Powering Up Clean Energy
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- Climate Emergency Forum focuses on the urgent need to transition to clean energy in response to the escalating climate crisis.
This video was recorded on July 24th, 2024, and published on September 12th, 2024, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
The participants discuss the record-breaking heat waves, devastating wildfires, and other extreme weather events occurring globally, emphasizing the immediate necessity for action. They highlight the progress made by some countries in adopting renewable energy sources, with China leading in clean energy investments and smaller nations like Costa Rica, Iceland, and Uruguay achieving near-total renewable electricity production.
The conversation also addresses the challenges in implementing clean energy solutions, including the powerful influence of fossil fuel corporations and their lobbyists on government policies. The speakers stress the need for a large-scale, coordinated effort akin to the Manhattan Project or Marshall Plan to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels. They discuss various clean energy options, including solar, wind, hydropower, and nuclear, while also mentioning the potential for new technologies and approaches to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency.
The dialogue concludes by highlighting the devastating health impacts of air pollution caused by fossil fuel combustion, with millions of deaths attributed to it annually. The speakers emphasize that transitioning to clean energy is not just an environmental imperative but also a matter of public health and survival for humanity. They call for strong government action, reallocation of resources from military budgets to clean energy development, and public engagement to drive the necessary changes for a sustainable future.
Links:
- New record daily global average temperature reached in July 2024
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- Oregon Wildfires
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- Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China's economic growth in 2023
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- Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climae Crisis
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- Manhattan Project
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- What are Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)?
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- When Corporations Rule the World
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- Red Alert: Planet in Peril (CEF Video)
• Red Alert: Planet in P...
- Not the End of the World
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- Global Warming in the Pipeline and Earth's Energy Imbalance (CEF Video)
• Global Warming in the ...
- Coronavirus death toll
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Regular Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa's Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate
Video Production:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader
Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP team lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader
Our Website:
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Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
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Disagree. To think that we, at these consumption levels, can transition to all renewables and everything will be fine is pie in the sky. Population must (will) be greatly reduced and along with it consumption. We should be asking why do I need that car? regardless of electric or gas.
Address the consumption.
By how much would population and consumption have to reduce to get to net-zero emissions?
Wait, you mean pulverizing rubber into dust with electric cars won't save us? Why of course we can grow 10 billion people who all consume 100x what people needed in 1950 when there were 2.5 billion.
This!
Yes, I agree. We're going to be forced by what's turning out to be a 'Shikasta' style event (remember Doris Lessing's book?). The urgency and pace of the political-financial-economic-social change globally is what's going to determine if life as we know it, and hence society world wide, is going to survive the next 50 to a 100 years or so. Will short term greed, wealth, power and privilege overwhelm the, so far, insubstantial amount of good in the world? Probability of timely global change 2 percent maybe 5 percent.
"Address the consumption" I Totally agree. And since the population "control" doesn't pay up until several decades, the consumption reduction is the first thing to do. There is no way we can just replace our present energy system with renewable electricity in time. Maybe in couple of hundred years and there are also technical difficulties to solve.
Thank you for this topic. As a family in North Carolina USA, we own 2 100% EVs and 1 ICE car. I cannot afford solar panels. I also grow native flowers, vegetables and feed the yard birds. Heat pump, heat pump water heater.
Thanks for sharing
Do what you deem right. I drive electric, too. But let's not believe that it will save the world, because it won't.
Thank you for your support.
What we really need to do is teach people how to live while consuming LESS energy and still maintain a high quality of life, translating all the driving around and consuming into growing, visiting, creating, cooking, reading, helping neighbors close to home, etc.
A war can not be fought without fossil fuel. The countries with oil or access to cheap oil have power.. Fossil fuels unfortunately are not going away soon
Great video excellent information!
Thank you!
Thank you for your support.
Really appreciate you folks trying to keep us motivated and in good spirits while not dodging the facts and hard truths. Super Helpful, Thanks!!
Keep up the good work! G
Thanks, will do!
@@ClimateEmergencyForum It's a shame that I can't get one of you on for a live Facebook video...I spread the word...but we all need to do more. 🤔G
Thank you so much for your support.
