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Make your own wind turbine out of easy and cheap items. I found a motor and a windmill at a garage sale. This video will give you some ideas of how to put it all together.

The motor i used is AMETEK 124851 PERMANENT 40VDC MAGNET MOTOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR 116123-03
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Solar panels, just like electric car batteries, are getting better and better (and cheaper and cheaper).

But that doesn’t stop some really bizarre myths from being perpetuated on social media and by your estranged uncle every family get together.

Here’s just five – and our way to bust them!

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01:21 Myth Number 1 – Solar panels are too expensive for most people
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05:13 Myth Number 3 – Solar panels make your roof leak
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A thorough exploration of the central concepts that make solar power work.

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Geothermal technology is one of the most energy efficient ways to heat and cool your home. Installation methods allow almost any type or style of home to take advantage of geothermal heating and cooling. Whether its new construction or retrofit, installing geothermal could be right for you.
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Matt got the chance to meet up with Wade, a fellow builder in Rhode Island, who is in the process of installing a geothermal heating system at one of his projects. Geothermal heating systems have been around for much longer than you may think, and in theory are quite environmentally friendly and efficient. But due to a lack of consumer knowledge and the assumed complexity, geothermal still makes up a small fraction of HVAC systems used in America. But, as Wade and Lou (Wade’s HVAC installer) will tell us, these systems are more affordable than you think, and an excellent way to go about heating your house. There are a couple different types of geothermal heating systems, but essentially pipes in the ground circulate a water solution and extract heat energy and transfer it into buildings. If you are interested in learning more about this system, check out the video and listen to what Lou and Wade have to say!

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026 – Hydroelectric Power

In this video Paul Andersen explains how energy can be harnessed was water moves through a turbine. Three types of systems are discussed in the video; run-of-the-water, impoundment, and tidal. Several advantages and disadvantages of dams are discussed.

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For more information on Michael Shellenberger, please visit www.tedxberlin.de. Michael Shellenberger is co-founder and Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, where he was president from 2003 to 2015, and a co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto.
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to the Politics of Possibility, was called by Wired magazine “the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,” while Time Magazine called him a “hero of the environment.” In the 1990s, he helped protect the last signi cant groves of old-growth redwoods still in private hands and bring about labor improvements to Nike factories in Asia. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Revisiting Small Modular Reactors – The Future of Nuclear Energy? Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/undecided and enter promo code UNDECIDED for 83% off and 3 extra months for free! Although nuclear energy is reliable and a sustainable energy source, the nuclear energy debate rages on. It’s not considered the go-to solution in the renewable energy transition. Solar, wind, and hydro are getting all the attention. Nuclear reactors are big, expensive, and take a long time to build, but what if we could make them smaller, portable, cheaper, and safer. Small modular reactors are getting a lot of interest with the first versions coming online in China and new locations popping up in Canada. As well as former SpaceX engineers that have made things even smaller … to a micro reactor scale. Could this be the future of nuclear energy?

Correction on NuScale: “A single NuScale Power Module (NPM) provides 77 megawatts electric (MWe), with a 12-module design resulting in a total gross output of 924 MWe.”

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Perovskite solar cells might revolutionize how humans generate energy from sunlight.
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In this video we’ll explore the world’s fastest improving new solar technology, and provide an exclusive peek inside the lab of a team working on this breakthrough material.

Imagine an inexpensive solution of perovskite crystals that can make a photovoltaic cell so thin, that just half a cup of liquid would be enough to power a house. A solar panel so lightweight, that it can be balanced atop a soap bubble. That is known as the holy grail of solar energy. So when will we see perovskite solar panels used for a solar power system for your home? Maybe sooner than you expect.

Currently, only 2% of global electricity comes from solar power. And 90% of that, comes from crystalline silicon-based solar panels, the dominant material technology.

While abundant, silicon has downsides related to efficiency, manufacturing complexity, and pollution that prevent it from being an absolute no brainer. Emerging thin films like perovskites present a bright future. Imagine solar cars like a solar tesla, solar yachts, or a solar plane.

Solar cell technologies can be classified into two categories, wafer-based or thin-film cells. Perovskites are the leading contender in emerging thin films. Topics covered in this video include applications, perovskite crystal structure, working principle of perovskite solar cells, efficiency limits, multi-junction solar cells, shockley-queisser limit, how solar works, solar simulator, band gap, manufacturing, vapor deposition, how solar panels are made, and the future of solar power.

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Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy with constant power output and a maximum of full load hours / capacity factors: Principle and conversion processes of geothermal energy use. Geological parameters. Costs for exploration, set-up and operation. Application and comparison of cycles and processes: Carnot, OCR, Flash, Double Flash, Binary, Kalina. Examples from Iceland and the US. Exercise at the end of the lecture.

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1. Introduction to the Transition of the Energy System: https://youtu.be/u8gln8uTfys
2. Conventional power supply: https://youtu.be/Wd0W8zN0yEo
3. Solar Irradiance: Astronomical basics: Positioning of the sun during a year, Elevation and azimuth of the sun during a day and during the year from a terrestrial observer, Spectra of the sun for different “Air Masses” (AM): https://youtu.be/3IEyAoMJyA8
4. Solar Thermal Energy Systems: https://youtu.be/i-81RmsOJt8
5. PV – Basics: Principle of photovoltaic energy conversion. Characteristics of solar cells: I-V-curve, influence of irradiance level, spectrum of irradiance, spectral efficiency, MPP, Form Factor, influence of parasitic resistors, weak light effect, operation temperature, STC. https://youtu.be/PzAcKqqrKXw
6. PV Energy Systems: Installation, Mounting, Foundation, Substructures, Inverters, Conversion efficiency, Energy yield, Off-grid vs. On-grid systems, Configuration of PV systems, Wiring, Balance of System costs (BoS), Optimization of PV power plants. https://youtu.be/YZyLh7KsHJI Solutions to Exercise 6 – PV systems – plus homework.https://youtu.be/GST_1KFUscc
7. Wind Energy: Historical and actual development of wind power conversion.
Extractable power from the wind. Parameters of wind energy: Height, pressure, temperature, density. Weibull- and Rayleigh-distribution of wind velocity.
Theoretical conversion efficiency of wind power conversion, Betz efficiency. Types of wind power converters, tip speed ratio, cost, complementarity, software tool, literature.
7.1 Wind Energy: https://youtu.be/GhX9yTmENX0
7.2 Correlation of wind and solar power: https://youtu.be/yKVMXZ7bbrs
8. Hydro Power: Historical water wheels, type of turbines, run-of-river-plants, hydro storage power plants: https://youtu.be/FkOmeHho6wA
9. Geothermal Energy: Potential, Geology, Conversion Processes, Exploration, Costs https://youtu.be/KdpMWaf94qA
10. Biomass Energy: https://youtu.be/RHFXQsWjkt8
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13. Energy Storage (part 3): https://youtu.be/QxPFaOPvIU4
14. Optimization of a Wind-Storage-Transmission System https://youtu.be/eZILdBpYV5I
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