having a log fire that’s no good more harmful emissions, nobody is going worry about that ,it’s all about lowering the costs and keeping yourself warm , It’s ok saying let’s get air source heat pumps ,yes there is a £5000 grant , but most can’t afford another 10-15 grand ,on top of that ,there are many renewable energy sources,but if ya can’t afford it you can’t get it ,so how is anyone in that situation supposed to help with the climate 🤷♂️ If our aim is to become carbon neutral, there needs to be more help ,and right at this moment there isn’t any, the government need to stop saying what we need to do ,and bloody start doing something about it ,like food banks when I was younger their wasn’t such a thing, and now they are popping up all over the place ,even in some hospitals they have food banks just for nurses etc ,this country has fallen apart ,and isn’t going to get better soon ,and it’s a real shame .
Question for Andrew and Mark. . The "planning issues" all seem to revolve around *connection* if these generation systems "to the Grid". . Would it not be possible to simply *remove* individual homes, communities, etc *from* the grid? . For instance, at home level, a switch that simultaneously removes the grid connection, before connecting to either a self contained or "street" generation system which has no possibility to cross connect that source to the Grid would seem to solve the "substation" problem? . It's a "half way house" not ADDING Grid capacity, but could potentially (sorry) remove huge amounts of peak load. There could still be a passive system for the Grid to monitor the available capacity, anticipate when it will be removed and for how long. . Just a thought.
Could always have part of the home nongrid entirely, with side by side plugs for back up. For example you could have a your fridge/freezer be on solar/battery back up system and maybe computer, TV and a few essential lights as a start.
@@b_uppy That's been around for decades! I have mains and battery ... batteries charged off solar or alternators or even mains via a smart charger. 12Vdc and mains lighting, and invertors for TV etc. It's very old custom and practice in parts of UK and across the planet. All this "power wall' stuff is a revamp of an old idea. Ditto using LiFePo4 batteries (slightly less chance of igniting themselves) instead of lead acid tech. All very well with lithium tech until you have to charge below 0C. Lithiums really, really don't like a high charge at 0C and below. You just hope the BMS protects the cells by reducing the charging rate and switching on any battery heater. Probably best to ignore the tech until they're giving it away.
@@t1n4444 I never see it suggested but it makes sense to have some solar and batteries rather than a whole grid tie in. Its better than none and can add can keep you functional with the bare minimum needs for your food preservation, work at home, overhead lighting, staving off boredom, etc. It's an economical compromise rather than trying to tie into the grid with high cost devices, and a start either way.
@@b_uppy I would concede "something" is better than nothing. But, no need to lavish huge sums on "protection", power cuts don't usually last for hours and hours on end. Plus there's always the pay back time to consider. And, providing you don't open the freezer during a power cut you could get away with just running a few lights, small TV and C/H pump/ fan on your gas or oil boiler with a suitably sized inverter ... suitably sized means at least five times the load you intend to run. Eg a 300W inverter will "just" about run a 60W TV although the inverter's internal cooling fans will come on, which means the inverter is too small ... or it's a budget item from China ... and the claimed output is some myth. You should also read up on ordinary inverters and Pure Sine Wave inverters. Not everything will run off an ordinary "modified square wave" inverter. The size of battery bank to run an entire household would need to be pretty substantial, plus requiring a substantial solar array to keep the battery bank topped up. As mentioned above the inverters would in turn need to be suitably large capacity ... probably 5kW as an absolute barest minimum for a small house. Plenty of guff on-line so suggest you research the "science" so as to ensure you understand the topic before getting a contractor or doing it yourself. You might find a contractor will carefully avoid talking about the weather. I worked at a theatre in Cornwall and we got a grant to have a 5kW array fitted fitted to an "ideal roof". The system never produced the maximum unless the sky was blue and nary a cloud on the horizon at the height of summer. Usually the output was around half the implied maximum and in the winter it was more of a "roof ornament" collecting leaf and twig debris from trees some distance away. What might be of more use in the autumn/winter/early spring is a wind turbine. There are very advanced designs which are claimed to be efficient and reduce the wind noise. I suppose it is not beyond the wit of man to design a pitched roof which has ports to allow wind to spin a wind turbine(s) concealed within. Given sufficient attention is given to noise decoupling from the roof timbers then it might be worth another "Trevor Baylis" having an experiment.
Great work chaps. I live a cycle ride away from the Cleve Hill solar farm development in Kent of which I am in favour. Admittedly I don't live close enough for it to affect me much in a negative way. There are all sorts of local voices against: it is massive, going on special land which will be spoilt environmentally, it will be a giant eyesore where once there were sheep grazing. There are concerns about lorry traffic in tiny lanes being a noise and a danger for two or more years. Folk are appealing for a cycle path to be created through the park. Sounds to me that if Exagen were involved they would be able to put most of these concerns to bed. I've been thinking that surely sheep grazing, market gardens, natural areas, cycle routes could all be accommodated amongst the panels. It's great to know that is the case, I just hope whoever is the developer can see that is the way to win people round. I have no idea who is involved in the creation of this project but I hope if it's not Exagen that it's a company with the same moral compass and values. As a disabled e-biker I find the roads are so small that lorries have no choice but to be polite and wait for me to get out of the way. Not sure if the lycra clad brigade will all be as polite as me though!🤣 When you're as old as we are Robert a couple of years flies by anyway, 👍😆
I am wondering why the land that is under the solar panels can not still feed the sheep? I think it is possible. Maybe before they could support 10 per acre of land with the grass grown there, and with solar panels that might reduce to about 8 per acre? And it will give the sheep a nice shady place to stay on a hot sunny day, or coverage on a rainy day. And no weeds where the solar panels are located if they have sheep around to eat the stuff that grows there.
