We live in one of the more windier areas in Germany and we see a lot of wind turbines when we look into one direction. It is actually an pretty sight as they rotate in some synchronity. Much better than chimneys with stinking yellow smoke like some decades ago in the Ruhr area.

@KalleStropp45

13 күн бұрын

For 30 years Germany h s spent zillions to construct a sun and wind Power Electric system. And failed. Today Germany for baseload relies on French nuclear and fossile imported gas and domestic brown coal. Politicians are so arrogant that they believe they can outlaw laws of nature and Electric engineering .

@Withnail1969

12 күн бұрын

Good luck running steel plants with those. Can't make any more of them without steel.

@emceeboogieboots1608

12 күн бұрын

@@Withnail1969 Not sure that this person was advocating for the cessation of steel production. Presumably it is not done in this area now, so there is no loss there🤔 I am not a fan of exporting pollution, but perhaps with DRI technology steel production may return if there are remaining iron ore reserves to be exploited

@Withnail1969

12 күн бұрын

@@emceeboogieboots1608 You need coal (high quality coal suitable for steel making) or its a non starter. Our way of life is built on cheap steel in massive quantities. No more civilisation if we lose it. We can recycle some steel with electric furnaces but guess what you need to build the electrical transformers they need? New (not recycled) steel.

@emceeboogieboots1608

12 күн бұрын

@@Withnail1969 We are still making steel with coking coal now. I can go and buy it tomorrow. Why is it bad to make electricity with wind turbines? And if there is an excess of generated renewable electricity, industry will produce direct reduced iron and bypass the requirement of mining coal

In USA (Iowa) here. I bought shares in a "community solar" project, now constructed and producing power. My shares in the solar farm pay me for power sold back to the grid, so when the price goes up, by $$ earned goes up. All this acts like a 9% bond I might have purchased instead. Win-win!

@robertmarmaduke9721

15 күн бұрын

Then came the tornado and hailstorm and the Community Solar manager skips town because he was pocketing the hazard insurance fund.😂🎉

@danielcarroll3358

15 күн бұрын

@@robertmarmaduke9721 And the company with the 9% bond goes bankrupt and poof! Life can be like that. Vary thy investments.

@MrPizzaman09

14 күн бұрын

I'm hoping to make ~20%/year on my panels I install here in the coming months.

@MyKharli

14 күн бұрын

@@MrPizzaman09 As long as the savings are not spent on carbon spewing products or why bother ?

@bunnycatch3r

13 күн бұрын

I'm in Adair, what county are you in?

people having ownership over the resources they rely on is soo good. Ordinary people should be the ones profiting from wind farms and solar parks being built around their communities, not some millionaires who've never even looked at the site on a map. My parents bought shares in a Ripple scheme a few years ago and last year they got something like £50 a month off their energy bills. That's vastly more than the best savings rates you can get, even with interest rates as they are right now. Obviously those numbers will go down as wholesale energy prices go down, but so will their bills. This is how we become resilient. Not just nationally in terms of energy independence, but as financially resilient communities too

@undertow2142

15 күн бұрын

Absolutely couldn’t agree more. Everything shouldn’t be a profit over everything proposition to the benefit of a few investors. Some things should be non profit publicly owned for public benefit. Energy generation absolutely should be in this category. Healthcare is another.

@loopwithers

15 күн бұрын

Can you put that into one paragraph..?

@LuisAldamiz

15 күн бұрын

That's communism but yes, of course.

@cht2162

15 күн бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz It isn't communism, it's democratic socialism.

@trevx3680

15 күн бұрын

@@loopwithers A not-for-profit model or a community owned electricity generation model will be cheaper and allow for greater energy independence.

David Cameron did not ban onshore wind in Scotland because it is a devolved power. We have loads. Loads of Loads.

@stickynorth

15 күн бұрын

Scotland, FTW!

@tuc-dh4df

15 күн бұрын

Dave doesn't let facts get in the way of his politics

@ramblerandy2397

15 күн бұрын

Well done Scotland. On the flipside, in England we had Liz Truss, who even fairly recently was topping up the Tory programming with "Solar farms are so ugly" codswallop. 🙄

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

The video was about England, but whatever. ;-)

@bjb7587

15 күн бұрын

​@@tuc-dh4dfHate watching, eh?

I paid £2,004 to buy part of Ripple Energy's Graig Fatha wind turbine. It saved me £1,013 in the last 12 months.

@hrushikeshavachat900

10 күн бұрын

Wow. A 2 year payback if you are able to save similar amounts.

@ManuelSalvatori

10 күн бұрын

Did you declare it to HMRC? I had a seat booked but when I realised I had to pay taxes on the savings I stopped, not worth it for me, 40% taxes on the savings makes it unworthy. (Personal opinion)

@ManuelSalvatori

10 күн бұрын

​@@hrushikeshavachat900when the energy price spiked when the war started, they have been able to save a lot. It is lower now, and apparently will decrease further, still worth it, if it wasn't for the taxes you have to pay on the savings.

@hrushikeshavachat900

10 күн бұрын

@@ManuelSalvatori Why is it not worth it just because it becomes taxable. Can you please explain this

@EllieMaes-Grandad

9 күн бұрын

@@hrushikeshavachat900 It's about return on capital employed.

The plan put forth by the Ripple representative certainly makes sense to me. I would gladly become a shareholder of a locally owned power company if it was available in my location.

@markthomasson5077

15 күн бұрын

And when you can hear the turbine…you feel joy! And a better bill.

@matbowden9156

15 күн бұрын

It is my understanding, that you'll soon be able to do exactly that. I would humbly suggest you look up 'Ripple Energy' if you have not already done so, and read all about their upcoming and previous projects so that you are both informed and ready to part as necessary

@rogerphelps9939

15 күн бұрын

@@markthomasson5077 I have stood right next to a wind farm. There are ots in Cornwall so it is easy to do and there wasn't much noise at all.

@randomjasmicisrandom

15 күн бұрын

You don’t need to live near a Ripple project to benefit from it. I have invested in their two most recent projects, one is in Devon, the other in Scotland. I live near Leicester.

@broadsword6650

15 күн бұрын

You don't have to be local to the wind farm or solar farm to be a member of the co-op.

I’m in Scotland and feel a sense of pride when I take walks though areas with wind turbines, knowing the power isn’t going that far til it reaches our nearby towns and cities. All that taking place without blighting our air with fumes. Same with travels down the M6, seeing all the wind farms I pass.

@jaaklucas1329

12 күн бұрын

Well said. Why go through all the fuss of shipping power when you can use your local generation.

@EllieMaes-Grandad

9 күн бұрын

Blights your land with unsightly structures. Strange choice.

Dave makes Sunday’s the best day

@ppetal1

15 күн бұрын

Cycling through Somerset ten years ago, I came across multiple plastic placards campaigning against windfalls. I conscienciously removed these and disposed of them. A year later the whole area suffered extreme flooding. A coincidence?

@julianshepherd2038

15 күн бұрын

Dave's head is a solar panel and his ears are wind turbines

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

@davmole Cheers mate :-)

@scipdiddly

15 күн бұрын

​@@JustHaveaThink- Happy Monday, from the colony down blunder. Apologies for the embedded emissions in Australian fossil fuel exports that the current ALP government doesn't include in our emissions reduction target (if it's currently 43%, I have no idea what it really is given scope three emissions aren't included etc...). No idea what happened to community solar in NSW either, so thanks for reminding me to look into that. ✌️

@scipdiddly

15 күн бұрын

​@@JustHaveaThink- not much going on in Australia as of February 2024 (www.dcceew.gov.au/energy/renewable/community-solar-banks). There was a lot of hope in 2017 though, but the big electricity generators have thrown community solar under the bus, along with the duopoly...

