How renewable energy advances power the 21st century | Protecting the Planet

In this episode of "Protecting the Planet," CBS News senior environmental correspondent Ben Tracy explores the challenges, innovations and partnerships making renewable clean energy more widespread.
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  • @_five-five-FIVE
    @_five-five-FIVEАй бұрын

    I had solar panels installed on my home in 2017. The last time I paid to the grid provider was March of 2018. That electricity charges the battery in my plug-in hybrid car and heats the water in my hot water tank - after replacing a tank that ran on natural gas. All good in solar land!

  • @martinchitembo1883

    @martinchitembo1883

    Ай бұрын

    It powers your refrigerator,micro,tv and geyser effortlessly?

  • @_five-five-FIVE

    @_five-five-FIVE

    Ай бұрын

    @@martinchitembo1883 The panels power everything in my house including my plug-in hybrid car.

  • @sparkysho-ze7nm

    @sparkysho-ze7nm

    Ай бұрын

    That’s th way u do it buy make or get batteries to run th house charge car (??????) keep ur connection to th grid to charge em so u can curtail unused energy back to th grid ($$)

  • @MimiVerbana
    @MimiVerbanaАй бұрын

    Planting trees and greenery, removing unnecessary asphalt and letting wild plants grow that produce oxygen and feed pollinators will help overcome human destruction. Reducing our plastic and chemical use and opting for biodegradable and natural products will also help. There's plenty of options on the market.

  • @beyondfossil
    @beyondfossilАй бұрын

    Good content but its a compilation of stories first uploaded months ago. This should be noted in the video's description.

  • @tomholroyd7519
    @tomholroyd7519Ай бұрын

    It's not a mono culture, this makes it good; I'm impressed that you were able to measure an increase in other wildlife

  • @2023gainer
    @2023gainerАй бұрын

    Looking for more solar powered EV charging.. Fisker Ocean has solar panel roofs model along with recycled ocean plastic used to make interior parts. FSR .13 % Gains...Just the Beginning of the mission becoming a reality.?

  • @rohin1432
    @rohin1432Ай бұрын

    We need to engineer our way out of the climate crisis, i'm lucky enough to have solar panels on my home and i encourage everyone with the means to do the same.

  • @Luxury_vagabond
    @Luxury_vagabondАй бұрын

    Wonderful❤

  • @tomholroyd7519
    @tomholroyd7519Ай бұрын

    But you could really try VERTICAL panels 13:46 look at the shadows. Vertical works well

  • @sparkysho-ze7nm

    @sparkysho-ze7nm

    Ай бұрын

    I’ve even heard bettern horizontal mount

  • @chicagogal
    @chicagogalАй бұрын

    Interesting

  • @Jonas-uh7bb
    @Jonas-uh7bbАй бұрын

    Glad america is doing same things as we are starting to do in europe… this should become a series

  • @CARambolagen
    @CARambolagenАй бұрын

    Add an electric shearing robot to the panels and BINGO 😂

  • @kylerobinson7572
    @kylerobinson7572Ай бұрын

    Awesome and common sense - it works!! :-)

  • @benbrown8258
    @benbrown8258Ай бұрын

    @rohin1432 I've purchased solar components over several years as I don't make enough to qualify for a loan to buy a system outright. This year I'll finally be getting my panels up on the roof. Step by step over 10 years. 1st purchased a $12k used i-miev for local travel - that still saves me money each year. 2nd with my city's help and Habitat built a zero energy ready tiny house. 3rd increased the home's insulated passive mass for free thermal storage. 4th now looking at getting the panels up and getting my energy costs even closer to storage levels. The two things missing in this positively educational broadcast - mention of massive thermal storage that is being built in Europe and passive home design that reduces energy costs between 60%-89%. That aside, just like lottery winners who suddenly get several million dollars, if you don't learn to spend less than you make you will still end up desperate worried about new and bigger debt.

  • @CARL557511
    @CARL55751115 күн бұрын

    Smart!

  • @stevencorrea8032
    @stevencorrea8032Ай бұрын

    There's a song by Imagine Dragons called Radioactive oh boy! Oh okay non ionizing radiation.

  • @slayeroftrolls1200
    @slayeroftrolls1200Ай бұрын

    Dang!

  • @phil20_20
    @phil20_20Ай бұрын

    Well, at least they're growing grass under these solar panels. Not as good carbon capture as forest land, or organic farming, but still better than nothing.

  • @CARambolagen
    @CARambolagenАй бұрын

    "Landfill"... it's such a stupid euphemism and unbelievable that such dumps are still legal!

  • @jonasbrothersrockist
    @jonasbrothersrockistАй бұрын

    Oh, WOW!

  • @user-fr5wm6qo4g
    @user-fr5wm6qo4gАй бұрын

    Nuclear energy surpasses, its currently our best source of energy

  • @danielking2944
    @danielking2944Ай бұрын

    That space laser bs is ridiculous. The energy used to put it in space,if invested in solar and batteries,starts working now. Solar can be installed and be online in the same day at the level that people need in remote areas. The driving force behind grid level solar is not the ultimate efficiency it can achieve,but to keep the fruit of advancing technology in the hands of the wealthy. I don’t need anyone wearing shiny shoes and business suits to make the sun shine on my solar arrays. I’m no one special but can train anyone who speaks a European language how to build an off grid solar power source for his home in less than a week. The language barrier is my weakness;there are countless others that can throw a bandaid on that. Notice that I didn’t mention the investment of money in the comparison of the ground based solar and the space based. The focus of money clouds the issue. It’s ENERGY. The energy wasted and the environmental damage of the rockets are a great step backwards in the effort to protect our planet.

