Comments by "" (@baronvonlimbourgh1716) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Pushing out videos like crazy lately! 👍 Loving it.
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  2. Not if it is subsedised by other products or government. Then it does not reflect market value. If you are a large producer of one product and want to enter or increase market share in another and you decide to sell the second product at a loss, you are subsedising that product with the profits of the rest of the bussiness. That is dumping below market value and is concidered anti competitive and can be damaging to the economy.
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  3. They are the ones paving the way for the rest of us. They pay to build the economies of scale that enables prices to come down. If they didn't buy them, prices would never come down. That is why government subsedises these new technologies early on, they incentivise people to buy these things and stuff like solar panels to create a growing market in which prices can come down. Once prices come down to reasonable levels the market takes over and the growth pushes prices down further.
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  4. Actually, i rewatched the video and in this case you are right. Or at least it is not explained how japan was dumping. It seems the only reason japanese products where cheaper was because of betting on the right technology and becomming more efficient. That is at least the only reason given here. It doesn't really change my earlier posts, dumping does still happen and is damaging, but it would make the dumping claims invalid in this case and the usa just wishing to protect their own industry. Good catch 👍
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  5. We already have wifi coffeecups.
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  6. Ahh yes.. ofcourse...
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  7. China needs dairy, new zealand has dairy to spare. Free market heaven.
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  8. Being reliant on foreign entities for your food supply is very dangerous, hence the domestic protections. One industry where the distortion is just a price worth paying at the source instead of funding wars and occupations. The cost is still there, it is just payed in other place s.
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  9. For pv to become a big part of the global energy mix it does not need more efficienty then it already has. More efficient is always better ofcourse, but at current levels pv could provide nearly 50% of the energy requirement for the eu by only using available rooftop space within the eu. Which is already amazing. Add to that the lost land that currently can not be used for anything and pv will become the dominant energy source over the next decade together with wind. Land next to highways is now starting to be used for solar instalation over here, which reprisents massive amounts of acres that are perfectly suited for pv exploitation and also contribute to lowering noise polution. The solar industry has been booming for multiple years now since it has become the cheapest form of energy generation. The only problem we have at the moment is that 30% yearly growth in production capacity is simply not enough and more and bigger production facilities are needed and are constantly being built all over the world. It is also a great economic bennefit as more and more businesses and people have access to free energy, which is a game changer. And it decreases dependence on international energy interests as well.
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  10. Current prices are just temporary though.
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  11. The problem with tesla margins is that they are artificial. Any automaker can make those margins if they don't advertise and sell the same platform for 15 years. And the way things are looking planning to keep selling them for multiple years into the future. The few brands that also follow this business model give these savings back to the customer. The car is very cheap if you are willing to drive a car over 2 cycles old. And investors are seeing that tesla is falling behind as well and isn't using their profits for the longevity of the brand and the premium image it was persueing. Tesla is increasingly looking to be another fad and will go the same way as all other independent automakers went in the last decades.
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  12. Luckilly robot technology has evolved so much now. I was in chernobyl and the robots on display there where still very basic. Especially compared with these.
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  13. As pv eficienty keeps increasing the amount of space they need decreases conciderably. Over the last 10 years efficienty doubled. So only half the space is required to generate the same amount of energy. And that will happen again over the next decade. Add to that the continual decreasing price per panel, Enabling huge amounts of people and businesses to become energy independent. Panels easilly last 3 decades or more as well. And while that is happening investment in battery production and development is trough the roof. We will be drowning in cheap storage pretty soon. Nuclear is just way to expensive and political toxic to ever become a viable option again. If you can even find people willing to invest the amounts of money needed into it. Way to risky and it takes ages to see any return on investment.
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  14.  @100c0c  how? They'll be just be pushed out of the market as more and more new models are released unless they start heavilly competing and investing. But that's not something they are planning to do.
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  15. Tax competition. If you get massive tax exemptions and the local state will guarantee you water no matter what at their own expense, that is what you will choose.
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  16. Where do you find all these great subject to make videos about.
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  17. The biggest risk is that the uk will be obligated to buy the electricy for 50 years at those locked in prices.
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  18.  @AlexanderSylchuk  you are free to put as much capital in your company as you please. Or have others do it in exchange for shares for example. That is also interest free capital. Also interest rates don't have as big an influence on production cost that you can sell far below market value really. Dumping isn't about comparison. At least it shouldn't be, big powerdul players aren't always honest players ofcourse. It is just about fair competition, so you can not artificially push competitors out of business to create monopolies. If you are just better and cheaper in a sustainable way it is basicly just progress. That is not dumping. In this case it could maybe have something to do with japan depressing it's currency. But then the tarrifs should have been wider then just on electronics. That was trumps justification for attacking china as well. Which was also questionable but did it anyway.
