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Remember, the midwest is a perfect place to cover mass areas with solar panels because they are safer and cleaner than anything else.


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Actually I don't remember, is it possible this is the actual one he went to? Sure looks very similar and it can't be that far from him. (Edit checked, and he said he went to one in Illinois so not exact same but has to be really close)
 
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mlanguishi said:
Remember, the midwest is a perfect place to cover mass areas with solar panels because they are safer and cleaner than anything else.
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Reminder that all solar panels are made up of highly carcinogenic materials once expired or damaged. Broken solar panels are extremely dangerous and can induce cadmium accumulation in the lungs which is permanent and never goes away. They should never be touched or approached without proper hazardous material gear. That will stay in the soil for quite some time as I imagine they will NOT be mitigating it and will likely just replace the solar panels with more solar panels.
 
Whereas a tornado derecho hit a nuclear reactor facility in Iowa and it just blew over the cooling towers.
 
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indomitable snowman said:
Whereas a tornado derecho hit a nuclear reactor facility in Iowa and it just blew over the cooling towers.
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A proper reactor containment building will withstand anything short of a direct hit from a nuke or a VERY hard and heavy bunker buster. Naturally, the Soviets, being Slavs and therefore morally opposed to spending any money on infrastructure that could be instead spent getting blackout drunk on vodka, built no such structure at Chernobyl NPP...
 
indomitable snowman said:
Whereas a tornado derecho hit a nuclear reactor facility in Iowa and it just blew over the cooling towers.
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Cooling towers are relatively optional and have no radiative water going in there, it's just fresh water best way to disperse heated water for now. Coal plants often have them too. It's not needed if there's other options to dispense excess heat at all.

I do think more modern 3+ and 4 gens need to be made to replace the crummy gen 2's. Sadly it's so over regulated that it's easier to keep the riskier gen 2's over going over to 3+.

It's all very expensive up front. TC misses the point that the tech gets better and cheaper overall while the regulation and government silliness doesn't evolve and keeps the prices higher than needed overall.
 
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Claims not to be a train fan, but a to be a train evangelist, at the same time. Huh? Starts a political segment, this video is four years old, so I guess he was political on connextras for far longer than on main. I am not familiar with American public spending policies and their criticisms, but it feels like he is heavily strawmanning the stance he opposes, or maybe his opposition is just retarded. Apparently, people are saying "Government should stop investing into trains, because the aren't profitable.", and the focus is on them making a profit. I'd think the criticism would be "they aren't profitable, because no one wants to use them, therefore it doesn't make sense for the government to keep operating them at a loss", but I dunno, I'm clueless on this. I do like trains, if for shorter rides.
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Another example of him soaking up opinions from Reddit in place of research. Amtrak, America's public train service, has a very constrained budget that is not directly subsidized and is rolling out upgraded lines out slowly. They only make sense in very limited geographies like the Atlantic corridor, the Texas Triangle, and the north-south line in Colorado. There are private rail companies like Bright Line that operate in Florida that have gained attention as well.

There is commuter rail as well but this is generally run on a state by state basis so it's a crap shoot. Most are under invested but we are entering Urbanist territory and recommend the corrospending thread here.

mlanguishi said:
Remember, the midwest is a perfect place to cover mass areas with solar panels because they are safer and cleaner than anything else.


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Actually I don't remember, is it possible this is the actual one he went to? Sure looks very similar and it can't be that far from him. (Edit checked, and he said he went to one in Illinois so not exact same but has to be really close)
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What I have learned from this is that Indiana is run by niggers who approve obviously shit designs that don't support thin aluminum and glass panels from four points. I have never seen single bar, center support for solar panels. Just picking a panel up you know they aren't meant for cantilevered loads. Basically any prestamped engineering plans you will see are rated to well above the windspeed you would expect in your area with the structures built like a brick shithouse.

