I love this! Journalists rarely go back and tell how we fixed something they are always looking at the next issue that is juicy dirty laundry. Good work and a great idea for a video.
Yeah I love this idea, I was very interested in all news about EV charging developments after their video discussing issues with the EV charging networks...
International journalist do go back. as they often just live in the region they cover for there news agency. However often only in news papers that have to fill there pages. You do see them go back to them. for TV or radio the time they have for covering news is just to short. so you need to make a choice.
@@sirBrouwer Last century media, TV & radio, because on air time is so short that trying to explain almost anything means that they don’t explain anything at all. Demographics of viewers & listeners of these mediums means it won’t be long and no one will be there to tune in.
@@briancavanagh7048 for radio you do have it but then you tune in to a news radio station. But for general radio or TV that is not dedicated to news only they have to share airtime. But if you want to dive in there are always options. From a extended newspaper to a news magazine or even dedicated papers to a exact subject. Both in paper as online.
I think a lot has changed in the narration as well. Early on, Sam usually sounded like he wasn't really happy to voice any of his videos, but now he sounds more enthusiastic, and the tone of voice now seems better than it was 6 years ago. Maybe it could be of the two other channels, but that's just me.
I really miss his old narration style. That's what got me hooked in the first place. Nowadays I don't see the difference between a Wendover and a Half as Interesting video
In 2018, I moved to a metro area that is constructing an extension of one of its light rail lines. I had a first row seat, so to speak, for viewing the construction from my apartment, and I found it all fascinating. I searched on RUclips for how bridges were built, and eventually that got me to Wendover Productions and the "Insane Logistics" series. Soon after, YT brought me to Real Engineering, and down the rabbit hole I went. So if your Google analytics shows an outlier in your target audience and getting views from a female in the Medicare age range, that's probably me. Thanks for keeping me educated and entertained all these years. 😊
@@3abxo390slowly and over budget, but yes! And, if I’m guessing the metro area (notably they didn’t say city), the twin cities is planning on building an extension to the other line.
0:00 Intro 1:05 The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem 4:00 The Failed Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine 6:07 The World's Most Useful Airport 9:31 Why There Are So Many Shortages 12:35 The Little Plane War 15:00 How Rwanda is Becoming the Singapore of Africa 19:02 How Africa is Becoming China's China 21:37 Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins 24:47 Australia's China Problem 26:40 GiveWell ad read
@2:12, I don't think Sam knows how complicated a gas station infrastructure is. Everything has to be explosion proof and multiple safety redundancies. There is tank level monitoring, leak testing, vapor recovery, fuel quality monitoring, safe disconnects for when you drive off with the nozzle attached, multiple payment processing, sump monitoring and corrosion proofing, and automating fuel deliveries. All of it helps ensure fuel doesn't leak into the ground and is driven by regulation. All of this is electronic too, and it has to be designed not to ignite fuel and blow everything up.
My question is, given a fixed amount of safety is put into each system would a gas station be more prone to have a major accident or an electric station? also the regulations are not very mature when it comes to electric systems, the testing tech isn't mature, the redundancy standard isn't clear, the power supply quality tolerances aren't clear, the car power input capabilities over their limit isn't clear. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
@@Volatile_Viking Both should be sufficiently safe given gas station equipment is all third-party tested and inspected (given it's not some diversity hire doing the work). Design work doesn't begin even without UL/cUL being involved for North America. Charging equipment also is likely under the microscope from UL. All that being said, you still don't want to run your car over a charging station or gas dispenser. My main point to Sam was he thought dispensing gas was trivial compared to charging a car.
@@grandtheftavocado diversity hires don't mean uneducated hires, it means that if you have 20 white candidates and one black candidate, you hire the one black one to seem more diverse. Stop being stupid
Funny story about the Toyota " just in time" part of their Production System is that is closer to the newer system you've described. The pre pandemic system that was widely adopted was the book cover summary version with the actual Toyota specified system was described as operating like supermarkets shelves in the Toyota documents
@@martinum4Toyota stockpiled microchips that lasted a year into the pandemic when other companies cut production due to shortages. It wasn't enough, but far better than competitors.
@@richardarriaga6271Toyota did good through the chip shortage, I got the 2021 Corolla Hybrid in Jan 2021 and many others did too, it was well built, affordable, and most importantly, in stock, you could get one in a few weeks. Meanwhile if you wanted a car from European brands you were looking at waiting for months like my mom did for her new VW that same year, or you were looking at buying 2-3 year old cars at prices higher than they were sold when brand new. As it tends to happen in business, execs saw a company do something well and rushed out to copy it while completely half assing it, the result, global manufacturing issues at 1st major bump. At least they learned from their mistakes, turns out saving yourself on 5% of costs this quarter is not worth losing 3-4 times that in sales over the next few years. Also the west seems to have learned something, and both USA and EU are moving manufacturing closer to or in many cases back home.
This sadly happens all the time. The original cubicle was designed to reconfigure to fit whatever the team was doing that day, and make the office more dynamic. I've heard horror stories of what "agile" and "scrum" have come to mean in some workplaces. My take is that it's easier to push through dodgy practices if they're hidden behind a buzzword
On the St. Helena portion you mislabeled the fiber-optic cable soure in Portugal. First, its location is Sesimbra, no Lisbon; secondly, the marker in the map is neither in Lisbon, nor in Sesimbra. The marker is in the middle of Alentejo. Google has the location of the cable in Lisbon, so I assume that's where you got your info. Apart from that mistake, great video! Really liked it
These video's are great to make. It addresses older video's and how they've changed. Whether that be "why my video was wrong" or "how the situation developed further", it gives more info regarding situations without entirely needing to replace/redo it
Hey Wendover. I really appreciate your channel. There are very few channels I can trust with only posting high quality videos and only when the creator is confident it is well researched. Thank you for raising the standards for edutainment on youtube
I am so happy for the remote island! That business model sounds like such a win win and now they have a dedicated capacity of more than 15Gbit per person. I think that's a great investment from our government (EU) and a good use of my money for a change.
