Casey Liss“Oh. … Bingo.”
My goodness, every word of this whole video, but most especially the “after show”. Bravo, Alec.
★★★★★
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Some *excellent* YouTube comments on this one, as well:
> Technology Conenctions talks about solar and then goes nuclear
> Came for the capacity; stayed for the resistance
Leon Cowle
John Willis 🔰@caseyliss he nails it and I love him for it so much!
Johan Malmström@caseyliss thanks for this link Casey!
Karate Gum@caseyliss Is this going to make me very mad or very happy that we’re trying to electrify everything in our lives?
Ava 
@bothears @caseyliss Happy that we’re trying to electrify everything, mad that a lot of people are incentivized to prevent that from happening
Nu Modular@avakining At this point, I'd be teaching my offspring permaculture, in a developing country - far, far away - from the parasites.
gormster
monkeydom, Ar.T@caseyliss Thanks for putting him on the radar for me some years ago!
Also please all independent content creators, continue to take a stand. That's what the independents and direct funding is for! I root for all of you turning this ship around eventually, but all of you have to take action for this to stay in the realm of possible.
atomicangelTLDR; too broke to continue affording electric
The only issue I have with going electric is a personal one: I can't afford to fix my car when the warranty is up, and I can't afford to replace it when that happens. I won't be able to save enough money to live decently when I retire if I did that.
I currently have a plugin hybrid (Chevy Volt, RIP) that meets my needs but the battery is $20k+ and that's not including the labor.
Technology Connections did a colab with another creator where they did a cross country trip in the Silverado EV and it was more costly than gas or diesel. For those of us living underneath the poverty line, if we needed to charge away from home it would hurt too much.
So I'm falling back to another plan until we as a country can actually afford electric: A Volkswagen Jetta or Golf TDI, 2000-2014 models, manual transmission. If I have to drive a liquid fuel vehicle, I'm gonna enjoy it. If I'm lucky, it'll last as long as I do and be there at my funeral lol.
@atomicangel I get that. It isn’t a panacea, but hopefully as tech improves so will prices.
I agree. In the right now, I’m doing the right thing fiscally for myself and family. If I’m lucky, the future will get better.
I just finished the video, and he’s saying what I’ve been saying to people for awhile.
Quentin Zervaas@caseyliss great video, thanks. We have such cognitive dissonance in Australia where everybody has solar and many have batteries, but boomers still want coal and natural gas, even though they understand the economics. Kills me.
Squozen 🇪🇺@qzervaas @caseyliss the boomers will be dead soon.