Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. Aussie here, and I have to say I admire the Chinese government very much. It's amazing what a people can achieve with that form of government. They are so lucky to have a clever, and seemingly, wise leader in Xi Jinping, and the rest of the party, too. The people can't decide to claw down their government and vote for "change" that hamstrings forward progress and long-term planning whenever the idiots of society feels like it. I'm not at all afraid of China superseding the US, economically.
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  2. Whenever I feel hopeless about the state of the world, I get cheered up by Sam on this channel. This report about China not approving anymore coal plants really made me rejoice. 🥳
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  3. China is amazing. The Chinese are amazing. To have risen up so high, from where they were 50 years ago - stunning.
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  4. Australians have access to all the real information and facts we could want, if we make a tiny effort. There is no excuse for such gullibility other than outright stupidity, at this point.
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  5. This one has really surprised me, positively! It could be possible, just possible, if this trend continues, that humanity has a chance to survive. But we're cutting it very fine! All I can say is, without China, solar energy markets would still be stuck in the 90's.
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  6. Queensland has the largest solar farm in Australia, and lots of rooftop solar, but not enough battery capacity. They keep pretending we need gas peaker plants at 70x the cost of battery power - so we end up paying more and more expensive bills. Corruption is rife between the energy sector and government in Australia. 😒
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  7. A lot of them these days are against lithium mining on the grounds of pollution and excess water usage, and the lack of recycling programs for EV batteries (all important issues, I concede). I try asking them how they plan to recycle the CO2 from petrol engines that can last in the atmosphere for up to 1000 years.
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  8. It makes me so happy to hear this good news!  I'm really jealous of South Australia! I come from Queensland, and coal still has its claws in up here. Thanks for getting the news out about how the state running almost entirely on renewable wind and solar has the lowest electricity bills! I hope Queenslanders hear of it, and vote on it.
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  9. I really hope they give Powerwall a run for its money. I want the prices to go down, like solar panels are.
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  10. We need to start building roofs out of solar panels. Just make the whole roof out of solar panels.
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  11. I'm interested in Sam's sources for this story - did he cite them? Did anyone else catch them, if I missed them? I did a quick Google search of Bloomberg, but couldn't find it, myself. EDIT: I am embarrassed to admit I failed to scroll down far enough to see where Sam did in fact cite his source. My mistake!
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  12. I thank the Chinese from the bottom of my heart for making the transition to solar energy possible; if it had been left up to the U.S. it would never have happened.
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  13.  @massatube  That's a while back now.
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  14. Dear Shana, I hope you get well soon.
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  15. It's actually true that many poor Chinese do prefer hard beds, but that doesn't negate that their passports were taken from them, or that 60% of their pay was held back.
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  16. I WISH I could afford one - but they are still way too expensive for many people. Instead I just try to keep the bills down by turning off the water heater, and going without an air conditioner. If only the government would subsidise them, instead of subsidising transnational gas corporations to the tune of 11 BILLION dollars, just this year! If wishes were horses...
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  17. Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and Italy all have higher priced electricity than the UK, with Italy suffering the most expensive electricity prices in the world.
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  18.  @FabioCapela  Absolutely.
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  19. America has slavery, too.
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  20.  @markanthony3275  Ordinary coal and oil mining does all the things you mention, too, and THEN the vehicles and turbines pump out CO2 into the atmosphere for the ENTIRE LIFETIME of the vehicle or turbine, ON TOP OF that emitted during the initial mining.
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  21. Go Electric Viking! I'm an Aussie, and I don't think you're too positive about green energy. How could you be?
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  22. It is so obvious that a stable political system like China's, which can assess situations and plan long-term solutions, has definite advantages over our political system in which lobbyists and donors play, and pay off one party against the other, who then sabotage any progress the other makes towards the people's benefit. It all depends on whether the bigwig puts the country first, though.
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  23. $16,700 !? Is that Australian dollars, Sam? That was a beautiful car.
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  24. True!
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  25.  @maxflight777  Batteries have proven to be faster at dispatching power during times of peak demand. I'm not "suspicious," I'm just aware of the facts.
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  26. Please tell us more about grid scale battery installation in Queensland, Viking!
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  27. Here's an interesting point for the nuclear fanatics in Australia: Australia has electricity price at 0.26 $US/kilowatt-hr; France (with its govt. owned nuclear) has it at 0.3 $US/kilowatt-hr; and the UK has electricity prices at 0.35 $US/kilowatt-hr. So much for the myth that nuclear energy is cheaper than green renewables! 😂
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  28. I heard that the Inflation Reduction Act has sub-clauses that allow for significantly more investment in renewables than presently planned for.
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  29.  @NoidoDev  Energy storage has been factored into the latest calculations, and even with storage the cost of wind and solar is significantly cheaper than the alternatives, (except hydro), which will be unreliable anyway as climate change dries up more and more watercourses. Thorium is a pipe dream. You've got to face reality someday.
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  30. No, it isn't. Nuclear is the SLOWEST to build, and most EXPENSIVE power generation BY FAR. So NOT investing in nuclear is actually helping our transition to non-fossil fuel power.
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  31. I'm glad to hear it. Will this apply in Queensland, too, once they recoup last year's losses? Queensland is really backward on solar energy.
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  32. There is already so much CO2 rising into the atmosphere that it will take over a thousand years to reabsorb it through the carbon cycle. So I don't think we have to worry about the Earth cooling too much for a long, long time.
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  33. If I want to feel better, I come to this channel🙂👍
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  34. I'd like to know if the workers are being pushed to work faster for the bonuses, and whether the expected speed increases the risk of accidents, such as that which led to the employees death.
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  35. The one channel that ALWAYS cheers me up!
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  36.  @MrMichaelLundberg  Always in the "not too far future..." But why would they? When wind, solar battery arrays are so cheap.
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  37.  @IainGraham-k7v  😂You people with your baseless claims amuse me so much. Go to Statista and look for Electricity Price by Country 2024. Get the facts.
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  38. And taking their passports? What about holding back 60% of their pay? Or feeding them food unrefrigerated in hot Brazilian temperatures?
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  39.  @skygge1006  We need new investment in batteries, not gas. You are flat out wrong.
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  40. China, Mongolia and Tibet were all individual countries. Tibetans never recognised themselves as Chinese.
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  41. Wow, that was a fast increase! 👍 But batteries are the next big step! Quick! Before the corrupt Coalition gets in again!
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  42. Australia is constantly voting for a "change," and hamstringing planning and progress, too.
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  43. WOW! Get this to Australia! So many more people could afford to buy and run a car! 🚙 🚗 🚘
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  44. Do you follow this channel at all? Do you know how many mega batteries are being installed, and how quickly?
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  45. Wasn't that in South Australia?
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  46. I'm so happy for you and your sons!
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  47. I THINK you should do a video about the Eavor small geothermal technology that the European Union is funding to roll out, and which has many orders in the pipeline already, and which can also be readily deployed in old coal plants, employing the same staff, with the same expertise. Small nuclear will never be price competitive with Eavor geothermal, or with solar, wind, battery installations. Besides, the waste has to be kept safe in a likely uncertain political, economic, and geologically unstable (due to climate change), future.
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  48.  @vernevens1598  Sam powers his entire house even on rainy days with his solar panels and battery. And so do many other people, as solar panels of today work perfectly well enough in low light. That's what.
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  49. Hit that LIKE button, and get the news out there! Educate those who don't know the facts!
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  50.  @grantbuttenshaw  Stop abusing people on every renewable energy video you can find. You seem to be a professional spin doctor on the topic of renewable energy. Who's paying you? Of course you'll deny, deny, deny.
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  51. The government should SUBSIDISE these power-pole mounted batteries (instead of gas and coal), so that voters who put solar on their roofs can buy it back at THE SAME PRICE it cost to generate it on their own roofs. THAT would speed up the renewable energy transition at a great rate!
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  52. Wow! I love it! I want one!💛
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  53. @cs-lw2pn I'm 57, so I might be an elder. But thank heavens I know how to weed out propaganda. Listen to the science. Check the facts.
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  54. Good point. About time some Australian government woke up to that fact!
