How to fuel the future
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- America, under President Donald Trump, is securing its “energy independence” with oil and gas. But unlike fossil fuels, renewables will not increase global warming -and China is moving fast.
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Oil moves the world around and creates powerful countries. Oil is such a vital commodity that it provoked wars throughout the 20th century. The few countries that produce it, try to keep control of it to ensure its riches stay at home. Those who do not have it, strive to get it.
In the 1930s Saudi Arabia was one of the poorest countries in the world but the discovery of oil transformed it and Saudi Arabia has amassed $515.6 billion in sovereign wealth funds. It has become the linchpin of a powerful cartel that sometimes rations oil to push up prices.
The United States is now the biggest producer of oil and gas owing to its shale revolution. It has tapped abundant reserves through fracking - a technology that uses high-pressure water and sand to fracture rock deep below the ground to extract hydrocarbons. This shale revolution has helped the United States become less dependent on oil imported from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iraq, and other OPEC countries.
More oil and gas on global markets has also benefited the world's energy consumers by pushing down costs. Oil still remains the primary fuel, supplying almost 1/3 of the world's energy but its heyday may soon be over, despite growing demand.
By 2040 the world's global energy use is set to increase by 30 percent. That energy must be much cleaner if the world wants to prevent catastrophic global warming. In the past coal and gas were less expensive than renewable technology but their costs have come down dramatically. There is now a race among some nations to create more efficient renewable technologies to reduce pollution and be more energy self-sufficient.
China is the world's largest consumer of coal and the second largest of oil but it also now leads the world in clean energy. one third of the world's new wind power and solar panels is installed in China, and it sells more electric cars than any other country. The quest for energy self-sufficiency is a big motivation for many countries. China is moving fast, and America under President Donald Trump, is securing its energy independence with oil and gas. But unlike oil and gas renewables will not increase global warming.
The long term transition to clean energy will throw up new global challenges. It will create tensions in unstable parts of the Middle East as oil revenue starts to dry up. Another challenge is that wind and sun are intermittent. renewables may require vast shared electricity grids spanning boarders to make them more efficient. To stop global warming the world needs a huge collaboration over our shared energy future. If we fail, wars over scarce resources could be even worse in the 21st century than in the 20th.
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The video was used for my English lesson and I had to come here and leave a comment on it. What a high quality video... I loved every bit of it. From the voice to the beautiful animation and voice. The UK subtitles were the icing on this super-delicious cake of a video.
Together we stand divided we fall
How's that going in Venezuela?
U got that from Captain America: Civil War right?
@@danielchen5643 Its from Pink floyd "Hey you-The wall 1979"
Feels like the story is incomplete without mention of the importance of batteries and energy storage.
We already have a form of clean energy ready, it's called nuclear fission. It could be used more before renewables mature, but many are irrationally afraid of it.
Solar and wind are now for most of the worlds population the cheapest source of energy. Todays fission reactors aren't competitive and we can't wait for any future reactor designs that are commercially a long way off.
Jonatan D It’s soo expensive though! Also, it leaves an impact on the environment
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Is the cost of solar and wind competitive if their need for energy storege is taken into account?
It's getting that way, think it was Tucson that in a recent auction for feed in tariffs on the evening peak solar/battery was the cheapest. And with the trends these tech's are following they will in a few years be the cheapest thing for most of the worlds population. Along with some other stuff such as DC and smart grids and so on.And Toad, every action has an environmental impact, it's just the least that's economic and that will be solar/wind with storage for most markets. I've worked in the nuclear industry and I don't see any thing in the near future for it.
Nuclear energy is the future
Especially thorium powered nuclear plants.
Natural gas, nuclear, and renewable will all help phase out coal and bring down carbon emissions
Gas contribute to emissions.
This video did nothing to actually explain how to fuel the future...
Renewables in China, oil and gas for the us
This is more over a concerning topic, they have just touched the topic Oil and Gas, Oil is future cause of war
IT did. Cooperation between nations, that's all
Renewables for green. Oil & Gas for polluting.
thejeffinvade China are going Nuclear all the way. Renewables are great, but if you're the world's factory with 1.5 bln people, it will never cut it. Not unless you want to cover the entirely of your land mass in wind turbines or solar panels - the later of which are not recyclable due to their use of heavy metals and only have a life span of 30 years.
Let the fight begin... I'm at the renewable side and as an engineer I fight daily to a much cleaner and sustainable future.
Dr James Hansen says believing in renewables is like believing in the tooth fairy. Google it.
