This video has a correction: Hornsdale Power Reserve didn't catch fire! It was the newer Victorian Big Battery, near Geelong. Complete blunder on my part, apologies to the Hornsdale team. See all corrections on this channel: www.tomscott.com/corrections/

@Taib-Atte

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you cleared that up

@ayeansh

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm

@theintelligentcow7447

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmmmm 🧐

@Stewi1014

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for being so honest with everyone, you're amazing.

@nerdtitan333

2 жыл бұрын

Here we go again, why cant we create things from 0 I believe this power is for the planet suffering us taking everything on it, we as species should be thinking how to not take but give how to make etc etc etc!!! Stop it!

Orkney: Suffering from Success

@Henk14789

2 жыл бұрын

*absurd government demands

@h-hhh

2 жыл бұрын

The logistics of producing too much renewable power

@aturchomicz821

2 жыл бұрын

@@Henk14789 How is it absurd exactly, or are you just blaming the Government because they tax to provide the people this wondefull service hm?🙄

@DragonWinter36

2 жыл бұрын

@@aturchomicz821 >government >wonderful pick one

@aturchomicz821

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonWinter36 Found the American, imagine thinking the Government isnt the closest thing you have to a reliable friend in this world HA

"The islands with too much power" Uk: *nervous sweating*

@Ali_Nar

2 жыл бұрын

Luckily it’s part of the UK

@phazonlord0098

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ali_Nar ....for now...

@STUCASHX

2 жыл бұрын

@@phazonlord0098 😂

@nitehawk86

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry. If it was too much oil, then you should worry.

@RedHotBagel

2 жыл бұрын

Da dada da da Da dadada dayada Dada da da dayada Hamilton has ruined my view of Britain somewhat :D

*turns off lights* "Wait don't turn it off! Keep it on!" "That's a little bit wasteful innit? Not very good for the environment?" "That's the point! Waste as much electricity as possible!"

@drippylad3973

2 жыл бұрын

I am *SO* Sorry... It's actually "much"

@leoanker

2 жыл бұрын

that's literally what they used to do in Norway when they got their hydro-electric power running, since the power was so cheap

@luggy9256

2 жыл бұрын

They should set up a massive brewery and make scotch, the world always needs more scotch.

@TitaniumSteelGreatest

2 жыл бұрын

@@drippylad3973 It's fine. I'm not a native English speaker so I'm used to this.

@lordgarion514

2 жыл бұрын

Electricity can always be used. It's wasteful to be able to make it, and just let the equipment sit there doing nothing but degrade. America is having a liquid oxygen supply problem. They could use the extra to take oxygen from the air.

Sounds like the Orkney Islands should open their own Centre for Alternative technology, I love visiting the one in Wales, the kids adore it.

@cometive6075

2 жыл бұрын

@serry ciok It's because they're a small archipelago numbering only 22,000 with barely any historical industry and commercial areas that cannot be demolished as well as no borders between states or nations and they are a nation who's biggest problem is more tourism than internal affairs.

@oronjoffe

2 жыл бұрын

@@cometive6075 “barely any historical area”?! Have you ever been to Orkney???

@MrTHEljack

2 жыл бұрын

Apart from barren hills what is there?

@oronjoffe

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTHEljack Skarra Brae? The Ring of Brodgar? Maes Howe? Lots more besides and there are hundreds, if not thousands of additional sites that haven't been excavated yet but which are plain for anyone to see. I grew up in Israel, which is full of archaeological sites, but I have never seen anything like the density of sites in Orkney there or anywhere else. There may not be an awful lot there today, but in (pre)-historic sites I think Orkney has no equal.

@TheEvilCheesecake

2 жыл бұрын

Museums require visitors, something Orkney does not see many of.

Distilling everything that's happening with power in Orkney into one video was incredibly difficult, but I did the best I could! Next week is the last one of the Orcadian trilogy, and my luck with the weather ran out...

@aimohsin1380

2 жыл бұрын

Ok

@andreassteenskov5760

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm

@jissi1184

2 жыл бұрын

How tf are you time traveling

@meepulp

2 жыл бұрын

@@jissi1184 video was private

@SpaceflightSimulator

2 жыл бұрын

That date is sus

How genuinely refreshing to hear someone, who clearly has a financial interest in something, turn around and say "what we're doing right isn't the most efficient way" rather than 'this is the the most amazing and best system ever'.

@conyo985

2 жыл бұрын

IKR!

@yiff

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly it's kind of amusing to hear it's not the most efficient way like that's going to be a problem with how much extra power they have to throw around.

@RWoody1995

2 жыл бұрын

@@yiff it will be if its still being done in less than the most efficient way possible when they scale it up so it does matter, renewable energy still costs money and has an environmental impact so should still be used in the most efficient way possible.

@unhippy1

2 жыл бұрын

Difference between British and Yankee PR me thinks?

@porcorosso4330

2 жыл бұрын

I mean no honest person should say electrolysis is the best way/most efficient to capture/produce hydrogen fuel. Anyone that has knowledge on the topic know the input is high and the output is relatively low.

I used to live on an island a lot like this (Kodiak, AK) where they just had an unlimited amount of electricity. There are lots of wind turbines and a giant hydroelectric dam, enough to power everything. I always thought it was strange that they were 100% against using electric things there. The cars are gasoline. The houses are heated with home heating oil. The stoves use propane. All of these could very easily be switched to electric, but the city totally did not want to.

@watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870

Жыл бұрын

Selfish town

@SilmarilS79

Жыл бұрын

Most of the time is because the grid can't move the current. And the city don't want to pay to upgrade the network...

@spudgamer6049

Жыл бұрын

Heating oil does have advantages over electric heating, especially when the grid experiences failures as can happen in a winter storm. And good luck with the batteries for electric cars in the cold weather, at least until very, very recently.

@verygoodbrother

Жыл бұрын

@@spudgamer6049 Then just buy a diesel generator for the unlikely event you don't have electricity.

@davetaylor2088

Жыл бұрын

Something to do with the Alaskan oil pipeline too, maybe? Converting to a new type of infrastructure is eye-wateringly, pants-poopingly expensive. A small tax base often can't afford the transition or the transition would occur so slowly it would be obsolete before it was finished.

*cryptominers move to the island for cheap electricity* Orkney: Why do I hear boss music

@dsherratt74

2 жыл бұрын

And promptly move again because our internet is worse than dial up.

@1313nate

2 жыл бұрын

@@dsherratt74 What about Starlink in your area?

@dsherratt74

2 жыл бұрын

​ @Nathan Cobb nope, cant get that and even if it was available 90%% of the islands wouldn't be allowed it because of the conservation area order on almost all residential areas. That means we're not allowed to alter the outward appearance of our properties. No modern UPVC triple glazing windows, never mind sticking a satellite dish on the side of your house. Yes we have too much power and in spite of this we actually have the highest electricity prices in the UK becasue all the power generated by the windfarms that the council in their wisdom decided not to the main electrical grid so everyone would benefit means we still have to buy our electric from electric companies. Only a few private properties (farms and really remote properties on the smaller islands) have their own private turbines and they still have to buy electric as the turbines don't produce enough. Honestly cryptominers, gamers (of which I am one myself) and server farms are better off where they are. In short any place but Orkney. The place where you need to take a 2 hour flight (or 2 hour boat trip followed by 2 hour drive) for major surgery or to get take away from your favourite fast food chain (no we don't have any of them either).

@neilford7338

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the absurdity of UK electric grids, despite being self sufficient in renewable energy, orkney has the most expensive electricity in UK - for consumers AND generators. It's crazy. There is a huge problem with fuel poverty in the islands.

@andrewjensen8189

2 жыл бұрын

@@dsherratt74 Didn't Tom say 1 in 12 properties generate their own power, via turbines? Seems like more than "a few". But also, is Satellite TV outlawed then? Because a Starlink dish is only 1-2 feet in diameter, and doesn't even need to be mounted on your house. If you're allowed to have a picnic table in your yard, or even have a rugby ball sitting around in your garden, then one would think you could place a Starlink dish in your garden if you wanted to. That aside, when Starlink becomes available in your region, if your wifi connection is as horrid as you make it out to be, your government would probably remove any red tape that hinders individuals from going in that direction.

For a second I thought Tom was finally announcing his intention on overthrowing his own national government.

@stiinkysocks6354

2 жыл бұрын

I would not be opposed to that

@wellhellothere2291

2 жыл бұрын

To her majesty? Impossible!

@yoooranium9293

2 жыл бұрын

He’s finally going to beat Sark with his football prowess. The Channel Islands shall be his!

@Cailus3542

2 жыл бұрын

What, again?

@milandu

2 жыл бұрын

Mad Cap'n Tom, Britain's new ruler

There's over 1 million watts of wind power generation visible from the watermill we're restoring.. all of it private, the community wind turbine is the majority of that. Our island has a 40 year old ferry, we'd love a new ferry that runs on something renewable. Our island also has a surplus of energy, so could easily charge or generate hydrogen. Sadly, while we have so much renewable energy, too much to export, Orkney is also one of the most fuel poor areas in the country. We don't have trees, and we have more old houses as a percentage of housing stock which all require a LOT of heating compared to modern houses with modern insulation. Those old houses are almost exclusively heated by coal or oil, there's go town gas supply here. Electricity is just too expensive to heat homes with, people can't afford it so they burn coal instead, despite the fact turbines are on standby because we can't export any more energy.

@apex0214

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@TheModdedwarfare3

2 жыл бұрын

The cities should buy home heating energy and give it away free. I bet it would be cheaper than the other options.

@martijn9568

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheModdedwarfare3 Question number one: Are there actually cities on the Orkney Islands and not just large villages?

@nicolascomesse7432

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe a stupid idea, but why not give away electricity (as it is both renewable and plentiful) and fund the different projects with the money you make exporting the surplus to the mainland? I mean, with free energy, people might stop burning coal and gas, and invest in electric cars and heating instead.

@blandedgear9704

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolascomesse7432 At the very least, with so much electricity you could make it very cheap, right?

I’m glad Orkney is getting the recognition it deserves

@DavidKnowles0

2 жыл бұрын

Fully Charged covered this and the issues on the island 2 or 3 years ago, Tom is playing catch up.

@zapfanzapfan

Жыл бұрын

In the right column I get a Fully Charged episode on Orkney from 7 years ago.

The whole world : WE NEED MORE POWER Orkney : 👀

@aiosquadron

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe sell the spare electricity?

@rmdhn1

2 жыл бұрын

@@aiosquadron they sell it to the rest of Scotland afaik but the current cable just can't sell enough

@visassess8607

Жыл бұрын

Did you not watch the video?

