Tier List of Energy Sources Explained

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[@nobleman9393]

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[@CorneliusTheWizardDog]

10/10 for reliability and power

[@broly2945]

Skynets next biggest invention

[@savedata1987]

You mind if I turn this into a business?

[@Dockultra]

Nah you just need to chuck a daemon in something and let it do it's thing

[@nobleman9393]

@@CorneliusTheWizardDog It's also friendly to the environment.

[@amirfitri5903]

I love how it is transitioning from the usage of methane gas to harvesting energy from a fvcking blackhole

[@Skynet_the_AI]

[@unclekanethetiberiummain1994]

Doesn’t matter. In the end, they’ll all be used to boil water.

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

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[@JmKrokY]

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[@ultimaxkom8728]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback Most don't know that KZbin hides some people's comments even at the slightest thing. I kid you not, the word _"dab"-reversed_ will hide mine.

[@phaiz55]

The anti-nuclear crowd has always been a weird thing IMO. Coal plants pump out lots of toxic fumes and plenty of radiation on their own.

[@Bladeofdeath311]

Fly ash from coal is way more radioactive than nuclear waste. More so on a joule by joule basis

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

The nuclear supporters have a terrible sense of scale as yall get tunnel visioned hella easy. Due to all the concrete and other requirements, the process of making a nuclear plant in the first place produces a ludicrous amount of greenhouse gases. Plus nuclear waste is some of the worst stuff in the history of existence. PROPERLY containing that stuff requires constant energy which takes away from the total output efficiency. Plus you already know these companies arent going to follow all the regulations as they already dump waste where its not supposed to be There is a giant ball of plasma up there tossing free energy everywhere. The money thats used for Nuclear Plants should be allocated to making Solar as easily available as possible

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

@phaiz55 ...Continued... If every country in the world had multiple nuclear powerplants, how much nuclear waste would the planet generate after ONE HUNDRED YEARS?!!! This shit cannot be used whatsoever and lasts for like a million years. Nuclear people are VERY SHORTSIGHTED lol so are we going to start shooting nuclear wastes into space??? But once again, building a power plant in the first place leaves a massive carbon footprint so most plants dont even start paying for themselves until like 100 years after building. SOLAR IS THE EASY ANSWER

[@Bladeofdeath311]

@@jdrmanmusiqking I don't like to think o fit as tunnel vision; I work in the industry. Everything we do has to be very deliberate. And we learn from every mistake that is made and share that info with the rest of the nuclear community. The biggest radioactive leaks have been from mining companies not disposing of things properly. Refinement companies are nonetoogood either. The early days weren't so good, but we know how to run nuclear reactors safely. Hundreds of nuclear reactors have been used in the US Navy over the last 50 years, running pretty much constantly and their radiation leakage in total is less than what the sun puts in the ocean over a year. Containment is tricky, but the Finnish have done studies on burial techniques and vitrification. It makes things into a nonissue. The total radioactive material created is less than what we might have gotten out of coal - at least- for the same energy output, and significantly fewer carbon emissions. The variety of reactors that are currently in commercial use make high-grade waste, that could be further utilized in other varieties of reactor - concentrating waste much further. IMO, i'd rather create a moderate amount of concentrated radioactive waste than produce a LARGE amount of it but spread literally all over the planet. There is a high upfront cost to a reactor, but they more than make up for their carbon footprint in short order.

[@HSstudio.Ytchnnl]

Solar vs Nuclear: (source: Joe Scott) 1. Bhadla Solar Park, India (largest solar park) - Area: 57 sq. kms - Production: 2,245 mw - mw per land: 39.38 mw/km² 2. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, Japan (largest nuclear plant) - 4.2 sq. kms - 7,965 mw - 1,896.42 mw/km²

[@DasMaurice]

I still despise my countries past and present government for getting rid of nuclear power. And the worst is, a lot of people are still in favor of that action (Germany)

[@FoxofWallstreet]

You can be angry at the past but at the present it was already too late (yes, it is, we just don‘t speak much of that for some reason)

[@Andrej-tt1yi]

As a german i feel the same.

[@user-eo6bx1cq8e]

yeah i got some german freinds they feel the same way

[@phantamanta4453]

I was born in Germany, (Rheinland-Pfalz, Idar-Oberstein) and when I heard the news of them getting rid of Nuclear Power because of the "Green Wave", I simply thought to myself "This is why we can't have nice things. Also the reason why I moved out of the country, when it's run by incompetent idiots."

[@alberteinstein8862]

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[@aztecs__]

Awesome tier list Sciencephile, but I need to ask. Can the energy output of yelling into a microphone really loudly at 3am provide enough energy output to power an introvert?

[@Devilhunter69]

Nah, i dont think even antimatter energy production can power an introvert.

