Can We Power the World With a Single Energy Grid?

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China is building a 1.1 million volt power line that will carry power 3,200km. Could this be the beginning of a united global energy grid?
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@shashankshekhar390 4 жыл бұрын

India has pushed for One Sun one grid plan in the United Nations around an year ago. Its one of the mega projects that India is pushing at the world stage. Wish we can seen that happen in our lifetimes.

@kiinski 2 жыл бұрын

We actually might :)

@evaristegalois6282 5 жыл бұрын

Seeker: *"Can we power the world with a single energy grid?"* *_Nikola Tesla is typing_*

@kinga6347 5 жыл бұрын

*Edison is typing*

@xehP 5 жыл бұрын

Evariste Galois please stop these shitty comments

@psyrex7196 5 жыл бұрын

Nikola Tesla leaves chat... Edison leaves chat...

@eggxecution 5 жыл бұрын

Can a single power the world with we a energy grid?

@electronresonator8882 5 жыл бұрын

wait Tesla, have you forgot know how people treat you while you alive and after you died? ......... ................... *Nikola Tesla leaves chat*

@dimitrisanchez2438 5 жыл бұрын

3:16 I felt embarrassed, I had nowhere to hide. Despite being watching this alone with earphones, I could not stop feeling ashamed of my self and somehow regretful of something I did not do.

@joeylee6094 5 жыл бұрын

That bad? Really?

@giovannip8600 5 жыл бұрын

Np, just come back when you're mature

@SeraphFemboy 5 жыл бұрын

To do list. *form global alliance *improve space travel *become an intergalactic super power rather than continental one *harness the true power of the sun via dyson sphere *travel beyond the milky way *continue expanding to the farthest reaches of space (We gonna need a lot of money, and most likely some sort of faster than light travel, any ideas?)

@samarmajumdar573 5 жыл бұрын

Dredgen Doom then we can be racist across the galaxy 😂

@SeraphFemboy 5 жыл бұрын

Its funny you say that because the last step would be building a wall around the entire universe, to keep it from expanding of course lol

@Radicus 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, we don't need money so much as you would think. We need co-operation. Money is just going circles in the economy.

@UWealthyWon 5 жыл бұрын

men in black beat you to it

@ohtheblah 5 жыл бұрын

Dyson sphere is stupid and a waste of time and resources. Dyson swarm > dyson sphere

@Master_Therion 5 жыл бұрын

Even if there are advantages to DC power transmission, I think we should still use AC in the summer.

@Max__apex 5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@SlugSage 5 жыл бұрын

stop it.

@pursuitsoflife.6119 5 жыл бұрын

Haven't seen in ya in a while

@feynstein1004 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of your work, Therion-sama 😂

@carsonrush3352 5 жыл бұрын

A worldwide energy company? Sounds like Shinra.

@ardhikamalhaq1119 5 жыл бұрын

I wanna kurzgesagt make the video about this topic

@4L3B4F 5 жыл бұрын

kurzgesagt > seeker

@lightcry95 5 жыл бұрын

@@4L3B4F I like both because I can watch one when I'm done with the other.

@KarinaHunter 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, in addition to being informative and interesting I loved ALL the jokes and your broadway moment lol :)

@Master_Therion 5 жыл бұрын

Why is China doing this? DC is not that good... Marvel is better.

@gokuldinesh8851 5 жыл бұрын

Hey didnt you got adressed in space time twise?

@kelly2fly 5 жыл бұрын

Master Therion I'm waiting for the onslaught of salty DC fans. RIP MT lol

@Master_Therion 5 жыл бұрын

@@kelly2fly I'm worried about that too. It's going to suck... Just like "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice"

@electronresonator8882 5 жыл бұрын

they know that Darkseid can crush Thanos any day

@itachiuzumaki7341 5 жыл бұрын

Word!

@Awave3 5 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad a science channel with some recognition is talking about this highly relevant but rarely mentioned topic. Global power networks have long been my focus for design of 1000+KV AC and DC tower structures. I map power grids worldwide so I can tell you most of your information is accurate. I disagree though with your opinion that a global grid will ever become realized. It may be necessary to rely on for intermittent renewables since the sun is always shining somewhere you can draw on surplus power from the other side of the world. The only alternative to that is local storage, which would be more or less expensive per-country, I'm not too sure.

