Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

  1. maybe Australia should stop shutting down all their power plants?
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  2.  @williammeek4078  the smaller the payload and the shorter the range, the more EV aircraft can work. But you cannot scale up a bumble bee and have it still fly. it doesn't work at our larger scales. You also can't scale up quadcopters in the exact same way. They built an EV Robinson R44 over 10yrs ago, and it worked better than any attempt so far at a manned EV quadcopter. But nobody bought it..... Reynolds numbers are not kind to aircraft. The only viable battery option thus far for airplanes is a swappable Aluminum-Air battery. but they are not rechargeable and require supporting infrastructure and manufacturing to bring in new batteries to airports, and haul away old ones for recycling (just like the existing avgas/jet fuel supporting infrastructure). And even an aluminum-air battery isn't enough for larger aircraft despite its higher energy density. And the cost of swapping entire batteries creates structural issues in design and servicing issues with people and equipment needed to swap so many large batteries.
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  3.  @smelltheglove2038  electric prices have also gone up with the massive increase in demand due to EVs, I can drive my 44mpg 20yr-old buick cheaper than an Tesla EV can charge.
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  4. Why don't they tell them to charge their EVs using wind turbine incinerators? Then we can at least deal with the wind turbine waste and landfills at the same time.
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  5.  @alankemp1970  the battery of the hybrid started the fire
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  6. you are right. let the free market decide, not socialist gov.
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  7. food
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  8.  iscadean  and yet EVs are burning entire vehicles, entire houses, entire parking lots, entire ships, entire buildings, etc. and their manufacture and recycling is far more damaging to the environment.
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  9.  @badchefi  " you can compare them but they work differently - is that better?" no, that's a useless distinction. "We made sure that our solar system is big enough to still generate enough for our needs on the worst weather days." that doesn't change teh fact your solar is ~20% efficeint while a solar hot water system is 50-80% efficient. Have yo useen how long a hot water heater can keep water hot? There are some good videos here on youtube with actual data, I suggest watching them. Thermal energy storage is a much discussed form of grid energy storage as well, though the average person is not as aware of these ideas as things like batteries and hydro reservoirs. "When you burn the toast you don’t blame the bread." random nonsense doesn't help your argument. "And that is all the guy did above - blamed his system for not working in winter🤣" you're not very smart are you? Ask yourself why his solar system didn't work in winter? Dark, too far north, not enough sunlight, etc. Had he replaced his solar hot water with teh same square footage of solar panels, he'd still have teh same issues of insufficient light, but now he'd be producing 1/2 to 1/4 as much usable energy for that same square footage, even further exacerbating his problem. You need to learn some math and basic physics.
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  10.  @badchefi  "Replacing his solar with same size panel would be stupid." I know that, you're the one missing the point. "People crying about their systems on here are blaming the bread - it’s not an argument it’s a reality when folks just go and buy stuff." correct, they are blaming eth lack of adequate solar energy. Switching to solar wouldn't prevent that. Adding more solar hot water would be far more space and energy efficient that switching to solar panels. "My off grid system covers all our needs all year around." nobody cares. Where I live, you couldn't go pure solar. Perpetual clouds 60% of the year, only a few hours of sunlight per day in the winter. not enough space. I did all teh math, oversized, added batteries, etc. into my calculations. I'd have to cover every square inch of my property in solar panels to live off-grid. I'd have to cut down all my trees and all my neighbor's trees too, cover my House, driveway, yard, etc. And then it would take 44yrs to pay it off (reach the break even point). "So I guess that for a stupid guy with no knowledge of math and physics I did well🤣" nope, someone else did the work for you. And you still can't grasp the issue being presented to you. "At least I don’t have to come on here crying how shit solar is." no, instead you come here and berate everyone you deem inferior to you, and you bludgeon others with your perceived superiority, while ignoring the very real limitations of solar for most people on earth. not every local can depend upon solar. Where I live the energy companies built solar fields. But they tore them all down after a few years becasue it cost them more than they made. And an entire solar field would barely power a few homes. You lack understanding. You have an ego-driven bias. you can't see past your own nose. you think that since it worked for you, that it can work for 100% of everyone else too. But that is naive childish ignorance.