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  19.  @vylbird8014  nuclear power is at most 50% efficient too. Often less. There are always some conversion losses when converting actual workable energy. When converting heat to energy that can do actual work you are always dealing with a 50% loss. If is unavoidable.
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  20.  @HJJ135  there is no reason to asume china's army is in a simmilar state as that of russia. China has the economic power to support and develop it's forces. Moral and dicipline of troops is high in china while corruption is not more widespread then other western nations and is activly persecuted. Chinas forces probably are not as good tacticly and not directly war tested at the moment, but that will only get better over time as it start to join in on future international joined peacekeeping or interventions. And that does not mean it would not be able to inflict heavy losses on their adversary. It sounds nice but there really isn't much to support that idea.
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  21. ​ @Doomer_Optimist  the intermittent stuff really makes no sense. The day the wind stops blowing we have much greater issues to worry about then electricity generation. And solar generation is extremely predictable, which makes it's use a lot easier then people like to imagine.. The single thing people never talk about when discussing nuclear is who is going to buy the electricity they produce? Nobody is going to pay the 30cents per kwh it would cost for the plant to be completely financially self sufficient. So governments will have to subsedise 25 cents or more on every single kwh of electricity the thing will produce over it's 75 year or so lifespan for anyone to even concider comitting to buying it's electricity. These things will become black holes consuming trillions of dollars of tax money over the next century or so they will exis. The fact these things are still even concidered is madness. Shows you how effective the lobby has become.
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  22.  @donutey  and that is what will happen to tesla now as well. Remember, they had a monopoly for 15 years while every government was throwing billions around. They hoovered pretty much every penny of it up because they where the only option out there for over a decade. Those days are over now, new models are released it seems like every day. And tesla's just look increasingly dated next to them. They are still selling their mid 2000 design language. Which other car on the market today is still the 2008 model? We are pretty much 2 generations on now, the 8 year refresh cycle is ruthless. And the hype is dying down, tesla no longer is the comparison car with new releases like it has been up to now. People have new shiny things that release all the time now, the free publicity is drying up.
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  23.  @oceanwave4502  affordability isn't really what drives car sales. Otherwise we would have all been driving fiats for the last 50 years, like the soviets. It has always been mostly looks and branding what sells cars mainly.
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  24.  @lkrnpk  you had to take those compromises if you wanted to buy an ev before because tesla where the only game in town. Now as most is going ev, you can have ev's with quirks and dated looks if you just want transportation for cheap, or if you want a certain brand image or a premium ev or whatever what drives you to buy a specific model and are willing to pay extra for as well. I just don't see the niche tesla would fit in, in a normal competitive automotive industry with basic rules established over more then a century. Ev's are just cars when everyone drives one, the ev novelty is wearing off quickly now. It is just becomming another option next to diesel and petrol with the same level of excitement. And to me it seems tesla is exactly copying what put every single other independent automaker out of business over the last 40 years. And exactly the oposite of what made the succesful brands so succesful. Can only end in one way if you do that in such a long established and conservative industry like automotive.
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  25. It's easy. If the dessert offers you the biggest tax exemptions and guarantees you water no matter what on it's own dime, you will pick the dessert..
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  26. Co2 tax will still not make them economicly viable. It is simply increasingly uncompetitive technology.
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  27. I would like a video going deeper into the silicon used for solar panels, developments in that field and the differences with electronic grade silicon. Kinda like a side video to this one.
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  28. Nobody was interested. Manufacture was a dirty word in the 80s and 90s. If you don't do it, somebody else will.
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  29.  @MTobias  everyone keeps bitching about china stealing jobs here and china there. Truth is, companies are shutting down early, stores are limiting opening hours, businesses have to decline orders because they all are short on people to do the actual work. Imagine having to produce all the shit we need and buy on a daily basis ourselves as well on top. Everybody had to work 20 hours or stores would be empty, pick one. People who would have worked a manufacture job 30 years ago now do something better and more productive. And the only reason why is because we no longer need to do it ourselves. We moved up the value chain, that is how you increase prosperity and wealth in a country. Trying to conserve what was done 100 years ago so you can keep doing it into the future is stagnation. Stagnation in a world that progresses rapidly around you will only result into being left behind and a regressing position in the world.
