I was thinking about installing solar panels on my roof but this video convinced me to install a nuclear reactor instead, very helpful advice.

Hello, for transparency; I have 6 years of working as a wind technician and 1 year working in an operation center overseeing wind and solar.Other than working experience I am also PJM and NERC certified. I'm here to clear a little bit of this up. 1. Bird strikes: Yes, there are avian strikes that happen on occasions however these are non endangered species. Every single wind site that has endangered species employs avian monitors that are across the site monitoring any avian presence and curtail entire zones of turbines to prevent any strikes from happening. These monitors also team up with automatic curtailment devices that track all avian activity and curtail the towers if it senses any avian activity. These devices are so sensitive they will occasionally curtail for planes by accident. 2. Yes, it is an intermittent resource that does not produce at maximum capacity 100% of the time, using the phrasing "optimally less than 30% of the time" is misleading and I feel you're doing that on purpose. Don't do that, I hope you're better than that. Most resources run around 70% capacity for the majority of the time and that is for wind. Solar produces very optimally during the day and very very rarely fall below 99.5% availability. In regards to the less than 10% claim you made, yes that happens however it doesn't happen anymore, you're referring to two different things here, the first is very old farms that were built with bad planning, and there are very few that meet this standard you've stated here. The second is those very few *very* rich people who want to build these farms as tax breaks, again a very rare circumstance but it happens. 3. I'm not against nuclear and I will touch on this more later however, just as you stated, those massive turbines have a tremendous mass, and once that inertial energy has been lost it takes a long time to restart, and in an event where a tie-line has been opened on the grid, restoring that power may take hours or in worse case scenarios days. Once a nuclear turbine has lost all inertia and power, it takes 48 hours of power from outside sources to restore the unit to an operating status. 4. The land usage that you're referring to sounds disastrous and overwhelming because that is how you are phrasing it. Yes, completely clearing the land of everything would be terrible however that is not what happens. What happens is farms are usually built on landowners property that maintain cattle and grow crops such as wheat, corn, cotton etc. These farmers are also paid by the wind turbine owners for the usage of land for loss of crop space plus a premium for simply allowing the turbines to be there(which is actually a very healthy amount) The pad of the turbine is typically only 25 foot in diameter. You say its inefficient because of the erroneous numbers you used. The actual space used by the turbines is a lot less than you're portraying it. The farm I worked at had 54 turbines with 25 foot padmounts. That is only 27,000 sq ft of land (roughly, I would be more than happy for a correction) for a 130 MW site. That would be 130,000,000 watts of energy per 2508 sq meters. (again, I'm no mathematician, I welcome corrections to my math) Assuming my numbers are correct until I can get someone better at math to correct me, the energy production vs area taken changes a little doesn't it? 5. Whats this the asterix at the end of the wind turbine death count? OSHA is all over every single injury in all working fields, you can't just push a death under the rug, these numbers are very accurate. I fully agree on nuclear however, it has caught a bad wrap from the major meltdowns. However your argument of how nuclear gets rid of nuclear bombs is a little off the wall, the bombs already made are a very finite resource to power theses plants. Finally, it should go without saying that a push to environmentally friendly methods to sustain the energy grid should always be a goal and misrepresenting one of the best methods we have for this is not the way to go about it. *TLDR VERSION* Wind is heavily misrepresented in this video however I'm not saying nuclear is an enemy. The most CO2 efficient and reuse-able methods should be used to sustain the grid i.e. wind and nuclear, followed by hydro and solar and lastly coal.

"You cant ignore statistics." The public: "Hold my beer..."

Where I live, 100% of our energy is hydro electric. Zero "carbon". Yet our gov decided to install a bunch of windmills, at huge cost in terms of money and carbon emissions. Wtf.

Ive had solar on my roof for 21 years and haven’t paid a dime to my utility company. They paid for themselves in five years. A well designed solar system can last forty years.

As soon as they turned 3, I had my kids on bicycles connected to a home generator and a battery pack. They are growing up strong and healthy and we're off the grid. Can't wait for the new baby to turn 3 as we're planning to move up to a bigger TV. Thank you for the wise advice.

I'm amazed that this is allowed to be seen in 2023. Australia is just starting to go down this path, and already our power bills have doubled, and our current government is hell-bent on continuing.

The US averages 38% coal burning for electricity. Yes your Tesla runs on coal.

Nuclear Energy: **Is safe** Every politician: “I’m going to pretend like I didn’t see that”

Never liked the term "Save the planet" I prefer George Carlin's view "The planet isn't going anywhere... WE are!"

I like how this is a serious issue and the music is so upbeat and cheery.

I'm curious if you've covered the dangers of the lithium batteries in electric cars

12:15 - Using decommed nuclear weapons fuel as fuel for electricity is almost literally the nations "beating their swords into plowshares".

