Dear Dave, I find it absolutely outrageous that your reports were algo-censored by youtube. Thank you for your sustained efforts. Your work is extremely important, measured, balanced, objective and factual. Is this what alphabet aims to censor?

@macmcleod1188

4 ай бұрын

Over the last 3 months I've seen censorship increasing on every channel and every subject. I think they're automated censoring routine is taking anything reported for any reason as material to be censored as a result. It doesn't feel like KZread has a human in the loop. Or maybe they just have two or three humans

@DeltaNovum

4 ай бұрын

Im subbed with ALL notifications on. Still I haven't seen any from this channel in quite a while. This has happened to multiple channels now..

@richriley5832

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the informative video. I do have some thoughts on this subject but it’s more than I can put in a comment. I have a blogpost that I’d like people to see at: thoughtsonclimate.blogspot.com/2023/12/thoughts-concerning-climate-change.html

@macmcleod1188

4 ай бұрын

@@DeltaNovum I'm still getting notifications from this channel. For what it's worth. And I'm still subscribed.

@philipsmith1990

4 ай бұрын

@@macmcleod1188 Me too.

A needed voice of clarity and reason in an insane, corrupt world. Thanks so much.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Margaret. You're welcome :-)

@pierregravel-primeau702

4 ай бұрын

LOOOOL. You killed me. You know that Just Have To Think push for vaporware and stuff that will not work in 3000 years right? He wish to pump start up for fast cash.

In addition to climate change, I'm concerned about the increasing TikTokification of KZread by pushing shorts, and punishing those that aren't pushing out short-term content. 😢

@whatthebeepvideos

4 ай бұрын

KZread is bad for me, I'm glad they're making me use it less.

@InYourDreams-Andia

4 ай бұрын

Well.. There's an uprising dislike of folk (like us) that are of the same opinion, and that also goes for AI content channel thieves.. Most aren't fooled

@timeenoughforart

4 ай бұрын

Instagram is doing the same, to the dismay of many artist. Ten years from now we will be horrified at what we allowed to happen to our attention spans. It will be too late. Just another step toward erasing reality.

@EastWindCommunity1973

4 ай бұрын

Yeah 100% agree with what the bleep here. Has these platforms just continue to degrade and not allow you to customize how their content flows are presented to you it just makes me want to go to other places. I really should stop using Adblock browser because if I ever had to sit through an ad or tap after 5 seconds I would just immediately stop watching 95% of the videos.

@darthsirrius

4 ай бұрын

Yep the potential Extinction of all life through a runaway greenhouse event like on Venus, is definitely in the same league as, the KZread tiktokification...

As a full time residential solar company, I'm still waiting for a call from the local authorities around here saying "we are really getting serious about encouraging solar - What can you suggest to make going solar easier..." I have a long list for them.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

I wish you luck!

@ticthak

4 ай бұрын

You're clearly not on the town council and don't represent enough money in their pockets to warrant them paying attention. Bribing the right people in the right ways will guarantee your success, it always works with the larger businesses around here.

@H4N5O1O

4 ай бұрын

stop the rip off instal prices, allow fence/ground mount, recommend the proper size system for people.

Thanks Dave! As an engineer, I think it’s important to Understand the key metrics in the problem we are trying to solve. We need to minimize carbon intensity, meet demand, minimize cost, understand trade-offs, and understand the time domain for implementation. I always hated marketing telling us engineers how to solve the problem, rather than just telling us the objective.

@karlwheatley1244

4 ай бұрын

"As an engineer, I think it’s important to Understand the key metrics in the problem we are trying to solve. We need to minimize carbon intensity, meet demand, minimize cost, understand trade-offs, and understand the time domain for implementation." Well, we ALSO must shrink humanity's total ecological footprints by about 45+% to prevent worsening ecological and societal collapse, including getting our impacts within limits on all nine major planetary boundaries. Unless we do this, we could solve the climate crisis and still be headed toward collapse. There, I just stated the overarching ecological objective.

@afreire239

4 ай бұрын

@@karlwheatley1244 We need lots of energy to establish a foothold outside this planet.

@karlwheatley1244

4 ай бұрын

@@afreire239 "We need lots of energy to establish a foothold outside this planet." That's physically impossible for more than a tiny handful of people and the space travel involved would further damage the planet for the billions of people left here. All our hopes lie on protecting the planet we have here.

@CraftyF0X

4 ай бұрын

Welcome to neoliberalism, where everything ever will be informed on the basis of markets and profitability.

@bonghead6621

4 ай бұрын

My oldest brother is a senior engineer and he became fed up decades ago with accountants and marketing types telling him and engineers in general how to solve problems etc.

