Why We Need A Revolution In Energy Storage
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- If we ever want to get off fossil fuels and start using renewable energy, we're going to need a revolution in energy storage. That means batteries. Bigger, stronger, and just better, ok? And maybe, just maybe, we'll finally be able to realize humanity's dream of confusing the ghost of Thomas Edison!
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That ending.
10/10.
+Borikuaedu3991 "cool drink of water"
+Borikuaedu3991 FUCK YOU EDISON!
this youtube channel is so fucking good, the videos are so well done and the topics are very interresting and you have 2 very funny and well bearded moderators. so why dont you get 1 million views per video at least?
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+Justsomebiggerman2 The hosts have a really good dynamic, as well.
You could use hydraulics to lift your whole house, during the the day, then use the weight of the house to turn a generator on its way back down at night, in an analogous way to the reservoir principle. Maybe.
+locohombre79 This is the best idea
+The Good Stuff Haha, your reply makes me warm and fuzzy
+locohombre79 Try calculating this, it's not very efficient. You'd need an extremely heavy house or lots of distance to lift.
+locohombre79 That would be a plumber/electrician worst nightmare.
@@0xbaadf00d That's why I prefer the idea of spinning my house. Higher limit to spinning than lifting.
Why is credit being given to Edison for the power grid?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? He wanted to build a DC power grid which was impossible at any scale and had very high losses. Westinghouse and Tesla created the power grid that we know today.
+Bottleworksnet Totally agree. Edison was a whiny bitch who bought or stole the ideas for most of "his" inventions. His sponsors even paid Hiram Maxim to bugger off to Europe instead of trying to improve electrical equipment because they were afraid that he would steal Edison's limelight. And that's why we have machine guns and millions of people died in WWI & II.
+Pile of carbon You're a typical idiot. Thomas Edison was a great man in terms of what he achieved, and so was Tesla. But, look at both of them and the end of their lives for a good view of the success they experienced. Don't discount an entire mans life based on some random liberal media rant.
+Bottleworksnet The reason AC is more efficient for the grid is because it is easier to change the voltage. High currents mean high loses of energy. So by using high voltage, long distance losses can be decreased. But too high of voltage is dangerous around the house. So high voltage is used for power lines and lower voltage for homes. AC can easily have its voltage changed using a transformer. But DC is more difficult to change voltage. This is why we use AC. For low voltage applications, DC works quite well (and is much easier to do calculations with than AC).
Just what I wanted to comment!
Fuck Edison. He still owes Tesla $ 50,000 plus compound interest!
+24680kong ...actually High Voltage DC is the most efficient way to transport electric energy, it's growing, so Edison is vindicated by todays standard. At that time of ancient technology AC was a given for energy transport.
oh my"The goal is to confuse the ghost of Thomas Edison ".lol
This is a total lie an just a smoke screne..a lead battery with a alum in it will last forever..an if it duz go bad all you have to do is melt the plates down an make new plates.......dumass mericans.
Or.... Tesla because we use AC
+Franklin Missark
Indeed, tesla was the real inventor, edison stole the ideas and made it Meterable for the rich who wanted big profits :) thats why everyone knows who edison is, and not many know about tesla. :)
+MatriXz And by "not many know about Tesla" you mean "ever single freaking comment on this video is bitching about Tesla?"
+Franklin Missark edison inveted the direct current, tesla is the big genius discovered the alternating current that we use today in the grid
cloudkitt Sure but do you know his story? his inventions, his downfall and why, etc? :)
+MatriXz His "downfall" was his funding getting cut off because Westinghouse Tesla wanted to give power for free. And wirelessly.
Edison would redesign the grid to be more efficient then charge you all your worldly possessions for the privilege of using it. Bring back Tesla instead.
Yes, Tesla wants free electricity while Edison wants to sell electricity.
I'm curious, Tesla invented AC why to they want Edison not Tesla?
+CliViearN because 'muricans
+Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars Tesla was an avid fan of IQ Eugenics.
+Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars Well, patent office can't allow that to happen, some things are too big to patent. For transporting energy Edison has sort of been vindicated today. High Voltage DC is the most efficient way to transport electric energy today.
CliViearN Here's why: Edison is an example of America. Self made business man and inventor who was incredibly successful until his company got taken over by J.P. Morgan. Tesla was the genius who frankly had made amazing discoveries. However this fetish over Tesla is hilarious because Tesla fanboys want to make Edison look like an idiot, which he wasn't. He had a legitimate point about AC. It is deadly. If you touched a DC wire you'd get hurt, touch an AC wire and you die, likely. He even tested that with the electric chair he invented using AC.
