Is This the Next Big Clean Tech Breakthrough? | Fully Charged Show Podcast with Matt Ferrell

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[@michaelginever732]

Two of my favourite presenters. Very enjoyable.

[@johnsmedley8843]

As a mechanical engineer it really annoys me about the so called problems in achieving a renewable future. We are swimming In a sea of energy There are no technical problems to solve. It's just politics.

[@susanshepherd7093]

Our combined gas and electricity bill is heading this year to be standing charges only. Solar panels plus home batteries runs our home, fuels two cars, heats our water, provides us heat + air conditioning via split units for the house. It can be done

[@mrbizi5652]

Really like your perspective. We have PVs, EVs, heat pump hot water, AC but need to convert furnace still.

[@mycosys]

If you are a millionaire. If you arent a landowner - sux to be you.

[@recumbentrocks2929]

I'm sure Bobby has a script of questions and topics to discuss, but he keeps getting sidetracked by memories and ideas. Makes for a very natural conversation and Matt was much more invovled and relaxed then the last interview they had. Love it!

[@andrewsaint6581]

If you're Undecided, Just Have a Think. 😉

[@davidzz4307]

Think ill make a decision

[@fparent]

Lol

[@COSolar6419]

Most folks who claim they’re concerned about used solar panels going to the landfill have probably never given a thought about what happens to the old roofing shingles when they reroof their house.

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

Why would you throw all the raw materials in solar panels into a land fill? Roofing shingles are a con game by the oil industry to sell more oil, my steal roof is now 25years old and will out last me.

[@COSolar6419]

@@universeisundernoobligatio3283 I won’t but that is the argument against solar energy I keep hearing from some people. I was pointing out they don’t have the same concerns about any other product they consume.

[@paulogden7417]

@@universeisundernoobligatio3283 Haha, I love this comment. Gotta go on the offensive! Yes, steel is the best after solar panels for roofing. Long lasting, truly recyclable.

[@Julian-1701]

​@paulogden7417 In germany, we have ceramic tiles, which last for decades, sometimes even centuries unless damaged. I know personally a few buildings where the roof is from before 1900.

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

@@Julian-1701 I like the ceramic tiles, no available in Canada, asphalt shingles last 10 to 20 years, then off to the land fill, oil company con.

[@raidengl]

I asked a gentleman with a Hyundai at a rapid charger while I was charging how big his battery was. He responded by saying, "I don't know. I bought this for doing Uber. I spend as much charging this as I did buying gas in my older cars." But the fact that he treated it like every other car is what amazed me.

[@gerhardk98]

The reason that he spends as much as he did for gas is that he is DC fast charging all the time, a regular car owner would rarely use a DC fast charger as the battery would suffice for the average persons daily needs.

[@raidengl]

@gerhardk98 Oh, I totally agree. I have a Leaf, and I'm in a Leaf subreddit where a large percentage of the posters get very geeky about battery specs, Leafspy, and other technical specs. But this guy was like I don't know. It just works.

[@gerhardk98]

@@raidengl I also drive a LEAF and the 40 kWh battery is more than sufficient most days and I am able to charge at 7 cents a kWh at night. My wife drives a VW Beetle and it takes about 8 litres to travel a 100 km so at current fuel cost in Canada that would equate to $13.60 compared to the LEAF when driven more aggressively than I do requires 20 kWh per 100 km or $1.40.

[@raidengl]

@gerhardk98 I have the 62kwh plus. I ran the battery down to 22% by the time I got home. I don't have an EVSE, and it took a long time to trickle charge that back up to 80%. But I have solar, so part of the charging was free.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

@raidengl most days, you can just trickle top up. Small daily drives should be ezi pezi. Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

The advantage of rooftop PV panels is they shade hot rooftops. Installed PV is cheaper than windows $/m2.

[@dwc1964]

My very first apartment was on the top floor of a 3-story (or 2-story for those who don't count the ground floor) building with a flat tar roof, and on sunny summer days it got unbearably hot - and my first thought when that happened was, it's sure be great if we had solar panels to capture that energy and put it to good use instead of making me miserable. My current apartment is similarly situated.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

@dwc1964 Talk to the building manager. Subsidies from the government ??? Concrete slab under each footing means no through roof fixing for windy days.

[@charleslord266]

Two EVs, two powewalls, 8.5 kw solar. I'll never go back.

[@mycosys]

unless you lose your job

[@burtinator85]

@@mycosys assuming its not bought on a loan the ev's, home batteries and solar would making losing your job less stressful, cause you've got energy and transport covered without the need for more cash

[@elainebradley8213]

​@mycosys one of the evs could be sold, then his lifestyle expenses would be much lower. If he bought the system on credit, his energy savings are probably paying for the system, over time its paid for and the savings are like income. Solar is now charging 2 cars so factor in those savings as well.

