Beyond the Electric Car. How Batteries Can Save Us From a Green Disaster | Denis Phares

Beyond the Electric Car. How Batteries Can Save Us From a Green Disaster | Denis Phares | TEDxReno

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More electric vehicles are on the road than ever before, but unfortunately, this could quickly stress our power grid. To avoid resorting to burning more coal and further damaging our environment to support the demand, we must embrace renewable energy. Unfortunately, our renewable energy sources are intermittent, creating a gap in energy production. But it is possible to store that energy for later use, and that's where the future of energy storage comes into play. Dragonfly Energy CEO, Dr. Denis Phares addresses the need for safe, powerful and cost-effective renewable energy storage and what he is doing to take the future of energy storage to a whole new level. His Reno, Nevada-based company, Dragonfly Energy, has designed and assembled Lithium iron phosphate storage systems for RVs, boats, and stationary storage systems in the USA for years and is now looking to the future, bringing non-flammable, high-grade renewable energy storage to the market with Dragonfly Energy's proprietary and patented solid-state cell technology. Dr. Denis Phares first earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics from Villanova University and then went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Engineering from Caltech. After working as a tenured faculty member of the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California, Phares began his work in advancing renewable energy technologies and followed his dream of making an impact in green energy storage, an area that had virtually stagnated the advancement of widespread renewable energy adoption. Phares is now the CEO of Dragonfly Energy Corp. and leader of the company's innovation and research initiatives focusing on developing and advancing Dragonfly's revolutionary technology. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Рік тому

Two firefighters died in China trying to put out a lithium-iron phosphate battery fire. That officially makes it a bigger disaster than Fukushima and Three Mile Island combined, where no one died.

@adama4791 Рік тому

I really hate when guys like this downplay nuclear. It’s going to have to be part of the conversation

@TheJhicks0506 Рік тому

Exciting!

@billcoleman7316 Рік тому

Thank you this was a very good Video.

@stevealthaus8036 Рік тому

I'd like to see more details on life expectancy of these batteries in years and the assumptions supporting those calculations. Also, I wonder about "Peak Lithium". Is there sufficient lithium on the planet to build the batteries necessary to support transportation as well as current grid load? No one ever talks about the industrial uses of fossil fuels. If we stop burning fossil fuels for industrial energy uses which are not currently on the grid, but which must be done 24 hours a day, then the total battery requirement must be increased to account for that load as well. The sum of existing grid, transportation, and industrial energy all being supported by intermittent wind and solar will drive astronomical needs for batteries. Given the locations of those lithium sources, and the locations of lithium processing (unfriendly countries) and given the amount of lithium required, I doubt lithium based batteries are a solution to the perceived problem. The head-long rush to wind and solar to the exclusion of all else will yield a third world power grid, at the very best.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

Yes you touch on points that the Greenies conveniently leave out. We are in a world of exorbitant electricity rates, energy rationing, and massive rolling blackouts. The only thing that could save us is nuclear energy (which for some reason the Greenies also don't like) or a quantum leap in energy storage technology.

@geoffreytoomey682 Рік тому

You’re missing the point! This has never been about climate or Renewables or Coal or Carbon Dioxide, this is about total control of you and me, if our short-term thinking continues, allowing the UN agenda 2030 to succeed, WEF Billionaire Megalomaniacs will control us all, and the excessive CARBON they want to get rid of is you and me! Also soon they will remove cash, to control your last free choice, it is already started, and the UN-controlled Dutch Government is now recording all transactions over 100 Euros? If you try to take cash from "your bank account" you must tell the bank what you are using the Cash for. Once Cash has been removed, they control your money and your food. Green energy has always been just a distraction from the UN agenda 2030, the WEF has been targeting total control of all remaining injected Humans activity by 2030

@cindland Рік тому

Good question about the availability. Just another thing to plunder and create “need” for.

@user-dg5wm9tv8l 4 місяці тому

great

@MortonsontheMove Рік тому

Watching this now from an off grid home in an air conditioned room and about to go to town in an electric car all powered by solar. We have dragonfly batteries too. He is absolutely right that off grid is possible and even affordable and easy. It would have cost us more to pull power to this location.

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Рік тому

Nope, battery technology is not up to the task. Sounds to me like you are grid intertied, not off grid at all.

