Comments by "Ted Moss" (@tedmoss) on "Two Bit da Vinci" channel.

  1. It costs so much they won't even advertise the price. $4,000 compared to $1,300 for others.
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  2.  @richierich252  I have seen windmills on a large scale with my own eyes, what are you talking about? Maintenance is definitely a problem, no one wants to go out and fix them.
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  3. i had a fun time running the grid in the South-West, (Arizona-New Mexico-El Paso, Texas and El Centro, Calif) I wrote my own program on a HP45 to economically dispatch the plants and used a very old computer to do the work (ProDac 580) which was broken at the time, but fixed sometime later. We Saved millions on fuel and maintenance costs. I Bought and sold power all over the Western Interconnection. The grid is better now, it is being modified to support Solar and Wind. Tesla Mega Packs would be a better solution.
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  4. Brains have no home either.
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  5.  @xiaoka  How about sun power?
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  6.  @BradKarthauser  BOOM ! ! !
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  7.  @TheHorseshoePartyUK  Just get more cows and collect their gas to run all the cars on earth.
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  8.  @PaleBlueDotCitizen  Horses! lets go back to horses! Unlimited financial opportunity to clean up their shit!
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  9. Wow! you are very wrong, because you misunderstood the facts in the first place, you can't cherry-pick.
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  10.  @johnwheatley231  Now there you go being reasonable again.
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  11. Driving classics was never a problem or a consideration to solve the problem, it might get a little more expensive when gas stations disappear though.
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  12. But Charity Stars takes most of the money, they are as efficient as the printed solar panels.
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  13.  @dawggonevidz9140  Depends on where they are built.
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  14.  @davefoc  Nevertheless, that's an automatic reduction in efficiency.
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  15. You will be waiting a bit longer...
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  16.  @goranjosic  Hmm, seems to me that this problem as stated here has been around for a very long time, and not just in this context.
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  17. That is OK, but you have to watch for salt transfer to the clean side.
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  18. Or even mirrors.
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  19. Make the desert drier.
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  20. The smartest solution is the one that works, where is the production model?
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  21. The reason to supply the military is not because it is a good idea for everyone, it is just to solve a military problem.
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  22. Only a very small amount of hydrogen ever escapes into space or their would not be any here, this is fundamental. Why would you say such a silly thing?
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  23.  @joep5170  Go for it.
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  24.  @joep5170  That's why you see them all over the place.
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  25.  @joep5170  Go for it.
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  26. Just dreaming.
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  27.  @stepheny7648  I'm not financing it.
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  28.  @JM-zg2jg  I'm not sure what the engineers were smoking.
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  29.  @MarcoNierop  You need to study this more.
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  30. Rockets?
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  31. E-fuels are only a band-aid, to fool people and will not reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere. You don't even sound convinced yourself. Anyone that wants to look at the process can see it won't work to solve the problem, just make it worse, because of the energy required to do it.The use of Nuclear fuel would help if it is used efficiently and not wasted on such inefficient processes. You are forgetting everything you learned about electric cars (temporarily) to put forth such bad ideas. It is the overall efficiency of the entire process that drives the use of electric cars, not just protecting the earth, which is a side benefit.
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  32.  @TwoBitDaVinci  Remember Texas.
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  33.  @filonin2  What do you do with the carbon?
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  34. I ran the Arizona-New Mexico grid for 4 years as an Operations supervisor for APS. This Idea is old, it has too many disadvantages. Reliability is a major problem, turf wars is another. When they tried to tie the Texas Interconnection to the Western Interconnection, it did not work, its the tail wagging the dog. Possibility with modern DC ties you could make it work. That's what Texas does right now. The losses would be high, at a guess 30% that's a lot of heat generated for no profit. I thought a lot about these things when I was working, but now pretty much leave it to others. As long as companies do such a bad job, reference Calif and Texas, it won't be possible. APS wasn't much better, but at least they are rational and have good companies to work with, SRP and Arizona Power Authority among others.
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  35.  @TacDyne  I'll do it for $43,000. Watch you tube video of methane car exploding when being refueled.
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  36. I have a brilliant idea, batteries! You can put them close to the load so the losses can be made up at the use site, giving you 5 to 10 percent more power. Send me a check if you use this idea. Or you could just use weights close to the use site and save a lot of money on maintenance. Someone is always coming up with a new stupid idea.
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  37. You totally missed how much power you could collect, maybe to prove your point. I collect slightly more than you did with my solar collector in Peoria, AZ. But if you steered it with the sun, you would collect much more. The idea of solar collectors in space is very old, you don't need any fancy converters that might break, just simple mirrors directing the suns rays to other mirrors and down to a receiver on earth to run conventional power plants. The problems are station keeping and deterioration from solar flux. Station keeping is solved by using solar sails to "tack" against the constant solar pressure using super computers. The problem of weathering is taken care of by maintenance. I call this MOSS for Massive Orbital Solar Satellites. No special orbit necessary.
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  38.  @waynegnarlie1  If there was water in the ground and it evaporated?
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  39.  @jaytate491  Look around.
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  40.  @Hansulf  You are getting used to the contaminants in your water and you don't even know it. Careful with others drinking it though. It is the problem of all local water sources except those like city water systems in the U.S.
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  41. You are not looking far enough into the future. We are using all materials more efficiently and will have only a small need for new minerals in the future. Particularly iron, aluminum, oil, silicon, lithium, copper for instance we will use 75% less copper in cars and electric devices.
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  42.  @mr.somebody1493  So you think the hydrogen gets used up? Or are you aware of any way to recycle it? Or are you just blowing smoke?
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  43.  @KoenvanGorpAstronomy  Tell that to the people in the desert.
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  44.  @mr.somebody1493  Lets just build a fusion reactor.
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  45.  @anydaynow01  Get out there and show the way.
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  46. No way they will do that.
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  47. How do you use a solar generator at night?
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  48. Unfortunately, it is the efficiency of the process that ultimately determines the winner, and we already know the answer. Everything else is just fooling people and taking their money.
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  49.  @davestagner  Be careful, don't waste your money, invest in something better.
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  50. Since the escape velocity of the earth is higher than the speed of the H2 molecule, we do not lose much, as time goes by the escape velocity goes up.
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