Is 100% Renewable Possible By 2050? - Interconnectors

[@eduddles]

"The Californian government has so far resisted the prospect of joining a wider interconnected grid." That's not an entirely accurate statement. California is already part of a massive regional grid called the Western Interconnection. We buy and sell power with other states all the time. What California has resisted is the idea of joining a Regional Transmission Organization, which as mentioned would be overseen by the federal government, and thus California would lose the ability to regulate some things like the required percent of renewable energy. Source: I'm an electrical engineer working at a major California utility.

[@davidtanaka5357]

@Eric SoCal Edison?... Yeah I smelled bullshit on that comment.

[@CanonFirefly]

@@davidtanaka5357 it's not a bullshit statement, it's just a more nuanced issue that would take more time to go through and was not entirely relevant to the video. There is still truth to the statement, California could reduce curtailments of PV by building more interconnectors and joining a wider energy market.

[@eduddles]

@@davidtanaka5357 LADWP, not Edidson. I'm sorry if you didn't like the comment, I'm just trying to share my knowledge to help clarify a complex issue.

[@Platypus_Warrior]

I understand perfectly why California wants to keep independence over the current presidency ;0)

[@albertjackinson]

@@Platypus_Warrior Me too.

[@beback_]

It's crazy that Germany and Poland can cooperate more effectively than say, California and Texas can.

[@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236]

arrogant leftist vs arrogant rightist.

[@marekzalipski6904]

Texas has plenty of guns, so California can't do to them what Germany did to the Poland via the Euro and Brussels control. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteleuropa Whether it is cooperation or colonisation ???

[@account-369]

@@marekzalipski6904 lol, if it weren't for the eu, poland would be slightly better of than ukraine. let's be honest, all slavic countries are s#!th0les. i know it, i am slav myself.

[@sokolo161]

@@truegrit1860 Germany and poland are both respectively much more liberal than those two states. Btw socialism is the biggest buzz word in the US. Both your political parties are extremely neo liberal and capitalist. The republican party is much more right wing than our right wing party in germany. Whats socialist in california other than basic wellfare? Even our Neo-liberal party would support the wellfare in california. You guys have lost track of where your parties are on the political spectrum. 60+years of red scare propaganda have been effective.

[@marekzalipski6904]

@@allgoo1990 I was referring to the effects of Look at the financial capital of German corporations and the disarmament of the Polish nation 1 firearm per 100 citizens despite being a NATO flank . the government has peace of mind when it raises taxes ??? Germans can do with their money what they want with the population "globalism" Russians have guarantees of low cost military intervention in case of problems Can California impose atheism in state offices in any couty in Texas ??? ban on social media ?? congress ??? It's about the model of how the state functions The German economic model is better than the Russian but socio-behaviourally both countries have collapsed ... If Nevada was nile fed and Texas and California wanted to tear it apart would their actions and appeals mean anything in the business world ???? would it end in drought, famine and a monopoly on water supply Is profit and power the only thing that matters? translate what you see in the history of empires or corporations to now I am a Pole. Your constitution, at the meeting point of the superpowers is worth as much as toilet paper if you do not force your geostrategic model ...Chamberlain was already waving the paper . ;)

[@friendlytalbot4050]

It's stuff like this that makes me excited for the future rather than dreading it.

[@hillsbills8634]

Friendly Talbot Real engineers understand that the sun and wind is not a reliable or realistic alternative. Its impossible to understand how so many people are bying into this bullshit. I live in Norway. We are 100% self sustained with electricity from hydro plants. But they build cables out to oil rigs, instead of running them on the gas they bring up. The gas is otherwise sold to Germany so they can produce electricity, but it doesnt look good on paper, so we build a new cable so that their CO2 output looks better. In turn we now dont have enough electricity so we have to turn up the prices, buy, and let germans build hundreds of wind plants here destoying the scenery, killing thousands of birds, huge noise pollution, disturbances in radio signals etc, and if you have seen one before you also understand it has its environmental cost to produce and maintain all of them. It just isnt worth it, its not a realistic alternative, the same with solar energy. You have to have reliable and stable source of energy. People need to stop playing around with political correct BS because this is real life, things has consequences.

[@carso1500]

@@hillsbills8634 it's still better than elevating the temperature of the whole planet creating masive extinction events and eventually an unstopable self sustained loop that makes life on the planet very dificult for everyone (all the methane gas trapped in the poles being liberated, a complete colapse of the oceanic ecosystem caused by the rising acidicity, the death of the rain forests worldwide by the massive increase in temperatures, etc) Now of course solar and wind energy are not the only solutions, thats why several alternatives like geo thermal, hydro plants, underwater turbines, posible and hopefuly nuclear plants have been deviced to complement them, between many others, solar and wind are just two of the preexisting alternatives and the more wildly known and used but are far from the only ones we have available, the objective here is to completly curb the carbón conmsuption to zero or as close as zero as we can, we will still need oil for plastic production and other things but we realistically can generate electricity from other sources Also it's funny that you talk about all the "downsides" of wind turbines when the downsides of carbón and oil are much more prevalent and dangerous, like smog, the death of countless animals species caused by the contamination not only birds, etc, skyscrappers kill millions of birds a year, do we need to destroy all skyscrappers because some birds crash against them And yes, this is real life, there are consequences to keep using sources of energy who are running on límited resources that will eventually be depleded and that is quickly making life more dificult to millions of people worldwide, this is not "polítical correctness bs", this is a matter of literal survival of the human race

[@kaydnburns5935]

carso1500 the only probable source of energy in the future is nuclear fusion energy. Everything else is impossible to power the world. It’s just facts. There simply isn’t enough land or flowing rivers to use renewable energy as a power source. The big question no one is asking is how are we going to power transit when oil runs out in 30-40 years? There’s simply not enough lithium in the world to replace all cars with electric ones

[@cooperhawk988]

@Kaydn Burns Fission, not fusion. We haven’t figured out how to get energy from fusion yet. Our nuclear power plants use fission, and have shown that they are by far the best and cleanest energy source.

[@kaydnburns5935]

@@cooperhawk988 No i meant to say fusion. Fusion energy is easily obtainable given you have more than one country actually putting any effort into developing it. Fusion energy is the future.

[@lutu1408]

The subject being discussed in this video is one of the major reasons to why I've decided to pursue a master in electrical power engineering after I've graduated this spring from my bachelor studies. It's such a cool and exciting topic, while also being a key step in making the transition to a carbon neutral energy system.

[@markdoan1472]

I your field please teach others the difference between stationary and transport power ... Stationary power ( grid , homes , factories , stores , office towers ) is quite easy to transition to renewables and if one looked around they would see nearly every developed country on earth has done a fantastic job on implementing renewables ( I live in Arizona and there is solar everywhere and I put my own home off the grid with solar and a giant flooded lead acid battery bank ) . Transport fuel is a totally different story .. You can’t even get a Boeing 777 to altitude on battery power , solar , wind or any renewable .. It takes a fuel that is liquid at room temperature ( kerosene ). nothing else works

[@LucasPereiradaSilva]

We already have carbon-neutral power sources: nuclear and hydro! This $5,000 power walls they're selling are a gimmick because most customers will return to the power grid at nighttime.

[@charlesbourgoigne2130]

I envy you! The question of future power is one of the big problems we face and to be able work on that problem is amazing

[@jsn1252]

If you're at all competent, you'll quickly how foolish the energy cargo cult built around renewables is. Subsynchonrous resonance, limited or non-existent dispatchability, no grid-level storage, etc. It's as viable as powering the world with unicorn farts.

[@jsn1252]

@@markdoan1472 No, it's not. As of 2017, a mere 6% of Arizona's power generation came from solar. Energy collectors with practically non-existent dispatchability and storage are *not* a viable means of supplying the grid.

[@4G12]

If this super interconnected grid takes off, the benefits to the resilience of the entire European electric power grid would be immense. This project should be prioritized since it's critical to European security.

[@danielgstoehl3905]

The European Continental Grid is already the most reliable in the world. Wikipedia has a cool graph showing fluctuations in the grid frequency around the world and for Europe it's almost perfectly flat. The grid is already proving to be so successful, expanding it further is really a no-brainer

[@jeffharmed1616]

And you happily overlook Russian gas to Germany?

[@OCinneide]

@@jeffharmed1616 gas != electricity

[@jeffharmed1616]

Gas= carbon+ hydrogen. Electricity = fossil fuel derived + green energy derived. I personally believe that fossil fuels play an insignificant role in our climate compared to natural forces.

[@davidblair9877]

Jeff Harmed red herring...

[@arinolsensvebak9113]

Europes interconnected grid is such a good example of how cooperation and friendship between different countries and people is good for everyone. In this example, people all over Europe saves money an emissions by cooperating. Take this and use it to define what you think is best for everyone: Friendship and coalition, or dissing and quarrelling?

[@maxifilip123]

7:38 that’s the Temelín nuclear power plant in my country, the Czech Republic, the country actually exports more power than this plant itself makes, so people are unhappy about all the coal plants here, supplying the local grid.

