Renewable Energy is The Scam We All Fell For
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I was thinking about installing solar panels on my roof but this video convinced me to install a nuclear reactor instead, very helpful advice.
LOL
Wait no
exactly
@@hibbidyjibbidyy again, if you look at actual data, even this, is minimal compared to fossil fuels... what aboutism is so lame
LOL
Never liked the term "Save the planet" I prefer George Carlin's view "The planet isn't going anywhere... WE are!"
Yes
Exactly
Well, we do need to keep this one safe enough until we can get to that *elsewhere*. So pay attention please, your life may not be at stake here, depending on your age, but that of your grandchildren and theirs is. If you have none, that of your nephews and their grandchildren is at stake. I do not see humanity going anywhere off-world in the coming decades.Or perhaps even centuries. SO the term "save the planet" is very valid, unless you have something to share....
@@palimac Not too familiar with George Carlin are you?
@@xxXMusickXx I know who he is. But what was valid then is not so now. The ideals and thoughts then are 4 decades old and for the most part invalid. It was also the time that nuclear was banned on principle rather than actual facts.
"You cant ignore statistics."
The public: "Hold my beer..."
I'm amazed that this is allowed to be seen in 2023. Australia is just starting to go down this path, and already our power bills have doubled, and our current government is hell-bent on continuing.
You sure that is due to renewables? Something tells me there is more to it. Prices everywhere are increasing.
Nuclear would be more expensive too. Nuclear is a lot of things, but you won't see any return on investment for ages, especially since every single effin plant goes over budget by billions upon billions.
Side note for anyone reading. Decentralization of the grid is one of the benefits of renewables honestly.
Australia should have the cheapest power on the planet, vast areas, lots of sun and wind. I suspect there is corruption somewhere in the system. I work on lots of projects with solar PV and even in the UK they payback well within their life span and will pay back several times the initial investment.
@@dianapennepacker6854 Isn't it obvious? They are making power more expensive so nuclear power can keep supplying the market and hiding in plain sight, whilst provisioning the obscene nuclear arms race.
The whole world is corrupted if you all haven't noticed... the whole globe has been through a major scam since 2019... if you're to blind to see.... I don't know what to say
I think it actually might be the gambling ring and corruption, and arresting of whistleblowers, and the terrible government, not renewable energy, although that might have a slight thing to do with it.
Hello, for transparency; I have 6 years of working as a wind technician and 1 year working in an operation center overseeing wind and solar.Other than working experience I am also PJM and NERC certified. I'm here to clear a little bit of this up.
1. Bird strikes: Yes, there are avian strikes that happen on occasions however these are non endangered species. Every single wind site that has endangered species employs avian monitors that are across the site monitoring any avian presence and curtail entire zones of turbines to prevent any strikes from happening. These monitors also team up with automatic curtailment devices that track all avian activity and curtail the towers if it senses any avian activity. These devices are so sensitive they will occasionally curtail for planes by accident.
2. Yes, it is an intermittent resource that does not produce at maximum capacity 100% of the time, using the phrasing "optimally less than 30% of the time" is misleading and I feel you're doing that on purpose. Don't do that, I hope you're better than that. Most resources run around 70% capacity for the majority of the time and that is for wind. Solar produces very optimally during the day and very very rarely fall below 99.5% availability. In regards to the less than 10% claim you made, yes that happens however it doesn't happen anymore, you're referring to two different things here, the first is very old farms that were built with bad planning, and there are very few that meet this standard you've stated here. The second is those very few *very* rich people who want to build these farms as tax breaks, again a very rare circumstance but it happens.
3. I'm not against nuclear and I will touch on this more later however, just as you stated, those massive turbines have a tremendous mass, and once that inertial energy has been lost it takes a long time to restart, and in an event where a tie-line has been opened on the grid, restoring that power may take hours or in worse case scenarios days. Once a nuclear turbine has lost all inertia and power, it takes 48 hours of power from outside sources to restore the unit to an operating status.
4. The land usage that you're referring to sounds disastrous and overwhelming because that is how you are phrasing it. Yes, completely clearing the land of everything would be terrible however that is not what happens. What happens is farms are usually built on landowners property that maintain cattle and grow crops such as wheat, corn, cotton etc. These farmers are also paid by the wind turbine owners for the usage of land for loss of crop space plus a premium for simply allowing the turbines to be there(which is actually a very healthy amount) The pad of the turbine is typically only 25 foot in diameter. You say its inefficient because of the erroneous numbers you used. The actual space used by the turbines is a lot less than you're portraying it. The farm I worked at had 54 turbines with 25 foot padmounts. That is only 27,000 sq ft of land (roughly, I would be more than happy for a correction) for a 130 MW site. That would be 130,000,000 watts of energy per 2508 sq meters. (again, I'm no mathematician, I welcome corrections to my math) Assuming my numbers are correct until I can get someone better at math to correct me, the energy production vs area taken changes a little doesn't it?
5. Whats this the asterix at the end of the wind turbine death count? OSHA is all over every single injury in all working fields, you can't just push a death under the rug, these numbers are very accurate. I fully agree on nuclear however, it has caught a bad wrap from the major meltdowns. However your argument of how nuclear gets rid of nuclear bombs is a little off the wall, the bombs already made are a very finite resource to power theses plants.
Finally, it should go without saying that a push to environmentally friendly methods to sustain the energy grid should always be a goal and misrepresenting one of the best methods we have for this is not the way to go about it.
*TLDR VERSION*
Wind is heavily misrepresented in this video however I'm not saying nuclear is an enemy. The most CO2 efficient and reuse-able methods should be used to sustain the grid i.e. wind and nuclear, followed by hydro and solar and lastly coal.
My man just destroyed moustache guy
hopper727rs damn you know your shit.
Eagle carcass counting under wind turbines in Norway
czcams.com/video/G8u6B1fm4QQ/video.html
I also work in renewables, mostly solar. Came here to say this. Very biased/generally bad research here.
So what do you say about this link down there with dead eagles ? Ok you said it . Now response ?
Ive had solar on my roof for 21 years and haven’t paid a dime to my utility company. They paid for themselves in five years. A well designed solar system can last forty years.
It's just not efficient enough tho. 25% land in Britain simply cannot be covered by solar panels
And what happens if them fields of solar panels get broken??
@@nymerianan4short314 You order more at exorbitant (and extortionist) cost from the Chinese. Who are polluting the whole world making those things.
@@madlad4206 it doesn’t need to be on land. Rooftops are a common option. Obviously no one is suggesting that solar is the only option. My 12kW array powers my entire home, and the total cost is about 1/3rd of what buying the same power from the utility would be.
@@nymerianan4short314 you fix them. Are you under the impression that the current electric grid doesn’t break down or require maintenance?
Solar panels require far less maintenance than traditional power. No moving parts, just a natural reaction that creates electricity. Occasional cleaning is the only regular maintenance, and in some climates even cleaning is not regularly needed.
