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🗓️ 26 November 2020
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0:00.0 | if you accept that climate change is real and that basically our entire society is based on cheap |
0:05.3 | energy, we need to find a way to provide that cheap energy. The technology, so you're talking to an |
0:10.7 | engineer, the technology is absolutely there. So we could easily power the entire US using just |
0:16.1 | existing technology, photovoltaic, solar, biomass, wind. |
0:22.3 | The only question is economics. |
0:27.5 | So can we do it cheaper or for a price that the society is willing to pay for it? |
0:40.3 | So any technology that can make renewable energy cheaper and getting it more competitive with basically paid off nuclear power or paid off coal or highly sub-fetched oil and gas. So, yes, so basically airborne wind is not trying to compete with other renewables, right? |
0:46.8 | Other renewables are there and are being built a lot around the world. |
0:50.0 | So if you look on how fast solar has been growing over the last years, how fast wind has been growing, |
0:54.4 | conventional wind turbines have been growing, offshore wind has been growing. |
0:58.4 | So a lot of people and a lot of engineering is done of getting the existing renewable energy |
1:04.9 | sources on speed, but trying to find additional sources that could potentially be even cheaper or generate power |
1:12.5 | in places and at times that the existing ones can. I mean, you got the old, well, okay, |
1:17.6 | what do you do if at night, if the sun doesn't shine, does my TV turn off? Or what do I do |
1:23.2 | if there's no winter on my house? Right. So the more diverse we are in terms of power generation, the more stable the network becomes |
1:30.6 | and the less we have to worry about storage. |
1:33.2 | All right. |
1:33.5 | So you always have a combination of different sources of energy generating power. |
1:37.7 | So it's not constant. |
1:39.2 | Basically, if you do nuclear coal, a gas and so on, they all feed the power into the grid. |
1:43.7 | And then you have a consumption on the other side that is not constant either. |
1:46.4 | So if everybody turns on TB at night or the consumption goes up, all the factory start in the morning. |
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