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[–] • 12 pts

“A couple years ago, Sansone came across a video about the advantages and disadvantages of electric cars.”

“A couple years…”

“A couple years…”

This cunt is writing for The Smithsonian, and neither she nor her editor know how to form a fucking sentence. It’s “a couple of years.”

[–] • 10 pts

I'm glad I'm not the only misanthropic grammar national socialist out there. It's disgusting how low standards have become in every industry and walk of life, and also that English hasn't been taught at all in at least one generation. I'm sure those things are related. Well, of course they are: communists and Jews ruined education from the 60s to now.

[–] • 3 pts

The amount of spelling errors in anything written or typed as well, in anything that is published, is also disgusting.

[–] • 3 pts

Many articles these days are written by bots

[–] • 4 pts

It drives me crazy how otherwise semi-intelligent adults mangle the English language. They should have learned basic grammar before reaching high school. The problem is, they never read, and it is only by reading that we pick up correct use of language.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah, they could of done better.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I suppose it could also depend on what they read. Assuming they do, since it is their profession, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that they read literary goldmines like People or TMZ. Compared to those, the scholar who penned this article is the next Hemingway.

[–] • 0 pt

to be fair it is only 2 weeks to flatten the curve, if you use the same math it is just a week or 2 away

[–] • 0 pt

A couple years of go I would agreed.

[–] • 1 pt

Instread of using air gaps in the rotor, he stuck in some magnets with a reversed polarity.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Great. Magnets. The least meaningfully damaging part of the (((electric car))). Impressive for a 17-year-old no doubt. But this is like;

They've invented a way to perform circumcisions faster!

I'm not interested in this.

[–] • 0 pt

Magnets. The least meaningfully damaging part of the (((electric car))).

But unavoidable for electric motors. Although I don't thing the higher weight of weaker magnets is transforming anything mobile.

[–] • 0 pt

Okay? Awesome. Don't care about (((electric cars))) they pollute more and cause far more ecological damage than fossil fuels do.

[–] • 1 pt

Plus, electric cars don't really work. They aren't practical.

[–] • 1 pt

But they have awesome acceleration without making much noise.

[–] • 1 pt

I was expecting it to be one of these "dur I took a motor out of a washing machine and made a gocart" articles but then I saw in the thumbnail that the kid is white, so actual redesign.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Florida-based inventor estimates he’s completed at least 60 engineering projects in his spare time. And he’s only 17 years old.

Give me a fucking break. Yes, some kids are bright and can do lots of hobby projects. But to think that they would be aware of all the practical problems and requirements and, likely with few tools, somehow best the industry's best designs from decades of development, is beyond retarded.

Synchronous reluctance motors don’t use magnets. Instead, a steel rotor with air gaps cut into it aligns itself with the rotating magnetic field. Reluctance, or the magnetism of a material, is key to this process. As the rotor spins along with the rotating magnetic field, torque is produced. More torque is produced when the saliency ratio, or difference in magnetism between materials (in this case, the steel and the non-magnetic air gaps), is greater.

Instead of using air gaps, Sansone thought he could incorporate another magnetic field into a motor. This would increase this saliency ratio and, in turn, produce more torque.

Because those in industry would have never thought of doing this.

I'm not faulting the kid at all. He should pursue these with a touch of fantasy that he's solving problems in novel ways. But the adults around him shouldn't indulge in this fantasy. It's not good for laypeople and it's not good for the kid. He needs to come hard against reality and find that his stuff has already been done and that's he's likely not breaking any records for efficiency etc.

“He's definitely looking at things the right way,” Hofmann (a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan) says of Sansone. “There's the potential that it could be the next big thing.” Though, he adds that many professors work on research their whole lives, and it’s “fairly rare that they end up taking over the world.”

This is how you approach it. This guy is realistic.

[–] • 1 pt

He'll face this hard reality at the patent office, I'm sure.