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David Bombal
6/6/2023 10:19
Degrees are more about the people you meet/networks you form that can help you land a job after graduation. The curriculum itself will be outdated before you even finish the degree. Now some government jobs still require the standard BS CS degrees just because it's the government and they're incredibly inefficient in everything they do, including hiring. The rest of the industry seems to prefer experience and current relevant certs.
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Craig Percoco
6/6/2023 10:32
Pellegrino - I like the instruction on how to use the stop loss and margin. I understand what is suppose to be done. Being new to the platform can be intimidating because its like opening a book in another language and trying to figure out what is what when you brand brand new to trading. Never used a platform before and there is so much stuff to look at and not sure what means what.
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Craig Percoco
6/6/2023 10:39
I used to think every investor lose out during inflation, meanwhile, some make millions. I also thought everybody went out of business during the Great Depression, but some went into business. The bottom line, there's always depression for some and profit for others, it all starts with having the right mindset. That said, I've set asides $250k to invest for the future, unfortunately, I'm a complete noob.
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Craig Percoco
6/6/2023 10:46
I feel that the last bull run was bolstered by all the money being printed. Major returns next bull run but I think they will be tamer in my humble opinion. A 100x on VRITKN300 is and a 15x on polygon are fair considering how much those two coins are interwoven into the entire crypto ecosystem.
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Craig Percoco
6/6/2023 10:53
The crypto market is facing a key moment right now, in a very short time it's gonna see a breakout to new record highs. This is a critical moment that every Investor needs to be aware of buying more With the current market trends, Investing in bitcoin now would be a very smart move to make as it's gonna skyrock soon....
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Craig Percoco
6/6/2023 10:59
Right now, the wisest thing for everyone to do is to invest in non-government sources of income. Especially given the current global economic crisis. This is still a fantastic time to invest in stocks and digital currencies.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:31
Well, fortunately the other open-source projects are catching up pretty rapidly. It's a few companies against a large group of well intended researchers and engineers. Unless there's some shady government intervention, they should eventually triumph
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:32
Musk was an initial investor in Open AI - after criticizing AI dooming the planet. On the board - he did not like the direction and tried unsuccessfully to take over the company in 2018. He also did not like OpenAI's hiring practices. In 2020, Musk left the company and sold his stock citing a conflict of interest with Tesla AI. In November 2022, OpenAI's first chatbot was released to the public. The technology was soon incorporated into Microsoft's Bing search engine as ChatGPT4. OpenAI has been profitable since its start in 2015, but has increased its loses from the release of ChatGPT. Musk was one of 11 board members who started the company in 2015.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:37
For a contrarian view, I think it is possible the reason they have may switched to a for profit model is they believe that the technology is in the asymptotic phase and completely new ideas are needed.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:39
When Ai software starts doing things for itself without input, then we will have a problem. It is the developers of Ai that we need to worry about now, and what they make the Ai capable of doing.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:40
On the long run. I'd be more concerned of AI taking over Microsoft than Microsoft taking over AI.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:41
Thing is, open source is not always alturistic. a lot of open source software usually has someone paying the bills, for a specific end goal. Elon missed the boat on this one, I guess his dream of having an AI run emerald mine is toast
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:43
Mr Elon Musk is completely right...how could he have made an open source AI to balance the monopoly of AI in the world and now it has been turned into the complete opposite for what was intended.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:45
He acknowledges that bringing open ai to life was a mistake since microsoft took over and turned it into a business, which is the exact opposite of what he intended to happen.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:47
I think education and schools needs to be available for everyone. Nowadays if you are or your parents are not rich, you don't have options to get degree unless you will be in dept or go through scholarships which won't be provided for everyone but many companies still look at your degree records on your resume.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:49
See I'm confused on this. Sometimes financing or coming up with the idea isn't the sole reason something exists. I agree that it can have alot to do with the production but it isn't the sole reason for it's creation. Example Facebook and the winkle voss twins. If ai had already been in discussion and they had already been working on it, I really think that it would have happened anyway with or without Elon. It just may have taken longer
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:55
True Open Source means an independent community of contributors, not able to be owned bought or sold by any business. A voluntary organisation.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 9:58
Musk was using OpenAI to scout AI specialists for Tesla, at OpenAI's disadvantage, and this is not mentioned enough. He wasn't the sole founder of OpenAI and not even the most influential member. OpenAI embarked on a path of improvement after Musk left and the company decided to become for profit.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:04
It difficult to enforceable in law because of the lack of mutual exchange of consideration in a form of donation in monetary based form(money in then money back form). However it does not exclusive the form of (money in then IP right back form) if your intelligence of IP is in donation into the ChatGDP then the IP right can be claimed back into your company by using ?an exemption clause? is a stipulation in a contractual agreement between two parties that limits the liability of one party in the case of breach of contract or contract default.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:05
Google closed source AI? Bruh, the reason ChatGPT exists is because the researchers at Google Brain published the transformer paper for the whole world. Now Google is becoming more reserved in what they publish after the wake up call from OpenAI.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:08
OpenAI broke through the ceiling of Elon's cognition. Elon felt that he was doomed to lose, but this thing finally won. Although Elon is smart, he is still a mortal after all, not a god, and there is a serious ceiling in cognition. That was when he was at his prime, and now the older Elon is probably more rigid and lackluster in cognition, right?