I'm curious if you've covered the dangers of the lithium batteries in electric cars
Which you would need if using any "carbon neutral" sources. But none of these shills will bring this up
Old news. But he has also covered the latest in battery tech, which I'm sure is the question you're REALLY asking.
@@neepsmcfly4176no, that's not what I was asking... Over a year ago when I commented on this
@@neepsmcfly4176what's that?
What about the dangers of fossil fuels in cars? Many more of them have fires than EVs!
I like how this is a serious issue and the music is so upbeat and cheery.
12:15 - Using decommed nuclear weapons fuel as fuel for electricity is almost literally the nations "beating their swords into plowshares".
Thank you soo much for posting that! God bless you, brother!
Beautiful
Preach
A technology that is five years away from commercial scale... and always will be. Fusion reactors have been only a few years away since I was in Highschool thirty years ago. The same is happening with all of the other alternative nuclear technologies that the nuclear industry has been pushing for the last couple of decades. The question of how to replace fossil fuels with nuclear without starting a new nuclear arms race hasn't been answered. That can only happen when every nation can trust every other nation not to try to build a nuclear arms industry in secret. Nuclear weapons are only decommissioned because they are no longer fully functional and need to be replaced. So, the number only decreases when there are better, more powerful ones to make up the difference. There are still enough to end human life several times over. The fossil fuel industry has been pushing for nuclear power as a wedge issue to undermine the renewable energy industry for a while. Maybe there is a future for nuclear power many decades from now, but for the moment it is little more than a distraction from solving real world problems with real world solutions.
I'll gain 5 life then.....
Better title: why nuclear energy isn't that bad
and it actually isnt if we can find a nice way to store the waste
@@eccomi21 if you think about it, we better store a waste underground rather than spread it in atmosfer like fossil fuel
@@zee9709 well yes. If we can actually do that. And we can. The only other problem is when shit hits the fan as we saw in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
My point of view simply is that nuclear energy is a clean and viable resource as long as it is done right. Basically the tradeoff for a clean atmosphere is a possible local radioactive wasteland. Unless we get nuclear fusion going.
@@eccomi21 Show me how many people died of radiation poisoning in either of the only two events that antinuclear proponents can cite, both of which were built poorly and had corners being cut to save money.
@@cadkls isn't thorium meant to fix this?
also hows the progress on that going?
The US averages 38% coal burning for electricity. Yes your Tesla runs on coal.
Hippies dont care about that, as long as they look virtuous
Eh misleading at best, key word here is 'average' and 'US'. Whatever your EV runs on will end up depending on your local/regional resources, not national... so yes, there's several places around the US where EVs do NOT run on coal. It's also possible to run 100% on solar if you have solar panels and battery storage. Also, unlike engines, EV don't keep polluting from their tailpipes, the higher carbon footprint of making an EV is offset on average in 1-2 years in the US; a gas car will well exceed that carbon footprint through the rest of its lifetime of use.
Electric cars are amazing but we aren't ready for them! It's still a toxic and destructive process to produce them. They are the future but they're ahead of their time.
@@johnsuarez1404 they're still considerably less toxic than gas cars, simply do your own research and google 'are evs worse than gas engines' and learn the truth yourself. Data doesn't lie, on average the carbon cost of making an EV is offset by 1-2 years of use depending of where you live
@@megashadow1390I take it you're from a place that doesn't get hurricanes, tornadoes, heavy snow or earthquakes.
Wind Turbines use the same strategy to reduce CO2 as Genghis Khan. Though instead of the victum being humans, wind focuses on the kulling of birds.
A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects. this is from MIT climate portal. do not believe this crap do your own research. I could not watch the rest of the video but you can expect more of the same.
Not a lot of people will get that reference - I did because I watched his video yesterday - great stuff.
Wind turbines kill fewer birds than guns kill people. Just saying.
As soon as they turned 3, I had my kids on bicycles connected to a home generator and a battery pack. They are growing up strong and healthy and we're off the grid. Can't wait for the new baby to turn 3 as we're planning to move up to a bigger TV. Thank you for the wise advice.
That is so wholesome to read.
@Philippe Fossier - Feed them beans and rice and all the meat is yours!
Don't feed them too much to reduce the carbon footprint. Agriculture is one of the main carbon emission.
Don't forget to rope in the neighborhood kids at Birthdays and Christmas. Dogs can also be useful in a treadmill plus you can use the coat "afterwards". Remember the baby waste can be used to generate methane and reused in the gas stove.
Omg I first read this as though your kids were on e-bikes and were charging off of the house. That certainly made this confusing lol!
As one of the many supervillains that reside in Gotham City, I am interested in knowing more about this exciting new bat-killing technology.
Underrated comment
big LOL!
Fukushima killed a lot of bats. And radioactive waste from the nuclear power plants, if properly dumped into the caves, can kill billions of bats. So, if you wanna kill living creatures, nuclear is the way to go.
Where abouts in Gotham ?
Yes
This is a 4 year old video. Battery installations in 2023 were large enough they are listed as a new power source now. It dwarfs the batteries installed in 2020.
I live full time in my solar powered RV. I spend winters in the Arizona desert doing astrophotography and summers in Quebec. I rarely need to run a generator. I have a microwave, coffee maker, toaster, deep fryer, a 32 inch computer monitor and a big 120 volt home refrigerator with ice maker. I easily go three weeks without resupplying food and water. I have a compost toilet and a 100 gallon fresh water farm tank in the bed of the Ram.
I have been retired and living off grid of 7 years. What is the scam that I fell for? My entire lifestyle would not be possible without my solar energy setup of 2050 watts of solar panels and 900 amp hours of LiFePO4 batteries.
Solar panels are great for individual households. I think what this video is talking about it large scale country wide power where renewables can't currently keep up in comparison to other sources like nuclear.
@@sajiloto Renewable energy accounted for 57% of Germany's electricity production in 2023, and they are not a particularly sunny country. I spend the winters in southern Arizona and California, and they sure have a lot of acres of solar panels. Solar only accounts for about 10% of Arizona's electricity production, though that could greatly increase by simply installing more solar panels. There is certainly no shortage of sun most days.
There's a difference between installing solar privately and building an entire solar farm to cover energy for all.
For one, you are taking up the costs personally and will only see your investment pay off in about 10-15 years.
Second, the government can't afford this investment on a mass scale due to the inefficiency. Also, a single household uses far less energy than say a construction company or a hospital or a factory. So it will take far more solar plants which take up significant space, destroying the habitats they're placed on and those within a substantial range due to the heat generated.
Then there's the costs of replacing the batteries and panels which on a scale like this would decrease their longevity, meaning replacement and maintenance will be often. Can't forget tht these are electronics afterall and tht intense heat can cause damage which is a problem because more panels = more heat = more dmg = more maintenance and replacements.
Then there's the problem with households all investing in solar as this increases the local temperature threatening the surrounding wildlife.
Then there's the misconception that countries like Germany who have green energy of 54% have shoen tht it can be done when the reality is that the energy grid is a costly mess rn
@@zerog1037 Solar panels generally put out about 90% of their original output after 25 years. They have no moving parts, and rarely require any kind of maintainance. It is hard for me to think of anything more reliable in the long term than a solar panel. Your talk of them requiring maintainance or replacement often is simply not true.