The rooftop solar industry in USA has become a haven for bad deals and scams, leasing solar can end up with a lein on your property or non-functioning solar as they're slow to fix it. Unfortunately we need government intervention. Every house & business should have a solar feasibility assessment. The best deal in solar is off grid off roof solar awning.
I would love to have a solar farm, if given a choice between a coal power plant, nuclear or natural gas. If I lived in a windy area, then a wind farm would be much better than a nuclear power plant! Maybe coal would not be to bad, if the wind always blows the coal dust away from my home!
Robert, you will have to have the second bloke back as he has been ignored for an hour! As for recycling PV, I find it a great shame that they are crushed because 1 or a few cells are stuffed when by bypassing those ones you still have a good solar panel. If you sent them to Africa or any poor place they could fix them and for the first time they have electricity. They wouldn't care that they are only 80 per cent working because 50 plus per cent panel gives more than a 100 per cent one they can't afford! I can't stand that we in the rich countries throw stuff away that is good or not that bad!! Shame on thinking this way! Jesus, I wish I had money to set up a charity to employ people in the 3rd world and supply light to kids to do homework and safety to women!
Robert, I personally cannot put solar panels on my roof because it’s 25 years old. My neighbour has done so against my advice. Guess what They’re back fixing his roof.When I replace my roof I will be putting on solar panels. What I would like to do is put solar drive port on my house. As this is the front of the house I can’t do to planning
Many places will allow a ground mount solar array in your back yard. Some have built a shed, with a 3 meter wide roof, that is angled properly for solar collection, and only the south side is sloped, so not a A-frame type roof, just one slope.
What a waste of space we have in the UK. Can we not use a more 3D policy for solar panels? Open-air car parks, roads, pavements, railways, motorways - cover the lot with overhead solar panels, and leave the land for farmers and nature :)
The trouble is politicians like money 💰 and when it's thrown at them they follow politicians will always stand by the industries and for agricultural land it's the housing developments you got to watch out for councillors and politicians the money always buys them logging industries are destroying Forrest woodlands etc and its the old traditions that we need to pull away from , especially in the housing sector wood , there are other materials in this world .
Is the changing climate having any negative or positive effects on these renewables, because I found that the last 2 years cloud cover has had a negative effect? So making these changes to the grid will have to be taken into consideration. Do we include these issue into the conversations? I wil find out later when I get back from work!!!
Wind will (I guess) change rather like rainfall--counties (or even countries?) with less might get more, and others get less. But I don't think it has to be major changes that make any wind (or solar) installations unworkable. Just percentage points. I think we'll have challenges in future growing our food crops, with temperature and rain changes meaning different crops and different pests to deal with. Again, I hope we'll adapt and manage those changes in good time.
@@christianvanderstap6257 "Reduction of sulphur in the upper atmosphere".....? That's one I haven't heard before. Reduction of amount? Chemical reduction (change)?
@@rogerstarkey5390 sulphur dioxide actually reflects sunlight and thus reduces heat, we stick that into the atmosphere by burning ff, so if we burn less ff, we have less sulfur dioxide and thus more warming (it does react with other stuff like water and ozon so eventually it is removed). So if we stop burning ff today we still get more solar energy down until the carbon dioxide itself starts to reduce as well. On the flip side, power output from solar pv will increase as well.
@@christianvanderstap6257 I read that the chemical half life of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere is 10 days, so a month or two after any reduction, we would be fairly close to new conditions. Methane's is about 10 years and CO2 a century or more, from memory.
Eventually the energy, A.I., automation/robotics, and many other technology revolutions will bring the costs of daily life way down; meanwhile these revolutions will raise the quality of life of the average person so high that, the distinctions between the economic classes will be ao narrow as to make the distinctions pointless as these revolutions will eventually make the need for money pointless. The reason I say this is; soon the speed at which technology will be advancing so fast that auch things as, politics, economic systems, etc, will be outdated due to how slowly they opperate. According to Wired and Valerio Pellegrini, the asteroid 'Davida', which has a diameter of 326 kilometers, has been identified as the most valuable asteroid in the belt, with a resource value estimated to be some 27 quintillion (26,990,000,000,000,000,000) U.S. dollars. Such mineral wealth will drive the costs of resources down to being virtually free, and will be made morso free due to the cost of obtaining these resources being nearly free due abundant and nearly free, just as abundant and nearly free energy, A.I., Automation, etc, will make the process of manufacturing anything virtually free. This will eventually raise the quality of life for the average person so high; the difference in the standard of living across wconomic classes will become so narrow as to make any distinctions pointless. I think as we reach this point; the noteriety individual obtain through their huge home, their personal aircraft, personal watercraft, etc, will deminish. We are already seeing this with Tesla's vehicles, that outperform many luxury splrtscars at a fraction of the costs. As battery storage greatly deminishes in costs at an ever higher power density, their prices will dramatically drop, and robotaxies will make car ownership pointless for many people. This only hits the tip of the iceburg of the technological change the next 10-30 years will bring, let alone the next 100 - 1,000 years.
Robert that is the problem "people" that eat Animals and drink Cows Milk and Cheese always say they dont want to know about the inhuman cruelty thats involved they just turn their ignorant blind eyes to it.
We need to use livestock as part of weed, pest and fertility management instead of relying on harmful synthetic chemical inputs in a diverse, natural biome-based polyculture based on foods from perennials, shrubs, trees and vines. This will reverse the trend that allows CO2 to be aerosolized by bare earth/fallow practices and overgrazing and start sequestering much more than is lost while providing more healthier food, livestock, soils, lumber, etc and sequestering carbon , and water at a rate faster than is released. This combined with harvesting methane for fuel, adding a lot more passenger and freight rail instead of cars, using more minisplits/heatpumps and other well-considered, impactful choices will be better than going vegan as veganism still primarily relies on monocultured annual supported by synthetic chemical inputs. Which do a lot more harm overall than our current use of fossil fuels.
