Tokamaks are by far the most studied type of fusion reactor in the world. So much so that the European union is investing billions of euros, in one of the largest machines ever built by man, the ITER project. There are many other ideas being explored in terms of magnetic and inertial confinement. While a lot of them are promising concepts, energy production is still a big question mark.
Stellarators on the other hand, offers a cleverer approach to fusion however, due to the complexity of these machines, usually they get more attention for its looks then to its actual ingenuity.
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Tokamaks are by far the most studied type of fusion reactor in the world. So much so that the European union is investing billions of euros, in one of the largest machines ever built by man, the ITER project. There are many other ideas being explored in terms of magnetic and inertial confinement. While a lot of them are promising concepts, energy production is still a big question mark.
Stellarators on the other hand, offers a cleverer approach to fusion however, due to the complexity of these machines, usually they get more attention for its looks then to its actual ingenuity.
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In this video we will discus how difficult it would be to reach the Voyager 1 probe with our current technology.
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In this video we discuss some of the key questions about the Brennan's Monorail issues. Would it be a safe ride or an accident waiting to happen?Hyperloop - Inevitable FailureSubject Zero Science2024-02-25 | Hyperloop - Inevitable Failure
The hyper loop was always a crazy man’s ambitious gamble, with overwhelming odds stacked against it. Some may say that the signs of its inevitable failure were all over it… or were they?Nuclear Battery - Game-changer or dangerous idea. Everything you need to know. [2024]Subject Zero Science2024-02-15 | Nuclear Battery - Game-changer or dangerous idea. Everything you need to know. [2024]
China's teasing hints about the groundbreaking Nickel-63 nuclear battery has once again capture the attentions of alternative energy enthusiasts. Poised for potential commercial release in the not-so-distant future, on one hand, without a doubt this technology will be revolutionary, that is… if China news is true. On the other hand, nuclear batteries are nothing new and, in this video, we will discuss the history, how the technology works, and more importantly its revolutionary aspects as well as the dangers it poses for the future of humanity.Thorium Problem - Why it may never HappenSubject Zero Science2024-01-25 | Thorium is a great idea but lacks execution. In this video I discuss the reasons it may never happen.The Science of Time Travel in Back to the FutureSubject Zero Science2023-02-14 | Get a 30-Day trial and the First 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. brilliant.org/SubjectZeroScience
The Science of Time Travel in Back to the Future
Have you ever wondered how the DeLorean Time Machine works? In this video, we'll take a deep dive into the science behind one of the most iconic time travel machines in pop culture history.
This iconic time travel machine from the Back to the Future franchise has captured the imagination of sci-fi enthusiasts and science nerds alike. In this video, we'll explore the science behind how the DeLorean Time Machine works and discuss the theories that inspired its design. From the Flux Capacitor to the Time Circuits, we'll break down the components that make time travel possible. So buckle up and get ready for a ride through time! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a like and share it with your friends!
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Why STELLARATORS are the future of Fusion Energy
The tokamak has been the dominant design for fusion reactors for the past few decades, but recent advances in stellarator technology may soon relegate it to history.
Stellarators have several advantages over tokamaks, and many experts believe they are the future of fusion energy. Watch this video to learn more about the science behind stellarators and why they may be our best hope for a clean and sustainable source of energy.
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Onboard the SpaceX Starship 2.0 in Detail - What it takes to go to Mars | Detailed Breakdown
The layout of the ship follows two guiding functional necessities, zero-G environment, and low gravity. Logically each floor must be designed to accommodate these necessities plus, survival, and psychological needs of the astronauts. Naturally all life support systems will be located at the lower levels along with all hardware, tools among other crucial gear for the space journey and living on mars. The top floors are for living areas and the flight deck. A good starship design needs to follow simple rules. Easy to use and fix. Problems that might arise throughout the journey need to be identified quickly and be simple to solve by anybody on board. If complex problems arise, crew anxiety and stress may lead into further problems risking the mission. Lastly, everything on the ship must be monitored with visual information available on all floors, especially CO2 levels. User interface must be clear and simple to understand.
