The Future of Renewable Energy | Steve E. Koonin
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Steve Koonin
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John always asks the right questions without polarizing. While other retired politicians enjoy their pensions he dedicates part of his time to deliver us great content on critical issues regularly. God bless.
I asked my daughter to shuck some corn and grease it for an outdoor grill, recently. She's fourteen. She recoiled at the feel. I told her that some one has to actually do everything that needs to be done with their hands. That labor has a cost, production has a cost and material reality itself has it's limitations. I believe she understood on a visceral level, even though she is somewhat over pampered by her mother. The physical world is limited, which is why we seek more, cooler heads must prevail. Keep it up gentlemen.
Next challenge , get her to separate a chicken carcass. When I did this with my daughter she was repulsed at first, but by the end she was fascinated by bones, muscles, tendons , a true learning experience.
We need to separate what is possible from what is economic. Can you physically store a kWh of electricity generated in the spring or fall to use in the winter or summer? Yes you can. But that electricity when finally delivered to the customer is extremely expensive. So first only store what you can use in a day and then discharge it before the next day begins. That limits interruptible power to a small percentage of total demand. Then recognize that storage is useful regardless of the source. In fact it works better and more cheaply if you can get the recharge from a base load unit instead of a renewable. In the end if you are honest you will see that renewables have no place in a system that must run 365/24/7 with a highly variable load and a need to be highly reliable.
BC Hydro pays 55 million a year to a 275MW gas plant that sits idle most of the time. BC relies mostly on hydro from dams. The gas plant runs only when the demand is unusually high ... and BC Hydro pays for the electricity on top of the 55 million. Back-up like that is really costly.
Both excellent men. I don't think either has been featured on the BBC - ever.
I live less than 15 miles from a wind farm in northeast Kansas. 50 plus windmills at least and more going up every day. Today the wind was blowing steady at over 25+mph and not one of them was moving.
I am sure that Mr. Koonin will update his presentation. According to DOE: "In 2023, non-fossil fuel sources accounted for 86% of new electricity generation capacity in the United States..." and " The US has seen a rapid increase in battery energy storage (BESS) installations since 2021. Renewable energy sources are now the best option.
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It would be good for you to interview Tony Seba for a different view. He shows how electrification means cheap energy and mining less minerals.
A single 3mw wind turbine uses 335 tons of steel, 4.7 tons of copper, 3 tons of aluminium, 2 tons of rare Earth elements, and 1200 tons of of concrete. Imagine your typical hillside covered with 100 of these monstrosities.
Reasonable adaptation being squashed by academicians and politicians. How did we lose our way?
They're not cheaper. We've been using renewable for 30 years and still 60-70% of our electricity comes from oil, coal and natural gas.
The only renewable energy needed in this Country is renewable mental acuity. We need to reinvent ourselves regularly.
We need a Mentally active Innovative Approach to restore Australians Prosperity. Rekindling a Moral Compass. Acknowledge the importance of Religious Values. Revamp our obsolete Education Program to accommodate Excellence in Academia and Excellence in Trades. Use Natural Resources cleverly to create jobs, still keep the Country Green and Clean. Respect Australian Families, they are the backbone of the Country.
What about the Ambri high temperature battery system, which is designed for grid level energy storage. They don't use exotic materials, and I believe they are already being used in some pilot projects. You should talk to Don Sadoway
Great interview. Have you interviewed Alex Epstein yet? He’s really brilliant.
Also Ed Pheil from Elysium. Molten chloride salt fast reactors. Really interesting guy who can explain nuclear engineering and grid integration to anyone
My understanding is that Tesla powerwall batteries will form a decentralised energy distribution system to support and stabilise the current grid
Okay, but have they done it yet? Have they made an actual proof-of-concept demonstration system that is scalable? How much will it cost? (If the cost is prohibitive, then it's impossible in practical terms). Also, wouldn't Elon Musk have a conflict of interest? (He stands to make billions by selling his batteries.) Who is going to pay for the needed improvements to the grid and local distribution systems? And that's just a few of the questions. So... it sounds good, but will it actually work?
Remove the taxpayer subsidies and then see how cheap intermittent power is. Humans who imagine they can stop the climate from changing climate.
If subsidies were removed, the fossil fuel industry would be extremely unhappy. They receive around $10B per year according to the latest figures from the Australian Institute. Ae you in favour of removing subsidies from just the renewable energy industry or from the fossil fuel industry as well?
Let's explain for the UK to go with electric cars we would need to double our electricity supply, plus if you've ever visited a wind farm all you find is dead birds. Technical plan no I don't think so, a bunch of academics sitting in some office planning a utopia.
So in order for the academics to build the roadmap, to stop the "warming", they have to cook the books....the kind of logic that proceeds the collapse of civilization
It will be interesting what happens in the UK and the rest of Europe. They have already started having skyrocketing energy prices and shortages. What can you produce when the wind stops blowing (UK) . And the countries have shut down fossil fuels… now they depend on Russia for natural gas. There economies will nose dive and they will start having shortages in food.
Well, the German media are already publishing articles explaining how to “cook” food without electricity. The concept of the oxymoron hasn’t landed on these shoes yet.
nuclear is the only green option for electrification of cars
The Land Rover story like the Humvee story are both myths. Prius arent that different from low powered conventional cars, they just turn themselves off when paused at traffic lights or when going downhill. The battery which is about the size of a valise is salvageable and able to be recycled. The Prius factory has an entire solar energy roof, and every effort is made to keep the plant green and use recycled materials.
The larger issue is that most Priuses on the planet today..continue to be charged through a conventional electrical grid…which is by and large fossil fuel powered….with that 3 billion people on the planet today..do not have adequate access to power…
@@zeroceiling thats not true. Battery is constantly charged via the electric motors running backwards as generators.
Battery is kept between 65% and 85% charge state for long life. The car has no input plug to recharge it with
If you meant to apply that theory to full electric cars rather than hybrids like Prius, you have a choice of charging overnight in off-peak.
Really the things cost pennies to run compared with petrol fuelled cars, but with limitations for range. A Pius or hybrid has no such limitation, it recharges itself and will run at less that 4ltrs per 100 kms, a full litre per 100kms less than the same engine in a Yaris
The system needs to fail/collapse entirely in order to get some sanity.
Hydrogen driven car and nuclear power stations.👍
Yes. And hydrogen engines (as a replacement for diesel) are already being developed. Battery powered heavy equipment e.g. trucks, diggers etc are impractical.
Thorium fast breeder nuke generators are safe cheap and versatile
You DO know we are getting FREE energy soon right? (not fully free in America though, but in most 3rd world countries)