Didcot power station site has plans to build a Data center on the site its mad to not put some wind and solar on the site as it has all the infrastructure there all ready.
Some great news from them but Andrew didn't get much time - maybe still to one person podcasts. Post some of the Q&A from Farnborough - not all of us got to go there
@@christianvanderstap6257 Unfortunately nuclear power plants take 6 years to build, waste a lot of money and do immeasurable harm. It's easy to do both.
@@steverichmond7142 new ones yes, but if they are there let's use them. Building new ones is stupid af and your 6 year estimation is highly optimistic, it takes about 20 including permitting etc.
@@christianvanderstap6257 I have worked in the nuclear industry as an engineer since the early 70s. I have produced reports for government and the whole industry is institutionally corrupt. In West Cumbria there are plants causing childhood cancer which is ignored by government and which should immediately be closed down. Small modular reactors are potentially very dangerous as the process has not been trialled in the field. These are supposed to take less than 5 years from inception to fuel production.
Robert is the anti-Clarkson but with the same approach in one way - rage at things he doesn’t like which satisfies a large section of his audience. It generates likes! For Clarkson it’s Eco-mentalists, soul-less “electrical” cars that run on batteries using cobalt mined by 10-year-olds, etc.. All of Clarkson’s rants are largely fact-free and Robert’s are not but DO contain an awful lot of animus towards those who are climate-deniers and lovers of diesel SUVs. Honestly I find both quite hard to take because it doesn’t solve anything. In Clarkson’s case he doesn’t want to solve anything, he merely wants clicks and the money they generate. A certain section of society (largely quite gammon and hateful) lap his stuff up but I’m not sure that many liberals like myself are swayed by a similar ranting style. I’m already “on side” with renewable energy, efficient electric cars, solar on homes, batteries, etc but if I weren’t already there I’m pretty sure I’d be put off by one of Bobby’s rants if I came across this by chance. Thanks for all you do and have done in this cause, Robert but please, please tone it down a bit? Facts only, how about that? I just think it’s more persuasive to enthuse about what we love rather than raging against what we hate. Just my opinion 😊
Well, after decades of "playing nice" and essentially being ignored, maybe it's understandable that "the green lobby" might be more "enthusiastic"? . I'm sure the "anti" side are amplifying that enthusiasm, classifying it as "bad", or even "cultish" as they have in one very particular case (I'll let you work that out). . Any investigation of the actual circumstances (and/or science) by an intelligent observer should still result in understanding that the change has to be made , and in fact is a generational opportunity (Unintended pun there!), something badly needed in the UK atm .
@@rogerstarkey5390 I get that, really. I just think that enthusiasm and rage are very different presentations and one is engaging while the other is off-putting. I’m just a little bit younger than Robert. Not much. So I understand the grumpy old man urge. But I also understand that persuasion works with a more engaging approach by selling benefits rather than howling at the Moon. Again, just my opinion.
Robert, your constant bashing of conservatives will turn Conservative people off from the message you’re trying to give. Ranting on political partisan pedestal will only end you with a partisan audience. Sadly you’ll end up preaching in an echo chamber and end up not influencing the very people you want to influence.
Too long Robert. I just look at the length of this video, annnd, I’m out. Don’t even click. Call me Mr Short Attention span. I need gobbly bits to fit my evening watching time. Maybe I am missing good stuff. But I just don’t have the time.
It's a podcast, so listening time really over watching time. The video bit is just a bonus if you want it. Perfect for listening towhilst other activities so it doesn't take up valuable watching time. Gardening, cleaning walking, driving etc. Bring on the long form for the deep dive and nuance I say.
The rooftop solar industry in USA has become a Haven for bad deals and scams, leasing solar can end up with a lein on your property or non-functioning solar as they're slow to fix it. Unfortunately we need government intervention. Every house & business should have a solar feasibility assessment. The best deal in solar is off grid off roof solar awning.
It would be really useful if you guys could create a template letter to send to our MPs (in a similar vane to Martin Lewis’s templates), that way it would be easy to start bombarding our representatives with similarly factual letters? Just an idea.
Robert covered contacting MP's with Quentin Wilson's help - fully charged video called make charging costs fair. In the video details, there is a link to Quentin's Find Your MP facility :)
I'm so glad I moved to where I am currently.
My MP here seems to be more concerned about the environment than my last one, who ironically does own a recycling plant but that's probably more just to make money rather than anything else
So glad th hear I'm not the only one imagining fields of solar panels next to railway lines.
How about over the rail lines?
I built an energy park for Keele university about a year ago, solar wind, battery storage, it now powers half the university, i have thought for years that every small farm should have a medium wind turbine, i put up about 200 throughout the country, until stopped by the ninby government moratorium on onshore wind, the company i worked for had over 400 jobs in its pipeline, we spent the next month telling people that their turbine was no longer possible. Why on earth is the position that if you build a house, or have a planning permission for an extension, solar and battery storage should be one of the conditions in that planning permission.
We don’t have joined up thinking, or in the governments case , thinking at all.
I have 10 acres and wish to build a energy farm can you help
I would like to see planning laws revised to require ALL new buildings to have solar panels installed. This would reduce the load on national Grid. I am dismayed by the amount of large warehouse and factory buildings that could be generating electricity.