@sethrich2790 Рік тому

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk it’s crazy that people can’t see through this. #1- whatever climate “crisis” may be, none of this will change it. And at what cost? Look what they’ve done to the world economy! Same people that think there are 26 genders. Pure BS.

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Рік тому

And to prove my point, please outline the system you claim to be using. I know you are lying since I have been doing alternative energy for 40 years.

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Рік тому

No answer shows I must have been correct. No one is really off grid with solar.

@sethrich2790 Рік тому

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk California has been proving that “green” energy only means outrageous cost & power outages. Sure, plug in cars to the grid. None of will any difference Re: climate. It’s all just a leftist boondoggle

@bennyhaag6371 Рік тому

I live in Sweden and I do not intend to eat that rubbish. On my farm I raise cattle on grass only and that meat tastes great. However, I grow some vegetables and it would not be possible in a sustainable way without the animals.

@cindland Рік тому

Exactly. It’s the “circle of life”. You need “all the things” to have some of the things!

@aijazalee5138 Рік тому

Great

@kathyfann Рік тому

I have an RV that I can take off Grid I just don’t. I don’t like a small water tank or not able to run a fan all night long. The boon dockers don’t live like we do. They give up a lot many of us don’t wish to.

@user-dg5wm9tv8l 4 місяці тому

cool

@jacyford2382 Рік тому

Wonderful information. Makes me want to live off grid even more now. Been dreaming of the van life for about a decade now

@slash4555 Рік тому

Van life? Useless people, that live on the survival of others! Then claims you are living a green free lifestyle? LMAO!

@rolliebca Рік тому

@@slash4555 Wow, such a myopic view. Obviously not worth continuing any conversation with you. I'm done.

@jacyford2382 Рік тому

@@slash4555 The funny thing is people like you are doing absolutely nothing and have no ideas or know any solutions. Just sitting on your asses writing comments like this in your child labor clothing, fuling the toxic meat industry, and constantly contributing to the climate crisis instead of actively seeking out options to limit your consumption and YOU my friend are the one living off the survival of others. You assume you know me based off a simple comment about wanting to live off grid.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

@@rolliebca But Slash is absolutely right. The "off gridders" fail to acknowledge that they are still using fossil fuels for their existence. That makes them by definition very much not off grid.

@scarlettjoehandsome6130 Рік тому

Do you have a solar van? Will you be off of the petroleum grid?

@alford1742 Рік тому

Propane stove, water heating and refrigerator makes RVing easily augmented with solar and small batteries. Same with off grid homes.

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Рік тому

Didn't you get the Greenie memo? They say you can't use fossil fuels in the future.

@scotschmidt6683 Рік тому

Good sales pitch. Let us really describe the life in a van boondocking. A very large electrical system to run all the modern conveniences. Limited water which is very heavy. You have no washing machine or dryer. We have all seen the UKpostsrs with their vans. Many have generators and solar. They all have to go back to civilization for gas, propane, food, laundry, communication and mail. Does that sound like a secure life style. Your either retired with a home base, working from youtube or another type of remote job as long as you have good internet service, or you are young and want to see the country before you get old. You need to be able to afford the investment up front or be poor and you have nothing else to call home. Solar has made a great improvement but you are not self sufficient living out of a van.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

Maybe you didn't get the Greenie memo. If they have their way you will not have any fossil fuels to do what you meme.

@penguinking4830 5 місяців тому

How much rare earth minerals go into his battery? Who controls those minerals. How easy is it to recycle these batteries? We only get 10% of our electricity from wind and solar and the intermittency problems cut that availability in half. So where is the clean energy going to come from to charge these batteries? Wind, solar and battery storage are all serious weak links in the strategy. At this time, they are all dead ends that leave us with more problems and fewer solutions.

@BretSimmons Рік тому

Well done, Denis!

@jonathangwynne1917 Рік тому

I question his numbers. 20 billion kWh each day needed for EVs? At 300Wh/mile, that's 67 billion miles of travel every day. That's 24.5 trillion miles per year. The actual total is about 3.2 trillion miles. He's off by a factor of 8. Impossible to take anything else this guy says seriously when he's willing to make such a basic error.

@stevetutt5560 Рік тому

New Battery tech is the answer your informative Tedx talk just confirmed this.... thank you

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

A quantum leap in energy storage tech in fact.

