Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. Elon's main genius is hopping on technologies that have government subsidies.
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  2. 99% of scientists agree with 100% of their employers' opinions.
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  3. As soon as Tesla was #1, he didn't want new competition, so shut off that government spigot that gave him HIS start. It's perfectly logical in a perfectly selfish way.
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  4.  @plaguedoct0r  : Bicycle pump has a bigger piston. But yeah, it's tough when it gets up to 50 psi.
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  5. I didn't know that crystals and colloids were the same thing. Weird.
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  6. He gets a lot of views, so I wouldn't call him "stupid." I'm GENERALLY educated, but not as up-close on specific claims as a working lab scientist, but when the guy said the company pushing this "breakthrough" TOLD him it had been checked out by a bunch of other impressive-sounding institutions, but he didn't actually reach out to any of those institutions, I smelled a rat. But mainly, he's just annoying to watch or listen to.
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  7. ... or even just in ordinary rail.
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  8. He's the Donald Trump of startup scams.
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  9.  @EEVblog  I think I've seen them longer at Denver Airport.
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  10. ... and I heard "Jay Shitter."
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  11. Don't start on COVID. You're ignorant about it.
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  12.  @vargonian  if you have a garden, you already have plenty of space for a compost pile.
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  13. I can see where one or three techno/materials-science breakthroughs could make something like this possible. And that is a lot of surface area for power generation, if they could solve the technical issues. I like the out-of-the-box thinking, but experimental trials have produced some very expensive courtyards that occasionally generate a small amount of power.
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  14.  @ShadowebEB  Have you been to an American city?
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  15. You're assuming the government wasn't already broken before Trump was elected.
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  16. DO NOT QUEsTION THE GREEN AGENDA, especially when it wastes more and harms more than it helps. You're probably an 'ist' and a 'phobe.'
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  17.  @vejymonsta3006  Lock-down insulates people from exposure, but doesn't do anything else. So when they finally go out, because of easing of restrictions or sheer desperation, infection rates go up. What people are not noticing is that good doctors the world over are treating it very successfully, and the death rate is MINISCULE in the general population. People with risk factors should be more careful, but for the rest of us? The cure is worse than the disease. Sweden didn't lock down and is not experiencing these new waves, which are mostly just the product of lock-downs without any real plan.
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  18. Ha! Copyright strike for calling out his bullshit! That's how they get your content yanked.
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  19. I still kind of like the Waterseer idea, but on a larger scale and with much lower expectations. I've always liked that idea, ever since I read DUNE, and Herbert talked about wind traps and dew collectors. But thinking back, he kind of has it both ways. "It's cooler underground" plus "there's more moisture in the air on DUNE than the total absence of precipitation suggests." No accounting for the fact that the precipitation of water vapor will warm up the collector due to latent heat of the phase change. Necessary for all this is the dryness of the desert air, which causes temperatures to plummet after dark, which of course runs counter to the elevated moisture in DUNE's air, commented on by the planetologist Pardot Kynes. A desert planet where it never rains, yet has massive amounts of dew, because reasons.
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  20. Why do stupid sites have the most subscribers?
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  21. Wearing masks works well against mouth-breathers and close-talkers. But as a preventative measure against the 'Rona? Very questionable, especially when the masks you buy all say "This product will not prevent you from catching anything." Factor in all the hands-to-the-face nonsense associated with fiddling with the damn things, and the benefits are probably very minimal. Lock-downs were only to flatten the curve, and only for 2 weeks, while we figured out how we were going to treat it. Where the "conspiracy" comes in is the gleeful embrace of perpetual lock-downs and paranoia about a disease that has less than 1% fatality rate, with easily-identifiable risk groups, who should take more precautions. For some, the destruction of the economy is a golden opportunity to usher in authoritarian socialist utopia. The measurement of infection rates varies from place to place, and is as much a product of how much testing is done as how many people are actually infected. So the numbers are all very misleading. Also, we stopped talking about death rates, which are very small, since they stopped shipping infected patients into nursing homes, where they could spread it to the most vulnerable people. sigh Countries more impacted by malaria are much less hesitant to use HCQ, and the 'Rona hasn't impacted them as severely as more developed countries, whose leadership and media WANT the 'Rona to stick around as a major issue, indefinitely, because they can engage in telling everybody what to do, which is their deepest desire. Yes, the average person is dumb. Most politicians are below average.
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  22. At least until they manage to sell their shares to some other idiot!
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  23. The only part of your video that's sus is the computer graphical representations of molecules. Don't use a computer graphic to "prove" anything. When you do that, you're basically doing what the people you bust are always doing.
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  24. I keep going back to WaterSeer and wondering if Frank Herbert lied to me about windtraps, where the idea was to use winds on DUNE to send humid air to a BIG chamber, underground, and slowly collect water over time. Planting plants in "dew collectors," which are discussed in some survival manuals, using a tarp in a shallow depression. Of course, on DUNE, the air supposedly carried a lot of moisture, in spite of there being no bodies of water on the surface. Don't tell me it was all a bunch of made-up BS!
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  25. Your clothesline's performance would improve greatly if you put it in the direct sunlight.
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  26. What's electrishity? I mean, you're really shmart, but get the marbelzh out of your mouth.
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  27. 1,000 PSI? I get nervous when my steel tank is upwards of 200 PSI. That little tank must be made of super-strong alloy. And you carry 1,000 psi in a bottle hanging from your mouth.
