I actually helped develop enronium and in addition to the mentioned properties, it is a superconductor at 70C, and all the things that graphene was supposed to do, also it grants wishes.
I am actually the one who designed the egg, and I can confirm that it`s made of an unobtanium-vibranium alloy that can only be manufactured in space, specifically the free space in people`s craniums, we therefore have to thank Elon for cooperating and sharing the secrets of how he invented space travel, and a huge shoutout to Rick&Morty for making the scanning device that lets us look at people`s heads and see who has the most available space, making them candidates for our EHS (empty head system) program. It has really been great to see so many people enjoying our nuclear egg, as well as our Huusk knives. Again, big thanks to Elon and Zuck for making this all possible, we couldn`t have done it without you. And Huusk knives..
@@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh Well, the Rockwell Retro Encabulator is an intrinsic part of the Hyperloop's proprilumtory designagement. And along with disencapsulationed inscrimbancy technology, the Hyperloop is set to launch by 2045!
Is this a joke that I’m just too stupid to understand? There’s no way anyone worth their salt in marketing could possibly think launching first-of-its-kind, at-home nuclear solutions under the notorious Enron name would ever be a good idea 😂
@@Merrunz yeah after watching the rest of the video it was more clearly a joke, but it’s awesome to hear why it came to be. I love that someone did this 😂
Do I understand correctly that when parents leave the house, they have to lock the Revolutionary Egg in a cabinet with the rifle? If you think kids are weak and won’t smash it to kingdom come, then you don’t have kids. Kids are the strongest creatures in the universe when they need to break something.
I can't possibly imagine how such a concept could go horribly wrong. Surely everyone would be smart enough to know to not mess with the NUCLEAR REACTOR inside their home. No human has ever hurt themselves, others, or their property by messing with home appliances. Edit: Just realized the whole thing is a joke. Thank goodness. My original point still stands because I could see this being attempted by your average tech startup and getting millions in funding.
Its a joke, but Small reactors are a gopd concept, a reactor size of a bus or 2 busses is a developing technology for aproviding energy for a 5km radius areas
Hahaha This is a prank by the same guys that did the " Birds are not Real" prank. They brought the Enron brand name they are pretty funny. Great channel mate I luv the content👍
Heat dissipation. Why would you need that? You see it not only provides electricity, it also heats your home. Two utilities in one. I'm sure they're working on the "Enron Nest" to go with it that allows you to combine Oxygen and Hydrogen into water.
Home services are 240 volts (nominal) and 200 amps would be the panel rating of a modern home. Not unreasonable. I don't have a problem with the 200 amps stated, but he should have also said the kw. The issue I have is that we don't use continuous power. So how are we going to control the reaction power to match our load use? Oh yeah, AI should take care of that. :)
The shipping company with the FBI at your door:"Unm sir a company called... enron shipped you a large package of pure enriched uranium, you are now under arrest and investigation"
"If you're in the fifth year of your Enron subprime option arm subprime loan... You're going to need to buy this so you can afford Christmas presents."
I'm sold! I bet this Enron egg is priced out of reach except for a few like a Lionel passenger train sets, which makes me want one even more! 200A is needed for starting typical 36,000 BTU A/C compressors that pull 45A or more when starting along with possible other high current uses at the same moment.
"yes because Enron is what you think of when you think of social responsibility" Thank you! Exactly what I was about to say. How does ANYBODY look at Enron and say "now that's a trustworthy company" 😆😆😆
I love this idea, if I had to to have something like that I'd get the cert. I think be cooler though larger version power house, heat the hottub, heat your house, heat the garage, etc. My biggest question I saw this wasn't really the shielding but where is the generator/turbine or are they doing thermocouple type thing, but those never seem to make much amperage.
I know this is a joke and a home reactor would be cool but there's no way the average idiot could handle having one. Some people cant even handle operating a wood stove correctly and burn down their house. Imagine if they had a home reactor, we'd have mini chernobyl's all over the country every day🤣
You should react to "An Engineering Fairy Tale: Cascade Failure at the Super Kamiokande" by "Alexander the ok"! They talk about particle physics. They also talk about cherenkov radiation a bit in there, too.