Hi guys... I enjoy listening to truth ...thanks .... lots of love ❤️
Thanks for listening
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Thank you again team for addressing and publicising some pressing real issues. However, we need to address the planetary boundary overshoot. It's critical already. I've just spent 2 months largely in South East France and Central Europe on a bicycle. The southern region and parts of Central Western Europe, in my opinion after 35 years of close personal on the ground observation of this sort, are already 'dried out toast'. Another 10 years of the same and they'll be burnt.
My take on the matter: the best watt is the negawatt. Consume less, move less, produce less. There is no way to strenghten and stabilize the power grid without a significant amount of materials from, say Kongo, where child labour is mining some nice cobalt for our Teslas and power storages. (This was of course a needless poke on our western consciences.) My country has increased wind energy to the point that a regular consumer has to cope with huge variation of the energy prices, on a cold winter night some 30 cents/kWh and a warm summer Sunday -2cnt/kWh. Energy producers have moved the price risk to the ordinary people, mindless to the fact that not all of us can cope with the costs.
You mentioned the huge number of deaths on air pollution. Hot summer days in the cities with poor air quality kill the elderly people. In the developing countries this problem in the megacities is amplified by the lack of resources in cleaning technology. The best way to take the death toll down is to invest in cities like Delhi and Calcutta. In the first world the poorest elderly people with low standard living conditions have little or no way to protect themselves from the heat and pollution.
Don't get too enthused about Costa Rica. 75% logged, some of that replaced so it is 50% forested now. Hate to tell you but yes while there is lots of hydro here in Costa Rica, but with that comes the loss of habitat, lost beautiful waterfalls through the damning of rivers. Energy is more important than habitat. They continue to illegal log, the President is involved in illegal logging here in the South Caribbean. Tourism, they are building out like crazy, air and ground travel increases every year behind the cute monkeys and the green badge. Get behind a diesel truck with bad injectors, and rings and see how green the belching smoke. Yes there are a few electric cars, as well as traffic jams everywhere as people want what everyone in the North has cars, big homes, vacation homes.
Wind and Hydropower
Passive Solar strategies for buildings (non-mechanical) such as earthern tubes, shading building faces with plant vines and dwelling units in Cold Climate should be attached not detached units; as thermal heat from neighbouring units acts as very effective insulation where the connected built forms can be grouped to create common habitable spaces for the community inhabitants!
29:42 In my opinion, the best clean energy consists of using less energy by the end 'consumers'. This would require behavioral changes which could cost little to nothing to implement and may actually save money, while not requiring corporate or governmental intervention.
Making excess energy use, including extravagant and conspicuous consumption, socially unacceptible, especially in countries with the highest per capita emissions, could go a long way in reducing carbon emissions.
It is strange that you said there are large fires in the north West, because none of the British news outlets are showing this, and I watch the news a lot!😮
My favorite energy is floating 2 axis solar covering most of lake Mead and lake Powell. These could provide 100 gigawatts of power on average 12 hours a day using pneumatic or hydraulic actuation to control elevation angle of panels, and the panels forming large circular formations that would be rotated to follow the Sun daily.
The local grid wires would have to be upgraded with a newer technology to increase capacity and add ultra high voltage to send the power to pump stations that would pump the excess flow from the Mississippi River in Louisiana through a pipeline that would refill these massive reservoirs. The vastly increased water supply could power a super agriculture boom in the West, potentially even growing lumber that could be used in construction to sequester carbon. Are there pipelines could also be used to prevent flooding in the upper Midwest and send the water to the reservoirs.
The super low cost of solar is making this a real possibility with actually not that much cost compared to the military budget. The coalition for a national infrastructure Bank has proposed bills that would enable the funding somewhat like bonds, but it could be paid back by water usage fees. Currently the Western USA is in a mega drought that could be solved by this idea.
Some problems don't have an additive solution; we're not going to produce our way out of this. Seems like the collapse of civilization is our only hope.
I think solar is a good clean energy. Organic chemistry in solar panels makes them easily producible with less resources needed to be mined to make them. Though they need more research to be produced to market.
Scottish wind is shutdown when it exceeds demand to export.. The locals pay higher electricity prices than South England. The locals next to these wind farms should get free electricity rather than shutting them off.
