There Is No Renewable Energy
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2023
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Did you know that there is no "renewable" energy? Dr. Scott Tinker, Switch Energy Alliance Chairman and world-renowned energy expert, explains in this excerpt from his 2022 @TEDx talk.
Watch the full lecture here: www.ted.com/talks/scott_tinke...
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Batteries can be 95% recycled. Panels and blades are now able to be recycled. This is out of date.
Pl send me your information source - you can educate me about 95% battery recycle.
@@suhasdoke1157 pasting links don't work, so Google the following
how much of a lithium battery can be recycled
Correct. Resources have to be set up to recycle batteries, wind turbines blades which I believe are metal, and solar panels.
@@Jason_xofilos The amount of resources and energy involved in setting up and operating and battery recycling plant are tiny in comparison to mining raw materials. I think wind turbine blades are fibre glass.
@@Jason_xofilos wind turbine blades are composite materials. Little if any metal.
Solar panels are almost completely recyclable metalurgic silicon on cells, copper in wires, glass can be reused or ground and resmelted, and aluminum framing. The sealant and wiring is the only things that aren't and that could be fixed with plant based materials if it became worth it. $100 of solar panel is very easily 5000 kwh in 30 yrs and still be at 85% efficiency.
I have some 30-year-old panels that are still working
@@steveclunn8165 how do they perform now?
@@mikhailvoss4285I wouldn't say I could notice too much of a difference. They still put out electricity and they seem to be working like always but if I had done very accurate measurements I might be able to tell a difference. Kind of like a 30-year-old car that's been somewhat taken care of might not get quite the gas mileage it got but who would notice.
They're starting to recycle turbine blades.
This is so out of date - there are a number of companies now recycling the panels and blades
There are also rockets flying to space. The thing that something exists does not prove anything.
So i just need the link for that they do. And how much does it cost?
@@godq3 huh? Are you a flat earther or something? My buddy helped run a solar company, they absolutely recycled both older and broken panels.
@@janandersson143 you want him to “google it” for you? Type it in, and find numerous facilities and articles, it’s not that difficult.
Who is recycling the blades? All I can find is GE spin doctors pretending that incinerating the blades is recycling.
You dont trash old panels, they have silver and aluminum ect.
@@Phariseehunter The batteries they feed is the issue, cobalt/lithium/nickel etc... Where does that come from?
@rewtdawg9852 so you're all good then with panels, that he bags? then we can discuss the next item
@@PhariseehunterI mean panels aren't worse than any other consumption based capitalistic item.. The people pushing these things, own the companies that stand to benefit.
@rewtdawg9852 'aren't worse' is no real metric.
If, like the person in the video, you make no comparisons with something else to do the same/similar generation, then you're really just biased.
@rewtdawg9852 show the comparative life-cycle assessments of one form of generation compared to another, that would show both the on-going costs involved and environmental pollution involved.
Recycling is a thing now.
He should worry more about recycling the CO2 released from the fossil fuels.
Exactly.
Lol the same CO2 that came out of the atmosphere to create those “fossil” fuels? 😂
@unicornadrian1358
Stupid comment. Fossil fuels were formed millions of years ago. Returning all that CO2 to the atmosphere would end agriculture and kill the seafood which we use to feed ourselves.
Less C02 now than 1000 years ago.
@@williamsveen2827 no, 1000 yr ago it was about 280 ppm.
I live 14 miles from the company that grinds up the turbine parts, and next door to a concrete company that uses the grounds as filler in their mix.
But the best use I have seen was here in Iowa when the electric conpany left one broken blade. The farmer cut it lengthwise and then sawed it into little huts for his sows to nurse their piglets.
Where does the coal ash go? Where does the spilled oil go and the co2?
Solar pannels can be recycled, ash ends up in pits and oil and co2 end up in the environment. Coal also produces more radioactive material than all of the nuclear reactors in America.
Be outraged about everything, not selected things that make you no money.
