2251 What To Do About Old Wind Turbine Blades

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  • @dSquared0162
    @dSquared0162 Před 2 měsíci +4

    It seems just effortless the way you put things together, Dr. Robert! 👏

  • @budgetworkflow
    @budgetworkflow Před 2 měsíci +7

    I have nothing useful to say, I just wanted to say I love these videos. :)

  • @markrumrey790
    @markrumrey790 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Commercial Wind Blades made from Hemp Fiber which is made into a mat has stronger fibers then glass grows faster than Bambo and is easier to recycle. Hemp fibers also absorb Resin as good or better than glass or Balsa wood.

  • @natecus4926
    @natecus4926 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Reminds me of the film “the Swiss family Robinson”

  • @yannkitson116
    @yannkitson116 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Fibreglass blades can be recycled as stitch 'n' glue sailboats.

  • @kevinleebailey
    @kevinleebailey Před 2 měsíci +6

    I've got this feeling somebody's watching you. 😁
    In fact lot's are watching almost half a million subscribers! 👍

  • @olivierroy1301
    @olivierroy1301 Před 2 měsíci +3

    When you did your video about vertical wind mills, I thought that it could solve that problem, because vertical blades are supported differently.

  • @neilgillies6943
    @neilgillies6943 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Glad to see you are using bamboo and not balsa !!!! A couple of years ago, balsa was practically unobtanium for the aeromodelling/hobby community as the Chinese were purchasing all the growth in Papua New Guinea for their turbine blades 😒

  • @orpheuscreativeco9236
    @orpheuscreativeco9236 Před 2 měsíci +2

    MAN, that was a beautiful build! 😮 Thanks for sharing Rob ✌️

  • @justtinkering6713
    @justtinkering6713 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Bamboo is grass. Remember how corn started out, then humans turned into huge ears and now it feeds the world. Grass to bamboo, then maybe wind turbine blades to power the world.

  • @phobosmoon4643
    @phobosmoon4643 Před 2 měsíci

    interesting tidbit; making those blades is very similar to making prosthetic sockets! Super light, able to be fit to vacuum-fit molds, flexible, its awesome! Carbon fiber instead of the common fibers really strengthens it. (the real ones not bamboo blades, hah)

  • @queenstreetsystems
    @queenstreetsystems Před 2 měsíci +2

    I remember the bamboo wind turbine video ! I have a Q about the old blades, as they seem to "go on forever". Why aren't they just re-used somewhere where less size is more appropriate? We could use some smaller ones here where I live. Or - could they be repurposed to be used in estuary water generators. It does seem wicked to just bury them. It's like putting a hat you don't like in the bin when you've only worn it once and not giving it to the charity shop (which is where I get all my hats from😄)
    Another great video ! thank you.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  Před 2 měsíci +1

      they have micrcracks mate and become a danger

    • @survidmt
      @survidmt Před 2 měsíci +1

      The scaling down reduces size but maintains the mass per ft of bigger blades, harder to drive a smaller blade due to weight. If the material was malleable we would be in bussiness.

    • @queenstreetsystems
      @queenstreetsystems Před měsícem

      @@ThinkingandTinkering can't they be fixed Robert?

    • @queenstreetsystems
      @queenstreetsystems Před měsícem

      @@ThinkingandTinkering What about my estuary project? 😎😎 We must be able to use them in that somehow

  • @perkins1439
    @perkins1439 Před 2 měsíci +2

    You could use those turbine blades to build houses Or House roofs except one problem they would last forever

  • @skisavoie
    @skisavoie Před 2 měsíci

    It’s amazing what one can make with grass. Great video, thanks.

  • @davemillan3360
    @davemillan3360 Před 2 měsíci +2

    They could be cut in strips and with new resin and fiberglass turned into all sorts of building materials for housing.

