Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Technology Connections: "Imagine a 400v turn signal bulb" Me: Grows a beard, "Ready phasers!"
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  2. Yeah... virtually no enviromental impact... Well, over the lifetime of such powerplant, more CO2 is produced per total ammount of Wh produced, when compared with an oil plant. This is because they produce comparably way too little power and need highly refined materials to be somewhat effective. Plus, big birds are not exactly freinds of these... you're not a friend of the thing that threatens your survival... And finally, since wind is not under human control, these powerplants can overload the network, or not provide enough power to the grid at any given moment. Solar has the same problems. No, you wan't relatively clean power source? Go with nuclear and add a couple of gas powerplants, to top up the network as needed. There will never be truely carbon free energy. Our engeneering simply isn't there and there is no cheating in laws of physics.
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  3. "They're probably and hopefully on their way out, thanks to electrification.", As the great state of Texas has shown us, that is actually a very bad idea.
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  4. Yeah, I wouldn't call microclimate altering dam lake as enviromentally friendly, but ok... What happens when electricity dropps? Damnit, you're from Canada, don't tell me, I have to remind you of need for redundant heat source!
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  5. Why not go simple with both sides play... simply add second read assembly to the arm itself.
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  6. eh... technicaly... with GPON, you can end up with optical all the way to your home router....
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  7. Leaving fosils for heating is nonsence. Why? Simple. Outages. Sure, you still release CO2 and other stuff, but, it's actually very efficient, just as you mentioned, but also allow's for microcogeneration of electricity, which can supplement other sources of power, such as wind and espcially solar in winter (you know, cause shorter days). Furthermore, you can add a tank for fuel, which you will have to maintain, but doesn't lose capacity unlike batteries, meaning you have more reliable stored supply of energy in case of an outage, which could take days. This vast battery supply even for a small, highly efficient house is comically big. Like extra barn full of batteries big. And even those can emmit pretty nasty stuff. Where do I think fossils need to be phased out? It's large scale electricity production and even there not entirely. I firmly believe in nulcear power for the long run, as it is the only known source of power, which could provide enough electricity to power entire cities with very low emmittions, if you consider all emmittions from obtaining of materials till decomitioning of a plant, which makes decades worth of efficient energy production, you'll find out that it has lower CO2 footprint per Watt of power produced than either wind and solar! The other sources should supplement nuclear powerplants and green power sources, when needed and heating should be done still through burning, centrally if at all possible and of stuff that was already used (unrecycleable waste) or wood (again, what can't be used otherwise and in individual homes), but also gas for individual homesteads and small towns. And why do I think only the grid should go green and not all green? Well, our current battery technology is not exactly any good. Make no mistake, even Tesla batteries, some of the best on Earth, aren't any good. Why? Batteries are not dense enough energy wise and we can see this in electric cars. Looking at them long term, they can't compete with petrol, because of the difference in energy density of their batteries and the fact, that these batteries degrade over time, which won't happen to a tank, and make no mistake, batteries won't get much better any time soon. The problem with power storage is stressed in cars, because of great need of mobility and mass of a vehicle need's to be fairly low, but even when there is not a need for mobility, storing large ammounts of electric energy in batteries can be prohibitive due to avaliable space.
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  8. Or, you could go full bizzaro like me. I'm currently in the process of building my new gaming/work station. I have a dock already, so I can attest they are a huuuge creature comfort, wrote my bechalor's thesses on a 4 monitor setup with only a laptop for computing power. No file transfering, no cloud neceseary and when I needed to go to the library, just picked up the laptop and off I went, while having a proper ergonomic keyboard and mouse. A while later, I got introduced to the wonders of KVM switching... and then some serious crossbreeding happened in my brain. "Why can't I share a single I/O betwene a docked laptop for work and a beast desktop for gaming?" I thought. The truth is, you absolutely can! Dock to KVM to periferals and your'e done. You're literarly three key strokes from either gaming or work duties.
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