@joaowiciuk 5 жыл бұрын

Brazil also has a high voltage DC transmission line. It's the Itaipu HVDC and connects the Itaipu hydroelectric power to the region of São Paulo

@eliasgallegos3058 5 жыл бұрын

I think it's possible! Each country can have their own grid, but also have them all interconnected, so they can complement each other, but not depend entirely, also if they build that Northeast Asian super grid, other regions or countries that get along, can do the same, making the connections between the "super grids" much easier!

@catprog 5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Not a global grid as such. But all the grids connected together.

@AifDaimon 5 жыл бұрын

0:41 the rock band reference tho.. 😂😂😂😂

@universe1225 5 жыл бұрын

What if government officials from each country signed a treaty and were the ones maintaining the global power grid?

@JPLToyExperience 5 жыл бұрын

I need 1.21 Gigawatts to travel

@kayrosis5523 5 жыл бұрын

ACDC, Siemens, Abba... You're on a roll... A bread roll of dad jokes

@paxdriver 5 жыл бұрын

Great great script man lol thoroughly enjoyed

@brendarua01 5 жыл бұрын

Now those are some cables you do not want to drag your anchor overr lol

@whatthefunction9140 5 жыл бұрын

how do you control arcing at 1 million volts?

@skArpPT 5 жыл бұрын

Man this dude would be perfect for a live action pinky and the brain show! Am I wrong for saying that... maybe but I had to say it.

@1Welshdylan 5 жыл бұрын

Don't Europe share power grids already? But yeah, the countrys are smaller so it make sense doing so.

@hape3862 5 жыл бұрын

Europe is (slightly) bigger than the US and has far more citizens. Europe has a synchronous grid, the US don't.

@flybeep1661 5 жыл бұрын

@@hape3862 I'm guessing you're speaking of EU? What constitutes Europe as a continent isn't exactly clear and depends on who you ask. Either way, your right in both instances. Especially on the citizen side EU dwarfs US.

@hape3862 5 жыл бұрын

@@flybeep1661 Yes, it's difficult to define Europe as a continent and it is often confused with the EU. But regarding the grid: It spans not only the EU but some non-EU countries like Switzerland, Turkey and even some north African countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental_Europe

@EduardoRFS 5 жыл бұрын

@@hape3862 so a big point of failure. That's really something that europe will do, destroy redundancy and making everything less reliable, you just need some of the core countries to just get in war with another to shut off all the electric supply. Is just dumb. You can have a global connection over the world using multiple dots instead of big lines.

@stephenrowley4171 5 жыл бұрын

@@hape3862 not all of the European nations super grids are synchronous you don't need to be for dc interconnects such as the UK and contential Europe.

@ryanard5953 5 жыл бұрын

Using Earth as a clean generator is one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time. I believe someday we may get there. But it's not going to happen anytime soon.

@jonathonfrazier6622 5 жыл бұрын

I prefer isolation. no system is too big to fail.

@Bolter024 5 жыл бұрын

same

@stephenrowley4171 5 жыл бұрын

Isolation leaves you with less points of failure. Ie more likely to fail.

@ben10pa 5 жыл бұрын

here in costa rica we once had a national blackout because something went wrong in Panama with their powerplants. Since we are sharing the grid, there was an automatic shutdown. I think other central american countrys were affected too

@RichOrElse 5 жыл бұрын

So you prefer no internet?

@jonathonfrazier6622 5 жыл бұрын

RichOrElse I could live without it. arguing with people in the comment section of KZfaq is pretty much the full extant of my "social media life".

@aronbraswell1589 5 жыл бұрын

why not use a high power laser and fiber optic cables to transmit power ( at least for the big supply lines anyway )?