There's a 300 MW wind farm a few miles from where I grew up, and I've wondered at times, if there is something wrong with my hearing, because I've visited that farm lots of times, and there was no noise. If you are standing directly below the blade, there is a whummsh noise, but not something you'd hear a hundred metres away.

@TaiViinikka

15 күн бұрын

Similar experience. If you describe this, people who are dead set against wind turbines will start talking about subsonic frequencies, or noise from substations, strobing of sunlight, or whatever enters their head. Fortunately most of us can make up our own minds with a quick trip to a nearby wind farm and realize how spread out, quiet, and unobtrusive they actually are. Much corn is grown around them here in Southern Ontario. And the cows don't mind at all.

@rogerphelps9939

15 күн бұрын

A lot quieter than living next to even a minor road.

@bjb7587

15 күн бұрын

​@@TaiViinikkathose cows keep a low profile, 'cause...y'know.

@jeremycole9158

15 күн бұрын

It may well be frequency noise but you need a acoustic site survey carried out at you property. AM has elements of turbine noise that has a long wave length . I can easy couple of miles.. If your property is down wind of the wind turbines and you property is also down hill of the wind farm, it may well be this. I sympathise with you on this,

@KalleStropp45

13 күн бұрын

Do you know what kind of MW it produces ? Is it real or imaginary.

I live about 1 km away from a small wind farm. It has zero effect on our living conditions. It is just possible to hear a faint swooshing sound depending on which way the wind is blowing.

@WhichDoctor1

15 күн бұрын

i live close to trees. I can hear swooshing when it's windy, too. People who complain about these things have never actually been near a wind farm

@DeathsGarden-oz9gg

15 күн бұрын

I live 5 miles from a wind farm. Red lights everywhere and in day it kills the view we had for years before it went in.

@derradfahrer5029

15 күн бұрын

@@WhichDoctor1 YES. I have a forest about 100m way, and 3 wind turbines (small ones, 75m-80m tall) 300m away, the other direction. All I hear is the forest.

@Matt.Hurley

15 күн бұрын

I'm not sure how far away the wind farm is near me but I personally don't mind looking at them at all. I find it interesting if anything. They don't have any lights on them and blend in with the sky on a cloudy day

@harrison298

15 күн бұрын

@@DeathsGarden-oz9gg I would love to have a view of a wind farm. To me it's a beautiful symbol of humanity's progress. In the same way that people are proud to have an apartment with a direct view of a famous bridge or skyscraper.

I used to work with Simon. He is a very enthusiastic and experienced wind farm developer. Great to see him again.

As someone who lives in an ex-mining area, now home to a large wind farm with a turbine visible from my window, I don't object at all to them. However, I do object to the fact that we supplied the energy for the first industrial revolution and now when energy production can be more distributed we are being asked to shoulder the burden again. It's time for all areas of the country to play their part.

@MultiMenvafan

15 күн бұрын

I agree, those affected should be adequately and fairly compensated

@gill222222

15 күн бұрын

Totally agree everyone uses electricity so everyone should be willing to play their part .

@Lewis_Standing

15 күн бұрын

If you're with octopus energy, you can request a local "fan club". When it's windy in your local wind farm you get cheaper leccy. You win win for having beautiful turbines and cheaper leccy for hosting them.

@taffygeek

15 күн бұрын

@@Lewis_Standing unfortunately the windfarm isn't operated by octopus. The one by my son is and he gets good discounts from octopus

@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589

15 күн бұрын

"we"? Are you 200 years old?

We're at the early stages of a community solar farm here in Ireland so it was great to hear about the Ripple Energy business model

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Good luck with it :-)

@givemeabreak8784

15 күн бұрын

Solar is a waste of land and solar panels in Ireland. Completely inefficient . Wind is hundreds of times more efficient.

@agritech802

14 күн бұрын

@@JustHaveaThink thank you

@norwegianzound

13 күн бұрын

​@@givemeabreak8784A bit simplistic. Not all land in Ireland is productive.

@linmal2242

12 күн бұрын

And we in AUS have loads of sun yet burn heaps of coal from all our mines(we have big ones supplying Japan, Korea and China. So why wouldn't we burn it ourselves !

This is not a new concept. My grandma was part of a co-op that owned the local energy supply. All of the customers were owners. She even got a check about once per year when they balanced the books. The "profits" went right back into the hands of the customers but more importantly the stake holders got reliable cheap energy.

@christianvanderstap6257

15 күн бұрын

And the Thatcher happened? Or did the co-ops / unions start disappearing earlier?

@jmr

15 күн бұрын

@@christianvanderstap6257 The co-op was still going strong last I knew. My father got a check from them not so long ago since he essentially inherited her share. We are in the US.

@bjb7587

15 күн бұрын

Got some electric coops in US. I get my power from one, tho mine doesn't generate the power.

@jmr

15 күн бұрын

@@bjb7587 That interesting. Do they just mange the lines for distribution then?

@ReidRankinRealEstate

15 күн бұрын

I used to live in Palo Alto, California and they have a power coop. My power bills were significantly lower than when I lived in SF and had to pay PG&E

Hello David, I've worked on wind farms up to 3 megawatts in size (that is, 3 mW for each turbine) and I can tell you from personal experience that they do make a sound. You can hear a whoosh sound as each blade passes overhead. But here's the kicker, wind turbines make less noise than trees. Literally, trees make MUCH more noise than turbines - and you don't hear anyone complaining about that.

@rudigereichler4112

8 күн бұрын

Well, there is a difference between whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh and schhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Do you think ? Animals think so, they leave areals with pulsating shaddows and sounds that are unnormal.

@dunravin

8 күн бұрын

And you don't hear about sounds from trees making people ill or driving them to insanity. Woe betide anyone living down wind of a turbine, you don't hear about the problems people have with that because its supressed. The offshore ones are no better, they're wreaking havoc for marine mammals, very "eco" indeed.

Finland, east mid lake district. here (this episode was on Point)! My partner interviewed professionally a few locals about their objections to a proposed WM site. I immediately thought about offering them cheap power if they live near one. I'm not sure that is a thing here, but seeing this confirmed the exact model that should be implemented here, and that's the beauty of it

@thomasreilly6362

15 күн бұрын

I central Finland they are trying to force wind turbines without consultation with forestry owners and farmers. In general the people are not against turbines they just want to know who will pay for the infrastructure, how long it will last and what compensation will be offered to the owners, access to the turbines and removal of infrastructure once the turbines is removed or replaced.

@InYourDreams-Andia

15 күн бұрын

@@thomasreilly6362 ah! So permits aren't a thing in this case? Surely, the Finns are very particular about paperwork, so why not (or how not) here I wonder

@thomasreilly6362

15 күн бұрын

@@InYourDreams-Andia What do you mean by permits? Most but not all of the land where the turbines are proposed are leased and managed by the forestry company's. It looks like a back room arrangement between the energy companies and the forestry company's regarding any compensation or rent for the turbines. Nor has there been any local consultant regarding the infrastructure and access to the turbines. There has been no timeline regarding how long the turbines will be up and who foots the bill regarding decommissioning them. I know someone involved with it and the owners are being kept in the dark about the details regarding where the turbines being situated. Its very messy and the local print news has barely covered the story. There is a social media group of concerned residents and owners. It's been going on for 2,3 years. Usually there is sufficient documentation and public consultation in Finland but not in this case.

Beautifully organized talk, Dave. I hope you government sees it.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you. I hope so too :-)

@theotherandrew5540

15 күн бұрын

The government might see it, but unless it Stops The Boats, they will ignore it. No votes, no progress.

In Denmark a cooperative of I think ~2800 are right now installing one of the world's largest onshore wind turbines. Vestas 15 MW V236 There are pictures on the internet, but I don't think they have installed the blades yet. It is located in Thyborøn right beside some of the old record holders for most produced wind energy by any turbine ever. The cooperative is called Thyborøn Sydhavns Møllelaug II I/S.

