Given Fully Charged show's cozy relationship with Vince and Ecotricity, I think it might be worth commenting on their bio-gas initiative. Happened to catch Vince getting into a bit of a Twitter spat with the writer George Monbiot, and couldn't help but notice that Vince seemed evasive on environmental impact studies and the like regarding this project.
I like Vince, and I’ve engaged with him on his FB page a few times. However, whenever I try to crunch the numbers with him on ‘green gas’ (read diesel hungry AD infrastructure) he just won’t respond. The road miles involved in ‘green gas’ will be immense.
I was about to say something similar , or maybe something really awful like " be careful Robert, Dale may try to mow you down and digest you into methane if you're not careful"
Wasn't he also involved in some sort of nonsense "air diamonds" startup that was going to use fantastic amounts of energy to take a few grams of CO2 from the air and turn them into diamond?
IMHO Dale's Green Gas is a great idea if he's using clipping from public spaces, but that also means this will not be a replacement for Fossil Gas. It will be a small but welcome part of the energy mix, not a big player. If of course fugitive emissions are under control.
As the head of the micro fan supporters group, NewYorkCity FGR, let me say this is awesome. I love both the message and the sport. Great season! SO glad you can watch every game on video in the USA.
If they are building a new stadium, why not cover it completely in solar panels, and sell the power generated above what they use. The complaints that I here all of the time is that there is not enough space to put solar panels to make it worthwhile for the country.
Great effort from this lovely club. I have one issue though, and it is a major one. Why put the new stadium next to a motorway junction rather than next to the daddy of sustainable transport: the railway!?
Possibly because the Local Authority and their Planning depart said so? There's bound to be a Development Plan of some sort and that's the designated site. Perhaps the land was cheaper? Perhaps the road traffic ends up being vastly reduced in the urban environment. As for railways then, as we are now experiencing, perhaps they aren't quite so "reliable" after all?
Sadly taking a local neighborhood's club out of it home and sticking it on green fields next to the motorway is not my idea of green. Currently the local fans can walk to the stadium, after the new one is build they will have to drive 8 miles. This does nothing for the local community or the environment.
There are probably various restrictions on ground sizes, safety, access etc laid out by the Football League that they will have to adhere to as they climb the leagues
Er, what about the non local fans who live too far away from the current stadium - and have to drive........?! Isn't the club growing and so needs a bigger stadium? AND presumably, the local roads won't cope. AND locals will have more noise pollution, traffic, punters traipsing about etc etc. What's your green/local solution.....?!
@@rtfazeberdee3519 Local (Planning) Authority might have decided the impact of lots of fans milling about in the streets and possibly car parking which upsets the residents was an issue. Will presume the site will be treated to an outbreak of redevelopment ... Plenty of three story townhouses, with parking on ground floor, for maximum use of land. Doubtless the houses will come wired up for car charging ... just as hydrogen fuel cells cars are about to take centre stage.
Plus a few timber high rise buildings in Canada and Japan. Turns out that the Japanese structures are sort of earthquake proof. They don't need the swinging bob weights or massive water tanks. Engineered timber has been around from the 1990s. The Crossrail station at Canary wharf was built with a timber roof and sides in 2014. Sort of a geodetic design but much longer. I gather one term is "parallams", or "glulams". Excellent engineering using "natural" organic materials.
A problem with wood is insect infestation and shrinkage. There is only is much you can do with wood. Also preserving wood takes lots of chemicals. So the eco side is not as eco as you think.
@@johnburns4017 😂😂😂😂 You might well have been partially correct in the years gone by. However, science and technology have advanced so probably no need for you to concern yourself. We've have timber framed housing for years ... and not just in the past 40 years. Late medieval houses still exist as do timber framed (balloon type) buildings from slightly later periods. Some suffered from dry or wet rot as well as insect infestations. Some survived. You won't need me to remind you there's a hammer beam roof at Versailles, constructed of sweet chestnut, that is spiderwebs free since construction. So not all bad.
@@t1n4444 I am fully aware of the history of wood in buildings. Some Japanese buildings are about 700 years old. Then taken to pieces every 100 years or so, fix parts and then reassemble. The points I made are still valid.
Totally agree Robert but this new stadium will destroy a small forest to built it from scatch and if the wood was recycled then yes I would agree but not sure with this project it's the case.
