Why Canada Is NAILING Renewables with Paul Martin | The Plus Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2022
- Paul Martin is a chemical engineer, with 30 years of experience
across the full breadth of the chemical process industry. Now heading up his own Spitfire Research Inc, he offers his expertise in chemical process development, the vetting of research, hydrogen, biofuels, electrification and decarbonization.
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One of Robert's most deeply informative interviews. Excellent.
"What else can we burn?" reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where the peasants are asked "What else burns?" and their answer is "More witches".
That's the thought that pops into my mind every time too- but sadly, when I say "more witches", too few people laugh these days. Watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail is such a good education in logic, politics, religion...
@@spitfireresearchinc.7972 ...and also to me about people in general. I should stop now, before I talk about philosophy and try to sing *that* song :-)
@@RupertReynolds1962 ...and Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am"!
@Spitfire Research Inc. Yes Monty Python!! Way underappreciated group of philosophers!
Great podcast and finally, Québec is mentioned in a Fully Charged episode !! Come and visit us Robert !
I have the pleasure of knowing Paul personally and he’s a very knowledgeable and common sense guy. Great interview!
He is an idiot, the emissions are simply transferred from the car to the power station chimney. Canada is powered by natural gas same as Germany was before Putin cut the gas.
What an incredibly informative guest - well done Robert! 👏👏
As ever a brilliant well informed show teaching us all , except those who are brain dead or steeped in the oil and gas industry excellent work please keep it up !!
Another knowledgeable guest and a nother great episode. Thank you and keep them coming!
As a friend of Paul Martin, and as someone with deep respect for his opinion and experience Our hydrogen journey will intersect I am sure, as we are looking at decarbonization of aviation. Extraordinary podcast. Well done.
Just like the previous one, another great chat, based in logic and common sense, with a sprinkling of humour and great information.
Excellent.
Thank you Robert and Paul.
I always enjoy whenever Paul Martin shows up. His wealth of knowledge from the years spent working in the hydrogen field give him the credibility, and hands-on practical experience that most other RUclips commentators simply cannot match. One thing that I've spent a lot of time pondering is: Given that the problems with hydrogen should be so apparent to anyone with a basic grasp of arithmetic, how are so many people so deep into this boondoggle in the making? Surely it can't all be fossil lobbying, right?
The conclusion that I've eventually reached is that the problems with hydrogen largely exist 'behind the curtain'. That is to say, the aspiring hydrogen consumer might understand that the whole business of getting hydrogen to the pump is really hard... but they don't CARE! ...Because that's not going to be THEIR problem. They will just pull up and buy the stuff. Someone else will figure out all the hard unpleasant bits. Just like gasoline, the average western consumer doesn't care about all the wars fought, the human rights abused or the environmental damage that has been carried out when they pull up to the pump to top off that canyonareo. Their perceived involvement in the process only begins at the pump.
If true, this is obviously a flawed calculation for many reasons, but I think the key is that the lure of outsourcing the hard bits for their idea of personal convenience is a selfish calculation that far too many people are more than willing to make. Even if it means massive economic cost to us all.
The latter part of this conversation reminds me of the time I was interviewed by EXXON, formerly ESSO Fawley refinery. They wanted to offer me a job for even more than the then Premier League's footballer wages I was being paid at STC in Southampton, in SOTA undersea fibre optic manufacture. I went on a tour up one of the tall cracking towers. There were openings on the sides to see out. Way below me I could see green toxic pools, presumably cobalt rich, of waste. What I didn't tell ESSO was that only a couple of years earlier I'd decided to go the environmentalist way. I'd gone to this interview mainly out of curiosity. So when they offered me the job I did my best acting performance ever to reluctantly turn it down. There was no way I wanted that company in my history.
Great stuff it’s good to see that even experts can get it wrong when he said he replaced his gas boiler with another one. That was only because gas is so cheap in Canada, should have put a Air to Air system in for heating and cooling his house. We live in Kent England, had solar panels for 8 years, then a battery, then two electric cars and for 3 years Air 2 Air system. Just had my new estimated Octopus bill in for October 2022 for two people in a 3 bedroom house £8 a month.
