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And didn't he say in his latest video that no one was paying him to say all that political bullshit?
Technology Connections - Come watch a autistic man sperg over a fridge for 1 hour straight
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Do you know where you seen that? I thought he was 110% gay (not that there's anything wrong with that)
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Well, he is right, the room will reach the same temperature, if the heating power is the same (it is, 1500W) and the thermal losses of the room are the same (there's no mention of the room properties changing).
Cold air intakes might make some sense for cars that don't already have them from the factory, but most cars I've seen already have a factory cold air intake. And the way most people install aftermarket air intakes is just stupid and even in some cases harmful to the engine (K&N filters which are very shitty filters that let a lot of fine dust through which will score the cylinder walls and destroy the engine over time, paper or woven plastic filters are the best, highest efficiency dust filters, and guess what, the OEM already uses them)
Yes, 1500W in is 1500W out. Unless it's being converted into something other than heat, like light, sound, electricity, or mechanical motion.
Heatsinks have fins to lower the thermal resistance to air. A heatsink that has more surface area will have a lower temperature difference between the heatsink and air than a heatsink with less fins, which will have a higher temperature difference.
The thermal resistance is called Rth (resistance thermal), usually measured in K/W (kelvins per watt) and the temperature difference dT (delta t) in kelvin. A heatsink with 1 K/W heated by 1W will reach equilibrium at 1K above ambient temperature. A heatsink with 10K/W will reach a dT of 10K with the same 1W. The same power will be disippated in both cases.
In extreme cases you might turn your heatsink into a red hot glowing lump of metal, but that won't mean that the emitted power will be any higher than if it isn't glowing. The emitted power will always be equal to the transferred power, in steady state, where thermal mass has no effect.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. 1500W electrical input is 1500W heat output in both cases. The difference is how the heat is emitted. In the case of a fan/convective heater, the heating element heats the air via conduction, the fan blows the hot air out. Little or no heat is radiated. A quartz heater or an old-fashioned radiator is primarily a radiant emitter, it radiates heat in the IR light spectrum. An oil-filled radiator also has quite a bit of thermal mass, it stores some energy in the weight of the oil.
The reason you feel such a large difference in convective versus radiant heating is a phenomena called "stratification". Air's density decreases with increasing temperature, so hot air is more buoyant than cold air. The hot air that's being blown out of a radiant heater will thus float up to the ceiling of a room and stay there until it cools down sufficiently to fall down again, or until the entire room is filled up with hot air, from the ceiling down. This is why it takes a long time for it to heat up where you usually need it the most, at the floor. This can be partially mitigated by a ceiling fan that mixes the air around in the room, but then you have more heat losses through the wall.
Radiant heating, in contrast, acts like a ray of light. It shines from the heat radiator directly onto all surrounding objects and surfaces that are in line of sight, even straight down. So you will feel it a lot more directly, but only on the side of your body that is directly facing the radiator, the other side that's in the shadow will be cold. Radiant heaters will eventually heat up the air too, but indirectly, through heating up surfaces which will then heat up the air.
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So he is very obviously autistic. One thing a lot of autistic people struggle with is telling when someone is scamming them or when someone is lying to protect their vested interest.
Autistics understand clear cut facts and figures very well and have an extreme desire for them. He can't deal with or understand the messy human side of things. Which means he ends up being one-shot by propaganda. Propaganda is easy to understand and has a clear and simple explanation for any possible question. Which is sadly what his channel is descending into, if he keeps this up his videos will be naught but a story someone else wrote to protect their own interests.
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Not even two minutes in and I am already mad
"Companies are not covering rural areas in cellphone towers because it wouldn't make them that much MONEY"
No you fucktard, it probably would make them NEGATIVE money, companies are totally fine with increasing profits by a small amount.
He is either too dumb to realize this or he is just dishonest and wants to subsidized
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I canceled my Patreon sub (subbed due to early access videos on the $1 or $2 lowest tier to get them for a few years) to his channel after hearing about this, as I didn't care to hear about political crap from his channel; I'm glad I did with his recent political rants too.
Rules for thee, but not for I.
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He also said anyone that doesn't replace their standard AC/gas furnaces with heat pumps and max out insulation and pay $20k+ on it is an idiot cause they'd save so much money and the environment. Well no. And also he just recently showed he still has gas and said his place could be better insulated too. Just another eco-commie that thinks his feelings are true facts and that profit is evil.
Look up 8-bit guy's exploration into home solar as well. Dude spent SO MUCH and fell for it and in the end said yeah it wasn't really worth it. Like a 5 episode series he did a few years ago. At least Alec said home setups aren't really worth it for most, I was surprised he admitted that.
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I mentioned that he drives a Nissan Figaro in the other thread already
He cut his hair recently so that at least delays the trooning out until it grows back. Did anyone mention his car yet?
