Let's do this.
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@TechConnectify god damn dude, that ending was spicy.
but yeah, really solid education throughout.
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@TechConnectify The. Best. Video. Ever.
Thank you for putting it out there! Especially the part after the fake ending. Super important for everyone to watch and get educated!
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@TechConnectify Best video you've ever done. Technology connections are also human connections. Well done.
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@TechConnectify Heck yeah Midwestern frugality!
@faoluin @TechConnectify it totally befuddles me that the same masculinity which creates "don't touch the thermostat" also creates coal rollers. The same person is like "off grid" and "suckling at the teat of The Man".
I think the thing Tech Connections does really well is connect those two halves of that brain.
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@TechConnectify this is simply a great video, i really recommend to watch to the end!
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@missqarnstein@eldritch.cafe Well, that’s not the conclusion of the IPCC, and I trust them more than I trust you. I’ll still argue for the time being, but you don’t have to trust me neither (one of us is lying, since we’re saying the opposite, so… we’ll need to trust someone else to know who is right).
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Uranium isn’t renewable, I’ve already said it, but it will last for centuries in the current use we do, and millenia if we manage it correctly (for example France could last 3000 years on what they already have in stock. Without extracting any more. But we need to build power plant that can use this stock (we already have in the past, but since it was cheaper to extract new ore at that time we stopped. This and politicals chenanigans too). Steam machines aren’t two centuries old, so millenia of energy is a lot of time to find better sources (and it could be renewables, when they will even better than nuclear, or when we will reach the limits of uranium).
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It’s not free to harvest, but neither are the materials for renewables and batteries. Sure, we can recycle, but uranium too (a little bit of extraction will be needed in both case because recycling is never perfect). And uranium have a very high energy density, so a lot of people over-estimate the quantity we need to extract. We are talking about few orders of magnitude here (see also the attached picture :D).
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The operationnal costs aren’t that high when you count it by MWh. It produce a lot, and I mean, A LOT of power during it’s lifetime, so at the end, it’s pretty cheap. Waste storage isn’t that costly too. You can just burry it. It’s no more dangerous than natural ore patches, and way less dangerous than a lot of other pollution we make. A human life worth of nuclear power waste if all the energy we used was nuclear can be stored in a Coke can (without recycling!). The chemical and plastic pollution produced by a human during it’s life are way worse (you see the comparision of landfill for solar panels. It’s the same, but even smaller).
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The technology built for the military use have nothing to do with the one used for power anymore (except maybe nuclear-powered boats and submarines). Well, we even are recycling cold war weapons into nuclear fuel ^^’ It’s still pretty cheap, if done correctly (today what cost more is the way we are financing it. If it was paid directly by the state via taxes, as it should like the power grid, it would be cheaper. But since we take out loans and use private financing, more than half of the produced electricty sale price goes to pay interest… that’s a problem. Especially since we are building for 80 years or more: the people who will benefit the more from it aren’t even born, so it can’t be done by people that want a ROI during their lives. It have to be made by a state for its future citizens).
Yes it doesn't produce CO2, but just why do you want nuclear? It makes no economic sense. It's a large, inflexible investment that requires constant use and future operating expenses are much higher than 0.
I've heard all the stuff you wrote before and some of it is true but it doesn't change the truth of what I wrote. I don't know why you are emotionally and ideologically invested with the nuclear steam engine but it is really annoying that you didn't even critically think about anything that I said.
And touching on a point pertaining who is lying:
The water boiler-steam engine that are common today aren't optimized for creating Plutonium yes. But all the infrastructure up until that point the fuel is put into pellets is dual use. The water boiler-steam engine is only the last component, which doesn't invalidate the point i made.
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@TechConnectify Thanks so much for making this great video! First, I was not sure I would watch it comletely b/c it appeared a bit long but every minute was worth it!
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de: wie immer brilliant. traurig, dass es die letzten 30 minuten geben muss aber es ist gut, dass es sie gibt.en: brilliant as usual. it is sad that those last 30min have to exist but it is good they do.
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@TechConnectify US #solarpanel prices are absurd:
A palette of 36 no-name panels is 5.600 USD or 4.724,16 EUR in the United States.
You get a similar palette of 36 500 Wp panels in Germany for 2.423,90 USD or 2.044 EUR that’s half the price! 
@balkonsolar @TechConnectify Tbf that is "subsidized" in the sense that you don't pay any VAT like you do on any other product in Germany. Still massively cheaper, even if you had to pay VAT (2400€, i.e. still half of the American counterpart).
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@Coihue Sorta. @TechConnectify isn't quite consistent about it yet.
@BalooUriza @Coihue @TechConnectify Alec used to be more active on here, sadly that's no longer the case thanks to a whole bunch of assholes harassing him in the replies.
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@Coihue Sorta. @TechConnectify isn't quite consistent about it yet.
@Coihue @TechConnectify @BalooUriza
But there's a good reason for that (which he went into on here, more than once).
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I think the thing to remember is that the plug isn't actually energized the way you're thinking. It plugs in as a consuming device *first* then "negotiates" then pushes power back. When unplugged it's not still live, it's like you unplugged a TV.
@creideiki @f4grx @balkonsolar @derdo@creideiki @f4grx @balkonsolar @derdo @BalooUriza @pfriedma
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@almino @TechConnectify I wish it was easy enough to upload to a PeerTube instance that Alec would choose to do so, for people that don't want to suffer YT ads.
But, the combination of so little reach and no (or even negative) revenue makes it hard to justify much, if any, effort.
@almino @TechConnectify @BoydStephenSmithJr
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@TechConnectify I need you to know every time I put on your videos, my fiance says "Oh is that dishwasher man? I recognise his dulcet tones".
@TechConnectify Want you to know I wrote this comment before I saw the video - probably not the best one to have said this on given the serious nature of it.
But my fiance and I both passionately agree with you. We appreciate you using your platform for good. Thank you! You're awesome and appreciated.
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@TechConnectify Invaluably important video. Thank you so much for that! I really hope it reaches the hearts and minds of as many people as possible.
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@TechConnectify I skipped the technical part, I agree with the Partisan political part.
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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-
see me after class.@tinspin @doctormo
2b: Aluminium was a rare metal before it was made with electricity. The first large-scale production in the USA was in 1888, in Pittsburgh."The first ingot was poured in November that year."
https://www.britannica.com/technology/aluminum-processing
"The need for cheap, plentiful hydroelectric power led the young company to Niagara Falls, where in 1895 it became the first customer for the new Niagara Falls power development."Europe was not far behind.
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@TechConnectify Great video (and rant at the end!).
Panels are very cheap, but a decent charge controller and inverter isn't, and apparently inverters don't last forever - I've only had mine for a few years, so it's too early to tell how reliable they are.
Replacing inverters may be a "running cost" of the system if you have to use AC.For that reason, I have been trying to find as many DC-powered products as possible, but it's quite hard to find non-IT appliances.
The only real DC kitchen devices you can get a fridges.
There are NO DC-powered cooking equipment.
The most powerful DC kettle I have found is 24V and 300W, which isn't great.
Everything else is just low power, small equipment.Someone in the US is trying to make a battery-powered electric oven, so people can use them on 120V systems.
I bet it is phenomenally expensive!
