Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. A separate R&D site is a bad idea. Part of Tesla’s formula is they have R&D next to production.
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  2. For countries like the US and Australia with large areas and low population density, it is a stupid policy. Also, let the best products displace the others without government interference because Australia is a free country where people should be able to make decisions based on what is best for them, not what the government wants.
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  3. 8 countries that most of whom get their electricity from hydro and aren’t industrialized.
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  4. You’re just straight up ignorant if you think Biden is the lesser of any evil. He’s admitted to corruption in a room full on people on camera, and he’s bought off by China and Russia. While in office, he’s ordered the murder of a family as the US was running away from Afghanistan and enacted numerous illegal, dictatorial policies.
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  5. It’s probably a bit more aerodynamic now. A blunt front with a long tail is the most aerodynamic shape
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  6. Many mountains in the Western US are made out of rare and valuable metals
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  7. Dude, you have to stop taking those numbers from solar and wind at face value. The capacity factor of wind is about 30%, so take what ever number and cut it into 1/3. That’s going to be an average so sometimes it will max out and sometimes it won’t make any, while wildly varying in between. They need natural gas back up to deal with that kind of crazy fluctuations, which beats the whole point. Nuclear on the other hand has a 90% capacity factor. They don’t need backup. Fundamentally, nuclear is the only scalable solution to not using fossil fuels because it’s the only one that works.
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  8. That’s bullshit. Wind and solar are the most maintenance heavy energy sources we have. Several years back here in the US people were talking about how great it was that solar employs more people than coal does at a time when renewables were 3% of electricity and coal 20%
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  9. Biden has been the on the wrong side of every issue for the last 50 years. He’s only stayed in office because of corruption.
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  10. They hit 960,000 last year, so once the new factories are up to speed, I can easily see 2 million a year.
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  11. Let’s go Brandon! Alway the dumbest move from Brandon.
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  12. Everywhere that has tried renewables has only gotten expensive, unreliable electricity. Denmark just released a report they’re going to having brown outs next decade because of the renewables they built can’t support their needs
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  13.  @laleau92  no, they won’t. There’s simply not enough batteries to do that, and they cost way too much.
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  14.  @hanswitvliet8188  because Canada is colder than Norway.
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  15.  @beautifulgirl219  lead pipes are just fine. Just don’t do what Flint did, cheaping out on water processing so the protective coating inside the pipes is dissolved
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  16.  @collierphone304  the “waste” is fuel for fast reactors. Private insurance is prevented from insuring nuclear because of government regulations. Read Roadmap to Nowhere. Is breals down the costs of a nuclear and renewable grid. The renewable one is 3.5 times more expensive
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  17. No, it’s not. It’s entrenching natural gas because that’s the only thing with a fast enough response time to make up for the fluctuations
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  18.  @gridjac  we’ve had the technology to burn the spent fuel for decades with fast reactors.
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  19. No, it’s insane. The UK is looking into it, and they estimate it will cost them $15 trillion for 1 gigaWatt of electricity. It breaks every rule of good engineering.
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  20.  @glennjgroves  most of that solar and wind is natural gas getting relabeled as solar and wind because it’s the backup for them.
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  21. Biden doesn’t care about the country. He cares about the money he gets from Unions.
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  22. No, they aren’t
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  23. Elon has come up with efficient, sustainable solutions to problems, instead of throwing money into a solution that doesn’t work, and that’s a bad thing?
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  24. That’s not how it works at all. The output is constantly changing and different regions have amounts of sun and wind
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  25.  @Uygsoerk  only with batteries or natural gas backup, which defeats the point
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  26. Insane is right. All of his predictions are based on bad assumptions
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  27. It’s just an increased registration charge to offset the the loss of gas tax for roads.
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  28. It produces 1/10 the toxic waste of solar.
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  29.  @elephantintheroom5678  You add up the waste from mining and manufacturing solar panels and compare it to the amount created by nuclear. Also, solar produces waste that lasts a trillion years. The lead and cadmium from solar never go away
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  30.  @elephantintheroom5678  You asked how it’s done; I told you, but now you rejecting it.
