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NAQUADAH GENERATOR: An advanced power unit that uses the mineral naquadah to generate large amounts of energy. Reverse-engineered from a similar device built by the Orbanian civilization, naquadah generators became a staple for portable power generation utilized for offworld operations by Stargate Command and the Atlantis expedition ...
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[@GateWorldDotNet]

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[@jamesfcarlton6890]

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[@jamesfcarlton6890]

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[@DavidKnowles0]

We should have saw more of the Orbanian civilisation. They were one of the few technological races willing to share their technology. It would make sense for example that the Prometheus was a joint project. That the Orbanians was brought in to consult on nanite threats such as the replicators.

[@dirtypaws6328]

Or when the asgard award gifted All there tech to earth. Come back to them and say your gonna not believe this but.......

[@westrim]

They got so busy playing with the novelty of playing that they stopped doing any civilization maintaining functions and starved themselves to extinction. Stargate Command doesn't know what happened because they simply stopped responding one day.

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@westrim So you are basically saying O'neil destroyed a whole civilisation!

[@mnm2156]

@@westrim lol, hyperbole much? maybe they just learned at our pace

[@derianvandalsen]

@@DavidKnowles0 O'Neill, with two l's. There is another one in the airforce, but he has no sense of humour.

[@sonicguyver7445]

Those generators really were a game changer for Earth and the SGC. Gaining a piece tech like that and learning how to make it. Since naquadria was a dead-end this was the key to the Tau'ri gaining an advantage. We suddenly had the means to power starships we built ourselves.

[@tylersoto7465]

All those staff weapons the gau'ld had liquid naquadah power core in them powerful enough to power a stargate or a city would of been very useful from all those gau'ld soldiers they killed to take the power cores for ourselves to power our world and build more spaceships lol

[@podsmpsg1]

Naquadriah was too unstable.

[@sonicguyver7445]

@@podsmpsg1 Yeah, that's why I said it was a dead-end. It's power output potential was amazing but it was too unstable to be used.

[@podsmpsg1]

@@sonicguyver7445 Yeah.

[@feliperisseto9113]

After that, they discovered the ZPM.

[@weareorigin]

Wait. Testing a new prototype generator near the SG1 base?! If it accidentally exploded, there goes the Stargate program and coworkers.

[@FastDuDeJiunn]

tv show. not real life. gotta add drama... that said. with all that in mind. watching shows like this now with my age.... most shows are ofc very undramatic... im like yea ok like u will kill off the show,or main char for this... lets just move on.... so i really rely on the shows that tell good stories. and a lot less of the fake drama. that said. Vikings has been pleasant surprise. they not been afraid to kill of lead actors etc. i like damn..... well didnt see that coming. 1 hand i was upset said char died. but on the other. it kept the show being less predictable

[@randomrangoon5476]

Grew up watching Stargate and still really enjoy it to this day. Came across your channel a few weeks ago and really enjoy it. 👍👐

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Thanks very much for watching!

[@escanor8798]

Dito👻❤

[@jamesfcarlton6890]

@@escanor8798 *You must click the **#Like** button or they won’t know that you replied to their comment or question on here. Some **#FYI** you know*

[@Dusxio]

I both love and hate the look of the generators XD It's cool and dorky. But they are also my fourth favourite power source in the setting. Just behind the ZPM, the Terra-Root Linea made and of course the Cold Fusion Reactor Core in the DHDs.

[@speavy]

It should have looked like a little tie fighter.

[@jayburn00]

Wait, the DHDs use a cold fusion core? Did not know that actually.

[@Dusxio]

@@jayburn00 Yep :D That glowing gem in the middle of the DHDs is the power source. I don't remember which episode it was directly stated but it got a passing mention a few times across the seasons.

[@GateWorldDotNet]

I'll have to go back and look for this! I don't recall it ever being specified (in canon) just how the DHD is powered.