Tom: “What happens if you always have too much power?” Politicians: *sweating profusely*

@MinusMOD98

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making that joke so I don't have to :D

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

Deny it?

@tuttosalve8352

2 жыл бұрын

Get more power!

@silentype3008

2 жыл бұрын

You blame someone else for your mistakes.

@zachduperron8543

2 жыл бұрын

Unlimited power!

So that's the place where you can run AC in summer, electric heating in winter AND pat yourself on the back for preventing the breakdown of the local electricity grid?

@PabloSanchez-qu6ib

2 жыл бұрын

No. You use an electrically powered robot arm to pat your back.

@lucie4185

2 жыл бұрын

Air conditioning in Orkney, ha ha ha.

@andybrown4284

2 жыл бұрын

Summer air con is when you turn the heater down a bit.

@cubing7276

2 жыл бұрын

@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib lmao

@cheighes1

2 жыл бұрын

We call it saxet.

Seems to me that by immensely lowering the cost of the electricity would be an incentive for everyone to drive an electric vehicle in turn making use of the extra electricity in turn having a much cleaner environment and eventually changing all things from fossil fuel to electric on that one Island. That island could be a model for the rest of the world. This is a perfect opportunity and I hope it's not wasted to greed.

@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20

2 жыл бұрын

Price of electricity is already so low that it's not a problem and price of fossil fuel heavily taxed in most European countries, by other words you should make the electricity price heavily negative to have any effect by that. The problem is the price of the battery in the car and the price of the charging infrastructure. But electric cars are getting cheaper as the battery production is scaled up. Over production like this could also be used for synthetic fuel production, for those applications that can't be easily converted to battery power.

@FryzuxD

2 жыл бұрын

I'd imagine that if they have too much electricity, the prices are already low.

@casemodder89

2 жыл бұрын

now go ahead and put that much wind in the air all around the globe.

@bobstirling6885

2 жыл бұрын

The problem with that philosophy is the massive loss of tax revenue when fossil fuels are phased out....it would have to be replaced and the obvious target would be electricity taxation or road mileage charging.

@jasonreed7522

2 жыл бұрын

Electricity is already as cheap as it can be, the price is determined through some linear algebra to find the next generator that needs to turn on for the lowest marginal costs of production. This means that the cost of electricity is the minimum wholesale price needed to profitably run all the generators. (Basic economic requirement is expenses

Usually I love Tom's videos, but this one... this one was extraordinary. A cut above. BRAVO!

"The Islands With Too Much Power " is definitely a GPT3 title suggestion

@cubing7276

2 жыл бұрын

Bot be smart

@Praecantetia

2 жыл бұрын

True

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, definitely.

A delightful side effect of Tom Scott videos is the ever growing collection of regional UK accents.

@koigoi

2 жыл бұрын

you're spitting straight facts my friend

@maryavatar

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, there were no Orcadian accents in that video.

@angus5427

2 жыл бұрын

You'd know if there was Orcadian in this video trust me

@jalbo9975

2 жыл бұрын

Sounded like a mix of Irish/Scottish with some Southern English to me.

@Lewwww

2 жыл бұрын

@@angus5427 would need subtitles😂

This is being done in Toronto, Canada as well. They have a wind turbine at the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) grounds, which powers a hydrogen plant, and extracts hydrogen from the fresh lakewater of Lake Ontario. This hydrogen is used in fuel cells to power transit buses.

I was up in orkney a few moths back connecting the new sub sea cables from Sanday to Eday. Great job to be on.

I'm literally moving to the Orkney Islands in a week to start a masters degree in Marine Renewable Energy, looks like I've made a good choice!

@jn278

2 жыл бұрын

wow i'm thinking of the same thing. This place looks to be at the forefront of renewable technologies and seems like a good place to move to to study the future of energy. Best of luck in your studies.

@Sparrowash97

2 жыл бұрын

Nah mate, worst place you could pick :p

@robertholmes9169

2 жыл бұрын

I lived there for 12 years and it’s awesome, are you arriving on boat or plane?

@seanlewis34

2 жыл бұрын

Great education, stunning vistas, clean air and even more importantly, two excellent breweries.

@finlaycraig1810

2 жыл бұрын

UHI?

There is a side effect of all that wind. Last time i was up in Orkney i had to walk everywhere at a 45 degree angle to compensate for it.

@ta_93

2 жыл бұрын

i imagine riding a bike is going to be difficult going where the wind doesn't want you to go

@adrianschmidt5564

2 жыл бұрын

But aren't all the turbines using up the strong wind? (/s)

@celecitaxerror9553

2 жыл бұрын

@@adrianschmidt5564 that's not how it works. wind turbines dont 'block out' the wind.

@Hill_Walker

2 жыл бұрын

@@celecitaxerror9553 They do a bit. I vaguely remember seeing a talk on wind power and hurricane Katrina. In the talk they said had the US spent the money, that it cost to repair the aftermath of Katrina, on wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico. So much energy would have been sapped, it would just have been a strong storm. Also spot their /s

@fuckinantipope5511

2 жыл бұрын

@@celecitaxerror9553 that was a joke...

Oh my god I can’t believe you made a video on our little islands, I’ve lived here for 5 years and still learnt so much, I think most people don’t even know we exist so it was amazing to see this!

