I think there is a very good chance that recycling batteries will be very profitable - because batteries are not suitable for landfill. A great video and the best of luck to Redwood Materials.
I really love how you made the whole story flow seamlessly. You analyzed it well too! must have taken a lot of time to do the script. thanks! subscribed!
@@JohnCooganPlus so what made you direct your focus on this subject? I’m not very good at critical research. How do you plan out your research for a particular subject?
@@JohnCooganPlus thanks for the quality content-very interesting. I actually am curious about something… I noticed that of the investors you listed in JB’s Redwood, as well as customer deals, Musk was not present in either category. Is Tesla not going to patronise them? If not, do you know whether this is down to bad blood between them? I feel like I would lose some respect for Elon if he abandoned a technically brilliant guy who was instrumental in his success because he decided to pursue his own venture.
Hey Ali! Great to see you here. Glad you enjoyed the video. I've really leaned "editing jedi master" over the last few months... fun to watch the process evolve. Still hoping to build some "camera talker" skills in the future to speed up production. I'm not sure if every topic I want to cover really fits with this editing style... always lots to think about. Hope you're doing well!
@@JohnCooganPlus Nope, let’s not buy it. Let’s go beyond all of this. Literally. We need to TRANSCEND working on these levels altogether. When you actually think about the seamless UFO’s with no moving parts, then you’re thinking free energy and real environmental sustainability. But I don’t and won’t trust the aliens & their AI agenda either, in their coming self-disclose replete with more technological bate, likely this year. I only hope this gives you a much bigger frame of reference to to think UP some really visionary videos dude. At least try putting some focus on Permaculure and contrasting it to this recycling garbage. Don’t just report on other’s innovations, but co-create paradigmatic visionary shifts in yourself. At least conclude people with a challenging paradigmatic upshot. Interview Wilcock to contrast.
This is the kind of content that is worth watching until the end. I usually do not see TH-cam videos for more than few seconds. But this was worth watching until the end. The production, and the script , everything was well made . Congratulations. Good work. This is what Internet should be all about. To inform correctly.
Thanks a lot! It’s been really fun watching all these small incremental improvements stack up over time. The growth of the channel has been crazy recently, hopefully we can get even bigger in a few years!
@@StevoMacEIRE Hopefully! I'm just going to keep putting out videos weekly for the next few years and see where it goes. These are so fun to make and I learn a ton in the process.
Your coverage here is excellent!!!! Far higher quality regarding both content and communication here than ANY other clips I’ve watched on all things Tesla related. I am most certainly a subscriber now. This topic of battery recycling and supply has loomed like a huge cloud on my horizon since I first contemplated the efficacy of hybrid cars and then electrics. It’s a monstrous relief knowing now whose capable hands that issue is so effectively being brought to resolution. Ahhh. Long live brilliant energized people such as these of whom you speak! Thank you
I've been wondering how JB's Redwood recycling was going. Thanks for the update. The story is very important for the future of EVs and minimizing waste.
@@JohnCooganPlus honestly you deserve more, but that is still a respectable 57 % monthly increase!! A startups would kill for those metrics! Cheers to another exponential year where there will be at least 5 million of us
It’s truly inspiring! It’s the kind of stuff that put my faith back in humanity in general, and America in particular. It’s polar opposite to the garbage American Politics and Politicians.
Hahaha, that's really nice of you to say. To be fair to the algorithm, this channel has grown from 0 to 20k subscribers in less than one year. That's insane and way beyond my expectations!
@@JohnCooganPlus Yea but considering the quality of your videos, even considering it haven’t been that long: their under appreciated. This may also be because of your channels resemblance to competitors(jake Tran)
Your channel is a pearl. An amazing way to teach people about technolog, global markets, teaching all easily how and what to look for. I shared your channel with my children, now in their 20s. Your channel has caught their attention and opened intrigue and conversation. The conversations young people should have the opportunity and choice to be educated on. Wow! This should be part of the public school educational curriculum! Thank you!
I'm from the Dem Rep of Congo. This is my first time watching a video from you and I was waiting to see if you'd nail the origin of most of the cobalt used in EVs and other battery powered devices correctly. And that, you did Sir! Very nice and informational video, packed with facts! Keep up the good work.
This has to be the third video I've watched on TH-cam recommendation after subscribing and they've all been of immense quality and value. You deserve 1 million subscribers. Thanks.
It amazing how so much of the worlds technological advancement can be traced to a small handful of hyper successful people. These people are true treasures.
Your recycling thesis gives hope for the future of electric vehicles. The ultimate success (or failure) of real life lithium battery recycling remains to be seen.
But Lithium Ion Battery is temporary, it is not the chemistry we should be using in like 20 years. The same way we should not be using Nickel Metal Hydride NiMH or Nickle Cadmium NiCad for modern BEVs. We need to keep improving and changing chemistry and keep finding cleaner alternatives.
This is absolutely wonderful content and I am certainly going to be saving it and forwarding it to all of the people who are naysayers when it comes to the pollution problem created by expired lithium ion batteries. Hopefully some of them will be bright enough to see the light of where this is, or should be going in the near future. Thank you so much for your excellent presentation.
