Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What are your hopes and expectations for the energy transition in 2023? Join me in this livestream to discuss!
Bookmarks:
00:00 Intro
01:44 YouTube Community Responses - Energy Transition Trends in 2023
04:05 Twitter Community Responses
05:53 Livestream Comments - Small wind power (urban renewables), carbon capture and storage
09:04 Rosie's 1st Prediction for 2023 - Home generation (private power plants), RedEarth, copper (battery stoves)
13:48 Livestream Comments - Home scale thermal batteries, cost of battery recycling and disposal, offshore wind and HVDC in Australia, household sustainability, offshore wind in New Zealand
25:46 Rosie's 2nd Prediction for 2023 - Reduction of transmission requirements, Renewable Energy Zones
32:54 Livestream Comments - WFH trends on energy usage, effect of low cost of energy on future investments in new projects,
40:19 Rosie's 3rd Prediction for 2023 - Smarter mining operations, re-onshoring of operations, mining tailings
42:48 Livestream Comments - Analogy for the high cost of energy in the market, update on 2022 technologies, nuclear in Australia
49:07 Rosie's Quick Fire Predictions for 2023 - Alternative battery chemistries, pumped hydro projects, Elon Musk retreating to a private island?
52:10 Livestream Comments - More Musk talk, Snowy 2.0
54:56 Wrapping up the livestream and what's up next
56:51 Engineering with Rosie is looking for a writer!
57:55 Outro
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What are your hopes and expectations for the energy transition in 2023? Join me in this livestream to discuss!
Bookmarks:
00:00 Intro
01:44 YouTube Community Responses - Energy Transition Trends in 2023
04:05 Twitter Community Responses
05:53 Livestream Comments - Small wind power (urban renewables), carbon capture and storage
09:04 Rosie's 1st Prediction for 2023 - Home generation (private power plants), RedEarth, copper (battery stoves)
13:48 Livestream Comments - Home scale thermal batteries, cost of battery recycling and disposal, offshore wind and HVDC in Australia, household sustainability, offshore wind in New Zealand
25:46 Rosie's 2nd Prediction for 2023 - Reduction of transmission requirements, Renewable Energy Zones
32:54 Livestream Comments - WFH trends on energy usage, effect of low cost of energy on future investments in new projects,
40:19 Rosie's 3rd Prediction for 2023 - Smarter mining operations, re-onshoring of operations, mining tailings
42:48 Livestream Comments - Analogy for the high cost of energy in the market, update on 2022 technologies, nuclear in Australia
49:07 Rosie's Quick Fire Predictions for 2023 - Alternative battery chemistries, pumped hydro projects, Elon Musk retreating to a private island?
52:10 Livestream Comments - More Musk talk, Snowy 2.0
54:56 Wrapping up the livestream and what's up next
56:51 Engineering with Rosie is looking for a writer!
57:55 Outro
⚡This livestream is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech.
⚡Check out the Uptime Podcast that I co-host with Allen and Dan from WeatherTech:
🎙Listen to the Uptime Podcast on Spotify: bit.ly/uptimepod
🎥Watch the Uptime Podcast on YouTube: bit.ly/watchuptime
⚡And sign up for the weekly Weather Guard Tech News email here:
✅Sign up for Uptime Tech News: bit.ly/uptimetech
I will be hosting some panels at #FullyChargedLIVE Australia!
Join me in Sydney, March 11&12 and use discount code ERFCLAU10 for 10% off. Tickets are on sale now: http://au.fullycharged.live
If you would like to help develop the Engineering with Rosie channel, you could consider joining the Patreon community, where there is a chat community (and Patreon-only Discord server) about topics covered in the videos and suggestions for future videos and production quality improvements. patreon.com/engineeringwithrosie
Or for a one-off contribution you can support by buying a coffee ☕️ here —
buymeacoffee.com/engwithrosie


![Direct Air Capture: Climate Savior or Distraction?
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Direct Air Capture, or DAC, represents a significant shift in our approach to managing carbon dioxide emissions. Unlike traditional carbon capture and storage, CCS, that targets point sources of emissions like factories or power plants, DAC can be set up anywhere, it doesn’t need to be in the same place or even at the same time as emissions are occurring.
The flexibility be able to suck carbon out of the air anywhere is nice, but that flexibility comes at a big cost in terms of both money and energy use.
In this video we dive into the world of DAC: how the technology works, who’s doing it and the controversial role of DAC in our mission to combat climate change.
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Bookmarks:
00:00 Intro
01:18 DAC vs. CCS
02:41 How does direct air capture work?
03:12 Liquid DAC
03:52 Solid DAC
04:33 Aura Health sponsored segment
06:01 Progress on DAC Projects
08:56 Controversial aspects of DAC
10:09 Oil and Gas using DAC to delay climate action
11:12 DAC costs a lot of money
12:26 DAC uses a lot of energy
14:14 DAC compared to other climate action
15:23 Scaling up
16:09 DACs place in the energy transition
Related videos:
Bioenergy In All Its Complexity: The Good the Bad and the Ugly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bREt3U47LeY&t=5s&ab_channel=EngineeringwithRosie
From Waste to Wonder: The Surprising Uses of Carbon Dioxide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGvHpB7SQ0&ab_channel=EngineeringwithRosie
How to UNDO Climate Change: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture (BECCS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bzIIKGRd4k&t=576s&ab_channel=EngineeringwithRosie
Turning CO2 Into Building Materials: Mineral Carbonation International Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v u5ZcCccr88&t=5s&ab_channel=EngineeringwithRosie
Sources:
https://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/
https://www.globalthermostat.com/
https://climeworks.com/https://
www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/worlds-biggest-plant-to-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-rock-opens-in-iceland-orca
https://carbonherald.com/global-thermostat-unveils-its-demonstration-direct-air-capture-plant/
https://www.oxy.com/news/news-releases/occidental-and-blackrock-form-joint-venture-to-develop-stratos-the-worlds-largest-direct-air-capture-plant/#:~:text=STRATOS%20is%20designed%20to%20capture,commercially%20operational%20in%20mid%2D2025.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-region?stackMode=absolute&country=~OWID_WRL
https://www.hartenergy.com/exclusives/oxy-ceo-vicki-hollub-talks-technology-carbon-management-204496
Journals & Reports
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020325731
https://www.iea.org/reports/direct-air-capture-2022/executive-summary
3. https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/78633715-15c0-44e1-81df-41123c556d57/DirectAirCapture_Akeytechnologyfornetzero.pdf
4. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/#:~:text=The%20concentration%2[…]de,it%20was%20near%20370%20ppm
5. https://www.iea.org/energy-system/carbon-capture-utilisation-and-storage/direct-air-capture#tracking
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Rosemary Barnes: Presenter, producer, writer
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