If CO2 is an issue, the best way is to put Grid and Metering Cost on CO2 and make the Grid free from any fee. So buying and selling Solar Power for Power to X Technologies, smart Grids blockchain controlled depent now on the Ratio of efficency of Technologies. If whe charge and discharge for example a battery the Ratio of efficency is about 0.8. Now if we Buy 1KWh for 6 Cents, we can sell it for 8 Cent and earn money, stabilize the grid and the frequency. That will boost technologies too. between 1 and 2 Cents gives now a Signal for Regulation and Controll of the Grid.
AC was not chosen for driving motors. It was chosen for the transformers that can cheaply convert low voltages to high voltage making long cheap lines possible.
I couldn't hear the answer to the question at 45:36 "What's the one way to avoid paying the demand charge?" Can anyone enlighten me?...erm...empower me?. .erm...give me some joules of wisdom? (sorry!) : )
I got here in 2022 searching solar wars (a book by A G Riddle) I thought it was going to be a discussion about the ex-president and a character in the book whom acts quite like Trump LOL. 2022
At present costs, a day's Grid storage for the UK would cost as much as the Apollo moon landings program. The largest backup battery produced to date (400MWh) would provide all of TEN MINUTES backup for the UK at low demand. Five minutes at high demand. The USA... well, go work it out. At the outset, we were told that renewables wouldn't need backup because as everyone knows, the wind always blows somewhere. Well, that didn't work. Now, batteries. When that doesn't work.. If innovation is the key, let's do that! Flogging the dead horse of unreliable wind and solar is not innovation. On the contrary, it is an OBSESSION with a failed ideology. Obsession. Past all sense or reason. Why spend trillions developing energy storage to fix the problems with an energy source that didn't work out as claimed, when developing fusion or thorium would be a tiny fraction of the cost? You've already had 40 years and countless trillions to make renewable energy work. It still doesn't. Give it up, Quaritch! ;-) Oh, by the way, we know that thorium works. Know. Not, think. Know. iwr.im/renewables-backup
We can use energy when the sun shines rather than always trying to fight nature. I like 100% offgrid energy, the only exception is gas for heating and while expensive initially and takes some compromises and adaptation I am very happy and I am living with nature, not always fighting it like we are used too, at such great cost financially and environmentally.
In Europe we are increasingly connecting whole countries together. Check out www.gridwatch.org.uk. You will see that the UK gets and gives power to France, Holland and Ireland. If you click on the French icon in the top left hand corner you will find that France is connected to Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, UK and Italy. This partially solves the problem as we spread the ups and downs of wind and solar power around the world. The UK was producing 3.4% of its electricity by solar in 2017. Check out "Solar power in the United Kingdom" on www.wikipedia.org. The UK was producing 17% of its electricity by wind in 2017 ("Wind power in the United Kingdom" -www.wikipedia.org. Germany has done much more than the UK. It does work. The billions of £s would not be spent on renewables if it didn't work economically. Please also check out the company called Ambri on www.ambri.com. They have researched and made large batteries that can store solar power for homes and for utilities. Check out "Don Sadoway liquid metal battery" on www.youtube.com. He is the Director of Ambri. The battery is made out of cheap materials that are in plentiful supply on the planet so we can make loads of them and make them cheaply. The battery works right now. Bill Gates of Microsoft has already invested in the Company years ago when they were developing the idea. It will take about 3 years from now before the company sells licences to produce the batteries and for those companies to get factories to start producing the batteries. There are other companies doing similar things eg Altairnano.
Could someone from the US tell this non-yank what "sponsoring a bill" in the "parliament" is ? I cannot think of the name of the state version of the US congress, sorry.