Solar produces 300 times the waste of nuclear.
www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/6/21/are-we-headed-for-a-solar-waste-crisis
New nukes have passive safety and even Homer Simpson couldn't melt them down. Breeder reactors are on the way that can eat nuclear waste and convert a 100,000 year storage problem into today's energy solution. Indeed, America has enough nuclear waste to run her for 1000 years and the UK has enough for 500 years!
eclipsenow.wordpress.com/refuel/
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We like the visuals and graphic! Well done!
If we do fail, the future might become like the game Fallout.
Why 'If' ? We are failing, that's a fact. Say goodbye to the industrialized civilization
Animations are freaking awesome
Very quality and informational video!
Solar and wind does not provide enough power as compared to gas, oil and coal
The video totally skipped over battery-storage of renewable energy.
Please buy our oil :-D
Charlet Duboc has an instantly recognizable voice.
We don't want to change or adapt, not only because change and adaptation is usually difficult, but because powerful countries and leaders and individuals became powerful using coal and oil and their derivatives. If at the top of your game you're told the source of your power must be abandoned, you get what we presently have - foot dragging on a near global scale. Our hesitation and resistance seals our fate, whereas had we been more adaptable, we might have survived this test. We're presently performing a long, slow goodbye, failing our test of stewardship.
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NathansHVAC I would happily do so if you can provide one I can manage, I'm disabled, as well as provide a safe, ethical, fair, law abiding country where security agencies, and those working for them, do not harass and target me. I opposed our initiation of the Iraq War years ago. Before that, unbeknownst to me, my father was the whistleblower who reported Governor Jeb Bush's alleged affair in Florida. My father made enemies by doing that and they targeted me. My opposition to that war, in a conversation with my father, and in another conversation initiated by a taxi driver government agent, was used to place me on an anti terrorist watch list, where I remain and have been harassed, assaulted and tortured with sleep deprivation for years. Many assaults are done on the down low and so sneakily they can be done right in front of most people without the abuse registering as an assault. We're skilled that way. Individuals in my family have been entrapped by my government and used to try to entrap me. Our species excels at violence. It is our forte. I'm no terrorist and know no terrorists. I'm anti violence except in cases of self defense. I have a pretty clear idea of who my people are after over two decades of attacks, who our security agencies are, and how we're likely to respond to unwanted news and information, including climate change. Unfortunately, my riding a bicycle won't save our species, or the unknowable numbers of other species we are destroying. We've evolved with enough intelligence to see the danger but with insufficient species adaptability to avoid our problems. When people do try to get the powerful to change our systems, earth defenders are killed or marginalized or corrupted via the police or security or military or by ordinary people pressed into service. We're easily corruptibe and easily controlled by force. We will not be solving our problems, and I'm sorry to report that despite the evil and harm we do to the powerless. I think most beings want their species to survive. I wish we could right our ship but we are incapable of doing so at this time in our evolution.
Nuclear power is the future. It is in the past but more importantly it is the future. Cheap and reliable with controlled waste is the future. Say yes to nuclear power.
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I think nuclear energy is the way to go, it releases no emissions and is stable and reliable. I know there are challenges in processing and waste but those are solvable compared to the challenges in renewable energy.
first, nuclear can only produce electricity, which accounts only for 20% of the energy consumed, with the best prognosis and moder technologies electricity could be around 50% of all energy use, still not enough. 2nd, you cant start and stop nuclear plants on demand, you need something faster, like gas or diesel, if you don´t back it up the net could collapse. and 3rd, uranium is not renewable and we are already at its peak production, which means it will now start going down and proces will start rising. so nope
Hopefully, algae biofuel is perfected and room temperature superconductors are invented in the next 10-15 years.
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China uses 4 times as much Coal as USA. Coal produces twice the level of green house gases than other more expensive forms of energy like natural gas.
That is very true. Their coal emissions are insane. At least 4x. India following suit. China is building Nuclear reactors (~20), I hope their % of their energy mix dwarfs coal in time... hopefully. Coal is very cheap.
Yes but China has 4x more pop. So they're using the same qty of coal per person
I came back from the future 2022, the gas and oil are really expensive and green energy is a really bad joke.
Super vidéo les gars !
Ahhh just get fusion done for once.
I can't believe governments are still barely investing
Commercially available fusion power might not be ready for 40 years for all we know...
This story feels incomplete without mentioning nuclear power, which puts out immense amounts of energy without emitting any greenhouse gases.
we need synth fuels
All these renewable energies are basically to produce electricity, which is 20% of the energy consumed... where do we get the other 80%? also, how are all these systems produced? how is sand melted? and steel? oil... a lot of oil...
