Jon Richardson Visits America's Most Eco-Friendly Town | Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2020
- Jon visits America's most eco-friendly town in this clip from Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future!
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Would love to live here! Sunny Florida and exo friendly sounds amazing. Would love to reduce my carbon footprint.
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Nobody lives there. They’re all zombies. Scary!
Absolutely not, destroyed thousands of acres of pristine Florida ecosystem to make money, that’s it. Just a cash grab, like every other developer in the state, they are quickly turning Florida into New York City with nothing but grey as far as the eye can see. Because all the green was cut down or filled in and converted to money to fill their filthy pockets.
No after all it is still Florida regardless of how eco friendly it is.
Good job he had that cycle helmet on with the speed that thing was going
I'm only astonished he didn't have his seatbelt on in that high-speed electric shuttle
Personally, I care more about the fact that he wore a bike helmet, while riding in an unusually slow, pedal powered cart ... with a roof.
Wow, what a personality on the bus guy...
Why not have solar panels on homes and use that farm to grow plants??????
Because that's american smart 🤣🤣
Hi so i live in florida and have a class where we study this place. Long answer short, the purpose if this town when built was for walkability and they wanted to make it attractive in order for people to be more inclined to walk and an attractive place helps with sense of place. So thats why all the solar powers are in the field and not on all of the buildings
@Hustle Band it is because of hurricanes and the depletion of the aquafer leading to sink holes...land is unusable, dredged to provide fill for the foundations for homes...babcock ranch is in the swamp...
I live in florida and part of my college class is studying this place then we take a field trip there. Great place, just lacks housing for lower class families and diversity in my opinion
Ok Racist
Just so you know. Not everyone of color or a different culture is a criminal and the fact that you think that shows how ignorant and biased you are.
@@Renesmeecarliecullon to be fair, you are the one who made it about race when you started talking about diversity..... Nobody is stopping people. Also, the houses look like they are upper class. Not even middle class, let alone lower class.
The problem with forced diversity is that its not a solution.. things have to happen natural, which means that you need a good fundament on education, work and family.
That looks like a really cool place.
Yep you’re right, it’s quite similar to not liking funny man Dave Chappelle’s jokes, so then you call him transphobic & try cancel free speech.
Its almost in the middle of nowhere is it, Driven past it loads of times on the backroads toward Orlando. Unfortunately the area is getting built up by developers and traffic will soon be horrendous. ( You almost see in the video, its on a 30+ mile road with only 2 lanes for both directions.)
if there are only 2 lanes traffic will be moderate....think logical my American friend 😂👍🏽
Jon Richardson: "You might have caught my first wow on camera"🤣
This is the most middle class thing I've ever seen
How so? A northern comedian proclaims to be mildly wowed at a field of solar panels in Florida. Yeah, that's soooo Middle England.
@@phily8093 I think they mean the town
Trust me these houses aren’t middle class at all
@@pabloocampo2056 They are definitely middle class, lower middle class, but still middle class by American standards, at least for Florida. You can get a 4 bedroom 3 bathroom 2,000 sqft house there for $300k, sure, but there are million dollar homes as well.
I love that Jon feels like he needs a helmet to ride in that tricycle
How exciting!😂😂😂
This must've been a clip from a bigger segment.
raises the question though, is it better to have a huge field full of solar panels or is it better to have every roof to have them so you can build on more land? suppose it's down to the quality of solar panels and how much power they can draw from the sun...
Panels on roof is more efficient.
Plus less electric cables to run.
The only issue would be that if the home doesn't have a south-facing roof to put the panels on or it's not big enough, it won't be sufficient for the household's energy needs.
But I doubt this community is not still using fossil fuels anyway to supplement what the solar farm can't provide.
California tried that "large field full of solar panels". It was a massive failure. Solar panel manufacture leaves a MASSIVE carbon footprint.
@@TCt83067695 So, I know absolutely nothing about this but, couldn't those 'individual' solar panels contribute to a cooperative energy grid anyway?
Like, it needs to consume the energy, but at least it also produces some?
@@nairocamilo absolutely. Many countries already do that. They just don't call it corporative energy.
During the day, the panels would probably create more than is being consumed by the household or stored in the batteries (if the house has one). So that excess energy generated is sold back to the national grid and then govt or the utility company pays that household for generating energy.
Hope that makes sense but happy to explain further if needed ☺
My thought was: wow! How ugly… why wouldn't they use all those roofs for sun-paneling, instead of ruining a meadow?
The irony of cutting down trees to replace the land with a solar farm in the name of going green.
incredibly naive posts, jesus
Much more economical to do it that way.
