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

  1. 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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  2. Wow! I love it! I want one!💛
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  3. @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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  4. Good point. About time some Australian government woke up to that fact!
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  5. 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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  6.  @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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  7.  @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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  8.  @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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  9.  @grantbuttenshaw  The same news is reported in Bloomberg and on the International Energy Agency website, mate.
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  10.  @grantbuttenshaw  You are simply insisting on ignoring EXISTING REALITY.
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  11.  @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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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15.  @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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  16. As Sam pointed out, that coal will stay in the ground. It's not economically viable anymore in China.
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  17.  @methamor5351  Born in Cairns, in 1967. Bred in Cardwell.. We're not all xenophobes.😉
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  18. 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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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22. I'll be happy when the biggest battery of them ALL is built in Queensland, near Townsville.
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  23.  @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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  24. You've been listening to half-arsed Trump speeches. That's total bull dust.
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  25. I second that! Rajasthan is mostly red desert, though.
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  26.  @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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  27. 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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  28.  @wilfredvanvalkenburgh2874  How many passengers, or how much freight, did it carry?
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  29. Obviously you didn't watch the video, just read the title.
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  30. Thanks to President Biden.
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  31. ❤👍👏👏👏 Well done!😀
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  32. It was a threat.
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  33. @ Nuclear is so extremely expensive that "economies of scale" still make it nowhere near competitive with solar/batteries.
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  34. Not all visa applicants are fruit pickers. A lot of them have technical degrees.
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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39. Precisely! That's why it would be great if the government ran the renewables.
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  40. 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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  41.  @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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  42. 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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  43.  @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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  44.  @adamrak7560  They hate paperwork.
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  45. 😂Luddite
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  46. 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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  47. @ Tibetans are Tibetans; neither Chinese nor Indian. You can take your imperialist notions elsewhere.
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  48. Wow! Amazing point!
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  49. 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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  50. I don't think so. He's doing a public service.
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