[@Dusxio]

@@GateWorldDotNet Check The Fifth Race. The wiki sites the screenshot from Jack's Ancient knowledge when he wrote the solution to for the team stranded off world. I believe it's mentioned in one of the Legacy Books too, but I'm much less certain on that one, both specific source and canon validity.

[@glenwarner162]

Yeah, it's about time to re-watch these shows again!

[@chrisdelagarza8048]

I am on season two episode two.

[@jason4275]

I tried but stop at season 9 the ORI, and especially Vala made the show unbearable to watch.

[@MobileRaidr]

For the 100th time each episode at least here

[@jamesfcarlton6890]

@@MobileRaidr *At least here, WTF are you talking about❓*

[@123Jeenie]

Cool, what about the very advanced (mk 8 or something) that Rodney references in the Atlantis episode where Sheppard gates into the future?

[@Raj_Luthra]

Mark 12

[@LtPKBT]

not much is known about it

[@tylersoto7465]

Mark xii generator powerful enough to power the city of Atlantis and shields for 800 yrs it was in a comic too lol

[@IIGrayfoxII]

Future versions were made more portable by being collapsible where the two spheres could be pushed towards the center IIRC

[@thomasedenbrow7646]

Bring back Stargate!

[@Jonathan-nn3rg]

You are awesome! I love hearing about Stargate facts again. My dad and I watched it every week. It is one of the bonding moments I miss so much with him. Keep up the amazing work!

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Thanks so much, Jonathan!

[@maestroamonathan4279]

so a micro dust from a naquada element can create a battery that can last for years.. even a pin size naquada can be revolusionary for electric cars...

[@djcuevas1057]

A little mat of liquid naquada could fuel a jump to another galaxy. That’s the standard power cell for staff weapons which never reload.

[@maestroamonathan4279]

@@djcuevas1057 i hope someday an element of such will be quntified... a nuke lazed with naquada will amplify its destructive power.. imagine

[@tylersoto7465]

Just use the liquid naquadah power core from a staff weapon to power a car it can power a city if wanted to , if I was stargate command I would of used the gau'ld war as a reason to kill all the enemies off and steal the staff weapon cores to power our world and make super enhances nuclear bombs out it to take out gau'ld ships lol

[@tylersoto7465]

@@maestroamonathan4279 They have nuclear batteries , there batteries that gets it's power from the decaying of radioactive material and can power over a hundred houses easily and last For 28,000

[@RoosterMontgomery]

Good thing Naquadah doesn't occur in our solar system. If the Stargate program went public, all nations would demand use of this material and we'd all be dead real soon!

[@jupamoers]

When the SG-Teams power the Rings with cables...what happens to the cables when the rings are used? It always seems like a one-time use

[@jayburn00]

I would have liked to see more of the Orban people. Also to clarify, the naquadah generator is a fission reactor that happens to somehow be clean, right? I am pretty sure it's not fusion, but it would have been nice for them to describe how it was clean fission. Were they able to shield again the radiation better or something? In some ways, it would have both made more sense and been more realistic if it worked on fusion, as there is an easy (relatively) way to directly convert fusion energy into electrical energy without using steam to power a turbine first. I am not familiar with any fission reactor power generator concepts that don't require heating a working fluid to drive a turbine, while I am familiar with at least one fusion reactor power generation concept that doesn't require heating a working fluid (and may have heard of at least two others with similar capabilities). I have some educated guesses on how a fission to electricity direct conversion or turbineless power generator might work, but they are just guesses (involving using radiation to ionize some material in order to produce current, or perhaps heating a material into a plasma; or naquadah generators actually being hybrid fission-fusion generators in reality and not pure fission reactors, similar to multistage thermonuclear bombs but without the explosions (radiation induced compression of a plasma?)). I would love for someone to either correct me on my assumptions, further clarify things, or further discuss these ideas/theories I have for how naquadah generators work. I don't have a complete background in it (I completed my bachelor's in computer science), but I do have some educational background in nuclear engineering (it was my major at one point and I did some research involving it).