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  55. But Sam, what about the 30-year lock-in contracts, and $11B in taxpayer funded subsidies to gas fossil fuels that the present Labor government has approved (according to the new report by The Australia Institute)? Can you address this issue, regarding your claims that Australia will be 90% renewable energy by 2030, please? I would like to hear your opinion on this.
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  56.  @skygge1006  Supply follows demand, and demand is very high. The price of grid scale batteries is falling rapidly over the last decade (by over 600%) and the rate of production is growing apace. Elon Musk's Megapacks are the fastest growing part of his business, and China is in hot pursuit.
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  57.  @grantbuttenshaw  Elon Musk is making a fortune from grid batteries. He says they are the fastest growing part of his business. He's building factories to make them in the US. Indeed, demand is so high that the price of Li-ion battery storage has plummeted from $1,200/kWh in 2010 to $151 in 2022 (according to Bloomberg research figures), and Musk can still make a profit. Both Germany and the U.S reward the pairing of renewables with battery storage. Furthermore, the IEA anticipates grid-scale battery storage will grow from 18GW in 2020 to 610GW in 2030, to 3,100GW in 2050. *(Energy Monitor, Feb. 27, 2023).
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  58.  @grantbuttenshaw  Rubbish. LCOE represents the full cost over time, which is why it is the accepted standard by the International Energy Agency. As for your claim about China, China reached 8.7GW of battery storage in 2022, up 110% year on year, putting it on target to reach its target of 50GW of battery storage by 2025 (climateandcapitalmedia), driving global demand to 100GWh (South China Morning Post, 5 Feb, 2023).
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  59.  @grantbuttenshaw  The same news is reported in Bloomberg and on the International Energy Agency website, mate.
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  60.  @grantbuttenshaw  You are simply insisting on ignoring EXISTING REALITY.
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  61.  @grantbuttenshaw  I don't know what you don't comprehend about the FACT that batteries are 30% cheaper at providing emergency power at peak demand than gas is. It's simple, existing, fact.
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  62.  @grantbuttenshaw  This comment (that solar panels have been "getting more expensive" for years, truly proves you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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  63. It would be bad economic sense and a waste of precious time to invest in nuclear energy, which is the most expensive over its complete lifetime o any power generation method.
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  64. Better than getting the sack if you get an injury. Or having wages and salaries decreasing as people desperate for work bid against each other to work for lower and lower wages🙄
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  65.  @888nicklim  Britain wasn't even a real country until the Romans and then the French strung the various fiefdoms together, either. And lets not get started on Germany!
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  66. As Sam pointed out, that coal will stay in the ground. It's not economically viable anymore in China.
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  67.  @methamor5351  Born in Cairns, in 1967. Bred in Cardwell.. We're not all xenophobes.😉
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  68. It's far safer than riding a bike in traffic, which is the only alternative for a lot of people, even in so-called wealthy countries like the USA and Australia.
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  69.  @calitaco  Oh, really? You don't think the Brazilian authorities asked about whether their passports were given voluntarily, or not? And what about the withholding of 60% of their pay? It sounds like how Australian farmers withheld the pay of Australian Aborigines back in the bad old days, and never gave it to them. This is exploitation.
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  70.  @jarrodf_  Good to know, but I hope Queensland follows through as coal has such a grip on people and politics up here. I truly hope so. Faster, if possible!
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  71.  @phillipmcnair5789  Guess what - solar is now the cheapest way to generate power by far, followed by wind (both backed up by battery storage). That's a simple fact, a reality. Get used to it.
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  72. I'll be happy when the biggest battery of them ALL is built in Queensland, near Townsville.
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  73.  @kadmow  28% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector, whereas only 10% come from the agricultural sector. So, no, agriculture is not the most damaging to our climate and environment (bad as its effects are). Massive dry-out, temperature changes, and increased extreme fires due to climate change drive far more desertification. Now, large stretches of forest around the world are simply dying, with no need for humans to ever clear it.
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  74. You've been listening to half-arsed Trump speeches. That's total bull dust.
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  75. I second that! Rajasthan is mostly red desert, though.
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  76.  @paladintrueknight  It creates deadly poisonous waste, you mean. With no real way of disposing of it. And I'm talking about the stuff left over AFTER the recycling.
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  77. WRONG. Nuclear is by far the most expensive way to make electricity. Look up the levelled cost of energy and compare it to solar and battery combination.
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  78.  @wilfredvanvalkenburgh2874  How many passengers, or how much freight, did it carry?
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  79. Obviously you didn't watch the video, just read the title.
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  80. Thanks to President Biden.
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  81. ❤👍👏👏👏 Well done!😀
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  82. It was a threat.
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  83. @ Nuclear is so extremely expensive that "economies of scale" still make it nowhere near competitive with solar/batteries.
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  84. Not all visa applicants are fruit pickers. A lot of them have technical degrees.
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  85.  @grantbuttenshaw  I don't recall. I think that price included the cost of generation as well, when the generation came from solar (which is the cheapest means of power generation by far, on a levelled cost of energy basis, according to IEA figures). Nevertheless, according to the Clean Energy Council, a 4-hour battery provides cost savings of more than 30% (and a 2-hour battery 17% cost savings) on a levelised cost of energy basis than do gas power peaking plants to supply emergency power (2021 figures). So the whole vaunted "gas-led recovery" is a complete con, even for emergency supply.
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  86.  @grantbuttenshaw  LCOSS (Levelised cost of solar and storage) does, though; and it too, has been substantially decreasing, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the U.S.
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  87.  @grantbuttenshaw  According to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the latest CSIRO and AEMO's GenCost 2021-2022 report: Wind and solar are the cheapest sources for electricity AND STORAGE in Australia. (*source: energy. gov .au, 12 July, 2022). Face the FACTS.
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  88.  @grantbuttenshaw  This discussion is about the cost of solar, and whether gas peaker plants are required to lead a phoney 'gas-led recovery", or not. I've proven they are NOT. Your red herrings are just a bald attempt to pull the discussion off topic. Why are you even bleating on about copper? How is it relevant?
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  89. Precisely! That's why it would be great if the government ran the renewables.
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  90. But the whole point is NOT to cover land like Vermont or New Hampshire, but rather areas that humans don't use for any other purpose. That's what the whole study, and this entire video was about...
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  91.  @ledsalesoz  I think those huge, heavy, four-wheel-drives people drive are the dangerous vehicles, not little cars like this. besides, those big vehicles are killing us all through their massive contribution to climate change.
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  92. Dear SAM! Can you please tell me if any mega-battery systems are to be installed in Townsville or north of here? The yokels here are about to abandon Labor for the LNP who are against battery storage for all our solar farms and rooftop panels! We need help!
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  93.  @jebes909090  Most of the world's population lives in the sun band of the planet where new solar is outpacing coal by a factor of 18. Solar out-generated nuclear power, worldwide, in 2017, it will out-generate hydro this year, it will out-generate coal in 3 years, and by 2031 solar will out-generate all these means of generating power, worldwide, COMBINED.🤣laugh at that.
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  94.  @adamrak7560  They hate paperwork.
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  95. 😂Luddite
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  96. The thing is, though, is the TOTAL amount of fossil fuel generation decreasing in China, or not? Because China is increasing their OVERALL generation capacity at an astronomical rate. Hopefully, they shut down more fossil fuel capacity than they install.
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  97. @ Tibetans are Tibetans; neither Chinese nor Indian. You can take your imperialist notions elsewhere.
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  98. Wow! Amazing point!
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  99. This is BRILLIANT! The EU is already funding something very similar to this in Germany, with technology from a company called Eavor. But this is great because it recycles the drill holes and pumps left behind by the oil industry! Win! Win!
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  100. I don't think so. He's doing a public service.
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  101. Obviously you didn't watch the whole video, but just read the title.
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  102. 😂 SWEEden, mate!
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  103.  @jimgraham6722  In Australia, 39.4% was renewable generation in 2024. 8GW of new large-scale renewable generation capacity was added to the grid in 2023, and 56,000 new battery storage units were added to the grid in 2023.
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  104.  @avalagum7957  Only a 13 year old boy. He feels the heat, too.
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  105.  @tobycolin6271  What sort of biomass are they using for it, do you know? Too much biofuel comes from old-growth trees, or palm forests planted after old growth forests are selectively logged, then burnt. Do they use that sort of "bio" fuel?