[@HermannKerr]

I find it interesting that Matt is a two car household. I was talking to a fellow with an electric cargo bike and he said that after he purchased it, him and his wife felt that the need for the second car disappeared. The electric cargo bike this guy had was with a big bin in front that had child's seat. I also follow another fellow out of Calgary, Shifter, for supporting and advancing bike use here in The Great White North. I find it it interesting that he lives in one of the most car centric city in Canada, imho.

[@Jaw0lf]

Two of my favourite channels in collaboration.Fantastic chat and information.

[@VillageVidiot100]

We've just about got to zero bills in the uk now. ~14kw of panels and a 50kwh house battery. One ev that does about 15k miles/year. Im not 100% sure as we haven't been through a winter with the bigger battery and the latest exta panels i've put up but i think we are on track for about £500 proffit over the year. It will all change again when we replace our last ice car with second ev but that will be our last substantial carbon emmitter gone and i think we'll then be at about net zero bills over a year for all our heating, transport and domestic requirements.

[@mycosys]

Have you considered helping a pensioner who cant afford heat with a couple? oh right - not allowed for them

[@colinpalmer9070]

@@mycosys. There are hundreds of community renewable projects in crowdfunding finance platforms such as Ethex. This is what the govt needs to drive.

[@mycosys]

@@colinpalmer9070 If even _we_ dont talk about it, it wont get driven.

[@tivvy-xf4kz]

I assume you are talking about running costs but how much did the setup cost and your ev?

[@VillageVidiot100]

@@tivvy-xf4kz about £12K to do the solar and battery and £16k for the EV. EV does 15K miles a year so saves about £2200 in fuel compared to petrol. I've not really tracked our solar savings properly but before it all went in we spent about £2.5k a year on energy and now we get about a £500 credit so the whole lot returns something like £4700 a year on a £28K capex so something like 16% ROI and it makes no carbon.

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

Live in Ontario Canada, put ground source in 15years ago, its been great, went from $3,000 in propane to $350 in electricity over the year. Paid for its self in 8 years. Summer AC costs

[@ashtontechhelp]

I think, robert, you would benefit from a tripod-mounted camera that is placed on the floor, not your desk. The set-up you have causes wobbles every time you move your self sharply to emphasise a point - I think you must have your arms on the desk.

[@zagabog]

And a larger room with space for the tripod?

[@ashtontechhelp]

@@zagabog possibly, though I have not been invited to survey the room as-is. I believe it's his garden office, so should have done extra space I would have thought. It may not be possible. We may never know. It's just a suggestion.

[@RAHellemans]

As a young man in the 1950's we were promised that nuclear generated electricity would be so cheap that home metering would not be viable. Still waiting and nuclear fusion for 2030 just science defending it's existence. Every one should read Tony Seba's book Clean Disruption to have a realistic vue of what 2050 will bring.

[@ians3328]

Clean Disruption is so obvious when Tony Seba proves it with historical calls he made 10yrs ago. I just really hope our politicians (idiots) actually read it and take some action. Clean power with batteries is just SO MUCH cheaper than nuclear and can be delivered in months not 10s of years. New lot in maybe they will actually do it. Cancel the Nuclear builds and put wind and solar across the site with some huge batteries. And all the old coal plants they have shut down. China showing the way.

[@i6power30]

Tony seba also said AI and robots will take over in 5 years or so. I think he will be proven wrong in 20 years we will still have no robots in factory

[@ramblerandy2397]

​@@i6power30Seeing as several companies are developing sophisticated humanoid robots at this very moment, and are at various advanced states, and AI is gathering pace at a phenomenal rate, I would say that Tony Seba's timeline is reasonably accurate.

[@garysmith5025]

​@@i6power30Considering the word "robot" derives from a Czech word meaning variously "forced labour, drudgery, slave", I'd argue many factories have had robots since the industrial revolution began.

[@i6power30]

@@ramblerandy2397 I think those are nothing more than PR stunts at this point..I haven't seen any evidence of humanoid robots replacing actual humans doing dexterous tasks.

[@PeaceChanel]

Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste .. 🙏🏻 😊 ✌ ☮ ❤ 🕊

[@ausnorman8050]

The collab we've all been waiting for.

[@ramblerandy2397]

Matt Ferrell has been on before.

[@stephenlines9431]

Wow! Every now and again a KZbin video really connects. This was a supremely well informed, beautifully presented overview of what we've achieved, where we are now, and realistically what we can expect in the near future. Professional, informative, positive and hope-giving. Thanks.