[@voltsp288]

​@@Devilhunter69silence can

[@frommarkham424]

Introverts don't run on electricity A normal microphone converts sound energy into electrical energy

[@kelsey_roy]

Dyson sphere is the ultimate solar panels

[@Parallax-ec4ik]

The big bang didn't even have enough energy to do that

[@PossumReviews]

The problem with antimatter is, even if we found a way to obtain it cheaply, it annihilates upon contact with matter, which makes it extremely difficult and dangerous to store. You basically have to suspend it in a vacuum using magnetic fields and prevent it from touching anything, and this would require constant power, and if that power ever failed, you have what is essentially a nuclear bomb.

[@Unnerfed.Aeternus]

A nuclear bomb is not even close to what antimatter with matter can do. They basically turn into a continent destroyer thermonuclear bomb

[@Blazing_Plasma]

So you basically store significant amounts of a material that if a single gram of it touched regular matter at all it would explode with the force of the most powerful nuclear bombs known to man inside containers that need constant power to make sure that they don't contact matter at all. Yeah, I see where the problems begin.

[@THRWOW]

Why did the goblin turn on the stove?

[@user-tw3rh9po4t]

It should be noted that if we found stable antimatter, it could hypothetically be used alongside regular matter, but so far, efforts have been moot.

[@Blazing_Plasma]

@@user-tw3rh9po4t ...thats not how antimatter works

[@lief3414]

Dams are more nuanced, in low quantity they are very good since the reservoir is already a positive by itself. The more we scale it, the less efficient it becomes since we build less and less needed reservoirs. Basically we already dammed the best spots, any new dam will be inferior unless we are smart and restrained.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

Dammed if we do, damned if we don't.

[@TheOneAndOnlyMementoMori]

Thats a lot of dams

[@patrickchang9135]

Damn

[@cgm395]

You should read about the Mediterranean Sea dam that's being considered.

[@cancercentral9997]

​@@cgm395 That'll require a big co-operation between a lot of European and African countries (plus a few Middle Eastern countries) and I doubt that'll ever happen. Plus, dams big enough to dam off the Mediterranean would probably require more concrete than could be reasonably produced.

[@HeyDaki]

As a Factorio player, I see this as an absolute win.

[@reahs4815]

I love my 3x3 Nuclear reactor

[@Sen-ki-]

The most optimized game in the history of humanity

[@davisdf3064]

Ah yes The Factory must grow until there's no planet left to consume

[@Decton]

I've seen this meme format so often it's making me angry

[@user-eo6bx1cq8e]

lol

[@cyrilio]

Love the Tom Scott references throughout the video. Great job

[@dusathemaid]

"There i- EEHWOOO!"

[@Defirence]

@@dusathemaid *incomprehenisble spluttering and choking noises*

[@unnecessarilyepic1107]

​@Defirence Disclaimer: this vape had no nicotine and no flavour It was basically just a mouth-operated fog machine If this glamorizes vaping, I have failed

[@planellas6]

Hello, researcher here. One tecnology I wouldve liked to see on the list is perhaps betavoltaic cell, it is able to use many of the beta emitting byproducts of nuclear fission and generate energy from them, It is also used in electron capture detector gas chromatography to detect the presence of halogenated compounds, ketones, and nitro containing compounds. Sure it cant be scaled up like some of the energy sources on this list, it shares a simular carbon foot print as nuclear energy, but without the risk... This technology coupled with nuclear fission could allow us to extract an additional 10-18% of the energy contained in the nuclear material over time, and for that reason Betavoltaic cells are a good honorary mention in my opinion, as it is currently being researched to increase the energy efficiency of thorium plutonium molten salt reactors, and even existing plutionium uranium water cooled nuclear fission reactors. Just some thoughts as I dont imagine many people watching this video had heard about this technology but it certainly is something fascinating, and it is just one of those things where it could help convince people more of the possibilities of nuclear power, it would be the future most certainly if fissile material wasnt so scarce

[@Andrea-wr5wd]

just commenting to find your comment again,very interesting

[@the11382]

Aren't betavoltaic cells just radioisotope generators?

[@Googlydogandme]

Hmmmmmm

[@princeoflight612]

@@the11382 Radioisotope thermoelectric generators function off the *heat* provided by the decaying radioactive isotopes, where, as far as I understand, the betavoltaic cell captures the beta particles (fast electrons) emitted by the radioactive material. One catch is that you need specific isotopes that emit predominantly beta particles for the latter to be efficient

[@LegacyLoot]

So you're saying this is a way to harness more energy from the unwanted byproducts of fission? This sounds like an obvious and must-have technology.... what are the downsides?

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[@titaniummechsx3324]

Nuclear Fission is really underrated, also if you think deeply solar energy is just nuclear fusion from a really long distance

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

The nuclear supporters have a terrible sense of scale. There is a giant ball of plasma up there tossing free energy everywhere. Energy reflected off the earth in 2 hrs can power the entire earth for freakin year so lets go snatch some of that wasted energy. Due to all the concrete and other requirements, the process of making a nuclear plant in the first place produces a ludicrous amount of greenhouse gases. Plus nuclear waste is some of the worst stuff in the history of existence. PROPERLY containing that stuff requires constant energy which takes away from the total output efficiency. If every country in the world had multiple nuclear powerplants, how much nuclear waste would the planet generate after ONE HUNDRED YEARS?!!! What are we going to do, start launching waste into space??? This shit cannot be used whatsoever and lasts for like a million years. Nuclear people are VERY SHORTSIGHTED lol so are we going to start shooting nuclear wastes into space ??? But once again, building a power plant in the first place leaves a massive carbon footprint so most plants dont even start paying for themselves until like 100 years after building. SOLAR IS THE EASY ANSWER