Bob Blood Kent England.
Any combustion whatsoever in your house - or anywhere - is a gross mistake and installing one disqualifies one from being credible.
@@brucemacneil good luck doing an unscheduled boiler replacement with an air source heatpump in February in Canada. If that discredits me in your eyes, so be it- but it says more about you than about me frankly.
@@spitfireresearchinc.7972 Depends on the province. The correct choice is always the heat pump.
Great information as always 👍 Thanks Robert and Paul for sharing your knowledge and experience. I am from BC 🇨🇦 2 hours from Revelstoke hydro electric dam and Model 3 owner.
Love these discussions and great analysis
Great job guys
Thank you Paul and Robert, you have made it very clear about the Hydrogen debate.
Extremely thought provoking! Thank you.
Incredible show as always, Robert.
Wonderful interview
Great conversation about hydrogen, hour and twenty minutes just flew by 😄 thank you Robert 👍
Fantastic episode guys!
Fantastic podcast with a very smart engineer
Such a great interview. Finally a full and in depth explanation as to exactly why hydrogen cars are not a thing or ever going to be a thing. Lots more educational stuff besides, like your last podcast, absolutely invaluable educative information. Thanks Robert.👍👏
All fossil fuel contains hydrogen.
@@ValMartinIreland well so does water and a lot else besides...not really relevent though eh?
When I saw Paul Martin was guest, I thought "what is the former PM doing?" this Paul was very interesting, probably more so than the former PM.
Phenomenal interview thank you!
A brilliant podcast! Paul is an amazing presenter. It feels like I've just had another university lecture.
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
This sense needs really to become MUCH more common!
Great show!
New Zealand uses a lot of renewable energy in an interesting way.
Aye - currently 83% of the supply here.
Great stuff. Thanks
You are simply my hero :D
Great episode 👍
Very interesting interview :-) Thanks
Another excellent podcast!
You are mad. Putin turned off Europe's gas and they panicked. Renewables failed completely.
Get a UPS Robert - all electronics should be protected. When the inverter cuts in and out it can hurt your sensitive electronics - save them ! UPS costs bugger all.
26:27 Exactly! EDIT: This is just _so good_ but also very multifaceted... If you could find the time and resources to chop it up to shorter explainer videos (maybe even a super-cut of several interviews on similar subjects?), those would be easier to share. Please consider it! Thanks!
Electric cars were invented before ICE engines. The reason why it took so long to perfect EVs was due to the limited amount of profit in this segment, so old money did everything it could to irradicate the technology, creating myths and brainwashing the population. See anything familiar?
Another brilliant talk!
Why?
Here in Portland, Oregon, we have used the Columbia River and Bonneville Dam to provide hydro-electric power to this entire area.
Excellent interview second that comments!
Plain speaking about energy, renewables, hydrogen - thank you.
Excellent!
This is an excellent podcast. I think that this podcast is woefully under-viewed.
For desalination, A good place to dispose of brine would be salt flats, which wouldn't mind getting saltier and flatter. There might even be a lithium angle in there somewhere. I think all the salt flats are way inland though, damned tectonics.
Hi Robert,
One of the ads that came up during your podcast video was a huge company and european politician pushing the hydrogen green future!
With regards to northern communities that run on diesel, there was a project done in BC before COVID by the guys who started Edison Motors where an 85-90kW generator was replaced with a 30-40kW generator with batteries, inverters and solar. In the summer, the system could run completely on solar at times. The smaller gen covered the bade load with batteries and inverters operating as a peaker plant. The savings in one year were over $70,000 and the project cost was described as around $120,000. Please fact check, but this seemed like a good solution for northern off grid communities
if your powerwall is a little slow for your internet router you can get mini DC UPS that will keep your router and Gfast or FTTP ONT working seamlessly!
It's so nice to see the "hydrogen alternative (s)" debunked. Good job!
