Renewables require change in the energy supply chain. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Electricity is incredibly difficult to store, so grid operators have to generate it at the exact moment it is demanded. In order to do this, they create incredibly accurate models of the total electric loads, that is […]
Michio Kaku on the Solar Revolution Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Michio Kaku: I believe in solar power, but there are problems that we have to face, and one of them is low efficiency. ———————————————————————————- MICHIO KAKU: Dr. […]
Rise. and. shine! Get up and seize the day! You can do anything under the sun…when the sun powers everything. Your phone, your home, and all that’s in between. This is life on the golden grid. But is it the utopia we thought it would be? In 2018, the state […]
If humans want to expand into space, it will take us incredible amounts of energy. How do we do that? Easy: we will just use the sun’s energy by realizing the most ambitious construction project in history. This is how it works. Sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesdysonsphere/startseite OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE […]
Get your Mars Base Poster here: shop.kurzgesagt.org Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be. Sources & Further Reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesmars/ OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeES […]
How concentrated solar power could fuel the future Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- What if we could not only harness the power of the sun, but actually use it to run the entire planet? […]
EV batteries are expensive, and some would say wasteful. But there are second life applications for EV batteries that could keep them useful for a surprisingly long time. Here are the studies on second-life solutions: https://energycenter.org/program/secondary-use-applications-plug-ev-lithium-ion-batteries PV Firming – short-term working with PV https://energycenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/nav/programs/second-life/PV-Firming-Report_04-07-2015.pdf Demand Charge Management https://energycenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/nav/programs/second-life/Long-Term-Test-Report_DCM_CH3-CH4_Final_08-18-2015.pdf Regulation Energy […]
Get a free month of Audible at http://www.audible.com/joescott or text “joescott” to 500-500. As we cross into 2020, I wanted to examine the reasons to be pessimistic about the future and reasons to be optimistic. Last week I covered the negative. But this week, let’s go positive. Support me on […]
This video takes a look at the city of the future that is built around solar power and solar technology. Seeing how people are building solar panel projects, not just on land, but on water (floating solar farms), and up in the air. We also take a look at Elon […]
