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Over the past few days, I've had several videos pop up on my radar that cover shortcomings of conventional power production. None linger on environmental impacts, with all of them focusing on what's bad about #coal/#fossilfuel power and what can be better than current practices.

While I can't downplay how climate concerns, all three feel like they're likely to be accessible to people who don't care about that, and for better or worse, that's necessary for change.

#solar #wind #renewables

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First up, @TechConnectify talks about how buying into alternative energy production such as solar and wind is investing money in infrastructure rather than pissing away money on consumable fuels, and how the former results in clear long term efficiency gains/reductions in resource extraction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

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Next, Anton Petrov talks about research into and the first commercial application of supercritical CO2 generators (as opposed to steam generators, which is what coal/gas/nuclear/etc. use to turn energy into electricity), and their potential to revolutionise energy production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDrC6fkjf0

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Finally, @hankgreen talks today about how dumb coal fired power plants are from a business standpoint and how inherent inefficiencies in the technology mean coal fired power plants are going to end up a thing of the past one way or another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvBx4D0Cms

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Either Hank or Techonology Connections had done a video some years back that would be a good addition here, which talked about how electricity is generation-agnostic, and switching everything to electric empowers us by eliminating dependencies of specific forms of generation, but I can't find it right now ;_;

@kazriko @hankgreen Yeah, all that's touched on in the video