[@jakubdostalek1353]

Čau, konečně někdo z Česka

[@estathecz]

Zdrávas soudruzi

[@nihilisticmonkeydancing9806]

This sounds like you've got a Goverment with an "eat coal, Peasant" Mentality over there...

[@w0ttheh3ll]

do Czech power plant operators have to buy ETS certificates for all emissions or are they still (partially) exempt?

[@Mercurywheeler]

NihilisticMonkey Dancing Why?

[@lmmortalZodd]

"This interconnection will have a capacity of (emphasized) *700 MW* " Me, thinking on the Kardishev scale: Those are rookie numbers, you got to pump those numbers up!

[@peterheynmoller2581]

True, Most coal powerplants are more powerfully than this link

[@Poctyk]

I have a better idea how we improve our Kardashev number. How about we switch from integrated circuits microchips to this revolutionary new technology -- vacuum tubes. They use more power, which means they are more advanced, at least according to Kardashev scale.

[@carlosandleon]

@@Poctyk that's not how it works. It's about power production. We can be extremely efficient in everything and the kardashev scale will still apply. Just means a given amount of energy provides for more things. instead of fewer less efficient stuff.

[@iliyamarinov3444]

It won't happen with propellers and solar panels...

[@josefaschwanden1502]

700 cable cars

[@lindsay2479]

Another advantage of interconnection is that it helps offer "system strength" to areas with high penetrations of renewable (generally asynchronous) generation. This increases the capacity of a system to incorporate renewables, provided a percentage generation remains synchronous (rotating).

[@TheBombson]

conclusion: bring back the water wheels

[@righteousviking]

Oddly enough, hydro electric power is still generated by water wheels.

[@MrRAz-ut7bh]

They never left. They just got more complex

[@hornetIIkite3]

@@duncanhw there are still hydro powered dams all across the world used as energy buffers. But to do it at a large scale requires height difference in lands. Something some countries don't have.

[@xXDrocenXx]

@@hornetIIkite3 Stonk Austria 😉

[@Maulstrum97]

@@duncanhw you could burn trash to kill two birds with one stone

[@kairon156]

While this is amazing, Knowing Iriland has so much wind energy this makes me feel disappointment in Newfoundland leaders. We also live on the edge of the Atlantic but on the other side. We have loads of wind but the Newfoundland hydro company would rather use oil or river damns than wind. And last I checked a guy was fined for setting up solar power, but that could have been a tabloid. A true story is a PEI man is paying HST (Tax) on electricty he generates himself. So dumb.

[@cormac6423]

kairon156 as an Irish person, I can tell u that we are nowhere near as adept at harnessing wind power as we seem. The government are trying hard to promote wind power, but so far they’ve been met with staunch opposition from residents who don’t want wind power near their house. One wind farm close to where I live started construction in 2016 and only recently began operation!! We really are a country of hypocrites sometimes - we complain when the carbon tax and price of oil goes up, yet protest the development of renewable energy sources

[@jeffharmed1616]

The reason for that is your leaders have common sense and are not swept away by schoolgirl rants. Solar gives you an unacceptable 10 payback period and wind power is worse. So fossil fuels are not only cheaper but they are burnt to carbon dioxide which is plant food, which in turn ends up on our plates. World temperatures are dominated by the variable output from our sun, our variable orbit around the sun and numerous other natural forces that make the effects of carbon dioxide more like a fart (pardon my French) in a thunderstorm.

[@jeffharmed1616]

Energy from fossil fuels is far cheaper than renewables. So cough up more cash or feed the plant world. Your choice

[@jackryan1648]

Ireland?

[@lukesutton4135]

Good bye birds! Hello burning coal for steel and maintaining something that will never be worth the energy it produces. Let's trick more people into our "clean" energy scams :D

[@Pvkasz]

This is such an exciting idea! I really hope that for once, it goes well.

[@RustyOrange71]

I've been hearing 'cheap' electricity for years and still my bill goes up every year without fail.

[@mitchellmiller1990]

Because everyone sells the idea of renewables as cheap, but you can't build enough wind turbines and solar arrays in a city to power it, so you have to construct tons of transmission to get power from a new point in a rural area with no people to where the people are. Utilities rate base capital upgrades like this, so the cost of these lines is born on the backs of the rate payers. Especially as state governments make utilities dump non-renewable sources that may already be up and running, to make and buy new facilities that only run 20% of the time (wind).

[@JamilKhan-hk1wl]

Cheaper = less subsidy = same or higher bill

[@rrs_13]

Capitalism, baby. If you're used to paying a certain ammount for a certain good, even if some company produces it way cheaper, they wouldn't sell you that much cheaper due to existing big player pressure, and the tastiness of profit. But I have to stress that the power demand nowadays, as well as the increased complexity of power grids, factor in heavily in making the Watt be less expensive to be produced but more expensive to be delivered, hence the cost staying relatively the same/having small increases.

[@JamilKhan-hk1wl]

@@rrs_13 Example: You make a toy that costs 8$ and sell it for 10$ Next day, you found a new way to make the exact same toy for 6$. Would you sell it at a cheaper price or still at 10$??

[@rrs_13]

@@JamilKhan-hk1wl Yes. First of all, you want to maximize profit, the way you do that is by increasing profit margin. Then, why would you spend all that R&D time to find a cheaper way to make the toy if you're intending on maintaining your profit? How do you pay for the R&D? Also, if everyone else is selling the equivalent toy for arround 10$, they're gonna be pissed at you and try and coherce you not to. And you'll end up selling it at 9.99$. Which is what happens with renewables. Companies just need to sell it a tad cheaper, will get bullied on by existing big players, will want to pay their investments, and the consumer is already used to paying the same prices, so everyone goes about their lives, grumpying about how electricity COULD be cheaper. Do I like it? Do I agree with it? Neither. But does the world work like this? Definitely. PS: Plus, fossil fuel power plants still have the advantage of being able to produce when needed, and when not needed their fuels don't "disapear". With wind and solar, you may disconnect from the grid when not needed, but the potential of favourable energy generating conditions is a time window that may not be present when you need energy generation again. This can in part be compensated by interconnected grids - which are IMO hugely overated in this video, and their negative aspects neglected - and also with alternative ways of storing engergy, such as hydrogen generation, backpumping in dams, or even battery "farms" for small to medium grid stabilization.

[@cheeseninja1115]

Real Engi.: renewable power! the comment section: N U C L E A R P O W E R !

[@RazorSkinned86]

for two years there has been a heavy astroturf campaign by the nuclear industry. it kinda puts such campaigns waged by Bayer/Monsanto and companies like Exxon to shame.

[@rexmann1984]

Thorium is our future for energy.

[@tobiasbudde5852]

Same in any reddit thread

[@downstream0114]

@@RazorSkinned86 I wonder why: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/log_scale.png

[@rexmann1984]

@@downstream0114 lmfao

[@lorismartinoperfetto6908]

Proud to be European, and as an Italian, happy to lead our countries and the world in the quest for renewable energy

[@adirice4636]

lol… that didnt age well

[@Zoza15]

@@adirice4636 Why not?, renewable energy transition is a fact right now in Europe. It takes a while but its infrastructure is now being build as we know it.

[@ValMartinIreland]

You will not be so proud next January when you are freezing

[@knightswhosayni]

The world fought a war to stop nazi like you spouting “Proud to be European” nonsense.

[@brianbosch3628]

​@@ValMartinIreland Never happened that freezing of yours. Instead, we're building more renewable energies than ever... 😅

[@paulgoffin8054]

FWIW, as I type this, the UK's electricity grid is currently getting 52% from renewables. (2% from coal, but that's just because that power station closes in 31 days and it's burning off its coal stocks). And 8% of our power is currently via our interconnectors.

[@user-xd4sk4pk7h]

I was wondering why there was coal even on sunny and windy days like today-makes sense now

[@Kirealta]

Yeah but britain's coal is the most expensive because you guys have been burning it for so long.

[@paulgoffin8054]

@@Kirealta Our coal is expensive in comparison to wind & solar - they're free.

[@Drunken_Master]

Coal-based electricity production is expensive due to CO2 emission rights certificates. An excellent way to de-stimulate the sector. BTW UK's share of renewable energy in total consumption is just 12% (2018 data, I doubt that much changed in the last year).

[@paulgoffin8054]

@@Drunken_Master It changed a lot in 2019 with huge offshore wind farms coming on line with renewables exceeding fossil fuels in Q3. Not seen full year figures yet.

[@Slippergypsy]

Europe over there building renewable energy super grids, meanwhile in australia were spending billions on slow trains and knocking down perfectly fine stadiums to rebuild them

[@jaydani1996]

Not to mention the terrible bushfires which also damaged the ecosystem.

[@FlymanMS]

Also you restrict riding bicycles without helmet.

