The Formula That Will Determine Our Energy Future | Answers With Joe

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Get 20% of a premium subscription to Brilliant when you're one of the first 200 people to sign up at http://www.brilliant.org/answerswithjoe We all want cleaner, more renewable energy. But when it comes down to it, the energy of the future is going to be the cheapest energy. So in this video we compare energy production by the Levelized Cost of Energy, or LCOE - the formula that will determine our energy future.

Some of the main sources for this video include:

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f25/LCOE.pdf

https://openei.org/apps/TCDB/#blank

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A good rundown of LCOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZqQ2GCAIY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_energy https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43895 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130117105659.htm Matt Farrell on wind energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsswrLKlinU https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/75284.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/concentrated-solar-power https://www.smu.edu/-/media/Site/Dedman/Academics/Programs/Geothermal-Lab/Graphics/Geothermal_MapNA_7x10in.gif?la=en https://www.iea.org/reports/ocean-power