200a service is at 240v, that means the reactor would be a MINIMUM 24kw of heat in a home, you would not want that inside your domicile outside of the arctic circle(and even then that much heat would have to be dynamically dissipated partly outside this is granting 100% thermal to electrical conversion, basically impossible right now at best getting a 24kw reactor to operate leaves you with 100kw of waste heat, a dangerous amount to have at all inside a domicile in any part of the world without carefully maintained heat venting and a reactor that size would NOT be merely the size of a human, the reactor CORE might be that small, but the shielding to not kill you would be at least 10x that size I am not even a nuclear engineer and I could tell you "the egg" is 100% bullshit in every spec they give the only way to have a home-sized reactor(200a service) is to have a full GARAGE sized structure OUTSIDE with a source of emergency cooling water nearby that takes up ~10x the space of the reactor building and this ignores that 90% of the time 90% of that 200a(24kw) is going to be unused maybe a 20a(~4,800w constant) reactor could fit within a sub-basement chamber of a typical american home with all the REQUIRED safety gear and have enough room for the massive 100kwh battery array and 24kw 240v invertor array to stabilize your reactor to a constant load while allowing for a variable load home I would not mind such a setup in my McMansion, a small reactor with automated self-stabilized and self-secured safety systems acting like a DC hydroelectric turbine source of 1000-4000w I use 1000-1500w average by myself with many days spent away from home, a 2000w reactor(probably 10,000w thermal rating) would be fine if fully vented outside(my place is hot and I deal poorly with heat) but a 200a 240v reactor would be something akin to a WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD reactor, a real practical non-nuisance job for your HOA to maintain the building that houses the reactor and safety equipment the problem with ideas like this is assuming the service capacity s the average load, it NEVER is most devices in homes are old-fashioned thermostatic-reactive devices heating/hvac is a CONSTANT speed that simply turns on and off as needed so the average is the required to keep you comfortable(often AC systems are up to 5x oversized in older homes too) water heaters are the same, especially tankless systems, only heating water(the biggest energy task in any home beyond even air heating) when you are needing it heated(the tanked systems are remarkably efficient and only pull the full 4800w if you empty the entire tank of hot water and only for a few hours max) basically a 200a 240v reactor would be belching useless heat constantly as it would be unable to ramp fast enough to keep up with load variances due to PHYSICS but a 4800w reactor and a 24kw solar battery+invertor setup without the panels? yeah it would fulfill your needs for the lifetime of the fuel sadly microreactors lead to security issues and idiots in control of nuclear devices would be an apocalypse begging to happen the best solution is, WOAH, large reactor plants properly inspected and maintained by actual nuclear experts and using the power grid and hydro-pump storage to vary supply rapidly, funny that 1: rebuild TMI and a few other reactors near large existing reservoirs 2: ban non-experts from making decisions about operation beyond emergency safety plans they are not allowed to modify 3: force regular maintenance inspections by actual experts 4: add pumped hydro/new energy storage innovations like the "rust battery" to provide a decoupling of reactor state from load so it can ramp safely and boom, cheap clean safe power for hundreds or thousands of years nuclear when properly designed and maintained is 100% safe and clean, the operators even have safety thresholds and devices to keep them safe with a margin that is actually beyond the danger zone just for extra safety I want my nuclear power if we aren't able to delete fossil fuels at all as a legal option for mass power(fuck you oil barons suck my green glowing oil-free cock :P ) nuclear is remarkably stable, the ONLY downside is actually the ramp speed, which can be compensated in multiple ways if we centralize power infrastructure management(ie force them all to communicate and adjust based on the needs of others) 1: solar boilers are super stable and can compensate for daytime loads(and even act as batteries by resistive heating the boilers when the reactors need to burn power off) 2: hydropower can likely easily add pump-storage via excavated chambers if required 3: iron based electrochemical batteries are an innovation that could be useful in grid-scale storage as they already have land that could be dual-purposed to hold the cells
@ 14:45 - On the point about Thorium and liquid metals: It reminded me of some recent things I have been hearing about that startup in Copenhagen developing molten Thorium salt reactors. What is your take on those? Do you think they'll eventually become what these guys were joking about? Seems like a fascinating development. Also, footnote, this is the first video of yours I've seen (I liked it), so I apologize if you've already covered this topic; I'm going to go browse your channel right now.
