I am a postie who is striking, and my employer claims we must modernise, yet they cannot even change light bulbs in our office to energy saving ones to save money, which I worked out in my office would calculate to a 4% increase in the wages of 120 people through energy savings, and a payback period of just 4 months. Its criminal.
shame we don't have a government committed to action rather than getting us into dept. Its my experience that many public buildings are wasting a lot of tax payers money on inefficient lighting.
Don't worry... They're about to spend £20bn (no doubt £25bn+) on another white elephant nuclear project that's going to take at least 10 years and saddle you with energy at 2.5 times the price of a comparable wind project (at TODAYS prices, wind is getting cheaper) . But they know best of course!
@cresbydotcom Replace the light bulbs with energy efficient ones and switch to heat pumps. Now you're saving energy year-round. The idea that lighting contributes meaningfully to heating energy savings is absolutely bonkers, and I say that as an HVAC engineer who has to do that math designing central air systems. "Light bulb gets hot, so I must be saving money on heating!" is not actually a valid conclusion.
@cresbydotcom yes in the UK the energy saving on lightbulbs isn't as straightforward when you think about how the heat from the old lighting wasn't being wasted at all
@@peterjol Using that energy to light a bulb is an inefficient way to make heat as well as being inefficient in making light... Just because the heat from the bulb is not wasted, it does not mean that it is the most efficient use of the energy...
Within the last few years Swansea Council built the 1st new social housing in decades due to rule changes that allowed them to do so. The housing was built to Passive Haus standards and DIDN'T include gas central heating but did include rooftop solar, triple glazing as you would expect. Residents remain delighted at the low running costs of their draft free, well insulated homes. Swansea Council has plans for more of the same.
We should make this the minimum standard for all new homes. For all the naysayers, other countries manage to build to much higher standards and so can we!
I love this. As a massive fan of Red Dwarf, all those years ago, I would never have seen this as your finest role Rob, but it is! Like you, I had never sat in an electric car until "forced in to it" - it was the "driver shortage" that led to fuel shortages as we came out of lockdown in October 2021, that left me feeling stranded and unable to go anywhere except on foot. I had 2 fossil cars on the drive, both of which had so little fuel in them that I couldn't risk driving to a petrol station and risk finding that they still didn't have any fuel. I was lucky enough to be able to walk 400 yds and test drive a used i3 from the garage on the corner. Instantly sold on it. Everything else just followed immediately from that - panels, battery and then a 2nd EV. I know I am super privileged to be able to afford to do this, but I wonder how many others could take similar steps if they think about what they will save in the short, medium, long term......I haven't bought fossil fuel for a year, have spent no more than if I'd just changed my car for another used car, spent 10 grand on a few panels and a battery and already saved 3 grand on electricity and not buying fuel, all in 11 months....
I had a super solar-oriented industrial roof perfect for panels but no incentive for me to install them as they would only benefit the tenants at my cost ! So, didn't happen; someone might do it one day, as since sold the property.
I love it when a presenter actually speaks his mind. You nailed the important facts in an entertaining way but you made the point very clearly and forcefully. We all need to call this government out for their failings over the last 12 years.
In about 2006 Gordon Brown promised all new homes built in 10 years would be net zero. House builders were reluctant but then started moving towards this. Conservatives came to power and said, no, doesn't matter about that. Removed schemes to incentivise people to add insulation (cavity and loft). So companies like the Mark Group went bust. Pretty much killed that industry.
@@nononsenseBennettbFrom your cousin across the pond. A strong yes. And we're awash in big flat roofs. A few large firms are tackling the issue, reportedly Walmart. But it's late and slow going.
Rant starting at 05:52 -> 09:10. Absolutely brilliant and perfect. Thank you Bobby you LEGEND!! The incompetence to not do be doing this wholesale in 2022 boggles the mind. It almost makes you think they are trying to put it off as long as possible to help their friends... IT IS STUPID! 👍🏻
I dont watch this, but i defintely listen to this show everytime. Leave it running on another tab and carry on working meanwhile getting all this juicy info. Thank you Sir
I’ve already listened to the Podcast and couldn’t find the page where you record ‘Likes’. I had the pleasure of having a video chat with Roger last year when I was trying to find a way to change the industry I work in and I found him to be knowledgeable, informative, experienced and enthusiastic, but most of all, he is so easy to talk to, it was like talking to an old friend. This was a great episode. Keep em coming. If you can get onto mainstream TV at peak time, I’m sure you can get a more positive message out to more people. Fingers crossed for you 🤞🏾
Absolutely agree with the comment about Arrival and their letting the perfect get in the way of the good! I’m invested in the company and it’s SO frustrating watching them refine and refine and refine and not get a product out the door. They also had all these videos showing their self driving tech. Forget the self driving for now. It’s a HUGE challenge to undertake when you aren’t even selling any product yet. They need to focus their resources and ignore anything but getting the van in production and out the door!