Yeah, he drives a fucking Nissan Figaro. The gayest car ever made. Look at that soyface. At least he did drive it until he bought the electric Hyundai Ioniq that he made videos with lately.
Yeah, he drives a fucking Nissan Figaro. The gayest car ever made. Look at that soyface. At least he did drive it until he bought the electric Hyundai Ioniq that he made videos with lately.
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Nobody was arguing against this. Technology Connections was arguing that fancier, expensive heaters are scams purely on the basis that they use the same amount of power as a cheap one. Without considering how effectively they are actually projecting that output. A small hot metal block sitting in a plastic casing isn't going to warm things as well as a much larger hot metal grill actively dumping that heat into the surrounding air with high amounts surface area and airflow over that surface area to leech that heat away and into the air.
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Yeah. If that's your point, they're essentially different, they operate differently like I said. But the people I quoted above were saying that one is de facto better at "heating a room" than the other, which is false. You might feel them differently, as one heats the air convectively, while the other heats things radiantly. But they both heat the room with the same power. You have to be clear that you mean "you feel the heat much better with a more expensive radiant heater than with a cheap convective heater".
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The heater is in a battle with all manner of heat loss in the room. If the heater can't actually move the heat it is producing and merely gets hot itself, it isn't going to heat the entire room as effectively as a better designed unit. It is functionally wasting energy because it is taking longer to fulfill its purpose while using power at the same rate. The longer it takes, the more heat is lost to passive loss from the walls and ambient air coming in and whatever else. You get what you pay for.
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Same. I was on a higher tier until whenever it was a year or two ago that he announced he was making so much money on Patreon that he was going to just start donating it all to charity is something gay like that. I went to the $1 sub to get the early access vids, but this whole situation made me realize nothing of value would be lost by cancelling entirely.
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The funny thing too about the Starlink cope is that Starlink also provides coverage say in the middle of the ocean, or in Antarctica.
Unless AT&T builds floating Cell Towers in the ocean!
Unless AT&T builds floating Cell Towers in the ocean!
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Not to mention you'd think he'd be a big Ukraine guy and they use it a lot. There's so much that it does all over instead of just giving net to the hillbillies in the US like he thinks. Fiber and tower are just not better obviously for a good portion of use cases over sats.
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It does move the heat it's producing. If it wouldn't it would catch fire and melt down into a puddle of molten plastic and metal. The difference is where it moves the heat. Either into the air (which will float up to the ceiling) or into IR radiation which will heat up all surfaces in line of sight. This is why it also matters how the room is shaped, if it has high ceilings, a convective heater will absolutely suck as all its heat will go to the ceiling, whereas if the ceiling is low the room will fill up with hot air in a much quicker time. Same for how big the room is, if it's a large room, a convective heater will have to heat the entire room's air, compared to a radiant heater that will always just heat its direct vicinity regardless of how big the room is.
But the heat isn't going anywhere else other than staying inside the room. If the room has the same heat losses, both heaters will use the same amount of electricity to heat it to the same temperature.
If you get into the discussion of temperature feel, you're stepping into a completely different discussion, whether a convective or radiant heater is better at making you feel warmer in this particular room that you're in, but that's now a much more complicated subject that will have different answers depending on the shape, size and insulative properties of the room.
But both heaters are emitting the same amount of heat: if they're drawing 1.5kW of electricity, they're emitting 1.5kW of heat, which is going 100% into the room, nowhere else. It can't magically exit the heater via a wormhole into another dimension.
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My favorite part of this fag car is that it's 3 speed, so even having only a miniscule 1 liter turbo engine, it burns a fuckton of gas and oil if you drive it in the highway, and it's 1000 cc instead of the kei car limit of 600, so you won't even get the tax exemptions or the ability to buy it without a government garage license, or toll free city driving in Japan.I mentioned that he drives a Nissan Figaro in the other thread already
He cut his hair recently so that at least delays the trooning out until it grows back. Did anyone mention his car yet?
Yeah, he drives a fucking Nissan Figaro. The gayest car ever made. Look at that soyface. At least he did drive it until he bought the electric Hyundai Ioniq that he made videos with lately.Reactions:
He didn't buy just a kei car, which would already make him lolcow reddit adjacent by itself, he bought the useless performative one,
It would be less gay if he bought a purple vw bus with dildos as bull horns on the roof and it would be more environmentally friendly.
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I legit switched off his renewable energy video after he started trooning over "muh heckin brown people in vans". Shame, i thought he made some decent points up until then. I always had a feeling in the back of my head about this and I hoped so hard against it only for it to be so.
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And works after say a hurricane wipes out all the infrastructure within 100 miles.
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That all eventually turns to heat, too. Thermodynamics 101 - all energy eventually becomes heat.