Eytan Lenko on Supercharging Australia | The Fully Charged Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Robert is joined this week by Eytan Lenko, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor focused on climate solutions and CEO of Boundless Earth.
Taking Robert through the reasons why he sees Australia becoming a global energy superpower by 2030, Eytan also reveals his tech development approach to problems and business growth.
Prior to joining Boundless Earth, Eytan was Chair of the internationally-recognised think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Eytan started his career in tech, including as co-founder and CEO of Outware Mobile, growing Outware to become the recognised Australian leader in mobile software development.
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Eytan and friends give me a much needed hope boost. Thank you all so much.
Thanks Robert for all the podcasts you made in Australia about the Aussie experience, good and bad. Love your enthusiasm, love all the people you've had on. Thanks mate.
Always been a fan since Red Dwarf. Gday from WA Bref.
I bought and installed a 12,000 Btu ductless heat pump in my nephew's rental home. I installed the indoor coil on a TV cabinet, and ran the tubing out a window, sealing it up by using a 2X4 and drilled holes in that wood to seal the window, and keep out bugs and stuff. The unit works heats fine at -10C, and cools the whole home almost silently! The heat pump was $719 at Amazon! And included the tubing between the indoor and outdoor units.
There is talk about "Will EV charging crash the grid?" And it will not. When we started to use window A/C units in America back in the 70's, and they used a lot of power (twice as much power as a good energy efficient ductless heat pump) the Utility companies had a huge problem to produce as much power as we needed between noon and 8 pm. But they are able to do it, and everything turned out fine. They can do the same thing with EV chargers, and by using them at night, it will be even less of a problem compared to portable air conditioners.
And Tesla home Aircon is coming!
I will enjoy watching this. Infrastructure is not as glamorous or sexy as the latest & greatest EV product, but it is vital, in order to make clean and sustainable energy available and affordable for the entire planet.
Thanks for all the great videos and podcasts you put online. It would be great if you can interview Saul Griffith author of The Big Switch. He is an engineer who explains how Australian communities benefit environmentally and financially by electrifying everything and using renewable energy.
Agreed! I watched an old interview on the Coal Miners Driving Teslas channel (Ep. 73) and bought his book. Would be good to have an update on progress.
Love your work Robert, big 👍👍
Yet another positive message, thanks!
And yes, totally agree that EVs are just a dramatically better experience.
We have owned a Model 3 for 3.5 years, and a diesel SUV for 9 years.
The SUV is very unloved and gets driven only when absolutely necessary - basically only for heavy towing. As for the Model 3, I still look for excuses to drive it, absolutely fabulous.
We have not spent one cent on maintaining the Tesla, and wish I could say the same about the SUV- it’s a very different story, and about four to six times the cost to run (even ignoring maintenance) compared to the Tesla.
nice story but what about the bad points... no mention of that... like recharging facilities or lack thereof.. and I know why you use your diesel to tow, because your Tesla has very little range when towing and the lack of infrastructure to charge on route makes it just about impossible.. and as for running costs the Tesla may be good now but wait till you need a new battery ( tesla says they last 20 years but in reality it's no where near that) .. new batteries cost around $20,000 or more... not saying Teslas are crap, they aren't, but they are not as good (or green) as they are made out to be either..
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"Recharging facilities".... Like..... The owners "home"? For 90% of the time, that's sufficient.
Otherwise, you should check the rollout of Tesla Superchargers. If you're specifying Australia (?) I recall plans to double the network? Shouldn't take long with their fast deployment system.
He mentioned *HEAVY* towing, so quite possibly not something suitable for any vehicle if that size, EV or fossil?
"Need a new battery"?
You know the cost of a pack 8 years from now?
I ask because my understanding is that Tesla plan to reduce the cost of cells by 50%, so I assume "a pack" will be closer to $5000 by 2031?
That bring the case, I would open a savings account and direct debit $50 per month (should be less than fuel and service savings?)
That's the new pack covered.
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Could even buy Tesla shares! That will pay for a new Tesla!
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"In reality"
You're guessing.
