Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" channel.

Really? I gotta look more into those batteries again, then. I have seen one video on it a year ago or so, and it sounded expensive. Maybe I should check out other designs. There were some redox batteries that also looked promising with their specs, and future chemistries. I thought a bunch were starting this year, but I haven't heard much after that. Battery storage tech is moving so fast. The demand for it too.
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Matt and DaVinci rarely if ever specify the actual energy density. They always use effiency which to me now is always a red flag. I don't expect them to have a PHD, and actually know what is going on. Just do more research before pedaling some shysters looking for investment.
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I don't know. I sort of like the idea we can be decentralized. Instead of district heating. Everyone has their own renewable resource. I've just read stories of how much a headache it is when the system isn't kept up on.
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Everyone here is talking about how inefficent it is. Yet I don't think energy production will be the big issue with the way we are bringing down cost per MW with wind, and solar. Storing it will be. So cost of storage per MW is what matters the most. Between all the issues it has. I doubt it will ever become the cheapest. It won't be useful for 99.9% of industries, and will be niche only.
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I hear going solar with a small wind turbine is the best. Yet I'm not too sure how consumer wind is honestly. Not sure if you need a giant ugly turbine, or if those smaller sleek ones with vertical blades generate enough to be worth a damn. If I had a decent sized backyard? I don't think I'd mind a wind turbine somewhere. Get power at night time.
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@Anonymoose66G Agreed, but it is really expensive even if you find the right place. As you said, Iceland, Hawaii, Japan, or anywhere on a fault line is required usually at the moment without it being exorbitant. Free heating, cooling, and power all in one is hard to beat though. I hear they last for a long time as well with almost not maintenence, but don't quote me. I've been seeing a lot of start up trying to make it available anywhere, and if they combine that with the new mining technology that allows one to mine deeper, quickly, and for cheaper? Well that would be game changing. There is a new laser/plasma mining tool for example that would allow it, but I guess it is only used after a certain depth for some reason. My dream home would have a hot spring on the land, on top of hill/cliff, or mountains, with a beautiful forest, haha. I'm curious on how much value having a hot spring would add to your property value. Just gotta win the lottery. Oh, and get a double transplant.
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Two questions. Why aren't the blades longer? They seem like they have a lot of clearance from the ground. Secondly. I noticed the generator has a bunch of coils around the diameter instead of just being one large copper coil. Is there a reason for that? Saves copper for slightly less gain?
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 @bobafet5363 Well yeah if you have wood to cut and dry yourself then a wood stove is good (not environmentally though). Not everyone has that option. Even prices vary on wood.
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Cheap housing doesn't have game changing repercussion. Nor does it have the potential to make trillions. There that is your answer. When I look outside I don't see data centers being made. I see houses coast to coast, and new developments being created. Just not cheap ones. Also tech companies are not responsible for your housing. Do you all hear yourselves? This reminds me of Mexicans blaming Coca Cola, because their government can't give them clean drinking water. "Why is this Coke safe to drink. But the tap water? Gives me the runs every time! Hombre dis Loco!" AI has geo political, economical, and life changing consequences. Uncle Sam wants America be the first to make AGI.
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@JohnDir-xw3hf There is nothing that is perfectly green. Renewables and batteries combined are still way cleaner than the gas industry. Infinitely better for yours, and my health. Who cares anyway on green. The benefits of switching over to EVs and renewables is for national energy security. The sooner we can get off oil the less active we have to be in backwards places like the Middle East. It also can be decentralized, while also giving to the grid. Let us not forget that things like Wind are the cheapest form of new energy. Now with solar cells like pervoskites on the horizon, with battery storage dropping like a rock? We may not even need nuclear for base load. Especially if milimeter drilling works as promised, and it is cheap to dig holes for geothermal basically anywhere. The nice thing about renewables is that the sun overproduces wind, and solar. Unlike having to be sitting on gas fields. Any country anywhere can build a surplus of solar or wind, and store it.
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LOL! Power companies making excuses right there. That doesn't make any sense. To charge you that is. They have ways of controlling the grid. They just want to sell their own power coming what ever other sources. If it were modern it would have battery packs. Even Texas - a red state - is getting in on the action. Unbelivable how much energy storage some states have from just a few years ago. The growth is wild. I didn't know it till just a few days ago. I expect more from the Dutch!
