Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

You're just jealous because it didn't occur to you to choose to be born to parents' that own an emerald mine. That's not on him, that's on you.
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It would be several orders of magnitude better to just use white foam for the light reflection and simply spray layers of ice on top of that. It's still a stupid idea for a number of reasons, but it's less stupid than this one.
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You can get solar powered exhaust fans that slip over car windows. You can get them for under a hundred dollars and I'm sure they work far better. At least up to the point where the temperature in the car is the same as the temperature outside.
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@jameshead9119 Yes, although in that case, you could just float something white and relatively thin on top of the water and be done with it. Any idea is going to be stupid just because of the sheer size of the problem. Somethng like this might potentially be a portion of the solution once the emissions are balanced out to return things to the way that they were, but even then there's a massive problem to deal with and it would have to be neutral itself.
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It would probably do it, the problem is that you would need an unimaginably large number of boats to make a meaningful difference. Which is the basica problem with most of these things. Apart from cutting the emissions that people use by making the companies that generate the things used to generate the emissions pay a tax to offset the problem they profit off of, there's not many other viable options.
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I'm not an expert, but I don't think that geosynchronous orbit can be achieved at the poles. I'm not even sure that you could hang a satellite up there long enough to be of any use.
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It's not, it is a part of the solution, but it's definitely not perfect. It is a great option for base production while the energy storage problem is solved. In the long term though, it's going to be a combination of solar, wind, hydroelectric power doing pretty much all of that. That assumes that commercially viable fusion reactors don't ever work out. (Admittedly, we're closer on that now than ever in the past, but it's still going to be decades if it works out)
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@coocoo3336 The main issue with the current crop of renewables is that they don't work all the time. Solar works great during the day when the sun is out and wind power works great if you've got wind, but you need some way of ensuring that you have the necessary power when you need it. That's where nuclear comes in. I'm sure that eventually the problem of shifting power around will be solved, but nuclear is the thing that we could do right now to fill the gap while that happens.
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Solar roadways in Australia in the middle of nowhere could work, but there's so much space there that there's no need to put the solar cells in the roadway. It could theoretically make sense for parking lots, but I don't know that that will ever be worth the effort.
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That makes a lot of sense, the weight is external to the vehicle, so you get nearly all the energy.
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That's far more likely to be workable at some point. A beam of light being bounced across a couple satellites before being directed at such a facility is at least something that could happen. I doubt that the practical issues with it will be solved before there are better methods of generating renewable power, but it's a lot more reasonable than this is.
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Batman and Robin actually had a proposal for this. It was pretty dumb, but most people were focused on the nipples on the Batsuit. It used several mirrors to direct the light to a telescope. Adding another satellite or two would get around the issue of the rocks. but it also adds a ton of issues. I can't imagine how this would be technically feasible, at any price.
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It's not the public that are being particularly naive, what morons are still willing to lend him money at this point? All he seems to do is pop up online and do some trolling, issue a ridiculous statement and make the company then struggle to follow through in order to avoid being hit by regulatory fines for having no intention of doing it. Tesla struggles a lot due to these dumb statements that Musk makes and in many cases, they don't even have the plans in place before he makes the assertions.
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TBH, I'm somewhat surprised that they don't all cut the compressor when the door is open. At least the ones that don't have the door on the lid.
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You do realize that several of them have degrees from the University of Wassup, right?
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It would be more practical to invent high powered light rigs that could be set up in a matter of a few minutes. Which itself has a ton of issues.
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Rabbits are just pigs for people without money. At least, if you get a pig, it'll eat your enemies.
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@Isomnophilia I think early on the things he was saying and doing weren't so obviously scams. But, if you've read up on him, he didn't found PayPal, he was part of the founding of a different online financial service that merged with PayPal and all his initial money came from his parent's emerald mine. What we've seen play out over the years since is more or less the inevitable conclusion of being born on 3rd base and being surrounded by people that are willing to go along with the insanity no matter how ridiculous things are. The fact that any of what he promises happens is mostly coincidental and the byproduct of the few smart people that he hasn't sent packing for showing up near his desk at the wrong time of the day.
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