His aggressive diatribe manner of speaking seems all too ubiquitous these days, as we find ourselves conducting the vast majority of our communications with the 'hivemind' on platforms where ability to attract attention wins out over quality discourse.
And it's just fucking impossible to have any real conversation in that context. There's no room to entertain subtleties, the higher-order structure of the subject, if you will.
For instance.... he makes it out like everyone involved in this prize is absolutely clueless about thermodynamics and that there are no conceivable advancements to be made for this particular scenario because thermodynamics.
Bullshit. There's plenty of innovation to be had. You can take advantage of daily temperature swings, use a ground-source heat pump... and almost certainly current humidifiers aren't operating at the thermodynamic limit; there's probably work to do in developing better materials, optimizing the design for efficiency, etc