  • @davidmenasco5743

    @davidmenasco5743

    Ай бұрын

    The people who profit from the sale of energy now want to keep doing so. They will do and say anything and everything to prevent the obvious solution, which is to just put solar and batteries at pretty much every building in the world, and add some wind and solar farms where needed. Local solar and wind is practical, feasible and economical. It should be the priority of government energy policy, and news reports too.

  • @sparkysho-ze7nm
    @sparkysho-ze7nmАй бұрын

    No way this gotta b click bait by media no fud!!!

  • @sparkysho-ze7nm

    @sparkysho-ze7nm

    Ай бұрын

    @ 16 : 42 use geothermal induced cooper pipe mounted around every panel to melt snow/ice

  • @sparkysho-ze7nm

    @sparkysho-ze7nm

    Ай бұрын

    Solar w/out storage is incomplete-Me Donald Sadaway MIT Ambri

  • @KyleKings2002
    @KyleKings2002Ай бұрын

    Graham 2048

  • @brucej2490
    @brucej2490Ай бұрын

    learned from China

  • @iancormie9916
    @iancormie9916Ай бұрын

    So far, we have spent $1.7T on renewables, and the only thing we have done is destabilize the grid. How many nuclear 1 gigawat power plants could have been built with that money?

  • @philtimmons722

    @philtimmons722

    Ай бұрын

    Maybe 1? But it would be going over budget and not on line for a couple more (and more and more) years, yet. ;P

  • @davidmenasco5743

    @davidmenasco5743

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks for the nuclear sponsored misinformation, but no thanks. The reality is that: A) Solar and wind, along with batteries have made massive contributions to energy availability in the US. In California, the surge of new solar generation in the last few years is credited with the end of rolling blackouts -- they've had no rolling blackouts in over 3 years. B) Experience, and in depth studies, have shown that solar and wind projects come in under budget and on time. Nuclear projects are notorious for coming in way over budget and years or decades late. C) Nuclear projects cost more than twice as much as solar and wind for the same amount of energy, but that's not including the massive cost overruns and delays.

  • @NashHinton
    @NashHintonАй бұрын

    Good riddance to natural gas for energy.

  • @psychoticgamer3361
    @psychoticgamer3361Ай бұрын

    Am not impress! Nikola Tesla has created this many decade ago.

  • @WillPOnya

    @WillPOnya

    Ай бұрын

    Impressed or not, why live in the past? And why is it important to advertise your mental location? Just curious.

  • @oeautobody3586
    @oeautobody3586Ай бұрын

    Some marketing those toxic panels are getting

  • @user-ft3pg7qn1o
    @user-ft3pg7qn1oАй бұрын

    Propaganda at its best

  • @beyondfossil

    @beyondfossil

    Ай бұрын

    How so?

  • @DarkPassenger

    @DarkPassenger

    Ай бұрын

    @@beyondfossil Because "renewable energy" has been proven to not be very sufficient. Windmills, and solar can not be relied on. Not to mention all the environmental hazards they cause.

  • @beyondfossil

    @beyondfossil

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@DarkPassenger Have you got a clue where petroleum gets its energy from? It comes from the sun and takes millions of years to form. It is fossilized solar energy Remaining fossil fuel that are economically reachable within the Earth's curst won't last another 50 years at current rates. For reference, human civilization goes back some 5000 years to relics found in the Mesopotamia -- so another 50 or even 100 years is *nothing*. Think about time. Or how many giga tons of fossil carbon emissions fossil fuels produces a year? Over 37-billion metric tons a year emitted into the atmosphere like it were free to use public toilet. All with carbon pulled deep from within the Earth's crust. Its not just carbon emissions either. Burning carbon fuels still clogs up our cities and atmosphere with toxic smog like NOx, SOx, BTX, CO, nano-sized particulates

  • @beyondfossil

    @beyondfossil

    Ай бұрын

    @@DarkPassenger At current rates of consumption, there is only some 50 to 100 years left of fossil fuels that can be _economically_ extracted from the Earth's crust. Think on that a bit especially about how that is sufficient for humankind.

  • @NashHinton

    @NashHinton

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@DarkPassenger We have batteries now to store the energy. Keep up with the times oil bot. 😂

  • @bobby-ov9qn
    @bobby-ov9qnАй бұрын

    No thanks.

  • @robertbolton9450
    @robertbolton9450Ай бұрын

    Saint Patrics is a burnt sacrifice of corn beef and cabbage.

  • @michaelwells7348
    @michaelwells7348Ай бұрын

    ~ Please please please .... EVERYBODY go out and Vote in November ~ we need to keep the Green Revolution going for future of the Planet. I I think we all understand what will happen to our progress ..... If a (climate change denier) is Elected President of The United States...

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    @user-bd2ff6tg1nАй бұрын

    Гардрикта мугазот боракта каскрот ияхта гуфраниякта гудракт....

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    @user-bd2ff6tg1nАй бұрын

    Гуфиниякта гадраст

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    @user-bd2ff6tg1nАй бұрын

    Гугразия мордокрет гудрафолт ияска....

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    @user-bd2ff6tg1nАй бұрын

    Лартака сток бунданка рок 👍 фияркута бонза бугазотка тутка сияние бухта...

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    @user-bd2ff6tg1nАй бұрын

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    @user-bd2ff6tg1nАй бұрын

    Дранкта гулизгат кадраскта гублана лугарот бензикта кугланкта лигазот трикдрастка