  • @stewartpalmer2456
    @stewartpalmer2456 Před 2 měsíci

    Skipper? Have you seen Gilligan? Time to review the Gilligan's Island episodes. LOL

  • @mikaelfransson3658
    @mikaelfransson3658 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I love it! Then I see?A film like this my head start and brainstorm! After a moment I have a two meter high VAWT how might give 3kWh! But I come back to my bicycle wheelrim and threaded rod and 8 planks for asymetriskt Vortex propulsion! to hang the VAWT and take out the energy from the bicycle wheelrim! To make this a bit stronger do it in 4 blades like a Savonius/Darriuswing open like a "?" questionmark and and screwed at the rim on two places! Now we talk cheap Windturbin! 😂 /Mikael PS A qustion is left how to make a aeroplanwingform on a bamboo cheap? But this is the challange! Of Course every part of this square looking Darius/Savionius have need to overlook best solutions in price and qualety. DS

  • @yvanpimentel9950
    @yvanpimentel9950 Před 2 měsíci

    if you steam the bamboo it can be shaped into any shape, 2 to 3 times wider and longer with the same bamboo.

  • @simongross3122
    @simongross3122 Před 2 měsíci

    Could make a bloody big didgeridoo out of that bamboo :)

  • @il51diablo
    @il51diablo Před 2 měsíci

    Well done ! Respect Rob!

  • @johnmarkgatti3324
    @johnmarkgatti3324 Před 2 měsíci

    and how much energy is used to recycle the old resin infused blades ? which are made from hydro carbons to start with . nice build Rob , may have bamboozled the windustry !?. It does rot pretty fast so needs treating ,it is grass after all ,for any longevity .

  • @chrisrelling
    @chrisrelling Před 2 měsíci

    Please improve sound quality. Perhaps some acoustic panels? Thank you for your videos, a great benefit to the maker community.

  • @farnarkleboy
    @farnarkleboy Před 2 měsíci

    The tool you need for the bamboo is a froe, its hit with a wooden beedle

  • @garrenosborne9623
    @garrenosborne9623 Před 2 měsíci

    Principles of Design for Disassembly (DfDs ) & BAMB (Buildings As Materials Banks - though strangely works for Bamboo too 🤔), the Legofication & Mechanoisation with modularity , circularity & universal standardisation needs to be designed in from start.
    Some loss of efficiency maybe in not having totally bespoke chemical & fabrication. For sustainable infrastructure of a longterm civilization pre grey goo where everything self organises into paper clips (including us soylent greens 😮) national lego sets that can used in the transition through decline is the best way to go

  • @lostvisitor
    @lostvisitor Před 2 měsíci

    How about doing the stupidly obvious thing of designing wind power that does not use stupidly large fan blades???? You have shown lots of different types of blades. Combine them with a wind redirecting structure. (like a building complex that has this spot where leaves and trash tend to gather and spin around)
    great videos!!!

  • @8ank3r
    @8ank3r Před 2 měsíci +2

    So good I wish I could subscribe again :) LOL

  • @clickbaitnumberone1403
    @clickbaitnumberone1403 Před 2 měsíci

    Isnt it possible to renew the old ones by just puttin on a new layer? Makin some additional reinforcement somehow?

  • @mauriceupp9381
    @mauriceupp9381 Před 2 měsíci

    I do believe ground up wind turbine blades would be great filler in asphalt roads

  • @lancelotgood3745
    @lancelotgood3745 Před 2 měsíci

    Taking the old blades placing them end for end and stacking them in two layers then pour concrete amongst the fiberglass and you have a really strong bridge span for low level creeks and viaduct replacing iron mesh maybe an idea i have no ip on this

  • @NillionaireNewsNetwork
    @NillionaireNewsNetwork Před 2 měsíci

    they should make corbelled longitudinal homeless shelters with them.

  • @reversetransistor4129
    @reversetransistor4129 Před 2 měsíci

    Bambu is good, you can do it with plastic bottles in several ways.

  • @raztaz826
    @raztaz826 Před 2 měsíci

    I don't understand why its so bad to bury them. Does fibreglass melt or something when underground?

