Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The World Needs Supergrids, But There's a Problem" video.

  1. Not even that, Clap. He speculated about a notional bunch of multi-phase ACs which didn't pan out. Tesla was a very verbal, and possibly high-IQ, man, but he invented nothing of any real use. His patents are mostly silly little fribbles added to imaginary auto parts. His single accomplishment was picking the right side in the Westinghouse-Edison debate, and attaching himself to it like a limpet to steal reflected glory from Westinghouse, and implicitly from Faraday and the other early and genuine inventors of electric power.
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  2. No we don't. What are you smoking, Jerry?
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  3.  @cartman19892  Humor the poor child: he's been reading Tesla's idiocies.
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  4.  @NoSpeechForTheDumb  Well said!
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  5.  @vylbird8014  All plausible but the last sentence. Tesla had nothing to do with it. An entirely frivolous universe of multi-phase ACs is one of Tesla's idle bar-stool verbal riffs, one of many loudly promoted ideas of his of no actual value. Tesla is the Oakland of technology. No there there.
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  6. JC, Wrong. This is typical YouTube work, weaving in and out of touch with reality and heavy on popular myths.
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  7.  @timpike1616  Wey-yull, Texas isolating itself in its own grid so its people can freeze in the dark is not the most intelligent way of running things, is it? 'Course Texas isn't all of America. Thank goodness. (Spoiler alert: the first 386 coin laundries in Japan have dryers made in Texas in them. They do get some stuff right down there.)
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  8.  @marktwain368  It doesn't make any sense at all. The guy is living in a world of illusion.
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  9. Diamonds don't "produce electricity," although your notion would consumer a great deal of it. We don't need more diamonds: the world already has boxcar loads of them, most of the jewelry-grade ones being kept off the market by the mining organizations to keep the prices high.
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  10. Not quite, Nathanael. Tesla patented a lot of trivial adjustments around the edges of things. His only notable invention was the Tesla coil. It makes impressive sparks using weak power at high voltages, and involves no original invention. Just like the man himself.
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  11. Needs high voltages than we have now -- but moving power from the day side to the night side is an attractive thought, maybe yes, maybe no, for the future.
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  12.  @mkkm945  It's really obvious. Apparently. That means it can't be simple: why hasn't it happened?
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  13. We do. We just dial it down within households for safety reasons.
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  14. ​ @thomasmangold7489  I think you've got the right general idea, that Wiegand may not quite have accomplished the Millennium -- but you owe us a more thoughtful post if you want to make that point. The huge solar farms already in existence don't have the "flash to the ground" problem that you imagine, and "too thick conductors" don't seem to be a problem with the .75 megavolt lines we already have, so on the face of it you're just whining.
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  15. David, That would be a sensible post if what she is saying were true. It isn't. She's carelessly retailing currently popular nonsense. Somebody is promoting the name "Tesla" with tired old lies. I wonder who?
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  16. I think that all this change, that is providing power for your sainted "future generations" as well as us, is provided by profiteers, Daniel. Some of them are even electrical co-ops -- which can only run if they make a profit.
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