So if people use solar panels, it increases the local temperature, threatening local wildlife? Can you elablorate on that? I have never heard of such a thing before.
The main environmental cost of solar panel farms is they take up space. Fortunately that is often in empty desert in places like Arizona and California, where that intense sun is falling on hard packed and baked ground. Little is growing or living there compared to areas with more rain. While all forms of power have some environmental cost, solar seems to have the least. The roof or a house or busines is basically wasted space that can often be fitted with solar panels without having any footprint or wasting any land. Ask Walmart, who increasingly is putting solar panels on the roof of their huge stores.
As I sit out in the desert in my solar powered RV, my solar panels take up slightly more space than the roof of the small RV. I have 3 ground panels that I lay out as well as what is on the roof. Yet by intercepting the sunlight energy that would have just been wasted, as well as making the RV roof hotter, I can generate all the electricty that I need to run all the appliances and conveniences I want. No noise of a generator. No smoke, no gas or maintainance on a generator. No buying a new generator every year or two. No pollution. And no, contrary to what you seem to think, using solar panels to power my RV does not make the area hotter.
I'm not sure what your point was about Germany. You stopped writing in mid sentence and didn't bother to finish your thought.
@@headdown1 The problem here is that you are thinking from a private individual investment in residential usage.
For one, wht do you think solar panels do? They draw power from the sun right? Wht else does sunlight do? Provides heat right? Put 2 and 2 together and you get a panel drawing in light and heat. On a large scale this obviously increases the temperature in a localized region.
Now, thts actually a misconception. The areas picked up often are shrublike biomes with small animals and insects commonly associated with deserts.
This life is flushed out in a large radius due to the heat.
The maintenance, repairs and replacements of solar panels and batteries used in mass production is common in the industry, raising electricity prices. A solar panel for private use can last up to 25 years, it's different for a solar farm.
And again I brought up germsny because you brought up germany as this ideal country for green energy when the reality is tht germany is struggling with energy since it went green.
I am an electrical engineer and I agree with this video, if you take politics out of science, the world of alternative energy will look much different.
Ohm my gosh really?
@@zacharyahearn4069 Watt do you mean?
Very true, politics kills a lot of good
@@stevenkamala7238 same profile pic
You don't store excess energy in batteries. This is stupid idea. You build elevated lakes and pump water up to them, and release that water to run turbines when needed. You can do other things too.
Nuclear Energy: **Is safe**
Every politician: “I’m going to pretend like I didn’t see that”
Nuclear energy has the power to save lives and our planet alike
Honestly, nuclear is something we should have kept going with, every new technology is going to have some initial downsides.
Is not a bad option, however, the nuclear waste and dangers of uranium are still very high. It would be more safe if Thorium would be used for this; sadly, the technology required for this hasn’t been properly developed yet and it’s extremely expensive....
Pablo Rodríguez We are at the point we can repurpose over 90% of the waste produced for further energy production. With the recent (as of three years ago if you can call it recent) radiotropic mushroom of chernobyl which use radiosynthesis, they are able to feed off the waste and drastically reduce the radioactivity of the waste.
@@hiddendesire3076 badass shrooms
I like how he has to specify that toxic is bad to humans like there is a healthy toxic
Where I live, 100% of our energy is hydro electric. Zero "carbon". Yet our gov decided to install a bunch of windmills, at huge cost in terms of money and carbon emissions. Wtf.
13:38 “I’m not actively trying to disparage renewables”
Title of the video: Renewable Energy is a Scam
Oh, you beat me to it.. I ended up posting the same thing.
it is a scam with the amount of money pumped into it already and they still only are barely even 1% of all enegry used XD
can't blame him
gotta get clicks somehow
Lmao and the video actually used to be called “why renewable energy will kill us all”.
This was changed soon after he uploaded the video though.
In the long run, without the inclusion of other methods, it is a scam.
In Germany, about 4000 birds were killed from 2002 to 2019 due to wind tuebines.
but about 18mil every year due to glass.
You hipocrate. What about all the chickens and turkeys that killed for food. How many is that? They are birds too!
@@KindnessandPeace And what has that to do with Renewable Energy and wind turbines ?
@@finnschutte3769 I think its a joke he literally has a recipe for turkey uploaded on his channel.
So we should also bring back beautiful stone architecture and do away with glass rectangle monstrosities.
According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, collisions with turbines kill between 140,000 and 500,000 birds annually. Other energy sources, such as coal, oil and power lines, contribute to millions of bird deaths. However, cats remain the biggest threat to birds, killing an estimated 1.3 to 4 billion birds each year.
Molten Salt Thorium Reactors can be built small enough to run a car or large enough to run a city. But there is one company that has designed them the size to power a large hospital or manufacturing plant. At that size, they can be installed for a city in a series of them. So if one has a problem, you can change it out like a light bulb.
Smartest damn thing I've heard from any one on power production !! Electrician here and done lots of powerhouse maintenance and when you shut one down you've got to have another to replace it !!
We did not all fall for it, but there will be many who pretend they didn't.
“Countries such as Africa” ahh yes... Africa, my favorite country
South Africa, central African Republic,.
Every culture has been destroyed by European expansion .
@@ionageman people change, take the good bits from other cultures and make it their own.
@@ionageman that's a simplistic view of the world.
@@ionageman a lot of them have been changed by it (: whether that is for worse or for better we cannot know!
No worries; There's plenty of wind power being generated at UK's parliament.
Hahaha nice one
that's natural gas actually
And in the "United" States
I didn't get it
@@franchocou we mean fart
Windmills are so big and easy to see, and easy to fly around or over, that I almost think the flying creatures deserve to go extinct if they can't figure it out.
Ballshart! I'm getting my electric from a local hydroelectric plant. It has just about zero environmental impact.
Thank you 42 for addressing this huge misconception.... Whenever I tried to explain anyone about this , I was labelled a "climate change denier"...
When i point out that the green new deal calls for decomitions of nuclear plants, i also get called a climate change denier.
It's thoughty 2. Lmao not 42
Some seriously uninformed people both producing this channel and commenting on it. Do any of you know the half life of uranium? Do you know that no matter how you store it, it still leaks at some point?
@HEAV¥HAND well, there is no god
@@Chris-rg6nm Clickbait?do you even watch the video and listen to it?Or do you ignore the facts that he stated?
One of your clips of a protest showed a lady with a sign that said "the laws of physics don't negotiate." How ironic.
Well... Technically it didn't. The thing is we negotiated a worse deal just because we wanted to vaporize Moscow.
Not "all" of us. It's physics, and economics. LOTS of electric demand, closed existing, producing power plants and rely on non-reliable energy. What could go wrong?
wind turbines also take 50 gallons of oil to stay lubricated and are subject to leaking. they also have a brake similar to automotive brakes and when the brakes stops working(overheating or loss of friction material) they usually catch fire
They are no more subject to leaking than any other turbine or combustion motor. If any catch on fire (usually? really?) in is due to maintenance neglect.
