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[theunknownunknowns]

It was a happy and glorious failure because a whole bunch of us found a outstanding engineering channel that breaks all the stereotypes.

[BopZ]

The fact that your video comes later than Derek's feels poetic, considering it's about a wind vehicle moving further ahead of the wind itself 😅

[randywl]

This video is 1/2 way through and I just now realized YouTube had stopped throwing your videos my way.
YouTube sucks. I'm just realizing that one by one, none of my YouTube suggestions are ones that i loved and subscribed to.
Zyla

[SEZ]

The Veritasium video where you collaborated on this is what introduced me to your channel. I love watching your videos with my wife and my 5yr old daughter.

[_suspi]

Wow. It's been 3 years. This video introduced me to your channel.

[wild_lee_coyote]

That very video is why I subscribed for your channel. So it wasn’t a total failure.

[everettchris]

I have no doubt of Xyla's skills or capabilities. Her schedules, on the other hand...

[grazianoturbogas]

This has been EPIC!!! You made the impossible possible. It's like changing the world to me ❤

[jmg]

I would NEVER doubt your capabilities.

[anandarochisha]

Failure is not a challenge .
Failure is a prospect.
Take it easy on yourself Precious One.

[TheMatthooks]

Absolutely does not break conservation of energy. Make your wings/turbine blades big enough and great it right and there's nothing to stop it working.

[NoiseMakerX]

Others have built working wind-driven cars like this before. It's already been proven it's possible.

[BobLHedd]

I think this is the video where I discovered you. Good stuff.

[HolloMatlala]

This was my first love at first sight for her Mind, Breaking boundaries....This Battle is not yet OVER A LOT STILL DOESNT ADD UP....A LOT

[petevenuti]

The little smirk, sly look to the left, as he said I didn't know how hard that would be...
You can't tell if he's doing it on purpose though... He knows darn well it's hard but it straddles that line between humor and deception.

[johnnyragadoo]

Well, sailboats sail upwind. Although dead downwind faster than the wind sounds improbable, energy doesn't have direction like momentum does. It does take a while to wrap one's head around the idea, to be sure.

[matthewlucas]

I am not sure if you’ll ever read this, but I’ve been into radio controlled vehicles for a long time. And as far as I can see the gentleman that asked you to build this did not specify the vehicle needed wheels. what if somehow you can get the vehicle with the near zero coefficient of drag. For example, the Tyco typhoon. it was a toy radio controlled hovercraft. And it used to glide over smooth services and if you touched it on, say a tile floor with no gaps in it, it would slide right along. Versus a vehicle with wheels, which was slow considerably faster. So if you get the vehicle, moving it would use considerably less energy to keep it moving forward than it would a normally the only downside it used considerably more energy to keep the hovercraft floating on the cushion of air unless somehow you put some airfoils on it and keep it hovering the faster you went. Just a thought. I hope this helps. My wife and I like your channel. You have a beautiful mind.

[T_Mo]

The first problem is that you trusted a UCLA physics professor.

[vicsaul]

Great name for a book or song 🎵 Outrun the Wind ❤ 🔧

[aflj]

I'd surely want to see that professor's calculations. At first glance, there isn't an obvious relation between the energy harvested by the propeller and the mechanical work required to inch the platform on which the propeller stands forward.