I like this channel more than Undecided or Two Bit. More mature & less speculative & to the point

@Sean720H

15 күн бұрын

Sometimes I feel they side far more on the naive optimism scale and don't really discuss the challenges that these new technologies face to become useful tools in the green energy transition. This channel is a great blend of here's how it works and optimism in the great work people do while also discussing why it didn't already exist and what challenges are yet to be overcome to make it fully feasible.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you. I am older than Ricky and Matt, so I guess that's how it should be :-)

@ambassadorfromreality1125

15 күн бұрын

Thank heaven for all three and more like Simon clark, climate town. All slightly different but you can rely on them, you can learn from them, you can trust them. They give me a lot of confidence on the occasion that I am obliged to put a few records straight. Dont forget the important like button

@frequentlycynical642

13 күн бұрын

They all have value as great, objective sources of informaton.

I hate to tell you, I'm living the 100% renewable dream right here next door to Austin, Texas. And I don't own one solar panel or windmill. Texas has its own grid except for the very far north and west. No national interconnection. That allowed it to set up a market driven retail sales some years ago. The state oversees the running of this. Every vendor has its sales pitches. Most have to do with pricing, of course. I've lived here for 8 years and am on my third 100% renewable provider. I pay 8.1 cents per kw/hr for the electricity, and another 7.8 cents for the delivery and grid. Just under 15 cents kw/hr total. Some of the cheapest electricity in the US. Texas has two huge windfarm areas, the northern plains around Sweetwater, and out in the far west deserts of west Texas. Mile after mile of windmills driving along. Such a lovely sight. I don't know that the UK issue is with famers not be able to farm around wind towers. The leasing of land for wind towers has kept many family ranches out of bankruptcy here. Texas is also growing solar by leaps and bounds. We have had not rolling brownouts in three years due to so much solar coming online just when its needed, late summer days. Despite being home to America's O&G industry, and the politicians still very beholden to them, Texas has become America's renewable powerhouse.

@davestagner

10 күн бұрын

Texas is absolute proof that market forces are on the side of renewables. The most deregulated grid in the US by far, and it also has more renewables than the super-activist California grid. That, to me, is proof that renewable energy is cheaper and easier than fossil fuels or nuclear.

@ycplum7062

5 күн бұрын

The UK is not Texas. Texas is near ideal for solar and wind. While the UK has a lot of offshore wind, they suck for solar. They are marginal solar due to their latitude (fyi, Texas is closer to the equator), but teh UK is know for thier cloudy rainy weather. I think solar in the UK is net carbon footprint negative. Basically, the carbon footprint savings from using solar does not equal teh carbon footprint in the soalr panel production.

@davestagner

5 күн бұрын

@@ycplum7062 “the carbon footprint savings from using solar does not equal the carbon footprint in the solar panel production”. You should run the math on that before just repeating misinformation that is incredibly wrong. It takes about 200kWh of energy to produce a 100 watt solar panel (feel free to do your own research on that). A typical solar panel installation gets about 20% capacity factor (the amount of energy it produces over longer time periods, relative to max output), due to nighttime, clouds, angle, seasonal variations, etc. Let’s say a lifespan of 20 years, although that is very conservative. 20 years is around 175,000 hours. 100 watts * 175k * 20% = 3,504,000 watt/hours (or 3500 kWh). 3500kWh is about 17.5 times the 200kWh required to manufacture the panel. If the UK is awful for solar, let’s say it gets 10% rather than 20% capacity factor (Wikipedia says 9.8-11.4% solar capacity factor in the UK). So that’s 1750kWh in 20 years for a 100 watt panel in the UK - about 9x the amount of power required to make the panel. I hope this makes clear that solar in the UK is absolutely NOT net carbon negative.

@frequentlycynical642

5 күн бұрын

@@ycplum7062 Did I say anything about different locations? No, I did not. I talked about me, here.

I live in Tx USA where the grid is deregulated. I buy 100% renewable electricity. Theres an interesting tension between wanting a free-market and keeping the fossil fuel generators running. I doubt the state leaders forsaw the day that wind and solar would compete on price with natural gas electricity.

@bengt_axle

11 күн бұрын

I believe renewable energy production has now surpassed fossil fueled electricity production in Texas. With electrification of cars, it is likely that the oil industry will see further contraction, especially since solar and wind continue to expand.

I'm a big fan of cooperative and community owned wind turbines. We have had failures in Canada letting big corporations build wind and getting outrageous prices for the electricity. Not only do consumers have to deal with the turbines, but are also getting gouged on their bills. Community ownership spreads the benefits and brings buy in. I'm looking for a small scale wind project suitable for our small property, but perhaps cooperative bigger scale ventures make much more sense.

@5353Jumper

15 күн бұрын

A lot of the wind/solar in Canada (mostly Alberta) is not actually connected to the grid, instead powering petroleum facilities. Oil companies get the cheap electricity and greenwashing. While taking all the grants, tax breaks, talent and materials away from more genuine projects. Citizens get to pay for expensive natural gas generated electricity.

@theairstig9164

13 күн бұрын

Community solar farms in Australia put feed in tariffs directly on to peoples power bills. That is to say id you buy in to community solar, you get paid by a deduction on your electricity bill

@sailRichard

8 күн бұрын

Germany’s Renewable Ownership Society - the Green Middle Class "Want to know why Fox News and the Tea Party congress hates green energy? The most important reason is that renewable energy properly deployed is profoundly democratizing, devolves power and control away from the Exxon-Mobils and Koch Brothers of the world, and into the hands of states, counties, cities, communities, local businesses, and individuals. For the most part, Germany’s new energy producers are home owners, small and medium-sided businesses, and farmers, many of the latter who faced ruin only a decade ago. At the heart of Germany’s alternative energy bonanza is the country’s reputed Mittelstand: the nation’s well-situated, educated, conservative, entrepreneurial-minded middle class, which is the backbone of its economy. Germany’s environment ministry has compiled a fascinating graph that shows exactly who has invested in the country’s renewable energy production: Nearly three quarters of the investment came from small private investors." climatecrocks.com/2012/10/16/germanys-renewable-ownership-society-the-green-middle-class/

Just purchased my share of ripples latest wind farm.

Good luck GB! That sounds like a terrific possibility. Imagine, lifting all boats and not just a few?!

In my area of the USA we have something called "community solar" which allows people to get shares of a solar park credited to their electric bill. The scheme described in this video sounds like it could be called "community wind". A good idea!

Just added another slice of Ripple to my renewable pie😀Now have invested in Derrile water Solar and the latest wind farm at Whitelaw Brae👍 everylittle helps!

@simhedgesrex7097

15 күн бұрын

I bought into Whitelaw Brae yesterday, and Derril and Kirk Hill a while back. I was too late for Craig Fatha unfortunately. I wish I'd bought into Kirk Hill less, as that would have allowed me to buy more on the others (given that they limit you to 120% of your normal annual consumption).

You need to make a HUGE distinction here between UK England and UK Scotland Plenty wind turbines erected here. Written in Shetland - (not locally owned enough) but 103x 4MW just installed, cool. Comissioning starts soon. More projects coming too. Personally love them And love driving with the clean electric Starting travelling to Madrid for an Airborne Wind Energy tomorrow conference

Soooooo Sooooo Good to hear some good news every once in awhile.

I support we rapidly build up to 100% renewables everywhere to power everything. Every town and city needs a wind farm and solar PV farm.

@rogerphelps9939

15 күн бұрын

Solar PV can go on roofs practically anywhere. Wind is only useful if the wind speed is high enough and there are economies of scale so that big wind turbines are much better than small ones.

@aliendroneservices6621

14 күн бұрын

No proof-of-concept.