[@legolegs87]

That's because Australia is ahead of Europe on the renewables 😂

[@Slippergypsy]

@@legolegs87 how do you figure that? Our government invest billions in new coal mines to destroy the barrier reef. We have 1 hydro electric plant built 100 years ago as publicity to get migrants here. Our wind farms are meager at best, not nearly enough houses or business have solar on the roof, batteries are not subsidised or supported, EV's are practically non existent and good luck to you if you wanna charge anywhere but at home, spent billions on a tram system we removed 30/40 years ago instead of investing in 0 emmisions busses that go faster, further, and where they want..the list goes on

[@legolegs87]

@@Slippergypsy Australian government forces energy companies to demolish their coal plants, buys electricity from rooftop PV and subsidies large PV and wind installations. Australian energy grid is in bad shape because of that. You need more coal, dude! Otherwise you'll get price increase and blackouts.

[@Cormin]

As an American, I'm really jealous of the European interconnectors

[@RoScFan]

Why do american states trust eachother and trust the federal government less than european countries trust each other? Even though european countries used to literally butcher each other over cneturies?

[@ninjafruitchilled]

@@RoScFan Because America is a deeply paranoid country

[@savedemperor8024]

There's nothing to be jealous about Europe it's slowly becoming an communist thing

[@axelnils]

@@sn0wdon Because they have healthcare and education.

[@kefsound]

@@savedemperor8024 I wish

[@quimiorlando]

Great video, I didn't know this about Europe. As a Costa Rica, I am glad our country is working the same way as then. Now this new Real Engineering series sounds really interesting and super useful for us engineers.

[@Jcewazhere]

Silly me, I assumed the state grids were already all connected :X

[@davidtanaka5357]

They are. He's conflating some facts (I work for a US power company).

[@Jcewazhere]

@@davidtanaka5357/videos From the EIA "At the highest level, the U.S. power system in the Lower 48 states is made up of three main interconnections, which operate largely independently from each other with limited transfers of electricity between them." So it seems rather more nuanced than what he presented. Of course Texas had to be different with its ERCOT. But then even with that interconnectivity there are still "Retail Electricity Markets " with Cali being one.

[@brian2440]

There are 3 interconnections in the US that they themselves are connected, and in fact the 3 interconnections also extend into Canada with the Quebec Interconnection and Alaska interconnection to form the North American Electrical Grid which is managed and controlled by FERC and NERC. But this can get very complicated very quickly, so if your focus is on a single states and the questions of curtailed energy with respect to lost production and low energy storage rates it may be just easier to say we need more transmission for this particular state.

[@brian2440]

Honestly if you want a real in depth discussion about how the grids are laid out and the challenges and solutions for the US Electrical Grid there is a very good seminar put on by Argonne National Lab that I have linked below: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHuQZmqep7WirMU

[@VriendRick]

Correct but the kabels are not heavy enough. They wil melt.

[@the3rdid485]

This is so cool. Sappy feelings aside, I love seeing humanity putting their differences aside in the name of a higher technological advancement. I wish things like this happened way more.

[@Zoza15]

Its happening in Europe right now.. So if that succeeds then other countries will likely following our example.

[@engineerseanyoutube1900]

This is funny to watch in a time (during the summer no less) where California is suffering from rolling blackouts due to insufficient power supplies. Adding interconnections could help some, but the costs and losses would be higher than adding several grid scale (10 Gwh or more) molten salt energy storage or a few gen 3 or gen 4 nuclear power plants.

[@somanayr]

Oh, cool, I love that the captions include citations!

[@Samcanplaymusic]

I just realized that too

[@joaomonteiro1562]

Really proud about our cooperation! 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

[@cosmeen.g]

0:13 The Iraq war costed nearly double that, this world sucks...

[@gouasmiamouad7983]

Stfu

[@SilverGamingFI]

@@gouasmiamouad7983?

[@woutervanr]

"Uploaded 14 seconds ago" and I don't have the notifications on, ha.

[@aneesh2115]

Who are you, so wise in the ways of Real engineering

[@panzerofthelake4460]

nobody cares

[@Arigatowo]

@@panzerofthelake4460 Nobody cares that nobody cares

[@dontbotherreading]

@@Arigatowo no matter how many times that's said, everyone that said no one cares, cares very deeply about your personal health and well being

[@marianandnorbert]

still nobody cares about the fact that nobody cares about the fact that nobody cares

[@muzero2642]

Nuclear energy is not renewable, however it provides large quantities of stable, predictable, very low-emission and cheap energy, no matter the sunlight or windspeed. It emits *one third* the CO2 per Watt compared to solar over the plant lifetime including uranium mining. South Korea currently produces electricity with nuclear at the equivalent of 2,9 US cents per kWh including build cost at 3% loan interest rate. It's too good not to use.

[@solace6633]

That seems pretty inaccurate when nuclear power emissions skyrocket when you address long term storage of water. Even thorium waste has a massive half-life

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

@roguemale TheOne&Only Chernobyl never could have happened outside of the Soviet Union, the Soviets were uniquely careless with nuclear energy. An event like Fukushima can be easily avoided by not building nuclear reactors in areas that are vulnerable to massive earthquakes and giant tsunamis. - Despite those accidents, nuclear is still the safest form of energy that we have and nothing even begins to compete with its low environmental impact.

[@viermidebutura]

@roguemale TheOne&Only but muh Chernobyl...

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

@roguemale TheOne&Only Most natural disasters can be accounted for in the design of a nuclear reactor and the waste issue is hugely overblown. The waste can be reprocessed to significantly reduce the amount which is produced and it's storage is easily managed with proper planning.

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

@roguemale TheOne&Only That's because facts are facts. There are issues with nuclear energy, yes, but no energy source is without issues.

[@donharrold1375]

To replace the electricity generation capacity of the UK with windmills you’d need to cover an area equivalent to 10-20,000 square miles with 25,000 wind turbines. In addition, without some form of base load generation a form of storage would be required. That could be massive batteries, hydrogen generation or pump storage hydro power. It’s possible. Do you want it though?

[@darthracer777]

....you state the obvious that this video avoids. Everything sounds great in principle. 'Clean' green energy is not as 'clean' as they claim. But, that's another story.

[@catalintimofti1117]

@@darthracer777 'clean' as in does not burn shit to create power

[@queeng508]

you seem to forget the no one ever said that any country should have only one way or source of energy or change its whole actual system for a single other one. and also, it does not need to be all in one moment, the change. therefore yes it would take a shit ton of space and money to 100% convert the uk to windmills, but luckily for everyone that is not at all the plan nor the right thing to do. what should be done asap is not to produce energy by fossil fuels and such, but using any other source of energy available while buying the rest via the eu grid and selling what is not storable to other eu countries who need that kind of energy in that moment, which is the point made by this video

[@viggoholmsen7203]

As is stated, the vision of the "SuperGrid" sounds great, but there are also some concerns. 1. If you build the wind-farms but lack base load generation, you're supposed to trade this from another country, thereby also creating and perpetuating interdependence. 2. The energy market matches supply and demand, immediate and day-forward, 3. The energy prices, although fluctuating wildly every hour, tends to, on average, approach the prices of the markets with the highest demand (especially Germany, but also UK, France). 4. For a country such as mine (Norway) who essentially are self-sufficient in cheap hydro-power, this leads to electricity prices 5X higher than we used to pay previously.

[@szepadam5]

is that one star the UK at 6:21?

[@Deadshot-it5rf]

xD

[@WalrusWinking]

Lmao

[@Koellenburg]

made my day xD

[@CityWhisperer]

Vladimir Bodurov it has been in the euro zone, hasn’t adapted the euro but it has been part of the EU.

[@feli-the-sunfairy]

@@CityWhisperer Nej. The Euro-Zone are Countries witch use the Euro as their currency. Therefor "Euro"zone

[@mialhecan]

Great video as always and very happy to see the great work done in the EU on developing the energy system of the future is being shared with a wider audience!

[@stuffmorestuff6647]

Its always a good day when you upload a video!

[@oswald7597]

I mean, if Nuclear is used alongside, it would be quite plausible

[@zolikoff]

Or just use nuclear mostly. The offshore wind in the north sea is really good and could be coupled with hydrogen generation. Other things are just surplus, environmental littering.

[@isaks7042]

Current nuclear energy would run out of Uranium very quickly if we used it more. If the world used only nuclear we would run out of it in less than 6 years.

[@zolikoff]

@@isaks7042 That's definitely far from true. Uranium is an abundant element, it's only current prospected uranium mines that would run out (and not in 6 years either). There's also thorium, or uranium in seawater (essentially unlimited), and breeder reactors, and combining the latter two would provide the world with energy for basically the lifespan of the solar system.

[@isaks7042]

@@zolikoff I wasn't talking about other radioactive elements. I was talking about Uranium that is used in current reactors. We use 60 thousands tons of Uranium every year. And there is 7641 thousands tons of Uranium reserves. And 4% of the worlds energy comes from Uranium. Just do the maths and you will see that it would take 5 years if we only used nuclear to replace oil gas and coal energy.