@@gags730 I can agree with some of your points certainly, however I think if it’s handled correctly, as is the lead acid battery recycling, then it’s certainly a doable enterprise. The same argument could have been made against lead acid batteries, and I’m sure it was at some point if people thought of it at all from an environmental standpoint. The standardization of batteries will probably occur sooner than later and I think the 4680 may well become the industry standard. Regardless of the commonality in the battery packs, the fact that lithium is the key component, and can be shipped to re-manufacturing facilities, is the crucial issue. Fossil fuels are an albatross around our neck that I’m afraid will linger longer than I would like to see them. It’s true that they are energy dense but if you follow the pollution stream from start to finish, and the fact that they are 100% nonrecyclable when used as fuel rather than lubricant, they are probably the ultimate pollution problem. Either we find a solution quickly or we probably have doomed ourselves and our planet to an early death. Keep in mind that on a global scale we have five vertical miles of atmosphere keeping us alive. Take out a globe and measure off 5 miles and look at how minuscule that survival envelope is, and you realize how easily we can affect our environment in a negative way, given our population density and our use of energy.
This is amazing information to the layman.I will definitely share this information with all my friends and family 👪. Thanks and Good luck for sharing it with us.
This is such a underrated video... Every EV so called "competition" needs to see 👀this...cuz it's obivious they haven't done the math for this decade and what they promise to deliver.
JB needs to look at the White Pine MIne in Michigans Upper Penninsula. It was one of the biggest copper mines in the world and it closed down putting 2,500 people out of work. The copper inssome of the mines in the UP was so pure they had trouble getting it out of the ground. When they blaseted it, it would just bend and would not break up. They would sometimes drag large pieces to the surface behind trucks.
Complex coordination innovation, like Redwood Materials, Tesla, the iPhone etc., that provide an entirely new product, but without relying on a specific breakthrough, is underrated. I believe Peter Thiel coined the term (probably in Zero to One), and I love it every time a new company has success with complex coordination. Getting this kind of company started is really though as it can be hard to explain so I appreciate hearing more stories and getting more examples to point to. Sweet video. A bit more on the technology and why it is so difficult to do would have been interesting as well.
Oh man, those are some great points. I really should have dug deeper into complex coordination, that's an incredible topic. Thanks for the feedback here, really helpful in planning out future videos.
There is a bigger problem....mine waste, copper mine waste for instance. I for one have a porphyry copper mine to explore and maybe develop and I fear the biggest problem is the waste to be generated if the property goes commercial. So many mines have problems with disposal of mine waste there is a growing resistance. In part because the waste gets in the water and because folks are running low on water year by year in the high mountains everywhere. In most areas what little snow there is is in danger anyway and the main concern is acceleration of snow melt. While a nice blanket of soil makes for good shade and long lived rock/ice glaciers there might not be much support for putting something on top of nice clean snow even if it is insulative. I suggested building "snow forests" using such things as "helicopter blades" in the Andes...where my little project is. It's a stretch but the snow comes in a flash and goes in a flash. It is like an Andean snow tsunami coming in from the Humboldt Current area off Chile and Peru somehow as things warm up a bit. Because of that I believe nobody can really justify hydro dams on the off chance they can capture irregular snow tsunami. Best I can tell there is no technology being developed to preserve snow and isolate waste...well...certainly not big time inventiveness...as in EV technologies but there might be hope. I point to the most odd thing....a website called "icestupa.org" that shows what can be done to prevent flash flooding using a gravity sprinkler system to recycle meltwater into vertical "shade ice structures" Ice Stupa for example using cold night time temperatures in the Himalayas. Same in the Andes...if I can get some interest. The general tone of geotechnical education in the engineering world does not include geochemistry to any extent...and as my old prof. used to say...steve...rocket scientists do not study "dirt". Then he forbade me from ever using that word in his presence again. I have seen terrible catastrophes from mine waste failure. The ones in Brazil at iron mines are an example. Big companies tasked to watch and monitor did just that...watch and monitor. A mine is a terrible thing to waste.
John, I'm a fellow PTYA alumni and have been watching your videos evolve. You've been making bangers after bangers. I am amazed at your storytelling and presentation skills! So cool to watch this channel grow, congratulations!!
Dude, your channel is actually really great, content is good, your own ideas and analysis blended in well. You got a great sounding voice and good pacing. Background music is superb and just yhe right volume, very good mixing with background music together with clear coherent speech. Stellar work!
Modern battery recycling is available but is so low profile that most people have no idea it exists. What JBS saw very early on was that battery recycling needs to go high profile and large scale. So that every battery we consume can be recycled. And these materials can be recycled again and again. Do that with a fossil-fuel if you can. There is a future where ore mining will just be needed to top up the available battery materials. EDIT: Forgot to say that batteries made out of recycled materials work equally well and for equally long as originally mined materials.
