Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

@Michael Walsh Battery electric planes won't ever take over the long haul market, they're too heavy with a low power pr kg ratio. But they're actually viable in some markets for shorter routes, especially with the advent of solid state batteries. There's a lot of places up north (Norway, Alaska etc) that's serviced primarily by that kind of short haul flights. And battery electric planes could actually drop the costs of operating in these markets due to lower fuel costs and lower maintenance costs for battery electric planes. I can see the potential for job creation there.
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My point of view is that any attempt at stopping a crime after the person wishing to commit it has decided to do so is a waste of money... You need to deal with the cause. A good welfare system and a good prison system aimed at actually rehabilitating people and where people are followed up well after they serve their time does way, way, way more then any police officer or security staff ever can to stop crimes. Not by stopping the crime while it's taking place or trying to stop it from taking place before it happens but after the course of action leading to it has been decided on, but by working on the very cause. Likewise a good election system where everyone feel that their voice is being heard (unlike the US system) is also a messure that reduces the amount of terrorism and crime... Basically once you've allowed someone to want to commit a crime in the first place you've already lost. You only need a single attacker or criminal to achieve their goal to have a disaster at your hands while any form of security measure, be it police or airport security has to get it right every single time...
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+The_Blazer And how many people who feel violated by airport "security" and then over and over again in other areas of society ends up becomming terrorists or criminals in part due to said airport "security"?
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This is why green political parties tends to advocate for a circular economy, with reuse of resources. You can often extract most of a resource from a waste product if you design it with recycling in mind, you do end up with some waste, but your need for new resources drops significantly.
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@mr.anderson9938 No, even when fueled by 100% coal power a electric car is still more enviroemtally friendly then a ICE car long term (through its lifetime). So ice car is only preferable if you're buying a new car that you intend to brick right away. But it's preferable that you get a electrified car with as small a battery as possible. Either living with less range, or do a PHEV in places with a unclean energy mix. In places with a good energy mix a pure electric car witha bit more battery might be worth it. But yeah, there's a limit to these resources, so it's preferable with more electrified cars then few ones with long electric range. Hence why plug in hybrids got a lot going for them.
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@nadwanrosetta2942 Technically it's the middle class and the companies that's funding everything here. Yes the rich pay more income tax and therefore pay more overall they're still outnumbered so much by the middle class that they're never going to make up the bulk of the income. Nordic countries have a strong middle class unlike the US where there's mostly a upper and lower class with just a small middle class remaining.
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@j.t.7697 The thing is that once you include all the costs that are covered by the sate here in Europe into the expenses you take from a wage in the US we actually end up cheaper. Especially if you consider that even with a insurance Americans often have to pay enough money for treatment that they end up paying with credit (and therefore paying intrests on that credit made to cover hospital care)
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@cannedbeans9524 Sometimes? It clearly isn't. There's a lot of things that's great about the US. But it quite clearly is also poorly governed and structured. American companies are doing decently despite how dysfunctional their goverment is, not because of said goverment like in the rest of the world. That gives the rest of the world a competitive edge against Americans that Americans have to make up for in other ways something they're just about able to do.
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@ButterGamesRoblox The Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zeeland and Canada usually compete on being best, with different tables having different results depending on what metrics are weighted the most.
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8:30 Minimum speeds? There's no such thing in my country. We have maximum speeds. But on all our roads you're supposed to slow down in certain situations. Usually weather related, but also near more urban areas, on slippery roads, in rain, when driving heavy vehicles, when close to schools etc, etc, etc... 80 km/h (ca 50 mph) is the max speed most places in the country although there's a few exceptions where you can drive faster...
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@bababababababa6124 transportation network is better in urban areas. The more rural an area is the more cars starts to matter even here in Europe unfortunately. Here in Norway we're genuinely trying. Railways, busses, light rail, short haul airline traffic, ferries, etc, etc, etc... But at the end of the day we're a bloody mountain chain that's sparsely populated. So we need electric cars to bring our emissions down. And we're doing it. 84% of all new cars sold are EVs (or where by May, it might be higher now) Not plug in hybrids etc, but battery only EVs. And they're about 23% of our total fleet of cars on the road, a number that's going to grow as existing cars break down and needs replacement... And now that legacy car manufacturers are catching up the likes of VW are slowly overtaking Tesla. Tesla has a 12,2% market share in Norway. VW just clawed itself back to 11,6%. In a market dominated by EV sales VWis doing almost as good here as Tesla is. And that's why this video is so interesting. Because we're not going to stop buying cars or build roads, tunnels and bridges. But our goal is zero ICE cars sold in 2025. and like I said we're at 84%... By the way when it comes to individual models the ranking is Model Y in first place followed by ID 4 and then Enyaq in that order here in Norway... There's been some changes in our car taxes though so I expect major changes in what models sell well or poorly from now on. Since EVs are established by now we've implemented taxation in EVs too, although they're still getting huge benefits compared to ICE cars (where you're essentially paying 2x what the car is sold for abroad due to half the price being taxes, now the first part of the cost is excepted for EVs but any part of the price exceeding a sum set by the government will now be taxed like a normal car, so our incentives hugely favours cheaper EVs now.
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15:54 You can grow them just fine, just not without a greenhouse. We even grow tomatoes on Svalbard if I don't remember wrong.
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Hum, your trivia about Norway kind of sucked, but the video was quite nice. =)
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