Green Electricity - Sunday with Lubach (S08) REACTION!

[@DutchNerdKing]

Please react to more Arjen Lubach!

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

Hi, Please add your suggestions to the googleform. You can find the link under every video. But make sure it has good english subtitles and not the automated ones. Thanks

[@DutchNerdKing]

@@HighlyCombustibleReacts Oh, thanks, I was already trying to find the place where I could leave suggestions. This helps a lot!

[@RickFromTheNetherlands]

One of my favorites! Love your reactions to Lubach! Can keep watching them. 😊

[@thatrandomgirl4574]

I love how despite the language barrier and culture diffrences you enjoy arjen lubach just as much.😂😂😂

[@PaulTheTurkish-ny1wc]

This is a five year old video and the amount of solar and wind we generate has improved massively. There are still plenty of problems but the past years also showed we can make significant steps forward if we really want to.

[@Pleezath]

Was just about to comment this, if they / someone else (since I can't) made a brief update on these numbers it would be great.

[@iso20022.MoonCommander]

procentueel gezien is het nog steeds een groot greenwashing verhaal....

[@jasper46985]

Except the grid can't take it and we pay to sell it back.

[@Pleezath]

uiteraard, maar hoeveel.@@iso20022.MoonCommander

[@Ronnet]

​@@iso20022.MoonCommander bedrijven willen wel eens hun bijdrage greenwashen. Maar als we kijken naar het aandeel hernieuwbare energie dan zijn er toch serieuze stappen gezet de afgelopen jaren. We kunnen nu het hele jaar door 33% van onze energie uit hernieuwbare bronnen halen. Met meer aandeel wind on de winter en meer aandeel zon in de zomer. Of zie jij biomassa ook als greenwashing?

[@stanleymaximillian8403]

Don't worry. You can be more trustful on the green transition in the Netherlands. This video of Arjen Lubach is pretty much outdated (from 2018). Per last year, more than 50% of Dutch electricity was produced from green sources (renewable energy). And from the 50%, the share can be broken down as followed: 50% sunpower 30% wind 20% biomass So the share of biomass has become the minority even in the renewable energy sector. My source is the CBS (Centraal Bureau Statistiek). We are have so much renewable electricity that we are having grid issues (grid congestion) to cover the fluctuation of the produce electricity from sun and wind (especially sun as it is very fluctuative dependingen on the weather). We are now working to achieve the ambition to be climate neutral per 2050 (even though I feel that this is not feasible).

[@MokumHVB]

😒 pff, overheid weer lekker bezig... Love the lubach reactions, keep them coming 😇

[@rogerk6180]

Dit is wel al 6 jaar oud.. er is heel veel veranderd.

[@nickreinders6347]

Fastest way for green energy production is nuclear power. No co2 only water vapor and a little bit of waste uranium which can be easily be disposed of underground

[@Grimlock1979]

Fast? It takes 10 to 15 years to build a nuclear power plant. It is also the most expensive form of energy.

[@Lazzeruz]

​@@Grimlock1979 If things aren't made often they will be more expensive. Nuclear Reactors are built like artistic architecture. Every reactor needs most things designed separately. So if a company can get a nuclear reactor designed that can work in a lot of scenarios. Say, one that might fit in a shipping container, like some Thorium designs can. Then the price of design goes down and an economy of scale can start doing its thing. I know it's more complicated than that. (like with that Container size Thorium reactor still not being available outside testing last time I checked) But standardized designs could cut costs in a way that is still safe.

[@Lazzeruz]

The Thorium one is pretty cool, as it could easily be shipped with regular means. And be used for places that need a lot of power, like the port of Rotterdam, but won't be dangerous enough if something went wrong to impact something like an urban area, like the city of Rotterdam.

[@bertnijhof5413]

It is the real green energy, because those US trees were green !!

[@Lazzeruz]

The ashes they turned to were not, though. So the means are green, but the outcome is far from. And the outcome is what is important in this one.

[@RTomassi]

Your 100% correct as far as I'm concerned: greed and green are too close for comfort. 😢

[@hawkeye_1973]

Still liking that small flag behind you... I'm coming from that area... De Achterhoek in the Netherlands

[@oldman3319]

Hi Paul, do you know the song "Money makes he world go round" by Liza Minelli? That says it all.

[@TimVerstoep]

Damn bro. Istill want that cap u have, u got any merch? Grtz from Holland

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

Here's the link to my store highly-combustible.creator-spring.com/. The cap I'm thinking about it, will take time!