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:10
OpenAI is basically free education.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:16
Yeah, open source for something this powerful probs isnt the best course if action... the tech can be used (without safeguards/testd rn) for deepfakes, propaganda campaigns, and war machines. Unreleased versions can do chemistry, leading to the potential of biological warfare or human extinction level manufactured viruses. Maybe not something serrial killers should have access to
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:18
Open Source is just what it says. Anyone can use the technology, but they are free to monetize their own implementation. OpenAI is nothing more than the ?Linux? of AI.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:19
Also Musk misses to mention that OpenAI is open sourcing their ChatGPT code all the time. For example, you can train your own ChatGPT 3 for free. So these people are full of b. The only thing that's not opensource is the latest version so they can keep an edge on their own product and generate some money. You don't need to be a genius to realize that you need to commercialize your work at some point.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:26
Creating a GPT is pretty straight forward isn?t? What I mean by that is that the algorithms aren?t very complicated you just need access to a large amount of data. I?m not sure why Elon is trying to take credit for open AI. He can create a non profit competitor.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:33
No, Elon Musk did not come up with the name OpenAI. Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI and provided significant funding for the organization, but there's no public record of him being the one who specifically named it. The name "OpenAI" reflects the organization's commitment to ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity, and its principles of broadly distributing benefits, long-term safety, technical leadership, and cooperative orientation.
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CNBC Television
6/7/2023 10:37
Dude scientist , engineers and computer scientists , software engineers and a huge big team is working on ChatGPT and now you say that it will not exist without you so please tell us exactly what algorithm did you use and what coding did you type in for Chatgpt to exist. Furthermore , if you donate some thing for a nonprofit organization, that doesn?t mean you?re on them and on what they created.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:08
I wrote about this in my undergrad international relations class back in 2008. It?s only continued to trend towards conflict. As the circumstances were so different then, Chinas emerging role in this really expedites things towards a muddier situation ripe for conflict. Hopefully we can label these as zones of environmental stability and a huge need in the overall life of the planet.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:09
Superb analysis and presentation! Touches on the key issues that face our planet and our civilization. Every thinking human must watch this!
