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- Over the last two decades, the wind power industry has grown at a dizzying pace. (Fun fact: a single rotation from one of the world's most powerful wind turbines can generate enough electricity to charge more than 1,400 cell phones.) Building off this exponential growth, Denmark's climate minister Dan Jørgensen lays out his plan to end the country's oil industry by 2050 and transition to a fossil-free future powered by wind energy.
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Dane here. Dan had me at ".. When you meet HER.." 😂
I'm danish and i would say not to listen too much to what Dan jørgensen is saying, He is the climate minister in Denmark and has been criticized for several stupid things, for example he presented a "hocky stick" climate plan, which was bascially "do nothing untill 2030, when the technology is better, then do it all at once" as if that would ever work, he then went on and touted this plan as a "the most ambitious climate plan ever in Denmark". He also believes that nuclear energy is not green, that is just factually wrong, nuclear is one of the greenest energies there is.
As a Dane, I'd like to say that there are different opinions about Dan Jørgensen amongst Danes - just like with every politician in every country. Just because he has different visions from someone else - on how to transform Denmark into a carbon neutral country - does not make him stupid. But sure, I can agree that the over-reliance on the idea of 'technology will save the day' is problematic
@@michelleheegaard There are.. but the problem is not Dan's opinion, but his unwillingness to change it and to adapt to a changing situation
@@michelleheegaard i fully agree with you, but yea as Mikael Wendt said, the problem is that he is just unwilling to change his opinion based on facts.
Sadly most of these people just don't live in reality.
It's great to deeply explore renewable energy sources and I am sure this focus on wind power will be thousands of times better than relying on coal power but I have doubts about exactly how great it'll be in the end. For one the carbon footprint of a GWh of electricity is larger on wind than nuclear power and I fear we'll have a larger issue with discarded turbine blade graveyards than plastic at the pace things are going.
That knowing the danes and other countries try their best to recycle the blades too.
@@six081 Nuclear power: ~117g CO²/kWh
Wind power onshore: ~7g CO²/kWh
Wind power offshore: ~4g CO²/kWh
The truth is that Damark always need to import from Sweden and Norway.
We need to change the materials that wind turbines are made from, the composites used have a horrendous environmetal impact. There are other designs that have lower env impact, big industry yet again missing the nail on the head.
The fact that it is expensive and not reliable because wind strength changes every time, makes it not good enough to build
Every household should use solar panels and wind turbines if possible
? Wind turbines connected to regular houses? Insanity...
@akatheking82 why not ?!? Just a small 1 kw
What a charming presentation, unique and compact as illustrates how simple renewable energy can be harvested if we implemented strategies as such into our environments professionally and respectfully to local governments and nature.
1.4 million 3mw wind turbines is all that's needed to supply the US with electricity if only wind was used.
Oof....
😣😣😣😒
And now there are these new SAND BATTERIES that can store this intermittent energy for use when needed. Just a grain silo, some sand and build some stuff with already available things. Check it out. It's brilliant!
lol only 1.4 million... what are we waiting for?
Just out of curiosity, how much does each of those 1.4 million 3 mw wind turbines cost to produce? In addition to design and manufacturing, also remember to include permitting, construction, transportation, insurance, installation, and maintenance. If each of those cost $1 million dollars (I am sure each would cost more), then that would be 1.4 trillion dollars just for the up front implementation and maintenance. Does your 1.4 million figure account for future population expansion and increase in demand? (every good engineer knows when to plan for expanding systems which will be likely to change in the future).
How do you deal with areas of the country which are less prone to wind than high-wind areas? Some states get far less wind than others, does the 3 MW baseline account for the variability in wind due to geography? Also, is the 3 MW figure the rated output of the plant (at the transmission line?) or is that the ideal / nameplate output of the wind power generator?
