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Energy Expert Answers Gas, Solar and Nuclear Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
Jeremiah Baumann, Chief of Staff at the US Department of Energy, takes to Twitter to answer the internet’s burning questions about all types of energy. Why are gas prices soooo high? Do wind turbines cause cancer? Are electric vehicles better for the environment than gas vehicles? How is the strategic petroleum preserve going to be…
H&M Science
July 21, 2022 at 12:39 pm
but what about the resources used to make batteries ?
JimBob1937
July 21, 2022 at 8:27 pm
Still a net reduction in energy usage and CO2 output. These factors aren’t neglected when analyzing new tech. EVs (which I assume this is in reference to) are simply insanely higher in efficiency compared to heat engines like the internal combustion engine.
Vishal Patkar
July 21, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Haha free markets can make you delusional.
S J
July 21, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Underproduction in oil and gas goes back way beyond the pandemic. The oil price fell off a cliff in May 2014. Since that time and basically to date there has been massive, massive underinvestment in upstream production. It will take a decade to get upstream investment to where it needs to be (not including the Ukraine war effect).
Justin McShane
July 21, 2022 at 1:02 pm
If anyone is skeptical about nuclear energy (which is understandable because it’s often portrayed as dangerous), check out Kyle Hill’s video on why it’s not as dangerous as it seems and how important it is. He does a great job explaining how efficient it is and uses only science, facts and, numbers. Even though he’s very passionate about it, personal opinions are pretty minimal–it is a science channel, after all.
Tiffany Mata
July 21, 2022 at 1:20 pm
I wanted to trade in Crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price.
Witters
July 21, 2022 at 1:22 pm
This expert is so biased in favour of big oil, completely exaggerates the dangers of nuclear (Which are negligible) and downplays the negatives of natural gas (Methane is far worse than CO2)
LR
July 21, 2022 at 1:54 pm
Ikr. If gas prices stay this high now are people going to heat their homes this winter
Duc Tran
July 21, 2022 at 2:10 pm
he uses the word “literally” a lot
Peannlui
July 21, 2022 at 2:15 pm
…. Shane Madej?
/shot
Gold fish
July 21, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Biden won’t let us use the oil we have is why. Enough oil under Texas for the planet for 1000+ years
JimBob1937
July 21, 2022 at 8:24 pm
… so many things wrong with this, lol.
– Current world oil reserves sit at, 1,650,585,140,000 barrels.
– Current world consumption sits at 35,442,913,090 barrels per year.
– Years left based on known economically viable reserves, roughly 46 years. You can factor in some error here, but even doubling is far, far, far, far… far, lower than your made up figure.
– USA oil production is at/near a record high… yes, currently it is.
– USA is actually the largest oil producing country… yes, it actually is. We just don’t hear much about this since the USA is also the largest consumer of oil.
Where in the world do you get your made up reality and info?!
Marc Auciello
July 21, 2022 at 2:29 pm
Electrons don’t really move through the wires. This is a common misconception. A good explainer for reference:
JimBob1937
July 21, 2022 at 8:11 pm
They actually do flow through wires. The electrons moving is what produces the electromagnetic radiation, they are linked. Now, electron drift velocity is much slower than what people envision as electrons zipping through wires. However, in engineering and even in physics, electrons moving through the wire as an energy carrier is still a good enough abstraction and is used all of the time. It isn’t invalid to state such. While electrons are moving through wires, they are simply not the conduit through which energy is being transported, that is through the electromagnetic field. However, this fact can be neglected for the vast majority of cases.
Lowca
July 21, 2022 at 2:39 pm
Thats a lot of Dam energy!
Raska The Slaanesh
July 21, 2022 at 2:48 pm
atomic energy is also renewable…
tritium, which is radioactive hydrogen, is the most abundant thing in the universe and it fuels the stars. We cant run out of it
The catastrophe in Chernobyl today is practically impossible to happen. The most recent catastrophe was tsunami with earthquake at Fukushima… And it was “just” small radiation leak that got cleaned relatively quickly. If that is considered a radioactive catastrophe, then im not scared at all.
