Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Vingroup: Vietnam’s Biggest Company" video.

  1. Vietnam is far from a paradise (it does not exist anywhere), but Vietnam is a lovely country scenically. Furthermore, Vietnam has not gone down the dictatorship road; causing the violent and destructive excesses in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Cambodia. I don't quite understand how and why Vietnam has avoided this, but it's modern (and ancient) history does have a singular focus which may be a function of it's political stability; kick out all armed invaders (this is not a statement of religious or racial xenophobia that has blighted the history of many other nations), but an application of political independence. This history of resistance is still quite recent in Vietnam, i.e. the Vietnam War (which the Vietnamese may have a different title), finished only 50 years ago, and was singularly devastating is the nicest way i could describe it. Furthermore, coupled with the productive work ethic of the average Vietnamese, the lack of theocratic threats that plague the Middle East and the high social standing of education, gives Vietnam a definite edge in current times. Vietnam, if governed quite well as it seems to be, even without meaningful democracy, looks to have quite a bright future.
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  2. The enthusiam for EUVs are misplaced. These vehicles are designed to replace ICE vehicles as global warming becomes a concern. However, global warming comes from many sources, not just out of the exhaust of ICE vehicles. Most electricity is still generated globally by thermal coal, which changes the batteries on EUVs, and electricity generation is the leading industrial CO2 emission, not ICE vehicles. Secondly, one half of all global petroluem fuel supply goes into pushing ships around the oceans. EUV's, like mobile phones, have a global supply chain so much of their parts are shipped. Thirdly, petroluem costs at the pump are stil competitively cheap comparison to battery power (by weight) or battery replacement, and there remains plenty of commercial fuel outlets and a lack of convinient EV charge stations in many countries. Forthly, manufacturing EVs consumes more resouces than ICE vehicles and is even more polluting to manufacture. For example, in an average EV there is 40kg of copper wiring in comparison to 1kg in ICE vehicles and, besides making copper more expensive which is great for copper miners, mining exposes sulphides to the environment which causes acid ground water and heavy metal pollution. Additionally, there is not enough lithium globally to supply the growth of EVs over the next ten years, unless the battery primary element changes.
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