Youtube hearted comments of David Elliott (@davidelliott5843).

  1. Wax coated foam board is made of wood fibre. The DH Mosquito of WW2 was an incredibly successful fighter bomber. It was made with a balsa wood core and birch plywood either side. . Australia has scaled the idea down to a “cardboard box”. So clever.
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  2. Thank you Georgii for mentioning the BBC trying to be even handed. Their approach to Brexit lifted the veil on their distorted narrative. This war has exposed their near support for Russia. They literally said the Kahovka Dam “collapsed”. It’s an incredible level of deceit.
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  3. Shoigu never makes “bad” decisions. His genius for decision-making is a huge asset to Ukraine.
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  4. Accepting Putin as president of Russia is one thing. Turning up to his coronation is altogether different. France is horribly wrong by being there.
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  5. Ace of Spades is the Abrams. Ace of Clubs is Leopard, Challenger is Ace of Diamond and LeClerk is Ace of Hearts.
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  6. Unfortunately Shoigu is too stupid to be effective against Putler. Gerasimov got blown out of a window. At least he wasn’t pushed.
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  7. When GM says they are “leading” they mean except for Tesla who we refuse to admit actually exists. But we are happy to steal the minimalist interiors and big screen instruments panel.
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  8. The lie was saying the Hummer was sold out in minutes. It was actually sold out in one minute. Just the one.
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  9. Parasitic losses will be huge. It’s no surprise the power is so poor. Not to mention the tiny exhaust bores that keep the gas flow low.
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  10. Psychopaths are reactive and tactical. They do not think strategically so consequences of their actions get ignored until it’s too late. The no child taxation law is a good example.
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  11. New video from Jonathan. Clicked immediately.
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  12. The way CCP behaves, Elon would be wise to put the next Tesla plant in India or Australia.
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  13. Oreshnik has many kinetic w@rheads but most of them burnt up on the way down. It also has very poor targeting control. It’s less effective than Hitler’s V weapons.
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  14. For a significant time (weeks to months) organisations like BBC were quoting Russian output as if it was genuine fact. There seemed to be no attempt to challenge what they said. On the other hand Ukraine was implied as being less careful with the facts. That has changed but it took a surprisingly long time.
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  15. My car is an old warm hatch. It will go if you spin the engine but frankly it’s embarrassing as it looks like the driver is trying too hard. The same performance (which isn’t much) using quiet electric power would be 10x better to live with.
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  16. To keep costs down, Ford is unlikely to fit big enough batteries. The huge weight will work the batteries very hard. Look forward to recalls and fires when cells fail prematurely.
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  17. Another channel said that AutoPilot does try to avoid potholes.
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  18. Nazis were anti-communist because they were competition. Changing the party name to national socialist was a means of hiding their true aims.
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  19. Ukraine has drones with 1000 mile range. It’s hard to know what the payload is like but that would allow air attacks from the east of Moscow.
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  20. People already prefer EVs, but Bloomberg is assuming a gentle curve provided slowly by the legacy auto makers . They are clearly not seeing it’s going to be an S curve that Legacy outfits won’t be able to control.
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  21. The grain deal should be scrapped and allow Russia to (try to) do its worst. When they send warships to make trouble, sink them.
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  22. Russian reserve soldiers in Belgorod said they were being hit by Himars. But, the Partisans don’t have access to heavy equipment. Instead, Russia has done what it always does and sent in the artillery. They hit their own towns with artillery and Grad unguided rockets.
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  23. A big part of the USSR collapse was because the failures in Afghanistan exposed the lies of a monolithic state that had claimed to control everything but patently controlled nothing.
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  24. I’m with Sandy. A poor and especially slow user interface would be a show stopper for me. I also detest the use of discrete control boxes and fuse boxes scattered all over the shop. It’s no better than a 2005 Fiat Panda.
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  25. Russia isn’t interested in Ukraine. They would quite happily wipe it off the map and leave it empty.
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  26. Jonathan says he feels luck is a big part of his success. I’d say you make your own luck. He has the educational background to understand Russia, meaning that his questions to guests are so much deeper.
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  27. Even after 80 years,the Poles are not big fans of Germany. It’s no surprise they bought Korean tanks. They like the British Challenger tank but they don’t like the MoD BS that goes along with it.
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  28. The Belarus tyrant, propped up by his crummy army is pro-Russia. The people will lynch him at the first chance they get. That’s why he wants to keep his army out of Putin’s war.