Someone at Enron has been looking at the TRIGA. TRIGA uses UZrH HELU (was a student operator for UofAz when they had the TRIGA mk III back in the mid to late 90s...it was decomm'd around 2010).
I have so many questions to ask! I had a dream about a cold fusion micro reactor and wanted to know if some concepts would work. Yes it’s a cold fusion reactor that’s super chill haha
That was pretty funny. I like the pitch man wearing a Chinese student blazer in mole hair and an Enron logo necklace like he's some hip-hop MC just dropping salesman word salad. I wonder if they will offer a bulk discount if you order them by the dozen. The reason there are no plugs is because the kids only want to buy wireless devices now. In all seriousness though it would be cool if smaller scale reactors were a thing using a distributed power generation grid strategy instead of needing complex large, centralized facilities.
The Apollo program used RTGs on the moon, which were about that size. I would love to see a video describing how those work and why we don't use them here.😊
Hot (plutonium isnt exactly safe, but neither is space), heavy (you aint carrying that thing without a crane), inefficient and prohibitively expensive, but is only good way to make power without wasting fuel or relying purely on sun and batteries. Also they are used to power remote locations like autonomous beacons or radio towers far from any civilisation.
I suppose that if the shielding and power output were in the right ballpark, a properly qualified reactor operator could monitor a big array of nuclear "eggs." Having a common form factor would mean that you could mass produce the "shells." But, unless there's some kind of bigger on the inside magic going on, it would probably be cheaper to build a conventional nuclear reactor at the right scale. Smaller is not always better. 🤷♂
i wanna see one of these hooked up with like and industrial coolant radiator and 00 gauge wires sticking out of the top and some enron employee going "you just unplug it" xD
Boron carbide/beryllium oxide rotating drum assemblies are used for space flight reactors in nuclear rocket engines for controlling the power output. Traditional control rods won't work because the heat and pressure would jam the mechanics.
enron egg schematic The "Enron Egg" is actually a parody product created by the company Enron as part of an elaborate joke. The concept is a compact nuclear reactor designed for residential use, which supposedly uses Uranium-Zirconium Hydride (U-ZrH) fuel rods to generate heat through nuclear fission. This heat would then be transferred via a 3D-printed heat exchanger to power a turbine and generate electricity1. However, it's important to note that the Enron Egg is not a real product and was created as a humorous take on the company's infamous history. The relaunch of Enron and the introduction of the Enron Egg were intended as a parody and should not be taken seriously1.
Interesting, the have the steam turbine invisible included and also no cooling is required. Thats next level, im pretty sure you also can connect it with your home wireless 😅
What's your opinion on brilliant light power? Also, how do they get away with selling hydride? I thought that was a weapons grade material you have to use a particle collider to make it. Bob Lazar made some so he can run a Corvette. So my guess is they use that to absorb the hydrogen for the plasma nuclear reaction or whatever they're doing
My initial reaction to the first presenter was "you can put that egg right back where the idea for it came from, your own @$$. Lol, mech engineer here, but I understand enough to know this is a bit of a stretch in technology.
You can go from amps to watts pretty easy. I'd assume 110 and 200 Amps. 22 KW. Maybe Enronium is some version of Aerogel doped with a metmaterial to refract radiation. I think it was clever and got the umagination rolling.
0:35 I didn't know indepencence and freedom are industries. Aren't those human rights lmao 😂 Edit: Now that I'm more sober, this joke feels a bit more serious then I thought at first.