Renewable energy is fascinating, and it works, and could solve a lot of our problems. I have totally faith in the tenacity and creative genius of people -- but absolutely none in governments and corporations. For every joule we save or generate through an alternative energy system, Elon Musk will launch another rocket, and the Supreme Court will strike down another regulation. The devastating continuity of the system - which we're stuck in like flies on fly paper - undoes any positive development we can engineer in its wake. As has been said so many times, we have to change the whole system from top to bottom. As long as there's an ever-greater incentive for people like Musk to extend exploitation and abuse to even higher orders of magnitude, they will most certainly do it. There's even an asteroid that they're targeting now which reportedly has "quadrillions of dollars" worth of rare "earth" minerals (named before we had space ships obviously). There will always be justifications for greater atrocities -- we have to pollute the atmosphere with propellant exhaust to explore space to get the minerals we need to have green energy on Earth -- but if we apply the smell test, we may be in for a very unhappy experience. And so on and so on and so on.... as long as they can make $ on it, and that $ has value, they'll keep taking and destroying and polluting more and more of our shared home. If someone came into the bathroom, clogged the toilet, then took a dump on the floor instead, they probably wouldn't be invited over again. But industrialism does this to the planet day in and day out, year after year. Maybe we shouldn't invite them back this time.
Green gas! Methane generated from grass.. technology exists in UK
The term "clean energy" is a selling point for those who want to buy but it is not an accurate way to describe all energy production and use. The transition that would be adequate for the planet and its many non human inhabitants would be to power down. Eliminating the excess humans (just about all of us) will be the answer. Can't absorb that info? That is understandable but doesn't change the reality of overshoot as understood by those who look deeply at the subject. Playing around the edges is the way of all humans that want to live as we have become accustomed.
Prof. Jürgen Kleinwächtler designed Sunpulse machine = low temperature difference stirling engine for powering homes and small communities using only warm water from solar collector and cold water from well. The same machine could be used also in reversed as cooling machine. Its simple very low cost solution especially suitable for developing countries. Prof. Kleinwächtler goes further to idea of homes encapsled in greenhouses, which he uses not only for making pleasant atmosphere for living, but for growing food, and collect warm water for sunpulse machine. We should take in account, that merely 50% of energy we use for heating our homes. So idea of Eartship in combination with sunpulse is way I would like to see for those, who cannot afford solar panels. 🌍🕊 and we should not forget for cooking. In developing countres is one of the main cause of deforestation around settlements. Solar cooker with combinatin with hay box/ wonderbags. Its also fun to cook this way.
Nuclear for the energy density
Air as a source of renewable energy using a heat pump as the appliace to extract it from the air and turn it into heat for space and domestic hot water
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I sincerely and honestly admire and concur with the benign intentions of the Climate Emergency Forum. But simply telling the truths and exposing the lies is merely a self-assuaging and futile attempt to enumerate the prevailing lunacies we live in.The wealth and power of the provocateurs who have enabled this dystopia have long ago by-passed wisdom, empathy, and common sense. Anything you might say, any relevant observations you might make may psychologically/spiritually absolve you of any complicity in the emerging debacle, but it will not materially change anything.The human species is enthralled with wealth and power from the very top, even at the cost of the humanity itself. The disconcerting parallels between junkies and plutocrats is most germane to this discussion.
No plan B planet, for certain. But the C02 excess, is that, it would take centuries to dissipate for the planet to cool down, even if renewable energy of all sorts is implemented, now. How then, can we fix this mess? The industries of fossil fuel don't want to and governments are unwilling to make them change. How do we get out of this slippery whole?
Phew. You surely had better videos. First of all, Paul glorifying EV cars by telling they'd last 20-40 years when a combustion engine car lasts 10... really, where does he have that from?? I constantly see fossil cars older than 20 years, still driving around. EV car batteries will degrade, and yes, you can replace them, but that is essentially equivalent to replacing a combustion engine. The rest of the car is practically the same .. brakes, suspension, body ... and degrades the same. Next, what about Paul's "proposal" to "let's use the military budgets of the world to get huge increases in clean energy".. if this is meant serious, it is ridiculous - unless you live in a dream world. It will never ever happen. I don't even know why you put such ideas out there. Finally, the constant reiteration that there is "no choice" but to protect the climate... sorry lads, it' wishful thinking. Reality shows that there *is* a choice, and humans choose to keep overconsumption, destruction and pollution until it's too late for them.