So the "town" can still charge the residents for electricity. They couldn't scam them every single month for hundreds of dollars if the panels were on their own house. Electricity fees, maintenance fees, regulation fees, taxes, usage fees, delivery fees....... Overpriced houses with captive customers..... forever.
@@thinkfloyd2594 pls feel free to elaborate
I fail to see what the "World" should replicate from this place? It all seems overly dramaticized as if nobody has slapped a solar panel on their roof before...
Slapping a panel on your roof because you choose to and striving for energy self sufficient cities are two different things no? Some people have to push the boundaries before the boundary can be set. Maybe the world shouldn't replicate, but merely take note of what 'could' be achieved.
Worried about eco friendly, but we show up in a large SUV which barely makes 22 MPG on a good day.
It's a good idea but not by destroying green belt! Do slum clearance and build eco friendly neighbourhoods.
Since 1914 the land's primary use was logging and agriculture - a working ranch ( hence the name), the solar field was crops and cattle, NOT natural habitat. Approximately ninety percent of Babcock Ranch's total land will remain undeveloped, to be preserved as open space, nature reserves or for agricultural use. It will now be part of an incredibly important wildlife corridor stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the center of Florida all of the way to the Charlotte Harbor Estuary,
Meir, where are you putting the people you clear from the slums?
solar arrays are cool and all that but the sheer ammount of land required is a bit much for what can be acomplished with a wind farm, plus you can use the land around each Turbine unlike panels, probably why solar panel arrays arent as popular, without looking at their horrible lifespan and cost
you dont need a windy climate, just no obstruction to the path of air, they're built tall for that reason. and I also dont mean for it to be built in that location, its why the Electric Grid exist
@@TheWhale45 what do you think Im talking about, Im not saying its 100% efficient, Im saying its more efficient than solar panels, Im not saying to cram it into that area, thats Why I say a wind Farm not a random field
@@TheWhale45 gas Generators ruin the point of the whole place though
@@TheWhale45 In fairness if you want efficient eco friendly in the sense of emmissions, hydro Dams is always the answer, (not really friendly to the Migrating fish.)
I like what they are doing in south Korea with the Hydrogen network they are creating in Some cities, especially with Hyundai Leading the Development of Hydrogen fuel Cell vehicles, you can burn the Hydrogen or Pass it through a Reverse Electrolysis Cell to produce energy.
Now look into how much energy is used to make solar panels....counter productive 🙈🙈🙈
I love Jon. ..
Trying to be all new and high tech and good for the environment but yet all the houses have roofs that don't have pv or hot water panels ?? But wreak over 100 acres to put pv smart american smart 🤦🤦
*wreck
@@Dags470 American smart 🤣
You loose a battle to win the war. -Some strategy person
@@santiwolf8141 it's unnecessary for all the use of the land instead of the roofs of the buildings
@@conorcleary2100 true
Babcock ranch...right next door to ram ranch I’m guessing...
Why didn't they put the solar panels over something other than the ground? Couldn't they have installed them over the roofs?
solar panels dont get as much sun and are much harder to maintain on a roof. in theory you could have just a couple people maintaining thousands of solar panels whereas if they were on your rooves you would need many more
Awesome
when the hell was jon in florida
WoW was my word too.
Since 1914 the land's primary use was logging and agriculture - a working ranch ( hence the name) - the solar field was crops and cattle, NOT natural habitat. Approximately ninety percent of Babcock Ranch's total land will remain undeveloped, to be preserved as open space, nature reserves or for agricultural use. It will now be part of an incredibly important wildlife corridor stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the center of Florida all of the way to the Charlotte Harbor Estuary.
And yes, the homes are expensive. But new things have to start somewhere.
Jeez....I live really close to this place(around 17 miles away) I've seen signs for it, but was never interested in going. To be fair, the eco-friendly town is pretty new. My only memory of the place was that they sold a huge chunk of land to the state of Florida(somewhere around 100,000 acres if I remember correctly)for the purpose of preservation. That was back around 2006-2008ish. Looks to be a pretty cool little eco-town they've got going there now though.
Quite the opposite of preservation, though 🤣
OH MY GOD - thanks for making this about YOU Gamma!
@@thinkfloyd2594 It's always about me.
🤣😂🤣
@@thinkfloyd2594 while this is not about you?
If that pedal cart thing is supposed to be a vehicle, why not just walk?
That bus is sooooo slow. Better to walk.
Faster, too.
Yeah it's crap. It actually does damage to ev perception coz someone would sit in it and think "wow, is this really how slow an electric bus will be?"