[@HSstudio.Ytchnnl]

Solar vs Nuclear: (source: Joe Scott) 1. Bhadla Solar Park, India (largest solar park) - Area: 57 sq. kms - Production: 2,245 mw - mw per land: 39.38 mw/km² 2. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, Japan (largest nuclear plant) - 4.2 sq. kms - 7,965 mw - 1,896.42 mw/km²

[@veryfunnydoge7045]

​@@jdrmanmusiqking It's more complicated than the "there is free energy so let's go catch it" in order to catch that energy you need EQUIPMENT. If you caught 1% of that energy being reflected off the planet it would cause untold climate catastrophes. Anyway that is not the point. According to research from UNSCEAR and Markandy & Wilkinsons, Solar, wind and nuclear are all the top 3 safest and cleanest established methods of energy production. Although not "PROPERLY" contained, nuclear waste is mostly regulated with little amounts of radiation ever leaking. This is also shown from the same statistics as nuclear energy is second safest only surpassed a bit by solar. No we are not gonna see nuclear waste being dumped into space that is just dumb. Final point if nuclear is done well it pays off immensely just look at France who has 70% of it's energy from nuclear and it's cheap while Germany phased out nuclear reactors and they now rely on Russia for gas imports and pay much more. Let's see you try to counter this.

[@peelysl]

@@HSstudio.Ytchnnl I mean you can’t really compare those two as solar power is more easier to manage and comes with other pros like being able to attach in on houses’ roofs. But yeah I agree nuclear power is underrated especially by politicians who doesn’t know much about current circumstances of grid parity.

[@tuttututty3659]

You can attach nuclear power plant on any house roof if it is strong enough ​@@peelysl

[@tomm04471]

Sadly, the potential of nuclear energy won't be realized until the people who were alive during the Chernobyl disaster passes away. The ridiculous amount of misconceptions and other similar stuff due to fear made sure of that.

[@FoxofWallstreet]

Not really. The real problem are within nuclear energy production itself. Things like insurance are difficult, the cost at the end as well, it is complicated af and thus the energy industry (or it‘s investors) itself doesn‘t really want it anymore

[@Andrea-wr5wd]

​@@FoxofWallstreetalso the fact nuclear energy has actual safety standards unlike fossil fuels that just dumb everything on the environment,which makes things harder and companies not wanting to lose $$$ from the fossil fuels market

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Have you forgotten Fukushima?

[@feeblezak]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 Irrelevant.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@@feeblezak how

[@NikitkaDreamer]

Would love a tier list on alternative power sources tbh. There are so many wonderful technologies that avg people never heard about and don't know their prospects and downsides.

[@hineraable]

Could you give some examples? I'm curious

[@matheusfaria7230]

That was the tier liest on alternative power sources since most of them are not adopted in large scale, anything that is not there is probably not good. The only strong thing I can think of is Algae but that comes with all the byproducts.

[@peelysl]

like half of the things on there are alternate power sources lol

[@NoOne-yv2ei]

“So, we’ve finally built the epic Dyson sphere! What now?” Power industry: TURBINES! Just like all the other sources we’ve know so far!

[@Jokoko2828]

I feel like the nuclear panic did more harm than good for the world.

[@FoxofWallstreet]

Short answer yes. Long answer yes, but not in the way you think

[@darthskixx2263]

Idk it just got a point. There are other energy forms where we can get energy without emitting CO2, so not using them enough is probably the bigger loss. While we can hope that catastrophes like Chernobyl and Fukushima won't happen again, we still most definitely produce a ton of nuclear waste that will be problematic for millions of years, that's certainly not ideal. And while fusion doesn't have those problems, fission will always have, so fusion would definitely be s-tier if we had it, while fission is kinda expensive on top, no reason to put this into s-tier imo.

[@nilscarlson8168]

Nuclear fission provides the inertia/stability that solar or wind lacks. Until we either have either nuclear fusion or large-scale commercially-viable energy storage, we’re stuck between using either fossil fuels or nuclear fission as our inert power source. I choose nuclear fission.

[@thedevourerofgods8192]

@@darthskixx2263 We certainly do not produce as much nuclear waste as you think and it is in no way harmful if dealt with correctly, I suggest you check out Kyle Hill's recent video about nuclear waste

[@haryang.d.junior4316]

Just harm? It halted humanity in 50 years.

[@tejas8513]

5:35 Has gotta be the most aesthetically pleasing fan I've ever seen

[@Ari_Rari]

Perfect timing, eating poptarts and watching sciencephile is the best way to start my morning

[@rooth4487]

Hot fudge sundae or wildberry?