[@t1n4444]

Hmm ... are you an AI? "You" type as if you're an AI on sabbatical from Mrs Miggins's cryptocurrency boiler room. 🎶And you're not the only one 🎶

[@elainebradley8213]

Jeff Dahn just did a u tube talk mentioning 1, 000, 000 km batteries in cars. The car wears out before the car does.

[@TinkerTry]

Sure is great to see you two together, wonderfully fun to listen to, awesome topics including Tesla Powerwalls etc. that are right up my alley. My wife also wonders why I watch so many videos by these guys ;)

[@lyledal]

A private company confidently saying "we can do this within the next 5 years" certainly encourages their investors to keep sending the checks. That's for sure.

[@drunkenhobo8020]

*Cough*. Full self-driving *Cough*.

[@lyledal]

@@drunkenhobo8020 YEP.

[@atcogswell]

I vote for "Everything Electric Halifax"! Nova Scotia is waiting for you!

[@tbateshockey16]

YES please lol im in NB i would 100% drive down for that

[@ianstirling6015]

Thanks for your positivity.

[@PJWey]

My newly build home had 3 solar panels and a gas combi boiler 😳🤦 better than other new builds nearby that have no panels!

[@johnwenzel2003]

Technically, modem geothermal can work anywhere on the planet. The catch is if drilling costs are prohibitive on a site to site bases. As with all alternative energy, it's the upfront costs that are the largest factor preventing large scale adoption.

[@davidwebb4904]

I don’t think its the actual material costs of any of these type of projects, its the installation costs that gouge the customers.

[@i6power30]

​@@davidwebb4904then do it yourself if you don't value time and labor of others.

[@Greenspaceservices]

Great video guys! See you in Vancouver

[@declanmccallum]

The crossover I didn't know I needed!

[@zapfanzapfan]

Do a road trip to Saskatchewan when you are in Vancouver! See how well the charging network is doing up there.

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

Not a problem friends went from Vancouver to Halifax in February, 6,300km in 68 hours to show it can be done. Canada is crossed by Tesla and Petro Canada EV charging network.

[@zapfanzapfan]

@@universeisundernoobligatio3283 I took a look at Tesla's supercharger map. No way to drive the Alaska highway yet with them anyway.

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

@@zapfanzapfan Good to know only 1 in 100,000 people drive the Alaska highway. It's OK if they rent a ICE vehicle for that drive.

[@elainebradley8213]

​@@zapfanzapfanThere was an interesting Alaska program about a man driving his Tesla all over and using a variety of creative solutions to charge. Not for me though. I have had no problems driving in Northern Ontario.

[@zapfanzapfan]

@@elainebradley8213 There was even an EV race to Deadhorse at the north end of the Dalton. I think they charged at the pumping stations along the pipeline and the few other stops along the way that exist.

[@johnrperrett7977]

Samsung took part in the SNE Battery Day 2024 expo in Seoul this week to demonstrate its new battery technologies. The first batches from its pilot solid-state battery line have been delivered to EV makers, and they've been testing the cells for about six months now.

[@alanmuncaster7357]

When two great channels come together.

[@gramos9115]

Fusion ?

[@tomrybold]

Thanks Robert and now i will look at Matt Ferrell videos about how to improve my house with solar or other stuff

[@TassieEV]

Slight correct to something Matt said, Saskatchewan isn't flat having cycled across it going West to East it is hilly but not flat maybe he only was on the Trans-Canada Hwy and didn't get off it very far.

[@programitect]

This is a turning point with the cost of EVs. My son and daughter in their early 20's both have a 2nd hand corsa-e 3&2 yr old, whose price are compatible with the petrol and diesel version. They both did the calculations and are paying for them through savings on fuel and maintenance. They are using our cheap 6 hour offpeak @7p kWh.

[@TheComfiestChair]

Obviously it massively depends on how you are finding the off peak window, but it sounds like you're on Octopus! It therefore may be worth looking into a smart charger like the Ohme pro, if you ever find that it's becoming a bit restrictive for whatever reason (e.g. commutes change, or so on!) :) They do cost about £1-1.1k to install, but you can gain off peak charging (and house electricity at the same time!) at many more times throughout the day. For us, in Shropshire, we find that the 'off peak' window is also the vast majority of the time when we plug in (useful for triggering home battery charging in the middle of the day) :D

[@user-ps2zr7jp6p]

Very enjoyable, lots of good insights.

[@maikydb]

Yay! My 2 only patrion's in one show!

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Excellent work Matt

[@philjoyce7939]

Free energy will never be a reality. The owners of the technology will make fully sure of that.