@@rogerstarkey5390 LOL.. "in reality I'm guessing ".. lol.. you're the on that is saying they "PLAN" to double the amount of supercharging stations.. LOL.. you know there are only 60 supercharging stations in the WHOLE OF AUSTRALIA right ???.. that's pathetic.. and as far as towing goes NO.. EV's are bad at towing full stop, google it, there is not one report on how good EV's are at towing, in fact they all say that EV's suck at towing... and again with batteries.. you say they "PLAN" to reduce the price.. lol.. yeah right.. give me one example of a manufacturer spending billions on R&D to lower the price of something..( by the way you do know a battery for an Audi SUV costs $47,000 right??) .. and you "assume" they will be $5000 ... lol .. you are in dreamland.. now wake up to yourself and at least do some research before you make voluminous comments which make a fool out of you......
@@electro1622 Your thinking is 10 years behind the times. Why not base your thinking on facts?
@@stevenclarke7777 facts like what... like Toyota spending billions on hydrogen engine development, or insurance companies sometimes refusing to insure EV's because of "fire hazards" or perhaps some parking stations refusing to let EV's park there because of the same fire hazards as well.... EV's are not as green as you think.. just their production is equivalent to driving thousands of miles in an ICB and when the battery pack dies it starts all over again... like I said, EV's are not as green as you think, you have been fooled by the hype.
Robert makes an excellent point mid through about the developing world leaping past technologies, for example the cellphone.
Thing is, the fossil-fuel industries, and legacy auto think the developing world doesn't have the electrical infrastructure to go BEVs, so they'll continue to produce ICE vehicles for Africa, India, etc. What they don't get is you need to tiniest local electricity infrastructure to run BEVs. You actually need a bigger infrastructure for fossil-fuels. But, no doubt legacy autos will do their very best to hold back progress in order to save themselves.
THANKYOU so much for lifting the lid on the electric revolution as it relates to Australia. I have been waiting sooo long to see some real awareness and interest from political and community leaders in this country! I'm close to retirement but would happily get hands on in the EV/electrification if i could some way. Currently, I'm just a " don't get him started" enthusiast at social gatherings. I'm grateful that I'm finally hearing voices stating the bleeding obvious. ... We have minerals, sun, opportunity, education... The missing component is "will". Now at last the movement is taking off. I will follow your speaking guests and will definitely attend the next fully charged show. It would be great to have it in my home town, Melbourne next time?
Meanwhile i will proselytise for the electric revolution.
Outstanding! Great work Robert :)
Thanks Robert and Eytan #ElectrifyEverything
I've got a blue Tesla Model Y and love it! Trained as an auto mechanic out of high school (1974), trained as a welder in the army (1976-80), graduated with a BS in Aerospace Engineering in 1986 and launched rockets for Orbital Sciences for many years. and that was just the beginning. Tesla and SpaceX is changing the world and I simply love it!!
I live in Victoria in Public Housing. A heat pump was fitted recently and the gas heater was removed. Only have hot water on gas now. I happy boy.
Win, win, chicken dinner !
Great video! I own a Crosstrek PHEV myself and it is fantastic for providing full EV in the city and great Atkinson's cycle mileage on the higway. I drive over 600Km per week, so having the best of both worlds fits my needs. The driving experience is fantastic and I have more than enough rack and boot space to carry all of my gear, kayaks, bikes, snowboards, etc. I am really looking forward to seeing what Subaru and Toyota do with electrification between now and 2027.
If we work really hard, Australia could become the biggest exporter of fax machines worldwide!
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@@linmal2242 It's in reference to Australia being the largest exporter of coal.
Both coal and fax machines were considered to be the way of the future, and both are now considered mostly obsolete.
I used to fix fax machines! 😁
Robert's enthusiasm and complete lack of understanding of business is the best 😘
Fully Epic.
Thanks Eytan & BobyLlew
Well done, Eytan, for elbowing your points in!
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
When a country decentralises its electricity generation & distribution, entities like hospitals, schools, libraries, welfare organisations, farmers can earn an income from electricity generation... instead of funding a filthy rich oligarch, electricity generation can help fund healthcare, education, public services & subsidise food production etc
It is also protects your electricity generation in times when some military strikes target your large power plants…
@@Nikoo033 Hopefully this is not something the majority of us need worry about... yikes!
@@CitiesForTheFuture2030 I was highlighting this point in relation to how Ukraine is suffering of exactly this.
@@Nikoo033 Looking FORWARD when Ukraine will be able to REBUILD their country on Putler's GOLD.