Lastly, how do you deal with periods of non-wind? We all know that wind turbines are going to use the principle of Faraday's Law, where voltage is generated when there is a conductor situated in a changing magnetic field (the magnetic field is changing due to the motion of the wind turbine blades). However if those blades are not moving (due to no wind), then zero power will be generated from that wind turbine. Does the 1.4 million figure account for this, and if so then how?
Regrettably, although I wish these types of technologies were feasible, the more I learn about them the more it seems that the goal of supplanting our current energy system with 100% renewables is naïve and not certain to be possible at best, and at worst may be a strategic blunder which will ruin our energy system, leave everyone with less energy, and make us wish we had seen the bigger picture in continuing to utilize the systems we use today while focusing on a smooth, reasonable transition to these types of green technologies.
There are now offshore wind turbines with 15mw capacity....assuming us demand is 200gw...you would need about 10,000 offshore turbines and some solar, geothermal and nuclear alongside it....
40 years building wind turbines in Denmark. And wind generates 40 percent of its power from wind and that is being very generous considering that fossil fuel is there main source of power generation. Stop the madness Dan time to give nuclear it's turn now .. Most countries are landlocked and don't have windy areas like Denmark !!
I really liked how the beginning and ending wrapped the whole speech up. Nice quotational choice!
Just had too pause the talk and open another tab with the Bob's song.
Wonderful! Every country should do this.
Well spoken 🙂
There are a lot of negative people in the comments hoping this fails and pointing out every small setback. We will get there in the end
Not with such nature heavy and short term solutions such as wind turbines and solar panels.
Well, Denmark already has 40% of its energy generated by wind. It's a small country but 40% is impressive nevertheless.
@@monkeyinadrawer give or take, but... why has electricity in Denmark raised the second highest in EU, only beaten by Germany. When we have so many productive wind turbines that should keep the cost down to a low....
@@DMminion101 40% still means 60% isn't wind power, you understand that, right?
@@benjaminhenderson7059 ... but countries that has lower amount of wind turbines suffers less raised power prices than us. Weird, we're still the ones to pay the second highest in EU.
In my country, Denmark, we have the highest energy prices in the World. We also have the highest share of wind energy. So if you like expensive bills - listen to this guy!
Its strange that you have a German profile name... Du solltest außerdem correlation nicht mit causation verwechseln
And when the wind isn't blowing?
+ heavy clouds or the sun is hiding on the other side of the earth(especially in the winter time where me might have six hours of "light" a day.
Thats what batteries are for.
@@benjaminhenderson7059 we're not good at storing electrical energy, but I think there's enough wind anyway
@@natskii7026 a chunk of the video covers this. Battery storage is much improved, but more importantly hydrogen storage is an efficient solution available with current tech.
It always will be somewhere on the earth.
wondeful talk. thanks !!
I don't mind living close to these turbines, I wonder if the people in the comments would be happy to live close to an 80 year old nuclear plant.
Or an oil refinery
they kill birds are you happy with that?
@@Davik72 > not in any significant way
Sure. Why wouldn't I?
LOL, I would personally live in Nuclear plant. I was in 3 nuclear plants in Czechia and Slovakia, and you can eat from ground there. You have no idea how safe and clean are modern nuclear plants. If you are not idiot like Soviets that build risky cheap unsafe types with high output. Or Japans, that build unsafe type reactor on shore.
As an engineer, I would be very interested in his quantitative analysis for implementing wind energy on a large scale (as it is already implemented in many places), as well as dealing with periods of having no wind, also how he recommends storing energy for those periods during which no energy can be generated.
I know that a typical wind turbine can produce enough energy for about 500 homes, while a liquid natural gas (LNG) power plant could power 5 to 10 times that, though the LNG plant can run continuously and predictably without the need for energy storage, while the wind plant can only work whenever the wind is blowing. To speak only to the wind turbine max capacity and not the intermittent nature and need for storage is to only be looking at a small piece of the total energy picture.
