Local to me here in NE England, several solar farms are to be built on prime farm land. Nearby, there are huge swathes of old colliery spoil land that's unsuitable for crops or housing. To place the solar panels on food producing land is madness when that spare land lies nearby.
Yes that really PISSES me off.ALL the derelict land and EVERY roof should be covered in solar panels before even one square inch of good farm land,forest,open plains and wilderness are used.There is so much industrial land and buildings that are not being utilized while unspoilt land is ruined.
Same happens in New Zealand. They argue, that sheep can graze between the panel's, but ignore the 5 year reseeding process for new grass to ensure production.
less land to farm food, farmers inheritance tax was thought up just for that reason, sole importation of food is their aim, everything coincides as though it's a coincidence...
In Sweden, the four largest suppliers of solar cells have gone bankrupt as well as several wind farms.Northvolt has also gone bankrupt as well as Nevs making electric cars, and trying to produce 'green' steel has also gone down the drain.Clearly, the "green" bubble is bursting and all this has happened in less than six months.😊
If green steel didn't work out for you, we will be even more enthusiastic about it. We'll go down to the bottom of the rabbit hole.. cheers from Germany. BTW, our technically very skilled foreign minister would be glad to explain to you how to do it right. 😂
@pdx27 Since Sweden does not have enough energy to produce "green" steel, how could the Germans succeed when the Germans are completely dependent on Swedish energy.You Germans don't want nuclear power, so why do you import nuclear power from Sweden? We should cut power lines to Germany and only export electricity when we have a surplus of weather-dependent electricity production. Watching Germany now is like watching an accident in slow motion.
These misnamed "evermore free energy Setups" are usually also carefully designed to "wear out" in perfect synch with all the govt subsidies, surcharges on users/ nonusers, and depreciation allowances granted such rent seekers. That means they will finally demo all their stuff and move on, having never paid a cent in taxes during the whole exercise.
I've been watching 'Landman' about the West Texas oil industry, and there are some telling monologues on the fallacy of renewable energy. The wind turbines scattered through the oil fields are there to provide the electricity to operate the nodding-donkey pumps!.
Here in Australia, the trees alone use up 466million tonnes of and convert it to oxygen , Then we have the plants,grass,algie,moss and lichen making oxygen , and most of the oxygen in the world is made from sea algie … we are way beyond carbon neutral . Wtf are they raving about ?!?!?
@@StepWrightYep! Australia's land mass is 7.688 million square kilometres. There is no way we don't absorb whatever man-made emissions of CO2 we produce in this country. Even if CO2 was a problem in the first place.
Great analysis, MGUY. As an energy engineer, I have been trained to look at the cradle-to-grave project economics, and when you evaluate the incremental economics of changes to the project, you MUST look at the impacts on the entire project. Garbage analyses such as LCOE are used by politicians to hide the truth and deceive people. If you actually want the truth, just look at the screwed up mess they have made in the UK, Germany, and California (very big populations, major economies), which now have the highest electricity costs in the world. Lots of people are suffering because of this foolishness. I certainly don't want to be "Californicated" by "renewable energy".
Thats the thing we have enough real world examples that we don't need to look at models with all their questionable assumptions. The simple question is: "if renewables are so cheap why are they so expensive?"
There is a danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is a place for renewable energy depending on the circumstance, location, weather and level of technology. The iconic windmill on the Australian sheep station pumping ground water is an example. It is low tech and can run 24/7 for years with little or no maintenance. It could be replaced with an expensive , subsidy driven, solar/wind powered, AI controlled , electric pump.
The USAF found out how "free" using solar actually is really expensive. They installed solar panels on all the housing on base. To be truthful, it wasn't the USAF but the maintainers of the housing since the USAF no longer takes care of the housing. Anyway, a hail storm went through the base. It destroyed all the panels on all the houses along with cars and airplanes. The government had to pay for replacing all those panels along with having to pay for energy the panels didn't produce. It took several years for all the panels to be replaced.
@@JamesHawkeTH-cam yes the original commentator talking about laws of physics have merit. That’s how you describe a discussion of somebody’s opinion or viewpoint. In my opinion. They’re a little bit stronger than that. The laws of physics are factual and effectively in most circumstances are incontrovertible and not able to be bypassed or discussed.
I think you may have been raised to be or may have seen some strong examples of folks that were independent, honest, truthful and outspoken when they saw bs. Maybe you have some Scots, Irish, Welch blood in you?
Here in Sweden, you hardly see the sun during the winter and it is almost completely windless, especially when it is cold, without cheap and reliable energy it becomes completely impossible to live in a modern functioning society.We would be forced back to living as they did in the early 1900s and not many people would be able to live that way today.
@SA-nv5tc We don't have coal in Sweden, so we have to cut down the forest, and thanks to the fact that we stopped burning wood, today we have more forest than ever.We had very little forest in the early 1900s and a significantly smaller population with today's population, so the forest would be gone in one or two generations.
We're getting sunny days here in the UK but of course the sun isn't up for long and it's low in the sky. Very little energy produced from solar panels in such circumstances.
@@klimatbluffen exactly. People won’t freeze if there is an option to warm themselves. If that means chopping down trees then that is what will happen. I was in a small town in Romania last year and people were buying coal to heat their homes because it was cheaper than using electricity from the grid. Worse still, the air quality was terrible and this is just a major health crisis waiting to happen, let alone carbon stupidity. We have net zero policies with a lack of goal congruence to blame for the fact that net zero will not be achieved and peoples health is going to suffer!
@@justsomeguy934 Not just any electrician, we were trained in how the entire grid operated because it is all connected, what are your qualifications ?
@@justsomeguy934As electricians in the distribution industry we trained about the entire grid because it is all connected, plus I can think for myself.
@@justsomeguy934 as you are not an electrician, you have no knowledge whatsoever whether or not he has knowledge about electricity generation. stay in your lane
Net zero is a fools dream. If windmills and solar are so great why is there so much taxpayer money involved? I always thought the Business of government was to provide police, hospitals, schools and the nations military. Services that cost should be at a fair price. Last time I renewed my passport I nearly fainted when they charged me Au$290! My daughter is renewing hers and says it's almost Au$400...bloody hell! Seems like it's screw the Aussie for any damn thing. 😡
So by that logic, Nuclear power plants should never be built? The Liberal Party wants to build & own them, how do you think they'll accomplish that without tax payer funding? You also don't think fossil fuel industries receive tax breaks & subsidies? Think of it this way, if no energy provider in Australia received government support, renewables would easily be dominating the future- how many people can privately build & operate such plants as fossil fuels, let alone Nuclear? Compare that barrier of entry to renewables where even single person dwellings con compete/contribute.
Any company that wants to build “ renewable” infrastructure are, I assume, purely doing it on the basis of it being for the benefit of the planet. In which case, why do we not have just “not for profit” organisations building and running them. No shareholders to pay dividends to, no bonuses, no silly remuneration packages paid. Just like “renewables”, only in your dreams.
Most energy creation in the past was funded by the tax payers. The Government needs private industry across many sectors to share the costs of building infrastructure, the Government subsidises these, but only a fraction of the total cost.
The Wind Turbines even dont have a standardized foundation. With a stadardized foundation you could at least keep the foundation and save thousends of tons of concrete and steel. But today: If the Wind Turbine needs to be replaced you cant just swap the Tower and everything above ground, you also need a new foundation. Its absolutly not environmently friendly at all.
Some people have the opposite problem: they can’t go to the toilet after seeing Bowen on the TV. The solution: avoid broadcast news. I haven’t watched the news for over 25 years. I can’t avoid radio news if I’m in a shop, but otherwise I’m news-free.
I have a relation who is a wind turbine technician - the amount of maintenance and safety compliance costs are astronomical. Also the amount of battery backup required even for a short period of interruption is just astronomic - Think the equivalent of an EV battery for each home every 12 hours - for factories, it would be even more.
If you think the maintenance and safety compliance costs on a wind turbine is bad, have a look at the maintenance schedules & safety requirements needed for coal-fired & nuclear power plants! Then, to cover that maintenance period when that generator is off-line, it’s got to be backed up with another generator of the same size. So you’ve got to build a second coal-fired or nuclear generator to cover the first. (It’s why most power plants have two or four gen units.) Effectively doubling the already more than astronomical cost.
Think the equivalent of an EV battery for each home every 12 hours? Average electricity used in a US house is 30kwh a day in Australia 18kwh. Most modern EV are 60kwh or more .
And both have an agenda. I recommend you do your own research and draw your own conclusions instead of blindly believing either of them. Data from scientific studies is available.
I couldn't agree more! When will we tell them that there's about 7 kW/h of electricity invested in every gallon of gasoline, just to lose 75% of that energy as waste heat when burned in an automobile? You know, the tremendous amount of energy lost in fossil fuels? With parasitic losses in ICEs, only about 15% of the fuel's energy actually makes it to the wheels, as opposed to over 90% in an EV. You mean THOSE laws, right?
@@andyman8630 By all means, let's discuss the topic involving thermodynamics that I mentioned - the ultimate 85% energy loss using fossil fuels. And then compare that to the 90% efficiency of electricity used for transportation. You tried to say the laws of physics somehow dissuade the use of EVs; I'm telling you the laws of physics encourage their use. Your turn.
@@justsomeguy934 not interested in discussing your point, because it's self evident and widely known - you're still ignoring my point, seaohtwo has absolutely nothing to do with CC, so the entire EV mandate is baseless i'm all for EVs but only when battery tech is suitable, sufficient electricity base-load is available and sufficient public charging infrastructure is available - let the market decide how and when, not incompetent guv
@@Withnail1969 they're already turning off peoples air cons that they suckered into installing 'smart meters'. AU is going to be south africa soon. Interested to see where all the EV fools will charge when there's no power. Perhaps they'll have to get an ICE generator....LOL.
