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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 replenished?

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  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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 He answered that, but his knowledge seems outdated or biased.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?)

  6. 0:45 BUTTTT conservatives brainwashed us to believe democrats control WORLDWIDE OIL AND GAS PRICES!??….stupid fcking conservatives

  7. 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 ?

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. Canada is the second largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. Hydroelectricity accounts for 59.3 per cent of the country's electricity supply.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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  14. 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.

  15. 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 🤞

  16. "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

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