Brilliant video Tom. Well put together and very professional. Found it staggering the cost of linking the islands power up to the main Grid in Scotland. Still, all this renewable energy gives some hope for the future.

"The islands with too much power" Crypto Miners: *_IT'S FREE REAL ESTATE_*

@WinterNorth

2 жыл бұрын

Just dont look up the cost of power there

@cubing7276

2 жыл бұрын

Profit

@gungan7859

2 жыл бұрын

@@WinterNorth Holy crap. Roughly 0.7 cents per kWh. That's crazy. For comparison, New York pays 21 cents per kWh.

@sireric41

2 жыл бұрын

@@WinterNorth Cost is different for large takers in wasted/stranded energy markets

@MrTomtomtest

2 жыл бұрын

@@jslavertu That and blockchain to track energy would be an infinite loop, as you'd need said energy just to write something in the blockchain

Now I need to spend all evening googling what nerdy power engineering tours I can do in Orkney. Who has tips?

@lifeisok7726

2 жыл бұрын

Orkney deez nuts

@electronresonator8882

2 жыл бұрын

how to cheaply heat homes with electricity in Orkney

@tomcardale5596

2 жыл бұрын

An engineering tour of Orkney would be awesome. I'd sign up for it!

@tomgillespie195

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t come we don’t want your covid

@maciejmeszka5285

2 жыл бұрын

Come during the Orkney International Science festival, it's a week long event full of lectures etc. Check the website for details

I vacation with my family (we’re from the US) at a place called Block Island, they’ve experimented with some of these techniques on a smaller scale. Less than a decade ago, the island got power from a large system of diesel generators. Today, they are the site of the only offshore wind turbines in America.

I know absolutely nothing about any of these informational videos. but they’re so interesting. I love you tom scott

"The Islands With Too Much Power " isn't that the history of the British isles?

@reggaefan2700

2 жыл бұрын

Good one.

@callmememe1308

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, that only really applies to Great Britian, not Ireland or the other, smaller islands.

@SavageGreywolf

2 жыл бұрын

this time it's the good sort of power ...Electric Boogaloo

Toms UK road trip continues! Great vid, really interesting; and kind of wild that scotland has hesitations in linking up to their grid

Thank you for this video. I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn so much.

Someone needs to make a playlist of "Tom Scott stands somewhere windswept and talks about infrastructure".

@TheThirdPrice

2 жыл бұрын

Tom already has an uploaded video playlist ;D

It’s nice to watch a video about climate change adaptation and not feel depressed, so thanks Tom. Happy Sunday and good week ahead everyone!

@adamthorntonillustration9281

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Great one TomS! Like that you go straight to the idea.. 👍

Absolutely fantastic video and case study. Throughly appreciated using it in my academic research! Don't worry - I promised to source your channel.

Sounds like they could use a colony of PC gamers with high end set ups.

@eramsorgr

2 жыл бұрын

That was exactly in my mind.

@Akkbar21

2 жыл бұрын

They need some Intel enthusiasts. About 4 should do it.

@kas-lw7xz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Akkbar21 and novideo*

@marshmilos

2 жыл бұрын

@@do0nv There is a bitcoin miner on westray, it's hooked up to a wind turbine

@kampfnudel22

2 жыл бұрын

Or server farms. They need huge amounts of juice to be cooled, the Orkneys apparently have plenty of that plus its relatively cool anyway

I'm glad that Tom supplies the great content that his audience demands... Great balance of power, Tom!

@OHOE1

2 жыл бұрын

he's always great

@novamaster0

2 жыл бұрын

The youtuber that produced too much power.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

And the content is all completely sustainable.

I’m loving your Orkney videos. I want to go back there.

Outstanding presentation of a reality that is just a vision to many.

Tom really is living the dream life, traveling across the globe and exploring while having the most bizarre adventures.

@julianc.1300

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a dream job to have, but when I think about it, I realize that I'm no where near smart enough to actually do it T-T

@tomyinit818

2 жыл бұрын

is that a jojo reference

@tirxan4189

2 жыл бұрын

@@ismailabaza411 no you

@terrabosskiller1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomyinit818 Tom Scott’s Bizarre Adventures.

@ScoobsMcDoobers

2 жыл бұрын

IS THAT A JOJ-

Hi from the Orkney Islands, good to see the message being spread. Surprisingly, many do have solar arrays up here, probably not the best place but ours work well enough, and we hope to put more in when the restrictions are lifted.

@emmastilwell759

2 жыл бұрын

Genuine question, why put in more? If you already have a renewable grid wouldn't it have a greater environmental impact to invest in say, an electic car, improved housing insulation, or electric heating?

@thesaxophoneboy

2 жыл бұрын

I guess it's unfortunate that winter, the time of the greatest energy use, is also the time in which Orkney has barely six hours of daylight each day!

@angusross-thomson1288

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesaxophoneboy yes, not ideal, but on the other hand, that is when the winds tend to be strongest and start to fry the grid!

@BooBaddyBig

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmastilwell759 Solar tends to complement wind though because it works well in summer, while wind works better in winter, so it's not stupid. It also tends to statistically cancel out the variations to have as many independent sources as possible.

@thewiseturtle

2 жыл бұрын

Also, solar is highly adaptable, and uses very little infrastructure. You can get a small 5 watt panel with a battery the size of a shoebox to power something smallish out in the middle of nowhere, such as lights, or a smartphone, or a water pump. You CAN do that with wind turbines, but it's a lot less efficient when you're using a smaller turbine, since there's more friction/mass per inch of blade.

