Elon: you can power the world... Reporter: Ah yes, California

@brianrasmussen2956

2 жыл бұрын

‘In Europe?’ Erhm, apparently we don’t get sun over here…..

@dinosspyro5640

2 жыл бұрын

@@brianrasmussen2956 ye us Europeans borrow the sun from America

@takingafatdump

2 жыл бұрын

she’s an oil lobbyist what do you expect.

@L.C.Sweeney

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's because there was context missing from this clip

@hugo122221

2 жыл бұрын

she can’t agree much with Elon coz she knows this for long time but the news is control and ruled my the people that control the world

She has traveled all over the world, to both California AND Europe.

@HansLaros

Жыл бұрын

Roflol!

@S1893-0

Жыл бұрын

To be honest I think she has a fair point. There’s way more solar potential in California than in the rest of the world in general. In Germany as example during winter you get 4-5hours of sun. And that’s still ignoring that the highest energy needs take place when the sun goes down again. As long we don’t have way better storage capabilities using solar alone is fairy tale… Doing the math with wind makes it way better already. That’s why gas is valuable right now. Compared to nuclear you can fire up the gas plant whenever you want while nuclear would have to run 24/7 effectively creating energy that is worthless during half the day…

@otozinclus3593

Жыл бұрын

@@S1893-0 Yet, germany gets 21% of its energy out of Solar. In the USA its 3%

@S1893-0

Жыл бұрын

@@otozinclus3593 well that’s because there’s more infrastructure in Germany…. Also during summer you have upto 10h of Sun which is great for Solar. Just saying that it’s not like that all year and that you need solution for the part of the year where there’s energy missing

@doucefrance5481

Жыл бұрын

While she s dindian

And this is why Africa should just go full SOLAR. We can't work without energy yet we face so many power outages and cuts. We have been blessed with a continent that has the sun beaming right at us for the most part. We need to take advantage of that.

@Tri3tanDoGood

Күн бұрын

True

@samlukan

Күн бұрын

You praise solar in the same sentence as complaining about outages. solar is not the miricle energy we have been told. It can power a house but not a grid. Battery technology is no where near what would be necessary. But even then it’s not like these panels and batteries are environmentally friendly whatsoever. Africa needs cheap and reliable energy if they want to be prosperous, solar can be part of the equation, but not a big part.

Everywhere. I have Rooftop Solar for 12 Years Now in Groningen Nederland. Solar and Heatpump. EV car on Rooftop Solar. 12 years no energybill. The Sun shines also in Europa. Where does the Lady come from? Agree Elon👍

@Keith80027

7 күн бұрын

Where do you get you power at night? Do you have batteries that you stored your daytime engergy?

Elon: Using kilometres US: *questions existence*

@jacobfrancis635

2 жыл бұрын

He's from South Africa

@BoopSnootAndTroubleshoot

2 жыл бұрын

You can tell them that things aren't as bad as in the US outside of the US, and they will still believe they are the "representation of the world's prime", when they are further from.

@Assassinsam353

2 жыл бұрын

He’s using the best and correct units.

@Automaticguns1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Assassinsam353 i prefer a combination of both. theres some shit in the metric system that's hella confusing same with imperial for me metric speed and measurement for length confuses the fuck out of me but the weight system is pretty simple. Also depending on which one your taught when your a child goes into how easy or hard the other one is to understand when your an adult

@toosters

2 жыл бұрын

Atleast he isnt using the US "liberal" with their stupid feets.... I mean im p sure its to make them look creative

Now, imagine nuclear plants with a flat top full of solar panels. That's efficiency.

@David-bi6lt

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣📛🆘

@xsbbx5191

2 жыл бұрын

Well that can be cool but it useless since the nuclear plants makes less than solar panels, you should make two solar panels

@Xtasy99

2 жыл бұрын

@@xsbbx5191 it is invaluable to use 100% of the land for solar panel, and anything beneath the solar plant is currently dead land, so let's think about it the other way. "Let's make nuclear plants beneath solar plants to make use of the dead land"

@BigJavWJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@xsbbx5191 you literally can't 😂

@jasontera1195

2 жыл бұрын

That hole is there for a reason 😂

I call BS on the 200 sq km claim.

@Egleu1

6 күн бұрын

Prove your call.

@bubbinsky2390

5 күн бұрын

U.S. uses roughly 22,000 sq miles of solar panels.22000 miles = 35405.568 kilometers. ​@@Egleu1

@LordDarkwater

5 күн бұрын

200km² = 200.000.000m². 0,2 kw per m² - 40.000.000kw. 8700 hours in a year thats 3,48 billion kwh/year Annual requirement of usa in 2020 was 3.8 billion kwh. Thats quite close, isnt it?

@bubbinsky2390

5 күн бұрын

@@LordDarkwater dunno. My point was that by those numbers U.S. should already be pretty much running on solar but it isn't. But you have to account for the failure of the solar farms, panels and the fact they only run at about 20% in the summer heat where I live. On paper solar always sounds good. In the real world it comes far from meeting the on paper scenario. Then calculate the waste and harm to the environment that silicon base solar panel production and disposal creates.

@Egleu1

5 күн бұрын

@@bubbinsky2390 the best solar panels on the planet run at 23% so 20% in the summer heat sounds pretty good.

Certain areas can be powered solely with solar panels. I could imagine Nations like Spain or Italy being able to do it rather than Sweden or the UK.

@stripclub-di5fr

4 ай бұрын

This is why the Middle East is the future

@N9mber

4 ай бұрын

@@stripclub-di5fr They definitely have the best geography for Solar with large spaces of desert/arid regions that are sparsely populated. It makes sense economically and politically to be an Arabian gulf or North African nation where solar can power alongside Oil & gas.

@m.t-thoughts8919

Ай бұрын

They could use more efficients once and buy if from places that can use less efficient panels but at a larger scale. Lets also not forget geothermal energy and wind.

@Day-dreamer488

18 күн бұрын

Yes but everywhere has the same amount of daylight. What ever is lost in Sweden winter it makes up for in its 24 hours daylight summer

@TNTYOD

15 күн бұрын

I mean your not wrong But lower Europe could power upper Europe as well

Hi from Scotland ... this 'sun' he's talking about... tell me more ? 🤔

@paddypoolfc3579

2 жыл бұрын

☝️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Light00000

Жыл бұрын

😂😂🍻

@alphabetagamma4142

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry about it... It's a lie. NASA made it up to control the world. Elon musk is in on it.

@AhsokaTanoTheWhite

Жыл бұрын

It's the thing in the sky that tried to kill us last month!

@ryand6607

Жыл бұрын

Hi from America here, it's this big bright thing in the sky that makes plants and veggies and trees grow, it rises in the east and sets in the west and if your white it can burn the shit out of you if you don't use sunscreen, peaceout Scotland

Elon: "The world" Interviewer: "Europe?"