Really appreciate the links Dave. As a layperson it's a monumental task trying to keep up with current research, even with academic access, which not all of us have. Disinformation (and COP Presidents) rely on a lack of information and understanding to maintain their influence. Knowledge is indeed power. Knowledge about power is power.

@peterbelanger4094

4 ай бұрын

What? The phase out of fossil fuels WILL send us back to the stone age. it simply can not be allowed to happen, by whatever means!

@DileepaRanawake

4 ай бұрын

Also love the transparency and robust references. Says a lot about the channel

By far the best KZread channel out there on the topic of global energy. Down to Earth and calling out the bad actors. Essential viewing! (I use some of your topics in my podcast show, because they're important, and backed by real data). 🤟❤️

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support, and good luck with your Podcast :-)

Yes, please continue your education and support into a greener world. I hear your frustration with the algorithms and with the provider but the cause is much more important! I continue to be frustrated by the people rejecting a better future by embracing past methods of energy production due to the money that is currently being made by these existing methods. It's up to us to recognize and promote the future. Thank you! 👍

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Rico :-)

Cooking with gas!!! I love it! Your sense of humor is keeping us all sane. What's up with KZread? They should be promoting this, not choking it.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support :-)

Can we lobby the UK govt to consider these steps? Like, spam Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer's PO boxes. An old fashioned letter-writing campaign? I would love to see an end of fossil fuel subsidies etc. but it won't come easy without pressure from voters.

I did a quick calculation on the Tesla semi gets equivalent to about 19 miles to the gallon. I don't think people appreciate the efficiency gains of electrification.

@ticthak

4 ай бұрын

Loaded or unloaded? If loaded, that's an impressive increase over a peak-performing conventional diesel, but not so much unloaded (still significant, though). The BIG payoff is if charging is mostly or all-sustainable sourcing, because then the fuel supply-chain costs are essentially as low as possible

Excellent analysis as always, Dave.

@peterbelanger4094

4 ай бұрын

he's a 'b' for the green agenda.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Cheers Brendan :-)

Maybe the way to get those extra gigawatts is to develop underused renewable sources. Best example is wave or tidal energy. Another way would be to encourage renewables at the micro level. Small solar and wind installations and micro hydro.

@bobmeister4495

4 ай бұрын

I agree about encouraging small scale wind and solar. I would especially like to see government subsidies go to homeowners and possibly commercial and/or industrial properties instead of oil companies. Just imagine all the flat roofs out there in commercial malls and industrial parks with solar or wind installations and on site storage. Much less stress to the outdated grid as well.

@jasonreed7522

4 ай бұрын

Another underused smaller scale renewable is biogas, which is simply methane made by throwing waste organic matter into an anaerobic digester to create a fuel inherently compatible with existing infrastructure. (And fortunately natural gas power plants are relatively efficient for a thermal power plant.) It won't completely makeup for existing demand, but it would also reclaim what would have been fugitive emissions from landfills, waste treatment plants, and farms into usuable power with carbon that was already destined for the atmosphere. What the grid really needs is storage, and lithium ion batteries are not the correct technology for it. They need rare materials that are environmentally damaging to extract, and have useless properties for the grid like lightweight, high flammability, and lose capacity with every cycle. (Good for phones, not for sticking in a warehouse to cycle daily for the next 50 years)

@UK75roger

4 ай бұрын

I liked that one (recently) on pumped hydro storage too

@chrisdaniels3929

4 ай бұрын

​@@bobmeister4495Yes. Another point to add to the capacity factor is that on site consumption of micro generators avoids about 8% of transmission losses from electrical resistance.

@smithcoder6834

4 ай бұрын

you can put magnets on your dic* , coils on your hand... and generate electricity all day on micro level

10:48 I am not sure if point 6 "strong competition" will really help the adoption and expansion of green energy. Competition, and especially strong competition, usually result in poor execution performance because projects were undervalued and then quickly run over budget which increases the risk of project failure or bankruptcy a lot. Even if quality markers like economical sustainability, sensibility and accountability were enforced, competition will subvert these efforts. Instead of strong competition, communities and governments should focus on project developers that have a proven track record of sustainable financial and economical performance, ie. financing their projects without too much questionable or highly risky money schemes that could go bust at the slightest breeze blowing into their faces.

@simontillson482

4 ай бұрын

I agree with your assessment, but I think competition does have a place. If government procurement was done on the basis of what you said, i.e. quality, proven efficiency, best technology, and price, then competition among providers would be fine and work well. Unfortunately, in many areas this process seems to fail. One of the big reasons seems to be the role of mega-corporations who end up controlling or directly running most of the companies that are able to bid. When that happens, healthy competition turns into a sick masquerade which totally fails to deliver what is required.