[@BillyP13]

Right on bro👏👏🙏🏽🙏🏽.

[@danielmadar9938]

Thanks

[@caterthun4853]

Please look at this..James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher) has been awarded a contract for the management, repair and maintenance of high voltage equipment and cables at two of Menter Môn’s Morlais tidal energy substations. The energy generated by Morlais has the potential to reach 240 MW (30 MW per plug-in site), enough to power 180,000 typical households.

[@MichaelSmith-px1ev]

It would be good to get more content in battery recycling on both channels

[@paulogden7417]

My power company -Arizona Public Service - will be paying me well over $1000 this year for energy. I have a lot of solar and am now switching my 18 tons of AC to mini-splits (10 tons completed). Even after charging my new EV I am pumping 3-4000 KWH on the grid each month. I hope to double my solar system next year to 75KW. Then, batteries. This system will power about 10 local homes. One person can make a difference.

[@EVGizmo]

Are you using 15kW hybrid inverters?

[@paulc6766]

I think you should consider batteries earlier to make better use of the energy you are generating now.

[@paulogden7417]

@@EVGizmo I’m using 4 7KW SMA Sunnyboy inverters. Low cost and 3 years now with zero problems.

[@paulogden7417]

@@paulc6766 I’m looking at batteries. However, APS does not pay me one cent extra for shifting my power generation to peak hours. So I have no economic incentive to use batteries and they are not inexpensive. When this changes. I will probably run batteries. Even without batteries, I’m pretty sure that APS can use all the electricity I produce that I don’t use myself

[@gardenrailroading]

Looking forward to having a full system installed before next year!

[@wesleyfoster1967]

I lived in Sommerville Boston has 35 mile an hour wind tunnels call Boston streets.

[@brianmcnish1835]

You need to get out more. Travers Solar plant has a capacity of 465 MW on 3300 acres. Just me and the grasshoppers were in attendance. The wind farm across the highway required 10X the land mass. Vulcan county in southern Alberta.

[@malcolm8564]

The land around and between turbines is free for other uses such as agriculture isn't it?

[@ForTheBirbs]

Thanks for another great podcast!

[@elainebradley8213]

Before I spend thousands of dollars on something I am going to fact check it. But, my brother in law has ground source heat pump here in Northern Ontario and it is fantastic. High water level meant the well drilling wasnt too expensive. We have no ground, only rock. I would love to try it but is not possible.

[@bartroberts1514]

Hugely impressed, and affected, by both your bodies of very helpful and inspiring work. 2024 marks the 90th anniversary of laboratory fusion, by Rutherford and Oliphant. Optimum fusion reactions require 1:1 D-T ratio to reduce initiation temperature to 100 million K, and pressures of only 10 atmospheres; this produces 17.6 MeV raw power (~14.1:3.5 neutron:alpha particle), or ~2.8 x 10^-12J. Each D-T pair requires in excess of 10^-9 J to produce from water and Lithium, including mining and transportation (almost all of that on the Tritium side). Now, in case you're not good at engineering math, that means it takes almost three thousand times as much energy to fuel each fusion reaction as you get out of the reaction. And that's before the capture efficiency of about 6:1 and the energy it takes to create the 100 million K and 10 atmospheres of pressure. Sure, a cunning Physicist could then use the reaction for D-D fusion by some kind of bootstrapping, in which case almost 100 times as much energy could theoretically be gotten out per atom as goes into the fuel, but that rapidly reduces to net energy deficit, too. Commercial electric production by fusion under the conditions we have on Earth will never be feasible. We've known this for nine decades.

[@gramos9115]

While Matt was building his house we were building ours and I did wonder why he elected to stay on the grid with its Poco net metering trick ? He says he is hoping to have enough credits to see through next winter ? We chose to stay away from the grid and fitted 12kw of solar , 3 LiFepo4 batteries and have no bills . We built to Passiv Haus specification and have no heating system yet the coldest temp last winter was 21.8C The Poco,s have ways of making sure that you cannot do without them , but you can .

[@frejaresund3770]

I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.

[@urbanstrencan]

Great podcast episode, and great guest. I really want to install solar panels on my roof here in Slovenia but was declined twice by utility because grid is not strong enough 😢😢.

[@Abinyah]

I live in Saskatchewan, come visit!!!

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Canada has turned off one generator at a nuclear power station because demand has reduced. More efficient use of electricity seems to be having an impact. 😮😊😊😊

[@gibbions]

I’m thinking of getting solar panels but very new to all this… Basic question but, where do I start? Is there a bunch of solar panel brands that are best and are there ones to avoid? Is there a good specialist website with impartial advice?