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  30. ​ @Digo-eu  like everything needs to fit a singular definition. There always are a million ways to achieve anything. There is no one size fits all and small changes can turn a succes into a failure or a failure into a success.
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  31. ​​ @guitarazn90210  that is actually a major myth. Almost all technological progress is funded by the public trough government. It was in the cold war and still is today and will always be that way in the future. The vast majority of millitary technology in the cold war was never developed out of pocket by any corperation. Government gave money for development, for prototypes from multiple manufacturers and then for production. And most of fundamental research is done in universities with public grants and then given to the private sector who figures out how to use it to turn it into marketable or millitary products.
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  32. You must live in a huge mansion lol.
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  33. Ahh yes, privatisation. Somehow the public always pays.
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  34. Luckilly we have a near unlimited supply of silicon.
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  35.  @8bitorgy  no idea what you are trying to say, sorry. This policy was just a simple reaction to industrialist using exectly this tactic to monopolise an increasing amount of markets. And anti-trust simply prevents that. It is a practical application that solves actual problems that used to exist. This really isn't some theorethical idea or something. If left unregulated every single market converges into monopoly 100% of the time. And eventually would lead to a single entity controling all markets. It is the obvious end result.
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  36.  @AlexanderSylchuk  hmm i don't know. If you produce and sell in a way that is sustainable it will be hard to stick dumping charges to you. The whole tech sector is built on cheap capital. Any idiotic idea gets a 25 million check to burn in a startup. Can't get much cheaper then that.
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  37.  @Not_Sure-i6o  still stuck in the past lol.
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  38.  @mjbaricua7403  what do you mean? We are entering an age where electricity generation will be free for most people and businesses or will cost pennies or fractions of a penny to buy what you can not generate yourself. Newest nukes have a fixed cost of over 25 cents per kwh over their entire lifetime to make them financially viable. Who is going to be willing to pay that? Either nobody and the thing has to be boarded up or government has to subsedise it in order for it to put it's electricity on the market at said market rates. Which in the end will mean it has to be subsedised for 95% with public money for half a century or more. Imagine building 10 of them or something, that will be billions a year flushed down the toilet. And that is if nothing goes wrong and some sort of solution will be found to deal with it's waste. The whole idea is just absurd.
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  39. At least somebody is doing something against these exploitative practices. I wish more governments acted like china.
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  40. It is perfectly sensible to let an industry who isn't able or willing to properly maintain the infrastructure they already have build massively complex and maintenance intensive machines that can sanatize masive amounts of land in an instand when managed poorly. What could go wrong? Don't worry so much lol.
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  41. Solar is easilly the cheapest source of energy. Solar plus storage is already among the cheapest options. And prices for pv and storage keep decreasing day by day.
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  42. Geothermal is a much better alternative. It actually stands an economic chance to be competitive in the future. Nukes are just massive financial liabilities that will gobble up massive amounts of tax money.
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  43. It will be an expensive win though.
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  44.  @JoseLopez-hp5oo  the subsedies usually make sure that it becomes an economically viable choice to take the more expensive option. Tesla's for example where first adopted by taxi companies here. Even though the cars where a lot more expensive, the much lower running cost still made it a profitable investment for them because they drive those cars the whole day every day. Making it the best choice for them even at inflated prices. And as time goes by and prices come down, the group who fall into this category also grows. Driving adaption, lowering prices, growing the group for who they make economic sense etc. Etc. That is why the bulk of teslas where being bought. The people who buy it just to show off no matter the price is relativly small in comparison. But pretty much covers all private sales i imagine.
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  45. Modern carwashes reuse a lot of the wster though.
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  46. Capitalism baby.
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  47. Saying that after another video describing the financial desasters of the nuclear industry feels kinda silly.
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  48.  @joansparky4439  you are saying they did not recieve a litteral shit ton of free advertising for over a decade?
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  49.  @borek772  people have been buying 100k mercs while 25k skodas have been available for decades. Price really isn't a decisive factor alone. And prices on european ev's will come down quickly as well as economies of scale shift to ev's and away from ice cars.
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  50.  @joansparky4439  in the press tesla was the car to beat for years. Every new ev release was made into a comparison piece against a tesla, both in print and on youtube. At a certain point people used tesla and ev interchangably. Mostly because tesla was pretty much the entire ev market ofcourse. And that's fine, tesla did accelerate the transition a lot and made ev's mainstream and with that comes a lot of publicity. But that is very much still free publicity.
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