Comments by "spaceflight101" (@spaceflight1019) on "Pickup Truck Plus SUV Talk" channel.

@david9192 Just because your experience isn't the same as someone else's doesn't allow you to invalidate it. Grow up.
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Maybe Batteries and Bulbs will have them?
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@neilkurzman4907 Rust is the wild card here. Once a car has rust in major structural areas everything else becomes irrelevant.
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A little history for you people who think that the petroleum industry was designed to make John Rockefeller a rich man... As the Industrial Revolution began to unfold, it became clear that lubricants were necessary to keep the machines running and to illuminate the cities. Millions of whales were killed and whale oil fueled and lubricated civilization. Likewise, city streets were fouled by horse droppings, creating a sanitation problem. Along comes oil. The market for whale products dried up overnight as oils and greases were cheaper and superior to whale oils. Kerosene and natural gas replaced whale oil for residential lighting and coal for heating. The world's whale populations began to regenerate. The automobile was hailed as a way to eliminate horse droppings and the disease they brought from the cities.
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@seymorefact4333 Don't worry...Ford will reduce the truck's power as the battery loses capacity.
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@ronaldking1054 Dealers that are currently selling Fords are already investing moving on. There used to be Dodge, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile dealers too. Adios, Ford! Adios, Harley-Davidson!
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@ronaldking1054 Where do you live that your electric company can't raise its rates? Not Pennsylvania!
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@seymorefact4333 Electric vehicles belong on factory and warehouse floors, golf courses, and retirement facilities. Having them forced on us because they aren't competent is as un-American as it gets! Oh, we know better than you, so you're going to have to buy a Betamax instead of a VHS.
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@ronaldking1054 OK, so please elaborate on what the options are...for an average apartment dweller in an average city.
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@ronaldking1054 it's too bad that YT doesn't permit the posting of outside links.
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@ronaldking1054 So, using a common, real-world example, which you apparently are unable to defend, is "cherry picking"? Take a look at PJM's generation pie chart. Renewables typically compromise 10% of the real-time grid load.
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@ronaldking1054 No, the utilities raise prices based upon their costs that they must provide to the Public Utilities Commission here in Pennsylvania. For example, last August I received the highest electric bill ever. Half of the bill was the base rate. The other half was a Market Rate Adjustment, caused by daily bus prices well over $100/ megawatt hour, caused by the price of natural gas increasing from $3/mmbtu to over $6/mmbtu. While the bus price is variable, the rate I pay is fixed. Since the pandemic, the difference in load from peak to minimum in PJM has shrunk dramatically. Pre-pandemic, summer days typically peaked at 140,000 megawatts and fell to less than 80,000 megawatts at night. This summer the peaks were typically 145,000 MW and the valleys around 105,000 MW with no help from solar and negligible wind power. Charging a significant number of electric vehicles (everything from scooters to city buses) will eliminate the overnight minimums.
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@ronaldking1054 Even though Pennsylvania has a "competitive" wholesale electricity market, the utilities that distribute the power are still regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. As a result, they are protected from market forces as they were when they owned and operated the power stations. So, this August, came a feature on my bill that I've never seen before: a "market rate adjustment" that was slightly more than the amount of the normal bill. That was caused by the bus prices on PJM reaching, and staying at, historically high values.
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@ronaldking1054 Maybe the economics of solar works for you, but it doesn't work for a large part of the United States and Europe. Low power output, limited amount of sunlight, inaccessible rooftop panels covered in snow. It's foolhardy to put all of one's eggs in one basket, i.e., to attempt to power a technological civilization from erratic, intermittent power sources. By the way, unless you become a Twelve Volt Man you can NEVER be "free" from your local utility.
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@ronaldking1054 I've given up trying to divine why YouTube removed some of my comments. Things about how radio waves travel, CB radio history, vintage muscle cars, a listing of dealerships recently closed by Harley Davidson, a reply in which I mentioned an actor by name. Things like that. It doesn't have to be "misinformation". Plus, any posting containing an outside link gets removed. I'm done arguing with you. You believe what you want to believe. I'll believe what I want to believe. Have a great day.
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@ronaldking1054 Let's look at some of YOUR misinformation: Most of Europe is at the same latitude as most of Canada. New York and Rome share the 40th parallel. Thanks to the war, Europe cannot depend upon natural gas to power and heat itself. Renewables simply won't do the job. Why should transportation depend on oil? For the same reason chemical rockets access outer space: they work. Why do I claim that power must be bought from utilities? Unless you own enough acreage to provide for yourself and your power needs you have no other choice. "Snow can be removed". Quite the cavalier remark. Solar panels on my roof would require a high reach to SAFELY remove snow. Not much solar coming from western New York for a while. The debacle in Texas is squarely on the shoulders of EPCOT and the well operators. Nat gas at the well is quite humid and it froze. EPCOT suggested that the pipes be insulated and heat traced but never followed up on it. Look at PJM'S home page and the power source pie chart. Renewables simply aren't up to the task, but it's somehow politically expedient to remove power sources and fuel sources with nothing to replace them? Sounds childish to me.
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@ronaldking1054 Here's some more "misinformation" for you: There are two charts easily found on your favorite search engine. One is your favorite; it shows the increase in average overall atmospheric temperature. The other chart shows the decline in the Earth's magnetic field strength. Why is that important? As the strength of the magnetic field decreases it allows solar radiation to penetrate deeper and get closer to the Earth's surface. The result is higher temperatures.
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@ronaldking1054 You really need to bone up on space power and propulsion. The Saturn 5 first stage was powered by kerolox engines. They burned a mixture of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Once in orbit, or on the moon, hypergolic fuels are used because they chemically react whether oxygen is present or not. The Space Shuttle engines burned a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen but once in orbit hypergolic fuels power the Reaction Control System (RCS). While you are correct that solar is a power source for spacecraft, ANYTHING slated for missions to Jupiter and beyond are powered by Radioisotope Thermal Generation, or RTG for short. The two Pioneers, the two Voyagers, and the New Horizons spacecraft are all powered by RTGs. In case you haven't been keeping up with current events, Germany's infatuation with renewables has been an abject failure, and the country has reopened its coal mines and power plants in order to provide adequate electricity supplies for the foreseeable future.
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@neilkurzman4907 History records that when the Spanish explorers entered the Los Angeles area they noted that the smoke from the indigenous peoples' campfires was plentiful, so the problem has been around for as long as humans have lived there and probably long before.
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@ronaldking1054 As I write this, at 5:30 am ET, PJM'S total load is 99,000 MW. Renewables account for 9637 MW. Nuclear accounts for about 33%. Gas 40%. Coal 15%. Is it reasonable, logical, and responsible to shut down 90 percent of your power source, and who gets cut off? The engineering term is "build out". Renewables need to be built out to replace fossil fuels. Arbitrarily eliminating power sources with nothing to replace them is immature and dangerous.
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@ronaldking1054 One more thing I wanted to tell you about YT's deletion policy: I spent about two hours compiling a list of Pittsburgh area defunct railroads from historical maps for one of the railfans on here. I posted it. They deleted it. Only "they" know why.
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@ronaldking1054 Just like AGW, there are enough studies of both sides that it's not worth arguing the point. Thanks to a multitude of mass extinction events and better drilling technologies drillers keep finding more oil. The bottom line is that renewable energy isn't enough. More trees are the solution to earth's Apollo 13 problems.
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@ronaldking1054 Yes, Germany decommissioned its nuclear reactors based on an assumption that turned out to be false.
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@raytycker1656 But it took modern technology to raise them to where they are now. If they had been viable Edison and Westinghouse would have been all over them.
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