I'm very happy to see that such an intelligent person who worked so deeply and directly with EV has understood what the real problem is.. Electric Waste!!! And hopefully, his company will also focus on the Photovoltaic Waste. These are the 2 biggest problems our world will be facing in less than 10 years...not to mention the ridiculous Smartphone Waste problem not many seem to realise due to Smartphone Programmed Obsolescence
JB is a great guy I am following him from past 1.5 years ...he is a great guy...I was really surprised earlier this year when redwood received a contract with ford
Thank you JB for working on the electric car drawback that keep us from buying, now I can feel good about it ...and thank John for bringing us this informative video!
The missing input on this analysis is the recycling price, and it's closely repated with the price of energy. The demand of rae materials are driving prices up, but the energy needed for mining is comparable to that for recycling, so the plan will only work on a low energy cost scenario
The EV industry is being built on an unachievable market demand. Battery bank life is the big killer, you will always need to mine for resources because growth requires it. Improvements in efficacies will reduce waste. I do commend the recycling , it’s a great model. Nobody wants to spend 25K on a battery pack after 7 years. That’s 3.5K/ year ( $300/ month) on your fuel tank alone, not to mention the electricity you use to fill your tank. This is a ridiculous business model and is simply unsustainable. Battery bank prices are not going down anytime soon, they’ve bottomed out. Don’t even think about heating homes in the northern hemisphere with renewable energy, it is impossible. Electric hydropower and Thorium molten-salt nuclear reactors are the safest clean energy for the near-future and that will not change due to he laws of physics.
if you know that you are going to recycle a battery, spend some time working on the battery building process, so that when it comes time to recycle, it could be done easier, not to mention collection points, and incentives to collect the battery's... when we were kids, we used to get 2 cents for glass bottles we collected.
Car batteries are recycled, and tires are somewhat recycled when you replace them. Stores that sell batteries should simply be required to have battery disposal as well. For Lion batteries, every state should have something setup for this. But making EV's does create its own pollution and people who drive them shouldn't pretend it doesn't.
Can batteries be recycled indefinitely or do the materials degrade each time like plastic until it’s no longer recyclable. If it’s not a completely closed loop it’s only delaying the inevitable.
People like JB and Musk will be remembered as greats, just as Einstein is. We don't realize how reluctant we are to live in their era. Hope to meet them one day...
@@ZooRizzi No you're broke now because you dont do anything. Elon has interest in the future of technology and assists in how they evolve personally...you comment on youtube videos. See a difference?
Where have you been John Coogan ? This is a really good video. You write well and present the material in an interesting and compelling fashion. I have been wanting to buy into JB's Redwood Materials , but it is still private. Hope you do more follow up videos on JB and Redwood.
I was just thinking the same, looks like another sucessful IPO when it happens, would it be great and exciting to invest in startups,I may email JB to see if he could do with my 50k investments lol. Do you have Tesla shares?
JB and Elon discussed these things a while back...the timing had to be perfect for the implementation, hence the 15 year wait. This is more vertical integration....or should i say distributed integration as Redwood would obviously work closely with Tesla (and all other EV makers)
Really hope battery recyclers are successful as that will reduce/eliminate battery waste and reduce the need for raw materials. W/O it we'll exhaust the raw supplies in short order.
How green is ev? It's like not green at all with all of these socio-environmetal damages caused by the lithium, cobalt and nickel extraction in poor and developing countries. Elon Musk is fully aware of that, but keeps doing his ev-business.
Using fossil fuels the whole time,mining materials for original batteries,transporting old batteries from everywhere to Redwood,transporting old battery material to battery manufacturers. Not to mention that the more recycled material you put in a new battery the worse the battery performs,even 15% recycled material and you can notice the poor performance of the battery. Electric cars,green lol,electric cars environmentally friendly,lol,they have twice the carbon footprint of a petrol car before they even get off the production line. All asking for investors and no timeline on when you,ll get a return,if at all,too many start up companies around now,all great ideas,anything can work on paper,but in reality. Too many companies just get sold off to a gullible buyer and they have to try and sort all the problems no one talked about,if they can even sort the problems. These things always sound good,60 tons a day recycled,250.000 cars worth of batteries a year ???. What about what you can't recycle???. ELECTRIC CARS,ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY. BS.
Nothing technical doesn't stand still. There is iron, aluminum, hydrogen and who knows where this will end up. I like solid state hydrogen and salt reactors for power. This power systems are just beginning. I also like hybrid gas/electric.
I acknowledge JB for his part in the chain and approve his move. I highly respect it. I even find it expectable. I'm not one to neglect the power equation and recommend that JB get to work on that solar car or find himself being kicked down the chain again. I know that sounds like harsh boardroom talk but I don't like to see a good man go down. Don't give me that crap about Ewaste, Now get your tiny little posterior out there and do your labor strike like you got some sense.
He could not keep up AND he made several major mistakes that made ELON'S job more difficult and ultimately cost a lot of money. Do you read anything more than comic books?
It's a shame nobody seems to have put this level of thinking and effort into the problem of managing the waste from nuclear power stations. I know some effort has gone into it but clearly not enough otherwise there wouldn't be so many of them closing down.
