Portable Power
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 เม.ย. 2018
- Many of the strongest limitations on our technology and civilization at this time are from problems moving energy around with us, in a way which is light, energy dense, and cheap. Today we'll look at some ways we might increase that vastly, and challenges to do that and the impact such dense portable power would have.
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Writers
Isaac Arthur
Mark Warburton
Stuart Graham
Script Editors
Darius Said
Edward Nardella
Keith Blockus
N Kern
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Luca De Rosa - lucaderosa2@live.com
Music:
Dracovallis, "Dragonwings"
Lombus, "Hydrogen Sonata"
Aerium, "Cave light emerging"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Glow in Space"
Miguel Johnson, "Planet Annihilated"
Chris Zabriskie, "Cylinder One"
Ayreon, "Fluctuations"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth"
Markus Junnikkala, "Always Tell Me The Odds"
Brandon Liew, "Into the Storm" - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
If asking for an episode on exoskeletons and power armor isn't working, you're not asking enough.
I just watched it ;)
1:03 - ",,,critters squirreled food away". *(Shows video of squirrel storing food)* I love your subtle word-plays. lol
In german, you hamster food instead of squirreling it.
5:15 - some serious 4th wall breakage...
We could grow giant hamsters to spin flywheels at high speed. The problem would be feeding them...umm...not cost effective,I guess.
"UNLIMITED POWER!"
Damn, someone's always seems to think of joke I can't believe I forgot to make in an episode.
Isaac Arthur Your failures are intolerable.
Isaac Arthur You have failed me for the last time, Commander Arthur.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one...
I always wondered why the heat from radioactive decaying materials isnt used more often. The nuclear waste is going to decay no matter what. Why heat only the shaft of an old saltmine.
We should get a shirt with all the different first rules of warfare
You should get a life.
@TD COE says the guy that comments to that guy lol sad.
Agreed
@@oilpond you're cool
An army marches on its stomach. The real first rule.
17:40 Quantum usb port uncertainty hahaha . So true
USB-C!!! No further explanation needed.
USB plugs are one of the few things that can exist in three states, the first one you tried, the second one, and then the third one that works, which you thought was the same one you tried the first time, but demonstrably isn’t.
I've always liked to think of them as 4 dimensional objects, so that three rotations has somehow only just managed to get them into the right position
I can usually get it right after turning it twice, so I don't think there's quantum uncertainty. Rather, they're just 4 dimensional.
I love the thumbnails of this channel. They always look great
Yeah Jakub always does an amazing job, I've been lucky to have a lot of talented folks volunteer on the channel but he was the first.
Jakub Grygier (the artist) has most of them uploaded on his Artstation page: www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Right! As soon as I see the thumbnail I instantly recognise the format and get excited to watch another vid from Isaac. Love it.
I have to admit it was the cover art that attracted me to this channel.
As a matter of fact, the military industrial complex spooks already have zero point energy devices derived from Tesla's principles and the reverse engineering of downed ETV craft..
I’m a simple man. I see a new Isaac Arthur video, I watch it.
He'll yeah Borther I see a 2yr old video that I don’t remember watching, so I click!!😂
Me too. It is time well spent.
Me too but I'm trying to binge watch all of them
i misread the title as "portable tower" and thought the thumbnail was a picture of giant floating triangle building (like that one angel from evangelion)... i watched for 17mins before i realised this.
The angel that have to be shot by eva-01 with a rifle rite?
What is this? A tower for ants!!?
This has got to be in the top ten episodes of all time. No politics just facts coupled with real world science that in the near future MAY produce some results we can actually apply.
I A ,your real talent is your vision for application There is no one on the net that has your vision.
Can't applaud your videos enough
Thank You
Remo 52, when's there ever politics? The references must have gone straight past me, or I'm not understanding what mean
I'm just so glad he spent the time to say that wind and solar technologies are debatable ecological friendly technologies. Thank you Isaac, thank you.
@@robinhyperlord9053 OR, no political opinion equals a respectable sense of restraint. injecting political opinions into a discussion takes attention away from said discussion (unless that discussion is about politics).
no need to be so arrogant.
