Amazing video by Technology Connections. It’s a long one, but don’t miss his 30 minute angry rant at the end.
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Well, you’re in for a ride. The last half hour is the spiciest.
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Ooh nice! Does he have other videos like this or is it all computers and stuff?
If you ever wanted to learn about latent heat of transformation, your cup runneth over.
Alright, but what if I wanted to learn about heat pumps? Or the clever engineering behind some old (usually mechanical) products?
What I’d like to know more about is detergent pods
He has a lot of videos focused on home appliances. Some that come to mind are toasters, dishwashers, heat pumps, and an entire series on Christmas lights. Breaks everything down with lots of tips for better home use (because no one reads the manuals on thise things).
He hasn’t done any videos on computers, AFAIK. His channel covers a wide range of topics, from washing machines, car blinkers, heaters, refrigerators, to christmas lights. You can see his backlog here.
AND HEAT PUMPS!!!
I highly recommend the series on the CED and the downfall of RCA. He’s also got a number of videos about various cameras which are also great!
Lots of great stuff, lots of retro tech and common how it works stuff. His dishwasher video makes it so there is no reason to wash things by hand pretty much ever.
As someone on reddit said, “I could disappear bodies in my dishwasher.”
He does more old tech stuff or explains how appliances work. Not really computers. 10/10 channel but I get that the content isn’t super captivating for everyone.
A technology connections video with a 30 minite rant??
watches video
oh.A technology connections video with a 30 minite rant??
Isn’t that just the standard format for technology connections?
Looks at runtime
Oh, this is gonna be a good one!
Thanks for mentioning the last 30 minutes, but for additional clarity, there is a fake ending 30 minutes before the actual ending. Please watch those last 30 minutes!
Love the rant
Good clarification!
Damn that last 30 minutes went HARD. I got chills.
I will always upvote technology connections, I have watched so many videos of his about things I would have thought i couldn’t care less about and enjoyed them all!
This!!!
My highlight was the non lightening brake lights on electric cars when they are recuperating
That pisses me off to no end. The car knows how fast it is going, it has to show you. Just make the lights come on based on deceleration, regardless of how it happens. It doesn’t even need dedicated hardware. It’s just lazy coding and development.
What video was that? I think I haven’t seen that one.
Anyone willing to share a tl;dw?
First hour: Developing a detailed intuition for exactly how solar and wind energy work and what makes them so much better than oil (without mentioning climate change or pollution)
Last 30 min: Establishing a baseline moral framework that everyone can get behind, and explaining that under this framework a revolution against the Trump regime would be entirely justified but at a minimum we absolutely must vote against Republicans in the 2026 and 2028 elections.
As someone in the comments put it: he explains solar and then goes nuclear.
Damn, I love his stuff anyway, but this time I’m looking forward to watching it just to see how he incorporates a call for revolution against his government into a video about solar panels, haha
Its a very reasonable angry pivot that become even more reasonably angry.
The “not mentioning climate change” is key. He hit people where it hurts for everyone (Democrats and Republicans) - not spending money.
They’re lying.
Hahahahaha, funny interwebs person being a sarcastic edge! Such fresh comedic material, I’ve never encountered before
Or maybe for some things, you just shouldn’t… you’re only hurting yourself in the end
There’s a time and place for things, and garnering the wisdom to find the subtleties of that is something you should probably work on
Or continue forth being destructive for the lols and self-gratification, you’re hilarious — truly. Enjoy the dopamine hit while it lasts!
Big edit: sorry @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble … I got whooshed hard. I now see that yes, the tldw is indeed “They’re lying”. I feel a little dumb now, as I thought you meant the youtuber was lying; not that you had (super) summarized the subject. Very concise tldw, technically lol
Guess the video triggered me into also being tired of people lying, and thought you were being disinformative. My bad friend
Who’s lying, and about what?
Gotta watch the video to find out.
Thanks for the detailed and thorough response
What, exactly, did we expect from someone named “fuckwit_mcbumcrumble”…? lol
Well, a little more bum crumble, if I’m being honest
You’re welcome!