@@1maico1No, you just hyper focused on your own point while completely ignoring anything else. Ocean is still not rising and glaciers are larger than ever! Hate to inform you but it won’t be the weather that wipes us all out. 😂
@@walnutkraken9430 Nonsense. The global mean water level in the ocean rose by 0.14 inches (3.6 millimeters) per year from 2006-2015, which was 2.5 times the average rate . Antarctic ice loss was 51 billion tons per year between 1992 and 2001 jumping to 199 billion tons per year from 2012-2016.
A couple of things. 1) The BBC show "Top Gear." Years ago listed the insane carbon footprint of an EV battery as being 3 times that of a gasoline powered car that has been driven 300,000 K, and that's before it leaves the factory ! 2) The farmers that contract to have wind turbines on their property offen are left on the hook when one is damaged! A farmer in Iowa last year had one that the power company just dropped the damaged wind turbine and left it where it fell. There's no way to remove the fiberglass from the land!
A 24% POWER TAX IS NEEDED IN THE UK TO FUND THE SUBSIDIES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES - SO AS THE POWER COMPANIES PUSH UP PRICES ANOTHER 24% IS ADDED IN TAX BEFORE YOU GET YOUR POWER. Coupled with this, the power companies are making huge profits from being allowed to fleece us BEFORE YOU GET ANY POWER FROM THEM. POWER IS RELATIVELY CHEAP, THIS SCAMMING IS NOT.
Now retired, I worked on canal hire boats in Lorraine in eastern France where we have automatic locks and lots of wind turbines. Until 4 or 5 years ago, the locks would often shut down when the wind turbines started up. This has now been dealt with but used to mean long waits at locks as an agent had to come out to reset the circuit. Happened to me at 3 locks in a row with a 20 or 30 minute wait each time.
It's like saying WATER should be free, it drops from the skies ..big BUT...to get it to your residence is another story; ...... storage treatment distribution maintenance administration.... It's not cheap and nor are our power bills!!!
funny enough solar in orbit might actually work, but you would have to mine and produce them in space to make it work, then getting the power down is another problem :/
My brother in law was a “bomb driver” at a nuclear power station and when a huge wind farm was built on Anglesey they were taken to visit and were told that each turbine had to have 200 cubic metres of rock excavated then the hole was filled with reinforced concrete 200m3 and then the turbine erected. The nuclear physicists on site, who are there in case something goes wrong, crunched the numbers and they concluded that the turbines would never be carbon neutral. Prophetic really as some were destroyed in the storm a few weeks ago along with solar panels on the same site, you did a video on it.
I've always wondered about that. Those are huge foundations, and concrete and steel require massive amounts of fossil fuel derived energy to produce. Then there are the epoxy resins, fibre glass and other materials in the blades and so on. And they have a finite life.
All the mess? As I recall there has been 3 incidents, 3 mile island(US) Chernobyl Ukraine (Russian Republic) incompetence and Fukushima Japan, Tsunami so not too bad for 60 years of energy production.
@@stephensalt6787 100% of centrals have releases, mining uranium is dirty af, also they dont have a clue about what to do with the waste. building the centrals is expensive and dismantling them too. probably the most expensive way to generate power. and im not even counting the money it takes to manage the waste, the stops, and the cost of cleaning the mess they do when meltdowns ocur, (guess what they never clean their shit, and the state have to pay)
Politicians are somewhat clever. In Canada we have a carbon tax on fuel to force people to use less gas and diesel . People complain about the financial hardship, the government then explains no, we give all that tax back to Canadians as checks at the end of the year. I"ve never received a check, who gets these billions of dollars? And how can a tax that is designed to financially punish fuel use be effective if its just returned back to the people? The truth is that only a portion of the "Carbon Tax" is given back generally to young people to buy their vote in the next election and make them dependent on the Carbon Tax. So the government has cleverly pocketed most of the tax but uses smoke and mirrors persuade people it doesn't hurt their wallets. it uses some of it to bribe key voters and make them WANT to keep the Carbon Tax because if benefits them. So the "Carbon Tax" can be peddled as saving the planet when talking to the right audience or "righteous wealth redistribution" when talking to another audience.
Having politicians and special interest groups making technical decisions is like asking a burger flipper for a medical diagnosis. They aren't qualified or experienced to do so. (BTW, CSIRO is never pronounced "sigh row". The correct pronunciation is "sea ess eye are owe") Love your work. Those who know, know. Those who don't, run the country. Favourite imaginary friend help us.
Maybe this could be a new industry in Australia. Use all that land in the middle of the country to be a giant dump, for used windmills and EV vehicles.
It's worse than that. This infrastructure is huge and the transport from the ports to where they're installed is three hundred kilometres to our Renewable Energy Zone. Each turbine blade requires a massive oversized truck plus two our three support vehicles. The cost and the logistics is huge. Can you imagine anyone transporting this infrastructure thousands of kilometres to Central Australia for disposal? It's looking like they will need around 20,000 wind turbines as a part of the transition here in Australia. That would be 60,000 trips for the blades alone! And who is responsible for the cost of the disposal of this infrastructure? I know your comment was tongue in cheek, but when you live in one of these zones and the reality of it is happening to you It's pretty overwhelming. Our fear is that it will be buried here, on the land where it was installed. There is a large solar project being installed a few kilometres up the road from us on 18 square kilometres of agricultural land. It will consist of 960,000 solar panels, more than a hundred shipping containers backup batteries, countless inverters and two substations. Two B double trucks full of solar panels overturned on the trip here from the port and on a stretch of road, outside the same town. I can't tell you how many panels were damaged, nor can I tell you what became of them. There is no transparency in this industry, and they give no thought to the damage they are doing to the environment.
Perhaps used as landfill in cases where you want permanent landfill - coast lines and earth sheltered homes. I would suspect that even if earth sheltering homes would catch on like they should you would have an endless supply even without building another one of these blades.
Here in the UK we have only had 10% of normal sunlight since September. If you look at " UK energy dashboard" the solar production on the constant cloud we had all autumn was 0.5 % . To be fair,,wind has been quite good but the wind maintenance cost is never mentioned.
Smart meters are for control of your usage. When wind and sun fail to supply the grid THEY will turn your supply off via the Smart meter. It’s already happened with smart air conditioning systems in Australia.
Back before I left the UK it was simple to know renewables were more expensive due to energy companies green energy plans being more expensive than a standard plan. Surely if renewable were the best thing since sliced bread the energy companies would take the initial investment hit on the chin and reap the rewards later instead of making renewable energy plans less attractive to the majority of consumers
@ you got me, even solar energy is not renewable as even the sun has a finite amount of energy. Going back to fantasy land maybe one day politicians will stop following popular opinion and start following peer reviewed scientific theory. Maybe mankind will even realise it cannot control everything and when something goes pear shaped mankind must be to blame otherwise the other option is we are just along for the ride on this tiny ball. Fortunately I will be pushing up daisies before things get too crazy when politicians decide the peons should go back to living in mud huts with no power and having shanks’s pony as the only form of transport. All this is tongue in cheek but who knows what crazy things are in store for the future
Another consideration rarely mentioned is that of 'energy security'. Governments try to tell us that 'renewables' will provide us with 'energy security' but, in time of conflict, an offshore wind farm is anything but 'secure'. Recent events in Northern Europe have highlighted the fact that undersea cables moving the electricity from the 'farm' to the onshore user are very vulnerable to anyone who would wish to disrupt a county's energy supply. In addition, a huge area of windmills, hundreds of feet high, in the middle of the sea are almost impossible to defend and very vulnerable from an attack by sea or air.
First up, off-shore wind farms are usually no more than 10 - 20 km offshore. Being that close to our defences puts an adversary’s combative assets at huge risk. Ie a ship attempting to destroy undersea power cables by dragging would literally be blown out of the water. Second, Aust doesn’t have the expertise or infrastructure to process uranium into fuel rods. All has to be done overseas - eg France or USA. In a war that is a very long & vulnerable supply chain. An adversary would know that with a naval & air blockade Australia would run out of the ability to generate electricity with ~2 years. (Developing an on-shore nuclear fuel processing facility would be prohibitively expensive & make nuclear even more of an economically insane decision.) Not to mention that with just 7 ballistic missiles an adversary could both immediately destroy Australia’s power generation capability & create a catastrophic emergency situation. Renewables, on the other hand, do actually provide energy security. It’s practically impossible to blockade the wind & sun over an entire continent. Also the geographical spread of RE over myriad locations would require thousands of missiles to achieve the same damage to capability.
@@markboscawen8330I partly agree with your third point. However, it’s better for households to have portable diesel generators. Something like that. Solar farms are easily neutralised by certain kinds of weapon.
@ Thank you andyman for pointing out another advantage of the RE system. Severe destructive storms, cyclones excepted, usually have a very localised damage footprint. Tens of square Km at most. Thus catastrophic damage would be limited to one or two solar or wind farms. So a loss of around 10 MW or so from a system with 38GW of potential generation capacity would be barely noticed. Whereas when a large centralised generator fails hundreds of thousands can be left without power & the system put at risk of total collapse. Eg th-cam.com/video/svgLqcmv9n8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GgeC5n8QtzavT7FF Thus geographically dispersed RE is actually more robust.