@@robinhyperlord9053 dude, you can't even reach k1 without leaving earth using only solar, wind, hydro, AND geothermal, much less just solar and wind. And we'll want to have reached k1 by 2200 if we want to have a decent population without over taxing the environment, as we'll need to be putting a lot of energy into increasing plant life, generating food, and recycling waste.
Further, solar generates optimally at 27% efficiency, often less due to material wear, the panels last on average for 25 years, and requires more rare earth metals to be mined than a typical nuclear power plant per watt for the same time period, and produces long life toxic waste during creation, which can stay dangerous for millenia while the nuclear waste can be buried underground and spends most of its foreseeable future being barely radioactive enough to be picked up through a sheet of corrugated iron (half-life is inverse to radioactivity).
@@theapexsurvivor9538 at the same time solar panels can be build with meta materials like graphene or nanotubes (not just carbon), it reduces the amount of toxic emitions (that arent even that high to begin with and can be more easily deal with than carbón dioxide from fósil fuels) makes them tinier and lighter and can theoretically allow them to reach higher efficienties (some scientists theorize up to 90% efficiency)
Also solar panels allow you to build a dyson swarm, who is the most efficient form of energy production on a solar system
OMG, THURSDAY!! I had Monday off so I am all discombobulated this week!! I think the best part about this channel may be that this is the one place that's discussing pretty much ALL the subjects I have questions about!
"combobulating discombobulator ... "
I still have no idea what that means, but it sounds funny in Kerbal Space Program while loading the game.
Lol... I guess it just means confused :) I like the idea of combobulation
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Every home should have its own power source. The grid has had its day, and now it is night.
Holy crap Isaac,
I feel like I just took in a bit of EEVBlog, Thunderfoot, NurdRage, and PBS SpaceTime in a single half hour upload. Basically all of the channels I regularly watch that take scientific/engineering/chemistry subjects way past my pay grade. This is definitely a watch-it-twice (or more) kind of upload. There are so many things referenced that I want to read into further.
I'm probably biased but this is one of your best uploads in my opinion. I imagine this subject overlaps your day job a bit.
Thanks for sharing, and thanks to everyone else behind the scenes that helps to make this happen every Thursday ;)
-Jake
johnmburt1960 OY VEY! Respecc Wamen!!!
Thank you for pointing hat out. Its lovelly that a guy whose main counter-argument against feminism is that "it is useless and ergo a waste of time" has 103 videos on it.
Its nice to see him raging against pseudoscience. Thats what the 8th circle of hell was engineered for. But im gonna call it. That guy has some serious mommy problems to hate woman that much
@johnmburt1960
Huh. I didn't know any of that about him. I knew he had some personal hard-on against Elon Musk, but it looks like that woody's against a lot of folks.
yet another great piece of work, Isaac, you never fail to impress!
he never fails to deliver! ... fixed it ;)
Yippee... OK I had to Calculate Shipping on the Sigil Website at the first Cart Splash Screen not the Second Shipping Screen but I got it to work... One SFIA Mug and T-shirt inbound! Thank You Isaac! You Channel is well worth the Money!
Cheesecake is my favorite power storage substance
Finally O'Neill cylinders I've been waiting for that video for a long time!👍
Me, too! Something so cool that is actually feasible in the (somewhat) near future excites me far more than colonizing distant star systems or anti-matter torpedoes! >8^)
antred11 need to it's actually more exciting than colonizing planets as well!
Yes new video thank you so much for the hard work Issac
As to getting fuel into black holes:
"Like trying to jam a beach ball through hole in wall the size of a dime - while someone is spraying a pressure washer through the other side."
Well said.
I have watched all your videos and like all of them. But this one really hooked me. This is one problem I think many people tend to overlook.
excellent episode, love the fact that your channel tackles all aspects from the huge to the absurd huge to the small and often overlooked. kudos!
I had a somewhat tough day with the 24 kids in my class today and I barely had a voice since I'm getting sick. Got home with a pounding headache and sore throat and collapsed in the sofa. Then I remembered it's Thursday, so I got up to watch my favourite Thursday video! Sometimes when life is shit you can still find a golden nugget.