From petroleum derivates more thanks 10.000 products we use in our daily lives. Are we ready to dismiss it? Is not only about the fuel, research a little bit!
This video misses all the important points, not only battery storage. The oil produced on the US is a short-term solution, fracking pockets are well documented to last just a few months per hole.. and bring tremendous environmental consequences.
I did the math for oil and at best case scenario
Say there's 3 trillion barrels of oil left on Earth we can get to that's 3,000,000,000,000 ( which is much higher then most estimates) and the world consumption rate is 95 million barrels of oil a day (which is lower then current consumption) at this rate 3 trillion barrels would last a little bit over 86 years, less then a century and this if we find a lot more oil and can get it out of the ground
In reality The more oil we pump the harder it will become to find/get to it's like emptying a bucket of water with a pipe as the water drops the pipe will have to get longer and pumping will get harder and slower making it a more time consuming process which means a more expensive process, it will come to a point where it's to expensive to bother with the law of diminishing returns kicks in, and that will be the most likely end of oil the question it's how much damage will be done before we get there?????
experts say 42-46 years
Anthropogenic Global Warming has demonstrably changed climatic weather patterns for the worse. The good news is that, provided we change our ways, we can ameliorate the anthropogenic component.
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Wait how is there gonna be a scarcity? I don’t think that’ll be the problem. The problem right now is the abundance of oil, that we should move away from. Honestly there won’t be much tension as a result of oil prices dropping in the Middle East. They’re now beginning to diversify their economy. So I believe you guys got it wrong. The result of using oil will hurt us. It won’t be transitioning from it.
Of course there is scarcity on oil. If it was so abundant, why would we look for it in remote places, deep water, or fiddle with tar sands and shale oil which have a bad EROEI? Conventional crude oil peaked in 2005, and in less than 10 years all liquids will peak. Believe what you want, but you obviously know nothing on that topic.
Why aren't the oil companies producing lithium ion batteries..?.. If i was a CEO i would i would plant the seeds for the future of my company.. Anf lithium ion production is very profitable all you need is capital..
What benefits the future is only the existence of working class and performing economics activities to grow more of existence
Thanks God. So the earth wont be like Mordor.
One Sun - One Earth - One Grid
Did she say, _stop_ global warming...really?
Nuclear!? Thorium MSR could go a long way to wean humanity off of fossil fuels. Also no mention of the Chinese bringing on their first AP1000 reactor. Simpler design resulting in far less piping and wiring to go wrong.
Wind & solar mentioned but nothing about batteries which is what will make them base-load contenders.
It's almost like they're ignorant on purpose...like...THEY HAVE AN AGENDA! Weird!
the united states could fuel the entire north american continent with clean energy if we tapped into Yellowstone. But the environmentalists are never going to let that happen. everything has a price.
Clean energy? Give me a break...
We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.
Why don’t we just make a chemical reaction in the exhaust with CO2 and H2O into method in cars? Problem solved, you get no co2 and you can you that methanol as a fuel.
In 2050 they just keep gas and oil
On fracking read _Myths of the Oil Boom: American National Security in a Global Energy Market_, by Steve A Yet if, Oxford University Press. Fracking is not a long term solution to supply, security, or price problems for the United States.
Dream of world usage of dirty fuel up and replaced by all the ready available techno advance of cleaner fuel. Simply use them up and then the cleaner fuel will become the world energy automatically. It is nearly impossible to replace something that is still there , or not?
Algae biofuel for aviation, produced in the country in which it is used. Electric for everything else, powered by renewable energy... Simple.
Algae could replace oil completely not just for planes but for the entire industry you can make Gasoline,Diesel and kerosene from algae oil
The best part is that algae fuels would be carbon neutral, which means when burned they will give off the same amount of carbon it take in to grow and would be part of the cycle the carbon form fossil fuels is not part of the current cycle they add to it which is the problem
why not reduce population ...easy fix just have productive younger..population ..saves making solar and wind ..increasing cheap food supply
we already knew all of this? Wasted my 3 minutes 25 secs
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im having a sound effect epilepsy. Such a cringe
Ffs we live on a dynamo
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Beans man.
30 yrs oil will be obsolete via MIT student
Showing wrong map of India
Whoever made the map of the imaginary energy sharing networks could've atleast taken into account where the most developed and populous nations are.... Painting Africa, East Russia, Canada almost completely white, and leaving China, India, and SEA almost black is absolutely outrageous. Even tough the map was showed for only 3 seconds it was so rediculous I had to make this comment 😂.