@@Biosynchro It becomes a risk/benefit/cost equation. Every home having a diesel generator would be expensive to implement and they would likely sit unused for decades. Then comes the issue of supply chain security - 90% of our petrol & diesel is imported by sea. Providing an easy point of attack to paralyse Australia in a war. Third, generating electricity with millions of diesel generators would create competition for fuel with the transport sector & Defence Force. Inevitable rationing would severely limit home generator use. Yes aware of non-destructive weapons which can be utilised at scale to knockout power. But again, it takes a lot more of an adversary’s resources to deploy it over thousands of solar & wind farms compared to the grid connection points outside of 7 NPPs.
Aside from the tissue paper infrastructure they ignore the 'firming' costs required to support the noddy 'intermittent' green stuff. I worked in the power industry for 12 years and toured coal stations, nuclear stations, large scale gas turbine stations, hydro/pumped storage, large integrated sub stations, etc. Wind and solar does not compare.
Simple Simon being cynical without being cynical! If only all governments would listen to his razor sharp wit and axiomatic conclusions, we would all be living in paradise, like...
@@johngy6296 Or do it the other way round. Save money when it's flowing, use it when you get less. Oh, did I just make a renewable + energy storage analogy?
@@valuemastery your analogy is bunk, nothing is free, it costs more to harness that 'free money' than the amount you receive. The hardest part of a free energy device is where to hide the batteries so the mark (you) cant see them and buys the bs.
@@paddyodoors2757 Yes, you are right, it's not free at all. We are currently in the planning process for our own solar panels for the house, and this needs investment of money. Each kWp costs us 800 Euros to install. I'm in Germany, where we don't exactly have a lot of sunshine. So we only get 1000 kWh per year from each 1 kWp panel (we have about 1000 sun hours each year). Over the expected lifespan of 25 years, this amounts to 25 MWh per panel, or 8000 Euro worth of electricity. So long term each panel saves us 7200 Euros instead of costing money. In that sense, the electricity we get is free.
"it all operates at the whim of mother nature" Like the 3300-acre Texas solar panel farm in Fort Bend county, until it was extensively damaged by a hail storm on 3-15-2024. Anyone dependent on that power had to wait 3 months until they replaced all the damaged panels. The cost passed to their customers as higher electric bills? Because I can't imagine any insurance company dumb enough to cover a solar farm in a region that regularly gets severe storms and tornados.
So True! There is nothing cynical about what you are saying here it is merely the truth that those in charge in any country do not and never will deal with. Remember too that all politicians want to hang something around their necks that says "I did that" which is why you end up with lunatic levels of stuff in your country that is an utter waste of money so here in the UK we have HS2 railway that is just throwing money into the destruction of the countryside when the money should have been spent upgrading the existing badly served areas dotted all over the UK or the stupidity of things like The O2 in London which is nothing more than a blot on the landscape. I am sure wherever you are in the world you can point to infrastructure projects that are and remain vanity constructions that rather than making your life better are just sheer waste. It matters not one jot to these idiots if there is a huge increase in costs to you or the narrow margin between constant power and black outs is compromised all they want is that gold chain and their inflated ego's thoroughly massaged.
Lots of solar installations are in deserts. Even if they aren't destroyed, dust can lower their efficiency. Who is going to clean all those panels, and at what cost in money and energy?
I learned this a few years ago. Solar panels stop working. People and the coperations throw them away. Like you said. Most in reality. They just blown a fuse. It's a type of fuse. I forgot what they are called. 30amps. 4 of them. On the backside of the solar panel. In the back box. They just need to be replaced. I bought 3 or 4 bags of them. I own enough for the rest of my life. Why I own solar panels. My land. I have no choice. 100% off grid. No other options. Besides generators. Loss power on a solar panel. Fuse is most likely out. On the panels themselves.
Thanks mate for the facts and Truths as usual unfortunately the people calling them self representatives of the people could not work there way out of a Wet paper Bag 🙄 😉
@@DiveSafariNZ1. Wind turbines are not useful. Any bird (or flying mammal) deaths from wind turbines are unnecessary. 2. The wind industrial-complex is only just getting started.
Solar and wind power should always be considered supplemental energy, not replaceable energy. I have several small, portable solar panels that I use to charge my small battery banks and other devices, but I don’t fully rely on them. They are just supplemental/backup.
low altitude and running props again... get ready for turbulence, long layovers, and lots of them? be fun watching one "dump its fuel load" for an emergency landing as well, lol... yeah... turbines work better at the low pressures of high altitude, above the turbulence which also ensures a smooth flight... but they require heat. supplied by combustion. an electric motor driving a fan isnt quite the same thing. they dont work at altitude... but ABC explains everything, really. airheads broadcasting crap.
I’m in Garden City, KS waiting with my driver to load 62 meter windmill blades going to Miles City, MT. Don’t believe in the program but love my job as a Steerman. Pay is nice also. Been in the business 5 years now and recently have been hauling lots of replacement blades to sites where I delivered the original blades. It’s crazy to see the carnage when it all goes sideways.
I've always known these logical facts to be true. The problem is it will never be possible to convince "climate change" flat earthers. It breaks my heart to see those ugly windmills and solar panels polluting the earth in so many ways. Manufacturing and relying on bicycles when we have spaceships is insanity.
In Broken hill their system wwnt down and flattened the batteries and couldnt cone back on line . They had to use generators to charge up the system and also power the town . They had so much trouble getting it all back to 50hz to get online . Ah it was only a month or so on generators . Ah so green . Those batteries are now damaged from being drained to much . The amp hrs will never be the same . Flatten the batteries does them great harm .
I’m no engineer but even from a common sense point of view, renewables spread far and wide across the countryside and the transmission lines required as well as “synchronisers” required for renewables, it is hard to believe how it could be economical vs 6 sites for nuclear plants. Off-shore wind farms are the biggest cons as the construction and maintenance would be astronomical and their service lives significantly shorter than on-shore wind farms.
Windmill blades can be recycled but it requires someone to do it, funding and so on. The entities that put them up walk away from mess they create. For instance cutting and shredding and blending this with raw materials to make cement. Other strategies involve separating out the blade’s fiberglass and polymeric resin to make reinforced industrial products. Or using plasma technologies. Better still design recycling into the things at the beginning when they are manufactured.
The amount of land that has to be sacrificed for "renewable" compared to nuclear can simply not be called "environmentally friendly" by itself already.
If we presume that NYC is sort of typical per capita Taxi's - the USA has 360 million people and the earth has 9 billion - so lets estimate solar panels and batteries required to power just the worlds Taxis - Batteries for NYC taxis 90 batteries to run a full month x 13,500 taxis - 12.15 million full battery packs - and 58 million solar panels. So by extrapolation the 360 million in the USA will need 546 million car size storage batteries; and 2.6 billion solar panels. The world will need 25 times those or about 15 billion car size lithium pacs and roughty 70 billion Solar panels Just to power the worlds Taxis for 1 month of bad weather per year. The cost - trillions - just to keep world taxis running all year around.
There isnt 9 billion in the world, eg india scams foreign aid by lying about thier population, honestly think about it, 2.4billion claimed with only 3 big cities so 1.2 billion farmers?
@@aliendroneservices6621 OK that is more like the official figures today, but the USA has between 10 and 20 million illegals in the country who we have no hard figure for; and we need to plan for some growth; this isn't going to take place today; probably can't ever work; which is the point of the figures which are rough estimates; it would be far worse in some regions and less in others. Ketichan Alaska has about only about 5 months a year. I was in Seattle when you couldn't tell night from day due to heavy rain clouds for 90 days straight. Folks that believe in Solar and Wind don't seem to understand the impact of not generating power for long periods iwth respect to how much batteries that implies, even Las Vegas has periods where solar and wind wouldn't be working for a week or two.
The UK currently spends megabucks to build an undersea cable from Morocco to the UK (Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project). That sounds like a good idea, but isn't the UK putting itself in the same position as Germany did with the Russian gas? Could easily end in tears, as it did for the Germans.
1:541:59 "The world's oldest nuclear power plant still in operation is the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant located in Switzerland. It began producing power in September 1969." (Google AI)
Tvindkraft in Denmark - the first multi megawatt wind turbine still operating after 46 years. Officially opened on 26 March 1978 and has continuously produced power since this date.
A turbine blade also produces different thrust according its rotation relative to the wind as per propellers. The rotation speed of the hub (thus, power output) varies within each 360 rotation even when everything else is constant due to different angle between blade and wind for ascending or descending blades. Related to helicopter blades and Critical Engine theory.
Good points. If you drive from Albury to Melbourne you pass huge acres of solar farms, so in the future we might have all the solar power we want, but by covering rich farmland might we run out of food? Just a thought I had during my latest trip to Melbourne
You are assuming that the land was "rich farmland". I'm sure the actual landowners are more capable of determining the productivity of their own land. But it WOULD be best if the least arable land was where we situated our solar panel farms. And I'm confident that will happen in time. I was near (a town) in South Australia the other week, and that is the least desirable stretch of rock and dirt I've seen in a long time. Plenty of country in Oz that would be ideal.
@@footbru I assume nothing. I have lived and worked in this local community for over 20 years. I personally know people who have turned over their land to solar farm operators due to ill health and no other choice, the family was devastated due to the loss of their beautiful property. The land actually means something to some people By the way very little money from the solar farms is fed through the local community. No feed, no farm supplies, etc All the money goes back to a corporation, all of the solar farm requirements get shipped in from the capital city. That sucks I personally love fresh meat and veggies, you'll never see me or my family front up for tofu and seaweed salad. Just because large tracks of land are not occupied doesn't mean they are fair game for uninformed and uncaring solar dipshits
Where’s my guy that claimed in the comments on a previous video that EVs are inevitable, vastly superior, and that those who don’t want them suffer from some kind of ignorance? He couldn’t point out one specific flaw in one of your arguments, but he assured us that he was right. Miss you buddy!