[@oswald7597]

@@isaks7042 At earth's current usage rate, there is enough Uranium for 230 years. Even assuming that new power plants has the same efficiency as current ones, and that technologies such as uranium reuse aren't implemented at their fullest (they currently aren't used due to the low relative price of uranium), doubling world nuclear power usage instantly would mean 115 years worth of Uranium left (as Europe currently uses 26% nuclear, in this scenario it would be 52%), seeing that would allow us to shutdown countless coal, oil and gas power plants that's a great trade off, now obviously brand new nuclear power will be more efficient than old plants, and uranium reuse is becoming more common meaning that uranium based nuclear fission plants could supply us for much longer. Bear in mind that 115 years ago, there was a grand total of 0 nuclear reactors, and there are current plans to build both hydrogen fusion and thorium fission power plants, with the benefits that hydrogen is literally the most abundant element in the universe, and thorium is very common aswell (plus can't be turned into nuclear weapons). It's possible that 115 years in the future there won't be any uranium fission plants.

[@fraznofire2508]

Why not do what France did and run off mostly nuclear energy? They have cheaper power and less emissions than Germany whose emissions increase with renewables share of their energy grid

[@cloverhal2284]

Because 75% of people think nuclear power plants release CO2...yeah.... oh and because Greta yelled at France not Germany so it must mean they are good boys now

[@CAHSR2020]

Largest minimum project size, greatest cost cradle-to-grave, impractical waste storage needs, lost specialization, months of downtime during major maintenance periods, highest liability threat, most stringent planning approvals, near total lack of available funding from the commercial credit market.

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

@@CAHSR2020 Nuclear is the safest and most reliable form of energy on Earth.

[@viermidebutura]

Yea Germany who's now reopening coal power plants...

[@fraznofire2508]

viermidebutura I know, that’s my point, they need baseload power that is causing their emissions to increase contrary to what many people would believe given they are increasing their renewables grid

[@brinkshows2720]

The sun is always shining somewhere. The wind is always blowing somewhere.

[@legolegs87]

The energy is always wasted in the long wires somewhere.

[@carminedauria-gupta2561]

legolegs yes, but that’s what would wouldn’t transport energy from California to New York. Instead, you’d transport energy from California to let’s say Colorado, then Colorado would send it to the next state. And eventually New York would get the excess power

[@Unb3arablePain]

Yes, but that somewhere may not be a place where you can take advantage of that wind and solar power that well.

[@lutu1408]

@@legolegs87 most power losses are due to reactive production and consumption in AC grids. If DC would be used instead, said losses would be drastically reduced. Provided that there were a economical incentive, there isn't really anything saying that a connection between the west coast and for an example France, Norway or United Kingdom are unrealistic scenarios for the future. This is of course under the assumption that HVDC technology is used to realise these projects.

[@naberville3305]

Is that an assumption your really willing to risk everything on?

[@timonmuller7428]

Amazing video! But I think you forgot to mention Switzerland, which despite not being in the EU is a part of the european grid and has a lot of pumped Hydro storage.

[@Eli20021_]

🇨🇭

[@carholic-sz3qv]

same with Austria they have alot of hydroelectricity

[@harrywood6502]

He didn't forget to mention Switzerland. There was just no need to mention Switzerland.

[@dwalinozzo]

and how much GWh does switzerland stores in their dams? italy has 25 GW of dams and can store only 100 GWh of energy. italy will need at least 45 TWh of storage for only renewables energy.

[@Piromanofeliz]

Ah yes, the energy bankers. Very swiss 😜

[@iorekbyrnison1370]

today France export 1407MW to England, 1350MW to Spain, 3415MW to Italy, 3051 to Switzerland and 6000MW to Germany. Go Nuclear !!!

[@glenncordova4027]

Yes today France is saying go away nuclear. They are closing nuclear plants and investing in more economical wind energy.

[@LucasPereiradaSilva]

@@glenncordova4027 and more UNRELIABLE and EXPENSIVE energy as well, as being done in Australia.

[@clarkkent2746]

Where are these numbers from? Also, are they exporting that power continuously or what? It would make more sense to state the total energy exported (in MWh). Nuclear is quite cheap for the energy provider, as the cost of storing the nuclear waste, dismantling the power plant and those of a possible explosion are paid for by the government. So your energy bill is lower, but you pay more in taxes (or less tax money is available for useful stuff). Classic example of privatizing the gains and socializing the losses.

[@cmdr1911]

@@clarkkent2746 Technology like breeder reactors reduce waste by 90% and can actually use waster from conventional reactors. The amount of nuclear waste would fit into a football field 50' tall, it would be cut to 6". Thorium is more abundant and uses less material. Not all nuclear power is the same.

[@hellfun1337]

@@cmdr1911 Remember the byproduct of breeder reactors? That's right, nukes.

[@santigonza0852]

2:26 they have a few options on WATT to do with this

[@albertjackinson]

Nice pun!

[@Sal3600]

Yes, there's high POTENTIAL to be utilised.

[@albertjackinson]

@@Sal3600 Are you referring to potential energy there (but this has nothing to do with motion, so...)?

[@jellyman1735]

@@albertjackinson Electric potential / electromotive force are synonyms for voltage.

[@GRBtutorials]

Albert Jackinson Well, pumped hydroelectric power certainly has a great potential.

[@gyuzen]

The curtailment issue is extremely overstated, just check Lazard 2019 average costs for Energy sources. Current solar and Wind costs are so low that even a 20% curtailment is a complete non-issue, they're still half as cheap as everything else, and solar can still get much cheaper, wind less so, but that has room for improvements. Not only that, but your Power then become so incredibly cheap during spring and Summer that some energy-intensive processes would become economically viable, like p2g or desalinization. The real challenge today is the decarbonization of industry, steelmaking, cement etc... not power generation.

[@flolow6804]

Bullshit Getting near to 100% renuable is a huge problem (or even impossible atm) Everyone who has even the smallest thing to do with our grid and energie supply knows that

[@Sheridantank]

Giuseppe Bavaro Excess and waste are another problem to solve in industry. I’ve worked a lot of manufacturing jobs and some of them to me it’s sickening the amount of waste that goes in to making a product. Many companies use standards that to me are absurd and will throw away “damaged” products that are more than useable. For example a box being a bit scratched by a lift. I saw huge issue with the box manufacturing company I worked for. Another example is the thousands of cardboard caskets for cremation we made regularly. Sure let’s cut down trees just to put a dead body in the box made and burn it. If they had a small hole they were no good. We should bury the dead under freshly planted trees. Anything else is excess and waste. Not to mention all the waste packaging and bags for single items at a store and everything else. If we could save the energy wasted here we would need less overall and renewable would be easier. Plus we should be making basically everything out of hemp, fabrics, plastics, and even some building materials can be made.

[@austrianerish]

I don't really see how some of these industries are supposed to become carbon neutral as a lot of it is not really avoidable due to chemical reactions. If someone could shed some more light on this it would be appreciated.

[@flolow6804]

@@austrianerish its not that difficult. Chemical reactions can always be changed by getting energy into the system. CO2 + Water + plus alot of energy will lead to synthetic fuel

[@iuliuscaesar9078]

Spain has not been lagging behind, it was France who was blocking the interconexion.

[@SClerckx]

I'm so happy to see that something like this is coming along!

[@ArcHelios117]

Stop dreaming. Remember the bills to ban single-use plastics BY 2040 ? A joke. Nothing will ever happen if the ruling elite don't benefit from it. They already are benifitting GREATLY by the way we're living today, so why change ?

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

The ruling cast do benefit form form this project the reliance on unstable sources of energy will result in the need for interconectivity, making rebeling impossible as your country will literally grind to a halt on a cloudy windless day without relying on those you are trying to rebel agaisnt. I do believe they are going to realize such a project if the people do not stop them, tho it will not be for the benefit of us europians.

[@CarlosAM1]

@@ArcHelios117 the european union already wants to make circular economy a thing. People can still profit and its better for everyone!

[@ArcHelios117]

Carlos_A_M Yeah because one the real people ruling the EU want that, and two people already profit today and as you can see, it's already better for everyone right? Don't be so naive... The ruling cast wants obedient worker plebs in a fully owned and controlled environment, not the greater good of all.

[@CarlosAM1]

@@ArcHelios117 Its still a consideration, the EU really wants to implement this as they have stated many times. They actually do want this to happen.

[@sebastianjanson3134]

Could you do a video on the worlds largest nuclear fusion reactor currently being built in france? Would be an interesting subject to hear about.

[@Les_S537]

ITER is just an experiment. It's not going to result in energy production. It's an experiment to prove the concept, it's not the end result. Once they prove that, they've still got lots of work to do towards making a fusion reactor that can work. It is billions of dollars over budget and the final tally is estimated to be around 40 billion spent.

[@darkorbitpro1]

@@Les_S537 ITER is just expensive and slow prototype for fusion power, but it has done the job to scare the fossil fuel energy companies to start funding their private fusion energy projects which have allready passed ITER on probability to work. Look into private fusion power research thats estimated to be commercially viable and cheaper than nuclear in 15 years.

[@Les_S537]

@@darkorbitpro1 Where'd you hear this? I've not heard of any oil companies investing in such...