In response to Neddy above: In the U.S.: We have individual (50) state governments with representatives (state senators). And a Huge Federal government over the entire country: It is divided into three (co-equal) branches: "The Executive"( the president and all the administrative/regulatory agencies)The "Legislative branch" including both the house of representatives and the Senate"( 500 + congressmen& the 100 senators)Who write (bills) that become laws ( probably close to your "parliament" ) ;and the "Judicial branch" ( the supreme court and others )who interpret those laws. The functions are very clearly defined for a reason (checks and balances). Our president CANNOT make or change law by himself. Somebody might have told the "constitutional scholar" (lol) Obama. Our legislature cannot spend money without the president signing the authorization. The legislature cannot impose unconstitutional laws because the Judiciary would throw them out. Our founders were pretty smart. Any way congressmen sponsor bills that get debated in committee and have to be passed by both the house of representatives and the senate to end up on the presidents' desk for signature.
Magnus Thank you. Yeah the systems are pretty much the same apart from the names. Ok, a congressman sponsors bills. The lecturer mentioned companies sponsoring bills. What is sponsoring a bill ? I can see that for a congressman it might mean guiding it through all the hoops etc until it gains approval. It is the meaning when a company sponsors a bill that I am after, sorry if hat was not clear. cheers
You're right, technically a company cannot sponsor a bill, only the congressman can. Much of the criticism of special interest groups is the influence they have over specific politicians (and how they got that influence). In a perfect political world, a utility would approach their congressman and say "solar is going to put us out of business. That's not practical. We think you should change the law this way." The congressman would fully explore the issue, with competing viewpoints, and sponsor a bill that would change the law in a way to make their part of the world a better place. If only. One thing that people tend to overlook is the expertise of the special interest groups. Yes, they are looking out for their own best interests. But they also generally have a depth of knowledge greater of the issue than the average man on the street. Whether it's PETA, the NRA, Planned Parenthood, or an industry trade group, once you get past the emotional aspects, there's real information there. You just have to account for the bias.
Neddy Laddy. Before something can become a law in the US it is started as a bill. A sponsor of a bill is the name or names of elected legislature who associate their name to the bill before it gets voted on. There is more to it than that but that is it in a nutshell. As the last part of your question alluded, each of our 50 states have a similar setup. They have a legislature for proposing bills. Senate and Representatives (similar to House of Lords and House of Commons). States have governors instead of a President who can veto a bill or sign it. Or let it become a law without signing it into law. Plus, the 50 states also have a judicial branch in case a law that is passed breaks constitutional precedence. Sorry for so much detail.
To all the helpful chaps who provided me with an answer, thank you. It is much appreciated, another question if I may. Is your congress the "house" where the house of representatives meet. cheers guys
$.50/kWh Diesel $.30/kWh Propane $.14/kWh Solar + fees, etc.,... , , , and so forth. . . . . . Leaves off nuclear power at $.02/kWh. Big important omission.
0.02 when no real insurance is needed. When no real intrest has te be paid. When dismanteling is done by the goverment. Etc. Also nuclear power is not flexible. Nuclear is totally pathetic.
unfortunately we are fighting the lack of education from utility commissioners we are set to decommission Pilgrim Nuclear by june 2019 yet we have square miles of onshore and offshore wind that can generate steady reliable electricity at 19c/kwH when you add up the decommission fee which goes nowhere..the cost to consumer in june 2019 from eversource will be 20c/KwH If we replaced the utility commissioners with someone who didnt flunk math we would have a chance to bring in WindFarms at .19/KwH and solar at .15/KwH
good point on the demand nice to be aware of so as a home owner i must try to reduce such a high demand in the house while also making and storing my own energy
this is for picobite, motors not run to Ac to Dc...Ac ....And ...Dc....the are diferent...Ac...50 or 60 herz per second...Dc...only on direction...Ac motor...induction....Dc...motor..magnet..but maybe we can convert the Ac motor one day...hibryd- Motor- Ac to Dc.
What states have the most biomass and are promoting it's development with low tax incentives. Some talk of new prime movers on the web to generate this power and be more efficient. The older less efficient will not be able to compete unless they improve the conversion efficiency. Is biomass just to small for large scale power at this time to make much difference? Long term? The future belongs to the most efficient.
You look like a caged animal!!! Stop pacing! Good content but I had to block your side of the screen. Your "rollover minutes" analogy for net metering makes no sense. Repeat (or summarize) the audience comments and questions. Tell your UA-cam audience what you are Lazer pointing at because we can't see it because we are looking at your overlay.