🤔 wouldn't a wooden building, that sourced materials from a sustainable forest lock away a couple of tons of CO2? (yes I know, small potatoes) compared to a concrete building releasing tons? I get that cutting down a virgin forest is bad. And yes, supply chains have way too much fog. But there's many forests that are not virgin, and produce wood sustainably.
I want to know more about their electric bus/coach... Edit: I did some Googling it seems they used a Yutong TCE12 for the game against Bristol Rovers earlier this season
I would love to visit even though I'm not the biggest fan of football, but the grounds and the food available would make it worth the trip. Good luck to the team and the local community!
Vince has been manovering not only to get it next to the M5, but to get Stonehouse train station shifted a mile north onto his side off the line (with just fields between it and the stadium1.6 miles as the crow flies) and north off the Bristol/Cardiff London split. So might be very easy to visit.
In the Stadium and Outside the stadium EVERYTHING IS GREEEN!!! HOly shiet ... The Oxygen Quality would be Amazing.. I love this Setting. Im Going here! _tho im Asian and grew up on a landfill_
Trees, when mature, take in very little carbon, it is however stored within the tree, if you then use this timber for construction you are storing it, locking it away. Same as SkyDiamonds, suck the carbon out of the air and lock it away indefinitely! As for those saying it will instantly burn down, you obviously have no experience in the construction industry, it will outperform steel, and as fire regulations give a very limited amount of time for any stadium to be evacuated in event of a fire, it will never be an issue. Both Bradford and Kings cross were caused by a huge buildup of rubbish under the structures. Can't wait for the new stadium. Walking distance from my house! And most FGR fans don't live in Nailsworth anyway, as evident by the parking and traffic chaos around the existing ground.
Glulam beams are actually more fire resistant than steel and concrete ones. Wood at that size chars on the surface, but the center stays intact. The charred bits serve as a heat blanket of sorts. Meanwhile, concrete cracks at high temps and steel loses its temper, both leading to catastrophic failure. This isnt the first wooden building of this size. plenty already exist, and they've proven to be perfectly safe and feasible.
@@rfldss89 that sounds good but isn't the whole point of using steel and cement that there is nothing to burn in the first place so high temps shouldn't be an issue. I'm all for more eco construction methods but this wouldn't be the first time something was sold as being fire resistant and then turns out it wasn't.
Dale is such a fascinating guy, I was particularly intrigued about his plans for 'Green Gas from Green Grass' - perhaps this is something The Fully Charged Show could look into in the future?
@@adamlytle2615 produces little gas. Takes huge amount of fossil fuels in producing the grass. Large scale grass production takes away from productive agricultural land. Toxic by products difficult put back on the land. Maize is most efficient AD feed, and nobody has done the total environmental analysis of the whole process.
@@heatleynoble ah, I see. I thought you might have meant red herring in that they were not really going to do that or something,like it was just a proposal for a PR stunt. Yes, from what I've read this does seem to be a half baked idea would have more impacts than they are letting on.
Si they keep also a biodigestor to treat the kitchen and food scraps and produce cooking Gad and liquid fertilizer to use on the kitchen the first and turf the later.
Everton F.C. are building a stadium right now, by filling in a historic dock, that was in a World Heritage Zone. The United Nations (UNESCO) stripped the city of Liverpool completely of its World Heritage status mentioning the stadium proposals. Besides desecrating the City of Liverpool's heritage, and _world heritage,_ the stadium has about zero eco credentials. The stadium is also too small for such a large football club, with poor public transport access in a city with metro. The stadium is largely waterlocked being on a dock estate causing concern in a crowd panic situation. The out of place stadium was proposed and encouraged by the now deposed philistine city mayor. The owner is an Iranian, with strong Russian oligarch connections, who has little understanding of the city's heritage and culture. The Liverpool City Region mayor, who is above the City of Liverpool mayor, could have blocked the scheme, however he conspired by staying silent. Also Central government stayed silent as one of its city's was to be stripped of World Heritage status - embarrassing for the UK. There was a superior site for a larger stadium as the larger and vacant Garston gasworks site in the city was available, which had few obstacles to planning with a 6-platform parkway station about 500 metres from the site. It is nice to see people do the right thing. Forest Green Rovers deserve success. A pity Premiership club's do not have the same approach.
check out flywheel storage, easily up to 30kWh/kg, same as hydrogen, various spin frequencies, up to 200krpm, like a typical jet engine, design equation for energy density: S=E/m=(pi^2)*(r^2)*(f^2), pi = 3.14159, r = radius of mass disc, f = spin frequency, 33Hz for 2000rpm, units in J/kg, 1MJ = 0.278kWh, examples r=1m, r=10m, r=0.1m, r=100m (31MW solar field)
I’ve seen Dale Vince at FC Live & listened to the FGR story so it was really great to see some of the environmental measures they’ve taken - especially the Fully Charged playing field! 👏😊
Love Fully Charged, love the idea of Forest Green, love what they do, very wary of Dale Vince. And I just get the feeling this video, and any featuring him, will age as appallingly as much of the Musk content has
I know what you mean, but people who 'get shit done' are often unpleasantly pushy. It comes with the territory. As pushy CEO's go, Mr Vince has a more constructive record than most so I'm inclined to cut him some slack.
