Markwayne Mullin Questions Witness About Object He Brought To Hearing

At last week's Senate Environment Committee hearing, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-IN) questioned witnesses about the object he brought into hearing.
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[@unclesven4515]

Wow, this is really important. Thank goodness our government is working on this while our economy is collapsing.

[@digitalis2977]

You're so right. We should forget everything and burn tires in the street for heat and light...

[@mrrey8937]

energy, energy, energy. ........nope, lets work on ???????

[@digitalis2977]

@@mrrey8937 That awkward moment when people don't realize that the ENTIRE ECONOMY is based on Energy. Currency itself is literally a storage proxy for Energy Expended for a Unit of Work...

[@michaelatkin9649]

They're beginning to put mrna Vs in our meat and in plants we eat. They're coming at you from everyway while these idiots only wag their finger at the criminals

[@XiloTheOdd]

@@digitalis2977 yeah its a no brainer, it takes a lot of time, energy, and effort to produce, transport, and place steel rebar to build a new overpass or whatever it may be building, something that is as strong at 1/4 the weight, thats fewer trips to deliver what is needed, less fuel spent on the transportation of the support, and the same result of a bridge being built. it being made from recycled materials is just icing on the cake.

[@noobandfriends2420]

This is the future I want to live in, too bad we're all going to be crammed into 15 minute prisons and forced to eat bugs.

[@michaelatkin9649]

They're injecting animals with the clot shot so you get it no matter what. They're doing it to plant based as well. You're not running from any of it

[@cliffthatcher4574]

Only if we all comply.

[@bvierville1]

This bridges engineer would be much better for the head of the transportation department

[@chucklesthered2338]

Ain't that the truth!

[@pacospete4299]

Sure , but what is his sexual preference ???

[@amycroweee]

@@pacospete4299 😂 yep

[@christophernogowski517]

Thinking minds coming up with brilliant solutions no corrosion higher-strength lighter weight thank you sir for your contribution to make things last and safe

[@kengurusafari]

hemp solved this decades ago

[@trumpjr5179]

Lets skip the impact of plastic and investigate the impact of an open border.

[@cajunjamis9001]

💯

[@jbhann]

Why can’t a nationalistic US government work on both topics at the same time? Because our congress has been infiltrated by blood thirsty communists.

[@douglemay7989]

Just a reich wing talking point, for when they are not in power.

[@stp479]

@@douglemay7989 Says Dougie, the left wing racist/supremacist comfortable in burying legal minority American communities in millions of unvetted, unvaccinated, and, largely, fighting age men from the globe's most violent regions. Own your racist policy advocacy.

[@SueUTube]

Mullin is so normal. What a refreshing change.

[@cajunjamis9001]

Economy? Wars? Immigration? CBDC? Storm damage? China? Banks? INFLATION??? Fascism in US?, United Nations? Bricks? N.A.T.O. .....and there is More! " Wake up little Sussie"

[@douglemay7989]

Hilarious.

[@michaelandmelissaseina9507]

It always gives me hope that the government can have hearings to help the people instead of grandstanding political speeches. This was amazing to watch on multiple levels.

[@BBB_bbb_BBB]

I normally expect when I click on these videos to hear people chewing each other out. It was really pleasant to get to hear someone just let two people talk. I also always enjoy hearing people talk about things that excite them, even if it's boring to outside people.

[@AstroLonghorn]

Yep. As an engineer, I remember we had a presentation on new forms of rebar utilizing carbon fiber. You would never suspect the strength of it. They handed out little samples (about half inch diameter). Under no circumstance could you even remotely bend it! The amount of cost saving and extra safety benefit is enormous to put it mildly.

[@Sidneyyoungblood75]

So what or why hasn't it been used so widely? What in your opinion is stopping the change?

[@VadulTharys]

Yes I was amazed at the carbon fiber applications in space engineering yet for all the advantages in cost savings, weight savings, and durability nothing much was done due to the hooks the corporations had on politicians and their refusal to allow competition.

[@VadulTharys]

@@Sidneyyoungblood75 Corporate cronyism is a major factor in why the new technologies are not more widely used, then add in a corrupt and horribly slow government bureaucracy.

[@johnmoore4822]

The biggest worry now is a lint? Reallly?

[@MorningStarChrist]

Wouldn't this make it easier to blow up our bridges?

[@digitalis2977]

You seem to be under the impression that a bridge isn't already easy to blow up...

[@theSexecutor]

How would this make it easier? These materials reinforce the bridge I thought

[@billyost1479]

I'm impressed.

[@michaelatkin9649]

We don't need rebar if they just made better concrete. The Roman's made harder concrete than we use

[@patburton3853]

no wonder everything falls apart these days, engineers just aren't with it anymore.

[@donthompson3484]

I don't know that it's the engineers......if it is it's the ones in bed with the government agencies putting down the highways who are drinking buddies with the cement/concrete/bridge builders.....

[@barbarab1448]

Sounds great

[@BillySnipes2010]

Looks to me like China will have all these technologies by the weekend.

[@tkarlmann]

Wow! When will these great new materials show up at my Home Depot, Menards & Lowes -- at, of course, a lower cost than the conventional materials they replace??

[@solwanderer3708]

Imagine is we harnessed the unbridled momentum of pure science (not the suffocating climate we have now) to solve our problems. We could have just about every need satisfied within a handful of years.