SO 100000000GALLONS IN THE OCEAN IS FINE THO.......REITHER TAKE THAT 50 LEAK
There is no such thing as a free lunch. ALL types of energy production have a downside or negative effect.
I have been building power plants since 1979. Nuclear, biomass, coal, oil, natural gas and hydroelectric. Shall I list off the negative effect of each? Humanity needs a mix of all types of energy production to continue civilization at near present levels. I find your argument against solar and wind disingenuous. We will have to build a mix of all types to meet our future needs.
Being forced to switch all at once to one type or the other, is not feasible, I don't know why that's so hard for people to understand. I agree with you, it's just like those who think everyone should be forced to drive electric cars. It would be disastrous. Just like most things in life, moderation is usually key.
Pantheragem I disagree on your opinion because adaptability is what separates the elite from the rest
Fearing change is the only setback technology has
as for this video I believe Solar and Nuclear fusion is the way to go
His main points for named negatives of solar energy being storage is a battery issue (convert solar to hydrogen fuel)
other then that he claims solar cause waste bit again another tech issue (he said because of cheap panels)
The argument is reduce CO2 emission but he didn't mention the statistics at all about CO2 emission between each energy source
Very biased video
@Jorge Carranza He did mention the CO2 emissions from production and very clearly stated that it's offset within months for wind, and a simple google search reveals that solar offsets it's CO2 production within a year or two. The video isn't biased for omitting a single detail.
Thank you Brian.
We don't nee any fossil fuels. Besides, they'll fun out anyway.
"Hey, 42 here..." is what I hear every time...
I think that's the point since 42 is the answer to all life.
is the answer to the question from 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" : 'Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'
i hope he's not wearing a wig and doesn't have a bar code on the back of his head...
agent 47's good friend agent 42
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Here we are... 3 years later and Germany is still heavily investing into wind and solar energy while having the highest prices for energy.
yes and driving temps bis +25C.
Wind and solar are much cheaper than nuclear power.
@@madsam0320 Money is a figment of our imagination. The forces do not need money, but we do and it is going to disappear into the thin air it was made out of, soon.
@@godisreality7014 deep, but it’s money that runs the whole world, economic returns, bottom line, and all that.q
@@madsam0320 Nope. It´s the souls of men.
Something funny is that my city has some wind turbines. Situated at the mouth of a canyon, a ton of wind often blows through. Great, right? Well, not really. For whatever reason, at times with a massive amount wind they just aren't spinning. Might be for safety reasons, but it just baffles me how they aren't even on at what seems to be the best time for it. Either that, or only a few of them are on.
Sounds like human mismanagement, to me, Utahraptor.
I didn't expect him to start talking about thorium, but its a good thing that thorium molten salt reactors are gaining attention. Thanks!
I didn't either, or the reason for its rejections,, Honestly through 🙋💝
Lol i learned about thorium from a Sam o’nella video, and it’s a really good fuel.
@@computerbiscuit9585 That's a nice source of information
SATAN KILLER !
@@annechester770 Please explain how it's a death wish. The statistics state the opposite.
The title is a bit clickbaity, should have been something like "Why nuclear is actually cleaner and safer than renwables"
Would be nice if you included sources, because there are a few mistakes here.
1:52 Windturbine blades are made of glass fiber, not aluminium.
2:15 Most estimates are that windturbines do not kill very many birds, compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats in the US.
eu.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/15/wind-turbines-kill-fewer-birds-than-cell-towers-cats/15683843/
4:50 We're currently developing alternative storage options for renewables. A 100 MWh volcanic stones battery is these days being build in Germany as a large scale pilot project, after a smaller pilot project was successful in Denmark.
www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int/explore/innovations/energy-storage-on-the-rise
6:22 It's extreme unlikely that entire windfarms will shutdown without notice and there are backup systems on the grid like gasturbines, that will kick in in case of a failure.
7:12 Vegetation and wildlife can live in harmony with renewables. In Denmark we have sheep walking around our solar farms, so we don't have to cut the grass.
www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2019/06/is-vegetation-management-a-problem-for-your-solar-farm-just-add-sheep.html
7:55 Worth mentioning that the main reason windfarms are build offshore is so we don't have to look at them, they are less CO2 efficient and cost more compared to onshore.
9:42 Deaths from nuclear could be a lot higher depending on if you include only direct death and what statistics you use.
www.bbc.com/future/story/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll
11:09 The number you use for wind is way off. A Siemens Gamesa 8.0-167 DD like we see at 0:30 emit only 6 gCO2/kWh.
www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int/-/media/siemensgamesa/downloads/en/sustainability/environment/siemens-gamesa-environmental-product-declaration-epd-sg-8-0-167.pdf
13:09 Energy production makes up only a fraction of the total CO2 emissions from developed countries. I would recommend using the grids CO2 emission / kWh figures instead. Recommend www.electricitymap.org
13:23 Those numbers must included taxes, because they are way to high. You need to look at the average electricity spot price to compare.
It's not that I disagree that nuclear is a great option for producing energy, but you gotta get the facts right.
Nice work man - thanks for the detailed response.
thank you!
42 talked so much nonsense in this video that I have to wonder if this video is some strange out of character thing or if he's always been playing fast and loose with the truth.
@soren a tour deforce well done!
@Vlad the Inhaler I would take a solar or wind spill over an oil spill any day.....oh wait.....thats not actually a thing.
@@djpickle68 Farmers in the 🇺🇸 that have leased out unused land for solar farms have found out the hard way that when the leased ended or was abandoned the clean up was so toxic the cost put them under. Now they are a little shy of leasing for wind.
1) as mentioned in the video, modern renewable energy production units as solar panels or wind turbines can create synthethic inertia due to batteries or capacitors, they can easily be made mandatory by law
2) the power usage in industrialized countries borders on the equivalent of using your stove to heat your flat while having all windows open at -10°C outside, we have to reduce power usage in total, too
3) a finer, more flexible power grid can aid in saving power as each unit can contain batteries that take up excess power and can also be switched off if it's not needed instantaneously - in contrast to the power plants that HAVE to keep going to keep up their inertia
4) solar panels can be placed on the roofs of nearly all buildings, an area that is usually occupied by neither humans nor wild animals. Also solar parks can have raised panels that allow for wildlife to exist below and enjoy the shade the panels provide (something that's not uninteresting in times of climate change). Studies in Germany also showed that you can use panels above rows of crops like grapes or hops without impacting the plants' efficiency
Right now (8pm 30th May), UK energy generation is only 15% fossil fuels (gas), 53% wind, solar, and hydroelectric, 15.4% nuclear, 7% biomass, 8% imported electricity.
The stigma against using Nuclear energy is ridiculous tbh. Theres hundreds of nuclear warheads just sitting in the basments of powerful countries which could potentially be dismantled and used in energy production instead..
You know what happens when one of these blows up? It happens and it's not fun at all...