Westinghouse was convicted of another way. . . convicted? This talk, being two years old, is already out of date. Think of what Tesla Powerwalls are doing.
For crying out loud... quit pacing back and forth! You have all of 3 sq ft of space and you have walked in a circle the entire lecture! Its annoying, it detracts from your lecture, and makes you look silly.
Moorse Law: He had decidied he would ignore a law that applies to any product mass produced nd made of silicon. So really he's having a hard time Give him a break he's losing his shirt on couple of these deals from yesteryear, and he's the x-burnt
What about all the Methane stored in ice and at the bottom of lakes major greenhouse problem Tap into it and use it, Plus best solar panel are made in the US US for US
60 cycles in the u.s and 50 in europe , backfeed because of power should not hurt a lineman if he is working on distribution he or she is suppose to wear glove and sleeves and isolate insulate notify switch stations no issue with backfeed also many people have gen which start after power lose this is something already accustom to line work
Industry uses 60% - 80% of power but pay almost nothing for it, home users subsidies them, load reduction should not bankrupt the power company if they charged everyone an even price.
If CO2 is an issue, the best way is to put Grid and Metering Cost on CO2 and make the Grid free from any fee. So buying and selling Solar Power for Power to X Technologies, smart Grids blockchain controlled depent now on the Ratio of efficency of Technologies. If whe charge and discharge for example a battery the Ratio of efficency is about 0.8. Now if we Buy 1KWh for 6 Cents, we can sell it for 8 Cent and earn money, stabilize the grid and the frequency. That will boost technologies too. between 1 and 2 Cents gives now a Signal for Regulation and Controll of the Grid.
AC was not chosen for driving motors. It was chosen for the transformers that can cheaply convert low voltages to high voltage making long cheap lines possible.
Maybe Trump should build his beloved wall and cover it with solar panels. That would make it the world's largest electric fence!
I couldn't hear the answer to the question at 45:36 "What's the one way to avoid paying the demand charge?" Can anyone enlighten me?...erm...empower me?. .erm...give me some joules of wisdom? (sorry!) : )
Batteries
I got here in 2022 searching solar wars (a book by A G Riddle) I thought it was going to be a discussion about the ex-president and a character in the book whom acts quite like Trump LOL. 2022
Still into anil?
When I said to my wife I was watching a video about Whale Sperm oil, she got the wrong idea.
At present costs, a day's Grid storage for the UK would cost as much as the Apollo moon landings program.
The largest backup battery produced to date (400MWh) would provide all of TEN MINUTES backup for the UK at low demand. Five minutes at high demand.
The USA... well, go work it out.
At the outset, we were told that renewables wouldn't need backup because as everyone knows, the wind always blows somewhere. Well, that didn't work. Now, batteries. When that doesn't work..
If innovation is the key, let's do that! Flogging the dead horse of unreliable wind and solar is not innovation. On the contrary, it is an OBSESSION with a failed ideology. Obsession. Past all sense or reason.
Why spend trillions developing energy storage to fix the problems with an energy source that didn't work out as claimed, when developing fusion or thorium would be a tiny fraction of the cost?
You've already had 40 years and countless trillions to make renewable energy work. It still doesn't. Give it up, Quaritch! ;-)
Oh, by the way, we know that thorium works. Know. Not, think. Know.
iwr.im/renewables-backup
We can use energy when the sun shines rather than always trying to fight nature. I like 100% offgrid energy, the only exception is gas for heating and while expensive initially and takes some compromises and adaptation I am very happy and I am living with nature, not always fighting it like we are used too, at such great cost financially and environmentally.
Dont think of grid level storage, do it yourself in your house. I do.
In Europe we are increasingly connecting whole countries together. Check out www.gridwatch.org.uk. You will see that the UK gets and gives power to France, Holland and Ireland. If you click on the French icon in the top left hand corner you will find that France is connected to Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, UK and Italy. This partially solves the problem as we spread the ups and downs of wind and solar power around the world. The UK was producing 3.4% of its electricity by solar in 2017. Check out "Solar power in the United Kingdom" on www.wikipedia.org. The UK was producing 17% of its electricity by wind in 2017 ("Wind power in the United Kingdom" -www.wikipedia.org. Germany has done much more than the UK. It does work. The billions of £s would not be spent on renewables if it didn't work economically.