I feel for you having invested in the company. Alas I could see this coming when they did loads of publicity shows on fully charged with nothing new to show, seems more of a PR company than a manufacturer.
Robert -- the reason for the Hummer is that in the US the government gives a $20k+ rebate for businesses who buy heavy vehicles. The idea is delivery vans, trucks, etc. But a Hummer is so heavy that it qualifies for the rebate and yet it's a passenger vehicle. It's specifically designed to weigh so much that it gets past the threshold, so you can scam the government into paying for a personal car. It's absurd, but it makes sense for the scammers buying it and the scammers (GM) making it.
Taiwan belongs to the native who've been there for 15,000 years. Their people moved out across the Pacific. Some of those people are the Maori in New Zealand
Robert, Roger is my favourite of all your brilliant guests on this Podcast which I always watch on UA-cam, often in two or three sittings. Sadly I'm an old codger too and I had loads to say when I started and now I've forgotten everything! First, just quickly, Roger I had the same troubles and the same narrow escape through incompetence as you in my middle teens. It scars you for life but in a weirdly good way once you're through the other side. Joking aside, I know what it means to have gone through that. This one's 'lastly' because I can't remember all the stuff in between... Robert, Fully Charged was *the* first channel I watched and subbed to on UA-cam and it helped me work out that I needed an e-bike in lockdown. Having been sharing some of your vids on Facebook, the only platform I've fathomed out how to work (!) I've been wishing and hoping for some time that you'd get your/our/the message out on telly. Roger's right now is the time, TV companies seem open to electrification of transport, ie the fact that it's happening but they seem to get it twisted (wires crossed!) and just don't seem to understand. I'm disabled and watch This Morning on ITV and they have tried to talk about ev's, one of their presenters brought hers in but the message kind of went wrong as they ended up putting too much emphasis on lack of charging infrastructure and also used very little time on the subject. That is the case with most of the presentations on renewables in general on TV...we need you on there Rob. People love you and will take notice I'm sure. 👍💚
I might be naive but I couldn't figure out what Roger was alluding to in his bit about his younger years. You've also kept it a but cryptic too like it's a bit taboo. My inkling from both of you, especially your "narrow escape through incompetence" is that you're talking about attempted suicide. Am I way off here?
Spot on CMW! Apologies if I was inadvertently vague. VERY happy to have come through all that - and very grateful that’s followed since. I’ve enjoyed a BONUS life ever since! 😊
Yep, I seen the same segment on This Morning by Alice Beer. Between Phil coming up with all the usual myths as if on cue cards, and Holly having to be educated on charge points, Alice did have her work cut out. What a difference a year makes though. Changed days since then. I’ve noticed that any time there’s a daytime ITV show giving away a car, it’s an EV usually on a 3 yr lease.
@@salibaba that's right, Alice Beer. I remember now, I was so cross because their competition always gave away an ice or hybrid car that I wrote to them to say that if they really want to promote EVs then why not give them away instead. Now they have but have you noticed they seem to pick the least desirable or sensible from any range? I think they've stopped short of the Mazda iX 30 or what ever that ridiculous short ranged compliance car with suicide doors that don't fit a full sized person through is called but that's the sort of thing they've found. It's as though they're deliberately being obtuse and very frustrating.
The pushback is coming when people wake up and realize the ground is shifting beneath their feet. It will take time to sort out but will happen, thanks to you both for your part.
Hi all. I’m following this brilliant channel from South Africa. Not proud of our electricity situation here at the moment. We’re in a absolute catastrophe of biblical proportions as far as our “totally government run” power generator is concerned 😢. We get load shedding 10-12 hours a day.
Glad you mentioned Aptera. It is truly innovative. High efficiency EV design is the next evolution for EVs. Longer range on smaller battery packs is essential to produce more affordable EVs.
With regatds to the Elon doco, I was somewhat disappointed by the screen time they gave Linette Lopez and her fake stories about "waste" and how she was attacked by Elon, when all he did was tweet that the story was inaccurate. Then they follow that up with some awful tweets by some deluded followers and present them as if from him. Typical bad journalism to create sensation where there was none.
She is a properly nasty piece of work no doubt on someone's payroll. Yet here she was acting neutral and sincerely journalistic. Makes me worry what the BBC will do in episode 4. They either haven't done adequate research or they want a story, not necessarily the truth.
It occurs to me that when there are sufficient people using cheap night-time electric energy that there will be no advantage to the electric company and they will gradually start charging the same tariff for any time of day (and it won’t be the smaller amount!). But perhaps I’m being unreasonably suspicious…🇨🇦
Don't think of it as night-time electricity, think of it as off-peak. It will be a long time until there is no off-peak electricity, when we can all rely on battery warehouses to even out demands.
Yes the amount of saving may reduce and the over simple ‘always the same hours’ variant is perhaps looking dated but a heavy discount to use renewable energy when it is plentiful looks a long term situation to me. If already wind farms are being turned off when nobody wants the power is a thing as more power is switched to wind there is more reason to offload it cheaply during peak wind. Also as I understand it heat pumps and air conditioning are focused more on day time consumption so largely go away at night.