@joshuanorman2 5 жыл бұрын

"Don't laugh it's German" also applies to German jokes

@thisishaggard 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, burger on me. Looks like you need it lol

@willchilson4648 5 жыл бұрын

At the borders of countries have stations for the power lines controlled by the neighboring countries in a neutral zone so there needs to be two or more "switches" turned on/off simultaneously for power flow to be stopped, started, changed, etc.

@macbuff81 5 жыл бұрын

ABB is a Swedish-Swiss company. ABB came into being after Asea and Brown Boveri Company merged. My dad worked for them for over 40 years

@SanP56 5 жыл бұрын

Nice T-shirt man😄

@macbuff81 5 жыл бұрын

My dad for ABB for decades. It's an interesting company.

@peterlang777 5 жыл бұрын

Use galfenol nanoparticles in gallium converts sound into electric power

@IZuzivowoI 5 жыл бұрын

Ditch the AC - DC converters? Sure, but you can't just plug your electroincs in directly just because it's DC. You would still need a converter that "get all hot and waste electricty" to step down the voltage.

@jamest.5001 5 жыл бұрын

It could maybe happen over time! Just think back in 1899, someone say the whole country US gonna be on a grid! They would say no way that's too costly, but the country was a bit smaller . basically the whole North America. Could be on a grid. Keep Canada and Mexico together but separate , so power could be sold to and from each other. It would possibly cut cost to both! I think each town or neighborhood should have their own grid with wind/solar, plus storage maybe central storage. Allowing the peak demand to be met with the previous day's extra power. That's what I'm doing only off grid. For my house and family house, storage in both. Allowing power to flow back and forth if needed! It's lower voltage DC, I think it can be scaled!

@sid4727 5 жыл бұрын

Love your content

@Vionbringer 5 жыл бұрын

Julien is on a roll!

@ajtrvll 5 жыл бұрын

If we consider our global communication network and the internet, a global power grid doesn't seem all that far fetched from a political or a cost perspective.

@jeroenvandenbulk 5 жыл бұрын

The difference is, the internet works even when you block out a whole country. Pretty much every country runs a backbone network. If a country decides to block out your energy source, that's really bad.

@ajtrvll 5 жыл бұрын

@@jeroenvandenbulk Couldn't this hypothetical Global Power Grid (GPG) be constructed like the internet? If one country blocks you, the energy is simply routed via different countries and exchange points?

@jean-pierredevent970 4 жыл бұрын

@@ajtrvll This seems indeed logical because that grid must even internally have many connections in case a local power station should suddenly fail and fall away. Of course this system would necessitate political stability too but why not??? War seems no longer economically interesting.

@yashvardhandwivedi7316 2 жыл бұрын

concept like "one sun,one world,one grid" are now taking shape. Hence, possible

@christopheb9221 5 жыл бұрын

There are other ways to transfer power. One of the ideas for DC was used hydraulics to transfer power to DC motors

@Justwantahover 5 жыл бұрын

Beam energy down from solar cells in space, into a no go zone area, where the energy is converted to electricity etc. BIG project.

@supernovasyn 5 жыл бұрын

Audio seems a little-little bit low. But nice vid.

@sumukharao4834 5 жыл бұрын

Sir why cant the current in lightning be used? Or can it be?

@catprog 5 жыл бұрын

300 kilovolts * 30 kA * 30 microseconds per strike. = 0.075 kilowatt hours.

@MARILYNANDERSON88 5 жыл бұрын

Reliability comes from local generation that operates independent of the grid. The longer the utility grid umbillical cord, the greater the risk of injury, death and extreme damage due to electric utility operations, plus high cost yet likely no power in emergencies.

@jamest.5001 5 жыл бұрын

The Og, ACDC, Tesla on guitar, Edison on drums! Who's gonna sing!

@Omnifarious0 5 жыл бұрын

I want to understand why DC is better over a certain distance. Also, how do you down-convert high voltage DC?

@IZuzivowoI 5 жыл бұрын

It's very complicated. Check out ElectroBOOMs video about it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eqyBepyc2r63qJs.html

@LordGryllwotth 5 жыл бұрын

Why would we use DC on the near grid that the houses is connected to?

@IZuzivowoI 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty much everything (except heating) in a house uses DC nowadays anyways. Heaters can use DC without modifications.

