Ppl who live where the air is clean tend to take it for granted. After being in Southeast Asia and experiencing AQI of over 600 burning my lungs gave me perspective.
Idea for Matt to research. Zero Terrain, out of Ireland. Project in Estonia. 500 MW for 12 hours 6000 MW total storage. Instead of using a mountain for pumped hydro storage. Water holding and generators are buried 750 meters underground. Project projected cost 800 million EUROS. It is associated with the 3 Seas project (EU). Hopefully this is helpful.
Unlike western nations where governments are controlled by lawyers, whose only expertise is arguing about issues? In China their government is full of scientists, engineers, doctors etc. People who actually have the skills to analyze and solve problems. Instead of merely arguing over who is going to profit from them.
Ram is currently developing an electric pickup truck. One of the versions of the truck is a range extender version with a battery pack and electric motor to power the wheels and a gas engine as a generator.
The newest civic hybrid also has direct EV drive up to 40 mph. The engine generates energy to the battery. At 40+ mph, the engine runs the wheels directly. It's coming to the general population
Edison Motors just pulled 60k kg of lumber with 2 loads, total vehicle weight roughly 150k pounds. Chase did not even realize he was loaded when he drove up to the scale at the mill. He also noted that the truck only used about 1/3 of the available energy 'bandwidth' (correct me here please), example: used 200 amps and had 600 amps they could use, for powering the drivetrain.
Actually the healthcare and economic costs of breathing diseases is massive. It's literally why governments the world over want you to quit smoking/vaping. Their government chooses it's people over the multinational industry. They don't do that for altruistic reasons. Politicians of any kind rarely do anything for altruism. Mostly what they do comes down to money. Money made, money saved, or money lost, and with some issues all three of those.
Ref. 20:30 The area covered and how it was spread out was easy to understand and good information. That is was in several different location was explained in the video.
I often encounter a vagueness about hybrid cars. It's very important to call a hybrid which can plug in a PHEV or Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Wether it is a series hybrid like the i3 or Volt, or a series-parallel hybrid like the Toyota Prime or Chrysler Pacifica. These are all hybrid fueled. All non-plug hybrids are only hybrid powered, but not hybrid fueled. And they are more like an ICE car than a BEV, as they can never choose a fuel other than gas. To casually just call a PHEV a hybrid does a disservice to understanding.
@@michaelsmithers4900 sure it confusing. But it's based partially on a CARB designations: try making sense of LUV SULEV ZEV ZEV-AT etc. Hybrids are abbreviated as HEV for gas only or PHEV or eREV for ones that can use electricity as a fuel source. Or BEV for one with only electricity as fuel type. Toyota even tried to call their HEV a "self charging Hybrid" which is so nonsensical they got sued in the EU for it. Most people call all PHEV, eREV, and HEVs as all simply hybrids, when sometimes they are talking about a PHEV which is very different than an HEV. Then there is the term "electrified". It's all IMO intentionally vague and confusing on the part of legacy OEMs so to confuse buyers. This my request that us technical speakers be more careful about what we call them. Ie: don't call a PHEV a "Hybrid" because that is the term for gas only which predates the existence of PHEVs.
Relative had a chevy bolt and he loved it. His friends tried to buy it but the dealers didnt want to sell it. Theyd rather sell gas engines. Our tesla drives very long distances but in back woods circumstances a back up is necessary.
I think you missed a few big points on transmission lines; both need to happen together. Sure, technology will move forward, but it impacts both the wind turbines more than transmission lines. The big issue with the transmission line is establishing the right-of-way. Once you have that, adding towers for parallel lines isn't a huge issue. On the hybrids, the problem is that you essentially have two systems instead of just one. Even when you are only talking about a range extender, it needs exhaust systems and safety measures to work. The i3 couldn't be built profitably so it was killed when newer vehicles could offer a path to profitability.
I'd always heard VHS won the wars due to porn choosing VHS. Looking up on wikipedia it mentions it but mostly agrees with Matt and Sean that it was recording length. However, also on the wiki are the truest words ever put to pixels... "What Sony did not take into account was what consumers wanted."
PHEVs have some big disadvantages. Their batteries are generally small and slow to charge relative to BEVs, so you need to charge way more than a BEV. You also cycle the battery far more, so it will degrade faster. Also, you are always carrying a powertrain you aren't using. Gas engines pollute a lot more when they are cold. In nearly all cases, you are better off making the battery bigger, and adding chargers. A logging truck might be an exception. Even EV pickup truck towing, a Silverado can drag a load 200 miles. That's pretty far. I heard a story about a opcoming RAMCharger that was going to have 100 mile EV range and a ICE. If you have one convenient place to charge, you might seldom need to use fuel, but how many can't make a Silverado work? A handful? How many chargers would be needed to go EV?