The price difference between on and off peak will diminish, but is unlikely to disappear entirely. EVs charge quite slowly and so draw far less power than ovens, tumble dryers, kettles, etc. which means that period between 4pm and 8pm is always likely to have the most consumption. But the better news is that by the time batteries (whether EVs or house) are commonplace enough to make off peak less cheap we'll be approaching the point where renewables supply all our electricity, and they're already ridiculously cheap when compared to gas, oil or coal.
I didn't want u guys to shut up, absolutely fascinating :-) Many thanks Rob and team for another brilliant episode. Keep them coming (maybe on the tele?!) ;-)
Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest is the name of the mining guy you were thinking about in regards to the Williams acquisition and infinity train. He's also the guy trying to spruik hydrogen all over the place.
EDIT Turns out I was completely wrong about what I said below and my Solis Hybrid Inverter does allow my DC coupled system to charge from the grid! Many thanks @salibaba ! Hi Robert regarding your battery set up and the fact you can charge them overnight on cheap rate leccy.... Worth noting that is dependent on the solar/inverter/battery set up/design. To do what you do, you need an AC coupled battery set up. I'm more than happy with my solar and battery set up but mine is a DC coupled system with the batteries coupled to the inverter. This means it cannot support charging the batteries from the grid. As I said I'm more than happy with my system but I only learned this info after I had the system installed. Worth viewers adding this to the list of things to discuss with system designers/installers when they spec a system.
That’s a bit strange. I’ve got a Givenergy DC coupled system and so can charge from the grid anytime I want. It’s been on night charge for almost 2 months due to the sun departing for winter. Many others I’ve seen on the UK market I’ve seen are capable of the same features.
I am for not depending on OIL, but the thing is that being from NZ, 1.the sun hardly shines 2. to run a refrigerator freezer 🤔 you need 16soler panels 3. If you have a Texas blackout with loses off water, gass, and electric power from the grid 4. And then you learn that houses with batteries walls were only good for 3hours, only. In a real disaster situation 😕, I think that this is very important, and devastating.thay say.😒 I say have plenty LPG for a true survival situation to cook 🍳 your thouring out foods.*must have ventilation indoors.
18:58 Talking about subscription/lease of vehicle. I seem to recall a very early fully charged show years ago where they visited a start up somewhere in Britain that planned to only offer vehicles in lease form. His idea was for ALL vehicles should only be leased. The advantages would be that lease payments would be spread to all suppliers of parts of the vehicle. Brakes, tires, windows, seats. In doing so it would encourage recycling and longevity. As when vehicle rarely needs repair would provide greater return $$$. Having company ultimately get the vehicle back as they own it, it would easier to enforce recycling and encourage recycling thinking in design. Interesting idea as leasing to a group that would buy a pool of vehicles and share vs individuals each having their own. Like company you work for or your neighborhood. If neighborhood there could be a variety of vehicles, mostly small but a few Vans and trucks depending on your need of the day. This would provide a central quick charge point for vehicles and allow for greater use of stationary battery bank to help with grid. So many possibilities.
It really isn't (in my opinion) the most significant vehicle. Are you perhaps thinking that it's a neat little vehicle suited for modern urban area transport? It's not ... check out the dimensions!
It isn't small! It's huge. Check out the actual dimensions. It's higher and wider than a Tesla Model S! (Yes, it looks like a modern version of 3 wheeler "bubble cars" of yesteryear but that's a false impression.)
I've pointed this out before about Arrival, if they had gone into production with the first iteration of van it would have been a disaster, that van was a death trap for the driver in a crash, this led to the hold up as it needed a redesign.
It's awful that Solyndra was forced out of business. There should be Solyndra panels on every flat, white-roofed building, but now there is no one making them.
Here in Oz 🇦🇺 we call the wood thingy (router) and the wifi thingy (router) both the exact same, sounds like rowter. I wasn’t aware that pommies call them “rooter”. That actually sounds quite rude 😅
I was very surprised at how well the BBC did their 'The Elon Musk Show', especially after the total click-bait hatchet job C4 did last year (?). It very much reinforced my opinion of Musk as a human being rather than 'just' an engineer and entrepreneur. I guess people who know of him either think he's a complete charlatan or (as I do) someone who has a genuine and heartfelt desire to improve the lot of mankind... and the rest of the planet's inhabitants in the process. The fact that his achievements, thus far, have transformed both the automotive and space industries are a bonus (not to mention making me a Teslanaire for a while anyway! Thanks very much indeed, Elon!).
To Roger Atkins: What do you actually know about the China-Taiwan situation? They have been at peace for 70 years and it is the USA that seems to be pushing the situation to confrontation. Do you equate Russia & China? What was the last war the UK fought? And before that? And so on? I suggest this: search new stories about the tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and mark the timeline. Who raised this issue? I think you will find the USA has been using this as a wedge issue to contain China, which apparently feels China is a "peer competitor" it must tamp down. Which country is suddenly abandoning the international "norms" it touts sou loudly to prosecute a trade war pointed like a Laser at China? If you want to ask questions, perhaps you should start with the USA.