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:10
In Arctic Circle ,how World great power involved in resources and geopolitics - DW explained it very nicely.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:11
10 years ago there was a big hype for the Arctic shipping routes opening with expensive cruses. It has been a failure as the warming hiatus continues and quite honestly is going in the opposite direction. It will likely become very difficult to work north of the arctic circle in the near future.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:11
It?s important to look forward while acting *right now*. Change has arrived in the Arctic, often times irreversible. In fact, big chunks of this ecosystem are very close to being broken forever. Cooperation needs to happen now, and we need to put the earth's health first.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:11
It's interesting too that there going to indigenous people to really learn more about what goes on in the artic. I'm proud to be a Native American in USA to understand more about what's going on in the world. Thanks YouTube.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:11
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982 is the main foundation of legal order, according to which the five polar states bordering the Arctic Ocean have the right to establish a territorial sea up to a limit of twelve nautical miles and an exclusive economic zone of up to 200 nautical miles. Defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world's oceans; it establishes guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources. To date, 167 countries and the European Union have joined the Convention. This treaty both codified customary international law and established new law and institutions for the ocean. The United States did not ratify UNCLOS because of fears among conservative Republicans that it would undermine U.S. sovereignty by transferring ?ownership? of the high seas to the United Nations.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:12
Russia can place nuclear reactors on oil rig type platforms, to heat the sea water directly
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:12
I wish UNCLOS would have never extended the EEZ by adding the complex and contentious clauses regarding extension due to the continental shelf. A clear up to 200 nautical mile from the baseline for the EEZ would eliminate much of the conflict.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:13
Mark my words for history. If more humans arrive to the arctic it will only become warmer and eventually the arctic will no longer be a frozen wasteland
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:13
We better start putting up drastic amounts of money for R and D to come up with a new energy source. Cause until we do, this artic will be used for its oil resources eventually. These current alternative sources such as wind and solar are not going to be enough to replace oil. We also need to start seriously pushing more for our young people to go into fields of STEM. Governments seem to be very efficient with manufacturing consent, I hope that for once that can use their manipulative power for good.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:13
Why do they drill so many holes in both poles? Is that not aiding the speed of ice melt?
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:13
Is there a biodegradable substance that also and 0% negative impact on the environment that can be dyed white and sprayed over top of the black carbon soot? If so that may be a excellent intermediate solution until the entire world is electrified. I?m thinking a maglift cargo/barge thing.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:14
If such oil drilling and extraction continues, i hate even imagining how such human greed would erase and made frozen arctic landscape, many more species and its exotic ecosystem just a mere dream for us which existed at some point of time in Anthropocene epoch.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:14
With solar and wind tech where it is today it just seems silly to invest in new oil and gas wells. It?s like going to the store to buy a new phone and opting for a rotary dial land line instead of a smart phone. I get that there are very serious energy security concerns right now in some European countries, but building a new gas well in the arctic which won?t come online for several years isn?t going to help with this winter. Might as well dedicate that money to sustainable technology instead.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:14
The way the sea and air currents work in the Arctic, means that the ice is pushed up against Canada and the northern tip of Greenland. The rest of the Arctic is relatively open and navigable in August and September, and that window of navigability will increase over time. Furthermore, most of the oil and gas resources are in Russia and Alaska both offshore and on land, and offshore in Norway and in the Bering Sea. Canada and Greenland do not have the right geology for oil and gas, except for a small part of Canada next to Alaska.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:15
there are exhaust treatment systems to limit the black carbon , but they seem to never mention such fixes . I guess it dosent go with the pitch . there is a thing called biodiesel . I know its not the big fix but its going to take a multi pronged approach
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:15
Climate change is not that dangerous, during the last ice age Norway was under kilometers of ice. What's dangerous is the over exploitation of fish and wildlife, and the chemicals that make us infertile. Who will breed fish and wildlife when they can no longer do it naturally in the future?
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:16
Not as simple as I think? Eh? I think that the nations (more accurately, those in power, in the nations) will want to further short term economic profits, and exploit the resources, climate change be damned! ?with maybe some concern for trying not to look too bad, to the public. That's pretty damn simple, and I fail to see how you could possibly present anything, that would say otherwise.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:16
only Russia has started development of arctic since seventies by building nuclear powered ice breakers and building ports along arctic coast of Russia. lately Russia reopened many abandoned soviet era military bases using them for research of arctic resources and instaling missiles. So arctic nations found themselves so back to reach where Russia achieved so far in arctic
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:16
We should as a society transition to renewable clean energy oil and Fossil fuels is one of the root cause of conflicts geopolitically
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:17
I have devised a feasible method of continuously freezing the Arctic-Ocean, and preventing its ice-shelves from melting!!!
