Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?

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We should invest more in space technology as it might be the only solution for finding alternative source of energy in the future. Space researched could help a lot in the prospects. There's already a nagging idea of propelling Helium-3 which could honestly a good replacement of fossil fuels. This energy resource could be found on the Moon. Another idea is getting unlimited energy from the Sun using satellite panels and could remotely send energy back to Earth. There was something that Nikolas Tesla proposed to get electricity as safe and cleaner but he died before his idea was struck on the next generations. Either way, mankind should really get their heads out of the ground and look for ways as not doing anything would turn out future into the stuff of nightmare for our future generations to experienced.

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I was born and raised seven miles from a nuclear plant. We rarely list power and they did wonders for the community. i would love to see more of them.

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@puteqx5155 it still is

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Lately they've done some clickbaity titles, but surely it's for a good cause. Take as examples the 'nuclear deaths' video or the vaccines one.

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[@CHIEF__]

There was a fully functioning power plant in my hometown. Twenty years ago they decided not to open it because of evacuation concerns. We're still paying exorbitant electric prices as a result. Fear over innovation is one of the few things that genuinely infuriates me.

[@LilliHerveau]

same here. Fully functional power plant got 40y.o., and because of protests saying "end of life" it has been shut down. Absolutely speechless. For those unaware, picture this: would you throw you TV away because the warranty expired? No, of course not! Same thing, except that power plants keep up with regulations and are constantly being made safer, repaired and checked. So, it would be like having a TV, having a repairman over every 3months, after 2y he tells you it's in perfect condition but you still trash it because the warranty expired.

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@chief Are you by chance from "Zwentendorf"?

[@kevinvan4310]

@@LilliHerveau And add on a billion dollar price tag. I talk to my parents about nuclear, and they're convinced that Nuclear isn't good because it's "not safe." Nuclear is literally the safest energy source currently.

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Think of how many extra fingers you could have had though.

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@@user-uw8si1zn2n who cares

[@Duarte_GB]

Fun fact, the word nuclear was removed from the term magnetic ressonance (it used to be magnetic nuclear ressonance) because people were afraid of doing it due to the conection to "nuclear"

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

so let's call nuclear energy magic energy instead :D

[@zeroxz5114]

@@The360MlgNoscoper that would be probably helpful xd

[@simonilisei1311]

Wtf

[@sethapex9670]

In the characterization of molecules, we still call it nMRI.

[@default322]

In US? Not in my country (non EN)

[@700007123]

Unbelievable how people are more afraid of nuclear power than walking across the street

[@rpdlatk]

Well, some people are also more afraid of taking flight by airplane than walking on the street. Extremely low chance of accidents, but that one accident might be enormous, so they are more exaggerated than they should be.

[@YuaFujiwara]

@@rpdlatk like for instance chernoblyl it was big but they already made a housing around the reactor and i think imo if they have good maintenece(dono how to spel) it sould be good and have fail switches

[@walterwhite415]

The thing is, while walking across the street I have some sort of control about the situation and can watch for myself. Also a reactor meltdown causes much bigger problems for a lot more people. I live in the most dense populated area of europe and if this area became uninhabitable by a nuclear failure, there would be somewhere between 6 and 8 million people loosing their homes.

[@chingirin]

@@walterwhite415 well, wait till you find out how many people died because of fossil fuels consequences compared to nuclear accidents

[@Artman1]

Some people are more afraid of a solar panel than walking across the street.

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Dude's voice so clear, the auto-generated captions are accurate

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5 stars would hear again

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Except their channel name

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@@nathnolt it says “cursed cargo”

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pretty sure they typed the captions

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@@a4dtesseract408 no

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Ratioed the comment above

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Exactly!

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without a doubt

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[@raygunn13]

One could argue the biggest threat to the environment is radiophobia.

[@SpartanJoe193]

Indeed. Thw green budget should include nuclear.

[@toddboyce3599]

Is that the fear of radiation? Which radiation? Solar radiation? Nuclear radiation? Ultra Violet radiation? All those other radiations I don't know about?

[@franzicoy]

@@toddboyce3599 nuclear radiation

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Seems far more likely to be cost and time constraints.

[@halwis]

No, the biggest threats are special interest groups and oil companies that are paying off politicians to have regulation and zoning laws changed to make it harder for nuclear and renewable to be built.

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I really appreciate you labeling your opinion portion. Few information portals do that anymore

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[@bronwynpidgeon8481]

As a scientist who studies this kind of thing, this is really well explained! I have a similar opinion to you, and many of the scientists in my lab do as well. If we are going to start to fix climate change for real, we need to use everything we have. On the actual facts, I might start using this video to teach my students, as It's really hard to explain this issue and this video does it really well!

[@kl4pp3d_78]

Please do so.

[@dariusduesentrieb]

Consider the following thought experiment: You have two technologies. Technology (A) costs 100 € for every MWh it produces. Technology (B) costs 150 € for every MWh produced. For every unit of technology you construct you can decide whether you use (A) or (B). Is there any scenario where you would use a mix of both technologies? EDIT: regarding lordcirth's comment: I assume that you agree with me, that anybody would choose technology (A). Now, you're rightfully said so, that if we add new constraints to these technologies we might decide differently. We have now two other technologies: A grid powered by Nuclear power, which costs today around 100 €/MWh* and the other one is a grid that is powered by wind, solar, power-to-gas, batteries and pump-storage, which will costs around 60 €/MWh by 2050**. Both technologies are similarly reliable, though nuclear has still the (very) small risk to cause significant harm. You can combine these technologies, but they don't complete each other. Would you rather choose technology (A) or technology (B)? * Lazard LCOE 2020 ** Bogdanov et al. "Radical transformation pathway towards sustainable electricity via evolutionary steps"

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@@dariusduesentrieb if there is no advantage to B, why would u use it?

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@@dariusduesentrieb When A only produces MWh at random times, and B produces at a fixed rate for 30 years with a few days of downtime per decade?

[@thinkamajig]

what nobody talks about is waste heat. nuclear is one of the least thermally efficient method of power production. if we keep increasing our electricity consumption then we are going to keep increasing our thermal output. aside from solar all forms of generating electricity produce waste heat. all forms of consuming electricity produce waste heat. you can equate watts to BTU/hr. it would probably be more wise to look at efficiencies, on both the generation and consumption sides rather than the source of generation.

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Can't wait for a movie about Capitan Nuclear, Wind Man, Super Solar and Water Woman fighting against evil Dr. Fossil Cloud.

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Simpsons did it

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Not gonna lie, I would watch that

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@@martiddy same

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That would be a good influence for kids to support renewable energy, like how the government influences kids to go into the military

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A better version of Captain Planet? I'M IN!

[@levitschetter5288]

The feeling when some of the world's biggest problems (climate change, world hunger) are caused by people not understanding science

[@dr.snowman4883]

What sucks is that despite being the smartest species on the planet we still have those living in ignorance either by choice or lack of schooling

[@demoniack81]

The problem is that we have constructed this idea that everyone is entitled to an opinion on everything and that their opinion is just as valuable as that of the experts.

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​@@demoniack81 The problem is that as soon as you make the opinions of the experts so valuable that the common man has no input, well, the position of the 'expert' becomes compromised. It becomes a position that people pursue (or PURCHASE) in order to gain power, rather than just to contribute to the world and society. Suddenly the 'experts' are a de facto dictatorship. The more centralized the power, the faster that power becomes corrupted. But even if power in society isn't centralized at first, it WILL become centralized, whether the general populace knows about it or not.

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I know the perfect solution to this problem, make me a dictator

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@@demoniack81 that is the problem with democracy.

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That last bit where wind, hydro and solar energies fighting a CO2 Monster with nuclear being trapped was a genius metaphor

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@ĶévïņBB Přõďùçţìőñş you clearly haven't heard of MaximilianMus

[@olegoleg258]

I'm sorry for asking, but can you clarify the metaphor please?

[@magiricod]

It's funny though those other solutions are alot cheaper in my state we have a huge over budget over time nuclear plant idk why we don't switch to solar completely considering they have gotten so cheap

[@charlesvo54]

@@olegoleg258 in the debate between renewables v fossil fuels, Nuclear energy is often left out of the debate due to the past fears of the technology, the metaphor shows that nuclear energy working in tandem with the other renewables, climate change would be pushed back by their combined effort.

