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*A correction:* When I compared solar to nuclear and coal power, it would have been more fair to use the MWh metric instead of peak power in MW. Reason being that MWh would account for energy solar losses at night, and losses during sunrise/set. With that noted, the largest nuclear/ coal plants still have a far greater output when averaged out. Apologies for this oversight.
It would have also been neat to state the building cost of both kinds of plants, as that is interesting as well and also very important!
that's Ok
it's OK, this make a lot of sense why nuclear and coal plants are still world wide favorite energy source
This belongs in the video you demagogic a...! You're really doing damage to the world by telling people solar power was any good (except for corner cases). Over here in germany we spend 30 billion EUR per year for the energy transition. And it only lead to the highest energy costs in Europe but not to lower CO2 emissions. For that kind of money, we could afford 500.000 extra teachers, doctors and policemen. What a beautiful world would that be? Also nuclear is not only CO2 neutral, it comes with less fatalities and less pollution. A fact that people won't understand beacause of a lack of education. Just google "deaths per twh" or think of the high energy density of nuclear fuel (a million times that of coal) which leads to only small mining being required.
You have no fucking clue what you are talking about.
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A look at the state of the art in solar power plants - a silent mover in the utility energy space! As a side note, a lot of our energy does come from natural gas power stations but their output, on average is far less than that of both coal and nuclear so I left it out. Anyways, Enjoy!
PS: Bitcoin and Blockchain videos still in the works.
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I love how unbiased this video is. Not just glorifying solar energy, but taking all things into consideration, like the energy storage. And I also love how much research and analysis has been done to produce it. I know all the information presented in it can be trusted. Dagogo, you are an amazing person.
Love that mainstream media is starting to discover and positively report on Solar power. Thank you! Love your channel. Happy to help you in the future with connecting the dots for solar and Storage. I've been in the industry for over a decade, even worked at the largest solar panel manufacturer, and have been podcasting about it for over 3 yrs.
Great job. Very balanced view and really appreciated the positive spin comparing against nuclear and coal.
ColdFusion, you sir earned my subscription! Excellent video! Very informative and unbiased. Keep it up!
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Don't Read My Profile Picture, no more "t" in "Fusion".
He is really good but that is a little to simple i would say
Fantastic video! Extremely informative and I appreciate you linking your sources for additional research. Keep up the great work
Thank you once more Dagogo, Always very interesting videos. Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next video.
Indias 2 Giga Wata Solar Plant in Karnataka is Now Operational
Also a 2GW solar plant in Bhadla, India is operational now and work has already began for the largest solar plant in Gujarat, which when operational at its full capacity will produce 30 GW of energy.
I still remember the time when you had just 10k subscribers..I have always been your fan Cold Fusion..! You are an inspiration to all content creators in the Tech and Science space..You have inspired me to create my own Channel..! :)
Startup Division you too man, your videos on Elon Musk , fucking love it
Startup Division business casual and now Startup Division...I like the name.
Startup Division Shit! He is at 1 mil? Didnt even notice, i follow him from very early stage
TominotopiA bro he reached 1 million subs a while back now..
I arrived at 100K ... we must invest in cold fusion steady grow to give us wealth in mind.
I wish you could post more. This is one of my favorite channels. Always quality.
Looks like good progress. Thanks for the overview.
Dams provide water for hydro electric energy. Solar panels should be floating over the large man made reservoir (dam water ) . During the day solar energy is to be used to pump water from a lower point into the reservoir. During the night the water is allowed to flow down producing energy. This solves the energy storage problems and can form a closed system
Dams effect the environment.. Many dams in the US are being taken down as they have started realising the adverse effect it has.. This can be a temporary solution but creation of more dams should be out of the question..
@@AlexAlcyone chill out. Take the time to see if you are smart enough for one of those tests in which every word that is written is spelled wrong but if you are smart you will have zero problems understand what is written .
Your videos are golden.
That's such a good idea to use that old mine that filled in with water for a solar plant. We need more of this.
i really like this channel, keep up the good work !
Dude, watching your videos, it's a complete experience, and it's amazing, relaxing, educative, holy shit what more could I ask for
some truth maybe?
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"It's really been picking up steam" HA!
What a excellent video, thanks for producing it! I learned a few things I always wanted to learn....
Amazing video! Excited for more solar developments.