Edison was a businessman and he saw everything as opportunity to grow his business meanwhile Tesla basically went into poverty only to be somewhat heard in the scientific community. Yes his contributions were good but had he put in some time and effort into making money to invest in better laboratories like Edison and hiring staff to assist him he could have done so much more. Tesla was a great scientist but sadly he was...below average at life in regards to managing it and bringing out his own potential.
He had ambition without the means to achieve most of it. It's like a perfect president who never runs for office because they refuse to.
Do you mean Nikola Tesla?
+· 0xFFF1 and Elisha Gray invented the telephone
The Head Thomas Edison might as well have been just some businessman with the money to pay engineers to design his technology, and thus money, for him.
Making the ghost of Thomas Edison confused is child's play compared to stumping the spirit of Nikola Tesla.
+· 0xFFF1 shots fired
look up Drunk history season 3 episode 11. BTW, who doesn't know about Thomas Edison...I'm not sure why you're telling his story to me?
+· 0xFFF1 Well, considering Tesla wanted to make free wireless energy available to everyone, I guess it would be very hard to confuse him.
1:46 "We've suddenly realized with the new emphasis on climate change that it's going to be a tough road to eliminate carbon from our economy. We don't have the technology for it." That's simply not true. We could easily build more nuclear power plants, and they would more than happily produce the amount of energy that fossil fueled power plants do today. Unless you're referring to the technology to remove people's irrational fear of nuclear power, that is.
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This is so awesome, I was just talking to a friend about how a huge problem in clean energy is having a place to store it and then this video comes up in my feed!
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I live Off-Grid, using Batteries & an Inverter...
I'm not equipped to cobble-up Experimental Batteries, though I spent 25 years designing my own Wind-Turbines, before turning to Solar Panels, and my Solar Array is on an Asymetric Offset-Tower I designed, giving 135 Degrees of daily tracking & 47 Degrees of Seasonal adjustment, Solstice to Solstice...; it yields about 35% more than a fixed Array using the same Panels, so "economically" it's better to bolt the units to the Roof, but it's *far* more satisfying to have one's Panels actually pointing at the Sun..., than to have to watch over half the available power bouncing off for half the day, every day...
To see the "Tower of Power", backtrack me to my "SunFoil Project..." Playlist...; to illustrate the SunFoil concept I used my Hut's Panels, Batteries, and the Backup-Generator as a comparison to the Car's Alternator, to highlight the point that a well-designed Generator does *not* have a Torque-Multiplier between the Electromagnetic Drag-Brake and the Engine's Crankshaft..., which is why adding a streamlined Solar Panel to a conventional Road-Vehicle saves relatively huge amounts of fuel. (best result yet, 33.25% Fuelburn reduction on a 1.8 Litre Subaru 4WD, with a 30 Watt PV ; worst result to date, 7.5% Fuelburn Reduction on a 10-Tonne Diesel Truck, with a 200 Watt 24 Volt PV on the Cabin Roof..)
Adding a SunFoil to your Conventional Vehicle is the simplest, fastest, cheapest, ripest, biggest, lowest-hanging "Fruit" on the whole Alternative Energy "Tree"...; it makes the vehicle cheaper to run & less polluting, while delivering more available Torque to the Gearbox, so it'll accelerate harder and go faster as well..., once it's Battery is full of Sunlight at every Engine-Start.
It isn't Voodoo, it's just(ifiably ?) simple Power-Mechanics, Electro-Mechanics, & Drive-Train Engineering, plus Electro-Chemical Battery Dynamics..; which conspire between them to mean that adding a streamlined Solar Array is a much better way to achieve that full-Battery condition at every Startup, compared to expecting the onboard Alternator to ever achieve such a state.
Construction-Videos are in the Playlist, *none of it is patentable* so go your hardest, build one for yourself, or make a million of them as Retrofit Kits if you can afford to distribute them.
Live Green, or Die...; Greenhouse-Gas Emission induced Global Warming is a Karmic Feedback-Loop, within the Kosmic-Scoreboard Effect. and we make our own future with how we behave today...
What you do is up to you...; everybody has Perfect Liberty & therefore bears Perfect Responsibility, regarding whatever they decide to do...