Likewise, he doesn't mention any of the issues related to manufacturing and transport of wind turbine components, which is not as standard and simple as components used in more traditional plants.
And in fact, if we are looking for energy alternatives to coal and gas, then why are we not talking about nuclear power? You will not find more abundant, consistent, and arguably clean energy than that. And nuclear power plants in 2022 are far more safe than technologies from the 70's and before, which were already quite safe even by today's standards. Is there anywhere in this video that speaks to a comparison of the pros and cons of using wind energy instead of nuclear energy?
I am a huge fan of the idea of using things like solar power, geothermal energy, and wind power to generate electricity to replace fossil fuels as the primary source of energy for consumers. But to only address the upside of wind turbine adoption, and to not discuss the drawbacks of such adoption is to commit a major error in assessing what the next best steps are for the energy production systems of our country and around the globe.
How about recycling the turbines after they have to be changed? It's a challenge
Whatever the cost...at least you have clean environment.
Downcycling is probably a better term to use at least with current recycling technology.
@@simplecomplicated1394 > not when that cost exactly makes the environment worse.
@@PLF... how so.. its just sweeden..
Thanks for your conversation 🤗
I heard the offshore wind farm was a mistake, because building them in the water means they are going to see accumulative damage from weather and need constant maintenance. This guy is just a salesman.
Wind turbines in general need so much maintenance its not even funny.
Our Community is embracing solar farms. With that I could make use of some. We have to take this personally and eliminate what isn't working for each individual. Natural gas and petroleum doesn't suit my needs ideally. My goal is to go off grid while making use of what is readily available and has reliable support from various avenues within the natural environment that works with me firstly and later in my life.
You should see how much constant maintenance and care the nuclear plant I used to work on required and it was decommissioned.
I love how we have been talking about this for over 40 years and no one still did anything remotely impactful yet
We need help.
We did but the impact was less than the hype made it seem like it would be.
If you do not know I am very happy to inform you that Denmark/Germany/Belgium/Holland just have agreed on the North Sea Summit agreement that are going to be the worlds largest fossil fuel to green energy transition in world history. 230 million high energy using Europeans are going to transition from fossil fuels to off shore wind power. On top of the 230 million people it transition the project also have the worlds largest hydrogen project. Hydrogen can be used as fuel similar to fossil fuels but only emits water when burned. The project have just been signed but already at the end of the decade, in 7 years, 40 % will be operational and rest the following 6 years, so 230 million transitioned in under 15 years. THIS project should immediately be copy/pasted by ALL coastal nations!
Great presentation! All renewable energy sources need to explored and this may be different in different regions. Denmark is apparently a leader in generating wind power and the process of converting wind energy to stored sources like hydrogen was interesting. Would have been useful to know how Denmark has addressed some of the adverse impact of wind turbines such as 1) impact on avian wildlife of the turbines. Or are current designs not hazardous? Recall that dams built to generate hydel power often have had a major adverse impact on the marine ecosystem.
2) the material used for wind turbines is usually expensive especially for developing countries. Have new materials now available that are more cost-effective?
3) Motion of earlier wind turbines used to generate significant heat. Has this been addressed in newer versions?
4) what are other unintended consequences experienced by the Danish experience?
Look forward to Denmark leading the global effort to find the "answers blowing in the wind"!
Even in developing countries, renewable energies are already cheaper than fossil and nuclear energy.
Uruguay can show you and Denmark how they do it, and you can ask them about it if you want to.
Something is rotating in the state of Denmark …
Absolutely, why should he make that feminist remark in the end.
@@boduholm8463 was it feminist? he just made the hypothetical Dane a woman, i don't understand how that is feminist. Maybe it's a Danish thing i am missing?
@@tankerbruja His entire speech I agree with, except for the end. So now you and I are discussing the end and not the substance.
As someone who is a blade tech (i repair the blades of wind turbines) and have worked on kreigers flat. They are not 188meters tall.
