Japan's Plan to DESTROY the Price of OIL and GAS!
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In the war between hydrogen and battery-electric future, the battles have been pretty one-sided, in favor of batteries. With companies like Tesla producing 2 million battery EVs, you might be tempted to even think the war is over. But Japan has bet HUGE on hydrogen and a new breakthrough approach to its production might finally make the Japanese gamble, a winning proposition. So how exactly does it work, and how likely are we to see it roll out in the near future? Let's find out about Japan's Plan to DESTROY the Price of OIL and GAS!
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Hydrogen Gamble
02:25 Japan's Position
05:32 Key Industries
06:18 Hydrogen's Dirty Side
06:58 Fukushima
08:10 HTGR Reactors
11:15 Benefits For Hydrogen
12:12 Japan's Plan
14:37 Safety
16:58 Conclusion
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Hey vinic you know it's obvious that we solved the waste storage problem decades ago and I have a friend who's a nuclear engineer told me about that and it's kinda stupid af for people to say oh it's a problem when it isn't and the media likes to lie and be dramatic a lot
7:00 ...is that really the FIRST thing, though?
2:04 Coming from this channel this is such BS. Carbon emission should consider the full cycle of the fuel produced and you know it.. Also, not everything is about carbon, there's SOx NOx, heavy metals.... I mean.. yes, fool cells it seems.
Radioactivity is so green actually ! People rarely speak about this non novelty amazing technology because of misleading media like here it seems. (Sorry for the blunt speech)
This actually proves that a country like Japan are willing to put science and experiments first before there people so really you can understand why the Fukushima disaster happened . This is a government I wouldn't want to support its people .
@@keithwhite5657 I disagree. They think about their people first and they are wiling to try master the best energy sources in order not to depend on others. Nuclear is their best hope and people don't get that it gets a lot of knowledge to master such amazing technology. In Japan there's almost no natural resources for energy and they learned that depending from the US or China is no option.
The Helium cooled pebble bed reactor is just one of the reactor designs capable of producing very high temperature process heat for Hydrogen, ammonia, etc, along with molten salt and Sodium cooled designs. Its disadvantage is that the waste ceramic pebbles are more difficult to reprocess than conventional fuel rods and thus less amenable to reuse of waste stream U238 and Pu in breeder reactors. MSR and sodium designs can be breeders, fueled by waste and produce dramatically less and shorter-lived waste streams than the current Japanese design. They are likely better future designs, but the Japanese deserve credit for pioneering a better replacement for the expensive water-cooled reactors we've been stuck with for decades.
No,completely wrong, the TRISO fuel is never reprocessed,it isn in it's final storage form,where it will remain for millions of years until it rides tectonic plates deep into the Earth where intense heat and pressure will destroy it.
No body has been worse with nuclear energy except the Russians ,who are so corrupt and incompetent to be in a seperate category. The Japanese are the worst ,they have good reactors ready to produce energy but they are very backwards and ignorant, ruled by fear, just like the Germans.
The Japanese have cost the Europeans and the poor of the world to spend tens of billions extra for gas and coal, funding Russian aggression.
They need a new constitution so they can have an aggressive army navy and airforce,they can't afford to be peaceful without the strength that takes ,situated close to N Korea and China.
Also helium isn't a very abundant element. We barely have enough as is.
@@jsplit9716 yea its mostly byproduct of natural gas processing and often vented to atmosphere where it just escapes to space because of insufficient storing methods.
It is quite sad that nuclear has so bad rap as a technology sector because of a few accidents.. Even thou barely anyone was killed as a result. Burning coal kills millions of ppl every year, nuclear maybe a few? I guess it's like someone selling cigarettes to millions and indirectly causing a lot of death doesn't look as bad as that person directly murdering someone... SIGH humans...
1968 Hamm pebble reactor accident on internet
Japan is surrounded by water, salt water that can easily be broken into 2 parts Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen. Both elements can be used chemically to produce energy, under the right applications. Even in high school in 1964, for a science project, I demonstrated an apparatice to break apart a salt water solution into H2 and O2, collect the gases, compressing under low pressure both gasses separately and powering a simple steam engine, built by a class mate. We won science fair ribbons. A novel thing to consider back when gasoline was maybe 15 cents a gallon. Maybe when gasoline is 15 dollars a gallon, people will have more of a use for Hydrogen technology.
most people forget about using methane for hydrogen, you can produce clean hydrogen from steam methane reformation and you can also produce massive quantities of raw carbon by capturing the 1 stray carbon atom among the 4 hydrogen atoms and this process uses drastically less energy then ripping hydrogen from oxygen atoms, also methane will never run out... ever... as long as we poop we will have a source of methane...
@@jackasshomey the power to split water into H2 and O2 can come from a green renewable source from an aray or series of wind turbines off shore and monitored for maximun electrical output and no danger from birds getting killed.
@@jackasshomey Everything the people of earth need to have a sustainable life is right at our fingers if we can just get our law makers to do what is necessary instead of lining their pockets with corporate money. Spell that Greed and Corruption.
@@robertshorthill6836 wind turbines are extremely ineffective when compared to a large petroleum refinery's ability to produce hydrogen with methane... 1 single steam methane reformation plant can produce thousands if not tens of thousands times more hydrogen then your largest wind turbine operated electrolysis cells simpily because the quantity of hydrogen in CH₄ is double the quantity of hydrogen that is in H₂O and hydrogen really likes to stick to oxygen... so its very difficult to split them apart, as appose to methane where the 4 hydrogen atoms are bonded to a single carbon atom which is easily broken
@@robertshorthill6836 and methane is a completely renewable resource, you may or may not have read the book Everyone Poops written by Tarō Gomi but what he forgot to mention was the fact that you can use that poop to produce methane, villages in nigeria are even doing it, they're using an age old technology called the Methane Digester, a very simple machine that creates methane from human/animal feces by constantly stirring it over a low heat.
that methane can then be reformed into raw carbon for your fuckin wind turbine blades and hydrogen... lots of hydrogen...
Based on this, I'm kind of surprised Japan didn't try developing thorium reactors when they shut the traditional nuclear plants down.
This is the answer to nuclear waste !
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@@TwoBitDaVinci Thanks!
They have been talking about ceramic coated nuclear fuel for well over two decades. Good to see someone has finally done it.
There's already one operating and connected to the Grid. It's China's HTGR, but it operates at a somewhat lower temps compared to Japan's HTTR design, 800C vs 950-1000C from Japan's design. China's design is a pebble bed reactor, it works kinda like a gumball machine where the TRISO fuel is fed from the top of the reactor. Japan's design is a prismatic block type, though not really sure why there's a difference on the operating temps.
Really interesting and informative. I've heard convincing (to me) arguments in favour of molten salt reactors and I wonder how these stack up against the HTGRs talked about in this video.
