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Energy Innovations Across The Globe - 01.08.2012
Energy solutions could change the way we live - from one city's bold smart grid experiment, to radical home-building redesigns, and cutting-edge technology that could surround us in solar power no matter where we live. This week energyNOW! looks at energy innovations across the globe.
The Pecan Street Project
The smart grid conjures up images of controlling home energy use with iPhones and utilities communicating with customers in real time like never before. But across most of the country, the smart grid is more fantasy than reality - except in the Lone Star State.
Correspondent Josh Zepps reports from Austin, Texas on the Pecan Street Project, a smart grid experiment that could help prevent blackouts and change the way we all use electricity.
The Round House
Consumers don't need to wait for smart grid technology to go mainstream in order to save energy and reduce their electricity bills. Measures like adding insulation or using efficient appliances are well known, but what about changing the way we build our homes?
Correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan tours a factory constructing prefabricated round homes that can help lower heating and cooling bills while reducing construction costs.
Solar Power From Nanotechnology
The solar cell, our main technology for capturing solar energy and turning it into electricity, has been steadily getting cheaper and much more efficient. What it hasn't been doing, however, is becoming more flexible or thinner.
Correspondent Josh Zepps checks out how nanotechnology is helping MIT researchers pioneer solar cells that can be printed on flexible plastic cells as thin and light as a sheet of paper.
Solar Ovens in South Africa
Renewable energy innovations generally appeal to high-tech aspects of life, and can often be taken for granted. But in less-developed countries, people's relationship with energy is much different and power doesn't come with the flick of a switch.
Chief correspondent Tyler Suiters visits South Africa to learn how one abundant energy source, ...
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Greening The Most Unlikely Items - 1.1.2012
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Waste not, want not. From landfills to sewage treatment plants, innovators around the country are working on ways to reduce humanity's environmental footprint and get more from our waste. This week, energyNOW! explores the ways people are "going green" in unlikely areas. Trash Gas for Trash Trucks Natural resources may be limited, but humanity's consumption guarantees an abundance of one unlike...
The State of Electric Vehicles in America - 12.25.2011
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Electric vehicles are hitting the streets in larger numbers, led by models like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt. By one estimate, there could be more than 600,000 EVs on U.S. roads by 2014, but that's a speck in the rear-view mirror compared to the roughly 140 million passenger cars Americans already drive. This week, energyNOW! explores the state of electric vehicles in America today: are t...
The Durban Deal - 12.18.2011
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This week energyNOW! looks at what this month's United Nations climate change summit in South Africa achieved, examines the track record of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for limiting greenhouse gases, and interviews President Obama's lead climate negotiator. The Durban Platform The latest round of UN climate talks concluded last week in Durban, South Africa. The annual negotiations aim to get the wor...
Energy 101: Wind Power
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Our animated correspondent "Little Lee Patrick Sullivan" explains how the wind can be used to generate power, including where wind comes from, its history as a power source, how wind farms generate electricity and what's likely to be the first major offshore wind project in the U.S.
Reducing Emissions From Energy - 12.11.2011
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This week energyNOW! looks at solar success stories, and how a deep-water discovery off Israel's coast could change the Middle East's energy landscape forever and help American motorists drive with fewer emissions. The Israel Connection: An Offshore Energy Future To power itself, Israel relies on fossil fuels from hostile neighbors - a reliance loaded with risk. Israel depends on natural gas fr...
Rare Earths and Green Gadgets - 12.3.2011
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China dominates worldwide production of rare earth minerals, essential to operating clean energy technologies and the electronic gadgets we use every day. How does this monopoly threaten American energy independence? And, just in time for the holidays, energy-themed video games and a review of gifts that could help your friends and family go green. China's Rare Earths Monopoly Rare earth minera...
Durban Climate Talks Update