I fell inexplicably in love with St Helena after your video. I must’ve watched it over a dozen times. I’m delighted to see the update showing them taking the steps to successfully grow. I can’t wait to get there one day.
Yeah, the St. Helena documentary made an impact on me. So did the one on the Marshall Islands, but sadly that story doesn't seem to be getting too much better.
Hard to believe it's been 8 years already. I first discovered the channel in 2018 when "Cities at Sea: How Aircraft Carriers Work" popped into my recommendations, and I've been hooked ever since. At the time it already felt like an old, mature, experienced channel, and yet looking back now it's come so far since then. Congrats to Sam and the rest of the team, and good luck with the next 8 years!
I'm not sure I'd say Anker was a startup 6 years ago. They were a top seller on amazon a few years before that, known for their particularly high quality cables.
Correction: Russia planted millions of mines. Mine clearing personnel have shared stories of single fields with several hundred mines of mixed types, sometimes stacked on top of each other. Smart jumping mines (PTKM-1R) also complicate the work as clearing vehicles can get hit from above before even getting close.
Yeah, it;s easily several million mines if not more, if you count the leaf/butterfly or whatever they are called mines then it's probably in the 10-100s of millions.
Excellent video! As a huge British Overseas Territories nerd (even more so than you Sam!) I actually went to the airport in London during the pandemic, just to see the folk from St Helena arrive on their short-lived government-financed direct flight!
That coal mine at 26:25 isn't in Australia, it's in Germany, more specifically the surface mine at Garzweiler. My immersion is ruined, ruined I tell you!
CCS chargers can supply AC as well, that's what the top two small pins do. The two large pins at the bottom are for fast DC charging. Shoutout to Technology Connections for implanting this useless trivia into my brain
Well, the J-1772 connector can do AC charging. CCS is the added DC pins on the bottom of the J-1772. I don't think a CCS charger can provide AC power as CCS is a DC standard.
12:35 I remember that video about C-Series. Was one of many reasons and possible that kick which made me to accept offer from airBaltic to fly their A223s. What a wonderful time, wonderful country, wonderful airplane. I work for different airline, for corporate business now, smaller planes, weird places around the world, but A223 is still in my heart, as well as all the collegues and wonderful people I met during my stay in Latvia... fraking COVID, I could be captain now! :D
Sounds like some very encouraging news on a lot of fronts! I'm also quite glad that EV chargers are being standardized, after seeing Apple fight for years and years to keep their unique charging ports on their phones.
EV manufacturers are also going to be providing adapters for Tesla so existing CCS cars can use the Supercharger network without relying on backported support by Tesla :)
8:32 : It's wild to think that the EU allowed this kind of money to a remote, barely populated overseas territory of the UK AFTER they had voted to leave.
5:43 "as they (the russians) fired ten to eleven million rounds last year. I looked up german numbers from WW1 just for fun. In comparison. in July/August 1916 the germans also fired eleven million rounds (fieldartillery) on all fronts.
11:36 A Tesla contains dramatically fewer chips than most ICE vehicles--like 1/5 as many. They're just more advanced chips capable of handling more functionality--and also don't duplicate because Tesla is vertically integrated instead of relying on suppliers that have separate chips even though they could be shared. This was part of why the Biden admin asked Tesla how they were so relatively unaffected by the supply chain issues hoping to help, but finding out that other automakers could not follow suit.
It is so rare to see a follow-up in some news, video essay, article or whatever, congratulations for the good work, but everything ideally shoud have a follow-up (i’m asking too much, i know, but i wished media shoud be this way)
8:05 they really named the company after what the people on St. Helena would say to them after they would tell them "we're the only way you can get internet here so it's either us or nothing"
Lol, I literally thought you were saying "Singalina" until the very end of that segment where I realized it was "St Helena". No wonder I had no clue where you were talking about.
3:42 This is wrong. Both connectors can do AC and DC. CCS just has a separate set of power pins for AC and DC, while the Tesla (NACS) connector uses one set of pins for both.
10:49 I always found Just In Time interesting. I worked for a company that supplied GM. The fines for being late or early were outrageous. It was cheaper for us to send a truck 6 hours early and have the driver sit somewhere to make the delivery window. Guess who covered the fines and added labour and shipping costs. It certainly wasn’t the company. That was passed on to the consumer
I’ve been here since 2017 at least, maybe 2016, don’t remember exactly, but I’m an OG Wendover fan! Used your code to buy Nebula and CuriosityStream Bundle, I love your videos, made a whole playlist to fall asleep to because I love that I can be learning something and that the videos are so calm but informative.
My big complaint with this video is that it could have been structured -- and then written -- so that it builds to a more intentional feeling summative conclusion. Instead, when the re-visit on the ninth video was over, there was this really abrupt and unusually clunky shift to the sponsor credit. That's a shame, because there's a low-hanging summative conclusion available, namely that globalism is a more fraught and less obviously universal treatise of prosperity, and both countries and companies are going to have to balance globalist philosophies and ambitions with a much more sober view of geopolitics and its impacts on the wisdom of farthest-flung chains.
