PickVidsBest Renewables, batteries & storage Videos
The 89 Renewables, batteries & storage videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 16 intermediate, 69 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, Everything Electric CARS, Real Engineering.
"Energy Revolution? More like a Crawl" - Dr. Vaclav Smil
Energy scholar Vaclav Smil argues that global energy transitions are slow and that renewable targets should not rest on wishful thinking.
Fun with ultracapacitors!!
Afrotechmods plays with 2600F ultracapacitors that can dump hundreds of amps, shorting them to vaporize bits of metal.
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
David MacKay, scientific advisor to the UK energy department, gives a Harvard talk on sustainable energy at macro and micro scale, drawn from his book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air.
A Complete Beginner's Guide to Electric Vehicles
Technology Connections' hour-long guide to electric vehicles, covering costs, trade-offs and especially how little home charging power most drivers need.
Clean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016
Tony Seba's 2016 keynote argues that batteries, electric vehicles, self-driving cars and solar will converge to disrupt energy and transportation.
The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage
MIT's Donald Sadoway presents the liquid metal battery as a design for grid-scale stationary electricity storage, at an Imperial College London event in 2018.
The Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About | Terraform
A 20-minute S3 episode touring Terraform Industries, a startup making synthetic natural gas from air and solar power.
"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere
A documentary from Swan Bitcoin exploring Bitcoin's relationship with energy, featuring Lyn Alden and others, and arguing that mining is a net positive for the environment and not wasteful.
New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
Kirsten Dirksen tours new Earthships, homes built from tires, bottles and cans that generate their own energy, collect water and grow food.
Vertical Bifacial Solar Panel Performance Results Part 1
A hobbyist compares vertical bifacial solar panels against south-facing angled panels using winter production results.
Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
Veritasium investigates whether a wind-powered vehicle can travel directly downwind faster than the wind, driving the Blackbird craft himself.
Power Satellites & Space Based Solar Power
Isaac Arthur explores space-based solar power, in which satellites beam energy down via microwaves to rectennas on Earth.
The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble
RethinkX summarizes its report arguing that mainstream LCOE estimates are inflating a bubble in coal, gas, nuclear and hydro assets.
Solar Powered Air Conditioner!
Tech Ingredients builds a larger solar-powered desiccant air conditioner that uses a calcium chloride liquid desiccant with evaporative cooling to cool their lab.
Professor Jeff Dahn | WIN Seminar Series
Professor Jeff Dahn lectures on why lithium-ion batteries die and how chemistry changes could make them last decades.
Scavenging rechargeable lithium cells from the roadside
Big Clive shows how to pick up discarded disposable vape devices from the roadside and extract the rechargeable lithium cells inside.
Why Teslas Are Bad At Towing (Today)
Engineering Explained uses physics to show why today's electric cars, including Teslas, are poor at towing, pointing to battery energy density and weight.
Hydrogen Will Not Save Us. Here's Why.
Sabine Hossenfelder explains why hydrogen is a poor answer for decarbonization, covering how most hydrogen comes from fossil fuels, the efficiency losses of green hydrogen and reliance on rare metals in fuel cells.
Aircraft Development Update
Lilium's CTO gives a short update on the electric jet's design, certification and development.
What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? - (you might be surprised)
JerryRigEverything tours Li-Cycle to show how lithium-ion batteries from EVs, phones and tools are recycled.
TOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.
Big Clive does a complete teardown of a lithium phone battery, taking apart the protection circuit, case and the cell itself.
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
A Technology Connections video weighing LED streetlights against high pressure sodium lamps, covering efficiency, color, cost and light pollution.
Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...
A 2006 Google Tech Talk by Robert Bussard on inertial electrostatic confinement (polywell) fusion as a cheap, clean alternative to conventional thermonuclear reactors.
The Problem with Biofuels
Real Engineering explains why biofuels, especially corn ethanol, are a poor energy source, looking at energy inputs, efficiency and carbon cost.