@cornholiothefirst2018 5 жыл бұрын

It would be useful to note the skin affect of AC, this is a problem at high voltage. DC does not have that problem.

@vishnupgn9471 2 жыл бұрын

What about "one sun one world one grid" project? How realistic is it? It would be great if you make a video on it.

@anshulsharma9424 11 ай бұрын

This can potentially solve the energy storage problem for renewable sources of energy

@loukask.9111 5 жыл бұрын

man, a lot of music and electricity is being mixed up here...

@juschu85 5 жыл бұрын

I had this idea before and the lecturer at my university talked about the same problem: Politics. So perhaps this would be an interesting solution for the first exoplanet we colonize (which I think is more likely than terraforming Mars). That's just one reason why I think colonizing other planets would be such a big chance. We could completely start at the beginning after we learned from our mistakes and avoid doing them again.

@kirbyurner 2 жыл бұрын

If we define "global grid" as in graph theory, to mean any grid point must connect to any other grid point by some continuous path, then maybe we'll never have one. By other definitions, we have one already, in terms of patchworks increasingly connected (including by HVDC which China is certainly not alone in using -- one of the oldest is from Oregon to LA).

@joaobaptista4610 2 жыл бұрын

That ABBA joke realy got me! lol.

@jean-pierredevent970 4 жыл бұрын

This is the kind of inspiring idea the world needs now because we have to admit storage is still too much a problem with green energy. If your country is fed and stabilized from multiple sources around you, I don't see the national security factor. Belgium relies for gas already totally on import. It makes the world even safer because we never had war in Europe after WW2 because countries rely too much on each other and after a while, war seems a costly absurd idea to solve problems. The cost of the grid can seem a problem but on the other hand savings have no interest now and investing for ordinary people in such a grid would deliver a return

@gar8177 5 жыл бұрын

This guy is funny! ^_^ good show!

@CodeDactyl 5 жыл бұрын

Just had a thought, If a global energy grid was to be made then wouldn't the issue of the duck curve go away? All curves would be at different times to each other and average out.

@BrendanGeormer 5 жыл бұрын

Now let's get fusion going.

@WilliamBrayton 5 жыл бұрын

I'm going to go with No because this video hits right up against the age old law of, 'Does the story ask a question? Then its no.'

@topsycretomega 5 жыл бұрын

We just need to stop fighting and it’s fine lol

@hudbudmudsud 5 жыл бұрын

Just use both types of currents.

@rickytorres9089 5 жыл бұрын

More than likely it will be like the Internet where there exchangers along the way to solve most of these issues. Cost and efficiency is probably what's killing it.

@Scarletraven87 5 жыл бұрын

There is this thing that solar panels make DC current, and if installed on roofs it shouldn't be converted to AC just to travel several metres and be converted to DC again when it reaches an adapter. A small genius and engineer from the Vancouver area explained me that.

@sonofjune85 5 жыл бұрын

This idea of connecting electricity web is actually happening in recent years between Arab countries specially the Gulf (GCC). If mi am not mistaken Egypt just joined in

@Onionbagel 5 жыл бұрын

is that blood on your mustache or ketchup?

@InPlumWeTrust 5 жыл бұрын

If we were going to make a global power grid, the hardest part IMO would be oceans if you are trying to do power lining. However, if you harness hydropower and solar power in select areas. Along with building certain platforms you could do it. But maybe we could make a power grid out of the satellites we have?

@catprog 5 жыл бұрын

How do you transmit power to the satellites? The Arctic would take care of the northern hemisphere power lines. Then all you need to do is connect Indonesia and Australia into Asia. (And run lines down into Africa and South America)

@kshitishneupane2508 5 жыл бұрын

"Don't laugh its german"😂😂

@OnlyTheParanoidSurvive444 5 жыл бұрын

Y'all never heard of Telsa's Wardenclyffe tower? Hmm

@louweedgi7278 5 жыл бұрын

What ist there abaut our good German company Siemens that seems so funny to you?