We are experiencing an increase in gas costs in Ontario (Canada). My price per cubic metre this September (2022) was 31 cents. Last year at this time the price was 13 cents per cubic metre. My equal billing plan payment was $64 a month last year to $90 a month this year. My friends on social media are reporting similar increases.
...and that gas cost is still a fraction of the cost per joule of electricity. Electricity prices are also sadly also determined by the cost of marginal (extra) production which is also gas in Ontario, so expect tough sledding in future. Of course if our dear leader DoFo hadn't cancelled all those renewable energy projects when he was first elected, we might have a bit more electricity available to replace gas in the future. Sadly the man is a closeted climate change denialist- too wiley to admit it publicly but every action shows that he is one.
Yes but what explanations do they give for that?
@@pauljefferies9087 None, politics doesn't require that.
As you say, don't let the easy stuff that is cheap and we can do now (solar, wind and direct storage) be held up by governments legislating and subsidising expensive and unproven technologies (hydrogen, new nuclear).
This. Never let any governments dragging regulations stop you doing what's simple, effective and correct. Live the life you wish to see in the world.
Canada has similarities to Australia. The extent geographically is similar. The population density is similar. Australians the advantage of sunlight and it is warmer.
We should seriously study the Canadians.
Electric cars were invented before ICE engines. The reason why it took so long to perfect EVs was due to the limited amount of profit in this segment, so old money did everything it could to irradicate the technology, creating myths and brainwashing the population. See anything familiar?
Australian research is not the problem at all, and in fact is as competent as anywhere else.
The issues are more to do with lobbyists for the fossil fuel industries seeking the ear of the government.
These industries know perfectly well that renewables will collapse the fossil fuel market in a heartbeat sort of thing.
Basically stupid corporation types getting in the way of progress.
@@t1n4444 Suggestions for the new name: Fully Oiled or Fully Gassed.
@@t1n4444 Canada faces a similar problem as conservatism is on the rise. They want to go back to more oil and gas. Instead of renewables. Australia and Canada should work together to help developing on tidal power as well.
The economies of both countries are based on export primary resources - ie digging up stuff and selling it aboard from timber to coal.
Thanks
Part of the electricity being used by the gas and oil industry is pumping the fuel from Long Beach CA to Phoenix and Las Vegas and beyond. Also from Texas to the rest of America and Tucson AZ. Not saying that the EV cars will use less power than the gas and jet fuel pumps, but there is a savings of some amount.
I live in Cumbria - Sellafield nuclear plant means our electricity is
At last somebody who talks sense. He is saying exactly what i have been posting for ages.
Do the big easy stuff first. That will commodify and develop the technology further.
That will make the hard stuff a lot easier by the time the focus shifts to those.
And like he says, the last 7 or 8 percent we can do carbon capture for or something for the time being until the technology is there to fix that as well.
Solar and storage will spread itself out over the grid on it's own. We do not need mega battery centers on the network that have enough storage to run the entire country for a whole day.
People will buy their own to fill when daytime energy will be dirt cheap and use it when the sun goes down.
Every house a 5kwh storage appliance are a whole lot of gigawatts that are not needed in centralised facilities.
It really isn't as hard and massive as the oil compankes want people to believe. Just create economic incentives so that it is attractive for people and businesses to fill their own roofs and run their own storage. If they can save money doing it, they will.
Hydrogen car without the supplier. An example.
Use your own solar/wind electricity to charge your Hydrogen cars battery. Going for a drive your car will, crack the very expensive super clean water into hydrogen, without compressing it (to avoid compression and expansion expenses), your freshly produced hydrogen will then be converted into electricity to do work and propel you forward.
Engineers love simple elegant solutions to problems. As long as the marketing department isn’t involved we remove all the inefficient processes to maximise output (in this case work).
The result being… now let me think! Would that be just an electric car?
Wish the UK politicians would sit down and listen to this excellent talk. Why do we in UK have an energy politician who known nothing about energy production or chemical manufacturing. He would be great if Greek gods were a real thing and steam trains were a new invention.