JimBob1937
July 21, 2022 at 8:09 pm
I’m all for nuclear, but most designs that would be launched are still light water pressure reactors… the same kind we’ve had issues with thus far. Far safer designs are around, but some engineering challenges remain and I’d like to see far more funding put forth towards that goal.
“And it was “just” small radiation leak that got cleaned relatively quickly.”
… uh, it’s a complete core meltdown, the corium is still at the bottom of the reactor housing, and no one knows how to deal with it. The crippled reactor itself is still in decommissioning more than a decade after the incident. Being an advocate for something doesn’t mean entering fantasy territory.
Ali MK
July 21, 2022 at 2:50 pm
As long as O&G execs are allowed to make excessive personal profits gas prices will not level off
mcmajor91
July 21, 2022 at 3:02 pm
One thing I have hard time to belive, during the pandemic, oil company’s didn’t produce oil, at all? And what about reserves of that same produces oil, there are non?
Sorry but you have to be insane to belive in that. Long story short – how much prices are going up and who is responsable for them is that OPEC thing. “Free market” is nice but in the real life, nothing is free. Free market doesn’t exist. Few company’s which are producing oil just take any reason in the world as a exuse to put the price up. Same procedure in the making and delivering, same route but that ‘free market’ kicks in. How? Here’s how, of course, corect me if I’m wrong – some EU country buys oil/petrol tanker. By the time that tanker left the port, there was one price but because of ‘world thing happend’, that same tanker, with that same oil/petrol is not the same price anymore. Now is more expensive. Ta-daaa… Explain me where is this ‘free market’ thing, tell me how it works because, so far, everything so far is opposite of free.
If we are using oil to make plastic and we want to go green as soon as possible, then cut plastic making by 10% or more, easy. Not so hard.
Azimuth
July 21, 2022 at 3:33 pm
Is biofuel not considered renewable anymore? Or is it just frowned upon?
JimBob1937
July 21, 2022 at 8:02 pm
It’s renewable, but not great. It’s energy and resource intensive in its own right, and its energy return on investment is poor.
Azimuth
July 21, 2022 at 8:18 pm
@JimBob1937 thank you
Baofu San
July 21, 2022 at 3:50 pm
It is Putin or no, i need to know lol
Jose Gomez
July 21, 2022 at 3:55 pm
He forgot to talk about the carbon foot print of manufacturing electric vehicles, lithium mining is bad lol
JimBob1937
July 21, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Lifetime carbon output is still a net reduction. No one with knowledge in this area would claim zero carbon, and zero carbon isn’t the realistic goal, a reduction is. Fossil fuel mining, drilling…etc is bad too, as well as the pollution’s effect on people. Stop mimicking other ill-informed people you’ve seen online, lol.
Jose Gomez
July 21, 2022 at 8:28 pm
@JimBob1937 lol guy did I burst your bubble, I’m not mimicking nobody and stating a fact about how lithium mining is rarely mentioned when speaking about electric, in fact lithium mining can be just as destructive, if not more dangerous than fossil fuel mining, why do you think electric vehicles are so expensive, because mining for lithium to create large powerful and efficient batteries is a high-energy task with a lot of carbon foot print, and those batteries will need to be recycled every 10 years if not less if they are created cheaply because they will lose the ability to hold charge, inform yourself, bud lol
Charles Maeger
July 21, 2022 at 5:22 pm
The oil corporations desire for higher prices for oil is politely called – inflation.
Étoine de Vries
July 21, 2022 at 5:55 pm
I feel like this has been the episode of the series which I understood most, and was interested in all questions/answers. Great job Wired!
marina njer
July 21, 2022 at 10:11 pm
3:07. Wind turbines kill birds
BlackMoth27
July 22, 2022 at 12:01 am
“it’s literally made of silicon” yes but do remember silicon is just sand. solar panels are doped with other elements. pure silicon is inert in the face of electrons, they need to be transformed into semiconductors, and you don’t just add more sand. you dope them with rare earth minerals or common materials like gallium. and arsenic
John
July 22, 2022 at 12:17 am
The main problem with Nuclear energy is we are trying to control it in a naturally chaotic system – universe tends to entropy = accidents are going to happen
Hopefully Fusion becomes a viable option in the near future 🤞
J K
July 22, 2022 at 1:16 am
Why are gas prices so high? Just blame Trump and Putin for everything. -Joe Biden
Human Person
July 22, 2022 at 1:38 am
Shut down a lot of ways to blame The president for gas prices haha
Rob O
July 22, 2022 at 2:02 am
Wow, such convincing propaganda
Nike Raje
July 22, 2022 at 2:56 am
Lol this man was in the Ali G Science episode
BerzerkaDurk
July 22, 2022 at 3:10 am
pfft. had to stop less than a minute in when you didn’t even bother to mention that the current administration essentially shut down a quarter of domestic oil and gas production, thus decreasing supply and raising prices. basic economics. this guy: COVID and evil oil companies. riiiight.