@OldScientist

14 күн бұрын

What happens if we get 56 days of "dunkelflaute" like the UK got in 2018? Projecting out to 2050 with increased demand from electrification of transport and heating etc, we would need to find something like 28TWh of missing electricity generated from wind power (but the wind won't be blowing!). Britain currently has 39.3 GWh of pumped storage. There are 4 pumped storage stations in Britain. No storage capacity has been added to the grid since the 1980s, and there is no other large scale energy storage in the country. To cover a cold dark still winter you would need to increase pumped storage capacity by a factor of about 1000 (taking into account pumped storage is about 75% efficient). So we would need to find 4000 suitable locations where a 300 to 400m dam can be built to hold back 10 million cubic metres of water, with a fall to the turbines below of about 400 metres. Then we would have to build 160 of these every year, year after year, for 25 years. The scale, and the massive cost of storage, by whatever method (pumped storage is one of the cheapest by the way), make it an impossible mission.

@jaaklucas1329

12 күн бұрын

The beauty of renewable is its local, doesn't have to be shipped via transmission lines long distances.

I love the co-op model!

@chairmakerPete

15 күн бұрын

Buy shares in BP or shell. Simple.

Another first for this channel! I normally hate ads and intrusive sponsor segments, but the section about Ripple Energy was very welcome news to me - I'll definitely be looking into them further. Thanks for the good work, as always.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you :-)

From Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This year The Alberta Government Cancelled $33 Billion in Wind & Solar Farms. Look into it please. I'm British and have lived here since 1980

@jaaklucas1329

12 күн бұрын

Disappointing.All the sun there for sure for solar definitely. Ive lived in Alberta before and there a lot of people there who are not forward thinking.

@bengt_axle

11 күн бұрын

Danielle Smith calls it a "pause" and says that it is a moratorium. I think she is concerned about the renewable energy sources cutting into oil industry profits. Oil is still an important revenue generator for the province and prior to becoming Premier, she worked as an oil industry lobbyist.

Interesting. In the US, off shore wind is nearly impossible to site due to opposition and out of date legislation like the Hatch Act. There is opposition to on shore wind too, but it hasn’t stopped us from siting wind on vast expanses of available land.

@glike2

15 күн бұрын

I heard the Hatch Act needed updating already for shipping, but for off shore wind power was new to me. thanks

@dalekrenegade2596

15 күн бұрын

Yeah I noticed an anti-windmill slogan on some motel sign when I was in New Jersey months ago and it's apparently part of a bigger movement.

@100c0c

15 күн бұрын

How are wind power and Hatch Act related?

@rogerphelps9939

15 күн бұрын

In the US you have almost limitless land suitab;e for wind turbines.

@dalekrenegade2596

15 күн бұрын

@@rogerphelps9939 Yep, New Jersey maybe under a grifter's spell but the Northeast is not devoid of windmills. Saw some pretty big ones in the Poconos, it was a sight to see.😊

In the Netherlands we have the same problems with stories told by the "public" against windturbines. But we have more in common... Shell. They invented the word horizoen vervuiling. It means that they are against green energie, this was for years. When we had still natural gas. But knowadays shell is a big builder of offshore windfarms. Offshore because you need a 50million ship to be at the northsea. But they have the goal to be the dealer for hundreds of years and they will not allow normal markets. They want market dominance. And activily throwing sand in our eyes that we don't provide our self with solar.

Have a share of 3 ripple energy projects so far have covered 84% of my power needs 🎉

I live in Alberta, Canada. The provincial government is putting a lot of obstacles in the way of expanding solar and wind. Many of us feel we know why!

@gavinmcinally8442

14 күн бұрын

Is it because you can't recycle the blades or the solar panels?

@chrisspanswick7312

13 күн бұрын

@@gavinmcinally8442 Sadly you can't recycle oil and gas. There are companies that now recycle blades and solar panels and I guess that will increase over time.

@ethanlamoureux5306

13 күн бұрын

​@@chrisspanswick7312You don't have to recycle oil & gas because they are fully combustible. And the "recycling" of wind & solar products is a joke!

@chrisspanswick7312

13 күн бұрын

@@ethanlamoureux5306 That is the whole point. Full combustion of fossil fuels has lead us into the climate crisis. Recycling of solar and wind products is no joke. Check it out for yourself. There is a company inTexas doing just that for solar panels, also companies elsewhere are doing the same for wind turbine blades. Sadly, non of this is a joke but very serious.

@emceeboogieboots1608

13 күн бұрын

Here in Australia we make 12 million tonnes of coal ash per year, and that is just piled up as waste. That's around 47% of the energy mix Wind is around 11% generating up to 4000 tonnes of blade composite waste per year by 2034. Even if it is all buried it is significantly less per MWh Solar,1.67 kg per MWh Wind, 0.16 kg per MWh Coal, 84 kg per MWh Very little time is spent talking about coal ash waste, so why is the solid waste of these renewables such a big concern? Especially as it is much more benign And as the wind farms of today are replaced in 20 to 30 years, we will likely see a market for the waste develop as the amount increases. As for the Alberta tar sands, the best data I could get on the proven reserves is 5 billion tonnes of petcoke waste

Ripple are great. Very excited for our power to soon be coming from a wind farm we helped fund.

100% RE is a pipe dream. You either need tons of STORAGE, or a 100% backup by natural gas. Why is it difficult to comprehend that intermittent, unreliable electricity sources are not able to provide electricity 24/7? Just have a think about Germany, the most RE and the highest prices.

@simhedgesrex7097

15 күн бұрын

You don't need a 100% backup even now (renewable provision in the UK never drops to zero). But you do, still, need a lot of backup - however, the more RE installations you have, the gas you burn. Long term storage will come along in the next few years, enabling gas backup plant to start being phased out.

@philipwright6617

12 күн бұрын

Spot on. People forget that a blocking high pressure zone over the UK in Winter would cause wind power to virtually stop ,and as soon as gets dark solar vanishes as well -just in time for everyone to come home from work and put the heating/cooker on. Widespread blackouts could well become common in mid -Winter.

@EllieMaes-Grandad

9 күн бұрын

@@philipwright6617 UK had them in the early 1970s - not good for homes or factories.

@matthewhuszarik4173

Күн бұрын

You don’t need ton of storage you just need the proper mix of sources and some storage. You will always need peaking capacity. You have always needed peaking capacity. That peaking capacity can be any type of generation. Economics and pollution goals are the only constraints. Here in California during the day our electricity is frequently 100% renewable while also pumping up pumped storage and batteries. Right now most of our peaking capacity is Natural gas. But more wind turbines are planned to give more generation in the evening and winter. Like I said you just need the proper mix of power sources and storage. We are steadily moving in that direction. You might have heard here in California we are keeping a nuclear plant open another five or so years to ensure adequate supplies.

@kennethkaminski3438

20 сағат бұрын

@@matthewhuszarik4173 so what do you do at night when the wind dies down? Of course you need a ton of storage, if you don’t have Solar and wind available, which happens every night. California has a ton of solar, that works well during midday, but when the sun goes down, the gas plants fire up to provide the required energy. Natural gas still provides over 30% of California’s electricity supply. I don’t think you understand the big picture of how the grid works. If you don’t think you’re gonna need tons of storage with 100% RE. And you’re gonna need that nuclear plant longer than five more years.

I invested in the Ripple Energy Derill Water solar farm in Devon, and a few days ago invested in the next Ripple Energy project, a wind farm in Scotland. Once these are both live they will mean reduced electricity bills every single month for about 30 years.

@echelonrank3927

13 күн бұрын

as more renewable energy projects are coming online , there has been no such thing as reduced power bills

@robinwhitebeam4386

13 күн бұрын

@@echelonrank3927 If someone invests in a wind Farm , they will have lower electricity bills.

