I haven't watched the whole video yet, so, maybe Robert will address this. I feel that solar panels on all the homes with battery banks in each home is the solution. De-centralized power consumption and production. Perhaps there could be local or regional battery banks or molten salt banks to store excess energy from all the homes and businesses and from the excess power produced by wind turbines. But, why not smaller wind turbines in combination with the home and business solar panels? Perhaps the 'electrical grid' could be a small but important network to distribute power where it is needed and not the primary feed of electricity.
Interesting description and comments about pumped water reservoir storage, but somehow missed that underwater air systems are also pumped storage. Where offshore wind generation exceeds demand, would it not make sense to use pumped air storage on site? On a side note, regarding the comment at about 14:25, Toronto is on the shore of Lake Ontario (fresh water), not "the sea".
Robert, the best talk I've seen jet! If you come to Germany the next time I'll offer you a ride and a nice discusion on the state of Energiewende, just ask a Germen production persion for Zottel from Munich.
10,000 miles on purely solar power. £750 less tax, from a relatively good earner in general terms, for the state, based on petrol being taxed at 50% or so, a gallon of old style liquid fuel costing a fiver or so, etc. Absolutely not against it, this is the way most of us would go if we could - especially ardent Llewellyn fans like myself! - but the State must already be hunting for where else to get the cash substituted from. Was this the reason behind the 2.5% VAT increase? (No, I know it probably wasn't, but as soon as people can see a straight line from the lower tax some can pay, to the higher tax the majority need to pay to make up for it, things get a bit less 'charitable' in people's minds?). From 'Ever Ready' to 'Ever renewable' in maybe a decade, it has all come on pretty spectacularly, it's been held back too long, and that's what happens when the 'oil guard' sorry the 'old guard' lose some grip. Thank goodness!
A bit further through the vid now - awfully good, loads of info, see me Robert to create some sketches to break it up Into more digestible chunks! I love the 'batteries' that are concepts so unlike our normal brainwashed idea of a chemical battery, it's a million miles away. Inflatable bags under water pressure, salt batteries, pumped water (hydro electric) etc. All I ever came up with was raising a large water tank (it's cheaper than concrete) and letting it drop, on some kind of rack-gear, multiplying the rpm through the 'wrong end' of a gearbox into a generator. Massive weight = hardly any movement required? Another good blast from Robert.
Regarding nuclear power, what about thorium reactors? Thorium is abundant & is often considered a waste product of almost all (?) mining operations. & far easier to control.
Debra Janelle Cunningham what about all the other Toxic technologies.. Thorium is just a decay product of Uranium, which will itself decay ( by virtue of being RADIOACTIVE) into the next of the 14 sisters. Were you sleeping during Chenobyl, the Japanese Disaster, or 3 mile Island. HELLO ! ??
Debra Janelle Cunningham It sounds promising and there is certainly plenty of fuel available -- but it's not like there's anything but a few research reactors using thorium yet. There also some really hard engineering problems to solve, especially with the molten salt versions. Molten salt sounds very innocent but it is anything but -- we are talking something like very hot molten sodium, which is extremely chemically reactive. Not easy to do.
Come on ! This biggest problems with Nukes is the mining process pollution, and the Waste Generation . There simply is nowhere to put this toxic radioactive waste for a few 100 thousand years ! And No Way to do it. You have to be really ignorant about Nuclear Power to ingnore the entire process and only focus on the plants which have sell by date 30-40 years after they are built. Super Dumb Response.
@nobody: Rob talks about 'molten salt reactors' Thorium is just such a thing, only it is self heating. Read up on Thorium before you chime in, it could leave you hung out to dry talking to an expert ;0) The process is just as recyclable as Rob's 18650's :0P
The US is still 20 plus years behind the rest of the world in making an EV both affordable and realistically usable and that's for middle class and rich people. Poor rural people will likely be out of luck in the US for decades more than that.
Anybody have any information about using abandoned mines for pumped storage generation? The idea is to fill the mines with water, pump it up into a surface reservoir during off-peak times, and release it back into the mines at times of high demand, thus powering turbines.
Germany recently started doing something like that! They're turning an old coal mine into a hydroelectric battery. There's also a project to turn a salt mine into a giant flow battery.
