OK so I made a video.
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As someone who's looking into the whole vanlife experience for long term plans, this might be just the crash course I've been needing. š¤
@TechConnectify Oh man, I've struggled to wrap my brain around this since birth. Can't wait to be less confused.
Geeze I wish Mastodon showed YouTube previews
@TechConnectify when I watch your videos now, I like to play a little game where I think of the most off-topic, inconsequential, or āthatās just your opinion, manā thing I could comment on, and then I donāt. Itās how I show my appreciation to you.
@TechConnectify Being a cyclist, I am intimately familiar with the difference between power and energy.
@TechConnectify Yeah, the same difference as between the speed and the travelled distance.
@TechConnectify I must disagree.
A new Technology Connections video is a lot better than merely "OK".
I know exactly what device uses how much power AND how much energy.
there's not a power meter on every device in my homeā¦ but it's most of the relevant ones.
(and it actually lets me turn off the power to my microwaveā¦ what I do, because I too noticed how ridiciously much power it draws to be a broken clock, displaying blinking '00:00')
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@TechConnectify I thought I was the only one having trouble avoiding banging my head through a wall when something using ā the power but needing twice as long to do the job is described as "energy efficient"! No it ducking isn't, I'll give you it's power efficient but it certainly isn't energy efficient.
@TechConnectify Gonna go on record as a pedant to say "number of Joules used" is fine to me. The energy is definitely being employed to do something.
"number of Joules used UP" would maybe hit different.
@TechConnectify best explainer explains hte difference between power and energy.
@TechConnectify Just watched this video, Great job as always! You noted about fields of solar or wind, I've always told people that as a secondary option, we could build giant solar arrays over parking lots, Imagine all the sunlight being used to provide electricity to i dont know the attached building or charging EVs. Instead of making people cars unbearable hot during the summer months.
@TechConnectify Can't wait till I'm off work to watch this. Not quite sure what this says about me...
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Thank you so much! I've been telling people this for many years, but they usually don't understand. (I may not have explained it well. š«£)
@TechConnectify nice. Putting it on the watch later list. Which is why the tracking is not coming from my subscriptions page.
@TechConnectify can we make this a mandatory watch for every journalist, please?
Would save me a lot of screaming at the news, which have lines like "the Power plant produces 1 Megawatt per day".
@TechConnectify I wish that video existed in Polish, I'd send it to sooo many family members....
@TechConnectify Thanks for putting energy in producing such a powerful video!
@TechConnectify Thanks for posting this on Mastodon. I don't have YouTube account anymore so I don't get notified
@TechConnectify A very good explanation for people who struggle to understand the difference between "watt" and "watt hours".
@TechConnectify OK, so this is quite low level, and it is important to make this distinction clear also for the average American or european middle school kid. Thanks!
I just hope that people don't think this is all they need to know to judge what is needed on a grid scale. Electricity isn't like water, or petroleum.
I find the insert about wind/solar/battery power a bit irritating in this regard, because those are emphatically /not/ Ā»freeĀ«. Better than fossil burning, but not free.
@TechConnectify Still got one of those analog electric meters. I will refuse to change it till the bitter end.
@TechConnectify I've re-posted this video in my EV group. EV drivers do often confuse Watts and Watt hours. Most of us understand our big battery as similar to a tank of fuel - go further and you use more, but find charging the battery more difficult to understand in terms of how much time will it take depending on what source you've plugged it into. The more sophisticated public charge points will work this out for you, but what about when you plug into a 10amp or 15 amp source at home? What improvement would you get from a home wall charger? Etc.
@TechConnectify this is something I constantly need to explain to people. It's wild how few understand this.
I, literally, LOVE this video.
(especially when you go crazy about renewable energy!)
Your rant at 40 minutes in the video about renewable energy was great!
@TechConnectify Hands down the best explainer of power versus energy and the watt hour that Iāve seen so far. Not done yet, but excited to keep watching. Thanks for the great work!
@TechConnectify Just came here from YouTube to thank you for your awesome, well-prepared, thoughtful, intelligent and funny content. This is what I love about the interweb. Sadly this high quality content that's filled to the brim with enthusiasm, love and overwhelming expertise seems to be in decline. Thank you for keeping up your incredible work!
@TechConnectify I'm surprised you didn't also mention the fact that kCal are also *just energy* and that we essentially have 2 or 3 super common but different units we use to measure energy in our daily lives (kWh, kCal and rarely kJ).
It also makes understanding losing weight a lot easier when you realise that energy out > energy in is the simplest and most sustainable way of losing weight*
@TechConnectify one thing I found odd was the portable power station stuff at the end: wouldnāt a power bank be a more common example? A 20 ampere one has about 73 wh of energy, a full blast Steam Deck needs 25w: thatās less than 3 hours worth of entertainment (IF full blast) during a long trip.
@TechConnectify An excellent one . your connextras follow up is also excellent. Made me think. You're damn right, thank you for making it obvious.
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Hello, could you also explain in particular cooking efficiency (maybe in connextras)? I know you are not a cooking channel, but I see these claims that a pressure/electric cooker is more efficient than cooking rice on a pot. Why is that if energy to cook rice is indeed same? Is it simply heat losses from the top? Can you recover some loss by covering the pot? Or is it simply that pressure cookers are power efficient (i.e. takes less time to cook with equal energy?)