Just think about Chernobyl or Fukushima
You should look into Thorium reactors, those melt themselves shut when a meltdown occurs, and, if I remember correctly, they can function with lower grade nuclear fuel that the Fukushima and Chernobyl types cannot use. Not to mention that Fukushima could have been prevented with a bigger wave wall (which they advocated for, and one of those saved another plant in the path of the same tsunami), and the Chernobyl type had so many design flaws that it makes your grandmother's first knit sweater look like a masterpiece.
@@PanzerAce247 frfr
@@TheZampa oil killed billions.
@@TheZampa and both had a avoidable reason why they melt down.
«The most prominent today is Germany with 40-50% renewable energy».
Over 96% of the energy produced in Norway is hydropower.
and they got oil as well dude.
It was an example next to France.
Stuart Lawson Beattie That’s not really relevant to my point, though. So does a lot of other countries.
Do you know what prominent means? It doesn't mean best. It just means most well known.
@@stuartlawsonbeattie1411 and every other country dosent have oil? including germany? hmm
Pro nuclear energy doesn’t need to be anti-green energy.
The planet doesn't need saving , it needs to be respected by becoming minimal consumers
I have been a wind turbine tech for 20 years and yes they have draw backs.
But what gets me is the number of birds they claim are killed by them.
First off the rotors only turn at between 13 to 20 RPM on most large turbines its not hard for a bird to avoid.
And that any bird found dead normally with in a 2 mile area is blamed on the turbine so studies have went as far as 5 miles
Plus cat's and cars kill many times more birds than turbines.
And of a large number of the dead birds found around turbines that have been autopsied as many as 30% show poison in them.
But the media and special interests groups often don't tell the complete truth and they like to embellish the partial truth.
But wind turbines do have many downsides.
I just wanted to get more of the truth about the bird numbers out.
The media and special interest groups often don't tell the truth
I just wanted to say that maybe alot of them are unaware or don't believe the things mentioned here.
@@darkhalocraft4515 that is exactly what it is.
The media doesn't tell the whole story or sometimes blatant lies about things. And often even when they do tell the truth they put the information at in as absolutely negative ways as possible.
Yep mainstream media has its ways of not doing its complete research before releasing “information” to the public. Since you work in the wind energy sector, could you shed some light on the downsides or shortcomings of turbines?
Finishing up my wind turbine technicians course in a couple of months. Looking forward to getting to work
@@NeepSheepGaming welcome to the career.
It's made me a good living. And you have the advantage of tech school. 20 years ago a lot of stuff we had to figure out on the fly.
Be safe and keep your safety lines clipped in. And hopefully in 20 years you can be teaching the next generation how to do this job.
Thorium, named after the Norse god Thor, the god of Thunder, Strength, and Might. Quite suiting as the name of a power source
That comment completely got me on board! There’s no chance that anything that is involved with Thor can or would go wrong.
@@jackdurden466 Yeah, just don't put any snakes and giants near that thing
@@jackdurden466 Unfortunately thorium reactors won't have awesome beards like Thor
Just keep Loki away, that divine trickter's jealous of Thor and will do anything to mess up Thor's reputation.
Thorium is among several elements with similar esoteric origins, this reflective of the underlying yet hidden covenant between extreme occultism and high science among the elites who own that as one among many assets in their portfolios. Arsenic is the basis of the arsenal and thus the cannon of the Holly Roman Church, this with its similarly referenced number of "The Perfected Man" at 33. Iodine, strangely enough, would appear to connote "The Eye of Odin" . And Carbon per its 6 nuetrons, electrons and protons denotes the 666 of the Devil himself, a fact highly exploited by way of our own popular and scientific nomenclature, all in plain view. As in my own family, it's "Car-Gill" as founded by "The Will-that-I-Am" of William the Conqueror as the God-King of grain and flour, or rather "Flower Power" as "Fowler Power" as a clever way of celebrating the one and only, true founding father of all that Hitler and Himmler ever hoped realized in their own visions of a global "Reich"--Heinrich the Fowler. We all worship the Owl that is Fowl, all of us sadomasochistic little perverts running around with our heads full of stupid false yammer. and that's the way we like it. by design. Ancients Gods in modern days, hide their status with fig leaves of denial. The Nile. Bad joke. Stinging zinger. Wins the debate, every time. Today's standards of "reasoning" akin to the proclivities of the dictator's dick, there's barely any of us left willing and able to talk sense about anything in any context at all. A miracle then occurs in the rare instances when our words actually create outcomes with respect to understandings. Techno-occultism. It's not just about the Batman, 007 and Dr. W.H.O., or Sherlock. Yet when those characters are understood and combined into one, the broader argument deriving from the observation of the elements makes too much sense. hauntingly so.
A very funny satirical comic. Loved the eagles 🦅 being knocked out of the sky line. 😅😂😮😂😊
Bro done gas lighting green energy 💀
I guess it's time to take down those darn panels from roof and build a nuclear reactor in basement.
This, but unironically
Make sure you have sufficient cooling, or you'll be making a lil' Hiroshima in your basement instead.
LUL
Maybe that is what happened in Russia at the Cruse weapon lauch....
It was actually Putin's basement reactor energy game changer, over achieving...
@@marcosanaya9540 use the new Corsair water-cooler that totally will be enough for 90000 wats of heat
Hey, I'm up for that!
Solar energy is useful for small remote community where the cost of delivering the energy to them is excessive (cable, transformers, etc.) .
a fine example of a case in which renewable is most reliable
Transformers are more than meets the eye.
It is generally useful anywhere there is unused cheap space and enough sun. Its a game of time as the solar still pays itself back eventually.
As this may be true his point still rings that it's only good if it's done right not the cheap way which is the way it's getting done right now because of its popularity
also in countrys with sunny days and enought exess land to place them. Like most of Africa, North America and Parts of Asia
There are those of us who have been pointing out these shortcomings since the idea was introduced... We're actually a pretty significant segment of society, just not very vocal...
I'm very interested in thorium reactors, now. Been trying to figure out how to power charitably run ships (like the medical or disaster relief ones) without the massive overhead of oil. This may or may not provide solutions, but it's interesting.
When he said to litter it with bird blenders I lost my shit
Legend has it, movement from his right eyebrow creates enough energy to power NYC
Now now Laura....play nicely...😄😄😄😄
Lmfao
Its true. And we love him for it
hahahaha, that's hilarious!
Let's hope the left one doesn't kick in!
TL:DR Go nuclear, deconstruct coal power plants, use green energy as a supplementary power source.
Why build 1GW of nuclear when you can build ~10GW of wind or solar for the same cost?
@Bick Barl What is this 'hard upper cap' on wind?
@@Chris-ie9os Because land use is an issue. Also, because like my recent trip to a local island, we had +30C/100% Humidity, but no wind and it was overcast for days. So A/C and other power needs had to be met by something other than renewables. The other issue frequently overlooked, is solar power generation is done by string inverters, as a cloud moves across the sky, if only one panel is obstructed it will cause that string to fail until the light is restored. So on a mixed sun and cloud day, the grid can constantly be up and down. It's unfortunate, and maybe if we ever figure out IR panels this will be less of an issue.