Great question and will definitely be a future video
@@TwoBitDaVinci would love it if you put some numbers to these claims...what's the efficiency difference of using an alternate next gen reactor (i.e. MSR or SMR) and its electricity for H2 electrolysis? Other reactor designs are more safe and have less nuclear waste...or solar or wind (+ storage) with electrolysis cost comparison? Numbers tell the story. Great video otherwise. 👍
@@sciteceng2hedz358SMR is 10% more expensive as is compare to conventional reactor. It will only get more expensive as more delays and inflation increases the cost. It’s way more flexible so at 10% surcharge I think a lot of use cases will just ignore the cost. EG. TSMC needs reliable power from Taiwan and might just use a private SMR in the future since the grid in Taiwan have been overloaded since 2021.
Captain Republic of China🇹🇼(Taiwan) signing off.
They tested it out for real, that's the spirit ! And my respect for investing in an inherent safety feature, independent from the complex subsystems.
The previous Australian government was always talking and prepping up an Australian hydrogen economy and I am sure they had the red H HTTR in mind. I would love to see the technology here. As for nuclear waste, breeder reactors can use the waste and produce more fissile material for nuclear reactions.
what are nuclear waste products? and how bad it would be compared to fossil fuels.
@@sairoadways4365 There are 3 categories low,intermediate and high level nuclear waste. Low can be disposed in landfills or shallow underground facilities.Intermediate ones needs to be stored in concrete or steel containers in the underground facilities. High one is the real fuel waste that contains bunch of radioactivity( although it is just %3 of the waste itself).This baby can be reused and if you use a breeder reactor it can lose its radioactivity a lot(intermediate nuclear waste will be reduced too). Right now in water cooled uranium nuclear power plants you need to dispose of it in deep geological repositories.
In short it is stored in underground facilities so it doesnt litter much therefore althouıgh it is expensive to store it isnt like the fossil fuels at all.
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Keep the tech coming!
Talking nuclear safety; it turns out that Russia sees nuclear power plants of ANY kind as legitimate targets. And this while they hunt for “Nazis”. It’s safe to bet that Nuclear Power Plants of any size will therefore be considered legitimate targets. Will China, an equally autocratic country perceive this as a policy to be adopted by them? This changes the safety considerations a lot. Hit a coal or other fossil fuel plant and you get a nasty mess-but not one measured in Half-Life! I’m all for getting rid of fossil fuels, but does this further snafu safety considerations and nuclear adoption?
I had some involvement in the liquified gas industry and I remember how a very well known customer got extremely excited by finding a new source of a very finite gas i.e. helium. If I remember, there was some suggestion that on current consumption rates the world had only circa 500 years worth. Not sure how that would be impacted by the proposed gas cooled reactors but it would seem as ever there is a price to pay for energy of any sort no matter how it is produced.
Helium three
Helium four
( The number of neutron , protons )
Helium-3 is a light, stable isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. Other than protium, helium-3 is the only stable isotope of any element with more protons than neutrons. Helium-3 was discovered in 1939. Wikipedia
Helium four
Helium-4 is a stable isotope of the element helium. It is by far the more abundant of the two naturally occurring isotopes of helium, making up about 99.99986% of the helium on Earth. Its nucleus is identical to an alpha particle, and consists of two protons and two neutrons. Wikipedia
@@boboften9952 Thanks for that and after some research it seems the global helium supply is reckoned on lasting another 25 to 30 years! Whilst it is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, it is in very short supply on planet earth. So it would appear to be very finite.
To create Hydrogen you can pass current through water it breaks the bond between the Hydrogen and oxygen the problem is a lot of energy is required to make Hydrogen and with some of the energy being fossil fuels it is not carbon neutral or good for the environment.
But I watched a video on TH-cam that was about putting solar panels in the Sahara Desert because it receives direct sunlight more often than most places and doesn't have cloud cover solar panels create a lot more energy the problem came moving the energy to a populated area but I thought if instead of transporting the energy you divert it to a Hydrogen plant on the coast that uses sea water to make Hydrogen, then put that Hydrogen into ships that have Hydrogen power cells you could then move it to anyplace in the world.
As mentioned in this video another problem is cooling the Hydrogen to get it into a liquid but there is another solution there is a substance called Hydride that acts as a substrate the Hydrogen particles fit tightly into the holes in Hydride like a sponge it stores more Hydrogen in less space than when it is cooled into a liquid then to release the Hydrogen you heat the container the Hydride expands and it releases the Hydrogen.
The problem is Hydride is hard to make so I'm not sure if this solution would work on a large scale but my idea could make Hydrogen a lot more cost effective environmentally clean to produce and easier to store for transport.
@@urgreatestenemy3044
Two amps of electricity at five volts gives hydrogen split
@@boboften9952 To produce Hydrogen on a large industrial scale you'll need a lot of energy but it doesn't take a lot to split water this is why solar is a good option as long as the sun is shining it will continue to produce Hydrogen if you use a the mirror type power plants you can produce energy even after the sun has set, the only problem with them is they vaporize any birds that fly close to the plant but with it being in the Sahara desert I'm not sure how many birds fly through it during migration but not many animals live there year round so it shouldn't have that much impact to the environment.
At Fukushima Daiichi, the reactor did not explode, that happened only in Tschernobyl.
At the desaster in Fukushima the containment did not break open, the radiation that was released came from used fuelrods in the cooldownpools above the reactor, and most was from the released steam from b2 and 3.
Yes, apparently the backup generators were not high enough to prevent their disablement from the big wave/flooding. If they had been high enough, would the plant have been safe?
The government mismanaged the disaster no need to tear people from their homes that killed thousands while radiation did not sicken even a cat.They were extremely backwards and ignorant to manage as meltdown in a modern US designed power plant,they had to really try to break it.
These idiots had their commerce dept in charge of safety and licensing. They should have installed a H2 vent. Reactors the world over are safer because of their mistakes.But nobody had their commerce dept in charge.
Incredible mismanagement of MONJU but they still should have run it instead of tearing it down, the Russians are running a very good sodium cooled fast reactor .Bill Gates will give the world a better design.But its type same thing ,Sodium cooled fast reactor.
Ironically, there was a hydrogen explosion at the reactor. The hydrogen was created by overheating the cooling water...making it red hydrogen, I suppose. It's good to know that they're working on reactors which can be cooled passively.
@@linmal2242 I believe it was seawater entering thru the air vents of the fuel tanks for the backup generators which caused the backup generators to shutdown.
@@nathanbanks2354 There was no nuclear explosion. When you slam a door in a reactor, crazy people think it was a nuke.
_The TRIGA was developed to be a reactor that, in the words of Edward Teller, "could be given to a bunch of high school children to play with without any fear that they would get hurt."_
_Teller headed a group of young nuclear physicists in San Diego in the summer of 1956 to design an inherently safe reactor which could not, by its design, suffer from a meltdown. The design was largely the suggestion of Freeman Dyson._
TRIGA has been used in 24 different countries, often by undergraduates, and there's never been a serious accident that I've heard about. It spikes, very briefly, to 64 MWe. I'd hardly call it a toy, but not even undergraduates can screw it up.