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  28. So you're saying TESLA's as bad as all the other automakers, just in a different way. There's no reason a new truck should cost $80,000. But the industry-government 'partnership' has them building junk we don't want, with features we don't want, at a price we can't afford. 80 years ago, we'd've called the American system of automaking fascist. Same for medical care. Same for agriculture. The more the government intervenes, the more tenuous the connection between customers and producers. In a free market, price and actual value never diverge significantly.
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  29. I guess you endorse what the last administration was doing and you were looking forward to seeing the USA drive off the cliff. This ain't pretty. It was ugly to start with. If you don't like what you're seeing now, please understand that what was going on, before, was in serious need of ending. Just wondering which jab you're on. 10th? They're not perfect. Elon's not perfect. Elon has made a lot of money just looking for where the government's guaranteeing a profit and jumping on-board with both feet. He was incensed that Trump backed out of the Paris Climate Accords, because he stood to make a lot more money if we stayed in it. If you don't like what Elon's doing, you should maybe do some research on what Soros, WEF, and others were doing, with similar access to the federal government, just behind the scenes, with MONEY, rather than in plain view with ACTION. "He's a bull in a china shop!" The china shop floor was already covered with shattered glass.
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  30. I wish them all the best. I won't be investing. I like the idea of a linear rail gun on the moon. This just looks totally impractical.
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  31. I think that you can harvest dew with a sheet of plastic. Not much, but you can do it.
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  32. 37 liters a day?! LOL!
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  33. I'm not sure about Tesla's math or thunderfoot's math, here. It's a strange trade-off, because the motors weigh less than an internal combustion engine, but the batteries weigh a lot more than fuel, and a diesel runs at full power on a much lighter quarter tank. Batteries weigh the same, whether they're empty or they're fully charged. Do they charge back up when they're going downhill? Do you get something back, with a real braking advantage on downhill grades? I don't know enough about the things. I think we'll all be better off if we lowered our sights. Maybe ease into less ambitious EVs, made specifically for the urban and residential environment. But I don't want to lose the ability to drive anywhere I want in the continental USA in 24 hours. One day's driving can get you from almost anywhere to almost anywhere in the lower 48. People going coast-to-coast can still do it in less than a day-and-a-half. That's going to go away, if current trends continue. But I know my little sister loves her EV bicycle for making nimble runs to work on a lot of 25 mph and 35 mph road. Almost everywhere she needs to go in the valley is well within that bike's round-trip range. As long as she's got that cheap hydropower electricity, it's quite sensible. She has a conventional vehicle for bad weather and longer trips. But she can get around town just fine. Go one level up from that, with a trike that can carry some cargo, like a big load of groceries, and that'd be practical for all her shopping needs and not burn a drop of fuel.
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  34. Chicken wire and 4 sticks ...
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  35. They all look the same and cost the same because the government has imposed such strict - and senseless - controls, that they have little choice. There is no basic, low-cost, compact pickup truck out there. Mid-sized or bigger. Why? To "save the planet," supposedly.
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  36. Not one trucker, bus driver, heavy equipment operator or citizen with IQ over 100 thinks these EVs as currently conceived and manufactured are going to come close to meeting our transportation needs, let alone put a dent in CO2 emissions. We'll just burn more coal (as China is doing) to generate the electricity, and rape the planet for the minerals needed for the batteries.
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  37. There's so much private-public intermingling going on with most of Elon's big plans, that you're actually criticizing policy makers. Elon just jumps to the front of the line whenever there're subsidies or tax breaks. Government interventions like these are the only reasons automakers went all-in on EVs, too. Wind power? Same thing. I don't mean small projects that maybe pump some water or generate a little bit of power occasionally, but the square miles of solar panels and huge wind turbines that wouldn't be tried without taxpayer subsidies and tax incentives. Those projects destroy the environment more than what they claim to be doing for the environment.
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  38.  @creepyshadow55  Just because the first thousand people over the cliff died doesn't mean the 1001st person will die.
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  39. Elon always puts himself at the front of the subsidies line. The industries he engages in all have guaranteed government money committed to them. Being a billionaire, he can always position himself to take maximum advantage of government help. I remember he was pissed at Trump for backing out of the Paris Climate Accords, which essentially pushed all manufacturing to China, India and parts East, except for a handful of Western companies making government-subsidized solar panels and what-not.
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  40. One thing you didn't mention is that a gas-powered vehicle has a heavier engine, or so I would think. That takes a bit of a bite out of the 500 kg disadvantage. But the motor in your last-millennium vehicle probably doesn't weigh 1/3 of that 500 kg. So I talked myself out of it.
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  41. Musk is crazy like a fox. He raced to the front of the line when the government incentivized EVs. Taking a salary frees him up to re-invest in something else, which he better do, quick, because EVs are going to level out at much lower levels than Biden admin claimed when it jumped in with both feet, to the ruin of automaking as we knew it. But maybe auto-making will enjoy a renaissance. All we'd have to do is abolish the EPA and one or five other regulatory agencies, and return to companies staying alive on their reputations and reliability, rather than by complying with regulations thought up by bureaucrats. Given the choice, people will choose the cheapest, cleanest cars. Cars that will still be on the road in 10 or 20 years, with proper care, maintenance, and most of all, a good supply of parts and vehicles that can be easily repaired by someone handy.
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  42. $paceX has done some things.
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  43.  @karimjerbi7084  Asphalt is soft. That's why it's the go-to material for road-building. They can extrude it relatively quickly and cheaply. You can use harder stuff. They've used harder stuff in the past. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was built in 1940 and they used concrete. It lasted 20 or 30 years before becoming a running joke in the state for all the potholes.
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  44. Obviously a bad idea, but pretty lame debunk.
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  45. Well, his channel is "undecided." Main thing for me is watching and listening to him is fingernails on chalkboard.
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