Thank you for all you do Tom. I am now super interested in renewable engineering and might look into it as a career thanks to your videos. Stay wholesome :)))

As someone living in orkney- this still doesn't decrease any power prices 😂

Well done Tom. You were lucky enough to film this on the one day of summer in Orkney!

@AboutTimeFFS

2 жыл бұрын

Stop spreading misinformation, having grown up in Orkney I can tell you for a fact that we get two days of summer a year. Three if enough of us strip naked and dance around the Ring of Brodgar during a full moon.

@SMNAviation

2 жыл бұрын

How is the weather normally like?

@kb7881

2 жыл бұрын

@@SMNAviation Wind and rain

@visitante-pc5zc

2 жыл бұрын

@@kb7881 isnt that the normal weather in the whole scotland anyway? Cold, rainy and windy

@krashd

2 жыл бұрын

@@visitante-pc5zc 30 years ago it was, but today most of the central belt can rival the temperatures of southern France during the summer.

Any gaming setup: "allow me to relieve all of that surplus and more" Great video as always!

@SilverMe2004

2 жыл бұрын

Just as long as you're not using a Gigabyte power supply

@billul1

2 жыл бұрын

RGB spotlights

@davidclayworth2271

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect that if you don't have a cable capable of moving the power to the mainland you probably also don't have an internet connection capable of handling a massive gaming server.

@tacticalguy6473

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidclayworth2271 fiberoptics costs nothing compared to km's of copper wiring

@mikieswart

2 жыл бұрын

meanwhile in california… “dell won’t ship your gaming pc you ordered and paid like four thousand dollars for because it eats too much electricity” 🥲

Awesome! These wind turbines are from Enercon, a company from my region in northern germany called east frisia (Ostfriesland)! I am always so happy to see them outside of my region, especially other countries!

We're getting a new interconnector cable here in the Shetland islands for a 103 turbine onshore windfarm. Will be producing about 370MW, nearly 8 times our peak consumption.

The ‘big lithium ion setup’ referred to is near Jamestown in South Australia, but the big 3 day fire happened at a battery being tested near Moorabool, Victoria.

@dylanlong6269

2 жыл бұрын

I was very surprised to see this error, especially as it seemed to be a bit of a diss against battery storage for no real reason

"this island has every type of renewable energy...except solar" that cracked me up 😂

@angusross-thomson1288

2 жыл бұрын

We do actually! Probably not the best place for them but ours work well enough, and we hope to add more when the restrictions are lifted.

@abehme

2 жыл бұрын

Britain in a nutshell 😂😂

@joshsheffsagain4662

2 жыл бұрын

And they still get shafted by the energy cos!!

@samiuddin328

2 жыл бұрын

Timestamp?

@katrinabryce

2 жыл бұрын

@@angusross-thomson1288 I’m guessing not in winter when it is dark most of the time?

Tom Scott is one of the few youtubers who can make a video about powering an island interesting

Norway also has milk runs like that. In the North, there are regular flights between Tromsø in the North-west and Kirkenes in the North-East. Along the way, the plane lands on various small and some larger stops. A great flight to explore the Northern Norwegian coast area, as the plane does not fly higher than maybe 2.000 meter. The views are often astounding: rugged, desolate, vast.

I never thought there'd be a place where making hydrogen fuel is actually economically viable.

@chriskroeker1889

2 жыл бұрын

Just wait until renewables have higher penetrations throughout the world. This will be the norm.

@Dennis19901

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriskroeker1889 It's not that easy

@ericmyrs

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dennis19901 it certainly won't be with that attitude

@Colaman112

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dennis19901 Let me guess. You work in the fossil fuel industry. /s

@thesenate8268

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dennis19901 Inventing trains wasn't easy. Discovering America either.

I feel like this channel is perfect for aliens to learn about earth and our technology

@shambhav9534

2 жыл бұрын

If you ignore the skeleton lie detector video. That is for learning human stupidity.

@MaxxMcGeePrivate

2 жыл бұрын

The aliens would massively overestimate us.

@chronictimewasterdisease

2 жыл бұрын

actually no, it's worst place ever for aliens, if they see the contrast between this and what actually happens in the world boy, they sure are going to destroy the planet

@HaliOnRepeat

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe after all this time, Tom is actually an alien relaying information on humans and Earth technology.

I helped with a project in Orkney that connects EV car chargers to the distribution network. The chargers can be remotely instructed to charge at a faster rate when there is a surplus from generation. The EV batteries essentially become a distributed storage system and help balance the grid.

The Orkneys are a very special place for me. The man whom the city I live in was named after, Lord Kitchener, died near the Orkneys, and there is a monument to him on the Orkney coast near where his ship sank. I loved visiting the archaeological sites there like the Ring of Brogar and Skara Brae, and it also happens to be the farthest north latituted that I have visited on Earth.

"An old day when you used to burn coal and send us electricity. That's gone. We don't do that anymore." *_The Australian Government has entered the chat_*

@callummclachlan4771

2 жыл бұрын

Except Tasmania (where I live). We generate all our electricity through renewables, majority is hydro. Still have fossil fuelled generators as a backup though (which I think we should always have. Fossil fuels are more reliable as a backup. Simply turn them on when you need to).