ITER is the most complex machine to ever be built by humanity. Its construction involves over 10 million components being built in factories all around the world. Though the extreme nature and complexity of this machine can be highlighted by the number of components, each individual piece is as complex as the entirety of the machine itself. In this series of videos, I will break down its components to its minute level, to give you a better understanding of how intricate and precise ITER is, starting with the Blanket Shield Module.
Softwares Used: Blender 2.8 EEVEE Apple Motion Final Cut Pro XPlanetary Rage Quit Utility Device - Antimatter BOMBSubject Zero Science2022-01-10 | Planetary Rage Quit Utility Device - Antimatter BOMB
After our most successful bomb of all time went mainstream, a lot of our clients complained that they got bored after the first 10 minutes because let’s face it, Tsarina takes way too long to destroy a planet. Ain’t nobody got time for that. So, many of you asked if we have anything smaller and lighter. Lord knows how many trillionaires are in my audience, willing to buy our next generation of weaponry. Through years of intense research and testing, we were able to cut the time it takes to destroy a planet from 14.5 hours to less than 6 minutes. Unintentionally, the same time as my average time watch. Introducing. The Planetary Rage Quit Utility Device.
“Fact – rockets are just too expensive and dangerous. Here at subject zero laboratories, we focus our attention on technologies that are safer, not necessarily cheaper but can get you from A to Space in record time. Allow me to introduce to you our latest development. The Railgun Assisted Orbital Launcher or the RAOL. The best and safest way to get to space.”
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With a capacity retention of 82% after 10,000 cycles, the first Stable Solid-State battery has come as unconventional electrolyte mix composed of Lithium-Germanium-Phosphorus-Sulfide and Lithium-Phosphorous-Sulfide-Chloride. The first is usually unstable and fails rather quickly. The second is a highly conductive solid state electrolyte material, though way more stable, still presents the same problems as the first one.
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What a massless battery achieves is that it uses a structure, such as carbon fiber, as the scaffold for the battery eliminating the need for the casing. The fibers of the carbon fiber become the host for lithium as the negative electrode. For the positive electrode aluminum is used which also gives structural support while an electrolyte polymer is used to facilitate the exchange of ions. So, you end up with a structure that is up to 50% lighter than conventional batteries, with little need of rare minerals, while having elastic modulus of 25.4 GPA and an impressive 23.6 Wh/kg.
The proposed and most plausible system that is being researched by NASA is called Electromagnetically Driven Fusion Propulsion. This engine uses electromagnetic fields to achieve fusion and control the exhaust energy.
In late 1960s, early 1970s, nuclear thermal rockets were fully developed and tested under programs such as the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application or NERVA. This program was just one of the two categories that studied nuclear propulsion. In this project, they developed a solid core reactor based on Uranium, Zirconium carbide-graphite matrix. There were four main configurations tested with increased thrust levels. The largest NERVA derived engine produced approximately 112.1 kN of thrust. The fuel element was a complex mix of Gadolinium Oxide (Gd2O3) and Uranium oxide (UO2) particles distributed along a Tungsten matrix. Each fuel element was hexagonal in shape with 19 coolant passages. A total of 564 fuel elements and 241 tie tube were used with a total mass of 2,645 kg, containing 36.8 kg of U-235. It delivered a thermal power of 555 MW. To contain the reactor core, a thick radial reflector wall of 14.7 cm with control drums were used. Just like in conventional rocket engines, the nozzle is cooled by hydrogen that comes in through the inlet valve. It is then transported upwards to the outside of the reactor towards turbo-pumps that increase its pressure. At the same time, a second flow of hydrogen is pumped into the tie tubes which further increases temperature and pressure. This flow is added to flow number one and is directed towards a second set to turbo-pumps. In this last phase, hydrogen goes back to the core passing through the fuel elements where it experiences the largest increase in temperature. From 367 K to 2,794 K with a mass flow of 12.68 kg/s. A quick comparison with the average flow rate of the Falcon 9 rocket at 2,496 kg/s makes it easy to understand why nuclear is the best choice for space travel, not lifting large payloads into space.
