12:50 “Overall the energy storage market is predicted to attract over $620 million in investments by 2040”. Seriously? That’s an extremely low forecast. Could have been a mistake and they meant billions though. Edit: CNBC has commented below and clarified it was an error and they meant billions not millions. Good on them for doing that.

This is the kind of news that I think we need more of. Rather than telling everyone we're doomed, this inspires people and gives them hope.

Hear me out: Giant cranes moving around blocks of thermally insulated solid state batteries all covered in solar cells

This panel can put out close to 100 watts kzfaq.infoUgkxOqI2yqX0XVrhR2BMJciTWrHJpG8FhJyg when positioned in the appropriate southernly direction, tilted to the optimal angle for your latitude/date, and connected to a higher capacity device than a 500. The built in kickstand angle is a fixed at 50 degrees. Up to 20% more power can be output by selecting the actual date and latitude optimal angle.The 500 will only input 3.5A maximum at 18 volts for 63 watts. Some of the excess power from the panel can be fed into a USB battery bank, charged directly from the panel while also charging a 500. This will allow you to harvest as much as 63 + 15 = 78 watts.If this panel is used to charge a larger device, such as the power station, then its full output potential can be realized.

One aspect not mentioned here is integration of the grid over long distances. Even if the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow here, there are other places where they will. If you can distribute electricity over long distances, that also dampens the peaks and troughs, reducing the need for storage. This process is already ongoing in Europe.

Flow battery 4:14 Iron flow batteries 6:10 Pumped hydro 8:17 Gravity batteries 9:02 Thermal Storage 10:26 Thermo Photovoltaic Cell 11:09 Compressed air 11:58 Cryogenic Storage 12:04

Congratulations on this major achievement in the delivery of green energy! Thank you for being part of this project. Mega Solar Power Plant - Benban Aswan Egypt .

The crane energy looks like a disaster waiting to happen......

Pumped hydro is one of the most efficient for long-term storage. Usually 80-90% efficiency. But the environmental toll can be large, if we can find good spaces for them (like mountains with low populations) this could be big for this tech.

These CNBC video essays are a wealth of knowledge. I love these.

Videos like these give a good insight in technologies that one might not yet heard of.

Hey, I and my bald spot are in this video starting at 6:04. Maybe link to the video you used from The Good Stuff in the description, CNBC?

I have also heard of molten salt as an option. I love the idea of two lakes at an incline to each other. Solar can be used to pump water uphill. Also, rain water can be harvested to fill the ponds.

Alternate chemistries really should be used for static applications. This would have a number of valuable side effects. 1) The materials used in these alternate batteries are often common and cheap. They include ZnBr, SbCa, Fe, V and the up and coming Na batteries, 2) Most of the alternative batteries have much longer lives than Li batteries. Their only disadvantage, I can see, is that they don't have quite the cycle efficiency of Li batteries. 3) Using alternative chemistries for static applications would decrease the demand for Li and bring the cost of Li batteries down and hence the cost of EVs, thus making EVs available to a wider range of people. 4) Using other chemistries would bring the price of these non-Li batteries down below the price of Li batteries. They use common cheap elements and all they need is production volume to achieve very low costs. 5) Most of these batteries based on elements other than Li can be cycled from 0% to 100% charge without damage and hence all the energy stored in the battery is available to you, unlike Li batteries. 6) most of the alternatives are safer in terms of fire. They can be shipped, even by plane and certainly by ship in containers with no risk. Most of them can be safely used in a house (basement for instance) or in a factory. With Li batteries, it is wise to use have them outside, just in case. Extra land does not always exist for a battery unit.

About 10 years ago I was basing my university level student projects on the development of a FESS for use in the third world. My brief was that it must require minimal maintenance, it must have high energy density, it should be used for decades - even centuries with no loss of storage capacity or efficiency and it must be totally sustainable, require abundant and cheap materials and totally un-toxic to the planet - a challenging brief which only the FESS designs (or mechanical gravity based) designs come anywhere close to fulfilling. Over several years of development, we decided that it was much better to go for low angular velocity (

Pumped hydro is still the name of the game. In my country (Bulgaria) there is one of these systems (which BTW might be the largest in Eastern Europe), consisting of numerous facilities having a total installed capacity of 864 MW. This pumped storage hydro power system can partially ballance the only Bulgarian nuclear power plant which has 2 units with a total capacity of over 2000 MW... In Wikipedia there is an article about it called "Chaira Hydro Power Plant".

Keep updating this information as new technologies become available. Don't stop!

Thanks for making this video!!

Always important to keep in mind lifecycle and raw material requirement. How long do solar panels last before degradation? How much steel has to be smelted to create a windmill? How much concrete has to be poured to create the base? Look at the NET product, not just at the end. Likewise, I hope the energy storage methods are environmentally friendly and low resource production cost.

this is amazing. I would love to learn more about these systems. I wish i had a place where i could look into stuff like this and maybe experiment with it. Maybe i could find something to help push things along.