@randomjasmicisrandom

13 күн бұрын

@@echelonrank3927 all the members of the previous Ripple projects are proof that your statement is demonstrably false. They get a reduction of their energy bills in the form of a generation credit. All of the people (like me) on the Octopus Agile tariff are also proof that your statement is false. When the wind is good, the daily price of electricity goes down. My current average rate for electricity is 5 p/kWh. What are you paying for your electricity? The standard variable tariffs are around 28 p/kWh.

If only we had something like that here. Thanks for sharing.

Serious question: it's 2024, we are very aware of the effort we must put in to achieve any kind of minute effect on our climate. So why isn't Nuclear energy right up there included with these mass projects focused on renewable energy? There is nothing more climate friendly, energy efficient & reliable resources than the advances we've made with modern nuclear energy options.. Yet these advancements aren't being utilized anywhere.. It's one of those things that once it is installed, we will be so grateful to have it incorporated in our grid.

Yes, I also think the UK can do it. Great video.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you :-)

@OldScientist

14 күн бұрын

What happens if we get 56 days of "dunkelflaute" like the UK got in 2018? Projecting out to 2050 with increased demand from electrification of transport and heating etc, we would need to find something like 28TWh of missing electricity generated from wind power (but the wind won't be blowing!). Britain currently has 39.3 GWh of pumped storage. There are 4 pumped storage stations in Britain. No storage capacity has been added to the grid since the 1980s, and there is no other large scale energy storage in the country. To cover a cold dark still winter you would need to increase pumped storage capacity by a factor of about 1000 (taking into account pumped storage is about 75% efficient). So we would need to find 4000 suitable locations where a 300 to 400m dam can be built to hold back 10 million cubic metres of water, with a fall to the turbines below of about 400 metres. Then we would have to build 160 of these every year, year after year, for 25 years. The scale, and the massive cost of storage, by whatever method (pumped storage is one of the cheapest by the way), make it an impossible mission.

Here in Aus we now have over 10% of the country’s energy supply coming from rooftop solar and when it’s sunny it produces so much there’s overload. Yet still there is pushback and cries for nuclear from certain ratbag politicians. One thing that can be said though is that those that go solar never go hankering for removal of their panels and replacement with a full coal powered grid. Community engagement and all that.

Thanks for all you do Dave. It’s great you’re giving people like the guy from Ripple a platform to speak. His drive is inspiring. I loved the idea of hedging my power bill with a generator share.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Cheers Max :-)

On the topic of involving consumers, here in the Netherlands we have a company that sells home batteries for grid balancing. They offer a battery (10-20kw) and basically pay you to automatically charge during sunny hours and discharge during greater demand. The return on investment is in the range of 4-5 years, after which you could use it for your own PV. I think this is an interesting development in decentralising the grid

@simhedgesrex7097

15 күн бұрын

Yes. The same is available in the UK (but it would take longer than that to pay off the cost of the battery).

@frequentlycynical642

13 күн бұрын

In the state of Vermont, the electric company realized that it was cheaper to install batteries in homes to meet peak demands than build a new power plant. We need more creative thinking like that.

@MatthiasKrijgsman

13 күн бұрын

@@frequentlycynical642 Exactly! It also saves on new grid infrastructure/capacity, since releasing electricity from home batteries it often doesn't need to travel far. I believe decentralizing the energy grid this way could have many benefits

@jaaklucas1329

12 күн бұрын

@@frequentlycynical642 Exactly, this is the beauty of renewable.

Thank you as always for what you do.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

I would definitely not be against golf courses being shut down for more renewable energy installations 😂

@johnseberg6989

15 күн бұрын

Why would they need to be shut down? Every golf course I've ever been has that windmill hole. 😄

@adus123

15 күн бұрын

it would just make the golf more interesting Avoiding all them turbines haha

@gavloft

15 күн бұрын

And house building; rather than building on nature.

@texanplayer7651

15 күн бұрын

​@@johnseberg6989That's minigolf, smart guy

@willm5814

15 күн бұрын

Lol! Absolutely! Although, if I wasn’t such a shitty golfer I might have a different point of view!

Great shout out for Ripple. Anybody can now own a piece of renewable energy. Looking forward for Derril water to come online.

Thank you for the commentary and the intwrview.

good talk

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you :-)

Very inspiring bringing community into ownership of renewable power generation to address climate change. The urgency demands we move onshore and obligate government to connect upon construction. Here in the U.S. over 80% of new power generation is in solar and battery.

I was impressed by Ripple Energy. I think grid access and capacity are the biggest hurdle to "100% wind and solar" remaining. In that context, the offshore electricity grid isn't as wastefully expensive as it might initially seem.

Thank you

Excellent show again. Informative interview and thr earleir presentation of important scripts

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you :-)

Community owned assets is an idea that I’ve been thinking of for years. If businesses and residents band together to buy/build generation and storage infrastructure, then much more would be built. By including storage you basically get a two for one deal on the generation. Would love to see this model come Downunder

@factnotfiction5915

14 күн бұрын

> Community owned assets is an idea that I’ve been thinking of for years. If businesses and residents band together to buy/build generation and storage infrastructure, then much more would be built. Yes, if we only had a way to gather up small amounts of cash and form capital to build things. I have an idea, we could have people exchange money for some sort of stock in a business. We need names for these things! We might call the exchanged money 'equity', and the share a 'stock certificate'. And we need a place for people to buy these shares and and the business to sell them, we can call that a 'stock exchange'. Then 100s, 1000s, perhaps millions of people could participate. While working, people can have their funds set aside for retirement invested in the these firms - some sort of fund, that people with a mutual interest in retiresment ... a 'mutual fund'. ( I am a freakin' genius. I better write Merriam-Webster and get these terms in the dictionary pronto! ) > By including storage you basically get a two for one deal on the generation. But you get a two for two deal on the costs. :(

@EllieMaes-Grandad

9 күн бұрын

Why would I want to 'band together' with anybody? I pay the utility company . . .

Norwegian research recently showed that you can reduce bird deaths from wind turbines by (I forget what it is) simply by painting one blade a different, contrasting colour to the rest.

I live in Alberta, Canada the province most conducive to wind power in the country. We are also the prime fossil fuel producer in the nation. Our ultra right wing provincial government just lifted a six month moratorium on wind and solar development, but has put so many restrictions on the development of renewables (arguing that wind turbines are ugly, etc.) that the future of the industry is in doubt.

@rogerphelps9939

15 күн бұрын

How on earth can they argue that wind and solar are ugly when you have huge areas being mined for tar sands and extremely dirty massively polluting refineries doing goodness what to the groundwater?

@heronimousbrapson863

9 күн бұрын

@@rogerphelps9939 Exactly.

@rogerphelps9939

8 күн бұрын

@@heronimousbrapson863 Indeed, but I am not advocating that we cling on to gas and oil heating, just that we have to properly plan for the green transition.

I'd heard through Friends of the Earth earlier about their report, and so was aware of the "surprise" you were going to come up with, regarding the small percentage of acceptable land required and also that golf courses take up more space. Incidentally, golf courses aren't environentally fantastic, before anyone says how nice they are. Also, the output of two and a half times the electricity requirements gets close to Tony Seba's Re-ThinkX recommendation that if grids are built to provide for the depths of winter we end up with 4 times the electricity needs overall, which leads to Re-ThinkX's Super Power or super abundance, super cheap of electricity. Of course, if we pop solar panels on every domestic and industrial rooftop where suitable, we get to that 4X fairly easily. It's just infrastructure in the end, with present day technology. Bit of a no-brainer really, isn't it.

@factnotfiction5915

14 күн бұрын

> Bit of a no-brainer really, isn't it. Yes it is. Building 4x the needed physical assets up front, carrying that finance load while dropping the price on the product, and expecting demand to rise, so we can make it up on volume, on a well known inelastic demand curve is complete insanity. Only an _original_ investor in the Iridium satellite network would think this is a great idea. The vendors made money, and once the company was reorganized with a bankruptcy, the next set of investors can make a truly modest return. Wow!