Neutronium Bomba on Earth - What would happen? [2021]
A single neutron releases about 1 MeV, which is insignificant. But if we had, let’s say, 1 kg, then things become a bit more interesting. In this calculations, we assumed that 1g of neutrons has 6.e23 number of particles. By that we can calculate the energy multiplying the result by 1 MeV. Then we converted the result into Joules and divided it by the total energy in 1 ton of TNT. At the end of 1 kg total decay, the full energy released would be equivalent to 11.5 kilotons of TNT. That is almost as powerful as the first nuclear bomb detonated, Little Boy”. Though it releases almost the same energy as the first nuclear weapons, I must point out that its explosion would not be the same. As neutrons decay, it will release all that energy throughout its half-lives’. Curiously enough, it would be releasing energy for about 15 half-lives’ or 2 and half hours. However, there is a caveat. Its density, which I will explain in detail later in the video but first we need to comprehend what limits current nuclear bomb technologies.
Lattice confinement is the idea of constraining smaller atoms with bigger ones. In this case the crystalline layer of a metal is used to hold deuteron atoms, just like pouring water into sand. For this experiment they used Erbium and Titanium at 99.9% purity. Erbium is a rare earth metal mainly found in Sweden, and it is used in optical amplification media such lens and lasers for optical fibers. It is also used in nuclear technology as control rods for neutron-absorption. The reason they used Erbium for this experiment lies in fuel density, where it can hold about 8.1022 Deuteron atoms/cm3. It is also very stable where losses from fuel loading to testing were minimal. Lastly, it showed enhanced nuclear reactions. A sample of Erbium is pumped with deuterium which is packed with a billion times more fuel than what magnetic confinement of tokamaks are able to constrain. The ability to pack more atoms in a given volume, especially a billion times denser, increases the chances of deuterons hitting each other. All you need now is a source of energy to excite the atoms and start the reaction. In this case they blasted the sample with 2.9+Million electron Volts of gamma beam or energetic X-ray which causes the dissociation of the atom. That is where the magic happens, this dissociation creates the necessary energetic neutrons and protons. The neutron collides with a static deuteron giving it enough energy to collide with another deuteron ultimately fusing.
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A Nature article published January 29, 2020 by French scientist Paul Loubeyre, claiming to have finally created metallic hydrogen is an important milestone for pressure physics research. As I mentioned in my previous video on this topic, metallic hydrogen was first theorized back in 1935, by Eugene Wigner and Dr. Hillard Bell Huntington. Wigner and Huntington based their idea on what is called Bravais Lattice (Bráveis Láttice) which is, an infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete translation. Basically, it is a pattern that repeats itself throughout a structure, like graphene for instance. They thought that this was true for any element including hydrogen and went on to calculate how this could happen. They concluded, based on a lot of calculation that hydrogen would assume a Bravais Lattice at around 25 GPa. Fast forward to today and that number may be closer to 425 GPa. Scientists have given 85 years to the research of this topic but Why MH is so important?
In a time where we need to lower our carbon footprint, all nuclear power problems are outweighed by its benefits, such as; low pollution, high output power, stable base load energy, low operating costs, cheap electricity and reliability. Nevertheless, the construction of new powerplants is on decline, with only one new plant being activated in the past 20 years in the united states. High construction cost is one of the main reasons that makes it difficult to compete with other energy options. This is why we don’t see new nuclear facilities being built and those that are, have significant construction delays. The average time it takes to build a power plant is about 7.5 years, and total costs could reach 10s of billions of dollars. Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear expansion is one example. The project started in 2009 with an estimated final cost of 14 billion dollars. It was supposed to be up and running by 2016. Now it seems that the facility will most likely start working in 2021 with a total estimated final cost of 23 billion dollars. These power plants are extremely complex to build and have to adhere to numerous safety standards, which adds even more intricacy. But all of this could be a thing of the past with the introduction of Small Modular Reactors.