@supchefofficial

2 жыл бұрын

THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!

@kellymoses8566

2 жыл бұрын

Why does α country with so much uranium not have α single nuclear reactor?

@duckwhistle

2 жыл бұрын

@@callummclachlan4771 I thought Aus sold most of its coal to China anyway! I assume the Tasmanian grid doesn't connect to the mainland at all?

@alicequayle4625

2 жыл бұрын

@@kellymoses8566 why does a country with so much sunshine not have massive solar farms?

tom scott sees a windy place with curious infrastructure and asks "is anybody gonna talk about that", and doesn't wait for an answer

@WanderTheNomad

2 жыл бұрын

"Yes, that person will be me"

@Markle2k

2 жыл бұрын

Fully Charged was up here talking about "that" years ago.

Scott always knows how to peak my interest in the most random things.

@mirror1675

2 жыл бұрын

pique, not peak. ffs.

@alainportant6412

Жыл бұрын

@@mirror1675 peec

@alainportant6412

Жыл бұрын

peek

That's incredibly fascinating!

Tom, the battery that caught fire in Australia was a second big Tesla facility, and it's only being built rn. The Hornsdale one has been operating successfully for a couple of years now.

@Neojhun

2 жыл бұрын

In Victoria not South Australia. Roughly 500 miles apart.

@robertkattner1997

2 жыл бұрын

Ford had to recall all their electric cars because the batteries where burning. Cost of recall 1 billion dollars US.

@Neojhun

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertkattner1997 Umm not Ford. They barely have Electric cars. You have no clue what you are talking about it.

@Markle2k

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertkattner1997 That's not true, either.

@robertkattner1997

2 жыл бұрын

It is actually the GM BOLT recall, batteries started on fire. Cheap lithium ion batteries.

I hope one day, within our lifetime, this is the biggest power problem we have to deal with. Just having to much clean, renewable energy.

@Sorcerers_Apprentice

2 жыл бұрын

What would be great would be if we routed surplus renewable energy to carbon capture and storage systems to remove surplus carbon dioxide from the air.

@freshrot420

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sorcerers_Apprentice They're called trees.

@k0zzu21

2 жыл бұрын

Current wind power is not but any means clean energy. The lifespan of the rotors is about 25 years, after which they are non-recyclable and toxic waste. There's around 10 tonnes of fossil based lubricants in the generators, that need to be replaced or disposed after the lifespan of the turbine. Yes it doesn't emit carbon dioxide while in operation, but it pollutes in various other ways, so it is not a good thing but any measure to have too much renewable energy.

This gives me so much hope! I genuinely would love to know more about this as it develops! Thanks for a ray of sunshine from a place that sees none.

For those wondering, wind energy isn't enough to supply many other grids elsewhere, I live in SoCal, and all those turbines out in the desert do barely anything for us. t's not very efficient in many setting, also considering the size they have to take up. A place like this is good for it, so it does create an interesting problem, where it's always windy, and you can't transfer the power to another grid

@MishaFlower

Жыл бұрын

All of the us except texas, alaska and hawaii are linked to two electrical grids. So no. this isn't a problem.

@gabrieldsouza6541

Жыл бұрын

california is perfect for solar and storage, as well as offshore wind in the pacific. it's exceptionally sunny and windy offshore, if you pair those with some nuclear power plants and keeping some gas generation on standby, you can probably get to net zero.

I now have a desire to see Tom in a windy location, wearing an audacious cape.

@darkstarfirestudios4500

2 жыл бұрын

Yesss

The fact that these islands literally have more power than they know what to do with, from sustainable, renewable, clean sources, gives me a lot of hope that in the near future the entire world could actually pull that off.

@oooooooorion

2 жыл бұрын

no because the entire world doesn't have this space, wind, water or sun.

@drdewott9154

2 жыл бұрын

@@oooooooorion True but other bits have a plethera of such and so sending the excess energy from there to where its needed would be great! Like take the Wind from the North Sea and send it to places like central europe. Or solar energy from the Iberian peninsula and potentially even northern africa and the middle east!

@callumparker3293

2 жыл бұрын

@@drdewott9154 unfortunately it would be very difficult and expensive to set that up, compared to selling barrels of oil or coal to other countries

@caenir

2 жыл бұрын

@@callumparker3293 Which is part of the reason why it's taking so long. We aren't discussing what is easy to do, we are discussing what is possible to do.

@oooooooorion

2 жыл бұрын

@@drdewott9154 electricity power decays with distance - a alot

love the whosh whosh whosh at the end as the windmill blades rush by overhead, whosh whosh whosh . . .

We have Wolfe Island, yes named after a British commander/ explorer, it is at the eastern end of lake Ontario and has constant wind. The difference is they built the cable when they put the windmills in.

Went on a tour of Orkney this summer and would definitely recommend it to everyone, there is so much history and uniqueness to the island that is impossible to convey through short form media and is definitely worth experiencing for yourself!

@davecooper3238

2 жыл бұрын

The good lady & I used to visit Orkney on a regular basis. The coming of the cruise ships spoilt it for us. You will have had almost a pre cruise ship experience. We found that the number visitors had started to cause excessive wear & tear on places like The Italian Chapel etc. Our last visit took place in 2015. But I am sure that the loss of a couple of independent travellers is not too much of a loss when we have been replace by thousands off the ships.