Wind AND solar. That's an important key to this. When I watch videos about renewable energy, there are lots of nice-looking clips of turbines OR solar panels. Seems like a lost opportunity! I think we should intersperse wind turbines between rows of solar panels. With sheep grazing all over the area. Let's multipurpose the suitable land whenever possible.

I have Solaredge pv panels and system. Solaredge seem not interested in integrating a wind turbine. Wyoming where we live is never short of wind. We have a 10kwh battery and it makes sense to have say a 1kw turbine to keep the battery topped off. Especially in the winter when the days are short and the wind blows every day.

@Richard482

10 күн бұрын

A wind turbine sounds good, but I wouldn't have it attached to the house.

@TheWorldRealist

10 күн бұрын

@@Richard482 we have 3 acres. I have a wind speed monitor on a pole.

@Richard482

10 күн бұрын

@@TheWorldRealist Cool

Every wind turbine and solar panel is money that stays in your country. Stays and stays and stays as you dont buy oil, gas.. it is so valuable it is insane. People just dont think about it.

@robertmarmaduke9721

15 күн бұрын

Wind turbines are made in Germany and wind towers are made in India and maintenance is so insanely expensive these can only be funded by Government taxation, then more taxation to pay for the power rebates. Ivan Boeski. Google 'bustout'. When the farm goes down your share is negative value to pay for dismantling it.

@aliendroneservices6621

14 күн бұрын

Wind and solar absolutely rely on fossil-fuels. No fossil-fuels = no wind and solar.

@timothykeith1367

14 күн бұрын

Solar panels come from China

@OldScientist

14 күн бұрын

What happens if we get 56 days of "dunkelflaute" like the UK got in 2018? Projecting out to 2050 with increased demand from electrification of transport and heating etc, we would need to find something like 28TWh of missing electricity generated from wind power (but the wind won't be blowing!). Britain currently has 39.3 GWh of pumped storage. There are 4 pumped storage stations in Britain. No storage capacity has been added to the grid since the 1980s, and there is no other large scale energy storage in the country. To cover a cold dark still winter you would need to increase pumped storage capacity by a factor of about 1000 (taking into account pumped storage is about 75% efficient). So we would need to find 4000 suitable locations where a 300 to 400m dam can be built to hold back 10 million cubic metres of water, with a fall to the turbines below of about 400 metres. Then we would have to build 160 of these every year, year after year, for 25 years. The scale, and the massive cost of storage, by whatever method (pumped storage is one of the cheapest by the way), make it an impossible mission.

@cookingonthego9422

14 күн бұрын

@@OldScientist there are emergency power plants. They are conservated. Now they exist for national security as power is traded from abroad. They ae inaficient as a rule and takes one to two weaks to start up. P.s. big things are made in smal steps.

add wave to that for extra redundancy. really hope companies like gravitricity are successful too.

A few years ago I watched a video on how Switzerland had developed flexible solar sheets that can be adhered to anything and are 100% more effective than the existing solar panels at the time. We could increase the production of energy produced by wind turbines if we wall papered them with the flexible solar sheets. That would be two energy sources in one.

@EllieMaes-Grandad

9 күн бұрын

Are they expensive, or cheap as chips? It makes a difference.

Great fact sharing! Appreciate the lack of ads too!

Turbines are not noisy anymore. They used to be but that has changed. The main problem is "aesthetic" or also good choice of location (sometimes archaeological sites are destroyed, for example) and also of concentration in certain areas that can become overexploited also with green energies (in Spain for example Galicia has been a major target of overexploitation by wind farms).

@jeremycole9158

15 күн бұрын

I would to correct you on that matter. I have just experienced a repowered wind farm. They were noise before and the repowered wind farm remains noisy with Enercon E53's. The wave length of the repowered win farm is longer and impacts properties that were previous unaffected. The noise penetrates properties and you can hear them n the right conditions for weeks at a time, 24 hours a day in our bedroom and outside in all areas of my property. Iam not against wind farm as they do have a role to play in the energy mix of the UK but there are occasions when their impact can be nothing less than catastrophic on a property. No free energy can compensate for this.

@LuisAldamiz

15 күн бұрын

@@jeremycole9158 - I'm unsure about the details in Britain but there is also similar conflicts in Spain and nobody anymore mentions noise, while the pro-windmills publicity repeatedly shows peaceful herds of sheep ruminating under the white giants. This is AFAIK a real thing, unbiased sources also document that and opposition does not report noise anymore since at least a decade ago. The main anti-windmills arguments here are: overexplotation of some areas (notably windy Galicia), damage to archaeological sites occasionally and uglying of the landscape. There's a similar trend re. large solar panel "farms", which arguably destroy olive and other agricultural land in Andalusia, etc. (but otherwise cause no particular problem).

@stevehewitt1151

14 күн бұрын

Land clearance, huge bird and bat mortality, ugly monstrous pylons that can be seen from many miles away, incredibly low energy density, short life span, inability to recycle resulting in gigantic volumes of waste going into landfill and leaching highly toxic chemicals into the groundwater. Unreliables are an absolute abomination and will collapse in a heap as soon as the subsidies dry up. Apart from that they are wonderful!

@LuisAldamiz

14 күн бұрын

@@stevehewitt1151 - Surely your points are valid, I presume, however what's the alternative? I strongly prefer solar + green hydrogen, not a great fan of wind turbines myself (more so when solar is generally more efficient nowadays) but what is definitely not an option is to continue with the fossil fuels, which we barely produce in Europe at all and which are destroying our climate stability as we speak.

What happens if we get 56 days of "dunkelflaute" like the UK got in 2018? Projecting out to 2050 with increased demand from electrification of transport and heating etc, we would need to find something like 28TWh of missing electricity generated from wind power (but the wind won't be blowing!). Britain currently has 39.3 GWh of pumped storage. There are 4 pumped storage stations in Britain. No storage capacity has been added to the grid since the 1980s, and there is no other large scale energy storage in the country. To cover a cold dark still winter you would need to increase pumped storage capacity by a factor of about 1000 (taking into account pumped storage is about 75% efficient). So we would need to find 4000 suitable locations where a 300 to 400m dam can be built to hold back 10 million cubic metres of water, with a fall to the turbines below of about 400 metres. Then we would have to build 160 of these every year, year after year, for 25 years. The scale, and the massive cost of storage, by whatever method (pumped storage is one of the cheapest by the way), make it an impossible mission.

@jacka9612

13 күн бұрын

That's where the 100% predictable and plannable tidal power generated by Minesto 12m small, 28 tonnes light, 1,2MW (!) tidal kite turbines makes an entry. Deployed now in Faroe Islands and soon in Wales Holyhead deep.

Literally bought our shares in the new Ripple wind-farm at Whitelaw Brae whilst watching this ... been waiting over a year for the project to come to offer so happy days, and it's not to far away from us in the Borders. Happy Days.

I don't live near wind turbines, because it's not that windy, but I like seeing them, and would be happy to have them next door.

It is the same problem as with the war in Ukraine. The very vocal minority stopped things in the US Congress even though the majority supported the war. I love the idea of including renters as owners. That has got to be the best idea I've heard in forever. Thanks. Glory to Ukraine. God Bless Ukraine and her people. 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@mpart_woodlathe-stuff

15 күн бұрын

Yes, yes, yes to all your points !! ... and слава Україні ! героям слава ! 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

@100c0c

15 күн бұрын

Pathetic

So the cost has declined by 70% and we pretty much have the most expensive electricity ever.

@LiamE69

15 күн бұрын

The maths ain't mathing.

@garysmith5025

15 күн бұрын

Gas fuelled electricity generation sets the price, that will change when the renewable build out reaches the point of the gas power stations no longer being viable businesses. At that point they'll be nationalised and used as our back-up, National Grid stated last year that it would add 0.75p/kWhr to maintain such a capability, seems like a bargain.