Why not make every roof Solar? Not panels, but invisible, integrated into the roofing material.
Makes it more difficult for power companies to charge for energy that you can produce for yourself. Just watch soon there will be a "tax" on people who are running independent solar.
because those are two separate things, you can have roofs made of solar panels I suppose? Not sure how you integrate solar cells into solid opaque rough gritty sandpaper-like material
@@SyrupSplash Tesla has 4 iterations of this technology. Looks promising but I think you have to live in California in order to actually get it. There aren't any licensed installers servicing the Midwest at least.
@@SyrupSplash ua-cam.com/video/ABR4KgXoZPE/v-deo.html
@@baileyvolkert I'm aware, but those are just solar panels you use to cover your roof as opposed to actual roofing material. I took OPs comment as not replacing roofing material with solar panels, but keeping the existing materials and integrating some sort of solar electric generating mechanism into it
Meh. Wolfhaven in Germany have been operating a 100% green energy policy for about 3 years now. Everything is solar or wind-powered. They generate so much power that they have neighbouring towns buying the excess for less than any national power company would ever consider charging.
We're trying in the US, cut us some slack
Interesting. Do they also run fossil fuel powered generators on the background for base load energy?
@@NoRegertsHere I dunno. They were still connected to the private grid before they switched over. The town invested heavily in solar & wind farms and it started paying off when they were generating more power than they were using. Then, they didn't renew their contract with the power grid operators, and the grid became publically owned and operated by the town. To all intents and purposes, they're doing very very nicely.
theconversation.com/this-small-german-town-took-back-the-power-and-went-fully-renewable-126294
I don't get it! Be eco-friendly and sustainable by building a new town and destroy natural habitat to do so. How many acres of land were destroyed to erect that monstrosity of a solar panel field? What about the towns that people are moving from, do they just become derelict as the infrastructure and buildings deteriorate. I think this is an example of what not to do. It flies in the face of REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.......and I'm a tree hugger!
Stefanie Sombaty Exactly! It’s ridiculous that all these homes could be fitted with way more sustainable, perhaps even recycled/repurposed appliances, and the solar panel field is honestly atrocious. Building new towns that are too expensive for the average citizen to live in, while simultaneously destroying even more land is horribly hypocritical, and totally economically unsustainable, especially when America is based so much around capitalism. What a fail...
Since 1914 the land's primary use was logging and agriculture - a working ranch ( hence the name)- the solar field was crops and cattle, NOT natural habitat. Approximately ninety percent of Babcock Ranch's total land will remain undeveloped, to be preserved as open space, nature reserves or for agricultural use. It will now be part of an incredibly important wildlife corridor stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the center of Florida all of the way to the Charlotte Harbor Estuary.
How Americans turn a dream to a nightmare. Frightening place on many levels. Could I park my live-in bus there? I think not.
Whoa, not woah.
Surely it would make more sense to put more solar on roofs to free up land for farming and more trees......
not in florida...hurricanes??? for fuck's sake...
The panels must take a lot of money to be maintained
I was not happy to see that big field array of PV panels. It's old school and inefficient. Use several methods: float the panels on the existing shallow lakes, place series of VAWTS along the roadways and use solar convection turbine towers, which use rising heat to turn the wind turbines inside the towers. Much less land gets used up and very few trees get cut that way.
Most panel manufacturers give 20-25yrs warranty these days so I don't see where the maintenance comes in - unless we mean cleaning and that can be taken care of by rain I think.
Generally, the O&M costs for utility scale arrays are about $5 per kW, which in Florida is about 0.25 cents per kilowatt hour. That’s compared to a retail cost of electricity in Florida of about 12 cents.
How many birds does that solar array vaporize in midair
None, you are thinking of the focused mirror type that focuses the sunlight on a central boiler to drive a steam turbine. This setup uses PV cells (Photovoltaic Cells) that convert light directly into electricity.
Above poster is correct. Instead, land was flattened and removed of vegetation and until safe recycling methods match those required of big mining, the materials in those PVs are an environmental disaster
America is the worst performing...”What a surprise, eh?” Not so subtle sarcasm
The future, where nobody thought that they could save ground space by putting as many solar panels on the roofs of houses as they could. Those dead trees must be pissed
It needs to have a hydrogen generation power plant at the say time a huge solar colletor to generate power for the whole area ie a solar dish because in 25years time all those solar panels will be of no use
Or just gen 4 fission using thorium or spent fuel rods 🤷🏿♂️
The problem is is
Jesus, they found someone who knows absolutely no answers to simple questions of how far, how long to greet a visitor being filmed. No idea of the distance, or time it takes. Ah, Florida, maintaining it's reputation. I wonder how many homes could have fit into the solar panel field if all the buildings just had them, as Jon mentioned, and were part of a integrated grid that just shared energy.
