Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Two Bit da Vinci" channel.

  1.  @roberthart9886  I see, that's why I was arguing against the insane unscientific Authoritarian lockdowns from day 1. We'll be paying for it for decades. But it was reasonably profitable?
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  2. What usually doesn't work is government initiatives for industrial operations, how many times do we have to repeat that experience before we learn?
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  3. Folks are fleeing Commifornia due to the horrific political environment not natural disasters, one of the worst inevitabilities most haven't even heard of--Central Valley becoming a great lake for half a yr or so causing some 1 or $2T in damages.
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  4.  @GENKI_INU  If you are in your seventies you aren't going to rebuild the life you lost to fire. Big respect for those deciding to stay, not risk free but nothing is. Better still to be prepared with 1.5" water supply lines and 1.5" surplus fire hoses that are vastly more effective than a garden hose. I live next door to the 2017 burned down town of Paradise, took yrs just to remove the debris, yrs to get permits, etc. It's maybe 20% rebuilt nearing a decade later now. I have fire refugees on my street, all have given up on fantasy of rebuilding, some living in travel trailers. (Paradise fire was heavily forested and U couldn't stay and fight it, not a chance)
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  5.  @muskokamike127  We both said your final point enough times. Not everyone has anywhere near your requirements nor limitations. Would you chose to have the option of the auxiliary power rather than not? Most contractors I know would take the PU with the power as apposed to not even if it doesn't replace the entire jobsite requirements, it still adds options and versatility. And there are a lot more tiny outfits with only a few employees than bigger ones I'd guess. Small housing contractors, service people or in my case a high capacity one man service truck (portable welding shop) would benefit terrifically from not having to run engines all day. Sometimes the exhaust is even a problem and always the noise, maintenance, etc.
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  6. You can trust governments to back failures more often then not.
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  7.  @falsificationism  Right around statehood Cali suffered one of the recurring (roughly 160/300 yr) "pineapple express", aka., atmospheric rivers off the Pacific, trains running for 45 to 60 days or more straight deluge that turns Central Valley into a massive lake. One in 1862 permanently altered Sacramento. Haven't seen anything like it since but we will one day. Rapid sediment accumulations in deltas studies decades ago show this is an inevitability as it's been happening for thousands of yrs. And NO our dam and flood control infrastructure will NOT come close to managing it. Interestingly, Native Americans seem to have anticipated it and moved into the foothills to stay clear in 1862.
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  8.  @muskokamike127  Dunno but keep in mind the power required to move a vehicle is vastly greater than what your talking about. You don't need a 400 hp diesel for even a dozen nailers plus several table saws.
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  9.  @muskokamike127  It's not reasonable to expect ONE truck to support an entire job site of dozens of men. There will be dozens of vehicles, many of them trucks at such a site. Having a few places to plug into instead of one should also be an advantage most of the time. Yeah I expect and sort of hope they will focus on the much bigger recreational market to start with as a small TSLA stockholder. Such a truck is of no interest to me personally I'm only in want of a service truck replacement. I'm considering purchasing a totaled Model 3 to convert into a gen-set replacement for my own use, not sure if it's feasible for me but should be fairly doable. I just need a the batt pack and associated electronics plus some electrical gear. That's another market T should eventually get into I think.
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  10.  @jsbrads1  I was thinking they may have "greenhoused" them? Sounds like a good idea on the surface but reinforcing roofs could be a significant issue.
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  11. Up until a last month Tesla was lauded for their brilliant use of cylindrical cells, now they are genius for going prismatic.
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  12. Thank you for pertinent update. "prices have come down by a third" You meant come down *to a third*....No?
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  13.  @macioluko9484  Depends how you use it. For me serious gen-set replacement will be the big deal if it has 3-phase 240 included.
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  14. I guess our standards have become so low that common sense is "genius".
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  15.  @harleyjackson5513  Maybe maybe not. See if they can come up with a competitive option they haven't showed us anything yet have they?
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  16.  @harleyjackson5513  Compare that to Ford some of which were worse than worthless a while back. A friend had his in the shop hundreds of times in a few yr.s since bran new then Ford abandoned him before the warranty was up. So he abandoned Ford. It was a complete pile of shit, Ford should have bought those back.
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  17. A LOT of people I know are NOT brand loyal with their PUs. They will consider power, price, reliability, efficiency...but these are ppl who use their trucks as TRUCKS, for work. 240 3-Phase would be crucial for me too.
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  18. Why did you stop?
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  19. Excellent overview, like your style.
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  20. One can also add a very reasonably priced automatic seismic gas shutoff valve.
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  21.  @stickynorth  I'm pretty sure that quality matters. We need more child labor, far better for them then social media, aimless bumming around and failed public schools.