I mention this because Dyson was a proponent of high temperature gas reactors as far back as the 1950s, when he was employed by General Atomic. Dyson considered gas-cooled to be intrinsically safe, and water-cooled reactors to be intrinsically unsafe (though ideally suited for submarines, where small matters, and where your cooling reservoir is the entire ocean).
I use one to power my house
The same HTGR Loss of Coolant accident was performed at Hanford, WA & produced the same outcome, no Fuel Element damage. But this was near 3 Mile Island & interest in nuclear power wained. This is exciting and a boom for both nuclear and hydrogen production!!! Thanks!
Passive shutdown is the most critical requirement for any reactor. Nice that they have one.
1300celcius and no damages seriously?
There is another Type of Reactor, with lead instead of water ;
@@omnianti0 Yes, it's because it's designed to resist very high heat since its operating temperature is around 950c. The core is made out of graphite which has high thermal capacity (up to 1600c) and the fuel is coated in 4 layers of ceramics (can also resist up to 1600c) and paired with an inert coolant (helium) so there's no unexpected reactivity (e.g. hydrogen generation and explosions). It uses thermal radiation to passively cool the reactor down if coolant can't be actively supplied.
@@ryoukokonpaku1575 you mean pipe are made of graphite ? never seen that anywhere and the pumps ?
@@31stoffl or molten salt
Japan has always been able to leverage public-private partnerships like high speed rail, with their massive domestic consumer market to get developing technologies to become the standard, like CDs, not to mention at times the battle of the standards itself consisting of mainly Japanese competitors like VHS/beta or BR/HDDVD, or at worst up and running like the costly to develop hybrid tech in the Prius. Japan is down but not out, and I wouldn’t bet against the kid
Japan invests its energy to enhance life on earth unlike many other countries...
The last time we underestimated Japan, they surprised us with the Mitsubishi Zero!
What do you mean by “leverage”?
The 80s bubble is a prime example of how good the japanese government is at collaborating with companies
@@caralho5237 Thanks. I keep seeing this word "leverage" all over the place, and it never has anything to do with the physics of levers that I learned at school. Sometimes I suspect it just means "use", and sometimes "take advantage of", but I can never pin down a precise meaning.
I was familiar with Pink hydrogen (nuclear electric). I hadn't realised there was a red (nuclear thermal) variant too. Interesting. PWRs are only about 25% efficient so you get 3 times as much heat out as you do electricity. Not sure what the HTTR numbers are but I presume it's similar. What is the efficiency of the IS plant? i.e is Red hydrogen going to be any cheaper than Pink?
edit: answering my own question, it seems that the process is about 50% efficient. So overall this is more than twice as efficient as doing electrolysis with thermal plant electrity (nuclear or fossil). But it's less efficient than hydrolysis itself (70%), so it's not clear that it's better than using hydro/solar/wind (all of which are usually cheaper than nuclear).
This is AWESOME! Waste disposal is also way over blown plus there are now newer ways to dispose and contain by drilling so far underground there would never be a problem. Many different modern nuclear systems in development right now too. I know you've covered some of them. Personally I think nuclear would be our quickest and best way to get to net zero for the interim. Gotta kick some regulators in the ass, though.
My brother was part of the USGS. As a hydrologist he was sent to the school of mines to learn how to drill core samples. He then went up through the western United States drilling core samples to determine if there is any safe places to deposit nuclear waste. You can see the results… It’s a big fat no. Drilling down and depositing nuclear waste in the mantle is pure folly. In other words you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to nuclear waste disposal!
Wow. This is amazing. I didn't know Japan was working on something like this. Of course, it's no miraculous magic wand because of the need for uranium, helium and all that, but nothing is, so it's still very promising!
Also : It's rare to see videos about "new miraculous energy solutions" that actually have enough data and "down to earth realities" in order to convince us engineers. So I want to commend you for staying casual-friendly while also providing enough technical data to be convincing to annoying nerds like me. Good job.
it's not being annoying. Without the specific details of "why" what he's saying is true, there would be NO WAY to know if it actually was and thus it would be the same as to take his word for it and that's just not the way to go when you wanna convince someone.
What about the limited onboard "Tank" and the limited infrastructure for deliver to "GAS STATIONS"? and the competition (Battery electric)Has a built in charger in nearly 60% of homes across the globe with ZERO extra cost - Others may need to pay between $500.00 and $2000.0 to install one at home and thats a small price to pay for "REFULE AT HOME" Capabilities.....In THREE YEARS I never had to go to a charging station unless I was traveling long distances. and then there's PLUGSHARE Which takes the fear out a little. No way J-Pan can overcome these "ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC" unless the government forces it down our throats like a dark dictator!
@@haroldwestrich3312 I think you came to the wrong video.. This is about industrial heat generation for scale manufacturing
@@dwindeyer TITLE: "Japanese RED Hydrogen Breakthrough Will DESTROY Oil & Gas!" Did you read the same title I did? I think it's implying that HYDROGEN, if made cheaply enough, would put oil and gas companies out of business. But tanks on cars and distribution have always been more of an issue with hydrogen than the pure production methods. Many have created "Green Hydrogen" now how do you "Charge at home"? THAT will never happen with hydrogen.
@@haroldwestrich3312 All fine, but this video is talking about the heat energy requirement of industrial manufacturing even if all cars and trucks were electric. So the question of charging at home does not apply as it's not about transport.
The U.K. have been using ‘Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors’ (AGR) since the 1980s but the primary coolant gas used is Carbon Dioxide. This design was chosen in the U.K. in the mid 1960s after evaluating a variety of designs including high temperature helium cooled reactors.
The Dragon reactor at Winfrith. High temperature, helium-cooled, ran on fuel pellets encapsulated in ceramic. Ran from 1965 to 1976.
We are losing our nuclear generating capacity.. 5 reactors left which will all be decomissioned by 2030. There is ONE being built that wont be ready for when we need it, LIKE NOW. Our government has totally failed us all. They've opted to rely on the volatile price of gas as our main energy producer. Not the constant cheap price of nuclear. Their decision will bankrupt many businesses in our country as well as drive others into poverty.
The choice of reactor process to use hinged on the ability to produce plutonium 238 for nuclear bombs.
Also Britains WORST nuclear accident at Windscale still hasn't been cleaned up after 55 YEARS.
We need a BETTER choice of reactor that suits the home electricity market, not for the manufacture of nuke stockpiles.
@@Veeger We haven't built a reactor specifically for plutonium production since Chapel cross in 1960. The UK does not require more plutonium, it has more than it has warheads.
I wonder whether this has indeed actually... came about as well... when... Japan bought out some of the larger breweries as well in the UK. Cos there had been so much ingenious invention there. Ab Inbev was also meant to list in HK as well.. but then it got bumped off... and there is already a Shenzen nuclear plant, but hasn't connected to this kind of form. I don't think.. Not that I am aware of....
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using CO2 vs Helium?
I'd be interested in the case of ships to see a comparison btw the use of hydrogen in fuel cells and burning it through a gas turbine with a heat recovery steam generator. The latter would obviously be more mechanically complex, but I'm curious if it wouldn't have some sort of advantage perhaps?
