Solar & wind output soars in Europe, lowering emissions at fastest rate in history
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- Solar & wind output soars in Europe, lowering emissions at fastest rate in history
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Spain has produced electricity with more than 75% non carbon sources all this year. And It IS posed to go Up even further.
We cannot expect a fast EV uptake due to propaganda and bad policy, but lets hope.
Basically sun belt Europe is adopting sun and wind energy without nuclear, but northern Europe has and will have nuclear in the mix as well. That is apparent logically.
Where's the video about the shutdown of the channel on layoff news??
It's now for "supporing viewers" only :), i.e. blocked from general public
This channel will only cover layoff new idf it involves GM , For or any other companies that isn't Tesla.
I left Germany in 2020 after living there for 7 years, and this Easter was the first time I returned, visiting friends and family in Frankfurt and Bielefeld. What was amazing was how many buildings, private and commercial, are now absolutely covered in solar panels. I also noticed quite a few farms in Belgium and The Netherlands with private wind turbines.
This is such good news! And worth mentioning that all those EVs in Norway aren’t “killing the grid” at all, and in fact their national power consumption DECLINED a little last year!
Norway has a small population.
Norway has a tiny population and massive amount of hydroelectricy due to its unique geography. It's hardly an example for the rest of the planet.
@@timothykeith1367 They also have a smaller grid, of course. And the advantage of wind + solar + batteries does not decrease on larger scales, either.
So.... what point were you trying to make?
@@timothykeith1367 They are still a proof of concept.
@@davidnika446yes and they are a net exporter of electricity to the European grid, have a variety of climate zones, one of Europes hardest terrains and most people live in small pockets surrounded by mountains, fjords and lakes.
There biggest advantage is that they have had a plan for over 20 years and have also managed to execute that plan. If all other countries could stick to one plan for over 20 years they would manage too.
You are just making excuses.
~400 Wh/kg is the minimum required energy density for small aircraft; for long-range commercial aircraft you would need ~1500.
Now that would be an achievement. I struggle to see it but who knows.
Yes Sam keeps spouting nonsense about a magic energy density, but the reality is range proportional to energy density and depending on your parameter estimates going into the Breguet range equation you get 3 to 4 km range for every Wh/kg. Because of range reserve requirements, most of these electric aircraft will need turboelectric reserve range generator that will add very minimal weight.
BWB and GTF tech will have the most GHG reductions impact short term until electricity and H2 become cheap enough to compete with jet fuel.
The amount of electricity generated by the UK’s gas and coal power plants fell by 20% last year 2023, with consumption of fossil fuels at its lowest level since 1957. UK’s gas power plants last year generated 31% of the UK’s electricity, or 98 terawatt hours (TWh), according to a report by the industry journal Carbon Brief, while the UK’s last remaining coal plant produced enough electricity to meet just 1% of the UK’s power demand with renewables at a record 42%.
I have also read that electricity in Britain is now so expensive, it's cheaper to drive gas vehicles. And home heat pumps are leaving many people cold.
@@drewthompson7457when you talk about the UK that situation is so unique because they DIDN'T have renewables so the Russia/Ukraine War f'ed them the hardest and US didn't make it easy after as they just fleeced them with oil prices after.
Even then charging an EV is cheaper than gas in all but the most extreme situations where you have to include profiteering at at peak rate times.
@@nfzeta128 : it's a shame that the U.S. started that war back in 2014. Then they blew up the pipeline for cheap fuel Russia was supplying.
As for renewables, did you see the news about a storm in Texas destroying 1000s of acres of solar panels?
In my country, to replace all the oil needed by transportation daily, we need to add about 2.5 million Mwatts to the grid daily. I see no new generators being built, no new power corridors, no expansion of distribution sub stations.
What we did, was to replace a local 4000 Mwatts coal burner, with 4 Mwatts of solar, for charging EV at night, of course.