Have a good one,
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Ciao !
Off grid for over 6 years and I love it. 90% of my home runs on 100vDC with the ability to give up to 100 amps. You would be surprised what can function on DC that was designed for AC.
Appliances that have transformers require AC only but devices like computers, most kinds of lighting, soldering irons, simple stoves / ovens etc readily accept DC.
One trouble with high voltage DC is it tends to want to arc across switches when turned off so you need a capacitor in parallel with it to suppress that.
"What would you say to Thomas Edison's ghost if you saw him in your bedroom?" ...Nikola Tesla is better than you.
kaito kid I'd say stop bullying nikola tesla.
Excellent video. Looking forward to checking your other stuff out. Cheers!
I think this is the best comment section in all if CZcams. The humbleness meter exceeds the standards
Thanks for a great introduction on what can be a very complicated issue. :)
This is one of the best youtube-channels! You guys should have so many more viewers. Interesting topic btw, would love to be able to generate sun/windpower and be able to store it at my house. I really hope smartgrid will come soon :)
It is important to not forget the other major obstacle for batteries: efficiency. With any known storage technology, it takes more power to store than you get out of it, even when it is brand new. So getting batteries out there means a net increase in power usage, with the hope that spreading it out will be more efficient.
There is also the dreaded maintenance issue. Centralized power means having specialists keeping an eye on high voltage sources that are physically separated from residential areas. Spreading it around means having some type of mechanical or chemical sink in homes with immense amounts of potential in it. Ever see a residential transformer explode? Even a small local one can light up the night sky. Home units are going to be smaller yes, but they are going to have a lot more energy in them than, say, a hot water heater (our current big store), and those failing can be pretty catastrophic as is.
And, of course, there is the line control problem. Stuff inside your own house is your own problem at first, but as soon as you start hooking up your stores and sources to the grid, that means your personal maintenance issues can affect other homes. These are all problems who's solutions go beyond technological.
neeneko I am individually developing a different kind of battery which does not store chemical energy, and turns it's stored energy directly into a mechanical motion, my system might not be the most efficient system for a house, but definitely for transport, plus be able to store more energy within it, therefore increasing its life, and you can recharge it an infinite amount of times and will not loose performance, no dangerous chemicals required, and possibly more cheaper, currently developing a prototype with this system that I would like to patent
Except that Bell wasn't the real inventor of the technology for the telephone just the application and Tesla knew a ton more about how electricity worked than Edison did.
One of the variables he forgot to talk about battery tech for large infrastructural stage is the life or total usage and recharge cycles the battery has.
Lithium ion is not only expensive but the life and usage cycle is relatively small, especially for use cases such as transportation and homes.
+Adil Zia Exactly my thoughts. If I drain my battery reserves by 80% every day (not unrealistic) then I'm looking at maybe 4 years of use before the battery starts dying.
Also, storing vast amounts of electricity in batteries is like storing dynamite in your house.
Lol ya it's explosive if chemical based, lithium ion based, it nickel based... I think Gallium was much more stable... And there are layering techniques, both which are being worked on which do both good storage, good charge release and intake, physical volume density, and temperature stability... The main issue is that the research into making it commercialized isn't complete
Chemistry doesn't matter. Lithium in current batteries is dangerous, but more dangerous is the energy stored inside the battery. You can take the lithium out but the energy will always be there, and it can burn everything down.
This is an episode theme I've been waiting for!
Energy storage is here already in many markets, let's give some more credit to the front line of energy warriors. I'm so grateful for this video and hope that you can do a follow up about more of what we are doing... Hundreds of MW installed in Southern California. Awesome work here, keep it up.
Your videos are amazing!
good work guys
Really great topic guys!
Agreed
This show is so good.
Especially interesting playlist, this one. I dare say: the stuff is good.
This volume on this video almost blew out my speakers. I enjoyed it once my hearing came back though.
Edison would say..." George...let's microwave an Elephant and go back to DC".
oh my goodness, the audio is so high. Could you master the audio for clarity and bring down the levels in the next upload?
Whoops - that was actually my mistake. I accidentally added an extra compression filter to whole master track just before the final export. Didn't notice until it was already online.
+DavidRussell323 Since nobody answered your question, I think they accidentally added an extra compression filter to the whole master track just before the final export and didn't notice until it was already online.
Just my two cents since we've had a lot of misinformation so far. It seems like there was an extra compression filter applied to the whole master track just before finally exporting it. Whoever did this didn't notice until it was already online.