@@johnfrei9057my view is that with battery and charging technology getting faster, more efficient and cheaper through time, this will negate the current downsides of some EVs in terms of limited range and too long charging time. Once this happens, and you still have the upsides, cheaper fuel, fill up from your house (for over 50% of UK houses), cheaper maintanence, faster, more efficient, cleaner city aire. Etc. The you will see faster and faster switching. I take it you do not support this view. Keen to here why?
@@galloway9707 it costs more actual pollution (and no i don't mean seaohtwo or carbon) to produce just the battery than it does to build a complete ICE vehicle and operate it for 4 years
As EV registrations continue to increase there will be more demand for that "off peak" energy. That you have raised this point demonstrates that time, in addition to technology, is required to effect major changes.
@ EV registrations are not increasing and there is no need for change because there is no such thing as global warming only the controlling political class and idiots believe in the global warming crap
"250 tons of earth and rock to be mined"? Perhaps the first time, but once batteries are recycled no more 'mining' needs to take place. How many tons of iron ore are needed to make a car body? Gasoline weighs 6 pounds per gallon. A ten gallon fill-up requires 60 pounds of fuel. 2000/60 = 33 fill ups, or about 10,000 miles of driving at 30 miles per gallon. A typical car owner is burning one and a half tons a year if they are driving 15,000 miles per year, or 150,000 miles in a decade. This is a 'one sided' discussion, there is no comparison to current practices, such as use of coal, hydrocarbons, or the total lifespan demand on resources for manufacturing, shipping, use, and disposal of petroleum fueled vehicles.
West Burton and Cottam coal power stations generated cheap 2000MW each for 60 years. Now being decommissioned, Cottams steam turbines are already in china getting ready to run on coal.
That is an incredibly short sighted view, similar to people who defended horse drawn vehicles against ICE equiped cars at the start of the 20st century. Lots of progress is being made on all sorts of technologies which eventually will make electrical energy storage dirt cheap. Not now, not tomorrow, but within this century.
Seing that we live in the uk notorious for bad weather, which we haven't had the heavy snow that we normally had, snow is heavy and solar panels aren't that strong also high winds ? Sounds like a pipe dream when we ALREADY have hydroelectric ,coal and nuclear. I think in years to come people will come to realise we were all taken as fools.
Hi Simon, gotta tell ya this, we visited Biosphere 2 in Tucson yesterday and talk about it being a folly. Apparently the experiment failed miserably and has been taken over by the university of Arizona. But the best bit was the fact they have to have fossil fuels as backup power. Plus they don’t have any solar what so ever.
Wow!! I actually got an advertisement at the end of your video here talking about Solor and if it's right for my home. I swear we must be under surveillance somehow because that is NO coincidence. Keep up the good work on these videos!!
How can they call wind and solar "free" when it has to be extracted/converted using windmills and solar panels, just as oil and gas has to be extracted/converted?
You mean chemically reprocessing and remanufacturing the batteries....expensive and time consuming. You can't just dust off and spit shine an old battery. You must repurify and rebuild.
@@btrasbthowever you can repurpose a battery once it's storage capacity degrades to the point where it is no longer viable in a vehicle. Domestic batteries don't have the space limitations of an EV. We have 9kw panels and 27 kWh storage, have not had a power bill since it was installed. 8 year ROI, but blackout protection was our primary driver as the grid in our region is considered fragile. We had over 40 grid outages since installed, the longest being 9 hours. We enjoyed uninterrupted power without really noticing.
@tazpartridge1612 Very true! Although as those batteries age, the risk of fire increases. Best to have a separate, well vented detached building to house the batteries.
The Scottish Government calculate that 17 million trees have been felled to allow the building of windturbines. Not only that 1000tonnes of concrete alkaline for a base is put into acidic peat down to the bedrock. Ironically going through Bronze Age tree stumps at the bottom level from when times were warmer.
Local to me here in NE England, several solar farms are to be built on prime farm land. Nearby, there are huge swathes of old colliery spoil land that's unsuitable for crops or housing. To place the solar panels on food producing land is madness when that spare land lies nearby.
Yes that really PISSES me off.ALL the derelict land and EVERY roof should be covered in solar panels before even one square inch of good farm land,forest,open plains and wilderness are used.There is so much industrial land and buildings that are not being utilized while unspoilt land is ruined.
ITS AS IDIOTIC AS CAN BE
Same happens in New Zealand.
They argue, that sheep can graze between the panel's, but ignore the 5 year reseeding process for new grass to ensure production.
less land to farm food, farmers inheritance tax was thought up just for that reason, sole importation of food is their aim, everything coincides as though it's a coincidence...
Panels can go on top of things, it doesn't have to render the land useless.
In Sweden, the four largest suppliers of solar cells have gone bankrupt as well as several wind farms.Northvolt has also gone bankrupt as well as Nevs making electric cars, and trying to produce 'green' steel has also gone down the drain.Clearly, the "green" bubble is bursting and all this has happened in less than six months.😊
If green steel didn't work out for you, we will be even more enthusiastic about it. We'll go down to the bottom of the rabbit hole.. cheers from Germany. BTW, our technically very skilled foreign minister would be glad to explain to you how to do it right. 😂
@pdx27 Since Sweden does not have enough energy to produce "green" steel, how could the Germans succeed when the Germans are completely dependent on Swedish energy.You Germans don't want nuclear power, so why do you import nuclear power from Sweden? We should cut power lines to Germany and only export electricity when we have a surplus of weather-dependent electricity production. Watching Germany now is like watching an accident in slow motion.
It's just not economic to do any of these things in Europe.
@Withnail1969 They have several large facilities in Spain and California that also do not work to produce electricity.
@@Withnail1969 so what should do europe?
Great to hear you are promoting the great truth. They are DISPOSABLES not RENEWABLES. More power to you 👍
These misnamed "evermore free energy Setups" are usually also carefully designed to "wear out" in perfect synch with all the govt subsidies, surcharges on users/ nonusers, and depreciation allowances granted such rent seekers. That means they will finally demo all their stuff and move on, having never paid a cent in taxes during the whole exercise.
What a lot of crap!
We don’t seem to do renewables or recycling as we used to years ago.
yea U just landfill with all the precious metals inside ;-) nothing gets recycled ;-) NOTHING !!
I've been watching 'Landman' about the West Texas oil industry, and there are some telling monologues on the fallacy of renewable energy. The wind turbines scattered through the oil fields are there to provide the electricity to operate the nodding-donkey pumps!.
Net zero is like perpetual motion, a scientific impossibility to fool the gullible.
There are sadly a lot them.
It's not. We used to call it death. Net zero is more appealing I guess.
Well said sir! If you make the people gullible enough, you can sell an ice maker to an Eskimo or even a heater to an amazon forest native.
Here in Australia, the trees alone use up 466million tonnes of and convert it to oxygen ,
Then we have the plants,grass,algie,moss and lichen making oxygen , and most of the oxygen in the world is made from sea algie … we are way beyond carbon neutral . Wtf are they raving about ?!?!?
@@StepWrightYep! Australia's land mass is 7.688 million square kilometres. There is no way we don't absorb whatever man-made emissions of CO2 we produce in this country. Even if CO2 was a problem in the first place.
Great analysis, MGUY. As an energy engineer, I have been trained to look at the cradle-to-grave project economics, and when you evaluate the incremental economics of changes to the project, you MUST look at the impacts on the entire project. Garbage analyses such as LCOE are used by politicians to hide the truth and deceive people. If you actually want the truth, just look at the screwed up mess they have made in the UK, Germany, and California (very big populations, major economies), which now have the highest electricity costs in the world. Lots of people are suffering because of this foolishness. I certainly don't want to be "Californicated" by "renewable energy".
LCOE is a bullshit analysis.
Thats the thing we have enough real world examples that we don't need to look at models with all their questionable assumptions. The simple question is: "if renewables are so cheap why are they so expensive?"
"Californicated". Sweet!
@@deeza3384Credit to the Red Hot Chili Peppers is needed for that poignant term.
There is a danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is a place for renewable energy depending on the circumstance, location, weather and level of technology. The iconic windmill on the Australian sheep station pumping ground water is an example. It is low tech and can run 24/7 for years with little or no maintenance. It could be replaced with an expensive , subsidy driven, solar/wind powered, AI controlled , electric pump.
The USAF found out how "free" using solar actually is really expensive. They installed solar panels on all the housing on base. To be truthful, it wasn't the USAF but the maintainers of the housing since the USAF no longer takes care of the housing. Anyway, a hail storm went through the base. It destroyed all the panels on all the houses along with cars and airplanes. The government had to pay for replacing all those panels along with having to pay for energy the panels didn't produce. It took several years for all the panels to be replaced.
Government didn't pay for it; "we the taxpayer" did.
@@terrymoorecnc2500somebody should tell that story to Australia"s main man, Blackout Bowen the energy minister for ALP federal government!
@@terrymoorecnc2500 l'm fairly sure somebody got a nice deposit in their re-election campaign account...
@@Toadie-t9uWEF zealots won’t listen to reason, it is deliberate destruction of our energy, security, economy, culture and environment.
@@Toadie-t9u Hah! Do you think he'd listen. People like him are all brain washed into net bollocks!
I don’t consider you cynical at all. I consider you someone that lives in the real world, where the laws of physics actually have merit.
Responsible.
Laws of nature. 👍
Here here👍
@@JamesHawkeTH-cam yes the original commentator talking about laws of physics have merit. That’s how you describe a discussion of somebody’s opinion or viewpoint. In my opinion. They’re a little bit stronger than that. The laws of physics are factual and effectively in most circumstances are incontrovertible and not able to be bypassed or discussed.