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  31.  @elephantintheroom5678  You haven’t made an argument based on facts
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  32.  @elephantintheroom5678  Prove you’re right; you can’t
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  33.  @elephantintheroom5678  You can’t even do basic math. Hundreds of thousands is orders of magnitude smaller than the millions you were claiming, but are perfectly inline with what I said because it takes 10 half-lifes for a isotope to be completely decayed. 10,000*10=100,000
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  34. China is going to be lucky if they’re not in the middle of a civil conflict by the end of the year
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  35. What about the costs of storing lead and cadmium waste from renewables for the next trillion years?
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  36. You dislike him because you’re an NPC who’s been told what to think.
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  37. That’s just another layer of bureaucratic mess that would only slow Tesla down.
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  38.  @TheBooban  that makes no sense.
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  39. 30X isn’t 30 times. It’s 3-0-X; x as in blank because they’re not sharing what 300 series of steel they’re using.
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  40. That’s being generous to wind. Nuclear plants can run for 80 years and wind turbines last 20 years.
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  41. That’s why we need nuclear
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  42. The total area needed for mining and everything for nuclear is smaller than solar
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  43. Tesla makes 60-70% of EV sells in North America.
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  44. Well, Tesla are using many of the same strategies Ford when making the Model T.
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  45. The government which governs best is the one which governs the least
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  46. See you acting like Republicans are evil and just want to burn fossil fuels. They don’t. They want cheap, reliable, and preferably domestically produced energy. They’re also happy to buy a high quality product.
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  47. You’re confusing Elon for Biden.
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  48. Tesla have the best leadership in the industry.
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  49. Basing your energy off ofthe weather has always and will always be stupid, no matter how many little fixes people come up with.
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  50. It’s not the votes. It’s the money, legitimate and otherwise, from the Unions.
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  51. No, nuclear reactors are protected by containment buildings or buried in the ground.
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  52.  @sandmehlig  Digging a hole isn’t that expensive. Also, all of the countries with nuclear weapons got them before nuclear power, so proliferation concerns from nuclear power is misplaced.
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  53. It’s mostly from industry shutting down
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  54.  @stephenbrickwood1602  yeah, and if you look at your numbers, you have one per household
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  55. Because it produces less toxic waste than solar and wind.
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  56. Tesla’s employees have the most autonomy in the car industry
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  57. Because there’s money being exchanged behind the closed doors
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  58. In the US at least, nearly all pickups have separate cabins and beds.
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  59. Elon is the exact opposite of authoritarian. Employees at SpaceX and Tesla have a huge amount of latitude, including telling him he’s wrong.
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  60. Yeah, any faster accelerating cars use special tires and on a specially prepared track.
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  61. As Sandy Munro says, Tesla lies. They have a bad habit of underselling
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  62.  @joelado  They built renewables. Because they built renewables, they’re dependent on natural gas backup. They get their natural gas from Russia. The ultimate cause is renewables. The Russo-Ukrainian war is the penultimate cause. France isn’t having those problems because they get most of their electricity from nuclear.
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  63.  @Yemadas  Spain gets their base load from nuclear and coal. Also, natural gas backup is getting labeled as wind and solar. It’s a common trick to make renewables look better than they are
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  64.  @3rdrock  when most people say renewables, they mean solar and wind. Also, nearly all possible hydroelectric has been built out
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  65. Nuclear doesn’t have to be built 1,000 miles away from where the electricity is used. It doesn’t even need 100
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  66. Most of what Biden has done is break the law and try to do the opposite of Trump only to go back to it but do it worse
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  67.  @Myrddnn  Tim Pool, Peter Zeihan, and the nuclear advocacy pages I fallow on Facebook are a-political to left leaning.
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  68.  @Myrddnn  I didn’t. You’re in lala land.
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  69. No, load chasing like that will never work
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  70. Efficiency doesn’t matter. Solar doesn’t work at night
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  71. The problem is that Elon isn’t paying off Biden.
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  72. You don’t need to chance solar with nuclear.
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  73. Democrats are the party of the super rich and food stamps.
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  74. Working conditions in communist China are far worse than any civilized nation.
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  75. It’s more expensive and releases radioactive radon
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  76. Have you ever meet a Republican? You make them sound like proto-Taliban. No one is saying women shouldn’t be able to work. Republicans also strongly believe in helping the unfortunate. They just don’t believe it’s the government’s job, and they strongly believe the means that have been used are at best ineffective and at worst harmful.
