Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Ask Peter Zeihan: Is Hydrogen the Future of Energy?" video.

  1. HEY PETER Can you please hire an engineer to help you out with this stuff so that none of us keep having to call you out on this stuff. 1) This is NOT a 5 minute 36 second issue. 2) There is going to be a massive double digit possibly triple digit $$$TRILLION build outs ANYWAY. 3) Thanks to all of the microphone hogging clowns with vested interests with big money backing NOBODY has done anything close to what they needed to do over the last 30 years. Those IDI0TS have tied everything up in endless discussions. AND my scorn for those people is aimed at BOTH SIDES. I hold the Greenie CLOWNS just as much contempt as the Fossil Fuel M0R0NS. 4) The easiest way for anyone to see the problem is to go and look at the lists of power stations for any state or nation. You can find them on Wikipedia. What you need to look at are the LARGER power stations and particularly those rated at 1,000MW or more. I call these Gigawatt-class power stations because 1GW = 1,000MW. BUT WHAT is most important is that these are BASE LOAD power stations. They supply the power that keeps everything going 24/7. You'll find that we all pretty, much stopped building them in the 1990s as we privatised all of our energy markets. THE REASON IS SIMPLE - there is no viable business case for building large scale energy plants any longer. Gone are the days when you could just slap things together BECAUSE our populations have grown and we need plants that are much larger. 1GW sized power plants were once considered huge now they are average at best. My country of Australia has 22.6 GW of coal fired power plants to replace because NO MATTER what they are old and wearing out. EVEN WORSE is that they were built well before our population reached 20 million and we are now 26million with plans to be well over 40million by 2050. So we not only have to DOUBLE that 22.6 GW by then as well as add more to that so that we can power all of the electric cars, trucks, vans and busses we want to use. If you take the costs of Hinkley Point C in Britain the cost to just build the power stations is over AU$1.2 Trillion but if you then add in the costs of upgrades the power grid will need that goes past AU$2 Trillion very quickly and may push it past AU$3 Trillion. Go look at your own country (or state) and check out your larger power stations and then check your population growth. What might save us a lot on costs will be the sort of POPULATION DECLINE that many countries are facing and Peter is better than me at explaining. YES PETER and FRIENDS we are in some seriously deep crap when it comes to energy and you all need to start listening to us engineers because we are the ones you are all expecting to solve this.
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