Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Technology Connections" channel.

Sounds like Texas needs a bunch of SMR nuclear reactors added to the grid
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people in my area drive around with their brights on in daylight. and they drive with no lights at dusk or in the rain and fog.
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Thank you for addressing the unit Nazis!!!! Best part of the whole video! If the critics were so smart and superior, they would already know how to convert units and get over it.
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if you allow your body to acclimate, you could probably keep it closer to 68F all day long
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thermal cycling was what I thought you were going to cover.
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@vidard9863 "it's only the customers that have both the motivation and the ability to affect the cycle. " 100% false. When corporations buy out all the competition, the consumer has no choice. The consumer is not an HVAC specialist and doesn't know what they don't know. If they could do it themselves, they wouldn't need the HVAC specialist. "I get punished for doing the right thing. " proving it's the corporation's fault, not the consumer's fault. "You as a customer however have the ability and benefit from punishing "corporate greed"." only by becoming a DIY HVAC specialist myself, something most people cannot do.
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so, it's not the consumer at fault, but rather the HVAC industry, good to know.
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@vidard9863 I can relate to everything you've shared. but I still blame the HVAC companies. People selling out good businesses to greedy corporations to get rich quick. Those greedy corporations go after teh rich people who can't be bothered to know if you're doing it right, and just sign the check. Corporations love those customers. And they buy up the competition, teh good businesses, to make sure they don't have to compete with a proper HVAC company. Don't want them stealing their high paying customers when they find out the corporation screwed them. The less competition the corporation has, the more they can charge, and the more they can screw the customer and get away with it.
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@vidard9863 "To give customers lower prices cutting labor costs is the obvious solution:" proving it was the corporation. "Customers want instant service" that's a blanket statement. but also very subjective. how long do you expect customers to wait? If you take far too long, of course they will go elsewhere. "Tradesmen used to not have to sell because you need their services, they will talk you out of buying things as likely as into buying things." you're not very bright. "If someone can't explain something in fairly simple terms they either haven't mastered the subject, or they don't want you to know what's going on." well you clearly don't know what you're talking about with this long-winded rambling response. "If they are baffling you with BS, they are trying to sell you something." like you're doing right now? "Inflation is making all the numbers look bad to working men." again, consumers aren't causing inflation. you just keep jumping from one random thing to another. Most of this has nothing to do with the topic at hand. "However businesses do need to make money. " wow, you just figured that out? "This is because a proper install is significantly more complicated, and expensive than a poor/cheap install, and has the highest risk of unexpected expense, " BS nonsense, spoken like a true sleezy salesman. "Affordable quality services without emphasis on sales are loss leaders. " not true at all. you're describing sleezy business, not good business. you're clearly not very good at this stuff. Seems you had a business, did crappy work and charged too much, had no business sense, went out of business, and blamed your customers.
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@vidard9863 "you are the problem. " how so? "You can choose to remain ignorant as long as you like" that's just you projecting your own ignorance on others. "fortunately you will be the one to pay for it." no, I can do it myself. being an engineer has its advantages. cope harder.
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I've done this for years. I acclimate to the summer temps as they increase, and acclimate to the winter temps as they cool. I heat to only 63F in winter, and cool only periodically in summer (and typically never below 78-79F). Most days in summer I have the windows open, and close them in the morning when expecting a hot day, and reopen them once outside temps drop below inside temps. I plan to replace most of the windows soon to help the thermal barrier, and am adding insulation to the house in strategic places as well. I also use a thermostat with daily settings (not internet or wifi connected though).
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been trying to teach people this for many years. best to stop the heat Before it gets in, not After it already passed through the glass.
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They're terrible in cold climates.
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there is Nothing dangerous about opening up an outlet to look inside as you did. What inside the outlet is going hurt people? You are 0% more qualified to open up an outlet than anyone else on earth.
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@Appletank8 No, it's 100% relevant to the video. If paired with the idea discussed in the video, the benefits of energy savings to the grid would be magnified still further. I think we'd be better off just expanding the grid with SMR nuclear and gravity batteries (cranes stacking weights). But reducing consumption is a good approach too.
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@thenamen935 Wow, you completely turned what I was saying on its head. My technique not only does what he advocates for, it reduces demand overall, at ALL times of the day.
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@Appletank8 that's Winter, during summer I let it heat up. I don't cool below 78-79, and even then only on particularly humid days (more to use the dehumidifier than actually cooling the air).
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awnings can look tacky. but covered porches do not, neither new nor old. but a smart application of awning could be taken down in winter to let sun in.
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using standardize parts helps with things we just need to be affordable and need to just work, like transportation.
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totally agree about old school knobs and simple circuits being superior to touch and microcontrollers.
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.....you said it, it's not that this design is objectively better, it's that the one you sought to replace was objectively garbage. You owned a very cheap version of a good design (I know because I owned the same one at one time). There is still a company out there who makes a high quality and long lasting can opener (don't know the name, as they didn't stamp their brand onto it). I have one, as well as the one from the same company that we had when I was a kid (it's now over 30yrs old at least and still the best can opener I've ever used).
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Internet of Things is not a good idea.