Ships will be running on bunker fuel for a while, the price for anything else will send shipping prices through the roof. Trust me I wish there was a better cleaner solution but without major international subsidies they will continue to burn that stuff for the foreseeable future. Maybe bringing back the age of sail would be the only other solution but even then the large container ships will disappear and the price for foreign goods will go up quite a bit. The only real solution for them would be using a fusion SMR that runs in hybrid mode. The SMR lasts the life of the ship and fusion since it's not a military vessel and can be attacked by any pirate with a sharp stick, so any damage and contamination release will be minuscule.
@@anydaynow01 What if they came up with a synfuel that could work in ships? Ammonia, butanol, or something they could mix with that crappy oil. That could keep old ships running.
Fuel cells use platinum and palladium, which are very expensive..
So, the gas turbines are the cheaper option..
There are some methanol ships and talk of ammonia powered ones...
This is heartening. As someone that maintained Navy Nuc sub reactors, I am glad to hear this. I never have liked the Navy Nuke to civilian transfer of nuke power. There are better ways.
You should review the Carnot cycle fundamentals. Given the operating temperature of the HTGR is around 1000 degC, you get a much more efficient thermodynamic cycle for the nuclear reactor. (Older reactors are only about 30% efficient with a temperature of 300 degC)
True,but the HTGR will not be 1000C to start maybe never, but yes, higher temps,like 800C are much better for H2 production,But thyme Japanese are extremely backwards, they have a fleet of good reactors sitting idle, very ignorant people.
Operating Temperature # Temperature used in Carnot Cycle.
The UK is investing hard on Gen IV HTGR, which - like you said - operate at >900 degC. However, they aim to use temperatures of only around 700degC for most applications. This is due to many factors, but mainly that the nuclear supply chain relies a lot on common steel, which ideally would be kept at under 750degC
@@paulbedichek5177 Local people are agains
Also, he clearly hasnt heard of thorium and molten salt reactors.
@@paulbedichek5177 The Japanese HTTR actually runs around 950-1000C in full power and has been tested as per video generating a lot of H2 small scale last year, hence why it's said to be the ideal design for Hydrogen production and why they're moving forward for building a bigger Hydrogen plant. The HTGR running at around 800C is the one from China's designs which uses a Pebble Bed compared to Japan's prismatic block design. Also as for the reactor restarts, that's already underway as per Kishida's notes just in recent months.
The plan is to have around 10 reactors running by Winter and move that to around 20+ by Summer, they also extended the operating lifetimes for these reactors (60 years from 40) after they are deemed safe for restart.
I guess france will be the second to get in on this. Will help their industry become more competetive than germany's, if they remain irrational over nuclear power.
Yeah you're hopefully right. France for better or worse is a lot more free with proliferation and sharing of there nuclear tech. The only short term solution is red
@@andrewbreding593 mainly for prestiege, very much like the english, they want to pretend that they are still a world power 😅
Russia have just delivered a large magnet for French fusion despite the ongoing conflict with Ukraine
@@beans1979 it's not french fusion, it's human fusion, look at the list of countries that fund it and get access to it, russia/china/eu/usa/india. It's in everyones interest to crack this, even though it would make russia even more economically irrelevent in the world.
France is awesomr and Nordic country's doing geothermal. Canada is only country in th e world not doing geo thermal beyond test wells and hydrogen will be key only for planes.
Conventional fission nuclear reactors are not prone to thermal runaway unless there is a cooling failure (3 Mile Island) or back up power failure (Fukishima). The explosions at Fukishima were due to Hydrogen gas build up due to lack of cooling water pumps operation. The explosions were not nuclear explosions, in fact there has never been a nuclear explosion at any nuclear power plant since the uranium is not enriched enough to cause a nuclear explosion.
What about THORIUM reactors. To my knowledge this would be the best way forward for a variety of reasons. Mainly no risk of meltdown and no radioactive waste byproduct.
Well I think this is one of the most interesting video's you ever produced. Thanks man.
Japan work in partnership with New Zealand and New Zealand is now using geothermal energy to power its electrolyzer plant to make hydrogen on a industrial scale.
Now that's smart. If only powers that b would tap this unlimited energy source. But as you know such technology would not benefit them alone it would benefit all and that would cut into the profits of the few.
@@philortiz7519 Not every country has access to easy geothermal energy.
@@sirpieman300 true. But if countries that have it, such as usa would work to implement it it would do wonders for a better future. I believe there alternatives to current options. But we can't throw all in at one time. Fossil fuels will always be needed for many reasons. But we can do a better job at implementing other sources even if we do it in stages and as technology advances. There's no 1 cure all option but over time using more of what we can do together would be a bit more reasible. Truth is if the world did not want to control each other we could make greater advances together. Im about hydrogen, thermo heat natural gas wind and solar and fossil fuels working together. It's a tough sell but without fossil fuels we can't accomplish any of it. It's not an easy road or task to complete. But it is possible with time and commitment. But not all in on one or two overnight. Cutting fossil fuels completely as is trying to be done right now is going to cause famine and war. Do not know how old you are but I'm old enough to know what doing this will do to all nations and people. God help humanity. Because we're not helping ourselves.
NZ is a failed Marxist WEF state […] soon to give all their power and rights away…
@@philortiz7519 Advances have been made in Geothermal Drilling that significantly lower the cost. It's now possible and cost effective to drill down far enough to acres the geothermal layer to access the superior and constant heat of the Earth's core in many more locations. This includes near many fossil fuel burning plants that are nearing or passed their lifetime and would reqularge overhauls anyway. With power transmission lines already there for the energy produced by fossil fuels, those locations are prime for new geothermal using this new, cost-effective drilling technolgy.
The world is already experiencing a helium shortage. That could prove a significant barrier to widespread adoption of this particular technology.
Thank you for sharing this content, really informative
Thank you very much for your insightful breakdown of Japan’s apparent successful implementation of Red helium. Looking forward to gleaning more information about this stunning pursuit of clean energy production. Time will tell.
Thank you again for kindly taking your time to share a forthright discipline and explanation of this technology.
Have a fantastic week, my friend. 👍🏻
Hydrogen*
A very engaging, well researched and well put-together video. Thank you!
"Homer Simpson could run this reactor (safely)" ... that is one hell of a bold statement.
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Hydrogen storage has always been the scapegoat. Years back I saw a vid testing tanks. They fired an armored piercing explosive round at it. Because of the high pressure in the tank any flames are blown out by the high pressure escaping gas. It was also planned to have sensors for leaks that automatically opened vents to eliminate any gas buildup.
After the power usage restrictions for California's EV owners due to a lack of forethought on the power limitations of the grid...the Japanese H2 plans seem very sensible.
Reminds me of part of the story in the anime Ghost In The Shell where Japan developed the "Japanese Miracle". The process neutralized the most harmful forms of nuclear radiation and was used world wide in the story.
I've been thinking about this, If you preformed the breaking at depth would not the gasses be compressed to the pressure of the depth? Floating solar panels, you could aqua farm on the same floating system.