Eric Thompson
July 22, 2022 at 3:33 am
As a guy whose house just burned down, I vote against the personal lava rivers.
Tracy Negrete
July 22, 2022 at 3:51 am
Could we please have a geography support?
Branimir Krznarić
July 22, 2022 at 4:27 am
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Paul Raphael
July 22, 2022 at 5:27 am
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Rebecca Gameraja
July 22, 2022 at 5:28 am
Thank you for the contact info, i will get to him
Raven Bautista
July 22, 2022 at 6:03 am
It’s all BS. Climate change is here before humanity exists. If you think the so-called renewables are green, you should wake up and smell some coffee.
Be Kind
July 22, 2022 at 11:13 am
It’s low. We have had lowest gas prices for decades. Five bucks is about right. The US has NOT invested in public transportation. Oil is going away. It is a finite resource. Globalization is coming for America in the form of higher prices for everything. Other countries will develop at the US’s expense. QOL will decrease in America. Just give it a few more decades. At least this guy can form whole sentences. While I am at it, why the US doesn’t invest very heavily in Jeepneys, Buses, public subways, skyways, freeways, scooters, bikes, maxi-scooters, etc etc . Public Transportation needs to be top notch. “Prices nice and low again….”hahaha. Good luck. The US has all the money and we are not number one is anything but social problems. Wow.
William
July 22, 2022 at 2:45 pm
it is way easier to convince someone that climate change is real than that it’s man made. It’s a real problem and whether or not you think humanity’s emissions is causing or accelerating the problem, it’s still a problem that will endanger our species.
The simplest connection my monkey brain can make is that warm water accelerates hurricane speeds or create hurricanes. Well… our ocean temperature averages are increasing every year. Make the connection.
Chad Masarweh
July 22, 2022 at 3:08 pm
I guess 3 mile island never happened and regulating nuclear power isn’t a problem
Chris Pollitt
July 22, 2022 at 3:12 pm
Canada is the second largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. Hydroelectricity accounts for 59.3 per cent of the country’s electricity supply.
Jordan Cobb
July 22, 2022 at 3:50 pm
It’s amazing how little some people know
Jaycee Wedmak
July 22, 2022 at 4:18 pm
As to electric cars – what about building more dams (especially with lower rainfalls)/grids and the mining of battery minerals + disposal vs mining for oil/gas and batteries + disposal? Thanks
Brian Hiles
July 22, 2022 at 4:29 pm
You know better than to characterize a local [electrical] grid as a serial circuit.
Scote Zhan
July 22, 2022 at 4:50 pm
Interesting he said “it’s tempting to say solar” to the best renewable energy production. I suspect he said nuclear. But wired didn’t like that answer. So they just cut it out.
Jos frost
July 22, 2022 at 5:32 pm
i was thinking the other day about hydro power.
in the sense of hydro/dynamo/battery > infinite loop of energy
but then i was thinking, what if water is 2 far away.
can we make a infinite loop with only a starting supply of water? , or something refillable every lets say month ?
Shawn
July 22, 2022 at 7:31 pm
0:45 BUTTTT conservatives brainwashed us to believe democrats control WORLDWIDE OIL AND GAS PRICES!??….stupid fcking conservatives
TheMaxqb
July 22, 2022 at 7:33 pm
I really wanted to like this video, but Baumann missed the mark on nuclear (8:49). Maybe it was a product of the question “why is nuclear power bad?” He answered that, but his knowledge seems outdated or biased. Baumann gets points for not confusing “renewable” with “green”/”clean” though.
