How Dubai is pioneering solar for the world
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- Dubai built the world’s largest single-site solar plant - and it’s just getting started.
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Dubai is a city long known for producing and exporting oil. But now, it is focusing on green energy.
Currently, 12% of Dubai's energy comes from clean sources. The city is working toward 25% by 2030 and 75%by 2050.
Some of the research in Dubai focuses on how to design superior solar panels - for instance, ones that are able to withstand the intense desert heat.
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This felt like a departure from your normal content. I felt like it was an advert or training video when you start a new job
It's sponsored by Dubai
They're not the first
I have been seeing this from Vice news to Military TV and now this
The Emaratis are investing heavily on advertising through these some-how established TH-cam channels and I bet they are cheaper and less obvious even
their page has turned into a dubai propoganda channel recently lmao
This channel is run by an industry think thank, what did you expect?
They are paid to brainwash?
I hope a solar cooling desalination plant is in the works not only could it keep the panels cool but also provide fresh water
When you try to elevate solar energy to a decent fraction of your Energy consumption you end up with times at wich you have more Energy than is consumed. So in order to scale up more you need something useful to do with surplus Energy. water desalination is a good fit for a desert country.
Probably not practical for every place in the world but if you live on the edge of a desert where there is lots of sunshine, it's a great idea!
Solar is practical anywhere where vegetation have enough sunlight to grow.
@@bergonius I am not so sure about that. There is lots of vegetation in Alaska and there may be some applications there for solar panels, but they would be less practical there than in Dubai.
@@Danny_6Handford if you can keep the snow off, solar is more efficient at lower temperatures
@@cob571 Marginally more efficient but I still think that solar panels would be less practical in Alaska because you would have to include the time effort and cost of removing snow and possibly more maintenance cost because of the more extreme weather conditions. The marginal increase in efficiency would not even come close to compensate for this. It would be interesting to compare the performance over a 20 year period of a similar size installation in Alaska and in Dubai. If I was a betting man, my money would be on the Dubai installation for practicality and for efficiency in producing clean electrical energy.
Solar is very affordable where over 90% of the global population lives. Even the Scandanavian countries are investing in it. But I agree it's not always practical. We should encourage geothermal and off-shore wind also 👍
I want to get involved so badly! Being CS undergrad can be discouraging sometimes but stuff like this makes me so frickin excited for my own future and the future of civilization.
I did CS Masters in 2019 and now I am working at an EV startup so hopefully you will too one day contribute to the green Earth and technology revolution
@@SahilP2648 Gosh, I hope so. I'm looking for cool, inspiring things to do. Right now I'm working with a professor on an obfuscation program he's making but it's so dull...
Hey! I'm going to study CS 8 months later. My goal is to learn how to program and dive deep into AI.
On the other hand, my dream is to open a Green Energy business! Inspired by Elon Musk himself, I want to make the world run on renewable energy entirely! Right now, I am using the gap year before university to work for my dad, meet his friends, meet new people, work at side jobs, earn as much money as possible for my future company startup capital, and improve myself in all aspects, including lifting weights, eating healthier, sleeping regularly, reading books etc..
It's nice to meet someone who has the same dream as mine. 🫡💪
I too have a dream to dive in green Energy and contribute to the world!
Maybe we should chat and see if there's anything we can do
Currently I am learning about Green energy a little by little every day. Hoping to open a green energy company in the future. I also saved around 10k+ money, aiming for 50k before going to university
The optimism if the staff is ety overwhelming and infectious!!!!!
Dubai and middle east have the money and all the reason to make a switch before oil demands goes down
They have too.
@@VVabsa I agree what else would they do? It’s either fiancé based economy or they can try and lead a new industry and get ahead.
imagine the heat that those generate.
The 3rd Dubai advertising in 2 weeks
Doing everything with good intentions is just wonderful
Correction; the U.S. produces ~20% of its electricity via solar and wind, with enough in planning and development now to produce: 45% in 10-years and 65% by 2050. We already produce: 20% via nuclear and 15% via hydro. Great to see Dubai and many other countries take the initiative and plan for the future as fossil fuels are going the way of the Dodo bird.
That solare park would be perfect to re green the desert underneath
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Solar for deserts makes the most sense.
Oh wow! A “solar mega plant”
All you need to do is cover the entire desert with solar panels, they’re visionaries.
In a weird twist of fate, the middle east and north africa with their huge tranches of open desert and consistent sunshine could provide a perfect place for large scale solar farms. Unfortunately we'd be in the same position where unstable, energy rich countries would hold the power balance of world energy again.
