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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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0 mo on HNThe 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge
Vox
0 HN recommender · 2018–2019
0 mo on HNThe highway where trucks work like electric trains
Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNHydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars
Physics Girl
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNThey Don't Work In The Cold...
Out of Spec Reviews
0 HN recommender · 2022–2023
0 mo on HNA robot just swapped my electric car's battery
Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNThe Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why
Adam Something
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HNGrid: Renewable Baseload Power from a single desert location. Enough for 7 million homes!
Just Have a Think
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNTank Safety: Hydrogen Tank Gunshot | Toyota
Toyota USA
0 HN recommender · 2021–2024
0 mo on HNEEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED
EEVblog
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNThe Battery That Refuses to Explode | NOVA
NOVA PBS Official
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNMarkus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project
Allan
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HNUbitricity | Fully Charged
Everything Electric CARS
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025
0 mo on HNThe tech which can charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Technology Connections
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HNEEVblog #1333 - Nuclear Diamond Self-Charging Battery DEBUNKED!
EEVblog
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNZero Mass Water -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t
0 HN recommender · 2018–2025
0 mo on HN100 car batteries wired in parallel!
styropyro
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNHow noisy is a wind farm?
The Telegraph
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025