I think you may have been raised to be or may have seen some strong examples of folks that were independent, honest, truthful and outspoken when they saw bs. Maybe you have some Scots, Irish, Welch blood in you?
You are an engineer, Chris Bowen is a lefty politician, I know who I believe 😂
Bowen isn't even a good politician.
Great line mate 😂
Politicians are not to be believed anyway. In their nature to bullshit
Bowen in the wind.
They are renewable, in that you need to keep renewing the failing equipment all the time.
😂
That's indeed how I understand it as well :)
You need to keep renewing the cash for it.
That is Probably the Best way to look at it, "Renewing For Ever". At Customers Cost.
I call them "REPLACEABLES"
Oil renews itself naturally too.
Here in Sweden, you hardly see the sun during the winter and it is almost completely windless, especially when it is cold, without cheap and reliable energy it becomes completely impossible to live in a modern functioning society.We would be forced back to living as they did in the early 1900s and not many people would be able to live that way today.
Back then everybody burnt coal in their homes for heat and cooking. Go figure!
@SA-nv5tc We don't have coal in Sweden, so we have to cut down the forest, and thanks to the fact that we stopped burning wood, today we have more forest than ever.We had very little forest in the early 1900s and a significantly smaller population with today's population, so the forest would be gone in one or two generations.
We're getting sunny days here in the UK but of course the sun isn't up for long and it's low in the sky. Very little energy produced from solar panels in such circumstances.
@Withnail1969 They are enough to get some LED lights to shine during the day when they are not really needed.
@@klimatbluffen exactly. People won’t freeze if there is an option to warm themselves. If that means chopping down trees then that is what will happen. I was in a small town in Romania last year and people were buying coal to heat their homes because it was cheaper than using electricity from the grid. Worse still, the air quality was terrible and this is just a major health crisis waiting to happen, let alone carbon stupidity. We have net zero policies with a lack of goal congruence to blame for the fact that net zero will not be achieved and peoples health is going to suffer!
I am an electrician and everything that you say makes sense.
You as an electrician have no knowledge whatsoever about energy generation. Stay in your lane.
@@justsomeguy934 Not just any electrician, we were trained in how the entire grid operated because it is all connected, what are your qualifications ?
@@justsomeguy934As electricians in the distribution industry we trained about the entire grid because it is all connected, plus I can think for myself.
@@justsomeguy934
as you are not an electrician, you have no knowledge whatsoever whether or not he has knowledge about electricity generation. stay in your lane
@@justsomeguy934Not Really.
Net zero is a fools dream. If windmills and solar are so great why is there so much taxpayer money involved? I always thought the Business of government was to provide police, hospitals, schools and the nations military. Services that cost should be at a fair price. Last time I renewed my passport I nearly fainted when they charged me Au$290! My daughter is renewing hers and says it's almost Au$400...bloody hell! Seems like it's screw the Aussie for any damn thing. 😡
So by that logic, Nuclear power plants should never be built? The Liberal Party wants to build & own them, how do you think they'll accomplish that without tax payer funding?
You also don't think fossil fuel industries receive tax breaks & subsidies?
Think of it this way, if no energy provider in Australia received government support, renewables would easily be dominating the future- how many people can privately build & operate such plants as fossil fuels, let alone Nuclear? Compare that barrier of entry to renewables where even single person dwellings con compete/contribute.
@@TheChristopherJackand who do you think is financing Blackout Bowen's unreliable renewables. The taxpayer of course!
Any company that wants to build “ renewable” infrastructure are, I assume, purely doing it on the basis of it being for the benefit of the planet. In which case, why do we not have just “not for profit” organisations building and running them. No shareholders to pay dividends to, no bonuses, no silly remuneration packages paid. Just like “renewables”, only in your dreams.
Most energy creation in the past was funded by the tax payers. The Government needs private industry across many sectors to share the costs of building infrastructure, the Government subsidises these, but only a fraction of the total cost.
You see renewable just like your passport every time you need to renew it it gets more and more expensive😂
The Wind Turbines even dont have a standardized foundation. With a stadardized foundation you could at least keep the foundation and save thousends of tons of concrete and steel. But today: If the Wind Turbine needs to be replaced you cant just swap the Tower and everything above ground, you also need a new foundation. Its absolutly not environmently friendly at all.
Because they always try to replace them with a much bigger one. Which sometimes collapse within a few months.
YOU ARE WELL WORTH LISTENING TO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND SERVICE !!!
He's a biased dinosaur, that's all
I have to visit the bathroom after seeing Bowen on the TV
Yep 🤮🤮🤮
Some people have the opposite problem: they can’t go to the toilet after seeing Bowen on the TV. The solution: avoid broadcast news. I haven’t watched the news for over 25 years. I can’t avoid radio news if I’m in a shop, but otherwise I’m news-free.
Like me you have an engineering background, that's why you understand that all the green madness is madness!!
don't need an engineering degree just common sense😊
I left school at 16 and have been a huge renewables skeptic for many years now.
What was your engineering background, greasing tractors? All engineers, including myself are excited by new forms of energy no matter there origin.
@Linda-u5x You must have got all giddy about cold fusion then! 🤡
@Linda-u5x
what new forms of energy? has electricity been superceded?
I have a relation who is a wind turbine technician - the amount of maintenance and safety compliance costs are astronomical. Also the amount of battery backup required even for a short period of interruption is just astronomic - Think the equivalent of an EV battery for each home every 12 hours - for factories, it would be even more.
If you think the maintenance and safety compliance costs on a wind turbine is bad, have a look at the maintenance schedules & safety requirements needed for coal-fired & nuclear power plants!
Then, to cover that maintenance period when that generator is off-line, it’s got to be backed up with another generator of the same size. So you’ve got to build a second coal-fired or nuclear generator to cover the first. (It’s why most power plants have two or four gen units.) Effectively doubling the already more than astronomical cost.
@@markboscawen8330
let's see - maintenance on 4 coal fired plants vs maintenance on 2077 wind turbines,,, hmmm
Think the equivalent of an EV battery for each home every 12 hours?
Average electricity used in a US house is 30kwh a day in Australia 18kwh.
Most modern EV are 60kwh or more .
Not to mention low frequency noise pollution.
It's still worth it, we need to set aside atleast 10% of our GDP for wind turbines. Without green energy there won't be an economy.
You are an engineer, the Electric Viking is a marketer, I know who I believe 😂
And both have an agenda. I recommend you do your own research and draw your own conclusions instead of blindly believing either of them. Data from scientific studies is available.
His agenda is speaking the truth. Don't try to make it seem otherwise.
@@valuemastery And check who funds these studies first is a good idea.
@@valuemastery No Mguy is a realist , he tells it like it actually is .
@@speedyserbian Where did I suggest anything otherwise? I said get the data and think for yourself.
Maybe it’s time for primary school students to learn about the laws of thermodynamics..
I couldn't agree more! When will we tell them that there's about 7 kW/h of electricity invested in every gallon of gasoline, just to lose 75% of that energy as waste heat when burned in an automobile? You know, the tremendous amount of energy lost in fossil fuels? With parasitic losses in ICEs, only about 15% of the fuel's energy actually makes it to the wheels, as opposed to over 90% in an EV. You mean THOSE laws, right?
@@justsomeguy934 Until wind and solar generation improve EV's will continue to be powered by 70 percent fossil fuels.
@@justsomeguy934
no, the laws of thermodynamics which prove seaohtwo has absolutely nothing to do with CC
@@andyman8630 By all means, let's discuss the topic involving thermodynamics that I mentioned - the ultimate 85% energy loss using fossil fuels. And then compare that to the 90% efficiency of electricity used for transportation. You tried to say the laws of physics somehow dissuade the use of EVs; I'm telling you the laws of physics encourage their use. Your turn.
@@justsomeguy934
not interested in discussing your point, because it's self evident and widely known - you're still ignoring my point, seaohtwo has absolutely nothing to do with CC, so the entire EV mandate is baseless
i'm all for EVs but only when battery tech is suitable, sufficient electricity base-load is available and sufficient public charging infrastructure is available - let the market decide how and when, not incompetent guv
They are trying to fool people but one thing they can't fool is REALITY.
Not convinced the Viking is on the level then???
That's right, just wait for the blackouts.
@@Withnail1969 they're already turning off peoples air cons that they suckered into installing 'smart meters'. AU is going to be south africa soon. Interested to see where all the EV fools will charge when there's no power. Perhaps they'll have to get an ICE generator....LOL.
@@gazzafloss Viking is an EV and battery shill, probably gets a back hander from the EV and battery industry.
Ultimately coal and petroleum are solar power. It is just concentrated in a convenient storage mechanism.
This is a really smart thing to say
They are also 'free' so far as mankind is concerned.
The problem is the millions of years it took to trap the carbon is being released very quickly by burning. You have completely missed the point.
@@1maico1No, you just hyper focused on your own point while completely ignoring anything else. Ocean is still not rising and glaciers are larger than ever! Hate to inform you but it won’t be the weather that wipes us all out. 😂
@@walnutkraken9430 Nonsense. The global mean water level in the ocean rose by 0.14 inches (3.6 millimeters) per year from 2006-2015, which was 2.5 times the average rate .
Antarctic ice loss was 51 billion tons per year between 1992 and 2001 jumping to 199 billion tons per year from 2012-2016.
A couple of things. 1) The BBC show "Top Gear." Years ago listed the insane carbon footprint of an EV battery as being 3 times that of a gasoline powered car that has been driven 300,000 K, and that's before it leaves the factory !
