Let's do this.
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@TechConnectify Haven't watched the video yet, but have you ever considered uploading your videos to #peertube? I think if anyone has an audience that would carry over pretty well to Peertube it's you. And one of the biggest issues with Peertube at the moment is a lack of high quality content and creators.
@techindepth27 @TechConnectify some previous videos were on peertube though a mirror :
https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/c/technologyconnections_mirror/videos
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@creideiki That said, solar's been good enough for long enough now that you might be able to at least cover vampire power with solar with an east-west exposure. I mean, look at the tropical paradise of Portland, Oregon: The light rail trains, rail/foot/road traffic signaling systems and the street lighting on the central transit mall (several kilometers long and two blocks wide, a couplet) is powered exclusively by a single SW-into-a-hill solar array and battery station.
@BalooUriza Portland is still 15 degrees south of me. The southernmost part of Sweden is pretty much at the same latitude as the southernmost part of Alaska, and my latitude is within easy driving distance south from Anchorage. -
@TechConnectify If you put some sheep on the solar farm, you don't even have to mow the grass.
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@TechConnectify I was curious how a one-and-a-half hour video about solar panels is on track to hit a million views within the first day.
Now I know.
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@TechConnectify I just finished watching all the way to the very end of this video. I have a lot of thoughts, but at least the instance I am on has a character limit.
TLDR: I think this is a great video that is very informative and brings up a lot of good points especially at the end.
About the partisan political section in my experience there is a lot of dehumanization and not trying to have empathy for other people going on. I will do my best to get the people I know to think about others.
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@TechConnectify this is your best video yet. The most important, too. Good job, Alec! Nay, brilliant job!
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@sheddi OK, but where's the breaker that guarantees that?
@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
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@TechConnectify Really well done. Thank you for making this and sharing here!
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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.
