Munro reacts to Lucid Tech talk

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@hmp10 mentioned this in another thread and it's back!

 
Sandy Munro has a big following, especially among the Tesla fanboys. He is well-grounded in certain aspects of manufacturing engineering but is not as savvy in other areas of automotive engineering or science in general as he would have people believe.

For some reason, he opens by taking issue with Rawlinson's not crediting James Watt as the "inventor" of the steam engine that launched the Industrial Revolution. However, Watt did not invent the steam engine. It was first invented by James Savery, later improved upon by Thomas Newcomen, and then further advanced by James Watt, who roughly doubled its efficiency. It was the Newcomen engine that made the breakthrough that allowed the deep coal mining which provided the fuel to ignite the Industrial Revolution.

I don't mean to take anything away from Watt's own impact on the Industrial Revolution, but to chastise Rawlinson for not misrepresenting a bit of history of technology seemed an odd way for Munro to start a review of a battery pack designed three centuries later.
 
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