I like the water plant
Perfect solution for Australia where there is huge amounts of room for installing solar plants!
C'mon Australian Government, do something unusual and advance this great country!
not under the liberals since their main donors are mainly fossil fuel companies unfortunately
Thank you for the vid, I would really like to see more on solar and wind power generation!
Man, Coldfusion is one of the most professional channels I've ever seen
One current problem with solar vs traditional generation is that solar causes instability in the power gird. Solar is a inertia vampire (there is no kinetic energy in the system like a large rotation generator or turbine to be able to deal with fluctuations) This can cause larger frequency deviations from the standard 60/50Hz or cause loss of synchronism in the system. There is a similar issue with wind because the AC/AC converters decouple the rotating mass from the grid. Thus you not only need a energy storage system like the power pack for solar to work but it could also require a fly wheel solution to store energy. The battery pack is a long term energy storage but you need to also be able to deal with instantaneous power changes in the grid.
Large utility scale storage, V2G and Powerwalls will mittigate this problem of internittance.. (which is more in our heads than a reality, sun is very predictable, 95% of the time there is wind, useable for windturbines) ... The electronics that go with windturbines and solar panels already do a great job of providing clean 50 or 60hz, AC elektricity in whatever voltage they require. Those problems have been solved decades ago!
Batteries work much quicker than any other source to deal with the fluctuating demand.. Look at what happened in Australia when Tesla installed 100Mw battery storage:
interestingengineering.com/tesla-battery-installed-in-south-australia-saved-the-region-40-million-in-its-first-year
Can you do a video on all the power sources we have comparing how much they affect the environment
loved it!!!! I guess this is the only video in which waste produced during manufacture of solar panels is mentioned. Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!
This video is awesome bruh! Honestly.. keep the world updated... thanks
Do a video on the Blockchain!
I agree. He could cover Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin and then some newer things like Antshares/Neo and Iota
You make amazing videos my man! Keep up the wonderful work!
full of factual errors.
Mar site your discrepancy...
I already did. amongst others
"6:10 this has clearly nothing to do with moor's law and has NOTTING to do with relation to time. you can clearly read on the x axis "cumulative module shipment". seriously, whats wrong with this guy? what sort of education does he have that he can't even read properly?"
"when it's cloudy you still get ca. 80% of max solar output. does this guy always talk nonsense? in every video these is some bullshit."
Cool! Thank you, this has really helped in a project.
Absolutely great!!!! I have solar watch and battery protector in car...love this stuff!!!
My country is 95% dependent on fossil fuels in terms of national revenue. We've been complacent since the discovery of oil here in the early 1900s. The people have been spoiled with the easy wealth that come by. The (slow) rise of clean energy will eventually eat us out if the mindset of most of our people stays the same. We've been lazy. Since last year, the countries that have been purchasing our natural products in bulk decided to cut down the amount that they buy, not even by much, and the budget cut throughout the country has already been affecting how the government sector operates. Normally it was easy for us to request for this and that but now the office can't even provide us with basic essentials that we need to get them with our own money. We've been trying to promote tourism in the country for over a decade but the effort has been lacklustre and pretty much minimal. There's a silver lining though, because of all the things I mentioned, the younger generation has been working hard to succeed in life, start-ups are starting to appear here and there. These youngsters are also improving their quality of work wherever they are hired. I cannot believe it is that easy. All we needed was a little slap on the face to wake up. :D
Shiv Shankar u don't even do justice to ur name by commenting that way.
is your country canada? cuz i live in alberta and we sure relied on fossil fuels for revenue your story sounds alot like whats happened here
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Baghdad is like what, 100-200km from ISIS territory?
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amazing video as always ColdfusTion, I have been following you since your Galaxy note days
Need of the Hour! Thanks for sharing such wonderful & knowledgeable video, I think that NSW plant is now started working. Even some of the towns are fully sustaining on Solar Power. Such things are making us more progressive in the direction of more Ozone-friendly & renewable energy!
That 1500 MW place in China is the size of half of Manhattan. Provides just over 3W/sq. ft.
So what, China has plenty of unused space! I wish they used the Sahara desert for solar energy for Africa, Europe and the Middle East...
3 watts per square foot is like nothing, barelly.
could you add subtitles sometimes i can't understand what you say. my english is not good and you program is great.
good research and video, as always, thanks
It’s amazing how many topics you cover.