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  106.  @Guvament_bs  Why is gas receiving even more 10's of billions in taxpayer's subsidies? That question is asked and never answered. Look it up. You don't seem to know much about reality.
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  107. I love it, too!
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  108.  @Rex-ww4cw  I did, but couldn't find a Bloomberg article that made the same claims Sam did. If you can, please let me know. Someone has given me a possible source in CGTN a couple of days ago, however.
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  109.  @tech-utuber2219  Good lord! So there is! I am embarrassed to admit that I failed to scroll down far enough to get to his sources. Thanks for pointing this out!
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  110. 😂
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  111. This makes me feel so happy.
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  112.  @vernevens1598  So you had a bad personal experience years ago, due to a faulty piece of equipment, and now you apply it across the board. Very scientific of you😂👏.
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  113.  @brianforsberg6116  That's the absolute worst thing anybody could do if they had colon cancer.
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  114. I hope he does make a profit. the more electric cars the better!
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  115. So CO2 halved from 2014 levels...but what happened to methane levels? Which are much, much worse in the short-term. Especially as we are teetering on the brink of AMOC collapse.
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  116.  @5353Jumper  Nobody is suggesting we go back to coal. What is necessary is that we don't release dangerous greenhouse gases, NOT just CO2!
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  117. You had to listen to the whole video to find out why.
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  118.  @phillipmcnair5789  If that is the case, then it's clearly not the fault of the means of generation. You do understand that, don't you?
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  119.  @phillipmcnair5789  The logic is clear and simple, that if the wholesale prices are the lowest in South Australia, then it is not the means of generation, but other factors at work in the price to consumers. Get it?
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  120.  @phillipmcnair5789  I checked your claims of higher bills in SA. In fact, if we look at AVERAGE prices for electricity your claim falls apart. It is Queensland and NSW that are showing the greatest percent increase, due to the price of coal generation, whereas Vic and especially SA, have shown the lowest percent increase, due to reliable renewable energy. And that trend is set to continue. *see The Financial Review: "Electricity Bills on the Rise in Queensland, NSW." 2022.
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  121.  @phillipmcnair5789  Perhaps you could ask KKR and the other Hong Kong company that own the energy companies in SA. It's not the fault of wind and solar. Worldwide, wind and solar are by far the cheapest form of generation.
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  122.  @phillipmcnair5789  Worldwide the installation costs of new solar plants is substantially less than new coal power plants. Not only that, in much of the world, the costs of running and maintaining existing coal plants is more than the costs of installing new solar power plants (with batteries). The cost of solar has fallen below the cost of coal in China, India, Germany, indeed all G7 countries.
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  123.  @phillipmcnair5789  The International Energy Agency reports that the global energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has triggered unprecedented momentum behind renewables, with the world set to add as much renewable power in the next 5 years as it did in the past 20. The world is set to add 2400 GW of renewable power generation, an amount equal to the entire power capacity of China today. Wind and solar is set to account for over 90% of global energy expansion over the next 5 years, overtaking coal to become the largest source of global electricity by early 2025. Solar Pv capacity is set to triple in the next 5 years, surpassing coal and becoming the largest source of power capacity in the world. *Source: International Energy Agency.
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  124. To China. And China is shutting down, and cancelling new coal plants that were in the pipeline and pivoting big-time to solar. Sam had a recent video about that. So our main market for coal is about to collapse. Great.
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  125.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No, the cars that use the fuel emit it into the atmosphere, at levels far exceeding the ability of the Earth's natural carbon cycle to recycle. Once it's up there in the atmosphere there is no way for it to be recycled for up to a thousand years. It is destroying our climate. And yes, there is one company mining without the use of heavy machinery using fossil fuel. There are no proven technologies which can extract CO2 from the atmosphere at anything like the rate required to mitigate climate change at the present rate of fossil fuel consumption. Technologies already exist to recycle lithium. Your arguments are pure nonsense.
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  126.  @Uygsoerk  It does use a lot of water, even if it is less overall (where did you find that figure, I am genuinely interested to see it). Personally, I deeply admire the protesters against fossil fuels in Germany, they have done a lot to further the move to green energy in Germany. I also admire Extinction Rebellion, their latest protest in the UK attracted over 35,000 registered protesters. Over here in Australia I have been devastated for a long time by our climate intransigence, but recently I learned that Queensland, where I live has the most rooftop solar than anywhere in the world! And I am happy about the big batteries being built here, thanks in no small part, to Elon Musk. My father was a German, and a conservationist, from way back.
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  127. 😁😄🤣😂🤑😆 This is hilarious! Go team Musk! It's the perfect business! This is guaranteed to win! And yet he is doing so much GOOD as he makes his fortune! If only he hadn't damaged his reputation by forcing his workers to work during the pandemic.😐
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  128. The last point is the real problem,
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  129.  @Rovinman  Wow! Excellent.
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  130. Can this technology work with house batteries?
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  131. You've got a bad typo bro.
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  132. Me too! I'd move like the Flash into that dealership!
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  133. What about fires from home batteries?
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  134.  @MrMichaelLundberg  How convenient to your narrative that all the problems you cited are easily solved with the incorporation of windmills, which have been around for centuries, by the way, causing no damage to the environment - unlike nuclear energy.
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  135.  @MrMichaelLundberg  I'm perfectly up to date. It's you who refuse to accept up to date costings for wind, solar, battery arrays, and are clinging to an idea (nuclear energy) that had its heyday in the 1950s.
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  136. Bravo! And THANK-YOU for your service in preserving our beautiful planet.
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  137.  @moriumakhter2424  The world's best minds have been on it for decades - and have failed so far to do so. So you are being ridiculous to claim that.
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  138. Are you for real? Regular people don't build fossil fuel plants or mines. Billionaires do that.🙄
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  139. Is it available in Australia? From where? Can you tell us, Sam?
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  140.  @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629  Please go and compare the subsidies for fossil fuels worldwide to the subsidies for renewables. You are sounding very misinformed.
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  141.  @NoiserToo  One in every five cars sold, worldwide, is electric. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2035, every second new car sold, worldwide, will be electric.
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  142.  @kevinwong3722  China has been lowering battery prices, not increasing them.
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  143. Thank-you for telling us all the positives 🙏.
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  144. Banks can decide whether to give loans to poor people, why not to multi-millionaires and billionaires?
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  145. Yay! A new video from The Electric Viking! Good news!
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  146.  @grantbuttenshaw  You work as a paramedic for ER24 for the resources, oil, gas, and mining sector. I knew you worked for the fossil fuel industry.
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  147.  @grantbuttenshaw  You've also worked for Rio Tinto and Caltex. Talk about bias, and probably nepotism. You're one to talk about "BS." 🙂
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  148. Disruption of peaker plants!🎉 Yay!
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  149.  @StevenHarron-h8e  The gas lines froze.
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  150.  @markwhitman860  Historically, the opposite has been the case. Prices have always risen rapidly after privatisation.
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  151. Despicable. This is why I believe unions are the worker's only defence.
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  152. I was thinking the same. Geothermal is an obvious solution for winter in Germany.
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  153. Hear! Hear! Even a lot of poor people could afford a car, then, even if they only subsidised the smaller vehicle for $2000 Australian dollars.
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  154. How long have we used coal, and not a single super volcano eruption, just out of control global heating.
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  155. Sadly, that company is being sold. Perhaps the plan will go head, but likely not the undersea cable. The power will be sold locally, and used for hydrogen, too, I've heard.
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  156.  @andret4403  Even if China had used all coal energy to manufacture the batteries and solar panels it would still be a minute amount of CO2 emission compared to the amount of CO2 emissions ultimately saved over the lifetime of the batteries and solar panels.
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  157. We're in the middle of an energy revolution comparable to the original development and role-out of electricity; it's newsworthy.
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  158. 😂😁👏Take that, you foolish nuclear energy promoters.🤣
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  159.  @freeheeler09  Me too!🙂
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  160.  @skygge1006  Nor did I say batteries would "magically be summoned." I said supply follows demand. And as demand has skyrocketed due to massive increases in new solar - so too is supply skyrocketing and being massively ramped up at the moment. Check out the figures if you don't believe me. We need new battery investment, NOT new gas investment, as the corrupt Australian government keeps trying to fool us we do.