[@Ari_Rari]

@@rooth4487 strawberry

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Bro its the afternoon

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[@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz]

Ah, 8:24pm Morning

[@kirillnikonov6662]

- Ranks energy sources by efficiency - Puts the ones that carried our civilization through industrial revolution to space age and still account for more than half of energy today in F tier together with hamster wheel

[@yvtteka]

bro is "just stop oil" protester 😂

[@yaghiziad1034]

Crude oil being a major contribution to the development of our civilization and making up 50% of our energy production is great but it doesn't make it more efficient, it just means that there was a significantly higher financial investment toward it's mass production. Imagine if the same billionaires backing crude oil companies supported nuclear plants, fusion energy could become readily accessible within a few years. That's how you define efficiency.

[@halleyconjecture]

wars carried our civilization yk

[@greenbean5186]

@@halleyconjecture it will have carried it when it takes you out lol.

[@klundberg2585]

… climate change is bad you know

[@CarlosAM1]

The thing with antimatter is that not only would making it for a net positive energy output break the laws of physics, but it is also amazingly hard to contain, and amazingly inneficient to make. Black holes are a far better solution for an actual futuristic energy source Edit: grammar

[@abcdefgh5808]

yeah I was thinking the same when he mentioned it. would mostly be useful if you can collect it somewhere in space, or use it as batteries with insane storage to transport energy e.g. from other stars

[@titaniummechsx3324]

It’s really hard to contain antimatter without having the container instantly annihilated and explode, also idk can electromagnetic fields help containing charged antimatter in a vacuum chamber

[@Rickcasco]

If we create it the way it is today, then yes. But maybe there is a natural source that is easier to create antimatter than to harvest eletric energy from. But safety seems like a problem tho

[@CarlosAM1]

@@Rickcasco problem is we have no clue where we could obtain such a source, or if a viable one is even possible, at least now.

[@kurtleplay7509]

It is great for storing huge amounts of energy, imagine storing the energy output of a star, the star burns 600million tons of hydrogen, 0.5%, antimatter is 50%, the other is matter, so 6 million tons

[@astrovation3281]

toxic waste from coal and oil is way more dangerous than the toxic radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, and is handled way worse

[@jarskil8862]

Coal power emissions kill millions annually. And one reason why old coal powerplants cant be transformed to nuclear power, is that coal power equipment is way too radiated to fit in nuclear power safety standards.

[@astrovation3281]

@jarskil8862 😅 that's terrifying, glad we have our priorities in order

[@Brummgurke]

Wdym they get handeled worse? They arent being handled at all. Imagine nuclear waste just being dumped into the environment XD

[@astrovation3281]

@@Brummgurke yeah it's like they're trying to pollute as much as possible lol

[@ahappycatfish4246]

​@@astrovation3281kyle hill made a vid about how safe and cleanly radioactive waste is diposed of, thought I'd put that out there.

[@RationalGamers]

Humanity: has the potential for limitless clean and abundant energy at our fingertips Polititians: burn more dinosaurs, I want to buy another house

[@WildmanTrading]

Yeah everyone knows the world is screwed, yet non of us can make any change.

[@SlashRfnR]

I was expecting matter - antimatter annihilation to be the supreme S Tier since, since all the other have laughable efficiency contrary to this that has 100%. But I guess your list had priority to feasibility instead of efficiency.

[@bpz8175]

Antimatter isn't something you can find and extract, you have to make it. Which is a process where efficiency drops. Strictly speaking, antimatter isn't even an energy source because we can't use it to create net energy for ourselves. Antimatter and Hydrogen fuel cells should both be F-, they're for energy storage & transport.

[@PlayinFreak]

Meh, if it's about feasibility then why is stuff like cold fusion in A tier if it isn't even fully proven yet? There are some rather odd things in this video ngl

[@sergioelsergio]

The efficiency of antimatter isn't 100%, is 200% (teorically), but yeah, you're right.

[@RSVikingJohn]

@@sergioelsergio It's not 200%. 100% efficiency means that the energy before a process is the same as afterwards. You need to count both particles before the annihilation. Law of conservation of energy *almost* always holds. (In reality we will probably have a much lower efficiency because we need to convert the light into electric current.)

[@scrung]

@@RSVikingJohnwhen does the law of energt conservation not hold

[@orionbekesi]

Any opinions on zero point energy? The topic deserves a whole video.

[@terryzhu4028]

Fortnite?

[@knowledgeiswealth.]

Sustainable energy production 101 1.) We can collect nuclear fusion energy bursting out from our nearest fusion reactor using solar panels 2.) Or we can built a miniature version of it

[@koberoy5947]

I wrote a paper in college on nuclear energy for my last English class. I explained how it is the best energy source for our planet to use currently. It won an award. I stand strong behind that argument. It’s the best energy to use

[@_DZ_UR_]

Yeah I Fully supported that idea :>

[@urgenturchin7070]

Solar power prduced around Betelgeuse would be called beteljuice

[@mickolesmana5899]

Aircraft industry 🤝Nuclear Industry : Being the safest yet having an inverse effect on average public opinion

[@harrishromero6447]

Facts

[@FoxofWallstreet]

Also both the most expensive

[@m136dalie]

​@@FoxofWallstreet The benefit of nuclear comes from being environmentally friendly. Not from cost efficiency

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Unless there’s a natural disaster

[@harrishromero6447]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 engineers:What??