I like the idea of Forest Green, but I switched from Ecotricty to Bulb as their prices were much lower whilst offering the same or better environmental benefit. I felt that Forest Green was Dale Vince's vanity project funded by Ecotricty customers.
They say about them being a green football club and building a new stadium out of wood. But one question they won't answer on this new wooden stadium is how many trees will be knocked down to build this new stadium. How green is it going to be when they knock down a thousand trees to build this stadium. Yes they can plant a tree for everyone that get knocked down. But it takes years for trees to fully grow.
If Dale runs that club the same way he runs Ecotricity then in must be an absolute horror show. I joined Ecotricity to be more green but because I had such a bad experience with them, I actually went back to a non-green energy supplier. An utterly garbage company.
I've been an Ecotricity customer for many years and had no issues, other than a brief back-and-forth sorting out the move originally. They've been very fair with their simple pricing package, done a great job hedging to protect us customers from the price increases for as long as they were able to over the past couple of years too. Unlike the many small energy firms who have gone bust selling unprofitable products with no backup plan, meaning the remaining good companies like Ecotricity pick up the tab for others' shady business practices.
This is so amazing to see! OhMyGoodness, this is brilliant 😃 I grew up playing soccer & would love to visit their future eco-stadium to watch a football match ⚽🙏🏽
@@jimsouthlondon7061 Bradford was a terrible tragedy but a lot of things went wrong there and safety standards have come a long way. Smoking in the stadium. Gaps below the seats where litter had accumulated. No fire extinguishers in the stands. Highly flammable bitumen on the stadium roof.
@@xandermarjoram8622 After Kings X escalator Jubilee Line ,Elizabeth line and all tube stations only made from Steel and Concrete.Sustainable Wood burns. As did the thermal cladding on Grenfal Tower
@@jimsouthlondon7061 Grenfell's cladding was made of ACM, which is polyethylene (plastic) between two layers of aluminium (metal). It had also failed multiple safety tests before the fire, but it hadn't been replaced.
@@xandermarjoram8622 So the guy who signed off the cladding on Grenfall Tower is he also signing of the fire safety certificate on the planning permission for your all new green wooden sports stadium ,another fiery death trap ?
I expect the people who design stadiums know that wood can catch fire......don't you....?!?! However, maybe they should check with TH-cam first! You know, just to be safe........
Almost reminds me of the old Baseball parks. Growing up in Cincinnati the park was wooden with wood seats and a human powered score broad. If only they could have put solar power on the old stadium.
@@simonhenry7867 just to check - that's not a serious response to the preceding comment, is it........?!?! ..... 'Cos you kept a very straight face..!!
@@andymccabe6712 :) and Vegan grass, just made me laugh... so when they cut it they don't kill anything... what about the poor grass which is trampled, or the poor worms ? So vegan means that only artifical fertilizer is used... how is that good for the enviroment, or are they makeing stinging nettle tea or something to water the grass ? Just sounds like more buzz words
No meat pies??? Real meat I mean, seems odd as I thought football fans would demand them or just not show up or have a food truck appear down the road with real ones since the stadium isn't providing.
Agreed, a lot of vegan ingredients comes from thousands of miles away so not environmentally friendly. Look at coconut oil, soya, corn to name a few. All the blaming cows for the problems with the environment! We fart too!
@@roberthiggins6401 what do you think the cows you eat, eat? Veganism cuts out the middle man, so far fewer calories are needed to be produced because you're not using them to fatten up an animal first
What a great example of virtue signaling! I am all for renewable electricity. A fire hazard of a wooden stadium to replace a steel stadium that could last many decades just feels good. It does nothing positive for CO2 production.