98% of panels installed 30 years ago are still operating at +80% efficiency. Meaning that solar has operational maintenance below 12% name one other thing. With operational maintenance that low... 2x cheaper than any other power source. 4x cheaper than retail energy. Getting less expensive every day.
"There are large-scale environmental impacts" is not remotely the same as "There is no renewable energy."
When we burnt firewood we used home grown renewable energy …
Smoke goes somewhere
And release a ton of pollution in to the air as we do it. Burning things is not good.
Yup. 8 billion people doing that will end human life on earth VERY quickly, and nature can make another try for an intelligent species (since this try CLEARLY didn't go well).
@@mallan3024 nah firewood is a zero carbon. Any Carbon you take from a forest in the form of wood gets released in to the air and then absorbed back in to the very same forest.
The problem is we are pumping carbon from the ground that has been there for a hundred million years and releasing it with no care in the world.
I would argue wood is net negative since some of the wood is used in housing where it will store carbon for a longer time than in a forest. I dont have any math to back that up tho.
@@vablo7198 you are correct, I was wrong there, burning wood from “newish” trees does release carbon but it’s a carbon that already exists in the atmosphere so isn’t so bad, unlike when you burn fossil fuels and release tons of millions old carbon in to the atmosphere. As long as it’s done with sustainability in mind and we’re not burning more trees than what we’re planting.
In an ideal world however, we wouldn’t burn any trees.
Remember the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico? IT THE EXON Valdez? Or the tar on the beach in Texas?
Oh lord, another one. The earth is like a garage with the car running. But God forbid we open the door to let some air in.
Burying wind turbine blades is a lot better than burying Nuclear waste.
Blade are cut up into dust and put into concrete to make the concrete stronger
Even if this were the case, you have to look at how much energy output in produced before being discarded.
Active. Solar. Thermal.
Fully recyclable.
80% efficient.
Hydroelectric is the closest thing to a renewable power generation we have. It does have an environmental impact however when you have to flood the river for the pressure for the damn
Right, so let's just keep using oil and coal.
The presentation was brought to you by big oil inc.
You should do one on where the gigatons of toxic and RADIOACTIVE coal fly ash go.
There is a few companies that are recycling them .
A gallon of fuel turned into a solar panel will produce energy everyday for 25 plus years.
A gallon burned in a vehicle gets burned once.
Please show us how to recycle that burnt fuel?
The technology to recycle panels and wind turbine blades exists.
There are numerous companies involved in this technology and there is a learning curve.
We are learning new things.
Wind turbine blades are ground up and recycle this fuel. But that's the least of the problem for wind power.
Which is worse, a thousand pounds of waste every 30 years or a thousand pounds of waste every day? End fossil fuel use. Today.
Let the lying begin.
1. The aluminum is stripped off the panel.
2. The solar panels are baked in a microwave separating the glass and the silicon wafer.
3. Separation and purification of the silicon cells and specialty metals (e.g., silver, tin, lead, copper) through chemical and electrical techniques.
So fusion or bio diesel 🤔
Well news for you, oil is going to run out, and if we use it all we will have changed the climate so much that agriculture will have collapsed and most people will starve to death…… now do you like renewable energy a bit more…… just have a think mate!
False. Silicon, glass, aluminum, copper and silver are all recyclable. Wind turbines' fiberglass is recycled into insulation and concrete.
Renewable just means there are no ongoing raw feedstock that you're burning through. It doesn't mean there's no input or original raw materials
Solar, geothermal, wind are renewable. Nuclear, fossil fuels are not renewable.
You don't get to make an argument by refusing to accept a definition of terms that everyone understands. It's foolish rhetorical scamming, not debate.
The sky is falling according to this dude. Geothermal?
they recycle all these things- this guy is a relic... M
Where does the oil, gas and coal go?
Nuclear Fusion:
Fission works and isn't some sci-fi dream.