I actually saw an ad and thought “This can’t be real”, glad that you made a video on it so I can confirm, it’s obviously a Scam as Nikola (those that faked electric cars)
"Can you buy them by the dozen?" I appreciated that.
The great hard-boiled😅
Hahaha damn. I read this in my mind with me meme voice. - i appreciated that
😂😅
I died when I heard him say that
They would cost the current price of eggs. Haha!
I actually helped develop enronium and in addition to the mentioned properties, it is a superconductor at 70C, and all the things that graphene was supposed to do, also it grants wishes.
Your very own Monolith straight from the Zone.
Bro forgot that it is used in medical Imaging 💀
I can't believe you made it out of talking fish. What will fishermen do once you've depleted their population?!
They’re also using enronium to produce cold fusion.
I am actually the one who designed the egg, and I can confirm that it`s made of an unobtanium-vibranium alloy that can only be manufactured in space, specifically the free space in people`s craniums, we therefore have to thank Elon for cooperating and sharing the secrets of how he invented space travel, and a huge shoutout to Rick&Morty for making the scanning device that lets us look at people`s heads and see who has the most available space, making them candidates for our EHS (empty head system) program.
It has really been great to see so many people enjoying our nuclear egg, as well as our Huusk knives.
Again, big thanks to Elon and Zuck for making this all possible, we couldn`t have done it without you.
And Huusk knives..
this guy isnt a youtube reactor
hes a nuclear reactor
ba-dum tiss
Wheres a Sheldon fan when you need them
Ughhh Daaaddd! 😂
But does he film from home?
@@NicholasproclaimerofMessiah No, from a Nuclear Plant.
These guys went above and beyond to make the parody. They own Enron’s old domain and they have an X account. It’s wild.
The Enron Egg is the best comedy bit since the invention of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator.
The meme life has become real life
I thought you gonna say hyperloop.
@@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh Well, the Rockwell Retro Encabulator is an intrinsic part of the Hyperloop's proprilumtory designagement. And along with disencapsulationed inscrimbancy technology, the Hyperloop is set to launch by 2045!
@@peter5.056 Yeah. But then it is going to get delayed...indefinitely.
@@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh Well, just 20 years in perpetuity.
So the Egg isn't all it's cracked up to be?
😂
Omelet you have this one. 😆
It's all just a big YOKE!
This is like the Apple version of the soviet union sprinkling RTGs all over its remote areas back in the day.
Is this a joke that I’m just too stupid to understand? There’s no way anyone worth their salt in marketing could possibly think launching first-of-its-kind, at-home nuclear solutions under the notorious Enron name would ever be a good idea 😂
I havenct even watched it yet and i'm going to say it's a joke, or even worse a kickstarter type scam that was allowed on some platform 😂
Yes it is a fake product pitched by a parody company that owns the name and logo of the old Enron company.
@@Merrunz yeah after watching the rest of the video it was more clearly a joke, but it’s awesome to hear why it came to be. I love that someone did this 😂
It’s an art project. Look it up
if elon musk said he made this thing every idiot would be believing it as real lol
Is this a joke from the Onion or something?
Some comedian bought the rights to the name Enron and is doing performance art/parody with it.
@@drstrangejove637 The same guy whose behind "Birds Aren't Real"
nah onion cant be funny
@@drstrangejove637 I was confused for a moment. Enron kicked the bucket almost 20 years ago
I love how the first guy was a parody of Mark Zuckerberg and the second guy was a parody of Jensen Huang.
Exactly my thoughts 😂
Do I understand correctly that when parents leave the house, they have to lock the Revolutionary Egg in a cabinet with the rifle? If you think kids are weak and won’t smash it to kingdom come, then you don’t have kids. Kids are the strongest creatures in the universe when they need to break something.
I can attest to that! My best friend and I successfully broke a Tonka bulldozer
I demolished a garage made of cinderblock when I was 9. I used a bowling ball to do it too, the most expensive looking one I could find.