Party Hat Wurmple said:
Reminder that all solar panels are made up of highly carcinogenic materials once expired or damaged. Broken solar panels are extremely dangerous and can induce cadmium accumulation in the lungs which is permanent and never goes away. They should never be touched or approached without proper hazardous material gear. That will stay in the soil for quite some time as I imagine they will NOT be mitigating it and will likely just replace the solar panels with more solar panels.
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That is a small portion of cells on the market, numbers vary but it looks like ~5% of the domestic American installations per year. The vast majority of solar panels you see are going to be based on silicone which is substantially less toxic. As to the toxicity of Cadmium Tellurium panels, it's bonded in a crystal lattice. Chlorine is toxic, bond it with sodium, a lot less so. It is known as table salt. Another fun one is dental amalgam, which is a mercury alloy they mix up and shove in your teeth. Point being that elemental makeup does not immediately mean toxic.

The wisdom of using these materials like this is another matter, Tellurium is extremely valuable otherwise.
 
jalopy said:
That is a small portion of cells on the market, numbers vary but it looks like ~5% of the domestic American installations per year. The vast majority of solar panels you see are going to be based on silicone which is substantially less toxic. As to the toxicity of Cadmium Tellurium panels, it's bonded in a crystal lattice.
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The silicone ones are still toxic when damaged in the manner showed above. Those are also primarily used for residences. This is not a residence. It is a solar farm and they're not the same type of panels that you'd see on a home. They likely are not silicone because these panels are meant to generate lots of electricity and provide supplemental power to potentially multiple towns. The crystal lattice does nothing when it's broken and damaged like this. Potentially every damaged cell is leaking.
 
I seriously made an account on this site to see how this thread unfolds lol.
I’ve watched almost all of his videos and they are pretty good, Enjoyed his in-depth talks about household and retro tech stuff.
His editing and presentation are top-tier too, clean, and genuinely high quality. Feels like hanging out with a knowledgeable friend who actually knows his stuff.

Then he made the newest video and decided to turn himself into a lolcow at the end talking politics for 20 minutes lmao.
 
UT2004 said:
I seriously made an account on this site to see how this thread unfolds lol.
I’ve watched almost all of his videos and they are pretty good, Enjoyed his in-depth talks about household and retro tech stuff.
His editing and presentation are top-tier too, clean, and genuinely high quality. Feels like hanging out with a knowledgeable friend who actually knows his stuff.
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I highly recommend Tech Tangents. He focuses on computer tinkering and some history with a few outliers such as a(definitely singular) HydroThunder(as in not multiple) arcade machine with frequent uploads. If you're a real OG he might seem familiar. If you remember a certain Druaga1 and his friend AkBKuKu, that's Tech Tangents. He's never mentioned politics on his channel and based on some comments of his I've seen on his recent videos he strictly never will.
Also welcome aboard!
 
Inco G. Nito said:
I highly recommend Tech Tangents. He focuses on computer tinkering and some history with a few outliers such as a(definitely singular) HydroThunder(as in not multiple) arcade machine with frequent uploads. If you're a real OG he might seem familiar. If you remember a certain Druaga1 and his friend AkBKuKu, that's Tech Tangents. He's never mentioned politics on his channel and based on some comments of his I've seen on his recent videos he strictly never will.
Also welcome aboard!
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Oh yeah I've seen this guys Digital PC game DRM video a while back! Guess I'll sub now since he still seems really cool.
 
I just watched his (Technology Connections) video on the Clapper and the TVGuardian while I was eating and it was pretty good.
 
He just posted a new video, and I'm relieved to report there was no TDS, and aside from a few unnecessary tangents regarding EVs, no politisperging either. (I know, I'm surprised too).


I'll edit this soon to add an archive.
 
LilShotaBoy said:
He just posted a new video, and I'm relieved to report there was no TDS, and aside from a few unnecessary tangents regarding EVs, no politisperging either. (I know, I'm surprised too).


I'll edit this soon to add an archive.
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Won't let me edit, but here's a local copy. [540p]


Shouldn't he chock the rear wheels after he drives it up the ramp?
 
New second channel video. Three minutes in and he's already kvetching about America being "car-centric".
 
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