Our electrical grid still can't handle anywhere near the amount of electricity that is needed to convert 25% of current gas cars to electric. It's not feasible, even with more super chargers. There is a company that has created a changeable battery, which means instead of a 30-minute charge, you only need a 5-minute swap. Then the batteries are charged at slower, WAY more efficient rate which is more grid-friendly. Hope you make a video on them soon!
There will be a lot more electricity available when the wells and refineries close down. But seriously - the transition will happen over 20 years. Over that time lots of things are going to happen - new renewable generation will be constructed, population will grow (and move around), existing other industries will start up and shut down, more energy efficient appliances will be sold - the increase in EVs is just one of a number of things that will happen gradually over that time. It's not all going to happen tomorrow so we don't need to pretend that it will. In addition, a lot of people will install their own solar/battery systems, and with EV chargers that can automatically adjust their speeds based on solar export, the grid may not even be aware.
Wendover really captures basically all my interests and combine them and its great. Stuff like logistics, defence, aircraft and airports and a touch of politics. I am so grateful for all the videos and all your efforts for bringing us high quality educational videos. Thankyou and have a nice 2024.❤
@@shamrock141 It's offensive for me, as a Portuguese, when a channel with almost 5 Million subscribers and does videos about geography doesn't know or care where a capital of an European country is.
5:40 I'm not quite familiar with this term, but elsewhere I was seeing that Russia implemented a "push" strategy. From my limited understanding, this sounds more like what you're talking about. Needs-averse meaning they don't understand the needs on account of pushing supplies to areas without waiting for their needs to be expressed. "Pull", conversely, sounds like preparing supplies and sending them when requested by the frontlines, taking the needs of varying areas of the conflict more into account.
Well Sam, maybe your videos brought attention to issues to those who have the power to make change/fix problems. Should be proud of it, keep up the work and the high quality
The biggest challenge to EVs has been shifting away from charging infrastructure itself and back towards electrical supply capacity and the high inefficiency of the energy density in the batteries
I suppose it's true the term "coronavirus" was really only known by epidemiologists, but we did briefly go through a SARS-CoV-1 scare back in the early 2000s. I guess we were too distracted post-9/11 by terrorism.
And now, 9 months later, only a handful of chargers have been built. A COLLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. The contractors took all the money and ran.
Sam, Nebula is crashing & restarting my tablet whenever I put a video longer than about 10 minutes. I don't know who I should tell! I love the platform, the channels are worth every penny and I will be renewing my sub again in the next few weeks. I just want to be able to watch you without it turning you off! Could you contact whoever is in charge of the software please? I know I'm not the only person who is having problems. 🥺
on the semiconductor thing, idk if car manufacturer's have moved away from their massive chipsets (cars use 32nm chips while the modern smartphone is around 5nm, the new apple chips are 3nm). during covid because more people were buying electronics, chip companies moved to more of the small chips as it was more convenient for them do so. also relying on tsmc isn't great well because tsmc is in taiwan and well china
There is no need to move away from such big nodes. Cars have space and power efficiency is rarely an issue when Most of the energy is going out the exhaust anyway
@@aat8345 no, quite the opposite. The smaller the node, the harder everything gets since you need more preciscion in every step along the way. Compare it to throwing a Ball from afar, the bigger your target is, the easier it is to hit.
@@martinum4 it is just that because they have so many nodes of smaller sizes it is cheaper to make them on a smaller node than having to spend time still supporting the massive chipsets. you are probably right on the difficulty of making the chips but because it is mainstream to have smaller nodes the larger ones are becoming more expensive to operate.
@@aat8345 it is certainly not Mainstream. Maybe for GPUs and CPUs, but for everything else larger nodes are just fine because they dont compute much. There is just no need to have a 5nm based controller in your Toaster when even 50nm would do just fine.
I really expected a lot about planes. Seriously! Hehehe! Wendover has grown really well throughout the years! That's good, eh! Blessings on Wendover Productions for 2024 & beyond! Lots of love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!
If you discuss a problem with a wide audience, that definitely ups the priority. Thus if the right issues are chosen, contribute a great deal to a solution. As grandios as this sounds, I believe this to be true.
America is becoming very dysfunctional & unstable. Our country seems to have zero interest in improving the lives of its own citizens. That is, our cities feel disconnected, soulless, bland, unaffordable, etc. I really don't like the direction modern America has gone. We could do so much better. I love this country. I just want to see things improve. i loved how in the 90's we at least had all sorts of places that people could live, unique things to do & places to go. Poor People, middle, upper class. There were places for anyone ~Nowadays we have universally unaffordable cost of living, rent prices, shop rent prices.. (unless you are wealthy) I don't understand how long we can continue to function in this extremely dysfunctional manner?? I hope things change. People stuck in poverty need places to live too.. it's ridiculous how our current system pretty much requires everyone to be financially well off 👍🏻 Yeah, that's so realistic (Not)👍🏻 it's completely impossible for everyone to be financially well off. We need living options. We need places that average people can live, poor people can live.. Raising wages just continually makes things worse because our country says "it Has to increase things" if minimum wage goes up. So it does nothing but make things worse. We need places people can live even if they make below average $ (look at all the rent prices right now? The same goes for the rent of local small businesses too. It's absurd. I know this because my mom runs a local small business in Oregon. So that's 2 insane rents to pay per month! It's the biggest challenge to afford rent. Profit isn't even really a thing. How stupid is that? What kind of quality of life is that?) This is Modern Day America 👍🏻 and when you look at our government, it doesn't seem like anything is going to be addressed or improved anytime soon.. Maybe multiple generations from now, idk?
