Comments by "Barry On" (@barryon8706) on "Two Bit da Vinci" channel.

  1. It's a case-by-case thing. When I take my chainsaw out to the far end of my property, I think batteries will be impractical. I'll typically need refueling even with a gas chainsaw. For my weed-wacker, it's not really a problem as long as I'm willing to do it a session a day over a few days. I think California is getting silly with very broad fossil-fuel bans, but silly laws and California are not strangers to each other. Edit: Back when I lived in California I used an electric chainsaw as the whole yard was in reach of a cord, and electric chainsaws are easier to start.
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  2. It sounds like it would also avoid the cavitation problems that limit the speeds of propellors.
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  3. That's all good, but there's the little problem of more expensive housing in a state already plagued with a housing crisis. There are no solutions in life, only trade-offs (paraphrasing Dr. Sowell).
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  4. I left in 2021. They made it effectively legal to shoplift < $1000, and illegal to have separate boys and girls aisles in toy stores. When they started to seriously consider taxing people after they left the state, it was the last straw.
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  5.  @gordybishop2375  Do we just get used to homes burning down frequently, or do we only live in unnatural areas? What are unnatural areas?
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  6.  @dalebyl1564  If you have the energy to split water in that location, you don't ned hydrogen for energy in that location.
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  7.  @douglasw5371  I think you misunderstand what I was saying. Dale Byl was saying that hydrogen could be stored in water, but the problem with that is you'd need an independent source of energy that actually has to be greater than you'll get from oxidizing the hydrogen. For example, you can't use water as a way to store hydrogen unless your car also has a nuclear reactor to split the hydrogen out of the water, and if your car has a nuclear reactor then uou can just use the reactor for energy without bothering with hydrogen.
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  8. Airships! Ok, maybe not, but it'd be cool.
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  9. Rural deliveries could be a nice market for these. Any trip I make to anywhere is at least an hour to get to town, and sometimes the roads aren't great.
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  10. I think that's a good point, though I think it would only be practical if that electrical system is off the grid. If you want to use the grid for supplemental power or if you want to sell some of that solar power to the electric company then you'll need an inverter somewhere in there.
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  11. @View Bot AFAIK it takes electricity or very high tempeatures to separate the hydogen from the oxygen in water.
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  12. I wonder if this will lead people to leave California. I mean, more than they are now, of course.
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  13. Can this be reversed into a condensation-powered death ray? It seems like it would be a more environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional death rays.
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  14. Now it did.
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  15. I hope people inTennessee saw this.
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  16. Just use a ballistic trajectory, vertical take off / vertical landing so the shockwaves are nearly parallel to the ground. The airlines can make it proitable by charging a premium for the air sickness bags. 😀
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  17. Some of these remind me of the rhomboidal wing.
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  18. If they're rational, they can.
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  19. Yes, but no. With sanctions and revolutions and countries just plain not getting along, the engineering of a global superproject would be the easiest step.
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  20. It's 5G. I mean, it's not 5G, but I wanted to be the first person on the internet to say it. So they retrofitted 5G from Tesla's death ray and are using it to start fires to suppress the bigfoot rebellion. It's not the first time the Queen and her lizard-people family have done this to preserve the human species so they can get their adenochrome. And something something flat earth.
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  21. "When you think of Japan and nuclear energy, the first thing you think of probably isn't hydrogen." Me: Godzilla?
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  22. I thought the plutonium would be good for at least 1.21 gigawatts.
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  23. That sounds promising. Unless it's far more vulnerable to moisture than existing kinds of insulation .
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  24. If the thirsty concrete deflects more when there's a freeze, it may make it harder to plow / make plowing less effective.
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  25. It's about time! But we'll ony have complete honesty when they admit that it's piloted by Bigfoot.
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  26. People who are against even experimentation in this area should be vigorously ignored, and, if they use force, should be met with greater force.
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