Thorium Video Coming Soon!
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2020
- The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some hiccups for our video recording, but thankfully we will be getting back to uploading soon. Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these unprecedented times. Look forward to a new video on Thorium coming out soon!
Really enjoy your channel. No BS, No Politics, just good old fashioned teaching, done with a bit of humor. Outstanding!
Hi David and the team in Illinois. I wanted to say a huge thank you for all your videos and the inspiration it has given me! I just found out I've been accepted to do a PhD on improving accident tolerant fuels (namely uranium nitride) here in the U.K. and it was your videos that motivated me to apply and then subsequently made me look amazing in the interviews. I'll even get the chance to visit Idaho and Oak Ridge which I'm beyond excited for
So thank you and I look forward to future videos🙏🏼
Dude is back! I might actually learn some science again.
Professor, I am an aerospace engineer, now graduated and into the job market. I am enjoying your videos so much, it is such a pleasure to keep learning. Your content is really a gem. Thank you for your work.
Can't wait for what I need to know about Thorium.
Thank you for continuing this video program! Stay safe out there
Thank you professor. These videos are fantastic.
Cool Thorium! How about a Forest Gump bit "Thorium salt, thorium oxide, molten thorium......."
Great to see you back Doc and looking forward to new adventures.
Yessss Thorium from the nuclear master. Can’t wait.
I was heavily advocating for video about thorium, I sure a lot od people here also did, I am so happy that it is coming out!
Can't wait! Thanks Professor
thanks, Prof for good and informative videos ! 👍
Nice! I will stay tuned!
You do great work. Keep em coming.
Love your videos! Keep them coming!
I am very much looking forward to this
YES.... Thorium!!! Finally
Looking forward to it.
He's back!
Happy to hear you’ll be back soon. Have missed your videos
I'm happy you are back. I have learned a lot from your videos.
Brilliant, I'm off to the hardware store to buy up all their thorium
I love this channel .
Thank you Dr! Thank you! Stay healthy and stay safe. And... Thank you!!
A trailer! Love it!
Thanks for the update! Any chance we could see a video about potential micro reactors? The DoD is working on a mobile nuclear reactor program called Project Pele in addition to companies like OKLO.
Excellent idea. I have put it on the list!
Rolls-Royce is also building Small Modular Reactors (SMR)
So excited!
Great!!!!
Yesss can’t wait
Waiting for more,thx
Welcome back Prof
Well, that is how you can do someone's day. Thank you :D
I got my thinking cap on!
I can't wait to see it sir!!!
I hear someone breathing to mic :D
could be a stress signal
One of my favourite Americans!
His videos are so cool.
Yay, Thorium!
Would like to see you get back to the 'magic' white board. It really helped to see you use pictographs to explain the science behind the story.
My body is ready
Be safe!
Neato.
Welcome back! Glad the beer didnt get ya! Stay safe and we look forward yo the new vid =]
Wow!
Don't really care about thorium in particular but super excited that he is back!
Go professor go! Can you do it video on state-of-the-art in battery technology.
he is back
Looking forward to it. I would love your thoughts on these new reactors being invented, specifically condensed matter hydrogen Fuel cells also known as LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactors or Lattice Energy Nuclear Reactors). Are they they the real deal? Thanks for your work! Cheers.
Prof, a question I think you are the perfect person to ask.
We know CO2 etc in the atmosphere is warming our planet, but how much of that extra warmth comes from actually burning fossil fuels and trees etc? The reason I ask is that in the future we will potentially be getting a lot of our energy from nuclear sources, both fusion and fission, carbon free effectively but still adding energy to our biosphere. Is this likely to be a concern and if so what ways could we mitigate it?
Sorry, I misundestood and answered wrong (deleted)
Its around 1%, but higher absorptivity (is it spelled well?) helps so, a bit less than 1%, that makes me think about scale...
But by the time we heat up significantly, we could build a glass pane in L1 to block all infrared, and we're done enough time to move to a dyson swarm.
Heat wont be a problem until REAALLY far in the future...
Dear Craig, Lots of things emit greenhouse gasses, but burning fossil fuels is one of them, and it is the component that has so dramatically increased over the last 100 years, and especially over the last 20 years. If we need to reduce the amount of CO2 that we are putting into the air, then replacing fossil fuel use with electricity made from nuclear power is a possible way to do it -- and in my opinion a good way. I fear though that it will not happen soon enough, so that some geoengineering may be needed (see that lecture). Talk about controversial though!
@@davidruzic3452 Sorry, I don't think my question was worded very well. I was referring to the Thermal output, or released energy, from burning all that fossil fuel and cleared forests, not the CO2 etc emitted.
Craig, I think that the amount on energy that human activity pumps into the earth system is minimal compared to the background heat provided by the sun. In the absence of atmospheric moderators this energy is easily radiated into space.
Oh, I understand. The comment below is right. The heat from burning the fuels, wood coal etc., is very small compared to the energy the sun hits the earth with. What is absorbed by the earth from the sun is balance by what we radiate away. The greenhouse gasses change that balance.
make a video on supercritical co2 closed cycle turbine also
We stay tuned, but you stay safe, deal?
Molten reactor? I hope...
How about making a video explaining the ITER fusion reactor, that began construction in 2013 and will open in 2025
Great business ITER. Absolutely useless, but great business indeed. :-D Now, seriously, ITER is a great science and engineering project, and it should provide important spinoffs as well as useful scientific information. However, it's being sold as something it is not. They won't be working with deuterium-tritim before 2035-36, so there will be no experience on burning plasmas until then. Then there's the question of economic feasibility. A DEMO based on ITER will be like going to the moon; yes, it can be done, but the cost/benefit isn't worth it. That's why alternatives should be sought.
Another excellent idea. I do have a bit about it in my fusion lecture, but I could and should do more.
Can you make video about molten salt reactor .
mmmmm molten salt.
I miss the see-through screen
At last
There is one guy on the Internet that talked a lot about Thorium, let me look him up: ua-cam.com/video/GAiHtrWHxK0/v-deo.html I forgot his name. It is a subject that people like to talk about, Thorium is coming, Thorium is coming. It looks like it is similar to nuclear fusion, always 30 years in the future.
Like the fake thorium powered car?