I thought the hub height of the Kreigers flak was a 107m with a rotor diameter of 167m. So ruffly giving a height when the rotor is at it's maximum height of 188m. But I'm not not n the industry so probably wrong.
Now go directly and watch Michael Shellenbergers talk on why renewables are a huge problem in themselves.
@@hermannkreitmayer > just because wind power is sustainable doesnt mean harvesting it is. The only timetable you need is the lifespan of the equipment youre building. For the case of turbines, thats 30ish years - and they cannot be recycled.
@@hermannkreitmayer please keep personal insults out of the conversation. Thank you.
Nuclear fuel turns out to be reusable actually. New generations of nuclear reactors can actually reuse the spent fuel from first generation facilities. Look it up yourself.
Why are the single blade wind generators that sway in the wind not more used? From what I have read they can produce a relatively good amount of energy without them being danger to birds. And were easier to set up and keep maintenance on.
2050 might be a tad late.
add multitrophic aquaculture to the energy island and then you've got something...
Yeh, when the wind blows at a medium rate, during the summer you can't.
Yep , humanity could be smarter
People in these comments would shut off an elderly person's oxygen generator rather than have a few moron birds not avoid flying into the wind turbine's blade. Smh
whats the rush? wait until a few more gas and oil related wars break out.
take another 1000 years to roll out renewable energy tech.
Ah yes, Gigabyte Dan
Answer is "Came with the wind"
I really like the vision he gives here. But it didn't answer the one of the core questions that follows: how is this practical for other countries with different geolocation?
Wind energy may not be the solution for every country, but countries with different climates can do what's best for their situation, like solar for countries that get a lot of sun, hydro for countries with mountains and rain, biomass for countries with a lot of dead vegetation like agricultural byproducts. Then exchange with their neighbors as needed.
What will be the upkeep cost of the island, what is the breakeven price for electricity, hydrogen?
Also, the conversion efficiency between the storage mediums and handling. Converting into hydrogen costs 30% at the very least, and converting back the same. And it will deteriorate over time. Those 10 GW will effectively be 2-3 actually delivered power once everything is said and done.
An expensive desperation play here. Renewables are intermittent. Hydrogen? Really? Hard to store. How much hydrogen did you need to store again to power your 10 million homes? Oh, wait. You were simply saying that in the best circumstances at a given moment you could power 10 million homes. You didn't really lay out how you would do this for 4 days of calm winds. How would that work? How much hydrogen was this? Renewables are always a sales job about the most perfect sun, the most perfect wind. They never lay out the details of the intermittency. Poor Germany. More than $1 trillion invested in renewables. They are horrible with respect to their carbon footprint. They are crippled by Russia fossil fuel sanctions. My bet is on Bill Gates. Go look at his natrium reactor. It gives "on demand" power that is clean. Waste? He has it solved. Don't ever forget that nuclear fuel was scraped off the surface of the earth. Apparently natural radioactive material doesn't have a storage problem. Bill is burning 95% of that material away - big improvement over nature. Let the engineers do the right thing, get these salesmen off the floor please.
Do you have solutions to share?
Through a simple chemical process, the hydrogen can be converted into methane gas by carbon dioxide. This is then equivalent to natural gas and can even be stored in the same tanks without any problems.
There are enough studies that show that a complete supply of renewable energy is easily possible. Germany has only completed one fifth of the transition to renewables. It is nonsense to make a final assessment while a process is still in full swing. The old government did not really want this and almost brought it to a standstill. With the new government, this will hopefully happen faster.
You say not to fall for salesmen, but do exactly that yourself with nuclear power. The reactors you mention are not operational anywhere in the world. In addition, they have their own problems such as highly radiotoxic tritium which easily diffuses through the walls of the reactor vessel. The resulting waste is also far from harmless.