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energyNOW!'s Chief Correspondent Tyler Suiters reports from Durban, South Africa, on the early action at this year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change talks.
Tackling the Future of Clean Energy - 11.27.2011
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energyNOW! looks at how NFL teams are powering up with clean energy to save money, how Not-In-My-Backyard opposition is blocking the development of renewables across the country, and one federal agency's effort to bring about a new, clean-energy economy. The NFL Scores with Clean Energy A typical NFL stadium uses enough electricity in a year to power about 1,000 average U.S. homes, leaving some...
Shale Oil - The Rush for Black Gold - 11.20.2011
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One of America's biggest energy challenges is foreign oil dependency. The U.S. imports about half the oil it uses, putting the nation's energy security at risk and costing hundreds of billions of dollars per year. New drilling innovations are unlocking vast new reserves and boosting local economies. But is the new drilling also forcing a tough choice between oil and water in drought-stricken Te...
The Midwest's Wind Power Hub
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The Department of Energy says the potential for wind power is greatest in middle America, where strong, steady breezes blow across the prairie. But the wind farms built there often have to send their electricity across several states to find the homes and businesses that need it. So how can energy from small-town wind turbines reach big city power sockets? Correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan goe...
energyTHEN: Early Views on Wind Power
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Neither the problems with wind power, nor efforts to solve them, are new. This week's energyTHEN! takes us to 1980 and a Department of Energy film on the pioneering work being done in the field of wind energy.
The Hot Zone: The Sanya Skypump
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This week in the energyNOW! Hot Zone: The Sanya Skypump, developed by Urban Green Energy and General Electric, will allow electric vehicle drivers to power up using solar and wind power. When it's not being used to charge EVs, the makers say it can send electricity to the grid.
Capturing The Wind
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The biggest challenge facing wind energy is intermittency. Wind often blows strongest when power demand is lowest, and weakest when electricity is needed the most. Because today's power grid needs electricity to be consumed the moment it's generated, that means wind turbines send electricity to the grid half as often as an average coal plant. But what if wind farms could store the power that is...
The Makani Airborne Wind Turbine
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Flying a kite has often been considered child's play - until now. A group of inventors are working to turn the kite-flying concept into an airborne wind turbine that's lighter and cheaper traditional wind turbines. Correspondent Josh Zepps meets the innovators who could change wind power forever.
Energy Answers: Blowing In The Wind? - 11.12.2011
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Energy Answers: Blowing In The Wind? - 11.12.2011
Interview with NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko
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Interview with NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko
What To Do With America's Nuclear Waste?
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What To Do With America's Nuclear Waste?
China's Race for Resources
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China's Race for Resources
Nuclear Waste and the Race for Resources - 11.06.2011
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Nuclear Waste and the Race for Resources - 11.06.2011
Dying to Be Green
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Dying to Be Green
Solar-Powered Landfills
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Solar-Powered Landfills
Poop to Plastic
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Poop to Plastic
Trash Gas for Trash Trucks
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Trash Gas for Trash Trucks
Greening The Most Unlikely Items - 10.29.2011
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Greening The Most Unlikely Items - 10.29.2011
Next-Generation EV Batteries Zap Range Anxiety
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Next-Generation EV Batteries Zap Range Anxiety
Growing Pains for Electric Vehicle Manufacturers
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Growing Pains for Electric Vehicle Manufacturers
Revenge of the Electric Car
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Revenge of the Electric Car
The State of Electric Vehicles in America - 10.23.2011
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The State of Electric Vehicles in America - 10.23.2011
Can Geoengineering Combat Climate Change?
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Can Geoengineering Combat Climate Change?

