Comments by "" (@SG-js2qn) on "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" channel.

  1. This sort of thing has been obvious since the beginning of the modern wind industry. But science is riddled with scams.
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  2. Give people a very long time and after taking many wrong paths they might finally begin to choose correctly. Now, how much of this supply chain depends on China?
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  3. China and India should jump on this technology. Europe could benefit from it as well, because any percentage they shave off of their foreign energy needs is a blessing for the whole world.
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  4. Wouldn't it be better to collect the heat and use it?
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  5. This sounds just like the solar news from the late 90s. Sadly, advancement comes soooooo slooooooowly.
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  6. They've been working on this since the 80s. It's a bit sad that almost none of this "new green technology" stuff is actually new. It's just not as easy to make it cost effective as people think.
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  7. The usual format here: "This is really, really great. (Ten minutes of content pass.) But we don't have the ability to make it yet."
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  8. Sodium-sulfur would be the best thing for quite a while. Looking forward to it.
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  9. I'm glad people are focusing more on geothermal. It's a real solution for so many energy problems.
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  10. Let me try to get closer to the truth: the desert is dry. Where it has had wetlands in the past, these have been drained, making it hotter and drier. Agricultural water use, which in cooler areas would normally soak through the soil and return to aquifers, tends to evaporate in the dry hot air. Most of the wells are deep, tapping ancient water that is not easily replenished. So yes, agriculture IS pumping water out of the ground which can't be replaced, and wetlands and rivers are being drained for agricultural water which then evaporates. As for mountain snow, it's not steady. Some years a weather pattern shifts it northward, dumping moisture in the Dakotas and in the midwest, where they have severe flooding as a consequence, as it did this year. Maybe next year there will be more snow in the southwest mountains. As for a giant desalinization plant project between AZ and Mexico, I've been hoping for such a thing for decades. As you may know, the Colorado River no longer runs to sea, in that it is all used / evaporated long before it reaches Mexico, destroying the river delta swamp that used to exist.
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  11. This has made sense for the longest time. Conservation of energy is basic engineering.
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  12. Today's science news on YT always feels like the science news of the 1980s, with virtually the exact same topics, because no real progress has been made.
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