What chemicals will be used in the recycling process, also will water be used and if so what will protect the water supply ? I hope 🤞 this technology will be safe for the environment and if so it will be a brilliant way forward
Here's a crazy idea: move away from expensive batteryEVs and invest in high speed electric rail. Trains can move more people without traffic or accidents on electric power without the need for batteries.
6:30 made it sounds like JB and Elon were the two people who started Tesla. In actual fact, they were "employees" #4 and #5. Although, strictly speaking, Elon wasn't an employee. The two founders plus Wright (#3) went looking for investors, and Elon put in a lot of cash and became Chairman of the Board. He didn't become CEO until 4 years later. The original two founders' stock holdings had became diluted through repeated funding rounds, and eventually, they got pushed out.
Electric cars do not curb carbon emissions. They also cause more damage to roads than conventional cars and produce more tyre dust pollution due to their weight. If they become more widespread, the end result will be much higher electricity prices and blackouts. We will all suffer whether or not we own one.
John ,your final statement is worth of gold . Don't get me wrong the whole material is brilliant and should be presented in schools so kids have chance to get hock up to good practical thinking .
I am not sure on the profitability of this market but maybe I don’t understand the intricacies of this process. How is it profitable the amount of human labor to take out the batteries of all these different devices and sort them in a meaningful way to extract the minerals. Also there is no way you can just throw the batteries in a furniture and expect to extract those minerals without some issues. Right? Given enough time it will be become profitable specially when you can have a planned lifecycle with producers.
Well done JB! I'm a Tesla and EV fan, and didn't even think about the waste of the battery! I'm so happy you have thought of this idea of recycling, thank you! Loved the story of your growth as well and how you've come to where you are, very incourageing, bless you 👏👏👏👏👏
I think there is a very good chance that recycling batteries will be very profitable - because batteries are not suitable for landfill. A great video and the best of luck to Redwood Materials.
Most recycling is not viable. It takes more energy to do than it does to make new products.
@@Withnail1969 It takes more energy, but less material, dummy. So it will still be profitable.
@@jimj2683 no, it takes far too much energy to do so lithium batteries are not recycled.
@@Withnail1969 What are you talking about lmao. Batteries are the highest grade ore possible meaning you save a lot of time, money and electricity
I really love how you made the whole story flow seamlessly. You analyzed it well too! must have taken a lot of time to do the script. thanks! subscribed!
Appreciate that! These are really fun to make. Didn’t know much about JB before starting this one.
@@JohnCooganPlus so what made you direct your focus on this subject? I’m not very good at critical research. How do you plan out your research for a particular subject?
@@JohnCooganPlus thanks for the quality content-very interesting. I actually am curious about something…
I noticed that of the investors you listed in JB’s Redwood, as well as customer deals, Musk was not present in either category. Is Tesla not going to patronise them? If not, do you know whether this is down to bad blood between them? I feel like I would lose some respect for Elon if he abandoned a technically brilliant guy who was instrumental in his success because he decided to pursue his own venture.
This is so good
Hey Ali! Great to see you here. Glad you enjoyed the video. I've really leaned "editing jedi master" over the last few months... fun to watch the process evolve. Still hoping to build some "camera talker" skills in the future to speed up production. I'm not sure if every topic I want to cover really fits with this editing style... always lots to think about. Hope you're doing well!
@@JohnCooganPlus
Nope, let’s not buy it. Let’s go beyond all of this. Literally. We need to TRANSCEND working on these levels altogether. When you actually think about the seamless UFO’s with no moving parts, then you’re thinking free energy and real environmental sustainability. But I don’t and won’t trust the aliens & their AI agenda either, in their coming self-disclose replete with more technological bate, likely this year. I only hope this gives you a much bigger frame of reference to to think UP some really visionary videos dude. At least try putting some focus on Permaculure and contrasting it to this recycling garbage. Don’t just report on other’s innovations, but co-create paradigmatic visionary shifts in yourself. At least conclude people with a challenging paradigmatic upshot. Interview Wilcock to contrast.
I agree, John - you are doing great! Wishing you the best with your channel's growth and continuous informative content!
The man himself
This is the kind of content that is worth watching until the end. I usually do not see TH-cam videos for more than few seconds. But this was worth watching until the end. The production, and the script , everything was well made . Congratulations. Good work. This is what Internet should be all about. To inform correctly.
It's mind boggling the quality of your videos for the size of your channel, keep grinding, you're going to blow up.!
I need to pivot my content too....
Thanks a lot! It’s been really fun watching all these small incremental improvements stack up over time. The growth of the channel has been crazy recently, hopefully we can get even bigger in a few years!
@@JohnCooganPlus in a few years?? I'd say a few months, best of luck!
@@StevoMacEIRE Hopefully! I'm just going to keep putting out videos weekly for the next few years and see where it goes. These are so fun to make and I learn a ton in the process.
@@JohnCooganPlus I'm learning a lot as well so thank you very much!
i think this is the most underrated channel
Love hearing that! Always trying to improve things each week.
