A lot of pilots are delusional because they believe in God. That doesn't make them bad at flying.

Sure you can. Compulsive and pathological lying is not particularly rare. There must be thousands of them, just among trained US pilots.

All we see is some moving dots, with no reference to scale, speed, or distance. It's probably some tiny thing moving close to the camera.

Why would it come back out ? Natural gas and oil fields kept their contents stored for millions of years.

Why can't we dismiss them as delusional or lying?

C) there are other explanations

Saying that C is the limit is not "autistic levels of myopic stupidity"... it's simply application of the best knowledge we have, which is the most sensible thing to do, in the general case. This is especially true when there are no consequences for being wrong, like in this case.

These kinds of promotional videos are usually not honest about the specs. The gravity tower of bricks is a good example of a project that just doesn't work, even though there are good sounding videos.

But then again, the heat loss to the environment accelerates at higher temperatures.

So, let's say I use 600 cubic meter of natural gas during a winter period, that's about 24 gigajoules. One ton of sand at 1000 degrees is good for 700 megajoules, so I need 34 tons of sand to keep my house warm. I don't think I have room for that.

Interesting tech info would be some calculations. How much heat can you store in several tons of sand ? How much heat do you need to warm a building throughout winter ?

> ChatGPT predicts the *most likely* next word No, it predicts a word that is most likely to be correct.

Producing power to put into the grid is not "negative CO2". You're still generating a positive amount of CO2, just less than other people.

Growing bamboo is pointless unless you also have a plan to sequester it. That's a bit hard to do on a personal scale.

If the whole point is to have a jobs program, isn't it smarter to have non-reusable craft?

I have no concern, I'm just curious how it would work, since I have never done real world functional programming like that. I was hoping someone could explain in a few lines.