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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.

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
7 mo on HN

Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | A Film by Jeff Gibbs | Full Documentary

Michael Moore
7 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HN

Ground Source / Geothermal Heat Pumps and Other Info

Technology Connections
6 HN recommender · 2021–2026
5 mo on HN

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Technology Connections
12 HN recommender · 2026–2026
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

Energy Investments Dialogue | Bill Gates | Global Energy Forum

Stanford ENERGY
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
5 mo on HN

Are Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted

Engineering Explained
5 HN recommender · 2018–2023
5 mo on HN

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

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

The Truth about Hydrogen

Real Engineering
5 HN recommender · 2018–2021
4 mo on HN

World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

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

EV Road Trips Suck Now (Except in a Tesla)

Aging Wheels
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HN

The Unfortunate Truth About Toyota's Hydrogen V8 Engine

Engineering Explained
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
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

Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2009–2011
4 mo on HN

A reality check on renewables - David MacKay

TED-Ed
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HN

Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
4 mo on HN

Are Electric Planes Possible?

Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

California's Renewable Energy Problem

Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HN

Tesla 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 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

Clean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016

Tony Seba
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HN

The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage

School of Convergence Science
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
3 mo on HN

The 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 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