@kathyfann Рік тому

They don’t go far enough and it takes to long to get going. I live in California. Have family in Texas and Florida. I like to travel as well. Sold my EV to someone who stayed home. I now have a Toyota Camry Hybrid. I fill 13 gallons and go 578 or so miles. And when I fill up it’s quick. So EV’s are not quite practical for a segment of us.

@randomracki9453 3 місяці тому

The green cost of making batteries needs to be reduced

@Padandi Рік тому

Why doesn't anyone ask about the sustainability and environmental impact on lithium mining!!??? It's non-renewable,

@andrewtruscott8515 7 місяців тому

All energy source will have an impact don’t you think…!

@ericharris197 Рік тому

This is just a sales pitch for his batteries

@men2dewy Рік тому

The electric vehicles of the future may well take a load off of the grid, not add to it. The lion's share of personal vehicles will be charged at night when energy usage is low. During peak hours an EV battery can power an entire home with maybe enough left over to send out to the grid. The Ford F150 Lightening is already equipped to send current back out to power an entire home. Future improvements in cycle life would make it feasible. The LFP batteries already have a very long cycle life. Better LFP energy density is on the horizon.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

That only reduces the need to expand the grid in the near term. If the Greenies get their way and force us into a renewables society, you will need a grid with 30% greater capacity and you will have exorbitant electricity rates with corresponding massive rolling blackouts.

@men2dewy Рік тому

@@ForbiddTV Grid capacity is based on peak consumption, not total consumption around the clock.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

@@men2dewy Base load and peak loads are the two extremes. There isn't enough lithium/cobalt/nickel available to mined on the planet to do what you meme. The solar economy will be an utter failure until there is a quantum leap in energy storage technology.

@men2dewy Рік тому

@@ForbiddTV The technology for sodium ion batteries is already here. Energy capacity isn't so great but that doesn't matter for utility grid storage.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

@@men2dewy I have heard that meme and so many other next amazing battery configurations that are supposed to revolutionize battery technology and change the world. Yet until they see actual use and prove their worth in the real world, it's all just talk. If they were so great, why don't we see widespread usage?

@dan32one44 Рік тому

Wish they tell you the truth about how they get all the material they need to make the lithium iron phosphate with child labor just look 👀 it up yourself sure the battery’s are awesome but at what cost…

@Scot_Tz Рік тому

Absolutely

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

It doesn't matter to the Greenies, they keep that sort of thing out of the press.

@expendablewater7474 Рік тому

i want my anti matter reactor UFO or UAP that produces anti Gravity

@Msmmmason2 Рік тому

Very important message, very skillfully delivered.

@mattamytones2511 Рік тому

Too much of a sales pitch. He fails to talk about the lack of lithium to meet the world's demand, the cobalt mined from the Congo which is mined by child labor, and so much more. Not to mention the carbon foot print from building the batteries, the windmills and solar panels. The worlds problems are not going to solved by a Dragonfly battery.

@ericharris197 Рік тому

Not 1 word about American made electric car motors GM or the new Ford crate motor. Built a high end solar powerwall for a fraction what Tesla's coast. I power my home & charge my EV for free or about $11 if I plug it in. Nicola Tesla is crying in his grave. If he had it his way all we would need is an antenna.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

Present battery technology is in no way advanced enough for EV's or a renewables grid to succeed. We are facing a future of exorbitant electricity rates, energy rationing, and massive rolling blackouts.

@AtmaOnTheIntertubes 6 місяців тому

Dude lost me at "it's not the lithium." Lithium reacts violently with water. His statement about it "not being the lithium" when our principle mechanism of fighting fires is, y'know, WATER... really made me feel like he was glossing over a massive problem. It's the lithium. And no amount of glossing over that for commercial purposes is going to fix that.

@Dickie2702 6 місяців тому

It's a lithium salt, not pure lithium.

@bglinke Рік тому

Those”off grid” folks, where do they get their food? I suspect they’re not growing their own food, using only wind or sun . You have a nice aspirational goal, but a long long long way from any reality.

@ForbiddTV Рік тому

They are jumping in their cars to shop at their Walmart. They are also secretly burning some form of fuel, but they insist on being called "off grid".