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  161.  @dirkmirk767  According to the Australian Government's own press release from the Department of Energy and Environment, solar, wind and battery energy is now the cheapest form of energy in Australia. Get it?
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  162. What a great technology for the many coastal cities around the world !
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  163.  @zoransarin5411  Wow! This sort of analyses needs to be more widely disseminated ! The number of Australians falling for the "we need nuclear" narrative is growing, up 30% over the last couple of years.
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  164.  @jimgraham6722  Rubbish. Nuclear is way more expensive than solar, wind and battery storage combined. You are spouting stats that you think no-one will be able to check, but numerous studies have already proved you wrong, worldwide and in Australia.
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  165. YES! Electric Viking! The Chinese have played Putin like a fiddle! While he pushed this war to expand his gas interests, China rubbed its hands in glee and lowered the prices on their solar panels, windmills, and batteries, and stepped into the breach. It's wonderful irony.
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  166. I LOVE Andrew Forrest. Thanks, Twiggy, if you should happen to read this!
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  167. Thanks so much to the Terminator!
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  168. Awesome! Combined with the dramatic decrease in the price of solar panels due to the price war in China (and the kick-on effect of that) this should be a game changer for Aussie solar power!👏👏👏👍
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  169. Spot on.
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  170. Electric Viking! Who do you think, personally, will be the best electric car company, and battery company, to invest in?
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  171. Can you do a specific forecast for we Aussies when you get a chance? I love your show, it gives me hope.
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  172.  @changingplacestoiletfinder8061  Chinese make many excellent products these days.
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  173.  @ledsalesoz  I haven't seen it, but I have seen videos of how great these are for getting out of bogs, and driving up gullied, hilly, dirt roads.
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  174. Nuclear power IS NOT CLEAN! What about the radioactive WASTE?! That's NOT "CLEAN." I expect better from you.
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  175.  @kokofan50  How do you measure that. Pop up your comparative stats! Does solar pollute for hundreds of thousand years? Hmm? NO - IT DOESN'T.
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  176.  @kokofan50  That's not statistics, that's opinions.
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  177.  @kokofan50  That's what sensible people do, reject arguments that aren't backed by evidence.
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  178.  @kokofan50  Prove me wrong. You can't.
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  179.  @kokofan50  You're so ridiculous. According to the US EPA, radioactive waste takes up to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of YEARS to decay. See - I CAN prove I'm right - and it was EASY.
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  180.  @nio6297  And I would posit that pumped hydro is a mad investment also when you consider how many river systems are already drying out around the world due to failure of rainfall, and snowfall, in the catchments, due to climate change. That will only worsen as climate change progresses.
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  181.  @higreentj  Fabulous! Where is that?
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  182. I was worrying about the same thing. ... Especially super volcanoes, or something.
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  183.  @AndrewLumsden  You just made @jebes look like an utter twit.
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  184.  @AndrewLumsden  True.
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  185. Look at the rate of Germany's uptake of solar.
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  186. @ Tibetans have never seen themselves as subject to China. Get it?
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  187. @ Tibet was not part of China. It was Tibet. That is what Tibetans say, and they did not appreciate the destruction of their temples, and the murder of their monks, en masse by imperialist China. I have spoken to Tibetan refugees, and that is what they told me, first hand. China persecuted them for their cultural practices, and their religions.
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  188. @ I'm Australian.
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  189.  @henrycarlson7514  So what? It's thanks to China that we can roll out what solar we are rolling out. If it had been left up to the U.S. (with its fossil fuel infiltrated governments) we'd have no hope as a world to save ourselves from climate change. It's the U.S's own fault that they aren't at the forefront of solar panel production. I thank China from the bottom of my heart.
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  190.  @onsendiva4695  Not every Australian is as xenophobic as you are. Also, the largest shareholders in capitalism are robbing people (including you) of what is rightfully theirs, as citizens. Just look at what the "healthcare" system is doing to people in the US. A reckoning will come for them, sooner or later. Within a matter of 50 years or less, I predict a revolution in the USA. Mangione was just the forerunner.
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  191. Exactly.
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  192.  @alan2102X  That's better. But it's true that we must stop building new fossil fuel power generation to stop increasing the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. We shouldn't be building ANY new fossil fuel plants at all.
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  193. Shelter that shades a crop from the fierce sun in the middle of the day, while exposing crops to morning and afternoon sun, is desirable in many places. It stops heat stress, and slows evaporation of moisture from the soil.
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  194.  @johnhancock2667  In large parts of the world they don't need full sun in the middle of the day at all.
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  195.  @peterclose1817  It's as if you don't have ears to listen. China already produces enough solar energy to power every home in China.
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  196. I hope they didn't turf out any natives to build it. If you know Adani, you know what I mean. Otherwise, good!
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  197. Jojoba oil is better for the skin. It's like sebum.
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  198. Wow! A genuine psychic! You must make a fortune on the Lotto, mate. @grantbuttenshaw 
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  199. Better put a bet on that, as you are certain you'll win. I suggest a really, really big bet. @grantbuttenshaw 
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  200. Musk probably wants an excess of applicants so that he can have them bid against each other for the jobs, driving down pay. More for the billionaires, less for the serfs.
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  201.  @calitaco  The Brazilian government has done that and made their assessment.
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  202. Exactly, think of all those government buildings, carparks, shopping centres, stadiums, power poles etc
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  203.  @markumbers5362  Rubbish. They are overjoyed if disaster is averted.
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  204. I don't think that is going ahead now. Look it up. They had some financial troubles.
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  205.  Ray Johnson  I hope so.
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  206. I am pretty certain those types are vegans and ride bicycles, or use public transport. I would be surprised if they were hypocrites. Idiots, not hypocrites.
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  207.  @AdrianHilder  So do batteries, which have decreased more than 90% in price over the past few years. Even when double the capacity is built out (at this cost) batteries are still way cheaper than nuclear, and every bit as reliable.
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  208.  @AdrianHilder  Sure. If you like expensive electricity bills.
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  209.  @AdrianHilder  The sun shines every day.
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  210.  @AdrianHilder  Wind and solar are so cheap now that it is entirely possible (and likely) that enough can be installed (especially floating offshore wind) to cover 100% of UK energy needs, with requirements to only store several days of energy in batteries (not weeks). With battery costs having declined over 90% during the last decade) & forecast to decline 15% annually over the 2020's, that is more than feasible. It is the cheapest way to go.
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  211.  @AdrianHilder  Watch: "Kicking Fossil Fuel out of Industry! Here's How it's Done..." on the channel Just Have a Think, (YouTube). It also describes how thermal storage of solar energy works.
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  212.  @bunsw2070  Only to the simpleminded.
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  213. Why not put cameras and alarms on them, too?
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  214.  @theairstig9164  Well, that's India for you.
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  215.  @Welly6858  😔
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  216. I didn't know that cost comparison. Interesting.
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  217. What is synthetic fuel? What a revolution we are witnessing!
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  218. That's $4200 Australian dollars! For an electric car! Most Australian households are 4 people, or less! * Did some research: average number of people per Australian household is presently a little below 2.5 !
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  219.  @Guvament_bs  According to Griffiths University, "Future Made in Australia?..." "...Australia's budget provides significantly more fossil-related tax credits scheme than green funding." Globally, fossil fuel subsidies are $10.5 TRILLION each year. In Australia, fossil fuel subsidies reached $14.5 billion in 2023-2024, and $65 billion in the forward estimates. * Australia Institute.
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  220.  @Guvament_bs  I don't believe for a millisecond that you have an environmental science degree from Griffith University, because your understanding of actual facts is so below par. Some other idiot can waste their time replying to your absolute nonsense.
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  221.  @Guvament_bs  I bet you are one of those mining operatives who come on here from places like Rio Tinto to try and spread misinformation...
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  222.  @williamreese6642  A Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration.
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  223.  @Jon-dr4fb  Your country is at risk from Trump and his billionaire buddy elites. Soon you'll all be serfs in your own country. Bye America the free.
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  224. A lot of solar energy companies aren't interested in installing solar on your house if your electricity usage is lower than average.