+TheJman0205 no they're not, they just wanted to clear up the fact that there was an extra compression filter applied to the whole master track just before finally exporting it and that whoever did this didn't notice until it was already online.
+TheJman0205 I don't get the confusion here. Maybe you didn't understand what we were trying to say. The editor added an effect that shouldn't have been there and only realized it after the video was posted. I hope this clarified it!
I don't know if it's related, but I just finished drinking a beer and now I want to subscribe to the channel.
Derek = dreamboat, for sure! Definitely looking forward to next week's episode! 😉
This is really good stuff
The first reason almost sounds like a cop-out (considering the installation of large batteries in plants would probably increase the cost of electricity production more than it would reduce from load balancing). The real reason is the second one. Without some sort of efficient storage system wind and solar just don't work on large scale. These two energy generation methods are being sold as the future, but they completely rely on technology that hasn't been invented yet (and might not be).
Well, it's 4 years later, oct 2020. Things have gone well for renewables plus storage. There are many coal power plants that are being shut down and replaced by renewables plus storage.
Two problems to solve: generating energy and storing energy. Storing energy can be tricky, not just because we need to find cheap ways to do so but because we spend a little of energy while storing it in the process. I think the idea of "sharing energy" in the grid is great and I think that each home can be a little power generator and an entire city can become a power plant town. All we need to do is to think where energy is and how we can extract it in the perspective of our homes. I don't have to mention we, ourselves, are "walking packets of energy". We lose lots of energy in the heat we emit, as we walk and move. The central problem is converting types of energy in such a way that we don't lose more energy in the conversion than it should and storing the energy to attend our needs.
aside from your informative videos, you guys have a great sense of humor :)
I love these guys
hey Craig I like your vlog but I think you make a really good host/interviewer. Nice to see!
I really like the idea of pumping water up into a reservoir and using the potential energy to power the grid, but as you guys mentioned in the video, a change in elevation is essential. I also heard Bill Nye propose a similar solution where a deep, deep hole is dug in the ground but the plug of rock is more or less left in tact. Renewable energy is then used to pump water beneath the pug and slowly lift it throughout the day (or when the wind is blowing.) The gravity of the plug is then the potential energy and no change in elevation is needed. This system still needs water though.
Did you high-five one of those weird balloon gloves at JCSER? Were those chambers to protect for static/dust?
Can't wait to see Derek, and amazing final ^_^
Nice stuff :P
What about the idea I've heard about of a giant heavy piston in the ground, and you store energy by pushing the piston up, and when you need energy you let it fall slowly and push the water or whatever and generate electricity from that. Cool to hear about the elevated reservoir thing!
It'd be nice to hear more about other energy storage possibilities other than making better versions of our batteries :)
Hey good stuff people! Does these method of storing energy which is being used for now have energy loss or is it stored in its full potential and have its energy kept without loss when transferring back to electrical energy?
I love all the swearing in this episode even if it was censored :-) Also, perfect ending.
NOT Edison! While working for Westinghouse it was Tesla, who contributed most to first power plants and DC power distribution. Edison was supporter of the DC, not AC current, that we use today.
My favorite approach to grid-level batter storage is being worked on by a guy named Donald Sadoway. Seach 'donald sadoway missing link' to find his ted talk on the topic, it basically uses huge, hot liquid metal batteries to keep costs very low and provide mass, scalable energy storage
I would love to put a flywheel battery in my backyard, but it would spin so fast (while I'm not home) that the wheel would need to be made of some exotic alloy that would have huge resistance to breaking.
I'm sure the flywheel would also need advances in lubricant or ball-bearing nano-technology (or magnetic field technology) such that the friction value would be as close to zero as possible.
On another note, Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway transporter) is working on a hybrid stirling engine generator, but it's not available for consumers yet.
solar panel + stirling engine generator = awesome
with cheap power storage, investors would no longer hesitate to invest in solid forms of green energy; no more wars for oil either, it's is the one missing piece of the puzzle and I am glad to hear to many smart people everywhere work on it together.
I would really love to have solar panels but they are expensive unless your area electricity provider has a subsidy program in place, which mine does not.
"I'm playing angry birds" hahahahahaha
Epicly hilarious.