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@@olegoleg258 A House divided cannot stand.

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i expect no less from the kurzgesagt team, but keeping facts and opinions separated and clearly delineated is absolutely crucial in discussions like these. massive props for doing it and doing it well

[@Muckylittleme]

Climate change has and always will exist. The whole AGW narrative is absolute horse shit. We had 20 times more Co2 in the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years and life flourished and the Earth was green and temperate from pole to pole. Isn't it strange that suddenly we are in a century out of billions of years where the Earth climate is supposedly at absolute optimum with polar ice caps in an interglacial period? Who decided that the 21st century out of thousands of life giving centuries was the perfect one for Earth climate that needed to be preserved for evermore? It is one big joke when you look into it properly but it gets much worse when you look into the agenda behind it. Despite the fact warmest were claiming the Earth will die within a decade because of runaway warming, the same people who said the Arctic sea ice would have melted by the end of the last decade, the UN never saw fit to put restraints on the worlds biggest polluter China and left them exempt of all the industry busting carbon taxes and economy busting green regulations they put on Western nations. Now China accounts for more Co2 emissions than the whole of Europe and US put together and while the West suffered the preplanned UN agenda 21 deindustrialisation, China boomed as the global elite who fund the UN think tanks that come up with these agendas all moved their finance and industry there and made trillions from using cheap dirty energy and child labour. That made just a handful of people responsible so much money that they now own almost 2/3 of the entire worlds wealth between them (Oxfam 2017 report) So when I see poor puppet Greta and extinction rebellion demanding zero emissions in London and Bozo the globalist stooge obliging even as the UK economy reels under his nefarious lockdown policies I have to laugh because Co2 makes up just 0.035% of atmosphere and of that only about 3% is man made (0.001%) and Britain's contribution to that just 1% of that which is 0.00001% of atmosphere. That means if Britain had zero emissions tomorrow atmospheric Co2 would be reduced from 0.035% to 0.03499% or by 100/1000th of 1% over decades if not centuries.

[@henrybarber288]

@@Muckylittleme The whole idea that what is happening is “normal” is absolute horse shit. What you’re talking about is the earth’s climate naturally changing over millions of years, this is happening over a few decades. Also, what you talk about with there having been “better climates” before this current one is complete nonsense. I don’t know if it escaped your notice, but humans weren’t alive in the time of the dinosaurs. We are adapted to live in our current climate, and not just biologically but socially as well. As a species we can only cope with so much flooding, so much drought. We can’t just continue destroying the planet and convince ourselves it’s not our fault.

[@Zosu22]

​ @Dan Brown Oh dear, there is so much here that I hardly know where to begin. Has climate change always existed? Yes, of course it has. Nobody is suggesting that the climate is stationary. Has atmospheric conditions and the climate ever changed this rapidly and continuously in recent history? Not as far as I know, and we're going to continue suffering as a result. Every time earth has faced sudden climate changes in the past, be it from large asteroids or volcanic eruptions, mass death followed. Earth will obviously continue to be fine, but life will definitely be less enjoyable and more full of suffering if we continue on this path of self-indulgence without care for what we do to the world. Of course the climate is changing, but when it's changing this rapidly things don't adapt well. Is China producing a lot of CO2? Yes, and they should be doing their best to limit it. But, like videos this channel has covered in the pass on who is responsible, the west has also polluted more if you look at history. Overall, it should be irrelevant who gets the blame because blaming people will get us nowhere. Everyone should be doing the best they can to prevent further damage. China is definitely far from perfect, from their pollution to disregard for freedoms, but pointing to them and saying "we should be polluting to" is a terrible mindset. Everyone should be striving to be better. And then there's this weird idea of some globalist conspiracy about climate change... what? Ah yes, large fossil fuel producing countries and extremely large and wealthy oil companies couldn't have been contributing to any kind of conspiracy against the idea of global warming, it must be those thousands of scientists and activists who want to destroy us, that definitely makes sense... No matter how you look at it, it makes sense to strive for a future where we mitigate extreme climate change. The overwhelming majority of economists agree that investing in a zero carbon future makes sense given the extreme costs in damages we would face in the future if we don't. The overwhelming majority of scientists agree that rapid climate change is an issue. Has there been hyperbole in the past? Yes. Have there been incorrect predictions made in the past? Also yes. We need to keep researching and discovering more about how everything is being affected. The entire globe is an extremely complicated ecosystem and when something as big as these atmospheric changes we've been inducing these centuries comes along the effects on the system are numerous in ways that we may not know yet. TL:DR: Yes, modern western countries like those in Europe are not contributing as much CO2 in the present as more developing countries, but they have historically contributed more. Does this really matter at the moment? I don't think so. We should all be striving to be better, not worse. The world's ecosystem is extremely complicated with everything interacting with everything else that we might not know what the effects are yet. A global conspiracy that climate change is fake makes literally no sense and is like saying that the moon landing was faked. Even if you ignore climate change, going neutral means less pollution in the places that we live, and I like not breathing in poison. Mitigating extreme climate change is in our own best interests in terms of economics and our future well-being. It's cheaper to put out the stove fire than letting it burn down the entire house.

[@orrindekock8598]

@@Zosu22 ya know, on a platform where its so easy to just insult someone you disagree with, i really appreciate the calm and collected response. i applaud you, whoever you may be.

[@Muckylittleme]

@@henrybarber288 But it isn't happening over a few decades, that is the debunked hockey stick. You have to look at all the data not just cherry pick the data that pushes your agenda. And regardless there have been bigger changes over shorter periods both warming and cooling. It has clearly escaped your notice that Earth climate is no the same around the globe and mankind survives perfectly well from Africa to Arctic. The Cambrian period had 20 times more Co2 in the atmosphere than now and it was Earths most productive time for diversity of life because it was temperate from pole to pole as I said. And what makes you think this climate is more suitable to man that that? Much more of the Earth is inhospitable now and it is far less green. But then we all know the AGW agenda is anti human not pro human though they do rather favour polar bears for some reason, which by the way are thriving. Listen, environmentalism is no bad thing so long as it is based in reality and actually about the environment. Anti pollution benefits plant and animal alike. But that is not what AGW policies are about as I explained. They are about making very rich and powerful people even richer and more powerful while their puppet celebrities parade around telling you not to eat meat to save the planet while they fly their private and collect mansions and live in opulence with a carbon footprint that is a thousand times higher than yours or mine. So how about, if you really believe this is a crisis, you get all the richest people in the world who are behind the agenda to give up all their luxuries before we start eating insects to save the planet? Surely they would have no issue with it given they are the ones who tell us the Earth is on fire. And "we" are not destroying the planet, at least I know I'm not, I don't even drive a car. The people doing any damage and polluting are the same people behind the AGW agenda, the same people who made trillions in China and had them build thousands of new dirty coal plants to fuel their industry while our clean burning plants were shutdown by their mandates. If nothing else, take a look at the hypocrisy of those who fund the eco-fascists and anarcho-communists and ask how their AGW policies make any sense except for keeping us poor while they get to mop the last remaining wealth.

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A little bird being mystified about electricity while playing sekiro Is exactly what I needed today

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We need more Sekiro!

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@@rompicoglioni8573 1:44

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Kursgesagt is based

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He should sell stuffies-merch of the birds.

[@jdg7327]

How funny it is when everything attached to the word "nuclear" we get a freak out, yet the Sun is perfectly fine.

[@Somespacestuff]

To be fair the sun is not fission it’s fusion

[@The_Oddon]

@@Somespacestuff I mean his point still stands it's still radiation

[@markrobinowitz8473]

@@The_Oddon The sun does not create hundreds of radioactive isotopes and put them into the food chain. Radioactivity causes cancer and birth defects. Don't pee in the gene pool.

[@YuaFujiwara]

@@Somespacestuff and they are busy i think making fusion reactors or i just misread it

[@Vae-Valla]

But the fucking sun is out there giving me a fucking sunburn 😤

[@kinnan931]

Josef Rinderer I love how at 0:19 you said, "So who's right?.. Well, it's complicated..." In today's society where discussions are driven by pro-this, anti-that. It's so refreshing to hear nuance being introduced into the conversation. I don't think people even know what nuance means anymore. So thank you.