No one mentioned the mining needed and minerals availability to build all that... and that in 20-25 years we need to replace all of it.

@kevrazs2817

4 ай бұрын

That never seems to get brought up, and will the current wind and solar installations even last 20-25 years.

@LightSearch

4 ай бұрын

@@kevrazs2817 And this only affects electricity generation, which is only 20% of all the energy we consume. Furthermore, it doesn't take into account that our energy needs increase significantly each year.

Even if they are not fully get it done in time to start taking steps in the direction and commit to the goal would already a huge step forward.

i realy like the way you are able to show lots of data to demonstrate your concepts without leaving anyone behind

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thank you :-)

I am 100% off-grid with solar powering my house and 2 EVs. One of my EVs has V2L and I have it hooked up to my home solar to provide the equivalent of 6 Tesla PowerWalls of backup power (Videos on my channel for the doubters) I very rarely hear people talk about the role EVs with V2L/V2H/V2G will play in the energy transition, but the potential is massive. What I paid for my EV is less than the cost of buying and installing 6 Tesla PowerWalls!

@johnlocke_1

4 ай бұрын

And yet, the carbon footprint of all that lithium in your vehicles (2 vehicles for 1 family? Is that necessary?) and energy storage is what, exactly?

@EcoHouseThailand

4 ай бұрын

@@johnlocke_1 The thing about Lithium Batteries is they are like the Lead Acid batteries you have in your ice vehicle, they can be recycled. Did you know 99% of lead acid batteries are recycled? Lead is only worth $2,000/ton while Lithium is worth $29,000/ton basic economics explains why they will be recycled. 2 Vehicles is necessary for us as we live in the countryside. We have rainwater harvesting and process all our grey and black water onsite. We grow much of our own fruit and vegetables. People who live in cities always complain about our cars, to which I reply ok you make all your own power for your home and your your transport needs, collect all your own water and process all your waste (we don’t have refuse collection) grow much of your own food, then you can complain about my cars. “energy storage is what, exactly” - Solar power stored in a battery to use when the sun doesn’t shine.

@johnlocke_1

4 ай бұрын

@EcoHouseThailand how many emissions to create a lithium battery? How many emissions to recycle a lithium battery? I'm sure nobody complains about your cars. It seems you just want to brag.

@EcoHouseThailand

4 ай бұрын

@@johnlocke_1 You complained about my cars just a minute ago! Did you actually read my original post? I was asking why bi-directional charging on EVs is not being discussed as a solution. As for CO2 my batteries are warranted for 8 years 70%. I expect their useful life will be a lot longer than 8 years by which the time the CO2 compared to however you are powering your home and transport will be negligible. So sort your own carbon footprint out before you start complaining about other people

@johnlocke_1

4 ай бұрын

@EcoHouseThailand you said, "people who live in cities complain about our cars", son. I see you ignored everything else i said. 😏 Oooo, warranty for batteries. That means....you get a new one? You said a lot in your OP. Most of what you said was inflating your own ego over your property. Note: no one cares.

Love your channel EVERY week!! You always get a 'thumbs up' from me! Stay healthy in this crazy world!! Jim in Phoenix.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Cheers Jim. Much appreciated :-)

The sarcasm in this video made me ROFL! Thank you! Enjoy the weekend!

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Something is better than nothing, but at this point 30 years ago would have been so much better for everyone. Now we have to pay the feedback loop costs and that's not going to be on the cheap. When you talk to many of the more conservative or skeptical people I recall that often they do understand the value of compound interest so that is how I try to get them to understand that by going cheap all those years ago we've made sure of a rather expensive payments stream that will be coming due. How much infrastructure that will have to be shored up or moved or damaged... We'll see. But even more tragically to me is that those future generations will see us as having really dropped the ball. I just want to go down as one of the few who did try to make a difference from a long time ago and I've not given up yet either. ;)

@johnfowler4820

4 ай бұрын

Charles Eisenstein says we need to fall in love with the planet again. Seeing it as the community we belong to. This is the kind of radical change required to turn this around

@matti934

4 ай бұрын

You are so true. It's always me me me and let the next generation resolve the issues. I've been environmentally active for 30 years. We are few. The current young generation is not tree hugging hippies, they are used to very high living standards. Traveling, expensive clothes, spending in general and 'virtual living'. I think that only technology could save us greedy humans. But I don't believe that, although I'm an engineer. We are doomed 🥳

@incognitotorpedo42

4 ай бұрын

You are right. 30 years ago we should have taken steps such that Monster Trucks wouldn't be the preferred commuting vehicle in North America. Wind and solar existed 30 years ago, but it was very expensive.