Pebble Bed reactors have been around for years. Inherently stable and con’t melt down. Good for Japan using this system.
I've retired for at least 12 years. In my lifetime I've seen Japan copy technologies, but to my amazement, not only did they IMPROVE on all that they copied, But they began to LEAD in manufacturing, such as great consumer goods to broadcast equipment, a great name ("Made In Japan") for themselves in the 70s to 90s. On the other hand, China, at the same time began to COPY and imitate a lot, beginning with consumer goods, to inexpensive Cars, but to a much, much lesser extent only depending on cost-cut methods and cheap, inconsistent labour, cheating on quality rather than to establish a name and respect for their country. It is no wonder that once again Japan is LEADING in newer technologies responsibly, compared to South Korea and China. Happy that you feature Japan in this. They deserve the sole Honor for truly good and reliable manufacturing.broadcast equipment,
i will never buy another new vehicle that is not a toyota....except maybe a corvette.if i find a cheap deal on an american truck or just a toy then okay. but new vehicle, its toyota till the end
Thanks for putting this technology's advantages into laymen's terms, simplifying it to the point where I understood it. I'll leave it to people smarter than myself, but this almost seems too good to be true. That being said, even though I'm from Texas, it would give me a higher level of piece of mind to ease the transition from fossil fuels to something more efficient as well as a cleaner source of future fuel. May the best process win!
I hope so, and I wish that not only governments, but the mega-rich would invest their money in things like this. The answers are out there if we only go and look for them, I've always believed that, and the Japanese have always been fantastic innovators.
The only thing that concerns me is will we really see any benefit? It doesn't matter how cheap it may be to produce, that won't stop those who produce it selling it to us at extortionate prices, so that they can make as much profit for themselves and their shareholders as they can. That's the real problem for most people.
I would have loved watching high quality videos like this when I was a kid in school
The Homer Simpson nuclear⚛ analogy explains why their whole town is permanently a radiant ☢yellow!
This was a very informative and exciting video. I'm so glad you got into the subject so deeply. Looking forward to updates in this arena.
But he didn't even go deep enough to say HOW people will "Fuel UP" on a daily basis when NO ONE Can charge at home. How do you move tankers full of HYdrogen? Mostly on the roads but when you crash it's through low earth orbit! Ha ha
@@haroldwestrich3312We can drive electric cars and use clean green energy from red hydrogen to feed the grid. That would cut greenhouse gasses way down.
Truly brilliant ! I am a nuclear power worker and I am totally impressed by their genius ! Great narration also !
Even assuming the solution works, that only solve the production problem. Hydrogen transportation, storage and fuel cell generator all present problems: hydrogen is really difficult to transport and store, hence building a hydrogen station cost way more than a gas station. Plus, hydrogen car looks like a small chemical plant, it is costly to build and repair.
Japan has been pushing hydrogen car for decade, check how many hydrogen stations Japan has built so far? Very little.
just stumbled on your channel via this video, instant subscribe. You went in-depth enough to cover everything without getting too much into the details. You linked between relevant ideas, put them in context and explained why they matter together.
You also cleared up the bad impression made by Period Videos's disappointing "colours of hydrogen" video.
That was so bad it made me think there's a big hydrogen lobby promoting these nonsense colours. While there might be some truth to that, i now see the importance of these "colours" : it would otherwise be difficult to talk about S-I catalysed hydrogen, without this shortcut !
Lastly , i'm glad to see other people optimistic about our inevitable nuclear-powered future. *But i wish you would be a bit more careful when discussing the safety concerns :*
- Words like "explode" have been tainted by decades of fearmongering, people nowadays gets PTSD just from hearing a reactor could "explode" , when in reality it's just a steam pressure buildup. Reactors are not bombs ! and even the old design is now very very safe, thanks to strict protocols, containment, shielding, redundancy, and preventive measures...
- And the problem of "nuclear waste" is a very minor issue : most of the waste does not even come from the reactor itself. Only 3% does and it gets stored in the form of very stable glass and ceramics sealed and fused into their concrete containers. Basically big barrels or slightly hot rock. No leaks or contamination is ever possible short of grinding those containers to dust.
The problem of nuclear waste should always, always be put in context of other energies' waste, which is far bigger and nobody talks about it.
TLDR : even though you're not spreading anti-nuclear ideas, the mere mention of explode/meltdown/waste , out of context , is enough to reinforce the preconceived ideas in most people.
These words have too much negative baggage now, and we can't undo the decades and billions of dollars of propaganda if we don't set the facts straight.
Very informative video. Great narration. 👍
This was very informational, i really enjoyed the way you presented the subject material. I'm looking forward to see how Japan handles this new breakthrough and in all honesty i hope they win this "arms race" as you call it
green power is just a commie scam. all those precious metals are controlled by ccp. not enough lithium in world to make enough batteries. wind power takes more to create them they ever produce, kill birds, are ugly, then get dumped in landfill. future should be petrol/deisel etc. cheap. made anywhere. biggest freedom mankind has ever experienced. nuclear is always built on faultlines by criminal elies and you have to store the waste for tens of thousands of years.
Your delivery is so professional, thanks two bit. Great video as always.
Good job. I'm not a fan of nuclear power but the advantages of this approach is intriguing if not appealing. One thing was overlooked though - Helium is a non renewable resource that is currently under stress. We are running out of Helium. It actually comes as a byproduct of drilling for gas. Something to ponder when thinking of scalability.
We're starting to mine space, helium is rare only here on earth, soon we'll have space machines powered by solar that don't spend too much money just dropping liquid helium scavenged from space.
Great information Sir. I've always wondered how, or if we would begin to clean things up. Hydrogen or electric? I've just always known we could do better. Clean Hydrogen huh? I thought these breakthroughs came out of Fukishima. But, they had already developed it since 1998?...Wow. Go Japan!!! I may diversify a little in that direction. Thank you!!!
Great presentation and information. You're like an ambassador from the future.
This video earned my sub. Great video. My experiences with EV tech is EVs are great for light weight things like commuter cars and bikes. The problem is when you do heavy work. There is a great video comparing the Ford F250 (combustion engine) VS the F250 Lightning (EV). They both towed a trailer with a car on it on the same road at the same time with the same exact trailer and two classic cars that were identical. The Lightning only made it HALF WAY through the challenge before needing to be recharged while the regular F250 had plenty of fuel left to finish the trip and drive back. The take away was "EV trucks are great as long as you don't do Truck things". I believe Hydrogen will be for heavy duty applications while batteries will be for light duty. Which is perfectly fine. I rather have competition in tech making things perform better, reducing costa, and pushing each tech to innovate.
The cold of winter is BIG problem wth any battery
Bravo - I agree on NOV, 17 2022.... probably will Not agree on NOV, 17 2025. However; your argument has one BIG azz flaw! you'r comparing an electric vehicle made by a FOSSIL Company that DESPERATELY wants to continue making ICE trucks and cars.... Outside of TESLA I agree no one is going to really have a useful truck for several years and that depends on when CYBER truck actually hits the highways.
