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.
The 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge
A short Vox explainer on the duck curve, the shape electricity demand takes in California as solar output grows.
The highway where trucks work like electric trains
Tom Scott visits an eHighway test in Lubeck, Germany, where electric trucks with pantographs draw power from overhead wires.
Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars
Physics Girl compares hydrogen fuel cell cars and battery electric cars after driving 1800 miles in a Toyota Mirai.
They Don't Work In The Cold...
Kyle Conner of Out of Spec Reviews finds that new Electrify America chargers co-developed with BTC fail in cold weather, then checks ChargePoint, EVgo and other EA stations during a cold snap.
A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
Tom Scott borrows a Nio electric car in China and shows its automated battery swap station replacing the whole battery in minutes.
The Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why
Adam Something argues in four minutes that gravity batteries like Energy Vault, which lift concrete blocks with cranes, are a poor energy storage idea.
Grid: Renewable Baseload Power from a single desert location. Enough for 7 million homes!
A Just Have a Think video on the proposed 16 billion pound Xlinks project to build solar, wind and battery capacity in southern Morocco.
Tank Safety: Hydrogen Tank Gunshot | Toyota
Toyota's short promo clip showing a Mirai carbon-fiber hydrogen tank shot with a .50 caliber round at point blank range.
EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED
EEVblog's Dave Jones critiques Reflect Orbital's plan to sell sunlight to solar farms after dark using orbital mirrors.
The Battery That Refuses to Explode | NOVA
A short NOVA excerpt in which David Pogue abuses a Tufts-developed battery by cutting and damaging it, and it keeps working without catching fire.
Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project
Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter project video shows a machine in the desert using sunlight and sand to 3D print glass objects.
Ubitricity | Fully Charged
A Fully Charged episode on Ubitricity, a German company that turns ordinary street lamp posts into roughly 5 kW overnight EV charge points, with a locking cable and managed billing.
The tech which can charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Technology Connections explains how modern EV fast charging can fill a battery in about 10 to 20 minutes, covering charging standards and EV road trips.
EEVblog #1333 - Nuclear Diamond Self-Charging Battery DEBUNKED!
Dave Jones of EEVblog debunks the marketing claims of the self-charging nano nuclear diamond battery from NDB Inc.
Zero Mass Water -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t argues that Zero Mass Water's solar-powered atmospheric water generator is essentially a dehumidifier with solar panels.
100 car batteries wired in parallel!
Styropyro wires 100 car batteries in parallel to produce more current than a lightning bolt and tests what happens when it is shorted.
How noisy is a wind farm?
A two-minute Telegraph report that takes a decibel meter to a wind farm and nearby residential areas to measure how loud turbines are compared with everyday noise.