@loupe500

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe she meant Jupter’s moon Europe lmao

@submarinemagnet7965

2 жыл бұрын

Yo world tours typically only go in US and Europe and still call it a "World Tour" 😂🤡

@luigins

2 жыл бұрын

she think the whole world is just USA 😂😂

@gabrielparedes6458

2 жыл бұрын

Actually she’s saying Europe cuz there’s a big difference in size between this two, when u look to Europe we don’t see as many fat plans that fits for solar panels as in us

@cesarcapersii9833

2 жыл бұрын

They should have solar panels set in a very high area of the sun ☀️ and they energy should be transferred

This if from Googles Green energy biased AI Gemini: "Key takeaway: While the solar farm requires more land, it doesn't produce as much power (17,650 MWh/year vs. a constant 2 GW for the nuclear plant). The nuclear plant uses less land but requires a much more concentrated infrastructure due to the nature of nuclear power generation."

@agresywnakaczka3885

25 күн бұрын

yep

@JaredDamm

21 күн бұрын

Way to fact check. We all have devices that allow us to do this at any point in time, yet hardly anyone does.🤦‍♂️

@billstrasburg384

19 күн бұрын

Right, Elon Musk is awesome.....but that was a ridiculous statement. Nothing can make more power in the same area as nuclear. McMurdo Base in Antarctica used to have a nuclear power plant from a U.S. submarine until we signed some stupid treaty and had to put in a gigantic leaky tank farm instead to appease the emotional eco-hippies. Everything takes more space than a nuclear power plant. How much space would it take to have enough solar panels to power a submarine? I was in the solar industry, but I don't feel like calculating that. A gigantic area.

@prestonferry

10 күн бұрын

@@JaredDamm AI is often inaccurate and there is no evidence I’ve seen to suggest he is wrong

@universalpro8756

10 күн бұрын

​@@prestonferryOkay, first things first. Nuclear Power plants themselves don't take much space.It's just that nearby places has to closed for public because of the nature of nuclear power plants, which is why nuclear power plants are bulid in inhabitant lands where usually no one lives and these lands don't really have any other use, and they can certainly be not be used for solar farms. Second, building and maintaining solar farms equavilent to the area eaten by nuclear power plants, would simply be a nightmare and far costly than any other nuclear power plant. Third, look I don't hate Elon musk, infact I love what he is doing for space exploration. But you have to understand he sells solar energy and batteries, there are some reasons why he is saying the things, he is saying.

clouds, rain and night: "bonjour"

@kaijen2688

2 ай бұрын

Guess you never heard of batteries.

@daveanthonyvillasista6987

2 ай бұрын

​@@kaijen2688 super capacitors would be better than batteries. But yeah bonjour

@nightmist7977

2 ай бұрын

Solar alliance my friend.

@PhysicsViolator

2 ай бұрын

Monocrystaline black panels bon journo …

@aletrip642

Ай бұрын

Mechanical flywheel batteries?

*Anyone else randomly just started watching shorts and now it’s just a everyday thing?*

@Aaron-zh4kj

Жыл бұрын

YEEEESSS. It was a pretty sudden and unsubtle transition recently. How did it happen?

@dextrion7259

Жыл бұрын

No

@shannond1467

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@steveadams7592

Жыл бұрын

Guilty...to the point my wife gets annoyed at me. She laughs at the same things I do so it's not all bad.

@michaelbelcher4284

Жыл бұрын

And here I thought it was just me that has gotten trapped in this loop.

I would love to see him build a $44 billion solar power park, instead of buying twitter!

@championx1

2 жыл бұрын

Rather have power problems than world full of leftist views due to discrimination of the right.

@theflippingcoin975

2 жыл бұрын

You are not allowed to do that. The council that oversees the energy production and distribution won’t let that happen. For example search the biggest solar panel project by India was shut down by international management.

@chinogodinez

2 жыл бұрын

@@theflippingcoin975 💰

@justinchavez582

2 жыл бұрын

You do it

@randyvillegas9413

2 жыл бұрын

@@theflippingcoin975 that's fucking wild wtf

Nuclear power is the cleanest, most reliable solution

@ashhooper4702

2 ай бұрын

And the safest per GWh

@hamishreid8791

2 ай бұрын

And works at night too!

@Shit_Bird

2 ай бұрын

Except for when yknow it breaks down and causes horrific devastation to entire cities like Chernobyl and Fukushima

@user-hk1on7dw2s

2 ай бұрын

Nuclear waste blinking in the corner

@notyourordinarygran

2 ай бұрын

Chernobyl...."hold my beer".😂

Hey Elon, this is Pedro, one of your chief engineer. You know that one time we were talking about nuclear power plants and I say something about solar panel? Well I mean Alien solar panels. The ones we have now will take up the space of 50 nuclear power plants. Please don’t fire me. Pedro.

@NicholasHerriot

2 ай бұрын

I worked at the nuclear power plant at Dunganess in the UK. There is a 5km exclussion zone around the plant since it's near Folkestone. Now do your calculations.... 😮

Elon: “The world!” Reporter: “California?” Elon: “The world!!” Reporter: “Europe??” Elon: “The world!!!” Reporter: “The world???” Elon: “How many times I gotta say this shit?!”

@rocknkese9075

2 жыл бұрын

Does she know how small Europe is in relation to the whole world, my goodness the sad reality of the western education system is absolutely staggering.

@simon_roy

2 жыл бұрын

Dio : Za Warudo

@saraeissa4954

2 жыл бұрын

Because he’s wrong and she’s right but Elon fanboys are too busy making misogynistic jokes to take her seriously

@purpleXpotion

2 жыл бұрын

Reporter: If it’s true that ‘the world’ can be powered (as we know it) using only solar panels.. then WHY are people experiencing ROLLING BLACKOUTS whenever this is applied on a smaller scale? Elon: Because people ‘waste’ too much, but _my_ fairy tales are possible. And furthermore, if everyone would just stop demanding harmful houses, (let alone power _inside_ them) & lay directly under the sun for warmth all day (like a plant) ..then _I_ wouldn’t even have to ‘waste _my_ energy, harming the environment’ to generate ‘toxic panels’ for these schmucks. You see, ☝️😌 Any society that’s not lying completely dormant (ahem, _dead)_ is riddled with pollution & toxicity.. which is harmful & evil to the environment. Reporter: *Typical aspiring dictator logic.* 💀 NEXT!

@alsalazar6069

2 жыл бұрын

@@rocknkese9075 usa éducation system staggering *

"The sun? In California? I believe that but in Europe? The sun? That's impossible"

@Flakz911

2 жыл бұрын

Known fact that Europe doesnt get sunlight

@meat981

2 жыл бұрын

@@Flakz911 yeah but Europe is literally an entire continent, much bigger than California. Doesn't matter that it gets less per solar panel when its about having many solar panels per area

@vegar20

2 жыл бұрын

@@meat981 He’s speaking more to having different areas around the world generating energy which have higher direct sunlight and then transporting that energy to other areas with less sunlight

@de0509

2 жыл бұрын

For thousand kilometer power transmission people can use High voltage DC current

@jodensmith5093

2 жыл бұрын

Solar panels today can get bits of power from the full moon at night. Not much but it’s measurable. They don’t need direct sunlight

Finland: 6 months of no sun

@techteam3111

Ай бұрын

Really?

