Comments by "" (@louistournas120) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1.  @han_pritcher  I think some people use it in home made metal detectors. (A radio tuned to some AM channel).
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  2.  @matthew0lamson  : Prostitutes and Prostitutes Accessories
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  3.  H A R  It has to do with business. The demand is simply not there. Times are tough.
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  4.  @musicwiz40  "The heater itself requires space in the room. Once its cooled to the ambient temperature of the room it requires energy to heat the heater as well. So therefore its likely equally as efficient. #BigBrain" ==Hey BigBrain. It takes less energy to increase the temperature of air than the temperature of iron and plastic and copper. So, a smaller heater is better. An empty room is better.
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  5. Yes, they were a good source of mercury for me. I collected 3 or 4 from thermostats.
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  6.  @designstudio8013  "There is suction created that pulls outside air in.I have 2 units" ==You bought 2 portable AC units? Why?
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  7. Probably your desk lamp was emitting some UV. As the UV hits the metal electrodes, some electrons are kicked out. This helps in ionizing the gas. As ceber54 said, it is the photoelectric effect.
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  8.  @thany3  : Game cartridges such as Atari, NES, SuperNintendo, N64 only have copper contacts and these oxidize and cause problems. Probably, if they were gold plated or made with solid 20% gold or 100% nickel, they would be in a better condition. Nickel forms a thin hard oxide and conducts electricity pretty well.
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  9. 70.0 °F 21.111 °C 294.261 K 71.0 °F 21.667 °C 294.817 K
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  10. ​ @krisreddish3066  : "Joules can replace watt per hour as a joule is 1 w per second. Hey lets mix up BTU too, go with calorie." ==No, that's Watt x second (watt multiplied by second = Joule). W . s = J J/s = W A Watt is a measure of power. A Joule is a measure of energy. Watthour or Watt x hour or Watt multiplied by hour is another unit of energy. You can take Joule and divide by 60 min, divide by 60 sec and you get Watthour.
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  11.  @theblackwidower  : Even station wagons and certain cars had a wood grain siding on them. I don't know if it was a large sticker or somehow painted onto the siding. These days, everything (PC, monitor, chairs, desks) seems to be black. I would like to see some white PCs and white mouse and keyboard and monitor.
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  12. "Thermometers are just speedometers for molecules." ==I think they actually measure momentum.
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  13.  @soundspark :  "I thought the storage industry settled, agreeing to label their product packaging with the definition of 1MB=1 million bytes, and to explain some of the capacity is used for formatting, etc." ==Yes, when I bought a SD card, they had printed on it that they are using that definition. 1MB=1 million bytes So, it is understood that a 64 GB card is actually a 64 x 10^9 B 64 x 10^9 B = 59.6 GB I don't know what this bibibyte none sense is for. I wanted a way to make Linux show kB, MB, GB but looks like they don't have that option.
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  14. In french, they call it klaxon but I'm not sure how it is written. And it is also a verb: klaxonner.
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  15. ​ @Zzznorch  : Some early refrigerators used NH3 and some used SO2. Since people were getting poisoned when the system leaked, they replaced these with chlorofluorocarbons. I think one of the earliest is dichlorodifluoromethane (CCl2F2).
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  16. I had a ionization alarm that detected steam. It was quite sensitive. I moved it away from the bathroom and kitchen.
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  17. Why does it go off at 10:28? Is that a prop clock or a real Panasonic clock?
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  18.  @Pidalin  Can't you change your window?
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  19.  @LesVentilateursduQuebec  "Je vis au Québec et j'ai une fournaise au gaz et une chauffe-eau au gaz" ==Ou va le CO2 que cela produit? J espere a l'exterieur. Oui, au Quebec, les ampoules DEL et fluorescentes n,aident pas tellement. l ete dure juste 3 mois.
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  20. Hydroelectricity is the best. The USA should be allowed to build their own plants in Quebec and Ontario and send it to their northern states. But humans are selfish and want to tax each other so it forces the USA to use coal powered plants.
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  21. How do they put in isobutane or propane or whatever in the rfrigerator tubing and then weld it shut?
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  22. Wow. That is a superb T-shirt. I love VHS.
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  23. In some devices, the bottom H segment of a 9 is lit up and sometimes not. Why isn't there a standard? The same goes for the 6 but this time, it is the top H segment.
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  24. Gauge? Is this like meters?