[@darkorbitpro1]

@@Les_S537 "At the same time, fusion research at the university level is advancing rapidly thanks to partnerships with private sector companies around the world. MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, for example, has received tens of millions in funding over the last several months from Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Italian oil and gas giant Eni." www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2019/01/14/energy-leaders-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-fusion-in-2019/

[@Les_S537]

Superman when I hear you say oil companies are getting in on the action I’m thinking past college research. Oil companies endow colleges and universities all over the planet to help teach. Where are the startup fusion companies that are funded by the Exxon’s and BP’s of the world?

[@IberianCraftsman]

1:42 thats super easy to solve actually, put an hydrolisis plant that uses that electricity to generate oxygen and hydrogen from water and thats it, the hydrogen can be stored and shipped to anywhere where its needed, here in spain we use the excess electricity to pump water up the dam, the water can be released then at any time to move turbines and generate electricity.

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

It's amazing what we can do together in Europe.

[@Codysdab]

Yup, cripple it's competitiveness with the rest of the world.

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

@Cody's Dab How would you suggest we compete with the world's superpowers then, other than becoming one ourselves?

[@Codysdab]

@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 so, the EU will become a state then? Otherwise its trading bloc with heavy regulatory oversight. The UK was a superpower, France was a superpower, Rome was a superpower. Superpowers change, the importance is in ensuring citizens live good, happy and productive lives and increases in cost, anti-competitive practises will do nothing to help that.

[@nunciosidereo4070]

@@Codysdab how the european union would stop by his own competing against china usa etc ? USA will make a commision to become a monopole like China and the EU

[@Codysdab]

@@nunciosidereo4070 I'm not sure what you mean there? The EU would make itself less competitive on the world stage by increasing the costs to its own people and businesses

[@harryflashman8996]

“Oil pipelines and coal shipments are being replaced by grid inter-connectors ” *cough* Nord-Stream 2 *cough*

[@SuperAerie]

A damn abomination that should never happend

[@hpenvy1106]

Nord Stream is for natural gas. Western Europe is already dependant on Russian gas deliverys, but in the moment most passes through Belarus or Ukraine. Nord Stream is primarily a problem for them, because Russia would'nt need them anymore. Gas embargos happend before, it's a political lever for the Russion Gov.

[@cyrilchui2811]

@@hpenvy1106 That's why Trump wants you to buy from USA, (as if) USA never issue any threats or raising price

[@Ruhrpottpatriot]

@@cyrilchui2811 The funny thing is: Neither Russia, nor the Soviet Union before, have ever used Gas as a political weapon against western Europe, even at the height of the cold war the gas was delivered as ordered. The Russian government knows, that killing off the supply to western Europe harms them more than just delivering it.

[@cyrilchui2811]

@@Ruhrpottpatriot Russia used gas/oil to threaten smaller neighbours like Ukraine. Because they have been enjoying huge pass-by fee in the form of discount for their own usage. If more gas/oil go through another route, Ukraine etc got less cut of the pie.

[@silentdeath7847]

We only had 1 coal power plant in Norway (in svalbard), it was shut down like 1-2 years years ago i believe, the deconstruction and removal started this year. We only have 3 gas power plants, 1 was decomissioned in 2016, 1 not in use (assume it is for emergency) and 1 gas power plant that was supossed to be decomissioned in 2018 but was still in use in 2021. 97%+ we get from hydroelectric alone, the rest we needvwe get thru wind, solar, buying from Sweden and Denmark in particular as our power grids are already well connected

[@fl00fydragon]

The EU should put solar installations in the region where olive trees can naturally survive. Olive trees require an average of 300 days of clear sunlight. As a result, Greece, southern Italy, and Spain could become solar producing facilities.

[@flexairz]

Solar has a flaw.. the earth rotates.

[@giogio6974]

italy is the largest solar producer after Germany in the eu i believe

[@fl00fydragon]

@@flexairz Because energy cannot be stored. It's not as if excess solar can produce hydrogen. You know, a rocket fuel with an absolutely massive energy density that has no carbon emissions that can also be used in aeroplanes ranging from conventional turbojets to hypersonic ramjets.

[@rakasiwi3178]

The problem of solar is at night it will stop producing. And battery is expensive to manufacture or maintence

[@fl00fydragon]

@@rakasiwi3178 If you took the time to like your own comment you'd have the time to read the answer to the exact same comment posted by another member of the conservative hive mind.

[@SuperLusername]

While all of this sounds fantastic, it is worth remembering that EU (including UK) represents less than 12% of world energy consumption. In comparison to 16% USA and 23% China. Unless everyone else has the amount of money as EU (and no one except USA does) or political will to throw at the problem of global warming, I would not be that optimistic.

[@flx4305]

Evilsamar Well 12% is not insignificant, China is first and the US second, the eu comes third so it's not a small player. Plus there is a similar and more important super grid project like that in China which will obviously be easier to make as it is one centralized country.

[@SuperLusername]

@@flx4305 problem is that, as of yet, EU is the only one reducing its energy consumption (due to increasing energy efficiency) and fossil fuel consumption (by investing heavily into alternative sources). While China is doing what it can and wants, it's economic stability is questionable due to the composition of it's GDP growth, and if it starts failing renewable energy is the first out the window. Furthermore, I dont really see India, majority of South America or Africa (the continent set to double its population in 30 years) doing anything even remotely comparable to the scale of European effort. Sadly, anything not up to par of European effort is likely too little, too late. We might as well accept the fact and start building dams and other neccessary infrastructure to keep out the sea.

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

I'm mostly optimistic about this part. According to IPCC models central and northern Europe is supposed to be more or less fine (~+2C in summer, ~+3 in winter and no clear change in rain pattern) "We might as well accept the fact and start building dams and other necessary infrastructure to keep out the sea." We're talking about half meter or meter after a century. Does not sound unmanageable. If you really want to worry, then think where those extra ~2 billion people would like to emigrate, while bringing their own problems with them.

[@ZZ-sb8os]

I've been watching your 'Logistics of D-Day' series on Nebula, it's outstanding! I'm eagerly looking forward to each new episode!

[@RealEngineering]

Just recorded the next one. It’s a good one

[@Niclas-ui1fh]

This is awesome. Co-operation is what the world needs. It's exactly like this we should run our economy at large. One nation producing meat. Another energy. A third mines and everyone trades amongst themselves. Naturally one nation can do more than one thing at the same time. A resource based economy

[@leehughes3685]

1: Build human size hamster wheels 2: Connect a way to produce electricity 3: Hire people to run on wheels This will do a couple of things, you'll have a clean source of energy and youll put a dent in the unemployment numbers. It's going to take a lot of people to produce that energy.

[@hackerman7835]

Hahahahaha XD XD hamster wheels XD XD fucking comedy genius XD so funny I forgot to laugh

[@leehughes3685]

@@hackerman7835 well that's good wasnt meant to be a joke.

[@YurkerYT]

Why pay for people to run, put it in gyms and make people pay to use it.

[@hkr667]

@@YurkerYT Unfortunately I have to exercise so hard to use my computer that I don't even have breath left to enjoy what I am doing. Exercising really doesn't produce much.

[@leehughes3685]

@@hkr667 gear it in such a way where one person is doing the work of a thousand people....

[@gridcoregilry666]

Love to all my fellow Europeans! Great video with a positive message!

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

Long live europians, death to the EU.

[@rosoro465]

@@gunarsmiezis9321 now that's stupid

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

@@rosoro465 not at all. The eu is an antieuropian organization.

[@ValMartinIreland]

Article 3(2) of the SEA Directive is being ignored by the European Investment Bank.

[@KingHeadbang]

Meanwhile in the heart of Europe we can't even properly connect regional grids within Germany.

[@azmc4940]

Main problem in Germany ia that there is intense local opposition to building new powerlines. So they have to be buried underground, which is massively expensive.

[@ottonormalverbraucher7835]

Germany have to many uneducated people and conspiracy theorits. Its terrible

[@rolletroll2338]

Germany is doing a lot of things wrong concerning electrical energy...

[@jirislavicek9954]

Germany is home to some of the world's best engineers, great universities and highly skilled efficient workers. But the problem is that their voice is not heard. Instead the country is governed by my left wingers who's main objective is to protest against everything and create problems instead of solving them. Politicians listen to philosophers and street mob instead of engineers and experts when deciding the future of your energy generation and that's a recipe for troubles...

[@stevenlonien7857]

Thats a windmill stonwalled 1986 because it eliminates oil and nuclear with full values of Re- acuring tides and winds.

[@davemuster7162]

Watching this video makes me feel proud of Europe! 🇪🇺

[@goferlp7011]

We should be proud. Love from Germany to all Europeans.

[@melonlord1414]

There is still a long way to go, and we where responsible for a big part of the greenhouse gasses that where produced in the past. So you could argue that we just fix the problems we created in the past. To be fair, that's more than many others can say...

[@gong1616]

It makes me feel happy and proud seeing the bills go up and up.

[@baltofarlander2618]

European Union betrayed Europe. They are against actual european values and they, in some sense, enslaved european people.

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

@@baltofarlander2618 Do you have any alternate ideas of how to finally end the civil war?