I agree all we hear is hype about Tesla and Elon Musk . I am staying with diesel
Your coverage here is excellent!!!! Far higher quality regarding both content and communication here than ANY other clips I’ve watched on all things Tesla related. I am most certainly a subscriber now. This topic of battery recycling and supply has loomed like a huge cloud on my horizon since I first contemplated the efficacy of hybrid cars and then electrics. It’s a monstrous relief knowing now whose capable hands that issue is so effectively being brought to resolution. Ahhh. Long live brilliant energized people such as these of whom you speak!
Thank you
I've been wondering how JB's Redwood recycling was going. Thanks for the update. The story is very important for the future of EVs and minimizing waste.
One can only realize the amount of professionalism in the video editing and narration
Excellent content I must say it's educative and motivational at the same time. Keep it up.
Long term thinking is the key to massive success.
Excellent content and it's made even more exceptional considering your channel size. Great work John.
Thanks a lot! It's been fun watching the channel grow. I think I had less than 100 subs a year ago!
@@JohnCooganPlus honestly you deserve more, but that is still a respectable 57 % monthly increase!! A startups would kill for those metrics! Cheers to another exponential year where there will be at least 5 million of us
Thinking the same thing; it won’t be a small channel long.
It’s truly inspiring! It’s the kind of stuff that put my faith back in humanity in general, and America in particular. It’s polar opposite
to the garbage American Politics and Politicians.
Without Obama's loan, Tesla wouldn't exist.
@@DrJohnnyJ without obama's bombs, Syrian children would smile
@@DrJohnnyJ Tesla wouldn't exist but other EV manufacturers still there.
@@alexlo7708 Auto Manufacturers have the White House in their pockets.
@@piotralex5 "obama's bombs". You mean military-industrial complex?
I genuinely don’t know what the algorithm has against you, these videos are so underrated!
Hahaha, that's really nice of you to say. To be fair to the algorithm, this channel has grown from 0 to 20k subscribers in less than one year. That's insane and way beyond my expectations!
@@JohnCooganPlus Yea but considering the quality of your videos, even considering it haven’t been that long: their under appreciated. This may also be because of your channels resemblance to competitors(jake Tran)
My favorite thing about your channel is the optimism and positivity it inspires.
Another great and informational video. You've really nailed the storytelling!
Thanks! Yeah, storytelling is definitely a new development, but it really helps move the video forward.
Your channel is a pearl. An amazing way to teach people about technolog, global markets, teaching all easily how and what to look for. I shared your channel with my children, now in their 20s. Your channel has caught their attention and opened intrigue and conversation. The conversations young people should have the opportunity and choice to be educated on. Wow! This should be part of the public school educational curriculum! Thank you!
I'm from the Dem Rep of Congo. This is my first time watching a video from you and I was waiting to see if you'd nail the origin of most of the cobalt used in EVs and other battery powered devices correctly. And that, you did Sir! Very nice and informational video, packed with facts! Keep up the good work.
He does not even care the miners hell lol.
Any improvement for safe mining process in this vid?
Tell me I missed that part.
@@muhammadyusoffjamaluddin If I am not mistaken Kobalt will be removed or reduced from Tesla's chemistry in the future iterations.
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded the Tesla company in 2003, but not mentioned once in this video.
Yeah, I was very careful not to get into the founding because that story could be it’s own 20 minute video.
This has to be the third video I've watched on TH-cam recommendation after subscribing and they've all been of immense quality and value. You deserve 1 million subscribers. Thanks.
It amazing how so much of the worlds technological advancement can be traced to a small handful of hyper successful people. These people are true treasures.
Your recycling thesis gives hope for the future of electric vehicles. The ultimate success (or failure) of real life lithium battery recycling remains to be seen.
But Lithium Ion Battery is temporary, it is not the chemistry we should be using in like 20 years. The same way we should not be using Nickel Metal Hydride NiMH or Nickle Cadmium NiCad for modern BEVs. We need to keep improving and changing chemistry and keep finding cleaner alternatives.
The great content just keeps on coming. Where do you normally hear about these smaller events?
I hear about these things on podcasts or Twitter usually. Lex Fridman has mentioned JB a few times and I’ve seen news articles about Redwood.
There a cnbc and Bloomberg mini doc on redwood that came out awhile back so just sub to lots of places wide net catches more fish lol
@@theBROKEbroker Definitely! Freethink media also does great work here on TH-cam.
Production quality is another level👏🏾🔥
This is absolutely wonderful content and I am certainly going to be saving it and forwarding it to all of the people who are naysayers when it comes to the pollution problem created by expired lithium ion batteries. Hopefully some of them will be bright enough to see the light of where this is, or should be going in the near future. Thank you so much for your excellent presentation.
