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Renewables, batteries & storage Videos Recommended on Hacker News (89)
Renewables, batteries & storage is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 89 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 190 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Renewable energy: solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, batteries, lithium, hydrogen, grid storage, energy transition, solar panel technology, energy efficiency economics.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Václav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019: “Here's a fascinating talk by Václav Smil at the Driva Climate Investment Meeting in 2019” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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8 mo on HNVáclav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019
Nysnø Klimainvesteringer
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
8 mo on HNWhy Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now
Technology Connections
9 HN recommender · 2022–2023
7 mo on HNMichael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | A Film by Jeff Gibbs | Full Documentary
Michael Moore
7 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HNGround Source / Geothermal Heat Pumps and Other Info
Technology Connections
6 HN recommender · 2021–2026
5 mo on HNYou are being misled about renewable energy technology.
Technology Connections
12 HN recommender · 2026–2026
5 mo on HNPulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film]
X, The Moonshot Factory
6 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNHeat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping
Technology Connections
5 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HNConnecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think
Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2024–2025
5 mo on HNWhy Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet
Utah State University Extension
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNEnergy Investments Dialogue | Bill Gates | Global Energy Forum
Stanford ENERGY
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
5 mo on HNAre Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted
Engineering Explained
5 HN recommender · 2018–2023
5 mo on HNRevolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun
Tech Ingredients
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNThe Truth about Hydrogen
Real Engineering
5 HN recommender · 2018–2021
4 mo on HNWorld's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)
Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNEV Road Trips Suck Now (Except in a Tesla)
Aging Wheels
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HNThe Unfortunate Truth About Toyota's Hydrogen V8 Engine
Engineering Explained
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
4 mo on HNTurning Photons Into Food
Apogee Instruments Inc.
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNThe Problem with Solar Energy in Africa
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNEnergy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2009–2011
4 mo on HNA reality check on renewables - David MacKay
TED-Ed
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNWhy renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
4 mo on HNAre Electric Planes Possible?
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNCalifornia's Renewable Energy Problem
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNTesla Battery Day
Tesla
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HN"Energy Revolution? More like a Crawl" - Dr. Vaclav Smil
Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNFun with ultracapacitors!!
Afrotechmods
3 HN recommender · 2013–2020
3 mo on HNSustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
Harvard University
3 HN recommender · 2015–2017
3 mo on HNA Complete Beginner's Guide to Electric Vehicles
Technology Connections
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNClean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016
Tony Seba
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNThe Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage
School of Convergence Science
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
3 mo on HNThe Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About | Terraform
S3 | Science, Startups, & Stories
3 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HN"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere
Swan Bitcoin
5 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNNew Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
Kirsten Dirksen
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNVertical Bifacial Solar Panel Performance Results Part 1
Projects With Everyday Dave
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNRisking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNPower Satellites & Space Based Solar Power
Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024