@DrSmooth2000

4 ай бұрын

​@@matti934well home and family and retirement are exotic ideas so more consumerism meantime makes sense

Hey Dave, as a Canadian living in Ontario, I would say that one of our lowest hanging fruits in terms of renewable energy production is unpowered dams. The dams are there, the flow would be massive by European standards but there is no power being made there. It doesn't require the expensive and time consuming part of permitting and building the dam, it may require more wires but otherwise, this looks like such a massive amount of ignored potential that gets far too little attention

@bjb7587

4 ай бұрын

Vested interests?

@DrSmooth2000

4 ай бұрын

Big fan of hydropower and water management is the frontier of tech going into Hothouse Climate state. Ironically all dams do generate methane ofc.

@bjb7587

4 ай бұрын

@@DrSmooth2000 1 Dams also create significant disruption of the environment. Here is the Pacific Northwest of the US, we are taking down some dams because they seriously impede salmon runs. Salmon are a key species that many other animals and indigenous people depend on. Other methods short of dam removal have proven ineffective. 2 How do dams generate methane?

@DrSmooth2000

4 ай бұрын

@@bjb7587 1) that is very unfortunate. Water management is key. PNW may dry out. I get salmon are a keystone species, but... 2) vegetal matter especially when first flooding an area is decomposed under colder stagnant water. As is debris that floods in. That's how amazon went to net GHG producer and not a sink

@kristofnagy1373

4 ай бұрын

@@DrSmooth2000 "vegetal matter especially when first flooding an area is decomposed under colder stagnant water." That is a one time price to pay and comapred to how useful dams are in terms of stable energy source it is worth it. "As is debris that floods in." Does it make a difference if said debris gets to the open sea or ocean? The vast majority of debris that gets in rivers (especially samller ones) never reach any sea or ocean. Also, most biodegradable debris gets decomposed one way or another.

Thanks Dave. Here in Australia we have gone from a fully Public owned to a Privatised Energy System. This has led to a steady decline in "Feed in Tariffs" ($ for Energy that goes back into to Grid) for those of us that have installed or are going to install Solar. When combined with a reduction in Subsidies to install Solar and Batteries this approach simply demonstrates once again that Private Ownership/Control of Public Assets can never achieve the goals we need to address the Urgent shift outlined above. As far as the Mix of Technology, I've never understood the "One Technological" mindset. I think that using Geographical Analysis to determine the best Mix of Technologies for any given region would be central in the Planning part. Then immediately get to work building the Networks to suit those conditions and populations needs. Cheers Pete

@jonovens7974

4 ай бұрын

I pointed out this domain problem years ago - Renewables would work best with a distributed system (everyone is a producer and consumer) BUT this will not allow the big monopoly model. It's always been about keeping the current centralized profit system. Oh, and I do wish Dave would stop mentioning China - none of the figures from the CCP are real. Fields of turbines with no motors, fields of panels with no connections, fields of rotting EV's.

@ppetal1

4 ай бұрын

Same in UK. And here, there is a problem metering feed in 3 phase. The grid gets my feed in for free.. I'm unsure who's to blame, but roofs are by far the best place for panels.

@johndododoe1411

4 ай бұрын

​@@ppetal13 phases are no problem for metering in any direction . The giant power plants feed in 3 phase electricity through high power meters to bill the grid, and it seems to work fine .

@johndododoe1411

4 ай бұрын

When doing that evaluation, it's important what hidden agendas are put into the calculation . I remember learning in grid planning class precisely how reports were skewed in the 1970s to favor coal or nuclear in seemingly neutral technical calculations . Specifically calculations were skewed to favor or disfavor 1GW generators compared to multiple 300MW generators, as 1GW was typical of nuclear, 300MW was typical of coal . I'm quite sure similar tricks are done when sizing for renewable plans .

@5353Jumper

4 ай бұрын

As long as there is only one powered wire running into each house and business, electric grids are a natural monopoly. No natural monopoly should be privatized for profit. It will never be good for consumers/citizens, or any vendors. When the measure of "efficiency" is based on profitability, no monopoly has positive long term outcome for society. The grid needs to be government run. (Preferably by a benevolent genuinely Democratically elected representative government) It can buy generation from for profit generators that meet compliance sure. Or have its own generation, or allow for citizen owned endpoint generation. But the grid itself needs to be a government run entity to be good for the citizens.

Thank you for regularly making such informative content!

Thanks Dave. I think you mention how a mixture of battery and wind/solar is much more doable than wind/solar focus alone. Here’s hoping battery technology and production steps up!