You mentioned pollution in the manufacturing process, but didn't discuss the carbon footprint. You have to burn a lot of fuel to melt the quartz to produce the silicon for the panels.
Nor the environmental cost of the eventual clean up of the site once it has reached the end of it’s life. The lithium batteries, or practically any kind of battery for that matter, required to store the energy generated, are some of the most toxic and difficult to dispose of things on the planet, right up there with nuclear waste. In fact, the current best option is generally considered to be burrying them for future generations to have to deal with.
It's called natural gas or propane or even wood. We dont have to heat it with coal if that's what you are saying. We can possibly even do it with the sun and or heating coils.
@@matthew22nz didnt you listen. The pollution depends on where the panels are made. Every country is different when it comes to enforcement of their environmental laws. A new battery has been invented already that produced no waste and can basically last forever. Developed by an MIT professor. It already has Microsoft as an investor. Mix that as well as mawels supercapacitors and things are looking brighter already. No pun intended.
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Pretty big. They make power tools, car parts, and home appliances.
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This is the right way! :D And great video as always ColdFusion! Keep it up! :D
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Great videos, please keep it up. Could you please do a video on what caused the 2008 financial crash and why it is that since then wages have not kept up with inflation as they did before. You did say that this subject would be a video in itself. Thank you very much for your videos and have a good weekend.
Yours is one of the best CZcams channels out there mate! I'm already a fan!
Great video! Thanks Dagogo.
solar where we can, wind where we can, geo thermal where we can, hydro where we can, nuclear when necessary.
Very well said. The way it should be.
you didn't even say hi at the beginning of the video :(
he directly goes to Topic This isn't a Party
WHAT????? That's it, I'm unsubscribing!! Good day to YOU, sir!
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BDxoul it takes like one second to say "hi"
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Nice that you take the supply chain perspective :)
I don't understand the love for solar? It takes a vast amount of area to be useful and personally I wish people would focus their efforts on Geothermal It is potentially more efficient and greener than the best examples of green tech aka Wind, Solar and Dames. At the moment Geothermal is only used in obvious sites where it is tapped till the water runs out. However, if there was an improvement in drill technology as well as an improvement in feeding water back into the system (something that New Zealand is doing but it could be more efficient) It could be used anywhere in a space comparable to Coal and Nuclear with all the advantages those systems have (being powerful and working 24/7) with zero emissions or radioactivity.
Clifford Bryan john Wilson There is still a lot of long term possible negatives. It's best we don't rely on using the environment for energy at all if we can avoid it. After all, nature has that balanced pretty well, probably for a reason. Get behind superconductor R&D so that we can get to the Other Solar: Fusion Faster! Plus then we can easily get to mining the belts and never have to worry about materials again.
Yes, it is available everywhere. So long as you make a bore hole about +2000Km (the deeper the better see: images.slideplayer.com/26/8804034/slides/slide_3.jpg) you will reach the point where the heat from the rock is above the temp you need for producing power.
Clifford Bryan john Wilson, you're missing the fact Solar can be used anywhere there is sunlight... Even in space!
As mentioned in the video, the plant in China is placed over water... So that's a lot of surface area that can be tapped with over 3/4 of the Earth covered in water versus the less than 25% we live on that we don't even fully use...
Never mind we can also use the moon or a system of satellites for even more energy collection that can be beamed down to the Earth...
So mo need to be stationary and can help power vehicles, devices, etc.
Geothermal on the other hand requires to be stationary and connected to a permanent facility that can't be used for anything else...
While there's potential danger to tapping geo-thermal energy, much like fracking and other tampering with the earth... So you can't actually just tap it from anywhere... At least not unless you want to risk creating earthquakes, setting off volcanic eruptions, or other fun stuff...
Almost every roof could be a p.v. collector. Almost every large factory roof could be a pv collector. Almost every toxic waste lake could be p.v. Almost every large parking lot could be p.v. With some imagination, one could go on and on and on. As far as geothermal, an earth sourced geothermal system for both air conditioning and heat will save about three times the total loss energy system we currently use. This is, however, latitudenally (sp?) based, but is fabulous for Ohio and like states. I ain't talking Yellowstone geysers here. I'm talking just plain dirt, starting about 6 feet down. A.C. is mentioned as the new biggest use worldwide energy consumption. Think India,etc, when they get wealthier. There is a way, and it ain't what we are doing now.
