Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" channel.

Just a tibdit. BP paid not for "fixing it". The largest part of the payment was to cover the expected taxes lost in the spill. Government and courts pretend to care for the environment, but it's only about the tax money. Respevtfully
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If the oil industry with "fat margins" cannot take down offshore platforms and jackets on the surfacte... who is going to cover the cost of de-comisioning these systems at 400 meters depth in 30 years? Ahhhhh... taxpayer money. Sweet sweet taxpayer money.
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Yes. And the move to larger silicon waffer sizes resulted in surplus "smallish" silicon ingots, waffer and lithography machines. Before solar cells had to compete with actual computer chips for machine time. Now the surplus equipment is a sunk cost and solar cells are not part of the node reduction race, so they are using the previous generation litho machines. Regards 👍
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Lots of talk about carbon fiber and fiberglass, while avoiding the "reinforced plastic" part 🤫 Good luck making the plastic resins without oil and gas. As investment in oil and petrochemicals plants diminishes, these resins will become even more expensive.
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@TheCountess666 Wells are capped and cemented. there is no risk of spills after they are shut down. As for the "safety" of these systems, when the bladders start breaking and showing up on fishermen nets or beaches, we will review your comment.
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Iron batteries will make a comeback for stationary installations, mostly in the tropics where freezing is not an issue. Cheap, cheap cheap large scale standard cells
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wow.. it's like wind power is economically viable ONLY when subsidized by government! The fact that you can't see money printing and low interest rates as subsidies, makes you part of the problem
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Not the first time the military has tried to solve the portable power problem They funded micro turbines, and methanol fuel cells. Longshots that didn' t pan out. Having said that, 45 million is peanut money for the defense budget, even at 1 to 50 odds, it is a great bet
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So wind turbines have two decades ignoring lessons learned and paid for by aerospace and airlines? I wonder if subsidies and government incentives have anything to do with such poor management and knowledge transfer
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Min 11:40 Contradiction. You cannot ask for subsidies and government intervention and at the same time complain about regulations and bureaucracy Min 9:45 . Any and all government intervention or subsidy will cause harm. Let the market decide. Borders on hypocrisy to ask for rules and subsidies for something...while complaining of rules and subsidies you simply dislike. Be consistent, reject ALL subsidies and regulations. You are just advocating the (ab)use of government power to impose your opinion.
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Electric sailboats maybe a early application. Mass is not an issue. Space is at a premium. Distributed batteries conformal to the hull inner shape would eliminate the space required for dedicated battery banks.
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@rogerstarkey5390 i don't make the laws, the law will require the removal. And the issue is not the "how" of the "why"... is the WHO is going to pay for it
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@JNArnold the "collectively" part is what I oppose
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@edopronk1303 not your call to make. You cannot decide for the future tax payers. But you seem keen in burdening them with debt for your inmediate benefit.
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@edopronk1303 not your planet to make that decision. Not your welfare to plan it or give it away. Your excuses are not legitimacy for tyranny.
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@edopronk1303 "democracy" does not give you the authority to impose debt on future generations.
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@mjdsys3376 from reuters 2015. This is the part that does not make the greenpeace, NOAA or other headlines. As you found out yourself, it's hard to get information on this. Respectfully🎩 Govt to BP: Don't forget to pay taxes on oil By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday reminded BP not to forget Uncle Sam when the company doles out cash to pay for its oil spill. The Interior Department told the oil giant it is still on the hook for royalties on the oil it is collecting from its ruptured well, which is spewing out as much as 60,000 barrels of oil every day. In a worst-case scenario, that could cost the company as much as $73.4 million to date, based on royalty rates, the government’s maximum daily flow estimate and the current price of oil at around $75 a barrel.
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@mjdsys3376 this is also why there was a "heated" argument on the flowrate of oil across the wellhead. All this happened in "trust the experts" closed meetings, and the taxes levied were calculated using the "estimated" flowrate.