[@ForbiddenFollyFollower]

Ya he is legitimately trying to convince woke activists to change their minds about something, an absolute mad lad.

[@stalsore9813]

Polarization is a dangerous thing and ideology is one hell of a drug. I'm happy to see there are still at least a few people that know that everything doesn't have to be black or white

[@Anthony-ct3cv]

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower ... is that your takeaway from this?

[@TeensierPython]

Sounds like you just agree with his side.

[@markhackett2302]

@@ForbiddenFollyFollower And you just proved how "In today's society where discussions are driven by pro-this, anti-that..." exists.

[@rudenet9937]

Note: Japan has shut down its nuclear plants since 2011 due to Fukushima disaster. Now they are reopening them and even plan to build new nuclear plants.

[@AileTheAlien]

Japan: progress towards sci-fi utopia America: ...regressing to dieselpunk

[@tanimation7289]

How long will the new reactors take to build?

[@alextherussian7366]

@@tanimation7289 Knowing Japan, they will be able to build them in some 5 year periods

[@alextherussian7366]

@@AileTheAlien Well if the activists wouldn't scream wolf about nuklear meltdowns and tragedies in a country where there was only one case in wich no one died or got heavily injured, they might be able to build more nuklear. And no, renewable energy in a country wich has earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis with heavy spikes in temperature each year are not an good option. You need a backup plan, look at Texas this winter.

[@alextherussian7366]

@@zUJ7EjVD The Wind turbines also froze, making them unable to move. The Nuklear power plant was shut off for security reasons and online in unter one hour, wich can't be said for other power sources. And I agree that not all places in the US are subject to the same environmental threat, but you would still have to destroy a metric fuckton of land to make it usable for solar, had a lot of land disfigured by Wind Turbines and would threaten the living space of a lot of animals. Nevermind that an interconnected power grid within the US is a mammoth project wich will, again, destroy a lot of land and would take more years to finish then building Nuklear plants would. Nevermind that if one of these lines would get damaged, thud cutting the connection or leaking electricity, good luck finding that spot.

[@oskartross730]

Ahhh. Yes. The perfect homework distraction

[@xanderwild1488]

yes

[@Zikeal-d4l]

This is interesting as it appears to follow intended route of the mind when listening to duke saying this. Allow me to elaborate duke here is implied to have some kind of knowledge that we ourselves our withheld further implying that we don't ourselves know because of the phrase "but I won't tell you" This is an act often replicated by people in the 1st - 4th grade as they have had less experience and are more likely to tell lies about their knowledge. This is humorous because the final implication is that duke nukem is a child. Over all this comment is funny for explaining the joke just like the comment above which explains the joke to the audience who can almost certainly see fot themselves.

[@haathi1065]

Yeah.

[@pyroblade888]

Ikr

[@alinastanescu4430]

This is so reletable

[@DripKage-t9f]

Top 10 times nuclear power plants are safer than coal power plants : 1. Now 2. Now 3. Yesterday

[@voluntarism335]

and 100% less pollution

[@nicefloweytheoverseer7632]

Well, 99.999% less greenhouse gas (we mostly cant dispose that) And 100% more solid waste (which we can dispose)

[@asheep7797]

Quick, shut down the reactors! They won't be safer than coal tomorrow!

[@SpartanJoe193]

@@asheep7797 Bruh.

[@SpartanJoe193]

@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 What do ya think abt nuclear recycling?

[@xxsimonsxx7907]

Please, this video needs community subtitles. Everybody from anywhere needs to see this, and subtitles might open the doors for them.

[@jasperfrey2418]

Wait a fee days, it always comes a bit late.

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Community subtitles are sadly dead. KZbin killed them. Translators and Kurzgesagt now need to manually work together for the translations. This will, of course, take longer this way.

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[@michaelkochalka3251]

Sadly KZbin killed an incredibly useful accessibility tool.

[@alexroselle]

"Should we give up nuclear immediately, and accept higher emissions?" *averts eye contact in German*

[@klokoloko2114]

What about Japan, they reduced their nuclear to 20%, Germany only 50%

[@Benjiffy]

@@klokoloko2114 Japan's starting to put theirs back online 👍

[@InformatrIIcks]

Don't stress, Germany is buying electricity from french nuclear reactor thanks to the european inter connected grid ... So Germany still kind of is a nuclear power 😂

[@takkik282]

And in France Ecologists that grow in popularity want to shut down our nuclear centrals... perhaps there is other priorities right now. And batteries used for renewal energy isn't eco friendly.

[@alfiepicton1339]

@@woodenfishes just so so stupid, and such a waste of relatively new power plants they won't even let them have there life time

[@Zeno85593]

I love how you guys always say “Well, it’s COMPLICATED!”

[@mrinchantube]

yes i love this, it can be so easy to deduce something down in a b&w way but nothing is ever that simple all sides need consideration

[@nichsulol4844]

then so yeah dream keep going strutucture

[@KO_Manic]

Because it is

[@mirog3166]

There are so many things that depict nuclear power plants as extremely dangerous, such as the series Chernobyl. But that stops people from realising how safe these power plants actually are

[@scottmatheson3346]

they're safe until subjected to the fullness of human depravity, that is to say, not safe.

[@raizors1331]

@@scottmatheson3346 Still safer than something that isn't safe and can be made worse by being subjected to the fullness of human depravity (cough, that one dude who decided to add lead into fuel).

[@Anderwreckzz]

​@scottmatheson3346 tbf the events of chernobyl were so specific that we literally cannot recreate it if we had 100 years to try

[@UnflippedGD]

@@scottmatheson3346 there have been hundreds of thousands of deaths from thermal and at max 10-20k from nuclear

[@clovxrn]

This channel deserves to be trending.

[@klokoloko2114]

Comment 10 times

[@chandarasoth2219]

Well right now it 13 on trending

[@klokoloko2114]

@@chandarasoth2219 Yes.

[@henrychu495]

@Dana Durnford ah yes nuclear tests are definitely the same thing as nuclear power plants

[@clovxrn]

@Free Speech Bot i meant the whole channel. like every video it posts

[@Brody961]

Much respect over the simple fact that they explicitly said which part of their video was opinion based. We need much more of that

[@iamseamonkey6688]

they do that in most of their videos actually, but this time was far more explicit then usual. most of the time they have the duck in the corner holding an 'opinion' sign or just show to title slide more briefly.

[@josefrinderer7111]

I love how at 0:19 you said, "So who's right?.. Well, it's complicated..." In today's society where discussions are driven by pro-this, anti-that. It's so refreshing to hear nuance being introduced into the conversation. I don't think people even know what nuance means anymore. So thank you.

[@Coconut-219]

Solar: * Exists * Texas snowstorm: *"Hold my beer"*

[@TheConjurersTower]

And then clearly declared when they were going to begin sharing their opinion after presenting the evidence-based section.

[@VladiSSius]

What is nuance?

[@hedgie9823]

@@Coconut-219 Solar:*Still exists because solar wasn't the main cause of the outages*

[@brycestewart4717]

People like to think in absolutes now. If you’re not this thing, you’re that thing

[@Tsotha]

This is a dispute I frankly don't know enough about to take a qualified standpoint on, at least until now, so thanks for making videos that explain the topic so concisely. I guess I should also watch your video about the worst nuclear accidents in human history. As usual I also think your videos are worth watching for the animation and aesthetics alone - extremely inventive and colourful with a great sense of humour. I appreciate these because I paint in my spare time, and I constantly get new ideas when watching them.

[@turbochicken80]

Nuclear energy is in a way like traveling by an airplane. It is very safe, but when something happens people freak out.

[@aimilize3518]

Very well put

[@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172]

Very true.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

And nuclear, like airplanes, is safer than the rest.

[@bartholomewdan]

This is a great comparison. So many people are excessively scared of "what if?" scenarios, but the truth is that they're so well regulated and contained that they're far safer than anything else we have.

[@cessnacitation-x]

The only accidents happened in like the 1970's and thats only because we didnt give a shit then

[@cola98765]

0:17 "So, who's right?" Say the line Steve. "well... It's complicated" **whole room cheers**

[@JohnDoe-ph7pz]

@@user-uj7zb7hw3x you got it

[@user-qj3jn3ed6v]

👄💟👜

[@stale.baguette]

@@user-uj7zb7hw3x just give u reports to yt

[@doggobind]

@@user-uj7zb7hw3x stfu bot

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

Hi there.. Please visit my channel if you love science and general knowledge

[@givrally]

Honestly, I may hate a lot of things about living in France, but damn am I proud of my country's choice of nuclear use.