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Great question! I don't recall any mention of either fission or fusion in this context, though I suppose the term "reactor" is enough to indicate it is one or the other. I don't recall the show ever specifying precisely what is going on in those two little domes.

[@Alligator81]

I dimly remember, (don’t know where I read this,) that naquadah creates usable energy when neutrinos pass through it. Which makes sense for an energy source you can use anywhere, and doesn’t seem to deplete or get used up like a battery. Presumably that’s how the Goa’uld can have some of it in their bodies, and use it at will to power their technology. Of course, I could be thinking of some other fictional material. So don’t say it’s canon on my account. *Cough!* (Like vibranium.)

[@jasonharrison25]

look up Radioisotope thermoelectric generator. they are often times used in satellites having to travel far from the Sun where solar would not work

[@jayburn00]

@@jasonharrison25 I'm familiar with them, but their power output is very low, even when used with Stirling engines.

[@emmaofdragons2720]

Kinda like the idea of "cold fussion"...? Too bad, the energy output is so "low" on those satellites. 😉

[@jordanedmond5618]

Great vid, can't find anything wrong with anything said, great job

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Thanks, Jordan!

[@nynthworld4152]

I'd like to order 4 Naquadah Generators please.👍

[@tylersoto7465]

I wonder if they sell them on Amazon lol

[@nynthworld4152]

@@tylersoto7465 I only wish. Lol👍

[@heesingsia4634]

I've probably forgotten about it but what happened to the naquadria powered generator from Jonas' world

[@hulmhochberg8129]

naquadria go boom happened i dont think they made anything out of naquadria it was just too unstable. even tho i found it odd that they didnt made bombs out of them

[@Brakiros]

naquadria is far more powerful then naquadah but it was highly unstable and a way to safely stabilize the reaction wasn't discovered. So they just enhanced the effective output of naquadah in future generations of the reactor

[@patrickwilkinson7351]

Naquadria just ended up becoming too unstable to be put into regular use, especially after the reactor on the Prometheus overloaded. It's almost certainly still experimented with, likely on uninhabited worlds, but from where we left off the SG franchise, it was still seen as too risky compared to the standard naquadah generators and reactors.

[@patrickwilkinson7351]

@@hulmhochberg8129 They never had a huge amount to begin with. It later became known that naquadria only existed due to Gao'uld experiments and wasn't naturally forming, and since Langara, the only planet known to have it until SGU happened didn't want to trade with them, they're weren't able to get more beyond what Jonas took. More than likely, whatever wasn't used during experiments was used up making the reactor for the Prometheus.

[@darkleome5409]

This got me thinking... Is it possible that we'll find some elements with amazing properties?

[@falkj.beinker6561]

unlikely, our periodic system doesn't allow infinite elements and all experimental elements are highly radioactive since the neutron sum negates or rather shields the positive charge of the protons which cause them to break apart. Their are theories that they could stabilize at a certain amount of mass but we won't be able to even create such states anytime soon. Large atoms only generate in dying stars so we would need to be able to create higher core pressure without creating black holes and from empiric observations thats immpossible. It is possible that we find new crystal configurations of exisisting elements like diamond and graphene are for carbon, most likely for semi.metals. Silicon should have a few that we didn't already create

[@darkleome5409]

@@falkj.beinker6561 but what about matter which is made out of different quarks and/or leptons, like muon hydrogen. I doubt we can make everyday stuff from it, but maybe can use in futuristic power sources, engines, energy weapons etc

[@falkj.beinker6561]

@@darkleome5409 i doubt that we will ever get past muon helium but i'm a chemist not a physist

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[@tylersoto7465]

There are nuclear batteries that use the decay of nuclear waste that can generate tons of energy

[@farscape1714]

Damn i need to re watch Stargate

[@RoosterMontgomery]

2:18 Among the pieces of Naquadah ore are crystals. I suspect those are refined into the control crystals inside the glowing chevrons of the Stargates.