I think all the information is pretty well-known in this community, but here’s a summary:
- Renewables (specifically solar + batteries) are an inevitable future of energy production due to technological advancements and economies of scale improvements; you should not oppose them but welcome them
- We are at a tipping point where solar + batteries is now the cheapest energy source available
- Land use for solar farms is not a big issue, they are much more energy efficient per unit area than the ethanol corn that currently plagues the US
- Replacing all ethanol corn fields with solar farms would make almost twice as much energy as the US grid is currently producing
- Renewables are better than fossil fuels because they do not require continuous extraction; when a solar panel or battery has been “used up” and is degraded, it can be recycled, whereas fossil fuels can only be burned once after extraction
- The end goal is an almost-closed-loop system for all energy production, similar to what we have with lead-acid batteries already
- Recycling solar panels is relatively easy because they are mostly glass and aluminum, which we know how to recycle well, and we could probably figure out silicon too
- Recycling batteries is a harder problem but possible too if we put some effort in; currently the recycling capacity is lacking because there’s not enough batteries being recycled, since most of them are still working fine in EVs sold since the start of EV boom
- Worst-case, we can literally just grind up batteries into battery mush and refine it, same as we do with ores from which the raw materials come in the first place, but likely something better is possible
- Alec describes his personal politics, how he values labor and working-class people, and how he thinks immigrants are hard-working people who need to be welcomed and cared for
- Trump and Republicans as a whole are fascists and lie constantly, which needs to be called out and stopped
- ICE must be abolished and its thugs tried for their crimes
- Democrats are not doing enough, and in fact are pretty bad on some points, but it’s still better to vote for them
- People need to organize with their neighbors, care for each other first and foremost, and defend themselves against the government
Alec’s personal views are a relief, I think it’s a shame he didn’t go deeper into them before (IIRC he had a video where he called out right-wing misinfo but stopped short of any direct calls for action). I suppose the contrast between his usual “tech presenter/science explainer” and this clearly righteous political call for action might get through to some people better.
Any mention of nuclear energy and the difference of land and resources required in comparison?
Not directly, but a key point of his thesis is that solar by itself (with batteries) can provide 85% more power than we currently use by only using the land that currently grows corn for biofuel on. He mentions wind as well.
Nuclear has its own lies spread about it that are completely independent of what renewables get and it has its own caveats, so, it does kind of make sense to not really bring it up since that could warrant its own video. Illinois has nuclear power, so, I can’t imagine it was an accidental oversight.
I don’t think so, but then again it’s a long and dense video and I might have missed something
His social media is very political, he’s on bluesky.
Hell his YouTube is quite political if you understand the little p politics he expresses. When he talked about elevators and captioning he’s been vocally in support of resources going to making the world more accessible to disabled people (and he puts his money where his mouth is, hand captioning all of his own videos). He’s mostly been vocal about the need for doing something about climate change. Then there’s also the video about algorithms that clearly originates from him being pissed about people wanting to invade Canada.
I’m not enough of a fan to look up other social media, I just occasionally watch some of his videos on topics that are interesting to me. But that’s great to hear!
- Renewables (specifically solar + batteries) are an inevitable future of energy production due to technological advancements and economies of scale improvements; you should not oppose them but welcome them
That last 30 minutes earned a new Patreon subscription. I hope this starts a trend.
Common sense.
Fairly uncommon, sadly
it still needs to be explained carefully though
like to a child you still have to explain how to read a clock or how to tie their shoes even though it’s common sense. and you have to be patient while explaining it.
I didn’t write “common sense” to imply it doesn’t need to be explained.
I wrote it to mean that once explained, it clearly is impossible to refute because it’s common sense.
My comment was not adversarial.
Nor was theirs.
Both are very neutral and can be interpreted as dissent or assent if you read the right tone into them.
dude relentlessly rags on democrats for helping republicans fuck things up then tells me everyone should vote for them.
he is a very torough and smart guy though, he will 100% figure this out if he wants to.
Hello your government is evil, do something
what makes you think i’m usian?
Only now do you start feeling the urgency of the situation, when usually apolitical channels have started discussing politics.
“If you’ve been watching my channel for any length of time, then you should already have a pretty clear understanding of what my personal politics are. If you’ve been under the impression that I’ve not been political, you simply don’t understand what politics means. I have indeed stayed out of partisan politics and electoral politics, but I’ve been wearing my personal politics on my sleeve this whole time, and they’ve not been that subtle.”
That shit was beautiful. He’s fucking mad.
“A wind turbine is like an oil derrick that generates eq. 3 gallons of gasoline evry single minute.”