There's a reason why none of these alternative storage technologies have managed to displace lithium-ion battery: they all have some sort of tradeoff. In this video, flow batteries are said to be "Cost-competitive" with lithium-ion. In other words, they cost the same over the long term. If their lifespan is longer than lithium-ion, then that means a much higher up-front cost. But look at their density: ESS needs a whole shipping container just to store 400 kWh, many times more space than is required by lithium-ion solutions. In other words, it costs the same, but is worse. In order for alternative power storage to succeed, it is not enough to merely be as good, or as cheap. It must either be better, or cheaper, or both. None of the alternatives in this video have demonstrated that so far.

9:27. That is an ingenious way of storing power, cool.

The most difficult task for energy storage technology is to overcome the influence on bureaucrats of the vested interests in existing electrical energy utilities. Even if an energy storage solution is better for the consumer, powerful lobbies to maintain the status quo will be hard to overcome.

This gravity storage method has been BUSTED by 'Voice of Thunder'

Imagine Energy Vault stacking ESS Shipping Container batteries. Long and short term energy storage at the same time :)

If electrons move through graphene like massless particles, this implies no energy loss through heat and the potential for a VERY long storage. Obviously, the most efficient battery conceivable would have this property. By twisting a long sheet of graphene densely into a cylinder-shape and isolating the edges well, you'd pretty much have the perfect battery, made out of pure carbon. It's just a matter of how long it takes to come up with a cost efficient graphene technology.

Supper, mind-blowing. What a energy is eden in small knowledge.

Any legitimate analysis would include the ultimate costs of dealing with the toxic battery components once they lose production capacity and are tossed.

6:53 That’s definitely Wheezy Waiter.

This is what I love about the United States of America! A country that takes the lead in innovative research. I hope this technology becomes cheaper in near future. It will indeed free my country from the incessant power failures and poor energy infrastructure. Thank you America. More power to the scientist.

I really like the idea of compressed air and compressed air to liquid storege in the process of liquefying air you can squeeze out the CO2 or scrub out the CO2 in that process. There is the potential to have duelality of power storege and global CO2 sequestration.

5:26 4:07 I thought she would say graphene battery, lol.

5:00 It would be 5kWh to measure capacity, that's the instant power delivery

Good summary

Thankyou for recording this ❤

Energy Vault - when will it move past the CGI cartoon phase? Just sayin’.

Giant hamsters in giant hamster wheels -- now *THAT*'s the future of renewable energy. I'm surprised they missed that one :-)

Thank you so much for such kind of video

Power Wauh´er - I am with You on this! Man, man! - we don´t need to crawl any much longer! HYPE!

"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

6:54 wheezywaiter

Man, those lego-tower batteries building and unbuilding themselves seems incredibly silly, but is actually genius. I want to see if there's a way to get smart parking garages that work like this. If you park at a peak production hour, a crane raises the car up to the top floor, then when you need it back, the crane lowers it to produce energy. I doubt this is more practical than the current brick strategy, but it's fun to imagine.

“Hydrogen Storage” The video was beautifully made and informative. The only thing is that you forgot the hydrogen generation and storage as one of the biggest changes that will probably happen.

"The future is not a mirror of the past", let's meditate on that for a moment ...

Just bloody fascinating!

Amazing!!!! Thank you!!!

Super insightful

8:11 I see you in there, Python.

So excited for the future of energy - thanks for this great video!

thank you for recording this ❤

Another major technology would be inertial energy storage. (Flywheel). The technologies most likely to be adopted, will be the ones with the highest round trip efficiency, and lowest levelized cost per kWh of energy storage. (the cost of the system + maintenance/kWh stored and expended over its service life) Of all of them, batteries and flywheels can respond the quickest, to sudden changes in supply or demand.

Energy Vault wonder how wind would affect the placement of the blocks cos it would end up being jenga in a storm

I still think pump storage is underrated

Maybe few parts and: 1. Water electrolysis 2. Dividing H from O 3. CO2 from air obtaining 4. Methane producing by using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis :D

Chef's kiss. These technologies are wonderful and should have more money & resources put into their development.

Many people talked about the demise of the lead acid battery for a long time. But it never went away. We will use li-ion batteries for a long time yet.

Good compilation of pipe dreams.

I like the idea of Tesla's virtual power plant far more than I do off site storage.

very informative!

It is really cool to recognize in which kind of future we can live!!!