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  11. Petroleum Plastics: oil-based hydrocarbon material Soy Plastics: oil-based hydrocarbon material (that is also edible apparently)
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  12. Why don't they tell them to charge their EVs using wind turbine incinerators? Then we can at least deal with the wind turbine waste and landfills at the same time.
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  13.  @williammeek4078  what works better than my ICE? My ICE is cheaper, lasts just as long, holds its value, gets 44mpg, is cheaper to own and drive than any EV, etc. My car has beaten most EVs on trips both in time of travel as well as cost to charge vs cost of gas for the given trip, for years now. And my car is 20yrs old, which is far better for the environment and sustainability than any EV in existence today. So, give specific examples of how an EV beats my ICE vehicle today.....
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  14. Gov: wood stove is a fire hazard Gov: please charge your incendiary bomb at home pretty sure EVs have burned more buildings this year than wood stoves.
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  15. I just bought a 32yr old F150
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  16. RC cars used them even earlier, and started out charging them in glass jars filled with sand, until people started making kevlar fire bags to charge the batteries in.
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  17. also, keeping the flammables outside exposed better protects the crew, and the modular designs allows damaged fuel tanks to be repaired or replaced.
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  18. I've driven 1800+miles nonstop (except for 3 or so gas stops) in 32hrs or so. try that in an EV.
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  19. when electric prices spike for everyone, EVs become more expensive to charge than gas costs, and when blackouts start, people will stand up against EVs. they won't be able to avoid/deny the consequences at that point.
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  20. and that was with wat, less than 10% of CA residents having an EV? just wait until more people own EVs.
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  21. not to mention factory roof tops, parking lots, and other acreage that could be used. Near my house they just turned a farm field into a solar field. and we are far north and under clouds 2/3 of the year.
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  22. going to be a mini environmental disaster as these cars corrode in place.
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  23. I bought a 2004 Buick Lesabre with 25k miles for $8k 9yrs ago. Including purchase cost, insurance, fuel, a set of tires, wipers, oil changes, some maintenance, etc. I've spent a grand total of roughly $18k on the car in those 9yrs, costing about $2k per year of ownership. But over time that cost per year goes down as the purchase cost gets further divided up. And I could probably sell the car today for over $10k, bringing the final cost of ownership down to less than $1k/yr including gasoline/insurance. I drive an average of 12k mi per year. depreciation doesn't apply to old-enough used ICE cars. A general rule of thumb my Father taught me decades ago was that for every $1k you spend on a car (not counting fuel, oil changes, insurance...) in purchase cost and repairs, it should last you 1 year of ownership. And yet I'm getting below that figure even factoring in things like gas. If I own this car for about 1-3 more years, I will have exceeded my Father's advice (and this will be my 3rd vehicle in a row in which I've exceeded his advice). Free Ford Ranger I drove for 6yrs (got it free after having been totaled twice by someone else), $2k Ford Taurus I drove for 8yrs, an $8k Buick Lesabre I've driven for 9+years, and a $7k 1992 rust free F150 I've just started driving. The most I ever spent on any one of these cars in repairs totaled to about $2k for everything (that was the Taurus, $600 for the Ranger, $1000 for the Buick so far). A $60k EV car would require me to own it for over 60years to be financially viable, I'll be dead before then.
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  24. Why don't they tell them to charge their EVs using wind turbine incinerators? Then we can at least deal with the wind turbine waste and landfills at the same time.
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  25.  @javelinXH992  "Sorry I don’t understand the comment." reading comprehension is a skill. A skill far too many people today are lacking.
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  26. and if 1 in 1mil cells has a defect, that's a lot of cars starting on fire just due to manufacturing defects alone.
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  27. same with house batteries. Lead acid are cheaper, safer, and weight doesn't matter in a stationary building. In college years ago, when Tesla home batteries were all the rage, we were offered an assignment to design a cheaper house battery that had the same potential and capability as Teslas. Tesla's battery unit at the time cost $17k not including installation. I designed a better system for less than $3k using lead acid. My report went over all manner of differences between lead acid and lithium, pros and cons fo each.
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  28. Meanwhile demand for used ICE cars is on the rise.
