Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Saudi Arabia's Gamble to Stop a Total Collapse" video.

  1. ​ @Mohammed-yr9uy  and engineer will design you whatever nonsense project you want as long as he gets paid. Engineering ethics are concerned with not designing projects which are unsafe. Otherwise they will take your money. One subway station changed architect during construction and one of my engineering professors was involved. New architect wanteda skylight in an underground station. Fine. The project costs increased as the roof had to be reinforced. The engineers did the redesign, even if it was an idiotic decision.
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  2. The US military is researching mixing biofuels into fossil fuel so they can stretch their reserves. There's a Harrier attack jet that flew on a research fuel which was 50:50 biofuel and fossil fuel.
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  3. Okay, you make more chemicals, they get cheaper, you make less profit. Oil goes from liquid gold to just another resource like iron or aluminum.
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  4. ​ @fakeplaystore7991  Spent fuel is no issue. It's entirely manufactured concern. The longer the half life, the safer it is. It's the stuff with a few days/years of half life that are dangerous. You fundamentally misunderstand radioactivity. The shorter the half life, the faster an atom loses particles to transmutate into an atom of a different element. Think of the Geiger counter - the creaking sounds get faster as radioactivity increases. Something with a half life of a hundred thousand years can be held by your bare hand. Something with a half life of 30 years has to be dropped immediately and you need to run around the nearest corner.
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  5. The soil doesn't regenerate by magic either. You need fertilizers.
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  6. ​ @greedy2201  Absurd stuff is talked about. It's out of the normal, so it gains infamy.
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  7. Yeah, oil is used in every industry. But fuel is the breadwinner. Imagine you had massive gold reserves. Then everyone says "actually we don't consider gold a store of value". You'll sell your gold at copper prices. It's used in electronics and whatnot. But the store of value is what makes gold more valuable than metals like copper or iron. Oil is liquid gold because we need it as fuel. Of we stop using it like that, it becomes liquid aluminum. We all use it. We all need it. But we don't pay gold prices for aluminum.
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  8. Right but your car consumes more fuel than lubricant (I hope). It's a baseball bat to the knee in terms of profits. Demand for lubricant won't increase to make up for fuel.
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  9. ​ @NadidLinchestein  then give them their passports back
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  10.  @ignatiusryd2031  Didn't Sri Lanka try to go organic only and collapse their economy? We don't have the efficiency of converting manure into the chemical compound we want, unlike industrial synthesis.
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  11. @@karlwithak. Nearly 10% of all gold mined is used in electronics. In 2022 global gold mining yielded 3,100 tons with electronics requiring 309 tons in the same year.
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  12. @@karlwithak. 309 tons is not next to nothing. You do realize that when you have gold, which is a store of value, and you use it for industrial purposes, that is a massive deal, right? Gold is infinitely more useful stored inside vaults and traded by switching numbers on a computer. And yet, we have to take a chunk of it for our uses because of how important it is. Do you know why people steal catalytic converters? They contain platinum. It's more expensive than gold and yet we are driving around with it.
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  13. But raising prices will also make renewables more attractive. Cheap oil kills renewables. Expensive oil makes everyone feel like they're getting scammed.
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  14. That's literally the story of all people who emigrated to the new hot expat destination. I heard the same thing from people who worked in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, etc.
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  15. Almost nobody sits on a dragon's hoard because money loses value to inflation. Almost all rich people's "wealth" is tied to investments, and is contingent in others seeing their investments as valuable. It's like boogie "losing" 750k, he never lost that money, his crypto was at one point evaluated as being worth 750k but he never had that money so it could be his to lose.
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  16. They have glaciers.
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  17. Nope.
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  18. Without the energy we get from burning fossil fuels, we wouldn't have the need or the economic capacity to afford those alternative uses.
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  19.  @Alphoric  That's... that's not the point. Everyone eats apples. Say we have a technology that allows us to farm 10x more apples. People aren't going to start eating apples on every meal. If you tried to put that intro practice you'd actually crash the market price of apples. Machines won't leak or burn off more lubricant just because we have more oil. So if you start producing more lubricants, prices will crash, leading to the entire industry becoming unprofitable. The supply vastly outpaces the demand. So the oil industry would slow down extraction. You can't conceptualize that resources aren't like a stat you can use a slider on a videogame. You can't just put all points on oil and win off that. In the real world, there's issues like demand and supply. And demand won't increase if fuel goes away.
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