Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Spark" channel.

Save for bedtime. ;-)
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Hate the invasion reminder, one of the most shameful acts committed for bogus reasons by my beloved USA in my life.
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In the US many of the truck drivers are women, some operators prefer them, not a physical job (soon to be replaced by autonomous). Underground mining women haven't worked out, it was tried in the '80's but only a few lasted a yr. or so.
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Never mind fickle political motives, Free Enterprise is taking us back and far farther forward--enter SpaceX and others.
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That's what ALL the local men say about her minus the "safe" part.
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Coal is. Oil is mostly fossil algae. NatGas comes from both. The difference is that "bio-fuels" can be carbon neutral, they remove carbon from the current biosphere before returning it.
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NO we have 10X more economically available today then say 15 yrs ago due to horizontal drilling and fracking technologies.
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Anthropocentric climate propaganda, NOT what the tile indicates.
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@audie-tron9219 And working at the mine for a buck. I hear non Western civilizations are ALL greedy like that.
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@troth6251 How about YOU, ever left the country to look around or even your backwater neighborhood?
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It will never run out bc it's going to be obsolete in 20 yrs and shale oil extraction tech has made 10X more available then there was at the beginning of this century.
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Given the similar mass and volume I'd pick something better like Gorilla tape perhaps, much better adhesion and stronger.
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@joewilson2258 NO it's not being replaced but a given well might recharge from surroundings, ultimately wells run lower than profitable and abandon, new tech can get more but in the end it's gone. It took 100's of millions of yr.s to accumulate what we harvest. Dino's and dolphins were not tapping it. You can look at dead algae (microbial life in general) accumulations on the seafloor to estimate how fast it's being generated, bury it deep an cook it for 10's of millions of yr.s and POOF you have more. :D Two of my bros were once underground coal miners, they often came across dino footprints in the shale and found a few dino bone fossils. Old deposits. We are drawing on solar power of the past with fossil fuels, it can't go on forever. But it's all good, options have never been more affordable and oil is easy to duplicate in smaller quantities for rubber tires, plastics, fertilizers, even aircraft maybe, everything except mass energy generation. Worry about peak everything else from metals to fresh water to good soil. AND viable oil has become 10X more abundant since horizontal drilling and fracking tech has surprised us all. Massive oil shales are all over the planet mostly untapped. (pardon ridiculous rant)
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@dadsonworldwide3238 Different topic but I can't argue with that. Government 'solutions' are generally wrong and private sector responds to it's clientele efficiently.
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If this vid didn't cover shale oil it's useless (I only spot checked it). Horizontal drilling and fracking have made 10X more economic oil available, running out will never happen, most of it will be left in the ground as it is becoming obsolete.
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Why couldn't it be done automatically on a large scale? We have highly efficient methods of selecting viable vs reject produce at speeds your eye can't keep up with, picking rocks off the mud with minimal disturbance seems very doable to me.
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@Box545x39 These things can be stringently regulated. For example--seafloor nodules could be individually plucked from the surface with minimal disruption to the mud, particularly with AI (artificial intelligence) . A wide platform hovering above the floor with multiple robotic arms snatching the chunks as it progresses along. Thrusters would be well above to eliminate kicking up plumes of sediments. The operation would be continuously monitored in real time to verify minimal disruption, lights an cameras. If all that rigor delays economic implementation, so be it. The fact that those nodules are so uniquely concentrated in valuable minerals will likely eventually make it viable. Comparisons to traditional gold mining is silly, not only is gold of limited, almost no utility, but the ore bodies in question are radically different.
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This is NOT "what scientists can learn fro indigenous peoples" but *what propaganda they can superimpose on them. No hard data, nothing but platitudes and references to the weather. Aka...BULLSHIT.
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james morgan Slaves never made wages. Agree recycling isn't always viable but those folks take such jobs because they are the best options they have, take that away and they will be in a worse condition.
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At least, but it's already obsolete due to cheap NatGas, and shale oil extraction technologies have 10Xed the economic oil in last decade and a half.
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Overall we are better today. Back then city air stunk, burned your eyes it was so toxic, our rivers were so laden with industrial waste they caught on fire, racism was worse and don't even think of being openly gay. And yes that worst atrocity since the genocide of the Natives, Vietnam.
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And NOW we are about to return to the Moon and beyond vastly better prepared and for a small fraction of the price led this time by free enterprise.
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@cloudsbehindthesun9811 What is?