Small engines tend to be dirtier. PlugIn hybrid owners tend to not plug in. More parts, more repair, more cost. What I’d like to see is a direct dc imput that could be a generator or solar panels a fuel cell etc…
Utility scale power decisions are more complex than just current avoided cost. Transmission lines are expensive, even in Cina, and will drive scale and location of the wind farm - just as it does the scale and location of the coal and hydro. generation plant. And with wind, as a newer tech., you may create demand to prime future production and maintenance savings based on volume today. High volume manufacturing ("HVM") is key to computer-chip fabrication at TSMC and INTEL. Pricing and production schedules will adjust as you build to a demand of 1M wind-turbine blades instead of 100k blades. More may not be better at first blush, but it can make all the difference if you play the long game, as China does.
I own a gen 2 Volt. It feels like I get almost all the benefits of an EV (instant torque for example) but i can just keep driving beyond the electric range. However, not all of them are that functional. These kinds of cars have a lot more engineering issues to work through than you might think in order to combine a gas powered "generator" with electric motors, the transmission, etc. the Volt is a success and an engineering marvel frankly but it's nowhere near as simple as attaching a generator to an EV unfortunately. If you're curious give it a quick Google!
It’s about the component count, as well as fitting a big enough battery for a 80 miles, the car will be too expensive, it may work for pickups. I’m still waiting on my ram charger 🔌
Look at the ROI long term operating cost compared with coal-example look at Australia wind and solar. The economics are crazy in favor of wind and solar.
China builds on such a grand scale that the failures will be spectacular too. But even though they are spectacular, the failures still tend to just be a drop in the bucket compared to the successes.
Let’s remember that Electrify America was just Volkswagen’s punishment for Dieselgate……No incentive that the system had to work, since none of their vehicles could use them…….And still can’t, most of the time🙄😁😎
US 🇺🇸Electricity mix in 2024 is expected to be as follows: Renewables: 24% of power generation Nuclear: 19% of power generation Coal: 15% of power generation Natural gas: 42% of power generation -China 🇨🇳 Electricity mix in 2024 is expected to be as follows: Renewables: 34% of power generation Nuclear: 5% of power generation Coal: 58% of power generation Natural gas: 3% of power generation Notes📝: --China uses 2x more electricity than the United States but china also have 3.5x more population --only 0.86% of registered vehicles in the United States are plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) VS 10% in China
Alternative views: freeways, transmission lines, bridges in the landscape aren't unattractive to my eyes. Points of light in the night moving along distant invisible roads, the geometrically pure curves through across hills and through forests, replanted vegetation post-construction always with local species (in Australia, at least), thoughtfully designed road lighting, the crystalline colours and shapes of high-density high-rise at dawn and dusk... These have appealed to me since childhood, perhaps as much as as forests, waterfalls, skies coastlines. Yes, yes, I know the many downsides, most of which continue improving, some of which we're still discovering. As for China, the government's concern, always, is prestige, not losing face and about presenting a crafted image to the outside world. They've built entire cities that stand empty, built for the wrong reasons in the wrong places; some of which are already being torn down again. Similarly, flashy high speed rails that aren't making any money because they're in the wrong places and without consideration of inter-connections or practical use. Their existence is the result of false incentives from a government that's out of touch with the reality of any citizens' lives. So much else in China is similarly economically insane. And the revenue? Tax the citizens into the gutters of poverty and sickness. This is a view of the world from where I'm sitting. (There was more but I've lost it and I'm not about to re-read the comments, again.) Thank you again, Matt and Sean, for the puns and fun: I watch far more than I comment - lucky you!
Coal impacts water supply by overuse and pollution of coal extraction, washing waste and fly ash disposal. Coal power plants produce acid rain, particulate pollution and methyl mercury neurological poisoning of every mammal offspring. Adding batteries to the grid allows optimization of all power sources that can operate at their maximum output and stores the base load and interruptible renewable power for use as peaking power and grid frequency control that garners 10 times the revenue as coal baseload power.
Even here in the States a limiting factor on getting new renewable power online is the authorization to connect it to the grid. On power transmissions, I understand many or our transmission lines are being replaced with new conductors that are more efficient.
Nobel cause aside of not wanting your citizens to be sick, there's also add-on economic effects of taking care of these sick people… both the folks who are breathing it, but also mining it. The amount of money to produce 1W of power is ostensibly inconsequential in the larger societal picture.
Ppl who live where the air is clean tend to take it for granted. After being in Southeast Asia and experiencing AQI of over 600 burning my lungs gave me perspective.