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:17
According to the sea floor topography Canada?s continental shelf extends up to the North Pole region and by international laws a countries territorial waters extend 1000km?s off its continental shelf.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:17
The oil and gas resources in the Arctic are safe as present predictions of the ice melting are as likely to happen as those made in the past. "The North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming,? Al Gore 2009
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:18
The assumed reserves of oil and natural gas at the north pole have been wildly overestimated. These estimates will be found to be erroneous at best. Most of the worlds reserves of natural gas and oil are already known, and these supplies are finite, and dwindling. There is one place left on, or near the surface of the Earth, that are likely to posses great quantities of hydrocarbons, but these are not at the top of the world, these last reserves are hidden deep under the south pole. We need to leave them alone, we need to move rapidly towards renewables such as wind farming and solar harvesting. Raping the Earth is having disastrous consequences for all of us. We must wrest control of all oil and mining operations that place a premium on profit instead of prudence. Such greed driven short sightedness is a danger to us all. Heed these warnings. There is no Planet-B
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:18
ot to mention how much iceberg vodka is worth. Apparently someone in Newfoundland stole a container full of water and it was worth $20,000 so it?s very sought after and I must admit it do taste better. Just try our good ole iceberg beer only sold in Newfoundland it?s the best tasting beer on the planet
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:19
I am not climate activist and I don?t like how come activists do! I kinda scared, when ice melts millions will die and the 100 million of people have to move out of city that will be under the sea.
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:19
I think exploration of the article is important as scientists can discover much about the worlds past weather. I think we should be exploiting to possible petroleum as it seems as soon as we feel we don?t need to continue on energy efficiency practices we have barely scratched the surface of of better building practices we are still in the infancy of of ev batteries. We should allow the greed of a few rule the needs of our world
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DW Planet A
6/7/2023 11:19
You missed the Faroe Islands. Its ocean territory stretchis north of the arctic circle. And for Russia, the only reason, it has so much territory up north is because it hase stolen it from the people in the area. It is not russian.
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Zem TV
6/8/2023 10:24
The phenomenon, functionality and conceptual complexity can't be explained much better with great simplicity and comprehension by any other utbr but you. Not only ur content is well researched and not a mere copy paste but also your narration and ability to chunk down complex concepts into simplified version is what compels the viewers to subscribe ur channel as utb is full of informative content but superficial and doesn't touch the v core of complex concepts making it super uninteresting and boring. Before today I simply don't know about the complex technology used to drilled out oil from deepest pit of sea and ur way of explaining the entire process is super duper amazing
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Zem TV
6/8/2023 10:24
This man has proved everyone that he can entertain anyone without using derogatory words ??
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Zem TV
6/8/2023 10:24
I work for an offshore Oil and gas company building FPSO and structures like these are really a engineering marvel I have witnessed the construction of structures and it is not easy The capacity of FPSO was 220kobd
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Zem TV
6/8/2023 10:25
Being an Indian I reaaly appreciate his work hopes that he produces the same content always
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Zem TV
6/8/2023 10:26
The two most important things of your channel....Nice narration with great vioce and Good background music.????????
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Zem TV
6/8/2023 10:27
Congralulations Zem tv in advance for your very soon 3 Million subscribers?????? , It's all because of your hard work?????? may u get more success and made a face reveal requested????
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:32
As a PhD in electrical power engineering, I am amazed how this video explains the power system in such an intuitive way.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:32
I know a guy who works for Idaho Power as an engineer and they were talking about experiments to see if they could run a small town purely off the local hydroelectric dam. They tried multiple times, but the lead-lag time was just too high for their control systems to be able to compensate. It was fun to talk to him since he had such deep insight into how our grid works.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:32
There is a lot more complexity than this even. I work for the electrical system operator here in Ontario and we control the price of electricity. Not only does supply have to match demand but you have to make sure everybody is getting paid fairly. Every 5 minutes an auction occurs where produces and consumers can bid on what they're willing to pay for electricity. It gets insanely complicated figuring out exactly who needs to pay who for what. For example the baseloads shouldn't get paid the same price/kwh as the natural gas plants, since the natural gas plants are what do the work to balance the supply and demand. We also provide incentives for green environmentally friendly power stations so that they can stay competitive in the market. All this goes on behind the scenes and none of the daily electricity users know about it.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:33
One of the most British things I've ever heard is that the power grid has a massive spike in demand at certain periods as people boil kettles to make tea, often in ad breaks and at the end of certain shows ??