Your credentials? Yea, that's what I thought!~
great comment
also, hydrogen is an extremely poor energy vector
@@AlbertoM4A1 Hydrogen is a poor energy vector?? Where did you learn that? Clown school?
informative
Soooo proud to be a Dane!
Careful with the fart smelling, you are destroying the climate!
In the UK wind energy has been a complete failure and too costly.
Thanks for sharing and adding value to my day.
Nice presentation and lots of comments and I am all in on innovation. However the one thing he doesn’t mention as far as I understand wind energy is expensive and this could be one of the barriers to mass adoption.
I'm no expert but I thought that wind was the second cheapest energy after solar PV when you measure over the whole lifespan due to the fact that the fuel they run on is free.
Denmark has the highest energy prices in the World. And we are a leader in wind turbines. This guy is a professional hoax. He couldn’t care less about the consumer!
Lol, the answer my friend "is blowing in the wind" 🍃 Wonderful Talk🙏
EXCELLENT speech. Thank you for posting this. I am greatly encouraged. DA
Even if windmill turns apparently for free there's no way that the electricity price will go down. Because nothing on this planet becomes cheaper event it's for free. And there's plenty of reason - including cost of investment - to demand even higher prices than in case of coal power generation.
We need better batteries. Something cheap and easy to produce with no environmental impact. Once we find that and replace all LI-ION batteries from all cars. ICE will be non economical and world will move toward E-Cars much quicker.
Wind is nice. But i think Fusion nuclear reactor and Cheaper/new technology in battery is key to solving global warming.
Thanks to share valuable knowledge
How do you recycle those blades? ... you don't, you cut them into pieces and bury them.
No, they are thermally recycled, i.e. incinerated. Which is perfectly fine, because it reduces the amount of oil and gas burned that was never a wind turbine. And the German Society is currently researching other ways of recycling.
@@hape3862 that's not what I've seen. What I saw was they cut then into pieces and bury them.
@@ghostfifth It's not a huge problem though, honestly, even if they do cut them up. There is plenty of landfill space and those situations in fully developed nations are handled really well.
They can be shredded and made in cement. And even if burried... I will always prefer burried turbines over burried radioactive waste which radiates for thousand of years.
How often do they need replacing?
The problem is storage in batteries to use when there is no wind. The other problem is the impact of the turbines on the surrounding ecosystem and the fact that farmland may be the best windy place to set up the turbines.
The problem is the human made climate change. We are already at 1°C+ global warming and the real impact will hit us at 2°C. We just can't burn more öl and gas.
He discussed that with the ability to use excess power to generate hydrogen, which can then be stored and shipped. It's like a battery. I was going to say the same thing, but the ability to generate affordable hydrogen is a game changer. You are completely correct about the second part though. The wildlife impact is huge for windmills. Far bigger than people seem to think it is.
@@BaresarkSlayne "The wildlife impact is huge for windmills. Far bigger than people seem to think it is." - No, it isn't. There are studies made in Germany that disprove this fairy tale. And even if you were right: climate change would kill far more birds.
"impact of the turbines on the surrounding ecosystem" Like literally every energy source. But wind power doesn't create large emissions like coal and isn't creating toxic waste which radiates for thousand of years.
The UK is the world leader and we are doing okay
How did this guy get to present to TED? He is dreaming, not presenting an idea worth sharing. If these people are the face of environmentalism, in 30 years from now we will still have the same problems we have today, but bigger. We need nuclear power, like engineers have been repeating for decades.
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Baseline power & storage. Solve those & you've got a chance.
Old arguments. These "problems" are long solved, at least here in Europe.
Thank you
But, I was told that wind turbines (excuse me, “windmills”) cause cancer … lol.
They contribute more radioactivity to nature than nuclear power.
@@hermannkreitmayer I have to imagine you’re not from the US … our former disgrace of a president said that (& continues to say that, he even brought it up out of nowhere recently).
I hope you're being sarcastic and not a moron lmao
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How much wind power does it take to produce one wind turbine????? How often do wind turbines last until need replaced???