It may mean another chance to stabilize those countries. The difference between fossil fuels and solar panels is that you can't just have a battle over it without damaging the solar panels without large scale drawbacks for their own people.
@@VVabsa they don't need ur stabilizing, just dont bomb n sanction them
@@kayjr9795 Lolz. Are you suggesting that middle Eastern countries have no internal stability problems? No problems with dictatorship, wealth hording, religious fanaticism, paramilitary groups in the government? Because I can assure you that they would be just as violent and unstable without western interference and plenty of them interfere in the dealings with the rest of the world and have done so for a long time.
Iran funds terror attacks in Israel, Saudi funds Wahhabi ideology around the world, Libya funded terrorism e.g. Pan Am bombing, Afghanistan protected Bin Laden, modern Salafi ideology comes form Qutb (an Egyptian).
No one is claiming the west is perfect but the middle east is far from perfect.
Lots of vague statements about how amazing Dubai is.. Something going on here?
Oh the video is literally sponsored by Dubai
Had a hefty sponsor I beleive! An ad in diguide of a documentary??
based on my research perovskite require not more than 305 K of temperature of which Dubai average temperature exceed but yeah its good to find solutions
Great work THank you
thay could plant some weed under the panel, with the shadow they provide the weed maybe grow and take fresh the panel
Am I too Latin or too European to understand why people think this is an ad?
It's about the tech their using, not about their politics...
It would have been interesting to discuss how they plan to buffer the day-night cycle, if they primarily use solar-panels.
Concentrated solar is more suited for hot deserts anyway and heat is way easier to store than electric energy. But this video is all over the place anyway. Just some marketing people and no actual engineers talking about random facts and goals without any context. Concentrated solar is also shown in the footage and is widely used in northern africa while everyone in the video just talks about the biggest photovoltaic plant in the world. Hey look at us, we have the biggest whatever, so now we are part of the cool kids dont we?
New plants like hatta dam and battery storage facilities.
Hatta Dam has 250 MW. One would need a lot of battery storage to make up the rest. However, my point really was that it is not sensible to discuss a transformation of the energy production in a country to renewables without discussing storage.
Is this a press release? Are you sponsored by Dubai now?
Yep, check the description..
@@pieterhaegeman3538 Yeah. Unsubscribing now. Thank you
Which solar cells used for these solar modules?
Dubai knows how to turn a dessert into energy, Las Vegas knows how to turn a dessert into an energy suck.
Fantastic.
😀Hey, Nice video, liked it. You gained a subscriber.😀
could go a little more ambitious. what about 40% to 2030, 100% to 2040 and to 2050 you go hard carbon negative starting to repair the atmosphere.
It’s a very radical and expansive idea to go to carbon neutral you need lots of solar and wind turbine new electric grids also storage unit for the energy cuz renewables are not efficient all the time like solar wind etc that’s trillions of dollars at least just for small nation with 10 million. what the cost gonna be for EU counties with 500 million also the USA you are taking about 100s of trillion of dollars just to go carbon neutral
@@ahmedalseiari5907 Ambitious yes. But a thing that is necessary. So it can not be radical. About the prise tag: will will have to bare it either way. The delay however has also a prise tag too. Lower estimate for the external costs of CO2 emissions are 500 bugs per ton. On the other hand, 50 bugs per ton is the number economic experts give for what you needed to internalise, so that the nesesarry changes would happen. In other word, delaying the investment in the transition will cost our kids 10 fold.
для того что бы стать углеродоотрицательным нужно закапывать алмазы под землю
@@jija5121 not diamonts. charcoal. the diamonts you would wanna use^^
This video is a little disingenuous... It shows Emirati showboating about all these achievements when the _actual_ innovations and work is all being done by foreigners. Can't help but feel like this was an ad for Dubai. 🤔
Wow, I feel dirty after watching that 🤢
Why not build a cooling air conditioner, eith 20percent of psndl output
This seems incredible for temperature and trustworthiness of architectural of dubai development with solar system dust proof mechanism like our phone or Supercar windscreen polished and additional Heat Ground(Sand) renewable Energy inbound with ☀️🔥SunHeat Steel/Zinc Pipe conversion from Heat to Electricity formation. for example in Indonesia Heat Ground Renewable energy reformed the 💦WATER base heat to 🏜️SAND base Heat hypothetically circular rotation turbine generate into ⚡ like the Mitsubishi Renewable system in Indonesia.
