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The IndependentWind. Solar. Hydroelectric. Biomass. Renewable energy has taken root at the heart of the climate conversation. But how much do you actually know about renewable energy?
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@douglasengle2704
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMWild AC form wind turbine generators and solar voltaic is very difficult and expensive to support with the public power grid. The practical reliable means to support large amounts or wild AC is with natural gas turbine generators running at high readiness 70% fuel consumption making little electricity where 100% output would 100% backup the wild AC. This consumes more natural gas than efficient running natural gas combined cycle plants making all the electricity. That's why there is no reported fuel savings from wind turbine and solar voltaic generated electricity.
NASA reports global warming at 1°C where it has been since 1992 after falling from 1.1°C in 1991. The cause of global warming is not known with scientific studies going back to the 1970s. Global warming at 1.5°C was predicted to cause stronger observable hurricanes in the Gulf-of-America (Gulf-of-Mexico). That was given the promotional term Climate Change in the early 1980s.
It is scientifically impossible for greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. With US vise president Al Gore's influence on the National Science Foundation (NSF gov) in 1993 earth's water vapor saturated greenhouse effect stopped being taught in US public education.
All the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth is completely absorbed in earth's water vapor saturated greenhouse effect by greenhouse gases within a few meters of the radiating surface out to a maximum of 20 meters from the radiating surface adding 5.55°C (10°F) to earth’s average temperature. Its further heat transfer is by convection i.e. gas molecules bumping into to each other. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over a 99% share of earth's water vapor saturated greenhouse effect is from water vapor.
The back of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution. The IPCC has been transparent with its data acknowledging it is not dealing with active greenhouse gases.
Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the radiating surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases.
0.4% of the atmosphere is CO2 and on average 1% is H20 water vapor. (1% H20)/(0.4% CO2) = 25. Water vapor is 25 times more present in the atmosphere on average than CO2. Water vapor has an CO2e of 18, 18 X 25 = 450 CO2e total for water vapor to 1 CO2e for CO2.
Arctic warming is taking place with the proving mechanism being warm Atlantic Ocean waters migrating deeper and more frequently into the Arctic Ocean warming it and the region. The warmer Arctic Ocean water is causing a few weeks less of reflective snow and ice surface cover resulting in more solar heat gain to the Arctic region surface.
Atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today would greatly invigorate C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth greatly greening the planet. C3 plants evolved over 100 million years ago when atmospheric CO2 levels were ten times those of today determined by plant fossils.
The Earth’s oceans have 3-1/2 million sea floor volcanic vents warming the water and changing it’s chemistry that have not been systematically accounted for.
There has been no credible Climate Change due to global warming as of 2024. Climate Change was expected to start to take place when global warming reached 1.5°C causing observable stronger hurricanes in the Gulf-of-America (Gulf-of-Mexico). The term Climate Change started being used at the beginning of the 1980s to cause alert to a broad audience of the long term effects of increasing average global temperatures.
The promotional term Climate Change in the early 1980s was grounded on actions already taken by Gulf-of-Mexico offshore crude oil drilling companies in the 1970s to build for stronger hurricanes due to warmer Gulf waters predicted to start when average global temperatures increased 1.5°C on track for 2010. That action was taken for a predicted long term change in weather patterns or climate that backed up the use of the term Climate Change.
@VOTEBLUENOV5
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMMY innovation could be the holy grail of renewable energy, addressing the biggest challenges of sustainable power while directly benefiting the everyday person. By potentially providing continuous, on-demand electricity without reliance on fossil fuels, sunlight, or wind, it could drastically lower energy costs, freeing families from rising utility bills and unstable power grids. For homeowners, this means true energy independence, reducing reliance on external providers and offering a reliable, self-sustaining power source. For businesses, it could drive down operating costs and promote a cleaner future. In developing regions, it has the potential to bring affordable, uninterrupted electricity to communities that have never had it before, improving quality of life and economic opportunities. With the ability to make clean, limitless power a reality, this breakthrough could reshape industries, empower individuals, and lead to a world where reliable energy is no longer a privilege, but a universal right.
@tzetzeyy8874
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@3fzn
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@tip00former1
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMimposters
@NasruuRashaad
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@chrisconklin2981
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMThank you for mentioning geothermal. What you talked about is shallow one mile geothermal. There is also deep and very deep geothermal being developed. Of note is plasma deep drilling, which may be able to drill (burn) its way down to 10km or deeper. Rocks at that depth produce supercritical steam levels, which can spin high power turbines.
@fida-g8u
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMHere because of my teacher
@alancotterell9207
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMSnowy Hydro 2 and the Westgate Bridge – both projects managed by Australian engineers. Engineers stick numbers' into scientists equations and get answers. However, they do not know how to handle UNCERTAINTY !
@marshallboswood42
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMLETS KEEP BURNING COAL BABY!!
@CuriousEarthMan
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMGeothermal is NOT renewable!
@otiderwin1932
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMWhy is it politics😒😒😒
@RenderXXIV
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMThe bot comments here are crazy 🤣 but I respect the info from the video and the hustle to grow the channel.
@robertmanella528
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMSolar panels need to have snow removed from them & hail destroys them!!
Wind turbines cost a fortune to remove ice and snow from the blades!!
Both are losers!!
@AriaSmith-h7f
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PM"It’s becoming clear that there will be no transition to clean energy (whatever that means) by 2030." – Capex Insider
@JoryAdnan-m9f
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMI have tomorrow a test about renewable and solar panel
@BhavaniMI
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMInteresting
@lagassemark
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMHow about all the mining work that's needed for Solar panels and Wind turbines?
@theochemsRE
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PM@pulleyenergy
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PM❤❤❤
@mafrugal
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMHow does wind and solar work, they don't. They generate more garbage junk than energy…wind turbine uses oil, lots of oil and must be backed up by coal and natural gas…. JUST THE TRUTH..carbon admissions is a …LIE.
@josephgallardo2646
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMIt's time to use waste water for energy it's got to have more hydrogen or bud light but if all fails break out the professor exercise bike on Gilligan's island
@nicktecky55
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMI suggest anybody who wants to understand the problems could do worse than consult Sabine Hossenfelder's YT channel. Two in particular; one explaining how the 'greenhouse effect' really works, and another addressing the heating effect of so called renewable systems.
Suffice to say, only those systems that extract energy that would have been naturally dispersed as waste heat within the same timeframe as the process being considered can provide a long term resource. That is wind turbines and wind generators. Turbines placed in the flow of a river or tidal race also qualify, although delaying tidal flows does increase the tidal drag effect on the rotation of the Earth, so it's probably wise not to overdo that one!
Hydro looks okay, but I have a residual qualm about how long the water being exploited has been in the watercourse, if the rain fell a thousand years ago, does it matter?
@auraprime_
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMgeothermal is massively downplayed as a renewable energy supply as it's one of few renewable ways to produce baseline energy for the grid
@guff9567
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMAvoid "renewable". It's a lie
@Ji_hadJoe
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PMRenewable energy is energy that is only financially viable with government subsidies…
@randyo5540
03/07/2025 - 2:24 PM8.5 million per windmill leaking oil all day.