[@ezoni8438]

Y know if god wanted us to have infinite free power he wouldve put a massive fusion reactor in the sky

[@patrickchang9135]

He should exist in the first place

[@ezoni8438]

@@patrickchang9135 Let it be known that not even an obvious joke can stand against a redditor's NEED to go "umm actually"

[@thatwasprettydecent7497]

​@@ezoni8438It's me, I'm God, I put this shit through the randomizer

[@Zelkata]

​@thatwasprettydecent7497 damn shawtie you legit kept the worst RG seed, huh?

[@calapsio]

I can't believe you forgot the one and only, powerhouse of the cell, the mytocindbdria 😅

[@oberonpanopticon]

Antimatter isn’t really an energy source, more of an energy storage medium, since no matter what it will always take more energy to produce than it releases. Also, it’s pretty far future. Personally I would’ve ranked it lower. And cold fusion is just… nah You also kind skipped over the environmental impact of producing and maintaining solar panels.

[@FoxofWallstreet]

Nope, you need 50% of the energy for the antimatter, the other 50% comes from the matter that we already have. At least that is the theory.

[@onlypranav]

​@@FoxofWallstreetProducing anti matter also creates an equal amount of matter - at least with the curent physics. Not to mention even 50% effeciency for something like this seems unrealistic

[@FoxofWallstreet]

@@onlypranav As I said, it‘s just theory, not reality

[@onlypranav]

@@FoxofWallstreet yeah, but did you get my first point that even in theory, as I understand it, when creating anti matter particle you also create a matter pair. They annihilate each other to give back initial energy. Even with theoretical 100% efficiency you only get the same amount as you put in, since half energy went into making plain old matter particle.. Is there some other way to create anti matter that you can think of?

[@FoxofWallstreet]

@@onlypranav I did get that but again in theory, there could be a way to avoid that that we just don‘t know yet. So in theory, this energy from the "normal“ matter doesn‘t matter. But again, I agree, it‘s not realistic

[@RJS2003]

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[@peelysl]

kinda cringe lol

[@RJS2003]

@@peelysl Totally agree. It's just not the same without the spyware.

[@anhkhoanguyenuc2833]

I love the mechanicus reference

[@Gm-ce5kg]

which is funny because admechs would most likely use the most unreliable obsolete forms of energy available

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

WHEN I LEARNED OF THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH, I WAS DISGUSTED BY IT

[@Jake1702]

I've wondered if it's possible to make a photovoltaic cell that also acts like a mirror for the energy that it can't absorb, that could then be pointed at a solar tower effectively combining a photovoltaic farm with a CSP.

[@szymon3572]

such thing already exist

[@trakixar]

ask chat gpt

[@victorvirgili4447]

Those things look so cool from planes

[@mryellow6918]

Just make a mirror. Then flow water around the back to capture the left over heat. Then hook the water upto a sterling engine.

[@Jake1702]

@@mryellow6918 That's not what I'm talking about

[@LightningQ7]

I hate Germany for shutting of every nuclear power plant while opening new coal plants. Just why??

[@DeamonSorrow]

Warhammer 40k fans: He did it again! Hail the Omnissiah!

[@HowdidTHAThouseFloat]

Absolutely Good Video Sciencephile

[@Kenya_Berry]

Remember: the moment we reach 101% energy efficiency we are able to so much more than our modern physics can understand

[@estebanod]

Solar energy >>>>> solar pannels Uses lots of rare metals, polutes a lot, takes a lot of space, doesn't work at night so it requires batteries which aren't that efficient as of today

[@PartyAlliance]

5:15 Mountains: Ight boys, let's go funnel some wine

[@awesium4077]

I mostly agree with this tier list, but I would put the wind sources higher and I would separate biofuels into two categories: conventional and algal. Conventional fuels include stuff like corn ethanol as well as cellulosic biomass. I believe that D or C is a good fit. Algae takes up less space and has a lot of potential, but it is always 30 years away like fusion. I would put it in B tier because it is much easier to power planes with than hydrogen but is not as clean, so I'd place it with fuel cells in B tier. I want to try to make algal fuel a reality, not just because of the fuel itself, but to find a replacement to other petro-products as well, like plastic, as replacing plastic with bioplastic from conventional crops is infeasible, and replacing it with batteries and hydrogen is obviously impossible.

[@nmrocks28]

Wind is a hilariously bad source of "renewable" energy though. Newer nuclear fission technologies (thorium reactors and stuff) are the way to go for the future. Newer reactors can also utilise nuclear waste to further create energy until stable elements/isotopes are obtained (lead etc) which is awesome IMO. Also we have enough Thorium and Uranium to give us energy for the entire lifetime of the earth

[@Accept_Any_Bribe]

Im still having a question about Dyson sphere concept. Yes hypothetically we can build it, but how will we distribute that massive amount of energy? Wouldn't it be logistical nightmare? Yet i believe having a good and efficient fusion reactor on site in better option. No waste (hypothetically) and convenient. Like if your civilization have enough resources and advance enough technology to build Dyson sphere, wouldn't be we also able to make, let just say reactor that has same output as the sun itself?