[@francescoboselli6033]

5:52 geothermal power in Italy! 😂😂. The only zones good for geothermal power in Italy are in Tuscany, and they are already been used. At national level geothermal production account only for 1% or even less. Yes of course Italy can increases renewable energy production, but definitely not in the geothermal sector. Or if it will be increased, it will be minimum compared to Hydroelectric and Solar panels contribution

[@garry8390]

Ever heard of Eavor

[@herlescraft]

i live 10km away from the geotermal power plant in tuscany and there is still some room for expansion. it's not much from what i've heard but it's there

[@Daniel-rd6st]

I miss in this vid the important point of power storage. Yes a fully integrated european powergrid will help to better smothen out lows and peaks in powerproduction, but if you want to go 100% renewable (so no coal, no gas (unless produced with renewable energy), no nuclear power) then you need ways to store a lot of power, especially for the winter months. For example in half of december 2020 the production of renewable power in Germany was very low, since there was little sunlight and also not much wind. Pumped storage power plants wont cut it, as their construction is dependant on topography, so suitable spots are either limited or extremly expensive to create. Using batteries as a powerbuffer is possible, but if Europe really wants to be fully renewable until 2050 (which actually isnt the goal, the goal is to be fully CO2 neutral, which isnt the same) then there should be already a lot of planing and construction going on, considering how long it takes to plan and finish such a project. If there are even enough ressources available to pull it off. So personally i am very pessimistic towards that 2050 goal, unless nuclear power will have a revival. The more stable power is produced, the smaller is the need for power storage.

[@K4ZA]

I live in Germany and I had no idea that we have something this awesome in the EU... Nowadays one only gets the shitty news and not the interesting stuff like this. Thanks for this video!

[@beekeeperhoneymoon8179]

It amazes me that countries in europe are more interconnected and cooperative than individual states in the US.

[@Jason-wm5qe]

The EU has a more centralised power structure when it comes to regulation. It's not that amazing.

[@nunciosidereo4070]

just wait when the extreme right with their silly nationalism broke all that up.... :(

[@scatttyyyr2032]

Ok so to really get into understanding and addressing the issue of exports and curtailment, you also have to Think about how Electricity Markets work. See, when we talk about all of this, the cheap renewables etc, we often don't think about the market. We think that because wind is free and the sun is free, buying their electricity should be low cost right? Well yes, if they set the market price. But they tend not to, even when they are being curtailed. In California, like in most liberalized Electricity markets, they run a double auction. Suppliers offer quantity-price pairs which are organized in ascending order of price, while consumers do the opposite (although regular people like us have our bids made by the ISO). The price where they meet is what sets the market clearing price of electricity and is determined by a Dispatch Computer. For that time interval (typically 1-hour). At each pricing node (of which there can be between 1 and thousands, depending on the market setup). The scenario we imagine, which is that renewables are producing too much electricity domestically, so it is sold at almost $0/MWh to neighbouring jurisdictions, would only occur if: 1) The highest price offer in the california price node was a renewable producer (if renewable supply offers are 1000 MW/h, demand bids are 1001 MW/h, the supplier of that last MW/h sets the price) 2) Congestion or line losses calculated by California do not raise the market price in that node. (Even if a supply offer is cheap, once you factor in those two, its cost may cause it to be replaced by an offer from a higher bid price. This also raises the market clearing price.) 3) The nodal market price in the importing state is less than the nodal price in California. This nodal price is also subject to the same Congestion and Line Loss issues. 4)There may also be an export transmission tariff, which can raise the price exporters from California pay. Also, you have to consider that, in order to give wind and solar priority access to the grid, which is stipulated in their Feed-In-Tariff contracts, they have their forcasted production automatically bid in at the market clearing floor, making them the least likely to be the price setters in the market. Even during times when they are being curtailed, it is probably not the case that they are actually setting the market price. It is vastly more complicated, but I think you can't really solve, or even have a great conversation about these kinds of issues, without taking into account the operation of the electricity market. I think that would make a good series.

[@deep.space.12]

Humanity can achieve a whole lot of things when they are determined. Sadly, that is not often the case.

[@carlosandleon]

you're talking about yourself aren't you?

[@evoluxman9935]

Space race comes up to my mind immediately. When it's about showing if you have a bigger one that soviet/americans, you put a man on the moon in a decade. When there's no reason anymore... well nothing happens anymore.

[@Dasbelg]

@Sunamer Z it won't the eu will simply facilitate the trade of electricity. So some cpuntry's can sell there leftover power instead of it going to waste

[@mrmagoo-i2l]

Sunamer Z If you don’t do exactly as they say you get cut off.

[@Dasbelg]

@@mrmagoo-i2l no you don't. The eu simply isn't the totalitarian boogyman that you want to make it look as.

[@chrispearaon1728]

Anyone know what that laser point is doing a 3:55

[@evolt7553]

Measuring the temperature? Or the speed?

[@cob571]

I assume it's a laser thermometer

[@rrs_13]

If it was some sort of thermometer, I don't think it would wobble and follow a specific lump of coal (or whatever), but stay fixed at a certain spot. Maybe its the aliens, or the deep state. Or a guy giving a tour of the factory saying "and this is the conveyor belt where the coal thingy drops to the burning thingy"

[@w0ttheh3ll]

@@rrs_13 or simply a guy with a manual thermometer

[@cob571]

@@w0ttheh3ll it's aliens.

[@markdoan1472]

I live in the SW US ( Phoenix ) and I get 100% of my power from renewables ( solar ). ... Because I installed a kick butt off grid solar setup on my home ... with large flooded lead acid battery system with power inverters to give me around the clock power . I still have the utility hookup but they are just for backup in case my system goes down .

[@brian2440]

Why are you using lead acid batteries despite the significant energy density improvements with lithium ion?

[@markdoan1472]

@@brian2440 Same reason the vast majority of off grid systems use it .. notwithstanding all the armchair alternate energy enthusiasts who have zero experience in the real world of implementation and paying for their equipment .. You can buy a 50 KW flooded lead acid system for around 7 grand if you buy an industrial forklift battery .. The same lithium ion system goes for around 25 grand .. Now of course lithium batteries are vastly lighter weight as everyone unfailingly points out... but your house does not drive down the road .. My batteries weigh about 3,000 lbs but who cares ..theyre not going anywhere .. So there you have it .. Virtually all new systems being installed by end users are FLA to this day and there is zero reason to change .. Even Iron Edison company who was flogging their lithium Iron batteries for years switched to selling what people are buying FLA or another form of lead acid .... My prediction is that stationary systems will be this chemistry for the next hundred... years because lithium types have a price bottom due to mineral costs .. It won't get lower

[@borysb1748]

I'm hyped :D Cooperation pays off ;-)

[@siemdecleyn3198]

Who would have known European integration and collaboration actually does make sense...

[@IbangedYaMama]

It doesn't.

[@Dasbelg]

Except it does

[@audience2]

The European Commission is unelected but unlike the elected EU parliament has the power to introduce new legislation. There is no direct way to get rid of the commission.

[@siemdecleyn3198]

@@IbangedYaMama You convinced me with the logic reasoning.

[@IbangedYaMama]

@@siemdecleyn3198 If you still believe in the EU, you can't be saved.

[@jeffharmed1616]

Strange that no one has looked at an industry with a very high ratio of energy storage to capital cost - ammonium nitrate/urea. Use excess electricity to make urea in summer, store it in winter and spread it on the land in spring. Because of the relatively low capital investment the plant can stand unused in winter. Consider it to be a battery variant, but on a larger scale.

[@tyffen123]

0:31 Nuclear energy is the best alternative

[@tyffen123]

@Delta X You know nuclear waste is a non-problem, right? Nuclear energy is the most environmentally friendly technology we have.

[@NathanKidd501]

@@tyffen123 Nuclear waste contaminates our drinking water. I don't know where you got the idea of it being a "non-problem".

[@tyffen123]

@@NathanKidd501 I don't know where you got the idea that our drinking water is contaminated from...

[@LawIV]

up next: green hydrogen to optimise offshore wind, help oil majors buy into the energy transition, and leveraging existing infrastructure

[@petergoestohollywood382]

Lawrence Wood perfect, could not have said it better!

[@Eric-sy1xu]

To sum up (for me and anyone else): If you expand the infrastructure of the grid across state borders (interconnections) you can expand the energy market and make everything more efficient & cleaner.

[@soufianekharroubi8835]

I'm sorry to say that this won't work for one simple reason. When the sun shines, it shines over the whole of Europe at the same time. And there are no uncorrelated wind regimes in Europe (see this example between France and UK: jancovici.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/eolien_graph20.png). So on first approximation, there's wind everywhere at the same time in Europe. So even we have interconnected all Europe, to whom should we sell the overproduced electricity in a July afternoon?

