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Oh, my favorite YouTuber who sits in the front of my socks with a great video again! (About 50% through and need to make a break for Formula E in a minute.)

Thanks for all you do, this is great!

ah, solar. The amazing technology to save the planet, turned into a grift by business bros.

EDIT: OMG THIS VIDEO IS SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE!

This is one of the most important youtube videos I have ever seen. I'm sharing this with everyone I can!

Thank you so much for this video! Thank you!

EDIT 2: Lots of people are liking this reply so let me urge you to make donations and or subscribe to Technology Connections on youtube. This is easily one of the best channels on that platform and he deserves every single dollar he gets. Seriously, just pick a video on something you were never interested in and he'll make you interested.

this is so good, so well argued, so laser-targeted both rhetorically and culturally at the victims of the fascist disinformation machine that the petrochemical industry has constructed, that about halfway through I stopped feeling like "yeah! right on!" and started feeling more like "Gosh I hope Exxon doesn't try to assassinate him."

This is *amazing* work, stay safe out there.

what a powerful statement in the post credit part!

As we have finally the technology to mitigate the climate disaster, fascism is back again, threatening everything. And this not just in the USA.

That was a very nice summary about all the economics of renewable energy, and a very personal comment on the end. Thanks for making and sharing it.

Please *be* explicitly political, the deafening silence about these issues with many of your fellow content creators is really irritating.

I (from Germany) share your sentiments, and here in Europe we're probably not far behind the US in the degradation of the political system.

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In regards of your closing statement, you are still too nice about it. Whatever ICE has become resembles the Sturmabteilung which became quite powerful in German in the mid 1920s. It's paramilitary terrorising journalists, opposition and people deemed unworthy.

I'm not certain, if peaceful resistance is going to suffice.

And please get yourself solar cells on your roof. That is an opportunity for multiple videos and rants against dongled inverters and similar bullshit.
Thanks:)

omg someone using math and basic common sense to discuss renewable energy - immediate follow!

If anyone wants to dive deeper into the land use/biofuels discussion, Oxford just recently published a good analysis

TLDR - if we put solar on the land currently used for biofuels, we would have enough electricity for ALL vehicles to be electric

Biofuels for transport is straight nonsense

ourworldindata.org/biofuel-lan…

Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

^{Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)}

one of my key takeaways from the video, aside from what already is stated in the video itself,, is how easily i am personally affected by propaganda and how important keeping my own voice alive is.

for a while now, i felt it was rather useless to put my own views out, and i would stay content thinking/knowing that i am right. and that's one thing a well crafted propaganda intends to achieve, to put enough noise out that people start thinking that they can't change anything.

your videos inspire me to see things more clearly, to not ignore things because i am used to them, and as a consequence to make more informed decisions. and today i was able to see how easy it was to steer me away from some obvious truth.

great video, as usual.

Great video. You changed my mind on many of the concerns with solar panels I've had before. I have some nitpicks about the details, and some of the arguments don't apply to my country which is quite a bit smaller than US, but overall I'm pretty optimistic about solar now.
Thank you!

As for the second part of the video:
Yikes, it does look terrifying.
I hope y'all can turn this around. Good luck!

hello, your video is a masterpiece. Thanks for making it.

YES your video made a lot sense to me, it made me realize how SO MUCH BETTER solar energy is. I would say I knew it, but you presentation made it become so clear that it made a click in my mind. I'll take more actions in this direction.

Straight-up came here to share this after watching it just now.

I was moved to tears. Thank you.

Sir, your videos are a constant source of enlightenment and entertainment.

This went somewhere I was not expecting but found inspiring and I hope your fellow countrymen heed your words.

I just watched it.

Good work.

It makes me sad that you (and my friends in the US) have to endure this. Yes: liberty and justice for all!

speaking truth to power!

Or do I mean energy?

Outstanding. I nearly cried at a few points during the last 15 or so minutes.

Thank you.

You’re using (coining) the term “disposable energy” — I also like “rental energy”

The age of rental energy is over. We are becoming energy landlords.

I still think it's absolutely crazy how cheap solar panels are

I got my 500w panels, new and unused, for 50-60 a piece, without buying in bulk.

That's cheaper than standard plywood. It's literally CHEAPER to build a house out of SOLAR PANELS than it is to build out of low grade PLYWOOD.

They've gone up a little bit in price since but not much, you can still get 500w panels for around 70 euros a piece, example here: solar-outlet.nl/zonnepanelen/

Zonnepanelen kopen

Zonnepanelen kopen? Solar Outlet heeft zonnepanelen van merken als AEG, Aiko, DMEGC, JA Solar, Jinko Solar, SunPower, LG Solar, SolarWorld & NSP Solar

^{DMWS B.V. (Solar Outlet)}

Just happened onto this on YT, had no idea you're here.

Making great points throughout the entire video there and it's nice to see people active in ostensibly far-removed fields to find such clear words.

The first 3/4 or whatever was mostly stuff I kind of knew - not the specific figures and examples you give - exactly how much more energy would be available just from converting fields growing corn for ethanol fuel into solar fields, for example.

And then the second part. Fantastic. Blistering. Thank you and from Canada I wish you and all Americans of good conscience success and safety.

that was fucking great. I wish half of the influencers had the conviction you do to put their neck out. I still think a distressingly large amount of democrats are really just smiling fascist and that's why they continue to vote for and fund trump's stuff, but you may be right on voting lesser evil just one more time.

Keep being dangerous and loud.

I've been dealing with finding out people I follow and subscribe to turned out to be terrible quite a bit the past few years. Your rant was welcomed reassurance you're ok to associate with.

Fuck ICE!