[@gibbions]

I’m based in the UK btw…

[@peterjones6322]

Just search in KZbin for UK solar. There are several people doing all aspects and giving monthly results etc

[@johnnodge4327]

Generally solar installers will do all the calculations for you. But do get several companies to give you quotes, outputs, equipment used etc. We have 3.78 kWp of solar on our SW facing roof. On a perfect summer day, I will get 26kWr of energy from them.

[@t1n4444]

All depends on where you are. Or if the greenery occludes your roof (think bungalow) or garden (high hedges, say). Definitely advisable to seek advice from several installers and pay particular attention to any projected performance figures. It may be you live in a valley and the sunshine is "on" for only a few hours daily. Or you live on a hill and sunshine is abundant all day long. Solar panels are excellent but they need an excellent location. There again if you are surrounded by solar panelled roofs then perhaps a matter with your neighbours viz their experiences might be useful.

[@raymondschembri5042]

Go and watch Gary does Solar .It’s a very informative channel and easy to understand.

[@alanhat5252]

38:53 we had electric cars *_long_* before we had petrol-engine cars but they didn't keep up after Ford's Model T, relegated to industrial uses of which there have always been _a lot_ -- think of forklifts, cranes, in-building transport, thousands of uses

[@highlanderapparel]

Also, I was extremely impressed when I found out that Robert toured our nuclear submarine basin Scotland, the Highlander😀👕

[@robaire.b]

Let’s hope the Earth remains habitable long enough to see a complete green energy and transport transition and the future technologies that are so close to being actualised. The problem is that there are too many people who just love to burn stuff however miserable it makes life on this planet and however many species face extinction

[@Hyfly13]

Pretty sure Matt's solid state battery video is under review as that product might be semi solid state after all. See recent Just Have a Think episode.

[@LumenCache]

The 3 solar panels is a great idea. They cover 90% of your needs during power outages, and barely affect the construction cost. There's little need to cover 100% of your peak demand and the wholesale rate for the excess energy is barely a payback consodering the maintenance cost. Even if they are very low.

[@alanhat5252]

2:30 excellent idea, why didn't it happen? Houses in the 1400s (even the 1800s) had no foundations so laying 2 pipes underneath a wall should be simple enough.

[@nathanfranck5822]

Here in Saskatewan's neighbor Alberta, we have the exact impression of Saskatewan - Flat farmland in a giant grid. Granted Alberta's barely different

[@desmovalveservice5282]

A Quanset hut, response to the RAF training hangar structure

[@monksuu]

Robert mentioned that plausible electric international flights should be more than 500 miles (800 km). Heathrow (London) - CDG (Paris) is merely 350 km as the crow flies. And 650 km to Frankfurt. Europe and Asia are full of city pairs that can cater to these shorter (less than 800 km) flights.

[@daveh6356]

I think the wind turbine vendor Matt was looking for is Ventum Dynamics & they've just launched the VX175. Robert needs a better webcam, does he know he can use continuity camera on his iPhone?

[@gaston.]

yay Matt!

[@adyg236]

Obviously new cars lose a lot of value when you drive them out of the dealership, 20% is VAT & as a private buyer you're not getting that back.

[@TimsElectric]

Terrific interview Robert! Matt was awesome...love both channels and looking forward to seeing your presentations in Vancouver this September :) Cheers from Victoria BC :)

[@adyg236]

Drilling a 100m deep ground source heat pump, pv panels, wall batteries, solid state batteries, mostly still a rich mans game. Unfortunately i can only afford the EV part for the next few years.

[@wesleyfoster1967]

To get the numbers correct the output of the air conditioner (Heat Pump) must be put in the water heater.

[@HWKier]

I'd like to live long enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel of civilization surviving the looming climate change disaster.

[@eamonquinn5188]

I hope they are building huge storage in windy areas, because currently we see so many parked blades when the wind is too strong and nowhere for the power to go

[@glennmartin6492]

Storage lets you get 30-50% more out of wind turbines. Automatically cheaper power.

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

We have mine works under our home which go down a lot further than 400 feet.

[@superspeeder]

Big breakthrough? Ground source heat pumps have been around FOREVER… my parents put one in the house we built in 1985. Also, the concept of the $0 energy bill does not scale, it only works if your utility company grants you a net-metering contract. In my area they’re capped at 7% of grid demand (YMMV), so absolutely not something everyone can do, only a very small portion of people can take part.

[@briankuhl9314]

Well Canada's a big place, quite a lot of them the middle of nowhere, so no offence taken, but at least Saskatchewan has farms. Head north a few hundred miles and there's not even roads.