Thank you Robert, for using the V word! Absolutely NO environmentalist can be true to themselves unless they are Vegan. It will be lovely to hear the whole of the channel presenter's sharing their Vegan journey.. For The Environment, Go Vegan :)
@@jimsouthlondon7061 wow.. how exciting, Fully Charged fans are now nutritionists. That is something I didn’t think about.. congratulations to the Fully Charged team, for providing information over and above. I’m impressed
If you actually care about environmentalism and want more people to adopt it then it's best not to apply absolute purity rules. You'll just drive people away. Of course if you're just in it to feel smug and self-righteous then go ahead.
@@drunkenhobo5039 You make a brilliant point - Thank You! me personally, am yet to be convinced that there is a "climate emergency" so for me being Vegan is purely about the animals. Robert and the rest of the team always talk in terms of 'stop burning stuff' meaning fossil fuels and want us all to drive an electric car.. not a hybrid, but an electric car - so they are seeking the absolute purity as you suggest. I'm not smug, but incredibly sarcastic, a bit like Robert has been to me when ever I comment on this channel. I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the team who all (I guess) claim to be environmentalists, I certainly do not!! By it's very definition it is a known fact that to be an environmentalist the person MUST be Vegan.. not veggie (Robert is veggie I understand) but Vegan. As mentioned, I am skeptical about environmentalism, but watch this channel to educate myself and when I ask questions, not normally associated within this bubble, I treated with utter disregard. So you ask if I feel smug and self-righteous, then no, I take time out of my schedule to learn about electric vehicles, yet when I ask a question.. well that's where Robert comes into his own. But remember he is the long standing environmentalist who has been leading the way on electric vehicles for years, yet will not get educated on the environmental benefits of a vegan lifestyle.. Now do you understand my viewpoint? best wishes.
Imagine a green hooligan , green swearing, spitting in a garbage bin, drinking organic beer only, vegetarian, driving a 10 year old Prius, stupid tatoos made with green ink, living in a council eco flat... Green England, green football, green hooligans. Yes, the future is bright.
Given Fully Charged show's cozy relationship with Vince and Ecotricity, I think it might be worth commenting on their bio-gas initiative. Happened to catch Vince getting into a bit of a Twitter spat with the writer George Monbiot, and couldn't help but notice that Vince seemed evasive on environmental impact studies and the like regarding this project.
I like Vince, and I’ve engaged with him on his FB page a few times.
However, whenever I try to crunch the numbers with him on ‘green gas’ (read diesel hungry AD infrastructure) he just won’t respond.
The road miles involved in ‘green gas’ will be immense.
I was about to say something similar , or maybe something really awful like " be careful Robert, Dale may try to mow you down and digest you into methane if you're not careful"
Wasn't he also involved in some sort of nonsense "air diamonds" startup that was going to use fantastic amounts of energy to take a few grams of CO2 from the air and turn them into diamond?
IMHO Dale's Green Gas is a great idea if he's using clipping from public spaces, but that also means this will not be a replacement for Fossil Gas. It will be a small but welcome part of the energy mix, not a big player. If of course fugitive emissions are under control.
If you saw the pollution that digestate causes you'd realise it's not that environmentally friendly!
As an FGR fan, thanks for this! Great to see we’re still relatively relevant
As the head of the micro fan supporters group, NewYorkCity FGR, let me say this is awesome. I love both the message and the sport. Great season! SO glad you can watch every game on video in the USA.
You're spot on. We need the big clubs around the world to follow suit and to set an example
Valley Parade Bradford City fire
What a great example to all of sport and industry.
If they are building a new stadium, why not cover it completely in solar panels, and sell the power generated above what they use. The complaints that I here all of the time is that there is not enough space to put solar panels to make it worthwhile for the country.
If arsed Google up the Moroccan solar farm project to supply UK via undersea cables.
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There is Wood stadium in Hungary, you should cover it also.
Great effort from this lovely club. I have one issue though, and it is a major one. Why put the new stadium next to a motorway junction rather than next to the daddy of sustainable transport: the railway!?
Possibly because the Local Authority and their Planning depart said so?
There's bound to be a Development Plan of some sort and that's the designated site.
Perhaps the land was cheaper?
Perhaps the road traffic ends up being vastly reduced in the urban environment.
As for railways then, as we are now experiencing, perhaps they aren't quite so "reliable" after all?
So they're not going to build the new stadium near a rail line? Forcing people to travel there in cars.
One question… Where are the solar panels on the new stadium?!? Thought they would make great use of that huge rooftop!
This whole event is just a massive virtue signal.