Please also check out the company called Ambri on www.ambri.com. They have researched and made large batteries that can store solar power for homes and for utilities. Check out "Don Sadoway liquid metal battery" on www.youtube.com. He is the Director of Ambri. The battery is made out of cheap materials that are in plentiful supply on the planet so we can make loads of them and make them cheaply. The battery works right now. Bill Gates of Microsoft has already invested in the Company years ago when they were developing the idea. It will take about 3 years from now before the company sells licences to produce the batteries and for those companies to get factories to start producing the batteries. There are other companies doing similar things eg Altairnano.
Is this guy trying to tell us to limit solar production? Hope not.
Could someone from the US tell this non-yank what "sponsoring a bill" in the "parliament" is ? I cannot think of the name of the state version of the US congress, sorry.
In response to Neddy above:
In the U.S.: We have individual (50) state governments with representatives (state senators). And a Huge Federal government over the entire country: It is divided into three (co-equal) branches: "The Executive"( the president and all the administrative/regulatory agencies)The "Legislative branch" including both the house of representatives and the Senate"( 500 + congressmen& the 100 senators)Who write (bills) that become laws ( probably close to your "parliament" ) ;and the "Judicial branch" ( the supreme court and others )who interpret those laws.
The functions are very clearly defined for a reason (checks and balances). Our president CANNOT make or change law by himself. Somebody might have told the "constitutional scholar" (lol) Obama. Our legislature cannot spend money without the president signing the authorization. The legislature cannot impose unconstitutional laws because the Judiciary would throw them out. Our founders were pretty smart.
Any way congressmen sponsor bills that get debated in committee and have to be passed by both the house of representatives and the senate to end up on the presidents' desk for signature.
Magnus
Thank you. Yeah the systems are pretty much the same apart from the names.
Ok, a congressman sponsors bills. The lecturer mentioned companies sponsoring bills. What is sponsoring a bill ? I can see that for a congressman it might mean guiding it through all the hoops etc until it gains approval. It is the meaning when a company sponsors a bill that I am after, sorry if hat was not clear.
cheers
You're right, technically a company cannot sponsor a bill, only the congressman can. Much of the criticism of special interest groups is the influence they have over specific politicians (and how they got that influence). In a perfect political world, a utility would approach their congressman and say "solar is going to put us out of business. That's not practical. We think you should change the law this way." The congressman would fully explore the issue, with competing viewpoints, and sponsor a bill that would change the law in a way to make their part of the world a better place. If only. One thing that people tend to overlook is the expertise of the special interest groups. Yes, they are looking out for their own best interests. But they also generally have a depth of knowledge greater of the issue than the average man on the street. Whether it's PETA, the NRA, Planned Parenthood, or an industry trade group, once you get past the emotional aspects, there's real information there. You just have to account for the bias.
Neddy Laddy. Before something can become a law in the US it is started as a bill. A sponsor of a bill is the name or names of elected legislature who associate their name to the bill before it gets voted on. There is more to it than that but that is it in a nutshell. As the last part of your question alluded, each of our 50 states have a similar setup. They have a legislature for proposing bills. Senate and Representatives (similar to House of Lords and House of Commons). States have governors instead of a President who can veto a bill or sign it. Or let it become a law without signing it into law. Plus, the 50 states also have a judicial branch in case a law that is passed breaks constitutional precedence. Sorry for so much detail.
To all the helpful chaps who provided me with an answer, thank you. It is much appreciated, another question if I may. Is your congress the "house" where the house of representatives meet. cheers guys
Prob paid stooge of oil co's
$.50/kWh Diesel
$.30/kWh Propane
$.14/kWh Solar + fees, etc.,...
, , , and so forth. . .
. . .
Leaves off nuclear power at $.02/kWh. Big important omission.