Gosh, it makes me upset. I'd appreciate if you stopped giving people false hopes and pipe dreams just because they "want to hear good news". It's no use at all to close your eyes from reality when there's no credible pathway to meaningful change whatsoever. Look at the global CO2 concentration, that's all that counts. Despite all efforts, it's going up and up, no sign of a turnaround that would be anywhere close to what's needed.
God bless you good nigth
Good News: China, Costa Rico, Iceland, Uraquay, and Norway.
You keep on insisting on changing these items that seems to continue as they are since always. The conversion to green energy can’t keep up to the growing energy demand.
You really should listen to William Reese that explains very well how overshoot is the problem of climate change and all our problems.
Will green energy compensate our hunger and finish overshoot??? I don’t think so.
I'm surprised you didn't address the problem of atmospheric particulate matter, what happens when we transition off fossil fuels? Will global warming skyrocket?
Closed loop...oil companies give funding to political parties that support them. The politicians give the oil companies money for more drilling...The tax payers pay into this loop and get pollution in return
I would like to put solar panels on my house, but I suppose like most people, I can't afford it. Maybe if the British government would subsidise it?
25:00 6 to 10 million persons per year worldwide dying from air pollution.
Air pollution deaths are real, but it seems cleaning up our shipping pollution has cause a sudden temperature jump. Damned either way. We need a new way of bouncing sunlight back to space that doesn't consume massive amounts of energy or cause pollution.
Solar thermal using evacuated tube's to heat domestic hot water
Can the working class organize to stop ruling class subsidies before rapid sea level rise?
Uruguay; and other countrues Regina have a serial climate condicionado, where climate dinamuc condicionado, permite tô use the wind energy ....thus us nit the case if USA ; and also us not the case of Brasil and England fir exemple
renewable energy without renewable materials is not clean
The science is great, but I can’t deal with this liberal green growth economics anymore. I’m going to have to skip the these kinds of videos and just watch the ones that are mostly the scienctific facts rather than policy.
You forgot to mention how conservative infinite growth economics and associated denial of its damage are orders of magnitude worse than any green economics put forth to solve problems the other economics creates..
You're not alone in that struggle my friend
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The Americo-centric and anthropocentric viewpoints dominate all discussion of the Climate Crisis. How America is affected comes first, then maybe the rest of the human world, and finally the rest of the living world. So discussion of what we can and cannot afford starts with "Well how can we afford anything that negatively impacts our precious US economic growth?". IMHO we will never get anywhere with these biases while US hegemony predominates. As Regina points out, US won't do anything to reduce carbon emissions while other nations don't do the same. This is so utterly pointless it defies belief, yet nations will go to war about such things. Is it any wonder that I feel despair, which I can only salve by submerging myself in what remains of our miraculous, utterly beautiful natural world and doing what | can to sustain it.
Só, may be is necessário the population tô be moved
Solar and wind is stupid and really not clean.
Childish and even stupid to even begin to consider solar and wind.
A few new nuclear power stations is far cleaner and even cheaper.
A few nuclear power stations less impact on the land
Why millions of acres for solar wen a few new nuclear power stations wud be like dots in the landscape.
The potential of water power is almost endless.
We supposed to be near to nuclear fusion generating power.
Solar and wind is like child's play.
Theres all new models of energy generation coming online rapid now.
Gotta think bigger, massive water works cud give massive power plus secure our water supply.
I'm like gotta keep using old ways until new ways are truly functional.
True Reggie we are massive us humans.
Tryna close all the old ways to quick cud leave us with no power.
Oh deffo gotta start limiting use Paul.
Yes, but they set up tge term nuclear Usin at China that workshop using 6. Thousand degree Celcius of temperature ....a small Sun at the Earth surface ....this is terribke .. is a kind if door tô The Hell
You already destroyed planet earth which is not yours, it god planet.
we don't play well with others so yeah, no. overshoot overshoot overshoot. 3 billion in 1960. 63 years from powered flight to the moon. starting to see a pattern.