[@sirelkir]

To Norway, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Scotland and other mountainous regions which can build pumped hydropower, with up to 80 TWh of storage. (publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC81226/ldna25940enn_assessment_european_phs_potential_online.pdf)

[@sirelkir]

Also, that graph you sent is not telling that much, yes there is an upward linear trend, but it's the spread that matters. I found this figure (hopefully not behind a paywall: ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S1364032115017013-gr9.jpg) which shows some high wind correlation in central Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Czechia, Hungary), but once you go to the edges (Balkans, Scandinavia, Iberian p., Ireland and Greece) the correlation drops to almost zero.

[@tiavor]

too bad that the consumer sees nothing of those "cheaper prices through interconnection". In Germany we pay over 26c/kWh

[@pXnTilde]

Not to mention the cost of bureaucracy. How much will the EU take to save those billions on power

[@j.b.2894]

Das ist ja auch eine langfristige Investition du kek

[@LucasPereiradaSilva]

Australia is coming next with one of the highest power bills of the world while having more uranium than anyone else and 150 years' worth of coal.

[@BoZhaoengineering]

It is very expensive. More expensive than in mainland china . Be aware that renewable energy usually costs more than traditional energy. And they are not sustainable to main grid. But renewable is taking more take up of total energy production.

[@cmdr1911]

Holy shit. I pay .09 USD / Kwh

[@jeremygates51]

The recent rolling blackouts in cali show that its much harder to sustain a green energy grid when the wind doesnt blow or the sun isnt shining.

[@andri0mar]

5:49 No, Iceland is an independent electrical system and not connected to any other..

[@eldarr0uge482]

Also, one great thing about interconnections, is that renewable can be produced in a region at a given moment but not in another one. Exchanging energy « flattens out » the production of renewable sources, which makes the peaks lower and the gaps higher. Thus making renewable sources much less fluctuating and much more reliable :-) (It applies mostly for the wind... cuz you know... we only have a couple of hours between the sunset in spain and in poland.. but still)

[@retovath]

Counterpoint: energy transmission has an energy cost per unit distance. That cost is typically quoted to be about 3% per 1000km for HVDC. Transmitting solar energy across HVDC lines at a 3000 kilometer scale would cost close to 9% of all energy transmitted. That is for just the backbone long range interconnects, let alone the low voltage nodes that each of these dispersed area power harvesting devices use, never mind storage inefficiencies. Don't get me wrong, I like wind and solar for the reduction (but not elimination) of perment consumption fuel sources, but that is their role untill we can build either a Dyson swarm or railgun/space elevator launched orbital solar. (Note; regular launches would be net energy negative for any orbital solar configuration, due to the tyranny of the rocket equation). My problem is that all of these renewable sources of energy still have perment waste streams unless we recycle every component. When you begin to contemplate the energy implications of recycling everything, you begin to see that ground solar + battery storage has a chance at being net energy negative.

[@Meddlmoe]

The production in different regions of Europe is highly correlated. Therefore the scatter remains almost the same: www.eike-klima-energie.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hof_1.png So there is only very little "flattening" of the cumulated production

[@eldarr0uge482]

@@Meddlmoe Well I have figures that show otherwise: Rougly pages 20 through 28 of this report: www.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin2/Projekte/2014/Ein-flexibler-Strommarkt-2030/Agora_European_Flexibility_Challenges_Integration_Benefits_WEB_Rev1.pdf The effect might not be spectacular, but it is here and non negligeable. For the losses of energy in transmission, I agree, however the goal is not to exchange energy over 3000 km but rather 1000km. And even so, we are aiming at stabilizing the system and reducing its variability, the energy cost per unit distance doesn't affect that. Moreover, coupled with an oversizing of the renewable means of production, this really won't be a problem anymore. Also batteries are far from being the only way of storing energy. Fly wheels work well at small scales, you can also use compressed air (CAES), Hydrogen, Methane (using Sabatier's reaction you can turn CO2 into CH4 and use it as a regular natural gas, I posted another comment on that), pumped water (PHES)... lithium ion batteries are cool but there are other cheaper and cleaner ways of storing energy that are way easier to set up, dismantle and recycle. Just less energy density...

[@ashwinkalbhor3688]

Honestly. I rarely, if ever, comment on you tube videos but I must say that I always LOVE the fact the fact that everything in your videos is always BACKED by references. When I see that I know that you have a source for what you are saying unlike the other 300 creators who don't have it backed up. I really appreciate that you keep your videos grounded in research rather than gut feeling. Kudos. Keep on keeping on :-)

[@bartoszjankowiak3157]

Good luck with this in Poland... Wind's and solar's output won't be enough to replace coal plants in this country and it will have even bigger demand for energy since its economy is still growing fast. Nuclear is the only solution there, I think. Polish government said many times they don't want to be too dependent on foreign energy suppliers.

[@suokkos]

There is a micro nuclear power project going on in Finland. They have published study about replacing heat coal plants with heat only micro nuclear reactors. They compared Finland and Poland. Finding was that Finland is likely Financially easier target because heat demand variability is lower (which can be surprising as Poland has warmer winters). But still it looked like Financially possible to replace coal with nuclear heat if reactor technology can be made as safe and cheap they theoretically hope. Too bad actual commercial products aren't yet available and first mover will likely have to pay higher costs for new technology than later "mass produced" reactors.

[@katm9877]

You beat me to it. Poland doesn't have enough mountains for wind and is too far north for solar to be effective. There are a couple of reservoirs that could be used for hydro, but again, it won't be enough to shake coal's hold as far as power generation is concerned.

[@massimookissed1023]

8:10 I have a mental image of Andorra suddenly drilling for electricity.

[@CaseyHandmer]

Interesting video. Two points: 1) Curtailment is not a bad thing. If solar is to provide daytime power, sufficiency at dawn implies excess at noon. Some curtailment is cheaper than batteries. Solar power is nearly infinite, it's not a bad thing to let some go! 2) Big infrastructure investments such as interstate interconnects are popular with major engineering firms, but it's not clear that they wouldn't become stranded assets. Future development will see more local generation (less centralization) and so less usage of transmission infrastructure, which will undermine its viability. Yes, CA could sell solar northwards but that's a different proposition and, given continuing reductions in solar panel cost, unlikely to beat simply building out farms in Oregon in a few years time.

[@manshuo5843]

Thank you EU. Love from Latin America. Ecuador 💕EU. 🇪🇨💕🇪🇺

[@Big_AlMC]

EU don't care about you. Infact they rape your country for resources.

[@noxiteprova8878]

We love you too

[@lefr33man]

"Wasted energy is wasted money, what if I told you..." Me: bit early in the vid for a Skillshare ad, but okay.

[@AskLindal]

Not that much pumped hydro in Norway though. The mechanism is more that production from dams are halted or reduced whenever that makes sence (and here there are many factors taken into account when planning the production, not only excess energy from neighbouring countries).

[@adolfodef]

Europe wants a SUPER GRID to be able to SCALE UP their _unique_ new technology in power generation for 2050: FUSION REACTORS [the larger the better]; so instead of keeping on the lower GigaWatt per unit (like current fision reactor power plants); they can skip into the TeraWatt range.

[@ilyazzar]

I really appreciate this kind of videos. About energy stuff Great!

[@SkashTheKitsune]

having interconnectors can also save states from complete powerloss because of overloads, if the load is too high then the switch will trip and will try to reset, but you can't instantly ramp up however you can instantly buy more from other members of the interconnected, saving the member states millions each time there's a blackout or when the need to schedule rolling blackouts because reliability is what people pay for with the grid and most accept the higher costs for the reliability but when you make it cheaper for the transmission, you yourself not only get to line your pockets more but you get to pass on the savings to your customers so that they can stay in your member state... in California you can move to another state, in Europe you can move to another country in European Union... mo money is mo money.

[@Tim_Small]

For a real-time global view, see the "Electricity Map" website.

[@blanco7726]

Tim Small hardly global it includes like 10 countries

[@Tim_Small]

@@blanco7726 just checked, and there are 17 there at the moment. There are usually double that. They use publicly available info, so if your country is unavailable, complain to your grid operator.

[@Tim_Small]

@@blanco7726 looking a bit better now (although Ireland, Switzerland, Poland and Luxembourg have gone AWOL)

[@blanco7726]

Tim Small just wanna see Luxembourg tbh

[@ssplintergirl]

Somebody please inform me why nuclear is not being pushed further than solely renewable?

[@lendluke]

Because it isn't really about the environment, it is about the government uneconomically choosing the "green" energy sources for us. If people truly wanted to minimize environmental harm, they would support a carbon and pollution tax that internalizes our best guess of the harm of these emissions. When the areas that invest heavily in wind and/or solar often have the highest energy prices, it is clear that they are not cheaper no matter what silly per kilowatt costs "green" many green energy supporters keep citing. Huge correlation between renewables % and cost per kWh if you look that these links. www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-prices-in-selected-countries/ www.smart-energy.com/renewable-energy/top-ten-countries-with-the-highest-proportion-of-renewable-energy/

[@garymartin9777]

One thing excess power can be used for is to extract CO2 from the atmosphere in large quantities. The chemistry exists to do this and is fairly simple. All it needs is massive amounts of cheap energy. The product can be used to make plastics.