@jasonreed7522

4 ай бұрын

Personally i think regular hydro dams could be used as a bridge technology for grid storage. Basically instead of managing the reservoir height solely for flood control and baseload power generation, scale back hydro production while wind and solar operate and then run the dam normally while solar and wind are offline. The only changes to the plants would be operational/regulatory, just make sure to compensate the hydro dams for the money they would have made by operating while the solar plant was operating. In some places like upstate NY we get nearly 35% of our electricity from hydro, using some of this capacity as batteries for windfarms would greatly reduce the need for chemical batteries. (Lithium ion is a technology optimized around being in a small phone, not as a warehouse full of operating batteries cycling for ideally decades without replacement. We also have no guarantee their replacement for grid storage would be any more environmentally friendly to make.)

@Krunch2020

4 ай бұрын

This is being done and has been done for many years here in California. When the reservoirs are empty it’s not much use.

@peters972

4 ай бұрын

@@jasonreed7522 true on what we call lithium ion I think, on hydro do you mean reverse as well as forward? I’ve seen schemes like this but it seemed to kill all life in both ponds. Maybe there is a way around that. There are many “heavy” battery technologies under development.

@man_at_the_end_of_time

4 ай бұрын

Ban private jets both small and large. All new housing should be designed for radioactive fall out. Vehicles should be simple, last at least 30 years and be EMP hard. Flush toilets should restricted. The keeping of chickens and other farm animals should be mandated in cities. Women should be drafted into a pregnancy army to yield replacement or greater numbers. And the mutant chipped serfs should live isolated breeding communities in which they can walk to work within 15 minutes i.e. they should live in the factory basement. Just helping :-) WEF style.

@peters972

4 ай бұрын

@@man_at_the_end_of_time we need revival

The lack of visibility might also have to do with the denial we're all in: we really do not want to know how bad things are. That the KZread algorithm should actively be scuttling videos critical of COP is not surprising, but it is disheartening. Better climate science communication is the biggest challenge we face. We need to do better.

@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475

4 ай бұрын

The level of censorship in Corporate Media/ Big Social is as opaque as it is stunning. Trying to uncover Who and Why and for What speech people have been "shadow banned" is difficult, but proving it is far more so. Just as these Mega-Corporation billionaires with their delusional warped versions of Reality like it.

@peterbelanger4094

4 ай бұрын

"climate science" is sociological nonsense. Social engineering and statistics, manipulation of the masses. Green tyranny.

@peterbelanger4094

4 ай бұрын

eff

@peterbelanger4094

4 ай бұрын

yew

@FLY2KO

4 ай бұрын

maybe your over reacting duhhhh! maybe climates change duhhhh, (say this like your a cave man>) maybe ice age come kill all humans duhhhhhh..... god u ppl are unbearable crybabies....

Thank you great post. I look forward every week for a new post from you.

Always a good watch ☺️ just thank you

Always a good listen, thanks to you and the team. 👍✌🖖🥃

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Another fantastic episode Dave! Kudos and wishing you an awesome 2024🙏🌎🙏

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Cheers Tyler. Same to you! :-)

Great information, thank you for the content and concern on our future needs.

Another great video. Thank you for producing this one!

Hi Dave Thanks for your analysis with a sprinkling of optimism. 👏👏

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike

Thanks for covering the latest convergence of global leaders on the subject of climate. And, thanks for introducing me to the term of Capacity Factor. That's the one which really matters when comparing renewables to more consistent electricity generation such as coal/gas. I learn something from every video on this channel!

Already subbed, but liking and commenting. Great coverage, as always!

Well done, as always!

Thanks as always for the hard work, Dave. And I hope the almighty algorithm starts treating you more kindly soon!

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Cheers Mike :-)

Problems not mentioned - 1. copper scarcity (making it not possible to replace current FF energy with renewables). 2. Electricity is a small fraction of energy consumption. 3. Mining, processing, transportation of materials for renewables construction depends on expending vast amounts of FF. 4 The increase in renewables is already being eclipsed by overall economic activity growth. 6. What us the point if energy in the main is being used to make junk commodities that are not necessary or sustainable?

@carriefisher2644

2 ай бұрын

I want to shout this from the rooftops, but don't so they don't lock me up in an asylum. We are headed in the wrong direction and it won't solve the problem by switching your personal gas car for an EV and gas stove for induction, while slapping some 20-30 year lifespan solar panels on your house. I wish more people understood the materials scarcity and how much FF goes into building "renewables". We need to simplify our lives a lot. May as well now while it's still voluntary and you can shape the outcome

Thanks for the excellent coverage and analysis and as always

Thanks Dave. Commenting for better reach.

