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@TechConnectify So a few clarifications nobody will ever read: 1. Hydrocarbons are dead trees which are renewed but very slowly. The tree is the best solar panel with integrated battery. Just takes say 100.000 years to renew. 2. You cannot replace organic energy with metal energy, because you cannot create metal from scratch without coal, oil and gas; and recycling it is only partly a solution. 3. Nuclear (and fusion) is just boiling the planet with atoms instead. 4. The real problem is food.
Nope.
1. The tree is 4% efficient at best, compared to 25% for cheap solar.
2a. Yes you can. See chemistry.
2b. Aluminium is made with electricity.
2c. Arc furnaces exist.
3. Irrelevant imported argument
4. More than one problem can exist at the same time.D-
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@TechConnectify This was fantastic!!!
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@TechConnectify really well done!
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@TechConnectify Tech nerd UNLEASHES on politics. Hell yes.
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@TechConnectify This is a masterpiece! I love you!
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@TechConnectify Thank you so much for making this video. The world needs it so much right now.
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@TechConnectify Thank you for this.
For anyone who wants a link to specifically the partisan politics part, it starts at t=4602s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM&t=4602s
It's really nice to see some YouTubers who aren't idiots at this point in time.
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@TechConnectify I was wondering why this was half an hour longer than usual and god did I get my answer.
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@TechConnectify@mas.to very spicy ending.
@lolitechengineer @TechConnectify Good amount of hot sauce IMO.
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Alec @TechConnectify for president
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@TechConnectify Shoutout to Biden's Infrastructure Bill, which (among many other things) provided grants and incentives to ISPs to build out broadband access in underserved areas. We live in a semi-rural spot in Arkansas (not farms, but populaton-sparse with big lots) and our options like yours were 12mbps DSL, flaky fixed wi-fi, or cell towers a long ways off. Last year a super-local company came and buried fiber lines _everywhere_ and we pay less now for excellent, reliable Internet - and they claimed some of that grant money as a reward. Would never have happened otherwise.
I think often about how the government mandated telco lines to everyone in the past - "it won't pay back" was simply not an option. We have the ability to do these things right now - it's not hard! it's not complicated! - but what's missing is the people in power to just DO IT.
Naturally, the rural broadband incentive was deliberately ended in 2025.
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@TechConnectify *looks at the total time* OK, 3× speed it is…
"Today. A Bass Chipmunk convinced me to use less single-use fuel..."
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@TechConnectify Alec, thank you for this. Very strong and clear points. Came for the solar, stayed for the politics (I know, directly connected). It's the pinacle of 8 years watching Technology Connections videos. Trully well done
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"You can just point this at the sun and electricity comes out of the wires for the low low cost of free."
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I love (I mean, really love) every single TC video. They are all great, all good, all fantastic.
This one is the very BEST of all of your videos.
Every. Single. Word.
Simply.
Thank you.
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@TechConnectify As an European, thank you so much for the second part of your video!
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@adlerweb @TechConnectify 3x speed works for the first 2/3.
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look, I'm just a limey watching in horror at what's going on over there.
I wish was I there to give you all a hug. you'll get through this and when the time comes I hope there's repercussions for those involved.
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@BalooUriza
If your question is "where is the device that guarantees the inverter cuts off if it loses connection to the grid", it's internal to the inverter. All grid tie inverters should have this function.I don't know the detailed German spec for these things but the British one is Engineering Recommendation G98.
https://dcode.org.uk/assets/250307ena-erec-g98-issue-2-(2025).pdf
@sheddi @BalooUriza @pfriedma @f4grx Yes the Inverters we use have this feature too.