Sadly taking a local neighborhood's club out of it home and sticking it on green fields next to the motorway is not my idea of green. Currently the local fans can walk to the stadium, after the new one is build they will have to drive 8 miles. This does nothing for the local community or the environment.
There are probably various restrictions on ground sizes, safety, access etc laid out by the Football League that they will have to adhere to as they climb the leagues
Er, what about the non local fans who live too far away from the current stadium - and have to drive........?!
Isn't the club growing and so needs a bigger stadium? AND presumably, the local roads won't cope. AND locals will have more noise pollution, traffic, punters traipsing about etc etc. What's your green/local solution.....?!
@@andymccabe6712 eh, trains? Why not stick the new ground next to a railway?
@@rtfazeberdee3519
Local (Planning) Authority might have decided the impact of lots of fans milling about in the streets and possibly car parking which upsets the residents was an issue.
Will presume the site will be treated to an outbreak of redevelopment ... Plenty of three story townhouses, with parking on ground floor, for maximum use of land.
Doubtless the houses will come wired up for car charging ... just as hydrogen fuel cells cars are about to take centre stage.
Nailsworth where the club is located tiny so most of the fans travel from Stroud
Have to ask. Isn't it Ecotricity who want to grow grass, make gas from it and BURN it?
Plus a few timber high rise buildings in Canada and Japan.
Turns out that the Japanese structures are sort of earthquake proof. They don't need the swinging bob weights or massive water tanks.
Engineered timber has been around from the 1990s.
The Crossrail station at Canary wharf was built with a timber roof and sides in 2014. Sort of a geodetic design but much longer.
I gather one term is "parallams", or "glulams".
Excellent engineering using "natural" organic materials.
Like the cladding on the side of Grenfall Tower
@@jimsouthlondon7061
Interesting comment. Please expatiate.
A problem with wood is insect infestation and shrinkage. There is only is much you can do with wood. Also preserving wood takes lots of chemicals. So the eco side is not as eco as you think.
@@johnburns4017 😂😂😂😂
You might well have been partially correct in the years gone by.
However, science and technology have advanced so probably no need for you to concern yourself. We've have timber framed housing for years ... and not just in the past 40 years.
Late medieval houses still exist as do timber framed (balloon type) buildings from slightly later periods.
Some suffered from dry or wet rot as well as insect infestations.
Some survived. You won't need me to remind you there's a hammer beam roof at Versailles, constructed of sweet chestnut, that is spiderwebs free since construction.
So not all bad.
@@t1n4444
I am fully aware of the history of wood in buildings. Some Japanese buildings are about 700 years old. Then taken to pieces every 100 years or so, fix parts and then reassemble.
The points I made are still valid.
Totally agree Robert but this new stadium will destroy a small forest to built it from scatch and if the wood was recycled then yes I would agree but not sure with this project it's the case.
🤔 wouldn't a wooden building, that sourced materials from a sustainable forest lock away a couple of tons of CO2? (yes I know, small potatoes) compared to a concrete building releasing tons?
I get that cutting down a virgin forest is bad. And yes, supply chains have way too much fog. But there's many forests that are not virgin, and produce wood sustainably.
More emphasis on more trees being planted. And sustainability.
I want to know more about their electric bus/coach...
Edit: I did some Googling it seems they used a Yutong TCE12 for the game against Bristol Rovers earlier this season
I would love to visit even though I'm not the biggest fan of football, but the grounds and the food available would make it worth the trip. Good luck to the team and the local community!
Vince has been manovering not only to get it next to the M5, but to get Stonehouse train station shifted a mile north onto his side off the line (with just fields between it and the stadium1.6 miles as the crow flies) and north off the Bristol/Cardiff London split.
So might be very easy to visit.
Can you cover cochin international airport some day?
In the Stadium and Outside the stadium EVERYTHING IS GREEEN!!!
HOly shiet ... The Oxygen Quality would be Amazing..
I love this Setting.
Im Going here!
_tho im Asian and grew up on a landfill_
I love this club.
Apparently there's a huge stadium in Holland, powered by over 200 old Nissan Leaf batteries......
Trees, when mature, take in very little carbon, it is however stored within the tree, if you then use this timber for construction you are storing it, locking it away. Same as SkyDiamonds, suck the carbon out of the air and lock it away indefinitely!
As for those saying it will instantly burn down, you obviously have no experience in the construction industry, it will outperform steel, and as fire regulations give a very limited amount of time for any stadium to be evacuated in event of a fire, it will never be an issue.