Oh, so it's 1940 and we call someone "quirky" because we like their technology that's so great. And of course China - no need to think about what kind of people they are as we let them further in.
LOVED ❤ your initial rant. I have had solar on the roof since 2010- yes it cost a fortune then, but has paid for itself many times over. Cheers from Brisvegas 🇦🇺
When in Australia take a look at Lake Resources who claim a cleaner way of producing lithium for batteries. And what do you think of solid state batteries will they make charging EV’s faster one of the main gripes I hear from people who ask about my EV, Alpine4technologies claim they have made one
Great talk! I have one point. - I dont feel sorry for Toyota. They are the biggest car company...really none other us like them but just very close minded and this will be a lesson for companies around that they need to listen to the public perception and wish. So no matter how big you should listen to the consumer. Hopefully this lesson its going to be good for the world.
When I we , have wireless charging in all of the parking spaces at your shopping center and you pay for your parking and energy, automatically, we will have made it A😊
12:40 Remember when "2010, Armstrong and fellow Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell criticized commercial spaceflight?" That it would be to expensive and slow in coming? SpaceX has the lowest cost launches ever (and biggest profit).
Talk about getting into the guts of everything, my I be so bold as you ask you Robert to go interview some Welsh Farmers who want to have solar on thier farms, but can't because the local grid network is not man enough to take the load. Lets get these people talking and creating solautions.
Electrified Mining, in Principle, requires knowing the actual cause-effect phenomenon of existence in QM-TIME. Reiteration of Education in Actuality, is an ever "pressing" problem of recycling knowledge.
The increase in EV production is governed by the amount of electrical energy to propel them , by the grid . There has to be a balance eg what is produced has to be used ! 🎉
I recommend reading Jacques Fresco's book ..'The best that money CAN'T buy'.. it is really interesting food for thought about how we could live sustainably on this planet. It gets you looking at this world from an entirely new angle. An alternative you will NEVER consider as long as you think ONLY about this monetary system.
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I am a postie who is striking, and my employer claims we must modernise, yet they cannot even change light bulbs in our office to energy saving ones to save money, which I worked out in my office would calculate to a 4% increase in the wages of 120 people through energy savings, and a payback period of just 4 months. Its criminal.
shame we don't have a government committed to action rather than getting us into dept. Its my experience that many public buildings are wasting a lot of tax payers money on inefficient lighting.
Don't worry...
They're about to spend £20bn (no doubt £25bn+) on another white elephant nuclear project that's going to take at least 10 years and saddle you with energy at 2.5 times the price of a comparable wind project (at TODAYS prices, wind is getting cheaper)
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But they know best of course!
@cresbydotcom Replace the light bulbs with energy efficient ones and switch to heat pumps. Now you're saving energy year-round.
The idea that lighting contributes meaningfully to heating energy savings is absolutely bonkers, and I say that as an HVAC engineer who has to do that math designing central air systems. "Light bulb gets hot, so I must be saving money on heating!" is not actually a valid conclusion.
@cresbydotcom yes in the UK the energy saving on lightbulbs isn't as straightforward when you think about how the heat from the old lighting wasn't being wasted at all
@@peterjol Using that energy to light a bulb is an inefficient way to make heat as well as being inefficient in making light... Just because the heat from the bulb is not wasted, it does not mean that it is the most efficient use of the energy...
Within the last few years Swansea Council built the 1st new social housing in decades due to rule changes that allowed them to do so. The housing was built to Passive Haus standards and DIDN'T include gas central heating but did include rooftop solar, triple glazing as you would expect. Residents remain delighted at the low running costs of their draft free, well insulated homes. Swansea Council has plans for more of the same.
We should make this the minimum standard for all new homes. For all the naysayers, other countries manage to build to much higher standards and so can we!
I love this. As a massive fan of Red Dwarf, all those years ago, I would never have seen this as your finest role Rob, but it is! Like you, I had never sat in an electric car until "forced in to it" - it was the "driver shortage" that led to fuel shortages as we came out of lockdown in October 2021, that left me feeling stranded and unable to go anywhere except on foot. I had 2 fossil cars on the drive, both of which had so little fuel in them that I couldn't risk driving to a petrol station and risk finding that they still didn't have any fuel. I was lucky enough to be able to walk 400 yds and test drive a used i3 from the garage on the corner. Instantly sold on it. Everything else just followed immediately from that - panels, battery and then a 2nd EV. I know I am super privileged to be able to afford to do this, but I wonder how many others could take similar steps if they think about what they will save in the short, medium, long term......I haven't bought fossil fuel for a year, have spent no more than if I'd just changed my car for another used car, spent 10 grand on a few panels and a battery and already saved 3 grand on electricity and not buying fuel, all in 11 months....