Why fix your town when you can send $10 to Africa every month, get a cute video of kids saying thank you in return, and feel good then go back to scrolling social media. Everything about the West is becoming fake and lazy. America has given up on the idea of township, family and neighborhood that it was built on. All in return for cheap goods and distractions.
The new standard charging port for EV’s has a lot of potential. Tesla’s original requirement for access to competitive diagnostic information was hindering the ability to standardize (The reality is most people don’t need DC fast charging. Unless you need to fill a gas tank from empty every day, and you can charge from home with 20 amp AC You would be fine. ) But for those couple times a year you need to drive more than 600 km/day this change is a game changer. I’m curious to see how the user interface will work. Tesla is controlled and paid via the car, all other manufacturers start the process through the charger. Still though, major success
My answer initially was 1 (assuming it wasn't 2 as the grader had marked). The semi circle is a corner in the sense that in the real world there is no such thing as an infinitely sharp edge and everything is rounded. If you came upon a wall that had an end finish of a semi circle you would call it a corner.
So we're mentioning the Russian build up of the defences yet fail to mention (every time) how Ukraine has been building up their own defences since 2014 (the start of the donbass war, and basically the whole conflict in general).
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I love this! Journalists rarely go back and tell how we fixed something they are always looking at the next issue that is juicy dirty laundry. Good work and a great idea for a video.
Yeah I love this idea, I was very interested in all news about EV charging developments after their video discussing issues with the EV charging networks...
International journalist do go back. as they often just live in the region they cover for there news agency.
However often only in news papers that have to fill there pages. You do see them go back to them.
for TV or radio the time they have for covering news is just to short. so you need to make a choice.
How do you think they did the research for much of this video…?
@@sirBrouwer
Last century media, TV & radio, because on air time is so short that trying to explain almost anything means that they don’t explain anything at all. Demographics of viewers & listeners of these mediums means it won’t be long and no one will be there to tune in.
@@briancavanagh7048 for radio you do have it but then you tune in to a news radio station. But for general radio or TV that is not dedicated to news only they have to share airtime. But if you want to dive in there are always options. From a extended newspaper to a news magazine or even dedicated papers to a exact subject. Both in paper as online.
I think a lot has changed in the narration as well. Early on, Sam usually sounded like he wasn't really happy to voice any of his videos, but now he sounds more enthusiastic, and the tone of voice now seems better than it was 6 years ago. Maybe it could be of the two other channels, but that's just me.
I really miss his old narration style. That's what got me hooked in the first place. Nowadays I don't see the difference between a Wendover and a Half as Interesting video
@@pisse3000 I think the contrast is rather big
@@pisse3000 Well, Sam covers different kinds of topics in each channel, and his Wendover videos usually have a much more serious tone than HAI.
There's no "therefore" in HAI videos
@@pisse3000disagree, HAI scripts tend to be heavy on the sarcasm and jokes. Wendover is still primarily informative.
In 2018, I moved to a metro area that is constructing an extension of one of its light rail lines. I had a first row seat, so to speak, for viewing the construction from my apartment, and I found it all fascinating. I searched on RUclips for how bridges were built, and eventually that got me to Wendover Productions and the "Insane Logistics" series. Soon after, YT brought me to Real Engineering, and down the rabbit hole I went.
So if your Google analytics shows an outlier in your target audience and getting views from a female in the Medicare age range, that's probably me.
Thanks for keeping me educated and entertained all these years. 😊
There's a US city that's building an extension of a light rail line?? Unbelievable!
@@3abxo390slowly and over budget, but yes! And, if I’m guessing the metro area (notably they didn’t say city), the twin cities is planning on building an extension to the other line.
@@3abxo390Seattle is expanding their light rail. One of the most ambitious projects at the moment in the country
@@3abxo390 lots of cities are investing in trains now, even LA
0:00 Intro
1:05 The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem
4:00 The Failed Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
6:07 The World's Most Useful Airport
9:31 Why There Are So Many Shortages
12:35 The Little Plane War
15:00 How Rwanda is Becoming the Singapore of Africa
19:02 How Africa is Becoming China's China
21:37 Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins
24:47 Australia's China Problem
26:40 GiveWell ad read
Thx❤
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Why do people do this when videos have their own timestamps...
It's also the only comment you have ever written on this channel..
@@RedTail1-1built-in timestamps didn't exist when I wrote this, it was either timestamps in the description or nothing
@2:12, I don't think Sam knows how complicated a gas station infrastructure is. Everything has to be explosion proof and multiple safety redundancies. There is tank level monitoring, leak testing, vapor recovery, fuel quality monitoring, safe disconnects for when you drive off with the nozzle attached, multiple payment processing, sump monitoring and corrosion proofing, and automating fuel deliveries. All of it helps ensure fuel doesn't leak into the ground and is driven by regulation. All of this is electronic too, and it has to be designed not to ignite fuel and blow everything up.