Heavy geothermal utility sized has generated earthquakes. Since good geothermal is often in seismic sensitive zones, the drilling has yet to overcome this. Witness the higher level of minor earthquakes in fracking states who rarely had them before fracking. Residential geothermal heating costs alot of cash and can rarely be done unless its a brand new home. Even then it works in temperate climates. It works in Iceland due to the low population and large empty areas where earthquakes were prevalent from volcanic reasons already.
One, the main problem with comparing solar to nuclear is energy density/land use.
You talk about parity between the Chinese facility and a nuclear powerplant.
Know why? Because that nuclear powerplant is ONE REACTOR outputting 1.5GW
Now, look at the amount of land area the Chinese 1.5GW facility covers 1200 square kilometers.
The largest nuclear plant in history Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was an 8GW plant, comprised of 7 reactors. And the entire plant covered 4.2 square kilometers.
This kind of huge land use can have major negative effects on the local ecology. Granted, this is why many of them are built in deserts. But even deserts have their own ecology that this can disrupt (see Heat Island Effect).
Now this is NOT to say that solar should NOT be in the mix for power generation.
Right now, about the cleanest we can do is:
Base Load and Storage Charging: Nuclear, Hydro (getting rarer in the US due to environmental regs), and Geothermal.
Standard Peaking Load: Solar, Wind, Storage.
Backup: Natural Gas-turbine peaking plants.
Solar power is for many people a kind of religion. Getting them to acknowledge any of the costs and disadvantages of solar power is next to impossible.
What's the major negative effects of utility-scale solar? I'll tell you, none. You can still graze the land and plant the fields underneath the solar panels.
Your calculations are way off!
1200 square miles for 1.5Gw capacity is bullshit.. I have a 25 square meter roof with 3500wp total (14 panelsx250Wp) if I scale that up to 1.5Gw, I come up with about 11 square Kilometer, which is 4.3 square mile.. But is probably even less because probably they have used better panels than I have (mine were 250Wp per panel back in 2013, for the same money and size you have now 370 Wp panels) they are angled to the sun better than mine and in a sunnier area of the world (I live at 52 degrees latitude).
So yes they use more area, but not as much as you think, only about 2 to 4 times as much.. quite reasonable if you think about it.. and if decentralized to smaller fields and rooftops, the environmental impact is minimal.
@@Marmocet For me it was not a religion, but pure an economical reason to get solar panels on my roof... I had about €5000 savings in my bank account doing only 1% interest per year in 2013... By moving this money to my roof I save about €600-€650 per year on my energy bill.. that is more than 10% ROI right from the start :-).. I calculated when I had kept that money in the bank and compounded the interest rate... it would take more than 300 years to get even with the eanings of my solar panels. So yes, it was a good move to get these solar panels they pay back for themselves after about 6-7 years, they are guaranteed for 25 years to have at least 80% of their original capacity.
The only disadvantage I see at the moment is the lack of storage capacity, so we can use the energy stored during the sunny parts of the day, when it is dark or cloudy. But there is worked on in many areas of the world, Tesla is rolling out utiliy sized power packs all over the world, and a company as Ambri and some others working on cheap, reliable and durable utility scale batteries.. When these come online there is actually nothing what holds us back to install more solar capacity, and it gets so dirt cheap it makes no sense anymore to build those huge nuclear power plants.
@@Xiku I have seen many solar panel fields, but nothing usefull grows in the shade of these panels and animals are kept away from these..
FANTASTIC AND INSPIRATIONAL! Now we just need the whole world to join in before it is too late!
Another great video matey ! Thank You !
Coincidentally, I have the same movie camera shown in your closing credits.
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Meanwhile America doesn't do this very often and is putting the responsibility of making solar panels on private companies.