A Breakthrough in the hunt for Metallic Hydrogen? [2020]
A team led by French Physicist Paul Loubeyre, used an updated version of the DAC method, and are claiming to have produced metallic hydrogen. At least they stated that the results are consistent with the transition from liquid to metallic, as predicted by supercomputer algorithms. The trick was to use a new diamond tip shaped in a toroidal format. It was first introduced back in 2018, only one year after the Harvard team made its first observations. Before this, the diamond was shaped with squared faces that looked something like this. (show image of diamond) Side by side and the difference is apparent. By just changing the form of the diamond tip, some experiments have reached TPa levels, opening a new door to high pressure physics research and solving one of the major limitations of this technique.
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In 1957 the CIA initiated project Gusto. Its goal was to develop U2’s replacement. Enter General Dynamics Convair Division and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. General dynamics approach used two airplanes. The first being the B-58B and the second, the First Invisible Supper Hustler or FISH. The idea was to have B-58B carry FISH up to launch altitude, but eventually General Dynamics failed to sell its B-58B prototype to the United States Airforce, imposing a major review to the project. Because FISH was initially meant to be carried by another airplane, they quickly had to change this concept, to which they nicknamed KingFISH. On Lockheed side, many designs were studied such as the Arrow 1, Archangel 1 and Archangel 2. On November 25th, 1958, both companies received compensation to continue refining its prototype airplanes. For the next year, Lockheed would spend most of its time refining no less than 10 of its major designs, A-3 to A-12. One pattern stood out from all models and that was the design trend of the delta wing as portraited on A-10 model and later established on the finalized version A-12. The competition for the CIA secret airplane development came to an end on August 29, 1959 when Lockheed received an official notification for its winning design, the A-12. A $4.5 million-dollar advance award was given to continue development of the plane. Eventually the Air Force saw a potential in developing an interceptor variant of A-12, becoming AF-12 under the project codename “Kedlock”.
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sr 71 blackbird, sr 71 blackbird sonic boom, sr 71 blackbird fly by, sr 71 blackbird speed check, sr 71 blackbird takeoff, sr 71 blackbird documentary, sr 71 blackbird cockpit view, sr 71 blackbird top speed, sr 71 blackbird rc, sr 71 blackbird flying at mach 3, sr 71 blackbird buzz tower, sr 71 blackbird breaking sound barrier, sr 71 blackbird flight, sr 71 blackbird black opsa 12 archangel, a 12 archangel vs sr 71, a 12 archangel plane, a-12 archangel aircraft, lockheed a-12 archangelSilicon Carbide - The subtle REVOLUTIONSubject Zero Science2020-07-15 | Subject Zero Patreon patreon.com/subjectzerolaboratories
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Silicon Carbide - The subtle REVOLUTION
SiC is as important as battery technologies. It enables huge reductions in power loss for example, in a MOSFET diode, SiC makes it easier to achieve a thinner drift layer because of its critical breaking strength that can be a much as 10x higher than that of silicon. This results in less electrical resistance, culminating in up to 70% reduction in conduction and switching losses at high voltages. And high voltage we are talking about as high as 2,500 kV/cm while for silicon you are looking at most 300 kV/cm. This is possible because of its excellent thermal conductivity that is 3.2 times higher at 4.9 W/cm.K against 1.5. Lastly the band gap, depending on the polytype, can be almost 3 times higher at 3.23 eV against 1.12 eV for silicon. This means that the SiC is less likely to suffer from current leakage thus making it ideal to work at high temperatures. All of this translates into better electronics with a dramatic size and weight reduction along with smaller cooling systems, since SiC can operate at higher temperatures, the energy needed to maintain cooling can be reduced by up to 30% if not more.
Finding cheaper ways to make high quality graphene in bulk, took the scientific world by storm and so far, there are at least 16 different methods of making it but few of them are capable of mass production at a low cost and high quality. As of current times the price of graphene per kilogram stands in between $67 - $200 dollars per kilogram depending on the overall quality of the end product. It is only a few hundreds of dollars away from silver at $579/kg. But to bring the price down one would have to miraculously solve many of the other methods problems such as; be able make graphene out of almost anything that is carbon rich, get rid of solvents or chemical additives, no special environments like vacuum or inert gas atmosphere, and lastly it has to yield large quantities of usable graphene.