@@johnford3825
Let's face it,
Rather than giving energy rabates (I'm a recipient)
If the government had seen this coming (they knew) a programme to instill just 1 large panel on every roof, plus a 5kWh battery "under the stairs" could have taken many homes off the grid during peak times and would probably cost less.
Even if it was more, the security afforded NEXT TIME would be worth it.
@@rogerstarkey5390 Any idea where all the batteries would come from? Use less for electric cars and carry on polluting our cities?
@@geoffhaylock6848 Geoff, Geoff, Geoffr! Take a look at the growing battery production lines - at this time CATL and BYD have half thier production capcity unused as they have expanded so rapidly whilst you were wiritng your comment. Now there is even more in the pipeline!
Fully Charged is your strongest branding - need to use it on all your offerings - eg - Fully Charged Everything, Fully Charged Podcast, Fully Charged Rants etc etc - keep up the good work!
Lol, your Kardashian rant is EXACTLY what I think...... oh no, does this mean I'm in a social media echo chamber and therefore I need to watch the Kardashians.....!!!!!🤣
If renewables operators are to be liable to winfall taxes then they should also be allowed a rebate for any spending on storage. Also glad to hear thet there are developments going on using vanadium flow batteries some of which are home grown and are built on the outskirts of Glasgow.
I have a 7.2kw PV solars on my roof, with 12.8kw of battery storage plus hot water Eddie. I save approximately £1800.00 per year. Plus have an Hyundai Ioniq car, I save £1200 in fuel, £140 in road tax, at least £300 in running costs. Total cost of PV and batteries, Eddie and charging point £15,500. If I could get a smart meter I would be able to save loads more money! I should get my money back within 5 years even without a smart meter.
Well done. I just calculated that the solar install I did just payed itself (in less than 18months). Next it will pay for the battery (cheers from nl)
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
Thanks Robert, a very interesting "chat".
The main problem is "Timemus mutationem" (We fear change : Google translation)
The irrotational human element that will attempt to resist almost anything even if it's for our own good.
You are right, informing the general population of the provable facts ( not my truth or my facts) is the way to change things.
Keep up the good work.
Sadly it is the irrational people that can't do simple maths that are pushing us down a "renewables" path that is simply unsustainable that are the problem because no "renewables" project to date has ever been used to produce more solar panels or wind turbines and power the local cities that are pushing huge subsidies for them as well. Until that circle is squared we are simply stealing subsidy money from poor people to hand to rich people.
"MyEnergi are not like the Kardashians"
I'm not sure they're going to be rushing to put that quote on all their promotional materials, Robert.
Even though, yeah, it's perfectly true and speaks very well of them.
That rant! Made me feel such relief.
Really interesting introduction to Exagen - thanks
I think it's fair to say that Rob doesn't like the Kardashian's 😂😂😂
What’s a Kardashian
Well… entirely understandable. Evil villains from an entirely different franchise. Of course Kryten hates Cardassians. 🤪.
I envy@@IDann1 if he doesn't know who Kardoucheians are. There are symptom and cause of what's wrong with society, at least they're not involved in politics much.
@@IDann1 They are a race from Star Trek. Grey scaly skin.
They didn't behave nicely in Startrek Deep Space 9, or did they? 🤣
Our FERC - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the US is working on rule changes right now, trying to deal with the large number of connection requests, and building transmission.
That Kardashian rant was 24 carat gold!
I hope that many solar farms are built in the near future so that the public protests against them being built causes a change in the building regulations. The requirement to fit PV panels on all new roofs- east, south , and west facing is essential, and should become a normal technology in building construction.
And as an illustration of how the UK wastes opportunities, I've read that BritishVolt are in financial trouble.
Edit: And had arranged investment from the Govt prior to their difficulties. Because of this they've asked for a small percentage of the money early. This Govt is refusing. So they could go under before they even get properly started.
Great to hear you are a vegetarian Robert. Food type and quality has yet to come to the forefront like the tech solutions have. "The people" on the whole are still very ignorant about food and land management. I have been vegetarian since 1978.
Emotionally draining, that's a good way of putting it😁 Brilliant show, thanks Robert.
Ironically, Sharp DID have a solar panel manufacturing plant in North Wales but it shut down a few years ago as it couldn't compete on price with Chinese made solar panels. As far as I know, that facility has remained empty ever since. A real shame. North Wales could really do with the local jobs.
Radlett in Hertfordshire campaigned to stop a solar farm in their area! Save our green space they said! Now they have a new sign up saying stop the houses save our green space! Not sure if they managed to stop solar but I know what I prefer!
Well, the two could've been combined to provide both homes and power, [not mutually exclusive], although I do agree appropriate siting is an important aspect.
Quality rant about the Kardashian's! I absolutely agree. It's sad how many people wrongly associate money and stuff with happiness, and the Kardashain's TV shows are fueling that delusion.
Talking about batteries and storage is important. My concern is that we are creating large grid storage batteries using lithium ion batteries, which are going to be limited, and maybe aren’t necessary for grid storage, but are needed for electric cars. Also, we need to remember that as people transition to electric cars, they will automatically have a good sized battery to use, so don’t need one under their stairs. However we have to convince EV makers to add vehicle to grid capability.
Robert, I agree with you about the Kardashians. I look up to you and others that are sharing things about how to change our lives around to live in a more sustainable way.
fantastic Kardashians rant, more rants please, always bang on point.
Daughter built house 12 months ago Canberra Australia solar mandatory. Let's go! See you in Sydney
They used to make solar panels in Wrexham! *Sharp; i think*
In Australia, the housing design emphasis is on insulation but the builders are still building houses without solar panels, no provision for battery location and gas hot water and heating. Houses without solar etc. can still score high on environmental standards.