Cool Name. Cities for the Future 2030. Thats not to far from 2023. Stay healthy and mobile you cab live to experience all this.
🤗THANKS ROBERT, FOR SHARING THIS 👍💚💚💚
Fascinating episode 👍
Heat pumps can be a lot less expensive than a gas furnace. To compare the price for 100,000 Btu's it is about 1.2 therms of gas or propane, or you can use about 30 KW of electric heater, or 5 - 7 KW of power through a heat pump to transfer heat inside your home.
Heat pumps work the same way as your home refrigerator, taking the heat out of the refrigerator box and putting it outside of that box into your kitchen. And refrigerators work fine even making the air -20C if you need it to!
So there are two answers to "How a heat pump works". Really well, is the not technical answer. The technical answer is they boil refrigerant in one coil, and blow air across that, cooling that air. Then they compress the refrigerant to a much higher pressure, then it will change back to a liquid refrigerant at about 35C to 45C (if it is that hot outside) giving off heat to air that is less than the boiling point at the high pressure refrigerant (that boiling point can be 35C to 50C if required).
So with a air conditioner or refrigerator, the cooling is one direction only. It cools the home or refrigerator box, and the indoor coil is where the refrigerant boils. Then the outdoor coil is what gives off the excess heat, and turns the refrigerant from a hot gas to a cool liquid. Then the cool liquid refrigerant feeds into the indoor coil, and boils again, collecting even more heat.
With a heat pump, they have a special valve inside, and it will reverse the refrigerant flow, so the hot gas goes into the home on a cold day, and the hot gas goes to the outdoor coil on a warm day. You can collect heat on a 10C day by having the outdoor coil at 5C and blow the 10C air across the coil, and you collect heat. Very easy! Even when it is -10C, you can make the outdoor coil -20C and then blow out air at -15C while still collecting heat from that air.
I have been installing and repairing heat pumps and air conditioners since 1984.
Great explanation.
Very good explanation for the uninitiated.
Congratulation on reaching 1 million subscribers on your main chamel.
I think I joined when you were around 20k. Patron shorlty after.
Hope you will be in Harrogate when I visit. Farnbrough is not a good site but then I have moaned about that a lot already. Lol. Keep smiling. ;)
Farnborough is great for me. 40 miles down the M3.
Great show guys
Thanx Robert
This made me really happy :)
This cheers me up no end... Meanwhile back in the UK, Shell have been granted licences to drill in the Atlantic and North Sea.
What so many people miss, either from ignorance or perversity, is that it’s not a matter of slowing down the use of oil, coal and gas but actually leaving most of it in the ground.
It embodies millions of years of captured sunshine and because of the persistence of CO2 in the atmosphere it matters not how FAST that is released but how much - in a few centuries time the RATE of use won’t make any difference.
Would be great if you could put a link to the graphic for the extraction in the description, as it is something I would like to share but having trouble finding it! Thanks :)
Ive recently been looking into importing a Mitsubishi Minicab Miev which seems like the ideal Ev for me, a good second hand one can be had for $9,000au in Japan but with all the extra import fee's it becomes a $17,000au affair, still too much money for a second hand car. Meanwhile we have subsidies that are only for new Ev's of 3 grand which is not going to be a deciding factor for those with plenty of money to buy a 80 grand Ev. Its the second hand market that would benefit the most from the subsidies but our government is mainly catering to those who least need it as usual. So far I am not impressed with Albo who is more interested in buying subs than spending money on things its people actually need, like somewhere they can afford to live.
Yeah, well we need the subs; the Collins are reaching their useby date by the time we get replacements so planning has to happen early. You want to defend AUS or not ? You want Chineseum subversion or not ?
Indon challenges or not? Fort Denison was built for just such a threat, LOL !
And P. S. Albo did not order these subs; the Defence Department did! The real, the permanent Govt.
SoCal = Noxious fumes and brake dust. 3 people I know left USA Californian due to health issues, one to go back his Mexico town to die. All 3 recovered their health over seas and have returned and are working again. But Cities in SoCal are so slow to embrace public transport and Bike paths. Discouraging. EVs that interest people I know? The trucks and SUVs of course.
HB Powerwall is quality :)
Importing Nissan Leaf cars from Japan is in some cases now more costly than a used Tesla !!
And this will get more and more like that
A Tesla ,any of them is so so much better !!!
