Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. ​ @nekad2000  Which version of Capitalism?
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  2. Car makers have to really look at combining supercapacitors and batteries in EVs. Supercaps offer great advantages, especially in brake regen energy storage efficiency. There was a super-battery that combined the two in one package.
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  3. He never gave a solution to disagree with.
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  4. In the UK there are calls to have a wartime type coalition government with a statesman in charge, while the crisis continues. Men like Gordon Brown, (who has greatly impressed many on the virus crisis) or Tony Blair. The same applies to most countries. We do not need inexperienced party politically focused chancers in charge in times like this - as are Boris Johnson, Trump, etc. In WW2 the British Labour Party insisted Winston Churchill, in the opposition party, be prime minister, as he was the right man for the single task in hand - defeating the Germans. When the Germans were defeated he was voted out, not being PM at war's end in August 1945. Churchill had done his job. All gave thanks. The right man at the right time. History also tells us that. We have no alternative, as we cannot go on with this flapping and delaying. Johnson told us, "be prepared to lose loved ones" with 270,000 predicted to die. We need an all party governments with experienced statesmen in charge. Those with that experience and wisdom are now statesmen, who are generally above party politics. really been rammed, expect in a few more responsible countries. The gravity of the situation has not been fully rammed home to people.
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  5.  @jupiterjunk  What would be the price of totally new transmission on an ICE car? With batteries each time they are replaced the price will be lower with more stored charge, so the car is actually improved. BTW, over 100,000 miles in 5 years is a lot of miles. So the average driver can bank on 10 years for a battery.
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  6. Look at the massive fresh water aquifers under Libya. Gaddafi wanted to pump this water up, using solar panels and wind turbines, greening the desert. Once the land is darker with greenery the rain will come. Many say this proposed project was a prime reason why he was taken out - he would be powerful.
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  7. In a tank of liquid fuel only around 20% is used to propel the vehicle. The rest is wasted. That is not that case with a battery/electric motor setup. Toyota say they will be selling solid state batteries in five years. These have around three times the energy density as current batteries. Righting off electric planes is foolish. An electric hybrid is clearly feasible.
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  8. You have look at why a system allows the wealth of the production of a whole society to accumulate in few percentage of the population. Also where did most of their wealth come from? Most of their wealth is appropriated commonly created wealth. The system allows legalised stealing. Who do we stop this legalised stealing? By reclaiming the commonly created wealth to use for public services, eliminating income tax. Income tax is a penalty on the productive, a silly thing to do. Have Land Value Tax as the core of an economic system reclaiming commonly created value. Charge for common use of land, air and seas, and extraction of minerals and ores.
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  9. You need to understand the qualities of graphene.
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  10. But it looks better than any other.
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  11.  @deathab0ve  Uh?
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  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPuurjfb_Bo
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  13. Germany has a hydrogen fuel cell train on fare paying operation. The UK is to trial them soon. The UK is looking to use hydrogen in trains to preclude overhead wiring of track which is expensive to install and maintain. The electrification programme has been put on hold. New trains will be diesel/electric hybrids that can be easily converted to hydrogen fuel cell, using the existing electric traction motors, when needed. Hydrogen makes sense when the electricity to crack the water to obtain the hydrogen is cleanly and freely obtained, like wind, wave, etc.
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  14. Nope. It was the British East India company, who superseded the Dutch. They ended up pretty well controlling India itself. The Dutch became minor players on the world stage. Hey, the stars and stripes was based on the British East India company's flag, they are almost identical, apart from stars in the corner - even 13 red and white stripes.
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  15. Dyson turned a vacuum cleaner into a design product. Nothing looked like it, it stood out, a must have product. I had one and they are good.
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  16. The Qattara Depression in Egypt is below sea level. It is a vast area with only about 200 people in it. There have been suggestions to dig a canal to the Mediterranean filling it up creating a large lake with seep sea vessel access. Ports could emerge on its banks. They could create the ports before it fills up making construction easier. It will take many years to fill, so a number of canals may need to be dug. This vast water area will change the climate for sure, with most saying it will increase rain, making the deserts greener. The only problem is that it will be salt water. So, others have suggested diverting the Nile into it. Factoid: In WW2 at El Alemein, the British army had the Qatarra Depression on its left flank and the Med on its right. In front of them was the German army. They had to go right through them head on - through half a million mines as well.
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  17. The inefficient internal combustion piston engine will save the world? What parallel universe are they in?
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  18. Why? A tall building connects everyone by driver-less elevators which are free to ride on. We can spread out on the land then connect everyone by high-speed rail and rapid-transit rail - which could be free to ride on, which can be driver-less, as the Dockland Light Railway is in London, and has been for 35 years. In the 1980s, London was seriously considering demolishing many of its tall buildings. Paris and London have amongst the most expensive real estate in the world because they do not build high residential in the centres.
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  19. Solid state batteries are safer. So, lith-ion should be phased out ASAP.
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  20. what is the official progress, in relation to going to market?
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  21. I gleened that the reduced water levels are due mainly to evaporation. Well this water that ends up in the air drops somewhere as rain, which is then beneficial. Where does it mainly drop as rain?
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  22. A company proposed to convert the natural gas network in the city of Leeds in England. A simple to job to convert natural gas appliances to Hydrogen.
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  23. HIgs-speed rail can replace many air flights. Trains tend to go right into city centres, giving faster door to door journey times.
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  24.  @NietzscheanMan  I though that was right wing Nazis and the likes. Social Democracy and Communism are not the same thing.
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  25.  @NietzscheanMan  You are very confused
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  26.  @Mouse2379  Marxists? Marx was an economist, not a politician. He studied Capitalism. Most of his work was studying Capitalism. Communism that emerged, was state capitalism. Organisations that operated the same but different owners. The workers did not share in the profits of the organisations they worked in. Cooperatives do, who own the organisations as well. Look up Mondragon in Spain.
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  27.  @NietzscheanMan  Keep looking for the Reds under the bed. It is amazing how some are easily brainwashed.
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  28.  @NietzscheanMan  You are brainwashed. get it sorted. You have everything to gain.
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  29.  @NietzscheanMan  You are brainwashed. get it sorted. You have everything to gain.
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  30. It is said the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine built the Panama Canal. They linked the mosquito with malaria and other diseases. They also developed the quinine to counter the diseases.
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  31. Goodenough with M. Stanley Whittingham worked on the Lithium Ion battery at Oxford Uni. Goodenough should not take all the credit.
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  32. Cooperatives conforms to Marx, with worker ownership of the means of production. Yet co-ops operate in a free market. Do not confuse a free market and commerce as being something only Capitalism can offer. The largest employer in the UK is the John Lewis Partnership, which owns a chain of upmarket stores. It is a cooperative owned by it employees. The employees receive a share of the profits each year. John Lewis operate in the free market having to be competitive.
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  33. A battery containing graphene has just been introduced on the market.
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  34. Has anyone exhumed the body in the small Texas town?
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  35. A graphene based battery has just been introduced on the market.
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