@cassk9999

Ай бұрын

Daylight is enough to store and save energy not just direct sunlight

@CaptainPupu

Ай бұрын

@cassk9999 in Finland, in the winter the only light you get is 6 hours of daylight. Don't be so naive son. Daylight won't be enough to cover your energy cost. You need nice sun for that. Even with the sun, if your house is not fully covered w electricity, you still might pay the electric company. Solar is very good and very nice. For people in Spain and Florence. Not in Finland.

@cassk9999

Ай бұрын

@CaptainPupu 6 hours of daylight will give you some charge after that you can run a small 600cc engine like a maruti suzuki and a motor generator which uses very little petrol for another 2 hours and charge up your batteries that's enough for a small consumption to stay of a grid for most 1-2 persons needs

@CaptainPupu

Ай бұрын

@cassk9999 not for a family of 4 though. Again, solar is nice in the summer and in Spain, not in Finland.

Just because you can power a city with solar panels doesnt mean its going to be cheaper

@jakewillits4678

7 ай бұрын

Or the smartest route

@notyourordinarygran

2 ай бұрын

In comparison to running a nuclear power station? Solar panels large enough for domestic buildings cost around £100 each, an inverter around £700. I have 16 panels and a solar boost (£500) which heats the water. My electri bill is around half of my friend's. This is in dull old Britain.

@ubbisoft

2 ай бұрын

No it does not mean that its cheaper, but it in fact is about 4 times cheaper per kwh than nuclear so yeah.

Can we get smarter people with smarter questions to interview Musk

@mowlessbeemore2107

Жыл бұрын

Probably not.

@ekatmafullington4357

Жыл бұрын

​@@mowlessbeemore2107 women ☕

@ChiralityPracticality

Жыл бұрын

Like how he couldn't run his failed venture "SolarCity". Which was a small neighbourhood that was a failure, then he used Tesla stocks to bail himself out. He also loves government bailouts regularly

@dreamsister6339

Жыл бұрын

@@ekatmafullington4357’s not that it’s a woman…… ? I’m a woman and even I thought she sounded a lil ignorant tbh….. so it’s not that she’s a woman…. I guess she was saying Cali and Europe bc those two places have different weather.. one with lots of sun and the other less sun

@ekatmafullington4357

Жыл бұрын

@@dreamsister6339 ok 👌😊

This is total BS. A nuclear power plant could generate up to 8 GW in 4 km² by using 5 or 6 EPR reactors, with a capacity factor of 94%. Solar panels are nowhere near these numbers.

@sychoboy12345

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but I think a culmination of nuclear and solar/geothermal technology will remain the future.

@kylejohnhaley

2 жыл бұрын

Are nuclear power plants running on a non stop basis? I don’t know fr

@thekyuwa

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylejohnhaley Yes, nuclear power plants operate non-stop. That's why they're ideal to cover the base load (the energy you constantly need), and hydro and solar/wind are ideal to manage the peaks of energy needs. Hydro especially is great as a natural storage system, cause you can pump the water up when you have energy surplus, and then release it when you need it (whoever tells you you can store energy for an entire country by using batteries is either delusional or malevolent). It gets really problematic when you don't have a reliable source of energy to cover the base load. Renewables are intermittent: if sun is not shining and wind is not blowing, how will you produce energy? I'll tell you how: by burning gas or coal.

@chrisca

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylejohnhaley Yes,but their energy output can be regulated based on need. Problem is economics, there is literally no way to make a nuclear plant profitable, period. The construction costs nowadays is increasingly high, plus maintenance, checks and inspections, salaries... I was talking with some friends who are more knowledgeable than me and said, for Spain, even if you double our industry and power ALL houses, public lights... with nuclear, it will be more expensive than covering a fifth of the countryside with solar pannels. Therefore, to invest in nuclear is to invest purely on the basis of climate change and sustainability, and just carry the weight of a 30-40 year expectancy nuclear plant

@some_doofus

2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone else who sees reason. I can’t believe so few people have realised that Elon is flat out lying in this video. 80% of the claims he makes are objectively false. He claims we could power the US with 150-200 square km of solar. Wrong. Current estimates suggest the number is closer to 80,000 square km. And still, these panels will only generate power 24% of the time. They’re highly intermittent, so need a reliable base load backup. This brings me to another of his points: that a solar farm with equal land area of a nuclear plant will produce more power than the nuclear plant. This is just outright delusional. Anyone with any amount of knowledge on nuclear and solar should see through this lie immediately. Nuclear actually requires 75 times less land than an equal output solar farm, and that nuclear plant operates at a capacity factor of 94% as opposed to solars 24%. Its like he got the words solar and nuclear mixed up, because everything he says is basically the opposite of the truth.

Scandinavian countries that spend months in dark polar winters....😲😳🤔

@jamesbrook16

2 ай бұрын

An international grid would solve this. We could have a world wide grid sharing electricity so that you could get electricity from say Africa when it’s daylight in Africa and dark in America.

@pdtech4524

2 ай бұрын

@@jamesbrook16 A nice theoretical idea but in practise staggeringly difficult to calculate and negotiate who pays who and who owns what! 🤔

@jamesbrook16

2 ай бұрын

@@pdtech4524, I’m sure the flows of electricity could be calculated and some would cancel each other out. Scandinavian countries would be paying more. The main issue would be the cost of infrastructure and paying for the use of it. The set up costs would be huge, but once created, the power would be free and pretty well limitless. If all nations diverted 50% of their defence spending to this it would be achieved within a year!!

@pdtech4524

2 ай бұрын

@@jamesbrook16 Like I said, great idea but I can see 👀 a huge flaw... You said, 'The setup costs would be huge but the power would be free and limitless...'🤔😲😳 That is your first obstacle, who pays for it? How do we decide how much each country pays? There will be some countries who demand more power, or generate less electricity 🤔 Somebody will want to control the 'power' make money out of it etc If we lived in a world where every country got on with each other and they all worked together for a better future then we would have half a chance of success, unfortunately we don't live in such a world. Many countries simply don't get along with each other, many are at war with each other! Not a great recipe for a joint venture such as a global power grid network!

@jamesbrook16

2 ай бұрын

@@pdtech4524, I know. My comment about 50% of defence budgets was a little bit tongue in cheek! The Apollo missions cost the USA 1.75% of the federal budget between 1961 - 1972. So 50% of the defence budget was actually an underestimate! If only we had a world governed by people who put the world and their citizens first!!

I’ve been hearing this for years. Why hasn’t it been done?

@milorlah

Ай бұрын

The efficiency of solar panels is quite low at the moment ranging from 15-20%. It means less energy is generated with a large capacity and this might waste land use. That is why it pays people who can personally use it on roof tops. Most companies would rather invest in wind and other sources. With advancement in technology, solar energy would become more adopted and cheaper. Another issue is the battery, batteries are quite expensive at the moment and have little capacity. It would only get better with technology and adoption.