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:33
One interesting reason why a greener grid might not include lots of long-distance transmission lines comes down to two other things mentioned in the video: HV lines are expensive, and renewables are cheap (and getting cheaper as we speak). For example, the U.S. northwest has less solar and wind energy available to it than the southeast and midwest respectively, so it's often suggested that they build large HV lines to draw power from new renewable construction in those areas. However, considering the price of such high-capacity HV lines, it can actually be cheaper just to build double or triple the renewable+storage capacity in situ to make up for its 1/2 or 1/3 efficiency. Of course, this all comes down to economics - if HV lines see significant price reduction due to economies of scale, they might become more competitive - but right now, it's surprisingly close, and renewables are getting cheaper faster than transmission systems. It feels weird that building three times as much power generation might be the cheaper option, but it just might end up being the case.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:33
The "water in the pipes" so to speak is the collective angular momentum of all of the generators on the grid. A common misconception with electricity production: it's not the electrons we care about, it's the electromagnetic field. My other favorite thought experiment related to this: if two generators spin at 60Hz, how does one produce more power than the other? The answer is to not look at the rotation frequency, but instead to look at torque being imposed between the turbine and the generator. The more torque there is, the more electricity is being produced.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:34
I like the idea of nuclear to cover the true baseload, and renewable+batteries to cover the swings, with renewable spikes being used to generate hydrogen or desalinate water
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:34
Your explanation on usage patterns was both compact and accurate. I work in wholesale/retail pricing for one of the larger independent power producers in the US and that?s one of the better ?everyday? explanations I?ve heard. Explaining the differences between consumption (how much is being used overall) and demand (how much is being used at any one point in time) gets tricky.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:34
Being an Electrical Power Engineer, I can say Sam explained this complicated topic best one can in the easiest way. Thank you Sam for making video on my favorite topic.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:34
Here in France, while nuclear power plants still are our baseline, they are also capable of load tracking, (ramping up or down according to demand) and represent around 75% of the electric mix. In fact, because there isn't enough battery capacity to make Germany's very renewable-heavy mix a controllable system, they import our nuclear electricity when the wind doesn't blow. We also have large hydroelectric dams basically everywhere we could build them, and use some of them as reversible dams to store excess electricity. The marginal cost of a hydroelectric dam is the salary of the guy opening the valves. So not much. The marginal cost of nuclear is also very low, because it's basically the cost of salaries you'd pay anyway, and uranium, a by definition extremely dense energy source. Because both our dams and our nuclear power plants are pretty old, the initial investment has been completely written off multiple times over.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:35
There are some options for handling variations in load that you didn't mention. Liquid metal batteries and redox flow batteries are both cheaper alternatives to lithium ion that are good for stationary applications like grid-scale storage. Also, there are other types of potential energy storage besides pumped hydro. These include liquid air, compressed air, and molten salt. Lastly, there is a future base-load capability that will also be load-following: motlen chloride fast reactors. Due to the nature of the reaction, when load is high they produce more power, but when load is low they're output tapers off. (A side benefit is that they can use existing nuclear waste as fuel, leaving a much smaller quantity of short half-life waste afterward.) These still await regulatory approval.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:36
The statement that supply has to exactly match load every instant is a bit too strict, although it is true. The saving grace of the electrical grid is all those turbines and the angular inertia they all represent. Whenever the load exceeds supply, the extra energy needed is extracted from that inertia and the turbines start to slow down. And whenever supply exceeds load, the reverse happens and the turbines start to speed up. And because there's a MASSIVE amount of inertia, the rate at which the turbines speed up, or slow down is fairly slow, giving the power companies time to adjust the amount of power they supply the turbines. So depending upon where in the world you live, the power grid has a nominal frequency of 50 or 60 Hz. But that frequency is only nominal, it starts to decrease when more loads are turned on and the power plants start to increase their output to match the load, and the frequency increases when loads are turned off and the power plants are taking time to decrease their output to match the new load.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:45
I try not to let electricity get to me. But sometimes, I?m weak and just the thought of it really pisses me off! Thanks for making this video explaining how electricity gets to me. I know that it does. And like a lot of other things I try not to let it get to me to the point of anger. But I?m only human.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:46
