You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

9 months ago by recursive_recursion to c/technology

cout970 62 points 9 months ago

I hope more people watch the video, it is long but the end must be seen. This is probably the most important video on his channel by far.

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manualoverride 32 points 9 months ago

Epic ending, I wish more creators would dare to speak up.

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lemmyng 22 points 9 months ago

To paraphrase one of the comments I saw about the video: He starts talking about solar, ends up going nuclear. 100% worth watching.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey 14 points 9 months ago

I mean... he has like 4 videos about led Christmas lights, but... this is definitely in the top 5.

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Mycatiskai 4 points 9 months ago

His videos on hurricane lanterns were very good. It's what got me started on his channel.

I'm glad there is others that post his videos here in case I don't notice them in my YouTube feed.

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Triumph 51 points 9 months ago

Technology Connections goes fucking hard today.

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warm 23 points 9 months ago

Based Alec

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st3ph3n 40 points 9 months ago

Righteous rant at the end.

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BradleyUffner 12 points 9 months ago

Hell yes it was. I wasn't expecting that. It got me to join his Patreon.

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rimu 27 points 9 months ago path: 0 21864619, hotness: undefined, score: 27, children: 0
teft 24 points 9 months ago

Damn, the last 15 minutes hits hard. This guy should run for office. Speak truth if you have power.

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corsicanguppy 13 points 9 months ago

TL;DW?

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18107 33 points 9 months ago

Pay more today and save money later.

Solar panels are a single cost for long term savings, oil is an ongoing cost and not reusable.

Solar + battery is already the cheapest way to make reliable energy today. Even without climate issues it's the obvious way forward.

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Mac 4 points 9 months ago

Isn't this common knowledge?

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18107 8 points 9 months ago

The video does address that question.
I highly recommend watching the whole video, even the rant after the fake ending.

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jabeez 5 points 9 months ago

We have one whole political party that has been all-in on "drill baby drill" for decades now, they don't let any obvious facts and reality stand in their way.

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lefaucet 4 points 9 months ago

It's common for folks paying attention. For the folks too busy to research beyond mainstream "news" a.k.a. billionaire propoganda, no.

Liars are the main speakers on that platform and they repeatedly say that the surging power costs are because of renewables. It's not true, but the truth doesn't pay their salary

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hitwright 17 points 9 months ago

Mostly about solar, and how much less human labour/resources it is to power the world compared to oil. For proofs, lots of little calculations. Even choosing values for best case oil and worst case renewables and still resulting that renewables in the long run (25 years) is around 30 times cheaper

Later on goes "nuclear" about how USA is now fascist. And how the citizens should go out and try to actively vote out the orange monkey. Also deserved hate for ICE

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BurgerBaron 16 points 9 months ago

He tries for some reason to explain why oil / resource extraction bad compared to harvesting green energy to people who don't want to listen. Unlikely anyone here needs to watch this really lol.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey 10 points 9 months ago

I'm all fairness, he's drawing direct apples to apples comparisons between electrical generation to gasoline production, fuel energy per acreage for corn ethanol vs solar vs wind, cost benefits for investment now and the long term sustainability of stable materials vs consumables. His audience is probably not the people that generally need to be told that electric over fossil fuels is just better, but it's still cool to be able to fully understand the context by giving direct conversions, and useful for having that discussion with others. Honestly, my wife and I started looking at trade in values to possibly switch one of our vehicles to an EV soon, basically entirely because of the points he made about the financial viability now. So, he inspired me, for what that's worth.

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Swedneck 5 points 9 months ago

I'd say everyone here needs to watch the last 15 minutes, because our mental health really benefits from hearing someone like him rant about how shit the world is.

We're constantly surrounded with propaganda bots trying to get us to lose hope and stop believing what our eyes and ears see of reality, so having someone "normal" and in a place of some authority go "no, shit's obviously fucked and anyone who says otherwise is either insane or evil" does wonders.

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rimu 9 points 9 months ago path: 0 21864079 21864794, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 0
Potti 3 points 9 months ago

Tbh I first thought that was a excel spreadsheet...

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diabetic_porcupine 1 point 9 months ago

Iโ€™m going to tell my kids this was gta 6

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