Tbh I thought it would be more
Except the wind never runs out. Also we can use the energy from wind turbines 3x as efficiently as we can the energy from a barrel of oil. Carnot is a bitch.
Wind sometimes runs out (as in, calm weather) and wind turbines do eventually run out after a few decades. But, 3 gallons of gasoline-equivalent per minute seemed a bit small for my intuition, so I did some back of the envelope calculations to compare it to pumpjacks for oil.
I’m doing these calculations in metric, because the US traditional units are insane, and nobody should subject themselves to that.
3 gallons is about 11.3L, so 11.3L per minute is 678 L per hour, or about 16 kL of “gasoline-equivalent” per day.
Apparently a pumpjack pumps about 5 to 40 “barrels” of crude oil per day. A barrel is 159 L so that’s 795 L to 6360 L per day.
So, the back of the envelope “how much ‘energy’ does this big mechanical thing produce” seems fairly similar, ignoring a whole lot of complexity.
I have watched only a few minutes of this vid so far, as well as the timestamps and I must admit I don’t agree with this approach because of something I learned today.
He says around 2 m something like: the strategic US reserve of oil even tho the number of barrels sounds huge, they could sustain the US only a month of our current use. From the context my understanding is that he implies that this is due to casual, everyday-people consumption.
Well, it looks like the Department of Defense is the U.S. government’s largest fossil fuel consumer, accounting for between 77% and 80% of all federal government energy consumption since 2001. So why is this huge percentage missing from this long analysis?
Anyways, if he talks about the US military petroleum consumption, please let me know. Or if I got something wrong with this new info I got about the US military, let me know too.
Because this video isn’t about the US military, and all you’re doing is bean soup leftism.
You’re right, we shouldn’t electrify and should keep using fossil fuels.
I’m really sorry that this is what you got from what I wrote. I definitely don’t think we should keep using fossil fuel. On the contrary, I am all in for phasing out extractions and usage.
Cuz the US strategic oil reserve isn’t earmarked for the federal government and the share of the military energy usage in the federal energy usage is entirely meaningless tot the oil consumption of the US economy.
Cuz the US strategic oil reserve isn’t earmarked for the federal government
According to a factcheck site it looks like the U.S. Oil Reserve Created for Supply Disruptions, Not Strictly Military Use. So maybe your statement is wrong? Otherwise could you share the source you got this from?
the share of the military energy usage in the federal energy usage is entirely meaningless tot the oil consumption of the US economy
I don’t understand what you are saying, could you please explain and/or share a relevant link? Btw maybe I should clarify that by talking about “consumption” I was not talking in economic terms, just in the sense of “utilizing”.
Come again? I am saying “isn’t earmarked for the federal government” and you come up with a fact check saying that it is not earmarked for military use. Which is the same thing.
Also, you are comparing the share of the military in the federal government’s energy usage. The government’s energy usage is largely electricity, not oil-based, while for the military it is the inverse. Also, the military consumes oil outside of the US economy: the oil consumption of an US Air Force base in say Spain is part of the Spanish economy, not of the US economy. Or at least, the overseas bases consumption will not be pulled from the US strategic oil reserves.
So it is all orthogonal to the US strategic oil reserves what the US military’s share in energy consumption of the US Federal Government is.
I am saying “isn’t earmarked for the federal government” and you come up with a fact check saying that it is not earmarked for military use. Which is the same thing.
No. “Isn’t earmarked for the federal government” is not the same as “isn’t earmarked for military use".
Any links to back what you say would be highly appreciated.
You should rewatch the video, because you totally have missed his main point
Sometimes I’ve been feeling like I’m the weird one for caring about other people and the shit that’s been going on. It’s really nice to see someone as angry as I am.
Just when I thought I couldn’t like him more, he goes and drops this gigabased rant.
TC for U.S president honestly
Or even a governor or senator, he has the right ideas and ability to explain what is happening and what needs to be done
That level of competence would never fly in the US government.
Most governments
I like the guy. Really. But haven’t you seen what happens when people from entertainment become president?
Like Zelenskyy? Sign me up
Now that I’ve seen the type of people that seek political positions over a few decades, I would push Alec to run for some sort of local office. He’s the exact opposite of the majority of assholes who enter politics.
Any non-youtube link to watch this? Don’t want to deal with Google no more
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Emule flashbacks 🤮
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