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  29.  @leiflillandt1488  a town is by definition about 1500-5000 inhabitants. You do know that ALL towns are "small" right? and that most urban areas in teh world are nothing more than villages or towns, right? you should get out more.
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  30. and they've been making these doomsday predictions for the past 150yrs.
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  31. with 7000 cells per battery, and assuming you only get 1/100,000 fallout from defective cells. That would mean that at least 1/14 Teslas will ultimately suffer a catastrophic fire eventually. 1/1,000,000? Then 1/143 Teslas, and that's just from manufacturing defects, not from degradation, water or impact damage, charging failures, etc.
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  32.  @gppsoftware  yes, the 1980s and 1990s in particular were a LOT of fun. People were still learning and trying new things all the time. People were competitive, but not to the extent it wasn't fun. Even if you didn't win it was still fun. I always hated NiCd batteries. And the memory issues sucked too. Nowadays cars have converged in technology, and even the cheap cars look and run like the fancy ones. And people race less now in my area at least. People are competitive in a bad way and it ruins the fun. They take it far too serious and forget to have fun.
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  33. anti-free market, anti-freedom, anti-capitalism, etc.
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  34.  @gerbre1  " Yes fossil cars should be banned at such places, too dangerous." how do you figure that? when was the last time a parking garage was destroyed by an ICE? How many car hauling ships have ICE destroyed in recent decades? When was the last carlot full of 74cars destroyed by an ICE? How many ICE double decker london busses have burst into flames in the past 30yrs, compared to EV double decker busses? How hot does a gasoline/diesel fire burn? How hot does a Lithium battery fire burn?
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  35.  @steveinoz8188  1000km batteries.....by putting 3x 350km batteries together...... "More and more electricity comes from renewable energy sources." remind me how much energy in most large countries comes from renewables? Also, hydrocarbon fuels are renewable too. Many ways to manufacture gasoline and diesel. "If you don't want one then don't buy one." Solid advice. 80% of car owners and 40% of EV owners are taking your advice.
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  36.  @steveinoz8188  which EV has 1000km range? and what battery technology does it use?
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  37.  @bunsw2070  The older wiser engineers are retired or retiring. the young business managers, CEOs and such with no clue what they are doing and the younger idealistic engineers think they can make it work, until they get to a point where they can no longer deny that it wont work. At least they've learned, and are now recommitting back onto their core competencies. And now they know why we haven't done it before, and hopefully those engineers will remember that for the rest of their careers.
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  38.  @anonplayer8529  yup, the aluminum and composite airframes will structurally fail after mere seconds to minutes of exposure to a large enough Lithium fire.
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  39.  @seannewman5391  gasoline and diesel are organic too. CO2 is also organic, and necessary for life.
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  40. people have talked about it for years. just shows how good the censorship is. or, you weren't paying attention before.
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  41. unplug their cables
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  42. time is money
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  43.  @andrewkerr5296  individuals planning their own projects vs gov doing it for them are two different ideas. Not comparable except to point out the gov costs more and produces a crappier result.
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  44.  @SHEEPeros  this would encourage smaller cars
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  45. that's socialism for you. gov telling people what they can buy, sell, and own.
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  46. top down economics is Socialism (or communism as well)
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  47. so basically it doesn't work for a great many people in society... Many people live in apartments, park on the street, don't have access to home charging, cant afford an EV, drive further than you suggest, and actually need to tow things and do actual work with their vehicles, can't afford a home charger even if they don't rent, etc.
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  48.  @gregb7353  10%? wow, you're so clueless. Who is paying for these chargers? the homeowner or the renter? Not everyone lives in a house, a great many people live in apartments. Many homes have no garage of any kind (no good access to a high power outlet). and how are you going to feed the power to these homes? how many new powerplants will be needed? And as electrical demand increases, so too does electrical prices, making ICE cheaper.
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  49.  @johnchandler1687  sure, but the point is, they are still using oil and hydrocarbons, and expending CO2 to make their crappy plastics, even as they claim to be saving the environment somehow. just imagine how much farmland is consumed growing corn and soybeans to make fuel and plastics when their are far better ways to do it, and in the meantime the competition for farmland with actual food gets more intense and drives food prices higher as they try converting more and more farmland to plastics and fuel production.
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  50. even then they don't work.
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