[@el_es]

26:00 in UK there is MCS and... from what can be inferred from british electicians KZbin (e.g. Artisan or Oy) (plus Ruch Oporu the Polish one) it's.... madness how the install market is controlled by large companies (if you're in for grid-tied microgeneration). (and understandably every installer will be fighting for their place in the scheme so the threshold for entry gets even steeper)

[@glennmartin6492]

If solar keeps getting cheaper there's probably going to be more users that disconnect from the grid.

[@jasoncross3513]

Love it

[@chrisduffill5248]

In the Uk we have standing charges to be connected to the grid ….

[@Hamish_A]

Common elsewhere as well

[@zapfanzapfan]

From my understanding the US doesn't have the same separation of grid companies (owns the wires) and electricity companies (actually produces the electricity) that we have in Europe.

[@Simple-Brian]

I’m from the U.S. and my power company has a $14.95 a month charge for just being connected.

[@GruffSillyGoat]

@@zapfanzapfan - There is separation but it varies, for example the UK's National Grid Plc runs the grids in New York and Massachusetts.

[@zapfanzapfan]

@@GruffSillyGoat Didn't you kick the colonial masters out? 🙂

[@remog38]

Thank you Robert that was excellent

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Can you guys talk about the grid itself. Australian grid is 1million km. $1million per km $TRILLIONS in value and needs $100BILLIONs cashflows for a reasonable return on investment. This is the economic elephant in the room. It must have grid electricity to justify its investment value and millions and millions of customers. It can not tolerate customers turning off grid supply when the sunshines 😊 Rooftop PV and BV oversized battery storage when the sunshines, kills grid cashflow. This can lead to a death spiral for grid economics as the grid has fixed costs.

[@glennmartin6492]

This is why I'm not surprised when basic cost is applied to everyone in a region through taxes. I've read speculation that 30% of electricity customers disconnecting with PVs would create an electricity grid death spiral. Lose the grid and the economy collapses. One way or another everyone will be made to support the grid.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

@@glennmartin6492 》》》》》》 @glennmartin6492 yes. I have been making that point for 3 years now. Absolute silence. You are the first person I have heard say that. Distant renewables will be part of the dying national grid. My point is that rooftop can do 3 things, energy wise. 1, unload the building loads from the grid with self supply. 2, replace petroleum fuel buy topping up BVs oversized battery daily. 3, energise, or fill the grid with dirt cheap electricity for new manufacturers, new users to connect to the existing national grid. Grid owners get to keep their cashflow. Building owners get to keep the existing grid connection as an emergency backup. Rooftop PV shades hot roofs. Nuclear generation in central locations are not needed. Nuclear is a massive expense that will need many decades to recover financial invested money. Nuclear will require new grid to expand new clean electricity. CO2 emissions are a worldwide climate problem. Nuclear industries are not a worldwide solution, but every dictatorship will blackmail the world for their own nuclear industries. Military defence budgets will explode. Australia is buying 6 AUKUS USA nuclear submarines because of 2 dictatorships. Europe is in turbulent times because of 2 dictatorships. USA manufacturing is abandoning the 2 dictatorships. Population crash because of 2 dictatorships. All BVs and PV rooftops must work together and be part of the grid solution. Rooftop PV is cheaper than glass windows $/m2 installed today. BVs oversized battery makes the home battery look pathetic. BVs oversized battery is FREE storage. Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day and drive building to building. Battery technologies are rapidly evolving. Selfparking selfplug-in V2G trickle currents all day long and all night long. All buildings carpark space with a $60 wall outlet so the front bumper of the vehicle can bump connect. Rooftop can effectively double the grids 15% role to 30% at no costs. Industrial takers can supply and maintain 100% grid cashflow taking the 74% that buildings needed. No petroleum means 45% of national energy is renewable. Rooftop can shade hot roofs. Big winter PV rooftop m2 can shade more rooftop. New manufacturing can take grid electricity and boost their electricity demand with more PV rooftop.

[@Harrythehun]

True, the energy will be cheaper in the future but the grid fees and delivery reliability for few hours or days per year will have a cost to everyone that is connected to the grid.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