“[methane] is cleaner than coal” – 10:29 (quoting this just because it’s funny. Is coal cleaner than anything?)
chinoytheman
July 22, 2022 at 9:06 pm
So it’s not Biden’s fault why gas prices are so high?!?
Paul R
July 22, 2022 at 10:33 pm
Seems like every single energy producing method comes with a side effect
Todd B.
July 22, 2022 at 11:47 pm
So without releasing the reserve, gas prices would be a lot higher…
– Thanks Brandon 😂
Scott B
July 23, 2022 at 12:23 am
Disappointed no questions about cold fusion.
Peeps Chicks
July 23, 2022 at 12:31 am
How about manufacturing those electronic cars HUH? Which one is worse the electric cars or the gasoline cars? Don’t get fooled
Tampa Bay J aka Chef the Entertainer
July 23, 2022 at 4:36 am
We related? Lol. Not many people have the last name spelled Baumann. Thanks for the info! Great episode.
Joseph Kim
July 23, 2022 at 6:10 am
An interesting thing to look into is the duck curve which is seen in California. Essentially where the electricity demand spikes at night time and the California Independent System Operator dictates the amount of electricity to produced within the state to ramp up electrical production over time as not to stress the generators.
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Michael Rosen
July 23, 2022 at 10:27 am
I’m glad he admitted that the oil and gas companies that have massive control over our govermments are also massively screwing us over on purpose to get richer and then use our money to control our governments more!! STOP LOBBYING!
nullified
July 23, 2022 at 11:37 am
This guy is really good at explaining topics. I love him
Lucius Verus
July 23, 2022 at 12:10 pm
I don’t understand most of the things he said, but there are some claims that pursuing renewable energy will cause more damage to the environment, so we should just build more nuclear reactors. Is there some calculations on that?
Benji Smith
July 23, 2022 at 12:25 pm
You forgot to mention the shutdown of the pipeline and the results of oil companies speculating on the market.
Lance McCarthy
July 23, 2022 at 1:52 pm
This guy was great. Excellent science communicator.
Francisco de la Vera
July 23, 2022 at 2:09 pm
Texas is a country on its own hahaha
Kevin Wallace
July 23, 2022 at 2:23 pm
More people die in a year to coal/gas power then nuclear has ever killed. Nuclear=bad is just horrible propaganda
Raven Bautista
July 23, 2022 at 2:43 pm
Are so-called renewables green or it’s just propaganda?
SkanMLL
July 23, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Gas prices are high for one reason. Corporate greed. Record profits for oil companies, record raises for CEOs. That is why your gas prices are up and “inflation” is happening.
Flame Beats
July 23, 2022 at 3:49 pm
I like solar because there’s no moving parts so it’s simpler. Hydro is pretty cool because of the tons of power it produces.
Good Morning
July 23, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Smarter than most Republicans
480brad
July 23, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Oil is complicated and this guy didn’t want to get political. I voted Biden so I’m not a hater when I type this. The Dems wanted to push the US to go green so they canceled a ton of new oil permits. They also took away tax incentives for new wells. This killed oil production in the US. Biden has released more strategic oil because he crippled our production. So he goes to the Middle East asking them to release more oil because he doesn’t want the US to produce more. Then the Dems and Repubs released waaaaay too much stimulus money which drove up inflation. This is why gas prices are so high.
I Eat Garbage
July 23, 2022 at 8:48 pm
If prices are artificially inflated because all of the major producers have agreed to keep prices high, that’s not a free market; that’s a cartel.
Joseph Palasz
July 23, 2022 at 8:53 pm
This was awesome, I love the format of asking experts what they know about. Not grilling them or getting them into arguments, just them explaining what they know
Nick Little
July 23, 2022 at 10:30 pm
Remember that oil and gas will never go away. There are so many more uses for them other than just fuel.
kman87
July 23, 2022 at 10:42 pm
This was great and this gentleman explained everything so well.
Tom Something
July 23, 2022 at 11:13 pm
One thing that gives EVs a leg-up in efficiency is regenerative braking. You hit the brakes, and instead of slowing down by friction, which generates unrecoverable heat, the motion of the car is used to recharge the battery a bit, so that energy can be used again to speed the car back up later. With very few exceptions, most gasoline-powered cars don’t have something like this.