@@drewthompson7457 electricity is reducing but that was an ideological strategic choice from the present right wing government back in 2010 to protect big oil and gas who have made substantial profits on the back of it. It will only change with a change of government that is more in tune with netzero, which is expected at the next election. They stopped on shore wind farms for ideological reasons and delayed nuclear station construction, which if they had maintained the original 2010 netzero strategy and pace, would have eliminated the reliance on imported gas which ultimately drove the increase in electricity prices. However off peak electricity is cheap, and petrol has gone up 8 pence this year, so is significantly more expensive than running the Ev has long as you have a home charger. The Ev expansion has stalled because of this government’s policies, lack of incentives, too slow rollout of infrastructure and protection of big oil, because they are too frightened of their right wing.
@@DC.409 : also, there's a big nuke generator not far from me. The government keeps changing their mind, but at one point it was scheduled for shut down next year. The provincial government also cancelled a nearly complete wind farm.
And, there's a push for heat pumps to use more electricity.
Northern Europe including the UK finds solar and wind is not delivering energy consistently enough to meet demand without expanding battery storage, solar and wind farms to a degree that drives the price too high. That is why nuclear and even gas power stations are being proposed to plug the gap until other solutions are found.
battery storage is the answer.
Battery storage is not the answer, it is insanely expensive and their manufacture is an ecological disaster.
That's literally just an excuse, what price is 'too high'?
@@nfzeta128 That is the reality of the situation, not an excuse. Relying on green energy for base load provision is insane. Here in the UK we go from 50% of our energy coming from green to just 2% depending on the weather and that 2% can last for a couple of weeks at a time. There is no way a country can run its base load on green energy alone.
@@schrodingerscat1863 First, don't use the UK with its climate as an example to write off anything for other countries.
Secondly, that's simply because the UK has very little renewable infrastructure and doesn't attempt to do much more, especially since they left the EU. The 50% is just when their little bit of said infrastructure is punching above its weight because solar is so cheap and researched right now.
Batteries aren't the only kind of electricity storage. Other types are sometimes better complements to wind and solar. For a grid, a mix of storage is probably optimal. Supercapacitors, spinning storage, pumped hydro and various new options all have a part to play.
@@tibbydudeza It depends on where the grid is as to how suitable pumped hydro options are. Best to avoid new coal use as the pollution is bad and the supply is unreliable. But you know that, already.
@@tibbydudeza unfortunately not all countries have the suitable terrain that cooperates, like the Netherlands for instance, even here in hilly NZ a proposed pumped hydo scheme has been costed at $13.5 BILLION eye watering stuff, when you consider how many decentralized solar panel and wind farms with battery storage systems can be built for that amount
But there is no sun in Sweden for 8 months 😅
Our biggest problem right now though is that wind cuts of power transfer capacity from our hydro in the north.
I use 100 kWh per day in the darkness of winter.. The less the wind blows, the colder it gets, the more power we need
100 kwh per day ???????????????? Are you sure about that ?
@@billhill4479 if he has a 40kw charger and heat pumps which also draw big kw and electric cooking? some cookers can pull upto 6kwh when cooking
@@billhill4479 yes, up to 120 at the coldest day. This year Jan 7th 111 kWh. And my house is energy efficient, a lot of people have much worse, and we always have a fire going
exactly. solar works best when we dont need it. you probably dont need air conditioning there in Sweden, we dont really in the UK either except for the odd couple of days a year when its really hot
What I find disappointing in the UK is if the Government spent money on putting solar and battery systems on all houses, yes I know not all are suitable, then the potential draw from the grid would be more than halved and negate the need to build nuclear.
Europe data doesn't include UK. In the last few days fossil fuel only contributed to electricity generation in UK to provide spinning energy to ensure frequency stabilisation. CCGT was less than 1 GW, we burnt a tiny bit of coal at a power station that is about to close down. (Guess it is easier to burn it than take it away later?) French built nuclear in the 1950s because General de Gaule didn't trust the middle east for security of supply for oil. They continued to build and do so today. In the UK it is seen as insurance for the winter anti cyclones that can sit over the UK for weeks. Viz 1963 when we had some 13 weeks of severe cold, no respite and little wind. Meanwhile we build wind farms in a wider circle ever further from shore to help prevent the same problem and build HVDC cables between nations across the North Sea. Oh and in the last few days some of us have been paid to take power off the grid to reduce constraint payments. And finally, Europe and the UK do make things, whilst the Chinese make mass market cheap stuff, We in Europe (including the UK) build trains, aeroplanes, boats, cars, construction products and provide the designs for those things like iPhones (ARM chips)
In the north, there is no sun during the winter months so going just with wind and solar is not enough. Especially since in the winter months, electricity demand is much higher due to the cold. That's why nuclear is also needed for low carbon electricity.
