Comments by "raw beef" (@-whackd) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. Carbon doesn't harm us and it makes plants grow. It has contributed to a massive global re-greening over the last 3 decades.
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  2. I would rather connect to a plug-in for 5 minutes to get 40 miles, instead of parking for 12 hours to get 40 miles. Especially since an oven or clothes drier outlet is in every home. Electricity outlets are everywhere.
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  3. What is 'adverse weather' in Phoenix?
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  4.  @dennisberg570  Think about what you're saying. If there is an EV revolution, will that put downward or upward pressure on the cost of oil? Think for a moment before replying.
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  5. Invest that way then
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  6. K, say that at the next shareholder meeting
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  7. Planting seeds and trees is something humans, even human children can do. This year, i planted about a dozen new fruit trees. It is very cheap to hire tree planting humans, I tree planted all summer in BC and did over 2000 cedars, one summer during my university
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  8. Here's how it works, 95% of taxi trips are with 1 or 2 people. When you roll out to a club with your friends, you either order two Cybercabs or a Model Y
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  9. Yes you need to lay off people who are making a product that less and less people are buying.
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  10. Has nothing to do with pride. Pride of stinking like a toilet?
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  11. Will you do a video on the Canadian geothermal company called Eavor which allows geothermal in any location by boring 5km to heated granite
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  12. They have to do this type of game for stock holders. Otherwise people will pull all of their money out. Even you, brother, are gunning for companies that will absolutely fail in the wake of autonomous, like GM.
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  13. When is GE going to have a product in battery storage? Do they have battery manufacturing facilities as big as CATL and BYD do?
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  14. Better than a motorcycle in a crash
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  15. Mexico has better regulations for getting industrial buildings done. For example, Texas drills for oil but only can you send it to new efficient refineries in Mexico after. You're not allowed to build new refineries in the US and it is a massive ten year legal battle to upgrade them even if the upgrade increases efficiency and reduces pollutants. So, companies invest in Mexico.
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  16. For everyone so concerned, how many degrees C has the globe warmed between 2000 and now?
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  17. It's only a concrete floor and a roof with a parking lot. I think nobody really understands what is going on. The only thing these buildings share is that they have floors and ceilings, all of the robotics inside are different. So, you can use any large warehouse with a good HVAC system and parking facilities. In fact, Tesla has had production lines that were under TENTS
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  18. They still make good stuff like outboard boat engines, camera lenses, musical instruments and stuff. Anyway they don't seem too concerned about having a shrinking and aging population to do anything, they're not fighting it.
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  19. Sweet where do i fill it up
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  20. Sell my old car and buy a 50k new car to save $40 a month on gas. Great "benefit".
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  21. You're right, but there has been a consistent decline in battery price per kWh and consistent improvements in density. I don't know if it has an exponential function like Moore's law, but they keep improving, just like solar PV.
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  22. Why not use solar water heaters in Australia like many other countries do? Do they have bacterial problems?
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  23. Exactly. Not cool to stop every 100 miles when pulling your boat to charge. Although the gas costs are insane for both the truck and the boat for a weekend. ​ @lpdirv 
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  24. Please cover Eavor Loop. They already have a working continuous output anywhere-geothermal station in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.
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  25. Ex Tesla employees have Tesla on their resume which really helps with getting a job more than some government program. Government branches waste money all the time.
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  26. Tell the person using that line of reasoning to get PV, because they're cheaper than ever, along with the EV. Then they can power it from energy they generate.
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  27. We don't need cleantechnica, you post enough videos to cover everything important Sam
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  28. How were they ready to go if there's no mass manufacturing plant set up?
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  29. Charge and discharge your car battery so you get way less mileage out of it. Dont worry, youll get paid a few cents but it wont pay for the depreciation on your battery.
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  30. Just government wasting some more money like usual. If you have Tesla on your resume and have been trained by them, you can get a job anywhere.
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  31. LGES is set to start producing Tesla’s 4680 battery cells in North America, specifically at its new factory in Arizona later this year. This production will supplement Tesla's in-house capabilities. Tesla is also building a small new LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery cell factory in Nevada, using equipment from CATL. This facility will help Tesla produce LFP batteries, which are cheaper and more stable, particularly for its energy storage products
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  32. In 2024 you will look back and say the only thing that really mattered was how far ahead each company was in autonomous, and whether they brought out the best comp sci and robotics PhDs on their teams.
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  33. New battery that hasn't been invented yet is definitely great and will definitely turn out to be way cheaper. On the "new battery news of the day".
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  34. We will have to pay 10-30k extra on them like the other Ford EVs
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  35. If your government was belligerent against renewables then they would have put tariffs on panels, because the only thing you do to get solar power is order the fully manufactured item from China.
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  36. Scotty is a little loopy
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  37. Lex Friedman has asked basically every top AI/ML researcher he's had on whether they think vision-only is sufficient. There is a compendium video of their answers.
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  38. The lower lfp prices are great for people with home or rv solar. LFP has way more charge/discharge cycles, about double the cycles of a regular lithium ion
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  39. Humans will have to be underground on Mars because there is too much radiation on the surface, so there will definitely be large tunnel boring robotic drills, autonomous trucks, and humanoid bots, doing all that heavy work. It makes sense to have a lot of communications satellites spinning around Mars and it's moons even before the robots go there.
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  40. "95% will benefit" means you'll lose a lot of money by financing a 55k car, but save $40 per month on gas.
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  41. You are obviously not the first person to think of these questions, lol. Think about them for a few minutes, they all have answers.
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  42. That would depend on whether the COVID lockdowns save more lives than they kill, which you don't know because you don't bother to read any epidemiology.
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  43. VW wont be a manager. they are putting billions into china that they wont be ahle to pull out and will eventually be nationalized. Lol
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  44. The of the top companies in self driving, Comma.ai and Tesla, don't use LiDAR and believe it is an impediment. Waymo uses LiDAR and their roll out has been stuck in Phoenix since 2018.
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  45. I have to disagree with you Sam. I don't think Tesla should contact the Foxconn suicide mills and ask them to put together a phone. Plus Foxconn has an exclusive contract with Apple.
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  46. What is the cost per kwh of electricity for residences in your jurisdiction? In my jurisdiction, British Columbia, the price is 8 Canadian cents per kwh of 100% green energy. 1kwh (8 cents) will move a Model 3 for 6.4km. Therefore, $8.00 CAD will take you 640 km. My area also have free level 2 municipal chargers and mall/library charges, if you want to save a couple bucks when you go shopping.
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  47. ​ @jackcleveland1175 You going to have a 25 storey wind turbine on your property? In practice, 99% of the wind electricity generated goes to big power companies or governments. Solar is the only decentralizing technology, out of the three, unless you consider nuclear batteries and small scale nuclear reactors, which are too regulated to become significant.
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  48. I don't really care about what truck it is, I just want an electric truck with towing capacity to hit the road with a travel trailer for a nomadic life.
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  49. You mean like getting involved in the construction industry and building stores? Or leasing existing commercial space at malls? Both of these sound like poor ideas, especially with autonomous down the pipe.
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  50. If they can get automatic collision avoidance with cameras/radar, that single technology reduces deaths a greater percentage than even seat belts.
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