@fudhater8592

15 күн бұрын

Who's "we"?

@devonbikefilms

15 күн бұрын

@@fudhater8592 United Kingdom. “We” have a mad pricing law where gas prices set the overall electricity price. If we had actual competition, the gas stations would be priced out of the market and renewables would move in at a fast rate.

@fudhater8592

15 күн бұрын

@@devonbikefilms Fair enough. Here in the U.S. states with a lot of renewable energy tend to have lower prices

Another superb video. Comprehensive excellent broad view, but with a brilliant dive-down into Ripple as a great example of how we can progress - now! . Inspirational. Thanks.

Excellent video again this week Dave! Welcome back! Loads of good info, and good humor. :)

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you. I've never been away though. Videos every Sunday at 6pm UK time :-)

Re: "Why am I being told wind turbines are loud"? I very much wonder that as well. If they were so terribly loud, you'd imagine the internet being full of examples, but there's hardly any, mostly from people living essentially next to the turbines. What you do find a lot of is people spreading FUD about the noise.

@LuisAldamiz

15 күн бұрын

Because they used to be one or two decades ago. Not anymore.

@TaiViinikka

15 күн бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz Even in 2004, 20 years ago, a local example was quiet. Maybe the difference is scale? Small wind turbines have always tended to be noisy/buzzy, which is fine since they aren't usually installed where anyone except the owner is within earshot. ( Vestas model V80-1.8MW wind turbine in this case. )

@jfolz

15 күн бұрын

@@TaiViinikka wind turbines did get massive awfully fast, so there may be something to it. Onshore models more than tripled in diameter within 20 years, but advanced flow simulations only became possible/commonplace recently. Could be an interesting topic for a video.

@LuisAldamiz

15 күн бұрын

@@TaiViinikka - I made a course on renewable energies in 2022 and that's what we learned: that old turbines were noisy but that nowadays that problem has been solved for good. I don't remember the exact dates.

@itekani

15 күн бұрын

Is there possibly any issue with subsonic sound waves with newer, bigger turbines?

The naysayers - most of them fossil fuel industry sponsored or inspired - said that it was impossible. Whereas, converting to 100% renewable electricity, and then, (virtually) 100% renewable power is technically the lowest hanging fruit of the urgent challenge of environmental sustainability. That’s not to say that it is ‘easy.’ The only real barrier is political - to overcome the fossil fuel industry disinformation, and most significantly: to circumvent the fossil fuel funded political class - e.g. Putin’s Russia, Saudi Arabia etc.. Whether those states will give up their addiction to fossil fuel money is another matter altogether, as so many of them are on the dysfunctional spectrum.

@bobsaturday4273

15 күн бұрын

10X FULL OF CR@P ! "urgent challenge of environmental sustainability" , " fossil fuel industry disinformation" , "Putin’s Russia, Saudi Arabia etc." you are nothing but some climate cult moron blabbering rhetoric and talking point but know really NOTHING !

@jamesgreig5168

15 күн бұрын

You're ignoring storage and reliability. Base load power and having sufficient energy 24 hours per day.

@antonyjh1234

15 күн бұрын

I don't know why you would target naysayers that way, it doesn't allow any room for dissent. Renewables, or rather replaceables are about 3% of our total energy and Jevons Law efficiency means that just get's added to an increasing amount of total electricity used. While it might be 3 times cheaper in production there also needs to be 3 times as much capacity or we all have storage and that much extra plastic, well it come from the same barrel of oil that petrol does. When you talk about an oil addiction, try and remove it from your life. The real barrier is we will never replicate the amount of energy we waste and while renewables are great soon, decade wise, we will be post oil, the amount of copper needing to be mined for an electrification is equal to the last 500 years, post oil is going to happen way sooner, so converting 100% will never happen and converting the 20% of our energy that is coal might never happen making this far from low hanging fruit and if wind turbines don't replace themselves as you still need energy to melt steel, mine ore etc, then when does the last coal plant get switched off, when it's 100%, 200% 400% capacity? Have a look around you and see how much is there because of oil, from paint to rugs to threads in your clothes and the food in your belly, try and give that all up, it's not as easy as calling other states dysfunctional when it's literally the reason this conversation can function.

@alex.velasco

15 күн бұрын

@@antonyjh1234 ‘Dissent’ is a nice word. But, it feels misused when you’re siding with capital and industry who got us into this mess in the first place by treating the biosphere as a externality. You’ve also subtly changed the subject. I wrote about 100% renewable energy (virtually - i.e. approximately). Yet that would be a huge improvement over today. We still may use petroleum for plastics production, after all, burning the stuff is truly a waste of a valuable resource. But we must end the appalling pollution associated with plastic.

@alex.velasco

15 күн бұрын

​@@jamesgreig5168 The many countries around the world who are breaking records for renewable power are not. You’re ignoring human ingenuity.

Fascinating, well communicated

Thanks Dave - brilliant content as always. Motivated me to buy the shares in the next ripple project. We’ve just got to crack on with this

Excellent study. Excellent pitch from Ripple. It seems crushingly stupid that Tories don't see this as a best source of income from energy, free of global manipulations. But they are not concerned with the UK's economic interest, only their own ability to retain power.

My question is... If the solar, wind and others eco friendly net zero power generators are geting cheaper and cheaper, why is cost of electricity in houses getting more expensive every year...

@IronmanV5

15 күн бұрын

Because a good portion of current generation is from natural gas. Thanks to Putin, natural gas prices have gone up.

@MultiMenvafan

15 күн бұрын

Exactly. Petrolpopulists have a hard time keeping two thoughts in their head at the same time.

@JohnR31415

15 күн бұрын

@@IronmanV5and because of archaic pricing policies the price of electricity is tied to gas

@mostevil1082

15 күн бұрын

It's still quite a bit more expensive than the alternatives, which have been getting more expensive.

@adblocker276

15 күн бұрын

No, that’s because of the archaic system of pricing energy in the U.K. the price you pay for electricity is based on the cost of the most expensive source.

Great video

You have produced very many wonderful videos in the past. The Policy section from minute 12.30 onward is in my opinion, by far the best of all. Please continue with many more of these, including case studies. Thanks very much

It's amazing to think that 100 years from now, when crops are failing and catastrophic weather is displacing and killing millions, our grandchildren will have to explain to their children: "We had the technology, but it was the planning regulations you see."

@godofwhiskey

15 күн бұрын

100 years is rather optimistic catastrophic weather is killing 10000s already and I imagine crop failure will take out billions before 2050.

@jfolz

15 күн бұрын

When people complain about the cost of going net-zero, it's because they don't understand the future cost of delaying it.

Living here in Belarus, this argument is really interesting 🤔! We're building a new home in the forrest, well insulated to being passive! Electricity for heating and cooking and car charging is on a separate meter, costing..... Wait for it.... .005p per Kw 24/7! We discussed riday about buying a heat pump to heat the house! Its the "green thing to do!", but its simply not cost effective for us! Its like splitting hairs fir no payback for .... ! A heat pump will cost us $14,000.00 and a conventional heater $1000.00! You did ask for external views about this! 😢😢 Shows how perception changes with costs and challenges! The cost of maintaining a heat pump and its reliability and longevity,are no match fir a simple water heater!

@rockyallen5092

15 күн бұрын

It doesn't change your argument, but did you mean £0.05 per kWh? Still ridiculously cheap though-is it because Russia sells you subsidised oil?

That Ripple business model seems genuinly good idea. Too bad I wasn't come up with it.

@andyphillips7435

15 күн бұрын

“Wasn’t’ = didn’t.

@CraftyF0X

15 күн бұрын

@@andyphillips7435 After so many years arguing on the internet and only now I got exposed that I may not even express myself correctly in english. What a day :(

Thanks Dave, great info as usual!