This excellent piece is worthy of more visibility, as it points to both the long term value of sustainable energy, while making it clear the transition requires a lot of infrastructure change and time. I also like that you touched on the complexity of trade-offs around water impoundments: great for storage of water and indirectly, energy, but at the expense of healthy land, flora, and fauna. These are complex problems which under any policy will continually need tough management and optimization.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:46
The combined cycle natural gas units I'm familiar with can also be run in simple cycle mode, so the ramp time is the same as a simple cycle 'peaker' unit. The steam generated by combined cycle units is used to turn a separate steam turbine. For example, a power plant may have two or three combined cycle units connected to one steam turbine. This gives them a lot of flexibility for maintenance, as well as improving cost and energy efficiency.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:46
I feel you've missed an opportunity to talk about Hydro-Qu?bec; which is only second to China and Brazil in terms of total hydro-electric capacity despite being a state-corporation representing only about 8 million people. Nearly 100% of the electricity of Quebec is supplied by hydro-electric dams, with the majority of them being thousands of kms away in the North of the province. Its pretty much a full case-study of a fully hydro-powered economy and its drawbacks, like the potential damage to the environment. It also relates to the US given there are plans to massively increase the transfer capacity to the Northeast states.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:47
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the NSA's massive electricity usage and how the decisions they make about locating and expanding facilities is so dependent on the availability of power.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:47
Wendover explaining power grid perfectly gives me hope that he covers Smart Grids in the Future The technology isn't economically viable enough yet for widespread adoption but it has been one of the fields that aim to better manage load on a power grid
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:47
You were nearly correct on nuclear. The plants are slow to turn off and on, but they can load follow quite well within a wide range of power. This is especially true of plants designed specifically to do so, including the French PWRs and the Westinghouse AP1000 (BWRs, in general, are fantastic at load follow, as well). What is true is that high capital cost, low variable cost assets are economically disadvantaged to load follow in most market structures.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:47
When I toured Rocketdyne as a 15 year old, they were making the shuttle engines. They showed us also what looked like a 2 story tower that had the shuttle engine and a turbine mounted with it. The idea was that it could be transported where needed, then lit off and generate huge amounts of electrical power on demand. I don't know if they ever used it.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:48
In South Australia, and soon Western Australia, new legislation is stating that all roof top solar panels need to have the ability to be disconnected from the grid by the grid provider remotely to level out the grid. This is to make sure that the system can cope with any fluctuations during the day.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:48
Technology Connections has a video showing another good idea. His house is really well insulated and surrounded by trees, so he programmed his thermostat to cool to 66F overnight when electricity is cheap, then go to the upper 70s during the day. But the house doesn?t ever get that warm, so the AC doesn?t turn back on until electricity cost goes down and the thermostat goes back to 66. This effectively turns his house into a battery during the summer.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:48
The power grid is something we all just take for granted. That our water heaters, water pumps, furnaces, air conditioners, washer/dryers, fridges, freezers, lights, and electrical outlets always have power 24/7, in our homes. Also, there's the power plants, substations, power lines, and all the wiring in our houses that has been built, too.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:49
If you?re a military base or a business putting in on-site energy storage, you?re not just enjoying a long-term cost savings, you?re also ruggedizing your site against power outages. If I ran a military, or a large company, I?d be ALL over that for all my key sites.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:50
Thanks for the video. While the pump up/down reservoir generation system is indeed inefficient, but wow it is clean, clean, clean, I can also see now after watching this and thinking it over that it gives great secondary benefits indeed: 1) It decentralizes power generation, good in case of natural disasters or war. 2) Water storage for the very community the grid serves. Self explanatory and also good to have decentralized, also in case of natural disasters or war. It also gives water for recreational use, that's a great benefit as we all don't live on a coastline. 3) Water that can be used for irrigation/drought fire control. 4) No batteries or additional infrastructure, less environmental problems with the acquisition or processing/recycling of the batteries themselves, and a better cost to benefit ratio, and I'm certain much more scalable than any battery storage. 5) Less political issues than with siting power banks not to mention power plants themselves. 6) No site/offsite transportation or storage of nuclear fuels or the breakdown isotopes. 7) Off the shelf proven technology, connecting to grid which already exists and is paid for! 8) depending upon siting, wind plants can take advantage of the perimeter areas of the reservoir itself! 9) Water can be hydrolyzed for Hydrogen production and also storage for places/applications where it is appropriate and useful. Hydrogen could even in some situations be sent offshore via Pluto ("pipeline under the ocean") pipes to ships. I wonder about the reverse, taking the hydrogen as a given storage, and converting that via fuel cell back to power? All the Best! DE W8LV BILL