Carbon capture is great because we can actually put that carbon dioxide to good use in other endeavors. Green dry cleaning is one example.
harvey66616
July 24, 2022 at 2:44 am
_”most gasoline-powered cars don’t have something like this”_ — but hybrids do.
Not that hybrids are the long-term solution. Battery-electric clearly is. But for those complaining about EV mandates, it would not be at all unreasonable to use hybrid mandates as an interim solution. Simply banning new vehicle sales of any non-hybrid gas- or diesel-engine vehicle would be a big immediate improvement, and would give some breathing room to the need to upgrade the electric production and grid.
D Ri
July 23, 2022 at 11:38 pm
Climate Town did a 20 minute video on gas price control. This guy talking here is a joke.
borednow
July 23, 2022 at 11:41 pm
6:29 who tf says btw as btdub??? what a douche!!!
borednow
July 23, 2022 at 11:50 pm
12:43 salmon arent “born”… they dont have livebirth…. smh
Sage the Plant
July 24, 2022 at 12:19 am
Not me thinking this man was about to solve my chronic fatigue
Yolo Swaggins
July 24, 2022 at 1:45 am
The fearmongering over nuclear really proves just how deep the feds are in big energy’s pocket
A C
July 24, 2022 at 2:09 am
I really wish people would realize Chornobyl and Fukushima were 2 accidents in almost 80 years of nuclear power generation and for it’s energy production, it’s orders of magnitudes safer than coal/natural gas.
But hey. . .radioactivity bad. People can’t see it so it must be bad. Just look at the resistance to 5G because of people’s stupidity.
John Smith
July 24, 2022 at 3:05 am
pretty cool
Justa Youtuber
July 24, 2022 at 3:13 am
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Oil Production (barrels per day)
United States – 11,567,000
Russia – 10,503,000
Saudi Arabia – 10,225,000
Canada – 4,656,000
Iraq – 4,260,000
China – 3,969,000
United Arab Emirates – 2,954,000
Brazil – 2,852,000
Kuwait – 2,610,000
Iran – 2,546,000
justyn williamson
July 24, 2022 at 5:44 am
This guy looks like Bill Gates’ less rich brother
Gaia Shield
July 24, 2022 at 11:32 am
Gas prices should be higher so people will finally stop using this toxic crap.
creaturecore13
July 24, 2022 at 12:25 pm
You forgot to add oil companies are making record profits so the inflation is mostly just greed. Gas should be a dollar cheaper if they weren’t price gouging. No US oil should be owned by a private corporation. It belongs to the people. That is the only way to control price.
MysterE Wong
July 24, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Gas prices are high because of stupid policies. Paris Climate Accord does nothing but spend taxpayers’ money on a whole bunch of nothing. Shill!
Chris Foster
July 24, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Haven’t started watching, let’s hear his lies
Adam Steinhardt
July 25, 2022 at 2:18 am
In the US, oil is traded on a free market like any commodity. There is a spot market, I.e buying or selling something today, and a futures market, I.e making a contract for a future purchase or sale. Oil prices are set on these wallstreet markets based truly on supply, demand, and trade. Oil companies have little to no say in this. They sell at the price they can, then there is a margin to transport, refine, and get to a pump. The oil changed hands to many different entities before it’s there. It’s a very complex system.
What oil companies can do is firstly hedge, that is lock in futures contracts to protect against swings, and second oil companies very nimbly adapt to the markets in order to produce what is economic to profuce, thus impacting supply. What we are seeing now is that during covid, demand dropped so much that the price of oil went negative (i.e people were being paid to take the oil because there was so little storage left), and then supply was cut, because oil companies couldn’t make money producing. Now demand is up and supply is lagging, but it will catch up, because oil companies can invest and see a return. Hopefully, at this point price will normalize.
Sarah C.
July 25, 2022 at 3:09 am
Wired!!! Please have a civil engineer answer questions about infrastructure!
Sonicgott
July 25, 2022 at 5:41 am
Tell the gas companies to quit being greedy.