@RandomGuy-nm6bm 5 жыл бұрын

holy shit I asked myself that yesterday. If you combine with solar, there is always a sunny side. However transmission losses will be huge

@superoligarch_official 5 жыл бұрын

2:03 hehe i get that ^^

@TheHua89 5 жыл бұрын

Dooby the house elf has his own show

@publicpolicyofindia3315 3 жыл бұрын

India is doing its best to make a single solar grid One sun one world one grid programme

@chilling_at_pontiff 5 жыл бұрын

Cant wait to see videos on reddit of people accidentally touching 1.1million volt lines and exploding

@phoenix2k1231 5 жыл бұрын

ABB is a company from Switzerland, not Sweden.....

@stephenrowley4171 5 жыл бұрын

We All ready do it in Europe most of Europe is interconnected in some form

@MrFlexNC 5 жыл бұрын

This is just bad reasoning, it can be traded and doesn't have to be connected in an uncontrolled manner, the receiver can decide how much goes in, the sender can decide how much goes out and the cost can be repayed by the trade benifits it provides

@richardwaldron222 5 жыл бұрын

Power company monopoly is already a huge problem. Customers are done wrong and are forced to stay. They dictate their own fee and costs because they are your only option. Power companies are the reason why local to me can't have off grid power or assisted power like solar. So we have pipes than run over our roofs here to help the hot water heater and warm pools to save electricity. Duke tried to stop it. My grandmothers power was shut off for two days on accident. They ment to disconnect her neighbors. All of her insulin in the fridge went bad, six bottles. They are almost $700 a bottle. It was a six months supply. It took them two days to turn the power back on. Could you imagine how much the power companies would grow if the entire globe was covered or had the access to be covered. Insane lol

@dblack6053 5 жыл бұрын

I'm just going to say before I watch this, I know it is possible. As a example why are there camps operating on certain grid point on the "Globe." Who knows just food for thought.

@mischake 5 жыл бұрын

In our current, devided, competition based world it won't happen, but the world is slowly trending toward cooperation instead, so it will happen one day

@SlugSage 5 жыл бұрын

Fully automated...

@jeffclaussen3188 4 жыл бұрын

World-wide lightning-grid

@surfie007 5 жыл бұрын

Another difference is that AC powers all connections with an equal voltage whereas DC is first come, first served

@hamzamehmood1976 5 жыл бұрын

There is a voltage drop in AC also

@SuperVstech 5 жыл бұрын

hamza mehmood it isn’t the drop that was the problem with dc... it was the distribution of the required amps beyond a single building... no way to easily raise and lower voltages... now with modern buck and volt converters, it can be achieved with DC.

@hamzamehmood1976 5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperVstech also DC is suitable only for long transmission but for short and medium AC is better

@marksaltiel1180 5 жыл бұрын

3:16 tho 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mut16rox_40 5 жыл бұрын

Good video!! But how would this benefit us besides getting more powerful power

@i.a.9849 5 жыл бұрын

4:05 Resistance is Futile! ;)

@JamisonStone 5 жыл бұрын

Supergrid go!

@fransdebruijn6763 5 жыл бұрын

@3:28 you mention ditching ac to dc converters that get hot wasting 1/5th of the household power. This is emphatically not true. 1. urban power distribution is not practical in DC because the low mains voltages loose voltage to resistance over short distances. 2. the plug packs / wall warts or whatever you want to call them only really get hot in places that run 110 volt mains as internally the first stage in many designs is to double the voltage using diodes and capacitors. this make the capacitors run quite hot. in places with 220-240 volts they run much cooler. 110 volts is not an efficient mains voltage and if the US was serious about efficiency then all new housing estates should be built with 240 volt outlets with a different socket. most of the equipment will work fine that uses switch mode power supplies except for simple resistive devices like hair dries and small motorised devices such as fans which would need to be bought as 240v varients.