Very interesting. I'm off to write a letter to my MP to support solar/batteries/wind power!
Community batteries are such a good idea.
really good podcast totally enjoyed it
Nice rant!
Since you briefly mentions biomass it would be worth mentioning that a solar farm yields more that 20 times as much electricity as you can generate from the same area of crops.
Next door to Leeds Bradford Airport is Leeds Bradford Airport Industrial Estate - when built in the 1930's this was the largest building in Europe. It has a giant flat roof. It is just crazy that it is not covered in solar panels. Just one example there should be a tax on not having solar on industrial flat roofs.
Hi. Love all the content and learned lots of stuff, however (possibly contentious). Solar is great, I have it, its a game changer on our house, all new builds should have it, all new commercial buildings should have it as part of planning, and all existing warehouses structurally sound enough should have it. I would also suggest floating solar in the middle of lakes is a good idea, however for now personally i am hesitant about installing solar on green land. Not saying I am against it but i think there are far better places to stick panels up 1st. On shore wind surely will take up less land than solar farms?
40:05 "Spot the Australian house without solar" you just have to spot the rental property. Can't really put solar, or do much of anything really, on a rental property in Australia.
roidroid, It is sad that a renter can not get the landlord to approve a solar system for the property! I guess the landlord can get it installed, and pay for it, then raise your rent a bit to cover the monthly cost - say $50 a month. Then the renter can save $50 or $75 a month in electric bill.
Robert, PV penetration is now over 3 million homes out of 9.8 million households, or about 30.9% but batteries are only 1.1% so 98.9% of people do NOT have any batteries because the cost is SO high... Consequently, this PV is sold to the grid for (mandated feed in tariff) 5.2 cents but people buying PV power (in huge surplus and poorly used) may have to pay 3 TIMES off the feed-in tariff. MANY people claim RE is cheap but it is only generating returns on 1/3 of the time. In USA, Wind LCOE average is $133.02 and for solar LCOE is $78.92. These are 300-400% that of coal or gas... Actually I highly recommend you interview Gerard Reid & Laurent Segalen of Redefining Energy. People simply do NOT understand that each PV farm & wind turbine makes the next PV or wind farm LESS viable (in terms of returns).
First 3 minutes - YES ROBERT!!!!
There's been a planning application to build a new solar farm near me, on some pretty scrappy farm land. You would not believe the objections from some of the locals.
On the other hand they're building 3000 houses three miles from me. Not one of them has Solar, they are all heated by gas and none of them have EV points fitted.
When I built my house 2 years ago the planners demanded I installed an EV point (which I would have anyway, despite not owning an EV at the time) and they also wanted me to install a wood-burner so I had an alternative heat source to back up my Air Source Heat Pump, There's no logic to the way planning works and the government doesn't give a toss
Thank you for saying what we all feel, never seen Kardashians, and totally agree about fashion and plastic crap. Cheers mate
Your spontaneous rant about the Kardashians create a ripple effect and caused a Kardashian rant in our household too, I felt better after that, you have to let it all out.
Was the phrase
"Yeah, but" uttered? 😉
Interesting point about land used for animal feed but was disappointed that no mention of mineral extraction for batteries and how the two compares. I appreciate the amount of land worldwide used for inking is small but must be appreciable.
I now have even more questions....which is a good thing.
Great believer in closed loop community when it comes to energy,water and food production. Can include health,security and maintenance.
They can also build solar panels higher iff of the ground; so farming equipment can move underneath it.
Different story here in Australia.. panels encouraged and subsidised.
Got a few ideas while listening. rainwater capture off solar farms to water the plants under farm. North side of solar farm have a tower for long distance wireless internet. 7 miles away is a tower on a hill that we could connect to for internet (still use at&t as its a few dollars cheaper). I was thinking a whole network of these would allow for fast low cost unlimited data where ever users are, even if they travel. could be powered by solar and batteries on site. plus $$ from internet business would cover cost of installing fiber to site and allowing them to monitor site easily. Another plus is even though your installing fiber infrastructure to all these sites you won't need it for end users where ever they are.
Love it you guys
Hi all we hear about is we must reduce our emissions,carbon zero ,tbh we are worlds away from achieving that ,just recently there was cop27 ,same old rubbish, what’s happened after cop26 ,as far as I see not a lot ,haven’t we just had the hottest summer 🙉let’s be honest ,right at this moment ,the very last thing that the general public are thinking about is reducing emissions, for the average day to day person ,just being able to afford to pay for the basics ,just last night watching the news ,they are talking about not enough chimney sweeps, so more needed to be trained ,another person said having a log fire that’s no good more harmful emissions, nobody is going worry about that ,it’s all about lowering the costs and keeping yourself warm ,
It’s ok saying let’s get air source heat pumps ,yes there is a £5000 grant , but most can’t afford another 10-15 grand ,on top of that ,there are many renewable energy sources,but if ya can’t afford it you can’t get it ,so how is anyone in that situation supposed to help with the climate 🤷♂️
If our aim is to become carbon neutral, there needs to be more help ,and right at this moment there isn’t any, the government need to stop saying what we need to do ,and bloody start doing something about it ,like food banks when I was younger their wasn’t such a thing, and now they are popping up all over the place ,even in some hospitals they have food banks just for nurses etc ,this country has fallen apart ,and isn’t going to get better soon ,and it’s a real shame .
Robert is spot on 🙏 1:00 & 2:00 😂
Hot stuff!
I love a Bobby rant! Have you looked at 3ti solar projects out of interest?? 💚⚡👍
really great showwwww.
Question for Andrew and Mark.
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The "planning issues" all seem to revolve around *connection* if these generation systems "to the Grid".
