The Biggest Lie About Renewable Energy

Nuclear is the strange kid, he isn't green, he is yellow, he isn't renewable, unless he's a breeder reactor, he isn't very popular unless he is fusion, but still, he is the strongest in our arsenal against Climate Change.

Why wasn't nuclear elaborated on as much? I feel like it has the most potential

I liked the fact about the 480 exajoules of energy from the sun --one hundredth of that means covering the total land mass of China and India in solar farms

If you’re gonna talk about the lies… you have to talk about the truths.

1:52 Mitch: “Everything changed.” My Brain: When the fire nation attacked.

As a non-americian, I have never heard of these "big" lies.

For my Senior Project in high school, I researched wind power and wanted to look into its viability for energy source. I concluded, at the end of my research, that it'd be a supplemental power source at best.

Anyone can present misinformation convincingly with attractive talkers, fancy art, a budget and historic timestamps without the full context.

The biggest lie is to not talk about nuclear fusion/fission being more effective than coal while being greener than solar/wind/hydro.

After recent hacking attacks on the power grid, having all power generation being IOT is the worst think you could possibly do

I still believe renewable energy is a great investment in the future.

Why do we have to tax more? We have a 3 trillion annual budget in which government always over spends. We have the money from existing taxes, the government can spend it on renewables any time they want.

If everyone died, imagine the savings.

"70% taxes on the super-rich" - well, I'm sold. One small question, though: which of the millionaires should I vote for to make this happen?

The main reason the US had strong growth during those super high tax rates is because there was literally no other country in the world with a modern, functioning manufacturing and industrial sectors. Europe was still bombed out and recovering, as was Japan. China's manufacturing prowess hadn't awaken yet and the USSR was the USSR. The US was the only country capable of massive, large scale manufacturing and industrial production. That is extremely far from the case currently. You cannot look at tax rates, production, and GDP from that period and compare it to this period. Things are vastly different.

I am an electrical engineer who has been working in the energy industry for 20 years (both fossil fuels and renewables) and recently completed a master of economics with my dissertation being on the economic viability of technologies used in the energy transition. This video was put together by people who obviously did not spend more than 5 minutes researching. It's a complex issue, so maybe they misinterpreted much of the supposed books/experts they consulted, but overall it's pretty sloppy and they get a lot wrong, from both the engineering perspective and the economic perspective.

Why not mention France who is >70% nuclear power????

I'm an engineer who operates the power grid. What I can say is this video is worth a junior year college presentation in engineering school. Thousands of engineers in transmission system operators aren't just sleeping in their job & they know the grid won't be 60% more efficient just by using IOT. Do these really guys think the current generators aren't communication with each other?

8:53 "we need to tax these people because they have more than me, why does that matter? because it's not cool!" interesting coming from someone such as you, I mean look at that house you live in!

I live in the Antelope Valley, which is a high desert area in Southern California. I want to preface this by noting that I am for solar and have a solar system that powers my home. With that being said, the solar farms that have sprouted around the high desert are astounding in both good and bad ways. It's great that they can generate so much electricity, but they devastate the local ecosystem. From the front of my house, I can see the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. During late March and early August, those foothills would turn a beautiful orange, as the wild poppies would bloom. Now, It's a sea of black solar panels. A large portion of the wild life that used to live there is gone. People think "Oh it's a desert. Nothing lives there" but that is totally wrong. There is a large variety of wildlife, from coyotes, deer, bobcats & desert tortoises to a large variety of ground squirrels, quail, burrowing owls and hundreds of cold blooded species. The majority of these creatures are displaced with these large, fenced off solar farms that can cover hundreds of acres. The same goes for the wind farms that, while not as bad, still devastate the local ecosystem with all the access roads, buildings and cement pads that are needed for the thousands of wind turbines that dot the Tehachapi Pass. We really need to focus on modern Nuclear power plants.