  • @RoofAndAMeal4UsAll
    @RoofAndAMeal4UsAll Před 2 měsíci

    Mr. Robert-Smith I have a question regarding vacuum, 'flame-licker' engines. I hope this is not an inappropriate place to ask... All over CZcams there are videos of flame lickers with people stating that it is the cooling of gasses sucked into the chamber which result in the engine's motive force.
    I disagree with this, and would like to hear your take on it. it is my tentative belief that the flame licker engine is running on the drawn in plasma state of energy present in the flame that it sucks in. I think that the ions and electrons of the flame are sucked into the cylinder where, once the shutter closes, they cannot fill the 3 dimensional space they have now become trapped in - the plasma is just energy, not uncombusted gaseous particles that take up space - therefore a vacuum is left as the plasma dissipates, which in turn draws in the piston. I know that some amount of gasses are sucked in, but I think that those partially combusted gasses that may be sucked in, are more of a transport mechanism for the developed plasma than the primary motive force. If it were just hot gasses cooling then I don't believe the engine would ever run, there has to be a stronger initial force for the first cycle to lead to the second.
    The nature of the electron/ion plasma of the flame never seems to be discussed, it is always "hot gasses" & I just don't think that would be enough, but I can't figure out how to actually quantify or test my theory of plasma dissipation as the motive force. If it's truly just hot gasses, then flame would not be necessary which should mean that a flame licker would run on superheated air, without any flame present - but I don't think that it will. I think the actual plasma of the flame is necessary. I don't have a source of superheated air to test my theory. Probably wrong but, would like to be convinced by someone smarter, that I'm wrong.
    I am happy to become better educated & so better comprehend what is going on. If some day you might take on the question, why does a flame licker 'really' run, I would be very intrigued! Thank you for your dedication to explaining the science of harnessing energy to do work! I really should donate to you for asking a question of such magnitude but alas I am poor.

  • @stevemcardle2013
    @stevemcardle2013 Před 2 měsíci

    On the other side. What are we going to do about old solar pannels ?

  • @scfcrob
    @scfcrob Před 2 měsíci

    I’m wondering if, knowing what you learnt about tubercles, you needed to sand the nodules off the bamboo?

  • @user-ok5lb5fp7y
    @user-ok5lb5fp7y Před 2 měsíci

    You split bamboo like a Lao!

  • @str8up598
    @str8up598 Před 2 měsíci

    Wander if the recycling process uses only green stuff.

  • @chrisbingham3289
    @chrisbingham3289 Před 2 měsíci

    Plans were made of wood ?

  • @normcfu
    @normcfu Před 2 měsíci

    In its lifetime a turbine blade must create a certain amount of energy. I wonder how much coal ash would be created generating that same amount of energy and what the volume and mass comparisons look like.

  • @zapaholic
    @zapaholic Před 2 měsíci

    There are companies working to put sails on cargo ships and some of them are using wing profiles. I would think there are enough bright people around who could find a way to repurpose the old blades for this.

    • @natecus4926
      @natecus4926 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I think the main concern is that they are being taken apart because their duty cycle is up. Reusing them for anything industrial or commercial may bring on too much liability

  • @hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542

    My main 2 questions are 1, how easy is to buy the stuff if you don't live in China [import tariffs, licenses, fees, permits, etc] and 2, how much does it cost?

  • @yvanpimentel9950
    @yvanpimentel9950 Před 2 měsíci

    just used them as a rigid sails for sea going vessels......

  • @davidmunro2077
    @davidmunro2077 Před 2 měsíci

    Where did you get the large diameter bamboo from?

  • @noelwest8234
    @noelwest8234 Před 2 měsíci

    AS usual 👍👍

  • @kentauree
    @kentauree Před 2 měsíci

    Please calculate how many kilos of turbine blade waste comes out of a lifetime of energy use, and compare it to how many tons of ash that comes from a lifetime of energy use from electricity made by burning coal.