My question is, given a fixed amount of safety is put into each system would a gas station be more prone to have a major accident or an electric station? also the regulations are not very mature when it comes to electric systems, the testing tech isn't mature, the redundancy standard isn't clear, the power supply quality tolerances aren't clear, the car power input capabilities over their limit isn't clear. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
@@Volatile_Viking Both should be sufficiently safe given gas station equipment is all third-party tested and inspected (given it's not some diversity hire doing the work). Design work doesn't begin even without UL/cUL being involved for North America. Charging equipment also is likely under the microscope from UL. All that being said, you still don't want to run your car over a charging station or gas dispenser. My main point to Sam was he thought dispensing gas was trivial compared to charging a car.
@@grandtheftavocado I think he meant for the consumer.
@@l4nd3rboth are easy for the consumer, the only difference being time.
@@grandtheftavocado diversity hires don't mean uneducated hires, it means that if you have 20 white candidates and one black candidate, you hire the one black one to seem more diverse. Stop being stupid
Would be nice to have timestamps on this video. I like to be able to see the heading of the video section while watching
Funny story about the Toyota " just in time" part of their Production System is that is closer to the newer system you've described. The pre pandemic system that was widely adopted was the book cover summary version with the actual Toyota specified system was described as operating like supermarkets shelves in the Toyota documents
Yeah, Toyotas JIT always has been "we have parts if we need them" , not "we have parts when we need them"
@@martinum4Toyota stockpiled microchips that lasted a year into the pandemic when other companies cut production due to shortages. It wasn't enough, but far better than competitors.
@@richardarriaga6271Toyota did good through the chip shortage, I got the 2021 Corolla Hybrid in Jan 2021 and many others did too, it was well built, affordable, and most importantly, in stock, you could get one in a few weeks. Meanwhile if you wanted a car from European brands you were looking at waiting for months like my mom did for her new VW that same year, or you were looking at buying 2-3 year old cars at prices higher than they were sold when brand new. As it tends to happen in business, execs saw a company do something well and rushed out to copy it while completely half assing it, the result, global manufacturing issues at 1st major bump. At least they learned from their mistakes, turns out saving yourself on 5% of costs this quarter is not worth losing 3-4 times that in sales over the next few years. Also the west seems to have learned something, and both USA and EU are moving manufacturing closer to or in many cases back home.
This sadly happens all the time. The original cubicle was designed to reconfigure to fit whatever the team was doing that day, and make the office more dynamic. I've heard horror stories of what "agile" and "scrum" have come to mean in some workplaces. My take is that it's easier to push through dodgy practices if they're hidden behind a buzzword
On the St. Helena portion you mislabeled the fiber-optic cable soure in Portugal. First, its location is Sesimbra, no Lisbon; secondly, the marker in the map is neither in Lisbon, nor in Sesimbra. The marker is in the middle of Alentejo. Google has the location of the cable in Lisbon, so I assume that's where you got your info. Apart from that mistake, great video! Really liked it
Does it start in Sesimbra or does it just hit the water there?
These video's are great to make. It addresses older video's and how they've changed. Whether that be "why my video was wrong" or "how the situation developed further", it gives more info regarding situations without entirely needing to replace/redo it
Hey Wendover. I really appreciate your channel. There are very few channels I can trust with only posting high quality videos and only when the creator is confident it is well researched. Thank you for raising the standards for edutainment on youtube
Congrats on finding success on RUclips and beyond! You're my favorite "lunch time" channel 😆
Literally eating lunch and watching the video now 😊
@@ArielLVT I was having dinner 😁
I hope my RUclips channel will be at least quarter as successful
🚀Congrats on an incredible 8 years Sam & team!
Lmao they are literally buying subscribers to keep this channel
@@SomereasonstoliveWHY do you think this?
I am so happy for the remote island! That business model sounds like such a win win and now they have a dedicated capacity of more than 15Gbit per person. I think that's a great investment from our government (EU) and a good use of my money for a change.
From just having a limited satellite connection to the rest of the world, now becomes a strategic connection for satellite connections.
But it wasn't their government... It was the EU...
6:50 That's Newark Airport in NJ, not one of the London airports.
@@timotheatae and Google too.
@@timotheatae they never said it was the government of the island that did it.
These 8 years went by too fast. It's crazy how much the world has changed since 2015. Even more amazing is how far this channel has grown.
I fell inexplicably in love with St Helena after your video. I must’ve watched it over a dozen times. I’m delighted to see the update showing them taking the steps to successfully grow. I can’t wait to get there one day.
Same. I've watched every video from there I could find. But life is too crazy for such a trip.
Yeah, the St. Helena documentary made an impact on me. So did the one on the Marshall Islands, but sadly that story doesn't seem to be getting too much better.
Hard to believe it's been 8 years already. I first discovered the channel in 2018 when "Cities at Sea: How Aircraft Carriers Work" popped into my recommendations, and I've been hooked ever since. At the time it already felt like an old, mature, experienced channel, and yet looking back now it's come so far since then. Congrats to Sam and the rest of the team, and good luck with the next 8 years!
I wonder where we will be in another eight years..
I wonder whether we will be in another eight years...
having an orgy
@@JackGladstoneHolroydesadly.. you’ve got a point there…
@@SeedHow do have so many subscribers
With how much went on only the last year, it's clear to see that hard times lie ahead
I like seeing areas such as that lil island get love. Everyone deserves good access to things such as decent internet.
At 6:58, Sam talks about London while showing graphics of... Newark Airport.
I'm not sure I'd say Anker was a startup 6 years ago. They were a top seller on amazon a few years before that, known for their particularly high quality cables.