Great video.Nice to state that the lithium battery made the smartphone possible. Further improvement (better and/or cheaper) of energy storage is indeed badly needed. But not only battery storage is investigated also ways of making Hydrogen from the surplus of electricity is apossiblility. There is even a German institute that makes petrol out of CO2 and H2O with energy that stems from wind and solar installation. Also a way of thinking.
Good video
hey good stuff... tell me about your solar system you use...
I have wanted to produce and store my energy for years. It's expensive but there's more and more do it yourself options out there. The real trick is improving the quality of solar power, producing mass amounts of cheap solar panels and a government funded project could make this happen. Essentially a truck could drop off your materials and friends and neighbors install them themselves and neighborhood after neighborhood self generating electricity can be produced.
Derek is SUCH a dreamboat. *swoons*.
Shared:-)
I laughed way too hard at the clip at 2:03
Slopping gas all over each other
I believe that I have designed a more efficient kind of car battery that does not store the energy chemically but with an alternative system (which I will not specify until I get a patent on it) and would convert that energy directly into a mechanical motion, already more efficient than having a chemical battery transmitting its power through wires, then wrapping around a solenoid making mechanical motion with an electromagnetic field. Which I believe that it is the kind or energy storage system we need in transport.
this battery at home idea is amazing! it would make it much easier for more people to become near independent for renewable energy sources, with the benefit of it being right at home!
wow I had no idea. this video blew my mind. I hope argon labs crack it!
+Shockography It's not new technology unless you're plugging your car in.
+ThomEA yeah but I didn't even knew it existed! never really thought about it.
this channel is great
hello, what is the song playing at the end?
Straight shit!! This is what I have been craving. You will do great things. I hereby predict it.
what about the h2-o2 fuel cell which is most efficient battery (70%)..and easy to make....and used in rockets..with no pollution
All fuel cells are chemical heat pumps and that means when you scale them down, just like piston heat pumps, they lose efficiency, and subsequently have similar efficiency as any piston powered engine of similar size. And they separation of hydrogen from oxygen is.. really low efficiency,
So a realistic number is more, 15%-30% efficiency generating hydrogen, and 20-60% efficiency converting hydrogen into electricity. Or 60% of 30% for a best case, and 20% of 15% for a car sized unit.
Batteries are efficent enough to surpass hydrogen by a long shot close to 90 percent as far as storage goes, but they are nowhere near compact, or safe enough to do what we want them to
I have a question. What if we use current technology to turn excess energy into hydrogen when we don't need it then turn it back to electricity during peak hours? It could be a good step between what we have now and future batteries.
The way I see it, energy storage is a good place holder to help ease us off of non-renewables until nuclear fusion is tamed and able to use in power plants at a fairly cheap price. Hopefully both of these won't take any longer than 50 years to achieve for everyone's sake. Obviously once fusion is in, energy storage can be used with it too and hopefully energy won't be an issue again and the atmosphere can actually begin to recover a little bit.
It was Tesla's idea coming up with the modern power grid we use today, alternating current. While on the other hand Edison wanted to make a power grid based off of direct current. Edison battled with Tesla on the matter for years, on the safety, and efficiency mostly, DC is safer, but it can't be transmitted over long distances with loss like AC can. Edison knew this, and in the end bought Tesla out for relative peanuts.
I really appreciate Tesla's work on this. They're hoping that lithium ion batteries will do the trick so they're just making a but load of them. More than doubling production with their new giga factory in Nevada. I hope their gamble pays off and we can just increase production of the ones we have. But diversity is key, so I'm also hoping the people you visited find their solution fast.
Craig, who did the music for the credits??? I need to know!
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Am I the only one obsessed that they only microwaved the Hot Pocket for 1 minute when they clearly need 2 minutes?!
The modern power grid is kept in phase using GPS signals. That is, the atomic clocks on GPS satellites send radio signals that are picked up at power stations and are used to time out the alternations of the current. (All the power stations have to be alternating in time with each other) Would Edison understand it?
What's that about the already available PowerWall home battery capable of storing 7kw/h reporting a 92% efficiency rating for $3000?
THANK YOU! i hear ya
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Living in Manitoba, where nearly all the province's electricity is generated by hydro power, it's hard not to defacto feel real swell about one's self when faced with the effects of energy consumption. I mean, here I feel like I'm being green simply by having electric heaters, since it's burning green energy instead of natural gas, so that's pretty cool. I'd love to see batteries used in homes too, especially as electric cars come out more each year from companies. It's always been my dream to have the power company pay me to give energy instead of use it. I would have liked to have seen even more exploration into the use of batteries. For instance, how much progress in R&D relies on discovering more efficient chemical compounds, vs smarter technology processing to use that energy more effectively?