Sometimes when you find a golden nugget life can still be shit. :)
Yaaaaas perfect subject matter, was hoping for this one. Much tks
Reddit once again gives me another great channel to watch. Love your stuff.
In a way I envy you. Discovering Isaac Arthur's work for the first time is truly a treat. Have fun with the megastructure material and the civilizations at the end of time (some of my personal favourites).
Soon you will see why all the subscribers cannot wait for thursday to come.
Oh boy you are in for one hell of a binge
Baalur Upward Bound and Outward Bound were pretty good too.
The cherubs in that picture are religious subtext of the harnessing of godly power but emphasising showing it in a positive light. Probably a result of the enlightenment being a time where the knowledge gained by science was finally being viewed as non confrontational to religious teachings in the west.
Sycopathy That's a dubious interpretation. Especially since the "enlightenment" explicitly pitted "science" against religion via materialist dogma.
Krisztián Povázson that's a revisionist understanding considering the fact that most great western thinkers during the era ascribed to some form of Christianity. They sought to ratify their faith and the rational truths they discovered not defeat one with the other.
Deism is not "some form of Christianity", it is practically atheism with a distant and irrelevant godhead. The Aufklaerists were also rather militant advocates of the expulsion of living religion from society for "progress".
Krisztián Povázson Deism in the context of European society is Deism is basically as close as you can get to synonymous with 'some form of Christianity.'
Your videos are something I look forward to every week. I can not express enough how great these are. Each one is so much more than entertainment and education, each one (and I have watched them all) makes me think and furthermore makes me hopeful for the high reaches of the future of humanity, keep up this amazing work!!
This channel always opens my understanding, thanks Isaac Arthur.
Thanks for uploading, Isaac.
As always awesome. Thanks Isaac.....
Your videos never fail to impress me. I like how you dive into depth on certain subjects while touching on a wide variety of subjects at the same time. (For Example instead of just talking about batteries you talked about portable storage!). I am thankful for you channel and love to continue to see more content from you in the future :).
I love this channel. Such a joy to listen to.
I'm working on writing some stories, and this was precisely the episode I needed! Thank you!
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Arthursday*
That should be a meme.
KappaW You it has begun before it began?
Yes, Thursday becomes ARTHursday!
Yay! Can't wait for the 19th. I've been waiting for a video that went deeper into the Oneil Cylinder. Thanks Issac. Great video this week too
Loved it. Please keep them coming.
Been waiting for this, thank you!
Oh man i love this channel!
We still use flywheels for more than most people realise. A data centre in Australia currently makes use of a truly massive one as a stand in for a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) capacitor when there are power blackouts.
Spin it up when the grid works, then tapping its angular momentum for generation when the grid is down.
This is truly the best TH-cam channel! Good luck! Be blessed! :)
All of your videos are superb. The wonderful information & insightful explanations you provide on every topic you end up completely schooling us on is so well thought out & articulated with such style & attention given to every detail that you are the best on the internet making these kinds of videos. I like this video specifically because it's different from the 'usual' types being that it's discussing something we already are familiar with but truly know little about. So naturally once you put your smart as hell spin on it it becomes pleasantly educational. I love your videos Isaac and I'll love you for making them. Keep up with the premium work that you do so well as it is much appreciated and it is the highlight of my evening when I get to watch a new video.
This was amazing. Thank you Isaac!
Perfect, just sat down to eat and the notification arrived, thankyou Isaac.
exactly the same for me
You've become adapted, and now prepare your snacks and drinks at the maximally efficient time.
same
Mug idea.. "the first rule of combat is..." Blank.. leave it as a write in.
Not a bad idea, since there's no way we could get them all on a mug, or maybe even a whole shirt
Overjoyed at finding this channel after watching the episode on terraforming Venus. I love the in-depth approach to these episodes, the topics are always deeply interesting and are very well presented. I think this is my new favourite channel.
Yaaaaay new episode! Thank you !