This is a master class in trolling. 11/10
2:43 not gonna lie I was expecting him to say "... and contracted radiation poisoning"
Interesting how the Enron logo looks like the evil corp logo from Mr robot.
The Evil Corp logo was designed to look similar to the Enron logo.
Every kid wants to have personal nuclear reactor, it is so cool to have one!
Only thing even better - is to have personal spacecraft of some sort.
Every household gangsta until they start decaying in their family friendly mini Chernobyl meltdown
I bought it and already changed my life, it’s saving me 1000800 Kilomatts when powering my solid fish
The chief Quality Officer is Charles Darwin.
my little ones love the radiant heat coming off the egg
I can't possibly imagine how such a concept could go horribly wrong. Surely everyone would be smart enough to know to not mess with the NUCLEAR REACTOR inside their home. No human has ever hurt themselves, others, or their property by messing with home appliances.
Edit: Just realized the whole thing is a joke. Thank goodness. My original point still stands because I could see this being attempted by your average tech startup and getting millions in funding.
Heh, no kidding. If this was real, my dumb a$$ would try to paint it 😂😂😂
Its a joke, but Small reactors are a gopd concept, a reactor size of a bus or 2 busses is a developing technology for aproviding energy for a 5km radius areas
safe refueling is as simple as driving down the freeway (with a nuclear reactor strapped in on your back seat) to your nearest enron service center
Hahaha This is a prank by the same guys that did the " Birds are not Real" prank. They brought the Enron brand name they are pretty funny. Great channel mate I luv the content👍
What kind of Zuckmberg from Wish is that guy?
Heat dissipation. Why would you need that? You see it not only provides electricity, it also heats your home. Two utilities in one. I'm sure they're working on the "Enron Nest" to go with it that allows you to combine Oxygen and Hydrogen into water.
Ey you forgot that you need a way to convert the heat into electricity, which takes even more space and heat dissipation.
Such an excellent parody. Love your subtle jokes and, as always, useful info
Home services are 240 volts (nominal) and 200 amps would be the panel rating of a modern home. Not unreasonable. I don't have a problem with the 200 amps stated, but he should have also said the kw. The issue I have is that we don't use continuous power. So how are we going to control the reaction power to match our load use? Oh yeah, AI should take care of that. :)
Is it April already?
No mate, its January
@@ayushgaming2150 facepalm man
My wife believed this. 🤦♂️🤣
After your ringing endorsement, I pre-ordered from the link in the description! Thank you Tyler for the amazing recommendation!
Love your videos, as an aspiring mechatronics engineer wanting to work in the nuclear sector I love your videos :)
The shipping company with the FBI at your door:"Unm sir a company called... enron shipped you a large package of pure enriched uranium, you are now under arrest and investigation"
i don't want a reactor core meltdown in my house
Imagine the fires in LA... now with 10.000 nuclear reactors on fire. Genius!!
Immediately after I saw this online I KNEW you’d make a video about it and I’m so happy 😂
"If you're in the fifth year of your Enron subprime option arm subprime loan... You're going to need to buy this so you can afford Christmas presents."
I'm sold! I bet this Enron egg is priced out of reach except for a few like a Lionel passenger train sets, which makes me want one even more! 200A is needed for starting typical 36,000 BTU A/C compressors that pull 45A or more when starting along with possible other high current uses at the same moment.
When I see a vid notification my inner voice goes “Teeeee Folse!”
"yes because Enron is what you think of when you think of social responsibility"
Thank you! Exactly what I was about to say.
How does ANYBODY look at Enron and say "now that's a trustworthy company" 😆😆😆
*"Enronium" sounds Erroneous! pun absolutely intended!* 😂😂😂
those 400 amp homes just need another.
3:40 i think you misunderstood, the egg is 100% wireless (and fictional).