[@fisheggs_rule]

It works in France because France is connected by land to the whole of Eurasia and can flexibly transmit electricity in and out the country. It is still cool though:)

[@Marcus-on6ni]

We are proud of our country !🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@Eldor503]

Well they were not built for this purpose at all, but thanks to them we are indeed one of the cleanest country and people start to slowly realize it. Unfortunately there is our retarded """"ecologist"""" party, which spreads anti-scientific bullshit on nuclear energy. They weigh only 5%, but this is enough leverage for politicians who don't care about science or long term (so all of them, Hollande, Macron, Mélenchon...) to try and reduce the share of nuclear in our electrical mix in order to grab those 5%. Sad to see, although it's starting to very slowly move in the right direction (for example Mélenchon was heavily criticized when he told that he would close nuclear plants and invent some magical science-fiction energy to replace it).

[@Dutchman-2002]

@@Eldor503 yep, green parties are usually the most stupid and un-nature friendly, and very political

[@Dutchman-2002]

@Ej Dempsey nuclear weapons isnt nuclear energy

[@deanclmn]

5:19 I can’t believe they put the detail of blocking the sunlight every time the windmill blade passed over it

[@augustus331]

This is exactly why I am so dissapointed, angered even, that the Green Parties, those who'd supposed to be the surest bet to combat climate change, disregard nuclear power altogether.

[@john_john_john]

It's populism and politics coming from a place of ignorance. It's the same thing with GMOs, for instance. People look at the words "genetic" or "nuclear" and understandably have their concerns, we can't reasonably expect the average person to be knowledgeable about advanced scientific topics. Politicians will either blindly pander to these concerns or have them themselves. The difference is that a politician should be knowledgeable about a topic if they are to give their opinion and vote on it, and always regard scientific evidence over their own premade opinions. And that's not even going into the subject of lobbies. It's unfortunate how leaders worldwide are so easily swayed and corrupted and it's no wonder people are feeling ever more sepparated from politics.

[@ciarfah]

@@john_john_john Or "radiation"

[@jeffjests2764]

@@ciarfah wait until they realize that their body is releasing radiation lmao

[@Temp0raryName]

Actually there are members of such organisations who are now advocating the use of nuclear, for precisely the reasons shown in this video. Including an ex-leader of one.

[@howardbaxter2514]

@@jeffjests2764 wait until they realize that coal plants expose people to more radiation than nuclear power plants do, and that a banana will give you more radiation than a power plant will in a year. No joke, a nuclear power plant’s radiation release rate is about 0.9 bananas/year.

[@mitsakos3151]

This guy's voice will never get boring for me

[@akish302]

It’s the British accent

[@MushroomMan64]

Ikr

[@awsumguy-bh9pz]

ikr

[@joshuagonzalez9361]

I swear

[@123cityperson]

same

[@DrummerMark20]

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, we definitely do.

[@satanofficial3902]

No. You she entity lifeforces (including she entity lifeforces currently existing in XY DNA template bodies) come up with the strangest notions.

[@brianjacobs2748]

Loooong answer: 0:03-9:03

[@IOUaUsername]

Hey look, the inverse of a TERF. I thought it was only theoretical.

[@baitposter]

@Dana Durnford Try checking out the modern, more compact reactor designs that can't meltdown in big cataclysmic fashion, unlike the older plants of yesteryear that we mostly have employed

[@zacharyelliott7161]

Long Answer: Yes but not solely reliant on one source of energy.

[@sockatoo_]

i just wanna say i really love how you guys personified nuclear and renewable energy. like actual people, trying to fight the big smoke monster. never change :)

[@garrettb845]

It's unfortunate that many of these issues are bogged down by petty politics and political corruption

[@ahmooonbaconwilliams3468]

Actually last year both political parties became pro nuclear

[@asdefull]

many of these problems can be solved if renewables and nuclear produces a LOT of money and cheap

[@Kabodanki]

isn't that true for everything out there ?

[@VenomSnakee]

Somebody has gotta be paid, and Somebody has gotta stop somebody from getting paid

[@StormTrooperEX]

underrated comment

[@JohnSmith-qq7fm]

Kurzgesagt: "Why should we make things harder than necessary?" Rest of the world: "Hold my beer and watch this....."

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Oh, right. I forgot how human humans tend to be.

[@monito8823]

This is one of the wisest things ever said. Humanity really does tend to make things harder than necessary.

[@robertopato543]

We are humans nothing is perfect for us...

[@Operational117]

Me: **takes their beer and throws it at their face** “How ‘bout no?”

[@modelgio360]

We have humans are greedy

[@vz2607]

this channel's production quality is better than most movies right now I swear

[@RF_N]

More quality: better

[@hivestalker]

No

[@HanMestov]

@@DyslexicMitochondria your video quality is very good as it is right now

[@eeveelutionmetaleon1377]

@@DyslexicMitochondria we believe in you! You can do it :D

[@genericusername456]

Hahahahahhahahaha

[@beingablinkforever9818]

I have a profound respect for Kurzgesagt. They put an enormous amount of time into research and animating their videos, try to make scientific topics as simple to understand as possible, and treat their viewers with a lot of respect.

[@Daikuro1]

The easter eggs scattered throughout these videos works wonders for making them seem more genuine and present than many other educational videos I've seen before. I can't believe there's such deliberate stuff like Sekiro in an educational science short.

[@DS-mi9ru]

Or the magnemites in the background

[@obi-wankenobi8237]

I enjoyed the Wilhelm Scream

[@pushkartiwari9492]

@@louismirone31 dayum

[@Chandler5.0]

Anyone else see the Sekiro one

[@class.C]

Like what?

[@johnxsantos]

Your videos are always next level 🔥 great production value !

[@boysetstudios7932]

6 likes on verfied cool

[@raze69420]

@@boysetstudios7932 only 9 now feeling bad tho

[@mvrtinmadethebeat]

Fun fact: behind this videos are a team of 43 german crew memebers

[@Randomela]

@@mvrtinmadethebeat u counting the narrator (1) and the musical composers (2) in there?

[@petasanChanel]

Mantul

[@hootsifer-darling]

I love that they stated when they were switching to an opinion piece, best channel on YT

[@hape3862]

Payed for by the German people. Thank us later. (It belongs to the German Public Broadcasting.)

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

@@hape3862 Well, 53 minutes is later so... Thanks Germans!

[@kcnq2245]

@@hape3862 really? They have a patreon so it seems unlikely that they would be a government payed channel

[@wackyworkbench]

@@hape3862 Doesn't matter. They could be funded by any source but didn't have to put a deliberate opinion section. What does being funded by anyone have anything to do with that?

[@davidschaftenaar6530]

I still love the fact that you made this video. Thank you so much. This helped and will _continue_ helping. Opposition to nuclear _is_ irrational in the face of climate change.

[@clarkkent9080]

how rational is this?? How about the REALITY for the last 4 state of the art ADVANCED new nuclear projects in the U.S. over the last 20 years. Please don't base your knowledge on social media and YT videos when the truth is just a few clicks of the mouse and some reading. People today want to be spoon fed information instead of researching facts. The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% political support. VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule. Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?

[@scottmatheson3346]

what's actually irrational is the refusal of nuclear advocates to be realistic about human irrationality.

[@davidschaftenaar6530]

@@scottmatheson3346 Do you want a localized disaster every few decades? Or would you like a major mass extinction bad enough to make the space rock that murked the dinos look like a pinprick? Yes, we're in the kind of situation where we have to make this choice. I choose option one.

[@richl4761]

I’ve never understood the abandonment of nuclear in progressive countries interested in reducing greenhouse gases.

[@filipwolffs]

Nuclear energy was a legitimate threat to the fossil fuel industry so companies campaigned hard to make it look like the most horrible thing ever, taking advantage of the fact that the most common nuclear reactor designs produce materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons. Combine that with what happened at Chernobyl and it wasn't very difficult to convince the population that nuclear energy is too dangerous. Younger generations are more willing to give nuclear energy a chance, but the older generations which lived through the Cold War are still clinging to the idea that nuclear must be avoided at all costs.