@goonsmith2444 5 жыл бұрын

As german its funny, I never recognized that "Siemens" sounds naugthy in english :D

@TheMagicJIZZ 5 жыл бұрын

VHVDC is already possible and Europe and Russia plus north Africa already have interconnectors. This idea will extend to middle East and there is plans to unify all grid frequencies so can export/import power across Eurasia and Africa so I think this could happen. The USA already has transmission lines with México and Canada, I think a lot People don't understand this concept and the video doesn't really explain grid frequencies. We can have this future but each nation would have their won grid it's just that the borders would have surplus interconnectors

@catprog 5 жыл бұрын

This is why DC is so good for inter-connectors. I think it is Canada and NE usa have the same voltage and frequency but because they are out of phase they have to use DC to connect.

@kirkc9643 5 жыл бұрын

(SPOILER ALERT): No.

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 жыл бұрын

One day the world will be powered by only a few energy grids.

@rahulsehrawat4321 5 жыл бұрын

Yes ,we can .........if the source of energy is mjolnr.

@ShortScienceVideos 5 жыл бұрын

I believe one day we will get to Tier 1 hopefully.

@aaronparys1750 5 жыл бұрын

interesting idea .....but it Would be better to Move everyone to the Equatorial region this would solve many problems and Save a large amount of Energy (lower Energy requirements) mostly due to warm Climate ..Longer growing season etc ...of course this would be in a Utopian world ..to many Flag Lovers today !!

@nikolatesla3693 4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU NIKOLA TESLA ONESTLY.

@zachcrawford5 5 жыл бұрын

Why not use lasers to transmit energy over vast distances? No need for wires and nearly lossless transmission in air at the right frequencies.

@RandomUser311 5 жыл бұрын

Your phone doesn't need that charger because the outlet is AC but primarily because it's running a much higher voltage. And converting that down to 5V is much easier when it's AC.

@aleksandersuur9475 5 жыл бұрын

For old school wallwarts, perhaps. In modern power supplies rectification is the very first step. Other than these 4 diodes, there is no difference what-so-ever.

@RandomUser311 5 жыл бұрын

@@aleksandersuur9475 looks like you're correct on the second point. But I believe the first point still applies.

@aleksandersuur9475 5 жыл бұрын

@@RandomUser311 yes, voltage difference is why you can't do away with wallwarts, you need high voltage for efficient transmission and you need low voltage for low powered digital circuits, a step down has to happen somewhere.

@harshroy5165 5 жыл бұрын

Dude.. Whatever happened with the gaming channel??!!

@scrwbll19 5 жыл бұрын

One vital thing that was not mentioned is the issue of stability. Any environmental disaster could knock the power out in a large area, if it occurs in the right place such as a generation site or a large substation. A carefully planned cyber or physical terrorist attack could achieve a similar result. The power grid has safety measures and regulations in place to help protect against such things, but a larger grid introduces more possibilities for error and loss of control. While it is appealing to have everyone be able to have power, it is not realistic from a controls and electrical engineering perspective due to the contingencies involved.

@catprog 5 жыл бұрын

Except by having a larger grid their are more points where the power can go through if some are disrupted.

@scrwbll19 5 жыл бұрын

@@catprog Yes and no. Yes, if we are talking about the distribution level of the power grid. No, if we are talking about anywhere else on the grid, depending on the design. Sudden power loss anywhere still can cause damage to equipment from the resulting currents that can overload the circuit. This is why reclosers exist among other kinds of safety measures on the grid. Rerouting power can happen at the transmission level, but the massive loss of power can force utilities to have to do load shedding to prevent further damage to equipment and further loss of power in the long run. Still, this means that the utility will have to quickly buy power from other utilities to compensate for the loss, depending on how much reserve power the utility with the outage has. In other words, contingencies cost utilities a massive amount of money for just keeping the lights on in terms of manpower and the use of more expensive reserve generation. This does not include penalties from governments or whatever other groups the utility may be a part of.

@fireshotgun75bedrockeditio3 5 жыл бұрын

I like your ears. Nice

@hathor1985 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, oddly enough we can build an global electricity network, if we can iron out to transmit electricity over 1000's of miles over land and sea, we can use the same technology that transmit eletricity, radio, tv ,satellite communication and Internet, a global wireless power grid that any home, business, or vehicle could tap into at will, on the go.The trick is that the powerplant will generate only a modest output of 380V with a minimal loss of just 1mV every 1000 miles.