If I were to see Edison's ghost in my room, I'd likely tell him to leave, only to come back if he could bring me Tesla's ghost. Nice video though!
UT Austin same inventor as lithium ion new recycled glass battery. 3x storage 10x less cost. Game changer also heat storage by sunamp in the UK.
I think batteries should be installed in many housholds so we could storage energy when there is too much of it. When we got many small storages it would be the same or even better like a big one...
i think what i got is your need and is the future of storage
yes I would put a battery in my garage! in fact I already have DIY one
your videos are great
one major disadvantage on nuclear fission is that even if in theory it should work fine, in practice management seek for profit and nuclear waste is sold all around the globe or abandoned in some ship near some coast.
dense nuclear waste is very dangerous and last for centuries.
today we need energy sources which are not harmful even if managers are mean and corrupt.
What about new developments in super caps? Far higher density and a fraction of the cost.
Edison was a supporter of DC power and that would have required a power station every 5 or so miles to keep the levels up. Tesla was the supporter of AC. So Edison would have understand it but not be able to run it, it is so much different then his dream.
I would like to see someone try to confuse Tesla, he would use his death ray.
You need update, looking at Tesla batteries in Australia, and smart grid (virtual power plant) project there.
Day to day storage is one thing, but what about seasonal storage? These cloudy January days without wind will be a serious complication for economical energy storage for a renewable dependent grid.
A bit late for comments, but batteries aren't the only solution for grid level. Ultra High Voltage Direct Current power lines can get power from one side of the planet to the other with less loss than charging a battery. It's always sunny or windy somewhere.
If i saw Mr Edison's ghost, I would hug him for designing the power grid, punch him for what he did to Tesla, then probably shout just as you did. Spot on impression of me screaming, by the way Wheezy
Nice video as always, but why is the audio very dynamically compressed in this episode? Sounds awful! :/
I would probably say something along the lines of: AAAAAH!
Why phones has developed so much is because we have put a computer in it (nothing to do with actual telephones).
Btw if I would have seen Thomas Edison's ghost in my bedroom I would probably do the same as Craig.
I do think that batteries are going to be a major factor in the future of energy, but they will need some help from improved power sourcing, such as thorium salt reactors or even fusion reactors. I don't think those will work great as home solutions like solar or wind, but would make for a great constant supply for industrial use and to fill the improved batteries of places with high population density where solar or wind are simply not practical.
JCSER (Jay Caesar) must be the coolest rapper name of all time. Stealing it now
+Achw3l Jay-Z, Sir
The problems of batteries differs between usage scenarios. For example, for a car it is important that they are compact, light, work under large temperature ranges, etc. However, for grid backup batteries in homes and plants, the weight does not play such a big role, also compactness is not really important. Instead they must be freaking cheap to be able to compete with regular plants. The cheaper there are the better the you can model the buy and sell business model around the storage. Also they must sustain many load cycles. Instead of cars you can insulate the battery storage much better. Therefore, temperature is less an issue.
The problem is that our work schedule and style is out of sync with the forces of nature. We keep swimming against the current, all we have to do is turn around and float with the stream.
This grid needs use the molten battery, for the home we need to lower the cost of the salt battery or nickel iron battery by 5....
who went and said "yeah, that background music is totally not distracting"?
I am not a chemist or an engineer in any sense of the word, but I wondered many years ago if it would be possible to, instead of having a chemical reaction for a battery, have an array of millions or billions (trillions?) of microscopic capacitors that would release their tiny stored energy one at a time (in rapid succession, depending on demand) to create energy flow? I can imagine the minimum size would be limited by how well the caps could be insulated from each other and other technical factors, but think of the advantages: Extremely long life, possibly infinite charging cycles and super fast charging capabilities. Remember, I am coming at this from the point of a layman, so I am probably waaaaay off!
Any ideas?
JW3HH
p.s. If we can fix _just_ the problem of slow charging (compared to refueling an ICE), that alone may be enough to convince the "fence sitters" that an electric car is viable. After that, we just need to encourage gas stations - or anyone, really! - to offer high-capacity recharging stations at their places of business.
You guys have it backwards, Thomas Edison try to squash AC, the grid. He was all about DC which is what you're talking about now with battery storage.