In the UK, we get a lot of wind in winter, so a mix of solar and wind would probably do quite well.
Wind power seems to be stronger in winter and at nighttime when solar isn't that great, so both could complement each other throughout the year for more consistent energy.
Still, I think the issue isn't renewable energy but having an energy buffer, which means having more energy storage.
I don't know why you are disappointed by the plans to make new nuclear power plants, seems prudent to me to have that as a backup plan, and it helps Europe diversify in case the sun stops shining for a while (worst case, see 536 AD super volcano). Wind won't help them, wind is only a tiny percentage of their reported "wind and solar" generation.
How can we solve cooling to the reactors during a Super Volcano incident?
You would need to actually heat them up more
There is a thing about too much solar and wind, it can break the grid when it pushes to much energy into the grid when there is too little demand, and too little energy when there is much demand. It makes it hard to balance the grid and keep the frequency at 50 Hz. Also, in Scandinavia we must make sure there is power in the cold and dark winter of the north when the sun only makes it over the Horizon a couple of hours a day. We need nuclear to keep people from freezing to death. It can be colder than -20C for weeks in the dark of winter when there is snow on the solar panels. I would rather have 100% nuclear because wind and solar makes the grid much more complex and expensive.
There are some countries that will need nuclear in northern Europe due to prolonged periods without wind or sun unless a way to store massive amounts of seasonal energy becomes efficient.
Not true, but the nuclear lobby wants us to believe this and also that it is clean energy.
According to Tony Seba, Germany needs 4,5 days of battery storage in combination with lots of wind and solar for a stable energy system.
Any combination of wind/solar, used for hydrogen generation that can be stored and finally convert it back to electricity can replace coal, gas and nuclear. Nuclear would be a big mistake which will lead us into a next energy transition, a few generations later.
I thought friendly countries could trade power via cables etc, wind in one area, solar in another, hydro etc.
How about just moving electricity from one country to another?
@@TerryHickey-xt4mf Yea, Finland sells us clean, reliable nuclear energy from Outokumptu 3, thank God for that. Germany and Denmark only give us coal power. (when they have winds, so do we...)
Nuclear is not required in any country in the world. It is a matter of making choices.
Solar, wind, battery converting water into hydrogen that can be stored and used for energy generation can result in a perfectly stable energy system based on renewables.
Sam is correct to say UK is building more (very expensive) nuclear power stations, but my country (Scotland) is not. The Scottish govt has refused to allow new nuclear stations to be built and we have recently reduced our existing nuclear stations to just one, which will also close in the near future.
Scotland now generates the equivalent of all of our electricity demand from renewables with much more being added every year.
Scotland can have the luxury of rejecting nuclear as it has hydro that the rest of the UK does not.
@@AdrianHilder Actually the majority of our renewable power comes from wind, both onshore and offshore.
While I would agree that England has far more limitations in installing renewables than Scotland, Wales and N Ireland, I nonetheless think they could and should be installing far more solar and wind there than they are, rather than relying so much on highly expensive nuclear. In fact the building of onshore wind in England in particular is minimal.
It’s good to see the steady and significant progression towards a renewable energy economy.
I agree with you about Nuclear. In the case of the UK I do wonder if it is so we can continue researching nuclear weapons, because financially so far it is nonsensical.
Lol. It ain't.
Nice you talk about renewable energy as well.
Renewables 4 ever! I want to see Australia and the EU introduce carbon taxes that virtually cripple fossil fuel by 2034.
I don't think that necessary. EVs and renewable energy will push out fossil fuels simply for economic reasons. And largely before 2034.
2:00 "Wind and solar are eating coal and gas for breakfast." I LOVE it.
ahahah can you find the video where he said he would shut down lol. He loves to say he was right or he predicted everything but hides when he is completely wrong.... its to easy to erase history in the digital age.