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  225. I'd put it on clothing to make air-conditioned clothing! Imagine walking around in the heat and being cold! I wonder if it could be possible...
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  226. Most of the Earth's population live in the sunbelt of the world, where solar is great. But wind is best outside of that zone, as you say.
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  227.  @229andymon  Thank-you! I will take a look. Of course, I am inclined to believe him, as he has proved correct so often, but I like to check sources.
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  228.  @tech-utuber2219  Good idea.
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  229.  @SideTripLife  Yes, I didn't scroll down far enough. My mistake.
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  230.  @juliane__  No it isn't, the figures are there in the cited article in the description of this video.
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  231.  @juliane__  Actually, capacity is the amount of electricity that can be produced. Also, these figures reflect those presented by the IEA (International Energy Agency).
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  232. China is going to leave the world behind, economically, in consequence of their uptake of battery storage.
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  233.  @beautifulgirl219  No, it ISN'T cost competitive AT ALL. STOP LYING. Anyone can go online and easily check that claim. Google the levelled cost of energy of various forms of energy over their lifetimes. They will find your claim to be a LIE. Meanwhile, they should go and check the number of Eavor geothermal plants that are already in the pipeline, and how much cheaper they are. The only thing that can keep the desperate nuclear energy industry alive is lies, greenwashing, and HEAVY TAXPAYER -FUNDED SUBSIDIES.
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  234.  @willhooke  It would be done with panels that could be individually replaced, and cost would be offset by enormous energy bill savings. All new builds should be required to have batteries, too. And the government should subsidise home batteries for people who install or already have rooftop solar.
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  235.  @FlintStone-c3s  I know. I would like it to be policy to do so. Building code.
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  236.  @5353Jumper  Actually, even very small leakage rates from natural gas systems rival coal's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study conducted by environmental group RMI, which included contributing scientists from NASA, Harvard University and Duke University. That holds true at leakage rates as low as 0.2%, however the study points out that recent surveys have found leakage rates far above that of "0.65% to 66.2%." The peer reviewed study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. You can read about the study at : Natural Gas May Contribute to Climate Change as much as Coal, a study says: by Jeff Brady at NPR News, published on July 14, 2023.
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  237. Actually, even very small leakage rates from natural gas systems rival coal's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study conducted by environmental group RMI, which included contributing scientists from NASA, Harvard University and Duke University. That holds true at leakage rates as low as 0.2%, however the study points out that recent surveys have found leakage rates far above that of "0.65% to 66.2%." The peer reviewed study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. You can read about the study at : Natural Gas May Contribute to Climate Change as much as Coal, a study says: by Jeff Brady at NPR News, published on July 14, 2023.
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  238.  @5353Jumper  Did you read my other comment about a recent peer reviewed study that found gas leakage from gas plants may rival and exceed the greenhouse gas emissions of coal plants?
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  239. Every time I listen to this channel I exult inside, imagining the plummeting fortunes of the greedy b@st@rds that have been squeezing us and polluting the planet with excess CO2 for decades. I imagine them twisting and turning to keep their heads above the current, before being pulled down, and sinking forever.😁
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  240. The entire problem is brought about by the Murdoch Media, Newscorp, and the growing popularity of Sky "News" and co. It's evil that such people would sabotage the future of the world for personal profit. EVIL.
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  241. Dutton's a crook who wants total control of energy resources in the hands of a few self-serving profiteers. I bet this is his new grift after the multimillions he made out of offshore detention centres. What a worm!
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  242.  @phillipmcnair5789  Do you know how much power bills are here?
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  243.  @crackheadbiden3273  They aren't. They are increasing their wind and solar at a great rate. Check out the stats for yourself.
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  244.  @Dontlie2024  😂I feel that every time I go to vote, and every time I hear the election results.
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  245.  @crackheadbiden3273  😂You people and your insults! You're so entertaining! They are opening up coal again because of coal lobbies, and the influence they hold via their donations to government - just as it has been for many years, all over the world, but their influence is waning, fast. And just because a coal plant here and there is reopening doesn't preclude the fact that by far the greatest proportion of new generation being built in Europe is wind and solar - by a vast majority. Also, your claim that Germany is opening up nuclear plants again is funny. The last two are closing in April this year.
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  246.  @jarrodf_  Good to know. But as we know all too well, governments don't have a great record with renewable energy targets. But, as you say, it makes good sense here, so perhaps they will follow through. Hope so!
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  247.  @jarrodf_  I was speaking of worldwide.
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  248.  @crackheadbiden3273  What a silly you are! in Germany 47% of electricity used in 2022 was from green sources, up 5% from the previous year. Coal went up 3.5% to about 31.9% while gas went down about 14.8%. So, fossil fuel usage decreased and green power increased in Germany, as in Europe in general. Facts matter.
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  249.  @crackheadbiden3273  Blame it on Putin, genius. The International Energy Agency says that renewables have saved Europe during the global energy crisis caused by Putin's war. In response, investment in renewables has SURGED. In fact, solar Pv capacity is set to triple worldwide in the next 5 years, surpassing coal and becoming the largest source of power capacity in the world. But let's take a close look at Germany. Even before the war in Ukraine, it cost on average $US85 per MW h to operate existing coal and gas plants. That compares with $US50 per MW h to BUILD and operate a new solar farm, and $US51 per MW h for onshore wind. Turns out that renewables are cheaper by far. You are sucking up an awful lot of copium.
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  250.  @phillipmcnair5789  The last two reactors in Germany is closing down in April, and although in Germany they have put off closing their coal plants down until 2024 (due to the international energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine), coal usage went up only by 3.5% to 31%, while gas usage decreased by 14.8% (a net decrease in fossil fuel usage). In fact, 47% of Germany's electricity came from green sources in 2022, an increase of 5% over the previous year. And in one year, the EU increased its solar power by 25%.
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  251.  @theairstig9164  Who? Me? Nah. Never!
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  252. The "faith"? Bannon just admitted MAGA is a CULT. What? The "pulpit" ?...
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  253. And then he makes 20 times on profit (attracting investors like flies, so the gas peaker plants can be run out of business!), then he sells it at HALF the price of his peaker-plant gas competitors! SO MUCH FOR THE GAS-LED RECOVERY! 😂😁😃
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  254.  @seanlander9321  Global heating is a global problem, not a national one, mate.
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  255. @myhome772 In the not-to-distant future when self-driving vehicles hit the market you will be able to hire out your Tesla as a robotaxi, and it will fund the cost of the Tesla. Musk was talking about that plan recently.
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  256. @myhome772 I can't wait. It will be so satisfying to see.
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  257.  @seanlander9321  It doesn't let us off the hook. We are on track to 3% warming now. Haven't you heard? Australia has to stop emitting CO2 right NOW.
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  258.  @seanlander9321  "...net exporter..."
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  259.  @andrewmee8136  There are plenty of videos on the internet of them doing so.
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  260. It truly disturbs me how many people from the far Left in the U.S. mindlessly despise Elon Musk. They despise billionaires, and can't separate that fact from the good he does to save the planet from the worst of climate change. Too many have become the brainwashed Left equivalent of the brainwashed far Right Fox News viewer. They just follow their "side" as religiously as if they were footy teams.
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  261.  @markanthony3275  Bullshit, the forests around the wold, for example, the Amazon and the Redwoods are drying out, being infested by bugs, not replacing themselves with saplings, due to wrong temperatures for their species, or burningdue to climate change. CO2 isn't the only factor affecting plants, temperature affects their enzymes and total function, moisture loss affects their roots and overall function, and unprecedented massive fires are destroying old growth forests that are great for sequestering CO2, after which new forests are not growing back, as the temperature and rainfall isn't suitable anymore. Maybe you should have learnt something in the science field since the very basic high school biology course you mentioned.
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  262.  @lua-nya  It's building up in the atmosphere at a faster rate than ever since the Industrial Revolution.
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  263.  @kadmow  Not really.
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  264.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  Climate change dries out the undergrowth and the leaves, and in hot, dry, windy conditions, embers from somewhere else, can travel 5 km on the wind, and land in that kindling. Not only that, summer storms light bushfires with lightning, and those fires can actually lead to pyrocumulonimbus, or "firestorm" clouds which set off even more fires, driving the embers before it. So yes, climate change, which is caused by humans (this time around) starts forest fires, and spreads them, on an unprecedented scale.