@@gags730 I can agree with some of your points certainly, however I think if it’s handled correctly, as is the lead acid battery recycling, then it’s certainly a doable enterprise. The same argument could have been made against lead acid batteries, and I’m sure it was at some point if people thought of it at all from an environmental standpoint. The standardization of batteries will probably occur sooner than later and I think the 4680 may well become the industry standard. Regardless of the commonality in the battery packs, the fact that lithium is the key component, and can be shipped to re-manufacturing facilities, is the crucial issue. Fossil fuels are an albatross around our neck that I’m afraid will linger longer than I would like to see them. It’s true that they are energy dense but if you follow the pollution stream from start to finish, and the fact that they are 100% nonrecyclable when used as fuel rather than lubricant, they are probably the ultimate pollution problem. Either we find a solution quickly or we probably have doomed ourselves and our planet to an early death. Keep in mind that on a global scale we have five vertical miles of atmosphere keeping us alive. Take out a globe and measure off 5 miles and look at how minuscule that survival envelope is, and you realize how easily we can affect our environment in a negative way, given our population density and our use of energy.
This is amazing information to the layman.I will definitely share this information with all my friends and family 👪.
Thanks and Good luck for sharing it with us.
This is such a underrated video... Every EV so called "competition" needs to see 👀this...cuz it's obivious they haven't done the math for this decade and what they promise to deliver.
Your video script is precisely written to correct information. A high quality TH-cam channel.
Man I've been watching thischannel for a few months, I always be checking for new your videos❗❗ YT algorithm gotta wake tf up👀
Good to have you on-board. Appreciate the support. Every week gets a little bit better.
JB needs to look at the White Pine MIne in Michigans Upper Penninsula. It was one of the biggest copper mines in the world and it closed down putting 2,500 people out of work. The copper inssome of the mines in the UP was so pure they had trouble getting it out of the ground. When they blaseted it, it would just bend and would not break up. They would sometimes drag large pieces to the surface behind trucks.
You have the perfect voice for this kind of video. So many are so annoying I bail out before finishing despite my interest in the subject.
My man co founded Soylent and makes dope videos, balaji was right. Great content bro.Long Yc -> yt pipeline. More deep tech/frontier stuff please.
Why do you ignore the 2 original founders of Tesla?
Complex coordination innovation, like Redwood Materials, Tesla, the iPhone etc., that provide an entirely new product, but without relying on a specific breakthrough, is underrated. I believe Peter Thiel coined the term (probably in Zero to One), and I love it every time a new company has success with complex coordination. Getting this kind of company started is really though as it can be hard to explain so I appreciate hearing more stories and getting more examples to point to. Sweet video. A bit more on the technology and why it is so difficult to do would have been interesting as well.
Oh man, those are some great points. I really should have dug deeper into complex coordination, that's an incredible topic. Thanks for the feedback here, really helpful in planning out future videos.
There is a bigger problem....mine waste, copper mine waste for instance. I for one have a porphyry copper mine to explore and maybe develop and I fear the biggest problem is the waste to be generated if the property goes commercial. So many mines have problems with disposal of mine waste there is a growing resistance. In part because the waste gets in the water and because folks are running low on water year by year in the high mountains everywhere. In most areas what little snow there is is in danger anyway and the main concern is acceleration of snow melt. While a nice blanket of soil makes for good shade and long lived rock/ice glaciers there might not be much support for putting something on top of nice clean snow even if it is insulative. I suggested building "snow forests" using such things as "helicopter blades" in the Andes...where my little project is. It's a stretch but the snow comes in a flash and goes in a flash. It is like an Andean snow tsunami coming in from the Humboldt Current area off Chile and Peru somehow as things warm up a bit. Because of that I believe nobody can really justify hydro dams on the off chance they can capture irregular snow tsunami. Best I can tell there is no technology being developed to preserve snow and isolate waste...well...certainly not big time inventiveness...as in EV technologies but there might be hope. I point to the most odd thing....a website called "icestupa.org" that shows what can be done to prevent flash flooding using a gravity sprinkler system to recycle meltwater into vertical "shade ice structures" Ice Stupa for example using cold night time temperatures in the Himalayas. Same in the Andes...if I can get some interest. The general tone of geotechnical education in the engineering world does not include geochemistry to any extent...and as my old prof. used to say...steve...rocket scientists do not study "dirt". Then he forbade me from ever using that word in his presence again. I have seen terrible catastrophes from mine waste failure. The ones in Brazil at iron mines are an example. Big companies tasked to watch and monitor did just that...watch and monitor. A mine is a terrible thing to waste.
13:03 Are these guys recycling NOKIA 3310s ? Best of luck lol.
John, I'm a fellow PTYA alumni and have been watching your videos evolve. You've been making bangers after bangers. I am amazed at your storytelling and presentation skills! So cool to watch this channel grow, congratulations!!
Thanks Aparna! It’s been such a fun journey!
Dude, your channel is actually really great, content is good, your own ideas and analysis blended in well. You got a great sounding voice and good pacing. Background music is superb and just yhe right volume, very good mixing with background music together with clear coherent speech. Stellar work!
Been waiting on Redwood to go public so I can buy into them.
Can you ket me know when they go public as I am busy with bringing kids and may miss this great opporttunity.Thanks and good luck
Thank you for your high quality content. But I can’t understand why this recycling business cannot be a part of Tesla.