I have always seen Australia as a country that could exploit its massive advantage in Sunshine into a Solar and battery powered economy and global leader in the transition to a totally Renewable electric economy
Happening slowly but it has to make dollar sense ! I had a perfect industrial building with a huge north-facing roof for solar panels but it was not in my interest to cover even part of it in solar panels
(+ batteries) for the benefit of tenants ! Not worth it to me !
@@linmal2242 as the price of Solar Power continues its Steep Decline you will benefit from Solar directly by installing it or through your energy provider installing it and delivering it through your local grid network a win is a win when we look at the new dominance of renewables
In South Australia we have the privilege of purchasing a significant percentage of our power via renewable sources. However, AGL and other retailers are planning on price hikes of around 22% by middle of this year. I was wondering if you could do story on the disconnect between generators’ lowered transmission costs while retailers are regularly increasing their prices. It appears on the surface that the more renewables in the system the more the end user pays, not sure if this is unique to South Australia or happening around the world?
The next thing you should look at is high rise food production in cities.
I think the rotary dial phone is an underserved market ripe for the brilliant minds in the internal combustion engine vehicle manufacturing industry to exploit maybe they can put this communication technology in all their vehicles to match the 125 year old Fuel technology that fuels their cars
We have one of those dark grey EV:s. (A Leaf 2014). 😂
It doesn't matter what you want to change in this world you are always up against the wall of people who don't want to lose their 'jobs'.
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That was absolutely as true 120 years ago when the car came along as it is today with EVs rolling out or will be in twenty years time.
Imagine how many jobs disappeared when the horse and buggy pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth.
And then also consider how many jobs will radically change, or disappear completely with AI advancing at a frightening rate.
The biggest push back I keep hearing about wind is the killing of birds & bats. Do we know the stats? I've recently been hearing the blade's are now starting to be built so they can be recycled. Thanks
Climate and domestic cats kill far more, or so I have been led to believe.
Yep, there is plenty of data out there . Buildings kill more birds than turbines etc
And domestic cats
@@kevinmair7571 And fossil fuel pollution. It’s not just our lungs…..
The latest episode of Engineering with Rosie discusses how few animals are killed by wind turbines, and consentrated solar.
How about doing a show on countries which are being held back by their existing industries and politics which like Australia can switch over to renewables so easily but won't because it suits the politicians to keep the status quo.
Little to do with politicians/politics; all to do with economics/cost.
@@linmal2242 So Australia only decided to use more solar power and shutdown coal power stations when the price of renewables dropped? There are plenty of countries where if you tried to generate your own power some heavies from the local utility monopoly will come over and destroy your equipment be it solar, wind oe even a generator and the governments in those countries like it because the coal miners and power workers keep them in power.
Thinking about it, this could be an area where the internet revolution has and will be influential.
It's not longer possible to "spoon feed" only the information the incumbent industries (and Governments?) want us to access.
I believe the irony will be that (how to phrase this?) "previously less financially fortunate" countries may well be the first to "make the leap", not only placing them at the forefront of technology, but also removing revenue from those "established superpowers" (in terms of energy) who have held them hostage both financially and often politically.
If those incumbents aren't in the new game, they will have an "interesting" few decades ahead.
(I know of one person who suggested 7 years ago that Russia may be the first to blink and attempt to land grab resources...... Prophetic?)
I live in Chattanooga TN. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provides the power generation for the entire region. It is the largest publicly owned power generator in the US and owned by the Federal Government. There are still 4 coal powered generating plants and no Tesla Powerpacks. You would think the Biden Administration would prod the TVA into a quicker transition from coal and into battery storage but this is coal country as well. Politics is a a strange sport. The TVA region has an abundance of hydro, nuclear, and potential for wind and solar. Coal could be eliminated in short order.
Brilliant & Scary idea of bulk import secondhand electric vehicles, what happens when batteries eventually reach their end use case for vehicles, unsure if thoughts have looked at the fact that with the relevant Recycling tech for the batteries, the individual components would be in the country already for potential of building fresh batteries.
Batteries for current car models hold the whole car life. You can drive 200-300k miles with the car and then recycle it at end of life, while the battery still has 70-80% capacity and is good for another 10 years in grid storage applications, before it get's recycled too. There was just a study for old ev in the USA. Only 1.5% needed a battery replacement, aside from the Bolt EV and some early Tesla Model S that had battery swaps under warranty.