  • @b_uppy
    @b_uppy Před 2 měsíci +1

    Why try to totally break down the fiberglass blades??? We have a homelessness problem. Those could be the start of tiny homes. Think cross sections would be more fire resistant than tents, as well as have more usable surfaces, impervious to weather, rodent resistant, etc. Reusing this way reduces many issues with other types of recycling.
    You bamboo windmill looks quite beautiful, btw. I want to make mine from bamboo.

  • @malcolm8564
    @malcolm8564 Před 2 měsíci

    I'm wearing socks made of bamboo and I'm surprised that aluminium alloy is not used for wind turbine blades.

    • @mikebond6328
      @mikebond6328 Před 2 měsíci

      Aluminium is relatively expensive.

  • @retriever7061
    @retriever7061 Před 2 měsíci

    Well, where do the waste of nuclear reactors from Europe go? They are sent to special landfills to Eastern Siberia. The blades can also be stored there, there is a lot of space, and the blades are also not radiate, this is their great dignity.

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth Před 2 měsíci

    Why not aircraft frame aluminium?

  • @withershin
    @withershin Před 2 měsíci

    Wait what? The knew this back then but still built airplane propeller style wind turbines? I wish I had tax payer money to build disposable tech.

  • @terryhoath1983
    @terryhoath1983 Před 2 měsíci

    Laid flat, they can be used as pedestrian bridges with spans as long as the blades, the biggest redundant blades now over 200 ft. If turned on their sides and bolted together as the base upon which a surface could be constructed, they could be used as vehicular bridges. These could be useful in Ukraine to replace bridges destroyed in the war. As for the Dutch banning the disposal of them in landfill, with rising sea level, they are mad. They need everything that they can get hold of to raise the level of their land ... it isn't much, but as the old woman said whilst piddling in the Sea, "Every Little helps," .... or to make gigantic lily pads on which they could build houses. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, sea level rose by 1.87 inches in the 10 years 2014-2023 and it is accelerating. The Dutch do not have long to go. Contrary to the usual hyperbole, only a few square miles of the Netherlands are below sea level ... that is below low spring tide. Huge areas are inter-tidal I.e. above low spring tide level but below the peak of a surge spring tide BUT as sea level rises, ever increasing area WILL be below low spring tide requiring more and more energy to power the pumps. In addition to the sea-level rise, because of isostatic settlement, the Netherlands like Southern England is sinking back into the Earth. London sank a full inch in the last 11 years.

  • @VrilyaSS
    @VrilyaSS Před 2 měsíci +1

    Build Amusement Parks all around the world, and REUSE the Blades as WaterslidesWhat is fascinating s, that one guy is able to archive, what multimillion even multibillion dollar energies struggle to--building windblades only using natural sources, its a shame

  • @ArjayMartin
    @ArjayMartin Před 2 měsíci

    make from paper...

  • @azlandpilotcar4450
    @azlandpilotcar4450 Před 2 měsíci

    A prediction: KWh required for producing, operating,, recovering and recycling each composite blade will be greater than that produced, prorated per blade. .
    Totally enjoy your bamboo turbine demonstration. Great job. Could it be scaled up? Can a larger blade frame be made bamboo or wood then covered with recycled paper?

    • @justinterested5819
      @justinterested5819 Před 2 měsíci

      This is like totally wrong:
      One Wind Turbine with 5 MW on a medicore location produces around 10 000MWh per year, or 250 000 MWh over 25 years.
      One Ton of Coal as example holds around 5MWh for comparison. So one Wind Turbine can produce the energy equivalent of 50 000 Tons of Coal. Or 25 000 Tons of Oil/Natural Gas (both who have an energy density of around 10 MWh/Ton). This doesnt include conversion losses (or gains via heat pumps). If you use the energy for heating, you can make 750 000 MWh with an average heat pump (SCOP of around 3, modern buildings can hit 4), while coal stays around the same (since you need to convert coal to electricity first, what wastes 2/3 of the energy).
      And that ignores the fact that the CO2 is dumped right where it is being produced, with no control what happens to it. Producing 250 000 MWh of Electricity from Natural Gas (0.4 Tons of CO2/MWh) emitts around 100 000 Tons of CO2. What has a far lower density than Wind turbine Blades (1 Ton of CO2 requires around 500m³ of Space, 100 000 Tons of CO2 would need 50 000 000 m³ of Space). Even if you just lay down the wind power plant as a whole, dig it in and leave alone the area above it, it would need far less space, and would cause far less problems than CO2. Compare that to wind turbine blades: very heavy wind turbine blades weigh around 150 tons each (from 25 MW offshore Turbines), so together they have a mass of 450 tons.
      Fiber Glass has a density of around 2tons/m³. Meaning you would need only 225m³ of Space. Half of that of *1* ton of CO2.