Lal
July 25, 2022 at 6:15 am
That demand supply story with petrol does not add up. They are only recovering lost revenue
anddno
July 25, 2022 at 6:46 am
Why’s my teacher wasn’t him
Deamonscape
July 25, 2022 at 7:41 am
Love this video and I love the expert here who took a hot topic and answered with even hotter responses. Like I could tell there was some bias for clean energy (not a bad thing really), but over all it was very objective and straight to the point.
LunchTrey
July 26, 2022 at 1:02 am
Of course there is a bias for clean enegy. It’s economically and environmentally better for everybody (Except oil companies)
MH
July 25, 2022 at 1:25 pm
You should explain that to some of the filipinos who are trying to compare gas prices today with the gas prices like 12 or 13 years ago
Obi-wan kenobi
July 25, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Man this dudes smart he should be an energy expert
Eric North
July 25, 2022 at 2:04 pm
I’m here to see if Brandon did it.
Spoiler: He didn’t.
Eric North
July 25, 2022 at 2:19 pm
There’s a hydroelectric dam northwest of Atlanta that uses cheap electricity at night to pump water up stream and then uses that water to generate electricity when it’s expensive just before and just after working hours. It’s federally owned and the profit goes to the Treasury to offset taxes.
Cody
July 25, 2022 at 4:49 pm
Bad policy, brainwashing people into believing things with solar, wind, and hydroelectric are good, while nuclear power is bad. Those same people voting the same people making the bad policy into place, over and over.
Heinrich hein
July 28, 2022 at 8:11 pm
we are already doing it here in Germany so i think you have to get your act together
Spludge
July 25, 2022 at 11:37 pm
Texas does not produce anywhere near 2billion barrels of oil lmfao they produce about .0025% of that (or 5,000,000 barrels) a day😂
tomcat8662
July 25, 2022 at 11:56 pm
This guy is not an energy expert. He has spent his career in the government bureaucracy and working for not-for-profits. He has never actually worked in the energy industry and could not keep a power plant running to save his life. Europe has put dozens of these zero experience ESG zealots in charge of their power grid and it is looking like it’s going to be a very cold winter for the Germans. If you want a real expert, have an actual energy company executive answer questions.
Heinrich hein
July 28, 2022 at 8:10 pm
” energy company executive” good joke
Marcin
July 26, 2022 at 12:50 am
yo, expert, read about chernobyl, read about modern reactors, youre brushing on ‘wind causes cancer’
Heinrich hein
July 28, 2022 at 8:10 pm
the modern ones are not different, see Fukushima … the problem is the principle not necessarily the design it is physics not will power
Marcin
July 28, 2022 at 11:29 pm
@Heinrich hein they are completely different. fukushima is just as good of an argument as the fact that france or germany have had (and do have) plenty of nuclear electricity and we havent heard about them much. tens of power plants, for tens of years, and we had 2 major malfunctions.
compare that to any fossil fuel power plant consequences and rethink how dangerous it is in comparison, or in general.
although its best to follow those 2 simple rules: 1. dont build power plant with russians, 2. dont build nuclear power plant on the terrain that can be destroyed by earthquakes. just like you wouldnt build solar farm in uk
TheTrueEmrys
July 26, 2022 at 12:51 am
God this guy just showing how lame America is, gas is expensive because rich people say so lol
DavidFails
July 26, 2022 at 4:09 am
Thanks for the refresher synopsis
Jeffery Scott
July 26, 2022 at 6:56 am
The first answer completely leaves out Biden’s influence.
Dexy83🇺🇦
July 26, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Yes, House passed a bill stopping price gouging. The Senate shut it down! VOTE!. We need at least 2 more Democrat Senators…
David Packman
July 26, 2022 at 2:06 pm
going for the suddenly greedy energy company lines again. wow.
Heinrich hein
July 28, 2022 at 8:09 pm
but true
Lea DiMento O'Brien
July 26, 2022 at 2:32 pm
How much resources does it take to use electric cars?
Financial Shinanigan
July 26, 2022 at 4:41 pm
Energy expert: so many renewable energy potential!
* Wild politicians appear *
Wiles Aquatics
July 26, 2022 at 4:50 pm
Please get Mike Tyson on. Not for fight questions though. Pigeon questions. Pigeon support.
yboruch
July 26, 2022 at 7:02 pm
The only thing spinning in this video is the take on the current administration. Wired, your expert videos are generally awesome, but please use unbiased experts in future
Adam Kadir
July 26, 2022 at 10:55 pm
This guys knowledge on nuclear energy is remarkably outdated.