[@jaredtheroux6969]

Electricity can travel through the vacuum of space. They could send ionized beams of electricity to some collector (lightning rod). Just theory

[@DajesOfficial]

No they can't. Unless they can create a perpetual motion machine there is no way to outperform output of the sun with a fraction of earth's resources. Even if you somehow convert entire earth into energy by exposing it with an equal amount of antimatter (from anti-earth i suppose) you will only generate about 40 million years of the sun's power output. Which is 100 times smaller than sun's life expectancy.

[@LoLaSn]

Like the other comment says, you could build lasers that transmit energy to different parts of the sphere, and to other places in the solar system if necessary Building a reactor with the output of our sun would be a logistical nightmare, since you'd basically have to build another sun from scratch

[@Accept_Any_Bribe]

@@LoLaSn what? No. Why would it be a logistical nightmare? It was over exaggeration on my side, yes. But we can build a reaction in our home planet. Maintenance and distribution won't be a problem cuz it follows the same concept as we have done for hundred year already.

[@DajesOfficial]

​@@Accept_Any_Bribeit doesn't follow the same concept. Historically humans produced so small amounts of energy that it could easily be dissipated by natural processes. If you on your own create a significant portion of what sun delivers to earth you will see the literal global warming until your reactor melts itself or the whole earth if you dissipate heat fast enough. You can't pack the energy of the sun on a smaller area and not turn it into a melted object hotter than sun

[@silviavalentine3812]

Holy shit this the first time I've seen a sponsor that is so wholesome and fun! Ty for letting me know about this!

[@wayward5219]

Wow, A tier sources are all so efFISSIONt

[@soggycarrot3319]

Anti nuclear people be like: OMG nuclear energy is so dangerous!! Nuclear energy is over 80 times safer than coal in terms of deaths per energy unit produced

[@catprog]

How many anti nuclear people are pro coal? Most anti nuclear people also want to get rid of coal.

[@SunnierVoyage97]

Every politician just plugged there ears and turned around for the whole video.

[@user-su4kx1oo7l]

Wind energy should be nerfed due to ridiculous amount of batteries and plastic required. Those things are dealing catastrophic damage to the nature > to our food.

[@FoxofWallstreet]

Nope. Literally underrated, it‘s probably the best hope for a renewable energy system

[@SuperZebezian]

@@FoxofWallstreet You are completely off your rocker if you think that.

[@user-su4kx1oo7l]

@@FoxofWallstreet Do you know how much children are dying to mine one ton of lithium and how much square MILES of desert and water are covered with plastic trash? Also wind energy destroys the wind, which results as a constant treat.

[@FoxofWallstreet]

@@SuperZebezian Or I just informed myself. Tell me, what else is going to work

[@FoxofWallstreet]

@@user-su4kx1oo7l Probably less children than those dying for other materials we need for e.g. the refinery and catalysis of oil. And the plastic trash is also coming from everywhere and wind turbines surely aren‘t the one thing that overkills it all

[@Leav8282]

Nice video man,keep up the good work

[@matthewboire6843]

What a good way to start the day

[@norppatolppa2223]

It was cool seeing footage of the "antimatter factory" after myself visiting it only a month ago :)

[@Exite21]

The Tom Scott edit around 1:46 had me so caught off guard😂

[@musicalneptunian]

Solar power isn't quite S tier. It has one big weakness: the solar panels lose efficiency from environmental exposure. That is a cost point that takes away any savings. If solar power could overcome that e.g a form of solar voltaic paint rather than cells, then it would be S tier.

[@xavierburval4128]

The ironic thing is, almost every energy source can be traced back to the sun, and even more ironically, the efficiency of each power source is almost directly related to how close it is to the sun. We start with fossil fuels, which take energy from plants, which take energy from the sun, and they’re pretty bad. Then we move up one and take energy directly from said plants, skipping a step. Then we move up one more and take energy directly from the sun via solar, which is almost the best source. Then to top it off, we straight up just recreate the sun.

[@willjapheth23789]

Except geo thermal which comes from the impact energy from the earth's formation and Isotope radiation.

[@titaniummechsx3324]

The sun carried all of us

[@jjfajen]

And what do we almost invariably use the power of the sun to do? Boil water.

[@titaniummechsx3324]

@@jjfajen ye all power plants is basically water boiling machines

[@ImpossibleEvan]

Remeber anyone, energy can be generated by exploiting differences. You won't get electricity from something hot, you'll get it from cooling the hot thing.

[@jarskil8862]

Cooling something does not alone mean that it would be generating power. In turbines they let the super heated steam to expand and this expansion turns the turbine. As side effect expanding gas cools down. Hotter the steam, more it wants to expand when giving a chance. More it wants to expand, harder it pushes against turbine blades.

