Comments by "Drawn" (@snowstrobe) on "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" channel.

  1.  T C  There was a time when someone like you would have said the exact same thing about the early car replacing the horse...
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  2. He's here all night, folks...
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  3. But surely when solar panels need cooling heat pumps don't need the heat and vis-versa? I think perhaps little sprinklers over the panels would be best, and air flow of course.
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  4. Or we can stop focusing on grid-scale projects and switch to more robust community based ideas.
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  5. There does seem to be solutions for the deg. But yeah, my ears prick up when an oil company gets involved, like the 'blue' hydrogen manufacturing...
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  6. They look beautiful too.
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  7. My thoughts also turned to how they can keep them cool. I was thinking airflow and water, but white would prob do it!
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  8. The price will come down with economies of scale. But the wind issue will def affect usability, I didn't know about that.
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  9. Much more interested in community-owned efforts than private/corporate or the state.
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  10. Get a real sense that this guy knows his stuff...
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  11. Renewables does not equal less fossil fuel. Reduction is more important. In the UK it's called YIMBYism, but relates more to building houses on the greenbelt.
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  12. aadwtmdlrl?
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  13. No desert is 'lifeless', but facts like this are not convenient for the tech-will-save-us bros.
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  14. Since having given up on humanity doing what is needed to address climate change, I have become more focussed on plastics. It's difficult/impossible to avoid, and shoes is definitely one of the hardest, so any development in this field would be great. Of course, it's still only the minority who ever care enough to make the changes necessary.
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  15. A tenth the cost but a tenth the longevity... is not going to drive huge change.
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  16. A lot of buildings prior to air con etc were built with passive temp regulation in mind. I grew up in a house called a Queenslander, (basically surrounded by a covered veranda and on stilts so that the sun doesn't touch the walls and air flows all round), but they stopped building them. We need to get back to this way of building.
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  17. The cells on the Sono provide an average 112 km extra per week... that literally does 'get close' to my work commute.
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  18. My thought was a small spare one in the car that gave say 50 miles, giving plenty of time to get it swapped.
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  19. It would change everything...
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  20. Once again, capitalist structures make the process focus on the wrong things, and waste limited resources. Still think we should be looking more at Vertical Axis options, esp as they can be silent and could scale up easier.
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  21. Could be good for boats too... expensive though.
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  22. When Undecided and Just Have a Think synch...
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  23. '...shire' is pronounced as <shure> in Britain.
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  24. 80ft2 would suit me just fine.
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  25. And coaches...
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  26. Rubbish! It would be a great 80s pop song...
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  27. Then all wrapped in plastic...
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  28. They're focussing on hydrogen because they know at heart it will just be another fossil fuel based energy source.
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  29. It's not the financial cost that is the issue, it is the resource cost... and most of those resources are coming from the global south to the global north.
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  30. Personally, I have no problem with swapping batteries, in fact I like the idea. I'm sure we would all notice the poor performance long before it completely died. But I wonder what the pollution/CO2 release would be from making new batteries each time? The involvement of an oil company in this makes me wary...
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  31. Vinnie da Finga.
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  32. Any product that is brought to market should be required to have a process in place whereby it can be fully recycled, (or reused). Anything less is a broken economics, where the true costs are hidden.
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  33.  @rogerstarkey5390  I listened with full understanding, thanks. And yay, more development, but until that comes the position remains the same.
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  34.  @vermeerasia  Yes, they're lovely buildings, often called a 'colonial'... the Brits built them in all the tropical places. I used to sleep under the house in summer on a hammock spread between two stilts, and the essential mosquito net.
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  35. Great summary, nice to get a catch up with what is happening. I spend way too much time avoiding plastic. Glad to hear that Notpla is the genuine article, as well as a genuine leather alternative. I don't understand why people fall for the faux-leather lie.
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  36. I suppose algae might offer a solution among all that is offered. But in truth, technology is not the golden ticket to save us it is touted as. Why do we even need to go faster, we simply don't. This is all only for an elite few, while the rest of humanity will be left to pay for it.
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  37. So we can't have nice things because capitalism.
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  38. I like Matt's Dad jokes...
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  39. Sponsorship ads should include the cost.
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  40. We need one that can be genuinely 100% recyclable. Anything else is not part of a circular economy, and if it is not then it is not a real solution, just another industrial ruse.
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  41. Is it not possible to install large vertiical axis turbines, such as the Savonius (which works well in disturbed air flows), onto boats? Though probably not a solution for large vessels.
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  42. North Americans build way too big, much of it unnecessary...
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  43. I had wondered in the past if this was possible, but I thought perhaps my lack of physics understanding meant this wouldn't make any difference. Glad to see it would.
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  44. ebussy are also going to slap cells on the roof. I would 100% buy one of these cars. With the amount I actually drive, this could provide a massive portion of my needs. The Sono is the one I'm leaning toward.
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  45. Great info.
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  46.  @СоюзниксОкинавы  Yeah, but they are dependent on fossil fuels, whereas an airship can be done without using present tech.
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  47. We absolutely do want to see less cars, no matter what their power source.
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  48. Would like to see options which don't use plastics...
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  49. Reduction remains the only solution...
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  50.  T C  Ratio'd much? Take the L, loser.
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