2) The farmers that contract to have wind turbines on their property offen are left on the hook when one is damaged! A farmer in Iowa last year had one that the power company just dropped the damaged wind turbine and left it where it fell. There's no way to remove the fiberglass from the land!
A 24% POWER TAX IS NEEDED IN THE UK TO FUND THE SUBSIDIES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES - SO AS THE POWER COMPANIES PUSH UP PRICES ANOTHER 24% IS ADDED IN TAX BEFORE YOU GET YOUR POWER. Coupled with this, the power companies are making huge profits from being allowed to fleece us BEFORE YOU GET ANY POWER FROM THEM.
POWER IS RELATIVELY CHEAP, THIS SCAMMING IS NOT.
Now retired, I worked on canal hire boats in Lorraine in eastern France where we have automatic locks and lots of wind turbines. Until 4 or 5 years ago, the locks would often shut down when the wind turbines started up. This has now been dealt with but used to mean long waits at locks as an agent had to come out to reset the circuit. Happened to me at 3 locks in a row with a 20 or 30 minute wait each time.
Net Zero - Renewable's - EV's - Solar - Windmills are Smoke and Mirrors - Hokus-Pokus !!!!
It's like saying WATER should be free, it drops from the skies ..big BUT...to get it to your residence is another story; ...... storage treatment distribution maintenance administration.... It's not cheap and nor are our power bills!!!
We're going to need 3 or 4 more PLANETS worth of rare Earth elements to achieve the net zero fantasy. Good luck with that.
Why do you think Elon is so hot to get to Mars!
funny enough solar in orbit might actually work, but you would have to mine and produce them in space to make it work, then getting the power down is another problem :/
@@RavenAutoPartsCo Hope it's one way trip.
Net zero is newspeak for depopulation.
Get Elon on the phone
❤ WoW, this is all a revelation to me. i am shocked. All lies from the govt.
Have you been locked in your parents basement...and recentLy escaped? 🤔
Massive lies and deceit.
guv does only two things well - lie and fluck everything they touch
My brother in law was a “bomb driver” at a nuclear power station and when a huge wind farm was built on Anglesey they were taken to visit and were told that each turbine had to have 200 cubic metres of rock excavated then the hole was filled with reinforced concrete 200m3 and then the turbine erected. The nuclear physicists on site, who are there in case something goes wrong, crunched the numbers and they concluded that the turbines would never be carbon neutral. Prophetic really as some were destroyed in the storm a few weeks ago along with solar panels on the same site, you did a video on it.
I've always wondered about that. Those are huge foundations, and concrete and steel require massive amounts of fossil fuel derived energy to produce. Then there are the epoxy resins, fibre glass and other materials in the blades and so on. And they have a finite life.
nuclear guys cant talk shit after all the mess they have done.
All the mess? As I recall there has been 3 incidents, 3 mile island(US) Chernobyl Ukraine (Russian Republic) incompetence and Fukushima Japan, Tsunami so not too bad for 60 years of energy production.
@@stephensalt6787 100% of centrals have releases, mining uranium is dirty af, also they dont have a clue about what to do with the waste.
building the centrals is expensive and dismantling them too.
probably the most expensive way to generate power.
and im not even counting the money it takes to manage the waste, the stops, and the cost of cleaning the mess they do when meltdowns ocur, (guess what they never clean their shit, and the state have to pay)
If you 'believe in' "free" energy, you also believe in santa claus, the Easter bunny, unicorns, leprechauns, and press honesty.
Energy is in abundance. It's everywhere. It's converting it to an energy form that we can use that's the problem.
It’s such a money grab it’s disgusting I am not sure how far people have their heads up their own butts to believe otherwise.
Politicians are somewhat clever. In Canada we have a carbon tax on fuel to force people to use less gas and diesel . People complain about the financial hardship, the government then explains no, we give all that tax back to Canadians as checks at the end of the year. I"ve never received a check, who gets these billions of dollars? And how can a tax that is designed to financially punish fuel use be effective if its just returned back to the people? The truth is that only a portion of the "Carbon Tax" is given back generally to young people to buy their vote in the next election and make them dependent on the Carbon Tax.
So the government has cleverly pocketed most of the tax but uses smoke and mirrors persuade people it doesn't hurt their wallets. it uses some of it to bribe key voters and make them WANT to keep the Carbon Tax because if benefits them. So the "Carbon Tax" can be peddled as saving the planet when talking to the right audience or "righteous wealth redistribution" when talking to another audience.
Bowen definitely does.
Follow the money. Nothing to do with ecology.
Having politicians and special interest groups making technical decisions is like asking a burger flipper for a medical diagnosis.
They aren't qualified or experienced to do so.
(BTW, CSIRO is never pronounced "sigh row". The correct pronunciation is "sea ess eye are owe")
Love your work. Those who know, know. Those who don't, run the country. Favourite imaginary friend help us.
Maybe this could be a new industry in Australia. Use all that land in the middle of the country to be a giant dump, for used windmills and EV vehicles.
😂🙌👌
It's worse than that. This infrastructure is huge and the transport from the ports to where they're installed is three hundred kilometres to our Renewable Energy Zone. Each turbine blade requires a massive oversized truck plus two our three support vehicles. The cost and the logistics is huge. Can you imagine anyone transporting this infrastructure thousands of kilometres to Central Australia for disposal? It's looking like they will need around 20,000 wind turbines as a part of the transition here in Australia. That would be 60,000 trips for the blades alone! And who is responsible for the cost of the disposal of this infrastructure? I know your comment was tongue in cheek, but when you live in one of these zones and the reality of it is happening to you It's pretty overwhelming. Our fear is that it will be buried here, on the land where it was installed.
There is a large solar project being installed a few kilometres up the road from us on 18 square kilometres of agricultural land. It will consist of 960,000 solar panels, more than a hundred shipping containers backup batteries, countless inverters and two substations. Two B double trucks full of solar panels overturned on the trip here from the port and on a stretch of road, outside the same town. I can't tell you how many panels were damaged, nor can I tell you what became of them. There is no transparency in this industry, and they give no thought to the damage they are doing to the environment.
sounds like a good idea...have you asked your indigenious people there yet...??
@@stratman9449 send out the green gang to shame them.
Perhaps used as landfill in cases where you want permanent landfill - coast lines and earth sheltered homes. I would suspect that even if earth sheltering homes would catch on like they should you would have an endless supply even without building another one of these blades.
Here in the UK we have only had 10% of normal sunlight since September. If you look at " UK energy dashboard" the solar production on the constant cloud we had all autumn was 0.5 % . To be fair,,wind has been quite good but the wind maintenance cost is never mentioned.
Smart meters are for control of your usage.
When wind and sun fail to supply the grid THEY will turn your supply off via the Smart meter.
It’s already happened with smart air conditioning systems in Australia.
Be like me, refuse a smart meter.
Back before I left the UK it was simple to know renewables were more expensive due to energy companies green energy plans being more expensive than a standard plan. Surely if renewable were the best thing since sliced bread the energy companies would take the initial investment hit on the chin and reap the rewards later instead of making renewable energy plans less attractive to the majority of consumers
Sorry but could you explain "Renewables" ? How does this even exist outside of fantasy?
@ you got me, even solar energy is not renewable as even the sun has a finite amount of energy. Going back to fantasy land maybe one day politicians will stop following popular opinion and start following peer reviewed scientific theory. Maybe mankind will even realise it cannot control everything and when something goes pear shaped mankind must be to blame otherwise the other option is we are just along for the ride on this tiny ball. Fortunately I will be pushing up daisies before things get too crazy when politicians decide the peons should go back to living in mud huts with no power and having shanks’s pony as the only form of transport. All this is tongue in cheek but who knows what crazy things are in store for the future
@@dirkhuman760the planet re generates those sources
I'm in far nth Queensland.
Solar farms up here would be destroyed at least 3 times a year.
And think of of all the ground indefinitely polluted under them when that happens...
@awc900
Yes.
Solution: bullet proof glass! 😜
Your channel is not the type of channel that I usually watch. However, I keep watching your videos. I've learned a lot and I agree with your views.
Another consideration rarely mentioned is that of 'energy security'. Governments try to tell us that 'renewables' will provide us with 'energy security' but, in time of conflict, an offshore wind farm is anything but 'secure'. Recent events in Northern Europe have highlighted the fact that undersea cables moving the electricity from the 'farm' to the onshore user are very vulnerable to anyone who would wish to disrupt a county's energy supply. In addition, a huge area of windmills, hundreds of feet high, in the middle of the sea are almost impossible to defend and very vulnerable from an attack by sea or air.
First up, off-shore wind farms are usually no more than 10 - 20 km offshore. Being that close to our defences puts an adversary’s combative assets at huge risk. Ie a ship attempting to destroy undersea power cables by dragging would literally be blown out of the water.
Second, Aust doesn’t have the expertise or infrastructure to process uranium into fuel rods. All has to be done overseas - eg France or USA. In a war that is a very long & vulnerable supply chain. An adversary would know that with a naval & air blockade Australia would run out of the ability to generate electricity with ~2 years. (Developing an on-shore nuclear fuel processing facility would be prohibitively expensive & make nuclear even more of an economically insane decision.) Not to mention that with just 7 ballistic missiles an adversary could both immediately destroy Australia’s power generation capability & create a catastrophic emergency situation.
Renewables, on the other hand, do actually provide energy security. It’s practically impossible to blockade the wind & sun over an entire continent. Also the geographical spread of RE over myriad locations would require thousands of missiles to achieve the same damage to capability.
@@markboscawen8330
then along comes a storm which wipes it all out - very secure right?