@@Psi-Storm Well said. And it can only get more efficient and better.
oh and all ev chargers should be sockets only. So many get vandalized here in WA
only low-power AC chargers would work like this as high-power DC cables need to be thicker with some even liquid cooled.
And why do they get vandalised? Do petrol pumps, yet ? No, I bet they do not; it is some idiot neanderthals doing it for some weird reason !
You can tell that lad has been on an Agile Sprint course 😆Another Agile buzzword "information radiators" . Interesting though 👍
We're going to see Joe's mark everywhere.
Saw a comment on RUclips recently suggesting the best way to train the Optimus Robot would be to put 100 robots in a room with workstations and have them complete different tasks, then shift to the next section after 10 minutes......
Me
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"That's Agile"
Boundless Earth, I've got an easy one you ❤
States like Victoria with ZLEV or equivalent, create an app that can either sync to the car makers app for odo reading, or input it manually, then sync to a fund (or users bank account) to help (as close to) automatically put money assume for the tax on a weekly (or so) basis
The tax is low enough, it's implementation and annual collection is no good. Either push back against it or/and build the tools to make it effortless
We Import all our oil, and nearly all our Renewable generation capacity - basically, we definitely need to get value added processing and manufacturing happening bigtime.
Energy Equity is a great use of all renewables initiatives. For the third world populations , a Solar powered energy system supplying; light + refrigerator (with or without cooking abilities) makes energy available in areas where there will be no reliable grid - any time soon. (Not to mention the frörest regression near population centres (especially in semi arid zones) has nothing (much) to do with climate change - on the main, but firewood collection - Free people from energy tyranny, increase greening and arable acrage fertility.....
- 3rd Hand First generation EVs all need batteries replaced - optimism re. battery longevity seems exclusively for cars manufactured after 2015-2016... We still need to see what reality brings.
And you don't mention the burning of dung for fuel; would you like your dinner cooked over a dung fire?
Roll on electric power for the third world !
Check out the Bjørn Nyland channel. Recently posted a video on the "Nissan leaf dead pack" subject.
Conclusion, easy fix.
@@rogerstarkey5390 : Gruber motors also have swapped and/ or removed dead cells from Tesla packs (having a range of replacement cells to attempt to batch / impedance match is useful for a long lived solution.
The more parallel cells the less the impact of simply removing dodgy cells - in "modern" 800V architecture there are less parallel cells (ie 800V needs 222 batteries for the "voltage pile" - (parallel architecture is simple if cell capacity is known) ) for any given total capacity - increasing the percentage "degredation" of the entire pack..
I think Orkney will be a hundred percent renewable soon.
😄🥰🥰Eytan, Will you consider coming to Lismore NSW from 21 to 24 Sept FIELD DAYS? ☀Battery Electric Vehicles ☀☀and ☀Renewable Energy☀☀. Ian
one thing to think of..I live in WA. I upgraded my solar system to 13 Kw with a 10-kw Inverter and a 13kw Battery. By law my MCB was reduced to 40 amps per phase when it was 63A. I can only export 1.5Kw now when my old system could produce 5Kw. So, Synergy here is limiting the power the buy for 10% of what they sell it for. That is so anti progression on solar use and payback for consumers. I had my first brown out this summer. Selected blackouts by the only power company we have. When WA gets deregulation here free power will flow from solar where generators will not be needed.
How did you suffer from a blackout when you have a battery?
More battery storage is the best answer. I’m at the point right now that I could unplug from the grid and it honestly wouldn’t worry us at all, except maybe in really extreme bad weather that lasts many days. We can shift our cooking for example to LPG when the sun doesn’t shine much for days on end.
Solar to Singapore is over - they had a fall out
Feb 28 2023: New South Wales will consider EIGHT NEW COAL MINES and expansions this year that could release 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. They include the Newstan mine near Newcastle, the Chain Valley colliery near Mannering Park and the Moolarben mine east of Mudgee. “Dangerous climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels like coal has led to devastating extreme weather events all over NSW,”. “[The planning minister] Anthony Roberts should have amended planning laws to put a safe climate before coal and gas mining, but he has failed to do so.
“Due to his failure to act, NSW is now staring down the barrel of the biggest climate bomb from coalmine expansions since the Paris agreement - putting our future at risk.”