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  265.  @Uygsoerk  I just did some preliminary research and discovered that EV's consume 56% more water than ICE's over their lifecycle, from mining, through construction, lifecycle and recycling. I would be very interested if you have some conflicting figures?
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  266.  @AbelShields  Exactly.
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  267.  @Uygsoerk  What is the source of YOUR initial claim, first. Or do you have none?
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  268.  @Uygsoerk  I'm happy ICE's are dead. But that doesn't eliminate the fact that EV's use 56% more water over their complete life from mining through to recycling at the end of their lifecycle. But at least they don't destabilise our climate for thousands of years, like ICE's do.
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  269.  @markanthony3275  Actually, transportation is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions at 28%. So, you're wrong, again.
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  270.  @Uygsoerk  My source for my figures about the 56% higher water usage over the lifespan of EV's (compared to ICE's) is US government congressional research 2020. Name your source.
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  271.  @markanthony3275  You're ridiculous. Transport accounts for 28% of TOTAL greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the atmosphere annually. Simple. Capiche?
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  272.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  The planting of palm oil plantations is responsible for massive, rapid deforestation of old growth forests in Borneo, Indonesia and Brazil, according to the IPCC, 18% of CO2 emissions come from tropical deforestation: converting one hectare of Indonesian rainforest to grow a palm plantation releases up to 6,000 tonnes of CO2. The U.N. and experts around the world are calling for an immediate end to biofuels.
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  273.  @markanthony3275  As I said, oil mining and refining, and coal and gas mining release massive amounts of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere AND THEN coal and gas power plants and ICE vehicles do it AGAIN.
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  274.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  BYD is going into production of cars with sodium batteries this year (2023).
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  275.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  Caterpillar (the mining vehicle giant) has just entered into a contract with Rio Tinto to deploy a fleet of 35 electric mega mining trucks (the 793 large mining truck) to the Gudda-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia. The vehicles each can haul 265 tonnes.
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  276.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No, they work, and they have a contract.
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  277.  @markanthony3275 Transport accounts for 28% of TOTAL greenhouse gas emissions, not 28% of 6% (how ridiculous!)
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  278.  @markanthony3275  No they're not.
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  279.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  In 2022, wind and solar met 80% of the increase in electricity demand. Combined with hydro and bioenergy, renewables met 92% o the rise, coming close to meeting demand. By the end of 2023, 100% of new demand will be met by renewable sources. This year growth in renewable sources will, for the first time, cause a DROP in fossil fuel output of 0.3%, and it will continue, as a result of renewables growth. Fossil fuels are about to enter their death spiral.😁😄😀🙂 Source: The latest issue of New Scientist magazine.
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  280.  @kadmow  You need to check out the figures from the IPCC, the International Energy Agency and the UN. My figures are correct. Yours are dead wrong. Also, solar and wind make up 80% of the increase in energy demand in 2022, combined with hydro and bioenergy, renewables met 92% of the rise, and by the end of the renewables surge this year, renewables will meet 100% of all new demand. For the first time fossil fuel output has declined by 0.3%, and will continue to, due in no large part to the fact that they are cheaper, by far. According to The New Scientist, this is the tipping point, for fossil fuels fall. Fossil fuels are entering a death spiral.
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  281.  @markanthony3275  Don't be so ridiculous. It's embarrassing for you to let other people see how little you know about climate change. What an absolutely foolish remark.
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  282.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No it isn't. It already can do everything I reported. And the contract exists. You're wrong - AGAIN.
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  283.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No, just apprised of up to date news that's freely available to all, should they bother to avail themselves of it.
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  284.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  it went 60km an hour and hauled 265 tonnes. Mining trucks don't typically go faster than that, anyway. Then there are the green hydrogen fuelled mega trucks by AngloAmerican's nuGen Zero Emissions Haulage Systems that haul 298 tonnes in trial at the Mogalakwena PGMs mine in South Africa. You're going to end up looking stupid on this issue too, mate. Well some people are just born Luddites, I suppose.🤷
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  285.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  You're deranged. Just accept reality.
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  286. He' definitely worth it!
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  287. WOW. Yes!!
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  288. Why the heck didn't they just go electric earlier, for heaven's sake? And go solar and battery earlier?
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  289.  @softwarephil1709  That was in 2023. In 2024 they reduced new coal plant construction by 85%. Furthermore, they installed as much new solar and wind generation as the entire UK electricity generation capacity.
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  290.  @nvanderhoff  Not on a large enough scale! They were too slow. Too under the thumb of vested coal interests, and too loyal (on the Eastern German side) to Russia, and its gas interests.
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  291.  @apterachallenge  They were saying that a few years ago.
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  292. But will idiot Trump's "drill, baby, drill" policies change that trajectory, Sam? What do you think?
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  293. But SAM, the government is locking in 30 YEAR contracts with gas producers in this country ! GAS production has INCREASED more than coal production has decreased ! I love your good news stories so much, but then I learn facts like these. How can solar replace 30-year lock-in contracts with multinational gas giants? Our corrupt governments are signing contracts to subsidise them with MANY BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS, and we will be forced to pay high electricity prices for DECADES as a consequence! HOW ARE they GETTING AWAY WITH IT?
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  294. Good idea.
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  295.  @sleepyjoe4529  🙂
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  296. I want more public transport, and a full lane for bicycles on EVERY road.
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  297.  @tabysetterstrom6061  I agree.
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  298. Australia allowed multinational corporations to extract 405 Billion dollars worth of oil and gas THIS YEAR, without paying a penny in TAX! The problem of climate change is not going away! Installing solar won't help unless we shut down fossil fuels - and there is no sign that is happening!
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  299. Unless fools vote in the Coalition who decide to use our taxes to subsidise coal, gas and nuclear...
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  300. Because of the prior government's protecting fossil fuel company political donors with their phoney, and redundant, "gas led recovery," which locked in contracts to allow gas peaker plants to "stabilise" the electricity supply at 70X-80x the market price, when battery technology can do the job much faster and more cheaply. CORRUPTION - that's "how come."
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  301. According to the Australia Institute's recent report, although subsidies to the coal sector have decreased by $270 million (in 2023), they have INCREASED by $350 million to the oil and GAS sector to reach the highest total subsidies in Australian history, of $11.1 billion for 2023. Hoodwinked by the Labor party's greenwashing, Aussies concerned about climate change are unaware of the 30 year (subsidised) gas contracts Labor is locking in, at their expense.
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  302. I predicted global warming and the consequent warming of water would be a problem for nuclear plants. Similarly, the world shouldn't rely too much on hydro generation, either, as river after river is dwindling and drying. Wind, solar and battery arrays are the only reliable future energy sources.
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  303.  @garylee9668  Yes there is.DO YOU LOT NEVER LISTEN ? Solar with batteries is QUICK, and it is WAY CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR ! OPEN YOUR BRAIN !
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  304.  @garylee9668  SOLAR WITH BATTERIES IS FASTER, WAY FASTER TO BUILD and it is SO MUCH, MUCH CHEAPER TO RUN.
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  305.  @antoinepageau8336  Of course unions are still relevant. Employers in Texas and Florida have limited water breaks for people working in the hot sun! Employers are unscrupulous.
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  306.  @beedoox5613  They can't do that if you have your own battery.
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  307.  @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629  In 2023, according to statistics from the International Energy Agency (that records such information), the world's taxpayers spent $620 BILLION on fossil fuel subsidies, way more than the $70 billion spent on renewables subsidies. In 2022 fossil fuel subsidies were 7 TRILLION, or 7% of GLOBAL GDP ! Now you know the truth.
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  308.  @user4j0xo5-qi6qd  Actually, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and Italy, in that order, all have more expensive electricity than Germany does.
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  309. ​ @vinniechan  From 2015, the UK government has given fossil fuels 80 billion pounds, compared to 60 billion for green renewables, this, despite Shell and BP making 32Bn and 23Bn profit respectively in 2023, WHILE energy bills rose. It's subsidies for eye-wateringly expensive gas peaker plants that is the problem with energy bills, worldwide, NOT cheap renewables.