Why when i see subtitles people make, they ALWAYS mess up what is actually said

@mortzon5681

2 жыл бұрын

@Qiaze 46 you too my man

@incognito4855

2 жыл бұрын

@@mortzon5681 you 3

@BarneyGumbl3

2 жыл бұрын

@@incognito4855 you 4

@_JUNGSEIPEI_

2 жыл бұрын

It’s automatically generated and the people that produce these clips make so many that they can’t be bothered to check.

@Eamon597

2 жыл бұрын

What?? The subtitles here are perfect ✌

I used to go to KZread to search for stuff I was interested in. Now, all I watch are shorts. They've got a hold of me. Feels like I'm the one being watched.😟 See you guys on the next one.....

@dontreadmyusername6787

Жыл бұрын

Nice observation each medium has its perks and i 'loved' utube because unlike other social media it used to let u watch what u wanna watch

@falseprofit4u

Жыл бұрын

mee 2

@QualicSelf

Жыл бұрын

It’s called the Tik Tok effecf

@Bredddi

Жыл бұрын

They planned it that way to feed you the propaganda like this video. If this were true, power generation companies would have switched a long time ago because the run and maintain cost of solar is much less than a nuclear reactor. Unfortunately it is not at all true. A nuclear reactor can generate multiple megawatts of electricity which would require many many square miles of solar panels to replicate plus you would have to double it because a nuclear reactor runs at night, then double it again because a nuclear reactor runs during cloudy days.

@Insightful_Inquiries

Жыл бұрын

Just stop

The world is ALREADY powered by the sun.

@Hydrog666

2 ай бұрын

Lay off the fentanyl

@kainsarafan8190

11 күн бұрын

​@@Hydrog666he is not wrong the sun gives us everything without it we would all be dead..

The problem is not with solar panels but with nighttime and a cloudy week of energy storage with batteries.

@wasimibitpu

28 күн бұрын

how do power grids store energy for night?

@Jawad.1

24 күн бұрын

@@wasimibitpu As cheap as the Solar Panels have become, the batteries are too expensive to buy/have/ maintain/repair...!!!

@productcheck

20 күн бұрын

That's not a problem, it's an excuse

@quantumchang4410

20 күн бұрын

@@productcheck Please elaborate why that's not a problem.

@quantumchang4410

20 күн бұрын

@@Jawad.1 That's true. As long as they stick with lithium-ion batteries, prices can never get cheap enough to be affordable by the majority of people. If anything, it's a rich people's game of having self-sustaining, semi off-grid power. The world need zero-point, free energy generators.

Can’t believe she was shocked to find out the sun has enough energy to power the planet, imagine when she finds out we have a moon. Thank you all for 1.6k ❤️❤️❤️💪🏽

@Lgtg1947

Жыл бұрын

Ahahahahaha 😆😆😆😆😆

@rutso175

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if she reaches down her pants and discover the human making device she got fitted with. She’s bound to faint.

@steve3592

Жыл бұрын

Crome off a trailer hitch

@carlfrye1566

Жыл бұрын

One solar flare could power the world for years, converting it to electricity is thd hard part....lol.

@coldsac1987

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

It’s a bit scary how KZread have nailed the algo on these shorts. I’m like a zombie watching

@altrag3748

Жыл бұрын

Ik i gotta stop

@itzajdmting

Жыл бұрын

Truth. It's pretty tight at this point. I skip like 1 or two for every ten watched

@sadi5713

Жыл бұрын

yes, good thing you brought up, will leave now.

@carrollwessling2767

Жыл бұрын

Yeah no doubt but answer why if the short sucks we just go to comment section and let video replay 100 times

@gc077rokeroslash

Жыл бұрын

@@carrollwessling2767 WHYYYYYYY

Oil industry: "What about when it is cloudy?"

@productcheck

20 күн бұрын

Use nuclear. The problem with nuclear is that you can't just turn it off every day.

Nuclear power plant take less land to generate most power compared to any other energy plant. Did not expected this from elon

@newyorker641

3 ай бұрын

Remember, he is a salesman, never trust a salesman. In the 50s someone was knocking on a farmers door. The door opened and the visitor poured flour on the carpet. "This miraculous machine can clean the carpet in seconds!" The farmer replied: "We still don't have electricity".

Lie with confidence and the world will believe you.... The largest solar farm in the world is in India "the Badhla solar farm" which occupies 14,000 acres and produces 2.25 GW of electricity. The largest nuclear plant is "kashiwazaki kariwa nuclear plant" in Japan which occupies 1000 acres and produces 7.9 GW of electricity.

@SympatheticArsenal

2 жыл бұрын

A *nuclear* plant in Japan? They never learn.

@matthewpauls2498

2 жыл бұрын

@@SympatheticArsenal lmao bruh

@superchargedpetrolhead

2 жыл бұрын

@@SympatheticArsenal less people have died in a nuclear plant related meltdowns or accidents than every other form of energy production including solar.

@SympatheticArsenal

2 жыл бұрын

@@superchargedpetrolhead Oh I know, it's just that there's a certain degree of irony about Japan of all countries tapping into the potential of nuclear energy.

@superchargedpetrolhead

2 жыл бұрын

@@SympatheticArsenal well when they saw two suns on the same day, they probably realised the power of nuclear energy

Nikola Tesla 120 years ago: “ i can lit every lightbulb in the world , for free, using the force of Niagara Falls”. Nikola Tesla ideas to collect sun’s energy may come to life.

@-gemberkoekje-5547

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no shit, there were like only a million electric light bulbs in 1902

@vasudev8421

2 жыл бұрын

@@-gemberkoekje-5547 but...... Sigh.

@Bored__AF

2 жыл бұрын

@@-gemberkoekje-5547Elon : "We can power whole Earth with simply solar panels" *somebody 10000 years in the future* "yeah no shit u don't have 15 planet colonies to power up" U see how moronic u sound ? 🤡

@DUCK0H

2 жыл бұрын

@@vasudev8421 But?? Don't blue ball me man but what!?

@shinmentakezo3675

2 жыл бұрын

@@vasudev8421 BUT??!?!

Americans were astonished by Elon's vision. They were worried about why is he thinking about the world instead US.

People seem to forget that electricity can been transmitted great distances. There are several places in the world where vast arrays of solar panels could be used other than just using our roof-tops.

@productcheck

20 күн бұрын

The energy has traveled a long distance already. Sun to Earth.

Reporter: "Can you really say that?" Elon: "A thousand!" Man I've been answering yes and no questions wrong all my life.

@WilliamAngen

2 жыл бұрын

He said times a thousand

@PacMan888

2 жыл бұрын

Times a thousand she just interrupted him

@chelseaultra9348

2 жыл бұрын

So the world's richest and also 1 of the worlds most intelligent people has been wrong his whole life? 🤦‍♂️ are you for real ?