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A new solar cell technology has broken the old 22% efficiency record, all of that with a 6-junction solar cell design, something that was thought unachievable for the past decade. Developments in production methods of the famous III-V group of Semiconductor elements (IUPAC 13-15), was able to arrange them in unique ways to generate this amazing technology, all thanks to their distinctive alloy properties. Groups III-V of the periodic table are known for their special characteristics that, when combined, produce a wide range of energy bandgaps that can be used in multitude of different electronics devices. The most commonly known combination is Indium Gallium Arsenic or InGaAs …Fart noise… which is widely used in solar panels. In this new research they explored other elements of the group with a variety of combinations which ultimately increased solar panels conversion efficiency to a whopping 39.2% efficiency at one-Sun.
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Mesoporous Graphene for Lithium-ion batteries [2020]
Graphene has a theoretical capacity of 744 mAh/g with outstanding electronic mobility at 10,000 cm2/V and extremely high lithium diffusivity at 10-7 – 10-6 cm2/s, it holds great promise as an anode material for high-energy-power lithium-ion batteries. But the problem has always been producing high quality graphene sheets as we know that any defect will decrease the electric conductivity, electrochemical and structural stability which in turn has a negative effect in power density and Coulombic efficiency. So far tests conducted with graphene yielded unfavorable results due to how difficult it was to produce high quality sheets, but in this research, titled High-quality mesoporous graphene particles as high-energy and fast-charging anodes for lithium-ion batteries, they were able to improve high quality sheets yield by chemical vapor deposition using a mesoporous Magnesium Oxide as a template and catalyst to start the process and adding an additional step with microwave radiation. They basically grew nitrogen-doped graphene within the pores of the Magnesium Oxide template. The idea is straight forward, you have a structure full of holes whereby using chemical vapor deposition, the nitrogen-doped graphene accumulates in these pores reacting with each other and turn forming a graphene sheet, all you need to do now is to submit the structure to an etching process to chemically remove the Magnesium Oxide template.
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Breakthrough Solid State Battery - 900 Wh/L Samsung [2020]
Samsung research was led by Yong-Gun Lee for an All-Solid-State-Battery (ASSBs). Their goal was to eliminate dendrites formation and increase coulombic efficiency. To do that they sandwiched layers of Lithium Nickel-Cobalt-Manganese-Oxide (NMC for short) mixed with a Sulfide Solid Electrolytes (SSE, show formula on screen), on top of nanocomposite-layer of Silver-Carbon. All of this is located in between a foil of Aluminum and Stainless steel as the current collectors. The idea behind this was to remove lithium foil from the mix and have all lithium atoms part of the NMC and SSE. This approach diminishes the costs of the overall battery manufacturing since handling lithium usually needs an oxygen free environment due to its high reactivity. This is important for a few reasons, in conventional lithium batteries, the anode comprised of lithium moves freely towards the positive electrode during discharge. Dendrites are formed during the charging process when lithium moves back to its initial location thanks to the free movement enabled by liquid or gel electrolyte. This is the main limiting factor of how much energy can be store in these batteries since to control this, the amount of lithium available in the system has to be caped, limiting the energy density.
Not everyone knows this, but Tesla had a lifelong dream of being the first man to fly, of course, with an electric airplane. Little did he know that it would take decades for electric powered airplanes to come true and no, he was not the first man to fly. But the dream was there, and he even patented schematics for an eclectically powered aerial transportation system to which I did my best to make this 3D model, so you my dear viewer can see it in detail. Now, today we can spot many problems with his designs, but this was an idea that started taking shape back in 1886 which sort of justifies it. Nevertheless, he got the patent in 1921 where he goes into detail describing this mode of transportation. The cool thing about it is that his machine allowed for vertical and horizontal takeoff except that vertical takeoff would most likely not work, but the again helicopters would only become a thing in 1936.