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  77. You delusional leftists always have to announce yourselves so loudly.
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  78. Biden doesn’t care about anything besides money and people saying nice things about him when he’s dead in a few years.
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  79. Just remember, if that’s what they’re like one this topic, they’re like that with everything.
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  80. Smaller reactors have benefits like being able to shut one down without losing as much capacity. There are also manufacturing advantages.
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  81. Fossil fuel companies have been promoting renewable and running anti nuclear propaganda for decades.
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  82. Booty-judge? Bo-to-jugy?
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  83. The containment buildings can withstand everything short of a nuclear warhead, and burn the spent fuel from current reactors in fast reactors
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  84. 1) China lies about everything 2) Solar and wind don’t work
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  85. You’ve got it all wrong. Biden’s “supporters” are almost all in large cites, the same places most Teslas are sold.
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  86. Tell that to the Saudis. They hired South Korea companies to build nuclear plants, and if the Saudis have anything it’s sun and oil.
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  87. We get it. Biden is fascist, and Elon doesn’t like playing politics, which is verboten when dealing with fascists.
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  88. If there is a higher than average cancer rate around where you live, it has nothing to do with the lab’s reactors.
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  89.  @theairstig9164 The only other one is hydroelectric, but that’s very geographically limited
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  90.  @jlamm2223443  my point is that you’ve told think what he says is hate filled and conspiracy theories when they are neither.
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  91. No, wind and solar have massive maintenance costs.
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  92. No, it’s a scaled down AP-1000
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  93. Biden-flation says he doesn’t care about anyone not at the top.
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  94. The sun is eventually coming to go red giant and strip away the Earth’s atmosphere and even oceans. Coronal mass ejections are a threat to civilization as we know it by destroying all electronics. Also, the constant UV radiation made Earth’s surface uninhabitable for billions of years. The heat of radioactive elements in the Earth’s core keeping the core hot and is what has stopped Earth from turning into Mars.
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  95. Their containment buildings can shrug off anything a terrorist could throw at them, but more importantly, they’re a terrible target. Terrorists attack easy targets with high casualties. Nuclear power plants are neither.
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  96. Clippers are actually pretty fast. They could easily up with modern cargo ships.
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  97. @Jeff Mathias the problem is the batteries, and people have been trying to improve battery performance in the cold for decades
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  98. OZ mines a lot of uranium. Also, sea water extraction and thorium are options
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  99. Hanford isn’t a nuclear power plant. It’s a military site
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  100. Being anti-business isn’t a limited to a county. Your entire state government hates business.
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  101. It’s not “even with Biden”. Biden is the most corrupt president in the last century and corrupting the system more.
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  102. You can make every prediction you want, but renewables don’t work. Every place that’s tried has only made their electricity expensive and unreliable. Just like with communism, it’s not going to work this time either, regardless of whatever model you’ve got
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  103. UAW has murdered American competitiveness.
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  104. Try 1 year. He’s probably going to be impeached next year.
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  105. Yeah, Canada does seem to be going the environmental fascist route.
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  106. Generation 3+ and beyond have inherent safety systems, so unless the laws of physics stop working, they will fail safely and not breach containment.
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  107. Europe are cutting themselves off from Russian natural gas. They’ve basically forced themselves to deindustrialize. That’s not something to celebrate
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  108. Are you saying Elon is against the rule of law and math?
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  109. Never because you need Russian resources to build those turbines and solar panels
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  110. 300mw. That’s where the 300 in the name comes from, like the AP1000 it’s based on
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  111. RTGs aren’t batteries or reactors.
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  112. No, Biden is just corrupt.
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  113.  @VaMarineOG  you are NOT my tsundere
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  114. This whole thing is stupid. Bans won’t work if EVs are an inferior option, and if EVs are better, bans are superfluous. The French being French about the Germans is just the extra stupid cherry on top
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  115. This is a helium cooled design.
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  116. Nope, renewables were never going to work, and they’re double dead now because Russia is the largest supplier of many key resources needed for renewables. History is going to show nuclear was alway the smartest option
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  117. Anyone building or advocating for solar in Canada is not a serious person and should be laughed at
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  118. You site in the sludge from making solar panels and wind turbines then tell me they’re clean.