Tyler, what happened lol, last I checked you were like less than 100k subs, now you’re over 400k?! Congrats man! Glad more people found your stuff
I love this idea, if I had to to have something like that I'd get the cert. I think be cooler though larger version power house, heat the hottub, heat your house, heat the garage, etc. My biggest question I saw this wasn't really the shielding but where is the generator/turbine or are they doing thermocouple type thing, but those never seem to make much amperage.
Guys he discovered how to make an arc reactor! He's Tony Stark!
And he did it IN A CAVE! WITH SCRAPS!
when i first saw that commercial for this i legit thought it was an Onion skit
If someone came up with a viable FUSION home reactor, they would be murdered in about half a second by the FFI.
Ahh i was waiting in the end for him to walk back and accidentally knock the egg over and it breaking 😂😂😜
Wow, they didn't even try that hard to make this sound legit 😂 im impressed the presenter could keep a straight face
It’s like something from the 50s. “In 30 years, every home will have their very own nuclear reactor.”
I was waiting for your video ever since I heard about this egg.
Honestly, it's wild there are people alive who remember Enron for anything other than being a pyramid scheme or a meme 😅
I know this is a joke and a home reactor would be cool but there's no way the average idiot could handle having one. Some people cant even handle operating a wood stove correctly and burn down their house. Imagine if they had a home reactor, we'd have mini chernobyl's all over the country every day🤣
You should react to "An Engineering Fairy Tale: Cascade Failure at the Super Kamiokande" by "Alexander the ok"!
They talk about particle physics. They also talk about cherenkov radiation a bit in there, too.
I worked with Enron developing the egg and they fired me when I brought SAFETY CONCERNS to them with one blowing you’ll die in a domino explosion
They also had plans to deploy it around the world, meaning no holds barred on who's gonna buy the thing🤣👍
200a service is at 240v, that means the reactor would be a MINIMUM 24kw of heat in a home, you would not want that inside your domicile outside of the arctic circle(and even then that much heat would have to be dynamically dissipated partly outside
this is granting 100% thermal to electrical conversion, basically impossible right now
at best getting a 24kw reactor to operate leaves you with 100kw of waste heat, a dangerous amount to have at all inside a domicile in any part of the world without carefully maintained heat venting
and a reactor that size would NOT be merely the size of a human, the reactor CORE might be that small, but the shielding to not kill you would be at least 10x that size
I am not even a nuclear engineer and I could tell you "the egg" is 100% bullshit in every spec they give
the only way to have a home-sized reactor(200a service) is to have a full GARAGE sized structure OUTSIDE with a source of emergency cooling water nearby that takes up ~10x the space of the reactor building
and this ignores that 90% of the time 90% of that 200a(24kw) is going to be unused
maybe a 20a(~4,800w constant) reactor could fit within a sub-basement chamber of a typical american home with all the REQUIRED safety gear
and have enough room for the massive 100kwh battery array and 24kw 240v invertor array to stabilize your reactor to a constant load while allowing for a variable load home
I would not mind such a setup in my McMansion, a small reactor with automated self-stabilized and self-secured safety systems acting like a DC hydroelectric turbine source of 1000-4000w
I use 1000-1500w average by myself with many days spent away from home, a 2000w reactor(probably 10,000w thermal rating) would be fine if fully vented outside(my place is hot and I deal poorly with heat)
but a 200a 240v reactor would be something akin to a WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD reactor, a real practical non-nuisance job for your HOA to maintain the building that houses the reactor and safety equipment
the problem with ideas like this is assuming the service capacity s the average load, it NEVER is
most devices in homes are old-fashioned thermostatic-reactive devices
heating/hvac is a CONSTANT speed that simply turns on and off as needed so the average is the required to keep you comfortable(often AC systems are up to 5x oversized in older homes too)
water heaters are the same, especially tankless systems, only heating water(the biggest energy task in any home beyond even air heating) when you are needing it heated(the tanked systems are remarkably efficient and only pull the full 4800w if you empty the entire tank of hot water and only for a few hours max)
