Is Geothermal power the answer? | FULLY CHARGED 

No. Actually this is quite similar planet killing as it was in those good days when the guys were drilling for gas. Let's use heat that we already have in our atmosphere and planet surface - better not to release much more from inside of our planet.

With the right support, it could be!

Ask Iceland.... and numerous sites around the world....

Geothermal should definitely be one of our solutions for energy independence

@@vladt4010 fossil fuel CO2 omissions are much higher than geothermal

Good for you.

Moar!

Maybe only Blue energy. How much CO2 is vented to the air per KWh?

@@kimollivier you seem to misunderstand how geothermal power plants work. There is no CO2 generated by the plant

You could get some serious geothermal around Mount Etna!

Well I mean geothermal is not exactly *new*. But it's still cool! Or hot if you go deep enough lol.

and yet, none of this would be possible without oil and gas

900 pounds of ethane per turbine blade, medical plastics and asphalt all seem ethical

Floating wind turbine platforms are also an adaptation of engineering techniques used by oil companies.

@@darrenelkins5923 yep. still time to get rid of the practice of burning it as a fuel though. that doesn't mean we have no more use for the tech. we'll still need to make plastic for some period of time as well.

YES good idea, James. I'm interested in updates, too!

Yes please!

Isn't he lovely :)

Hell project

@Tristram Sidey maybe viewers declined

the only interesting presenter to watch

@Tristram Sidey The wonderful Maddie Moate was announced as a definite presenter a week or so back - have a look at recent videos for your answer

Glad you enjoyed it

A superb episode! Thank you for all your work. P.s. The water pool shot at 15:54 was out of focus which made for a dizzying pan

Hear, hear!

EV especially BEV are Dystopian VERY high tech ‘fix’s’, that people unbelievably think are Green because they don’t have exhaust fumes. And don’t consider the massive destruction and toxic pollution, ghg emissions etc caused by the thousands of electronics factories. That supply the multitude of electronic components used in these vehicles. Masses of Copper, Manganese, Lead, Tin, Lithium( Friends of the Earth, FOE, has said ‘’Lithium will amount to an environmental catastrophe in its own right’’ ). Cobalt that is Mined in the Congo by Child Slave labour, also deforesting the Congo, home of the critically endangered Gorilla of which only 900 are left!. Then there is the end of life disposal that is another ewaste timebomb legacy that our children & grandchildren will be have to deal with! Also for every EV a power supply is needed, so delaying the time it takes to be 100% renewable! Time the climate doesn’t have!

Do you still have lots of plastic water bottles instead of glass refills?

Oil workers

I've never really understood that - but it doesn't really matter because the Google-RU-vid algorithm treats them just the same - 'positive' or 'negative' both generate advertising revenue whether you love or hate the content. The more controversy, the better - more views, more involvement of us, the viewers.

Today, you win the internet :D

It's already happened

@@appkazoo8802 true our Government are very poorly disguised Silurians when you think about it.

No; they're Slitheen. Check the episode!

@@locknut5382 Okay,I did, and they were Silurian.

Hope you enjoyed it!

It's soo fake. Not sure how they power the card machines/cash registers but they're in constant use

It's been around for decades but because it's 'them' and it's not been popular to talk about 'them' it's not widely known. The Moscow Hydropower Station’s Heating Network (MOGES) was established 90 years ago, on 28 January 1931, bringing the city’s centralised heating system to everyone.

Charged mine last week there on a visit. First come first serve with 3 chargers, lucky we were first there. But it was a big fight for our spot after we left 😂

And, in addition to carbon neutrality, there's the economic win of no-one ever having to pay a heating bill ever again. My mate moved into a flat in a new apartment building in our town. It had been properly built with all the insulation, solar on the roof of the building that powers an air source heat pump. No-one in the building ever had to pay for heating. Completely free and included. It can be done because, in places, it is being done. And my mate's chief complaint was that, actually, it was too hot. Whatever insulation they used was, arguably, too good. As his problem was always trying to get rid of the heat, never once that it was never warm enough. Note: If you're ever getting a heat exchanger / heat pump make sure that it's reversible. Because, yes, any heat pump / heat exchanger can be rigged up to run in reverse and actually take heat away, and act as air conditioning. And, trust me, you'll want this. It might not strike you as likely, if you're struggling to warm up an old Victorian house in Winter, with high energy bills, that your problem would ever be the opposite - that you're getting more heat than you ever wanted for no cost whatsoever. But, seriously, that's what my mate experienced in a properly constructed modern apartment block, as they'd built it from the ground up with the best insulation and using a solar-powered heat pump (air source rather than ground source, admittedly - but that's the thing, air source is possible anywhere, where ground source might not be easily done). Imagine the economic win of every building in the entire country having free heating. Well, the energy companies would lose out. But, like, the largest part of most people's electricity bills gone in a puff of smoke. Hundreds to thousands of pounds a year put back into everyone's pockets again. Free money for everyone, basically. The technology's already there. Because, as I said, I've seen it in action. A rather large apartment block (there was at least 50 generously-sized flats in the place) where no-one paid for heating - all inclusive - and, truth is, it was too good. The residents complaining that they needed to turn off the heating more often, as it got too hot and never the reverse. And this is without going on to consider ideas like district heating and distribution. So, if that apartment block got too hot, then it could pump the excess heat out to other buildings. And battery storage to do the same thing with any excess solar. My battery's full so, here, have my excess. Put it on the Grid, for someone else to use. We could eliminate anyone ever having to pay for heating ever again. And that is, by the figures, the biggest chunk of what we pay for, that creates the most carbon emissions to satisfy.