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  119.  @CARambolagen  after it’s cooled off enough to be put in a cask, you wouldn’t even raise your risk of getting cancer
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  120. The Emus are a savage foe. He’s lucky to be alive.
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  121. Enjoy living in “Escape from New York”.
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  122. Germany invested in renewables. They had the most expensive electricity in Europe, even before Russia invaded Ukraine. France invested in nuclear and has the least. You can’t argue empirical results.
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  123.  @enadegheeghaghe6369  None, all of the plants I okow of have been shut down for political reasons, like Germany’s fleet.
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  124. Yep, and most of those 8 are small unindustrialized countries.
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  125. Larger reactors are more efficient and it takes a permit from each reactor, which can a real pain to get.
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  126. The Russians wanted to take control of the plant, not destroy it.
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  127. Negative prices are bad because it means you have over production that will force other sources offline or damage the grid. That destabilizes the grid and drives prices up later. Imagine if you had a car with a power source that’s free hut randomly stops and starts. That’s not acceptable, so you’re going to put in a second drive system, which you’ll have to constantly be trying to match up with the the random one. Also, you’ll have to have your food on the break at all times to make sure you don’t randomly accelerate into another car or wall.
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  128.  @willm5814  not true in the least. The book Roadmap to Nowhere compares the costs of building a fully renewable and fully nuclear grid in the US. The renewable was calculated to cost $21 trillion, 3.5 times the cost of an all nuclear grid. There are studies on what it would take huge amounts to do the same in other countries
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  129. Yep, Unions are great at killing off the competition.
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  130. Solar still takes up far more space, uses far more materials, and is much more expensive than nuclear, and it is isn’t even reliable enough to run more than a house on.
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  131. The problem hasn’t been finding deposits. The problem has been our stupid regulations. Thorium is a common byproduct of REE mining. Because thorium is classified as a nuclear source material, you can’t dispose of it like other byproducts, even though it’s perfectly safe.
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  132.  @nickkacures2304  wind and solar are some of the most expensive. Unfortunately, coal is actually pretty cheap, which is why it’s been so dominant for centuries
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  133.  @williammeek4078  installation and maintenance are never going to go away. Germany has the highest electricity costs in Europe with lots of solar and wind. France with 80% nuclear has the lowest. Solar and wind often sell for less than they should be and drive up the cost in other parts of the system.
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  134.  @Nobodyinvitedyouhere  the installation is never going to end, and with the man power it’s consuming we don’t have the man power to actually build a 100% renewable grid.
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  135.  @williammeek4078  Texas and Oklahoma have really cheap natural gas. Wind has a capacity factor of about 30%, so only about 10% of that electricity is actually from wind. Also, I’m from Texas, and the last time I looked the renewable sources were more expensive. Although, I moved a couple years ago so I don’t know the prices at the moment.
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  136.  @williammeek4078  the spot price is lower but the overall system is more expensive. California produces a fraction of the natural gas and at much higher costs.
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  137.  @williammeek4078  no, it’s because the green cult has pushed them. Renewables get tons of subsidies and are given preferential treatment because the cult has captured our institutions. You should read the book Roadmap to Nowhere. It’s an in-depth breakdown of costs for a a renewable only grid in the US and compares it to on with nuclear only. The renewable only grid was costed at 3.5x what the nuclear grid would be.
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  138.  @williammeek4078  if they worked, they wouldn’t need the preferential treatment. Please, go line by line. I’ll be happy to prove you wrong.
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  139.  @williammeek4078  I didn’t delete anything, and that number is either at peak, rather than consistent rates or including natural gas backup
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  140. Alaska is a the size of Western Europe.
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  141. Why wouldn’t people who believe that the free market should be what creates goods and services buy a better product created by said free market? It’s the moralistic Democrats who will refuse to use an obviously better product for stupid political reasons.
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  142. People don’t want EVs. They want Teslas.
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  143. If you think Joe is a shock jock, you’re in for a hell of a shock.
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  144. I like Tesla, but solar is a boondoggle. Nuclear is the future.
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  145. On reactor for a large cargo ship would be more than enough. Depending on the design, an SMR doesn’t need refueling. Many of the designs are designed to have enough fuel for their entire lifespan.