@adriancliton9706

2 жыл бұрын

Thats “professionalism”

@keithdechief1

2 жыл бұрын

There are a thousand likes, I'm not adding to it as it seems fitting to leave it there 😁

Now my engineers just have to figure out how to do it

@HNTR308

Жыл бұрын

So what do you at Night or in the dark months of the year? 😂 nuklear power works all the Time 🤭

@levelazn

Жыл бұрын

@@HNTR308 battery 🪫

@SuperLifestream

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing wrong with solar. But the same with his cars. He's not creating a way to recycle them. Recycling solar panels, like his car batteries, is not in the system

@noahbuckley1460

Жыл бұрын

@@HNTR308 u don’t have to be completely dependent on solar u can have wind and hydropower

@HNTR308

Жыл бұрын

@@noahbuckley1460 For example now, no sun, no wind. And here in Germany we haven't any mountains to build a dam for water power. It's crap.

We can’t store the energy. We’ll need massive numbers of batteries. Only in science fiction could we pull this off

@user-dn3id1cl9b

4 ай бұрын

Isn't everything we are seeing everyday science fiction.

I would expect someone like Elon Musk to check his numbers before he talks: 1GW nuclear power plant occupies 1.3 square miles. 1GW of solar occupies nearly 8 square miles. Plus, this is installed capacity of solar, which is not the same as real output since productivity isn’t 100%. What he said is total nonsense. As he said, the calculations are easy to do, he should do them.

@paulclaahsen3497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you....we have both Nuclear and Solar and we have enough Nuclear that we can sell 43% of it to California and their punie solar around their state produces like 11% on a good sunny day and they goes away at night

@jono493

Жыл бұрын

Your missing something obvious though. A 1GW Nucleur power plant may occupy 1.3 sq miles, but what about all the exclusion areas, support building etc etc. don't think its an unreasonable estimate.

@paulclaahsen3497

Жыл бұрын

@@jono493 Have you ever been to palaverde nuclear power plant outside Phoenix outside Phoenix it may be let's say 2 mile² with everything but that's with everything it's with everything that powers more than half of Arizona and 43% of all of the electricity generated goes to California

@GiozRockin

Жыл бұрын

At the end of the day you’re fighting a lose cause. Yes Nuclear May be more powerful but in reality solar is more efficient. And we could use solar panels just about everywhere that would be bring u matched energy. Only reason we don’t do it is because oil companies make billions. Same reason why we are able to create nano computers yet we still have gas cars 💀

@paulclaahsen3497

Жыл бұрын

@@GiozRockin You are so foolish 1st of all nuclear plants can go for a 100 years most solar panels have a maximum a 10 year shelf life and then they become toxic waste the amount of toxic waste from A 100 years can fit in one semi trailer. the toxic waste from a field of solar panels would take up thousands and thousands and thousands Miles of underground storage

"but in europe? We have a different sun here in europe confirmed

@NikoMoraKamu

Жыл бұрын

a metric sun

@shirleymora3229

Жыл бұрын

Lol....

@JhonB77

Жыл бұрын

On average less sun hours compared to California

@Souliban

Жыл бұрын

Europe is the second solar energy producer behind China. Spain, Germany and Italy are the top

@tipical7349

Жыл бұрын

Imagine,infrared lights are loading the panels not the fcking sun,and how Europe can have other Sun then the USA :D degen in person

He is not wrong. The problem is where do you store it for when it's cloudy or when it's winter and how do you control the power flow

That's if each and every panel were at constant optimal use. Good luck with that. Constant management, constant panel replacement even in the best locations.

@kicker1323

Жыл бұрын

first dude I seen in these comments using relevant knowledge, 3rd problems the materials to make that many high quality panels. The best use for large scale solar generation is waiting till there is a big breakthrough in efficacy. That would solve most of the problems its currently facing imo.

@jaradshaw4723

Жыл бұрын

not enough batteries to even power 2% of the USA exist in the world

@kicker1323

Жыл бұрын

@@jaradshaw4723 batteries are not the only solution to the storage of energy, but yes that is a problem as well but again its just to soon for it to be viable large scale. Its still in its infancy, it took 200yrs for the oil/natural gas/coal industry to become as efficient as it is.

@ShenandoahShelty

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Wind and Solar are great, but their proponents always overlook their flaws and costs.

@tyrzxv

Жыл бұрын

​​@@jaradshaw4723 what kind of batteries are you talking about? I'm assuming you mean lithium. But the largest, oldest, easiest, and most reliable battery mankind has is the Water Battery, where you Pump water uphill into a pond/lake/reservoir and then when you need power (like at night) you let gravity pull it back down through a hydrogenerator into a lower reservoir. And although there are water shortages going on, that's generally because of the mismanagement of those water systems. The earth is 2/3 water on the surface. edit: and yes, these water batteries already exist and have been in use for a very long time. People seem to think Lithium Batteries are the only kind of way to store energy, but human kind didn't start with lithium.

I live in Scotland the street light's are brighter than the sun 🤣

@beetlejuice8378

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@jacobpipers

Жыл бұрын

and like the reporter has no idea how solar works...

@alexgeld7173

Жыл бұрын

But it's the same in London during winter, and don't make me start on Scandinavia.

@abinodattil6422

Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t Europe have a super grid, literally energy from other side

@ABRAHAM4EVER

Жыл бұрын

Rely on Africa bro, the whole world is for you

Elon doesn't know it goes dark at night.

that woman is shusshed to the delight of the taliban so well, he made this clip into his ring tone

What we lack is the technology to efficiently capture that energy.

@richardgrier8968

2 жыл бұрын

More importantly, we need technology to *store* the energy.

@xanhfei

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the current commercial solar panel are around 20% efficient.

@nurzhanualiev2841

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardgrier8968 more importantly, we need people to do that. And that also means having a night with a woman to create a human being

@richardgrier8968

2 жыл бұрын

@@nurzhanualiev2841 ????

@repunklican1181

2 жыл бұрын

Binnggggooooo. I think I read solar panels absorb like 15% of the sun's energy or some crap. Definitely not the best

That’s assuming that solar panels were operating at 100% efficiency

@erikwincentson5865

2 жыл бұрын

No

@thecanmanification

2 жыл бұрын

You just build more solar panels lol. The issue with solar is it’s not really profitable in a sustained way like fossil fuels are

@jackunknown1692

2 жыл бұрын

That was my guess

@jaybali1742

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecanmanification fossil fuels are non-renewable 100% not sustainable (plus the carbon emissions, is it really worth it)

@atrxmx2542

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaybali1742 he’s saying profit sustainability. it’s a lot easier to price oil than electricity and you’d only have to buy em once and replace em every 10-20 years and they’d use the same/less maintenance

Solar may well be a solution, but not until we have better battery systems. We can't solely depend on an energy system that can be defeated by clouds.

The problem is storage. I don't want to sit and wait 3 hours to charge the car. However, if everything else was solar powered. The need for fuel would be less. But what about the poor countries?

@user-fx1mm7wf5z

12 күн бұрын

Any thing is possible with technology and science , I know people currently working on super capacitor batteries that chan charge & store a lot of energy in like a few minutes but it will take time to roll it out

Reporter: what is your evidence of this claim Elon: yes

@gabrielbrault1999

Жыл бұрын

I've done the math from Google average any of solar panel needed per household and that would be 144 000 km square. And that's not counting all the industries, the sky scrapers. Street/ traffic lights/ transportation systems ECT

@welldiness

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielbrault1999 wow

@theexteriorcleaningguy9457

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielbrault1999 so is he wrong or right?