Would be great to see a deep dive into solar generation split between decentralised (e.g. rooftop solar) and centralised, how differing mix of these adds to or reduces the level of distribution/transmission grid investment. With the ease and cost of solar generation generally would be interesting to know if more decentralised generation makes the transformation required for the grid more achievable. Keep up the great videos, always enjoy watching.

@marsupialdungbucket

4 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. (a pointless comment, but all comments boost the algorithm rating ;) )

@incognitotorpedo42

4 ай бұрын

I've been looking into solar a lot lately, and am struck by how much more expensive it is to have it distributed on everyone's roof compared to central solar farms. Perhaps a neighborhood scale solar installation would be a better choice?

@adblocker276

4 ай бұрын

Generally roof top installation is more expensive than compare to a large solar farm on an installed kw basis.

@marsupialdungbucket

4 ай бұрын

@@incognitotorpedo42 There are the obvious economics of scale, but are the increased costs of distribution factored in to your calculations? I suspect that it wouldn't make a huge difference, but for the sake of accuracy it would be interesting to know.

@jonathanholmes3429

4 ай бұрын

If you have references to studies that you could share that would be much appreciated. Many thanks.@@adblocker276

Great comprehensive presentation. As an engineer, I appreciate this type of systemic analysis. As an American, I realize the political challenge. I support the progressive wing of the Democratic party as exemplified by AOC and Senator Markey. This is an election year so let us take advantage of it. Again, great presentation. Thank you.

@peterbelanger4094

4 ай бұрын

As another American I support everything in OPPOSITION to what you support. And will fight to the very end, let's go "comrade"......

@donaldflett1504

4 ай бұрын

@@peterbelanger4094 Thank you for your comment. I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that by your "comrade" comment that you feel that I am a communist or that I support communism. I have never been accused of that before but there is always a first time. Or maybe you mean Marxism; I am not sure. It seems that you also are of the opinion that there is a political component to the discussioin and I agree with you on that point. Since you are watching this channel, I assume that you are interested in, and knowledgeable on, the subject of man induced global warming. Since you did not disagree on the scientific and technical aspects of the video, I assume (and again perhaps incorrectly) that you agree. I should make clear that I was refering to th "Green New Deal" proposed by AOC and Senator Markey and not other aspects of their politics. the monetary policy aspects of the conversation also must be addressed. I look at the issue through the lens of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), an understanding of which is essential to the practical and political discussion. Anywy, thank you for your excellent and thought provoking comment.

@DrSmooth2000

4 ай бұрын

​@@donaldflett1504your reasonableness makes you vulnerable for the pitch for SAI, yes?

@donaldflett1504

4 ай бұрын

@@DrSmooth2000 what is SAI?

@ticthak

4 ай бұрын

@@donaldflett1504 That's WAY too much detail in a reasonable response to an obvious troll, but kudos for being concise. As an engineering student for over 50 years now, I follow your reasoning quite easily. It's long been obvious that VERY few in the political realm will ever touch on fundamental problems (i. e., potentially existentially threatening for more than just the immediate tribe) and float possible solutions (which will almost NEVER be analyzed and discussed, simply embraced like gospel or rejected as anathemic work of the devil).

So many great things in this vid. Saving it for a rewatch later. Thank you again for fulsome content that really does get me thinking.

Great work. Thank you. Governments should listen to you ❤

Thanks Dave the answers are straight forward we just need to solve the hard part of educating the politicians

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Indeed.

While beating solar and wind renewables records, China is also putting online NEW coal energy facilities at record speeds, negating all the efforts made in renewable AROUND THE WORLD.

@DB-pm2vy

4 ай бұрын

Well not quite I think we can call them out but only when we’ve scrubbed up and got all our oil and gas extraction eliminated. DB UK

@incognitotorpedo42

4 ай бұрын

China is definitely NOT negating all the efforts made in renewables around the world. Not by a long shot. China doesn't want dirty coal any more than we do, but they need electricity to make all the crap that the world buys from them. The coal plants that they are building today are not run full tilt. I hear that they are used significantly less than maximally. Focusing on them is counter productive.

Great video Dave as always.

Thx for your video postings. I really appreciate it. ☀

Love the video, and the forward projections. I pray policy makers will realize it's in their own interests. (breathing and all that)

Thank you for your Thee clear vision for a cleaner future; thanks Dave.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Very welcome :-)

Excellent as always. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the great work you are doing. Not only are your videos incredibly pleasant to watch - despite the difficult topic - they are well researched and easy to understand.

