Michio Kaku, Elon Musk, and Bill Nye agree; mankind need not be slaves to oil much longer. Could fossil fuels be about to go the way of the dinosaur?
Elon Musk is leading the way. Elon Musk’s Tesla Corporation is making enormous leaps forward in coupling solar and wind technology with lithium ion batteries for massive energy storage.
Bill Nye is excited, in the video below, because Elon Musk’s giant sized lithium ion batteries would make it possible to provide all the energy necessary to power America, and the whole world for that matter, using only renewable energy.
Michio Kaku says in the video below, it is possible to create a tremendous amount of energy with ordinary salt water and a cold fusion reactor. Fusion is nuclear energy but “without the radiation” explained Michio Kaku. It produces “no nuclear waste to speak of,” and it “cannot melt down.”
While Michio Kaku is jazzed about fusion, he acknowledges the technology is still at least a decade away from efficiency. Wind and solar are advanced enough to do the job now, thanks to Elon Musk’s lithium ion batteries.
Michio Kaku says Elon Musk’s new battery is “a game changer.” In the past, solar and wind were too variable and unreliable to use because the battery technology was insufficient to store enough power during the day to use at night or to store enough when the wind was blowing to make up for when it was not.
Bill Nye says in the video the United States could meet all the needs of their electrical grid with the wind from its Atlantic coast. Most importantly, Nye says, it could be done almost immediately. The technology is there.
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