Regarding superconductors: they're not only useful for electricity transmission, but also storage. Keyword: superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES). Specific energy in the ballpark of hydrocarbons (assuming current high end backing materials, better in the case of carbon nanomemes), energy density dependent on the critical field of the superconductor. Max discharge rate is faster than capacitors (so max power is not an issue even for small storage units).
21:00 We'll have to string out an extension lead between Uncle Sam's land and His Majesty's convict prison island. We get those doldrums down here as well.
In the manufacturing of consent programs, the cherry picking of sour plums tends to go unnoticed by the average consumer until they get a taste. Proliferation is the favourite sour plum of people outside the military who have less than no trouble shipping their profligate nukes all over the world. While they withhold their simple awareness of what this means for the world, they continue to use nuclear power as advanced as 15X the 1942 technology that was designed to replace the energy Provisioning problem before, during and after WWII. The pirates got all the glory and passion of bravely defending the nation's they owned. Because it's the duty of the Defence Departments to actually defend and not cost nation's their health and welfare, their obligations to the world is as clear as knowing the difference between actual defensive public services and organised crime, whenever a Constitutional Democracy applies this heavily studied DoJ criteria.
29:33 - Is he seriously comparing consumer electricity prices and not wholesale market prices? I am sorry but making such a statement instantly removes so much credibility from you. It's a ridiculous argument. In Germany the pre Ukraine war price of electricity was over 50 % taxes and levies while in the USA it is basically untaxed. Overall the USA is one of the countries in the world with the lowest taxes on energy and one of those with the highest carbon footprint. Wholesale prices pre-Ukraine war and pre-Covid (which both had a huge impact on prices) were almost the same. $38 in the USA in 2019, 37.60€ in Germany in 2019 or $42 in 2019 rates. Higher, yes but marginally. Now with the energy crisis Europe is suffering more because cheap Russian gas just disappeared.
He sounded like a professional water-muddier for the fossil fuel industry. His only implied solution was, "we're going to keep doing the way we have been doing it." He talked all about how horrible switching to renewables allegedly was but he never once mentioned the disastrous impact staying the course would have. Shill. He sounded like a shill.
Why do they speak about supercapacitors ? They are useful in recent fusion experiment to deliver extreme amperage over a few seconds , but they have close to zero application for common usage; capacitors are everywhere but sore minimal amount of energy. The argument about fossil fuel density is partial , hydrogen or synthetic fuels do have similar density to hydrocarbon, of course you loose in the conversion/storage process but if you have renewable or nuclear you can use the power to store excess energy. The point of view is very biases, there is not solution without a massive effort toward sobriety. 30% of the hydrocarbure usage is for heating, this can be reduced massively by improving buildings efficiency. Most of the talk about electric car is garbage, Tesla are a non sense and low comsuption light vehicules offer a much better short terme alternative. One can reasonnably build decent car using 2liter for 100 km. The problem is that we deal wtih 2 canadian industrialists. Canada hase one of the highest footprint per inhabitant in the world (with the saudi, the emirate and the USA). The contry is very sparsely populated so they thinks about unlimited ressources, except for soar panels and windmills. All what they say about the material required for renewables apply to the whole range of activities of the human beings.
Yeah, a lot of that didn't make sense. Energy transmission isn't all that lossy using regular conductors. Also high temperature superconductors are going to be ceramics, which you can't make transmission wires out of. Also no one is suggesting we store all electricity in batteries. We're also going to build out pumped hydro and low tech solutions like compressed air, liquefied air, thermal storage, and synthetic fuels. I've seen him make a lot of complaints about how much it's all going to cost, I haven't really heard him talk about any realistic alternative solutions, and he never much talked about the main reason why the switch to renewables is happening anyway: Climate change and ever increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Is this guy a shill for the fossil fuel industry? Because he sounded very much like a water-muddier all throughout the interview, spreading negativity and doubt but not much in the way of what he was suggesting instead. Unless it was the implied suggestion to just give up and keeping doing the things we used to do them and hope for the best. Suspicious.
Halt production of new cars immediately and spend the massive amounts of federal money that goes towards fixing roads and the rest of the fossil fueled transportation infrastructure that the military maintains for its beloved extractive industries and "security" racket, and instead pay people to stay home and use their creativity to grow a world where they dont need automobility to survive. And obviously rail too and even ecologically conscious water transportation, bringing back horse stables is actually a good idea compared with switching to all electric motor vehicles, the MIC's high-tech fixes will only make things far worse, putting social control(now planetary control) over society and profits over sanity. Anyone who knows what they're talking about and I suspect you do, knows the source of all this innovation you techno-fabulists hype is military technoscience and the industrialists who set the research agenda. They have been talking about the 4th industrial revolution since 1948 and their psychotic bugman ideology has only gotten crazier over the years. I wish they would just ride their hoverboards off a cliff instead of convincing everyone that is a good a idea that will lead to a desirable future.
Regarding superconductors: they're not only useful for electricity transmission, but also storage. Keyword: superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES). Specific energy in the ballpark of hydrocarbons (assuming current high end backing materials, better in the case of carbon nanomemes), energy density dependent on the critical field of the superconductor. Max discharge rate is faster than capacitors (so max power is not an issue even for small storage units).