Better title: why nuclear energy isn't that bad

We did not all fall for it, but there will be many who pretend they didn't.

Here we are... 3 years later and Germany is still heavily investing into wind and solar energy while having the highest prices for energy.

13:38 “I’m not actively trying to disparage renewables” Title of the video: Renewable Energy is a Scam

In Germany, about 4000 birds were killed from 2002 to 2019 due to wind tuebines. but about 18mil every year due to glass.

I like how he has to specify that toxic is bad to humans like there is a healthy toxic

Wind Turbines use the same strategy to reduce CO2 as Genghis Khan. Though instead of the victum being humans, wind focuses on the kulling of birds.

I am an electrical engineer and I agree with this video, if you take politics out of science, the world of alternative energy will look much different.

As one of the many supervillains that reside in Gotham City, I am interested in knowing more about this exciting new bat-killing technology.

Something funny is that my city has some wind turbines. Situated at the mouth of a canyon, a ton of wind often blows through. Great, right? Well, not really. For whatever reason, at times with a massive amount wind they just aren't spinning. Might be for safety reasons, but it just baffles me how they aren't even on at what seems to be the best time for it. Either that, or only a few of them are on.

Pro nuclear energy doesn’t need to be anti-green energy.

No worries; There's plenty of wind power being generated at UK's parliament.

"Hey, 42 here..." is what I hear every time...

The planet doesn't need saving , it needs to be respected by becoming minimal consumers

Windmills are so big and easy to see, and easy to fly around or over, that I almost think the flying creatures deserve to go extinct if they can't figure it out.

I have been a wind turbine tech for 20 years and yes they have draw backs. But what gets me is the number of birds they claim are killed by them. First off the rotors only turn at between 13 to 20 RPM on most large turbines its not hard for a bird to avoid. And that any bird found dead normally with in a 2 mile area is blamed on the turbine so studies have went as far as 5 miles Plus cat's and cars kill many times more birds than turbines. And of a large number of the dead birds found around turbines that have been autopsied as many as 30% show poison in them. But the media and special interests groups often don't tell the complete truth and they like to embellish the partial truth. But wind turbines do have many downsides. I just wanted to get more of the truth about the bird numbers out.

Legend has it, movement from his right eyebrow creates enough energy to power NYC

Bro works to a gas company

I live in West Texas which is rich in wind farms, they are installed among the agricultural plots. It is normal to see wind turbines erected and operating in the middle of cotton, corn, grain and hay fields. I disagree that it destroys the land it is erected on....

In my county in the US, there’s a nuclear power plant. It’s one of many owned across many states. It’s the largest employer in the county and you can tell who works for them. Their pay is excellent and they give back to the community. They also open about 80% of their 30K acres to the public for hunting, fishing, camping and recreation.

I didn't expect him to start talking about thorium, but its a good thing that thorium molten salt reactors are gaining attention. Thanks!

Ballshart! I'm getting my electric from a local hydroelectric plant. It has just about zero environmental impact.

Wow no mention of the giant gear box on each wind turbine that needs it's oil regularly changed

Somalia be like "you can't create carbon emissions when there is no power".

Solar energy is useful for small remote community where the cost of delivering the energy to them is excessive (cable, transformers, etc.) .

I can see in our hunger for energy we can do little for our environment on individual levels. I can only hope that it will add up though. Thus, sometimes i go out of my way to reduce waste from packages. Hope it will help on the long run

Be kind to each other. Be kind to the animals. Be kind to yourself. Peace will only last for a season. If you have electricity, if you have food to eat and a comfortable bed to sleep in, be thankful. Such pleasures are only temporary. Enjoy the roses while they are in bloom.

«The most prominent today is Germany with 40-50% renewable energy». Over 96% of the energy produced in Norway is hydropower.

TL:DR Go nuclear, deconstruct coal power plants, use green energy as a supplementary power source.

There are those of us who have been pointing out these shortcomings since the idea was introduced... We're actually a pretty significant segment of society, just not very vocal... I'm very interested in thorium reactors, now. Been trying to figure out how to power charitably run ships (like the medical or disaster relief ones) without the massive overhead of oil. This may or may not provide solutions, but it's interesting.

Bro done gas lighting green energy 💀

Thorium, named after the Norse god Thor, the god of Thunder, Strength, and Might. Quite suiting as the name of a power source

The stigma against using Nuclear energy is ridiculous tbh. Theres hundreds of nuclear warheads just sitting in the basments of powerful countries which could potentially be dismantled and used in energy production instead..

this happened because of lack of maintenance ,gear box ran dry , newer ones don't have gear box's ,continuous magnet generators now.

kind of surprised this is still something you can find and watch. days like these ...

I have a large team of hamsters running round a cage attached to a generator for the small amount of electricity I use. The down side is the cost of hamster feed and replacement hamsters. There is a world shortage of hamsters which I was not told about before committing fully to hamster power. I tried rats but they are lazy and fight with the hamsters.