Modern battery recycling is available but is so low profile that most people have no idea it exists. What JBS saw very early on was that battery recycling needs to go high profile and large scale. So that every battery we consume can be recycled. And these materials can be recycled again and again. Do that with a fossil-fuel if you can. There is a future where ore mining will just be needed to top up the available battery materials.
EDIT: Forgot to say that batteries made out of recycled materials work equally well and for equally long as originally mined materials.
With every new solution a new problem is created.
First time I’ve ever used the bell. Glad all those other channels told me how to do it
Hahaha, they did the work for me! Appreciate the support!
I'm very happy to see that such an intelligent person who worked so deeply and directly with EV has understood what the real problem is.. Electric Waste!!!
And hopefully, his company will also focus on the Photovoltaic Waste.
These are the 2 biggest problems our world will be facing in less than 10 years...not to mention the ridiculous Smartphone Waste problem not many seem to realise due to Smartphone Programmed Obsolescence
The deep reverb voice plus the outrun music makes these videos enjoyable 🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀
It is not true that batteries for EVs had to be developed. Tesla just used standard 16850 round cells.
I found your channel yesterday and so far I've watched around 10 videos.
They are really good.
JB is a great guy I am following him from past 1.5 years ...he is a great guy...I was really surprised earlier this year when redwood received a contract with ford
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I definitely got the same feeling from this research.
Thank you JB for working on the electric car drawback that keep us from buying, now I can feel good about it ...and thank John for bringing us this informative video!
The missing input on this analysis is the recycling price, and it's closely repated with the price of energy.
The demand of rae materials are driving prices up, but the energy needed for mining is comparable to that for recycling, so the plan will only work on a low energy cost scenario
This is good to hear. I try and do my part to recycle.
I believe partnership will be More successful than competition....btw ... your contents are always on point! Keep it up!
Wow JB Straudel is amazing he is not repeating the same mistakes we did in past
The EV industry is being built on an unachievable market demand. Battery bank life is the big killer, you will always need to mine for resources because growth requires it. Improvements in efficacies will reduce waste. I do commend the recycling , it’s a great model. Nobody wants to spend 25K on a battery pack after 7 years. That’s 3.5K/ year ( $300/ month) on your fuel tank alone, not to mention the electricity you use to fill your tank. This is a ridiculous business model and is simply unsustainable. Battery bank prices are not going down anytime soon, they’ve bottomed out. Don’t even think about heating homes in the northern hemisphere with renewable energy, it is impossible. Electric hydropower and Thorium molten-salt nuclear reactors are the safest clean energy for the near-future and that will not change due to he laws of physics.
if you know that you are going to recycle a battery, spend some time working on the battery building process, so that when it comes time to recycle, it could be done easier, not to mention collection points, and incentives to collect the battery's... when we were kids, we used to get 2 cents for glass bottles we collected.
great videos, really like your style. would love to see more on prefab homes, vertical farming etc in the future.
Those are great ideas! Thanks a lot!
J.B., look at Midland Odessa for any factory you have in mind. Those folks in 5 to 10 years are going to need a new industry.
Car batteries are recycled, and tires are somewhat recycled when you replace them. Stores that sell batteries should simply be required to have battery disposal as well.
For Lion batteries, every state should have something setup for this. But making EV's does create its own pollution and people who drive them shouldn't pretend it doesn't.
Can batteries be recycled indefinitely or do the materials degrade each time like plastic until it’s no longer recyclable. If it’s not a completely closed loop it’s only delaying the inevitable.
Wow, the Soylent founder. I remember reading about you as a high schooler.
That's wild to hear! Good to have you here on the channel. Hope you're enjoying the videos!
People like JB and Musk will be remembered as greats, just as Einstein is. We don't realize how reluctant we are to live in their era. Hope to meet them one day...
That’s why you’re broke now.
@@ZooRizzi No you're broke now because you dont do anything. Elon has interest in the future of technology and assists in how they evolve personally...you comment on youtube videos. See a difference?
musk îs a internet influencer which lies the most
Where have you been John Coogan ? This is a really good video. You write well and present the material in an interesting and compelling fashion. I have been wanting to buy into JB's Redwood Materials , but it is still private. Hope you do more follow up videos on JB and Redwood.
I was just thinking the same, looks like another sucessful IPO when it happens, would it be great and exciting to invest in startups,I may email JB to see if he could do with my 50k investments lol. Do you have Tesla shares?
Bro you are amazing remember me i know you are gonna grow crazy
JB and Elon discussed these things a while back...the timing had to be perfect for the implementation, hence the 15 year wait. This is more vertical integration....or should i say distributed integration as Redwood would obviously work closely with Tesla (and all other EV makers)
Really hope battery recyclers are successful as that will reduce/eliminate battery waste and reduce the need for raw materials. W/O it we'll exhaust the raw supplies in short order.
Brilliant forward thinking.
Excellent video! JB Straubel may be the most important business leader few people have heard of. That will change and soon.
How green is ev?
It's like not green at all with all of these socio-environmetal damages caused by the lithium, cobalt and nickel extraction in poor and developing countries.
Elon Musk is fully aware of that, but keeps doing his ev-business.