I've never even thought about a vacuum energy source. Nice. Love the slogan as well. Thank you for these videos Isaac!
I love the voice and the pronunciation of words here. It is unusual and unique. It is part of the icon of this channel. Please don't change it. Just as a channel like this should be. Keep up the great work.
Your series is entertaining and thought provoking
He always seems apologetic for his unique speech. I love it. I switched from listening to thunder storms and rain audio to sleep, now I listen to the soothing sounds of Isaac, then replay it the next day to hear what I missed because it’s the most interesting content on the internet.
Very interesting!
great work as always
thank you for mentioning Ian m banks at the end! I love your videos. this one was great
Great content as usual. Thanks.
Amazing content and presentation. It truly is inspiring to watch.
I thought about the mirror idea a while back. Nice to see it's actually up there with the best of them.
Hi Isaac. I found your channel a few months ago and have been watching your episodes like crazy! Great stuff, and may I just say, you have really come a long way since the first episodes. You have a great voice and you've really improved with your speech impediment, I can't even hear it anymore!
Simply Superb ! ......as always
Would have been interesting to talk more about the dangers of extreme portable power. If something went wrong with an anti-matter battery (or it was intentionally sabotaged) for example even a fraction of a gram could wipe out a city which might be troubling in a future world where everyone has access to one. I guess you could restrict people to fractions of a nano-gram per "charge" but then it wouldn't offer that much advantage over regular batteries.
It could be more useful in vehicles though, we already drive around with a giga-joule or so of explosive gas so the equivalent in anti-matter wouldn't be any more devastating if something went wrong but it would reduce their weight considerably and this could be really useful for space travel.
Jim Giant well when you talk about having technology that advanced where the average man will have the power to destroy a planet, you have to make some basic assumptions that in society coming to develop that technology it changed and grew based on this concept of post-scarcity and no longer requiring competition to get resources.
So basically I'm saying it's just a spot where we have to bet that along the line we solve those problems and use a little handwavium/unobtainium to presume that such technology would either allow us to prevent such misuse or that the concept of misuse would no longer exist. The most likely scenario is that the inventors of these hypothetical technologies will have to Steward Humanity for a couple of generations until we are ready for such responsibilities.
If a gram could take out a city then a kg could possibly protect it somehow.
abz998
That's not how it works. If a gallon of gasoline can explode, a barrel full of the stuff will not protect you...
Vys Erion yh that doesn't make sense. Was referring to the level of tech available.
I'm sure by then we could force fields or enforced structures that prevent everyone in a city dying from an explosion.
There will be protections in place but will they be good enough? We have orders of magnitude more personal power than we had in the past. Modern firearms, cars, hell even a laptop battery catching fire is comparable to a grenade. All of these things can and do go wrong (or are misused) but it''s rare enough and they are useful enough that we accept those risks. I don't know if the same could ever be said when people have the potential to kill millions.
The more powerful these technologies get the more regulations and restrictions are put in place. It could be that we are reaching the limits of what we find acceptable for personal power (though this power could still be used more efficiently and we could all benefit from increases in commercial/industrial power).
always love your content, you have a great week too.
I love your videos man!
Slow day at work, great time to watch this video!
Here's the merchandise link, at the moment it's just a small selection, folks have been asking for a while so I figured it was past-time, but I still wanted to start simple.
SFIA Merchandise available: www.signil.com/?s=sfia
As this is a new thing, please do let me know if you have any problems with it so they can be fixed or otherwise addressed quickly.
You should pin this so it sits at the top.
Thanks Jordan, I thought I had, insufficient caffeine this morning I suspect.
I'll buy what you got. You futurist, you.
Can I just call you Hari Sheldon?
That reminds me, we're almost done with the first year of books of the month, I can probably get away with using Asimov again soon :) Figured no author should have it twice in one year, though he's the one I'd conside making an exception for.
Something to listen to on my drive home from the office
I really enjoyed this episode.
Wow, that pretty much covered everything related to portable power, great video
this is something we can count on every week :) love it
Another badass video.
damn i am half way through interesting documentary and notification arrives, tough choice which to watch first
this has made stacking shelves worth it, thankyou isaac for helping to prevent mental decay in my mind as i go through life's transitions, truly i am grateful to you for this.