Its just insane how many batteries heavy truck need to have to travel the same distances as diesel powered. And still there always be charging problem and electricity generation problem (esp. clean). So those kind of vehicles better go hydrogen cell route straight away or/and use GEET technology
@@haroldwestrich3312 It's pure physics. Batteries are 20x less energy dense than liquid hydrocarbons even considering efficiency. Battery operated vehicles are a total joke.
@@AlldaylongRock OH i guess you mean a "Joke" like they make people laugh because it's so ridiculous to drive an ICE (idiot combustion engine) how does it make sense to ignite and extinguish 8,000 tiny flames every minute? does that really make sense? Battery range increases regularly as charge times increase regularly as more and more renewables are used REGULARLY. Wait ! What?
This is great! Really exciting to see developments in nuclear because it would need to be the backbone of any current move to less fossil fuels while maintaining our modern life styles.
its not just the greenhouses gasses that are released into our atmosphere, its all the heat that we produce, and this is producing way more, its not going to stop the planning heating up
awesome to hear stuff like this! thank you for sharing some great advances!
Found this hopefully surprising information. Expected that after the excruciatingly slow progress for Thorium based reactors (offering passive shutdown, best efficiency - fuel in vs energy out, plus options to recycle actinides) that nuclear wouldn't ever recover. Maybe the first step.
We'll NEED thorium reactors, Dave, don't worry
Thorium is far from being the "miracle solution" so many TH-camrs love to depict. There is a lot of research to be done before it can be used.
Hope building on hope. Re: Nuclear spent fuels sequestration & PERMANENT storage? No joking. Fingers crossed, huh. That the best you can do? Btw, 3 Fukushima cores are STILL melting though the subterranean river flushing tons of contaminated waters into OUR Pacific Ocean, daily, which have NEVER been reported since the early days when Alara (FR) boasted, then quickly withdrew, their claim to “safely” filter those waters. Aka (to some), the “Tank Farm” & now the supposed safe dumping of their contents, has all along been a bandaid ruse that most (like you) have blissfully 100% bought into. You can fool some all of the time, & all some of the time, but not (in this case, a very few) some, all of the time (Honest Abe).
curious if (control rods) or such are still used in this design.
13 years ago I met an interesting American in my local bar in London. He was visiting on business. After a number of drinks he relaxed a lot. He was into shale oil. The levels of shale in northern USA and Canada is amazing. I pointed out it is not economically viable to extract the oil from the shale, as it needs a lot of heat to do so. And also that it depends on the percentage of oil in the shale. He said one or two nuclear power stations dedicated providing the heat can make the USA & Canada 100% self sufficient in energy, with continuing on proven existing transport technology - petro fuels. He said that the USA/Canadian shale needs little heat to extract the oil. In that time renewable energy has advanced brilliantly - and also the technology on its application at the user end.
Thankfully, so far has not materialised. But, it is a backup if world energy takes a nose dive.
You failed to mention entirely the increasing scarcity of helium. We don't have a lot of it so sourcing helium for these gas-cooled reactors is going to become increasingly expensive as demand spikes and helium supplies further dwindle.
I was just thinking the same thing. Is there an alternative to helium?
The biggest problem with Hydrogen is storage. It is next to imposable to store. You must continually allow it to vent, or the pressures will destroy whatever it is contained in. So, if you fill up your car with Hydrogen and then not use it right away, when you do want to drive it, it may be empty.
And you gave an explosive gas venting inside your house
Stores very well and with no pressure with oxygen as water.. Just need the right tech to efficiently split and burn the H and O
@@dalebyl1564 If you have the energy to split water in that location, you don't ned hydrogen for energy in that location.
@@barryon8706 hydrogen powered cars is one of the uses and given the choice between an electric car at there current technology or hydrogen I would take the h2o car. In the future we may need both options as people all have different driving needs. Both technology's have plus and minus. For me a H2o car would possibly be better for my wife and electric car might work better as we have different needs.
@@douglasw5371 I think you misunderstand what I was saying. Dale Byl was saying that hydrogen could be stored in water, but the problem with that is you'd need an independent source of energy that actually has to be greater than you'll get from oxidizing the hydrogen.
For example, you can't use water as a way to store hydrogen unless your car also has a nuclear reactor to split the hydrogen out of the water, and if your car has a nuclear reactor then uou can just use the reactor for energy without bothering with hydrogen.
The benefits of using Helium as a heat transfer material are well known, well, at least to some of us, for example it is used brilliantly in the single stage to orbit engine of Allan bond's SKYLON design, that thing is awesome.
Thank you for such an informative presentation.
Solidified hydrogen will be a game Changer, and you can use renewable energy to produce hydrogen as well, so the carbon footprint will be close to zero for the production. The use of solidified hydrogen is already tested in the US military, which actually is the reason it took so long to get into the general market. But to my knowledge this technology is starting as well now and will resolve the issue of transport and refilling.
I thought it was pink hydrogen! But yes there are important use cases for hydrogen and so having a stable domestic supply from nuclear power plants is a good plan. Since nuclear is baseload power, hydrogen production could ramp up and down there depending on the availability of hydro, wind and solar on the grid. So when there is lots of sun, make hydrogen, when there isn't much sun, sell electricity. Nuclear seems to be too expensive to me though, it has its place in Japan and many other urban places but it is too expensive for the most part
I wonder if hydrogen could be the next diesel if we get this right, and maybe earth movers and industrial transport is something some of the Japanese car makers could hedge their bets with in case it goes that way exclusively (ie. hydrogen for heavy machinery, batteries for personal vehicles).
The idea is initially to use hydrogen in piston ICE engines in heavy vehicles. Then use fuel cells with electric motor drive. The Wankel rotary engine's efficiency rises about 23% when using hydrogen fuels. Mazda are introducing a rotary range extender in their MX-30 EV. They have made provision of running it on hydrogen in the future to make it 100% clean running.
Hydrogen-on demand.
Diesel is liquid and high energy density. H2 is gas and low energy density.
It needs to be transported at high pressure.
And it can be liquified…but not for practical use.
This was surprisingly brilliant. What are they doing with the heavy water made through the reactors?? Is that a requirement?
Deuterium can be made into Weapons, it IS something to think about. Maybe this is How Japan will once-again, be a nuclear-power, balancing Red China set to suck-up not just Taiwan, but the 'pines,--all the way to, and including, Australia & New Zealand.
@@jackdale9831 It is being used for hydrogen. It is good for power and rocket fuel.
The one thing I’d be concerned about is that helium is produced predominantly from the natural gas extraction process. It is a non renewable gas and would be most predominantly produced in U.S., Russia, and any other large natural gas producers. A few years ago there was a serious helium shortage, so how would this be scaled?
Pretty sure once we start getting into space and such and mining it in the future wont be a problem lmao
I was thinking the same thing. Helium isn't easy to get (Cleanly).
Recycle it from party balloons, and by the way will the reactor make a funny noise when in use!?!
This reactor does not consume helium, it is a closed loop coolant. Getting sufficient helium for reactors will not be a problem and even if costs skyrocket its still a tiny fraction of the cost of the plant.
