alt Hacker News> This is a side project that appears to be grown out of frustration of disabled wife & seeing the shitshow that wheelchair market is
While it is absolutely true that he cares, I think you are selling his long term plans short. The primary growth factor for the channel was reviewing phones with the repairability / endurance focus, but somewhat recently he expanded to topics such as plugging abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane and wheelchair mobility issues. From what I understand he has a couple similar things in the pipeline.
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Let's not forget that he also shoots stuff like the cybertruck for fun, which is awesome.
i think he's a better than average presenter for a youtube channel. I did like his huge bunker videos
my biggest annoyance is his plugging or advertising stuff too obviously
> abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane
What? That still happens with so much CO2 and climate change outrage and people literally gluing themselves to roads as protest?
Ok, did more research: "In 2021, fugitive U.S. methane emissions from abandoned wells were 295 kilotons—equivalent to 8.2million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.4 to 25.1 MMT, the largest uncertainty range among the nation’s largest sources of methane (US EPA 2023)." https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-metha...
Didn't he also help get some libraries built in Kenya?
I think so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R71uDa3DNw