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  29. USA diesel fuel has a minimum cetane of 40. European diesel (EN590) fuel has a minimum rating of 51. This higher self ignition value allows engines to reliably make more power.
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  30. It’s so sad the American and British Air generals were so fixated on heavy bombers. They sent thousands to their deaths when 2x as many fast twin engine bombers could have done the job. High speed beats interception, same number of engines, fewer losses, and more accurate. Types like British Mosquito showed the way but the concept was ignored.
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  31. Nissan and Renault buy their diesel injection equipment from Bosch. The same people who supplied VW's test defeat software. Of sorry folks, why didn't you say you wanted that removed.
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  32. The veterans returning from the war will not allow Ukraine to slip back to ex Soviet ways of corruption and deprivation. I believe the comparison with UK post WW2 is valid.
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  33. The English deep coal mines of South Derbyshire always struggled to be viable. The old pits caused great environmental damage with subsistence and heaps of waste rock. Closure of the old pits led to the resources being open-cast mined. The coal was quickly taken out and the holes filled in again. They proved just how damaging the old methods really were.
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  34. Gundyayev the Patriarch Kirill of Russian Orthodox Church is actually ex KGB and a close ally of Putin and one of the richest oligarchs of Russia. It’s totally to be expected that his church is part of this criminal terrorist state.
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  35. I don’t want to be a member of a club that wants ME to be a member of their club.
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  36. Hamas is/was an Iran proxy with absolutely zero concern for any civilian life. Israel got sick of playing to Hamas tune and decided to take action in spite of Hamas using undeclared human shields. The West has wrung its hands but is Israel expected to do nothing? Israel fought back HARD and it’s still winning.
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  37. I wish the western commentators who viscerally hate Biden (mostly right wing but also hard left) would wake up and stop pretending that Putin and his allies are on their side. They play directly into the hands of mafia monsters.
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  38. I’m still fuming at BBC for calling Kahovka dam destruction a “collapse”. The evidence for explosive demolition is immense. Sudden deep and wide breach, big blocks shifted, earthquake sensors showed it on the Richter scale, Ukraine side has no access to the dam core and Russia refuses to let independent inspectors look at the site.
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  39. Erdogan controls the Bosporus and its now obvious the Russian Navy is useless. Play his cards right and Turkey becomes a cantre of gravity for the Black Sea.
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  40. Diesel power with electric transmission would spread power between tractor wheels and even onto trailers. No complicated compound gearboxes no differentials and no prop shafts. Put a motor in each wheel and dread the power evenly.
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  41. There won’t be a Lek Lowenska because anyone who steps up will end up poisoned like Nevalni.
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  42. The Marino Line failed because France stopped at the Belgian border. Not going to the sea was like castle walls going halfway around.
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  43. Wall Street failed to spot Apple, Amazon, Microsoft or Netflix. And they failed to spot the latter’s self-immolation on the altar of woke.
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  44. Dwight D Eisenhower spoke to the nation in 1961 warning of the corrupt ing influence of the Military-Industrial complex. Quote - “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” Since then, USA has created wars all around the world yet lost every single one. That’s not accidental.
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  45. That wiring and hydraulic rat’s nest looks like a waddafekdisdo system. I can feel a completely new design coming along.
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  46. Ford, GM Dodge the unions and Buddy Biden said that 50% of their cars will be “electrified”.by 2030. That means anything from the weakest battery and motor hybrid to full EV. Guess what Big Auto and its unions expect to be making.
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  47. I want to see Elon talking to Ed Pheil of Elysium and Ian Scott of Moltex. They have nuclear reactors (OMG) that burn up the high level waste. The stuff with a half life of 30,000 years that some people worry about is a valuable fuel. When done the waste will be down to a 30 year half life. They can also dispose of nuclear bomb material immediately making it useless for weapons. They can even use the huge stocks of depleted uranium. All while making power at zero CO2.
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  48. Government will always cover its arse with asbestos so it’s no surprise they scrap the engines.
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  49. Electric batteries work by using reversible chemical changes. You can’t change any chemical compound without also changing the density and thereby the volume also changes. A working electrode will expand and contract and when held in a solid substitute it will crack. It can’t be any other way.
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  50. BYD like all Chinese business is under the thumb of the Chinese government. If they get too clever their directors will end up like Jack Ma.  However, they have shown that LFP batteries are the way to go. Maybe not the ultimate charge capacity per unit volume, but LFP does compete on power per weight. It also prefers to be charged between 100% and 5% so you get more useable range than other Li-Ion varieties that only like being used 20% to 80%.
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