Planning permissions would be a nightmare. They all ready are for aesthetic reasons, but it would increase 100 fold, ostensibly for ‘environmental’ reasons. I can imagine locals complaining about noise, fumes and worries about water tables and earthquakes. Britain can’t do anything without 10 + years for lawyers and consultants to get their cut.

@@klaxoncow It's not free it'll be included in whatever the service charges are for the building. The service charges are likely high as well, part of the you will never own anything and be happy mentality. District Heating schemes are well known to have efficiency benefits however the costs generally don't stack up. Properly insulating new builds is a separate matter as is designing to take into account and manage passive solar gain. EcoBling isn't the solution...

Not carbon neutral, lots of gas comes up with the hot water. Oops nobody mentioned that....

@@klaxoncow This post needs to be a Fully Charged episode all on its own

except there is no pumping of heat, just pumping of hot water. which is a different thing. in effect this is the reverse of a heat pump, you dont use the pump to move the heat, you use the heat to move the pump.

@@mralistair737 no its not a reverse heatpump, that is to far off the principle. It will be used to heat up water* to steam that turns a suited turbine, goes trough a condenser and loops. *secondary loop with water.

@@ferkeap a liquid that is hot and under pressure, then released to generate movement and cool. is the reverse of one that takes low pressure cold gas and through movement turns it into hot high-pressure liquid. Seems exactly the reverse. I don't mean "a heat pump running in reverse" I mean it's "using the movement of heat to generate mechanical movement" perhaps it's a banal observation

Was wondering if this would have the same issues as fracking. Would like to see that question answered, otherwise would love to see more geothermal plants all over!

@@timj11dude They mentioned that it doesn't use high-pressure water so it is not trying to break and crack open spaces underground. Think of it like water cooling the earth. There is a water which is passed through a loop which gets heated, the longer that water spends down there in the fissures the more heat the water can absorb. Before returning to the surface where we extract the heat and the loops starts again using the same water/fluid. The most damage is done by the drilling itself. It might not create the most energy and they did say it was a bit of a test project. They could probably get more power by having a bigger gradient between the hot entry and the exit. Perhaps also by drilling deeper and also my increasing flow rate of the water/fluid. But as they mentioned it's not to compete with wind or solar, it's to work along-side and be a base-line which won't fluctuate depending on the weather.

frackin is using pressure to fracture the rock, they are not trying to fracture the rock, they are using existing fractures, the liquid going in (presumably water) will very likely be at a similar pressure to what's down there, the main pumping pressure will likely be generated by the water heating/boiling. it's probably / possibel that its a closed loop and that what comes up goes back down, and it just goes through a heat exchanger at the top.

also fracking doesn't usually happen in 4km of granite, it's normaly in lighter shallower sedimentary rock. and over a much larger area.

Glad you like them!

Hornesdale is only profitable becuase Oz has an utter fail off an electric market.

@@simonhenry7867 Its the same story everywhere they are being deployed. They are cheaper to operate than peakers and frequency moderating assets. All of which have high marginal costs where as batteries are near zero marginal cost.

You're right and with things like ambrí battery, water or heated sand as is being tested in Finland. This is a real scam to rescue oil industry. With public funding.

I think baseload will always make sense to some extent. If something is constantly using power, why create energy, transfer it to battery, then transfer it to the constant power use. I think it makes sense to get a baseload that handles the constant power use and then even separate it from the grid. Battery storage works best flattening out a peaky usage and/or supply.

@@trevorWilkinson Our current arrangement is inefficient because it does not have storage. You only need 4-5 hours of storage in any grid to displace 80% of the generational assets. And we receive more energy from the sun in a single hour on this planet than our civilization uses from all other sources combined. Including fossil fuels, each year. Its a stupidly small fraction of a percentage that we need to capture and store to meet our daily needs. The current grid needs base load because it is a centralized system. The new grid infrastructure is distributed with millions of contributors. Solar and wind are distributed energies. In the next ten years we are going to hit what is known as "God Parity". That is the point where it is cheaper for the consumer of power to be energy self sufficient, than what it costs the utilities to deliver the power, before the marginal costs of generation are added to the bill. We are already way past grid parity today.

Tens of thousands of homes in Britain are way greener than hell project.

very diverse and interesting topics

Never was pure EV, just electric non-fossil. I think this much more important to know then EV's are.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks so much!

That's only reasonable to ask if nuclear/oil/gas/coal/wood/bio fuels etc supply the same info, otherwise it is irrelevant

Yes, zip wires are great fun. It's a theme park that brands itself as as green. Made a mistake showing us the gas heating system. So fake.

They'll send the Doom Guy to take care of it.