Let's do this.

@TechConnectify I skipped the technical part, I agree with the Partisan political part.

@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.

@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!

@mattwilcox @utf_7 @TechConnectify a summary instead of a patronizing comment would've been better. Or even ignoring the comment entirely. You have no idea what that person's schedule is like for a 1.5 hour long video.

Calm down, I've blocked you, learn some respect

@BoydStephenSmithJr @almino @TechConnectify I think this video is not monetized.

@dec23k @doctormo @Kiloku Aluminium is mostly used for high voltage lines though, and with solar + battery there is no need for that. I don't think we have a battery that uses aluminium. Also the mining needs oil. I'm not going to argue for all my arguments, but I have looked into this for a long time and the outlook is looking very grim because lack of energy leads to war even if that war must be limited since there is no energy to wage it. Good luck out there, with or without solar panels!

@TechConnectify “you can’t take a lithium atom and turn it into iron”. Why the hate for late-stage stellar fusion? Just imagine if we had small electronics powered by silicon fusion…

@gudenau @TechConnectify the spiciest of spices

@tinspin

What oil we have is better employed making renewable infrastructure than anything else. And even where it was required for mining, hauling, we have ways to electrify even that today.

Please don't Gish gallop your cynicism. Especially in a topic that has been so heavily propagandised like this one.

@dec23k

@almino @dec23k

It's not for me, it's for sharing. I'm a YT Premium member.

@almino @Janne_O While that might be true of this particular video, it is not true of the channel (or the secondary channel) in general. Also, just because a video isn't monetized that doesn't make it public domain.

If #PeerTube wants creators like Alec on it, it has to get a lot easier to publish mirrors on PeerTube. (Also, it should be easier to "monetize", but that's a harder problem, for several reasons.)

@TechConnectify Thank you for 1:16:36 onward! 🫡

@TechConnectify i was a bit surprised you called out Sean Casten. Valid, but without watching closely I'd assumed he was about as solid as they get

@TechConnectify thank you so much, for the WHOLE video. Proud of you.

@chewie @TechConnectify Also a reason why we should favour bigger solar installations, all the "middleware" electronics benefit greatly from scale.

@missqarnstein@eldritch.cafe On the first two paragraph, I honestly think it’s the better option we have. It’s even better than renewables on a lot of points. For the same quantity of electricity, it create less pollution (even the chemical and radioactive pollution created are created in quantities that are very, very small, and that could be recycled – renewables waste are recyclables too, but in bigger quantities), less mining extraction, less space use (especially useful in Europe, I guess that USA have a lot of space they can use without issue), less storage needed, better lifespan, less grid rework needed, the fact that you only need few big plants make it easier to manage (it’s easier to coordinate 20 plants thant hundred and hundreds of solar and wind farms), etc.

There is downsides, but less than any other technology. It’s just the best we have now, and that’s the only reason why I want it.

About the military use, yeah, some of the rest could be dual use, but even if we stopped using nuclear power for electricity tomorrow, it would be rather naive to think that countries would stop using nuclear power for military purposes. It's just that they would only use it for military purposes instead. I’m against military use too, but for me convincing coutries to stop military use is separated from the power use, because nothing says that they will stop both at the same time.

Not to mention the medical nuclear sector, which will obviously remain in use and will in any case require part of the civilian chain (including waste treatment) to be maintained. And the nuclear research will probably keep going too (it’s often linked to the medical use, and this research could be useful for treating waste that has already been produced, in addition to simply discovering other interesting uses. And researches about fusion of course).

@TechConnectify

14:56 is a point that gets understated quite a lot. I find that many people that oppose renewables have a strange libertarian ideals about the market and don't seem to get that electric cars would open them to more energy markets. To use their world view.

@TechConnectify You earned a new subscriber!

@jaffabeast @TechConnectify 0 day old account to spread disinformation, oldest trick in the book.

@gsuberland @TechConnectify I didn’t even feel like the ending was that spicy, it was just realistic