@thomasshepard6030

Жыл бұрын

​@@theexteriorcleaningguy9457 look up the biggest solar panel system in America and why its not being used today it was a complete failure

@gabrielbrault1999

Жыл бұрын

@@theexteriorcleaningguy9457 no way he's need 100x time more than what he speculated, just for household use. Unless his got better solar panel that requires less space

I would like to see your calculations on that Mr Musk. An average nuclear plant is about 1 GW. And it runs 24/7.

@stevezeller7040

Жыл бұрын

Bravo,

@athgt6630

Жыл бұрын

Actually a modern NPP will produce 1.6-1.8 GW. Flat line 24x7. If you cover a square km you'll get 150MW for 6-8 hrs per day. LMAO

@neilbohrs5990

Жыл бұрын

A typical GW NPP in the United States needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate. Today's most efficient solar panels have about 42% efficiency which can produce about 420 watt per square meter. This is 420 MW per square kilometer. Multiply by 5 hours, that's 2.1 GW per square kilometers per day. There are 2.59 square km per square mile, so that's 5.44 GW per square mile per day. That is much less than 24 GW for a NPP per day but I'd much rather live close to a solar facility than a NPP. Edit: There are apparently solar cells that exceed 130% efficiency. He is right. I'm not surprised.

@fantasticalthoughts

Жыл бұрын

​@@neilbohrs5990 yes and solar panels are self sufficient, they don't need any ressources other than for repairing unlike nuclear

@bcoldwell1

Жыл бұрын

Agree, sounds questionable, but perhaps the surrounding zone where no one wants to live was included in his land area figure. That would be....large

They need to get away from legalized monopoly. Also, nuclear power plants have exclusion zones. The plant itself would have to do it or it wouldn't be done at a nuclear power plant due to exclusion zones.

The hot air coming from Musk's mouth could heat my house...

Benban solar park: 1,6GW in 37.2 km^2 Hanul nuclear plant: 6,16GW in less than 1km^2

@acktopaf4606

Жыл бұрын

Ikr

He is wrong. I did my masters thesis on this topic and answered a similar question. Not accurate at allllll

@HolyEyeWasHere

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mariusseidel9654

2 жыл бұрын

Tell us the truth

@HolyEyeWasHere

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariusseidel9654I looked it up: How much land of solar panels would it take to power the US? 22,000 square miles With the conservative numbers from NREL's land use report, we can estimate that roughly 14,000,000 acres or 22,000 square miles of solar panel-filled land would be required to generate enough electricity to solar-power the U.S. This is about the size of the Mojave desert.

@Thatguy-mo8jd

2 жыл бұрын

If nuclear plants produced less energy per unit area than solar we would have switched to solar about 50 years ago…

@TequilaSnakke

2 жыл бұрын

yup solar panels tend to get incredibly hot, it badly messes up the local ecosystem and they need constant maintenance

If this were true I can guarantee you some entrepreneurs would be doing it

Problem is the goes down everyday and the storage needed is extremely expensive. We can power the world many times over with nuclear regardless of the weather and it’s 100% clean.

*Elon Musk:* “solar panels generate more power than nuclear power plant in the same area” *Science:* “am I a joke to you?”

@raulsantandertirado4400

2 жыл бұрын

IKR?!

@andylugo7060

2 жыл бұрын

Sources please.

@techpro_videos1431

2 жыл бұрын

What to do at night?

@eclipsethesun251

2 жыл бұрын

@@dorian1915 while this is true, nuclear fission is so much more power. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the most efficient source we have so far. You could fill my high school/middle school complex (that have 600 enrolled each) with coal and it would power the same amount as a cup of water filled with uranium

@laurencezemlick1979

2 жыл бұрын

@@dorian1915 the energy it creates IS heat. The heat isn’t wasted energy, it IS the energy

Clouds: "I'm about to ruin this man's whole career"

@AgentChavo

2 жыл бұрын

Batteries to the clouds: “no you won’t”

@TM-MDX

2 жыл бұрын

You don’t necessarily need sunlight streaming on the solar panels, a daylight is more than enough, do some research my guy

@michaelbanda9993

2 жыл бұрын

Clouds don’t make a difference.

@VinEllis

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you’re not serious. The actual light has nothing to do with energy.

@mufarisfa3939

2 жыл бұрын

What if it's raining? tbh I never really knew how solar panel works.

Fast amount of energy ❎ Vast amount of energy ✅

You can tell he's a man of culture, when he used square kilometers 💪

@dallasb1224

Жыл бұрын

I mean he's from south Africa so it makes sense, because if he was born and raised in the US he woulda have used literally anything else as a measurement. 🤠

@S1893-0

Жыл бұрын

To be honest I don’t notice if he uses km. It rather shows you’re American when you actually make a deal of it. That discussion is long finished. Just the US is to stubborn …

@SienaaBee

Жыл бұрын

He's not from this country genius

@jan-willembavinck3650

Жыл бұрын

That's the most common system

@joadwr

Жыл бұрын

@@S1893-0 not just USA

This is Elon Musk with a few hours of sleep a night.

@bennypit4411

Жыл бұрын

But it's not true. Not even close, the nuclear comparison is kinda funny actually. The R.E. Ginna reactor operates at 582 MW capacity for 24 hours, it would take 200K 250 watt panels operating at full sunlight 8 hours a day to do that. If the plant has 2 reactors that's 400K panels. that would take over 200 acres just for panels alone, then take warehouses the size of walmart to house that power and take 4800 metric tonnes of copper to build those panels and storage structure

@ibewcountry

Жыл бұрын

@@bennypit4411 Amen ! E-Lawn's lack of sleep is showing....badly.

@reryro1266

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...he can read and regurgitate. Not accurately, but he does it so assuredly that people mistake his confidence for actual expertise.

@lol941

Жыл бұрын

​@@bennypit4411wow, good work

@imToniQX

Жыл бұрын

​@@bennypit4411your giving a basis off of consumer available solar panels, as far as im aware there are already 500 - 1000 watt solar panels that are faster and more efficient and they arent any bigger

You need to convert that area to the number of football fields for it to make sense.

He is bang on correct, if every roof was covered with solar panels that would produce so much electricity it would kill off power plants and that is probably why it is not done.

Wow! Such a convincing argument from a man who owns a solar company. I'm sure this is very genuine

@SoL600rr

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t own a solar company but I’m pretty sure the gas and coal and nuclear power company’s are worse💀

@RYU47376

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoL600rr maybe that's debatable, but the amount of bs and lies elon tells here are not debatable. Solar generate more power than nuclear at the same area? That's bullshit. And one of the biggest hurdles in solar is where you're going to store the energy.

@lc9991x

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoL600rr what’s wrong with the nuclear companies? Also, the media and governments hate nuclear, they don’t have much political/economic power

@xYzBuLlet

2 жыл бұрын

Name one company that doesn't promote what they sell. If you're impartial, go after everyone who does this to make yourself feel even more useful to societal issues.

