Is Green Energy REALLY green?

10 months ago
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Solar panels, power walls, wind power... It's all about Renewable Energy! In fact, it's all being pushed to often insane degrees. So the question is: Just how 'green' is Green Energy? Is it gonna save us all from certain doom, climate change, and space invaders? Well... As usual, it's complicated. Let's take a deep dive into the fascinating (and sometimes confusing) world of Green Energy!

Links in the vid:
- Dark Side To Solar? More Reports Tie Panel Production To Toxic Pollution (https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/06/21/why-everything-they-said-about-solar---including-that-its-clean-and-cheap---was-wrong/?sh=7a7ddece5fe5)
- Wind farms produced 'practically no electricity' during Britain's cold snap (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6957501/Wind-farms-produced-practically-no-electricity-during-Britains-cold-snap.html)
- The Costs and Benefits of Hydropower (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/costs-and-benefits-hydropower-180967691/)
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoir Water Surfaces: A New Global Synthesis (https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/11/949/2754271)
- Iceland Volcano Update: Eruption-Making Magma Shift May Be 'Days' Away (https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/iceland-volcano-update-eruption-making-magma-shift-may-be-days-away/ar-AA1l9CZY)

00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Solar Panels
01:28 - FREE Solar Panels
01:52 - Wind Farms
02:27 - The wind stopped
02:56 - Geothermal power
03:46 - Is there a solution?
04:13 - The Power Problem
05:09 - Hydropower
05:49 - The greenhouse gas issue
06:32 - Climate Change
07:26 - Geothermal revisited
07:26 - Wrapping up
08:28 - What happens if we ditch Fossil Fuels? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkYUle_Cr0)
08:31 - Your Green Story

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