Correction: Russia planted millions of mines. Mine clearing personnel have shared stories of single fields with several hundred mines of mixed types, sometimes stacked on top of each other. Smart jumping mines (PTKM-1R) also complicate the work as clearing vehicles can get hit from above before even getting close.
Yeah, it;s easily several million mines if not more, if you count the leaf/butterfly or whatever they are called mines then it's probably in the 10-100s of millions.
I've been following your videos for years now. So happy you made this one. It's amazing how much things change within the span of a couple of years.
Time really flies when you realize that 2017 is 7 years ago..
Me surprised Pikachu face
You sure it's not related to your over-willingness to round-up numbers?
Excellent video! As a huge British Overseas Territories nerd (even more so than you Sam!) I actually went to the airport in London during the pandemic, just to see the folk from St Helena arrive on their short-lived government-financed direct flight!
That coal mine at 26:25 isn't in Australia, it's in Germany, more specifically the surface mine at Garzweiler. My immersion is ruined, ruined I tell you!
You must be good at Geoguessr.
I love getting updates like this, I kinda hope this becomes a standard.
CCS chargers can supply AC as well, that's what the top two small pins do. The two large pins at the bottom are for fast DC charging. Shoutout to Technology Connections for implanting this useless trivia into my brain
Well, the J-1772 connector can do AC charging. CCS is the added DC pins on the bottom of the J-1772. I don't think a CCS charger can provide AC power as CCS is a DC standard.
@@medivalone CCS literally stands for Combined Charging Standard. AC/DC are the things being combined.
This video is sooo important. Things change and it's awesome to see that you keep us at least a little bit updated on older topics!
12:35 I remember that video about C-Series. Was one of many reasons and possible that kick which made me to accept offer from airBaltic to fly their A223s. What a wonderful time, wonderful country, wonderful airplane.
I work for different airline, for corporate business now, smaller planes, weird places around the world, but A223 is still in my heart, as well as all the collegues and wonderful people I met during my stay in Latvia... fraking COVID, I could be captain now! :D
Sounds like some very encouraging news on a lot of fronts! I'm also quite glad that EV chargers are being standardized, after seeing Apple fight for years and years to keep their unique charging ports on their phones.
Now someone's got to figure out what to do with the old batteries...
EV manufacturers are also going to be providing adapters for Tesla so existing CCS cars can use the Supercharger network without relying on backported support by Tesla :)
Dude that telecom company named "sure." is hilarious. It's so passive aggressive
YO! Why is the line at 21:57 SO ON BEAT AND SLAPPING what the heck dude. It is awesome.
Wow! I am amazed that I have been subscribed to this channel since early 2016. Congrats Wendover. Keep going!
Rwanda isn't the Singapore of Africa. It's the Indonesia of Africa. Genocide followed by a free market friendly dictator. Man's a real Suharto.
Perfect concept for an end of the year video, too bad I'm gonna have to wait another 9 years for the next one 😂
man thinking back, i was 7, scrolling through youtube and listening to fhannels like you, real life lore, hai on the TV. man so many years have passed
One small correction Boeings Headquarters is in Arlington, VA not in Chicago. It moved recently 12:46
I was thinking that too.
I love these updates on old videos. You should make updates like these more frequenctly on nebula
That awkward moment when the "catastrophic" african tram-service is more on time than your "famous" German national railway......
8:32 : It's wild to think that the EU allowed this kind of money to a remote, barely populated overseas territory of the UK AFTER they had voted to leave.
Was St. Helena even in the EU in the first place, given it was a British Overseas Territory?
@@Croz89 Good question. After a quick search, it seems it was not, but I'm not 100% sure.
5:43 "as they (the russians) fired ten to eleven million rounds last year. I looked up german numbers from WW1 just for fun. In comparison. in July/August 1916 the germans also fired eleven million rounds (fieldartillery) on all fronts.
11:36 A Tesla contains dramatically fewer chips than most ICE vehicles--like 1/5 as many. They're just more advanced chips capable of handling more functionality--and also don't duplicate because Tesla is vertically integrated instead of relying on suppliers that have separate chips even though they could be shared. This was part of why the Biden admin asked Tesla how they were so relatively unaffected by the supply chain issues hoping to help, but finding out that other automakers could not follow suit.
It is so rare to see a follow-up in some news, video essay, article or whatever, congratulations for the good work, but everything ideally shoud have a follow-up (i’m asking too much, i know, but i wished media shoud be this way)
8:05 they really named the company after what the people on St. Helena would say to them after they would tell them "we're the only way you can get internet here so it's either us or nothing"
Lol, I literally thought you were saying "Singalina" until the very end of that segment where I realized it was "St Helena". No wonder I had no clue where you were talking about.
You probably mistook it, but Crimea is Ukraine, the yellow line should include it aswell
Crimea hasn't been part of Ukraine for the past decade
Crimea is Ukraine like Texas is Mexico
It's still colored in like the rest of occupied territory, mistakes happen
@@orenalbertmeisel3127only 18 UN states recognize Crimea as russian territory
if you look closely, it's clear the visual explicitly made it part of both Russia AND Ukraine, to reflect its disputed status.
3:42 This is wrong. Both connectors can do AC and DC. CCS just has a separate set of power pins for AC and DC, while the Tesla (NACS) connector uses one set of pins for both.
There's nothing more dangerous than Napoleon with a fiber optic internet connection
Hey I have a video suggestion for you. How do country leader speak to each other. (bonus question: how do they do the same thing but secretly?)