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  22. Cooler than a steaming pile of feces too.
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  23.  @c.l.8121  Older Leaf requires a unique sort of customer. Hate to focus on superficials but damn that thing is HIDEOUS.
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  24.  @c.l.8121  Like the Dodge Nitro way back when--Consumers Reports had absolutely nothing good to say about it other than "bold styling"...yeah it looks like hell, worse even than the average Chrysler AND it's a pile of shit in every other way, ride, performance, interior.....I see them around and can't help but think the owners are stupid. Tesla showed the world EVs could not only be great but be as attractive as any production car ever. Even T. had difficulty doing away with the faux radiator grill at first, original S. Then they fixed that. Look at every other Western EV, they don't have the imagination or courage to dump the damned FAKE front grill...they look a little silly really. Form follows function. I would never purchase for aesthetics alone but I would avoid on that basis if it's just too much to bare like that Leaf. :D
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  25. What is the ideal atmospheric CO2 level??
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  26. Deren Dohoda And how many trillions has the USA spent subsidizing fossil fuels?...the subsidies for solar don't come close to leveling the government warped energy field.
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  27. I avoid 100 and zero % charging of my phone batts have little or no noticeable degradation over 5 yr.s.
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  28. Pardon the trivial but--that's a clutch plate depicted as an inverter, lol. 14:00
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  29. I know many men who've lost their loyalty if they ever had it due to some sever lemons, especially Ford but all of them except Toyota have produced some junk.
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  30. Yeah they really screwed the pooch in recent yr.s in multiple ways. (I'm in NorCal) Including triggering fires that burned down our neighbors towns although those disasters were going to happen one day anyway given the conditions on the ground, lack of proper land management.
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  31. Leave it governments to make everything worse.
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  32.  @rcpmac  Private enterprise didn't do that alone now did they, most likely they'd have projected the cost decrease in PV, it's been well known for decades. When cost discipline is absent, as it always is with tax monies, this is typically the result. Same goes for California's hydrogen fuel fiasco and any number of other examples, the worst being corn ethanol disaster which won't end until gasoline is obsolete. Less government interference the better.
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  33. A "square acre" must be 4 spatial dimensions. 😉
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  34. My disaster prep is in the form of being surrounded by beautiful produce generating 'food forest' private lil slice of paradise and modest long term stock of emergency chow. I eventually need to add water and electric independence.
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  35.  @TwoBitDaVinci  I'm not criticizing Tesla in the slightest, I assume most of their changes will be advancements, I was poking fun at some of us in the fan club.
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  36.  @jkenny1  Absolutely....note my 2nd comment above.
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  37.  @daviddaniel2198  See above. Next time it happens, if anytime soon, it will of course be blamed on cow farts and driving SUVs, by history deniers.
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  38.  ReichwingConspirator  Sucks for us in Marxist Authoritarian states too, as you are getting the best of us, further concentrating the morons who caused our problems here. (many ask why I stay--I'm entrenched in many ways, biz to friends to home, and the natural landscape is unduplicated anywhere. Addicted to High Sierras, giant redwoods, etc., etc.)
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  39. They sort of created an industry that didn't really exist prior. Iphone from Blackberry.
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  40. But it took some 15 yr.s to get here and it wasn't easy, they nearly went under in 2008.
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  41. Who ever purchase a $35k M3??
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  42. Hush! They are already spending TOO MUCH on advertising. ;-)
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  43. The ONE area Cybertruck will vastly beat traditional trucks on aero is the underbelly, this is typically overlooked and where much of total drag comes from on exiting vehicles. Better quality cars have had aero undersides for decades but not trucks.
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  44. I'm considering a batt pack for my service truck, it would stand in for a 20 to $30k diesel gen. I need multiple output options including 440v 3-phase AC. Anyone have any expertise in this area?
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  45. F117 (not a fighter) has rubbish aero qualities. That was created to milk the taxpayer.
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  46.  @TwoBitDaVinci  Military pilots knew better it was to make it an easier sell to the public because we already had one ridiculous stealth bomber designed to ripoff the taxpayer.
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  47.  @TwoBitDaVinci  Pardon me being too particular. Compelling case you make anyway. Very impressive price reduction over time.
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  48. I'm stupid long TSLA, obviously believe in the core story but I'm not betting on a batt airliner, that's a hell of a stretch, on the order of 10X improvement in energy density. For NOW they need to prove they can produce a semi without significantly reducing payload due to extra weight, that will be a big step. A short range plane maybe, like 30 minutes maybe an hour of flight time. Some of us fanboys get carried away on what's even possible let alone about to happen.
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  49.  @leeackerson2579  Long Live Capitalism let's keep on truck'n! :D
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  50. Keep it for Sundays...or when you want a horse cart experience.
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