Love it
Is there sny annual expansion plan?
This video is pointless. They are in a desert. Of course its good for solar. They don't grow/farm food so their solar energy systems aren't competing with food growing land. Stating the obvious is sort of stupid.
Desert temperatures are not great for PV panels. While the amount of sunlight might make them cost efficient for the region, the materials used will degrade faster when exceeding the standard testing procedure values. This is what the video is about. Wish they showed their efficiency or techniques they use more.
@@kacperNFS so. Make better panels. Simple. But putting solar in green fertile land makes it compete with food and water and those are essential for life. Some of you can't see past the end of your noses and that is scary.
@@YARCHLRL "so. Make better panels. Simple." If it is so simple, the world will be an utopiah. Base on your logic, poor country should just print more money to make them rich, problem solved, simple! The terrorist is going on a suicide bombing spree, just tell them to stop doing suicide bombing spree, problem solved, simple!
@@zenniz1992 just because water/chemical cooling is over your head that doesn't mean it's not doable... The world doesn't revolve are your tiny head...
@@x8Pukaluka8x if you were capable of thinking AT ALL, you'd be dangerous...
"What Dubai really wants to be known for - new and better ways of doing things"
I'm not saying other countries are great, but being LGBT is not criminalised in most countries or have other flagrant major human rights failings. I love their commitment to technological progress but if my very identity is criminalised there I couldn't even visit even if I wanted to. If they want to be taken seriously as 'forward-thinking' then you've got to do that in all aspects of society, not just picking and choosing. There shouldn't be second-class citizens.
Dubai really out here planning for a future without oil. Clever, but let’s see who else follows suit.
Create is the wrong term. We can not create energy. We harvest/convert energy into another kind of energy.
You need to make it clearer that this is an ad
how will they cool and maintain all the electrical wiring? the solar panels? the cost to maintain this is probably astronomical, this is most likely no feasible unless you got oil money to throw around . we already know what happened to the one in America.
maintenance costs matter.
Fubai is foing ehat saufi Arabia dhould have fone 30years ago?
I guess the recent videos being overly-positive-dubai-content is not that bad, because it doesn't deny the problens, it just overlooks them but its also a bit concerning if the expectation is a neutral video about a new technology. But what you get is an advertisement of a product.
That's kind of what this channel is supposed to be. It's advertising new technologies that have promise in the future.
Overlooking _is_ denying
Or Mega solar plant? Words matter.
Hope they pay well for these ads. They probably do...
25% carbon free energy by 2030 is not ambitious in the slightest. Many countries around the world with far less resources will be around 100% by 2030... Most of South America, for example. And most developed countries, Japan, EU, America targeting 50%. The UAE will need to do better if they want to be relevant in the post-fossil economy.
Aleelithankyou
In the same amount of space a solar plant takes up. Thorium Nuclear plants could make 10000 times more energy for us.
But they think ohh 😮 nuclear gonna kill us solar is fucking inefficient comparison to nuclear
@@monuray2446 exactly
Where would you dump the waste and would that place be reusable again? What if reactor breaks down and the specialist isn’t available. Solar needs less expertise to maintain. It’s also recycled when the lifecycle is complete. This much better than dangerous Nuclear power plants that have a track record of thousands of people dead by radiation and failure.
You could do so much more with so much less if you just used nuclear.... It would take a small fraction of the land that the solar panels take, and make much less waste (solar panels spill dangerous chemicals if broken)
Not enough uranium in the world for the world to run on nuclear. It would be used up in 15 years
@@dualfluidreactor i can tell you made that up based on the fact that there were literally no numbers given in context, all i said was nuclear is more useful, not how many reactors to build, or even what kind of reactor. there are way too many variables for a static number like 15 years. and, in addition to that, there are reactors that re-use spent fuel, and there are many different fuel sources besides uranium.
a departure from your normal standards, is what i have to say. There is nothing useful in this video, they say 25% renewables, no mention of production capacity, and true energy produced which makes summarizing this video simply as "Dubai has solar" nothing more nothing less
Fubsi to install cent per cent roof top and EVs in 5years
just gonna say it again: a country where a woman NEEDS permission from her father to marry is not a country building the future. We should be talking about this instead of focusing on their technological grandstanding.
Another fun tidbit on the Emirates from Wikipedia:
Homosexuality
Further information: LGBT rights in the United Arab Emirates
Homosexuality is illegal and is a crime that is punishable with death, life in prison, floggings, fines, deportation, chemical castration, forced psychological treatments, honor killings, vigilante executions, beatings, forced anal examinations, forced hormone injections, and torture.