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we need a dedicated brake lights and blinker lights, "straight ahead" blinker, and coast/brake lights.
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Anyone against right to repair, and/or supports planned obsolescence, cannot claim to care about the environment.
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EV chargers are the biggest reason why EVs will fail, after the realities of the lack of adequate grid infrastructure.
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@SpottedSharks except the part where it is an issue and people are making tons of videos pointing out the issue. but do elaborate on why you feel EV chargers are NOT an issue preventing EVs from succeeding?
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@user-RCST but unlike the switch from horses to cars, we had growth in oil and such to meet demand. no issues there. With oil to EV, there is not enough grid energy to make the switch, the cars are too expensive, the people installing chargers are not learning from 100yrs of gas station development and not bothering to maintain the infrastructure, and making that charging infrastructure too difficult for common people to use. But most of all, the political powers pushing EVs are also preventing the necessary expansion of electrical power plants to support the switch to EVs. there is simply not enough grid energy to support the switch to EV. if we started building new nuclear power plants today and built a new one every week for the next 30yrs we'd be ok. But we're not doing that, and so it will take 50-100yrs to have enough grid energy to switch to EVs. That's the reality of teh problem.
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@SpottedSharks you forget the part where CA, PA, and Biden's Democrats demand it be fixed, and all other options be criminalized, by 2030. That's socialism when the gov controls the markets rather than market forces. And you can't will by gov decree things into existence.
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@user-RCST "you don't understand how fast Renewables will grow the grids available energy" Oh, yes I do. you don't understand the realities of "renewables". but countries, corporations, and others are starting to figure it out and are ABANDONING things like solar and wind as primary sources. Lot of talk of nuclear now. Notice the 2 or 3 European countries now building new nuclear power plants right now? Did you see what Sweden did recently? People are also learning the "climate change" alarmist is all a lie. They are learning CO2 doesn't do what they claim, and it's been a well known scientifically proven fact since at least teh 1950s that CO2 has a logarithmic (diminishing) effect on global temps. And Methane has almost no effect since our sun doesn't emit much energy on the spectrum methane absorbs.
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@logitech4873 it's called basic math. we know what teh current grid capacity is, and we know how much electricity it would take to convert ICE to equivalent EV. and the amount of electricity needed is staggering compared to what we currrently have capacity for. it's called, "math". you should try it sometime.
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@logitech4873 When I was growing up, only the rich and upper class had Air Conditioning, either in their cars or their homes. People SLOWLY added air conditioners over time, it was also not Forced nor gov mandated. People added them if and when they could afford it, and there was no resistance to building new power plants back then either. It took Decades for AC to become so commonplace. And AC units consume FAR less energy than an EV does, ridiculously less. So adding grid energy for low power AC units spread out over many decades was no issue. the Politicians and woke anti-science crowd are the ones passing legislation demanding conversion to EVs by 2030. Yet they are also against Hybrids, against Hydrogen, and against nuclear power plants. When gov started doing this, electrical and other engineers ran the math ans started trying to tell the gov that it's physically impossible to scale up teh grid to support that many EVs in less than 30yrs, and that we lacked the mining, processing and manufacturing to build that many EVs, and that was without any consideration for how many applications which EVs still cannot do the job of an ICE at all. I am an engineer, and other engineers and scientists have been trying to get the idiots to do simple math and know that they can't simply FORCE this into existence. reality doesn't work like that. Utopia is a children's fantasy and will Never happen.
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4:40 so wrong. my bottom finger is FAR MORE LIKELY to slip and touch the leads while plugging in to an outlet. Putting ground on bottom is FAR safer for me in this argument. ....and literal seconds later you said the exact same thing....serves me right I guess.
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Patents don't always represent the first inventor, jus the first variation of a solution that was patented.
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what's wrong with scope creep? Sounds like an opportunity for a multi-part series.
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absolutely correct.
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10yrs is a marketing ploy to get you to keep buying more crap
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I made awnings for MRAPs in Afghanistan and it dropped temps in the trucks by a solid 10F.
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if we can't expect people to be able to figure out how to attach a few screws and wires, then why should we expect them to be functional and responsible adults either? yes we MUST expect people to Learn and figure out how Not to be utterly helpless and useless human beings.
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you grossly understate the grid issue for EVs. the power generated by those Nuclear plants and wind turbines is ALREADY being consumed on the grid by houses and such. adding 1-2 EVs per household is a MASSIVE bump in grid energy total demand. The grid does Not have enough energy capacity, and it wont for a long time.
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3:56 feel free to foot the bill for everyone else to get their systems optimized......
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it's nice being able to use the lid as a strainer, and nice keeping the lid attached after opening. Older can openers just work. I like this design, and see its potential, and will likely get one. But I still have the cutting wheel as my primary, and also have the compact military style for camping, and many multitools also have a can opener as well. I don't see this version as superior, nor the industry standard as objectively better. They both do the same thing, with tradeoffs. I think I prefer the cutting wheel design, objectively.
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why are sharp edges a concern? are you going to go to the kitchen and dull all of your knives now too? What about your scissors? How about the stack of printer paper? Sewing needles? Wood and metal splinters? Life is full of sharp edges, and knowing how to handle them properly is an essential skill.
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