I love this channel, one of the very best I'll say, interesting information and some fiction too, I love to discuss about futurism.
Been waiting.
The thumbnails for your videos are positively captivating.
I forgot it was Thursday... a nice little surprise to make my day brighter!
These days it seems like the only day I can actually remember is Thursday :)
Yay! Always pumped for a new episode. 👻🐸🐋👍
That portrait of Ben Franklin at 1:29 is DOOOOOPE.
There's one I like even better: it shows Ben Franklin ensconced in a throne in heaven, holding a lightning bolt in his hand, and surrounded by Roman gods. The caption in Latin is "He stole lightning from the heavens and the sceptre from tyrants."
www.benfranklin300.org/frankliniana/result.php?id=654&sec=0
Whaaat, merch!? I am so happy.
Wow this was awesome :) cant wait for the Fermi paradox episode ! I dont want to be alone in the universe . Pz out from sweden
I love each and every one of these episodes. I work in the healthcare industry on the ME side making ultrasound devices and there is always something you explain that triggers an idea to try or solution to a problem (sometimes I didn't even know I had) that will really change things. This channel is inspiring and delivered to just the right audience. It is bringing more people in to the fold of science and futurism which brings Tomorrow that much closer. Keep up the great work and get on Joe Rogan's podcast already! You would blow everyone's mind and that needs to happen.
Happy Arthursday everyone!
Ahh nothing like sitting down to have lunch and watch a new Isaac Arthur video. Great work as always.
Once again you did not disappoint. My favorite video of yours is 'machine rebellion' and various alien series. Would really like to see more of that :)
Happy Isaac Arthur's Day everybody!
That fusion reactor animation from Oak Ridge never gets old! Good to see ORNL relevant again.
Made my Thursday something to look forward to as usual, Thank you Isaac!
Very informative and useful video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks a lot Isaac 🙂🚀
Thanks!
You do great work Sir, keep it up. Please Please do an episode about the subatomic. Thanks
didn't realize it was Arthursday already
such a nice thing to wake up to
That intro... dude.. dude
. Right on!
I would call the internet a success if the only thing it did was bring this channel to me!
Thank you and Happy Arthursday!!!
Just bought your mug! Considering my money also bought me countless hours of awesome content, it was definitely worth every penny.
As a power engineer, this is my fave episode so far!
An iPhone with the latest SFIA episode is also a decent source of portable power. I always get a burst of energy when the latest episode goes live.
Love the merchandise. I also love the topic of O'Neill Cylinders.
About "portable power", the molten salt Thorium reactor was first developed as a power source for a nuclear powered bomber. A very bad idea but actually possible because an MSR doesn't require pressurized water cooling system, containment vessel, etc. And when the Thorium breeding cycle is perfected, creating expensive radioactive isotopes will become much easier and cheaper. Of course having a source of very inexpensive electrical energy will create the "problem" of making the synthesis of carbon neutral chemical fuels much more attractive in the near term.
I guess portable black holes will probably go the back burner, but on the brighter side almost all of the other technologies in Upward Bound become far more practical and politically feasible.
This topic should be a series. :)
Awesome. I love the fundamentals of portable energy. I also haven't heard of that those perfect mirrors for a particular wavelength. It is hard to believe but superconductors has virtually no loss.
Thursday’s have officially replaced Saturday as my favorite day of the week! Also very excited to score an Isaac Arthur coffee mug
Thursdays my favorite day of the week ! I get this and the no agenda show
This looks so interesting! Great job! Your videos are always so great! Keep going :)
Radio-tropic fungi, I love that idea 👍🏼 Thank you (from Denmark) for another Great episode 👍🏼😊🇩🇰
I read a book in high school called “signal to ground” where they produced energy by siphoning the rotational energy off of celestial bodies. They then used said energy to teleport and all other manner of things. At the expense of the rotation of planets wreaking havoc and creating the plot. This made me think of that. Good work Isaac.