10:49 I always found Just In Time interesting. I worked for a company that supplied GM. The fines for being late or early were outrageous. It was cheaper for us to send a truck 6 hours early and have the driver sit somewhere to make the delivery window. Guess who covered the fines and added labour and shipping costs. It certainly wasn’t the company. That was passed on to the consumer
Quite disappointed that you didn’t comment on the UK’s Rwanda immigration policy for that section… any particular reason?
Excelent! Would love to see more videos like this, with updated information.
I remember the excitement when one of your videos was cited by “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”.
didn't anker get a lot of bad pr when they revealed they lied about end to end encryption or storing data locally on their house cameras
Congrats on another year, and all the best for the team.
Thank you for pronouncing St Helena correctly! I was on the first flight from St H to London 😊
I’ve been here since 2017 at least, maybe 2016, don’t remember exactly, but I’m an OG Wendover fan! Used your code to buy Nebula and CuriosityStream Bundle, I love your videos, made a whole playlist to fall asleep to because I love that I can be learning something and that the videos are so calm but informative.
I loved this! Thank you for going over your past topics and how they’ve changed over time!
update/news short videos posted on sam from wendover would be sick
Thaks for making this follow-up video! Great idea!
More aviation videos Sam! I could listen to you talk about planes for hours!!
I’m just sad we didn’t get a revisit of the 5 freedoms of the sky video. Those were the days
My big complaint with this video is that it could have been structured -- and then written -- so that it builds to a more intentional feeling summative conclusion. Instead, when the re-visit on the ninth video was over, there was this really abrupt and unusually clunky shift to the sponsor credit. That's a shame, because there's a low-hanging summative conclusion available, namely that globalism is a more fraught and less obviously universal treatise of prosperity, and both countries and companies are going to have to balance globalist philosophies and ambitions with a much more sober view of geopolitics and its impacts on the wisdom of farthest-flung chains.
Our electrical grid still can't handle anywhere near the amount of electricity that is needed to convert 25% of current gas cars to electric. It's not feasible, even with more super chargers. There is a company that has created a changeable battery, which means instead of a 30-minute charge, you only need a 5-minute swap. Then the batteries are charged at slower, WAY more efficient rate which is more grid-friendly. Hope you make a video on them soon!
Tom Scott did one already. Check it out.
Well then we have work to do.
There will be a lot more electricity available when the wells and refineries close down.
But seriously - the transition will happen over 20 years. Over that time lots of things are going to happen - new renewable generation will be constructed, population will grow (and move around), existing other industries will start up and shut down, more energy efficient appliances will be sold - the increase in EVs is just one of a number of things that will happen gradually over that time. It's not all going to happen tomorrow so we don't need to pretend that it will.
In addition, a lot of people will install their own solar/battery systems, and with EV chargers that can automatically adjust their speeds based on solar export, the grid may not even be aware.
Great video as always. I am thankful every year that you lost the reading voice :)
The biggest barrier to everyone getting EVs in many countries is the production of electricity.
Wendover really captures basically all my interests and combine them and its great. Stuff like logistics, defence, aircraft and airports and a touch of politics.
I am so grateful for all the videos and all your efforts for bringing us high quality educational videos. Thankyou and have a nice 2024.❤
Love this video. Always need an update on important topic to see if anything changed
“Rwanda is the Singapore of Africa!”
(Rwanda becomes a dictatorship and disrespects human rights)
Who could have seen this coming?
Don’t both do that?
@@titanicbigship that's the joke iirc
8:46 I can't believe he put Lisbon on the wrong place!
My guy you can't be serious
@@shamrock141 Lisbon is further north than what is marked on the video! The marker is somewhere between Sines and Beja...
@@diogor420 you are correct, and this is a free RUclips video, hardly worth the outrage since it's a barely noticeable error
@@shamrock141 It's offensive for me, as a Portuguese, when a channel with almost 5 Million subscribers and does videos about geography doesn't know or care where a capital of an European country is.
5:40 I'm not quite familiar with this term, but elsewhere I was seeing that Russia implemented a "push" strategy. From my limited understanding, this sounds more like what you're talking about. Needs-averse meaning they don't understand the needs on account of pushing supplies to areas without waiting for their needs to be expressed. "Pull", conversely, sounds like preparing supplies and sending them when requested by the frontlines, taking the needs of varying areas of the conflict more into account.
Well Sam, maybe your videos brought attention to issues to those who have the power to make change/fix problems. Should be proud of it, keep up the work and the high quality
I think politicians watch this channel and a few other channels a lot.
I am pretty sure xi xinping watches this and polymatter
The biggest challenge to EVs has been shifting away from charging infrastructure itself and back towards electrical supply capacity and the high inefficiency of the energy density in the batteries
I suppose it's true the term "coronavirus" was really only known by epidemiologists, but we did briefly go through a SARS-CoV-1 scare back in the early 2000s. I guess we were too distracted post-9/11 by terrorism.
Thank you for completely wrecking my sense of time and self in the first minute if this video! Things were starting to feel a little too "normal"
12:40 Chicago's headquarters is actually Washington dc now, not Chicago
Thanks, Obama.
Seriously, we need more airplanes videos, Sam.
The reason why I started watching originally
Love that Percent of GDP Motion Graphic
When i think of a wendover video i think of the neverending flogging of nebula...
7:58 How did they have internet in 1989? 😆
The internet was a thing back then. It was very different though.
Time for you to do some reading.
The internet existed before 1989.
And now, 9 months later, only a handful of chargers have been built. A COLLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. The contractors took all the money and ran.