[@TimVerstoep]

@@HighlyCombustibleReacts Ithink the cap is most recognizable, I would wear it with pride here

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

Thanks so much!

[@jasper46985]

Its a market, the 'green stamp'. Now 'we' have so much solarcells, the grid is having problems. Now we pay to sell our energie back to the grid. Madness..

[@42earthling]

In 1997 my colleague was quite upbeat about his new energy contract. Boasting about it he said to me that he had green energy, paid a bit more for it but hey, he was happy to do so because it was green energy. After questioning him about how was he so sure that his electricity was green, did he had a separated line to his house as opposed to his neigbors or did the electricity came through the same power lines. It got him thinking and the next day he was furious because he fell for that scam. Arjen's story is not quite true either, many people, including my brother in law have a net zero at the end of the year because the solar panels produce enough or more energy than they consume. I'd say that that is quite green.

[@ToppledTurtle834]

He never said nobody is using green energy. Just because you brother has solar panels doesn't mean 69% of energy in the Netherlands is generated in a green way

[@erics320]

That about your brother in law being net zero is also fooling yourself. On days his panels produce more then he needs its used by other people, on the days they produce less then he needs he still draws dirty power from the grid. That means there is still something burning fossil fuels to get him his power.

[@eyaljanssen4164]

0:33 holy based

[@ammalyrical5646]

Fun little science fact is that green is also one of the more useless colours in the lightspectrum. Chlorophil reflects it back because it can't absorb or use that wavelength of light. So we're using the wavelength of light the plant can't or doesn't use for energy to describe something that's good for the environment. It's more than a little bit ironic.

[@Lazzeruz]

Didn't it also have to do with what wavelengths of light our sun radiates, and what gets through the atmosphere? I once had some curiosity about worldbuilding a planet around a different sun. Where the plantlike lifeforms didn't reflect neither green nor purple. I eventually dropped the idea, but I would still like to know if specific stars matter.

[@ammalyrical5646]

@Lazzeruz we did have a hypothetical one when I studied biomedical engineering where the planet had a red sun. We had to calculate stuff about a hip implant. I was the only one who mentioned the impact of red light on vitamin d production. The teachers didn't even include something about it. Wavelengths in the atmosphere do have an impact on which and how things work.

[@Lazzeruz]

@@ammalyrical5646 That is actually quite interesting. I also guess that when you add up all the little parameters of the earth, that there might be so many coincidentally important things that knowing what life would be on another planet far away would be impossible, or at least it could only be very vaguely imagined. So creative liberties are then needed to disregard the unknown.

[@ammalyrical5646]

@Lazzeruz we were supposed the ungiven data was the same or we adapted. I guess that could go for the red sun/ sky as well, but why mention it then? For the fun quirk of it? In a project combining anatomy, physiology, mechanics, and materials science that'd definitely be a choice. Lol. I just hope they adapted. Preferably by actually including the knowledge in lectures and not by taking it out of the project because it is fascinating.

[@Brennbare]

100 years, then all land ice is gone and all of us Dutch folk live in Germany. People don't care, we're doomed.

[@mathijsmoree5451]

All small bandages that hardly or do not work... without thinking it through... and unfortunately I don't know the solution yet either.😅

[@glennheuts407]

❤️✌️

[@johnnymematik8649]

Green Bay Packers?

[@kevintje25]

Lol now we make a lot of green enegry and using more energy so now ouwer old network cant handel hit and so if we make to muts Energy now . Now we have to pay for that

[@jelledejong7298]

Have you heard: de staat - peace love & profit

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

Hi, Please add your suggestions to the googleform. You can find the link under every video. Thanks

[@corneliusantonius3108]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Treinbouwer]

3:30 That is not how electricity networks work. They add electricity for the amount you use. They do not deliver that electricity to your house like physical objects. Since we are not subatomical, it is an electromagnetic wave to us.

[@Treinbouwer]

9:05 They use models to deside these things. Aparently the theoretical model based on assumpsions, usualy made by people who have studied management or politics, told them it is a good idea. They are also quite good at extrapolation... The man from the university where I study, asked for most intervieuws anout european climate and enviroment policies regarding farming has studied "bestuurskunde", which is similar to management. It took very long until they finally asked farmers, professors in subjects regarding farming etc. And stil that guy keeps popping up as an expert in agriculture.🤦🏻