basically a 200a 240v reactor would be belching useless heat constantly as it would be unable to ramp fast enough to keep up with load variances due to PHYSICS
but a 4800w reactor and a 24kw solar battery+invertor setup without the panels? yeah it would fulfill your needs for the lifetime of the fuel
sadly microreactors lead to security issues and idiots in control of nuclear devices would be an apocalypse begging to happen
the best solution is, WOAH, large reactor plants properly inspected and maintained by actual nuclear experts and using the power grid and hydro-pump storage to vary supply rapidly, funny that
1: rebuild TMI and a few other reactors near large existing reservoirs
2: ban non-experts from making decisions about operation beyond emergency safety plans they are not allowed to modify
3: force regular maintenance inspections by actual experts
4: add pumped hydro/new energy storage innovations like the "rust battery" to provide a decoupling of reactor state from load so it can ramp safely
and boom, cheap clean safe power for hundreds or thousands of years
nuclear when properly designed and maintained is 100% safe and clean, the operators even have safety thresholds and devices to keep them safe with a margin that is actually beyond the danger zone just for extra safety
I want my nuclear power if we aren't able to delete fossil fuels at all as a legal option for mass power(fuck you oil barons suck my green glowing oil-free cock :P )
nuclear is remarkably stable, the ONLY downside is actually the ramp speed, which can be compensated in multiple ways if we centralize power infrastructure management(ie force them all to communicate and adjust based on the needs of others)
1: solar boilers are super stable and can compensate for daytime loads(and even act as batteries by resistive heating the boilers when the reactors need to burn power off)
2: hydropower can likely easily add pump-storage via excavated chambers if required
3: iron based electrochemical batteries are an innovation that could be useful in grid-scale storage as they already have land that could be dual-purposed to hold the cells
@ 14:45 - On the point about Thorium and liquid metals: It reminded me of some recent things I have been hearing about that startup in Copenhagen developing molten Thorium salt reactors. What is your take on those? Do you think they'll eventually become what these guys were joking about? Seems like a fascinating development. Also, footnote, this is the first video of yours I've seen (I liked it), so I apologize if you've already covered this topic; I'm going to go browse your channel right now.
Someone at Enron has been looking at the TRIGA. TRIGA uses UZrH HELU (was a student operator for UofAz when they had the TRIGA mk III back in the mid to late 90s...it was decomm'd around 2010).
Until he revealed the egg I thought there was someone standing in front of the screen 😂
I have so many questions to ask! I had a dream about a cold fusion micro reactor and wanted to know if some concepts would work. Yes it’s a cold fusion reactor that’s super chill haha
I love how the use of the egg is for residential SUBURBAN specifically.
Imagine some avarage psychopath taking that appart, and hides it in a crowded area, doing radiation damage to countless people.
10secs in and I was furiously googling "enron egg"! 😅
The moment I saw this video, I literally laughed out loud! Then I thought, I hope Tyler does a reaction video on this. LOL!
That was pretty funny. I like the pitch man wearing a Chinese student blazer in mole hair and an Enron logo necklace like he's some hip-hop MC just dropping salesman word salad. I wonder if they will offer a bulk discount if you order them by the dozen. The reason there are no plugs is because the kids only want to buy wireless devices now. In all seriousness though it would be cool if smaller scale reactors were a thing using a distributed power generation grid strategy instead of needing complex large, centralized facilities.
The Apollo program used RTGs on the moon, which were about that size. I would love to see a video describing how those work and why we don't use them here.😊
Hot (plutonium isnt exactly safe, but neither is space), heavy (you aint carrying that thing without a crane), inefficient and prohibitively expensive, but is only good way to make power without wasting fuel or relying purely on sun and batteries. Also they are used to power remote locations like autonomous beacons or radio towers far from any civilisation.
People would use it to spice up the bombs they make at home. Just think of the cleanup bill you'd be stuck with.
I wonder how many people viewing even remember Enron.
Households are drawing alot more than 2 kilowatts.