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  25. I always found CDs cool. A nice shiny disc that is able to act as a diffraction grating and also carries a lot of data. Then came DVDs which were exciting bc of the quality video, the extra content. The downside was that these discs can get scratched easily while for VHS, it was not a problem. Bluray was a less exciting technology but it is good nonetheless. It is too bad that a lot of the population lost interest in these technologies. No PC games are released on discs. I guess movies on Blueray are still made but for how long?
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  26.  @A.Martin  Nobody uses liquid propane. It is -42 °C. I've only used it a couple of times to freeze mercury.
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  27.  @A.Martin  Are you saying the liquid reaches the engine and it is sprayed and it turns into a gas?
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  28.  @A.Martin  I see however that is strange. I would imagine pushing air into liquid propane is difficult since already the pressure of liquid propane at room temperature, I think it is over 200 psi.
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  29.  @sirBrouwer  : Yes, it is strange that klaxon is written with a 'k' in french. In general, the french language avoids starting words with a k. For example, my dictionnary Larousse de poche (pocket) has only 1 page of words with k. Pages 57 to 104 are words starting with C. Also, the words with k are kayak, karate, kyste, kangourou, karting. They are all foreign loan words.
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  30. I've been thinking about powering my modem and router with DC current. I would just need the right resistor and plug it with a 12 V car battery.
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  31. Operator, this is an emergency! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz7nSkFhBP0 Midnight Star - Operator (Official Music Video)
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  32. @Nigel Cam Laptops come with a builtin UPS: the battery. That's pretty sweet. Being less easily serviced is the norm since 2000. I have tried to open LCD monitors, LCD TVs, toasters, remote controls and everything I can get my hands on. When I remove the screws, they still don't open. I have to get the jackhammer and damage the casing to open them. Once open, the circuit boards are hard to remove. The various components are very delicate. Putting it back together is very difficult. You aren't suppose to repair them. You are suppose to junk it.
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  33.  @herrkatzegaming  #It's #better #to #put #the #sharp #symbol #in #front #of #each #word.
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  34. I guess with film, when you have a few photons hit the AgCl crystal, a bunch of AgCl decompose, maybe in the thousands. So, film images won't be perfectly clear. If the crystals move a tiny bit during the development process, that too will contribute to blurriness. So, in terms of pixels, what is the resolution of a 35 mm film?
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  35.  @jennyjohn704  : "People who aren't stupid, since without the ozone layer all complex forms of life would perish pretty damn quickly." ==Nah. We would get more UV-B and UV-C which would be a problem for unprotected life forms, such as humans. Furry creatures and feathery creatures should be fine. Amphibians might be in trouble. Some bacteria would get an increased rate of mutation. Some bacteria would die. Bacteria in the oceans and under ground would be fine.
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  36.  @frazermartin3259  : NH3 would make a great fuel. 4 NH3 + 3 O2 -> 2 N2 + 6 H2O You don't get any CO2. You could use a platinum catalyst to decompose any NO2 that forms into N2 and O2. The only problem is that making NH3 is energy intensive.
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  37.  @mbox314  : "Albert Einstein and another guy actually developed a new form of air conditioner after hearing news stories of entire families dying from ammonia leaks from early refrigerators." ==Albert EINSTEIN and Leo SZILARD. Leo SZILARD was the principle man that came out with the idea that a chain reaction is possible with uranium atoms and came up with the idea of the atomic bomb. For the refrigerator http://www.rexresearch.com/einsteinfridge/einsteinfridg.html I didn't quite understand it but I think it works like pressure swing refrigerators. For these types of devices, you just need to heat a part of it to make the refrigerator work. People who go to camping have these types of refrigerators.
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  38. There is a channel called BigClive. He is in the UK. He reviewed something called a disposable Li-ion charger. It has just barely enough charge to charge your cellbone. You are then suppose to throw it in the trash. I hate throw away products.
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  39. I thought it meant pushing hard while on the toilet seat and POW!
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  40.  @Hans-gb4mv  Yes, try turning a CFL on when it is 5 °C (41 °F). It takes about 5 min for it to reach its maximum.
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  41. I still don't understand what live wire and neutral wire means. Do they have a particular meaning? Why not just call it red and blue wire?
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  42.  @andykillsu  Is this because the neutral wire is connected to the center of the secondary transformer winding?
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  43. My home's thermostat takes 2 wires. The heaters don't have a circuit board. They are just baseboard heaters. There is one thermostat per room. The gigantic heater in the picture seems to be a full home heater. That wastes energy.
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  44. My workplace gave me such a laptop and docking station. I'm not sure what the docking station is for. I can just plug everything into the laptop.
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  45. You can hang your toaster from a nail on the wall using those cable holes.