Not funny at all... it's a huge waste actually. Only about 25 percent of the energy in gasoline actually makes it to the wheels. Most of the rest ends up heating the air through the radiator. A diesel engine is slightly more efficient, more like 30 percent makes it to the wheels.
Haha sorry to be this guy but that whiny prat at the end, "That's against the law!" made me chuckle. I bet she's one of those people who does 70mph in the fast lane to overtake a line of cars doing 69.5mph themselves, thus holding up about 30 cars immediately behind her and causing full-on gridlock about 15 miles back. That kind of self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude causes HUGE inconvenience to thousands of motorists every day. Some people confuse legality with morality. Slavery was perfectly legal, as was apartheid. Beating children was legal until very recently. Doesn't make any of those things moral. Did you know that thanks to the UK Licensing Act of 1872, it's actually illegal to be drunk in a pub? But we still get drunk in pubs. And thanks to the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839, it's actually illegal to sing in the street. But we still sing in the street. Why? Because those laws are antiquated an irrelevant. I think there's a case to be made that the 70mph speed limit - which was enforced in 1965 - is completely antiquated for most modern cars. I think police know that too, which is why they themselves often drive at 80mph and never bother to pull anyone over for doing less than about 90. "But it's against the law". So's failing to indicate. I'll make sure to slam you in a cell next time you forget your blinker then, dickhead.
fun statistical fact: Driving above the speed limits creates far more traffic than driving below the speed limit. And your right, a 70 mph speed limit is an antiquated relic, its far too high for the modern world.
Say this Prayer out loud: Dear God, please forgive me for my sins. I believe that Jesus Christ, died on The Cross for Me, and Rose from the dead. Three days later. (This is a salvation prayer) GG
New Red Dwarf series? Best news ever!
This is another cool listen and the mans a bloody dude..says stuff that we need to here
Get this chap on TOP GEAR style program
Fully charged.
I haven't watched the whole video yet, so, maybe Robert will address this. I feel that solar panels on all the homes with battery banks in each home is the solution. De-centralized power consumption and production. Perhaps there could be local or regional battery banks or molten salt banks to store excess energy from all the homes and businesses and from the excess power produced by wind turbines. But, why not smaller wind turbines in combination with the home and business solar panels? Perhaps the 'electrical grid' could be a small but important network to distribute power where it is needed and not the primary feed of electricity.
Interesting description and comments about pumped water reservoir storage, but somehow missed that underwater air systems are also pumped storage. Where offshore wind generation exceeds demand, would it not make sense to use pumped air storage on site? On a side note, regarding the comment at about 14:25, Toronto is on the shore of Lake Ontario (fresh water), not "the sea".
Tom Ulcak Robert talks about that exact situation on a UA-cam channel called fully charged.
Robert, the best talk I've seen jet!
If you come to Germany the next time I'll offer you a ride and a nice discusion on the state of Energiewende, just ask a Germen production persion for Zottel from Munich.
32:20 i love your reply to the nuclear power question.
10,000 miles on purely solar power. £750 less tax, from a relatively good earner in general terms, for the state, based on petrol being taxed at 50% or so, a gallon of old style liquid fuel costing a fiver or so, etc. Absolutely not against it, this is the way most of us would go if we could - especially ardent Llewellyn fans like myself! - but the State must already be hunting for where else to get the cash substituted from. Was this the reason behind the 2.5% VAT increase? (No, I know it probably wasn't, but as soon as people can see a straight line from the lower tax some can pay, to the higher tax the majority need to pay to make up for it, things get a bit less 'charitable' in people's minds?). From 'Ever Ready' to 'Ever renewable' in maybe a decade, it has all come on pretty spectacularly, it's been held back too long, and that's what happens when the 'oil guard' sorry the 'old guard' lose some grip. Thank goodness!
What about liquid metal batteries for grid level storage, presented at TED by Donald Sadoway?
A bit further through the vid now - awfully good, loads of info, see me Robert to create some sketches to break it up Into more digestible chunks! I love the 'batteries' that are concepts so unlike our normal brainwashed idea of a chemical battery, it's a million miles away. Inflatable bags under water pressure, salt batteries, pumped water (hydro electric) etc. All I ever came up with was raising a large water tank (it's cheaper than concrete) and letting it drop, on some kind of rack-gear, multiplying the rpm through the 'wrong end' of a gearbox into a generator. Massive weight = hardly any movement required? Another good blast from Robert.