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones Před 2 měsíci

    Recording by speaking into a mike pointed at the hard reflective wall behind you is always and everywhere a bad idea-ya-ya-ya...

  • @newagetemplar6100
    @newagetemplar6100 Před 2 měsíci

    I can’t think of anything humorous to say 😵‍💫.
    What gets me is yo can get old Cessna’s from the 70’s that are still airworthy with Aluminium aerofoils , Lancaster bomber and spitfires are still flying, some commercial vans have composite leaf springs and fishing rods can last longer than these wind turbine blades .
    Quite ironic that they seem incompetent when designing wind turbine blades .
    I smell a rat and I bet the sales and marketing teams / politicians have got something to do with it . 🤔🙄
    Funny how the thousands of GRP boats are still afloat and they suffer from osmosis to a far greater extent than these blades .
    UV resistance of the resin may the the key factor but one can guarantee there’s a simple way round it .
    Bamboo/ flax/ hemp is way better than balsa as a reinforcement plus there’s coremat , sorric and many other alternatives used in the composites industry.

  • @thebeautifulones5436
    @thebeautifulones5436 Před 2 měsíci

    Do they sink? There is a lot of ocean out there

  • @netRunner42
    @netRunner42 Před 2 měsíci

    Refurbish :?

  • @kentauree
    @kentauree Před 2 měsíci

    What to do with old glass fiber boats?! Stop this stupidity!

  • @orionbetelgeuse1937
    @orionbetelgeuse1937 Před 2 měsíci

    the turbines are filled with sulfur hexafluoride a gas which is 24300x more potent as ghg than CO2. The gas escapes when the turbine is decommissioned so, besides the blades which are a waste whatever reduction in CO2 it managed to produce it is compensated by the SF6. Also I can't see anybody using the materials from old blades because they are degraded. After all the blades are scrapped because the material is degraded and has cracks or fatigue which could lead to catastrofic failure. Who would reuse these old materials in new blades? maybe for garden gnomes
    Also I can't see how some fiberglass which is quite cheap as new can be replaced economically with old fiberglass recovered in pieces with a lot of work and energy waste and exposed to high temperatures as that university managed to do.

    • @justinterested5819
      @justinterested5819 Před 2 měsíci

      1) Not the turbine itself, but its electrical installation. Thats the same stuff used in HV electrical installations, like HV Transformers, or switches (that are also used in fossil fuel powered plants.
      2) The amount is highly misleading. This doesn't include, that one wind turbine only uses around 3 kg of it, while Fossil fuel power Plants emits thousands of Tons of CO2 doing the same Job (producing electricity). A 5MW Wind Turbine in a medicore location produces around 250 000 MWh over its 25 year life span. A Gas Powered plant (the most efficient form of Fossil Fuel) emits around 0.4 Tons of CO2 per MWh, meaning they are producing around 100 000 Tons of CO2. So a Wind turbine could emit around 4 Tons of that stuff. Again, a Wind Turbine only uses around 3kg.
      3) Try to reuse burned fossil fuel. You would need multiple times (at least twice as much) the amount of Energy to reuse it (what isnt done for that reason). To have enough Oil to produce the amount of Electricity a Wind Turbine does, you would need to mine, refine and transport 62 000 tons of oil ((250 000 MWh/40%Conversion efficiency of a Oil powered Plant)/10MWh Energy Density per Ton of oil). Not very efficient, isnt it? If you want to produce power from coal, you would need mine at least twice the amount of Coal than you would need for oil, since coal has only half the energy density.
      4) We use high temperature processes all the time (steel production, concrete production, *converting fossil fuel into usable energy* ect). They use energy, but that energy is produced by a wind turbine very quickly (energy payback time of a wind turbine is around a year in very pessimistic cases, and 6 months in optimistic ones).