[@Condrayack]

Great episode.

[@GregoryMCMAHON817]

I REALLY LOVE YOU VIDEO.

[@specialnewb9821]

So that thing I mentioned with the Tollan, how Orban is clearly inspired by mesoamerican designs but it's white Vancouver actors. I like episode, but it would have cool to see more Central American looking folks. Gotta work with the budget and acting pool you have though 🤷‍♂️ In general I am actually a big fan of Earth being able to make naquadah generators but I definitely think that was one of the things they really should have worked to make publicly available. Especially with climate change it would be a huge deal. Then again since Earth doesn't have Naquadah it would be difficult to keep the program secret. But if that kind of thing happened in reality, the military having abundant clean energy and not sharing it with society, I cannot even describe how furious I'd be.

[@dominikfabos4520]

I think it was mentioned once that Mckay had to help the russians with their generator. Maybe they used this energy source in secret, disguised as something else. They could not have revealed it to the public as it uses a mineral not native to Earth.

[@MihzvolWuriar]

Imagine the press release Dr.: "Hey we got this awesome new tech, it's called Naquadah Reactor, it works by cleanly and efficiently burning Naquadah" Press: "What is Naquadah?" Dr. "A Mineral we found on another planets and..." There you go, SGC is done, the world is in chaos, and you leaked the existence of a offworld capability, that's not good mate.

[@specialnewb9821]

@@MihzvolWuriar Very good actually. World wouldn't be in chaos. It only goes to chaos if the announcement comes during an attack. A non-emergency announcement, and with so much of the economic countries part of the atlantis treaty would make it far less of a risk. Besides multiple governments have fought off-the books intergalactic wars. Can you tell me with a straight face that is a good thing even if it might have been necessary? Is Earth even capable of properly being the fifth race if 90% of it's population doesn't even know?

[@MihzvolWuriar]

@@specialnewb9821 Mate, did you live all these years under a rock? We can barely maintain peace on our own, do you think when the world discovers we *barely* fought off Alien invasions many times, we would suddenly unite under a single banner and be happy? That would be the most naive way of thinking ever, not only there would be war, it probably would be a nuclear war, you just accomplished what the Goa'uld failed at least 3 times with a single gesture. *The SGC cannot be revealed to the public unless the world is already united,* which it isn't at any measurement.

[@dominikfabos4520]

@@MihzvolWuriar Gen Z would go and create a petition to cancel aliens 😂 Economy would collapse People would be terrified There would be the unbelievers And then would come the blame, they would want answers and someone to blame this whole operation on, even though they were succesful.

[@destinycaptain247]

Would love to see you kids appear on film maker and documentarian Robert Meyer Burnett's channel, The Burnettwork, sometime. He knows his Trek, but he has amittedly missed out on Stargate. I really think he'd appearciate what you all have created here. He has been on similar a path Trek working various DVD/ BluRay projects over the years. Might be a worth while way to get new eyes on the Stargate TV Universe. It always amazes me how many fans of genre entertainment have never seen the various Stargate series or even heard of them.

[@RZDUX]

But nothing beats a ZPM or SUN

[@reneecole1263]

Cool

[@escanor8798]

Im gonna wait till we have such a generator , to start the search for enlightment

[@smoothie9931]

Shame we'd be long dead

[@jamesfcarlton6890]

*Funny, the both of you* 😆😂🤣🤣

[@John73John]

2:24 "A controlled explosive reaction" Something seems kind of off about that. Naquadah is clearly some kind of nuclear fuel like uranium or thorium. In the episode where Carter built the first one she mentioned lining it with lead for radiation shielding. There have been many other episodes where they mention isotopes and decay rates. Nuclear fission is not an explosion -- at least you hope it isn't, unless you're using it as a weapon.

[@GateWorldDotNet]

The more I think about it the more this seems right. Some sort of fission reaction. But still, in that case (as far as I understand it) naquadah would be serving as a fuel source that is eventually used up and needs replacing.