The best storage media is uranium.
I'm almost done with his book, "The Cloud Revolution..." Great book.
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58:00 E-cars ain't gonna get cheaper
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We'll have to string out an extension lead between Uncle Sam's land and His Majesty's convict prison island.
We get those doldrums down here as well.
Please ask people to repeat after their voice drops out for a few seconds. Or just disable video.
I didn't care much at that point what he had to say anyway. It was clear that he wasn't being constructive, only destructive.
Wind and solar are not fuel independent. What are they made of? 90+% from fossil fuels
Actually it's the fossil fuels that are made out of solar -- ancient sunlight that shone on the world millions of years ago.
In the manufacturing of consent programs, the cherry picking of sour plums tends to go unnoticed by the average consumer until they get a taste.
Proliferation is the favourite sour plum of people outside the military who have less than no trouble shipping their profligate nukes all over the world. While they withhold their simple awareness of what this means for the world, they continue to use nuclear power as advanced as 15X the 1942 technology that was designed to replace the energy Provisioning problem before, during and after WWII. The pirates got all the glory and passion of bravely defending the nation's they owned.
Because it's the duty of the Defence Departments to actually defend and not cost nation's their health and welfare, their obligations to the world is as clear as knowing the difference between actual defensive public services and organised crime, whenever a Constitutional Democracy applies this heavily studied DoJ criteria.
29:33 - Is he seriously comparing consumer electricity prices and not wholesale market prices? I am sorry but making such a statement instantly removes so much credibility from you. It's a ridiculous argument. In Germany the pre Ukraine war price of electricity was over 50 % taxes and levies while in the USA it is basically untaxed. Overall the USA is one of the countries in the world with the lowest taxes on energy and one of those with the highest carbon footprint.
Wholesale prices pre-Ukraine war and pre-Covid (which both had a huge impact on prices) were almost the same. $38 in the USA in 2019, 37.60€ in Germany in 2019 or $42 in 2019 rates. Higher, yes but marginally. Now with the energy crisis Europe is suffering more because cheap Russian gas just disappeared.
He sounded like a professional water-muddier for the fossil fuel industry. His only implied solution was, "we're going to keep doing the way we have been doing it." He talked all about how horrible switching to renewables allegedly was but he never once mentioned the disastrous impact staying the course would have.
Shill. He sounded like a shill.
Why do they speak about supercapacitors ? They are useful in recent fusion experiment to deliver extreme amperage over a few seconds , but they have close to zero application for common usage; capacitors are everywhere but sore minimal amount of energy. The argument about fossil fuel density is partial , hydrogen or synthetic fuels do have similar density to hydrocarbon, of course you loose in the conversion/storage process but if you have renewable or nuclear you can use the power to store excess energy. The point of view is very biases, there is not solution without a massive effort toward sobriety. 30% of the hydrocarbure usage is for heating, this can be reduced massively by improving buildings efficiency. Most of the talk about electric car is garbage, Tesla are a non sense and low comsuption light vehicules offer a much better short terme alternative. One can reasonnably build decent car using 2liter for 100 km. The problem is that we deal wtih 2 canadian industrialists. Canada hase one of the highest footprint per inhabitant in the world (with the saudi, the emirate and the USA). The contry is very sparsely populated so they thinks about unlimited ressources, except for soar panels and windmills. All what they say about the material required for renewables apply to the whole range of activities of the human beings.
Yeah, a lot of that didn't make sense. Energy transmission isn't all that lossy using regular conductors. Also high temperature superconductors are going to be ceramics, which you can't make transmission wires out of.
Also no one is suggesting we store all electricity in batteries. We're also going to build out pumped hydro and low tech solutions like compressed air, liquefied air, thermal storage, and synthetic fuels.
I've seen him make a lot of complaints about how much it's all going to cost, I haven't really heard him talk about any realistic alternative solutions, and he never much talked about the main reason why the switch to renewables is happening anyway: Climate change and ever increasing CO2 in the atmosphere.
Is this guy a shill for the fossil fuel industry? Because he sounded very much like a water-muddier all throughout the interview, spreading negativity and doubt but not much in the way of what he was suggesting instead. Unless it was the implied suggestion to just give up and keeping doing the things we used to do them and hope for the best.
Suspicious.
Halt production of new cars immediately and spend the massive amounts of federal money that goes towards fixing roads and the rest of the fossil fueled transportation infrastructure that the military maintains for its beloved extractive industries and "security" racket, and instead pay people to stay home and use their creativity to grow a world where they dont need automobility to survive. And obviously rail too and even ecologically conscious water transportation, bringing back horse stables is actually a good idea compared with switching to all electric motor vehicles, the MIC's high-tech fixes will only make things far worse, putting social control(now planetary control) over society and profits over sanity.
Anyone who knows what they're talking about and I suspect you do, knows the source of all this innovation you techno-fabulists hype is military technoscience and the industrialists who set the research agenda. They have been talking about the 4th industrial revolution since 1948 and their psychotic bugman ideology has only gotten crazier over the years. I wish they would just ride their hoverboards off a cliff instead of convincing everyone that is a good a idea that will lead to a desirable future.