[@-p2349]

@@filipwolffs I’m guessing the anti-nuclear propaganda started after chernyobl

[@RoflcopterLamo]

@@filipwolffs funny thing is this isn’t the only propaganda and lobbying. all sorts of companies of every sector which has caused a regression in the progression of humanity and all sorts of funny quirks like why Americas infrastructure is all car based and built around cars instead of people causing a nice twisted knife into its back from its dependence on such inefficient paradigms like suburban sprawl.

[@cageybee7221]

Stupidity. People look at objectively the safest, cleanest and most reliable form of energy and somehow convince themselves it is the opposite of those things. sometimes we just need to plow forward regardless of who is in the way, because the alternative is allowing tens of millions of people to die.

[@-p2349]

@@cageybee7221 nuclear waste is actually a good thing because while other energy sources pollute into the atmosphere (fossil fuel) or Solar the supposedly “clean energy source” which generates thousands of tons of waste that’s just shipped to Africa because it’s to expensive to recycle and then there’s nuclear which can easily be contained in hyper protected barrels

[@kewlman5417]

You know it's about to get good when you hear *"Well, its complicated"*

[@midnightMoonlight09]

up there right next to _"or is it?"_ -michael please come back to making big videos, i miss them-

[@OfficialGhost_Orchid]

mhm

[@TJ-hg6op]

I’d prefer the waste generated by an energy source to be in underground barrels than in my lungs.

[@bartholomewdan]

Not just my (and everyone else's) lungs, but also the entire damn atmosphere.

[@nicefloweytheoverseer7632]

@@bartholomewdan true

[@raiden542]

and the waste to be reused again

[@x3woots]

I prefer my waste be contained in a metal cube capable of withstanding rocket powered freight trains that in the air.

[@cageybee7221]

not to mention the waste eventually becomes safe. Fossil Fuels' Pollution has no half-life, it's in the environment FOREVER. not just a really long time, but ALL OF ETERNITY.

[@DrGiggleTouch67]

This channel is perfect to listen to while your doing stuff (I would know because I listen to this while playing video games)

[@yeungscs]

7:57 "it might be a good idea to see nuclear and renewables not as opponents but as partners" THANK YOU

[@mh7491]

RIGHT ON

[@irthlingz]

That would be nice, but would it really happen? In the past the nuclear industry has worked to cripple the emergence of renewable energy.

[@Genomsnittet]

This is a very controversial topic. Usually the left is for renewables, the right is for nuclear. I'm left, but I see nuke as a potential friend anyway. People are too rigid in their thinking sometimes

[@lucasgodoy688]

@@irthlingz just as renewables industries work really hard to stop nuclear emergence nowadays. A lot of green organisations demonize every aspect of nuclear and spread a lot of fear and misinformation about nuclear power.

[@mikeydude750]

Absolutely. I am definitely in the pro-nuclear camp but there's a lot to be said for having local distributed sources of electricity generated by renewable clean sources, not just to add to the baseline source nuclear can handle but also for resiliency against the increasing extreme weather events we're going through (being in California and seeing all the wildfires each year getting worse and worse, our electrical grid cannot cope). Transmission line losses alone are enough to argue that while we can't entirely rely on renewables, generating more electricity locally through city or even neighborhood-centric grids lets us reduce those by quite a bit.

[@JC-sp6ov]

It annoys to me to think the only reason nuclear is getting removed in a lot of places is because of a scared and misinformed public which politicians then cater to for their own personal power.

[@kingmidasxynopyt]

True.

[@nauikunart]

Indeed, This is currently happening here in the Philippines

[@coreystinar7453]

He mentioned loss of knowledge which is a big one. Seems like since the west stopped building reactors in the 80s we have forgotten how to do then. Construction of Vogtle in Georgia is a complete shit show

[@BusBusII]

Isn't your job as a politician to represent your voter base though? I mean I agree that nuclear is likely the way to go but i feel like that's how democracy works.

[@TankDerek]

​@@BusBusII Exactly. The fault lies with the citizenry in this case, not the politicians. People have the right to govern themselves, and if the majority want to offline nuclear power plants, we shouldn't yearn for a nuclear dictatorship to impose low carbon energy on the population. Instead, we should go out and argue and change minds and convince people nuclear is a safe and effective energy source.

[@deltalord6969]

1:54 honestly anyone else find these type of machines in the kurzgesagt animation style really enjoyable to look at?

[@brumpbo]

The animated graphics really help to show how they work. They're more pleasing to the eye than most technical illustrtations.

[@rayzell4633]

Yeahh ! These are so good

[@pandapops5428]

I mean, does anyone not though, that is the real question

[@Nicole-by6tg]

100 %

[@PotionsMaster666]

That ICE tho ... 👌

[@ninjacharlie7729]

The problem with electric / batteries is that creating the batteries is very bad for the environment, not to mention how batteries wear out over time. The next few generations are really going to matter the most if we as the human race want to survive.

[@bj.bruner]

Not to mention gasoline is 30x as energy dense as lithium ion batteries. (I can't remember the exact statistic, but Engineering Explained made a great video about it)

[@VulpeculaJoy]

This is only if you compare the battery to not building a battery. If you were to compare the environmental impact of a battery cell compared to say a CPU, a coffee machine or an iPhone, the battery is the lesser concern. Plastics, Silicon, Resin, Copper, Auminiiiiium (fuck people that say Aluminum) all has to come from somewhere. Nobody gave a shit how stuff was made, but once someone wants to make you think about combatting climate change while not loosing too much comfort, people take every hint of a potential flaw and make a fuss of it instead of compromising on a slightly less wasteful solution.

[@toonotsleep8]

@@VulpeculaJoy an additional issue that doesn't seem to raise eyebrows more often; the environmental impact (re fossil fuels) is grim, another valid concern is the 'non renewable' of non renewables (across human lifespan) would be great to shift over to protect the environment meets needs to be done if we wish to maintain our current lifestyle in the not so distant future

[@mitchjames9350]

Wind and solar panels are also toxic for the environment.

[@VulpeculaJoy]

@@mitchjames9350 A lot less toxic and cheaper to produce and maintain than nuclear or gas/coal. Do you even know how many tons of concrete and steel it takes to build a traditional power plant and how bad the environmental impact is? There area already projects that aim to recycle the fiberglass within the wings of old wind turbines. You gotta get your power somehow, otherwise, the best thing for nature is for us humans to return to hunting and gathering. I figure you don't want to get rid of your PC though to write stupid comments on the internet, so that's not an option.

[@billgates1695]

I can literally watch this in 144p and still be amazed by the animations.

[@Testiculon]

144hz...

[@kentguiller]

@Hamdika Hamdika Bot

[@billgates1695]

@Hamdika Hamdika Hello, bot. How did you get past ReCAPTCHA verfications?

[@Samswordst]

then if you like it so much make it a science show!

[@Samswordst]

I realy need this as a show on HBO, Netflix, or whatever!

[@cdemr]

Germany: - Let's replace Nuclear by Coal to fight climate change! _Something's wrong, I can feel it_

[@egggge4752]

The green party was the main proponent of shutting down nuclear energy. Ironic.

[@NCXDKG]

let's use snow to cook hot dogs

[@AndrewAce.]

LMFAO

[@puntersarepeopletoo6]

Just a feeling I guess, like something is about to happen, but I don't know what it means.

[@BnORailFan]

The main reason Germany is getting rid of their nuclear power is to not repeat Japan's Fukishima disaster. They announced getting rid of them about a month after that happened.

[@krn0z.741]

So Nuclear Man, Lady Hydro, Solarbot and Lord Robowind have to combine their unique abilities to defend the world against Polution Master and his fearsome Thanos Snap

[@MatthewHolevinski]

Hahaha nice. When your powers combine I am captaaaain planet

[@bloodgripen2257]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love that!

[@TheKhashix]

Lady hydro kinda bad tho ngl 😳

[@lopil4566]

@@TheKhashix please go outside and touch grass...

[@natanzadworny2287]

And he has 4 of the stones already...

[@sunykamey4542]

The amount of detail in short, comprehendible way is impressive. e.g., talking about the animation, that game is recognizable.