Argf actually the US government has given tons of subsidies to these solar power companies
lol you want to trust the same entity that makes rockets 10x more expensive than a private company to make solar panels?
its the truth the amount of money wasted by govt agencies is crazy
indeed Willard Hariksburg
tons of subsidies? lol the amount of subsidies clean energy gets is nothing compared to oil and coal companys
We don't need giant solar plants. Everyone can have their own panels and we can decentralize the grid.
it will be roughly 50-50 for rooftop and solar pants. dense cities do not have enough roof top. also you can have solar plants in deserts far away from coasts which have more clouds. like the entire coast of califronia has coastal mountains. clouds and fog run into the moutains and stop. on the east side of the coast mountains the land is cheap and sun strong. This is also true of china. we need both.
The Homie Cold Fusion with the Music on point as always.
Excellent Video and excellent way ahead!
Indian government has already signed agreements for producing 105 GW of solar energy by 2020
The UK has over 40% wind power when it is windy!
I saw a video on what India is doing with solar plants and was very impressed. Way to go India! Lead the way.
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Nice shot of Steyr, i live realy close to it, rewinded like 5 times to read the lable in the corner ;)
ur content keeps getting better awesome job man.
Can you make a video about nuclear power plants ! They are very clean energy and most people don't understand how they work and are against them just because the have linked the word " nuclear" with negative standards dispite the fact that it's the best energy producing method for mass electricity
Clouds do not affect solar panels by much. You can still get 70% of the power you usually would get even when clouds are covering the sun.
That is from someone who has NEVER used a solar panel for ANYTHING. Buy a solar panel, try to use it in a real world environment. That means to power ANY thing you want. Talk to me when you have an answer to the volt/amp ratio.
Hoschi0913 I was just saying that solar panels are more efficient than people think when clouds are in the sky. Nuclear power and coal mines are a whole new debate with gd points on both sides.
Hector Jose Zapata Casanova Mate that comes directly from Elon Musk who in Chairman of Solar City and CEO and CTO of Tesla so don't take my word for it take his word for it.
ok... I'll slow down for a bit here.. Do you have a link I could watch? Please?
Bazark ard, you are greatly mistaken. Cloud-cover can have a HUGE effect on solar energy output. But don't take my word for it... get yourself a small hobby solar panel from Amazon or eBay and a multi-meter. Connect the meter in series to the solar panel output leads, and configure it to read current (Amperage). Then, complete the circuit by creating a load for the solar panels (a capacitor and a small DC motor would be good). Then just play around with it and make a note of the results.
You will find that, just by tilting the panel a little bit, the output will vary to within 70 - 90% of maximum. Then perform the same tests on a partly cloudy day, and on a day where thunderstorms are predicted and the skies are completely covered with heavy clouds. Depending on just how cloudy it is, I'll bet money that you will see the solar panel outfall fall to as low as 10% of maximum (much below that and they won't produce much at all... they have a certain minimum saturation to produce a usable current).
love the video! thanks!
Thank you for another great video!! ☺
INB4 SOLAR POWERED TRUMP WALL
Yea, remember what happened with the Paris Agreement? I don't think he would endorse that...
The panels would have to be on the Mexican side to face south. They would destroy them just for spite. All it would take to crack a panel is a rock and they are cheap and abundant.
You mean coal powered trump wall...CLEAN COAL BIGLY!
A lot of misinformed comments even for 2017. To end the discussion Nuclear vs Solar: google how many nuclear power plants are being built next year in the World. Now compare that to the number of solar farms being built in the same time period. Add to that the number of wind farms. The war is over folks. Long live renewable energy ;)
for storage we could also try spring/elastic energy. push down a spring it'll hold that potential energy.
Very exiting developments Thanks best wishes for your channel
Enery output you talk about is a peak output. Solar power plants just like wind power plants have it in like 30-50% of time at most. Coal and nuclear is stable.
Just as a reminder.
what about the carbon foot print of the photovoltaic cells? the lion battery, the cables, the transportation etc etc etc... when/at what point does the solar offset its own cost to environment and produce non-replacement energy?
Do you even imagine how equipment for other power plants is made? Have you ever seen a NPP? Thousands tons of concrete, metal, milling, cutting, welding, fuel transportation etc.
GVGVIT1993 the question here is about solar. don't go all trump on me. I am all for solar. incomplete information is as good as no information... I am fully aware of conventional power generation technologies and it's advantages and disadvantages including carbon footprint.
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Why not just have a panela on your roof except the solar cells are in roofing tiles that make your roof look normal. Cough* Tesla solar roof, Cough* .