Ok, cool but what does this have anything to do with his turbine? How on to your lunch my dear viewer cause things are about to get interesting.
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The Alcubierre warp field as described by Miguel Alcubierre would help us surpass the speed of light many times which means that if we had a ship that could go 10 times the speed of light, it would take only 153 days to reach Proxima Centauri. Much more reasonable I would say. But building a warp drive is not an easy task.
Miguel Alcubierre is a theoretical physicist famous for the Warp Field theory. In May 1994 he published a paper titled “The Warp Drive: Hyper-fast travel within general relativity” however, his goal with this paper, contrary to popular belief had little to do with warp drives, it was to show that a distortion of space and time is indeed possible within the realms of general relativity, and therefore we could travel faster than the speed of light.
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Sources *Plutonium amount is nothing but an estimate Antimatter CERN https://home.cern/science/physics/antimatter Videos Cloud chamber Recorded at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition in July 2012 Author - Stephen Curry - Voice Over Sound Removed Original video at - youtube.com/watch?v=E9335CW2V5M Nuke map nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap radio frequency cavities https://home.cern/science/engineering/accelerating-radiofrequency-cavities the proton synchrotron booster https://home.cern/science/accelerators/proton-synchrotron-booster the proton synchrotron https://home.cern/science/accelerators/proton-synchrotron the antiproton decelerator https://home.cern/science/accelerators/antiproton-decelerator Tsar Bomba en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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Fusion - in 30 years? ITER update [2020]
It is the most powerful machine ever built by man, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER, has reached yet another milestone on November 7, 2019. The concrete base which will house the reactor has been finished. Next step is to get the roof going and eventually the reactor itself. This is good news for all participating countries in this monumental task, paving the way for a future with clean and unlimited energy. The roadmap remains unchanged with its first test runs happening around 2025. Many consider ITER to be the last step in this experimental endeavor spanning back more than 60 years of research and development. But ITER is only an experiment that will be used to prove 5 main concepts: 1. Produce 500 MW of fusion power 2. Demonstrate the integrated operation of technologies for a fusion power plant 3. Achieve a deuterium-tritium plasma in which the reaction is sustained through internal heating 4. Test tritium breeding 5. Demonstrate the safety characteristics of a fusion device
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In a recent article from Nature, scientists finally were able to test the strength of nanotubes which is amazing news from the depths of the nanotechnology realm nevertheless, it looks like space elevators will remain in the land of science fiction a bit longer, but not everything is bad news.
Well it turns out that there are three configurations that you can make nanotubes in and that is what they tested, all of the three configurations yields completely different strength values, which is ok, but the problem is that in some cases the strength is well below the 63 GPa while other times it barely passes that. However, it never even gets close to the predicted values of 100 – 200 GPa.
Low-temperature Synthesis of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes form alcohol http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.8.7770&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Fullerene Nanotubes: C 1,000,000and Beyond: Some unusual new molecules —long, hollow fibers with tantalizing electronic and mechanical properties—have joined diamonds and graphite in the carbon family jstor.org/stable/27856810?read-now=1&seq=9#metadata_info_tab_contentsFrom History to Reactor - THORIUM 232Subject Zero Science2019-10-15 | THORIUM 232 - From History to Reactor
This is a visual summary of all the information about thorium. Thorium is a weak radioactive element with atomic number 90 and a half-life of 14.05 billion years. About the age of the universe. Although it is one of the rarest metals on earth, its availability is much higher and stable than that of Uranium. 99.98% of this element is encountered as thorium 232 while uranium is mostly found in as Uranium 238 which is a poor contributor for the production of energy.
Uranium reserves are estimated to be about 5.5 million tones but only 0.72% of that is U235 necessary for the reaction. In comparison, thorium reserves are estimated to be 6.3 million tones with a 99.98% usability.