0.02 when no real insurance is needed. When no real intrest has te be paid. When dismanteling is done by the goverment. Etc.
Also nuclear power is not flexible.
Nuclear is totally pathetic.
No idea what you are going on about. Are you just taking a piss or should I pay attention to you?
and 100 trillion dollars to handle the waste ;)
unfortunately we are fighting the lack of education from utility commissioners
we are set to decommission Pilgrim Nuclear by june 2019
yet we have square miles of onshore and offshore wind that can generate steady reliable electricity at 19c/kwH
when you add up the decommission fee which goes nowhere..the cost to consumer in june 2019 from eversource will be 20c/KwH
If we replaced the utility commissioners with someone who didnt flunk math we would have a chance to bring in WindFarms at .19/KwH and solar at .15/KwH
"Presentation to utilities"..
Blimey don't they know about (history of) electricity..
Lol
Yeah, why do you not give Tesla credit for the AC? Edison robbed Tesla...
8:43
When can solar can provide baseload 24/7 ? Answer - it can't ever.
If companies want to be sustainable, perhaps they should look at reducing the big salaries...!!!
very funny.
good point on the demand nice to be aware of so as a home owner i must try to reduce such a high demand in the house while also making and storing my own energy
I feel bad for the camera man. Just get him a stool!
this is for picobite, motors not run to Ac to Dc...Ac ....And ...Dc....the are diferent...Ac...50 or 60 herz per second...Dc...only on direction...Ac motor...induction....Dc...motor..magnet..but maybe we can convert the Ac motor one day...hibryd- Motor- Ac to Dc.
Click bait title is bad practice. good story otherwise.
What states have the most biomass and are promoting it's development with low tax incentives. Some talk of new prime movers on the web to generate this power and be more efficient. The older less efficient will not be able to compete unless they improve the conversion efficiency. Is biomass just to small for large scale power at this time to make much difference? Long term? The future belongs to the most efficient.
I wish speakers will repeat questions or comments from the audience so they can be heard and understood by listeners to the replay of the video.
He also should stand still or have the camera man not follow him. The video insert is bad as you cannot see what he is pointing at, with the laser
You look like a caged animal!!! Stop pacing! Good content but I had to block your side of the screen. Your "rollover minutes" analogy for net metering makes no sense. Repeat (or summarize) the audience comments and questions. Tell your UA-cam audience what you are Lazer pointing at because we can't see it because we are looking at your overlay.
Westinghouse was convicted of another way. . . convicted?
This talk, being two years old, is already out of date. Think of what Tesla Powerwalls are doing.
For crying out loud... quit pacing back and forth!
You have all of 3 sq ft of space and you have walked in a circle the entire lecture!
Its annoying, it detracts from your lecture, and makes you look silly.
Moorse Law: He had decidied he would ignore a law that applies to any product mass produced nd made of silicon. So really he's having a hard time Give him a break he's losing his shirt on couple of these deals from yesteryear, and he's the x-burnt
Agree that the President will work to create competition for our utility commodities.
stop moving around man!!!
LOVE THE NET
He's selling the solar lie. In reality, renewables equals very high power prices. SCCFPPs or CCGT provide 24/ 7 reliable cheap power.
What about all the Methane stored in ice and at the bottom of lakes major greenhouse problem Tap into it and use it, Plus best solar panel are made in the US US for US
60 cycles in the u.s and 50 in europe , backfeed because of power should not hurt a lineman if he is working on distribution he or she is suppose to wear glove and sleeves and isolate insulate notify switch stations no issue with backfeed also many people have gen which start after power lose this is something already accustom to line work
Totally agree on the topic of speaking about pollution, not climate!
. . . until the topic asserts CO2 as pollution. CO2 is a necessary nutrition for life to exist. But then maybe you aren't saying that.
. . . And drought rather than temperature.
Industry uses 60% - 80% of power but pay almost nothing for it, home users subsidies them, load reduction should not bankrupt the power company if they charged everyone an even price.
Ideally, every American should watch this video. Especially if they want to breathe clean air and drink clean water. October 7, 2018