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Switch: The Complete Film - Exploring Norway's Successful Energy Transition

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Join Scott Tinker on a journey through Norway's clean energy revolution at the Evanger hydro plant. Discover how this energy transition has set a global benchmark, with insights on tunneling through mountains for sustainable power generation.
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[Music]
0:29
(Scott Tinker) Norway.
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Energy so clean, you can drink it.
0:33
And that's why I'm here
0:36
to look at the most successful energy transition in the world.
0:43
My name is Scott Tinker and I study energy.
0:47
And I was headed to the Evanger hydro plant.
0:56
So the easiest access to the power plant
0:58
was to tunnel through the mountain?
1:01
Yes.
1:02
Yes, not the easiest but the best altogether.
1:06
The tunnel is how long?
1:08
Fifteen hundred meters long.
1:10
How far under the mountain are we now?
1:13
We are at 500 meters.
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(Scott Tinker) When the tunnel stopped,
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I realized we weren't going through the mountain.
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The power plant is inside the mountain!
1:22
There's nobody here.
1:24
No, because normally there's nobody here.
1:26
All our stations are run from our central in Bergen.
1:32
Wow.
1:34
I'm very curious about this.
1:38
What's on the wall here?
1:39
It's a piece of art; a waterfall.
1:42
And those are salmon on the right, jumping up the waterfall.
1:46
So, there's art down here in this plant.
1:50
Yes.
1:51
That's beautiful.
1:51
It looks like the end of a cathedral.
1:52
Yes.
1:53
And this is an interesting design.
1:56
What is that?
1:57
This is constructed to transform the energy of the water
2:01
into rotating energy in the wheel.
2:03
It was an American gold-digger, digging gold,
2:07
who discovered that he could use the energy in the water
2:11
much more efficiently if he had a cup form,
2:12
and you get to use over 90% of the energy in the water.
2:20
What you see is the top of the generator.
2:24
What are the rotations?
2:25
500 revolutions per minute.
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500 RPM.
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That's 200 tons rotating.
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(Scott Tinker) These generators are connected to lakes
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in the mountains high above us,
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by a 20-mile underground pipeline network.
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No huge dams, and the environmental footprint is tiny.
2:48
With technology like this,
2:50
Norway now gets 99% of its power from water.
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