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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

THE EXPLOSIVE PROBLEM WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

America’s energy needs are surging with no viable options in the short term. Meanwhile, the lithium batteries in our homes and cars are found to be riskier than once thought.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was the headline that just came out. This is PBS. It says coal-fired plants will have to capture

0:06.4

admissions or shut down, says strict new EPA rule. So we have legislation here at EPA

0:11.6

is making this rule and it says the EPA rules would not mandate use of equipment to capture and store carbon emissions, a technology that is expensive and still being developed.

0:21.6

Instead, the agency would set caps on carbon dioxide pollution that plant operators would have to meet.

0:26.0

Still, the regulation is expected to lead to greater use of carbon capture equipment.

0:30.0

Only a handful of projects are operating in the country despite years of research.

0:34.5

So coal plants are a major source of energy generation in this country and in the article they're saying

0:41.9

the technology to capture this is super expensive

0:44.8

is still being developed years of research is only a handful of projects actually operating and

0:50.8

the EPA is saying well hey coal, go figure that out or we're going to shut you down,

0:56.0

even though that's the reality of the case.

0:58.0

And at the same time, these headlines are happening.

1:00.0

You're seeing this headline from the Washington Post,

1:03.0

amid explosive demand, America is running out of power.

1:07.0

And so you go into this headline,

1:09.0

I thought we were switching over to a greater green energy technology,

1:12.0

but it says, vast swaths of the United States

1:14.8

are at risk of running short on power as electricity-hungry data centers and

1:18.7

clean technology factories proliferate around the country leaving utilities and

1:22.4

regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation's creaking power grid.

1:27.0

And it goes on to show what type of energy demand we're looking at here.

1:30.6

So, see from starting at 2017 2017 you have less than 300,000 gigawatt

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