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  146. More value added is a good thing
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  147.  @MichaelLloydMobile  I understood. You’re just not for voluntary cooperation to produce the greatest value for people because of your ideological views
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  148. California suing for racist hiring practices when they actually had a vote on if they should repeal anti-discrimination protections. The universe makes jokes of those idiots every single day.
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  149.  @hvh377  The Netherlands is like the size New Jersey, so y'all can get away with shorter range cars. Also, cars as a whole are more expensive there, so Teslas are more affordable in the US.
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  150. Oil and natural gas companies have been the biggest pushers of renewables because they know renewables can’t replace natural gas. Wind only produces 30% of the electricity it could if the wind blew all the time. Solar is even worse. To cover that 70+% of rime renewables aren’t enough they burn natural gas.
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  151.  @jimmybrad156  coal, oil, and natural gas. You can even see impressions in black coal.
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  152. Probably not this design, but other are designed to power ships.
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  153. They have cut emissions because they’ve killed a huge part of their industry. Germany’s largest petrochemical company is in the process of moving their operations to Luisiana.
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  154. Only people who don’t have a clue about how much of a pain working with hydrogen is suggest it.
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  155. You’re libertarian and voted for one of the most openly authoritarian presidents in American history? You’re a terrible libertarian.
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  156. Elon isn’t a progressive. In fact, he’s had pretty negative things to say about progressives like Sen. Karen.
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  157. Your Canadian superiority complex is showing.
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  158. Biden has only ever represented his pay masters
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  159. Wow, your bigotry based on the place a person was born is wrong. Moreover, Tesla are the victims of a hoax hate crime.
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  160. I like to describe this as biomass is renewable but not sustainable.
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  161. You’ve got the sides all wrong. It’s the corrupt establishment and the leftists —who are also corrupt— and literally everyone else.
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  162. You really don’t know anything about this. Plutonium isn’t naturally accruing and has to be bred. Radium isn’t used in nuclear reactors. Reactor and weapons grade uranium aren’t the same. Depending on the reactor it takes between 0 and 20% enrichment. Weapons grade is at least 90%.
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  163.  @pedrolopes3542  so you would rather speak from ignorance because of your prejudice, rather than judge technology based on it merits. RTGs and other similar technologies aren’t nuclear reactors, which is what meant when people say nuclear, but you prefer to look stupid because of your prejudice.
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  164.  @pedrolopes3542  I actually know a fair bit about lithium ion batteries because I have an interest in Tesla. It’s kinda hard to have nuclear disaster before the first reactor, Pile-1, was built in the 40s. I’m also sure that you're including military/experimental reactors and non-reactor related incidents, like every other ignorant person who has made that argument to me.
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  165.  @pedrolopes3542  by that standard just existing in the universe is a nuclear disaster. Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries are lithium ion batteries just like the chemistries with nickel. LFPs are actually the dominant chemistry in China. They have their benefits, like longevity and cost, and down sides, like being less energy dense. Tesla uses cylindrical batteries over more common prismatic and pouch, mostly used electronics. Nope, I’m just a somewhat knowledgeable layman, but you’ve only scratched the surface and are proclaiming enlightenment on a subject. If that’s not the Dunning-Kruger and confession through projection, I don’t know what is.
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  166.  @pedrolopes3542  no, you’re question is just overly broad. Most of Tesla’s batteries are nee in some way. The 4680 is a completely new form factor. Their tab-less electrode design is completely new. They’re also using silica electrodes. You’re read comprehension is total shit. You quote me calling myself a layman and then a few lines later are saying how I pretend to be an expert in these things.
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  167. It has everything to do with Unions, specifically the UAW. They’re the ones bribing Biden.
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  168. You’re brainwashed. Fossil fuel companies have supported renewables for decades and even run anti nuclear campaigns with environmental groups as their front. Russia even gave the German Green Party money, so Germany would get rid of their nuclear and be dependent on Russia natural gas
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  169. You can’t disable physics.
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  170. I understand stand why Jeff has a support yacht, but the optics are terrible.
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  171. No, you just like being ordered around and think EVs suck
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  172. Nuclear produces less CO2 than solar and wind, mining and everything included. Solar panels and wind turbines don’t magically pop out of the ground. It takes mining, refining, and manufacturing to build them.
