Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "Two Bit da Vinci" channel.

  1. China? Baby, it's them Helium-3 powered NAZIS you gotta worry about. They're coming for your smart phones.
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  2. I'm curious how the base model Rivian will play out next year against it. I'm replacing my '11 Tacoma either way, but it's going to come down to $ cheddar in the end. I haul ATV's, jet skis, and a small camper. Both are so high priced coming out of the gate, it's going to boil down to base model sticker price, with Rivians being delayed. The one that can dip closest to $40k first will be able to compete against premium pickup trucks on the market today. As a Military guy who frequently had to sign out GSA non-tactical vehicles, I can attest as a government employee that a huge chunk of those F150 sales were to the Feds. It simply is the Government pickup truck thanks to contracts. We had fleets and fleets of them, both here and overseas.
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  3. Here's the thing that kills me about saying "we don't have enough energy, would need to burn fossil fuels" California, one of the most parched states in the US, has frequent surpluses of renewable energy output that they have to pay other states to take. This alone is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, but the kicker is that they aren't shunting that to power desalization in a state with the 3rd longest coastline in the nation. Maybe instead of paying Utah to take your wind turbine excess, turn on some damn boilers and shoot H2O to reservoirs?? Edit: And you cannot tell me that the brine isn't a hotbed of semi-distilled chemicals that industries wouldn't love to exploit for product.
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  4. Chinese Engineers finally broke through the Triangle of all Engineering Gizmos: Good, Fast, or Cheap, where you get to only choose 2. They have managed to pack in 3 doses of Cheap.
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  5. In the end, bolted in battery packs are not the future. Because practical use throws it out the window. You have to be able to swap out industry standard expended battery packs while you're on the road, at a station, paying retail electrical cost with the batteries being used as a "deposit" property, not an individually owned property. Something you could do in minutes, just like filling a gas tank. Or swapping BBQ propane tanks at Home Depot. Then they go on the charger, and get passed on to the next customer who gives over HIS empty cells for the now-recharged units. No motorized economy will mass adopt EV cars where you have to sit around and wait to fill a bolted-down battery array from the "nozzle" for hours. When the simple price per mile of those hot swap battery packs beats Petroleum, then EV will displace diesel burning cargo vehicles, and individual gasoline cars. So it would pay to have a massive amount of solar panels on top of your Gas Station. To charge expended battery packs. Picture two lines: One for Electrics, another for Gas cars at your local Chevron station. After 10 years, with competitive pricing per mile, the Gas line will become obsolete as people only start exchanging power packs instead of filling the tank.
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  6.  @simonm1447  Adam Carolla: And that's...a good thing
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  7. Pickup Truck designed by SkyNet, all right reserved Edit: Hell, the new Tacoma I was just looking at upgrading to was $40k. The Tundra $48k. I would do $48k for the AWD Terminator Truck. I can easily cure the "looks" by slapping a grille guard & Warn winch on the front, hosing parts of the body with bedliner, sticker bombing it, and keep it MUDDY. Make it nasty
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