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@TechConnectify Excellent, can’t wait to watch it!
@TechConnectify yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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. 
@TechConnectify Oh man, I've struggled to wrap my brain around this since birth. Can't wait to be less confused.
@TechConnectify watt's it about?
@octothorpe u watt m8?
Geeze I wish Mastodon showed YouTube previews
@ClintonAnderson @TechConnectify yours doesn’t? I have a solid preview in my client
@ClintonAnderson @TechConnectify @wild1145 to be precise, I am using a separate client (Mona), not a web page
@ClintonAnderson I am also using tusky and I have a youtube preview - though only when I have expanded the toot, not as part of a feed - so there may be a setting you can change. I am on Android, so if you are on iOS it may be different.
@ClintonAnderson seemingly the preview cards got a redesign with version 28, so that could be it (I have it via f-droid, play store may not be updated idk).
@ClintonAnderson @humanfish @Tusky It is an annoying YouTube thing, they seem to intermittently just not allow the instance to request previews, for example here on MastodonApp.UK the preview is fine and looks normal, on my Universeodon account it doesn't show at all. Without doing some slightly questionable config changes for how we connect to YouTube there isn't a huge amount we can do on our end, YouTube could just allow anything that states it's "Mastodon" to get a preview but instead seems to be being a lot more funny about it.
@TechConnectify Yeah!
Looking forward to watching it :D
@TechConnectify when I watch your videos now, I like to play a little game where I think of the most off-topic, inconsequential, or “that’s just your opinion, man” thing I could comment on, and then I don’t. It’s 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 home… but it's most of the relevant ones.
(and it actually lets me turn off the power to my microwave… 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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Oh, you're on here! Cool, I love your videos.
@TechConnectify I thought I was the only one having trouble avoiding banging my head through a wall when something using ⅔ 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.
@mausmalone right, I had a similar reaction.
It's like, you use a hammer. That doesn't mean the hammer goes away; it means you used it.
@TechConnectify best explainer explains hte difference between power and energy.
@TechConnectify I love your (in your own words) animated frustration and the amount of info you provide :D
Thank you for the video 
@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.
@KidderVerse_Fire_Systems @TechConnectify Solar arrays over parking lots already exist. Maybe not where you live?
@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. 
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@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 Yay video!
Erm...I dunno, maybe I'm a nerd, but this seemed wildly basic compared with other videos...like stuff I knew before puberty. Are there really people who don't know these things? shudder...of course there are....tries not to doubt democracy any further than I already do...
Also, I think you downplay efficiency a bit...probably reasonable for the message of the video, but power does affect efficiency. For example, the gas stove will waste more heat when it is set higher because less of the heat produced makes it into the pot. OTOH an electric kettle is (slightly) more efficient when it is more powerful because less heat escapes into the environment during the shorter heating process.
And the difference in efficiency between gas and induction will almost certainly make induction cheaper even in the face of wildly more expensive electricity. And even if cooking costs are negligible (and they aren't in my wildly efficient Dutch home) it's still valuable to choose the more efficient option.
@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 Thank you!
@TechConnectify Thanks for posting this on Mastodon. I don't have YouTube account anymore so I don't get notified
@katzenmann @TechConnectify i think you can actually subscribe to youtube channels via rss. No account needed
@TechConnectify This is such a good explainer for anyone who pays for energy at all.
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Love the microwave / clock calculation!! 
@TechConnectify A very good explanation for people who struggle to understand the difference between "watt" and "watt hours".
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Really good.
@TechConnectify Love your videos and your presentation style. Always so interesting!
PS Your statement about Watts applying to more than electricity is probably more applicable to the American viewer, because in most of the rest of the world, car engine power has been specified in kW for decades now.
@TechConnectify Nice effort times distance...
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Very reminiscent of school! 
@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/ »free«. Better than fossil burning, but not free.
@TechConnectify this was a very interesting and enlightening video.
Thank you for doing it.
I’ll be thinking about power more.
@TechConnectify Still got one of those analog electric meters. I will refuse to change it till the bitter end.
@RavenLuni@furry.engineer @TechConnectify@mas.to
Those meters are owned by your power company. You won't have a choice when they replace it. Also, the mechanical meters were notorious for being very inaccurate. Not "the meter isn't recording your usage enough" but more rather "the meter is recording more electricity than you're using" so you're paying more money than you should be.
Source: Worked for a power company for almost 20 years.
@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.