@MajinRixch

2 жыл бұрын

@@xYzBuLlet promoting a product and just straight up making shit up and passing it as science and facts because it benefits your company is nowhere near the same.

The problem is you need to generate and then store a huge amount of extra energy for night time and low solar output. The amount of batteries needed would be staggering.

@jackiejackyjaqy...7219

2 жыл бұрын

I mean they can make an energy storage device to install in each home or structure that requires electricity and in the day time those personal energy circuits will charge up while the rest of it is being used and we can use it at night too... We don't really gotta supply both day's and nights supply directly from the source now do we...

@vassabatielos4740

2 жыл бұрын

I know a man that makes batteries

@reiser8258

2 жыл бұрын

@@vassabatielos4740 walter white

@repunklican1181

2 жыл бұрын

Batteries? There would need to be literal stations that store the energy

@stevea5945

2 жыл бұрын

@@repunklican1181 then imagine every home has battery storage+ battery storage station+ nuclear energy plants it will sustain for many years maybe you will be dead until then 😅

200,000 sq km? So basically make the entire state of South Dakota a giant solar panel? sounds good to me

Theoretically it could, but practically the resources required to build the solar panels would greatly exceed our capability to produce them.

That's absolutely ludicrous! 🤣🤣🤣 A nuclear power plant produces so much much much more than the solar panels that would cover the area of the plant! Obe of the most insane things I've ever heard!

@JamesCh.

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, you are not right.

@HWM636

2 жыл бұрын

Prove it

@oldfashnd7237

2 жыл бұрын

@@JamesCh. he is right though. See my other reply.

@wendellhullett7711

2 жыл бұрын

Then why is it not being done? If power companies could get "free" energy..unmanned ...way more cost effective....why wouldn't it be done more?

@robertc567able

2 жыл бұрын

@@wendellhullett7711 because of the greedy fossil fuel industry barons!

It's about storage. You can collect the energy but it is useless if you can't use it immediately. You have to have the storage capacity. Not to mention the further you have to move the power the more you lose.

@banemiladinov8202

Жыл бұрын

Duracell?

@javierconde6295

Жыл бұрын

sodium batteries, iron batteries, pumped hydro, air compressed batteries, redox batteries, gravitational batteries, etc... much tech the problem are the lobbies

@muhammadnazerinsaripin1925

Жыл бұрын

That why he focus on battery, the moment they have breakthrough oil would be useless as energy.

@Gandi2000

Жыл бұрын

Battery and grid connection

@orlandoholwerda2373

Жыл бұрын

The grid already exists on a fragmented mass scale.

Every single house should be built mandatory with solar panels

@djabroni_brochacho4644

7 ай бұрын

Allow the government to force us to go solar? Please no. I install solar for a living. Keep the government away!!!

question. if there were no humans and no animals on this planet today, what would the temperature be? - 'i don't know'... so... how can you compare with temperature today with humans and animals - ...........

Cool. That's almost enough to power my 4090

@jenniferwilkins9880

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you got a 4090 :)

@AimbotAU

Жыл бұрын

@@jenniferwilkins9880 not luck. Money.

@razee7869

Жыл бұрын

@@AimbotAU 😂

@__Ryan_

Жыл бұрын

😂

@JohnCrebo

Жыл бұрын

Elon? You’d have to be him to afford one

Spoken like a true salesman.

@ChiralityPracticality

Жыл бұрын

Silver tongued ponzie schemer

@ansonellis443

Жыл бұрын

Always exaggerate the product or you may not get a sale

@PolishLoLGamer

Жыл бұрын

He is telling truth, but we need batteries

@realDys.

Жыл бұрын

​@@PolishLoLGamer from China😂😂😂

@ChristopherGray00

Жыл бұрын

@@realDys. batteries dont only exist in china...

Lady you are interviewing a 'Rocket science test "!!!! 😂😂😂

Sweetie. The sun also rises in other countries not just usass.

China isn’t just talking about it, they are converting desert land in China to have enough solar and wind energy to run whole countries.

Let's just make a dyson sphere

@MuscleManSupreme

2 жыл бұрын

It would take hundreds of years unless everyone did their part

@Assassinsam353

2 жыл бұрын

@@MuscleManSupreme thousands

@nightmeds3339

2 жыл бұрын

@@MuscleManSupreme I think that’s the joke

@amacca2085

2 жыл бұрын

Just get a dyson hoover

@Leon.Stanic

2 жыл бұрын

Should be easy

He's talking about Solar energy here but I'm pretty sure it's the Weed energy spittin out those numbers.

@donnydenzel2288

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@noland5345

2 жыл бұрын

I like how the weed is the issue not the fucking gallon of whiskey he drank😂

@CM-rg9zg

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. Who is Elon Musk. Nobody compared to Deepak.

@DeepakChoudhary-vg2sz

2 жыл бұрын

@@CM-rg9zg whooosh

@donnydenzel2288

2 жыл бұрын

@@CM-rg9zg i mean him being Elon Musk doesn't mean he's always right. Don't follow anyone blindly.

Hmm . In the uk . Company invested 135.000 £ in off grid solar . 135kw solar array . Summer . Fine . Plenty of power to spare . And they should end up selling power back to the grid . I went down there on a miserable winter day and they were getting 4 kw . In the winter they were heavily relying on the generator .but grid power was so expensive for them they still think it will pay for itself in 5 years . I think that says more about the greed of electric companies than than it does about solar . Nothing is about going green . Its all about money .

The problem is transmission/interconnecting grids, grid storage and of course how could we forget POLITICS 😅 We are close, keep lobbying for better tech/better systems

@LanaDelReysBabe

Жыл бұрын

exactly! Nuclear is liked by most politicians though and that is the future. We are doing good we just need to show people that nuclear is better than fossil fuels

I am powering my house with a panel I got from an old calculator. Not made up by me

@fredthechihuahua

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@BakaSleeper

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@chiefsdad

Жыл бұрын

You're eating cold beans if I come round and put my thumb over it.

@brolysmash9333

Жыл бұрын

Is that a Casio panel calculator lol

@theredeyedjedi701

Жыл бұрын

Nah gotta be the blue texas instrument

Haha. Solar's great, but he's talking smack here

@mastroitek

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I generally like his ideas, but when he speaks about those things almost seems like he can't see the full picture. Also I did not check the math but it seems....inaccurate

@CoffeeCartel666

2 жыл бұрын

Yea I don’t check the maths tho seems real 🤦🏼‍♂️

@rorschacht8478

2 жыл бұрын

@@CoffeeCartel666 All you need to do is imagine a shady winter month. How are you going to generate electricity when there's no sun? Sure, you could store electricity from the summer and ration it out during winter, but the amount of batteries it would take is literal insanity. Now we're not even considering maintenance and environmental impact of producing all the panels and batteries about every 7-12 years. With current technology, his idea is garbage. Maybe in the not too far future when we have better batteries, but solar panels are still not ever going to be adequate as a single power source. Nuclear is literally and indisputably the best option. Edited (at 78 likes): I take back "solar panels aren't ever going to be adequate as a single power source" because I don't know what the future holds. If we could somehow get the panels themselves closer to the sun (not using land area on earth) and magically transfer the energy to earth (I guess wirelessly?!), then yes we could use only solar, but that's science fiction as of 2022 and I highly doubt it would ever become possible. The energy transferred from the sun to the earth's surface is only so much and varies greatly. As for nuclear, it's our best option TODAY. I have no idea about future technology.