Therefore we have a problem that we don't have enough electricity in Europe now in the winter, Germany has closed its nuclear power plants to burn gas from Russia, now that they don't want to buy it from Russia, Sweden's electricity has become very popular so the price per kwh in Sweden has become much more expensive, we had the world's best energy system in Sweden a few years ago, then the green parties put down some of the nuclear power. and just replaced it with wind. when it is not windy and cold, it becomes very expensive on the entire European market.
Thanks, good news is always welcome !
It is really important to spread the good news. In Germany the electricity has been the greenest ever just in the year right after the last nuclear plants were shut down, while the prices also came down, all thanks to renewables. The detractors are screaming ever louder to drown out the fact that the energy transition is actually working.
I really hate the Ukraine war, but when europe freaked out about gas supplies, and asked "what can we do" one of the answers was more renewables. It's great for energy security.
Germany has a lot of work to do.
In France 70% of energy production is CO2 free. Also a German, on average, emits twice as much as a French. And the energy price in Germany is twice that in France.
Without nuclear Germany relies on imports from its neighbours to stabilise the grid.
@@Arjan_2 Unless the human kind discovers the magic battery nuclear is the future.
For Europe' s north countries the future is wind + gravitational batteries plus nuclear.
No it really doesn't Germany has more than enough firm power to back up its renewables whenever its needed. That is why Germany has a higher electricity security than France, the second highest in the world after Denmark. @@Arjan_2
Is there a link to this info?
Norway will have more EV’s than petrol cars by the end of this year not all combustion engines, which also includes diesel cars. It will also happen soon. Just minor edit.
The UK is currently building a new nuclear power station. The agreed selling price on completion will be about £110 per Mwatt.. due to the UK building wind farms and solar...it is now unusual to see price above £100.. Who will buy the expensive electricity.
Like to see business travellers happy crossing the Pacific in a battery powered propeller airplane!
they have been trialing that in an airfield in Gloucestershire
I’m looking forward to that too but not just “business travellers.”
needless to say its not been going that well
@@vandamonium1731 as the luddites said about the first mechanical weaving devices. Fortunately innovators aren’t defeated by the first obstacle they encounter.
@@johnnybgood7812 im no luddite i do embrace tech BUT when the tech is a complete pipe dream then is prooven to be a pile o shyte then i just sit back and what it all fall apart ... just like this channel is doing #samsfullofbull
Just to let you know. Fremont laid off a few thousand workers yesterday or the day before.
The effect of renewable energy sources does show some positive changes of the climate?
I have solar pannels and the price of kw is so cheap that they dont payme nothing for sending energy into the grid.. 😢
I'm living in the Netherlands and our Solar and wind power is performing not that great. I have solar cells and my energy provider wrote me because I have Solar cells on my roof they put penalty, alas as happened through out the country. The high voltage network can't cope with the demand but also when solar and wind are delivering energy the demand drop or don't need it. It is becoming a disaster, the clean power industry is going to collapse here.
Progress! In a few decades all cities all over the world will have clean air and you will be able to see and enjoy them without smog.
Thx, mate 👊🏼💥🖖🏼
You don't really understand the point of nuclear.
Here in the UK too! BRILLIANT NEWS.
WE ALL BREATHE THE SAME AIR!
our air quality has been the same for the last 2 decades but has seen a slight increase in london and other clean air zones cities of pm10
And how many coastal nations take advantage of wave and tidal energy ?
been trialed many times and its not reliable enough and cant be used during storm season just like wind turbines
@@vandamonium1731 clearly no one has been clever enough to figure it out ' who actually thinks 'out of the box' these days
Retired from a Power Company. In sunny Florida. The company I worked for is moving away from fossil fuel to green energy because it is cheaper. Good old Capitalism is going to kill the fossil fuel industry.
True but unfortunately many of the Florida power companies including the one that we have to deal with has worked very hard to lie and obfuscate about climate change for many decades, and now is talking a green game but they want to make sure that they maintain their Monopoly so they're pushing to undo net metering with every lobbying dollar they can possibly spend. Please don't tout the utilities as any model of conservation and ecological capitalism.
Janet Yellen will complain the EU is over capacity in solar and wind equipment production
"old money" spending enormous $$$$ not to change....so sad. Elon went to China to start any other country and we NEVER would have heard of Tesla
Need of the hour it is that we must be above 50% by now in renewable energy of total needs..
Pity that electricity prices not fall down....