CC_SniperGirl
July 27, 2022 at 3:34 am
As far as oil and gas prices go, you aren’t fooling anyone. It went up by a dollar a gallon weeks after Biden was inaugurated and signed all of those executive orders. We were exporting oil before Covid even hit, and gas prices were great. Foreign oil would have little affect on us if it weren’t for domestic policy because we have more than enough right here. And really? Oil companies are making so much money that they don’t want to sell more? What? If it’s not profitable to produce, of course they won’t make more, but that’s what happens when you make it hard af to do via policy.
Nunami Sculthorpe-Green
July 27, 2022 at 9:54 am
Really riveting stuff. Can there be a non-government scientist explaining these things? Felt like some of the ecological impacts of dams and nuclear etc were not really made clear.
Oriahk
July 27, 2022 at 6:08 pm
WIRED. WE NEED HAIR SUPPORT
Mohammed
July 28, 2022 at 1:18 am
He really knows his stuff!
L M
July 28, 2022 at 4:23 am
typical… vastly overstating the downsides of nuclear and hydro. if you want to decarbonize, don’t fear monger about chernobyl and fukushima and act as though nuclear waste storage is a difficult problem. if you want to decarbonize, don’t spend more time talking about salmon breeding patterns than the reality of abundance that hydro can provide. at a certain point the green lobby will need to embrace these two technologies if they want to be taken seriously regarding scalable decarbonization.
TARDIS Edits
July 28, 2022 at 11:58 am
“Why is gas so high”
Because of the current state of the world. Can’t believe people need to ask this question. All thickos
MsThatstuff
July 28, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Lol the lies…
Neemz
July 29, 2022 at 3:43 am
This guy was on Ali G lol
Cecilia CR
July 29, 2022 at 5:00 am
anyone else notice the huge scrape on his right wrist @12:36
CoinOpTV
July 29, 2022 at 7:09 am
Need more of this guy everywhere
jihye lee
July 29, 2022 at 12:45 pm
Can you shoot radio active waste to mars? 😂
Benjamin Boyle
July 29, 2022 at 4:39 pm
Fake News
kathleen reilly
July 29, 2022 at 4:55 pm
Please do “Anesthesiologist answers anesthesia questions”
10
July 29, 2022 at 10:22 pm
>> never been on an oil rig
>> never helped engineer a solar panel
>>>> energy expert
iPan Zer0
July 30, 2022 at 8:02 am
What the frak?
Jax Hawken
July 30, 2022 at 8:28 am
Though I like the idea of energy being clean, in this universe of ours there is no such thing as renewable resources, especially when you take into consideration all the resources needed to build and support all those fancy energy sources. Besides cleanliness I think it is very important to acknowledge the effectiveness, therefore I’m more likely “rooting” for nuclear and thermonuclear plants (granted that safety’s first always ofc)
Gifted Wilson
July 30, 2022 at 9:28 am
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Branimir Krznarić
July 30, 2022 at 11:19 am
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July 30, 2022 at 11:19 am
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July 30, 2022 at 11:19 am
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Felicia Okoliko
July 30, 2022 at 11:20 am
Thank you for the contact info, i will get to him
dwlakes David Lakes
July 30, 2022 at 11:52 am
Can you guys get Robert Sapolsky on your channel?
Brandon Gillette
July 31, 2022 at 5:47 am
It would be really nice for experts to compare the fewer than 100 people ever killed by nuclear power to the millions killed by coal on a regular basis
Floridas
July 31, 2022 at 7:54 am
What a hoax this guy is. It has not that much to do with the pandemic. It’s the “green revolution” and ESG policies that starved the fossil fuel industry of investment. Its decades of malinvestment (wind turbines and all these crap) that lead to higher prices. Basically the government declared war on the industry and now they are surprised no one invests any money
ButterflySpreads
August 1, 2022 at 3:29 pm
It has to do with the pandemic, with ESG, with money printing. It has to do with everything.
darius hajnala
July 31, 2022 at 5:09 pm
I would argue that, just cause we had two massive accidents with nuclear power, doesn’t mean that it is as dangerous as many people think.