25 years and produce a lot of C02 to make and assemble.. aka he's telling a false lie and selling fake dreams. Also good luck with calm no-windy days. Sadly I got him as a politician...
yes
@@DMminion101 I 100% Agree
@@DMminion101 Dude you are turning the truth pretty badly. Out of all energy sources, wind turbines are creating one of the LEAST amount of emissions for productions. Only nuclear power is a little bit less, but compared to that, wind turbines aren't creating toxic waste which radiates for thousand of years.
@@circleinfo Because you've experienced lots of problems with nuclear waste radiation? No, it's easily stored safely. A real wind power country will need LOTS of batteries and today that's more mining that any nuclear plant would ever need.
Turbines are not without problems. One of them is infrasounds, specially if a lot of them are together the low vibrations can disrupt small animal behaviour and even human sleep that could lead to anxiety, among other problems. I'm not saying they should stop, but they should definitely look into it.
Cosmos,life and consciousness are quantum(Dirac),molecular(Dawkins) and memetic(Dennet) respectively
What about the fact that hydrogen can explode?
What about the birds?
Storing electricity in hydrogen is super ineffizient. Use batteries, they have been designed to do. And you are 60% more efficient so you can cut oil production much earlier, because 2050 is just rediclious.
Batteries are not green when you consider what it takes to mine the materials to manufacture them. Hydrogen however is potentially far greener, even though it's less efficient - this is their aim
With batteries, however, you cannot cover the amount of energy that needs to be stored over seasons, for example. Here you need power-to-gas. It is not a problem that the efficiency is not so high because the excess energy used for this would be lost anyway.
@@jim_ginge Batteries are green enough. LiFePo4 batteries have a cycle life of 6000 cycles and do not need any rare earth metals. Storing is hydrogen is also not green as it cannot be stored at room temperature.
@@yasminesteinbauer8565 You can actually store the amount you need. Why should we store energy over a season if you have enough overproduction as you state that we can waste 60% of it? You also cannot store hydrogen as long as you might think. It leaks from any tank because of its atom size if storage as gas and if stored as liquid requires a ton of energy to keep it cool.
@@TschingisTube Through a simple chemical process, the hydrogen can be converted into methane gas by carbon dioxide. This is then equivalent to natural gas and can even be stored in the same tanks.
It could in the same way the US government can pay for all of its expenses in pennies.
There's thousands of these things out there that just sit on farm lands and produce nothing because there isn't enough wind. Waste of time and money
Ehem... We need you guys to *hurry up* 👀. Sincerely, Europe...
Yet he won't stop the construction of a new pipeline..
Great to see a politician who is actually seems like he genuinely cares
I live in the same country. He's a potato, not liked by most people who're above being dumb...
I’m a huge advocate for clean energy,
My only hope is that there isn’t disastrous unforeseen consequences of stopping/reducing natural wind flows of earth.
What we did to the marshlands and rivers by straightening them and adding Dams was supposed to be “good” too, sadly most have no clue the negative impacts that has had on our global ecosystems.
@@carsonhunt4642 Remember wind turbines lives only for 25-30+/- years before they need heavy replacement parts and such, so it's barely better than building a new one. And each counter it's production of co2 of its making by 6-8 months, but currently there are 341.000 turbines in the world making 227.333 years worth of co2. And does so every 25-30+/- years. :)
@@carsonhunt4642 I don't think it works the same way I mean The wind is not absorbed by the turbines, it just make them move and that rotation is actually what produces energy (electricity)
@@mara257
The wind is absorbed, it’s a direct energy transfer from the wind to the turbine.
I can’t remember the loss rate, obviously it’s not insanely high. But it’s the same reason putting tons of underwater turbines didn’t work because it was affecting the water currents. Let’s hope wind currents don’t matter as much as water, water eco systems turned out to be more fragile than experts ever thought.
kinda wish there were giant vortex air funnel traps, like water damns but with a retractable shell in case it goes too fast (+ a system or ai that detects when to shut off before the dangerous/degrading speed reaches)
From what I understand the blades turn reducing the force on them.