I still don't see healthy addressing of the growth model. Tech ramp-up should NOT be to keep the price of fossil energy down. That just makes us grow more. The primary objective needs to ALWAYS be efficiency and tech advance alone, letting price pressure alone drive production, and NEVER subsidy. Any extra money we have should be going into social-safety-nets, because in any crash, when those break down, lack of these will result in the biggest degenerative problems.

@afreire239

4 ай бұрын

The growth problem can be addressed by giving central bank accounts to citizens and eliminating safety-nets for commercial banks.

@xenocampanoli815

4 ай бұрын

I respectfully disagree. You cannot even use a banking model of economic management without maintaining a growth mechanism. It only works when there are external resources to be exploited. The only way to achieve sustainability is to convert the largest entirety of exchange specie to become information and ability to share and communicate. As long as there are banks, piles, or reserves that are beyond the point of tiered community management, there will be degenerating incentives for growth.

@xenocampanoli815

4 ай бұрын

Respectfully, LLCs of any kind only exist, and are only reasonably to survive, under a growth situation. That's why I think we need to convert all LLCs, including banks, to be public utilities with cost models and active public oversight.

1) Ground all planes 2) Park all ICE cars, you have to wait for ev delivery 3) Switch the meat production genetic meats. 4) recruit one billion people to plant 10 trillion trees 5) 1/3 of the land is used for feed for meat production.....otherwise straight to 3.0c.

@DrSmooth2000

4 ай бұрын

Not popular

Thank you. Good coverage. Looks like we do have a tiny bit of hope

Thanks for the updates. Much appreciated.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

You are welcome :-)

Thank you so much for your detailed analysis of our challenges. Have you covered the commitment of countries to increase their regenerative agriculture practices yet and how these efforts can support the drawdown of CO2 in the atmosphere?

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Not yet!

It's a shame these fantastic and important to hear videos you're producing aren't getting the views they deserve. Hope this comment helps the algorithm

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thank you :-)

Thanks Dave!

Entertaining and educational as always, thanks Dave and a happy new year to you!

Thank you so much for all your hard work and wisdom! I am disgusted that the KZread algorithm blocked you for speaking truth to oil (aka power). What about Conservation? This does not seem to come up in any of the equations? We little people are ready to do our part! But so can businesses and governments in terms of conservation. Thanks again!

Looking at the massive amount of work needed to be done it such a short time, we need to do everything we can, to phase out fossil fuels and still meet energy demands! That is why new nuclear would be an ideal solution to shoulder some of the huge weight from solar, wind and grid storage and also provide a key base load power generation that will be essential as the energy grid moves more away from fossil fuel.

@chrisdaniels3929

4 ай бұрын

Hinckley point C will more than double nuclear TwHours in the UK. I think it's due to start some production this year.

@clehaxze

4 ай бұрын

I agree. And my hot take: the world would be much better off if Greenpeace didn't push for anti-nuclear. The last thing we need is removal of a perfectly working low carbon emissions energy. Even if LCOE is hight

@MPostma72

4 ай бұрын

New nuclear would take at least 10 years before it's available, while at least doubling both the project schedule and budget. It's already the most expensive way of generating power, and the 'promise' of carbonfree nuclear somewhere in the future will just mean ppl will continue to use fossiel fuels.

@clehaxze

4 ай бұрын

@@MPostma72 That is not a valid reason. We never said not to reduce fossil fuel or not building renewable. Just this is the engineeringly easy and stable solution. No dealing with variable power output and know ways to from the grid. Nor managing demand. Also, I'd say although renewable LCOE is really low. The overall cost when storage gets includes, let it be pumped hydro or batteries, is not low at all.

@richardlangley90

4 ай бұрын

@@clehaxze Last sentence - it is still lower than Nuclear. Keep in mind there is no need to have armed security for wind or solar, no waste that only one country has come up with a safe storage solution for, no risk of mass destruction due to redirecting nuclear fuel to weapons, no risk to those living within at least a 100 mile radius due to accident or sabotage. With the money that is needed to build "safe" nuclear we could produce at least triple the renewable resources in a fifth the time. The savings in time alone would result in a massive reduction in fossil fuel demand which would help put a significant number of fossil fuel providers out of business. Nuclear is not renewable and for the reasons given it is a bad idea...we gave it a try 30/40 years ago...let's learn and move on.

A very upbeat analysis to start the year 😀👍

We just need the money we currently spend on oil subsidies to all go to wind, wave and solar. Electric car subsidies also have to require grid use of the cars battery for load management.