The Flying Irishman - Roof coverings have to be durable, insular, and configured to shed water. Solar panels are insular, yeah, and I suppose they shed water just fine, but can they be but durable enough to withstand a hailstorm without leaking and eventually compromising the integrity of the roof? Don't know if your idea is all that practical.
Because even if every single home in the USA was fitted with this technology solar would have a max generation percentage of 30% of the market.
+Paul Swanee each house could easily power itself with a Tesla battery pack. How only 30% of the market?
The Flying Irishman it has harmful impacts too didnt u notice it can cause cancer also
+Michael K Michael K, the Tesla solar tiles are supposed to last 30 years, maybe less if hit by a hail storm, but still a long time.
we should create a world wide network of electricity so when it's night in the usa and they are not getting power they get some from europe and vise versa
Transportation never was an efficient thing. This applies to electricity even more. Loss from storage will be probably smaller than loss from transportation, otherwise we would already have one large solar powerplant in Sahara desert.
Deimos Krijgsman energy is stored. There is enough for the night
Yovani H. yes.. but I don't think we have enough batteries to store energy on a world wide scale
You'd be surprised what all counts as a battery in this context. There are some that work by pumping a lake up a mountain and then letting it run back down through a series of turbines. Also we don't really need to store energy on a world scale when everyone stores their own energy.
China State Grid already has a plan for it because i doubt it will gain enough international support. The western world just doesnt like China. Haha
This video was amazing. Now after 4 years, i think you should again make a video on Solar Plants discussing about all the new Solar plants constructed all over the world in these 4 years. It is totally the future of green energy and there is already talks and work for building solar plants with the capacity of 10-30 GW.
Another great video.Many thanks.
India an china are investing more and more in solar and usa pulls out of paris agrerement.
so much fr being "the superpower".
You won't be the superpower if you invest in a technology that is planned to end! Soon, there won't be any oil or gas. USA is going to have some real troubles.
I don't think solar will be the future. It takes up too much space. It can't be put on most bodies of water, it'll mess up the ecosystem. In cities, buildings will often cast shadows over shorter buildings, making the panels effective for very little time. The best place for a solar power plant is a desert, and those are usually pretty far from population centers, which will lead to power loss over the long distance.
o' course you could do the solar roof tiles from Tesla. Could be right on top of the population centers. Now, they aren't as efficient as farms, because of the inaccurate angle on the house, and not being in a desert and such, but it won't have energy losses traveling over long distances on grids, which is nice.
We have elon musk working on that part ,on a different note most modern day thermal power plants are not exactly near the cities they power so as technology makes progress we'll get around that one.
Harsh Thakkar What if we stop creating problems and start using nuclear to it's full potential?
and if you couple it with wind and water based power based in the outer reaches of the big cities, the trifecta could compliment each others weaknesses and produce enough power to keep everyone going :)
It will only take 200 miles square to power 1/3 of global electricity it's possible bro
Brilliant video nice to have good news.
Thanks Degogo I love your videos my friend, awesome!! And you're from Melbourne.
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This video just reinforced my support for nuclear energy
If you factor in the need to self-insure, it is the most expensive, by a factor of ten. Plus, there is NO way to accurately predict the ongoing cost of clean-up that we already have.
chemicheto I prefer my cheap Hydroelectricity.
Physics tends to reinforce by support for nuclear energy.
Mathematically, solar and wind are weak compared to nuclear.
LFTR thorium for fission in the short run, China started a 10 year project to have an operational one in 2014.
And ITER fusion program and Wendelstein 7x are really what needs to happen to get ultimate clean and sufficient power for all uses.
The problem with nuclear energy is that progress has slowed due to the public fear, but I believe it has the most potential.
One of the best things about next generation reactors is that you can actually use existing nuclear waste as fuel. So you get rid of existing waste AND get a fucktonne of energy out of it. Yes, there is still some waste produced, but it has a much shorter half life and in much less quantity.
The energy equation of the future I think mostly looks to be baseload next-gen fission, with solar, wind, and geothermal making up the excess capacity, with probably batteries, compression, and/or flywheel energy storage for the transient types (eg. solar etc).