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@mjdsys3376 the trick is that the "clean up payments" are tax deductions. But the royalty payments are NOT deductible. So one is a net payment. The other is an accounting trick for "green" headlines That besides the fact that it was only 20b, not 70b. From forbes BP's $20.8 Billion Gulf Spill Settlement Nets $15.3 Billion Tax Write-Off Robert W. Wood Senior Contributor I focus on taxes and litigation. Oct 6, 2015,08:38am EDT This article is more than 7 years old. The government’s $20.8 billion out-of-court settlement with BP would resolve the charges related to the Gulf Oil spill. You might assume a fine of this nature is serious enough not to be tax deductible. But BP should be able to write off the vast majority, a whopping $15.3 billion. The proposed deal designates only about one quarter, $5.5 billion, as a non-tax-deductible Clean Water Act penalty. BP can write off the natural resource damages payments, restoration, and reimbursement of government costs.
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@bosstowndynamics5488 "being forced to continue" "forced" how? Did BP pull out guns at the rig? Also, strawman argument. Your "experts" are not the ones I am refering to. Failed, try again.
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What are the PV manufacturers incorporating into the design and fabrication to facilitate the recycling? The absence of the panel producers is notable.
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small scale nuclear power is DOA because centralized regulatory bureaucracies will not give up the power to control budget and energy. It is not about the cost, it is ONLY about control
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@BRAINSPLATTER16 so it's better when it is handled by a random "bureaucrat" with no face, no name, no mandate and living 1000 mies away from the source? Do you know what a moral hazard is?
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@BRAINSPLATTER16 1- energy correlates highly with wealth and liberty. Governments want to control energy so to be able to manage poverty and slaves 2-ahh yes... the "experts"... unelected, unaccountable, faceless, without mandates. How many "experts" told us the poles and glaciers would be gone by now? 3-ahh yes... journalist and media that took in money hand over fist from governments to pass as "news" what the government wanted said. 4-Nobody said anything about "giving"... the government should not be "giving" anything. Individuals would purchase these reactors, freely. not "given". Your totalitarianism is showing. 5- "that is how government works".., and that is why we have to stop the government from "working" like that because it only works FOR THEM
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@joergsonnenberger6836 why yes they did. As you correctly pointed out. Those lessons were ALREADY available to the windmill designers. Why did they ignore these costly and hard won lessons? How was price an issue if they were ample subsidies? As for the "civil engineering", the lessons from offshore oil and gas are extensive and available. Why ignore those lessons AS WELL?
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@joergsonnenberger6836 the subsidies are applied at the energy sale price, not at the structure The problem is not the load profile, it's the installation, maintenance and service costs. And NO, they use the very same materials for the platforms, foundations and risers Why would you talk about radio towers? Why would you avoid the airline and aerospace part?
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HIgh performance liquid cooled battery packs designed for automotive use cases will result in heat management problems in cheap, static installations that lack the liquid cooling. I cold climates, the heating of the batteries will be an issue as well. A step forward, but not a killer solution.
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I would submit that small silicon waffer machines became surplus, and that is what dropped the cost of the individual cells. It is now that the cells are getting larger, when mid size waffers are becoming obsolete
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This can become a high value added item if it is used in disposable, low power, short lived, IoT sensors. Sheets of paper on the floor of containers or trucks, that would alert if a shipment got wet. Or if something thawed out enough to leak. Conversely, if they dry out, it would detect that the shipment humidity fell below a certain value. Wax capsules can melt, leaking electrolite to warn of temperature changes. Paper, cellulose and ligning are stable enough to be embedded inside dry walls, attics or closed spaces to monitor for water leaks. Maybe in ribbon form lining tubing.
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achtually ON 😁 1:29 "home in the northern hemisphere" Nope, this is only true above 23 degrees latitude, not the complete "northern hemisphere" Between the equator and 23 degrees, the north facing panels get sunlight in the summer months. Also, this is mostly a problem in high(er) latitudes where you need to tilt roofs to avoid snow accumulation. If you get little or no snow, you can go for a flat roof. Panel installation is way easier.
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Good content.
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