@mastroitek

2 жыл бұрын

@@rorschacht8478 Well we would need to store energy also for the evening and night, so even in summer this would not work that well. With that said, I believe there could be a method to store huge amounts of energy without using batteries. Since space isn't really a problem here, we could use massive rocks as batteries, this can be done by using the excess energy produced during the day to lift those rocks, so energy would be stored in the form of "potential gravitational energy". There are already companies doing this and to me it makes a lot of sense when trying to store such huge amounts of energy. Anyway there are other problems, like the effect that solar panels would have on the climate of the region (since we need >200km^2), not sure how much it would effect it but I know it is a thing.

@mastroitek

2 жыл бұрын

@@CoffeeCartel666 I have 100m^2 of solar panels (installed 2y ago) on my roof and living just over Italy I have good sun exposure. In the last 12m they produced 49MWh so if we do the math we get that 1m^2 produces about 0.5MWh per year. 200km^2 is equal to 200'000'000m^2, multiplied by 0.5 it gives us 100'000'000MWh = 100TWh. Google says that the US energy consumption is about 3'930 TWh per year, soooo...

Not me waiting for a Mamamoo meme 😅

He lost her at "Square Kilometers".

It's funny how sunscreen is a billion-dollar business protecting skin from the sun's rays, but no one ever had solar as their first thought. I've been amazed by solar since I was 12 years old and turbine generators in miniature form on bikes to power night lights as the wheel spun when I was 10 years old. The amazing tech that God has given mankind.

The sun burns more energy in one second then the history of mankind burning energy.

@gedgjoumk5449

Жыл бұрын

Wtf

@kennethbenjamin1304

Жыл бұрын

True, but less than a fraction of a percent of that reaches us, and very little of that gets through the atmosphere for us to use.

@jakubknopik4412

Жыл бұрын

dyson sphere

@Why_U_Geh

Жыл бұрын

@@emadalemady7910 yes

@streameant

Жыл бұрын

Of course, the sun is millions of times larger than eart

Nikola Tesla watching this in heaven : 🤡

@tovrbtw1219

2 жыл бұрын

You thinking heaven exists: 🤡

@AngolanoNventaOficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@tovrbtw1219 i prefer think that it does exist just in case that really exists 🤣🤣

@ok_jaja

2 жыл бұрын

@@tovrbtw1219 you judging people : 🤡

@caasieu

2 жыл бұрын

@@AngolanoNventaOficial um irmão angolano, Nice! 😂🔥

@czattila0142

2 жыл бұрын

Damn he got ratiod 💀💀💀

I like Elon, but the output fact is way,way off. Not even figuring peak solar hours.

“According to that study, producing all the energy the US would need in 2050 from solar panels would take about 33 000 km2, which means Elon Musk exaggerated by a factor of 165.”

@caesarsalad1170

11 ай бұрын

or 51.4 billion panels currently, god knows how many in 27 years

You cut out the best part, “basically the state of idaho”

@brandonhuffman5733

2 жыл бұрын

He says Utah

@mattgolka6266

2 жыл бұрын

Hes says 200 sq kilometers of the US to power the US, the us is 8,000,000 sq kilometers. We would need 00.0025% of the US covered. Idaho is 200,000 kilometers or 2.5%.

@Spidr-Man

2 жыл бұрын

Even better... Fuck Idaho

@jabbathehut1871

2 жыл бұрын

"A corner of utah," or 1‰ of it.

@some_doofus

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattgolka6266 good to see someone here using numbers, but unfortunately nobody thought to fact check Elons numbers. He claims you’d only need an area of 200 square km to power the US? Straight out of the gate this is just blatantly false. Current estimates suggest you’d need between 35,000 and 57,000 square km of solar to supposedly meet 100% of US energy needs. However this says nothing for grid stability and off peak power supply which make this prospect basically impossible. Solar has a maximum capacity factor of only 24% (and with many arrays that number is only 10-15%), meaning on average it generates power only 24% of the time, and last I checked we need power 100% of the time, with a large amount of that at night when the sun never shines. Nuclear, on the other hand has the highest capacity factor of all methods at 93.5% making it the most reliable method of energy production by a large margin. Nuclear, despite what Elon inanely claims in this video, requires at least 75 times *less* land than solar to produce the same amount of power (and that power is much more reliable and efficient). The “tidbit” he gives claiming solar panels covering an equal area of a nuclear plant would produce more than the nuclear plant is just a flat out lie and honestly I’ve never seen a claim so ridiculous in all my time researching this matter. 80% of his claims in this video are objectively false and I hate that this misinformation is being shared around by “tech” KZread pages as if Elon is going to save the world with 100% solar. It’s just blatant and dangerous misinformation.

"But in Europe " no lady the sun only has enough power to recharge a battery operated lawnmower

@Jcarlwill

Жыл бұрын

It's very rainy in Europe... Well London for sure... Lol

all we need now is solar panels that can withstand severe hail, batteries that can store energy safely for decades, power inverters that are reliable and a grid system that doesn't penalize you for producing energy(florida).

It's so great to see how Elon Musk explains from 0

I'm blown away how captions are never right

Elon : you power the whole world with solar energy Interviewer : what about europe? Elon : ah, there's no sun in Europe yet, but we can hope so in the future.

I power my house, hvac, car everything with solar today. He’s right.

@marklibby4629

2 ай бұрын

Totally off-grid with your own battery storage, or are you using the grid like a big "free" battery? If they are "your" batteries, you have dropped a HUGE amount of money, and will do it again in a few years, and if you are using the grid, you're just sponging off the rest of us and expecting there to be that always on and ready source of power just waiting for your need.

The problem is maintenance , who's going to clean all those panels ?? And that's just the simplest challenge

To replace a nuclear power plant (1 GW) just by the amount of energy harvested you need 60 Million square meters of PV panels - 60 kilometres square, An then you still don't get electricity by night and hardly any in winter. Spoiler: A nuclear power plant needs about 0,05 square kilometers to be built on. Elon Musk couldn't be more faulty with his statement.

@davekinghorn9567

7 ай бұрын

I calculate roughly the same degree of error in his claims.

@KodakYarr

6 ай бұрын

So he's about three orders of magnitude off. Thanks for the calculation. My bullshit alarm was blaring. I was certain he was very wrong, but that is quite the difference.

@Remyeijssen

6 ай бұрын

2 square meters gives 1kW, 2 million square meters (2 square km) gives 1GW

@Remyeijssen

6 ай бұрын

A 1GW nuclear plant is more than 2 square km in area

@norbertfleck812

6 ай бұрын

@@RemyeijssenPhotovoltaic :1 kW peak is 6 square meters, 1 kW average is 60 square meters.