I had a super solar-oriented industrial roof perfect for panels but no incentive for me to install them as they would only benefit the tenants at my cost ! So, didn't happen; someone might do it one day, as since sold the property.
I love it when a presenter actually speaks his mind. You nailed the important facts in an entertaining way but you made the point very clearly and forcefully. We all need to call this government out for their failings over the last 12 years.
In about 2006 Gordon Brown promised all new homes built in 10 years would be net zero. House builders were reluctant but then started moving towards this. Conservatives came to power and said, no, doesn't matter about that. Removed schemes to incentivise people to add insulation (cavity and loft). So companies like the Mark Group went bust. Pretty much killed that industry.
I love Robert's rant about the factory roofs! He is so right.
@@nononsenseBennettbFrom your cousin across the pond. A strong yes. And we're awash in big flat roofs. A few large firms are tackling the issue, reportedly Walmart. But it's late and slow going.
Another great rant to start the show!
for putting me to sleep
Rant starting at 05:52 -> 09:10. Absolutely brilliant and perfect. Thank you Bobby you LEGEND!! The incompetence to not do be doing this wholesale in 2022 boggles the mind. It almost makes you think they are trying to put it off as long as possible to help their friends... IT IS STUPID! 👍🏻
The Oil Lobby, the Coal Lobby, the Electricity Lobby........say no more !
The expression Roger is looking for "Don't let perfection be the enemy of good". And his point is well taken.
I dont watch this, but i defintely listen to this show everytime. Leave it running on another tab and carry on working meanwhile getting all this juicy info. Thank you Sir
I so so appreciate your commentary, Robert. I do. You’re the best advocate.❤ I’m one of those poor folks. 👏👏👏✊ tell it! 🫶🫶
Loved this episode, really good to listen to these 'Two Old Gits', with some very good topics and insights. Keep up the great work.
Rob's "advert for My Energy..." was one of the most electable speeches I've ever heard! 👏
I’ve already listened to the Podcast and couldn’t find the page where you record ‘Likes’.
I had the pleasure of having a video chat with Roger last year when I was trying to find a way to change the industry I work in and I found him to be knowledgeable, informative, experienced and enthusiastic, but most of all, he is so easy to talk to, it was like talking to an old friend.
This was a great episode. Keep em coming. If you can get onto mainstream TV at peak time, I’m sure you can get a more positive message out to more people. Fingers crossed for you 🤞🏾
"Inform, Entertain and Educate" SO needed on Mainstream TV - Go Robert !!
And now having finished the episode - a very interesting and engaging conversation. Thank you both.
Another enjoyable and informative discussion - thank you! 😊
I love your rants!
love your chats with roger.. more please..
Absolutely agree with the comment about Arrival and their letting the perfect get in the way of the good! I’m invested in the company and it’s SO frustrating watching them refine and refine and refine and not get a product out the door. They also had all these videos showing their self driving tech. Forget the self driving for now. It’s a HUGE challenge to undertake when you aren’t even selling any product yet. They need to focus their resources and ignore anything but getting the van in production and out the door!
I feel for you having invested in the company. Alas I could see this coming when they did loads of publicity shows on fully charged with nothing new to show, seems more of a PR company than a manufacturer.
@@carlarrowsmith Patrick Boyle did a video on the first vapourware company. This is a similar story to arrival.
@@موسى_7 Thanks, I found it very interesting video.
I really enjoyed this conversation.
Thx
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
There is more to Australia than just Sydney.
Yea, like the good bits.... ;)
R0bert, just keep doing what you are doing, we old fools need to keep together.
And keep it together…
Robert, thank you for what you do.
Robert -- the reason for the Hummer is that in the US the government gives a $20k+ rebate for businesses who buy heavy vehicles. The idea is delivery vans, trucks, etc. But a Hummer is so heavy that it qualifies for the rebate and yet it's a passenger vehicle. It's specifically designed to weigh so much that it gets past the threshold, so you can scam the government into paying for a personal car.
It's absurd, but it makes sense for the scammers buying it and the scammers (GM) making it.
Is it wrong that I love your rants😮😊
Taiwan belongs to the native who've been there for 15,000 years. Their people moved out across the Pacific. Some of those people are the Maori in New Zealand
Thank you.
Robert, Roger is my favourite of all your brilliant guests on this Podcast which I always watch on UA-cam, often in two or three sittings. Sadly I'm an old codger too and I had loads to say when I started and now I've forgotten everything!
First, just quickly, Roger I had the same troubles and the same narrow escape through incompetence as you in my middle teens. It scars you for life but in a weirdly good way once you're through the other side. Joking aside, I know what it means to have gone through that.
This one's 'lastly' because I can't remember all the stuff in between...
Robert, Fully Charged was *the* first channel I watched and subbed to on UA-cam and it helped me work out that I needed an e-bike in lockdown.
Having been sharing some of your vids on Facebook, the only platform I've fathomed out how to work (!) I've been wishing and hoping for some time that you'd get your/our/the message out on telly. Roger's right now is the time, TV companies seem open to electrification of transport, ie the fact that it's happening but they seem to get it twisted (wires crossed!) and just don't seem to understand.
