Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1.  @theairstig9164  Who? Me? Nah. Never!
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  2. The "faith"? Bannon just admitted MAGA is a CULT. What? The "pulpit" ?...
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  3. And then he makes 20 times on profit (attracting investors like flies, so the gas peaker plants can be run out of business!), then he sells it at HALF the price of his peaker-plant gas competitors! SO MUCH FOR THE GAS-LED RECOVERY! 😂😁😃
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  4.  @seanlander9321  Global heating is a global problem, not a national one, mate.
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  5. @myhome772 In the not-to-distant future when self-driving vehicles hit the market you will be able to hire out your Tesla as a robotaxi, and it will fund the cost of the Tesla. Musk was talking about that plan recently.
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  6. @myhome772 I can't wait. It will be so satisfying to see.
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  7.  @seanlander9321  It doesn't let us off the hook. We are on track to 3% warming now. Haven't you heard? Australia has to stop emitting CO2 right NOW.
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  8.  @seanlander9321  "...net exporter..."
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  9.  @andrewmee8136  There are plenty of videos on the internet of them doing so.
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  10. It truly disturbs me how many people from the far Left in the U.S. mindlessly despise Elon Musk. They despise billionaires, and can't separate that fact from the good he does to save the planet from the worst of climate change. Too many have become the brainwashed Left equivalent of the brainwashed far Right Fox News viewer. They just follow their "side" as religiously as if they were footy teams.
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  11.  @markanthony3275  Bullshit, the forests around the wold, for example, the Amazon and the Redwoods are drying out, being infested by bugs, not replacing themselves with saplings, due to wrong temperatures for their species, or burningdue to climate change. CO2 isn't the only factor affecting plants, temperature affects their enzymes and total function, moisture loss affects their roots and overall function, and unprecedented massive fires are destroying old growth forests that are great for sequestering CO2, after which new forests are not growing back, as the temperature and rainfall isn't suitable anymore. Maybe you should have learnt something in the science field since the very basic high school biology course you mentioned.
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  12.  @lua-nya  It's building up in the atmosphere at a faster rate than ever since the Industrial Revolution.
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  13.  @kadmow  Not really.
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  14.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  Climate change dries out the undergrowth and the leaves, and in hot, dry, windy conditions, embers from somewhere else, can travel 5 km on the wind, and land in that kindling. Not only that, summer storms light bushfires with lightning, and those fires can actually lead to pyrocumulonimbus, or "firestorm" clouds which set off even more fires, driving the embers before it. So yes, climate change, which is caused by humans (this time around) starts forest fires, and spreads them, on an unprecedented scale.
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  15.  @Uygsoerk  I just did some preliminary research and discovered that EV's consume 56% more water than ICE's over their lifecycle, from mining, through construction, lifecycle and recycling. I would be very interested if you have some conflicting figures?
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  16.  @AbelShields  Exactly.
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  17.  @Uygsoerk  What is the source of YOUR initial claim, first. Or do you have none?
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  18.  @Uygsoerk  I'm happy ICE's are dead. But that doesn't eliminate the fact that EV's use 56% more water over their complete life from mining through to recycling at the end of their lifecycle. But at least they don't destabilise our climate for thousands of years, like ICE's do.
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  19.  @markanthony3275  Actually, transportation is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions at 28%. So, you're wrong, again.
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  20.  @Uygsoerk  My source for my figures about the 56% higher water usage over the lifespan of EV's (compared to ICE's) is US government congressional research 2020. Name your source.
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  21.  @markanthony3275  You're ridiculous. Transport accounts for 28% of TOTAL greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the atmosphere annually. Simple. Capiche?
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  22.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  The planting of palm oil plantations is responsible for massive, rapid deforestation of old growth forests in Borneo, Indonesia and Brazil, according to the IPCC, 18% of CO2 emissions come from tropical deforestation: converting one hectare of Indonesian rainforest to grow a palm plantation releases up to 6,000 tonnes of CO2. The U.N. and experts around the world are calling for an immediate end to biofuels.
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  23.  @markanthony3275  As I said, oil mining and refining, and coal and gas mining release massive amounts of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere AND THEN coal and gas power plants and ICE vehicles do it AGAIN.
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  24.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  BYD is going into production of cars with sodium batteries this year (2023).