Good look at the overall situation, but I would be a little less pessimistic about hydrogen for grid storage. There are electrolyzers that are 95% efficient, it does not need to be at high pressure if it is for grid storage, and it can produce electricity at high efficiency by burning it to drive steam turbines.
The answer to NOx formation when burning hydrogen is to burn it lean to keep temperatures low: Stoichiometric ratio for H2:Air is 30% (by volume), but H2:Air mixes will detonate as low as 4% and combustion temperatures are sufficiently low to avoid NOx formation around 10%. This does not make hydrogen any more viable as a fuel - I'm just saying NOx formation is the very least of the problems.
Locally high temperatures can still cause NOx generation. And running with enough excess air to completely avoid NOx formation affects efficiency unless you're making low value comfort heat.
Here in Jonquière Québec, two or three years ago Hydro-Jonquière our local electrical company when asked if they would allow a local resident to fit solar panels the president replied " over my dead body "( or French words to that effect) Dinosaurs are everywhere . 😊
I completely get the hydrogen thing now,…
Great Vid Kid 😂
i thought you interviewed our former Prime Minister for a second there
Very interesting interview! I will say, however, that I think there's more to the hydrogen thing than it would appear from a Canadian perspective. Canada is blessed with a lot of hydro power, but in a lot of European countries we have to rely on much more variable renewables like wind and solar. Certainly there's no way I could heat my house in southern Germany using solar electricity in the winter. If I had a fuel cell system in the house I could produce hydrogen in the summer and use it to heat all winter. The beauty is that the inefficiency of the fuel cell isn't a problem in the winter, since you can use the waste heat as well. Oh, and for the record, I'm a bit of a pinko 😉
You'd need giant storage tanks for that hydrogen, and you'd never be permitted to do it anyway.
Great discussion points.
Couple of other thoughts - there are industries where heat generation is the intension, furnaces e.g., this could be a good extension of the discussion.
Further point - let's not greenwash Canada - coal industry and protection of is very much a administration aim.
It Would be interesting to see an analysis comparating The economics of green hydrogen for making fertilizer 2A biological supply chain for making fertilizer i.e. Alfalfa, leguminous cover crops being fermented into to liquid fertilizer or ground into dry meal. Then just to add another layer of complexity on top for giggles we could look at next generation biological sources of fertilizer like farmed kelp or azola fern
We already do crop rotations to the extent practical, and yet we still have to add nitrogen fertilizers. It's not us that needs the extra nitrogen- it's the plants. There are promising approaches to reduce how much artificial N fertilizer we use to achieve the same yields, but eliminating half the nitrogen cycle on earth (we humans are that half through Haber Bosch ammonia production) is not in the cards without people or their food animals doing with far fewer calories than today.
Hi, i did hear a mention of CCS. My view is storing carbon artificially is not reducing carbon its just hiding it. If we have to use CCS it needs to be in a process equivalent to what happens in nature.
It’s 15 F here, I definitely want to walk everywhere in this weather
38:00 Moving hydrogen is very simple. Zeppelins!
It would be intersting to hear Paul's point of view concerning the Kvaerner Process, which converts methane into Carbon Black and Hydrogen without producing Carbon Dioxide.
I asked this question too early in the video. Paul answered the question later
I've come to a conclusion about the average person, whom is against renewable energy.
It's just this, they have been convinced if it doesn't make noise, it's not work.
This trickles down to everything we do. To the point, tools or devices we humans use are engineered so a certain amount of noise is emitted on purpose.
does anyone know when Mixergy are going to release their own version of the Eddi?
The thing with all these renewables is that you use what you have locally. The UK for example HAS salt caverns, and HAS wind and solar and HAS CCGT plants that can be used to burn hydrogen. So if the CCGT plants are used to balance the grid when there's a deficit in wind during the winter they can burn stored hydrogen, and any further hydrogen could be used for fertilizer etc.
Paul is engaged in happy talk. He confused hydro with wind and solar. ruclips.net/video/SRxzhpDZcJ8/видео.html
The UK however doesn't have the money either to run expensive electrolyzers and CCGTs at low capacity factors, nor to buy 3 kWh and get only 1 back out of storage PLUS pay for all that poorly used capital. The idea of hydrogen storage sounds good, but the economics don't pencil out.
