Batteries Not Included: The Challenges of a Low-Carbon Future
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Wind power. Solar power. Electric cars. That’s the future envisioned by many advocates of getting the U.S. to net zero carbon emissions. Translating this vision into a reality depends heavily on battery technology. But are the batteries up to it?
To get to net zero carbon emissions, we’d need batteries. A lot of them.
Wind and solar are intermittent sources of energy, meaning they only give you power when the weather’s cooperating. So, if we want to use them to power our economy, we have to figure out what to do when they’re not producing energy.
The most popular idea is to use batteries to store the excess energy generated by wind and solar when the weather’s cooperating. But while that seems straightforward, it’s actually incredibly complicated.
One problem is supply. China makes 76% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries (and controls much of the mineral refining necessary for battery production).
Another problem is cost. As the use of renewable energy expands, the use of batteries actually drives energy prices higher. Finally, there’s the issue of resources. Research suggests that the amount of minerals required to transition to a carbon-free economy may be more than the proven reserves on Earth.
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Great communication.
Carbon is the building block of LIFE!!!!
WITHOUT IT WE DIE
Batteries aren't the only way to store electric energy. There are also capacitors, and thermal, gravimetric or chemical storage devices. Try thinking outside of the box!
batteries are chemical storage devices
"No Idea How To Do It."
I can see how that might be a bit of a bump in the road.
How about if we really Really REALLY want it? would that help?
The main issues are the laws of physics and the limitation of resources.
You cannot cheat the laws of thermodynamics, you cannot move faster than light even if you Really REALLY want it.
You cannot make significantly better batteries. For car batteries it have to be small and light. Look at the periodic table and you will see, why we use Lithium.
For grid storage there are other options (as size and weight does not matter that much).
The second major issue is the amount of raw materials needs to be mined and refined for 100% renewable and batteries.
The more mining, the more diesel we need, the more solar panels, the more coking coal (for polysilicon production) is needed.
Also the life cycle of solar and wind and batteries are very short (20-30 years) so we not only need to add more and more new solar, wind and batteries, but continuously replace the old ones.
We can recycle the copper, iron from the wind turbines, but not the blades, neither the solar panels or most of the lithium batteries. (entropy is a b*)
Last but not least, solar and wind has a low EROI (energy return on investment). If you want to replace the fossil fuels used for mining, transportation and other industrial processes by using synfuels from CO2 captured from air, they cannot power that process.
The future has to be nuclear. Lowest raw material needed, lowest land area needed, can run for 60-80 or even longer with proper maintenance/refurbishments, very high capacity factor/reliability and they provide the highest level of EROI (75-100) so you can use it for synfuel (Jet fuel, diesel). Future generation plants can even add an extra 0 to the end.
Fossil gas is a good bridging technology to REPLACE coal. Solar and wind are good only to REDUCE gas usage.
Really REALLY wanting is just wishful thinking.
Build hydro if it is possible in your country.
Build geothermal if it is possible in your country.
If not, build nuclear.
@@solutionrebellion
Good Morning. I think I've found The Flaw in your thinking! You neglected to factor in The awesome power of Pixie Dust! :-)
@@solutionrebellion
Let me put my tn foil hat on (cause This is gonna sound really crazy). When look at people/organization/groups promoting Sustainable Energy/CRT/Etc Etc Etc, pretty much everything coming from The Left, I see the same people/organization/groups. BLM pushing environmental activism, Audubon Society pushing transgender right, and on and on. What if (and here is where we're off into conspiracy land) what they Say they want is not the real goal? What if the real goal is chaos and bring down liberal western society, and replacing it with something "Better" (Marxism 2,0)? It sounds crazy (and well IT IS) but this is what I see.
(As Always I..Could..Be..Wrong)
No, it won't.
@@kyleb3754
Why do you say it won't?
Ain't nothing more simple than the middle finger its self explanatory
Until a battery powered truck can pull 20k i will stay with what already works.
You forgot that peasants don't need cars.
Yes the last one is right behind the last one
And this Ladies and Gentlemen.. this is where Mexico 🇲🇽 comes in.
Battery technology improvements are exponential. Solar and vind have been dropping in price exponentially in last decades. Exponential things always win in the long run. This transition has nothing to do with environment..