I'm disabled and watch This Morning on ITV and they have tried to talk about ev's, one of their presenters brought hers in but the message kind of went wrong as they ended up putting too much emphasis on lack of charging infrastructure and also used very little time on the subject. That is the case with most of the presentations on renewables in general on TV...we need you on there Rob. People love you and will take notice I'm sure. 👍💚
I might be naive but I couldn't figure out what Roger was alluding to in his bit about his younger years. You've also kept it a but cryptic too like it's a bit taboo. My inkling from both of you, especially your "narrow escape through incompetence" is that you're talking about attempted suicide. Am I way off here?
@@cmw3737 in my own case you are correct.
Spot on CMW! Apologies if I was inadvertently vague. VERY happy to have come through all that - and very grateful that’s followed since. I’ve enjoyed a BONUS life ever since! 😊
Yep, I seen the same segment on This Morning by Alice Beer. Between Phil coming up with all the usual myths as if on cue cards, and Holly having to be educated on charge points, Alice did have her work cut out.
What a difference a year makes though. Changed days since then.
I’ve noticed that any time there’s a daytime ITV show giving away a car, it’s an EV usually on a 3 yr lease.
@@salibaba that's right, Alice Beer. I remember now, I was so cross because their competition always gave away an ice or hybrid car that I wrote to them to say that if they really want to promote EVs then why not give them away instead. Now they have but have you noticed they seem to pick the least desirable or sensible from any range? I think they've stopped short of the Mazda iX 30 or what ever that ridiculous short ranged compliance car with suicide doors that don't fit a full sized person through is called but that's the sort of thing they've found. It's as though they're deliberately being obtuse and very frustrating.
I always enjoy these podcasts, but this is one of the best yet. Keep it up, Rob.
The pushback is coming when people wake up and realize the ground is shifting beneath their feet. It will take time to sort out but will happen, thanks to you both for your part.
one of the best episodes ever, and i like them all. more roger on a regular basis.
Preach! ❤
My magic box got 3!!!!! flashing lights. That shows how expensive it was. Indeed, very important those lights.
Hi all. I’m following this brilliant channel from South Africa. Not proud of our electricity situation here at the moment. We’re in a absolute catastrophe of biblical proportions as far as our “totally government run” power generator is concerned 😢. We get load shedding 10-12 hours a day.
Well said both of you. Peace is the only logical way forwards.
Love it !!!
Got into Fully Charged because I saw an electric car review by 'that bloke off Scrapheap Challenge'! ...and here we are.
Glad you mentioned Aptera. It is truly innovative. High efficiency EV design is the next evolution for EVs. Longer range on smaller battery packs is essential to produce more affordable EVs.
Thank you for the food for thought please keep it up.
I thought he was having Andy Wilman on there for a second lol
Halogens should be give boot just like the old 100 w light bulbs.
Right there with you on 'self charging hybrids', but now Nissan are pushing theirs as 'unplugged', as if that is a good thing. Unbelievable.
Hallo, anybody got the name of this very forensic guy on linked in called something like "Gerald Green" @1:15.
Love this guy's, btw
Fantastic. Added two more follows to LinkedIn.
Yes, let's build Hummers and mothball the Bolt. Pure GM logic. Quite sarcastically intended.
I love you!
'Currupt' ...... just be sure of your words. Politicians are a different breed and history tells you that - no matter what party is in power.
I have loved every episode. Keep'em coming ! Thank you. I hope we in America keep waking up !!
God bless you. It is a tremendous job you guys are doing. And better all the time.
Thank you from Virginia
Roger is correct - you must pivot to prime time tv using your well researched content and extensive contacts
My ongoing theory is you have to be on the spectrum to get Elon.
With regatds to the Elon doco, I was somewhat disappointed by the screen time they gave Linette Lopez and her fake stories about "waste" and how she was attacked by Elon, when all he did was tweet that the story was inaccurate.
Then they follow that up with some awful tweets by some deluded followers and present them as if from him. Typical bad journalism to create sensation where there was none.
She is a properly nasty piece of work no doubt on someone's payroll. Yet here she was acting neutral and sincerely journalistic.
Makes me worry what the BBC will do in episode 4. They either haven't done adequate research or they want a story, not necessarily the truth.
Nothing like a good Rant!! Hope you felt better.
Come on BBC what are you waiting for? Great conversation and such a variety of topics that are so important.
I watch both channels so no worries. I'm glad you are old as you say because that means you are old enough to have been in Red Dwarf
Totally agree with Rodger about taking Fully Charged mainstream on TV or one of the major streaming services. 😎
An Indian Prime Minister. Had not been aware of that in that context . Times change and will.
