Comments by "HIFLY" (@HIFLY01) on "What does the world's largest machine do? - Henry Richardson" video.

I think its because they're physically connected. We have internet cables on the ocean floor sure but I'm on my phone now connected to the internet but nothing is directly connected to my phone. We can't just send power though the air realistically speaking
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@genericjoe4082 yeah but this video is about the US where we basically have all types of environments except jungle and tundras
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@genericjoe4082 I think Ted Ed did a video about putting solar panels in the desert. Or someone did and theres a reason it doesn't happen. Wind you need a lot of space and it wouldn't be really good for the coast and tide power would disturb the sea life. Same with rivers
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@genericjoe4082 the thing about solar is it reflects heat back into the atmosphere and having a bunch in the hottest climates or at least enough to make it worth it, would increase the temperature. Plus you have the problem of mining all the resources for them too and wind turbines cant be recycled. As for going overboard I'm not sure how much of solar panels/turbines you think we would need to make a dent in the power grid but its quite a lot. You can't just have a couple wind turbines or a single solar field and expect it to do much
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@genericjoe4082 I checked and I guess they can be recycled but are very rarely recycled and end up in landfills. Theres a picture of a giant pile of them in a lot of articles half buried. As for how much power each generate, no lol. Wind turbines, if having a constant wind speed which isn't exactly ever going to happen but lets say it does, makes just over 20 kwh per day while the average US home uses 30 kwh per day. Solar panels make 1.5 kwh. Even if they hypothetically did produce enough to power a single home for a day, there are over 140 million houses in the US. If you wanted to make even just a small fraction of houses have power, you'll need a lot of wind turbines, which take up a huge amount of space and even more solar panels which takes up even more space. In case you didn't know, theres a certain distance turbines are put together. Its typically half a mile or more. There's space in between the blades on the ground so something like a farm can be made but for solar panels it takes up the whole area. Nothing can go there unless you build them on top of some platform blocking all the light below. I've seen a house or 2 with a solar panel on the roof but at 5% power production of the daily usage on a good day, it wont really do much. Talking about no sources and yet you didn't provide any either lol
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@genericjoe4082 my favorite thing about this is you expect it to just work. "add solar panels between the turbines" not sure if you've ever seen a wind farm before but I have 2 about an hour from me. You know where they're located? On a farm. You can't just rip up some guys land and put up panels. Thats unethical. Sure not every wind farm is on farmer Joe's land but someone owns the land. Com Ed or whatever electric provider you have doesn't own millions of square miles land. Second if those numbers really are true then we would only need 150,000 and we have a little less than half of that already (70,000) yet wind only makes up 10% of the total power for the US. Now im no math genius but those numbers clearly dont scale at all. Even at half power they dont. I know the simple solution would be "just add more" but thats not how it works. Like I said theres a reason we don't fill the desert with solar panels and Ted Ed I believe even made the video. Theres a reason why we don't have thousands and thousands more wind turbines than what we already have
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@ianakotey its not
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@ianakotey you'd be surprised at how much stuff is wireless vs wired. Routers are connected but laptops, phones, tvs, other appliances, are connected to the router wirelessly
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@NeonVisual you would be actually surprised at how much runs on wifi vs direct connection. Servers would be connected because they are basically the internet after all but a lot of machines are connected to routers by wireless technology. Plus a lot of business are switching/have switched to laptops for work instead of desk tops and other devices have been going wireless
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