Personally, I think that nuclear energy is probably the best source of energy we have, and in fact, it is quite save and very efficient.
Kingson Cheng
August 3, 2022 at 8:01 am
Here I’ll give you some key words. Japan, nuclear waste, ocean, bioaccumulation, food chain.
Kevindt12
August 3, 2022 at 4:53 pm
@Kingson Cheng 0 Dead LOL
Useless Cause
July 31, 2022 at 11:14 pm
I think we need a large state made of potatoes to power the world. It’s green and renewable. Also, if you get hungry you can pilfer one and make French fries. win/win
mu1d d
July 31, 2022 at 11:19 pm
Would love to see Dr Elaine Ingham on WIRED.
Mark W
August 1, 2022 at 2:27 am
So basically corporate greed…
Chris
August 1, 2022 at 12:36 pm
It’s sad that politics don’t follow the science but instead follow what’s profitable
Carl Walther
August 1, 2022 at 7:27 pm
You did not mention that the Gov adds a lot of taxes/fees to the cost of a gallon of gas. CA for example has a lot more tax/fees applied to a gallon of gas. So, it’s a little disingenuous to say that the Gov does not influence the price of a gallon of gas.
Carl Walther
August 1, 2022 at 7:37 pm
Why be so aggressive with our goals of getting rid of fossil fuels; such that it is hurting us so badly economically. Isn’t there a good balance where we are doing what is correct for the environment without destroying the economy, getting rid of jobs, etc.?
Michelle Erickson
August 1, 2022 at 9:03 pm
The better question would be ‘why are oil profits so high when they keep insisting they weren’t excessively profiting – including under oath’
zoma qurashi
August 1, 2022 at 11:03 pm
Librarian next !
sethescope
August 2, 2022 at 1:19 am
me, looking at this guy: heh, what a nerd (affectionate)
Will Sea
August 2, 2022 at 6:06 am
Good job not unpacking OPEC on that first question editor.
Legolasfanboy
August 2, 2022 at 11:51 pm
Doesn’t list nuclear energy as renewable energy when 95% of it is renewable. Talks about the dangers of nuclear when it is hands down the safest energy producer in the world. Sounds like a true government official.
Inigo Phentoya
August 6, 2022 at 6:52 am
Nuclear power plants are not renewable by virtue of the fact that they consume fuel. The fission process itself is technically renewable, but that is not what we’re talking about. If we were to make some allowance for defining renewability based on recycling, that would extend to other processes which are clearly not (like fossil systems which do similar things).
Ashley Waner
August 2, 2022 at 11:53 pm
Please bring this lovely man back.
Boot Strahps
August 3, 2022 at 12:45 am
Saying that electric vehicles will
Help Power the grid is a massive lie.
Vograx
August 3, 2022 at 2:01 am
I find it somewhat amusing that regarding drawbacks with nuclear power he mentions Chernobyl and Fukushima, but not Three Mile Island which was in the US itself, an extremely close call (and still poisoned the population in the area with radiation).
Almost like he’s not allowed to talk about Three Mile Island since it would make US energy look bad.
BAtkinson
August 4, 2022 at 7:34 pm
How can we ground and or harness solar wind electricity on the Moon’s surface?
BAtkinson
August 5, 2022 at 1:48 am
Need to put up a web of solar powered satellites around the planet.
Nomisuke Deadman
August 5, 2022 at 1:01 pm
This answered a lot of questions I never knew I had. I just wish my “literally” filter wasn’t so sensitive because Jeremiah literally says it 18 times.
Aykut T
August 5, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Hey,
great video but just a correction, USA doesn’t produce 20% renewable energy but 20% renewable electrical energy. It’s more like 12% in 2021.
Matt
August 5, 2022 at 5:41 pm
Gee, the answer to the first question was passed over pretty fast. Not too much attention to the fact that we’re all being screwed.
Alex Kaspersson
August 6, 2022 at 6:00 pm
how is renewable energy cheap to make? isnt it quite expensive to set up hundreds of wind turbines on locations people dont want to live near yet needs a huge amount of wire to transfer the electricity for each turbine? also, how do you store it? giant battery?