Wow, that was so well done.
Of course, another solution to solar's intermittency problem is GLOBAL GRID instead of local storage. After all, half the globe is illuminated at any given time. No unobtainiums required. It's dirt cheap compared to lithium storage, tested and reliable, and puts a lot less stress on the environment. All we need to do is trade energy the way we already trade pretty much everything else: globally.
Nothing is better than oil ….
It’s top energy
I see a future in carbon capture technology that’s an ultimate win
I disagree, nuclear power and the prospective nuclear fission we've seen progress in recently is excellent.
Otherwise, I agree.
Wind, solar, and electric vehicles are terrible.
The best prospective renewable energy method I've seen are algae farms.
The myth of fossil is ridiculous...
Beyond 16,000 ft, no living matter is found, Oil is a Mineral...
Not long ago, before you know who...
We the U.S became the largest exporter of Oil and Natural gas to the World..
Drive what you want I don't care, forcing us to won't work...
Look up all the manufacturers who have backed off the All EV push.. lack of sales.. Hybrid is also fine, my work has them, never thought I would like a Prius, but I don't hate it...
Cheers from Southern California..
Daily Driver 68 Dodge Dart...
And electric cars don't work when it freezes outside
@4m we see the usual *annual* average uptime or ‘capacity factor’ of wind and solar, ie wind is up about a 1/3 or the time and so on. The problem is much harder than that. The 1/4 uptime for solar for instance will fall to 1/10 in for a couple winter months, maybe 1/20 at latitudes above 50degN as in Germany. Wind has its idle wind months, in the most N America late summer, early Fall will often show windless weeks. So, when we start looking at storage to get trough seasonal luirla, the problem really is not just difficult bu impossible if one puts any kind of upper limit on how many mountain sized battery storage resources are required, all replaced every dozen years or so.
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Well, work it out someday
If I could see something
You can see anything you want, boy
If I could be someone
You can be anyone, celebrate, boy
Well, if I could do something
You can do something...
In addition, we need better public transit & cycling infrastructure 👍💯 #orangepilled
Significant energy consumption reduction a must.
What carbon problem? Plants are doing their best with the tiny uptick in CO2 levels.
I've heard botanists who weren't talking about climate change at all they were just botanists and they talk about when there's more CO2 available for plants they use more they just use it less efficiently... kind of like humans and food if food is scarce we'll eat all the leftovers but if there's plentiful then we'll waste a lot of food, same thing... so it doesn't matter how much is in the sky the plants will use it all
Anti-political Science!! Cancel them!!
Stop being postmodern
It's not tiny, believe me. Plants can't even come close to the balancing. The ocean is supposed to have much more carbon than anything else. The air is the one, which is very dangerous and problematic.
Always found it interesting,, this Warming.. changed to change.. haha..
Carbon blah,,
Power from Nuclear Plants are 0 carbon... But foreign kids cry at them.. so I guess there bad, hahaha...
When our Governor asked EV owners to Not charge their Car's.. due to heatwave.. hahaha...it's a dream..
is the sun made out of or does it hold any type of relation to fire?
POV: you misclicked
That’s funny 😂as f!
Excellent video.
Your channel deserves more views. Guessing it's being shadowbanned for telling inconvenient truths such as this one.
A billion electric cars aren't going to save anything
THIS IS SOME MAJOR BS PROPAGANDA. YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.
you mean the same carbom thats plant food? what a scam
More noise from a non profit supported by oligarchs!
Well one thing we would have to give up are all those individual cars. It will have to be buses.
WELL SONNY, USE YOUR THUMB AND PAY FOR FILLING MY TANK
I burn everything in my path
The remains are irrelevant
Based
What crap!!!!
Well at one time people thought we would go to the moon, but we did.
CHANGE THE NAME OF SACRAMENTO TO EXCREMENTO
Killing birds super nice
We are under the firmament on four pillars, the immovable earth is biblical. I don't think earth is a globe.
Oh yes batteries and when they go bad they go out with a bang,look at electric bike cars and buses on fire, they go out with a bang and all that carbon that you though you didnt create is release in a second and in the proccess it burns the vehicle too.