Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. "The premise is misleading." How is it misleading? Your comment doesn't explain.
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  2.  @granand  "The USA now selling its oil reserve to China, use China as a manufacturing hub, and cannot claim china is polluting when orders for manufacturing come from the USA." I agree that it would be better to include indirect emissions for each country coming from domestic consumption made possible by foreign production with emissions, though it's also harder to find info on this. However, this principle only reinforces that Norway is not to blame for the emissions from the oil it sells but rather it should be counted for the countries that either actually emit the greenhouse gasses or better yet those that consume the results if it's a different country.
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  3.  @ASMRJey  I would compare that to crossing state borders inside the US. The external borders for both the US and EU have some of the same issues (at least during the recent migrant crisis).
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  4. If the runway 02 or 20 is oriented in the north-south direction why does the graphic show it as being oriented in the east-west direction?
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  5.  @RickJaeger  ""99%" of the world does not speak English" 4.6% of the world population speaks English as their first language.
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  6. Too long.
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  7. I'd say "further" is correct here because it's referring to a direction rather than a static location.
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  8. One possibility is that the person has acquired US citizenship after the children were born.
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  9. No.
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  10. Another fun fact: In Icelandic Iceland is "Ísland" which comes from "ís"="ice" and "land"="land".
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  11. I think they also can vote in whatever committees they might be in and also on the floor in purely procedural matters.
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  12. It's minimum for (maximum) speed limit.
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  13. But batteries have much better efficiency.
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  14. Björk
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  15. Very little trolling, in fact.
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  16.  @dingahaban2288  "We would rather die than sell out to some western/white puppets" Aren't the opposition blacks too? Surely there are next to no whites left in Zimbabwe?
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  17.  @yvettepugin4035  Which one of my comments are you referring to?
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  18.  @blackmaster999  Based on economic statistics it doesn't seem like that. Also, are there more people trying to get from Zimbabwe to SA or vice versa?
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  19.  @richdobbs6595  They can at least be made controllable. France uses load following nuclear plants.
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  20.  @richdobbs6595  Highly controllable might be an exaggeration.
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  21. Is this the fabled "missing middle"?
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  22. Solar output is greatest when there is greatest need for air conditioning. Thus, those two should go well together.
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  23.  @creamofbotulismsoup9900  "Not really, pretty much any building with A/C will be insulated to prevent the heat from immediately transferring in." A delay of 3 h or something doesn't ruin it. Houses also have thermal inertia so you have some leeway to run AC when electricity is the cheapest. Doing it during the day if solar PV is very plentiful is still easier than doing it during the night (which is also still feasible if the house has enough mass not heat up too much in one day).
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  24.  @micaledayurst7462  That does not comport with figures I find with short googling. Based on what I found AC would use about 3 kW on average whereas a fridge would be closer to 250 W on average meaning AC uses more than 10x more. Also, AC usage tends to be higher in regions where solar power is more viable.
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  25. I wonder if European bankruptcy laws should be amended. It just seems inefficient that the planes that are about to take off suddenly can't because it isn't clear that who would pay for them. Someone is going to pay for the travel back home at some point regardless.
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  26. It's not meaningless. The F1 race is also an annual event. Thus, if the stadium e.g. has 2 events per year, you can divide the cost of the stadium by 2 when making a comparison to the cost of the F1 track. Note that he didn't say "cost per event" but rather "cost per annual event" [emphasis mine].
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  27. ​@nightstorm16 It would make zero sense to ignore the initial capex because it's so large. I think if you converted it into an annual cost with, say, 5% interest rate it would still be larger than the running costs you mention. In any case, it doesn't really matter whether you convert it to an annual cost or not because what Wendover did was look at the ratio of the costs of the F1 track/paddock etc. and the Stadium. The result is in any case going to be the same unless the running costs large enough relative to the capex that they can noticeably affect the ratio.
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  28. "Making goods and services for consumption is hard, time-consuming, and subject to fluctuating demand. Trading papers is far easier." The airlines still do produce the service and their banking business wouldn't work if they didn't.
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  29. Even if it's badly run, that doesn't obviously mean that more money wouldn't translate to benefits. That would mean that less money hurt because the agency is badly run (because A<B is the same as B>A) and that would sound rather counterintuitive.
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  30. The result is still mostly the same. Usually it's more economical to first reduce output from sources with more expensive fuel than nuclear so in practice nuclear output stays flat. France is a special case because the share of nuclear there is so high that nuclear plants also need to participate in load following.
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  31. Maybe it's actually 400 Mm long.
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  32. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  33. Which country's citizenship should the Palestinians have then?
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  34.  @jonahs92  "Well, they live on Israeli land, so they're Israeli." That might be a reasonable solution if Israel actually accepted that. At any rate, they should get a country whether that's Israel or some other country (without having to move if they don't want to move).
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  35.  @jonahs92  "Except Israel does accept that. Because they are Israeli." No, they mostly don't have Israeli citizenship and can't get one. Israel doesn't want to allow that because if all of them got Israeli citizenship then the Arabs would outnumber the Jews in the country. (I think the people in East Jerusalem can, or at least could in the past, apply for Israeli citizenship but that's a small exception.) Their current statelessness isn't an acceptable status quo. They should get the citizenship of some sovereign country at some point (without moving if they don't want to move).
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  36.  @jonahs92  Arabs living in Gaza and West Bank are not automatically eligible for Israeli citizenship and in 2003 Israel even passed a law that barred them from getting citizenship through marriage as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_and_Entry_into_Israel_Law Note that Israel doesn't even claim Gaza or the West Bank as Israeli territory (though the exact border may be a bit unclear).
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  37. Boing might need to jump through numerous hoops with the regulators of other countries as well since now they might be less likely to just follow FAA.
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  38.  @otm646  "Cards are a convenience, they should be charged at a premium because of that." I'm not sure I agree. You can turn this around and say that they're a convenience for the vendor and therefore should be charged at a discount.
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  39. 4:10 "under $1,400" But the graphic shows above $1,400.
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  40.  @ultrab2777 : I did see it. The point was that is should have been <, not >.
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  41. For DC the cables are cheaper for a given amount of capacity. "increasing frequency" No.
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  42. Not necessarily only general aviation. Short-haul flights could be viable as well.
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  43. "I believe going fully free-market mode is the way to go." I believe (live) kidney donors should be paid from the public purse.
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  44. "The millions of TONS of concrete poured would make me think otherwise." I would think the emissions coming from this are not high per kWh produced.
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  45. Can someone explain why it's spelled like that?
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  46. "jet fuel is 50 times more energy dense than batteries. Until batteries make a quantum leap in technology there’s no overcoming that." I'm not convinced of that. Electricity is cheaper and for short-haul flights the weight of the batteries matters less, so on sufficiently short distances, they're probably viable.
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  47. He said "mainland Africa".
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  48. But to be fair, that was a lot shorter wall and thus could be guarded more effectively.
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  49.  @banksrail  My point wasn't so much about whether it's good or bad, there are always pros and cons, but rather that the term seems to not be very descriptive.
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  50. Time to repeal the Jones Act.
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