Both Bradford and Kings cross were caused by a huge buildup of rubbish under the structures.
Can't wait for the new stadium. Walking distance from my house! And most FGR fans don't live in Nailsworth anyway, as evident by the parking and traffic chaos around the existing ground.
The 'Fully Charged New Lawn"
Please tell me the lawn mower at 1:22 and tractor at 1:28 are battery powered.
Nah mate - very old diesel.......!
There was a wooden stadium in Bradford once, didn't end well, maybe have a rethink.
I was going to mention this. Surprised there isn't some sort of law against it like there is with the whole no terraces rule.
@@timsyoutube6051 technology has come a long way. The stadium will be filled with sensors to detected fires. Plus wood can be made fire resistance.
They'll probably use Glulam (glued laminated wood) as it seems pretty fireproof
Glulam beams are actually more fire resistant than steel and concrete ones. Wood at that size chars on the surface, but the center stays intact. The charred bits serve as a heat blanket of sorts. Meanwhile, concrete cracks at high temps and steel loses its temper, both leading to catastrophic failure. This isnt the first wooden building of this size. plenty already exist, and they've proven to be perfectly safe and feasible.
@@rfldss89 that sounds good but isn't the whole point of using steel and cement that there is nothing to burn in the first place so high temps shouldn't be an issue. I'm all for more eco construction methods but this wouldn't be the first time something was sold as being fire resistant and then turns out it wasn't.
Dale is such a fascinating guy, I was particularly intrigued about his plans for 'Green Gas from Green Grass' - perhaps this is something The Fully Charged Show could look into in the future?
It turned out to be a total red herring. The AD industry full of them.
@@heatleynoble in what way was it a red herring?
@@adamlytle2615 produces little gas. Takes huge amount of fossil fuels in producing the grass. Large scale grass production takes away from productive agricultural land. Toxic by products difficult put back on the land. Maize is most efficient AD feed, and nobody has done the total environmental analysis of the whole process.
@@heatleynoble ah, I see. I thought you might have meant red herring in that they were not really going to do that or something,like it was just a proposal for a PR stunt. Yes, from what I've read this does seem to be a half baked idea would have more impacts than they are letting on.
@@adamlytle2615 well ecotricity has had the idea for at least 5 years and currently at zero production.
Si they keep also a biodigestor to treat the kitchen and food scraps and produce cooking Gad and liquid fertilizer to use on the kitchen the first and turf the later.
Forest Green are my favorite team in England! Hope they continue to change the game for the better!
Valley Parade Bradford City Fire
@@jimsouthlondon7061 what's your point?
They’re my team now!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
The Valley Parade Bradford City Fire
Great club, love Gloucester
Everton F.C. are building a stadium right now, by filling in a historic dock, that was in a World Heritage Zone. The United Nations (UNESCO) stripped the city of Liverpool completely of its World Heritage status mentioning the stadium proposals. Besides desecrating the City of Liverpool's heritage, and _world heritage,_ the stadium has about zero eco credentials. The stadium is also too small for such a large football club, with poor public transport access in a city with metro. The stadium is largely waterlocked being on a dock estate causing concern in a crowd panic situation.
The out of place stadium was proposed and encouraged by the now deposed philistine city mayor. The owner is an Iranian, with strong Russian oligarch connections, who has little understanding of the city's heritage and culture. The Liverpool City Region mayor, who is above the City of Liverpool mayor, could have blocked the scheme, however he conspired by staying silent. Also Central government stayed silent as one of its city's was to be stripped of World Heritage status - embarrassing for the UK.
There was a superior site for a larger stadium as the larger and vacant Garston gasworks site in the city was available, which had few obstacles to planning with a 6-platform parkway station about 500 metres from the site.
It is nice to see people do the right thing. Forest Green Rovers deserve success. A pity Premiership club's do not have the same approach.
Realy nice, who wil follow? Innovators is what we need. It is amazing.
Interesting video
check out flywheel storage, easily up to 30kWh/kg, same as hydrogen, various spin frequencies, up to 200krpm, like a typical jet engine, design equation for energy density: S=E/m=(pi^2)*(r^2)*(f^2), pi = 3.14159, r = radius of mass disc, f = spin frequency, 33Hz for 2000rpm, units in J/kg, 1MJ = 0.278kWh, examples r=1m, r=10m, r=0.1m, r=100m (31MW solar field)
if you ask any commercial actors (paid actors, influencers, store sellers) then you will not get an honest assessment of anything, ever
Had a moment there where I seriously misread the title of the first chapter as “…humans…”.