@@spitfireresearchinc.7972 Yeah, it does have money to do that. The electrolyzers aren't the expensive bit, the cost is the electricity to power them, but even that isn't so bad. And we already have plenty of CCGTs that could be repurposed, they're not particularly fussy about fuel, a lot of them have already been converted from running on coal in fact.
@@BooBaddyBig the cost of the electrolyzers per kg of H2 they produce, especially when used at poor capacity factor, is and will remain a significant fraction of the cost of FOSSIL hydrogen- you know, the stuff we need to replace.
@@spitfireresearchinc.7972 Do you have a number?
Unfortunately Canada recently signed a deal to generate and ship hydrogen from Atlantic Canada to Germany by 2025. This interview highlights how stupid that is. We don’t always ‘nail renewables’.
Terrible title, agreed- but fun interview.
I did not know about the phenomenon of Hydrogen heating up as it expands (at room temperature). I think it's more to do with passing through a restriction that causes the heating? If you cool it first it changes to the property of a refrigerant and cools instead.
Yeah, uhhhhh what that ?
@@pauljefferies9087 it's another effed-up property of hydrogen that makes it so very "special"...
Ah, so not THAT Paul Martin (the right honourable one). :-) Great interview!
Nice one - so much more interesting than car reviews as car reviews have got so less interesting now their novelty is wearing off (except for the odd new development)
Great interview. So hydrogen generates NOx 😮
The other thing is fuel cells generate water vapor.. surely a warming problem especially for aviation 🤔
And also it's an indirect GHG (at least 6x CO2e👀) when it interacts with hydroxyl radicles & methane in atmos8
Another thing I was thinking about was the efficiency of Solar panels. They are from what I’ve read only 23% efficient then factor in cleaning, cloudy days%. Better than oil because they’re cleaner but efficiency is a lot lower than I thought it would be.
That’s a strange metric to stress. Humans are 25% efficient from the food we eat. ICE cars are about 20% efficient. The sun input of solar panels costs nothing in contrast to any other system!
Efficiency of use of sunlight? Why is that important? Only affects the area required, which has yet to become a problem anywhere i know of.
@@lengould9262 correct, unless you want to make as many kWh as possible from a fixed amount of, say, roof area, efficiency matters a lot less than how many dollars each kWh produced by the panels costs you up front in the cost OF the panels in the 1st place. Cheaper panels with less efficiency can make you more money than more expensive panels with higher efficiency if you have lots of area to install panels on.
I just want to know where he got his batteries from! Alibaba, need the page.
Prices have gone up...but I bought mine from Exliporc New Energy in Shenzen.
Renewable electricity, bravo UK! That is like putting one’s own money back into one’s own pockets.
How much of the UK's wind energy curtailed
Very little. Wind and solar power is prioritised after nuclear and what is curtailed is gas. A cursory glance at Gridwatch will show you that. Now the 1.4GW Norway interconnector is up and and running, and a second France one has been commissioned, we can import or export up to 8GW, so we are a LONG way from having excess wind power that needs to be curtailed.
I believe what you are after is “constrained”, and that affects some wind farms that have been given the go ahead, but for which the grid connection has not yet been upgraded. These wind farms, when generating more than the connection can take, are constrained by National Grid, and receive “constraint payments”.
As you can imagine, that is not something that the Grid likes doing, so wind farms only get the go ahead if there is reasonable plan to upgrade the connection.
Constraint payment hit a fairly high amount just before the Scotland - England interconnector was up and running, and whenever it suffers reliability issues, and is entirely an engineering and planning issue (which incidentally affects fossil plant too).
It’s not the killer anti-wind power argument you seem to think it is, given I’ve seen another post from you going on about it.
1:03:00 There's been a lot of really interesting research about about biochar and other high carbon amendments ability to ability to enhance the productivity of agricultural soils. Couldn't the carbon black made from this natural gas be rendered into a similar amendment for enhancing agricultural productivity that would at least be a way to add value with this byproduct?