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  173. A corrupt politician and a CEO aren’t strange bedfellows at all.
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  174. Well, the Chinese won’t out compete Tesla. Also, hopefully Biden is removed next year, and if he isn’t, he’s not winning the next election.
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  175. Yes, I would
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  176. Xi is turning back much of the economic liberalization, and even if he wasn’t, all of the major companies have major state involvement in them.
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  177.  @JohnBoen  and that has what to do with what I wrote.
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  178.  @sandmehlig  digging a hole takes time, and one of the operators is going to notice heavy equipment digging up a reactor.
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  179. Republicans don’t think in relational terms like that.
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  180.  @ambroulard  I lived in Texas for 28 of the 30 years I’ve been alive. I only moved to Florida in 2020.
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  181.  @ambroulard  good for you, but what does that have anything to do with this?
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  182.  @ambroulard  you’re the one who said I’ve never been to Texas. Maybe you’re just doing senile and can’t remember your own comments just a couple replies before, even though you could read them.
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  183. You are completely brainwashed. Calling out Trudeau’s fascism is the exact opposite of fascist. Also, poor countries have more secure electoral processes than the US. Introducing some basic security is protecting free elections.
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  184. Wind and solar produce waste that has to be stored until the end of time
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  185.  @nio6297  you can’t recycle cadmium run off from mining. Spent fuel can and is recycled. However, it’s better to burn it in fast reactors because that destroys the long lived actinides, but even if we don’t, those only have a half-life of 10,000 years so can’t last millions of years. Moreover, anything with a half-life that long is so weakly radioactive that it’s not dangerous
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  186. Germany is trying that. Instead of more renewables, they’re burning more brown coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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  187. Trying to make renewables reliable is stupid when we have stable nuclear
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  188.  @gridjac  I agree that SMRs are the future being cheaper. My point was that we don’t need SMRs, many of which are fast reactors, to deal with the spent fuel per se.
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  189. You’re just making up paranoid fantasies. These reactors will most likely be leased to a community if they aren’t just buying the electricity from a company.
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  190. The wast from solar lasts trillions of years
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  191.  @alandunlap4106  a hat isn’t going protect you from heavy metal poisoning
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  192.  @alandunlap4106  You get it from the lead in dead solar panels leaching out. Pu 238 and 239 are alpha emitters and safe enough to hold in your hands.
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  193.  @vimmentors6747  I wouldn’t say has nothing to do with it. Their obsession with wind and solar left them dependent on natural gas. If they had built nuclear instead of solar and wind, they wouldn’t be dependent on natural gas.
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  194. Renewables aren’t reliable. At best they work 30% of the time, so they have to other energy sources when they’re not working. Europe, except for France, shut down most of their nuclear, and they can’t get natural gas from Russia any more. The only option they have is coal.
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  195.  @davidmannion5362  there’s not enough batteries in the world to power Germany, let alone all of Europe, and France has empirically shown nuclear is cheaper. Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, France had some the lowest electricity prices in Europe. Germany and all of the others who went with solar and wind had the highest
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  196. Most countries use a nonsensical mix of metric and what ever the local system was. The UK just removed some EU restrictions on using imperial units. Also, most people in the US pay with credit/debit or cash.
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  197. Biden isn’t a machiavellian genius. He’s just corrupt.
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  198. Every ban on ICE cars should be revoked. If you truly believe EVs are the better way to build cars, you should see a ban on ICE as government tyranny trying to force what was already going to happen
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  199. They don’t. Nuclear is steady and slow to ramp. Wind and and solar are highly variable. The only fuel that can ramp fast enough to cover for the wild swings of wind amd solar is natural gas, so more wind and solar means more natural gas.
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  200.  @Driver6M  batteries that can power cities for hours let alone days don’t exist
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  201. The Democrats do the most of the same things. They’re just hypocrites
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  202. Stop lying
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  203.  @ksairman  apparently that education wasn’t that good if you’re using an argument from authority rather than one based on facts
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  204. The fact you think Biden was better than Trump means you need some soul searching.
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  205. The two party system is a moderating factor. If one party gets too radical, they lose votes to the moderate party. In a multi-party system the moderates tend to team up with the more radical party on their side of the political spectrum, rather than team up with moderates on the other side.