@GodlyDra

2 жыл бұрын

Does it have massive bloody conflicts or folklore about snakes and dragons? That’s the only history I care for.

@MrDiggy96

2 жыл бұрын

@@davecooper3238 as a local i sadly agree. going about your business down town nowadays is a no go in summer. thankfully most "rural" places are fairly empty so plenty of places to visit! try some of the islands around the mainland and youll have a great time!

Huh, never figured the Orkneys would be one of the most futuristic places as far as green energies went. Neat!

I want to hug Orkney. It's such a cool testbed for cool SCALABLE renewable tech

Excellent video! Well done

"You can never have too much of a good thing" - Not Tom

@cubing7276

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s give it to poor countries! cost of building that cable: **HUGE**

A brilliant video about my home archipelago! I am both gladdened and saddened to hear that my isolated island group is leading the world in renewable energy, and much of it is wasted due to poor infrastructure.

Just awesome. These videos and information help make me believe in the future of humanity.

Brilliant video!

I think their is so much political feet dragging in renewables because big investors in fossil fuels would lose out on their investments. Renewables pay for themselves fairly quickly these days and are also cheaper per MWh to buy.

@gizmodobaggins7040

2 жыл бұрын

You *think?*

@alexp6013

2 жыл бұрын

I live in France. Less than 5% of our electricity is produced by either petrol or coal, and that number should go down even more in the next few years. We are still struggling to get renewables without this constraint (we mainly use nuclear), because renewables use a _lot_ of land that can't do much else, requires a large investment, and it is quite hard to store power to handle highs and lows in the production. Getting approval for those projects is hard, simply because, while everybody knows that renewables will need to happen, nobody wants them in their back garden.

@Sancarn

2 жыл бұрын

In fairness, if you were to decide to spend a quarter of a billion pounds on an interconnector, you'd also want to make sure it was going to be used. I don't think this situation is totally because of fossil fuel lobbying, but it might be a related factor.

@toreole5831

2 жыл бұрын

Dont forget that the politicians in charge most likely have a financial gain from fossil fuels in one way or another. Which is a huge problem

@georgf9279

2 жыл бұрын

Renewables have advanced so quickly over the last 15-20 years that people struggle to keep updating their perception of them. Just yesterday I heard "Knowing Better" say that solar, wind and storage were far away from being viable solutions. But of course it doesn't help that politicians are stuck head to waist in the asses of the oil industry. Edit: I had to repost this answer three times before youtube stopped auto-deleting it.

Genuinely had no idea Orkney was so cutting edge! All those projects going on, that's rad as hell

@shitlordflytrap1078

2 жыл бұрын

Their own renewable tech is ahead of the island residencies.

@boblowes

2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft are testing undersea server farms off Orkney, because submerging them makes them so much cooler, so less energy intensive to run.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

It's always the little places.

@youtubewatcher7570

2 жыл бұрын

It's being paid for by the British government

@Nill757

2 жыл бұрын

Like the Taliban in Afghanistan, or the CCP taking over Hong Kong: brand new and rad.

Answer: Make the prices flexible. If the electricity is free during surplus, economy will quickly adapt

@aurelia8028

2 жыл бұрын

What?! That's the most idiotic idea I've ever heard,because of the implications

@DavidKnowles0

2 жыл бұрын

@@aurelia8028 It actually happens in the UK through, prices can now go negative because their so much electricity.

Genuine question: Are the everyday folk on the island reaping the rewards of their own islands location? Do they pay significantly less than the rest of the UK for their energy? Because if they don’t, that’s a blueprint for how the rest of the uk will be treated and NOT how we were sold ‘cheap renewable energy’

@ianrobertson8545

2 жыл бұрын

The simple and heartbreaking answer is no. Orkney charity THAW (Tackling Household Affordable Warmth) reported in 2018 that 57% of Orkney households, and 85% of households including pensioners, were in fuel poverty. Some of their clients spend up to 40% of their income trying to heat their homes. It's a travesty.

@skyschermerhorn9383

2 жыл бұрын

@Ian Robertson Wait; but how?!? A travesty indeed. Imagine living directly on the forefront of renewable, energy advancements, and NOT having the lowest energy costs in the world. I'm bloody baffled over here. Greed is such a foul disease.

@mathewng1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@skyschermerhorn9383 Cost for all the upkeep of the infrastructure.

@tossom3915

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianrobertson8545 power still costs far too much .

@lucim343

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, electric is about to go up to 21p a unit (my house doesn't have gas) so it's as expensive, if not more, than the rest of the UK. Petrol/diesel is subsidised (by 5p a litre) and is still more expensive. I'm a student and literally can't afford to heat my house properly, it's a one room at a time kind of thing. It's okay, we survive, but when you watch a video like this and then think 'hang on, can i afford to heat water for a shower today?' it does hurt...

A quarter of a billion pounds is peanuts - theres so much wasteful spending everywhere else, would love to see this become fully funded and what an amazing thing itd be to see soon

@Nintentheheartless

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention how cheaper it'll be compared to the costs that will caused by worsening climate disasters (flooding, hurricanes, rising tides etc.)..

@Grort

2 жыл бұрын

Scottish governments budget usually hovers around £30bn, UK gov's is about £840bn, so it probably depends if it's a devolved project or a reserved one. And in both cases, you'd end up with either people in the south of Scotland or in England (or both) complaining about so much of their money going to the north with our comparably tiny population. Politics isn't kind to northern Scotland.

