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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 HN

Václav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019

Nysnø Klimainvesteringer
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
8 mo on HN

Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now

Technology Connections
9 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HN

Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film]

X, The Moonshot Factory
6 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HN

Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping

Technology Connections
5 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HN

Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2024–2025
5 mo on HN

Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet

Utah State University Extension
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HN

Revolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun

Tech Ingredients
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HN

World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

Practical Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HN

Turning Photons Into Food

Apogee Instruments Inc.
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HN

The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa

Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

A reality check on renewables - David MacKay

TED-Ed
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
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 HN

Fun with ultracapacitors!!

Afrotechmods
3 HN recommender · 2013–2020
3 mo on HN

Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay

Harvard University
3 HN recommender · 2015–2017
3 mo on HN

A Complete Beginner's Guide to Electric Vehicles

Technology Connections
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HN

New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost

Kirsten Dirksen
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

Vertical Bifacial Solar Panel Performance Results Part 1

Projects With Everyday Dave
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HN

Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate

Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Power Satellites & Space Based Solar Power

Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

Solar Powered Air Conditioner!

Tech Ingredients
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Scavenging rechargeable lithium cells from the roadside

bigclivedotcom
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

TOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.

bigclivedotcom
1 HN recommend · 2016–2024
1 mo on HN

The Problem with Biofuels

Real Engineering
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

Batteries aren't the only way to store energy. Here's another.

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Storing Solar Power on my ROOF!!!

Quint BUILDs
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
1 mo on HN

Hydrogen vs. Gasoline Leak and Ignition Test- which is safer?

Hydrogen Societies
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

EEVblog #632 - Solar Roadways Are RUBBISH!

EEVblog
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
0 mo on HN

Britain's largest battery is actually a lake

Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

The 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge

Vox
0 HN recommender · 2018–2019
0 mo on HN

Tank Safety: Hydrogen Tank Gunshot | Toyota

Toyota USA
0 HN recommender · 2021–2024
0 mo on HN

Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project

Allan
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HN

Zero Mass Water -BUSTED!

Thunderf00t
0 HN recommender · 2018–2025
0 mo on HN

100 car batteries wired in parallel!

styropyro
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024