@@user-sd3ik9rt6d fission, fusion both are good
How old is this video? It's like a history lesson. All of his information is out of date.
The battery recycling figure was given on a YT channel. But I have heard 90-95% figure being mentioned in many other places. I'm sure asking Google the question will find results about how much of a battery can be recycled.
Better to bury them blade than breath that CO2 ...
And the new blades are now recyclable, as well as the solar panel. So check your facts and who is giving them to you ...
Small nuclear module reactors are the future
As Elon Musk has stated, one of the cleanest forms of energy is actually nuclear power. The amount of spent fuel and resources is extremely small compared to the power generated over the lifetime of the plant. and if we could get cleaner, thorium implemented, it’s even better
It's not right now though, his position is that "it would be, if (insert global energy policy)". The same goes for actually renewable energy
They are building new windmill blades that can be used in cement manufacturing and even reproducing windmill blades. Tech is getting more advanced 1 wind turbine produces enough power to energize 1000+ nordic houses with harsh seasons. To say a few blades would rott in the earth is to ignore all facts how much coal or diesel would be used to energize this much houses and how much carbon print would they have?
One turbine produces enough energy to supply to 1000+ houses. Hahahaha 😂
@@Marek_hr_Sawicki what to laugh about?
Let me guess the only answer is oil and more oil
Let me guess. You think CO2 is dangerous..
Well stop breathing then.
you put in time for and endscreen but didn't put any end screen elements
And what happens when these blades and panels start disintegrate in the ground. Will they polute the groundwater? Probably. These enironmentalists speak about plastic in the oceans. What about small glass and plastic particles in the groundwater. That cant be good?
Solar panels are made from the highest quality quartz and coal and it takes 200 yards of unrefined paydirt to make one EV battery. This is not the way.
Repurpose them and shut up
Do the wind blades and solar panels release CO2? No. So try again but tell the truth.
Wood is renewable
Renewable is such an oxymoron
Progressives: "So?!"
Rightfully. So?
Progressives: false.
So? 40,000 fiberglass turbine blades in a landfill is a fraction of a hundred of a percent of the waste we dump every week. The blades last tens of years too.
Much better than the environmental damage from a tapped out oil well or three…
Why no one mentions nu nuclear fusion
if I want clean energy then I would actually go nuclear & geothermal since their energy density is higher than coal & crude oil, meanwhile renewables have pretty low energy density & it's not good for massive industrial use
Blades are now being recycled…..old news
So convincing he cares about the environment
Yes he does.
Renewable energy as the media advocates it, contradicts the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
People who claim to care should walk barefoot and naked, and never use or consume anything manufactured or processed.
make them out of human bones
Hydro ..... is best.... no off the problems....
Hydro can be good, I agree, but It is limited and not much use if rainfall isn't abundant, regular, and predictable. The large dams required can also destroy entire ecosystems. The Aswan Dam project destroyed farming in lower Egypt and also wiped out the anchovy sardine industry in the Mediterranean Sea.
The full effects of the 3gorges dam in China have yet to be quantified, but so far, the measured effects on the river system and migratory fish populations have been pretty devastating! All energy production comes at a cost. It's about finding the right balance
@@ET-jv1wm in norway we have 99,5% hydro power.
Norway have used it for 100years now.
But, the government told me it's GOOD...
And as proven they are not capable of providing the needs of any country that wants a manufacturing base.
100% correct. the problem is people do not know how to think and the politicians are corrupt.
I've known it was hokum from the beginning.
The hidden truth
He 8s spot on .were do you think your electric car gets its electric from . ? Yes it comes from power staions still burning focil fuels to make the electric .
Almost half of the electricity used to power our electric cars comes from non-polluting sources. And we are increasing that fraction every day.
The climate crazies didn't want to read the memo. 😂😂😂
Or learn about the 1st law of thermodynamics. 😂😂😂😂
wind turbine should be aluminum or stainless steel so recycled
after retirement
This guy is missing the forest for the trees.