Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1. You might be overlooking a simple explanation in favor of an unnecessarily complicated one:  intelligent people simply get tired of having to explain their jokes.
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  2. Women's products like deodorant do NOT have the "exact same" ingredients. They generally contain different chemicals in different proportions.
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  3.  @BioHorse  "They" who?
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  4. The title's a bit click-baity as these technologies all actually WORK but it's still a fairly decent analysis of the downsides of various generation sources. You completely left out the greatest advantage: NO FUEL COST and, of course, no insane fuel price fluctuations. I don't know how y'all do it in the U.K. but here in the States we generally don't build wind farms on virgin lands. They're mostly on farms and ranches which have previously been cleared and many of these locations are already dotted with oil & gas wellheads. Bird and bat kill figures might be grossly overstated: They do have EYES after all and bats have freaking SONAR! How many flying critters are killed by pollution? Also, it is completely absurd to build solar arrays on the ground. Have you people run out of rooftops? We have over 70 million residential and commercial buildings in the USA, all boasting roofs. There is NO valid reason to build solar arrays anywhere else. In the USA, roughly 20% of our generation is nuclear which, coincidentally, is roughly equivalent to our base load requirement. Another point: not all batteries are electrochemical. Pumped storage is a thing that exists. During periods of excess power production, water is pumped from the primary reservoir uphill into a secondary reservoir. During periods of high demand, that water is allowed to flow back downhill through turbines. While it's true that most locations suitable for hydropower have long been harnessed, there remain a number of opportunities to be exploited. I favor a robust mix of generation sources, including, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, waste-to-energy conversion, as well as a few modernized (cleaner) fossil fuel plants for peaking. Incidentally, my household solar array is being installed next week (7.5Kw using SunPower panels with built-in microinverters, mostly on a south-facing roof with a few on a west-facing roof). My region gets 300 days of sunshine annually so solar is EXTREMELY effective here and boasts a ridiculously short payback period.
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  5. I need to point out a mistake: The internet and the Web are two different things. The internet is primarily hardware infrastructure. It was developed in America in the 60s and 70s by DARPA for the U.S. Department of Defense. The Web is software and was developed in the 80s and 90s by the Brit you named.
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  6. Great presentation! I have some weird dietary restrictions. No red meat, no dairy, no caffeine, no fats, and NO ALLERGIES. I have a different medical issue, and I'll happily eat all the gluten and carbs you can send me, preferably in 55-gallon barrels because bread is awesome! I can always find something on a menu that's both appropriate and delicious. I can tolerate incidental amounts and don't have to claim special nonsense that pisses off the staff and gets me served a "spitter."
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  7. Welcome to YouTube!
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