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  25.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  Caterpillar (the mining vehicle giant) has just entered into a contract with Rio Tinto to deploy a fleet of 35 electric mega mining trucks (the 793 large mining truck) to the Gudda-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia. The vehicles each can haul 265 tonnes.
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  26.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No, they work, and they have a contract.
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  27.  @markanthony3275 Transport accounts for 28% of TOTAL greenhouse gas emissions, not 28% of 6% (how ridiculous!)
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  28.  @markanthony3275  No they're not.
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  29.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  In 2022, wind and solar met 80% of the increase in electricity demand. Combined with hydro and bioenergy, renewables met 92% o the rise, coming close to meeting demand. By the end of 2023, 100% of new demand will be met by renewable sources. This year growth in renewable sources will, for the first time, cause a DROP in fossil fuel output of 0.3%, and it will continue, as a result of renewables growth. Fossil fuels are about to enter their death spiral.😁😄😀🙂 Source: The latest issue of New Scientist magazine.
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  30.  @kadmow  You need to check out the figures from the IPCC, the International Energy Agency and the UN. My figures are correct. Yours are dead wrong. Also, solar and wind make up 80% of the increase in energy demand in 2022, combined with hydro and bioenergy, renewables met 92% of the rise, and by the end of the renewables surge this year, renewables will meet 100% of all new demand. For the first time fossil fuel output has declined by 0.3%, and will continue to, due in no large part to the fact that they are cheaper, by far. According to The New Scientist, this is the tipping point, for fossil fuels fall. Fossil fuels are entering a death spiral.
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  31.  @markanthony3275  Don't be so ridiculous. It's embarrassing for you to let other people see how little you know about climate change. What an absolutely foolish remark.
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  32.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No it isn't. It already can do everything I reported. And the contract exists. You're wrong - AGAIN.
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  33.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  No, just apprised of up to date news that's freely available to all, should they bother to avail themselves of it.
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  34.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  it went 60km an hour and hauled 265 tonnes. Mining trucks don't typically go faster than that, anyway. Then there are the green hydrogen fuelled mega trucks by AngloAmerican's nuGen Zero Emissions Haulage Systems that haul 298 tonnes in trial at the Mogalakwena PGMs mine in South Africa. You're going to end up looking stupid on this issue too, mate. Well some people are just born Luddites, I suppose.🤷
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  35.  @orionbetelgeuse1937  You're deranged. Just accept reality.
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  36. He' definitely worth it!
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  37. WOW. Yes!!
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  38. Why the heck didn't they just go electric earlier, for heaven's sake? And go solar and battery earlier?
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  39.  @softwarephil1709  That was in 2023. In 2024 they reduced new coal plant construction by 85%. Furthermore, they installed as much new solar and wind generation as the entire UK electricity generation capacity.
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  40.  @nvanderhoff  Not on a large enough scale! They were too slow. Too under the thumb of vested coal interests, and too loyal (on the Eastern German side) to Russia, and its gas interests.
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  41.  @apterachallenge  They were saying that a few years ago.
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  42. But will idiot Trump's "drill, baby, drill" policies change that trajectory, Sam? What do you think?
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  43. But SAM, the government is locking in 30 YEAR contracts with gas producers in this country ! GAS production has INCREASED more than coal production has decreased ! I love your good news stories so much, but then I learn facts like these. How can solar replace 30-year lock-in contracts with multinational gas giants? Our corrupt governments are signing contracts to subsidise them with MANY BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS, and we will be forced to pay high electricity prices for DECADES as a consequence! HOW ARE they GETTING AWAY WITH IT?
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  44. Good idea.
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  45.  @sleepyjoe4529  🙂
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  46. I want more public transport, and a full lane for bicycles on EVERY road.
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  47.  @tabysetterstrom6061  I agree.
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  48. Australia allowed multinational corporations to extract 405 Billion dollars worth of oil and gas THIS YEAR, without paying a penny in TAX! The problem of climate change is not going away! Installing solar won't help unless we shut down fossil fuels - and there is no sign that is happening!
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  49. Unless fools vote in the Coalition who decide to use our taxes to subsidise coal, gas and nuclear...
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  50. Because of the prior government's protecting fossil fuel company political donors with their phoney, and redundant, "gas led recovery," which locked in contracts to allow gas peaker plants to "stabilise" the electricity supply at 70X-80x the market price, when battery technology can do the job much faster and more cheaply. CORRUPTION - that's "how come."
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