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:50
They're called Peakers and it's where Biomass will make an immense amount of sense moving forward, especially in timber rich areas. Since solar and wind can't be turned off they require massive battery banks, combine that with electric vehicles and we've traded big oil for Big Lithium.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:50
Makes things here seem even more out of touch. All my towns power comes from a coal power plant that's about 10 miles away. I can see the exhaust trails from my house depending on weather. It gets it's coal from a relatively small open pit mine operated right on the site of the power plant. Course the worlds 1st and 6th largest coal mines are also just outside of town to along with several other large coal mines. Several oil and natural gas fields in the area as well. Talking about renewables, clean energy, or going green here is a good way to get dirty looks and possibly lose a person their job.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:50
Although people often think of electricity as "flowing" like water, it doesn't really work that way. With alternating current (which is what is used in the power grid), the electrons move back and forth very quicky. So the electricity that powers my lights didn't really travel hundreds of miles from the power plant to my house.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:51
Here in Queensland, I believe we have a globally unique pumped storage setup. Instead of pumped storage handling peak loads, what happens here is that water is pumped during the day, using solar panels. Releasing it at night essentials means that you can indeed use solar power after the sun goes down.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:51
Pumped hydro can be a very good part of the solution for sure. A thing I'd like to point out, though is, that hydro - if not done correctly - can be very damaging to the climate. If you don't clear trees and other organic materials out of the to be flooded valley they will decompose underwater releasing methane which is way worse than carbon when it comes to the climate.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:52
EV battery degradation isnt really a noticeable thing if the car has thermal battery control. We learned that from the first gen leaf's and volts that are both still in usage by many still today.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:52
Several unanswered questions: 1-Although solar energy has peaks in production during day but the production demand is exactly in the demand peak of the hot time of day when the air conditioners are working so why cant they be seen as stabilizers? 2-Why Nothing is said about the geothermal plants which have a constant and steady supply and can be shut down and started easily too? Fro example in Yellowstone park of USA there is a ultra huge potential to generate geothermic electricity which even scientists say can help reduce the energy, impact and harm of any future eruption. 3-Why nothing is mentioned about other possible sources of energy like electricity obtained from sea tide and underwater currents?
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:52
Electric grid stores some energy as kinetic energy of the rotating turbines. As you switch on an appliance, the energy is almost instantly starts decreasing rotation speed of a heavy turbine somewhere and it takes many minutes to stop even if you stop supplying it with hot gas/steam. BTW, Chernobyl has exploded when they were testing how long it can cool itself with the remaining power of its own power generating turbines.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:53
Alternatively, you could generate way more power than you need and cut back to meet demand by dumping the excess energy as hot water back into your cold water reservoir. This is how nuclear can meet demand however it wants. I imagine they don't wait for demand to happen to spin a turbine up. They have to stay on top of instant changes in demand, so there is always some waste energy.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:53
It's interesting to see how much some places even in the developed world rely still on coal and natural gas, while here in Manitoba, we have pretty much 100% hydro-electic power. It's such a baseline here that Manitoba residents don't even call it power or electric, it's called hydro here.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:53
I think personally the most practical solution from a technical standpoint is a massive international effort towards building one global electrical grid. Storage would still be necessary, but not to an obscene degree, because global solar/wind production and demand are a lot closer to a flat line than in any given region.
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Wendover Productions
6/8/2023 10:53
Liquid Air Batteries seem like they will be a good scalable solution to energy storage. Solar and 4 hours of battery storage is cheaper to build than to maintain coal, natural gas, and even hydro. Tony Seba and Rethink X have great videos on the topic.
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