Using fossil fuels the whole time,mining materials for original batteries,transporting old batteries from everywhere to Redwood,transporting old battery material to battery manufacturers. Not to mention that the more recycled material you put in a new battery the worse the battery performs,even 15% recycled material and you can notice the poor performance of the battery. Electric cars,green lol,electric cars environmentally friendly,lol,they have twice the carbon footprint of a petrol car before they even get off the production line. All asking for investors and no timeline on when you,ll get a return,if at all,too many start up companies around now,all great ideas,anything can work on paper,but in reality. Too many companies just get sold off to a gullible buyer and they have to try and sort all the problems no one talked about,if they can even sort the problems. These things always sound good,60 tons a day recycled,250.000 cars worth of batteries a year ???. What about what you can't recycle???. ELECTRIC CARS,ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY. BS.
Thanks, JB, for handling this for us!!!
Good luck to JB, I am sure Redwood will be a massive success. Fun fact, one of the key investors of Redwood...Ford.
Nothing technical doesn't stand still. There is iron, aluminum, hydrogen and who knows where this will end up. I like solid state hydrogen and salt reactors for power. This power systems are just beginning. I also like hybrid gas/electric.
underrated content creator right here.
Appreciate that!
Just to add info: AT LEAST 8 million tons of plastic are thrown EVERY YEAR not counting trash with no plastic.
BYD's blade batteries are better suited for recycling. All EV makers should adopt the blade battery design.
the stock price at that time. Its still hard to believe. Both how low it was back then and how high is it now.
So much for electric vehicles being ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY. Yet all we ever hear is hype about Tesla cars and Elon Mysk hyped like a " god"
you got it goen on. its about time
I acknowledge JB for his part in the chain and approve his move. I highly respect it. I even find it expectable.
I'm not one to neglect the power equation and recommend that JB get to work on that solar car or find himself being kicked down the chain again.
I know that sounds like harsh boardroom talk but I don't like to see a good man go down.
Don't give me that crap about Ewaste, Now get your tiny little posterior out there and do your labor strike like you got some sense.
He could not keep up AND he made several major mistakes that made ELON'S job more difficult and ultimately cost a lot of money. Do you read anything more than comic books?
It's a shame nobody seems to have put this level of thinking and effort into the problem of managing the waste from nuclear power stations.
I know some effort has gone into it but clearly not enough otherwise there wouldn't be so many of them closing down.
Recycling e waste is just getting started. Ot will be very profitable. The logistics of gather the waste is crazy.
What chemicals will be used in the recycling process, also will water be used and if so what will protect the water supply ? I hope 🤞 this technology will be safe for the environment and if so it will be a brilliant way forward
Here's a crazy idea: move away from expensive batteryEVs and invest in high speed electric rail. Trains can move more people without traffic or accidents on electric power without the need for batteries.
JUST IMAGINE , A CAR THAT CREATES IT'S OWN ENERGY . NO BATTERIES OR GAS & WORKS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT ... 🧐🤔🤫😎🥳
6:30 made it sounds like JB and Elon were the two people who started Tesla. In actual fact, they were "employees" #4 and #5. Although, strictly speaking, Elon wasn't an employee. The two founders plus Wright (#3) went looking for investors, and Elon put in a lot of cash and became Chairman of the Board. He didn't become CEO until 4 years later. The original two founders' stock holdings had became diluted through repeated funding rounds, and eventually, they got pushed out.
Electric cars do not curb carbon emissions. They also cause more damage to roads than conventional cars and produce more tyre dust pollution due to their weight. If they become more widespread, the end result will be much higher electricity prices and blackouts. We will all suffer whether or not we own one.
Great video! Nice to see some spotlight on JB.
I have some old car batteries. Where can I take them bad boys??
I was waiting for the skillshare ad at 3:46 haha
This channel is gold
Amazing, as always!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just discovered your channel, i m on my 5th video :) , i like what you doing man, keep it up
what a genius, and an early realization, btw: we are telling this to tesla since 20 years now
John ,your final statement is worth of gold . Don't get me wrong the whole material is brilliant and should be presented in schools so kids have chance to get hock up to good practical thinking .
I am not sure on the profitability of this market but maybe I don’t understand the intricacies of this process. How is it profitable the amount of human labor to take out the batteries of all these different devices and sort them in a meaningful way to extract the minerals. Also there is no way you can just throw the batteries in a furniture and expect to extract those minerals without some issues. Right?
Given enough time it will be become profitable specially when you can have a planned lifecycle with producers.
Amazing content!!!!!
Well done JB! I'm a Tesla and EV fan, and didn't even think about the waste of the battery! I'm so happy you have thought of this idea of recycling, thank you! Loved the story of your growth as well and how you've come to where you are, very incourageing, bless you 👏👏👏👏👏
Other than the click-bait - you should explain that Tesla has eliminated cobalt and is minimizing nickel in most cars… the video is really good…
This is a very well presented video in terms of explanation and images... impressive.. very good work
Thank you so much!
Wow! What a great video. This is so well-researched and well-presented.
Great Job!