Idea for Matt to research. Zero Terrain, out of Ireland. Project in Estonia. 500 MW for 12 hours 6000 MW total storage. Instead of using a mountain for pumped hydro storage. Water holding and generators are buried 750 meters underground. Project projected cost 800 million EUROS. It is associated with the 3 Seas project (EU). Hopefully this is helpful.
Unlike western nations where governments are controlled by lawyers, whose only expertise is arguing about issues? In China their government is full of scientists, engineers, doctors etc. People who actually have the skills to analyze and solve problems. Instead of merely arguing over who is going to profit from them.
Ram is currently developing an electric pickup truck. One of the versions of the truck is a range extender version with a battery pack and electric motor to power the wheels and a gas engine as a generator.
The newest civic hybrid also has direct EV drive up to 40 mph. The engine generates energy to the battery. At 40+ mph, the engine runs the wheels directly.
It's coming to the general population
Edison Motors just pulled 60k kg of lumber with 2 loads, total vehicle weight roughly 150k pounds. Chase did not even realize he was loaded when he drove up to the scale at the mill. He also noted that the truck only used about 1/3 of the available energy 'bandwidth' (correct me here please), example: used 200 amps and had 600 amps they could use, for powering the drivetrain.
Actually the healthcare and economic costs of breathing diseases is massive.
It's literally why governments the world over want you to quit smoking/vaping.
Their government chooses it's people over the multinational industry.
They don't do that for altruistic reasons.
Politicians of any kind rarely do anything for altruism.
Mostly what they do comes down to money.
Money made, money saved, or money lost, and with some issues all three of those.
Ref. 20:30
The area covered and how it was spread out was easy to understand and good information. That is was in several different location was explained in the video.
I often encounter a vagueness about hybrid cars. It's very important to call a hybrid which can plug in a PHEV or Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Wether it is a series hybrid like the i3 or Volt, or a series-parallel hybrid like the Toyota Prime or Chrysler Pacifica. These are all hybrid fueled.
All non-plug hybrids are only hybrid powered, but not hybrid fueled. And they are more like an ICE car than a BEV, as they can never choose a fuel other than gas.
To casually just call a PHEV a hybrid does a disservice to understanding.
Wait isn’t PHEV Misleading? Shouldn’t it be Plug in Hybrid Electric Gas Vehicle? Can’t be a hybrid of one thing unless it’s something else?
@@michaelsmithers4900 sure it confusing. But it's based partially on a CARB designations: try making sense of LUV SULEV ZEV ZEV-AT etc.
Hybrids are abbreviated as HEV for gas only or PHEV or eREV for ones that can use electricity as a fuel source. Or BEV for one with only electricity as fuel type. Toyota even tried to call their HEV a "self charging Hybrid" which is so nonsensical they got sued in the EU for it.
Most people call all PHEV, eREV, and HEVs as all simply hybrids, when sometimes they are talking about a PHEV which is very different than an HEV.
Then there is the term "electrified". It's all IMO intentionally vague and confusing on the part of legacy OEMs so to confuse buyers.
This my request that us technical speakers be more careful about what we call them. Ie: don't call a PHEV a "Hybrid" because that is the term for gas only which predates the existence of PHEVs.
Relative had a chevy bolt and he loved it. His friends tried to buy it but the dealers didnt want to sell it. Theyd rather sell gas engines. Our tesla drives very long distances but in back woods circumstances a back up is necessary.
I think you missed a few big points on transmission lines; both need to happen together. Sure, technology will move forward, but it impacts both the wind turbines more than transmission lines. The big issue with the transmission line is establishing the right-of-way. Once you have that, adding towers for parallel lines isn't a huge issue.
On the hybrids, the problem is that you essentially have two systems instead of just one. Even when you are only talking about a range extender, it needs exhaust systems and safety measures to work. The i3 couldn't be built profitably so it was killed when newer vehicles could offer a path to profitability.
I'd always heard VHS won the wars due to porn choosing VHS. Looking up on wikipedia it mentions it but mostly agrees with Matt and Sean that it was recording length. However, also on the wiki are the truest words ever put to pixels...
"What Sony did not take into account was what consumers wanted."
Sean, I get it that you’re not Matt, but does that mean you’re decided? And if so, what have you decided?
PHEVs have some big disadvantages. Their batteries are generally small and slow to charge relative to BEVs, so you need to charge way more than a BEV. You also cycle the battery far more, so it will degrade faster. Also, you are always carrying a powertrain you aren't using. Gas engines pollute a lot more when they are cold. In nearly all cases, you are better off making the battery bigger, and adding chargers. A logging truck might be an exception. Even EV pickup truck towing, a Silverado can drag a load 200 miles. That's pretty far. I heard a story about a opcoming RAMCharger that was going to have 100 mile EV range and a ICE. If you have one convenient place to charge, you might seldom need to use fuel, but how many can't make a Silverado work? A handful? How many chargers would be needed to go EV?