Betz limit has been smashed and debunked by the gyro wind turbine regards Graham Flowers
We in the U.S. can't seem to get passed the special interests, rich waterfront homeowners (Cape Cod,) fishermen (Maine). and others, so we can build wind turbines in one of the best locations - the near offshore. All the advantages of offshore wind turbines exist near shore including strong steady wind, shallow water, and most importantly, close proximity to cities that consume the output. It will take federal government intervention to overcome these special interests for the benefit of the greater good.
Even RFK jr opposed Cape Wind. Of course he's not right in the head to begin with.
Could never understand why innovation in society only seems to go so far then stop or stagnate, or get stuck on repeat. Looking at the infrastructure, the number of gas stations and vehicles. The crops being often just a handful of kinds. There are so many better ideas like these.
One of the strangest arguments i've heard of wind turbines is that it kills birds, or there was that video of a bird getting hit by one of the wings. Have they no mind to think about the number of things vehicles hit? Anything that walks and low flying things. Then roads, you have to destroy everything in the path of the road, the whole forest has to be flattened. So many people are braindead.
Thnks good for India' v r trying to follow
Thank for India going nuclear instead, way safer, less co2 and less trash every 25 years(the average life of a windmill)
There's a fine line between dream and delusion.
It's a scientifically backed fact, and your comment is a few empty words. Have a good day!
@@iTzKneecap another hard fact is materials mined and formulated to make turbines, right down to those blades that use massive amounts of chemical agents to produce and don't have a long lifespan. Those chemicals are made with petroleum products. Then get into the political side where turbines are often shut off as part of contracting for power grid and their overseeing parties. I've worked next door to a turbine blade manufacturer and pass by these turbines every day. The tech isn't there yet and production / installation of these things has far more negative impact on the environment and wallet. Hydrogen is a thing here iny state along with carbon farming, all of which are in its infancy and not sustainable or good for environment. Just the native animal impact is bad enough from birdstrikes on blades to disruption of insect populations. It simply cannot scale yet and using Denmark as a example of a solution is just dumb.
@@SocialContractActual Nice fact!
Greenland has a humongous potential for wind energy, also part of Denmark. No, all we need is a connection.... Perhaps from Europe via Greenland to Canada. Will also allow surplus of solar to be sent tot the other side of the grid where it's still dark.
But what about the waste?
I heard birds love to dive into these things to see if they can make it through before getting hit
Yep...
Birds kill themselves flying into windows too. Are you going to stop having windows? Oh and how does that compare the damage to wildlife from all those oil spills?
@@benjaminhenderson7059 this will make birds species go extinct a bird had never crashed too my window but I never said anything about oil I'm against oil also, people need to think before they do.
If we bring natural wilderness back instead of having orchards everywhere the wilderness would absorb a lot of that carbon
@@basedOI I have birds fly into my picture windows and die at least a few times a year, and thats just house windows.
End to oil and gas?! So no asphalt plastic medicine paint lubricants nylon, running shoes aso?
Please dont listen to Dan, he doesnt know what hes talking about.
It won't help you. It isn't the alternative of gas and oil...
Electricity has an awful vice - it need to be consumed as produced and is very costly and difficult to be stored especially in distributed manner. Chemical fuels are unbeatable in this area.
Well, this is well-timed.....Also, I guess I need to change the way I say Viking......
No, don't say Wiking. This is a dane who can't pronounce Viking. :D
concrete?
Today I learned that all Danes prefer to be adressed as "her"...🤔😒😒
plimenti cerchiamo di essere saggi autonomi come Socrate e indipendenti nel pensiero non seguire le masse ma cercare di essere sempre piu amorevoli e autentici e perseveranti ecco verso il noi mondo. Con
Great . We in south india using Vestas 500 kw on shore wind turbine for past 20 years , producing 1,50,00,000 units KWH/ year .