[@gavinjones898]

I am 99% sure that every Kurzgesagt video starts with “well, it’s complicated”

[@bl4k4tt84]

Because they do this shits complicated af idk how these gods wrap their heads around it

[@adolfofaulkner4684]

Well...it is complicated.

[@eugenejamesbon4355]

true

[@robd1062]

@Arun Kumaresan evdfttt try EF

[@thetayz72]

The real world is complicated. People have a bad habit of oversimplifying to suit their biases.

[@kamisama9715]

I have an exam tomorrow but this seemed important.

[@adjly1824]

It IS important

[@momentais4569]

same

[@nurulnajmaini3869]

Same

[@tumei1851]

Reforcing your undertanding of actually important things in the world rather than wasting time learning very likely pointless things which you will also likely forget is way more important.

[@nurulnajmaini3869]

@@tumei1851 then why did you comment

[@lorenzoscarpato2877]

Me: searching for simple answers Kurzgesagt in every single video: "well it's complicaded..."

[@BroadcastingCN]

mh

[@BroadcastingCN]

compliacaded

[@shyamkumarkhangembam9169]

"complicaded

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Alway has been

[@desmodius205]

YESS Every video from now on must start with that

[@dascplayer740]

For my Pokémon fans out there. I love how there are magnemites as part of the animation. 2:10

[@joaovaz3473]

I really don't know how Kurzgesagt are able to keep working and producing such amazing videos. The whole world seems to be falling apart and yet they keep releasing videos according to their schedule. I respect you a lot for that. Thanks for the amazing content you continously bring to us.

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Without a doubt

[@tomhappening]

ikrrr

[@carnotit]

Pprt

[@DKDynamic]

The background music... I LOVE IT!

[@chensich7519]

Hi verified guy

[@yigithan.kilinc]

Usual Epic Mountain stuff🔥

[@manaskumar3297]

Link for the background music is in description

[@DKDynamic]

@@chensich7519 hello :)

[@chensich7519]

@@DKDynamic hi :)

[@gerbanglogika270]

In this channel, knowledge that is considered difficult to learn and only belongs to a handful of people becomes easy to understand..the best .. this channel is my inspiration

[@Wumbo57]

@@VV-ck7hw bro... chill. It’s ok lol

[@whatinxxxtarnation4728]

@@VV-ck7hw ahahahahaha your not very smart are you my friend... clearly uneducated.

[@VV-ck7hw]

@@whatinxxxtarnation4728 + Whoa Witty response brah... You stay up all night comin up with that one? Clever bastard .. I got nothin , you win .. your so smart brah!

[@Shuizid]

@@VV-ck7hw *lol* oh boy thanks for showing us how smart you are by talking about "fizz in soda". Guess experiments about light-absortpion by gases are all false and all observations about the heating planet with almost constant influential factors EXCEPT manmade greenhouse gases are all wrong. Let's all listen to the guy who talks about "smart" while using terms like "global whining", while he whines about how everyone is soooo stupid...

[@stoppls1709]

@@VV-ck7hw average ameritard:

[@Samantha-vlly]

8:04 Y’all should make a game about the catastrophes, would love to play it Still, people in this situation need to pay attention.

[@paravirallinen]

Can we just talk about how beautiful these animations are

[@augustwinterman6952]

Yes. And they keep getting better.

[@jlwilder8436]

We've been talking about it for years.

[@whohouuu]

@@jerramrocks9136 what reward?

[@MantaKizaemonFTW]

YES

[@ehhhhh596]

@@jerramrocks9136 if you mean those silver, gold and diamond play button I'm pretty sure they already have those

[@Jim54_]

Our rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity

[@alabamaaa7245]

Yeah i dont really get how some people view nuclear energy as evil

[@HaosKitsune]

Nuclear , Geothermal and Hydro (where possible) are the best alternatives to coal (and oil) which are constantly reliable I think, while I love solar power myself it is costly to develop a reliable storage for it though an 1GWh battery storage could save enough energy for a smaller city or town safely it'd be very costly to build. I think new generation nuclear power plants will be even more safer and efficient than they are now while new generation geothermal plants will be much more efficient. I think we can all agree that coal and oil plants should be the enemy whenever someone supports nuclear/solar/wind/etc energy.

[@Jesse_359]

@@alabamaaa7245 Too easy to conflate it with nuclear weapons, and somehow people got it in their heads that radiation was some infinitely deadly invisible force of doom. They tend to forget that every time they step out their front door they're walking out under the system's largest un-shielded fusion reactor. So yeah, it's not great for you, but your body is meant to deal with small scale exposure to radiation on a daily basis. Barring direct exposure to heavily irradiated materials, radiation is just a minor risk factor in your day to day life.

[@everdale4609]

@@alabamaaa7245 my.most likely bet is because of. Chernobyl (sorry if spelled it wrong) and fukushima (again sorry) this causes panic and fear. But they were the best option to fight climate change

[@analye6814]

The corps love oil money. Marketed nuclear as evil. Things with an imagined system of goals (i.e. economy) is a funnel for the top; utilitarianism is a corpse to be pecked. Although the distinction between imaginery and practical is blurred by words, I believe we can understand the situation and at least try in eachother's way as all fall into the chaos and void.

[@-Raylight]

Those birds are just too cute to die xD *_"I don't like fossil fuels, it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like Kurzgesagt's birds. They're soft and smooth."_*

[@bobjames994]

Whoever designed the bird, give that man a raise

[@williamharper8745]

They still get everywhere but we like them so they can stay.

[@awhahoo]

@@williamharper8745 yeah

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

The design of the bird is so amazing

[@306316]

The birds get everywhere too. A part of them here, a part of them there, and a part of them wayyy over there, staining the wall.

[@SebastienMay]

Love that Sekiro reference at 1:45 👌

[@FilmFightFanatic]

8:14 background music is epic

[@ivanlol7153]

Have you heard they soundtrack of their space vids?

[@jiminbang5822]

@@ivanlol7153 omg yessss

[@Soul_of_zargon]

Yep

[@ajh3461]

Look up Epic Mountain Music for the soundtrack. It's amazing.

[@Kitsyfluff]

@@ivanlol7153 The best part is when multiple videos utilize the same leitmotifs. My favorite is the Dyson Sphere's motif, which plays whenever they mention it in other videos, it's just incredible (notable appearances in Stellar Engine and Alien Scale)

[@Gnevnyj]

The batteries and storage problem associated with renewables has reminded me - could you please do the video on lithium mining and the environmental footprint of renewables in general, like production of solar panels etc.?

[@socrateszues6024]

They dont have the balls to do that

[@pardeepsingh793]

@@socrateszues6024 Oh really.. and what makes you think that?????

[@krystal_vector5412]

Lithium isn’t the worst component in rechargeable batteries, research is being put towards extracting the metal from the near endless supply in seawater. Cobalt makes up a larger portion of most Li-ion batteries (the exception being Tesla batteries I believe), with half of the earth’s cobalt supply coming from the DRC, and the conditions of cobalt mines there are abysmal in both an environmental and humanitarian respect.

[@mermaidmimsy]

I wish they put solar panels on houses and not in fields.

[@bayanzabihiyan7465]

I think this "grid batteries" should use alternative storage solutions. Pumped Hydro which stores as gravitational potential energy, flywheels which store energy as angular momentum, and thermal storage which store energy as heat. There is even electro and magnetostatic energy which store as electro and magnetic fields, but those are not up to the capacity that we need. Chemical storage (batteries and fuel cells) just happen to be the most versatile and more researched. Things like energy density (both mass and size) (which chemical is good for) become less important and aspects like cost and durability become much more important.

[@seanedging6543]

1:45 I see the animators at Kurzgesagt like subjecting themselves to pain. Sekiro is such a good game.

[@aquilazyy1125]

Is that the place where you need to mind control a gremlin to fly the kite for you?

[@Chrisdashes]

@@aquilazyy1125 its sekiro, one of the hardest games that have been released in recent times. By hard I mean there is only one difficulty setting and the enemy Ai is rutheless, I think you get my idea. I platinumed Seekiro on the Ps4 (broke a controller in the process while fighting against OWL. The image on the monitor @1:45 is that of Sekiro the protagonist.

[@eleSDSU]

Souls games in general, DS1 is still the king tho.

