04:43 "a new President now who wants to bring manufacturing back to the US" <- oh, hell, carrying water for Trump. You are implying that previous Presidents did not want to bring manufacturing "back". Your dive into economic nationalism really stains this conversation.

Electrification is big bux and its not easy. Keep the fossil fuel plants online until rates can come down. Subsidize rates to bring them down if they cross a threshold. Build the political will until the next wave of promising technology is available and affordable. Until then, have to help out workers that are struggling to make ends meet so that the state doesn't loose its blue state status. California has made great progress, but not everything has to be about more - sustaining is important too.

It's not trump causing the nationwide shift. It's the Kremlin.

So.... honestly, there is too much focus on the fossil fuel industry in California (my state) right now. There is already significant momentum towards electrification but it is being held up by the high cost of electricity in California and the lack of scale for heat-pump products. What you really need to focus on now is to reduce the price of electricity so people can actually see a real benefit from electrification, and not tax people trying to install renewables such as solar panel or trying to replace gas appliances with heat pumps. Particularly city permit costs and professional requirements that make it almost impossible to DIY even the things that can be easily DIYd at the current juncture. To be clear here, it already costs an arm and a leg to install panels or electrify an appliance, stop making that EVEN WORSE by operating under the assumption that people able to afford the early transition (prior to the scaled transition) have infinite amounts of money to spend on it. People just can't afford electrification at scale without addressing these issues. Big time. Meaning, get rid of SCE and PG&E entirely (why are 40 million Californian's giving two private companies 10% profits on power? It makes not even the remotest sense). Also put more of our tax money into subsidizing electricity, and create a larger differential in time-of-use rates to make batteries more useful. -Matt

Thank you for bringing this to light

Here after Helene 10/2024

How close is Piedmont Lithium?

It is a lake and mostly ground water, not rain water, they are doing tests to see what effect pumping all the water out would have on people who have wells in the area

Yet gold miners have to reclaim the land BY LAW

Fyi - Albemarle top investors, Blackrock, Vanguard, Capital Global Development and State Street. It puts all those conspiracy theories right on the front burner. What's really going on with this hurricane and land disaster??

The area looks beautiful! I hope they're never allowed to ruin such a gem!

Nuclear warheads? That’s just great isn’t it no wonder the Fed government wants this mine

Now isn't this interesting.....and blows the whole conspiracy theorist out of the water....sorry for the pun. Fema isn't stealing your land, you are selling it to the companies, and working at jobs that are benefited from having these companies, this industry in your state - but now, so many would rather tell lies to help a dictator take control of our nation. History and Facts sure do clash with conspiracy.

re open the mine!

You can't fool mother nature, and she doesn't accept cash lol...

Very thankful you did this video when you did. Helene is bringing up many concerns

Oct. 2024

What's the status of the lithium mine in the area of western North Carolina? Did it flood? How bad? What was released? I bet you didn't think of this did you? See if you find information on that in the news?

There is only one garbage queen and thats Think Pink Vd Bella Nilsson. Thank god there is a GOOD garbage queen who actully does the oposite;) lol

Waste of time discussion until the USA has the extraction and refining capability.

Texas in its own grid.

The small U.S. market limits scalability, resulting in high costs and poor export competitiveness. The prospect for a competitive U.S. battery storage supply chain is poor. Tariffs, sanctions, and the Tonya Harding strategy are the only routes to viability.

The USA is bankrupt . I don't see how the country can come back from that . Production costs are untenable .

I wonder if bad weather days make the charge fall short, and if so, do they buy low from the grid at peak hours for resale that night?

How to use hydrogen in a way that I don't really remember being directly addressed here: There are many existing uses for hydrogen that already use substantial amounts of it. The clean way to make hydrogen is to make it from clean electricity. Those clean sources of electricity, at least wind and solar, tend to be very distributed. It follows that hydrogen can be economically generated very close to the point of use. That being the case, the usual costs of electricity transmission AND hydrogen storage can largely be avoided. Since these are generally stationary uses, if you have a suitable storage space, compression of the hydrogen can be much easier, possibly avoided altogether.

How big was the original mine because this feels like a BS report to make people believe it is all unicorns and glitter. Research Silver Peak Nevada and learn the truth.

Someone ask Brett next time what GDJ means?!?! 😂

The best actions to take in the near term are reconductoring, DLR, and virtual power plants. Building out renewables portfolios would also be a decent approach.

