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Solar power is cheaper and more sustainable than our current coal-fueled power plants, so why haven’t we made the switch? The real culprits here are the clouds, which make solar power difficult to control. Alexandros George Charalambides explains how solar towers and panels create electricity and how scientists are trying to create a system that can function even under cloud cover.
Lesson by Alexandros George Charalambides, animation by Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., LLC.
SOOOOOOOOOOLAAAAAAAAAAR POWER
This film was fantastic and had a lovely hint of the wild.#Sustainability #solar energy #Renewable energy #livetree
This really should be taken down and updated. At this point it is basically disinformation
Was that motion stop (?) animation?? It must've taken a lot of work to make those shots 🤯 but also I love how the lesson answered my questions
So what ur saying is, we need to invest in technology to store solar energy, then it wouldnt be such a problem with cost, like one of your videos is about new technologies being more expensive at start but gets cheaper when development is well funded
just get rid of all the clouds in the world
Hiiiiiiii
Q) Why arent we using solar power to provide energy to the world?
A) Greed
can solar panels be used during rain?
If you oppose nuclear for baseline power then you just hate the earth.
ok hear me out half 1/4 of the energy goes in a battery when needed
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You missed talking about potentially replacing the backup non- renewable source with battery farms
You know what stores energy? Batteries? No, not Tesla Battery grid. A pumped storage is basically a big battery. How about we rely on proven technology rather than fossil fuels
Make tons of sattelite designed to get power from the sun or equipped with solar panels, now you won't problem the clouds😂
It might be expensive but it will save you coal power
Come to England and you will find the answer
it has been 7 years and we didn't realy moved a lot since then : (
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This was beautiful
Wow, back then no one think about battery? Interesting
Doesn't the thumbnail have a typo as in-'yarn't',instead of aren't?
This OLD video was linked from a new video…. This video needs to be replaced. There has been much development in panels and battery storage technology and this old video send the wrong message.
Does anyone know how I can make these cute bunnies at 4:21?
When you ask Grandma to help you out on your video:
Forget who it was but they said whoever can invent more efficient batteries would become a trillionaire.
"Grandma…. I'm gonna need some help for this video!!"
Too much of one thing is always a bad thing.
And I didn't quite understand
So we don't make more solar panels just because of clouds covering the sun?
Why not just depend on other renewable sources too like if it's sunny then solar plants and once it get cloudy and clouds come there would be flying turbines to produce electricity
“Yaren’t”
Same to you why don't we use turbine power next to the house
Clouds always change. And like you mentioned, solar isn’t consistent. I was also told, and this could have changed and my knowledge is limited, solar isn’t as strong as coal or whatever else we use
This animation is stop motion animation
If it storms, we still have wind and running water to make electrical energy. The only hurdle in the way is it's cost. Let's hope the government will make it cheaper and accessible.
what if we could place the solar panels high above the clouds
Solar is not reliable st it's best.