[@shonix123]

It will be fun if they add the chinese artificial sun!! That can power atlantis

[@Jason_Wilhelm]

I don't think that is it either naquada seems to have some radioactive properties but for the most part it appears to be stable in most forms. Second naquada doesn't seem burn as a fuel consider the liquid naquada core from the device O'Neill made. I think this comes back to the primary property of naquada it amplifies all forms of energy applied to it. I think some form of catilist is used in the naquada core to start current within the reactor charge moves from one bulb to the other on the reactor amplifying each time it passes through the naquada core the charge continues to build until some form of dampener is placed on the process allowing it to run at a consistent level likely so that too much energy isn't pumped through the naquada which would cause it to explode. Also cool enough if you connect the generator to a circuit under this design the current would be alternating. Now I think that naquada has a extra dimensional property that allows for it to perform this I think it operates on some level with subspace why the material is used with hyperdrives. I think this property either degrades as naquada decays or can be burned out with improper use.

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

@@GateWorldDotNet Maybe it can be used to make muons economically and allow easy fusion.

[@Billy420-69]

Two more of the lose threads that were never revisited. I think it could have had some interesting follow up on Marin, P2X-416 and their societies.

[@pauldusa]

cool

[@TheLastVoodooMan]

I don't remember the scene with Sam activating 3 generators in a library, which episode/movie is it from?

[@MrHoktar]

SG-1 S10 E12 ;)

[@WilliamJulienNkogheOlympio]

It was in season 10 I think, it was when sam tried to save a village from the Ori. I can't remember which episode exactly.

[@TheLastVoodooMan]

@@MrHoktar Thank you, I see it has been too long since I rewatched the series..

[@GateWorldDotNet]

That one is Season 10's "Line in the Sand."

[@TheLastVoodooMan]

@Jeff Davis idk what you are laughing about? MrHoktar gave me the correct answer and GateWorld's answer came after my appreciation. Can I not say thanks to people who answered first? Thanks, @GateWorld btw since we are at it.

[@shadowzone2588]

what episode did they encounter them in?

[@Cyberlisk]

Didn't hey bring a ZPM (the one found in the Moebius episode) to Atlantis during the siege?

[@Cyberlisk]

@@xXMrIgniteXx Ah okay, thanks.

[@Dusxio]

Atlantis runs on Naquadah Generators as well to reduce drain on the ZPM from what I remember.

[@tomcat124us]

@@Dusxio then Solar Panels for extra energy.

[@jamesfcarlton6890]

@@tomcat124us *No that was only when Shepard had travelled through time way into the future*

[@tomcat124us]

@@jamesfcarlton6890 true, Solar would only off set like a lab or 2 lol

[@blackadder564]

No mention of the Mark XII?

[@maestroamonathan4279]

the MALP should have more cameras not just one and even have A weapon like a bomb in case it needs it

[@phillipj1135]

Was there a reason why the nanites weren't networked or they couldn't copy the information like we do with every piece of digital data? It was probably writers being writers. It seemed plausible the first time I watched it but now it seems culturally lazy.

[@Gantali9305]

Maybe there is a possibility that doing that could facilitate the rise of another race of Replicators.

[@jason4275]

Question is the Naquadah Generator more powerful than the ZPM.

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Nope -- evidently far less powerful. A mark II generator could temporarily power the Ancient control chair (and nothing else) by operating in a state of barely controlled overload.

[@mjtunstall1976]

then Baal used a hand held device to power up the stargate in the continuum movie

[@Noone-jn3jp]

how excited are you for the recent purchase?

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Here's hoping that Amazon does something with Stargate ... sooner rather than later!