Isn’t this the guy who said electric vehicles don’t catch on fire after electric and hybrid vehicles burned down a ship and a parking garage?
Renewable sources of energy and batteries can probably solve energy needs. However, renewable energy sources and nuclear energy can do that for sure - they are just safer bet.
I lived in Germany for over 10 years. Sunny days were a rarity. Please, convince me solar will really work. It works well here in sunny SoCal. We have over 300 sunny days a year.
German here. I have installed 10 kw of Solar panels on my house for my own consumption. In the winter I get a minimum of 1-2 kw instead of 10, it's still enough to power my home during the day even in the winter. I don't even sale the overcapacity because of the bureaucracy. I don't care how much power I waste, as long the panels are so dirt cheap. In the next few years I will install battery storage to go complete off-grid and will stop carrying about electricity prices at all.
@@huckleberryfinn6578 - Central Germany only gets 66 days of sunshine per year. I’m amazed power of any significance is produced. In the US, a map is published showing the latitudes where owning solar makes sense. Solar is very expensive in the US due to our regulations of installation.
Germany uses much less electricity per household than in the US. About one third to one fourth as much electricity. SoCal will need air conditioning, where Germany would not need air conditioning as much.
Diversity in energy sources helps with resilience. We should not put all our eggs in the same basket.
with an electricity price x6 , we instantly become Green at fastest rate in history.
companies are closing, people stop heating their homes. The EU is leading us back to the stone age. 🗿
This info doesn't include car emissions, right?
I guess Europe needs some nuclear capacity, if only because Putin still has nukes!
While it is great that there is less and less coal burning, solar radiation increases when there are fewer aerosols, or particles in the air.
In fact, it was lately discovered that the dimming effect of coal fires had had a larger effect on cooling the Earth than previously thought, and it had been going on for much longer than since 1750, or the industrial revolution.
We might be forced to do geo-engineering, this time intentionally.
I'm not a fan of grid scale solar and wind. All grid scale solar and wind installations should be required to install adequate battery capacity to stabalize the output.
I wish we were investing in nuclear power.
Cleaner, longer lasting, consistent, more robust.
SMR nuclear is were we should be investing.
But all the test SMR builds have been stopped because of cost overruns. SMR is expensive electricity, so far.
Er why is this channel still going 😂 He a secret Tesla pumper who just got burnt. Honestly this is cringeworthy that he makes a statement like that and carries on😂😂😂😂😂😂
Even Elon couldn't save this fakeass
@@tibbydudeza what about fsd being 2 months away for the past decade. Sigh. Fuck this guy
We need to make 50 gwatt solar wind power plants....5 plants immediately so coal can be stopped fully...
We where?
You need coal to make them, though.
@@davidbrayshaw3529
Actually, there is no need for coal to manufacture solar panels and wind turbines.
Yes, some of the electricity used has come from coal but that's just a case of the existing technology assisting the bootstrapping of the replacement technology. Horses were used in the early days of car manufacturing.
Yea and how long does the plant need to run to offset the initial costs of manufacturing from fossil fuels added the transportation costs of the raw materials and final products before they are even net neutral green. It's not instantly and probably the life of the plants entirely.... Energy in = energy out - inefficiencies.
@@bobwallace9753 You need metallurgical coal to make steel and you need gas to make PV cells and you need oil to make plastics.
And good luck generating enough electricity using renewables to refine bauxite.
There's a reason that China and India keep building thermal coal power plant and nuclear plants as well as renewable plants.
We keep talking about fossil fuels like they're only used for energy, but they are used in many more applications than just that.
Sam. Never Shut Down. In Nederland we have now 3 million Houses Rooftop Solar. 18 GigaWatt Rooftop Power. More to come. And Tender Wind at Sea 4.5. GW. How many Panels do you have Sam. You never inform us on yr own Rooftop Solar.
thats because he dont read the comments and rumour has it drives a petrol car
@@vandamonium1731 He drives a Toyota Tacoma with a big V8 engine... 😂😂😂
@@stefan2796 I heard it was an Mitsubishi SUV
It is risky putting all your eggs in one basket. Nuclear has to be a consideration for some countries.