[@Jopeth23]

I think that kite is the Wooooo Guy that swoops on you at the least expected moment.

[@aquilazyy1125]

@@Jopeth23 There’re many kites in Ashina tho. Speaking of that woooo guy, I always find splashing Dragon Flash into his face damn satisfying LOL :))

[@mildbuffaloenjoyer9510]

I love the art style. It is so warm yet cold at the same time.

[@glacialyx]

1:46 Respect for the bird playing Sekiro

[@nwcleear]

burd is not only playing sekiro, hes owning it. the smile on his face tells tales of the suffering of his enemies

[@zenithchan1646]

@F*СК MЕ - СНЕCK МY РR0FILЕ damn these bots are getting wierd

[@QuarterRican04]

Hell yea. And he's at the kite part so you know he's beaten some bosses already

[@StudioMeerkat]

I always loved the way how the voice actor pronounces "electricity". I don't know, it's just so satisfying. This video is a gift for me.

[@numbers4851]

Ell Eck trissity

[@ottttoooo]

eh leh ctricity

[@Champs-ek7lh]

ELectricity

[@mapextv]

Seriously, how can a team create so well researched scientific video essays and still make them this wholesome? Every single time I watch your videos, at some point I get cuteness overload from the animated ducks!

[@Elviloh]

It's still lack some obvious arguments like "we only have enough uranium to sustain a clean world for only a century (100% nuclear electricity production), just enough time to figure out a real sustainable, unlimited and clean source". We have more fossil fuel than uranium sadly. You need those crucial informations to figure out a plan and give orientation to next investments. Sadly a century is a human lifetime, so no one think about the children in current equation.

[@vighneshkannan7896]

@@Elviloh uranium isn't the only nuclear fuel, there are also reactors being built that use the waste products of current nuclear reactors, also if asteroid mining become a thing, then the uranium problem may not be so bad

[@christhompson4630]

@@Elviloh What about thorium, fuel breeding and reprocessing spent fuel? The video did briefly mention breeding and reprocessing. 100% nuclear isn't practical, though you may be only using that figure illustratively, so the life of nuclear fission can be extended far beyond "about a century" which makes planning for the future a bit easier. Unfortunately that planning usually crosses politicians who are mostly incompetent and self serving

[@joshuagil-reynolds1605]

@@Elviloh thorium produces way much electricity, is 3 times more abundant than uranium and produces less waste.

[@besko2444]

With a couple of millions of dollars anyone can push the climate change narrative.

[@crwydryny]

Before watching this I'm going to add my thoughts as someone who as worked in environmental conservation science for more than 12 years. Nuclear is our only real option. I did a study several years ago on the impact of various energy production methods using NYC as a base To power NYC with solar using current technology you would need to cover an area 15x the size of Manhattan Island with solar panels. Just to keep it powered during the day. To provide enough charge to last over night you'd need to double that... To provide enough to charge backup batteries for 7 days (the minimum requirement to prevent brownouts) you would need to cover an area 45x that of Manhatten island. To do the same with wind you would have to cover an area about the same which would have to be cleared of any tall trees. The consequence of this is for the solar panels you have to replace them every 20 years, the disposal of which releases a lot of toxic heavy metals into landfills and by extension ground water as they can not be recycled. And the production of new panels produces a lot of toxic run off. Wind turbine have to be replaced every 25 years and again due to composite construction can't really be recycled. On top of this wind turbines require huge blocks of concrete 30m (about 100ft) on a side and rebar set into the ground the production of which produces more CO² than the wind turbine counteracts in it's 25 years. Then we come to the batteries. To power a city that size would require 40,000 shipping containers worth of lithium batteries which have to be replaced every 2 years, and if they were to suffer thermal runaway or get damaged due to accident, nature or an attack... Would have the explosive potential of 40 kilotons of TNT. Nuclear by comparison would cover an area 1/2 the size of Manhattan island, (including spent fuel pools, fuel storage etc) would last at least 50 years and produce a fraction of waste (if the fuel rods are reprocessed the amount of waste each year would fill a coffee cup... Less if you extract the useful isotopes such as Americum used in smoke alarms, and isotopes used in x-ray tubes) Edit: one point, nuclear is renewable... If you have the right set up of reactor types. With current technology a fuel cycle using burner and breeder reactors is 90% efficient at recycling fuels. But that's really a moot point as based on current energy usage and projected usage, we have enough fissile material for 1000 years. Which if we include fertile isotopes from using that material and put it in a closed fuel cycle we can make that last 10,000 years. For comparison the pyramids at Giza were built 5000 years ago)

[@jennifersmith4864]

Thanks for your comment, you make so much sense & with data & computations --- so much better than these climate nuts running around screaming "we need renewables" which don't exist in reality. Nuclear is the only way to go & not for trying to change the climate, it just makes so much sense since it will take much pressure off oil & gas on which the world runs.

[@jorgeluiscontrerac]

And then we will try to use nuclear fusion as our energy.

[@jennifersmith4864]

@@jorgeluiscontrerac Sure or whatever it takes when fossil fuel runs out in a coupla 100 years.

[@JKozlovable]

I've always had concerns about nuclear energy, and specially regarding its waste. But Kurzgesagt has singlehandedly managed to change my views on nuclear power, to the point where I no longer consider it unviable. And for that, I thank thee.

[@luinixg]

We will never have to bury nuclear "waste" for thousands of years. Current "waste" will be Generation IV and V reactors' fuel.

[@fish9468]

It is economically unviable. Source: Hinkley point station, near where I live.

[@luinixg]

@@fish9468 If you use current technology, maybe. If you use fourth generation reactors, surely not. And even with current technology, it seems for China, Russia, India and Korea it's actually quite viable...

[@captaindave88]

@@fish9468 maybe we should start upgrading or replacing these nuclear power stations... enough with the demonization of nuclear. It's unviable because we're maintaining old crap...

[@luinixg]

@@fish9468 (not to mention that deciding on our energy generation mix by only looking at one single plant project is not exactly rational, maybe we could also take into account the other aprox. 440 nuclear plants throughout the world that are, in fact, economically viable...)

[@voornaamachternaam8559]

I love how birds are educating me more than school

[@deadtrollz6533]

Lol I am testing right now.

[@Sougin_0]

It’s also good because we can learn with our own FREE WILL! Plus when you want to learn something, you learn it with care while schools shove it down and lessen the fun with homework, tests, and essays

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Big brain birds

[@shyamkumarkhangembam9169]

Idk what school you go to but here they teach us about nuclear power

[@garybrown2039]

It’s probably because they care more about it than the governments of the world.

[@elcrit7860]

Every video from this channel in a nutshell: "its complicated."

[@summushieremiasclarkson4700]

Because it is, but nuclear is the best solution, and has been for decades.

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

Hi there.. Please visit my channel if you love science and general knowledge

[@criogenic1839]

Kurzgesagt in a nutshell

[@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456]

@F*СК MЕ - СНЕCK МY РR0FILЕ stfu bot

[@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456]

@@DarrensGeneralInfo no lmao make actual content and not spam garbage

[@Deeshvoo]

Kurzgesagt, you should really start a podcast! It would be great knowing that I could take a run and listen to your calming voice talk about how we could terraform Venus, or nuke a city!

[@SuccessAdvicechannel]

Can we show some respects for these animators ! The quality of their work is amazing !

[@FLAMEalan]

@@user-uj7zb7hw3x you are the most normal youtuber :)

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

Hi there.. Please visit my channel if you love science and general knowledge

[@gusthavo15yearsand98]

@@DarrensGeneralInfo no

[@imeann...]

@@DarrensGeneralInfo good videos

[@mm4051_]

@@FLAMEalan jeez you just killed him

[@Transfixed]

Modern nuclear plants are so good that they can burn the waste from old plants as fuel! It's tragic that there isn't enough public knowledge and political will to build nuclear in western countries :(

[@zombieguyproducion]

It's all solely due to Chernobyl sadly. :/

[@stevealdrich2472]

If they can burn the waste, why don't they do it? At least one country should have tried it by now. If it worked, we'd have heard about it. Disposing of nuclear waste is one of the biggest problems on planet earth. What's your source of information? What makes you think the plants can burn the waste?