@@Leggir LOL; WOW.... that's a lot of wrong you were able to squeeze in! 1) Solar doesn't require much land.
i have been saying this for years and when people point to chernoble or japan i say a tsunami how often does that happe and the soviet unions incompetency how often does that happen
With the addition of one more battery into my system, my family and I will be power independent for the first time in over 5 years. With 600 watts of solar and 400 watts of wind power, we can sustain our own everyday power needs solely from renewable energy.
BUT.... we live in a 31-foot Class A motorhome. To run a traditional American home off of renewable energy would require the installation of A LOT of solar power, assuming you live in an area with good sunlight. For the average home in a city, it's impractical in the extreme.
I didn't. You can't say "we all" when I for a fact have been preaching these things since I first heard of it all.
The miss information people spread about nuclear is so frustrating. Here in Australia most the politicians are terrified of it and just instantly dismiss it
Oh trust me, I know how the ill-informed can be. In my environmental bio course I gave what was essentially the full argument presented in this video in a debate. My classmates hated my guts, but the teacher vouched for my argument against the class (whole bunch of butt-hurt liberals who didn’t like me trash talking their so call green energy).
@@hiddendesire3076 in my area we currently have politicians pushing to have a nuclear reactor but there getting so much push back. There only excuse to push back is because apparently it would "ruin tourism" for some unknown reasons
@@hiddendesire3076 Le triggered libtard xd toetaly epic underdog warrior against the mainstream. You really showed them
@Ghost 67 Linux ok please present a counter argument and debunk the points made in the video. I don't care which argument wins as long as its the better option overall. If the video is wrong please point out why?
@Paavo yeah i think most people just dont know how it works and are just worried about how safe it is. We just need more videos like this explaining the benefits and not fear mongering
"Renewable Energy is a scam" here before a title change.
Yeah I remember the title was Green Energy is blah blah something like that
Old title: How 'Green' Energy Will Destroy the Planet - So new title is better
hes british so its 4am where he is
@Wade Haden Reality is a scam
@@Lord_Reeves Your face is a scam
Wow no mention of the giant gear box on each wind turbine that needs it's oil regularly changed
Wow he mentioned the giant 100 ton turbine in each nuclear reactor that needs its oil regularly changed
Thoughty, great vid. Much truth that people don't actually hear about these days. They hear renewable and fail to understand what the actual outcomes are. I'm sad Australia moved away from nuclear a whole ago, we really need to get back to it. This was made 4 years ago, but the renewable fad has only gotten worse and even more severe at the expense of much. Many thanks, love your work!
A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects. this is from MIT climate portal. do not believe this crap do your own research. I could not watch the rest of the video but you can exppect more of the same.
*Solar power:* _"I'm only efficient when the sun shines!"_
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Dont be so dramatic, UK didn't just "leave the chat", it was night time.... and got disconnected.......
@@azrael7922 Or maybe liverpool was playing manchester...
no, it doesnt only work on sunny days, unless the clouds nin the UK make it look like night time there
Wasn’t there a saying like, “The sun never sets on British Empire.”
@@ComicalSpy The sun never sets a foot on Britain.
I got 2 renewable energy ads while watching this that I'd never seen before. 😂
Thank God I don't get any ads on CZcams...haven't for years now, thanks to using the right extensions(hint- they are not "ad blockers")
Nancy Pelosi and the deep state liberal cabal of Satan worshippers
One day the trash and rubbish we throw away will have every once of energy stripped of it to power our life.
I love working as a reactor operator. I genuinely get job satisfaction and that’s something I never thought I would have
Finally someone speaks truth about nuclear energy and i see i lot of dislike, people and thier misguided egos.
We need to go nuclear if we want to save the planet
Amen!
Agreed, I belive he has his head screwed on right.
yeah, as a german, i´m glad to see that other countries aren´t as stupid as we are.
and i´m glad to see that the majority of the viewers of this video are pro-nuclar too :)
it´s the only chance for our planet
they just have to use a good way of mining the needed minerals so that those miners do not get exposed too much to the radioactive rock and expire early in life as i knew one of them cancer got him and also degenerative disease problems involving bone and muscle. now they have robotic mining machines controlled from an office above ground. the renewable energy industry will bankrupt the planet and kill so many birds extinction is inevitable.aka: Passenger Pigeon , Buffalo / the best solution is a give and take method part renewables and traditional energy use until the day comes where it all blends seamlessly and just works. there is way to many polarized opinions in this matter with that we will never make it and will be doomed to expire in a hydrogen bomb wasteland. aka: terminator. also ice ages play the biggest role in how much the world will warm up as of now we are in the interglacial phase of the quaternary ice age where the permafrost and glaciers will melt away until there are none and the sea level will go back up to its old level as it dropped 120 meters during the last glacial maximum when there was well over a mile of ice on top of most of north america . mother nature knows best.
In my county in the US, there’s a nuclear power plant. It’s one of many owned across many states. It’s the largest employer in the county and you can tell who works for them. Their pay is excellent and they give back to the community. They also open about 80% of their 30K acres to the public for hunting, fishing, camping and recreation.
Why on Earth do they need 30k acres? Is that the exclusion zone?
@@rogerphelps9939 part of it. They had to buy "X" amount when they went to flood the county a century ago. State also makes them maintain hunting and natural lands to promote wildlife, growth and clean air to offset any potential damage. That's only 47 square miles so not as large as it sounds (almost 7 x 7 miles if was square). By comparison, most US cities are much larger, and the department of energy owns far less than department of defense, agriculture, and others. Even Bezos, Gates, Musk and Ted Turner have lands and ranches exceeding 10 times this area.
Guessing TVA. They do that and have bull run nuclear plant about hourish from me. 175,000 acres of undeveloped land is owned by them and free to hunt on.
@@The_Scutarii Close. Duke Energy. Both Duke and TVA are 2 of the big 6 power companies in the East Coast US. Duke has NC, SC, FL and Indiana. TVA has Tennessee, Kentucky and parts of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama.
@@steeldriver1776 heck, dukes got a plant in my local area here in sc. They’ve employed many in my area, some of my relatives work there or have in the past. People being alarmed by a power plant having 30k acres, pffft, just a few miles away from the plant is a wildlife refuge that currently has almost 50,000 acres of land and is growing bigger by the year.
Congratulations on your book.I hope all goes well with the endeavor ❤
I live in West Texas which is rich in wind farms, they are installed among the agricultural plots. It is normal to see wind turbines erected and operating in the middle of cotton, corn, grain and hay fields. I disagree that it destroys the land it is erected on....
Atomic energy is the answer to save the earth
it depends how you look at it
Which atomic process? Fission or fusion?
Nuclear energy is the safest and actually most efficient
@@TheSalami yea when we master nuclear fusion it could solve energy crisis.
