A surprisingly good talk about clean energy. None of the ideological and guilt tripping nonsense, but just a clear summary of the most important obstacles and poor decision making currently being done. This is kind of green movement I can get behind.
Hate to be that guy, but if our current administration or God forbid the other guy wins in November, deregulation will absolutely be done the wrong way.
It is deeply frustrating that nuclear energy is still a huge boogieman for most people. Modern thorium reactors are by far the cleanest and most efficient form of energy production we currently have available but no, everyone has to clutch their pearls and moan about Chernobyl and Fukushima without realizing both of those cases not only used significantly out of date technology even for their times, but could have been completely prevented or at the very least handled so much better if it wasn't for government incompetence.
I'd say it is partly because when people say "nuclear energy" what comes to mind is old style reactors like Chernobyl. Instead of talking about "nuclear energy" talk about Thorium or other newer more advanced and safer form.
I think it’s actually mainly the fact that nuclear reactors take over 20 years to build/approve and cost so much more than the price of wind, solar and batteries, which are drastically falling in price. It’s cost and speed. I hope we build more nuclear reactors, we’re gonna need them. I think we should get rid of all the red tape and allow building to happen a little bit quicker, but will it still be cost-effective?
This is wrong thinking for myriad reasons. But I'll save time. Just watch an Amory Lovins video or three where he's asked "what about nuclear?" (probably the world's greatest energy futurist and efficiency expert and I don't even know how many PH Ds he's got by now). Basically? Clean safe cheap nuclear is a myth. It always was. The really amazing thing about that is how often they can put a gold nose ring on that pig and people like you still want to take it on a date. 20 years ago I told a very intelligent well educated man I don't trust nuclear because of 3 mile island and Chernobyl. He said "the new Japanese reactors are completely safe. Things like that only happened on those old outdated designs." Guess who looks like a fool now? Same workplace I said giant home loans make me nervous. What goes up must come down. And another coworker said "real estate never falls in value". When I was 12 years old and Apple stock was $2 a share I told my father to buy it. He didn't. I've learned a lot since I was 12, heck I've learned a lot in 20 years.
Ironically I have seen some urbex videos of abandoned coal-fired power plants (built roughly in the 1920s), much of the architecture in these abandoned plants is surprisingly aesthetic.
All clean energy has a huge environmental impact - mining for copper, cobalt, lithium, millions of dead birds from wind turbines, PV and wind generators that can't be recycled are a huge waste - sometimes toxic waste issue
Right! He's promoting a vision that only focuses on renewable energy and fails to acknowledge the wealth inequality it would create. It also ignores many climate change factors that don't immediately fall under the category of green house gases. Just another main stream neo-liberal oversimplification of the climate crisis.
Why would the private sector build anything like enough clean energy anything like fast enough when far more money can be made far easier serving Big Oil (which gets billions in government subsidies) and Big Coal? Without serious government intervention there is less than no incentive for the private sector to invest in clean energy.
Because it's possible to out complete coal and gas with clean energy and make money. For example, solar, including land cost, is dirt cheap. Current raw panel price is $0.22/W And ongoing cost is virtually zero as there's no fuel. There's the issue of intermittentcy and need of storage. But that cost is not paid by the solar plant operator. Some other company will show up to profit from the low/negative electricity price.
I am spending the winter in Quartzsite AZ desert... Quartzsite has built a huge EV power charging station (100+)... I am understanding that it is being powered by a huge diesel power generator... 🙄😔😢
@@The.world.has.gone.crazy... It's true. It works the same as a water wheel, but I've inverted the elements. Instead of using water as weight on the side of the wheel, I put a wheel under water and use air bags to lift one side. Then at the top, I put two rails that slowly get closer to to the wheel so the air bellows bags get squeezed and the air transfers to the adjacent bellows bag at bottom of the wheel to start all over again. There's a little more to it but you get the idea. The difference between it and a water wheel is, this thing can be put anywhere even where there's no running water. You can dig a hole in the ground so it won't freeze. Anywhere in the world as long as you can get water to it to fill it.
I guess we will all always ignore the infrastructure that will be required to fun on pure "clean" energy. How it can be overlooked so easily is mind boggling. It's not rocket science, but it also doesn't look as good budget wise if you include it.
Of course you have to planing where to put wind turbines, in Spain we have a serious problem with this, thousand of dead birds and bats, destroyed lands, people from towns without job... I hope this time you don't delete my comment, this time I'm not going to put any link to spanish news in case this was the problem. I encourage you to inform yourself if you are interested in the topic. That's what the speaker should have done before using Spain as an example.
One of my family members are involved with geothermal energy. It's a lengthy process, but basically all that electricity came underneath the ground. So most of the time workers on site need to be extra careful. They've witnessed casualties while on the job. One worker got hit with one of the roaming equipment on site and it's talked about for long periods of time.
@@KICK839 you choose to believe someone that misrepresents information and out right lie. Instead of researching something you believe to be true at the time you choose to just believe anything anyone says. Do underhand why you are the problem?
A clean energy transition is cheap and easy. Not politically easy but real world easy. Advanced nuclear is the only technology that can actually replace fossil fuels but the current regulatory system won't allow it. So.... let the current NRC regulate the current reactor fleet and start a brand new regulator modeled after the FAA to regulate advanced reactor technology. Provide any new technology startup a chunk of military desert space to build and test as fast as they can attract private capital. The whole world wins.
Clean energy is economically profitable. Solar is twice cheaper than oil, natural gas or coal. Just remove obstacles, and within 2030 we'll have quadrupled renewables. In EU we moved in that direction, and it pays off! My first PV plant in 2007 took 24 months to be authorized, my second one took 12 months in 2011, my third one took 2 weeks in 2022.
Yes but we also need to say no to re investment from these billionaire oil corps from digging their weasel fingers in the pot.. or anyone with Ill intent for that matter. It should be made illegal to f the people for profit. Really this time not just superficially or bought by money.
What a joke, thinking there's a capitalist answer to a capitalist problem. I've got news for you, Rich, government is only a problem insofar as Capitalism has made it so. Doing more capitalism isn't going to fix that.
Bah, he nails the real barrier, the opposition of the rich, then goes into an ideologically driven rant. Fact is that government incubated most of the research around EV and most of red tape exists for good reason or because of the lobbying of oil companies, who have broadly support and encourage the anti-green initiatives of NIMBYS. In fact, the oil industry had a huge hand in encouraging the original anti-green nimbyism against nuclear. The root cause is rich people and rich lobbyists. It's funny that he opens making several clearly political statements about who he is, to signal certain politics, then makes outright ideologically claims about the market, and yet so many people here will praise for him for being non-ideological In fact, a bit of a deep dive shows that Faison, who founded Clear Path as a lobbyist group and is a billionaire who largely supports the GOP, which has signalled a complete unwillingness to engage in green energy policy
This ought to be entertaining... As long as the dangerous planet harming portion of the green energy happens in a different country.... it's all good!!!
What needs to be done is sucking money out of the big shots to spend on something that will get regulated and eliminated in the future because of its harm to the environment