It occurs to me that when there are sufficient people using cheap night-time electric energy that there will be no advantage to the electric company and they will gradually start charging the same tariff for any time of day (and it won’t be the smaller amount!). But perhaps I’m being unreasonably suspicious…🇨🇦
Don't think of it as night-time electricity, think of it as off-peak. It will be a long time until there is no off-peak electricity, when we can all rely on battery warehouses to even out demands.
Yes the amount of saving may reduce and the over simple ‘always the same hours’ variant is perhaps looking dated but a heavy discount to use renewable energy when it is plentiful looks a long term situation to me. If already wind farms are being turned off when nobody wants the power is a thing as more power is switched to wind there is more reason to offload it cheaply during peak wind. Also as I understand it heat pumps and air conditioning are focused more on day time consumption so largely go away at night.
The advantage to electric companies is that they won't need to build new money losing peaker plants.
The price difference between on and off peak will diminish, but is unlikely to disappear entirely. EVs charge quite slowly and so draw far less power than ovens, tumble dryers, kettles, etc. which means that period between 4pm and 8pm is always likely to have the most consumption. But the better news is that by the time batteries (whether EVs or house) are commonplace enough to make off peak less cheap we'll be approaching the point where renewables supply all our electricity, and they're already ridiculously cheap when compared to gas, oil or coal.
I didn't want u guys to shut up, absolutely fascinating :-) Many thanks Rob and team for another brilliant episode. Keep them coming (maybe on the tele?!) ;-)
Aptera and Cybertruck iconic vehicles of this century.VW IBUZZ dropped the ball
Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest is the name of the mining guy you were thinking about in regards to the Williams acquisition and infinity train. He's also the guy trying to spruik hydrogen all over the place.
In Australia we do not say rooters.
EDIT Turns out I was completely wrong about what I said below and my Solis Hybrid Inverter does allow my DC coupled system to charge from the grid! Many thanks @salibaba !
Hi Robert regarding your battery set up and the fact you can charge them overnight on cheap rate leccy.... Worth noting that is dependent on the solar/inverter/battery set up/design. To do what you do, you need an AC coupled battery set up. I'm more than happy with my solar and battery set up but mine is a DC coupled system with the batteries coupled to the inverter. This means it cannot support charging the batteries from the grid. As I said I'm more than happy with my system but I only learned this info after I had the system installed. Worth viewers adding this to the list of things to discuss with system designers/installers when they spec a system.
That’s a bit strange. I’ve got a Givenergy DC coupled system and so can charge from the grid anytime I want. It’s been on night charge for almost 2 months due to the sun departing for winter.
Many others I’ve seen on the UK market I’ve seen are capable of the same features.
@@salibaba that's very interesting 🤔 Maybe I'm being a numpty.... Looking into it now thank you
@@chrisshave7129 what make is yours?
I am for not depending on OIL, but the thing is that being from NZ,
1.the sun hardly shines
2. to run a refrigerator freezer 🤔 you need 16soler panels
3. If you have a Texas blackout with loses off water, gass, and electric power from the grid
4. And then you learn that houses with batteries walls were only good for 3hours, only.
In a real disaster situation 😕, I think that this is very important, and devastating.thay say.😒 I say have plenty LPG for a true survival situation to cook 🍳 your thouring out foods.*must have ventilation indoors.
18:58 Talking about subscription/lease of vehicle. I seem to recall a very early fully charged show years ago where they visited a start up somewhere in Britain that planned to only offer vehicles in lease form. His idea was for ALL vehicles should only be leased. The advantages would be that lease payments would be spread to all suppliers of parts of the vehicle. Brakes, tires, windows, seats. In doing so it would encourage recycling and longevity. As when vehicle rarely needs repair would provide greater return $$$. Having company ultimately get the vehicle back as they own it, it would easier to enforce recycling and encourage recycling thinking in design. Interesting idea as leasing to a group that would buy a pool of vehicles and share vs individuals each having their own. Like company you work for or your neighborhood. If neighborhood there could be a variety of vehicles, mostly small but a few Vans and trucks depending on your need of the day. This would provide a central quick charge point for vehicles and allow for greater use of stationary battery bank to help with grid. So many possibilities.
You HAVE to bring the Aptera to the next fully charged show! It's an absolute MUST!!! It's the most significant vehicle of the decade in my opinion!
It really isn't (in my opinion) the most significant vehicle. Are you perhaps thinking that it's a neat little vehicle suited for modern urban area transport? It's not ... check out the dimensions!
A like the swipe at "Consultants" who are basically parasites on the creation process.
The the aptera according to the inter-web dose not need to be plugged in or fulled ? This is why people would buy one not because it is small. 🤔🤔🤔
It isn't small! It's huge. Check out the actual dimensions. It's higher and wider than a Tesla Model S! (Yes, it looks like a modern version of 3 wheeler "bubble cars" of yesteryear but that's a false impression.)
I've pointed this out before about Arrival, if they had gone into production with the first iteration of van it would have been a disaster, that van was a death trap for the driver in a crash, this led to the hold up as it needed a redesign.
Is there somewhere online I can see this documentary mentioned early on?