[@mikhailoleynikov]

@@stevealdrich2472 not all waste can be burnt, and it isn’t reused as is, it requires expensive processing to make it burnable again. It all comes to the fact, that it’s much cheaper to mine new nuclear fuel and bury used fuel, than to reuse the waste. Though this may change with additional research, or just with scale

[@stevealdrich2472]

@@mikhailoleynikov would be wonderful if the reuse came to pass. If this is a viable technique then I am all for it

[@keselekbakiak]

@@stevealdrich2472 even if they manage to create this reuse technology, it will be expensive. And most of countries cant afford it. So in the end the majority will still rely on fossil fuel.

[@RammmFan]

i was away sick with covid, 17 days no internet usage, and here there is new Kurzgesat videos, best welcome i had

[@alexmaddox8307]

Why were you not allowed to use the internet?

[@zanediezeljuan8999]

@@alexmaddox8307 dude probs have shitty wifi idk or shit signal so hot spots kinda not workin

[@yatsumleung8618]

Welcome back. Hope you get better soon.

[@ifightbears7609]

@@alexmaddox8307 I don't think it was the internet, it was probably because he felt like shit. When I had the flu I felt so bad that I didn't have the attention to watch videos.

[@Sarahbryson321]

@@alexmaddox8307 might’ve gone into hospital

[@Lifeinmotion500]

Hi , Kurzgesagt . I would like to thank you all, from the deep of my heart, today we had a final day of(MODULE) IAEA and because of your research we proposed your idea and made a resolution, and me myself got an award of the best Diplomat , thank you❤❤❤

[@thestudentofficial5483]

Politicians with 5 years tenure: you get fossil fuel, you get fossil fuel, EVERYONE GETS FOSSIL FUEL

[@bananafoneable]

Power plants still use oil based products

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

You have to understand that election campaigns need a lot of money and energy companies are the major funders. It's a sad reality but energy companies literally control the world and they would do anything to hinder legislations that puts them under threat. I am actually currently making a video about this very topic. Its the grim reality

[@epicstuff7522]

@@DyslexicMitochondria sad truth

[@tomasbeltran04050]

You need to understand that democracy is the ad populum fallacy made into a political system

[@igniex]

@@tomasbeltran04050 yeah... its quite depressing 😓

[@lvqt3490]

2:07 I love how there's just this random Magnemite pokemon in the background

[@thinaung5948]

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[@franklinjoaquinschoenich5964]

@@thinaung5948 why do I see this *everywhere* I go?

[@nukeboy7633]

lol

[@Vathmiel]

@@franklinjoaquinschoenich5964 Just report it and move on

[@Cryogenius333]

They do that a lot lol. Magnemiye actually makes a lot of appearances in this channels videos

[@Colaglass]

It's so refreshing to see balanced perspectives, I'm so sick and tired of extremists. Kurzgesagt always make me happy.

[@Alexander_Kale]

So balanced that CO2, an odorless, tasteless gas is consistently portrayed as a purple, gaseous monster with an evil grin. And that is only one of the examples. Watch this video again and you can find two or three more, depending on your inclination. The channel makes good content, but please do not kid yourself. These people are just as biased as is everybody else.

[@plantinapot9169]

@Alexander Kale Because it’s bad... large amounts of greenhouse gases are not what life on earth is used to, and is changing ecosystems, killing millions on millions... I don’t know what your argument is honestly. Is it about methane? That is a good argument, but large amounts of co2 emissions is still a bad thing.

[@bertieblackman8791]

@@Alexander_Kale but the burning of fossil fuels is objectively destroying the planet at an overwhelming rate. Not treating is as worse than nuclear or renewables is trying to create a "balanced debate" for the sake of balance. Not everything has to be balanced if one of the options is objectively the worst.

[@alfiepicton1339]

@@Alexander_Kale Yes because there isn't an argument saying CO2 is good so that's just irrelevant

[@MewPurPur]

@@Alexander_Kale This is not bias or opinion, it's drawing obvious conclusions from the research. Fossil fuels are 100x worse than their alternatives, even at scale. CO2 is causing climate change and could potentially deface the planet. Even if you somehow disagree with the indirect logic that CO2 in the atmosphere is what causes climate change, then there's also direct proof that it acidifies oceans and kills its ecosystems, as well as burning fossil fuels causes 4.2 million deaths a year with its fine particle pollution.

[@duolingobird8196]

As a Michigander for some reason people are trying to immediately shut down the plant Fermi 2 and keep saying that Fermi 3 should be cancelled and “it will be the next Chernobyl.” They are also pushing for solar everywhere even though solar and wind could probably not support the entirety of Detroit (unless you decided to cover large swaths of land), let alone the entirety of Michigan and part of Ontario.

[@ojaspk9159]

We can agree that this channel has to be made more famous and should deserve more support.

[@rofl_waffl]

this channel has grown by so much over the last years what do you mean?

[@klokoloko2114]

Like, share and comment.

[@marcusmaxwell2824]

It has like 14 million subscribers I mean what more do you want.

[@ignzyriq]

Do you have any idea how much 14 million subscribers is? Yea its nice if he gets more, but its not like hes small or anything.

[@mrplease66]

14.5 million subscribers isn't nothing

[@TunaBear64]

"BuT nuClEaR cReATes ToXIc wASte" Well is true, but I prefer a few tonnes of toxic waste underground rather than millions of tonnes of toxic waste on the atmosphere.

[@pelicant6497]

And now we can use that waste! What a waste.

[@kingseekerbackup3085]

THe thing about the nuclear is waste is a potential reusabilty, and the fact that theyre also solid makes it easier to control

[@acethefiredragon8525]

Honestly, the toxic waste created from TikTok has far more devastating effect on people than the waste created from nuclear power plants.

[@acethefiredragon8525]

@@cat.in.2020 Still not as dangerous as the byproducts that burning coal produces.

[@AlldaylongRock]

Waste? Use fast reactors and all of it is either toxic as a heavy metal (Lead), or usable as a radiation source. Unprocessed SNF-HLW is a mess because it has a weird af decay schedule. Processed SNF-HLW is basically depleted uranium... Fuel for breeder reactors. Caesium-137, Cobalt-60,and Iodine-131 in MLW/LLW can be used as radiotherapy sources, as well as some other isotopes.

[@KOODJA]

So educational, perfect !

[@a-prevailbeats]

Your channel is amazing such a fan 😊

[@Harithus]

@ADEN JOHN it is not his channel name is vidio unik and that is in indonesian in english it translates to unique videos

[@Blazer-lv3xe]

Your mom

[@R3in_Ch]

@@Harithus self advertiser is what he trying to say.

[@Harithus]

@@R3in_Ch oh thanks i read it wrong he was talking about tim berg that no longer exists

[@ShortFuseFighting]

this artstyle deserves a friggin' oscar !

[@slavicnonatho8062]

"Well, it's complicated" -every argument in the world, ever

[@venera_7]

@Rita Mellon - 25 y.o - WÁNȚ Š[Ē]X !!! shut up bot

[@venera_7]

@trixlr yea I know

[@macdjord]

If it were simple, we'd have solved it already.

[@josefptacek113]

@@macdjord no we won't becoas we are bunch of cowards that don't make choices that actually matter and instead leting idiots making up genders and ruining cultures around the world

[@josefptacek113]

@Ami Deus some things are simple some are complicated. But saying it's complicated usually means the person wants for some reason support the worse option and uses "it's complicated" as distraction so he can justify his option more easily. Not saying it's always the case. For example: chosing between nuclear and natural energy is simple Nuclear energy is cleaner and more effective. But whats complicated is disposal of nuclear wastes. There are lots of options and we must figure out which is best

[@princeg603]

Can we just appreciate for a moment, the high level reasearch , script and animation Hats off to the team

[@ISuperI]

They even put the sponsor at the end, pretty nice guys =)

[@r.jguerra5526]

*In all these years, I can't believe they haven't make a single video of what would happen if the moon was made of cheese*

[@ianhaeussler6027]

That’s for the infographics show😂

[@kennethstupid]

I dont think they make videos dumb. Also idk if its worth that time

[@r.jguerra5526]

@@kennethstupid they make all types of science related videos, a few months ago they uploaded a video of what if the earth was made of gold

[@r.jguerra5526]

Not to say all the catastrophic and impossible events they always research

[@ChimkenNugget]

what if the moon was made of ice cream?