What about Muslim right in Europe woman cannot wear head scarf or cover there face, also the social system in Sweden taking children from there family and giving them to another what you call that freedom ?
Dubai has milions of very cheap labour to do maintenance and cleaning. People that get paid peanuts for it. I wonder how would this be if they would have to pay normal wages for this jobs…
W propaganda
this has half the installed capacity of the largest solar park in the world what nonsense is this
"How Dubai is pioneering solar for the world"
I'm assuming Dubai just payed you to make this video because China and India as much they pollute would like a word
Dubai is basically a failing state built on oil money.....they HAVE no choice but to "diversify" their economy. They have abt 78 bil tons of oil according to a report conducted by the US and when the oil feilds were handed out back to the government it suddenly doubled overnight even though the us had basically surveyed almost all viable oil feilds in that country. According to calculations they have oil for abt 10 or 20 more years so they have diversified their economy by illegal gold smuggling or building infra by slave labor from poor south east asian countries
You forgot the Dubai sovereign wealth fund half trillion of dollars of AUM. Also this year they discovered gas fields worth 3 trillion Dollars
Solar isn't scaleable
Why?
Harness energy ... not create, we're not God.
The very production of videos like these hides the people who've suffered in the contruction of these "future" projects, dubai is a city built on uneithical use of manual labour. It was never about sustainability, it was about how long they can fake it. And its pretty obvious youre biased when youve already made a video related to the dubai 2 uploads ago.
The west built by the slave trade and depredations of Africa. If you want to be the moral compass just start from there then come and criticize the others
Seems like the donors of your think tank are starting to demand an return on their investment. This is not quality content but just boring and obvious PR
Thd arsvs serm yo bd misled snd swindled
WTF? Who still uses polycrystalline modules with such low efficiencies still? This seems more like an advert for how green Dubai supposedly is, while in reality they are not even close to pioneering anything at all in this field. Why would you use PV if you could install solar thermal steam turbines, which generate electricity without a loss at higher temperatures? And how dare you to claim that 12% renewable share is pioneering and net zero by 2050 would be ambitious, when it is actually just lacking behind. Building the biggest solar farm in the world isn’t an achievement either, solar farms are easy to build and scale.
This is basically a authoritarian regime living off fossil fuels telling everybody that they are pioneers and probably paying you to make a nice little video with some cozy music with some bullshit information.
Coming from someone who use Russian gas and coal 😂😂😂.
Clarification the UAE Has one of the highest rates of per capita to renewable energy also the UAE has a fund called AD Fund for development is 200 billion fund to build renewable energy across Africa and Asia
Dubai was the most boring holiday we've ever had
How much did Dubai pay you for this? (No issue with solar, I just object to glorifying absolute monarchy, forced labour, and petro-states)
Might not be the point but there is also a women leading a technological development in dubai shown ...
@@Max-ek4dn Yes, the Gulf states are making some progress on rights for women who are citizens.
But remember that most women in Dubai aren't citizens. There foreign workers with no employment rights at all. Often working as de facto slaves (their passports can be taken so they can't leave).
@@domtweed7323 😂😂😂😂 slaves, in dubai, in 2023 man you are just a hater. BTW it is not allowed to take passport of an employee and anyone can report to any police station it is not that hard
@@rashed344y Yes, your not "allowed" to take a workers' passport, it's just not enforced. So it's de facto slavery, not de jure slavery. But that's still slavery.
And I don't hate Dubai. The Gulf states had some really interesting anti-monarchist and pro-workers rights movements in the past. That's why the Emirati government likes to import foreign workers with no rights: Cause their scared of an independent domestic trade unions forming.
@@domtweed7323 How is it not enforced ? Have you had an experince ? it i is simple you go to the police and report and you get your right, BECUASE THERE IS A LAW/ this is not afghanistan. And those slaves you talk about come here by there will and get ten times what they will get it thier countries while living in a beter place.
This was only two degrees better than Fox News interviewing the 45th US president. I'm unsubscribing because too many recent videos have been amoral, braindead advertisements. I mean, look the garbage spewed by your presenter at 4:07. Everyone at your channel watched that and thought it was fine? "We don't need to substantiate and of these claims."
Lmao this channel is blatant propaganda
All that technology and still making women wear rags on their head...smh.🤷
Yup being modest like Mary the mother of Jesus is oppressive, better to show cleavage like strippers to be futuristic.
the lady sounds like a wakandan person