It's a great story this Club
Beautiful!
When do we get a video on Fluence?
It's always a pleasure having Robert as a host, long time no see pal, you should be more shows!
I would like to see you challenge the people you are interviewing more. 3.5 billion, 5 billion that's not right
very impressive
The fact that it’s vegan is so cool! That’s so much better for the environment.
They're going to need a whole slew of Tesla Superchargers for the green fans.
I’ve seen Dale Vince at FC Live & listened to the FGR story so it was really great to see some of the environmental measures they’ve taken - especially the Fully Charged playing field! 👏😊
nice!!
Love Fully Charged, love the idea of Forest Green, love what they do, very wary of Dale Vince. And I just get the feeling this video, and any featuring him, will age as appallingly as much of the Musk content has
I know what you mean, but people who 'get shit done' are often unpleasantly pushy. It comes with the territory. As pushy CEO's go, Mr Vince has a more constructive record than most so I'm inclined to cut him some slack.
I like the idea of Forest Green, but I switched from Ecotricty to Bulb as their prices were much lower whilst offering the same or better environmental benefit. I felt that Forest Green was Dale Vince's vanity project funded by Ecotricty customers.
A football stadium made of wood just like the Escalator at kings Cross or the football stadium at Valley Parade Bradford city that caught fire in 1985
They say about them being a green football club and building a new stadium out of wood. But one question they won't answer on this new wooden stadium is how many trees will be knocked down to build this new stadium. How green is it going to be when they knock down a thousand trees to build this stadium. Yes they can plant a tree for everyone that get knocked down. But it takes years for trees to fully grow.
Trees are faster than coal or plastic, and more of a carbon sink than concrete which is a carbon producer
@@AshArAis Hmm, sort of, but concrete will absorb CO2 over its lifetime.
If Dale runs that club the same way he runs Ecotricity then in must be an absolute horror show.
I joined Ecotricity to be more green but because I had such a bad experience with them, I actually went back to a non-green energy supplier. An utterly garbage company.
I've been an Ecotricity customer for many years and had no issues, other than a brief back-and-forth sorting out the move originally. They've been very fair with their simple pricing package, done a great job hedging to protect us customers from the price increases for as long as they were able to over the past couple of years too.
Unlike the many small energy firms who have gone bust selling unprofitable products with no backup plan, meaning the remaining good companies like Ecotricity pick up the tab for others' shady business practices.
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This is so amazing to see! OhMyGoodness, this is brilliant 😃 I grew up playing soccer & would love to visit their future eco-stadium to watch a football match ⚽🙏🏽
A Football Stadium made of wood ,The Bradford City Fire
@@jimsouthlondon7061 Bradford was a terrible tragedy but a lot of things went wrong there and safety standards have come a long way. Smoking in the stadium. Gaps below the seats where litter had accumulated. No fire extinguishers in the stands. Highly flammable bitumen on the stadium roof.
@@xandermarjoram8622 After Kings X escalator Jubilee Line ,Elizabeth line and all tube stations only made from Steel and Concrete.Sustainable Wood burns. As did the thermal cladding on Grenfal Tower
@@jimsouthlondon7061 Grenfell's cladding was made of ACM, which is polyethylene (plastic) between two layers of aluminium (metal). It had also failed multiple safety tests before the fire, but it hadn't been replaced.
@@xandermarjoram8622 So the guy who signed off the cladding on Grenfall Tower is he also signing of the fire safety certificate on the planning permission for your all new green wooden sports stadium ,another fiery death trap ?
Isn't a huge building like that a hazard if it's wooden?
I thought the same
Large Timbers actually take a good while to burn, as compared to stick framing, because the surface area:volume ratio is lower.
I expect the people who design stadiums know that wood can catch fire......don't you....?!?!
However, maybe they should check with TH-cam first! You know, just to be safe........
@@andymccabe6712 haha, they should call me.
Cross laminated timber is actually quite safe in a fire. Worse than concrete, but better than steel, so it matches up against reinforced concrete.
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Almost reminds me of the old Baseball parks. Growing up in Cincinnati the park was wooden with wood seats and a human powered score broad. If only they could have put solar power on the old stadium.
The Bradford City Valley Parade fire .
Must go visit, with a bag full of biltong and dried wors, will make a fortune on game day!
so killing thousens of trees is green ??? this word needs a new start
0:43 only vegan food! (:-)
how is vegan a thing ?