Insightful and full of promise as always. Inspiring . If only they could come up with technology to get rid of adverts what a wonderful world it would be
Solar storage can also avail of pumped hydro. Pump water up to a high reservoir and let it out like standard dams when power is needed, then pump it back up via a closed loop system when renewable power is cheap. Air while simplier means pressurized vessels like a scuba tank.
ye now talk about why the fuck the entire country doesn't have internet
mobile data
i thought mobile data is more expensive then home network in poor countries
America and some of southern England is internetless
buy router first O_o
So much BS. so little time....No a 1.5 Mw solar is not equivalent to half a 3.0 MW Nuclear plant. That is because we have this thing we call night time.. Cost will come down but like with Moore's law It will hit a plateau and that will happen at about .70 cents per Watt. So many other issues I do not have time.
Why will it plateau at 70 cents?
70 cents per watt is CHEEEAAAP.
1.5 + 1.5= 3.0
3.0/2=1.5
a MW is a MW no mater how it is generated. You were home schooled, right?
Moore's law is not a law of price/cost/profit. It is a mathematical statistic expression for the obsoleting and replacement of technology from a technical point of view, not a business and investment point of view. The money industries of stocks and bonds use other statistical tools to that end.
what the fuck are you talking out I buy the expensive kind of panels for $0.49 a watt.
his vids are all good but there needs to be more of this !!
I'm actually going to school for Solar renewable energy. this is inspiring
at about a dollar per watt here in the US i seriously doubt that solar will catch on until price drops. yes, a dollar a watt is what the price is. yes i researched it.
true but prices of solar have been and will continue to drop at an exponential rate so you never know
Did you also research that solar cell prices have come down by a factor of 100 over the last 38 years; and down by a factor of 25 over the last 15 years?
It should also be noted that it depends where... Energy costs are not constant throughout the country...
States like Alaska, Hawaii, and Connecticut tend to have much higher energy costs than state like Louisiana, North Dakota, and Washington...
Then factor whether alternatives like solar are optimal for the area and the amount of sunlight it receives throughout the year.
What this means is that for some places like Hawaii, where fuel costs are very high, they're not exactly situated where it's easy to get fossil fuel to the islands, and they get more than enough sun all year round that solar is already catching on there...
The costs versus fossil fuel costs just still have to be better before we'll see wider adoption but as noted the prices are already dropping and that means it's only a matter of time... Meanwhile, the costs of fossil fuel can always go up again and that may shorten the time before we see alternatives more seriously looked at...
However, there are other alternatives to consider... For heating needs, solar thermal is already dirt cheap and could become widely adapted as houses are made to be more energy efficient throughout the country.
so a 300 watt panel costs you 300 dollars to buy and that will work for about 25 years!
by my reconing it don't so long until it pays for itself and after that you are into free electric ,
Dollar per watt is really cheap though, hell solar is competitive at 3 dollars a watt, because thats what it is now for home users where in almost all cases they pay for themselves before 10 years even is up. On average they pay for themselves in 7 years at 3 dollars a watt. At one dollar per watt, only a fool would not take that up.
it is literally cheaper then the power you get from the utilities.
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How did this get 63 likes? Wtf people?
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I love your videos keep it up. You're by far one of the best CZcams channels out there. I would suggest putting a fun fact section on your website.
great video, love it!
Nuclear or bust
Does there have to be 1 source?
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Nuclear and solar can work as the pillars of energy production, the same way coal and oil used to be the pillars of energy production.
Nuclear energy is a great option for populated cities, but not so much for isolated regions and third-world countries, not to mention the use of solar panels on electric vehicles in the near future.
With drumpf in we are going to be dead last. China is using our technology to pull far far ahead of us . Fossil fuel is dead.
You can't shoehorn things where they don't fit. Solar is still in its infancy, having poor efficiency and great costs. Trump is an apt businessman. When solar becomes as efficient and cheap as to outpace oil, he'll instantly sign legislation to upgrade everyting to solar. It's already good enough for Trump to put it on top of border wall to produce energy and cover few odd percent of wall cost. But that's only because a dumb wall otherwise will only drain money, that way some of the costs are recovered, building solar installations as of right now is too expensive to be really feasible. Mass solar right now is little more than an ecological circle jerk and a huge waste of money.
Absolutely Terrific Trend!!! I Just hope all of the inevitable obstacles which will come up are and will be surmountable!!!
I was just talking to Isaac Arthur about this. Good stuff.
Nice work. Sharing to the Facebook page.