The easiest step to take for the US is to harness 10 quadrillion BTUs of wasted grid electricity, and turn it into hydrogen by electrolysis. 1 quad is equal to 76 of the largest oceangoing supertankers, filled to the top. Each one of these tankers would hold 2 million barrels of oil. We are ignoring the fastest, and most readily available path, along with extreme amounts of cash, on the table. With oil over 70 dollars a barrel, the valuations are quite considerable.

Panasonic operates a hydrogen-to-the-home network. The Enefarm division has been highly successful.

Contrast hydrogen subsidies to fossil fuel subsidies, and to further downstream fossil fuel collateral damage portfolios. These may go on to include lowered real estate values, early demise, abandoned oilwells. loss of canopy and surface waters, decrease of topsoil, remediation outlays, illnesses, and lower agriculture yields. Geopolitical strife, military operational costs, insurance and medical premiums, price inflation and uncertainty, et cetera, could all also be evaluated respectively.

Green electricity consists of hydroelectric, wind, solar, biogas, and nuclear power.

Not all electricity on the grid is used, irrespective of the location or time, so adding new generation is a pointless exercise in most cases in the US. Peaks might require power, at least in the near term, but rooftop solar and wind turbines are not built out yet. Consequently, it isn't possible to predict the characteristics of the 2050 grid. In any case, cash in on curtailment, nightly grid power loss, and seasonal wind power surges. These are wasted energy streams that can be used to make hydrogen, right now. The US wastes well over half of its grid total electricity output, grid power has unlimited range (hence A/C), and electricity moves at 9/10s the speed of light. 10 quadrillion BTUs of grid energy can be harnessed, and are being left on the table. As such, why are they so worried about locations of generation? The comments made in this video are truly mystifying. Generation and use are not matched well, especially when paired with solar and wind, so hydrogen and batteries would of course be needed..

Having colors for hydrogen is a distraction. The original intent was for green hydrogen to convey the zero carbon nature of hydrogen. Siblings for green hydrogen are green steel, green cement, green mobility, green electricity, green ammonia, et cetera. Having this endless debate of hydrogen within a reference of colors schemes, may lead to results of inconsequence. Let's consider and debate with strategy in mind.

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Interconnection, interconnection, interconnection.

5%?

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So, Hawaii gets rid of coal power, and guess what THEY RUN OUT OF POWER and have to impliment rolling blackouts, guess who else has to do rolling blackouts, California.. hmmm, maybe electing Democrats ISN'T that great of an idea!

I wondered why I it was so hard to find a used battery for my Leaf. I also wondered why the prices were so high when I did find one. Now I know the answer.

Its nice to see the Weather Channel presenting this information so clearly and calling on Canary Media staff to talk about it. Good job all round!

what is a solar microgrid?

Wait my brother in law said EV batteries end up in the land fill after 5 years…

Rooftop solar should be limited when in daytime solar provides essentially 100% electricity. If batteries are provided to shift load to the evening that may be worthwhile but utility solar is significantly cheaper. Net metering days should be over unless electricity is provided when actually needed !

Hope is not a product. Hype avoids the messy little problems. In case of hydrogen they're fatal to hope

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Hydrogen is a ridiculous material. It is wildly impractical. You do not want to store it, ship it, handle it... I think ammonia is the first thing you do... Japan already pulled the trigger on this. -Ammonia is a huge commodity - 2% of GHG in NA already -Japan is co-firing ammonia in existing energy plants - offsetting the dirty fuels while utilizing the existing infrastructure -Europe has several flex-fuel ship engines in production - these can run on diesel OR ammonia. Japan is also building port facilities for ammonia fueling. Another point I want to raise, we dump green energy sometimes. This is because of the matching problem, green electricity production does not match up with demand perfectly. This creates a cost/benefit tradeoff - as we create more green energy supply we dump more. If green energy was not dumped, if it was made with green energy during off-peak the economics change a lot. I have a report I could share that estimates with free electricity you could make green ammonia for ~$100/ton, the open market price for ammonia is in the range $600-1500.

Thoughtful and insightful discussion. Thanks!

Re: repurposing gas pipelines isn't this a big focus in Europe (European hydrogen backbone)? Seems to contradict what Michael was arguing...

Love the clarity, thanks.