@@markboscawen8330I partly agree with your third point. However, it’s better for households to have portable diesel generators. Something like that. Solar farms are easily neutralised by certain kinds of weapon.
@ Thank you andyman for pointing out another advantage of the RE system.
Severe destructive storms, cyclones excepted, usually have a very localised damage footprint. Tens of square Km at most. Thus catastrophic damage would be limited to one or two solar or wind farms. So a loss of around 10 MW or so from a system with 38GW of potential generation capacity would be barely noticed.
Whereas when a large centralised generator fails hundreds of thousands can be left without power & the system put at risk of total collapse. Eg th-cam.com/video/svgLqcmv9n8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GgeC5n8QtzavT7FF
Thus geographically dispersed RE is actually more robust.
@@Biosynchro It becomes a risk/benefit/cost equation.
Every home having a diesel generator would be expensive to implement and they would likely sit unused for decades. Then comes the issue of supply chain security - 90% of our petrol & diesel is imported by sea. Providing an easy point of attack to paralyse Australia in a war. Third, generating electricity with millions of diesel generators would create competition for fuel with the transport sector & Defence Force. Inevitable rationing would severely limit home generator use.
Yes aware of non-destructive weapons which can be utilised at scale to knockout power. But again, it takes a lot more of an adversary’s resources to deploy it over thousands of solar & wind farms compared to the grid connection points outside of 7 NPPs.
Aside from the tissue paper infrastructure they ignore the 'firming' costs required to support the noddy 'intermittent' green stuff. I worked in the power industry for 12 years and toured coal stations, nuclear stations, large scale gas turbine stations, hydro/pumped storage, large integrated sub stations, etc. Wind and solar does not compare.
Even the term "Renewable Energy" doesn't make any sense. Net Zero what a load of BS!
hydro does, geothermal does.
Simple Simon being cynical without being cynical! If only all governments would listen to his razor sharp wit and axiomatic conclusions, we would all be living in paradise, like...
Very good common-sense explanation!
If it can't generate power 24/7 it's a waste of time.
Imagine you could get free money. But not at a constant flow, there are times when you receive less or none. What would you do?
Pay down the ongoing loans, from the last time the $ wasn’t flowing.
@@johngy6296 Or do it the other way round. Save money when it's flowing, use it when you get less. Oh, did I just make a renewable + energy storage analogy?
@@valuemastery your analogy is bunk, nothing is free, it costs more to harness that 'free money' than the amount you receive. The hardest part of a free energy device is where to hide the batteries so the mark (you) cant see them and buys the bs.
@@paddyodoors2757 Yes, you are right, it's not free at all. We are currently in the planning process for our own solar panels for the house, and this needs investment of money. Each kWp costs us 800 Euros to install. I'm in Germany, where we don't exactly have a lot of sunshine. So we only get 1000 kWh per year from each 1 kWp panel (we have about 1000 sun hours each year). Over the expected lifespan of 25 years, this amounts to 25 MWh per panel, or 8000 Euro worth of electricity. So long term each panel saves us 7200 Euros instead of costing money. In that sense, the electricity we get is free.
Grid Distribution Losses are also not mentioned by advocates for Wind and Solar.
"it all operates at the whim of mother nature"
Like the 3300-acre Texas solar panel farm in Fort Bend county, until it was extensively damaged by a hail storm on 3-15-2024.
Anyone dependent on that power had to wait 3 months until they replaced all the damaged panels.
The cost passed to their customers as higher electric bills? Because I can't imagine any insurance company dumb enough to cover a solar farm in a region that regularly gets severe storms and tornados.
So True! There is nothing cynical about what you are saying here it is merely the truth that those in charge in any country do not and never will deal with. Remember too that all politicians want to hang something around their necks that says "I did that" which is why you end up with lunatic levels of stuff in your country that is an utter waste of money so here in the UK we have HS2 railway that is just throwing money into the destruction of the countryside when the money should have been spent upgrading the existing badly served areas dotted all over the UK or the stupidity of things like The O2 in London which is nothing more than a blot on the landscape. I am sure wherever you are in the world you can point to infrastructure projects that are and remain vanity constructions that rather than making your life better are just sheer waste. It matters not one jot to these idiots if there is a huge increase in costs to you or the narrow margin between constant power and black outs is compromised all they want is that gold chain and their inflated ego's thoroughly massaged.
Lots of solar installations are in deserts. Even if they aren't destroyed, dust can lower their efficiency. Who is going to clean all those panels, and at what cost in money and energy?
They cannot be in deserts because transmitting the electricity over long distances is not cost effective.
@kokehri There's a big one in the Mojave Desert.
@springinfialta106 That does not prove that it makes sense.
I learned this a few years ago. Solar panels stop working. People and the coperations throw them away. Like you said. Most in reality. They just blown a fuse. It's a type of fuse. I forgot what they are called. 30amps. 4 of them. On the backside of the solar panel. In the back box. They just need to be replaced. I bought 3 or 4 bags of them. I own enough for the rest of my life. Why I own solar panels. My land. I have no choice. 100% off grid. No other options. Besides generators. Loss power on a solar panel. Fuse is most likely out. On the panels themselves.
In your circumstance it makes good sense.
Sacrificial diodes.
Free weather destroys free renewables 😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks mate for the facts and Truths as usual unfortunately the people calling them self representatives of the people could not work there way out of a Wet paper Bag 🙄 😉
Please refer to wind electricity generators by their real name......Bird Blenders. Thanks.
Well if we are we are getting rid of the bird blenders, we best be getting rid of windows, as they kill many more than the blenders.
@DiveSafariNZ spoken like a true EVangalist.
@@Guvament_bs So windows don't kill more birds than wind turbines?
@DiveSafariNZ please read the original comment, carefully.
@@DiveSafariNZ1. Wind turbines are not useful. Any bird (or flying mammal) deaths from wind turbines are unnecessary.
2. The wind industrial-complex is only just getting started.
Solar and wind power should always be considered supplemental energy, not replaceable energy. I have several small, portable solar panels that I use to charge my small battery banks and other devices, but I don’t fully rely on them. They are just supplemental/backup.
The ABC claims all electric commercial aviation flights a reality within TWO years, lol.
low altitude and running props again... get ready for turbulence, long layovers, and lots of them? be fun watching one "dump its fuel load" for an emergency landing as well, lol...
yeah... turbines work better at the low pressures of high altitude, above the turbulence which also ensures a smooth flight... but they require heat. supplied by combustion. an electric motor driving a fan isnt quite the same thing. they dont work at altitude...
but ABC explains everything, really. airheads broadcasting crap.
Ridiculous…
@@paradiselost9946
I would hate to be the test driver for the first time 😏
Well, if you call a 20 minute joy flight commercial aviation, then strictly speaking they are correct.
Pure fantasy
I’m in Garden City, KS waiting with my driver to load 62 meter windmill blades going to Miles City, MT. Don’t believe in the program but love my job as a Steerman. Pay is nice also. Been in the business 5 years now and recently have been hauling lots of replacement blades to sites where I delivered the original blades. It’s crazy to see the carnage when it all goes sideways.
I live near I-29 in ND...frequently see blades being hauled south. Where are those coming from? Canada?
@ there is a mfg plant in Grand Forks. I was there the other week when it was well below zero.
@@tomaskey6844 ok...thanks..
I've always known these logical facts to be true. The problem is it will never be possible to convince "climate change" flat earthers. It breaks my heart to see those ugly windmills and solar panels polluting the earth in so many ways. Manufacturing and relying on bicycles when we have spaceships is insanity.
In Broken hill their system wwnt down and flattened the batteries and couldnt cone back on line . They had to use generators to charge up the system and also power the town . They had so much trouble getting it all back to 50hz to get online . Ah it was only a month or so on generators . Ah so green . Those batteries are now damaged from being drained to much . The amp hrs will never be the same . Flatten the batteries does them great harm .
Local and regional weather patterns are modified by large expanses of solar and wind facilities.
I’m no engineer but even from a common sense point of view, renewables spread far and wide across the countryside and the transmission lines required as well as “synchronisers” required for renewables, it is hard to believe how it could be economical vs 6 sites for nuclear plants. Off-shore wind farms are the biggest cons as the construction and maintenance would be astronomical and their service lives significantly shorter than on-shore wind farms.
Windmill blades can be recycled but it requires someone to do it, funding and so on. The entities that put them up walk away from mess they create. For instance cutting and shredding and blending this with raw materials to make cement. Other strategies involve separating out the blade’s fiberglass and polymeric resin to make reinforced industrial products. Or using plasma technologies. Better still design recycling into the things at the beginning when they are manufactured.
How much co2 will that make at this rate we will be back to coal.
I propose that we make turbine blades out of milk bottle tops. 👍
Renewable energy
=
Disposable energy.
Superbly put, bumper stickers SHOULD be issued!!
Maybe that should be a bus stop poster.
Thanks!
The amount of land that has to be sacrificed for "renewable" compared to nuclear can simply not be called "environmentally friendly" by itself already.
If we presume that NYC is sort of typical per capita Taxi's - the USA has 360 million people and the earth has 9 billion - so lets estimate solar panels and batteries required to power just the worlds Taxis - Batteries for NYC taxis 90 batteries to run a full month x 13,500 taxis - 12.15 million full battery packs - and 58 million solar panels. So by extrapolation the 360 million in the USA will need 546 million car size storage batteries; and 2.6 billion solar panels. The world will need 25 times those or about 15 billion car size lithium pacs and roughty 70 billion Solar panels Just to power the worlds Taxis for 1 month of bad weather per year. The cost - trillions - just to keep world taxis running all year around.
