If Green Energy Is So Great, Why Aren't We Using It?

Green energy is getting better and cheaper, yet we still largely rely on fossil fuels. Why haven't we switched to solar and wind energy yet? Which Countries Will Be Underwater Due To Climate Change? - https://youtu.be/1ilC2ODaWSY Which Countries Run On 100% Renewable Energy? - https://youtu.be/SrmsQzRQPPw Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: What Would Happen If We Burned All The Fossil Fuels On Earth? http://www.popsci.com/burning-all-fossil-fuels-could-raise-sea-levels-by-200-feet "A new study published today in Science Advances finds that if we burn all of the remaining fossil fuels on Earth, almost all of the ice in Antarctica will melt, potentially causing sea levels to rise by as much as 200 feet--enough to drown most major cities in the world." Who's Winning The Battle To Replace Coal? http://www.forbes.com/sites/thebakersinstitute/2016/05/17/whos-winning-the-battle-to-replace-coal/#e9dc97c6b09f "Coal is losing the battle for the electricity future in the United States. Investment in new coal-fired generating capacity has dried up with its share of electricity generation dropping from 53% in 2000 to 34% in 2015." Electricity in the United States http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_United_States "In 2015, coal was used for about 33% of the 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity generated in the United States. In addition to being burned to heat water for steam, natural gas can also be burned to produce hot combustion gases that pass directly through a natural gas turbine, spinning the turbine's blades to generate electricity." ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos daily. Watch More DNews on Seeker http://www.seeker.com/show/dnews/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel Seeker on Twitter http://twitter.com/seeker Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez DNews on Facebook https://facebook.com/DiscoveryNews DNews on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+dnews Seeker http://www.seeker.com/ Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here: http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Special thanks to Julian Huguet for hosting and writing this episode of DNews! Check Julian out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jhug00

Comments

1. HAHAHA Green acolytes trying to explain why their shitty energy methods don't suck. Sorry but they just suck.
2. Search pier cobyn re AGW HOAX (hoax if doing google search)
3. I say we build more coal fired power plants and ditch this green energy bullshit. Infact, there should be laws passed to BAN any form of green energy. Also, we need to clear cut what's left of our old growth forests and make planting of new forests ILLEGAL! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
4. Many metals we use for the green energy and the batteries come form rare earth elements. This elements have huge impact in earth but because most of them we get them from china and africa none gives a shit.
5. Because of jews.
6. this guy looks like a elf
7. What about nuclear then? It doesn't release greenhouse gases, and therefore doesn't increase average temp with any significance.
8. "If you don't know how to use a resource properly, you'll never be enough."
9. Koch brothers.
10. It's too expensive to own a green panel though.
11. answering before i watch it. Money.
12. The federal government should pass laws requiring businesses to use renewable energy sources. They have all the power to do it. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESSES ARE THE ONLY THING HOLDING US BACK! They care more about money than the planet. The Answer: pass laws requiring companies and businesses to use renewable energy sources, and significantly raise taxes on the 1%. The 1% own 40% of the world's money supply, so they should be the ones to pay for it. 20 Nuclear plants would make enough energy to supply power to the 50 million people of California With only about 150 nuclear plants we could power the entire US. It would create plenty of clean efficient energy, millions of new jobs, and great jobs for geniuses. IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD ACTUALLY LISTEN TO SUGGESTIONS THAT PEOPLE WOULD GIVE THEM, WE WOULD ALREADY BE USING 100% CLEAN ENERGY!!
13. Can anyone give me a yes or no on this... Would stable fusion make gravity?
14. Build nuclear power plants, Zero carbon footprint. Base load power 7/365 and very clean.
15. Climate Change is FAKE. BURN MORE COAL!!!
16. Just because it can power some houses, proves nothing. it's not enough energy to power our cities, agriculture, food processing, industry, and transportation
17. I'm moving to Battery Park, the sea level rise is only 1 foot per 100 years.
    
    https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8518750
18. We haven't switched to solar and wind because they don't work on a really large scale, contrary to the hype in the video. It is sad to see the presenter skip over the problems of solar and wind unreliability and intermittency as though they are no big deal. Just build a bunch "capacitors and batteries" says the talking head. Huh?? There's not enough lithium on the planet to make enough batteries to store grid-level electricity across the planet, let alone to electrify the myriad uses of fossil fuels out side the electricity sector. (Electricity is only somewhere around 40% of total primary energy use).
    
    Honestly, I hate this fact-free, feel good, renewables-will-fix-everything crap. It makes people think averting climate change is easy. It is not. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC, that organization people love to cite with regard to climate change but refuse to listen to when it comes to what to do about it), a renewables-only strategy would require energy use to remain flat for much of the rest of the century. With half the world's population living in energy poverty, that simply isn't going to happen; i.e., the presenter is asking us to rally behind a strategy doomed to failure. Thanks a bunch for the video.
19. because it is extremely inefficient.