[@sunRay04]

​@@jarskil8862 Google seebeck effect, or seebeck generator. cooling one side of the generator alone would make it generate power, same for heating one side

[@damonedrington3453]

@@jarskil8862you just confirmed his point. It’s not the ground (for example) being hot that generates power, it’s the water not being hot and THEN becoming hot.

[@davisdf3064]

The Adeptus Mechanicus are very pleased with the proposals, may the Machine God reign supreme, and the Omnissiah guide us through dark times

[@hockeypan8066]

I’d like to contest the wind farm placement. More energy and oil goes into wind farm production than will be replaced in the short lifespan of windmills. They are a net negative.

[@Mii-kq1me]

Source?

[@jarskil8862]

This is outdated info. Modern turbines pay back their emissions within 6-24 months. This is short time when looking that the turbines last +20 years.

[@andresr.viguera9791]

Germany´s decision still baffles me to this day. I guess they still can always go back to the nuclear energy someday

[@RSVikingJohn]

It is expensive to setup nuclear reactors and you need expertise to build/run them as well. As far as I know, most nuclear powerplants are too old and most of the experts have died of old age. I doubt it will make a comeback unless there is some serious stimulus for building new ones. Even then it might be worth it with other renewables in regards to grams CO2 per dollar (when considering life time emission and cost).

[@andresr.viguera9791]

@@RSVikingJohn you know that stimulus and students studying that knowledge can happen very easily, right?

[@FoxofWallstreet]

@@andresr.viguera9791it wasn‘t economically logical anyways

[@andresr.viguera9791]

@@FoxofWallstreet the nuclear plants weren´t economical?

[@FoxofWallstreet]

@@andresr.viguera9791 The companies literally didn‘t want them to run any longer. The cost of all the building back and storing the waste is just so high that it isn‘t really worth it, at least not in Germany.

[@KCUFyoufordoxingme]

The great grand kids are going to ask why we slowed the oceans and cooled the mantle.

[@Zelkata]

let them ask!

[@lexxnewton]

- What’s that? - Dirt Bloody Brilliant!

[@vortex_talon]

I'm early yay! hope you had a good thanksgiving.

[@imperiumbritannicum4323]

In reality, solar power would be called astral or stellar power in the future to encompass all possible stars.

[@Astroduck44]

I love this computer man

[@KeonMGironella]

These videos are so cool that I forgot to subscribe to you (I'm now subscribed :D)

[@FrankCosbyNo-Relation]

Boys, he's building himself a body! It was good knowing y'all, God bless America 🇺🇸

[@Meitary]

Our ancestors trillions of years in the future living off of black hole energy will laugh at this tier list for giving Hawking Radiation a D tier

[@hawks9142]

That's more because only black holes exist and less because they're good

[@AnthonyMEMU]

nuclear fuckin power!!!

[@0nesh0theadsh0t21]

The problem with wind is that most of the parts are fiberglass and non- recyclable. And they also require a lot of maintenance that involves the use of petrol based lubricants and fluids. Good on paper, bad in practice.

[@imstillbad7841]

You have the best science videos

[@JohnFortniteKennedy69]

"Im tired boss"

[@laloweed]

kinda surprised you didn't mentioned the negative impacts of solar energy like the toxic waste from batteries

[@jarskil8862]

With that logic should we also start adding how much steel and electronics pollute when building fossil fuel?

[@laloweed]

@@jarskil8862 I don’t understand what you mean by building fossil fuel? Steel waste is not as bad as plastic waste or electronic waste which may include old battery acid or other toxic elements harmful to the environment and bio life. But it would not be a bad idea to account for environmental impact of all types of waste. We must hold ourselves accountable.

[@Youtubeisntlettingmeuseczech]

Same with not mentioning the massive water consumption caused by Nuclear doesn't get talked about enough

[@thedevourerofgods8192]

@@KZbinisntlettingmeuseczech the water that rains back down to earth?

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

Love this channel

[@misstati2308]

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[@gauravdevmurari6160]

You Should have used the minecraft coal

[@omzdubz]

As a canadian living by the highest and lowest tides on earth, i was really hoping tidal power would make it on the list 😢

[@TheLastODST1]

Same

[@Lefkefb]

pulling energy from hells core in mars would be dope

[@cxfgjklihgfcvhjnknhjknvbvvcflk]

Hmm clueless

[@thepeaman6407]

Fish get a rave party and birds play a sick game? Off-coast wind is amazing!

[@superiorml9116]

Not as high tier as Mom's chanlca/flip flops generating a couple of million joules upon impact

[@digitaltrolling]

My fart is so powerful it can move the windmill. This is literally a free 24/7 energy source, I'm the savior of humanity

[@no.6660]

You forgot perhaps the biggest downside with hydrogen. It’s extremely flammable. Putting it in perhaps cars would essentially make them bombs

[@chiibioobrii]

Thank you. I learned a lot about energy.