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  206. I have an old jeep I love to drive because it’s a manual, and I have say this is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a long time. This is like the stupid stuff people used to sell for automobiles when we were transitioning from horse drawn carriages.
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  207. What mirror-universe do you live in? Biden has forced us to burn the dirtiest oil on the planet. Trump got out of the way and let us burn cleaner natural gas and was helping nuclear.
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  208.  @StormyDog  Coal is on it’s way out regardless because of the market. Government emissions targets pointless as diesel-gate showed. Trump stripped away pointless regulation that was only hurting the economy. Biden has just forced through regulations that actively make what he’s supposedly trying to fix worse.
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  209. House sized doesn’t work. Neighborhood sized is the smallest that makes sense.
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  210. China just doing things without thinking about possible consequences is how they’ve turned their country into a toxic wasteland. However, the US was already in the process of building semiconductor foundries.
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  211. You renewable idiots like to forget about things like the night and windless days. There’s also the problem of renewables requiring several times the known deposits of numerous materials.
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  212. That’s a nonissue the anti-like to trot out without knowing anything about the subject
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  213. I’m sorry the way we write the date confuses you. I suggest you avoid places like Japan where people write year/month/day. It will have you completely backwards.
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  214.  @danharold3087  that’s great. There’s no need to force people to buy EVs then Companies making cars have to make money or there won’t be any companies making cars
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  215.  @danharold3087  you’re obviously not very smart. You contradicted yourself by saying the government isn’t limiting what cars people can buy then say they’re limiting what cars can be sold on the basis of emissions. Also, you seem to be under the misconception that I’m against EV. I’m not. I’m against the one size fits all policy.
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  216.  @totifernandez9532  at the global scale, passenger vehicles are a tiny fraction of what China’s coal plants are producing
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  217.  @Joe-lb8qn  not properly treating sewage is bad for you. Knowingly poisoning your customers is bad for business and a form of assault. Come back when you can make a real argument, not straw fallacies.
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  218.  @MrAlRats  if they’re the future, the government doesn’t need to push them. If they aren’t, the government is wasting time and money pushing them. Either way it’s a stupid policy.
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  219.  @danharold3087  that’s the government controlling the options available. You just seem to think it’s something else because of where in the process they exert the control. I don’t like polluting, but the government shouldn’t be involved. Let buyers and companies figure out what is best rather than the distorting influence of the government creating bad incentives.
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  220.  @MrAlRats  1) government isn’t going speed it up. 2) stop being a tyrannical idiot assuming what’s best and forcing people into your view of what’s best.
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  221. No, Biden was giving kickbacks to his buddies in Detroit. The fact Tesla benefited was incidental.
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  222.  @timlundergan3360  Detroit = legacy auto makers.
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  223. The solutions are only unpalatable to people who believe in tyranny.
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  224. You’re forgetting the better engineering, features, or any number of ways Tesla’s are better
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  225. I’m not surprised he’s taking money from China.
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  226. Not oil, auto unions.
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  227. It’s the exact opposite. Renewables can only carry the entire load when everything is just right, which is, as you might imagine, quite rare
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  228. Joe “I’ll spend all the money then print more” Biden doesn’t care about the money. He’s just being paid off.
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  229. Joe “I’ll spend all the money then print more” Biden doesn’t care about the money. He’s just being paid off.
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  230. Nuclear is the safest form of power with the fewest deaths per unit of energy produced. Time and cost are driven by over regulation and anti-nuclear nuts. Medium and low level waste is a non-problem, and high level waste is fuel for fast reactors. Also, I want to hear how you plan on containing the lead and cadmium waste from solar and wind for a trillion years.
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  231. The most open corrupt I’ve ever seen was Biden bragging about how he got a prosecutor in Ukrainian fired for investigating the company Hunter was on the board of.
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  232. I like you, but you have really bad habit of talking about things you don’t understand anything about
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  233. The Republicans are moderate, but the Democrats have been becoming more extreme over the last 5-6 years.
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  234. NYMBYism and various other forms of outside interference.
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  235. You’ve been listening to fossil fuel propaganda
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  236. Maybe 1000 homes
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  237. Yeah, Tesla’s are good cars. There are plenty of reasons to own besides being part of the environmentalist doomsday cult.