Anyone building a Coal mine now is looking at a frozen asset in very few years.
May be the fastest way to get rid of the luddites!?
@@rogerstarkey5390 Coal power plant permitting, construction starts and new project announcements accelerated dramatically in China in 2022, with new permits reaching the highest level since 2015. The coal power capacity starting construction in China was six times as large as that in all of the rest of the world combined.
50 GW of coal power capacity started construction in China in 2022, a more than 50% increase from 2021. Many of these projects had their permits fast-tracked and moved to construction in a matter of months. A total of 106 GW of new coal power projects were permitted, the equivalent of two large coal power plants per week 1. The amount of capacity permitted more than quadrupled from 23 GW in 2021. Of the projects permitted in 2022, 60 GW were not under construction in January 2023, but are likely to start construction soon, indicating even more construction starts in 2023. In total, 86 GW of new coal power projects were initiated, more than doubling from 40 GW in 2021.
The largest amount of capacity moved ahead in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Hubei.
New coal power capacity added to the grid kept steady from 26.2 GW in 2021 to 26.8 GW in 2022. These two years had the lowest annual additions since 2003, reflecting the lower level of construction starts around 2017-2020. Capacity additions will rebound in a few years when projects that broke ground last year begin to come online.
China has seen a rapid increase in electric peak loads in 2021-2022, with the highest recorded momentary load increasing by 230 GW, due to an increase in the prevalence of air conditioners and exceptionally intense heat waves. This is prompting an increase in coal power plant development, especially in major electricity demand centres and provinces neighboring them.
Seems a strange way to spell his name?
Why don’t they just site the solar panels in Singapore?
Robert, I think his name is Eytan, not Ethan…
Wow, Australian politicians were so, soo out of touch. Abu Dhabi started building solar farms in 2009. Now has many GWa solar capacity, and 100 billion barrel oil reserves. Guess they weren't coal buyers, so how would your politicians ever know? Internet?
Regarding the very large / high performance EVs being launched 12:25
I have no problem with this, as due to the relatively high costs of EV platforms at the moment, it makes sense to sell high priced EVs, as the profit margins can be much higher. Eventually, the overall costs will decrease, partly on the back of the lessons learned in selling high-end EVs and commensurate increase in production volumes.
Where I do have problem with these luxury EVs, is when the tax system treats them preferentially, due to their lack of tail pipe emissions, but totally ignores the total amount of energy and resources they required in production and daily driving.
Drive a huge luxury EV, because it is great to drive, but don't pretend you are saving the planet, or should be taxed lower than a small affordable ICE car, simply because of its EV status.
True.
Incentives should be on an income based sliding scale in favour of the "less financially able".
There's a whiff of "cheap second car for the kids" about some schemes, when they're advertised as "advancing affordability".
The best we could say is "it's a start"(?)
However. Your view on "resources to produce and run" is incorrect.
I tried to find information/links to the guy you interviewed in the description below, but all there was was link after link about yourself and your web site not even one for the topic/person IN the video, so it's all just about you and you alone? This is not cool.
I so hope P-Dutty doesn't get in at the next election. I'd hate to go back to the days of "Electric cars kill baby seals" and "Solar panels cause cancer." 🙄
There’s a shortage of motor mechanics in Australia.
Young people aren’t interested in it as a career.
For what it's worth; in addition to pushing solar and wind much, much faster, we need to be investing in Geo-thermal in a big way. Every country, city, district can have their own 24/7, totally reliable geothermal plant. I know we need it in the pretty immediate future, but 'super-grids' are just too fragile. The chances of a Carrington level, or higher solar flare hitting Earth in the next, say... twenty years, are pretty high and a bad one, would knock our entire civilisation on its ass, with no means of getting back up. I'm not sure why this isn't taken more seriously in planning. Sorry, the connection to geothermal is that, it would be a lot easier to get a plant, which is essentially mechanical and located five miles away, up and supplying heat and electricity, than get reconnected to the (destroyed?) solar farm a thousand miles away.
There is a huge difference between Tesla and most other big companies. Tesla has a software expert running it with many engineers in key positions. Most conventional companies have business graduates who are good at shuffling paper but don't understand technology and mistrust technicians.
Even more, Tesla has an "Everything expert" running it.
He's top level on every aspect of the company.