Biochar and carbon black are not similar. Burning natural gas is no better than burning any fossil fuel. CO2 is the result of burning any fossil fuel.
@Solexx X Natural gas is CH4. Biochar and Carbon black are both solid C. As i understand it, making carbon black from natural gas would mean peeling off the H4 (likely in the form of two H2 molecules), leaving you with C. No CO2 made. I don't understand exactly how this process works. It's the first I've ever heard of it, maybe my understanding is wrong ??
Is he saying that we are needlessly worrying about seasonal storage?
liquid air energy storage. Off the shelf equipment. Scalable. Non toxic. Non explosive. High efficiency when recovering energy from storage.
Do you have an independent study of a working system?
@@marvintpandroid2213 Good point. I will try to cite a source.
Expensive relative to batteries unfortunately.
In The province of Alberta in Canada our Premier has placed a 7 month Moratorium on Solar and Wind Farms. Why you may ask, well she and her Fossil Fuel buddies doesn't want the transition to continue but instead keep the Oil And Gas flowing. She even wants to produce Hydrogen from Natural Gas. I think She's a Dinosaur Fossil.
There is a UK company who've invented, manufacture and have working hydrogen steam turbines that burn hydrogen and oxygen at 3000deg C to produce pure h2o - it is over 90% efficient in this conversion to heat. This process uses the Hydrogen and Oxygen that has been made when electrolysing water so is completely circular. This solves the NOx and SOx issue relative to a hydrogen fuel cell. Not sure if Paul Martin knows about some of these new developments?
Oxy-fuel combustion isn't new, and isn't very desirable because of the extremely high temperatures involved. Steam is sometimes used as a diluent to keep flame temperatures down. Yes, it eliminates NOx formation but it's far from easy or cheap to do.
Heat pumps make sense for those using oil heaters in rural areas, where natural gas is not available. It can even reduce propane use in homes in very cold areas, during the months where it is above 5F.
I installed a ductless heat pump from Amazon for less than $1,000 in my nephew's rental home using a TV cabinet to hold the indoor unit, and running the tubing out the window. It is 12,000 Btu and can plug into a 120 volts.
If you look at off grid homes, they are a model of what we can do with on grid towns. They can have a huge solar system and battery back up for one home, and then size that out to the whole city size, then the whole county, and the entire state! The study has already been done, and the cost of battery storage and solar and wind power is there.
Look for a study of overproduction to meet our demands. By installing extra solar, wind and batteries, we can meet the demand by 130% and then curtail some of the solar and wind power to reach back to 100% of our needs. Then hydroelectric and nuclear reactors that we have running now can make up the small amount that can not be made from solar and wind power.
I was looking up Electrolyses and discovered their system will produce 4 Kg per hour using 403 KW of power, or more like 100 KW per Kg, about twice what you quoted in this video.
I was really happy to hear about your design for the carbon black production, using natural gas and producing hydrogen as a by-product to make ammonia in a cleaner way as well.
Long distance trucking can happen using overhead trolly electric lines, they are doing this in Germany into 3 large cities with 60 Km long power lines. I am thinking that along I5 in California, they could power 10 mile long stretch followed by 30 miles without overhead lines. And give the trucks more power going up the Grapevine and other hills. San Francisco was using trolly lines to power electric busses back in the 80's and 90's.
You talk about First Nations in the far north needing diesel fuel for heat and electricity. If they switch to wind turbines, that can provide power all winter long, and then they can run electric heaters to provide a lot of their heat needs that are not met by burning wood. A town in Alaska was able to reduce it's diesel fuel use by 80% by installing a couple of 1 MW wind turbines, with heated blades and able to work in -40 temperatures. Kodiak island installed a few wind turbines and also reduced their diesel fuel use by over 50%.
You can check with the oil drilling industry, and see if they are getting hot oil out of the ground. Many times they discover 160F water while drilling for oil, and bypass that as something that is in the way of producing energy. One guy in Finland was reporting that his 160 meter deep well on his property is producing 160F water from it. Sure it cost a lot to drill the hole, but now he had basically unlimited hot water for heating his home and domestic hot water, even enough domestic hot water for the neighbors!