"grid death spiral " yes, customers abandoning the grid for months with bigger PV rooftop and BVs parked all night long, 23hrs every day. I have been making that point for 3 years now. Absolute silence. You are the first person I have heard say that. Or make that comment. Distant renewables will be part of the dying national grid. Maybe My point is that rooftop can do 3 things, energy wise. 1, unload the building loads from the grid with self supply. 74% of grid demand is the buildings. 2, replace petroleum fuel buy topping up BVs oversized battery daily. 3, energise, or fill the grid with dirt cheap electricity for new manufacturers, new users to connect to the existing national grid. No room for nuclear electricity. Grid owners get to keep their cashflow. Building owners get to keep the existing grid connection as an emergency backup. Rooftop PV shades hot roofs. Nuclear is a massive expense that will need many decades to recover financial invested money. Nuclear will require new grid to expand new clean central electricity. Huge costs. Nuclear will need Government money. Nuclear will Government guaranteed cash flows. CO2 emissions are a worldwide climate problem. Nuclear industries are not a worldwide solution, but every dictatorship will blackmail the world for their own nuclear industries. Military defence budgets will explode. 80% of the world's population live in dictatorships. Australia is buying 6 AUKUS USA nuclear submarines because of 2 dictatorships. Europe is in turbulent times because of 2 dictatorships. USA manufacturing is abandoning the 2 dictatorships. Population crash because of 2 dictatorships. All BVs and PV rooftops must work together and be part of the grid solution. Rooftop PV is cheaper than glass windows $/m2 installed today. BVs oversized battery makes the home battery look pathetic. BVs oversized battery is FREE storage. Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day and drive building to building. Battery technologies are rapidly evolving. Selfparking selfplug-in V2G trickle currents all day long and all night long. All buildings carpark space with a $60 wall outlet so the front bumper of the vehicle can bump connect. Rooftop can effectively double the grids 15% role to 30% at no costs. Industrial takers can supply and maintain 100% grid cashflow to grid owners by taking the 74% that buildings do not need now. No petroleum means 45% of national energy is renewable. No gas heating and cooking and hotwater means 55% of national energy is renewable. Rooftop can shade hot roofs. Big winter PV rooftop m2 can shade more rooftop. New manufacturing can take grid electricity and boost their electricity demand with more PV rooftop. Rooftop can make in 4hrs what grid electricity generation takes 24hrs to supply. Energy intensive manufacturing can use fossil fueled peaker plants. Petroleum will be in permanent supply for road building and petrochemical industry and emergency use. 20years to replace all ICE vehicles. New grid and new capacity costs are $1 to 6 million per klm and millions of km. To millions and millions of customers. Grid infrastructure electricity is extremely expensive, a little is good.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Window air-conditioning is brilliant design. Buy one at a time, or as budget allows. 😊😊😊😊

[@WilliamMorfin]

It’s going to get worse before it gets better. The rise of EV and renewable is coming faster than they could’ve predicted. The more desperate they get, the more ruthless they will become.

[@robfer5370]

New nuclear power is the key to a clear energy future, it really is that simple.

[@viggokaj2009]

What can you get for a used car batterie??

[@gaston.]

Agnes Martin.. Saskatchewan born/american painter.... just painted horizontal stripes. Wonder where she got that influence from. ;)

[@kaustubsawant129]

why not check out mahindra and tata and ultravoilette and ola electric vehicles

[@solartime8983]

🌅 Facts: LiFePo Batteries (used mainly for home & commercial Energy Storage) are Not volatile! (like older gen. lithium ,NMC or other chemistries used in most EV's. Most are upgrading to stable Lithium IronPhosphate now for EV's. re: Petrol Genset🤑...why get a noisy, smelly, high maintenance, using External fuel u must buy for genset🤪?! If you have to operate a gas genset for more than a day, it's going to need a storage fuel tank (or pay for gas line service) , and if a crisis extends to weeks, you are going to get SICK or noise, smoke, and buying fuel (hopefully petroleum fuel will still be available?) for days/ weeks is going to be expensive!💸 A solar INVERTER IS a Generator that is quiet, clean, low to no MX, and , with solar Photo-Voltaic array & any type batt. bank, you will always have electricity for Emerg. back-up AND for Daily use to lower (or eliminate!) electric bills using sun's FREE 'FUEL' forever🌻🗽

[@johnsamsungs7570]

I used to watch Matt until he just started to repeat the company press releases! It was a shame because he has some interesting shit on his channel.

[@renedalmeijer8260]

Imagine what an amazing perceived value an EV has. It pushed you both and I suppose millions of others to buy their first new car. In commercial economy this is called creating value.

[@brianbailey4565]

A lot of talk, but what will convince people to embrace the electric revolution is examples of installation and cost. However this will only happen if going "green" makes financial sense or is comparable in cost with what you are replacing. Why are detailed costs never discussed!

[@saitenspieler3489]

Having no bill is the obvious objective for investing into solar, isnt it? It is the same for my house. But seems to not have been underdstood by many by now. It is sustainable, but it is an economic decision in the first place.

[@roberthutchinson4473]

Fusion will first generate heat and then steam to turn a turbine. Just like coal! Selling the heat first, e.g. recycle it or it’s not better.