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Would it not be possible to simply *remove* individual homes, communities, etc *from* the grid?
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For instance, at home level, a switch that simultaneously removes the grid connection, before connecting to either a self contained or "street" generation system which has no possibility to cross connect that source to the Grid would seem to solve the "substation" problem?
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It's a "half way house" not ADDING Grid capacity, but could potentially (sorry) remove huge amounts of peak load.
There could still be a passive system for the Grid to monitor the available capacity, anticipate when it will be removed and for how long.
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Just a thought.
Could always have part of the home nongrid entirely, with side by side plugs for back up. For example you could have a your fridge/freezer be on solar/battery back up system and maybe computer, TV and a few essential lights as a start.
@@b_uppy That's been around for decades!
I have mains and battery ... batteries charged off solar or alternators or even mains via a smart charger.
12Vdc and mains lighting, and invertors for TV etc.
It's very old custom and practice in parts of UK and across the planet.
All this "power wall' stuff is a revamp of an old idea. Ditto using LiFePo4 batteries (slightly less chance of igniting themselves) instead of lead acid tech.
All very well with lithium tech until you have to charge below 0C.
Lithiums really, really don't like a high charge at 0C and below.
You just hope the BMS protects the cells by reducing the charging rate and switching on any battery heater.
Probably best to ignore the tech until they're giving it away.
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I never see it suggested but it makes sense to have some solar and batteries rather than a whole grid tie in. Its better than none and can add can keep you functional with the bare minimum needs for your food preservation, work at home, overhead lighting, staving off boredom, etc.
It's an economical compromise rather than trying to tie into the grid with high cost devices, and a start either way.
If you can 'cop' missing out if selling the extra, it would work.
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I would concede "something" is better than nothing.
But, no need to lavish huge sums on "protection", power cuts don't usually last for hours and hours on end.
Plus there's always the pay back time to consider.
And, providing you don't open the freezer during a power cut you could get away with just running a few lights, small TV and C/H pump/ fan on your gas or oil boiler with a suitably sized inverter ... suitably sized means at least five times the load you intend to run.
Eg a 300W inverter will "just" about run a 60W TV although the inverter's internal cooling fans will come on, which means the inverter is too small ... or it's a budget item from China ... and the claimed output is some myth.
You should also read up on ordinary inverters and Pure Sine Wave inverters. Not everything will run off an ordinary "modified square wave" inverter.
The size of battery bank to run an entire household would need to be pretty substantial, plus requiring a substantial solar array to keep the battery bank topped up.
As mentioned above the inverters would in turn need to be suitably large capacity ... probably 5kW as an absolute barest minimum for a small house.
Plenty of guff on-line so suggest you research the "science" so as to ensure you understand the topic before getting a contractor or doing it yourself.
You might find a contractor will carefully avoid talking about the weather.
I worked at a theatre in Cornwall and we got a grant to have a 5kW array fitted fitted to an "ideal roof".
The system never produced the maximum unless the sky was blue and nary a cloud on the horizon at the height of summer.
Usually the output was around half the implied maximum and in the winter it was more of a "roof ornament" collecting leaf and twig debris from trees some distance away.
What might be of more use in the autumn/winter/early spring is a wind turbine.
There are very advanced designs which are claimed to be efficient and reduce the wind noise.
I suppose it is not beyond the wit of man to design a pitched roof which has ports to allow wind to spin a wind turbine(s) concealed within.
Given sufficient attention is given to noise decoupling from the roof timbers then it might be worth another "Trevor Baylis" having an experiment.
Great work chaps. I live a cycle ride away from the Cleve Hill solar farm development in Kent of which I am in favour. Admittedly I don't live close enough for it to affect me much in a negative way.
There are all sorts of local voices against: it is massive, going on special land which will be spoilt environmentally, it will be a giant eyesore where once there were sheep grazing. There are concerns about lorry traffic in tiny lanes being a noise and a danger for two or more years. Folk are appealing for a cycle path to be created through the park.
Sounds to me that if Exagen were involved they would be able to put most of these concerns to bed. I've been thinking that surely sheep grazing, market gardens, natural areas, cycle routes could all be accommodated amongst the panels. It's great to know that is the case, I just hope whoever is the developer can see that is the way to win people round.
I have no idea who is involved in the creation of this project but I hope if it's not Exagen that it's a company with the same moral compass and values.
As a disabled e-biker I find the roads are so small that lorries have no choice but to be polite and wait for me to get out of the way. Not sure if the lycra clad brigade will all be as polite as me though!🤣 When you're as old as we are Robert a couple of years flies by anyway, 👍😆
I suppose it could be worse, those residents could be living near Sizewell, where the community will have at least 10 years of construction traffic.
@@rogerstarkey5390 lordy, that is true enough!
I am wondering why the land that is under the solar panels can not still feed the sheep? I think it is possible. Maybe before they could support 10 per acre of land with the grass grown there, and with solar panels that might reduce to about 8 per acre? And it will give the sheep a nice shady place to stay on a hot sunny day, or coverage on a rainy day. And no weeds where the solar panels are located if they have sheep around to eat the stuff that grows there.
@@Kangenpower7 I agree 👍
Come on Robert! Lets get off the fence now!
Need to look at tidal please
The rooftop solar industry in USA has become a haven for bad deals and scams, leasing solar can end up with a lein on your property or non-functioning solar as they're slow to fix it. Unfortunately we need government intervention. Every house & business should have a solar feasibility assessment.
The best deal in solar is off grid off roof solar awning.