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Coal is obsolete in America due to cheap NatGas and we have 10X more oil available today then a decade and half ago due to shale extraction technologies. ALL of those will be obsolete soon enough while most is left in the ground.
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@Cartoonman154 I can't recall anyone clamoring for a uni-sex Olympics.
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@Cartoonman154 I realized that and got a smile from your joke, just tossed in a few bits anyway.
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Actually they are investing in them, have been for a long time, they aren't stupid. A subsidiary of Shell has spearheaded a $250M bio fuel plant proposal in Norther California for example for turning 'waste' agricultural cellulose into kerosene, diesel and H.
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@joewilson2258 1st, "oil companies" are not a monolithic entity. 2nd, they are not stupid they know they have to diversify or die. The end of petrol as a valuable commodity is in sight, a couple decades off but coming "soon". Even the Saudi's have said they expect petroleum to have zero marginal value in some 25 yr.s. No coincidence they sold their oil reserves and infrastructure on the open market recently. I don't know anything about your anecdote, no opinion.
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@antinwo3664 Unless you are referring to hydro, solar and wind, there is no such thing as "free energy" and never will be. Those renewalbles will take over but they have a price attached. Dams cost big money to build and destroy rivers and everything in them, wind is becoming cost effective but can be an eye sore and kills bats and birds, solar on one's roof is becoming entirely viable but still expensive and we need to figure out how to recycle the panels and store it for night, etc. (batt packs are becoming affordable) All things considered I think we are clearly heading toward the cleanest cheapest E power ever.
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@praysuguitan779 Thanks Sir! Don't often get that. lol
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@michaels4255 10X is entirely reasonable, sure it's a rough round number but close enough for the point at hand. It has NOTHING to do with promoters, they aren't pushing for competition from China, Euro, Brazil and all the other massive shale formations all over the planet, it's an extrapolation from the astounding success it the US and certainly can be used globally. It's a tech story that hasn't been exported to a significant extent YET. Have you not noticed that the USA is 'suddenly' the largest petrol and NatGas producer on Earth? You can't fake that. Not many yr.s ago Trump's recent Iran attack would have spiked oil well over $100/barrel but not anymore. Why? Because the US can quickly offset any P. Gulf oil disruptions.
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@dadsonworldwide3238 What's your solution?
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@zachcarter3186 Probably centuries worth depending on your consumption assumptions and IF all the worlds vast shales were tapped which they won't be. Famous quote from Shell Oil CEO circa 1990's: "The stone age didn't end bc we ran out of rocks and the oil age won't end bc we run out of petroleum." He couldn't have known then how right he was. Petrol will be largely obsolete within 20 yrs.
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Seen ton of glacial polished granite in Sierras, assume far thinner ice there, no significant grooves, just rounded and smoothed shiny.
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Childish frame flashing BS opening tells me all I need to know about this vid.
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@Box545x39 I think most do grasp it, regardless they will either embrace it or not be involved at all. While I lean heavily Libertarian for good reason, externalities like the environment must and can be regulated. Market forces alone don't consistently account for such tho customers of said products can and often do enforce high standards, others will not. Figure out how to comply or forget about it. There needs to be international standards which is a big hurdle. Currently--reckless methods and over fishing from the likes of China is a far bigger concern, similar for the dams that have gutted the previously spectacular salmon runs decades ago to the present in Pacific N. West. USA fisheries are mostly properly controlled.
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@Box545x39 Yes it should be common sense. Some 'damned' rivers have been restored here in the PNWest too but the Columbia system is the biggy, it too has significant advocacy for dismantling and returning to wild, doesn't seem likely soon but eventually. That system provided unbelievable prolific salmon runs almost yr round, now just a trickle of endangered Chinooks. Every reason to believe it can be fully restored which feeds the forests too and everything in them. The use case for those reservoirs seems to be diminishing, US went dam crazy early/mid last century. At least one segment of Orcas have also been heavily impacted by loss of those salmon. Effects are wide ranging. Interesting to consider that North of and including Washington State, all those rivers and salmon runs can only be max of around 12k yrs old as the ice sheets had covered them for the prior 100k yrs roughly. That's very young as life and geology goes. So nature clearly can restore/create new runs where fresh 'sterile' rivers go. We can dramatically accelerate that process no doubt.
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Bloody is a negative indicator, watch for the color.
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@Will he heck as like Shale extraction tech has 10Xed the economic reserves globally, meanwhile it's on the rapid path to obsolescence.
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Yeah one bit at time we shall outgrow vile dogmas like evil Abrahamic religions.
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