    • @orionbetelgeuse1937
      @orionbetelgeuse1937 Před 2 měsíci

      @@justinterested5819 at point 1 you are right, at point 2 you are again right that the amount is around 3kg but it has a greater effect than it's equivalent of 75tons of CO2 because is a very heavy gas which stays near the ground.
      3. We are reusing burned fossil fuel, your body contains about 1/4 carbon from fossil fuel, the plants also. We do not need any special means to reuse it, just plant more trees or let's say oils producing plants like palm trees, rapeseed which can be used with very little transformation as biofuels. We have a lot of agricultural and city waste which contains carbon and we are not using them even if we have the comercial technology available for at least 20years.
      Nobody makes power plants fueled with oil, the natural gas is better. As opposed to a wind turbine which must be put where the wind is the ng power plant can be put where the consumer is thus reducing the needs for transport lines and the losses produced by them. The transport grid for the gas and the electricity is already there but for a wind turbine it has to be built which adds to the emissions produced by the building process.Think about the difference between a turbine built offshore which needs a few km of undersea cable just to reach the shore and then more cable and transformers to connect to the grid and multiply that with the number of turbines that can replace a ng power plant vs the same power power plant which can be put a few km from the city. Also the wind turbine has an intermittent production and must be doubled anyway by a fossil fuel power plant or by other wind turbines built in other regions, it's not a 1 to 1 replacement, since wind capacity is between 20 to 40% vs almost 100 for a ng power plant so, we need 3 to 5x more wind capacity than a natural gas power plant and that must be taken into account for emissions and mining and so on. If your calculations would be correct then the wind energy would be cheaper than fossil fuel energy but it isn't.

    • @justinterested5819
      @justinterested5819 Před 2 měsíci

      @@orionbetelgeuse1937 3) producing biomass requires giant amounts of fertile land area. Palm trees sadly only grows on areas where rain forest is. A hectare
      palm trees produces 6 tons of Oil per year. One ton of Palm oil contains around 12 MWh, so you can produce around 72 MWh per hectar. A wind turbine produces again 10 000 MWh on a similar area (ignoring the space around the wind turbine that can still be used for farming). So you need 140 hectare of fertile land to produce the same energy as one wind turbine. That 72 MWh are oil, so if you want to produce electricity with it, you would need at least double to tripple the area, making it 420 hectare to replace one wind turbine. And thats ignoring all the infrastructure, work, and energy demand of the production of Palm oil. To highlight the problem: 10 000 MWh equates to 830 tons of Palm oil each year, or 21 000 Tons of Palm Oil over 25 years. And Palmoil is the most efficient oil production plant.
      4) Natural Gas Power Plants dont produce energy, they only convert gas to electricity. The Gas needs to be produced somehwere else and transported as well (often over 1000nds of kilometers over pipelines). This infrastructure exists already, but needs to be replaced every 50-100 years (just like power lines). This causes emissions as well.
      Also, you dont need offshore wind turbines (although they produce more than 5 times the energy of onshore wind turbines), you can built them on land as well. There are a lot of places all across the globe with enough wind to get reasonable amount of electricity, opposed to natural gas, that only exists in a few spots in the quantity we need.
      While Wind Turbine dont produce all the time, they dont have to. Wind and sun are more or less switching places. When there is no sun, there is more wind, and when there is sun, there is less wind. If you combine wind and sun, you only need a few days of storage in total (the days where both arent producing enough energy a scattered across the year).
      Last but not least: One Wind turbine produces 250 000 MWh per year, what roughly equates to 25 000 tons of oil, that needs to be mined, transported around the globe and refined before it can used. All that infrastructure requires a ton of energy, material and space as well. Its just somewhere where you cant see it directly.