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  238. Only because of stupid regulations and anti-nuclear activists.
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  239. Tesla are corrupt.
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  240. I’ve got an offer for the Iffel Tower for you
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  241.  @garyrooksby  fuck you found the greatest counter argument ever, a typo.
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  242. It’s the size of a cargo container.
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  243. What makes it great for one makes it great for both.
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  244. That’s a terrible mix, particularly for a country outside the tropics. Wind, solar, and hydro are location dependent.
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  245.  @brenth.8474  here in Texas a not uncommon hail storm took out a 3,000 acre solar farm last month.
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  246.  @brenth.8474  Texas gets hit by tornadoes and hurricanes, so a large hailstorm isn’t unimaginable.
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  247. That’s the kind of idiotic idea that kills thousands of people
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  248. The radioactivity of spent fuel has nothing to do with the size of a reactor.
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  249. You’re kinda late to this. It’s been going on for at least a decade
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  250. Seems more like the design team is somewhere else and the factory is waiting for finalized blueprints.
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  251.  @tedchandran  I really hope that’s sarcasm.
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  252. That’s a really longwinded way of saying Biden is corrupt. So what if Trump didn’t support EV subsidies? Elon doesn’t support them or subsidies in general.
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  253.  @3rdrock  f %#* off. I disproved your counter argument and all you’ve got is saying that I lied. Make an argument and prove me wrong
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  254.  @Yemadas  90-100% renewables is never going to happen. It’s just too unreliable.  I decided to check your assertion that electricity in Spain is cheaper. It can be, but the lowest in France is lower the lowest in Spain. I mentioned coal because that doesn’t get mislabeled as renewable
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  255.  @Yemadas  you just explained why renewables are the most expensive energy source. All of that costs a huge amount of money and is stupidly complicated.
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  256.  @Yemadas  no, solar panels and wind turbines have an average life of 20-30 years. So you have to rebuild and pay for them multiple times in the same lifetime as a nuclear power plant
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  257.  @Yemadas  what’s cheaper, something that you build once and keeps working for a century or something that doesn’t work and has to be rebuilt multiple times
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  258.  @Yemadas  The only dogma I hold to is reality. The empirical evidence from Germany, Denmark, California, etc. is that renewables don’t work and cost too much. You can come up with as many overly complicated schemes you want to say renewables will magically be cheaper in the future, but nuclear works and it gets cheaper with time as the initial investment is paid off and all it has to pay for are operating costs. That is a proven fact we have seen for decades.
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  259.  @3rdrock  I consider that maintenance. It can be fairly extensive, but so is an overhaul of your car.
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  260.  @3rdrock  No, having to replace all of the wind turbines and solar panels isn’t maintenance. It’s completely replacing your generator
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  261.  @3rdrock  not all at once, but solar panels and wind turbines wear out and have to be replaced. Reactors don’t need replaced for at least 80 years
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  262.  @3rdrock  unless you’re Canada, refurbishment is still a fraction of the cost of the construction.
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  263.  @laleau92  that’s only if supply can out pace demand.
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  264.  @glennjgroves  you’re showing some major naïveté. Electricity providers like to green wash their sources. It’s an easy way to trick people like you into supporting them without having to really change
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  265.  @glennjgroves  no, I’m saying you take things at face value when you need to look a bit deeper into them. Can you say I’m an arrogant, bloviating asshole any louder?
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  266.  @glennjgroves  here’s a tip, if you want to prove someone wrong, you have to actually prove them wrong, not just insulting them.
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  267.  @glennjgroves  again, being an arrogant asshole throwing out ad hominems, rather facts and solid arguments. That’s not very indicative of someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.
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  268.  @glennjgroves  I haven’t elaborated on my position because when dealing with assholes who’s first response is personal attacks, it’s impossible to have a constructive conversation. Also, you’re constant attempts at establishing your superiority just screams of personal insecurities because people who know what they’re talking about don’t feel the need attack the other person.
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  269.  @glennjgroves  as I’ve already explained, I’m not going to argue facts with you because you seem incapable of a civil conversation. I’m just calling out your shitty behavior.
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  270. Keeping down weeds, cleaning solar panels, deicing turbine blades etc. takes a lot of people
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  271. Leftists always screw everything up
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