Heat pumps as run on electricity generated by gas in Canada.
@@ValMartinIreland About 50% large hydro, some nuclear and the remaining gas. Ontario has 0 coal, other parts have some coal, but that is being phased out.
Someone who didn't let Robert get a word in -- that's saying something.
Yeah, on this topic, sometimes I just can't shut up!
Please, please, please, do an episode about solar hot water and one about solar cookers for camping!
Eh? Buy from your local outdoors supply shop....
Modern Chinese inverters come with an option to attach a generator too.
Ref comments @ 105.15: I have a solution for a has boiler that would undoubtedly be cheaper than natural gas and woul simply require a small alteration in the home as compared with a heat pump. I just need some assistance to link up with either tools and a workshop, or an engineer or two to make it happen. Can anyone help?
Sensible suggestions
You'll have to look into a EcoFlow Delta for your office. It's a brilliant battery that can be wheeled around and provides portable/UPS power.
I really like the delta mini. It is only 23 lbs but it will output 1800w. The batteries are only 882wh but that keeps the price down and is why it’s only 23 lbs. Most other manufacturers match there output and battery size. So an 1800w output would have 1800wh of batteries. This makes sure the unit will last 1 hour. But since I don’t need more than 30 minutes the delta mini works great for me.
The ecoFlow Delta is not a true UPS. It might have a full second from power outage to the point it takes over. That would restart most devices that have a computer inside. But works fine for a lot of things like a refrigerator or a fan.
Electric cars were invented before ICE engines. The reason why it took so long to perfect EVs was due to the limited amount of profit in this segment, so old money did everything it could to irradicate the technology, creating myths and brainwashing the population. See anything familiar?
Hydrogen:
The most performance critical application of all is rockets. Hydrogen is the highest thrust per weight fuel there is so NASA used it on the Shuttle main engine (with solid boosters for first stage). However, all commercial rockets use Kerosene or (Nat Gas in case of Starship) because even though Hydrogen is higher performance, it’s too much trouble to deal with. Recently, NASA SLS rocket is having delays from Hydrogen leaks. So Hydrogen makes no sense for cars and light trucks.
We produce enough gas, oil and electricity in the UK to meet our needs, the only reason we are paying an extortionate rip off price is because, the gas and electric companies are selling our energy on the open market, and having to buy back at a dearer price than we produced it. ridiculous profiteering.
New program name suggestion: fully oiled or fully gassed, depending on what end of the spectrum lies your perspective.
If you want to innovate something, you need people that think out of the box and search for solutions to known problems.
You also need people who can tell the difference between possible, impractical and impossible, and don't waste their time working on impossible things- like trying to make hydrogen into an efficient and effective fuel.
i get lost at 50mins on the point about energy as a currency. and the 20% wasted in refining. If it is it wasted, how is it used to make electricity (which he says in the next sentence)?
Heat and work (electricity) are both measured in the same units- joules, kWh, BTU etc.- but are not WORTH the same. Heat is worth 1/3 or less what work is worth.
In a refinery, 20% of the energy in every barrel of oil is wasted in refining. But of that 20%, only 15% (i.e. 3% of the energy in the barrel) is used in the form of electricity- the other 17% is used as heat, produced by burning fuel gas. So for every barrel of oil you don't refine to make fuel, you save only 3% of its energy content in electricity not used in the refinery- not 20%. That's the whole point to that discussion. The notion that you can drive an EV as far on the electricity NOT used to make a gallon of gasoline as you could an engine car ON that gallon of gasoline, is false. www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-exactly-how-much-electricity-does-take-produce-gallon-paul-martin/
See Edison Motors for a startup to reduce fuel consumption and operating costs for the logging and trucking industries.
How do you produce CO2 from Hydrogen since there is no carbon in hydrogen?
Why can’t shipping go back to sail? Worked well for hundreds/thousands of years.