Thank you 42 for addressing this huge misconception.... Whenever I tried to explain anyone about this , I was labelled a "climate change denier"...

1) as mentioned in the video, modern renewable energy production units as solar panels or wind turbines can create synthethic inertia due to batteries or capacitors, they can easily be made mandatory by law 2) the power usage in industrialized countries borders on the equivalent of using your stove to heat your flat while having all windows open at -10°C outside, we have to reduce power usage in total, too 3) a finer, more flexible power grid can aid in saving power as each unit can contain batteries that take up excess power and can also be switched off if it's not needed instantaneously - in contrast to the power plants that HAVE to keep going to keep up their inertia 4) solar panels can be placed on the roofs of nearly all buildings, an area that is usually occupied by neither humans nor wild animals. Also solar parks can have raised panels that allow for wildlife to exist below and enjoy the shade the panels provide (something that's not uninteresting in times of climate change). Studies in Germany also showed that you can use panels above rows of crops like grapes or hops without impacting the plants' efficiency

Congratulations on your book.I hope all goes well with the endeavor ❤

I guess it's time to take down those darn panels from roof and build a nuclear reactor in basement.

"Renewable Energy is a scam" here before a title change.

I didn't. You can't say "we all" when I for a fact have been preaching these things since I first heard of it all.

Thoughty, great vid. Much truth that people don't actually hear about these days. They hear renewable and fail to understand what the actual outcomes are. I'm sad Australia moved away from nuclear a whole ago, we really need to get back to it. This was made 4 years ago, but the renewable fad has only gotten worse and even more severe at the expense of much. Many thanks, love your work!

The porn star moustache is really getting out of hand

“Countries such as Africa” ahh yes... Africa, my favorite country

I think because the word 'Nuclear' has had such a negative connotation to it, I never word have guessed it was the best option.

The blades last about 10yrs , then they pile them up and let them rot away. Takes a long long long time.

The miss information people spread about nuclear is so frustrating. Here in Australia most the politicians are terrified of it and just instantly dismiss it

I once asked an electrical engineer if he knew anyone in the field who was against nuclear power and after thinking for a brief second he gave a very sharp, "No!".

A couple of physicists recently calculated that in order to trade the current vehicles to "electric vehicles" would cost in excess of $100 trillion USD ..... and it would take every battery Factory on Earth working 24/7 365 for over 400 years to keep up with the current number of vehicles..... not to even address the demand in 400 years so Yeah .....

We live near a ton of wind turbines that started out white and then began to turn black

He's slowly becoming a 1950s dad. Let him continue.

*Solar power:* _"I'm only efficient when the sun shines!"_ *United Kingdom left the chat*

The wind turbine blades are actually a composite construction, not completely aluminium, and cannot be recycled.

Glad to see my country's making progress in something novel and appealing like Thorium based power! Hopefully it turns out to be good material for power as expected!

I actually heard somebody thought windmills help cool the planet down like big fans 😅

Renewables are not the scam we fell for, the attack on nuclear by traditional energy sources was the scam we fell for that led to these less desirable alternatives.

When he said to litter it with bird blenders I lost my shit

wind turbines also take 50 gallons of oil to stay lubricated and are subject to leaking. they also have a brake similar to automotive brakes and when the brakes stops working(overheating or loss of friction material) they usually catch fire

Been on solar for 5 years now with no issues and my total all up cost was about 3k. But I am currently saving up for a small nuclear reactor.

Meanwhile in Germany, is decommissioning it's Nuclear Power Plants and restarting it's coal power plants.

Not all of us, Forty-Two. I wrote a paper in high school 15 years ago about how “green energy” was a total scam and how we should be pursuing nuclear. My science teacher became apoplectic with rage and launched into a rant about how humans are killing the planet and I wasn’t taking climate change seriously enough. Lol

