I have been watching his videos for years with great enthusiasm.

If I ever meat him, it won’t be a handshake. That rant at the end deserves a hug. I love that antifascist energy that came pouring off him.

That rant at the end really sums up my feelings as a Midwestern leftist. Hell the whole thing does honestly. But you treat people right, you make prudent decisions, and you treat labor with dignity and respect.

I also really respect him for accepting when something that had been obvious to him (the value proposition of solar and electrification) turned out to have not been obvious to others so he cut the snark and explained his reasoning. It's an admirable display of character. But also, yeah it had been obvious to me as well.

Probably not my favorite video of his, but definitely rhe one I respect the most

Great video. Completely breaks down the argument. You already knew this of you had been paying attention. Oil/gas for electricity generation in any form is DOA. It is insanely more expensive than solar + battery.

Not to mention destructive to the environment and politically fraught with issues.

To think if our government went all in it could provide dirt cheap limitless energy that would not cause lung disease or wars is staggering.

Just when I thought I couldn't like him more, he goes and drops this gigabased rant.

TC for U.S president honestly

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!

As someone not from the US, I can't say how much I appreciate the last part of his video. As much as I understand why YouTubers want to "keep politics out of entertainment", it's disappointing and makes me lose interest in some US content because it seems like they are ignoring what's going on around them.

And about the batteries, that's unfortunately an argument I sometimes hear from skeptics. "What are we going to do with all those batteries?" they ask. I explain that they can mostly be recycled and like to ask what are we going to do with all the CO2 in the air, but apparently it's different. Ironically one of those persons is my father, that has a cabin with a solar system that I installed for him. He originally bought a generator but since it's very noisy to run only for some lights, he prefers using the battery bank powered by a few solar panels on the roof. I'd show him this video but he doesn't speak English and it's probably a lost cause anyway.

We can only hope that at least a few people can be influenced by this video; both parts.

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!

A technology connections video with a 30 minite rant??
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Oh fuck they broke Alec shit's bad

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.

That last 30 minutes earned a new Patreon subscription. I hope this starts a trend.

"A wind turbine is like an oil derrick that generates eq. 3 gallons of gasoline evry single minute."

It is pretty standard in most electric cars I've been in that it shows the kWh/h as it charges and how many kWh it has charged when complete.

Also your comment reminds me of the Boots economic theory. That poor people pay more overall because keep buying cheap boots yearly rather than spend more once on expensive boots every 10 years like the rich.

A captured government is the problem, the corrupt administration and the purchased opposition can't do anything for you like cheap power and subsidized electric cars because it doesn't help their donors.

Fell asleep an hour into his last night, didn't expect it to be that long, but I am looking forward to finishing it.

Anyone willing to share a tl;dw?

EDIT: Okay so I watched the video and here's a tl;dw which by necessity will lack a lot of detail and nuance. The video is in two parts.

The first part, an hour long, is about the slam dunk viability of solar panels as an energy source. In general, but most particularly in comparison to fossil fuel. The presenter underscores the real, deeper meaning of renewable energy sources and addresses many arguments made against solar power especially when it comes to scaling it up and in regards to its ecological impact. ngl, it's pretty jaw dropping, even if I already knew most of this.

I was increasingly frustrated in the first part because I wanted to shout Do You Get Why This Is Not Happening? Do You Get Why This Renewable Energy Future Is Not Happening. So I was relieved to see that he does get it.

The second part, about 30 minutes long, comes after a quick faux end credits. In this portion, he "goes there" and lays out not only why we are not moving into this future we could have, that is already here for us to have (to wit, money interests) but broadens into a reflection and indictment about the overall situation currently in the U.S.A. While dipping into partisan politics, he elucidates his personal operating principle and shows how it is a throughline into that topic. He did it in a way that pulled no punches while remaining, at least IMO, respectful

Only now do you start feeling the urgency of the situation, when usually apolitical channels have started discussing politics.