Nope, not in this century, we are too greed for now...
And you think socialist aren't greedy? I guess they're not after they've taken everything and destroyed it
Fossil fuels will continue to supply most of our energy needs in the foreseeable future. All this talk about renewable and electric cars is hype. Renewable energy only provides a fraction of our electricity needs and electric cars are not making a noticeable difference in gasoline consumption. If most people inflate their tires properly and drive a little less aggressively it would have a much bigger impact on gasoline demand than electric cars have.
Unless we want to go back to living like we did in the middle ages we will continue to need lots of fossil fuels.
Electric cars and renewables are still getting cheaper, their impact is going to be much greater in the coming years. One thing we could do right now to lower emissions is consuming less meat which it's very inefficient to be produced.
Dr James Hansen says we only need to build 115 GW of nuclear reactors each year to at least have clean ELECTRICITY by 2050. This is *slower* than the reactor / GDP build out rate the French already achieved with *older* nuclear technologies.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03/nuclear-power-paves-the-only-viable-path-forward-on-climate-change
An NREL study concluded that the American grid could charge 87% of their car and truck fleet (if they were all converted to EV's) if all power stations were ramped up to full all the time. 43% are charged on night time off-peak.
eclipsenow.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/phev_feasibility_analysis_part1.pdf
That means there's about a 13% difference. As I noted above, the French build out was *faster* than Hansen's 115 Gw reactors per year. So let's add that last 13% to replace transport fuels (by charging a 100% electric transport fleet or even add in some synthetic diesel & jet fuel from seawater, see here eclipsenow.wordpress.com/synthetic-diesel/).
Another 13% reactors per year is 130 GW reactors per year. These guys are building a MSR that might be as cheap as $5bn per GW.
www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/03/terrestrial-energy-on-track-to-commercial-molten-salt-reactor-competitive-with-natural-gas-prices.html
Mass build outs of even large nukes with standardised safety put up on the assembly line bring the cost down. So 130 nukes at $5bn each (and I've seen projections at half or a quarter that price) is only $0.65 TRILLION a year in a global GDP of about $75T, or 1/115th of the global economy. Are you really saying we can't do that when it is so cheap and France already equalled that build out rate in the 70's?
Tom Blees unpacks this further:-
"Just how realistic is it to think we can build 100 nuclear plants per year? Remember that France built up to six per year during their conversion to nuclear, so let’s look at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a guide to what a given country can financially bear for such a project, keeping in mind that France proceeded without the sense of urgency that the world today should certainly be ready to muster. There are six countries with higher GDPs than France, all of whom already possess the technology to build fast reactors: USA, China, Japan, India (they’re building one now), Germany, and the United Kingdom. Add Canada and Russia (which already has one running and is planning more), then tally up the GDP of these eight countries. At the rate of 6 plants per year with France’s GDP, these countries alone could afford to build about 117 IFRs per year, even without any greater urgency than the French brought to bear on their road to energy independence."
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Sounds like the Economist has a bone to pick with Donald Trump...again. Where did all the creativity in reporting news go?
Gas is not cheap its $3 per Gallon in America when 2 years Ago it was $1.50
Y'all really have it good. In the UK it costs $8 per gallon.
That's because all the hedge funds are worried about IRAN SANCTIONS and are pushing up the price with their speculating. Also you don't want oil to fall too far, if it does then the American shale producers can't make money, they need it above $65 a barrel
inflation, subsidies, and gas taxes...what's the FREE MARKET non-fiat price of gas?
@@robertr.hasspacher7731 Good luck with figuring that out.
Don't know where you live but where I live in the states gas has been around 2-3 dollars a gallon for almost 3 years now and that's cheap compared to the 5 years before that it was ranging from $3.5 to $4 a gallon really a pain
It's called climate change not Gobal warming. That makes thunder and lightning and wind.
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Before we try to fuel the future start by sharing resources with each other.
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i sold my car , yall should do the same
GET OFF THE COMPUTER Lildizle420. It is powered by oil
@@patrickeh696 not likely, Palo Verde nuclear or Hoover
It is MADE of OIL
plastic can be made from other materials but throwing away my pc wont take back the polution to create it i cant stop or change that
I would rather grow hemp and make plastics, and so i can keep my computer but other wise that space will compete with other crops to create biofuels for cars and that's better but everyone will have to sacrifice something in the future.
Hmm listen to exploiters of the past, tell how they are going to create exploiters of the future, targeted individuals take notes.
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Nuclear power is dead in the U.S., way too expensive.
humanity becoming vegan will be the most important step to come
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