France and UK will always have a nuclear program because they have a nuclear military. They need a nuclear industry to reliability build submarines. AUKUS allows Australia to plug in the US and UK nuke industry and avoid the billions of dollars it would otherwise cost us. Sweden is in the high northern latitudes. Not much sun , especially in winter. Nukes makes more sense there.
thank you for you for the good news story and please get enough sleep
I have seen far too much corruption on the side of these green energy guys. I am building an off-grid house, but that is purely for economical reasons as my grid power here cost $0.42/KWH and off-grid solar with battery UNSUBSIDIZED cost under $0.16!!! Subsidies are a vehicle of corruption within the government's and should be eliminated. Whether it's foreign subsidies or energy subsidies to companies like Enron.
Keep going Sam, you’re obviously a big thorn in the side of the ICE dinosaurs 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
hes also a thorn in the side of us ev owners
People also like steam engines, what's the problem?
Glad you're still around. I was afraid you'll actually follow through on your promise to delete yhe channel if there were layoffs.
Guess it's easier to just delete that one video and pretend it never happened.
To all the regular trolls visiting Sam's Channel, could you guys please consider another line of work that actually has some social value? You're wasting your time, and everybody else's, posting all the junk comments. Better yet maybe you guys can figure out what all your grievances really are about because what you're doing on the channel is just acting out
Morning mate
Beats coal which has all but been phased out.
This morning my van beat a horse and cart.
Unfortunately china and India are burning coal like its 1999
Be fair to developing countries mate. US has the highest cumulative discharge in the world to date. Do you have anything to say about that? In fact, the developing countries should subsidize them during this transition.
They have to, to supply us with all the "stuff" that we consume. China are building over 20 thermal coal plants as we speak.
@@davidbrayshaw3529 so we’ve just shipped our emissions (and attendant jobs) offshore. Great!😂.
@@andrewharris3900 Yep, in a process that neo liberals once called "economic rationalisation". Oh well, at least we had property speculation and making coffees to fall back on.
I wonder if the anti-EV trolls on this site realise that by commenting, they boosting the profile of the channel?
EVs are nice for busy city traffic, otherwise: hybrid. Toyota chose the best, future proof strategy. EV only companies will fail.
@@stefan2796Complete BS. They only company likely to fail is Toyota. Their EVs are a joke. Their attempt at hydrogen cars is a disaster and they have the biggest dept of any company in the world. EV adoption has passed the tipping point in 31 counties (source: Bloomberg). Tipping point being defined as the point were mass adoption is inevitable.
@@stefan2796Toyota are likely to fail. Their EVs are a joke and their attempt at hydrogen cars was a costly disaster. They have the biggest dept of any company in the world.
@@stefan2796EVs sales have crossed the tipping point in 31 countries. Tipping point being defined as the point were mass EV adoption is inevitable.
@@crm11450 The sales of EVs has peaked and is slowing down, so yeah it crossed a tipping point...
Sales of EV's fell by 30% in Germany... If that's true you're closing this channel amirite?
No, that was "if Tesla have sacked 10% of the workforce", yesterday.
We are OK with it. I like accountability. Seems to be lost in today's fake ass world
The sales of EVs are actually not that important. In order to reduce carbon emissions, it is much more important and effective to replace fossil fuel power plants with solar/wind and batteries.
@@runeaanderaa6840 Absolutely. And those batteries that go into EV's that sit in the driveway for 23 hours per day could be used much more effectively elsewhere.
Hey! I've got an idea! How about we use the batteries that we're powering EV's with, one hour a day, for renewables storage, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
Future historians will cry on the back of how we are using our resources.
@davidbrayshaw3529 Absolutely true. But it should be said that the introduction of EVs has sped up the development of new battery technology for energy storage. It is like with LED lightbulbs. First, it was only used in niche products that were very expensive. Then, the technology was developed so that everyone saves a lot of money on their energy bills.
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. This is the area for action.
The extinction rebel actions are counter productive, try to develop ZPE harvesting (free energy) technology.
And these 57 companies produce stuff that we consume. But yeah, there is area for action.
This is deceptive. Individuals create the demand and actually use the fossil fuels. So individual action is of primary importance. In addition to transitioning the sources of energy. We can't blame corporations that make stuff that we buy, solely.
The naysayer petrol heads just lost another battle with this news!