You missed him saying that "the heavy water is enriched with hydrogen"
I suppose that if the shielding and power output were in the right ballpark, a properly qualified reactor operator could monitor a big array of nuclear "eggs." Having a common form factor would mean that you could mass produce the "shells." But, unless there's some kind of bigger on the inside magic going on, it would probably be cheaper to build a conventional nuclear reactor at the right scale. Smaller is not always better. 🤷♂
Is it just me or is there a faint Geiger counter clicking noise from time to time when Tyler is speaking? 😆
i wanna see one of these hooked up with like and industrial coolant radiator and 00 gauge wires sticking out of the top and some enron employee going "you just unplug it" xD
Me: *points* "Mom, can we have nuclear reactor?"
Mom: "We have nuclear reactor at home."
Nuclear reactor at home:
Now I get the whole "but the price of eggs!" thing 😉
The subtle jokes you keep dropping 🤣🤣
I think the only thing this egg will produce is an ostrich
..... For the first time, both you and your couch will glow in the dark, night after night! Thanks, Emron, for your stupid radioactive egg😂
Boron carbide/beryllium oxide rotating drum assemblies are used for space flight reactors in nuclear rocket engines for controlling the power output. Traditional control rods won't work because the heat and pressure would jam the mechanics.
Enron, after their oil spill don't think imma going to get one of these.
Joke or no, Enron doesn't inspire much trust.
enron egg schematic
The "Enron Egg" is actually a parody product created by the company Enron as part of an elaborate joke. The concept is a compact nuclear reactor designed for residential use, which supposedly uses Uranium-Zirconium Hydride (U-ZrH) fuel rods to generate heat through nuclear fission. This heat would then be transferred via a 3D-printed heat exchanger to power a turbine and generate electricity1.
However, it's important to note that the Enron Egg is not a real product and was created as a humorous take on the company's infamous history. The relaunch of Enron and the introduction of the Enron Egg were intended as a parody and should not be taken seriously1.
about time.... I mean George Jettison is 3 yrs old today
Interesting, the have the steam turbine invisible included and also no cooling is required. Thats next level, im pretty sure you also can connect it with your home wireless 😅
Milhouse had a great career as a nuclear engineer
Of course it's enron, wouldn't be something like this without their logo
What's your opinion on brilliant light power? Also, how do they get away with selling hydride? I thought that was a weapons grade material you have to use a particle collider to make it. Bob Lazar made some so he can run a Corvette. So my guess is they use that to absorb the hydrogen for the plasma nuclear reaction or whatever they're doing
Im embarrassed by how long it took me, to realise it was a parody
Love how it feels like a apple presentation.
My initial reaction to the first presenter was "you can put that egg right back where the idea for it came from, your own @$$. Lol, mech engineer here, but I understand enough to know this is a bit of a stretch in technology.
I'm gonna hold off for 20 years, for Mr. Fusion...
The jokes are within jokes within jokes. The founder, CEO, and Chairman of Enron was Kenneth Lee Lay…
You can go from amps to watts pretty easy. I'd assume 110 and 200 Amps. 22 KW. Maybe Enronium is some version of Aerogel doped with a metmaterial to refract radiation. I think it was clever and got the umagination rolling.
even if there was a small enough reactor like that it would produce more energy than i could possibly use.
You had me at “Enron”
You can use thorium instead of uranium (just needed to initiate the reaction) to not subproduce plutonium. Correct me if I'm wrong.
0:35 I didn't know indepencence and freedom are industries. Aren't those human rights lmao 😂
Edit: Now that I'm more sober, this joke feels a bit more serious then I thought at first.
Holy fuck I can’t watch the video without him stopping every second wtf
You are watching a person who's entire job is reacting to content and are complaining that the guy is reacting
Just watch the original video
I actually saw an ad and thought “This can’t be real”, glad that you made a video on it so I can confirm, it’s obviously a Scam as Nikola (those that faked electric cars)
Its like a setup for a future fallout-style game 😂😂😂
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Did the egg destroy humanity or did humanity destroy the egg?
This is the question the people of the future are going to try to figure out.