Very great! So glad to see solar items being worked on

Lovely surprise to hear Ingrid Nilsen's voice

What about the double helix type coiled copper interwined like that of a motor to generate propulsion, can that by its magnetism be utilized in wind turbine or umm a ways to create much kore energy into a storage based battery with elements included ib li ion like graphene, quartz, copper, and a liquid able type base for negative ion and positive ion disposition? When in use of that some type of battery

Now this is the video I wanted to see

Wake me up when I can buy one under 5k to store enough to go 3 days when there's a power outage

I’m glad someone smart is working on this , because I have no idea what is going on .

Good information 👍

It will be exciting to see 10 years from now when the grid contains all these different types of utility scale battery farms!

What about Graphene battery Technology ??? Did the world already forgot about it ??

How would machine vision assist with the gravity-based storage system?

Great piece

5:00 "Provides 25 kilowatts of power" I think this is a mistake because this isn't a measurement of capacity. I think you mean 25 kilowatt hours, but that's almost nothing, so I'm not really sure what you meant. Also as a side note those shipping container sized "Energy Warehouses" are only 400 kilowatt hours each. That's insanely tiny, equivalent to the batteries in 4 electric cars. From a battery the size of a shipping container, I would expect more.

6:53 The perfect WheezyWaiter impersonator.

Also, one could develop a geothermal battery for future electricity production for very large-scale renewable energy storage.

very intereseting, thank oyu

Just Ask Aliens how they do it

I think this going to be a real Occam's razor solution that we find on the energy front. The tech is good but expensive to develop and I have questions about its long term utility being dependant on fluctuating markets of material costs. I think the pumped hydro or the energy vault solutions will be the ones that stand out in the long term. Very innovative!

There is an opportunity to change domestic electrical appliances over to DC, thus avoiding the need to use inverters to create AC power. Then it would be possible to encourage many distributed battery storage systems into people's homes. Lighting refrigerators and consumer electronics can all use this source. Cooking and laundry need grid power, but you can encourage off peak consumption for some of this load. Governments need to regulate to force the change here. If half the new build housing in the U.K. Was built this way around 100,000 more energy flexible homes per annum would start to make a difference.

I am a little upset that we are focusing on renewable rather than sustainable perpetual mantel or outer core earth's heat energy.. This is by my reasoning, the truly honest answer for limitless green energy...

13:40 - 20%, peak demand means power (W), storage is energy (Wh). This doesn't make sense.

That heat thing probably has less than 1% efficiency.

PV ground bracket +Easy and fast installation without punch holes. Match 980mm-1134mm width solar module.

Good topic to discuss now. I should also hop on this and maybe look at batteries 🔋 or solar panels und ther microscope. Wish you all a good week!

That energy storage brick tower seems to be a maintenance nightmare.

Addicted to these mini docs

We also need to focus on creating the power through microgens at point of use.

This is beautiful, I'm so excited about the future of energy storage🤗

What about storing it as hydrogen? Small amounts of hydrogen can be stored in pressurized vessels, or solid metal hydrides or nanotubes can store hydrogen with a very high density. Very large amounts of hydrogen can be stored in constructed underground salt caverns of up to 500,000 cubic meters at 2,900 psi, which would mean about 100 GWh of stored electricity electricity.

And here I am... Laying down on my bed, watching the ceiling and thinking about the meaning of my life... While others changing the world

After thinking a bit longer, imo...All of the above! Location considerations expanded my view. All of the above 'IF' they are seamlessly linked together, yet maintain their individual integrity as a stand-alone company with contracts that provide locally first and foremost, and main grid tied to go out to the mass market. No MONOPOLY money for the uber power companies. Innovations come from a place of emotional attachment to an idea, and an iron will to get there if the reward has personal value in any form at the end of the challenge. An inventor that owns the results of failure vs success will endeavor to perfect the innovation, and as rapidly as possible Innovation, with defects can be 'purchased' but as with many careers, purchased inventors drag out the process 'till just before retirement.

Address it at the consumer side: use ice based thermal storage for air conditioning to shift the load to soften the duck curve, and have smart cloth dryers that start after peak hours is over.

“Keeelowatts”

lol they have "serious potential" 1:27

If Shell invests in something, you can also be assured that its capacity to displace or replace fossil fuels is basically nil. It's the most basic litmus test for the viability of new energy tech.

This vid does an amazing job at illustrating how we can invent our way out of problems.

I've never heard of that gravity crane thing before. These are exciting times to live in.

this was educational, enjoyable and entertaining. I'd love to see what kind of loss there is in these kinds of batteries. I mean a lion battery stores as much wats as you put in but I imagine something like energyvaults crane would suffer a lot of loss from friction simmilarly to how hydropumps lose a lot of energy through ineffeciency.

Problem is not battery storage. Problem is getting enough power into them from solar and wind turbines to avoid blackouts.

One has to consider here you only need upto 50% of your charge left by 24 hours to smooth the usage spikes you don't need a particularly efficient battery for the grid just one that holds a lot of charge.

Probably the most useful video. Whoever figures it out in a mass scale, will be the richest man by far.