[@jamesfcarlton6890]

@@GateWorldDotNet *Yeah much sooner*

[@mrbubbles7234]

make a even smaller one and you got Ronon's gun

[@johnassal5838]

No offense but while the generator from Orban was a crucial clue, Carter was _already_ thinking along those lines based on her effort to reverse engineer O'Niell's "gate booster." It was a Naquada generator and not a "ZPM" as one of your other vids claim. It ran on Naquada which we *see* O'Niell insert for Pete's sake. Meanwhile recall that the Orbanian initiates aren't very good teachers unless you get their nanites. Due to this the *only* reason Carter could follow Mira's "explanation" well enough to make a functioning device was all the time she had spent on deciphering the gate booster. Just one or two episodes after we meet the Orbanians that alternate universe Carter and Kawalski come through the Quantum Mirror and we're *told* that the two Carter's quickly figure out how to get the booster running because thanks to the Orbanians they "know how to calculate the decay rate of Naquada by then." Not to mention they knew exactly how to make the gate booster but just couldn't get it working again so the fact they later _do get it working_ would make it pretty odd they never idk, *build as many "ZPMs" as they'd like, if you were right. So you're leaving out the booster entirely while acting like Orban made everything perfectly clear when nothing is further from the truth. The fact you even mistake the booster for a ZPM is just extra sloppy. Have you seen the show?

[@GateWorldDotNet]

Well I don't mind the critical interaction (and an occasional connection) at all -- talking about the fictional tech is fun. But the final comment is uncalled for. We can be friendly about it. You're entirely right that Carter was working on the booster power device from "The Fifth Race" at the same time. No one's suggesting 100% of her knowledge came from the Orbanians. But the episode is clear that quite a lot did. The entire subplot is about Sam trying to reproduce the Orbanian reactor using Earth parts. If I said in the ZPM video that the booster was basically a ZPM, that's wrong. It is speculation that they are related, both being Ancient-designed, roughly the same size and shape, and (importantly) able to power an 8-chevron dialing sequence. The booster can't be (or I should say it's very unlikely to be) simply an Ancient-designed naquadah generator, since a naquadah generator cannot power an intergalactic wormhole -- not by a long shot. When the Atlantis expedition lost contact Earth couldn't just string together a few of them and dial Pegasus. Thank you for your post!

[@johnassal5838]

@@GateWorldDotNet I'm sorry but the simple fact is anyone actually watching the show would know O'Neill's booster "only" provided ten times the power as a normal dialing to go however far it went. That's not a matter of opinion; dialogue of the show _tells us this._ So your reasoning falls apart for why it must be a ZPM instead of running on the Naquada *your own vid* shows being fed into to it. The show avoids hard numbers and equations but it's obvious dialing the Asgard took far less than it takes to dial Pegasus. Between it being omitted from this vid while being included in the ZPM vid comes pretty close to "saying 100%" it had nothing to do with how Carter figuring out how a Naquada generator works. Anyway, some might prefer a short 3 min vid that only says what anyone who's seen the show already knows but every other vid on YT on ZPM for instance is twice as long or more. Maybe you want to corner the short-but-sweet angle but my whole point is that if you actually scratch the surface there's actually enough to go into to have ten minutes or more of content.

[@CaptainSovereign]

Planet..orban...lol....(funny for hungarians....)

[@TheTSense]

Looking back it is quite horrible what the SGC has done to these two worlds. Now enjoying the Fruits of Orbanian Culture but at the same time Jack had destroyed it. They way of doing Research was destroyed, slowing down or halting the progress they are making, while Earth kept on going. Giving Children Mental Disabilities is bad, I get it, but Jack on his own decided to overrule every opinion on that whole planet. Then on P2X-416 they left that thing in the hands of an Alien Military in the middle of a war, enabling who knows kind of superweapons. I think there is a reason both these worlds are never mentioned again. SGC was by far not the good guys I remember them as.

[@johnassal5838]

I'm sorry my precious comment runs too long to make the salient point. Tl;dr: Half the info you give is right, the other half is simplified at best while you actually leave out half of the actual story overall. (I'm sorry but you do the vid, you get it right or you get critiqued.)

[@johnassal5838]

@Jeff Davis Do you read books or just throw them at things that scare you more?