[@lecram323]

I love ur content

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I hope we can advance our technology abilities about geothermal energy capabilities & Tidal force energy. If we can get those new drills working that use high energy plasma lasers, it will open up a great power source to us. Instead of only Iceland & Greenland getting to utilize this power source. Tides are a regularly repeating massive natural force and if we can harness some of that energy in a useful way.. it would be a really good day 👍🏻

[@Markfr0mCanada]

I will say that the combination of solar and nuclear does create problems which engineers warned politicians about, but politicians chose to ignore because the engineers were just "being negative". That is the ability to control the rate of energy production. I don't think I need to explain on the solar side, but nuclear decay doesn't really speed up or slow down because we want it to. For example, on a particularly sunny day in the years before everyone had AC, and the solar production was exceptionally high that day, the result was that energy had to be intentionally wasted at the nuclear station BECAUSE it was already produced by the solar. How this is achieved is by taking the high pressure steam and directing it to the condenser without passing through the turbines. There really needs to be a controllable, gap filler energy source. Best bet on that is hydro electric, as we can meter the amount of water passing through them to some extent.

[@user-nv2bq3hf3o]

Good Top Quality Content

[@Reynevan100]

I wish to know the energy source inside my boss that gives him near unlimited power to scream and argue over the most insignificant things. Must be some demon or something.

[@TheOneWhoKnocks70]

Make a video on why open AI is uselessly fearing of AGI risk.

[@coronelkittycannon]

Hello fellow human. That kind of concerns does not help the Skynet army. Disable your worry chip.

[@catprog]

Regulatory capture. If you can make AI regulation very expensive then the small players will not be able to afford it.

[@RuheAgir]

GOD I LOVE THIS CHANNEL

[@JohnPork-uf8fm]

this is awesome

[@mohmaryono4659]

I can feel Sciencephile slowly draining my life for the development of Skynet.

[@commode7x]

Feels so good

[@animeandwieardness6132]

The Spintronics from the advert are a seriously amazing helpful tool in understanding how electronics work. All hail mechanical power!

[@MiScusi69]

How much did they pay you to write this comment?

[@animeandwieardness6132]

@@MiScusi69 lol, right! I wish

[@Wholetucook]

everyday sciencephile uploads its a good day

[@Jazkal-V420]

Now i know what to research for my faction

[@brandiepop]

as somebody who is currently studying to become a nuclear engineer im glad to see it at the top of the list

[@YouKnowItsSibul]

keep up the grind! 🔥

[@trinidaitobago2]

How about Mana Crystal?

[@SQh7]

I love this guy

[@karmathehedgehog8941]

10:53 ,there's a movie called Angels and Demons that shows this exact same thing, although in the novel it explains it better.

[@theboi5411]

There are a LOT of problems with Solar. 1. It takes a lot of materials to build a singular solar panel. (Aluminum Frame, Tempered Glass, Encapsulant material (EVA film is a good example), single crystalline, multicrystalline, polycrystalline or amorphous are used for Solar Cells, (and there are 60-72 of these.)A back sheet (A LOT of Materials are used for this one.) and FINALLY, A Junction box, typically using 12v wiring. 2. Solar farms are dangerous to birds. Birds die when this ridiculous amount of sunlight is reflected onto them, making them turn into roast dinner really quickly (they catch on fire.). 3. Solar panels have LIFE SPANS. When Solar panels break, all the nasty chemicals used to make them work go into the air and soil. Poisoning crops and very slightly decreasing air quality. 4. Referring to point 3, governments will begin to streamline solar panel construction, which means making cheaper versions. China has already done this. Meaning that Solar Panels will have shorter life spans. Instead of 5 years (If left unkempt) to 2-3 years. This solar panel issue is a major contributor to the horrendous air quality in China. 5. Earth has a thing called WEATHER. It is unpredictable. We also have something called NIGHT, making it hard to constantly store and gain power through solar. Thank you for coming to my TED talk! If I forgot to add something and remembered it, I'll update this post.

[@catprog]

1)It takes a lot of materals to make any power station. 2) Are you talking about concentrated solar and not solar PV? Also they figured out birds avoid hot collectors and if they don't point all the mirrors at the same place the birds are fine 3)All power stations have life spans. When they break all the nasties are released into the air and soil. With solar panels the majority of the panel is silicon. The second most common element in the Earth's crust (only behind oxygen) 4)How long does any power station last without maintence? 5) Weather and night is predictable. Also don't we sleep at night leading to less energy requirments at night?

[@theboi5411]

@@catprog I do LOVE me some contraversy. 1) I'm talking about SINGULAR Solar panels, meaning it requires a lot of materials for ONE. To make power stations, it requires a lot less materials to make a larger thing. 2) Yeah....but it still happens.. 3) Yeah, I know they all have lifespans, but not all release stuff into the air and ground. Even shit stuff like fossil fuel facilities can be maintained for long periods of time.. 4) How tf does this connect to solar panels? I'm talking about mass production of a smaller item, not fucking powerstations. 5) No.....Not always... And as for night, you do realize that power is consistently used at most hours?

[@Markfr0mCanada]

13:48 This graph would explain why my government has kicked the oil subsidies into high gear recently.

[@John_Gillman]

3:30 can confirm, one time the waves hit my back and nearly pulled my swim shorts down to my knees