How NYC Lights Up More Than 1,000,000 Buildings - NYC Revealed 

right! Kinda tired of the ‘pumpkin spice Becky ’ voice lol

Right? That's what we were going for. With a bit of a modern twist.

To be honest, I'm not sure I really like it that much. I actually liked the cheesiness of old cheddar videos (I mean, it's right in the name).

That’s right 😁

The voice is so announcery at first I thought it was computer-generated 😆

Is that a fact? lol

@@cheddar Yes. I did it based on 11,500 megawatts of peak power and 60 watts generated per bike - cause those exercise bikes at a museum always power 60 watt incandescent bulbs. It actually came out to 191.66 million bikes.

reminds me of that one black mirror episode where everyone is constantly riding on exercise bikes

How many offshore wind turbines?

@@tayzonday The random setup of powering a 60 watt bulb doesn't all that accurately predict the output of peddling a bike, but your estimate is better than my nonexistent one!

Well put.. I think one key to life is appreciating things that others take for granted.

Count yourself lucky. We had a blackout during the snowpocalypse here in Atlanta. Im on the 37th floor and had to do the same thing coming home.

My area Lower East Side/Chinatown didn't experience a blackout during 9/11, that's news to me! When I experienced the 2003 blackout, I appreciated the electricity when it came back on a day later.

Back in 2020 a super storm in Iowa took out power for almost a week. Luckily I had a power pack which I recharged off my car. Gas ran out so quick with people running them for generators

​@@verticalfracturei experienced a similar blackout but thankfully I lived on the ground floor.

That would be nice

Agreed

they should have run it till 2030

I'm not sure how anyone aware of Fukushima or Chernobyl can claim that nuclear is the 'safest' source of power.

@@mendonesiac how many died in Fukushima? Thousands die in solar plants every year, coal plants emitted more radiation than all nuclear disasters combined. It's like plane vs car. Noobs think plane is unsafe because they get the news of plane crashes. In reality car is thousand times dangerous

@@mendonesiac There have been many environmental impact studies on fukushima showing radiation damage was below any level longterm harmful to humans. In the short term, between 0 and 1 death was attributed to reactor meltdown. Chernobyl has a massive debate surrounding its longterm fatality figure, I'd look into it if you're interested, there are good points on both sides. A good metric to look at here is TWh/Death rate for production, you'll see that nuclear is always on par or less than solar or wind

When Covid was at its peak it wasn’t similar?

@@ThecrazyJH96 There weren't any blackouts during COVID's peak.

There was the blackout of 2003. That was almost the whole Northeast.

Yep, the big blackout was bigger.

keep it on mind that hamster is mutated

An XHampster 🐹

Way better than Mashed.

The point is not to replace but to move you down to peasant status with massively regulated access to energy.

Hydro is incredibly location dependent and nuclear has lots of stigma around it. Use geothermal locations where it works, use hydro in locations where it works, use wind in locations where it works and is needed, fix the stigma towards nuclear energy, and ue rooftop solar when none of the other options work. Rooftop solar will probably be used a ton due to how many off the power grid homes there are in rural areas. Solar will replace the gas homes.

One windmill blade, just the blade getting shipped requires an ENTIRE flatbed semi trailer to transport. No to mention the materials needed to manufacture these “renewables”. Yes the quotes are on purpose……3-4 pilot cars to run interference. How many electric transport trucks would be needed just to fill that need? How much land needs cleared? (Living in Kansas with many windmills thanks to the bloody wind all the time.) I can tell you it’s thousands of acres. And the goal is to build thousands of windmills? One is truly ignorant when you don’t recognize that EVERY THING you have ate or touched has fossil fuels attached to it. Hey AOC, newsflash….. hello….your makeup 💄 comes from fossil fuels. Hey green protestors…..the clothes you wear are made of fossil fuels. So is the sign your carrying, with marker and paint on it. Yup. All brought to you by fossil fuels….hey Chris cuomo your brand new house required fossil fuels to build, required earth to be moved and destroyed because the home you had wasn’t good enough somehow…..oh bloody well I could go on…you better wake up people.😮

If people are serious about lowering carbon emissions Nuclear is the best option by far.

I vote for building a wall and snipping the the power lines now...