Nuclear fusion will be a game changer
My god this bloke needs to take a look at what’s really happening in Germany with its renewable energy and how big has the battery got to be on a commercial aircraft to fly from the uk to Australia pretty big I suspect 😂
Our off grid 20kW system is killing coal right here in Queensland right now. No bill go 2 quarters now 🎉 more power than we need. @OrganicPower-Australia
But that is also because Europe is in recession.
lets cut to the chase here sam .... you stated oh so clearly that you would take down your channel if the news was true about tesla..... and it was confirmed by tesla themselves .... and you rushed to delete that youtube clip rather rapidly
your channel is still up so lets ask one question ....
how can anyone believe anything that comes out that hole in your face when you cant even stick to your own word?
Tesla team need to jump on board to make Planes and Trains
That means Europs's economy is rapidly contracting. This is very bad news for jobs.
"Solar & wind output soars in Europe, lowering industrial outputs and jobs at fastest rate in history." There, I fixed the headline for you. By the way, is Sam talking about the same China that is installing TWO NEW COAL PLANTS PER WEEK?
“. . . a naïve observer might conclude that the rising share of new renewables (solar and wind) will usher in an era of falling electricity prices. But in reality, the opposite has been true.” Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don’t Lie, p.172
CO2 only matters if it's produced by western economies.
Many words, but nothing said.
how is the hydrogen engine from Korea vs ice vs electric.....any posibility of hydrogen explosion with engine????
Sorry mate, but renewables aint gonna do it.
Talk about nuclear since your such an electric viking.
I really hope this works out. However, as far as planet warming we have gone past the point of no return. The warming of the Arctic and the Antarctic are warming at a rate of 4 times the rest of the planet. The temperatures in the Arctic regions have reached over 100F degrees last summer, and 70F degrees in Jan. and Feb of this year. The permafrost is no longer perma, and the sea ice in the artic ocean is now mostly of the seasonal type. Add to that the many places in the world are now reaching summer temperatures that will no longer support human habitation. It's called the cumulative effect. The solar panels, and turbines, and nuclear plants are too little too late.
This kind of pseudo sophistication really does not help. Even if some punitive aspects of climate change are baked in through positive feedback Cycles some of the really catastrophic ones are not. So I guess we should just throw up our hands and admit defeat? And then do nothing? Wake up fella
Hydrogen cars must come quickly in market....
Impractical. I think we figured that out over a decade ago. Toyota's lead engineer figured it out in 2017.
Way too inefficient to make hydrogen by electrolysis and way too dirty to make it using coal or gas. The yield by using electrolysis is a mere 4%. Lithium Ion batteries, on the other hand have a yield as high as 90% in optimal conditions.
LOL
For commercial vehicles maybe, not for regular cars. Impractical and dangerous.
75% of energy in the UK is produced by fossil fuel combustion. The sun isn't strong enough. The wind is more than sufficient but the cost of offshore wind farms doubled in the last 3 years. Everyone wants more wind but it will take 20 years minimum to get these offshore wind farms built
That’s not true. At least 40% of UK’s energy was from renewable sources in 2024 and it doesn’t take 20 years to build a wind farm.
@@crm11450 i stand to correct you and this is another reason why the uk is now building 2 nuclear power plants to take up the slack from renewables as well as using hydro and biomass so when you take biomass outs and hydro its just about 30%
@@crm11450 also theres a huge pushback from the public on solar farms and windturbines.... or havent you read the news
@@crm11450 Sorry that is incorrect. 40% of UK electricity comes from renewables.....not all energy used. As for the 20 years.....how much money do you think a wind farm costs and how long does it take to plan, build and connect to the as yet inadequate and antiquated national grid.
EV sales have dropped 30 percent in Germany after subsidies were decreased.
The U.S. has excellent weather data back to 1880. The data does not show that warming is occurring. Yoù can download the data.
Mega cities are heat islands and are becoming warmer because of the concrete, asphalt, and removal of trees and grass.
Germany and northern Europe is cloudy and gloomy, particularly in the winter. Not the best region to depend upon solar!
New solar works even when it's cloudy. Here in Buffalo NY (sometimes sunny, but sometime cloudy) my 15 year old solar panels paid for themselves in 7 years or so. Newere panels capture significantly more energy, and cost 80% less.
