Renewable Energy 101 | National Geographic

There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.

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[lucasmith]

Who else is here because of their teacher

[jxyskk]

This is a video for my online class.. thats why I'm here.. :)

Thx for 187 ikes... y’all :P

[tiedairplane]

who else was sent here for school assignment

[MeapYT]

littarly all the comments: OmGosh GuyS whO elSe waS SEnt hErR by TheiR teAchErr

me: **kirby Noises**

[scotthannam]

No one absolutely no one:
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[astrii]

I got set this as a lesson for school, to study and it helped a bunch. It briefly described what renewable energy was, and listed benefits and disadvantages, while allowing me to expand on your notes.

[amelia-mayhowarth]

Everyone: ''iM hErE FrOm sChOoL, SaMe fOr EvErYoNe hErE i BeT''
Me: *Scrolling thru comments and not watching the video..*


_Also.. is it just me who cant hear it even though my laptops on full volume.. I can only just hear it_

[kafiluddinbhuiyan]

99% here bcz of their teachers
1% who loves study😂😂

[Huch-qnvx]

Who was send by there teacher as well?😂

[theoffender]

What are useful information for my project at school ! Thank you National Geographic

[dominique]

Solar panel and wind power on every house with storage battery up back for night/weather issues. Oil companies don't want people to be self-sufficient. Yes, this is expensive but you have to start somewhere.

[naomiiixx]

Pov: your teacher put the link in the chat and now you have to watch the video

[charlidhepnor]

Thank you so much you helped me a lot with my really hard project

[momsspaghetti]

Welcome to another episode of what teacher made me watch today!

[ranjana]

Thanks for the video. It helped in my project

[nasserwaelhussainebrahim]

thank you for helping me to study for my quiz and test

[grayc]

I need to watch this for school and I still don’t know what the answer is ;-;

[ozzyr]

Can someone just send me the answer I’m like 4 weeks late

[pauladams]

When we inevitably go fully sustainable and use geothermal, biomass, wave energy, tidal energy, solar and wind, cheap stable power will be the norm by ...
1: Using many renewable sources as listed above as even on a windless night the others are unaffected.
2: Using suitable energy storage like batteries, pumped water, liquid air, biomass, hydrogen gas, molten salts, compressed air, pumped hydroelectric power, flywheels and many more.
3: Trading energy over large distances, across continents then eventually the globe. This would even out supply and demand. This is one application that capitalistic free market economics would be most helpful by quickly managing demand and supply at all levels of electricity supply from micro grids to the largest scale.
No new technology is need to make this happen as they are all currently in use, many for years As promising new technologies become available they then can be easily integrated into a modern smart grid systems.

[anchalvijay]

amazing video ...as it briefly describes renewable energy and its advantages n disadvantages...so it vl provide help to people to install n maintain renewable sources of energy by keeping in mind the advantages and disadvantages in order to evaluate whether to use it or not..👌👍