Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "Tom Nicholas" channel.

@thelonewanderer420 elon doesn't do shit unless he is building his own power plants to generate power on a national level
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@favkisnexerade what Elon should do is stop selling a solution to the problem back to the public, you and I can't shop our way out of this. And you need to learn not to fall for virtue signaling, meaningless tokenist acts of environmentalism. For example, like how the chinese government literally planted the world's largest artificial forest of over 300,000 trees.....sounds good right? Only it's a single species of tree, which means it's genetically susceptible to disease, that also quickly drains ground water in an already desert environment, and causing the entire situation to WORSEN You have to treat musk and everything he says and everything he does in the same objectifiable manner as the criticism that is being levied towards the world's technically "largest artificial forest" What he (Musk) needs to do, again I stress this, is open his own power generation plants (he can open whichever one he likes, wind, coal, nuclear, solar, natural gas, geothermal, etc.) run the darn things and then from his experience with energy generation, begin to and offer up suggestions for improvement in power grid efficiency, and usage. He also needs to realise that you can't reduce the amount of energy a nation uses and expect the high quality of life to continue unabated, if the US wants to stay at the forefront of the world it needs to consume energy no matter it's source, renewable or non and musk could be a louder voice in that situation, if he so chooses Musk should focus his efforts, if he really was concerned, on nuclear power research AND proper containment of spent material. There's already a site designated as the main storage site in Nevada by the federal government since the 1980s! it just needs to be built Musk could easily win that contract! Hell since it needs to be underground he could even go all crazy with his obsession with tunnels and even design the car from the ground up to transport the spent material to the final site! Because a small piece of nuclear material the size of a baby's fist out supplies a coal plant's entire year of burning That's simple economics right there! Trees also years to grow and even when grown it takes even more months to make a difference in carbon removal in the air But that's again also not the best, because there's pollutants in the air which trees can't recycle, such as Freon I stress that renewables aren't truly renewable if they require a significant cost in time before becoming effective, which is why I don't like any renewables save for geothermal. But sadly geography wasn't applied equally to this planet so not everyone gets the option of being on a geological active site so while I may like it it's a moot point
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Buddy it's just a common trope repeated since antiquity of the older generation hating on the new one And I really do mean antiquity, we have ancient Greek translations of this type of generation bashing being thrown at the new generation from the older one So don't even bother to waste your time, it's been around forever and it won't go away because in 40 years the millennials and Gen Z will be saying the exact same thing to whatever the next generation will be called
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@mykeh3155 I'd only stress the last part, you can't buy your way out of this problem Climate change can't be solved by the consumer because the consumer isn't the main contributor to pollution it's the manufacturing and industrial sectors of a nation The nations with a very underdeveloped industrial output and manufacturing process have the least pollution but at the same time because they are so underdeveloped and limited in manufacturing also means they can't rise to take a more dominant center stage in operating in the global trade, Truly I'd again suggest you continue research into next gen nuclear energy (for previously mentioned reasons above) such as a thorium MSBR type plant, Or heck try to possibly make an improvement in the manufacturing process/efficiency for solar panels Because the most effective solar panels are gallium arsenide panels at only 40% and they are also toxic to humans, and as such being regulated to just satellite operations
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@mykeh3155 no! again consumer can't fix this issue by the purse strings, what you can and SHOULD do is arm yourself with research and knowledge of industry practices and from there encourage regulations in your selected industry But that means you have to be familiar with the manufacturing process inside and out so you can suggest efficient changes Which is why I again say that unless musk has a god damn electrical engineering degree AND has experience in a national power grid, he is somewhat useless in trying to voice his own opinion on energy production on a nationwide scale Because the consumer will always buy whatever is offered at the lowest in price, and even if the consumer in one market doesn't buy, the manufacturing just ships it to a new market that will YOU CAN'T SHOP OUT OF THIS you need to let that mentality go, and battle ineffectiveness of industry processes directly.
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Yep, pretty much Tesla hates the "right to repair" and they are trying very hard to lobby with lawmakers to ensure that no one can modify, or repair a car except for the company themselves
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@mykeh3155 well then you are lost, because I don't understand why you cannot see how the industrial and manufacturing segment of any industry untilizes more energy and has the potential to create more pollutants than you, me, or any other consumer will use in our entire lives Again this is where you need to focus your regulation efforts Let's look at an example: Anti-freeze every car needs it, yet Anti-freeze is a very dangerous chemical if humans come into contact with it via skin, fumes, ingestion, or is leaked into the ground, yet manufacturers make billions of gallons of the chemical every single day In addition the manufacturing process is very demanding on an electrical grid and also produces wasteful byproducts, these byproducts then need to be disposed of Then the chemical needs to be bottled stacked on pallets and hauled away in diesel engine trucks to a climate controlled storage facility, meaning that the A/C is on permanently another massive amount of electrical energy used Untill a retailer places an order for a number of pallets of the chemical, then it's again hauled away by the same diesel engine to the retailer who puts it on the shelf and then it sits waiting for a consumer to buy it All the while that energy was used BEFORE the consumer even had the iota of "looks I need antifreeze" And that's just one example, I haven't even told you about the manufacturing process of Herbicides for crying out loud XD
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@mykeh3155 I don't think you are as educated as you say you are but believe whatever you want If you won't educate to regulate then you have 3 options: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering And pretty much everyone is doing a combination of all 3
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@mykeh3155 buddy I can do it for any industry. That was just one example You need to see how the logistics behind manufacturing, shipping and maintenance of a single product consumes more energy than any consumer will If you don't then this problem will never be solved because you won't educate to regulate
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@masstv9052 you CAN'T use solar panels on a massive scale buddy it's extremely inefficient The best solar panels are gallium arsenide panels with only about 44% efficiency and are restricted to use by satellite operations only, because they are poisonous and harmful to humans! the solar panels you and I know of (affectionately called thin-films) are less than 10% efficient And even then to make a solar panel you need to melt down a large number of silicon and quartz into a wafer shape which in addition to producing wasted silicates has another problem... Do you know what the melting point of silicon is? It's over 1000 Celsius!! How do you think they are reaching that temperature during the manufacturing process? I'll tell you by using a massive amount of electrical energy generated from somewhere else "So let's use an enormous amount of electricity to make the object that is supposed to limit our usage of electricity"🤦 Photovoltaics are nice but they're not the answer to the problem
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@theultimatereductionist7592 thank you I appreciate it. I tried my best to be as factual as I could, especially in my long comment with the Chinese "largest artificial forest" but sometimes there's just some people you can't reach
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Just shows how good this video is
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Innovations in ford manufacturing Riiiiiiight, lol the Ford motor company helped "innovate" the use of lead gasoline to help prevent engine knocking A terrible practice that would continue untill the late 1980s as for all of that time lead fumes were expelled from the car exhaust no doubt causing an increase risk of health conditions especially among children
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