Qatar is number two after the US. Russia produces a negligible amount of helium about 5% of the global total so at least we don’t need to worry about Putin holding the world hostage to Russia’s almost non-existent helium supply.
They need to improve refueling stations, so that the hose when refueling your vehicle doesn't freeze up causing every one to wait for it to thaw off.
You can always fill up at the source at the nuclear station it's quite warm there.
@@ValdiValdies Yes, we need one around the corner, that would be good, lol.
Electric charging stations have copper wires. These wires get cut and stolen all the time.
@@bobgteen6496 A large part of that is the level of your local law enforcement. Many cities have defunded their LE agencies. Along with a decrease of judicial sentencing, chaos is rampant as can be seen with Smash and Grab crimes. Keeping a 400 Volt flow going through the cables might detour many who try and sever these cables.
As long as the gass is not drastically losing pressure, it won't freeze. It will actually heat up. Because the hose is pressurizing
Red Hydrogen is to Green Hydrogen as Red Hulk is to Green Hulk. Yeah, it might sound like it will be more powerful but in the end, it'll probably blow up in our faces.
Did I miss something or was there no mention of the use of Helium as a coolant is like an Achilles heel for this reactor? Helium is a very rare natural resource and incredibly difficult to manufacture, it requires a ton of energy.
There's also the power paste developed in Germany that uses Magnesium and Hydrogen to make batteries that are more energy dense than Lithium ion batteries for far less weight.
That is H2 storage like a battery in some ways but we don't call it that,it's H2 storage.
I think you misread the article you're citing- magnesium NOR Hydrogen are electrolytes. I think you might be talking about an alloy of magnesium used to hold Hydrogen.
Magnesium is used in many things, but using it in household batteries would not be safe because of the temperature that magnesium burns. It also can't be put out with water and using water on a magnesium fire makes it burn even hotter. It burns so hot that it separates the water and uses the oxygen as additional fuel.
I wouldn't want a house fire being made worse by the batteries being used within it.
@@GeneJordan magnesium ignites at: 2200 °C, 4000 °F. That's a fairly high temperature. It's used to make lightweight casings for laptops. Also in order to ignite Magnesium needs to be exposed to oxygen. If the magnesium is inside a sealed battery structure there is no oxygen supplied to the magnesium.
@@HepCatJack I didn't mean they would start the fire, although certain aging Lithium Ion batteries are known to have done this.
Finely divided pieces of material (i.e., magnesium powder and ribbon) burn readily and that's what the batteries would likely be made from.
However, magnesium *Burns* at the temperatures you listed.
A regular house fire burns hot enough (1100°) to ignite magnesium (which for most commom alloys of Mg, the ignition temperature is 850F) making it harder to put out and take longer to put out. It would burn or melt any casing off of the batteries, too.
Having such extra hotspots spread through every home and business would become a firefighter's worse nightmare.
It burns hot enough to burn its way through the floor in most homes and commercial buildings, too. That would cause fires to spread to other parts of the home. Fires that can't be put out or cooled with water.
I saw this technology being tested in Germany back during the mid 1980’s, it also proved safe.
Fukushima was a hit job. Japan, as long as not dead, will never quit
Do you have made any program about ethanol fuel cells?
The nuclear waste can be reused: there are special reactors that do this since radioactive material is unstable it wants to be stable with the same amount of protons and neutrons
Nuclear waste is a meme, in the grand scheme of things the actual space occupied (m3) by the waste is a fraction of a fraction of space available on earth.
It's expensive. If it was EZ lots of countries would have done so by now.
@@FizzyGajing it's really expensive initially, but pretty cheap long term
*Once you've cooled it down enough. Before that, it has to stay in cooling pools, which take up more space.
The TRISO fuel in pebble bed or cast block style reactors is much more difficult to reprocess and results in a much larger volume of waste. Not a great idea IMO.
Hey vinic you know it's obvious that we solved the waste storage problem decades ago and I have a friend who's a nuclear engineer told me about that and it's kinda stupid af for people to say oh it's a problem when it actually isn't as much anymore and the media likes to lie and be dramatic a lot
Come on down to southeast New Mexico and show us how that waste isn’t a problem any more.
So why is Japan gonna pump Fukushima waste into the ocean via a purpose-built pipeline ??
as someone with a background in nuclear and that has worked in the removal of said waste, it's still a problem. We mostly just stick it in barrels and put it underground. Not exactly the most amazing of solutions. The waste concerns are definitely valid but not insurmountable in my opinion, and really just needs more funding
@@ingrownnipple Putting it underground IS the solution. If you go deep enough, everything is radio active. Maybe we should put it a bit deeper than we do now, but if you dump it deep into the earths crust and pour some concrete over it, you're done. As long as nobody is able to dig it up, that's all the processing we need.
Riding two wheeled transportation is far more effective. Saves fuel, less surface on streets, less parking space.. most people weigh under 200pounds but are communing in 3k+ pound vehicles. Most of the fuel is being burned lugging around weight of car.
I've thought for a long time that hydrogen fuel cell cars are a better option than batteries. It just comes down to the actual production costs of the hydrogen. Since the price of replacing the lithium batteries in an EV can be around $20k, a lot of EV's are throw away cars when enough cells go out. If this process can cheaply produce hydrogen and refilling stations start being built, I think a lot of EV holdouts will be more accepting of hydrogen cars.
At the end you covered the safety of the pebble bed reactors...
but you didn't explain the coolest part! The pebbles automatically shut down when they get hot!
So, the output scales with how aggressively you cool it, and if you cut out the cooling the output drops back to a very low level that won't melt the pebbles.
Very interesting , the key element in todays geo political situation being the uranium... hopefully it does not replace oil as the catalyst for never ending conflicts. Great presentation!
It's Japan, they will achieve it.
There was a helium cooled plant at Peach Bottom Pennsylvania when I was young. It produced power on the grid for a while
Peach bottom….Hehhehheh! ( sorry folks, that’s about all I can add to this very interesting technological advance). 🤣
For the price of that bike you can convert any bike you want with a more powerful mid motor and a 52v battery and do over 25mph and get between 60-100kms and have 9 assist levels. I have 2 and im using my old mountain bike for one and its done over 8,000kms and the other is a gravel/road bike thats got the same set up ams has done around 4000kms. Both have been reliable ans i would reccommend Bafang ebike motors if you want to build your own ebike for a lower cost
Very informative. You broke down the issues so well, even i think i understand it.
02:06 Burning Hydrogen doesn't just release water vapour, when mixed with air it will also release a small amount of Nox
That also applies to conventional fuels though, and has been dealt with?
@@TheDoh007 So a lot more giggling?
So don't mix it with air , just pure oxygen , no Nox, just water vapour !
@@gregorygant4242 that would probably end up being less efficient due to the extra storage needed, weighing the car down more
Great introduction to Red Hydrogen. I’d put my money on that instead of batteries.
What about the energy used for creating Trisyl fuel pellets ? An insight into total energy produced Vs total input energy would be very useful?