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  310.  @philipdamask2279  🤣🙄
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  311.  @NoiserToo  But China is 80% of the new car market.
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  312.  @ellengran6814  So are Amazon workers in New York. A lot of them can't afford anywhere to live, or even store their clothes. America isn't far behind this level of exploitation.
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  313.  @georgewong6615  Why? Do you know him?
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  314. The biggest battery on Earth, in South Australia, made so much profit after it was installed that it was quickly expanded.
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  315.  @PistonAvatarGuy  As this channel has reported, South Australia was running completely on wind, battery and solar power for about 2 weeks last year, when storms cut SA off from the rest of the Ozzy grid. During that period, SA generated the cheapest power it ever had, in no small part due to that huge battery. You can't rationally argue with those facts. All you have left are irrational, emotional arguments.
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  316.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Do you have a problem with comprehension? Reread my comment; it spoke of the proof that SA can and has run entirely on renewable energy for over eleven days straight in 2022, when storms stopped their ability to import or export energy. That is an entirely different point than what South Australia is invested in.
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  317.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Gas provides only 7% of Australian energy production and won't grow much, since it is more expensive than solar and wind. In fact, Australia is leading the world in proving how we can rapidly transition to renewable energy. Per capita, Australia is installing solar at twice the rate of anywhere in the world, followed by Japan and Germany. Despite the old fossils who still knock it, solar produced more energy worldwide than nuclear in 2017, and this year it will surpass worldwide hydro generation. Furthermore, in three years it will surpass worldwide coal generation, and by 2031 solar will surpass the generation capacity of nuclear, hydro, coal and gas COMBINED. Indeed, in most places in the world it is cheaper to install new solar installations (with batteries) than it is to keep existing coal plants running, as coal plants run at a loss if they are operating at less than 70% capacity, which they often are because wind and solar is so cheap. At the moment, the only thing keeping coal plants operational is contractual agreements and hefty, taxpayer-funded subsidies. In short, fossil fuels have no future anywhere in the world, and the future of energy is solar (in the world's sunbelt, where most people live) and wind, outside of that.
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  318.  @PistonAvatarGuy  You are falling for the twisted narrative that fossil fuel companies have been peddling, quite frankly. The subsidies they receive are astronomical. I'll find some stats and quote them, as you're too lazy or gullible to look them up yourself.
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  319.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Here is the source for my comments about the various energy sources and when solar produced more energy than them: European Electricity Review 2022 (International Renewable Energy Agency and Global Energy Monitor data)...should you want to check the truth of my statements. Or just rest on your silly unverified opinions...
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  320.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Just because S.A. rejoined the interconnected Australian electricity grid when connection was reestablished, doesn't mean S.A. couldn't have continued on independently had it been necessary. Logic isn't your strong suit.
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  321.  @PistonAvatarGuy  🤣And the International Monetary Fund? And the Australia Institute? I suppose you also claim that the IPCC is a biased source? I expect you also claim that the WHO was lying about covid-19, too? 😂 You're laughable.
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  322.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Incentives and subsidies are just different word for the same thing. refer to my comments quoting the IMF as to what energy source is most subsidised, worldwide.
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  323.  @PistonAvatarGuy  According to the IMF, "fossil fuels account for 85% of all global subsidies," and reducing these subsidies "would have lowered global carbon emissions by 28%, and fossil fuel air pollution deaths by 46%." Source: International Monetary Fund. Also, according to the Australia Institute, Australian taxpayers paid $11 billion in fossil fuel subsidies in Australia in 2021-2022. Source: The Australia Institute. Not only that, if we look at global figures, taxpayers paid $5.9 trillion, or 6.8% of GDP in 2020, and is expected to rise to 7.5% of GDP in 2025. Source: International Monetary Fund. * See what happens when you do some actual research rather than listening to Fox or Sky News propaganda points?
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  324.  @PistonAvatarGuy  According to the International Energy Agency's latest forecast, over the 2022-2027 period, renewables are seen growing by almost 2400 GW, worldwide. In comparison, the International Energy Agency reports that present nuclear operational capacity (2022) is 413 GW. Source: International Energy Agency (2022).
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  325.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Why? Because you spout the same talking points they do.
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  326.  @PistonAvatarGuy  New nuclear, as well as maintaining or expanding old nuclear, is actually way more expensive than wind and solar (with batteries). You should look into how many offline days French nuclear plants have due to repairs (cracks at the welds, and the like), and how much it costs taxpayers. Indeed, nuclear is actually the most expensive energy of all to expand humanity's power generation. You need to watch the video by Engineering with Rosie (on YouTube) explaining and illustrating the relative costs of all means of energy generation. Also, batteries have decreased 90% in price over the last few years. Once again, you haven't a clue what you're talking about. Do some research.
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  327.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Variability is absolutely irrelevant when you have batteries, and the batteries are plummeting in price as fast as solar did.
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  328.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Well, if you ignore the evidence from the international Energy Agency and the International Monetary Fund it is clear to all that you simply are either unwilling or unable to face reality. The fact is, your research must be from REPUTABLE sources.
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  329.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Wrong. In Europe, during the recent energy crisis, the areas that used the most renewables had the lowest energy costs.
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  330.  @PistonAvatarGuy  You are so sadly misinformed it is pathetic. My source is The International Energy Agency, as I have already cited. Now - GO READ IT. Stop babbling in the face of so much evidence. You are looking exceedingly foolish.
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  331. Trump knows it won't work. He's deliberately trying to crash the economy so billionaires can get massive bail-outs from banks reaping the real estate of regular people who won't be able to pay their mortgages.
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  332. Can you do a video just on the price trajectory of batteries around the world, please?
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  333. I wonder about the future of hydro in a dry nation in a future likely to include increasing drought.
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  334. I there any hope that Australia will begin making electric cars, seeing as we have so much lithium?We should make our own batteries and cars.
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  335.  @Guvament_bs  All perfectly well solved by building more batteries. There are batteries now that store energy for days. And solar panels work well enough to power a house on rainy days now. Sam's panels power his house on rainy days. You're speaking as if this is 10 years ago. Solar panels have changed.
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  336.  @Guvament_bs  "Pure physics," blah, blah, blah. Actual lived reality proves that solar panels are sufficient to power one's house in rainy and overcast weather, nowadays. And at night, too, with batteries.
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  337.  @Guvament_bs  It's facts, not hype. What decade do you live in? Wake up, and do some research for god's sake!
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  338.  @Guvament_bs  The writing's on the wall. You've lost. Coal will go the way of the horse and cart. And it's in its death throes.
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  339.  @Kevin07-w9l  That's why Labor is approving massive battery installations everywhere.
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  340. Ah... you've done it again! Given me good news!
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  341. If only the accelerating roll out of inexpensive solar would accelerate the development of this inexpensive battery to market!  It's possible, when people see the cost reductions.
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  342.  @maxvandenberk7506  Nuclear is also the SLOWEST form of energy generation to construct, so it has far less chance of saving us from the worst of climate change, anyway. So, overall, the worst choice.
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  343. I want this in North Queensland - NOW!
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  344. QLD has the highest percent of rooftop solar in the world. It's criminal that our corrupt governments aren't installing more large battery installations. They're ripping us off, and most Queenslanders are too silly to even realise it.
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  345. Now's the time to invest in batteries.
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  346.  @tophey9762  yeah.
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  347.  @grantbuttenshaw  You're all over all the renewable energy channels. I wonder how you find the time, unless you are being paid for your time. But of course you'll deny, deny, deny. 🙂
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  348.  @grantbuttenshaw  Yes you do. And I'm not an idiot who puts my real name on social media.
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  349. I've actually checked the sources on his stories, and they are always legitimate and reputable. So you are WRONG. @gogeorgia707 
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  350. Why wouldn't it work and be that cheap, considering the contrasting materials? Iron is SO much cheaper than lithium.
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  351.  @tedg1609  You haven't comprehended my comment correctly, obviously. My comment clearly disapproves of how the Labor government is using our funds to lock-in fossil fuels for the next thirty years, or, if they are left as stranded assets, we taxpayers will still have to pay for them via our electricity bills.Why are they doing so, when renewables are so much cheaper already, let alone in twenty years from now? We don't need a bullshit "gas-led recovery" at all, anymore. This has already been mentioned in the latest issue of New Scientist magazine. Labor is a greenwashing organisation that exists primarily as a protection racket for fossil fuel multinational companies, it's rife with corruption, sadly. I say this as a lifelong Labor voter, who is being forced, by Labor's greenwashed policies, to vote elsewhere.