Why have humans waited so long to embrace free energy from the sun 😢
He is insane, that's the only way he could believe he has any innocence. Certifiably insane.
Robert is edited in to his interview, something seems off about it! Like he’s not the real interviewer and its an acted out interview! 😂
The northern energy link won't become viable.
Grid transmission is incredibly expensive.
20million buildings in Australia.
10million homes. 40% of grid demand is the home needs.
33kwh from a home rooftop solar PV can power the home and the grid.
Every building rooftop can massive oversupply the grid.
All that is needed is 20million EVs.
Parked 23hrs a day is the avg for vehicles.
The existing grid is perfect.
Save $trillions on grid expansion to disperse concentrated electrical energy.
Central power plants and grid expansion is stupid.
Snowy 2 is a transmission disaster.
Nobody does the maths, too many stupid people? My apologies for the outburst.
With 20million EVs in the future, we do not need to waste our national wealth.
Ah! The "V2G conundrum"
How to make the vehicle "A HOUSE BATTERY" when the vehicle IS NOT AT THE HOUSE?
A vehicle may be "parked" but unless it's "parked at home" it serves no purpose.
A far better choice is a "community battery"
(Megapack, etc) serving a number of homes.
One connection to the grid to "sell" energy ("complicated connection" on every home being cited as a reason not to connect individually)
Home solar collected (Megapacks have all connection hardware installed as standard) then sent either to the homes (free?) or traded to the grid.
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It's fast, simple less complicated and collects far more valuable energy for households without selling it cheap for the grid operator to store in THEIR batteries(!) and sell it for a profit later.
@Roger Starkey keep it simple.
Every building is connected to the grid.
Every EV is parked 23hrs a day
except for rush hour, Hahaha.
Every EV drives from one building to another building or carpark.
The home robotic vacuum cleaner can teach the selfparking EV to connect to the grid.
The EV battery is full more often than empty.
You see in the horse and cart day, people had to think differently.
Only part of the petroleum was used daily, and after many days, you had to drive somewhere to fill the vehicle with inflammable petroleum, 100kg?
So if the entire grid connects all buildings and all EV batteries and PV on every rooftop, we will have too much electricity.
You can do the maths, ezi pezi.
@Roger Starkey actually I do think community battery will be a great transition thing
I think that the community battery near the corner shops would be a great earner for a fast charging service.
It could slowly suck up excess electricity and dump it rapidly into a needy EV for a fee.
The money will be in the grid ownership as everyone will pay to be connected, and the grid will be the backup and provide the balance in the grid connections.
Robert is a very nice chap - but he really needs to STFU and let his interviewees actually get a word in edgeways. Possibly ask a short question and let the person talk is the way to go?
Yes, Robert likes the sound of his own voice too much.
Australia should stop mining coal.
Electric cars only make sense on Lease hire, after 100km many of the cars have batteries which are in serious decline and the cost of replacement batteries make the 5yr+ second hand market uneconomical and unaffordable to a huge swathe of the population.
I usually buy secondhand cars in the 8-12K range and run them for 6-8 years usually at a devaluation of 1k per year. 8 yr old EV's are practically worthless when the battery has to replaced.
A 1.2ltr petrol car may have a further 10years life before major repair. The overall life/cost of EV's are not good, maybe sodium batteries may be the next shining light.
Congratulations!
Wrong on every point!
That takes talent!
/s
After 10 years about 1.5% of EVs has had the battery replaced. I bought a 7 years old EV 2 years ago, it has lost 10% of tha battery capacity.
So Robert doesn’t like iron ore, coal and oil. But that’s what China uses to make and ship the electric cars, windmills and solar panels he loves so much.. No balance to this presentation - as usual.
Well, there's a solution!
Don't export "your" industry to China!
Repatriate the industry (and pollution!) And "own the problem"!
Of course, you will also have to retrain the population to produce the quality of product, then pay higher wages which will introduce inflation..... 🤔
Dilemma?
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(Should I point out that CO2 output per capita by China ranks WAY below that of Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, etc....?
I believe they're about level with the UK.
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Its a good idea to check data before "throwing stones in your glass house"?
I'm in Australia and I want to switch to a climate job. How can I do it?
Are you young and fit? Talk to some roofers who install solar panels. That is one option; sure there are others, do your research !
Train as an Electrician?
Contact Tesla?
Loads of chargers coming your way!