Just reading Arrival is moving operations to US? Full effects of Brexit and Ukraine coming home to roost
I would love to have a solar farm, if given a choice between a coal power plant, nuclear or natural gas. If I lived in a windy area, then a wind farm would be much better than a nuclear power plant! Maybe coal would not be to bad, if the wind always blows the coal dust away from my home!
The largest issue with solar between rails is that trains are dirty.
what's a Kardasian?
Robert, you will have to have the second bloke back as he has been ignored for an hour! As for recycling PV, I find it a great shame that they are crushed because 1 or a few cells are stuffed when by bypassing those ones you still have a good solar panel. If you sent them to Africa or any poor place they could fix them and for the first time they have electricity. They wouldn't care that they are only 80 per cent working because 50 plus per cent panel gives more than a 100 per cent one they can't afford! I can't stand that we in the rich countries throw stuff away that is good or not that bad!! Shame on thinking this way! Jesus, I wish I had money to set up a charity to employ people in the 3rd world and supply light to kids to do homework and safety to women!
Definitely have the other team member back for a more in depth session.
What about the Government plans to ban solar panels from most English farmland
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Land for animal feed is not a waste of land. It turns something we don't want to eat into a nice tasty steak or bacon or a nice leg of lamb.
Is someone sponsoring those episodes?
Someone already downvoted your comment. Apparently it's an uncomfortable question...
@@b_uppy and apparently did not even listen past the first few minutes
My comment was just removed, but the bots about crypto investment were left in place...
TY ☺️
why do you need to depend on grid/others
what a disgrace
dont you have God with you
the people with you mess all things
Almost as he seems to love myenergi😂😂😂
Great Kardashian rant! 🤣
Robert, I personally cannot put solar panels on my roof because it’s 25 years old. My neighbour has done so against my advice. Guess what They’re back fixing his roof.When I replace my roof I will be putting on solar panels.
What I would like to do is put solar drive port on my house. As this is the front of the house I can’t do to planning
Many places will allow a ground mount solar array in your back yard. Some have built a shed, with a 3 meter wide roof, that is angled properly for solar collection, and only the south side is sloped, so not a A-frame type roof, just one slope.
What a waste of space we have in the UK. Can we not use a more 3D policy for solar panels? Open-air car parks, roads, pavements, railways, motorways - cover the lot with overhead solar panels, and leave the land for farmers and nature :)
I don't too..they make me sick 🤧
The trouble is politicians like money 💰 and when it's thrown at them they follow politicians will always stand by the industries and for agricultural land it's the housing developments you got to watch out for councillors and politicians the money always buys them logging industries are destroying Forrest woodlands etc and its the old traditions that we need to pull away from , especially in the housing sector wood , there are other materials in this world .
Is the changing climate having any negative or positive effects on these renewables, because I found that the last 2 years cloud cover has had a negative effect? So making these changes to the grid will have to be taken into consideration. Do we include these issue into the conversations? I wil find out later when I get back from work!!!
Once fine particulates reduce solar power will go up.
Most worrying is the reduction of the sulfur in the upper atmosphere.
Wind will (I guess) change rather like rainfall--counties (or even countries?) with less might get more, and others get less.
But I don't think it has to be major changes that make any wind (or solar) installations unworkable. Just percentage points.
I think we'll have challenges in future growing our food crops, with temperature and rain changes meaning different crops and different pests to deal with.
Again, I hope we'll adapt and manage those changes in good time.
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"Reduction of sulphur in the upper atmosphere".....?
That's one I haven't heard before.
Reduction of amount?
Chemical reduction (change)?
@@rogerstarkey5390 sulphur dioxide actually reflects sunlight and thus reduces heat, we stick that into the atmosphere by burning ff, so if we burn less ff, we have less sulfur dioxide and thus more warming (it does react with other stuff like water and ozon so eventually it is removed). So if we stop burning ff today we still get more solar energy down until the carbon dioxide itself starts to reduce as well.
On the flip side, power output from solar pv will increase as well.
@@christianvanderstap6257 I read that the chemical half life of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere is 10 days, so a month or two after any reduction, we would be fairly close to new conditions. Methane's is about 10 years and CO2 a century or more, from memory.
Eventually the energy, A.I., automation/robotics, and many other technology revolutions will bring the costs of daily life way down; meanwhile these revolutions will raise the quality of life of the average person so high that, the distinctions between the economic classes will be ao narrow as to make the distinctions pointless as these revolutions will eventually make the need for money pointless. The reason I say this is; soon the speed at which technology will be advancing so fast that auch things as, politics, economic systems, etc, will be outdated due to how slowly they opperate. According to Wired and Valerio Pellegrini, the asteroid 'Davida', which has a diameter of 326 kilometers, has been identified as the most valuable asteroid in the belt, with a resource value estimated to be some 27 quintillion (26,990,000,000,000,000,000) U.S. dollars. Such mineral wealth will drive the costs of resources down to being virtually free, and will be made morso free due to the cost of obtaining these resources being nearly free due abundant and nearly free, just as abundant and nearly free energy, A.I., Automation, etc, will make the process of manufacturing anything virtually free. This will eventually raise the quality of life for the average person so high; the difference in the standard of living across wconomic classes will become so narrow as to make any distinctions pointless. I think as we reach this point; the noteriety individual obtain through their huge home, their personal aircraft, personal watercraft, etc, will deminish. We are already seeing this with Tesla's vehicles, that outperform many luxury splrtscars at a fraction of the costs. As battery storage greatly deminishes in costs at an ever higher power density, their prices will dramatically drop, and robotaxies will make car ownership pointless for many people. This only hits the tip of the iceburg of the technological change the next 10-30 years will bring, let alone the next 100 - 1,000 years.
We are living an unsustainble lifestyle on a finite planet, see you in Sydney
That's about right.