Small engines tend to be dirtier.
PlugIn hybrid owners tend to not plug in.
More parts, more repair, more cost.
What I’d like to see is a direct dc imput that could be a generator or solar panels a fuel cell etc…
Utility scale power decisions are more complex than just current avoided cost. Transmission lines are expensive, even in Cina, and will drive scale and location of the wind farm - just as it does the scale and location of the coal and hydro. generation plant. And with wind, as a newer tech., you may create demand to prime future production and maintenance savings based on volume today. High volume manufacturing ("HVM") is key to computer-chip fabrication at TSMC and INTEL. Pricing and production schedules will adjust as you build to a demand of 1M wind-turbine blades instead of 100k blades.
More may not be better at first blush, but it can make all the difference if you play the long game, as China does.
I own a gen 2 Volt. It feels like I get almost all the benefits of an EV (instant torque for example) but i can just keep driving beyond the electric range. However, not all of them are that functional. These kinds of cars have a lot more engineering issues to work through than you might think in order to combine a gas powered "generator" with electric motors, the transmission, etc. the Volt is a success and an engineering marvel frankly but it's nowhere near as simple as attaching a generator to an EV unfortunately. If you're curious give it a quick Google!
It’s about the component count, as well as fitting a big enough battery for a 80 miles, the car will be too expensive, it may work for pickups. I’m still waiting on my ram charger 🔌
Look at the ROI long term operating cost compared with coal-example look at Australia wind and solar. The economics are crazy in favor of wind and solar.
China builds on such a grand scale that the failures will be spectacular too. But even though they are spectacular, the failures still tend to just be a drop in the bucket compared to the successes.
My experience with Tesla Super chargers is seamless always. They all could learn from Tesla on all levels.
Let’s remember that Electrify America was just Volkswagen’s punishment for Dieselgate……No incentive that the system had to work, since none of their vehicles could use them…….And still can’t, most of the time🙄😁😎
US 🇺🇸Electricity mix in 2024 is expected to be as follows:
Renewables: 24% of power generation
Nuclear: 19% of power generation
Coal: 15% of power generation
Natural gas: 42% of power generation
-China 🇨🇳 Electricity mix in 2024 is expected to be as follows:
Renewables: 34% of power generation
Nuclear: 5% of power generation
Coal: 58% of power generation
Natural gas: 3% of power generation
Notes📝:
--China uses 2x more electricity than the United States but china also have 3.5x more population
--only 0.86% of registered vehicles in the United States are plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) VS 10% in China
Alternative views: freeways, transmission lines, bridges in the landscape aren't unattractive to my eyes. Points of light in the night moving along distant invisible roads, the geometrically pure curves through across hills and through forests, replanted vegetation post-construction always with local species (in Australia, at least), thoughtfully designed road lighting, the crystalline colours and shapes of high-density high-rise at dawn and dusk... These have appealed to me since childhood, perhaps as much as
as forests, waterfalls, skies coastlines. Yes, yes, I know the many downsides, most of which continue improving, some of which we're still discovering.
As for China, the government's concern, always, is prestige, not losing face and about presenting a crafted image to the outside world. They've built entire cities that stand empty, built for the wrong reasons in the wrong places; some of which are already being torn down again. Similarly, flashy high speed rails that aren't making any money because they're in the wrong places and without consideration of inter-connections or practical use. Their existence is the result of false incentives from a government that's out of touch with the reality of any citizens' lives. So much else in China is similarly economically insane. And the revenue? Tax the citizens into the gutters of poverty and sickness.
This is a view of the world from where I'm sitting. (There was more but I've lost it and I'm not about to re-read the comments, again.) Thank you again, Matt and Sean, for the puns and fun: I watch far more than I comment - lucky you!
Coal impacts water supply by overuse and pollution of coal extraction, washing waste and fly ash disposal. Coal power plants produce acid rain, particulate pollution and methyl mercury neurological poisoning of every mammal offspring. Adding batteries to the grid allows optimization of all power sources that can operate at their maximum output and stores the base load and interruptible renewable power for use as peaking power and grid frequency control that garners 10 times the revenue as coal baseload power.
Even here in the States a limiting factor on getting new renewable power online is the authorization to connect it to the grid.
On power transmissions, I understand many or our transmission lines are being replaced with new conductors that are more efficient.
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Ignorance and supidity!
The weight increase caused by carrying a generator would just about offset the increase in range.?
Nobel cause aside of not wanting your citizens to be sick, there's also add-on economic effects of taking care of these sick people… both the folks who are breathing it, but also mining it. The amount of money to produce 1W of power is ostensibly inconsequential in the larger societal picture.