    • @orionbetelgeuse1937
      @orionbetelgeuse1937 Před 2 měsíci

      @@justinterested5819 sure, the wind turbines might produce more energy per hectare but there is a problem, that energy cannot be stored or transported over large distances especially overseas. The solution in fact is in the middle. The palm oil is very good for biodiesel but the palm tree produces also a lot of biomass, a few times more than the oil which contains a lot of carbon. All this biomass can easily be converted in syngas and needs hydrogen to reach the optimal composition of 1CO to 2H2 and this hydrogen can be provided by wind turbines or solar panels.
      There are large areas of land unused which can be used to grow crops for this purpose including the desserts which can be irrigated using energy provided by wind turbines or solar panels allowing the production in areas where the production is many times more efficient than in Europe for instance especially northern europe. Anyway the transportation of the electricity over large distances and storing the energy for long periods of time is not possible with the actual technology and financial power and I don't believe the technology will become better or cheaper fast. We should use the infrastructure we already have and adapt the new sources to enter this infrastructure. So, the best solution is to make synthetic fuels using the carbon we can harvest and the energy from renewables to produce the hydrogen needed for it. Sure if there is an opportunity to use directly these intermittent and unreliable sources for some industrial process other than electrolysis or desalination we should do it.

    • @orionbetelgeuse1937
      @orionbetelgeuse1937 Před 2 měsíci

      @@justinterested5819 sure, the wind turbine might produce more energy but that energy is intermittent and cannot be stored and thransported over large distances or overseas. You are forgetting that the palm trees also produce a few times more biomass than just the oil and this biomass can be used to make more fuel using hydrogen made with some renewable sources (via syngas). Also we can use some land areas unused now like desserts which can be irrigated using renewable energy. The main problem of the renewables is the low quality of the energy, it is produced when we don't need it and is lacking when we need it, we do not have the means for storage at large scale (and where we have some storage facilities those are very expensive and with high losses) and it is where we do not have what to do with it. So, the best thing is to transform this energy in fuels and use the infrastructure we already have.

  • @oljobo
    @oljobo Před 2 měsíci

    I enjoy your videos, but I have to give you feedback on the audio.
    I find that your less than average audio quality actually reduces the whole watching experience for me… which is a big pity. 🙏

    • @TerrorTubbie666
      @TerrorTubbie666 Před 2 měsíci

      Most of this video was an older video, with less good audio indeed.
      The difference you hear in this video proves how much the audio quality has improved over the years.
      That being said, I wouldn't mind if there was some more volume.
      Anyone can turn their volume down, but I'm already watching at maximum volume, which sometimes means I have to rewind and hold the speaker of my phone against my ear to be able hear what's being said.
      But that seems to be considered 'normal' on CZcams. It happens on all channels.

    • @misterhat5823
      @misterhat5823 Před 2 měsíci +1

      These videos are something to learn from. They don't need superb audio for a "whole watching experience" so as long as you can understand what he's saying without a lot of effort.

    • @misterhat5823
      @misterhat5823 Před 2 měsíci

      @@TerrorTubbie666
      > That being said, I wouldn't mind if there was some more volume.
      That's a CZcams thing. CZcams tries to level the audio to stop people from making louder videos. The problem is that a loud intro (that most channels have) causes the volume to be reduced on the whole video.

    • @TerrorTubbie666
      @TerrorTubbie666 Před 2 měsíci

      @@misterhat5823 So it's CZcams itself that makes videos unwatcheble on an Android-phone.
      In other words:
      It's Google destroying itself.
      SMART!!!

    • @TerrorTubbie666
      @TerrorTubbie666 Před 2 měsíci

      Okay CZcams-AI, if you insist, I will make a mess again.

  • @PhiTonics
    @PhiTonics Před 2 měsíci

    Please get a proper microphone.
    500k subs, I think you can manage it.

  • @steelyatron
    @steelyatron Před 2 měsíci

    The best solution is to stop producing them.