Robert that is the problem "people" that eat Animals and drink Cows Milk and Cheese always say they dont want to know about the inhuman cruelty thats involved they just turn their ignorant blind eyes to it.
We need to use livestock as part of weed, pest and fertility management instead of relying on harmful synthetic chemical inputs in a diverse, natural biome-based polyculture based on foods from perennials, shrubs, trees and vines. This will reverse the trend that allows CO2 to be aerosolized by bare earth/fallow practices and overgrazing and start sequestering much more than is lost while providing more healthier food, livestock, soils, lumber, etc and sequestering carbon , and water at a rate faster than is released.
This combined with harvesting methane for fuel, adding a lot more passenger and freight rail instead of cars, using more minisplits/heatpumps and other well-considered, impactful choices will be better than going vegan as veganism still primarily relies on monocultured annual supported by synthetic chemical inputs. Which do a lot more harm overall than our current use of fossil fuels.
Rather than covering motorways with solar panels why not put them along the sides.
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Didcot power station site has plans to build a Data center on the site its mad to not put some wind and solar on the site as it has all the infrastructure there all ready.
Some great news from them but Andrew didn't get much time - maybe still to one person podcasts. Post some of the Q&A from Farnborough - not all of us got to go there
Please let batteries avoid the use of nuclear to balance the grid.
Let batteries terminate the gas peakers marginal BS such that power can be cheaper. After that, we can get rid of nuclear.
@@christianvanderstap6257 Unfortunately nuclear power plants take 6 years to build, waste a lot of money and do immeasurable harm. It's easy to do both.
@@steverichmond7142 new ones yes, but if they are there let's use them. Building new ones is stupid af and your 6 year estimation is highly optimistic, it takes about 20 including permitting etc.
@@christianvanderstap6257 I have worked in the nuclear industry as an engineer since the early 70s. I have produced reports for government and the whole industry is institutionally corrupt. In West Cumbria there are plants causing childhood cancer which is ignored by government and which should immediately be closed down. Small modular reactors are potentially very dangerous as the process has not been trialled in the field. These are supposed to take less than 5 years from inception to fuel production.
Robert is the anti-Clarkson but with the same approach in one way - rage at things he doesn’t like which satisfies a large section of his audience. It generates likes! For Clarkson it’s Eco-mentalists, soul-less “electrical” cars that run on batteries using cobalt mined by 10-year-olds, etc.. All of Clarkson’s rants are largely fact-free and Robert’s are not but DO contain an awful lot of animus towards those who are climate-deniers and lovers of diesel SUVs. Honestly I find both quite hard to take because it doesn’t solve anything. In Clarkson’s case he doesn’t want to solve anything, he merely wants clicks and the money they generate. A certain section of society (largely quite gammon and hateful) lap his stuff up but I’m not sure that many liberals like myself are swayed by a similar ranting style. I’m already “on side” with renewable energy, efficient electric cars, solar on homes, batteries, etc but if I weren’t already there I’m pretty sure I’d be put off by one of Bobby’s rants if I came across this by chance. Thanks for all you do and have done in this cause, Robert but please, please tone it down a bit? Facts only, how about that? I just think it’s more persuasive to enthuse about what we love rather than raging against what we hate. Just my opinion 😊
Well, after decades of "playing nice" and essentially being ignored, maybe it's understandable that "the green lobby" might be more "enthusiastic"?
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I'm sure the "anti" side are amplifying that enthusiasm, classifying it as "bad", or even "cultish" as they have in one very particular case (I'll let you work that out).
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Any investigation of the actual circumstances (and/or science) by an intelligent observer should still result in understanding that the change has to be made , and in fact is a generational opportunity (Unintended pun there!), something badly needed in the UK atm
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@@rogerstarkey5390 I get that, really. I just think that enthusiasm and rage are very different presentations and one is engaging while the other is off-putting. I’m just a little bit younger than Robert. Not much. So I understand the grumpy old man urge. But I also understand that persuasion works with a more engaging approach by selling benefits rather than howling at the Moon. Again, just my opinion.
Look at Lord Elon’s Tesla Virtual Power Plant (VPP) that’s taking shape in the USA? Can we not have similar here? It’s just Ai software!
Why is the third guy on this program? He never says anything
Rant away, Robert. Rant away!
Saving people like saving fire 😭
Would have been so great, if you didn't push the Global warming climit changing nonsense... But solar is great :)
Cannot agree with you more
They call this fashion.....garbage
Honestly they're nothing more than oxygen thieves. And they're paid for it, unreal!
Robert, your constant bashing of conservatives will turn Conservative people off from the message you’re trying to give.
Ranting on political partisan pedestal will only end you with a partisan audience. Sadly you’ll end up preaching in an echo chamber and end up not influencing the very people you want to influence.
I get the need for discussing the sponsor but 4 minutes for every podcast? It makes skipping essential so you actually hear less
Too long Robert. I just look at the length of this video, annnd, I’m out. Don’t even click. Call me Mr Short Attention span. I need gobbly bits to fit my evening watching time. Maybe I am missing good stuff. But I just don’t have the time.
It's a podcast, so listening time really over watching time. The video bit is just a bonus if you want it. Perfect for listening towhilst other activities so it doesn't take up valuable watching time. Gardening, cleaning walking, driving etc. Bring on the long form for the deep dive and nuance I say.
Not enough value and business talk in this.
The rooftop solar industry in USA has become a Haven for bad deals and scams, leasing solar can end up with a lein on your property or non-functioning solar as they're slow to fix it. Unfortunately we need government intervention. Every house & business should have a solar feasibility assessment.
The best deal in solar is off grid off roof solar awning.