That solar farm wanks, the panels are right on the ground so the land can't be used for agriculture. There should be panels on individual homes, as well; it's super easy to design for that. The electric bus is a joke, far too slow; the pedal powered thing should have been solar powered, that's super easy in Florida. This place will be nothing but annoying rules and will be dystopian.
I wonder which 3rd world country they will dump those solar panels to in 10 years time when they need replacing?
Africa, where they will still considered new.
Should be able to grind them up and turn them into new ones, they're mostly silicon and aluminum
lee madden Every component can be recycled. The largest by mass is glass, which we have been recycling for decades. The next is aluminium, the most recycled metal on earth. Then various other more valuable metals that it makes economic sense to recover. The biggest issue with solar panels is the plastic, which although recyclable there is little market for the recovered product as virgin plastic is so cheap. The myth that solar panels are somehow valueless toxic waste at the end of their life is just that- a myth. As solar continues to grow, and as more panels come to the end of their life the recycling industry will grow along side.
After their 25-30 year life, PV panels usually get recycled into new ones.
More unbelievable than Lee Mack getting a 9-letter word?
Also, that shuttle driver was not a good conversationalist!
@@stvp68 no worse than Jon was. Plus, editing for comedic effect.
Just realized that Jon has the face of a baby and the body of a 70 year old man.
An adorable baby though
All those solar panels. Maybe replace them in the future with Tesla roofed homes
My 4 shares in Tesla stock love that idea
The legacy to his kids will be "shit how do we get rid of these worn out solar panels" and "hey the toxic waste is leaking into the ground water from these poisonous rechargeable car batteries" so well done on that one…..NOT.
all those houses just waiting to be flooded by the rising seal levels.
It still blows my mind that we can get electricity from the sun.
What are the chances of us discivering electricity, then using it to build out civilization, then it happen to be able to be farmed from sun light...
Everything alive has electricity in it, including humans and we got it from the sun....so where's the mind blowing part? It's the most natural thing on Earth.
@@thinkfloyd2594 yikes, kill joy. Let people enjoy the wonders of the earth ahahah
What a waste of land... They should have just built the houses with solar panels and made the home buyers pay for that, instead of some massive HOA fee that's probably 8 times the cost over 10 years.
Mate, land is not the issue in Florida.
@@davecrawley4634 "mate" "Florida"
Electric cars and solar panels are horrible for the environment just look how they are created
Unless you're advocating for cycling and walking, you're delusional that there is a better alternative.
Trump's coal and fossil fuels puppets won't like this
wasting all that land for solar when there is better ways to make electricity.
Stop judging us on climate change because you would never know of the freedoms we have
Exactly, fuck the planet when you can have freedom
Stay away from the inauguration
@@rowredround7206 you don’t have to worry about that, I’m staying as FAR AS I CAN
CO2 emissions have dropped with the switch to natural gas made possible by energy independence in the US. Plus the freedoms are one of the pillars that allow for most of the worlds innovation. Solar and wind are not the future of industrial level energy requirements. My money is on gen 4 fission. But it will likely come from the US, whatever it is
@@NoRegertsHere don’t you tire of blowing smoke out your arse?
Whatever. AMERICA is NOT the worst eco friendly country. We’ve done more for the world climate than any other country. Buzz off.
hahahaha you got anymore like that?
In a way you're right. As with everything these days, it's a tight call between the US and China for which country is the worst. China may just be edging it on the climate front, but the US is busy trying to win the political instability category.
Rebecca Keltie Please explain what America has done for the world climate? From an outsiders perspective it looks like your energy policy is stuck in 1950! You use more electricity per person than any other nation on earth, and oil consumption per person is several times higher than the rest of the world too. Trump has rolled back already lax environmental protections and pulled out of the Paris agreement which we already know is nowhere near tough enough. Add to that the vast numbers of people in the US who genuinely believe climate change is a hoax and you are looking at an environmental disaster, not a world leader.
@@spencerwilton5831 as an American, thank you for your words and legitimate facts. Rebecca up there speaks like a ignorant teenager that’s never grown up. Hopefully you know that we all aren’t like that.
Think of all the fossil fuels used to develop that “eco-friendly” place!🤦🏻♂️
I never understood that argument against eco friendly stuff. Like new towns and cars and whatnot are going to be built no matter what, so why not make the new stuff better for the enviornment