It's when you don't eat animal products.
@@simonhenry7867 just to check - that's not a serious response to the preceding comment, is it........?!?!
..... 'Cos you kept a very straight face..!!
@@andymccabe6712 :) and Vegan grass, just made me laugh... so when they cut it they don't kill anything... what about the poor grass which is trampled, or the poor worms ? So vegan means that only artifical fertilizer is used... how is that good for the enviroment, or are they makeing stinging nettle tea or something to water the grass ? Just sounds like more buzz words
@@andymccabe6712 welcome to the internet, where everyone has a straight face.
You guys are unknowingly turning HINDU ..good .. do better get more aligned with nature and all it’s constituents .. make a better world
No meat pies??? Real meat I mean, seems odd as I thought football fans would demand them or just not show up or have a food truck appear down the road with real ones since the stadium isn't providing.
soccer players should be forced to wear wooden clogs.......to save the planet.
I think it's b...l..t that a cutting down trees is green
Is this something you actually know anything about - or just a kind of hippy, tree-huggy 'feeling'.......?!
Suggest the thinking behind the idea is trees are renewable and by using them you avoid using steel and concrete.
Yes, Let CHOP DOWN more trees for such stadiums
How did you get 3.5 billion 🤣 just dividing the world population in half
Ya lost me at vegan.
Agreed, a lot of vegan ingredients comes from thousands of miles away so not environmentally friendly. Look at coconut oil, soya, corn to name a few.
All the blaming cows for the problems with the environment! We fart too!
@@roberthiggins6401 what do you think the cows you eat, eat? Veganism cuts out the middle man, so far fewer calories are needed to be produced because you're not using them to fatten up an animal first
@@_b-e-n_ Well they aren't soy boys 😛
@@rumanuu actually a large proportion of the cows people eat are fed soy, among other crops like corn and barley. So many of them are soy boys yes
Ha! I'll bet they lost you at 'a'......!
What a great example of virtue signaling! I am all for renewable electricity. A fire hazard of a wooden stadium to replace a steel stadium that could last many decades just feels good. It does nothing positive for CO2 production.
A solar powered coach?? 40 hours charging for 10 miles range. Sorry Bob but I think this whole story is decidedly scamy and a bit bull shity.
It’s allllll bullocks wake up !!!
Timber buildings aren't a new thing.
Perhaps a Google might assist?
Thank you Robert, for using the V word! Absolutely NO environmentalist can be true to themselves unless they are Vegan. It will be lovely to hear the whole of the channel presenter's sharing their Vegan journey.. For The Environment, Go Vegan :)
Completely agree.
Don’t forget your B12 Supplement
@@jimsouthlondon7061 wow.. how exciting, Fully Charged fans are now nutritionists. That is something I didn’t think about.. congratulations to the Fully Charged team, for providing information over and above. I’m impressed
If you actually care about environmentalism and want more people to adopt it then it's best not to apply absolute purity rules. You'll just drive people away.
Of course if you're just in it to feel smug and self-righteous then go ahead.
@@drunkenhobo5039 You make a brilliant point - Thank You! me personally, am yet to be convinced that there is a "climate emergency" so for me being Vegan is purely about the animals. Robert and the rest of the team always talk in terms of 'stop burning stuff' meaning fossil fuels and want us all to drive an electric car.. not a hybrid, but an electric car - so they are seeking the absolute purity as you suggest. I'm not smug, but incredibly sarcastic, a bit like Robert has been to me when ever I comment on this channel. I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the team who all (I guess) claim to be environmentalists, I certainly do not!! By it's very definition it is a known fact that to be an environmentalist the person MUST be Vegan.. not veggie (Robert is veggie I understand) but Vegan. As mentioned, I am skeptical about environmentalism, but watch this channel to educate myself and when I ask questions, not normally associated within this bubble, I treated with utter disregard. So you ask if I feel smug and self-righteous, then no, I take time out of my schedule to learn about electric vehicles, yet when I ask a question.. well that's where Robert comes into his own. But remember he is the long standing environmentalist who has been leading the way on electric vehicles for years, yet will not get educated on the environmental benefits of a vegan lifestyle.. Now do you understand my viewpoint? best wishes.
Imagine a green hooligan , green swearing, spitting in a garbage bin, drinking organic beer only, vegetarian, driving a 10 year old Prius, stupid tatoos made with green ink, living in a council eco flat... Green England, green football, green hooligans. Yes, the future is bright.