[@jonathanpalmer228]

Been watching his D-Day series, definitely suggest it.

[@loveforthegame3]

man all my favorite channels uploading today 👍 we just need one by Wendover productions to top it off. Thanks for breakfast entertainment 👍 Also that is amazing innovation by the EU. Love from across the pond 🤟

[@yosolonopuedo]

Power losses, power lines overloads, N-1 criteria, etc. It is not that simple and unless you overdimension the grid ($$$$$) and build many secondary backup power plants (gas, coal, etc.) there will be many power curtailments in those renewable power plants due to security restrictions in the grid. Nice idea though...

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

4:46 Actually not. The largest grid is China's State Grid system. Source: a State Grid employee

[@RealEngineering]

Europe is largest by connected power

[@carlosandleon]

Communists don't count (spits)

[@Tacuara7]

@@carlosandleon imagine thinking that china is communist

[@woodmanvictory]

Arent you not allowed on here buddy? Do I have to tell Xi

[@mrmagoo-i2l]

Ignacio Gonzalez The CCP. Hint, it’s in the name.

[@AwesomeSauce7176]

This is amazing. I wasn't even aware that this is possible, let alone that the EU have already started. Not to get political but we need a candidate in the US that wrote a bill called the Green New Deal.

[@mitchellmiller1990]

The States grids are already connected together and regularly sell power to each other. these interconnections are called Paths. The issue is these paths have thermal limits to how much power they can transfer. To increase these limits we have to build new lines, which are millions of dollars per mile. Additionally, no one seems to want to let the utilities build new lines and any time a moth is so much as spotted in the area of construction an environmental study is done. you can build wind turbines in Montana, but you cant get that power to California without new lines, and no one will build new lines. source: transmission planning engineer in Montana.

[@brian2440]

Mitchell Miller There are developments ongoing, but you also have to realize the US Electrical Grid is one of the largest pieces of infrastructure ever constructed by humanity. It spans over 450,000 miles. So it’s gonna take a hot minute to upgrade everything.

[@brian2440]

There are some considerable problems with Sanders GND in that there are section that just straight up don’t make any sense. I’d like to know what Mitchell Miller’s opinion is. Especially when the GND talks about PMAs essentially seizing ownership of renewable generating assets from private and public utilities in addition to seizing RTO and ISO wholesale markets on the Eastern Interconnection. (Just FYI PMAs have never managed anything besides hydroelectric dams, and 3 of them transmission, so to now give them 100% ownership of wind and solar when they are not designed to own these things is a little bizarre). Maybe I’m just misreading it but that section - just WTF...

[@mitchellmiller1990]

@@brian2440 the premise of the idea of being carbon neutral is great. But what it takes from an energy standpoint is backup gas plants at this point. My utility has no end of people trying to build wind farms and sell them too us. The issue lies and available energy when we need it. Our system peaks on cold still dark days and hot still days. Generally when we need power the wind isn't blowing, so we need enough storage or backup gas plants for any wind we rely on. Right now we have shortages on peak load when costs go from 80$/MWH to 1000$/MWH because renewable generation is down when we need it. Thankfully we have a bunch of hydro up here, but dams are not green in they eyes on many.

[@EmperorHelix]

The Green New Deal was poorly written and was not about reducing greenhouse gases; it was about implementing socialism. Did you actually READ the Green New Deal?

[@SC-yy4sw]

OK but if all of the US states were perfectly interconnected and equipped with enough renewables, it still wouldn't change the fact that solar would probably have to be disconnected in summer because, you know, summer basically happens in all states at the same time (solar load goes up when demand goes down). And you're still going to need load following plants. And if you want to go for nuclear, they can do load following, but they deteriorate faster due to cyclic fatigue... Really, i don't see the point of large scale rewables implementation until it's implemented along same-day and year-round storage facilities.

[@darthcalanil5333]

and that's what makes me proud of the EU.

[@ryanrrree1744]

Thank you Europe, for cleaning after us

[@nubarkemwer6399]

:)) In Europe, the price of electricity is two to three times higher than in the US. And this is because of the subsidies given to the renewables, despite the interconnected grid.

[@TomSmith-li5se]

@@nubarkemwer6399 It's important for all of us having a renewable energy grid not only for Europe. The US should do it's part but they are slow at it...

[@nubarkemwer6399]

@@TomSmith-li5se you don't understand. It is useless not to say harmful to try to go wind&solar on a large scale.

[@YM-zf8mt]

@@nubarkemwer6399 climate change is dangerous on a large scale dumbnut the price may be two or three times higher but that's because of privatisation and ultraliberalism that guys love so much just like highways getting pricier and pricier while the service doesn't improve since it's always the same so that's because of you and even so unless you propose nuclear energy we should stop relying on carbon based energy as fast as possible

[@mlc4495]

@@nubarkemwer6399 Wrong.

[@domestik834]

According to wikipedia Norway only has 3 pumped storaged power plants. In reality they don't pump water up but instead won't let it fall down. They close the valves at their hydroelectric power stations and save the water for later when they can import cheap electricity from other parts of europe.

[@felixbeutin8105]

That makes no sense why would they save the water for when they import electricity to you mean they save the water for when they can export to other european countries ?

[@dickblackman7551]

Nuclear fusion is the energy of the future

[@tomkelly8827]

No its not, it is way way way too expensive and centralized, even if fuel is free it is too expensive

[@TheWerelf]

Tom Kelly that's why it is the energy of the FUTURE, not present, dummy

[@WalrusWinking]

@@tomkelly8827 Solar panels used to be REALLY expensive. Steam used to be expensive, Electricity used to be expensive. Your point?

[@Huusmaan]

Yes and building al this turbines and solar panels are cheap? 1 trillion Euro the normal people has to pay. Nuclear is the future, it is safe, cheaper on the long run. And you do not need to built these ugly turbines everywehere. These turbines disturb the wildlife like birds. And the vibrations are bad for the wildlife in the sea. I live in Netherlands and it is insane how much the normal people have to pay for this so called "cheap energy" We the people did not ask for this. Everything is getting worse here. But every year we have to pay more to the EU. Referendums about this are ignored to push their agenda to "save the Earth". So they say. Climate change is real but is natural. We do not have a huge stamp on it. And that is the truth EU Parlement just want to make as much money as possible. And we the people are just ATM machines for the EU parlement. EU from the outside looks so promesing and nice. But it is not. Open your Eyes people.

[@mfbqboqbjmbijxk8050]

Robin Huijsman You seem to have fallen for populist propaganda. You say “we the people” like we all unanimously agree on what to do. Like people won’t complain if a nuclear reactor was placed near their home. On top of that you seem to deny human influence on nature and use the EU as a convenient scapegoat.

[@fl00fydragon]

The EU should federalize already. A EUF would be a technological, economic, geopolitical, cultural, and most importantly, democratic superpower that could lead by example.

[@Kirealta]

Nah, if it ain't broke don't fix it. We are content (most of us) to just work together. In the future maybe.

[@fl00fydragon]

@@Kirealta The problem with the current intermediate stage is that it is broke and needs fixing. Problems like the Greek economic crisis is a product of having separate fiscal and monetary policies, separate militaries among its nations is wasteful as a pan European army would be cheaper and more efficient, and most importantly a EUF would have the economic and geopolitical clout to put it's foot down against the interests of the US and other superpowers, which in turn would stop the neoliberalization of it's member states that is the underlying cause of austerity, the drop in democratic represnetation, cuts to social safety nets etc. doubly so as we are at a time where we have somewhere around a decade to prepare for another upcoming problem, that AI is set to cut somewhere around 1/3 of jobs within the 2030's even as our technology has already produced wasted overabundance in multiple goods and services that is wasted on purpose to retain price competition and profitability. Basically a european federation has the power and resources required to be the first to sucessfully become a type 1 civilization, in tech, in social matters, in politics and even economics as it can move past capitlaism without being sabotaged by the US as it would be interacting with the global economy from a position of vastly greater clout than it.

[@beniaminosani2719]

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love her and despair.

[@fl00fydragon]

@@beniaminosani2719 What does Galadriel, a fictional elven queen, have to do with the proposal of making a democratic federation?

[@Kirealta]

@@fl00fydragon you seem to think we all want the same things. Trying to satisfy each country would be a nightmare. It would never work. In 60 years maybe, when we are more dependent on each other.

[@75IFFY]

I was discussing this with someone a few days ago with regard to Australia and the SE Asia region. It’s a brilliant idea, especially if it reduces the demand for Russian energy/gas in Europe.

[@ValMartinIreland]

If this worked why is German in an energy crisis with 61,000 megawatts if installed wind capacity?

[@GeorgeTankerYT]

Can we get fusion energy?

[@henricousoli976]

He could make a video on that dont you think?

[@xponen]

easiest way is to detonate a hydrogen bomb. That will obliterate everything around it.

[@henricousoli976]

@@xponen you should watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4vWkpSqqteFbKc from In a Nutshell about fusion energy

[@bojstojsa7574]

Even optimistically not before 2080

[@GeorgeTankerYT]

@@henricousoli976 that's why i said the idea