Regarding nuclear power, what about thorium reactors? Thorium is abundant & is often considered a waste product of almost all (?) mining operations. & far easier to control.
Debra Janelle Cunningham what about all the other Toxic technologies.. Thorium is just a decay product of Uranium, which will itself decay ( by virtue of being RADIOACTIVE) into the next of the 14 sisters. Were you sleeping during Chenobyl, the Japanese Disaster, or 3 mile Island. HELLO ! ??
Debra Janelle Cunningham It sounds promising and there is certainly plenty of fuel available -- but it's not like there's anything but a few research reactors using thorium yet. There also some really hard engineering problems to solve, especially with the molten salt versions. Molten salt sounds very innocent but it is anything but -- we are talking something like very hot molten sodium, which is extremely chemically reactive. Not easy to do.
Come on ! This biggest problems with Nukes is the mining process pollution, and the Waste Generation . There simply is nowhere to put this toxic radioactive waste for a few 100 thousand years ! And No Way to do it. You have to be really ignorant about Nuclear Power to ingnore the entire process and only focus on the plants which have sell by date 30-40 years after they are built. Super Dumb Response.
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@nobody: Rob talks about 'molten salt reactors' Thorium is just such a thing, only it is self heating.
Read up on Thorium before you chime in, it could leave you hung out to dry talking to an expert ;0)
The process is just as recyclable as Rob's 18650's :0P
Robert!!!!!! Good stuff
The US is still 20 plus years behind the rest of the world in making an EV both affordable and realistically usable and that's for middle class and rich people. Poor rural people will likely be out of luck in the US for decades more than that.
Anybody have any information about using abandoned mines for pumped storage generation? The idea is to fill the mines with water, pump it up into a surface reservoir during off-peak times, and release it back into the mines at times of high demand, thus powering turbines.
Germany recently started doing something like that! They're turning an old coal mine into a hydroelectric battery. There's also a project to turn a salt mine into a giant flow battery.
It seems like the perfect solution. I don't know why its not being discussed
Would old coal mines plus reservoirs equal hydro storage?
Funny how the heat produced to heat the cabin in an ICE car is also being produced (wasted) when the heater is off. It's just not being vented.
Not funny at all... it's a huge waste actually. Only about 25 percent of the energy in gasoline actually makes it to the wheels. Most of the rest ends up heating the air through the radiator. A diesel engine is slightly more efficient, more like 30 percent makes it to the wheels.
Haha sorry to be this guy but that whiny prat at the end, "That's against the law!" made me chuckle. I bet she's one of those people who does 70mph in the fast lane to overtake a line of cars doing 69.5mph themselves, thus holding up about 30 cars immediately behind her and causing full-on gridlock about 15 miles back. That kind of self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude causes HUGE inconvenience to thousands of motorists every day.
Some people confuse legality with morality. Slavery was perfectly legal, as was apartheid. Beating children was legal until very recently. Doesn't make any of those things moral. Did you know that thanks to the UK Licensing Act of 1872, it's actually illegal to be drunk in a pub? But we still get drunk in pubs. And thanks to the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839, it's actually illegal to sing in the street. But we still sing in the street. Why? Because those laws are antiquated an irrelevant.
I think there's a case to be made that the 70mph speed limit - which was enforced in 1965 - is completely antiquated for most modern cars. I think police know that too, which is why they themselves often drive at 80mph and never bother to pull anyone over for doing less than about 90.
"But it's against the law". So's failing to indicate. I'll make sure to slam you in a cell next time you forget your blinker then, dickhead.
fun statistical fact: Driving above the speed limits creates far more traffic than driving below the speed limit.
And your right, a 70 mph speed limit is an antiquated relic, its far too high for the modern world.
"PFD's" PMSL....love ( its against the LAW!! - haha )
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Say this Prayer out loud:
Dear God, please forgive me for my sins. I believe that Jesus Christ, died on The Cross for Me, and Rose from the dead. Three days later. (This is a salvation prayer) GG