VICE: Science YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet With Physicist.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzyx8/science-youtuber-wins-dollar10000-bet-with-physicist
The videos were great, but the article is a terrible representation of what actually happened. Derek (from Veritasium) basically did a video with the people who have been working on this question - and the vehicle they used to 'prove' that it can be done - for a while. Presumably they did it for the extra attention his large YT following brings. Concurrently, he asked an engineering YT'er to make a small scale design that could prove the concept definitively on a treadmill. That wasn't ready for the first video, so it was only shown as a concept and not tested on a treadmill. The UCLA professor then challenged his conclusions from the first video (in which they showed the large scale vehicle travelling faster than the wind by windpower alone), and made the $10k bet. In the meantime, the engineering YT'er completed the prototype, and they showed it going faster than the treadmill on the treadmill - which basically answered all of the professor's challenges and got him to concede the bet.
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