BBC iPlayer, I think it was The Elon Musk Show they were talking about. 3 episodes.
It's awful that Solyndra was forced out of business. There should be Solyndra panels on every flat, white-roofed building, but now there is no one making them.
O M.G. - Rob . ..I've just seen you in a POP VIDEO with The Cat from about 1898,...oops..1998!!
COOL!!!!!
The burning question, Robs, is, if Our American Cousins call rooters rowders - what do they call routers(for wood, if you're a DIY dork .....!)!?
Here in Oz 🇦🇺 we call the wood thingy (router) and the wifi thingy (router) both the exact same, sounds like rowter.
I wasn’t aware that pommies call them “rooter”. That actually sounds quite rude 😅
Well done finally getting the teams attempts to throw you, sorted out and hanging onto the title you founded.
I was very surprised at how well the BBC did their 'The Elon Musk Show', especially after the total click-bait hatchet job C4 did last year (?). It very much reinforced my opinion of Musk as a human being rather than 'just' an engineer and entrepreneur. I guess people who know of him either think he's a complete charlatan or (as I do) someone who has a genuine and heartfelt desire to improve the lot of mankind... and the rest of the planet's inhabitants in the process. The fact that his achievements, thus far, have transformed both the automotive and space industries are a bonus (not to mention making me a Teslanaire for a while anyway! Thanks very much indeed, Elon!).
No discussion about "getting on with it" should be completed without mentioning RiverSimple
To Roger Atkins: What do you actually know about the China-Taiwan situation? They have been at peace for 70 years and it is the USA that seems to be pushing the situation to confrontation. Do you equate Russia & China? What was the last war the UK fought? And before that? And so on? I suggest this: search new stories about the tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and mark the timeline. Who raised this issue? I think you will find the USA has been using this as a wedge issue to contain China, which apparently feels China is a "peer competitor" it must tamp down. Which country is suddenly abandoning the international "norms" it touts sou loudly to prosecute a trade war pointed like a Laser at China? If you want to ask questions, perhaps you should start with the USA.
WOW, i never expected a Robert Rant! 😁
Oh, so it's 1940 and we call someone "quirky" because we like their technology that's so great. And of course China - no need to think about what kind of people they are as we let them further in.
I love this guy 😆
LOVED ❤ your initial rant.
I have had solar on the roof since 2010- yes it cost a fortune then, but has paid for itself many times over. Cheers
from Brisvegas 🇦🇺
A fully charged TV show, here here, what a great idea. Even a monthly netflix show maybe.
When in Australia take a look at Lake Resources who claim a cleaner way of producing lithium for batteries. And what do you think of solid state batteries will they make charging EV’s faster one of the main gripes I hear from people who ask about my EV, Alpine4technologies claim they have made one
Great talk! I have one point. - I dont feel sorry for Toyota. They are the biggest car company...really none other us like them but just very close minded and this will be a lesson for companies around that they need to listen to the public perception and wish. So no matter how big you should listen to the consumer. Hopefully this lesson its going to be good for the world.
Roger is as big a fan as me!
Re the rant about Shell and corruption.... Sunak is apparently proud of receiving bribes from Shell.
the same people that live in houses with no insulation? visit home depot once in a while and take a whack at it...
When I we , have wireless charging in all of the parking spaces at your shopping center and you pay for your parking and energy, automatically, we will have made it A😊
12:40 Remember when "2010, Armstrong and fellow Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell criticized commercial spaceflight?" That it would be to expensive and slow in coming? SpaceX has the lowest cost launches ever (and biggest profit).
11.05 onwards
Roger is correct.
Talk about getting into the guts of everything, my I be so bold as you ask you Robert to go interview some Welsh Farmers who want to have solar on thier farms, but can't because the local grid network is not man enough to take the load. Lets get these people talking and creating solautions.
You can't get away from Politics and the only question you need to ask is "who's side are you on?" Most politicians are *NOT* on our side.
Electrified Mining, in Principle, requires knowing the actual cause-effect phenomenon of existence in QM-TIME.
Reiteration of Education in Actuality, is an ever "pressing" problem of recycling knowledge.
The increase in EV production is governed by the amount of electrical energy to propel them , by the grid .
There has to be a balance eg what is produced has to be used !
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Or maybe “electric buses” they are made in California as BYD has manufacturing in Lancaster
Rob, can we please have timestamps?
Great Podcast buys👌
Have you noticed all these recent wars are about fossil fuels? And that wars run on fossil fuels?
Apparently, you haven't noticed that the WORLD runs on fossil fuels......!?!?
@@andymccabe6712 Yes and fossil fuel caused climate change is going to kill millions.
I recommend reading Jacques Fresco's book ..'The best that money CAN'T buy'.. it is really interesting food for thought about how we could live sustainably on this planet. It gets you looking at this world from an entirely new angle. An alternative you will NEVER consider as long as you think ONLY about this monetary system.
Remember the futurama episode were they don't know how to make garbage. The future you'll be eating a recycled sandwich 🥪 😆