Komentáře

  • @rh5971
    @rh5971 Před 19 hodinami

    Solar and wind are not unlimited! THEY ONLY WORK WHEN THE SUN SHINES AND THE WIND BLOWS!!!

  • @b.griffin317
    @b.griffin317 Před 2 dny

    Phones and cameras from 2011 = 🤣

  • @user-de2pm7vr7y
    @user-de2pm7vr7y Před 13 dny

    After all these years, I finally get the question how many people does it take to switch on a light bulb 🙏❤️🍀

  • @Crypto_Brandon
    @Crypto_Brandon Před 29 dny

    This is the number one reason why UFOs and aliens are so covered up, particularly electricity, no not fossilized electricity like oil, Cole, gas or even green energy like solar wind nuclear.. I'm talking zero point Energy. That's why they don't come out and talk about UFOs and aliens because if they did then scientists would ask well how did they get here?" ( it's impossible nothing can travel faster than the speed of light and everything involving our basic understanding of modern-day physics) it would unleash a massive explosion on the science community ushering in a whole new world of greatness.. But that would spark a massive controversy in which the multi hundred trillion dollar fossil fuel industry doesn't want to admit. It would let the cat out of bag then it will be a real American Revolution claiming Independence not from Britain, but from the ultimate slave masters, which is the Central Banking military industrial complex Energy System that is basically controlling our entire existence. Whoever controls the world's energy controls the world and that is why UFOs and aliens are so covered up it's not about them it's about keeping control over us and putting a meter on your car and on your house and basically your entire life when in reality there's an abundance of free energy all around us it's all about tapping into that and that is the ultimate government cover-up in which it can cure most of Mankind's problems like disease sickness illness food and water. Starting to feel sick yet? Well it gets worse.. Gets 1000 likes for part 2.

  • @donthompson9862
    @donthompson9862 Před měsícem

    Now evs are going to be super cheap since calis working on charging 30 cents per mile for evs..they push evs so much now there getting ready to screw everyone so Hard omg 30 cents per miles insane

  • @Life_with_Zimmŷ
    @Life_with_Zimmŷ Před měsícem

    Me

  • @metronistronn
    @metronistronn Před 2 měsíci

    He is the most diabolical malthusian ive ever heard.. a truly sick man

  • @levimiller7642
    @levimiller7642 Před 2 měsíci

    This is the greatest explanation anybody has ever given, ever.

  • @ryuyang6314
    @ryuyang6314 Před 3 měsíci

    My favorite is the little guy electricity

  • @novasmemes8000
    @novasmemes8000 Před 3 měsíci

    why this nigga arms so long 🙅‍♂😡

  • @AbhishekNayak-pl6kx
    @AbhishekNayak-pl6kx Před 3 měsíci

    nice

  • @PhysicsWithBen
    @PhysicsWithBen Před 3 měsíci

    I like this video. I am inspired already.

  • @edwinlubbe6091
    @edwinlubbe6091 Před 3 měsíci

    He never answered the question on how many people does it take to turn on a light 🤣

  • @user-mq3vj2zo4t
    @user-mq3vj2zo4t Před 4 měsíci

    i will thank you for my B in science

  • @secretsquirrel726
    @secretsquirrel726 Před 4 měsíci

    US needs to keep and store its supply of protonated deuterium. Once refined, It can easily be made to release free protons, which will eventually be used as an energy source and be worth their weight in gold, and assist us in long space flight. There is a danger to releasing free protons, and they must be stored in chemical batteries, or in another way. The universe only supplied us with so much free protons, and if they are let to sink to the Earth's center, it will cause geologic instability and be very hard to get them back. If sold, this material will be used by our enemies in various ways and be wasted away.

  • @oddvardmyrnes9040
    @oddvardmyrnes9040 Před 5 měsíci

    8 years later, the verdict is in. Not economic viable. The SMB concept based on solid fuel is decisively dead. All the investors pulled out.

  • @mrcrumbboy
    @mrcrumbboy Před 5 měsíci

    im here for geology, what about yall?

  • @sdfjsd
    @sdfjsd Před 5 měsíci

    Huh that's very convenient

  • @Foohimboi
    @Foohimboi Před 5 měsíci

    funny and good for learning

  • @Foohimboi
    @Foohimboi Před 5 měsíci

    really old yk

  • @richsalazme
    @richsalazme Před 6 měsíci

    Back then, I really thought nuclear energy worked differently. Turns out it was just a complicated way of using uranium to heat up water and generate steam for the turbines of the generator.