"You can never have too much power"- Jeremy Clarkson probably.

@jackkraken3888

2 жыл бұрын

Or you can pretend there isn't enough power- Jeremy Clarkson (lying about the Tesla running out of power)

@aidanfl

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackkraken3888 lawsuit was lost

@BooBaddyBig

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackkraken3888 And windmills would NEVER be able to power it!!!

@volundrfrey896

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackkraken3888 Omg, teslas claims didn't make any sense which is why they lost. Get over it already.

@LSK2K

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackkraken3888 The future is bright and it's made of petrol. Get over it.

Thanks for this. This is the best 'good news' story I've seen in a lonnnng time...

0:37 technologies to balance power supply and demand 1:00 Welcome to the Orkneys 1:23 David Hannon's talk 2:02 Local microgeneration 2:13 Orkney Experiments 2:29 Interconnector Cable capacity 2:53 Potential production - Neil Kermode 3:26 Cost & obstacles to new cable 3:40 Ways to increase electricity consumption 4:02 Hydrogen fuel system

I've always thought the issue of inefficiency in hydrogen generation could be solved by just... not caring about it! If there are periods of massive surplus from wind and solar, who cares if 40% of the energy is lost when turned to hydrogen? The alternative is to disconnect the generators and lose it all!

@ruslbicycle6006

2 жыл бұрын

I think that also... But maybe the hydrogen isn't valuable enough yet to pay to do that at this point?

@jjohnn9195

2 жыл бұрын

deserves more likes

@Maddinhpws

2 жыл бұрын

A really big problem is really storing all that hydrogen. By essentially not caring it means you are wasting time whenever there is not a surplus production. You need a good deal of workforce and tech at these hydrogen plants so shutting them off and on all the time based on energy demand is not really going to work. At least not for a private company.

@porcorosso4330

2 жыл бұрын

There is also maintenance cost and wear and tear. There might be a point where turning it off is still a better deal.

@peterwilliamson1825

2 жыл бұрын

The inefficiency problem regarding hydrogen has more of an effect on the end user than the creation of it. Relatively little energy reaches the wheels of the vehicle, essentially making it far more expensive to use a hydrogen fuel cell to power the vehicle, especially when compared to a battery electric vehicle. Not only that, the molecules are so small it's incredibly hard to prevent leaks in both the storage facility and the vehicle itself.

I'm loving these Orkney videos, giving me major PTSD from a project we just did at university in the form of designing a wind farm at these islands. Love seeing the insides of it through this video's and being able to link what we did to these videos.

Looking good Tommy x

Fascinating and totally cool. Let's hear it for Orkney!

@chd72

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree, we are awsome

All those KZread ads hailing Scotland as the land of sustainable energies popping up in the past months suddenly make a lot more sense to me. Way to go!

@angus5427

2 жыл бұрын

That's been true for years this is just the next stage.

@worldcomicsreview354

2 жыл бұрын

I'm getting no end of ads for investing in Ireland, myself

@drawapretzel6003

2 жыл бұрын

yet they wont let the island send them more power until they make an even bigger energy surplus just to get rid of a tiny energy surplus. Honestly turning off the turbines is starting to sound like the cheapest option.

@gordonmcgrath1626

2 жыл бұрын

@@drawapretzel6003 it's probably down to the Budget. No point in using 250m of your 60to70b budget on something that can't yet deliver

I recently saw the arms of one of those giant wind turbines being transported on a train. They look like giant eels and they are MASSIVE. Each one was slightly over the length of two train cars

@shreddagorge

2 жыл бұрын

Those were likely for offshore wind turbines; they are significantly longer than most onshore turbine blades. (My company makes the largest blades in the industry for both types).

I wish I knew about all this when I was in Orkney a two years back. There's a giant windfarm on the road heading south from the Highland side ferry terminal.

Green, profitable and cheaper energy for the locals. Scotland should maximise the excess selling electricity to the rest of the UK. Extra money for public services if planned right.

@McStoolio

2 жыл бұрын

Why? Scotland is part of the UK, why would we want to make profit from English, NI and Welsh?

@skinbazz1226

2 жыл бұрын

@@McStoolio Why not? Economic benefits for local councils and communities? Be on the upper hand and have better experience over the rest on renewable energy?

@McStoolio

2 жыл бұрын

@@skinbazz1226 one nation.

@MacGuyver85

2 жыл бұрын

@@McStoolio For now…

@ianrobertson8545

2 жыл бұрын

Cheaper energy for the few who can afford to erect a turbine on their property; a small percentage of Orcadians. Over 50% of Orcadians live in fuel poverty.

I love how they're finding modern day solutions that will genuinely help the planet, rather than just burning off the excess on 10,000 more street lights or something.

No redshirt- *panic* Sees the red shirt under the pullover hoodie- *kalm*

@markm0000

2 жыл бұрын

Phew

So fascinating

Bravo for the Truth!!! Excellent information from the facts!!! Excellent

I know you don't care what I think, Tom, but I'm really grateful for all your hard work.

“No one land should have all that POWER” -Tomye west, 2021, Donda

@Moon-Jelly

2 жыл бұрын

I hate that I understand this

@Andyatl2002

2 жыл бұрын

I love that I understand this

I love your videos!

i really like your usage of the i cards to add in a correction.