Yet india on average gets 2 hours of blackout every DAY
Small country big aim
Destiny is all!
Texas is generating 22652 MWh of wind energy at the time of this comment, and none of it is offshore. I understand that Denmark does not want turbines on much of its land, but this TED talk is only about thoughts and dreams instead of reality. Denmark can do it, but they need to do it now or try something different. They can help Iceland with green hydrogen, for example, or they could ask Uruguay for advice.
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Jesus loves you he died on the cross for your sins. All you have to do is believe in him and you will be saved. ❤
I am quite sure Sweden and Norway would beg to differ about Denmark being "vikings" they would most likely call Danes "pretenders" at best.
The danes had the biggest viking empire mate, we took over literally all of england, sweden had to expand eastward because the danes and norwegians pushed them out of the west. Go check your history
@@Linexxlol eh, we didn’t take more of Sweden than Skåne. Though prior to that Norway, Sweden and Denmark kinda living under one rule and we had one king family but Swedes, Norwegian and Danes saw themself being from different kinds of said kingdom. Yes England fell under Danish rule from year 895 for a little lifetime and then the Brit’s slaughtered most of them when it fell apart. But then at year between 1013 and 1042 England, Norway and Denmark became a union(Anglo-Scandinavian Empire) for a few years. But keep in mind, back then England was smaller and the Scottish rule and the Welsh took up about half of the north and west parts of England.
@@DMminion101 > we took all of sweden, and they took all of Denmark. The two countries effectively switched populations.
@@PLF... and then we fought 11 wars with Sweden(since 1523) and lost 7 of them.
"Even though not all of these wars resulted in territorial changes and some ended in status quo, Sweden is considered victorious in many of these wars because they were triggered by Denmark."
Sensacional! Uma solução fantástica para muitos países! Parabéns aos envolvidos!
@Karamu Shazan Elogios são bem vindos em todos os idiomas. Comentários xenofóbicos, ao contrário, não são bem vindos e sempre merecem opróbio.
Xenófobo
Do not get too much carried away with this left wing politican - there is a lot of unsolved problems. We need the politicans to understand we urgently need nuclear power.
If we used the money for developing thorium nuclear we would get much further and its much cheaper in the long run.
If we put one absolutely humongous wind turbine in the middle of ocean we could energize the whole world! I mean frickin humungous! Just one! Cant believe no one else thought of this! I mean huge! Just one would do it! Thx
Is that kinda like building a giant wall on the southern border?
@@benjaminhenderson7059 huh? How did u work that in to what i said?
@@Johnnyrocks34 both are obviously useless ideas
Windmills are ugly and they take more energy to make then they will recoup! And the blades are fiberglass and can’t be recycled.
No, they dont take more energy to make - BUT - they are stupid anyway and should in most cases not be built.
The wind price has more than doubled for people using California's renewable energy.
Wind won't work go nuclear euro gnome hippy cause I'm radioactive.
Nonsense. The cost of producing, installing, maintaining, replacing, these monstrosities (which are never in the back yards of the elites who so ardently advocate them) must be accounted for, as well as the associated expense of the infrastructure required to compensate for their downtime. My first question is, how much will this speaker personally gain from the growth of these eyesores? My second question is how much will he taxpayers have to pay to subsidize this blight on the landscape?
You have never been to Europe, have you?
I live close to "these monstrosities". They look cool. I have nothing else to add.
The mess and the replacement costs+(more)... x_x rip our lives, while most here are too blind to realize it.
@@KrunoslavStifter you think fossil fuel companies aren't subsidized? Really?
@@monkeyinadrawer ditto
Inspiring!
Takes way more fossil fuel energy to produce turbines then the turbine actually saves!