  • @youtubeerick
    @youtubeerick Před 6 měsíci

    Thank you so much you rescue my life❤

  • @Tettzz
    @Tettzz Před 6 měsíci

    Great explenation

  • @janinesaunders4878
    @janinesaunders4878 Před 6 měsíci

    I've worked in the power inductry for 20+ years. This is the best "how it works" video I've seen. Consider updating the the stats in this to reflect the increase in renewable resources as part of the U.S. energy mix.

  • @tanyalahies
    @tanyalahies Před 6 měsíci

    Enjoying this video as it is very engaging with the audience and keeping us in the loop till the end of the video.

  • @gumonthepants
    @gumonthepants Před 7 měsíci

    Amazing to know that we’re actually STILL using the steam engine for EVERYTHING!

  • @aspectyoutube8430
    @aspectyoutube8430 Před 8 měsíci

    I watched Alice borderland and wondered if I was going to be the only one alive once. So I decided to get a plan😂

  • @amra.haleem5175
    @amra.haleem5175 Před 9 měsíci

    الله هو الخلاق العليم وليست الطبيعة. آمنت بالله المنعم.

  • @ZillitheKid91
    @ZillitheKid91 Před 9 měsíci

    Great video!

  • @vanityonthego3310
    @vanityonthego3310 Před 9 měsíci

    Tuck in your shirt!

  • @user-ix8nf2ye7j
    @user-ix8nf2ye7j Před 10 měsíci

    Great introduction video. I learned that its a combination of source that generate the electricity. I thought it was funny a dinosaur was driving.

  • @mr_polygon
    @mr_polygon Před 10 měsíci

    uwu

  • @0njo188
    @0njo188 Před 10 měsíci

    And when the world needed him most....he vanished.

  • @rpruneau68
    @rpruneau68 Před 11 měsíci

    And it only harmed (1) animated sheep in its production of this tutorial.

  • @noback91
    @noback91 Před 11 měsíci

    This is some quality OG CZcams content

  • @user-lb1kn9wc2i
    @user-lb1kn9wc2i Před 11 měsíci

    I love the old school animation 😍

  • @swain2793
    @swain2793 Před rokem

    This is one of the best electricity videos I’ve seen!!!

  • @froggarana
    @froggarana Před rokem

    OK, it's 101, but that's a good time to point out you need to throw heat away to run a steam turbine, also video gives the impression that the generator is efficient because water is recycled, whereas efficiency has a well defined meaning in engineering, and reusing water isn't it !

  • @magpdouble
    @magpdouble Před rokem

    i ended up here at 3:52 AM for some reason, but hey, you learn something every day 😂

  • @ChristianThomas-qm2sx

    So the energy that's not being used in the sockets go where?... do they get grounded? Say nothings on, no ones home

  • @MrBoomBoom225
    @MrBoomBoom225 Před rokem

    This whole time i thought steam was something obsolete only to realize that we're still using the technology that they used to power the trains in the 1800s

  • @kushagrasahgal
    @kushagrasahgal Před rokem

    Amazing video

  • @b.n.c.v5792
    @b.n.c.v5792 Před rokem

    *Mario sounds*

  • @mikey4590
    @mikey4590 Před rokem

    The last line, no brainer, lmao🤣

  • @MiniMaster_YT
    @MiniMaster_YT Před rokem

    Bro why did you stop uploading videos 😢

  • @thihuongpham4866
    @thihuongpham4866 Před rokem

    Love this video! Like if you agree!❤😊

  • @matebogodorothyseape1311

    Helpful and very easy to understand. Thank you

  • @agentpickle125
    @agentpickle125 Před rokem

    idk how it works because the number 1 law of reality is nothing can be created nor destroyed

    • @agentpickle125
      @agentpickle125 Před rokem

      so how does copper not go null from being used so much

  • @yyhhttcccyyhhttccc6694

    cool

  • @IkeSan
    @IkeSan Před rokem

    Texas is so big they have their own grid.