@reuireuiop0

4 ай бұрын

Just tax the buggers, put a carbon tax an anything spewing carbon in the atmosphere. To keep out cheaply produced stuff using fossil, a hefty import tax can be imposed. Then use the proceeds to lower prices of all that's made without using fossil, help folks to isolate their homes and buy second hand E Ecars

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@AndriasTravels

4 ай бұрын

05:27 72 GW new battery capacity needed. With increasing EV battery demand, that will be impossible to achieve.

@pierregravel-primeau702

4 ай бұрын

You show well that your product is super bad.

I have almost tripled my own electricity production last year with new solar panels. Now I have enough net energy for my house, heatpump and 2 EV's. To balance the energy localy I have become a board member of a windenergy community. I hope we can place a few windmills in our town before 2030.

@karlwheatley1244

4 ай бұрын

Good for you. That's inspiring.

Thank you so much for your hard work sifting through the publications and clever distillation into something very digestible and, if you happen to be familiar with the (somewhat warped) British sense of humor, funny!

There is no 2030 ipcc lead author prof jochem marotzke hannah ritchie oxford!

@FranzJStrauss

4 ай бұрын

my own conclusiions after diging for thousand hours or more but every 0,1 degree cels mitigation helps!

Great video Dave! Interesting to see those %s for each type of generation

Very detailed information. Thank You very much.

Hey, if you don't mind. Would you look into the effect of all the nuclear tests we have done and the actual effect they had on the atmospheric pollution? I have been researching (at an academic level, not Google level) and I have become quite concerned with the effects of what we have put into our atmosphere and the lasting effects of these heavy isotopes up there.

From what I can tell we've done nothing and we are all out of ideas. The only thing left is head shaking and cursing I'm afraid. Those that are in charge really don't care whether a few billion starve.

Great as always

Keep up the good work

Build nuclear?

@thevanthatrocked

4 ай бұрын

Only way to go. Has anyone considered where all the power is coming from to run all the electric cars?

@sailawayteam

4 ай бұрын

​@@thevanthatrockedquite many have.

@vorpalinferno9711

4 ай бұрын

@@thevanthatrocked The grid has to go green AND support the EXTRA EVs that replaces the gas cars. So its replace the non renewable AND support the extra demand from EVs.

@thevanthatrocked

4 ай бұрын

@@vorpalinferno9711 Sorry, no idea what you have just written

@simonm9923

4 ай бұрын

@@thevanthatrockedThey said that all the electricity we need, now and in the future, plus replacing processes which aren’t currently electrified - can and will come from renewable sources. Solar on every domestic home, warehouse and viable piece of land. Wind, hydro, tidal etc. wherever possible. Why not? Apart from fossil fuel funded profits obviously ….

Thanks for doing the work to keep us calmly informed of facts.

@JustHaveaThink

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support. Much appreciated!

Thanks for posting this. I find myself in agreement with large parts of a Bloomberg report - shoot me now!

Great video Dave. Always informative. Very frustrating the algorithm suppresses vital information like this, whilst endorsing misinformation and scams!

Excellent video as always

you chose the perfect COP clip with that one, it's a sad game, if only it weren't being played over such important stakes. thanks for your efforts

Brilliantly laid out! I'd like to add to the books you mentioned one written by Paul Hawken called Drawdown. Great treatise on how we can use a combination of a wide variety actions to reclaim what we've done to our atmosphere over time.

Thanks Dave

Great video, loved it. Indeed since that dude said his whole "explain to me.." thing, I've been waiting for my favorite experts to do just that. Thank you for doing so, and on such a great timeline.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Really insightful as always. Thank you 🙏🏻. Just didn’t understand No.8 on your list of “Minimise curtailment”.

@jimurrata6785

4 ай бұрын

When renewables _overproduce_ prices go negative and the grid can become destabilized . So wind and solar are shut down (just when they are at their best) Production is "curtailed" because there is not enough storage on the grid to absorb overproduction.

Good video. Hopefully the algorithm picks up on that. Gives some hope that it's at least * possible *. Keep up the good work - Thanks !

Thx Dave

Well said.

Thanks you for highlighting this import forward thinking route to max renewables by 2030

Great show.

Another helpful video. Thanks.

Great video as usual

I love your videos, informative and entertaining👏

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Vanessa. Glad you like them!

You can't just look at current electricity use as a goal, you have to look at total energy consumption. As fossil-fuel users electrify, the capacity requirement increases.

Nice breakdown

Thanks for this video, it is very informative.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome :-)

Yep, exactly my thoughts.

If the removal of bottlenecks can replace every NIMBY with a YIMBY, that would also be helpful.

Thanks for your great content. 👍👍

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Cheers Glenn :-)

Interesting, thank you

Thanks for another informative video.

@JustHaveaThink

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!