@@sc1338 Soooooo, since they refuse nuclear, what do you think their ACTUAL goal is?

@@toomanymarys7355 I think some actually believe we can actually stop climate change, but most just have no idea what would happen if we cripple ourselves with banning ICE vehicles and fossil fuels in general. I’m 100% behind nuclear energy. SC has the most nuclear power plants In the nation and its great!

Cuomo is an idiot for closing down Indian Point

Chinese will be invading soon without the US to stop them, so that sounds like the least of your worries.

That happened here in NYC & most of the Northeast in 2003.

Exactly. Nuclear is the only realistic option. People are ignorant if they think otherwise

They aren’t serious… that’s the issue …. It’s all a dream and they think that wind and solar are the only solutions…. Personally if we built a geothermal plant over Yellowstone we could really be in business… but I’m not trying to ruin that national treasure

Nuclear is the future

Too bad they cost some 5x as much as solar and wind and take 10x as long to come online.

@@kirkrotger9208 yeah, but I think they're great as a baseline source

@@kirkrotger9208 Well, they produce more than ten times the power solar stations etc. produce.

@@henkdekraai5290 Not per dollar.

That assumes you consider the Texan one to be major, Quebec also has their own grid.

Texas is not a major ekectrigrid though. It doesn't even cover the whole of texas. The areas near Louisiana are running on their electric grid because the big business's there need stable reliable power and knew a small interconnect like Texas wouldn't be able to handle it, and they were right.

Texas tried to go with wind and solar and it bit them in the ass.

@@catsbyondrepair The vast majority of Texas' energy comes from Coal and Natural Gas, pretty much all of Texas' energy sources failed because they didn't properly winterize them. Blaming wind and especially solar which makes up 1% of Texas' energy seems rather silly when they weren't the only ones to fail.

@@mister_i9245 The Quebec Grid powers electric heaters in the winter in Montreal and the province of Quebec and then in the summer months NY buys the excess power from the Quebec Grid to power air conditioning units in NY.

To be clear for others, it's "Big Allis" as in Allis Chalmers the prime builder of the plant. Not named after someone's sister.

@@sccengr it is also not a combined cycle unit. Big Allis is a simple cycle unit, which also rarely ever runs. On the site there is another unit that is a 1-1 combined cycle.

Big allis turbine i worked on many times...for Con ed..

It’s bc it’s kept cool in there bc of all the monitors and stuff

You miss the point of this exercise. They don't want you to remain in your current lifestyle. You will live in zee pods and eat zee boogs.

The NuScale reactors have the safety certification to be placed inside the city limits. Their Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) is the site's perimeter fence

IP 3 was PASNY it was 1000 MGWT,also Entergy Unit 2 was 1000 MGWT too!Indian Point had 2000 Mega watts of Power!

Yeah, just like SimCity

Yea and they just shut Indian Point plant

Mumbai is cool but it’s no NYC, not by a long shot

@@KrishnaAdettiwar There's potential tho.....

Vermont used to get 75% of electricity from one Nuclear Power Plant it was called Vermont Yankee it is now shut down and being decommissioned

Yes, the safest way to produce electricity is Nuclear. Look it up

Shhhhhh. That doesn’t fit their narrative

Lmaoooo …, you can wish in one hand and shit in the other … tell me what one fills up first

What a sheep.

I know lots of the old buildings were heated with steam. Are any of the new ones still heated that way and are the new power plants sending steam out?

@@jrunner5k Thanks for comment. Those are very good questions. Sadly I have no answers. Time to 'Google'.

Lic not long island lmao

@@mohammedhoque7671 LIC is one of the Wealthiest neighborhoods outside Manhattan. Far moreso than anywhere on LI other than the Hamptons.

Changed all my lighting to LEDs, including my fluorescent fixtures in my kitchen and bathroom. Not only saved me a lot of money, but also are brighter than any other bulbs! Also saves the planet, too, because they use a lot less electricity!

Lmaooooo are you for real

It’s hurricane sandy….HURRICANE… stop saying superstorm… that’s a made up term for insurance reasons

Not Robert Moses State Park in Fire Island. Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant near Niagara Falls.

We are going to have to remove this comment

@@cheddar hahaha, if you have to

@@harevalkyrie5373 It's still there, life is good....