201: Matt Ferrell AMA (Ask Me Anything)

I subscribed to Undecided because of your electric vehicle coverage. That information helped me to see that it was the right time to buy an EV. Thank-you for that.

Thank you for the POE answer. Thanks Chris for picking my question. I was just driving along and heard my name. It definitely made me smile. On the EV segment, I suggest looking at Edison Motors out of BC, Canada. They make hybrid heavy duty semi trucks and are now retrofitting pick-ups to hybrid electric. They have a very cool premise for the need of an intermediate step before full electric heavy haul and vocational big trucks.

One suggestion I have is: Workplace charging. I think workplace charging will be a big driver of EV adoption. I think you and your channel would be a perfect fit for exploring workplace charging, how it is being implemented and the benefits for the employer as well as the employee. Workplace charging is the answer for apartment dwellers who can not charge at home overnight.

I'm extremely curious about the person in NYC who felt they needed that massive Truck! 🤣 Kudos to them for going electric though.

Biogas is basically methane, and even solid waste dumps have vents to let the methane escape. Yes, it could be captured and is near Memphis where the TVA has a biogas plant that is used to generate electricity for the grid. Most places don't, but given the number and size of waste dumps, it is to bad that we don't use it as a resource more widely.

I liked this episode. Here is my after the gate is closed question, as the demand for importing oil drops how will the money saved not leaving a country benefit the economies of the USA, Australia, UK, Canda, NZ, EU, China and other countries. Do you have a view on the positive and negative results for the different countries. Running our home and car from solar has been a positive result for the running of our household.

POE. The biggest irony is that most computer devices are now going wireless.

A question "after the gate" as another commenter said; do you have thoughts on the why, how, and ways to avoid the problem seen in Chicago, where electric cars, Tesla in particular, ran out of power and couldn't charge due to the cold snap we just experienced.

The Dutch have a similar thing to your peanut+mayo combo. They are wild on big cut potato fries, and they have many sauces to go with them, the relevant one is Oorlog sauce, it's mayo, peanut sauce (like satay) topped with raw onion. A dutch colleague basically forced me to promise to try it because I thought it sounded so wrong. But it's absolutely delicious! If you ever find yourself in the Netherlands, go to a snack bar or patatje stand and get it. Then, go find some stroopwaffel, a thin waffle cookie sliced to have layer of cola syrup between.

How did you find/select your team members? Sounds like they are non local.

The patent system is broken, but it has seen some improvements. Back in the 1990s - early 2000s, a tactic called "submarine patents", that could literally take your patent out from under you. This has been remedied. Additionally, patent fees, etc, are now significantly lower for individuals than for corporations. I think patents are necessary, but don't know the right way to implement them. As bad as it is now, consider spending years and tons of money to create an invention, but not having ANY mechanism to protect it from competitors just copying it. The current jury system with "regular individuals" is another problem when lawsuits occur. I can speak from experience that most folks are not only relatively uneducated about technology, trying to educate them during trial is nearly impossible, as folks drift off. Here, the better paid legal teams with far more experience coddling juries will win. A complicated problem that I simply can't imagine a system that is fair and equitable.

Lol my pointless ass question was first, I also bake and quesadillas are my favorite quick snack.

Ignore this if too personal and intrusive but why does the third brother @frasercain have a different surname?

The following is only the writer's opinion, so take it in good spirit, if you can: Oh, how I detest peanut butter! Whoever invented it must have been really desperate, or at least demented somehow. It has the look and consistency of the contents of a diaper, and the stench is no better. The smell of it genuinely makes me start to retch. Maybe it would work very well for biogas production, if the environmental consequences could be negated? That said, my wife loves the abominable sludge, but she consumes it with caution. Therefore, 'to each their own', so I refrain from trying to dissuade anyone from swallowing the stuff! Just try to ingest it whilst not in my sight, and stay well away from where I can smell you, please. Thanks. 😉👍.