[@bluetocop]

saskatoon saskatchewan

[@mycosys]

Available now, exclusive to the landowner class.

[@jamesengland7461]

Please don't be classist. It's a pointless jab at people.

[@mycosys]

@@jamesengland7461 have you considered getting a braincell?

[@mycosys]

@@jamesengland7461 how do you get to be so m0ronic you think pointing out things being classist, is itself classist?

[@jamesengland7461]

​@@mycosys oh, go buy a house.

[@mycosys]

@@jamesengland7461 ok Tory

[@bluetocop]

you know you're a nerd when you laugh about a geo thermal well .....lol

[@davidfellowes1628]

Batteries: The Tony Sea factor is highly pertinent. Batteries will help one achieve zero or near zero grid usage. But, why is the AC/DC debate avoided when it comes to homes. To achieve AC every device has to convert the AC to DC in order to provide light and power. The modern factory is all DC. No AC at all. Your batteries small and large would replace plug sockets all around the home, but the Code at present doesn't permit. However, the future will be all DC, which changes your solar, the inverters and throughout the home.

[@t1n4444]

Hmm ... are you sure about this?

[@rogerphelps9939]

Wrong. Home appliances operated on all sorts of voltages. You will never get a 5 volt oven or hob for very good reasons. Homes will always be AC.

[@davidfellowes1628]

@@rogerphelps9939 just go look at the high and low DC Bus board in the factory of today. No AC at all. Not saying it doesn't need work but it is coming. The argument about AC/DC from a century ago isn't over, yet. In fact a hybrid system would already work with lighting and other low voltage appliances DC. I'm talking about doing it more efficiently in the future. Not pedalling Bosch products of today.

[@t1n4444]

@@davidfellowes1628 Hmm ... so where do you live?

[@solartime8983]

Edison was correct🔋(he just couldn't generate high VDC...in time to build Grid in 1890's) Now that PV sys. power plants are 400-1000v DC , it is now capable of long transmission without V. drops & lost efficiency! Germany actually considered a DC grid🗽

[@patrickmckowen2999]

👍

[@stanpiers247]

Robert Llewellyn is an electric joke......Matt Ferrell is the real deal !!!!

[@markwilliams5654]

Oh dear this is going down hill lol friend of the show lol he lies loads lol 😂

[@gerhardk98]

Not smart enough to make an intelligent comment on this but to me it seems that pumping liquid from that depth would require a lot of energy, wouldn’t that that take away from the energy gains that geothermal provides.

[@ashtontechhelp]

Not really - if you have ever used a water level, you will know that adding a small amount of water on one side will mean that the level comes up on the other side - a water level always levels itself, that's why it's a water level. Therefore, all you really need to do is push a little bit, because really all you're doing is lifting the difference between where your pump is and the (possibly higher) heat exchanger. Plus frictional losses for the piping, of course - not nothing but not much either.

[@peteglass3496]

@@ashtontechhelp ...and while it's probably not like the closed thermosyphon loop of the Eavor large scale system, there's probably some help from the cold return water being denser than the warm being drawn up from the well.

[@jamesengland7461]

It takes a small amount of energy in comparison to the great amount of energy received for free from the cozy depths.

[@gerhardk98]

@@ashtontechhelp I guess you have solved the perpetual motion quandary as well.

[@ashtontechhelp]

@@gerhardk98 you asked a question. I provided an answer. I don't see how we benefit from sarcasm. I suggest you stick with physics, which specifically rules out perpetual motion. In the mean time you might get a fuller and more accurate answer by doing some proper research rather than asking questions in the KZbin comment section.

[@martynf65uk]

All I keep on reading, hearing and watching is great news about new tech and new inventions that will improve our lives, reduce our costs of living and be better for 'everything' I started hearing these words about 20 years ago. I AM STILL WAITING. I know its not that cut n dry, but it REALLY feels like it. i won't buy a new EV because the new batteries that are cheaper and greener have been announced and must be just around the corner, so i'll hold off and not buy until those new last longer cheaper much better range batteries are in the new cars, THEN I'll buy. I have SO LITTLE spare cash, I can only do this once, and then expect it to last 15-20 years. So I have to get it right. Same for solar, same for... blah blah blah....... I don't know whether to s@@@ shave or haircut. Buy electric save the planet, free road tax, low cost charging. Road tax now over £200 a year for ev's, cost per unit for charging them much higher, battery lives... much much less in winter. I think i'm just going to stick to my 21 and 15 year old petrol cars and save being responsible for more co2 emissions by building a new car. IDKWTO

[@bluetocop]

no need for hair dryers