Sam, Nebula is crashing & restarting my tablet whenever I put a video longer than about 10 minutes. I don't know who I should tell! I love the platform, the channels are worth every penny and I will be renewing my sub again in the next few weeks. I just want to be able to watch you without it turning you off! Could you contact whoever is in charge of the software please? I know I'm not the only person who is having problems. 🥺
“for London”
*shows video of Newark International*
About the EV charging standard stuff - I say this as the partner of one, design engineers working on EVs do watch your videos!! ;P
18:01 : 150 million tonnes of cargo per year? There must be mistake. The busiest cargo airport in the world has around 4 million tonnes per year.
You have amazing videos my friend and Ive learned a lot from them. I wish you the best.
on the semiconductor thing, idk if car manufacturer's have moved away from their massive chipsets (cars use 32nm chips while the modern smartphone is around 5nm, the new apple chips are 3nm). during covid because more people were buying electronics, chip companies moved to more of the small chips as it was more convenient for them do so. also relying on tsmc isn't great well because tsmc is in taiwan and well china
There is no need to move away from such big nodes. Cars have space and power efficiency is rarely an issue when Most of the energy is going out the exhaust anyway
@@martinum4 it would just make it easier for chip manufactures though
@@aat8345 no, quite the opposite.
The smaller the node, the harder everything gets since you need more preciscion in every step along the way.
Compare it to throwing a Ball from afar, the bigger your target is, the easier it is to hit.
@@martinum4 it is just that because they have so many nodes of smaller sizes it is cheaper to make them on a smaller node than having to spend time still supporting the massive chipsets. you are probably right on the difficulty of making the chips but because it is mainstream to have smaller nodes the larger ones are becoming more expensive to operate.
@@aat8345 it is certainly not Mainstream. Maybe for GPUs and CPUs, but for everything else larger nodes are just fine because they dont compute much.
There is just no need to have a 5nm based controller in your Toaster when even 50nm would do just fine.
I really expected a lot about planes. Seriously! Hehehe!
Wendover has grown really well throughout the years! That's good, eh! Blessings on Wendover Productions for 2024 & beyond!
Lots of love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!
If you discuss a problem with a wide audience, that definitely ups the priority. Thus if the right issues are chosen, contribute a great deal to a solution. As grandios as this sounds, I believe this to be true.
America is becoming very dysfunctional & unstable. Our country seems to have zero interest in improving the lives of its own citizens. That is, our cities feel disconnected, soulless, bland, unaffordable, etc. I really don't like the direction modern America has gone. We could do so much better. I love this country. I just want to see things improve. i loved how in the 90's we at least had all sorts of places that people could live, unique things to do & places to go. Poor People, middle, upper class. There were places for anyone ~Nowadays we have universally unaffordable cost of living, rent prices, shop rent prices.. (unless you are wealthy) I don't understand how long we can continue to function in this extremely dysfunctional manner?? I hope things change. People stuck in poverty need places to live too.. it's ridiculous how our current system pretty much requires everyone to be financially well off 👍🏻 Yeah, that's so realistic (Not)👍🏻 it's completely impossible for everyone to be financially well off. We need living options. We need places that average people can live, poor people can live.. Raising wages just continually makes things worse because our country says "it Has to increase things" if minimum wage goes up. So it does nothing but make things worse. We need places people can live even if they make below average $ (look at all the rent prices right now? The same goes for the rent of local small businesses too. It's absurd. I know this because my mom runs a local small business in Oregon. So that's 2 insane rents to pay per month! It's the biggest challenge to afford rent. Profit isn't even really a thing. How stupid is that? What kind of quality of life is that?) This is Modern Day America 👍🏻 and when you look at our government, it doesn't seem like anything is going to be addressed or improved anytime soon.. Maybe multiple generations from now, idk?
Why fix your town when you can send $10 to Africa every month, get a cute video of kids saying thank you in return, and feel good then go back to scrolling social media. Everything about the West is becoming fake and lazy. America has given up on the idea of township, family and neighborhood that it was built on. All in return for cheap goods and distractions.
Corona virus was also known by cat owners who lost a cat to FIP. That’s also a corona virus. I knew a lot about corona viruses before corona.
Thank you for this. It’s a fantastic idea. I really enjoyed the follow up
The new standard charging port for EV’s has a lot of potential. Tesla’s original requirement for access to competitive diagnostic information was hindering the ability to standardize
(The reality is most people don’t need DC fast charging. Unless you need to fill a gas tank from empty every day, and you can charge from home with 20 amp AC You would be fine. )
But for those couple times a year you need to drive more than 600 km/day this change is a game changer.
I’m curious to see how the user interface will work. Tesla is controlled and paid via the car, all other manufacturers start the process through the charger.
Still though, major success
This was a nice wrap up, but the video itself seems to be missing or wrap up between the last segment and the sponsor task, and I missed that.
this is a wonderful style of video, please do it again next year!
My answer initially was 1 (assuming it wasn't 2 as the grader had marked). The semi circle is a corner in the sense that in the real world there is no such thing as an infinitely sharp edge and everything is rounded. If you came upon a wall that had an end finish of a semi circle you would call it a corner.
So we're mentioning the Russian build up of the defences yet fail to mention (every time) how Ukraine has been building up their own defences since 2014 (the start of the donbass war, and basically the whole conflict in general).
Well done for returning to your stories and correct or update them.
Can you recreate all the past Aviation videos, those are the best