@@TheSalami meltdowns caused by natural disasters are the greatest threat
He's slowly becoming a 1950s dad. Let him continue.
reminds me of when felix was just a young'un
reviewing memes in the olden days
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd Depending on where you live, the millitary also leeches a ton off your taxes. I don't think you should use the decommission cost excuse against something that could be a potential solution
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd In comparison to the constant maintenance throughout the entire lifespan of wind turbines, hydroelectric, and solar energy, it's likely to have a lower overall cost.
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd What other viable alternatives are there?
@Marc Jackson nah, if we sokve the problem for ~500 years, future humans will fibd a permenant solution untill then with better technology.
If we didn't try to own our energy, every country could build renewable energy farms and trade energy freely as supply and demand fluctuate around the globe.
The wind may only blow 10% of the time in one location, but the wind is blowing somewhere 100% of the time.
We live near a ton of wind turbines that started out white and then began to turn black
I am from India and I can attest to this. This weekend I'm going on a thorium hunting trip for my homemade thorium reactor.
respect
LOL. I sure hope that the wonderful promises of the Thorium nuclear reactor promoters bear out. I am not sure.
If I threw in an extra shovel, would you bring me back some also? 😃 😊
Make sure you don't kill any birds in the process.
How do you find the time from all those phone call you have to make every day?
It is angular momentum, not centrifugal force that keeps the heavy turbine spinning a while.
What? Haven't you heard of the law of "conservation of centrifugal force"?
THANK YOU
Thank you! Was about to say the same
And naturally a "wind turbine" contains a turbine... just like the name says.
@@TheDeichi Doesn't have the weight needed
I think because the word 'Nuclear' has had such a negative connotation to it, I never word have guessed it was the best option.
A couple of physicists recently calculated that in order to trade the current vehicles to "electric vehicles" would cost in excess of $100 trillion USD ..... and it would take every battery Factory on Earth working 24/7 365 for over 400 years to keep up with the current number of vehicles..... not to even address the demand in 400 years so
Yeah .....
Maybe…stop using a car???
I actually heard somebody thought windmills help cool the planet down like big fans 😅
And I heard someone thinks windmills make bird species extinct
They harm the ego system by changing it much like city's push humidity away creating more rain fall in other places
Well, ridiculous as it seems the idea is interesting. The opposite is of course true.
Windmills heat up the local climate around them.
Fans don't even really make things cooler.
@@billygreen9915 well if earth didn't have such a big ego we wouldn't need to cut it down
2:20 Do you know what kills much more birds than wind turbines?
WINDOWS! If you really want to prevent bird kills you should ban windows on all buildings.
oh, and what about Glyphosate killing even more birds
I have linux
@@wollew took me a second to get this, lmfao
flying city rats are not exactly the types of birds the ecosystem depends on.
Googles says:
Windmills kill up to 500.000 birds per year in the US.
Wild cats kill 2.400.000.000.
Windows 1.000.000.000.
Midland electricity board retired engineer.
The distributed maintenance costs of windmills make them unviable witbout massive subsidies.
Witbout wind they wont even light the fairy lights on a christmas tree.
Imagine trying to get tools and parts out to windfarms miles offshore using helicopters. Imagine the cost.
Enormous diesel generators are used in holland to back up windmills. Absolutely total waste of money.
My MP voted for this along with the other 649 nitwits with degrees in ecenomics and history and the classics.
You may have noticed tbat your electricity prices have more than doubled.
In the short term we need coal. Sorry no other way out of this for the uk.
kind of surprised this is still something you can find and watch. days like these ...
conservatives complain soooo f ing much
" . . . There is enough centrifugal force to maintain . . . "
Ahem.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Now that the screaming is out of the way, centrifugal force is *not* what keeps the turbines spinning.
Nor is it centripetal force.
Those forces act in the same plane of rotation as the turbine. What keeps the turbine spinning is the inertia. Angular Momentum.
Huh?
Tomato tomato
Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. Was wondering if anyone else noticed that.
Centrifugal "force" is actually a fictional force, isn't it?
Centripetal force is basically a force moving inwards, and centrifugal force is a force moving outwards, both exist.
He totally overlooked the fact that his mustache can power an entire country.
How many birds die by crashing into it.
It could also bring him to power in it. :)
Some folks in Germany nowadays call mustaches >Popelbremse< (bogey brake/impediment).
Stache Power!!!!!!
In the United States alone, outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year. Maybe you should try doing away cats before wind turbines eh.
I can see in our hunger for energy we can do little for our environment on individual levels. I can only hope that it will add up though. Thus, sometimes i go out of my way to reduce waste from packages. Hope it will help on the long run
I once asked an electrical engineer if he knew anyone in the field who was against nuclear power and after thinking for a brief second he gave a very sharp, "No!".
You asked the wrong guy.
Billions are spent on de-commissioning a nuclear plant.
@@007floppyboy An Electrical Engineer is the wrong guy? Who should I ask? A politician? An environmental activist?
So yeah, the people who build and operate the grid seem to think that Nuclear power is pretty damn good and that decommissioning reactors left and right is a mistake, you just have to look to Europe at this very moment to see why.
If it was up to Electrical Engineers, the grid would have a 100% nuclear capacity with everything else being supplemental.
People who are against Nuclear power are the first ones that should be cut off the grid.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 A nuclear reactor has a certain life span, not much you can do once the core graphite starts crumbling.
Best you do a bit of home work.
I am a Chartered electrical engineer, I work on these things.
@@007floppyboy I work in the field myself, not as an engineer but I'm not a layman when it comes to these things either. I'm assuming you're British since I'm not aware of any other country that uses graphite moderated reactors on a large scale other than Russia, so you're probably more well versed in the limitations of such reactors than me.
With PWR-units your main concern is the integrity of the pressure vessel but basically everything else can be upgraded and maintained with more or less pain.
But my concern isn't pushing 40 year old reactors beyond their expiration date, my concern is that we should have been building new ones for the past two decades.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 your right, we havnt built new ones.
And the reason is, soon as we found out they have a life expectancy and then the cost of de-commissioning, it takes the flavour away.
What we should have been doing is building more wind turbines, then use the extra they generate to produce hydrogen.
What we all have now is disconnected streams of power.
I live in Ontario. Our energy is made up of multiple sources, with nuclear power making up the biggest chunk of it, hydro being the next biggest, then the rest is split between solar, wind, and geothermal.
Not a bad approach imo 🤷♂️
This is ideal. Having multiple energy sources is a good strategy for redundancy. Nuclear and hydro are my two favorite, and then a mixed bag of solar, wind, geo, and fossil should share a much smaller percentage.
No coal, no oil? But, where's the choking and coughing? And the black lung disease?
I live in Ontario too and can confirm.
sirati97 Uranium based nuclear reactors are profitable.
Uranium-238 decays into thorium-234 which decays into Protactinium-234 which decays back into Uranium-234 which then decays into thorium-230 which decays into radium-226 and then into radon-222 and eventually it all decays into Lead-206
You can reuse the Uranium rods when they've become Thorium-230 which has a reasonably high half-life. Then you just need to store those rods let's say you get 20kg of rods then you need 15 years of storage before that 20kg becomes 99% lead-206 which is stable and non-radioactive.