The problem with electricity is that the need always fluctuates. That to me is a place where Hydrogen can operate as a effective storage of power. When the power need is low, the access power can be used in the production of Hydrogen and that Hydrogen can then be used to produce more electricity when the need increases.
Russia's Rosatom has been doing this for years now, they even had a joint venture with Gazprom to pump hydrogen to the EU via the Nordstream pipelines (before said pipelines got blown up).
They are also building a hydrogen hub on Sakhalin, a stone's throw away from Japan and S. Korea.
I spoke to one of their officials roughly a year ago asking how they plan to dominate an ever more competitive hydrogen market, with stiff competition from major players on the global energy market like Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia. His response was quite simple; Rosatom has a technological edge over the competition since it has the entire supply chain at it's disposal, from synthesis to liquefication, transport, and regasification, while Japan relies on Australian and Saudi-owned technologies for its hydrogen projects, essentially relying on a supply chain that spans across half the planet, thereby making Rosatom the cheaper and more efficient option.
Thought you guys would find this interesting, and thank you for a great video.
obviously, we have seen all the farts about russian technological advantage they have in the ukraine war
@@soheil527 Obviously you're a much less spiteful person in real life.
@@alexeishayya-shirokov3603 Gentlemen arguments here! ;-)
@@alexeishayya-shirokov3603 A reply worthy of a true gentleman
@@LordOfLight I am half-Russian. Does that make me a fool, or a liar? 🤔
H2 from nuclear power will still be more expensive than H2 from renewables. Depending a little bit on location, but most of the habitable zones will have super cheap wind and PV.
Only with EXCESS renewable energy when renewable energy is superabundant. See Tony Seba's vids.
@@gregbailey45 good man 🙂
Thank you for this video because my major concern about going forward with nuclear energy (besides the waste) in the face of climate change is how water scarcity comes into play.
A great video! Fresh, punchy and highly educational. Thanks!
All we need now is economically viable nuclear fusion reactors to produce all the extra helium we'll need. ;-)
I wonder if putting Boron 10 near the reactor would produce a significant quantity of Helium from neutron absorption.
For nuke waste I have always liked those use methods that allow for safety and recyclability. This type of reactor, or liquid salt fast reactor or what have you, which can use their fuel more fully and efficiently.
I think that "spent" fuel can still do work. It's much less efficient, obviously, but it has longevity and abundance.
Why not use the lessened thermal output of the waste to run a good old fashioned Stirling Engine with a closed loop system?
Will it produce massive energy density? no, definitely not, but it could produce consistent, safe, zero emission energy for, potentially, thousands of years. All you need is a quality, closed-loop Stirling engine design and a relatively consistent thermal differential between your sealed thermal chamber and the air or ground in the vicinity and bang: you have a spinning fly wheel that can make a bit of power... not a lot, but for many lifetimes.
now imagine an otherwise barren field someplace inhospitable and sub-optimal for solar or wind (like the arctic/Antarctic circles) with thousands of these devices chugging away non-stop for hundreds of lifetimes, day and night, non-stop.
additionally, they could be implimented smaller scales, closer to urban centers, sealed underground or in secure containment on the surface near industrial sites to provide supplementary power or emergency power or just keeping batteries of whatever sort topped off?
Hell, we could just bury radiation-sealed waste pellets in sand tanks as "thermal sand batteries" or even try to improve Nuclear Crystal Containment batteries ("diamond batteries") so that they're actually useful...
ugh, I'm just venting at this point, I think... Don't Mind me and my TL:DR post!
It is good to think outside the box. Even better if you then think critically about the idea afterwards.
The fuel for this kind of reactor is a variation on the TRISO concept, with fuel particles embedded into graphite...about the most difficult nuclear fuel to reprocess and much higher in volume than any other solid fuel.
There are existing tech for using the decay heat of fission products to generate electricity, but they are all low efficiency and expensive. Mostly used in the past for very remote sensing, but securing the materials makes that not a great idea today.
Ukraine lol you have blown up a pipeline not very green.
@@rejeangadbois3123 I'm not Ukrainian, I'm supporting Ukraine b/c I loathe Putin after spending 3 years in military intelligence here in the US and knowing full well that he wants to put the Soviet Map back together but under his dictatorship and has since he was a KGB agent in the collapsing USSR...
That said, I wonder if you're even a human, or just a Russian bot... 🤣🤣🤣
Thought that I heard of a bacteria species in the crust that metabolize some form of radiation. If it could be tweaked, then it could be used as a way to kinda contain the nuclear waste.
Mr. Two Bit, a basic question for you: At given CO2 PPM numbers, what problems are solved? Carbon neutrality is a nice catch phrase, but for the average guy like me, I'd like to know what gets fixed at various CO2 PPM numbers. Think of it as a scientific experiment where we can then measure the results. It might be a nice video for you, where you could state "At 300 PPM, this is fixed", or "The oceans stop rising at X PPM".
I remember predictions that "nuclear power will produce electricity too cheap to meter" which obviously didn't happen. In fact, it turned out to be one of the more expensive forms of power generation when the cost of safety, maintenance and nuclear waste management was added in. Although the high temperature assures a high thermodynamic efficiency, I suspect that this will still be an expensive source of power, possibly more expensive than more conventional reactors. It's also likely that the hydrogen made that way will also be expensive and still not economically competitive to electricity as a fuel.
Yesterday, I was out for a ride and came across an old man (probably a lot younger than me) who was riding an e-bike because he couldn't speak English and so couldn't get a driver's license. Riding along, he believed that he had let his attention wander and struck the curb and fell. But I have seen others fall in that same area since it is under Pine trees and the bike lane is littered with Pine Cones and broken parts which makes hide whole Cones if you are not looking for them. Bicycle riders tend to look for them, but e-bike riders think they are riding automobiles and pay a great deal less attention to the road. So if older people are buying e-bikes, you must make sure they understand that it is a bicycle and not a motorcycle or an automobile.
As a lifetime motorcycle rider (60 years) I pay attention to the road surface because your life depends on it as well as your body. Balance is everything on two wheels.
Please take a look at the known deposits of Helium (which seems to be the inert gas required for this process) ?
I NEVER knew you could cool a Nuclear Reactor with GAS!
AWESOME!
Great video. My understanding is that 'Red Hydrogen' is produced from biomass, using a CO2 emitting energy source, like nuclear, wind, solar or hydro. If the carbon is captured using the 'turquoise method,' with carbon capture and sequestration, the process actually removes carbon from the biosphere.
Japan may not have produced that many technologies, but the ones they produce tend to be among the most widely used worldwide just like the blue LED, which is a vital piece in the current LED display and lighting technology.
Just what I was thinking, both VHS and Blu-ray (since he mentioned them) for example originate from Japan
So if those "battles" are anything to go by, hydrogen powered vehicles are the future
They haven’t produced that many technologies compared to whom exactly? Japan is one of the most technologically advanced countries on the planet.
Exactly. let's not forget the transistor which revolutionized electronics.
Sorry? Japan produced thousands of them.
Yeah, just cell phones