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Well. Sucks to be you! It sounds like a political issue. You know they say you don't go west to strike gold to get rich. You go to sell items or services to the miners to get rich. So maybe you won't get money, but there will be everyday people who will. I've seen mining towns before that are prosperous, and I'm not talking about the owners. I've also seen the sheer waste they can leave behind which again is a political issue IMO. Even the most automated mines need people. They generally are great jobs too for those lucky enough to get one. Some jobs can change lives. Of course that is becoming rarer as less people are needed, but hopefully those companies are being taxed which in turn allows the government to give services to all of you. Anyway thr world needs to get off of gas! I think your country won't be worse off due to some mines. I would argue it is better then building a farm for exporting purposes
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New Energy is getting lower and lower in price, with the benefit of being decentralized. It is not happening over night either. Engineering Explained or Real Engineering (was it? The car guy) did a video on what it would look like if the entirety of the US switched over night, and it was just 25% more power. Roughly equivelent to all of us running ACs 8 hours a day if I recall. All the gas subsudizes and infrastrucrure costs could go pay for that over time. I think people with your concern fail to realize we try to produce only as much energy we need at any giving time. If there is more demand we will easily build for that demand as we always have. There will be hurdles of course. Yet they are just that - just hurdles. They aren't walls or mountians, and won't stop progress.
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There are dudes on YouTube trying to get below freezing using a combination of natural cooling effects. Tech Ingredients I think it was or a similar channel. They've actually are getting there with their methods. I can't recall how much they are cooling. Anyway ivy vines are supposed to cool your house off by ten degrees. Just give it a decade to grow!
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 @6Sparx9 1k bar is nothing! Should see what they want us to be driving with hydrogen. (700 BA R! For anything even remotely useful.)
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Wow a Truck guy who isn't "Garrr EVs succ! Nevaa." Bravo. EVs aren't there yet. However with battery technology it will improve, rapidly. As I type this three years late, we have batteries being produced with 500 kw/kg which 30-40 plus. They also can be charged in 15. So charging and power will increase year after year for the foreseeable future. Yet EVs don't have to match trucks 1v1. Even if they have only 80% the range? I think they will take over due to the extreme cost savings of fuel, oil, and parts. With the electric motor just being superior. It still boggles my mind we don't have mass produced diesel electric.
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When I clicked the video I was thinking they were just printing regular rocket engines. You know like the complicated castings that required beeswax. Which is cool and all, but not the biggest deal. Yet they are printing RED engines? That is wild! I am actually truly excited to see RED engines in aircraft.
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Turning old fossil fuels plants into nuclear seems like a great option. We should at least be doing that. Think it is like 30% savings? Make it easier to build. I hear regulations is what is really holding them back. Like some things like a single bolt has to be recorded for instance from what I hear. Unless that bolt is super important... It shouldn't be.
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So I cannot speak for the chicken or the pig, but this also reminds me about an other fun fact about ruminates. (Cows, goats, etc) 85% of their feed is actual byproduct not fit for human consumption. Humans can't eat the entire plant, but our heffer friends. (Including yo momma) cam with their amazing digestive tracts. So would we probably fine other uses for that byproduct if cattle didn't exsist? Sure, but just saying. If anyone knows how much of a pigs or chickens diet is from byproduct then let me know.
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@Withnail1969 Maybe the power of AI will help design ways to fix problems our reactors have. I think net fusion will be a thing in the next few decades. I just don't think it will ever be economically viable. We have a fusion reactor for free in the sky. Solar, wind, and new batteries maybe cheaper than trying to keep a fusion reactor running.
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Large turbines make bat lungs explode! That is a crazy fact I learned. Thought creatures were running or getting sucked into the blades. Yeah, solar is arguably better. Solar takes a lot of space. Turbines COULD be great for supplementing solar, when it is cloudy, and at night. It doesn't have to be one or an other. Just has to lessen the impact of burning fossil fuels. Those ones that use the Bernoulli Principal seem interesting yet last time I checked they were stupid expensive. It boggles my mind we can't design wind power systems that take advantage of when it storms. That is peak power!
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Nah I want to live in a biological engineered organism. Plant a bunch of trees in a square. Grows the structure rapidly like how fast bamboo grows. Put some spores onto it. Builds some walls. Following the tree path. Have my computer made from human brain cells. Forget to feed my computer enough protein. All the biological engineered structures combine into a intelligent super organism and consumes me. Making me a slave it controls to spread its seeds.
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Even if the batteries didn't work it would be nice to know why. Like the salt water battery for homes. NASA battery for density. Graphene technologies just period overall. Lithium air. Matt has a lot of errors in older videos. Correct those. Also hope he stops getting scammed by scammers.
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This for district heating plus electricity. Curious to see if this is as game changing as he is making it. I mean the tech (millimeter wave) has been around for decades. So why has it taken so long?
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Is it? Seems like producing energy is cheap now. Renewables seem to be over producing. Cost per KW stored is what matters way more than effiency for that reason.
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Nothing wrong with it. It isn't his fault these labs want research, but get no investment. Also things take time. Now... What is his fault is not vetting scammers who's ideas would never scientifically makes sense. That "NaNo HyDogren FiLm" was one. Gravity Vault somehow is still scamming. An other problem with this channel is... "Silicon can hold 10 times more." He speaks in therotical limits, and not practical real world numbers that will ever hit due to the fact there will be inefficiencies. Lithium Air CAN get 12 kwh/kg (air excluded), but in reality we will never ever get close to that number. We could hope for something like 50%.
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