340M, 8.2B population.
There isnt 9 billion in the world, eg india scams foreign aid by lying about thier population, honestly think about it, 2.4billion claimed with only 3 big cities so 1.2 billion farmers?
@@aliendroneservices6621 OK that is more like the official figures today, but the USA has between 10 and 20 million illegals in the country who we have no hard figure for; and we need to plan for some growth; this isn't going to take place today; probably can't ever work; which is the point of the figures which are rough estimates; it would be far worse in some regions and less in others. Ketichan Alaska has about only about 5 months a year. I was in Seattle when you couldn't tell night from day due to heavy rain clouds for 90 days straight. Folks that believe in Solar and Wind don't seem to understand the impact of not generating power for long periods iwth respect to how much batteries that implies, even Las Vegas has periods where solar and wind wouldn't be working for a week or two.
They said that the weather is changing so they invest in energy that's reliant on the weather. 😅☁️
This is harmonic but the people that force this madness are not interested in any of this as they know it won't work😊
Class A Milliband is so far out there I'm not convinced he doesn't believe it can be made to work.
He has no symptoms of a grasp on reality.
Bring on the election so we can vote this clown show out! Before Blackout Bowen wastes anymore taxpayers money! 🙄
The UK currently spends megabucks to build an undersea cable from Morocco to the UK (Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project). That sounds like a good idea, but isn't the UK putting itself in the same position as Germany did with the Russian gas? Could easily end in tears, as it did for the Germans.
1:54 1:59 "The world's oldest nuclear power plant still in operation is the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant located in Switzerland. It began producing power in September 1969." (Google AI)
Tvindkraft in Denmark - the first multi megawatt wind turbine still operating after 46 years. Officially opened on 26 March 1978 and has continuously produced power since this date.
@jonathanwest624 Wind turbines cannot *_continuously_* produce power.
A turbine blade also produces different thrust according its rotation relative to the wind as per propellers. The rotation speed of the hub (thus, power output) varies within each 360 rotation even when everything else is constant due to different angle between blade and wind for ascending or descending blades. Related to helicopter blades and Critical Engine theory.
Massive fire at a battery recycling plant in Kilwinning, Scotland
Good points. If you drive from Albury to Melbourne you pass huge acres of solar farms, so in the future we might have all the solar power we want, but by covering rich farmland might we run out of food? Just a thought I had during my latest trip to Melbourne
You are assuming that the land was "rich farmland". I'm sure the actual landowners are more capable of determining the productivity of their own land.
But it WOULD be best if the least arable land was where we situated our solar panel farms. And I'm confident that will happen in time. I was near (a town) in South Australia the other week, and that is the least desirable stretch of rock and dirt I've seen in a long time.
Plenty of country in Oz that would be ideal.
@@footbru I assume nothing. I have lived and worked in this local community for over 20 years. I personally know people who have turned over their land to solar farm operators due to ill health and no other choice, the family was devastated due to the loss of their beautiful property.
The land actually means something to some people
By the way very little money from the solar farms is fed through the local community. No feed, no farm supplies, etc All the money goes back to a corporation, all of the solar farm requirements get shipped in from the capital city. That sucks
I personally love fresh meat and veggies, you'll never see me or my family front up for tofu and seaweed salad.
Just because large tracks of land are not occupied doesn't mean they are fair game for uninformed and uncaring solar dipshits
Where’s my guy that claimed in the comments on a previous video that EVs are inevitable, vastly superior, and that those who don’t want them suffer from some kind of ignorance? He couldn’t point out one specific flaw in one of your arguments, but he assured us that he was right. Miss you buddy!
Record growth in new EV registations across the world. I am very happy with my EV and I doubt I will go back to an ICE car again.
@ That’s great. Happy for you. Can you refute any of the points made in this video?
@@johnfrei9057my view is that with battery and charging technology getting faster, more efficient and cheaper through time, this will negate the current downsides of some EVs in terms of limited range and too long charging time.
Once this happens, and you still have the upsides, cheaper fuel, fill up from your house (for over 50% of UK houses), cheaper maintanence, faster, more efficient, cleaner city aire. Etc. The you will see faster and faster switching.
I take it you do not support this view. Keen to here why?
@@galloway9707
it costs more actual pollution (and no i don't mean seaohtwo or carbon) to produce just the battery than it does to build a complete ICE vehicle and operate it for 4 years
@@andyman8630and over the lifetime of the car EVs are significantly better for the environment. All the studies show this.
In the UK the power suppliers are given £1 billion a year to not produce power when the grid doesn’t require it ie at night
As EV registrations continue to increase there will be more demand for that "off peak" energy. That you have raised this point demonstrates that time, in addition to technology, is required to effect major changes.
@ EV registrations are not increasing and there is no need for change because there is no such thing as global warming only the controlling political class and idiots believe in the global warming crap
I believe in a world 🌍 powered by Petrol, Diesel, coal and gas ⛽️
I went past Yal[ourn North coal power station which is still working - I remember going there on a school excursion 65 years ago.
"250 tons of earth and rock to be mined"? Perhaps the first time, but once batteries are recycled no more 'mining' needs to take place.
How many tons of iron ore are needed to make a car body? Gasoline weighs 6 pounds per gallon. A ten gallon fill-up requires 60 pounds of fuel. 2000/60 = 33 fill ups, or about 10,000 miles of driving at 30 miles per gallon. A typical car owner is burning one and a half tons a year if they are driving 15,000 miles per year, or 150,000 miles in a decade.
This is a 'one sided' discussion, there is no comparison to current practices, such as use of coal, hydrocarbons, or the total lifespan demand on resources for manufacturing, shipping, use, and disposal of petroleum fueled vehicles.
West Burton and Cottam coal power stations generated cheap 2000MW each for 60 years. Now being decommissioned, Cottams steam turbines are already in china getting ready to run on coal.
That is an incredibly short sighted view, similar to people who defended horse drawn vehicles against ICE equiped cars at the start of the 20st century. Lots of progress is being made on all sorts of technologies which eventually will make electrical energy storage dirt cheap. Not now, not tomorrow, but within this century.
on my tree farm in Maine they want me to lease for 99 years minimum 10 acres for a solar farm.
they would Clear Cut my trees for their BS solar! NFW
Good man!
@ i love my trees
Another good video. I has no idea energy transmission also has frequencies. Thanks for the information
The fuel is free, the electricity is not.
Seing that we live in the uk notorious for bad weather, which we haven't had the heavy snow that we normally had, snow is heavy and solar panels aren't that strong also high winds ? Sounds like a pipe dream when we ALREADY have hydroelectric ,coal and nuclear.
I think in years to come people will come to realise we were all taken as fools.
Thank you
Hi Simon, gotta tell ya this, we visited Biosphere 2 in Tucson yesterday and talk about it being a folly. Apparently the experiment failed miserably and has been taken over by the university of Arizona. But the best bit was the fact they have to have fossil fuels as backup power. Plus they don’t have any solar what so ever.
Renewable Energy..Is ENERGY that will constantly need to be RENEWED..
Thank you for helping us see in futures instead of hype.
Yes, renewable energy is truly renewable; you have to rebuild the infrastructure every 20 years.
Wow!!
I actually got an advertisement at the end of your video here talking about Solor and if it's right for my home.
I swear we must be under surveillance somehow because that is NO coincidence.
Keep up the good work on these videos!!
How can they call wind and solar "free" when it has to be extracted/converted using windmills and solar panels, just as oil and gas has to be extracted/converted?
Wind turbines and solar collectors are *_mining rigs._*
I love your common sense...
Not too common these days.
Love from Scotland ❤
When we runout of money we will stop net zero
Channels such as this one give a tiny amount of information and leave viewers grossly misinformed while imagining that they know things.
3:40 Is assuming no battery recycling
Assuming that the environmental and economic challenges are addressed. Recycling is still a work in progress.
You mean chemically reprocessing and remanufacturing the batteries....expensive and time consuming.
You can't just dust off and spit shine an old battery. You must repurify and rebuild.
@@btrasbt There is always a cost recycle anything, but it's a lot easier to recycle a battery than coal, oil or gas.
@@btrasbthowever you can repurpose a battery once it's storage capacity degrades to the point where it is no longer viable in a vehicle. Domestic batteries don't have the space limitations of an EV.
We have 9kw panels and 27 kWh storage, have not had a power bill since it was installed. 8 year ROI, but blackout protection was our primary driver as the grid in our region is considered fragile. We had over 40 grid outages since installed, the longest being 9 hours. We enjoyed uninterrupted power without really noticing.
@tazpartridge1612 Very true! Although as those batteries age, the risk of fire increases. Best to have a separate, well vented detached building to house the batteries.
The Scottish Government calculate that 17 million trees have been felled to allow the building of windturbines. Not only that 1000tonnes of concrete alkaline for a base is put into acidic peat down to the bedrock. Ironically going through Bronze Age tree stumps at the bottom level from when times were warmer.
Does anyone see the cat tail at 6.49?
Only because you pointed it out!
Ha ha.
Well spotted.
I was going to point this out, thanks 😄
You can even see the head for a split second.
Truth and common sense will always attract the majority of viewers
Solar panel life span is unknown. All it takes is a rainstorm to wipe it out
Approximately 10 years
my first lot on a private dwelling lasted 11 years, guaranteed for 20 years but a worthless guarantee.
solar panels lose 1% efficiency annually
A rainstorm??
Panels are sold with a warranty of 25 or 30 years.
@@footbru
think OP meant hail storm
Your videos just keep getting better every time I watch.
6:48 - 🐈
Haha 😄😄😄 I was looking for this exact comment, before making one.