BP, Shell, Exxon will no doubt lobby against this until they can profit from it. I'd imagine they are a strong component in the delayed uptake of renewables. Obviously Cameron, Johnson, Sunak are figureheads of these companies and those alike.

@pin65371

15 күн бұрын

Exxon will be one of the largest producers of lithium within the next few years. They have been investing in it for a while now. One of the resources they have is worth half a trillion at current market prices.

@squallloire

15 күн бұрын

BP and Shell are both pretty heavily invested in renewables at this point. That's not to say they're not still taking measures to protect their oil businesses, but they've already covered their bases when it comes to solar & wind.

@johndoh5182

15 күн бұрын

@@pin65371 Right but Exxon would also want power generation from oil, that way they're running power plants AND that electricity is running BEV, so they're making money all around. And I'm sure they're also pushing Hydrogen for which I cannot fathom how in the WORLD that's green energy, considering it's made from fossil fuels and just the act of continually searching for more deposits, drilling, and for offshore oil running large tankers to get that oil to shore, and then the cost of refining, then conversion costs and a HORRIBLE infrastructure to deal with it. And all CRAZY money expensive.

@dalekrenegade2596

15 күн бұрын

​@@squallloire Really, anywhere I can confirm this?

@squallloire

15 күн бұрын

@@dalekrenegade2596 Honestly you can just plug "BP renewable energy" or "Shell renewable energy" into google and will get a slew of results, both from the companies themselves and reputable news outlets like Reuters. BP are definitely more "in it" than Shell, but both have made moves to ensure they stay in business as the world shifts to relying more on renewables.

Great video, Dave!

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Cheers Martin. Glad you enjoyed it

Just watched you and Robert on his podcast and absolutely loved it. Make sure you both get together again. 'Logic and laughs' all in one place. 👍👍👍

This really is a blueprint for everyone not just the UK and community solar and wind farms are probably the best way at achieving these goals not only for consumers but the world...

We had 100% wind and solar in 1600 AD. Life was horrific.

@theairstig9164

13 күн бұрын

Pretty sure there were water wheels in Byzantium circa 250BC. I think you are being overly dramatic

@abcdef8915

13 күн бұрын

​@@theairstig9164life was pretty horrific in Byzantium as well.

@frequentlycynical642

13 күн бұрын

No, you also had fossil fuels.

@Withnail1969

13 күн бұрын

@@frequentlycynical642 yeah actually there was coal mining going on, it woiuld have been even worse without it. if youre mining coal you need less wood for fuel

@Withnail1969

13 күн бұрын

@@theairstig9164 water wheels? can you heat your home with a wooden water weel or produce steel with it? with a UK population of 68 million - it was maybe 2 million back then

How do you live with no power or low power supply on 100 or more days per year? - How do you imagine the UK will manage without nuclear power? - Wind is not the solution, it is an expensive problem.

A great idea. Currently in Australia the narrative is of foreign large scale RE asset owners coming in on the taxpayer's coin, leaving people feeling exploited, since they are hosting the re farm but are not a direct beneficiary of it. This model of Community part ownership ensures not just community involvement but direct community benefit.

Very curious as to what the definition of "unused land" is. Coming from a country (Norway) with basically the same discussion - expensive off-shore wind vs cheap on-shore wind that people don't want in their backyards and certainly don't want in nature (or the roads leading to the turbines...). Don't really know what 'unused land' is but most people here would say we don't have unused land - we only have used land and nature....

A decade of wasted potential due to conservative leadership. I feel sick thinking how much we could have invested in green infrastructure while interest rates were so low. What a pity.

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

I agree.

Meh... In Denmark during summer, we often have negative energy prices during daytime, due to solar and wind. As long as we don't have a proper cheap way to store huge amounts of energy, I just don't see wind and solar as good solutions. I know what we transport a lot of energy to Germany, but still, we really need a good and cheap way to store it.

@petewright4640

15 күн бұрын

How about incentives for people and industry to use power when its cheap. I'd wait if I thought i could charge my EV for free or even get paid to!

@petewright4640

15 күн бұрын

Make e fuel, nitrate fertilizer and green hydrogen when the sun shines. Use biomass as backup in the winter.

@andrewharrison8436

15 күн бұрын

Agreed, storage is key - lots of ways to do it and it should become more and more cost effective as maximum renewables gets further above demand.

@StatedByTony

15 күн бұрын

@@petewright4640 we do have that already. It's actually possible to earn money using electricity when the price goes negative. Not only that, they stop wind turbines because it's costing them money to pay for producing electricity. I rather that they focus a bit more on storage then production. They just announced 6 gigantic wind parks that will produce enough for 10 million houses. We are 5.7 million people here in Denmark. Their focus is on export, which is fine, but not on storage, which is pretty non existent currently.

As a rough estimate, 1 GW of power is often cited as being sufficient to power around 750,000 average American homes.

Absolutely thrilling news! The unstoppable march toward 100% wind and solar power signifies a monumental shift towards a cleaner, brighter future. This transformative journey promises not only sustainable energy but also endless possibilities for innovation, job creation, and a healthier planet for generations to come. Let's embrace this exciting transition with open arms and unite in building a world powered by renewable energy. 🌞💨

wind and solar does help a bit, but still we need to fabricate and install those things, that is creating pollution. later on we need to replace them when they are end of life, more pollution. then we have the things that we power with that energy, all those things need to be fabricated and many of those things create pollution in use also. so we need to reduce power use of the whole country by 90% and we only need to generate 10% of the power and that is 90% less pollution right there. my point is having a large population high energy consumption civilization is not sustainable.

@gregoryb6

15 күн бұрын

All true. Also high energy food production not sustainable due to floods and droughts is immediate crisis in many regions and ignored by the high energy consumption societies.

@bobgriffin316

15 күн бұрын

We are not polluting much with replacing wind turbines. We are polluting a lot by buying so much junk. Our houses are full of junk and we throw loads of stuff away. 50 Years ago homes were usually quite empty except some basic furniture and a few changes of clothes. Even our small wardrobes were fairly empty. The junk was expensive compared to today so we bought much much less of it compared to today. When my whole large (7 people) family moved house 50 years ago the removal van did not have much in it. We only needed one van and that van was not full. If I moved today by myself I will propbably have as much stuff as the whole family 50 years ago, maybe even more.

@sudd3660

15 күн бұрын

@@bobgriffin316 thanks for adding to my comment, we all need to think about these things.

@aliendroneservices6621

14 күн бұрын

Wind and solar do not help any grid they are connected to. They are infinitely-expensive, on a sustained basis, and only drive up overall costs wherever they are added.

If all this new green energy is so low cost, why is it that electricity bills have never been higher?

@NickyMitchell85

15 күн бұрын

Don’t ask *me* why they’re higher-But if I tell you what I think 💭, I’d say “they should be lower”.

@guygillmore2970

15 күн бұрын

We need more large cables from north to south to get lovely wind electrons down to the crowded south.

@theproffessional9

15 күн бұрын

Because the price increases of gas, coal and other forms of energy are increasing. They're also trying to very quickly recuperate the cost of the installation of Renewables instead of spreading the costs out over the lifetime of the equipment. So basically, they're increasing their profits in the short run, and then when people are used to higher prices, just keep them there. Classic conditioning.

@BoltarThePirate

15 күн бұрын

There's a war going on which has a huge impact on global gas prices. Also nuclear gets more expensive bc of no uranium coming from Russia.

@horserous

15 күн бұрын

Renewable energy is linked to gas costs. The policy makers should uncouple. If not, why not?

" Tail wags the DOG " ,,,same here -in USA and your facts show the truth. NOT in my back yard breaks down when educated ! Good info & program. Thanks

Great information, as per usual! Well done! Love your rock wall art!

@JustHaveaThink

15 күн бұрын

Thank you :-)