Tell us, Timothy, is your Earth flat as well?
@@davidnika446 and what do you do about the heat thats been emitted back into the area around the panel thats heating up the air as researched by a well known energy research paper?
"Since 1901, the average surface temperature across the contiguous 48 states has risen at an average rate of 0.17°F per decade (see Figure 1). Average temperatures have risen more quickly since the late 1970s (0.32 to 0.55°F per decade since 1979). Nine of the top 10 warmest years on record for the contiguous 48 states have occurred since 1998, and 2012 and 2016 were the two warmest years on record."
@@cyberfunk3793 since 1901 more and more buildings have gone up causing heat islands and the sharp rise was caused by data being transferred from one system to another without the correct data adjustment and equipment replacement and 170 years of research has shown no warming www uh edu/nsm/earth-atmospheric/people/faculty/tom-bjorklund/170-years-of-earth-surface-temperature-data-show-no-evidence-of-significant-warming_april-2020.pdf
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The biggest news story of the day involved our EV lord and savior, Elon Musk. Are you going to cover what Musk did today? You seem to cover every negative story about other brands. And while you’re at it, part of the accelerator pedal on the Cybertruck is coming loose and wedging itself to the fully engaged position. Kinda dangerous, no? Are you going to cover that too?
please... enlighten us. And perhaps set up your own video channel.
I don’t see it. I see heaps of EV companies and models and some disasters etc. if you click on his details you get to see videos from the past and there are heaps. Like Volvo Kia, chinese models
Tech evolves ?
But, why bother ? You go sail your boat across the pacific 😆
What did he do?
@@jsanders100it's what he hasn't done. Ie the lay-offs by Tesla, the accelerator recall and lots of other things about Tesla that he conveniently forgets
why have they start burn coal again
I guess you shut down your channel as promised and then reopened it immediately 😂
The fact is the Earth has 414 ppm or 0.004% carbon in the atmosphere and this number is historically very low and IF
we go as low as 200 ppm or 0.002% everything will start to be deleted, photosynthesis works with at least 200+ppm if it goes lower all life on earth will wither away.
If CO2 levels were to drop significantly below around 400 ppm to at or below 200 ppm photosynthesis-the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy-would become severely limited. This would have cascading effects on the entire ecosystem, leading to widespread disruption and potentially catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.
Mass famine and the end of all life on Earth.
Thanks Sam
Sam, I’ve said it before in the comments in your channel, 760 watts per kg is still 6x less power per kg than jet fuel, even when calculating in the 30% thermal efficiency of a jet engine vs 80% efficiency for electric. Even with 760 watt hour per kg, you will not be seeing long haul flights.
Didn't you say you'd close your channel if the Tesla layoffs were true, still here?
I'm all for electric. But at 760w per Kg is still way to low for any real commercial plane. Gas has roughly 13,16x higher energy density. And with the efficiency of electric motors getting closer and closer to the 100% number, I agree, the only thing that will make a difference is energy density, but unfortunately that is almost impossible to come anywhere close to fossil fuel. You can get an airplane with high efficiency, aka low wh/km, but once you get close to the 0/100 mark, you're done with that, you need pure energy. Doesn't matter how you get it, might even be nuclear, but batteries are not going to get a 747 across the Atlantic, ever.
Cybertruck STOP SALE AND LAYOFFS. BYE TO THE ELECTRIC VIKING
Hang on a second- you’re still here….why? Is your word good for nothing? I guess so.
Also raises energy prices and lowers availability, crushing Germany's economy in the process.
Emissions are lower because of the reduction in production of goods (due to lower demand). Not a good sign for the economy...
While wind and solar output soars, so too does the price. Consumers will eventually revolt.
Lol, you’re like a drunk driver.
I think The Electric Viking does try to be genuine with his news however trying to meet a schedule and pumping out so many videos is going to lead to misinformation and unrealistic opinions. But hey - that’s what social media is all about.
And all these european countries have unions...terrible
They are very beneficial for employees. And they are here to stay. Just cope.
@@stefan2796 Sam Hates unions..I was being sarcastic
You are seriously deluded. Take away the subsidies and the whole thing would collapse.