[@shelleyrenee4889]

This is important, but the open southern border and inflation are far more of a concern to me. Especially with America's lack of energy independence !

[@ASSASIN7-sd5sr]

oh my god border again and again- you guys just keep talkinpont

[@brandogeberbin7563]

sorry Dont want to drive on that ever!

[@kingkuts]

And in our food

[@paladancray7242]

Ahhh “Recycling huh! How’s IT REAlY going hmmmm?

[@Dave........]

Is it really good to have bridges that can burn and melt?

[@michaelatkin9649]

Bridges flex, steal flexs but resin reinforced glass fiber doesn't do so well and the resins are the biggest issues with this idea.

[@fatherrussell5303]

Roman concrete was rediscovered this year. Roman concrete plus this. Can you imagine?

[@dsock31]

Try telling the unions that they might not have more work anymore or as often.

[@knine8154]

Finally, a hearing that is useful and won't piss the average American off

[@flatphrat134]

that will fail, under the amount of loads by US travels. Imagine a MULTIPLE CAR PILE UP. That will fail quicker.

[@kvasnaik8920]

Love Mullin he is a fighter

[@tedscharfenberg6520]

Pretty awesome

[@speakupriseup4549]

Does he mention the cost of those synthetic products is triple or more than the equivalent timber and steel products, USER PAYS FOLKS, that's the TAXPAYERS

[@sammythompson3694]

We going to need lots of bridges in the future probably have to take a boat to Walmart.

[@canderson5098]

Hahaha "Markwayne". That's right up there with "Jimbob".

[@cajunjamis9001]

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Yea, right!

[@speakupriseup4549]

The REASON steel reinforcement rusts is BECAUSE of poor building practices by not encasing the steel with 20mm minimum of concrete. It is well understood that in saltwater environments galvanised steel must be used and is taught at trade school level to apprentices. Architects engineers, building inspectors and builders ALL know the building requirements, it is purely bad building practices and those in charge not doing THEIR JOBS that cause structural failures.

[@truegret7778]

I believe the person that demonstrated or spoke about the plastics for decking and bridges is mistaken about it being cheaper to manufacture relative to production of steel. Plus, the strengths are not equivalent. The processes in the manufacture of steel has been optimized, just as we have optimized the production of petroleum, coal, and gas.

[@theSexecutor]

I believe he is talking about in places where steel will rust

[@jimjam4082]

I believe he's referring to the long term cost, not just the initial production of material cost. when rebar rusts in concrete the rust expands out from the base metal and exerts pressure on the concrete causing it to crack and break. Add in salty environments like the Pacific coast, Atlantic coast, Gulf coast, and all the northern states who deal with wintery conditions by salting the roadways. So the cost of maintenance over a 50 yr period of fixing cracks, replacing sections of bridges to remove the rusted material that is too far gone, Highly specialized and costly protective coating systems all adds up to be vast amounts of cost. And as far as having these things optimized already... We as humans always believe we have things optimized until newer technology comes along and changes that. That's backwards thinking that we have things already optimized so lets not try to do any better. For instance, if you went out and bought the most optimized computer today doesn't mean that 5 years from now the same exact set up would be optimized then.

[@truegret7778]

@@jimjam4082 I come from a world of continuous improvement ( plan, do, check, act ) and didn't mean to imply the "steel" and/or "petroleum" engineering/processes are optimized to be as good as they can get. I recognize much of what we do has an asymptotic nature toward ideal. I just see a little irony the female witness is talking microfibers and it's negative impact, while the male witness is testifying the role of plastics is a good thing to replace steel. Unfortunately, I cannot see the name of the male witness to learn more. I do challenge the use of recycle plastics as guard rails (longevity and impact strength). Your computer analogy is not comparable, btw - that industry is driven by Moore's Law which is about density and not optimization.

[@CupsRsndz]

Does anyone know the name of the man who built the bridge in 1995?

[@jeremymac2344]

Seems like a lot of good ideas

[@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

Going to piss a lot of people off if you learn how to replace concrete with sand. Suddenly lot of people in different parts of the country will be able to dig up dirt and their backyard process it right there on the spot into Foundation material

[@Dr.Cosmar]

No... seriously. If you read my comment, thumbs up if you aren't worried about our bridges and roads right now, and if that was 2016s conversation, not 2023s conversation.

[@TheGeonam]

I am sure some if not all the items the professor showed were made from petroleum and nowhere near green energy!

[@digitalis2977]

Who cares about Green Energy? Even your Green Energy is made from petroleum: you can't make Green Energy with Green Energy now, and that Economy of Scale won't be possible in the foreseeable future, either. You'll never eliminate Petrochemicals and Petroleum, so the name of the game is Reduction; it doesn't matter WHAT his materials are made from if they do the job and take one quarter of the resources to produce.

[@ZTURK]

Americans could Build bridges. Who is responsible for taking our Citizens out of our infrastructure? No foreign influences Should be touching our roads, bridges, Treatment facilities, utilities, processing Plants. etc. this seems like a slow takeover. How many Americans are building bridges in India as an India citizen?

[@jimmymac1958]

Thank God for fossil fuels! The positive impact fossil fuels have had on civilization is simply incalculable.

[@cajunjamis9001]

Note: A "Plumber " only needs to Know 3 things! (Mullin) 1) Shit rolls down hill! 2)Payday is on Fridays! 3) Don't bite your finger nails at lunch time!