I never thought for one second that net zero was anything but a scam

The title is a bit clickbaity, should have been something like "Why nuclear is actually cleaner and safer than renwables" Would be nice if you included sources, because there are a few mistakes here. 1:52 Windturbine blades are made of glass fiber, not aluminium. 2:15 Most estimates are that windturbines do not kill very many birds, compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats in the US. eu.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/15/wind-turbines-kill-fewer-birds-than-cell-towers-cats/15683843/ 4:50 We're currently developing alternative storage options for renewables. A 100 MWh volcanic stones battery is these days being build in Germany as a large scale pilot project, after a smaller pilot project was successful in Denmark. www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int/explore/innovations/energy-storage-on-the-rise 6:22 It's extreme unlikely that entire windfarms will shutdown without notice and there are backup systems on the grid like gasturbines, that will kick in in case of a failure. 7:12 Vegetation and wildlife can live in harmony with renewables. In Denmark we have sheep walking around our solar farms, so we don't have to cut the grass. www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2019/06/is-vegetation-management-a-problem-for-your-solar-farm-just-add-sheep.html 7:55 Worth mentioning that the main reason windfarms are build offshore is so we don't have to look at them, they are less CO2 efficient and cost more compared to onshore. 9:42 Deaths from nuclear could be a lot higher depending on if you include only direct death and what statistics you use. www.bbc.com/future/story/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll 11:09 The number you use for wind is way off. A Siemens Gamesa 8.0-167 DD like we see at 0:30 emit only 6 gCO2/kWh. www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int/-/media/siemensgamesa/downloads/en/sustainability/environment/siemens-gamesa-environmental-product-declaration-epd-sg-8-0-167.pdf 13:09 Energy production makes up only a fraction of the total CO2 emissions from developed countries. I would recommend using the grids CO2 emission / kWh figures instead. Recommend www.electricitymap.org 13:23 Those numbers must included taxes, because they are way to high. You need to look at the average electricity spot price to compare. It's not that I disagree that nuclear is a great option for producing energy, but you gotta get the facts right.

I wish channels like this would cite their sources. I would love to read where this information was collected.

One day the trash and rubbish we throw away will have every once of energy stripped of it to power our life.

Why aren't we using bladeless wind generators?

It is angular momentum, not centrifugal force that keeps the heavy turbine spinning a while.

He totally overlooked the fact that his mustache can power an entire country.

So how do you feel about tidal generators? The waves almost never stop. We have barely scraped these generators that create power from wave action , under water current generators.

6:12 it's not centrifugal force that maintains its momentum. Angular momentum is maintained without any need for an external force to act on it. What reduces the angular momentum is friction.

BTW, I've noticed that you don't add sources to your videos descriptions. Why s that? How can we know that statistics you provide are correct? Was it always like that?

I got 2 renewable energy ads while watching this that I'd never seen before. 😂

With the addition of one more battery into my system, my family and I will be power independent for the first time in over 5 years. With 600 watts of solar and 400 watts of wind power, we can sustain our own everyday power needs solely from renewable energy. BUT.... we live in a 31-foot Class A motorhome. To run a traditional American home off of renewable energy would require the installation of A LOT of solar power, assuming you live in an area with good sunlight. For the average home in a city, it's impractical in the extreme.

Why do we need battery arrays to store power? All you need is an uphill reservoir, an electric pump and some water.

"Countries like Africa" i lol'd

thanks for actually looking at thorium reactors. most people who take on the topic skip right over it wholesale.

Even with nuclear waste. You can use some of the waste as a more temporary power source than regular nuclear, and it does decay so you can use remnants as ash to fill in roads.

I love working as a reactor operator. I genuinely get job satisfaction and that’s something I never thought I would have

6:00 - 6:26 everything in this section is completely wrong. Rotational inertia is only useful for frequency regulation during very brief load excursions. It is not a source of generated power. (They actually tried to use it as such at Chernobyl, and that [plus incompetence] is what led to the accident). Even with the immense mass of a turbine rotor, it will still begin spinning down immediately when input power is lost. It only has to slow down by 0.9% before any power generated would be useless due to under frequency. Also they don't store as much rotational inertia as you would think. Although their mass is very heavy, most of it is in the center shaft. The portion with the best second moment of inertia (the turbine blades) is fairly light. The generator breaker will trip automatically as soon as the frequency goes under 59.3-59.5Hz, at which point the generator is no longer connected to the grid anyway and the remaining spin down of the rotor is useless. By the way all this happens in a fraction of a second, not minutes. We use cycles as a time unit. 60 cycles = 1 second. Rotor will be under frequency in 15-20 cycles, and it will take another 5-8 cycles for the generator breaker to trip. So in half a second, its all over.

I leave for a couple of months and come back to this man having a 70s mustache

its like the competitions they used to hold with a runway pier for first man made flight attempts with wings made to be attached to their arms to actually think they could remain airborne for longer than one second

How much it really cost to build it when I don’t know the wind takes out the wind turbine and it cannot be repaired. Wow that’s a huge footprint now isn’t it?

I am from India and I can attest to this. This weekend I'm going on a thorium hunting trip for my homemade thorium reactor.

The Stalin stache is coming along nicely

Germany just recently closed their last nuclear power plant, ran out of power and had to by it from France.

Yes let’s make wind turbines safer for birds. And maybe also focus on the things that cause 99% of the bird fatalities. Birds killed each year by cause Wind turbines 28,000 0.01% Buildings 550M 58.2% Power lines 130M 13.7% Cats 100M 10.6% Vehicles 80M 8.5% Pesticides 67M 7.1% Radio towers 4.5M 0.5% Wind turbines 28,000 0.01% Airplanes 25,000 0.01%