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  352. Suck it up, Buttenshaw.
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  353. The government should finance batteries for every suburb, or for every home (whichever is cheaper). And every house that is newly built must have enough quality solar panels to power it. That is the cheapest way to rapidly transform the grid to solar energy.
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  354. You must be a Fox News watcher. That narrative has long ago been debunked by investigations into what happened, and the cause was actually that gas pipelines froze.
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  355. We need a government owned and run solar/battery grid, so that the private companies can't charge us exorbitant prices for electricity that is dirt cheap!
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  356. @GruffSillyGoat That, too.
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  357. @GruffSillyGoat Good luck with that, with the gas lobby corrupting both the LNP and Labor.
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  358.  @GoCoyote  I have heard of the water cooling problem occurring with nuclear power plants, and I agree that it is a huge red flag as we in Australia (and much of the world) move into inevitably drier conditions as climate change progresses. Similarly, I think it is irresponsible, in such a dry continent, in which water supplies will be more unreliable with climate change (considering that so many rivers around the world are drying up), to rely on hydro generation or hydro-batteries to replace fossil fuels. Solar, wind and batteries are the obvious choice in my humble opinion.
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  359.  @GoCoyote  Wow... thanks for that information.
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  360. I WANT one!
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  361. Says who?
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  362. When is a mega battery going to Townsville (the sunniest place in Qld)?
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  363.  @patrickpirzer4080  You're wrong there.
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  364.  @jedics1  The greenwashing of the Labor government (especially how they conceal how much they subsidise the gas industry) is astronomical, and they seem to be fooling a lot of people, too...
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  365. More good news! Also, did you hear about how we've joined the Climate Club with Germany? Albo made a deal with Germany to supply them with green hydrogen!
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  366. I HOPE it's legit !
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  367. I hope it's safe, and it happens.
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  368.  @kkarllwt  No, mate. You have a problem with muddying the waters.
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  369. Overjoyed and clapping within a few seconds of starting this video!😀👏👏👏👍
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  370.  @electricviking  🙂👍
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  371. Sam! Is this car approved for Australian roads?
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  372.  @ledsalesoz  The time will come when small electric cars like this WILL be approved for Australian roads, probably sooner rather than later. In fact, it's likely that a version of this car, with improved safety, will be released to the Australian market. The BYD Dolphin is being released here. It's just a matter of time before huge, outdated petrol guzzlers are shoved out of the market. You do know that only electric cars will be legally sold in France, Germany and England soon, don't you?
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  373.  @marvinfok65  The good part is that it benefits us in Australia.
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  374.  @marvinfok65  Point taken. I hope they can work out a way to do it economically. I was thrilled to hear of the revolutionary battery factory being built in Victoria. That should help us transition to a renewable energy economy, and give us an export industry, too.
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  375. Gas is too expensive. We need more batteries. Peaker plants are astronomically expensive. They just want to be given more taxpayer's money for free. Thieves.
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  376. Wow! There is a lot of disinformation and copium being spread in the comment section on this one! 🤣
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  377.  @theairstig9164  Nothing compared to the CO2 emitted over the lifetime of a petrol vehicle. Also, how much CO2 was emitted in digging the oil well, operating the oil well, refining the oil into petrol, and making the petrol vehicle itself?
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  378. Yes, but Sam, the contracts to increase gas and fracking for the next thirty years (with lock-in contracts) have accelerated with no sign of the corrupt protectionism abating under the present Labor government than under the previous LNP government. All that seems to have changed is the level of greenwashing plastering over the truth. Both governments engage in a corrupt protection racket aimed at keeping fossil fuels alive for as long as possible at the People's expense. Fossil fuel subsidies over the forward estimates have increased to $57.1 billion, up nearly $2 billion from 2022. That is $11.1 billion over 2022-2023, the majority going to fossil fuel gas development and protection. So they use our taxes to subsidise multinational corporations, who then charge us inflated prices (far in excess of what the price of solar and battery is), lock-in thirty year contracts with them, and then LIE to us with their greenwashing. Shame on the Labor government for lying to us; at least the LNP was open about their backward policies.
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  379.  @johndoe1909  👍
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  380. Not so good for Aussie lithium. All the more reason for Australia to get into producing batteries, or even electric cars.
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  381. I want sodium batteries, anyway.
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  382. Good time to keep an eye on it to buy!
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  383. The sooner it happens in Queensland, the better. I'm sick of the price rises. Don't you think they'll just find a way to charge us an arm and a leg, unless we have our own battery and solar panels?
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  384. It could. We have thousands of square kilometres of desert with blazing sun, far more than China has. All that's needed is the political will; instead of corrupt politicians being paid off by transnational gas corporations.
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  385. You put it perfectly.
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  386. @ They don't even have to sell it. They usually lease it. It's saving farmers from bankruptcy.
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  387.  @mynamechanged  YES! That is the most sensible way to do it! Too bad the profit motive is like a religion nowadays.
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  388. Solar and batteries are the cheapest form of energy by far. Some people cite France, and its government owned nuclear plants...but French electricity is substantially more expensive than Australian electricity. Nuclear is the most expensive form of electricity generation of all.
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  389.  @apexdrift1  What a spin-doctor you are! Coal has literally polluted our atmosphere to the extent that it has destabilised the ocean's currents, is melting the Poles, and has warmed the planet irreversibly for at least a thousand years, and here you are talking about renewables causing environmental damage! What a bad joke! As for batteries, they have come down in price by over 90% since 2020. That makes renewables plus batteries much cheaper than nuclear energy. As for the transmission point, the transmission lines from old coal plants in Australia are already being used by solar energy. Dutton would have to turn off already cheaper solar energy to plug in his expensive nuclear energy. It's a fools errand, and only fools will be fooled by it.
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  390.  @apexdrift1  Coal, gas and nuclear do far more ongoing damage from mining than the one-off mining to produce a large battery installation. Furthermore, solar with batteries are way cheaper than nuclear and coal, not only in the short, but also the long term. And finally, in Australia, the transmission lines coming from old coal plants are already being used by solar farms, so silly old Dutton would have to turn off the cheapest power (solar) in order to transmit the most expensive power (nuclear) on those lines. It's a Fool's Errand.
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  391. Now we need the end of greenwashing in Australia!
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  392. Could it be because it is stealing water from the river system in a time of increasing droughts downstream of the Himalaya?! This is a criminal action by China, and there should be international laws against water theft from catchments and from rivers that cross borders. I'm all for green, renewable energy, but dams are not the solution, especially in this time of climate change. Dams are well known to be terrible for producing and emitting methane, a terrible short-term greenhouse gas. Dams are NOT a solution to climate change.
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  393.  @philipdamask2279  Just buy a Powerwall.
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  394. Taylor Hinds is a woman, Sam, not a "he."
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  395. Very astute analysis, actually.
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  396.  @sometingwongwai9679  Too bad for their economies.
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  397.  @sometingwongwai9679  You don't listen very well, do you? ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar, wind, and large-scale battery arrays are WAY cheaper now than all but hydro; that's how it's bad for them. Corruption in government might help those developers for a while, but soon it won't, and they'll be left with stranded assets.
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  398.  @sometingwongwai9679  You really have swallowed the lies, haven't you? France is cancelling new nuclear because solar, wind, battery arrays are so much cheaper. Also, Germany's problem is high interest rates, their energy costs are actually low now. Additionally, the Russian economy is about to start rapidly shrinking in 2025 according to the IMF, and the trend will continue for at least several years. 🙂
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  399.  @sometingwongwai9679  You are behind the times. Sam just had a video about how France is cancelling their new reactors. Sorry. You're WRONG 🙂👍
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  400. Elon Musk read the writing on the wall, and very cleverly got on Trump's good side. Trump's loyal to wherever the money is, and Musk has got more money than anyone, most of it coming from megapack batteries. Why would Trump remain loyal to coal and oil? Solar and batteries are the new bonanza.
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