I'm from Quebec,
iirc 99.9% of our power is from Hydro
Glad to see my country's making progress in something novel and appealing like Thorium based power! Hopefully it turns out to be good material for power as expected!
sadly as with everything else our country promises, it's just smoke and mirrors. we're 10 months away from 2025 and india only has 1 thorium plant active. so much for building 60 plants.
Not all of us, Forty-Two.
I wrote a paper in high school 15 years ago about how “green energy” was a total scam and how we should be pursuing nuclear. My science teacher became apoplectic with rage and launched into a rant about how humans are killing the planet and I wasn’t taking climate change seriously enough.
Lol
Wow! Good for you.
6:00 - 6:26 everything in this section is completely wrong. Rotational inertia is only useful for frequency regulation during very brief load excursions. It is not a source of generated power. (They actually tried to use it as such at Chernobyl, and that [plus incompetence] is what led to the accident). Even with the immense mass of a turbine rotor, it will still begin spinning down immediately when input power is lost. It only has to slow down by 0.9% before any power generated would be useless due to under frequency. Also they don't store as much rotational inertia as you would think. Although their mass is very heavy, most of it is in the center shaft. The portion with the best second moment of inertia (the turbine blades) is fairly light. The generator breaker will trip automatically as soon as the frequency goes under 59.3-59.5Hz, at which point the generator is no longer connected to the grid anyway and the remaining spin down of the rotor is useless. By the way all this happens in a fraction of a second, not minutes. We use cycles as a time unit. 60 cycles = 1 second. Rotor will be under frequency in 15-20 cycles, and it will take another 5-8 cycles for the generator breaker to trip. So in half a second, its all over.
Thank you for clarifying some of the misinformation presented in this video. This is probably his worst video yet.
@simpsons Bart wow. I literally cannot understand any of that 🤣
@simpsons Bart I don't know if English is your third or fourth language (it clearly isn't your 1st or 2nd), but holy fuck that drivel is unreadable.
@@wouldntyouliketoknow9891 I want what he's having... looks like a fun ride!
@@m8onethousand can you imagine how confusing it is for non native English speakers (like me) to understand what he said?
Nuclear power is Op over any other form of energy. I'm actually going to school right now for this.
Not when i comes to peaks, as far as i know.
For baseload they can be excellent.
But Fluiride-Thorium Moltensalt would be awesome.
except that the waste produced is super dangerous and if we can't fully guarantee containment for a couple hundred/thousand years, we're playing with the entire planet for some electricity :^)
@@lit_for_20 The dangerousness of the Waste depends on The fuel and the reactor as does the risk of meltdown. Current reactors are much more on the unsafe side depending waste.
@@lit_for_20 The Safety of current reactors depends a lot of where they are build and if they have passiv safetymeasures that work without power.
Woaw, you're going to school ! You must be right then :)
My house hasn’t paid an electricity bill in 11 years….your right. I should vote for my municipality to go back to coal. Pay money and have less breathable air (I live in a valley so it should be great!!)
Tongue-lashing and trolling without citing references and names. Definitely a scrooge.
Somalia be like "you can't create carbon emissions when there is no power".
*Venezuela
Nah it be liek: can’t produce co2 if everyone will die of famine
@@swiggedyswoner7315 Kids in africa could've eaten that C02
Really? Do you think burning wood (or dung) does not produce carbon dioxide - as well as destroying forests.
@@ZigZagHockey this is ment to a joke comment plz leave any serious comment elsewhere.
Renewables are not the scam we fell for, the attack on nuclear by traditional energy sources was the scam we fell for that led to these less desirable alternatives.
Andrew KVK it’s all part of the same religion, wind solar good, nuclear and hydro bad. It’s totally counterintuitive that the very processes that effectively reduce emissions are banned😂.
That’s why it has nothing to do with “science” much more to do with a new morality and a new religion.
@kirk mcloren Chernobyl
@@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left Three Miles island oh boy we named the only three nuclear disasters all caused by human error and bad design that have happened in the millions of running hours hundreds of reactors have had around the globe. We just going to ignore there is literally a statistic in the video about how little nuclear kills people including said meltdown?
@@timtim5020 But nuclear big scary. Sunshine and wind happy words that make feel safe. /s
If we're honest all of our options are bad. We'll need to make advancements in everything we can.
Four years on and my energy bill on renewables just keeps coming down. This video has aged about as well as Glitter on TOTPs!!
It’s not centrifugal force that keeps the turbines spinning, it’s rotational inertia! That hurt my geeky pedantic soul! 😂😂
Thousands die of car crashes--no one bats an eye.
One single airplane falls--everyone loses their minds.
Same with power plants.
Wind turbines kill 2.1 birds per KWH, less when equipped with speakers that deter birds) while coal that is Germanys other major energy source kills 5.3 birds per KWH
You hear about or see something enough tines you become desensitized to it. You hear about car crashes more often
@@fionafiona1146 yep any piece of human construction will kill birds. Simple buildings kill hundreds of millions or even over a billion birds a year, compared to a few hundred thousand killed by wind turbines. House cats slaughter billions of birds per year, more than all other early death causes combined. Killing birds is a red herring and largely irrelevant. Fossil fuel power plants kill even more birds than wind turbines, even per KWH.
@@theferrit32
Didn't I say that AND that there is a way to reduce bird and bat deaths even future (sound scaping)
Wolf Edmunds yeah but there are a lot less power plants than cars
"I'm not trying to disparage renewables" *looks at title*
Yeah this rings of a special interest hitpiece.
@@justanotherdayinthelife9841 as if renewable energy doesnt have enough special interests...
@@bigbirdmusic8199 it literally does not have enough special interests when Big Oil etc can deive an entire nation i to ignorance for the sake of profits instead of using those funds to develop energy sources that are renewable and safe that are not vulnerable to forcing us into overseas wars.
Seems far more cost effective, yet somehow it never happens...probably because there isnt enough special interests behind renewables and instead its all aligned behind propaganda hit pieces like this one, framing shit in such a misleading and dishonest way using real facts and stats.
@Max Schultz Big Oil Coal and Nuclear have 1 thing in common, getting preferential treatment over renewable energy sources. You ahve to be ridiculous to not understand or see that.
As for Greta Thunbergs "handlers", which I assume you meant parents, has absolutely nothing to do with anything at all, the family is purely just climate change activists who want a better future for us all. No big conspiracy there. Beyond that, why didnt she speak up against nuclear power? Probably because it isnt the biggest threat as of right now, even with Fukushima. Not sure you had a point here, also the aforementioned has nothing to do with hypocrisy and you'd be hard stretched to make that point because there really isn't any evidence to exhibit such claims.
If you look thorough his videos you'll see this isn't an impartial science channel..
He's also selling a book now, is that mentioned in the video?
Nuclear power = Homer Simpson
You fell for it, I never believed all that bolloxks, I am an engineer
Good for you!