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  46. 12 V * 25 A * 170 min * 60 s/min = 3,060,000 J = 3,060 kJ
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  47. Can this be used as a random number generator?
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  48. If your heat pump efficiency goes down when it gets colder and stops working below -25 °C (-13.0 °F), the solution is to replace the chemical that’s in it with something with a lower bp. A bp of -25 °C (-13.0 °F) is not very low. They should use propane, which has a bp of -42 °C (-43.6 °F) or a fluorinated version of it to reduce flammability. They can also try propene, bp = -46 °C *(-51 °F).
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  49. All cars are Flexcars. All home electrical appliances are FlexAppliances. All Apple hardware are Flexiphones and FlexMacs. Planned obsolescence.
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  50. +Cyansius: Yes, the idea is to make more money. Why are prices 1 cent short: example 5.99$ instead of 6$ Apparently, the "idiot" will think that it is radically cheaper and will be more encouraged to buy it. Why are bags of chips the same size yet they are getting lighter? What used to be 250 g came down to 230 g, then 200 g, then 180 g. The idea is that the "idiot" will think the product has become cheaper. I'm sure you can think of many more examples from your supermarket. People aren't stupid. We live in a world of coupons, groupons, sales and rebates. Hard drive manufacturers were taken to court over their "cleverness". Did it help a certain manufacturer sell more? So now, all HDD manufacturers are doing the same thing and the playing field between them is leveled again. None of them have an advantage over the other. So what's next? Cheap printers and overpriced ink? HP, Lexmark, Epson aren't doing themselves any favors with their cleverness. It is obvious that they each copy each other's business model. You also have Apple who design products that aren't easy to repair. They have lobbied the government to make opening their products illegal. The reason they give is that you might injure yourself by opening it. Louis Rossmann has a channel about the tricks Apple uses.
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  51. Even if they make a larger CD version, eventually, someone will make a flash memory thing to connect to your PlayStation. How large was flash memory USB sticks back then? 1 GB? 2 GB?
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  52. They are doing the same in Quebec. I'm guessing sodium lights is out and LEDs are in.
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  53.  @jbatic8094 : I have 2 unsealed AOL CDs.
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  54. Try it. Get a propane torch and some chalk and heat up the edges of the chalk.
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  55.  @LittleRainGames  What was the CPU?
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  56. +JTCPingas: "NVidia GPUs and Intel CPUs make good substitutes for space heaters." ==It depends on the generation. I don't remember which one, but Intel (i7 7th or 8th or something) was consuming less power while idle compared AMD (Ryzen something). During gaming, full CPU use, Intel was using more. I have a Ryzen 7 1800X. I don't care how much heat it outputs during these Canadian winters. I also have an old PC, Core2 Quad 2.33 GHz, running Folding@Home
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  57. ​ @Mr.Unacceptable  "Would you guess the plates are coated with mercury? That's what went white as it oxidized?" ==Mercury doesn't oxidize at STP. Mercury is near the platinum group metals (Rhodium, Rhenium Osmium, etc). If it turns white, then it is perhaps barium azide like he says in the video. It probably turns to BaO, which is white. Mercury oxide, HgO, is orange.
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  58. In my room, I have 3 extensions and I also have 3 extensions in the leaving room. I need lots of sockets. The wall sockets only have 2 sockets. That was fine in 1950 when people just had 1 TV and 1 radio but these days, I need to plug 2 TVs, 1 VCR, 1 DVD, 1 Blue ray, 1 SEGA Genesis, 1 XBox, a few computers and their monitors, digital clocks, and more. I need holes!
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  59. I remember seeing that at Eaton and also these flicker neon lights. They were quite expensive. I took one and took it apart. The glass vial was neat. Eventually, I broke the top to extract the liquid. I imagine that it is dichloromethane.
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  60.  @davidjames579 : I have bought 3 VHS machine from from Village Des Valeurs. I have also bought a few VHS tapes, some old new stock in packaging and some already seen movies.
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  61. I didn't know anything about DVD-RAM. I bought a few DVD drives for my PCs and they listed as "supports DVD-RAM" and a list of 20 other formats. I think the only DVD-RAM that I had seen at the store claim that it was for video camcorders that used DVD-RAM. They just make too many formats. The problem comes from companies that are capitalistic and want to rule the world.
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  62.  @Nicholas-f5  : I did that in the summer and I am in Quebec. I used a bucket and put a glass plate on top. The water was pretty hot. Great for showers. I also gave a bath to my cat.
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  63. All you need to do is replace the air with nitrogen, argon or CO2 or some other cheap gas.
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