Since the 1960s, Moore’s law has accurately predicted the evolution trend of processors as to the amount of transistor doubling every 2 years. But lately we’ve seen something odd happening, processor clocks aren’t getting any faster. This has to do with another law called Dennard Scaling and it seems that the good old days with silicon chips are over. Hello everyone, subject zero here! Thankfully the solution might have been available for quite some time now and Graphene offers something quite unique to this problem, not only for your everyday processor types, but also Quantum computing. In 2009 it was speculated that by now we would have the famous 400GHz processors, but this technology has proven itself to be a bit more complicated than previously thought however most scientists including me, believe that in the next 5 years we will see the first Graphene commercial hardware come to reality.
We’ve all been following the evolution of Graphene for years now or ever since it came into light with the 2010 Nobel prize. But graphene has been around for longer than that, or at least 63 years in the making. Nine years after graphene took the world by storm, many of us are still wondering about where are all of the things that we were promised, made with graphene.
Graphene has baffled scientist for over a decade now, but recently they discovered something peculiar yet again. In this video we will recap all of the peculiar superconductivity aspects of graphene and the magic angle which was recently discovered and tested. It is possible that this will be used with electronic components and most important of all batteries to fuel the electric revolution.
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To begin we need to understand one simple thing about humans, and that is the computational power of our brains. The average brain has an estimated number of neurons in the billions, or 100 billion neurons to be more precise, and by now we know that each neuron is capable of in between 200 - 1000 hertz of equivalent computing power.
AI still needs a lot of energy to solve simple tasks.
NOTE: The animations in my videos take a substantial amount of time to make, so please be patient. I am trying to get a video per week, but some times it takes longer.MOON 2024 - 3 GOOD Reasons for Going backSubject Zero Science2019-04-11 | MOON 2024 - 3 GOOD Reasons for Going back
It basically comes down to 3 main things that the moons offer for the future of mankind. 1. Rare minerals 2. Helium 3 3. Fuel station
NOTE: The animations in my videos take a substantial amount of time to make, so please be patient. I am trying to get a video per week, but some times it takes longer.But there are a few PROBLEMS - 12x the Energy Density with SILICON ANODE BATTERIESSubject Zero Science2019-04-03 | Silicon Anode Batteries can hold up to 12x the energy density when compared to other technologies, so why haven't we seen it in products yet?
In this video we will take a look at how Silicon anode technology will change batteries forever, and what are still the limitations that we have to solve.
NOTE: The animations in my videos take a substantial amount of time to make, so please be patient. I am trying to get a video per week, but some times it takes longer.GRAPHYNE - What is STRONGER than Graphene? - Explained in 3 minSubject Zero Science2018-09-10 | What is stronger than Graphene? There are two carbon based materials, and today I will talk about Graphyne which is by far the strongest material that will ever be made by man for a while.
Graphyne is nothing but a combination of Graphene and Carbyne where the introduction of the chain with triple bond connections gives the extra strength.CARBYNE LAC Explained in 4 Min - Stronger than GrapheneSubject Zero Science2018-09-03 | CARBYNE LAC Explained - In this video we will talk about the two "know" or at least in theory, carbon structures that are by far stronger than Graphene.
In organic chemistry, a carbyne is a general term for any compound whose molecular structure includes an electrically neutral carbon atom with three non-bonded electrons, connected to another atom by a single bond. A carbyne thus has the general formula R-C3•
Its right name is Linear Acetylenic Carbon (LAC for short), and from wiki again, it’s an allotrope of carbon with chemical structure (−C≡C−)n where n is any number really. The key here is the triple bonds that make it really strong.The Strength of GRAPHENE ExplainedSubject Zero Science2018-07-28 | The Strength of GRAPHENE Explained - In this video I discuss about Graphene and where does the 10x stronger or 200x stronger than steel comes from.
Enjoy!UNLIMITED GRAPHENE - MIT Graphene Roll to Roll CVD ExplainedSubject Zero Science2018-06-24 | UNLIMITED GRAPHENE - MIT Graphene Roll to Roll CVD Explained
It looks like the days of making only small quantities of Graphene are coming to an end and soon we will be able to make the batteries that they promised a long time ago.
In this video we take a look at how the method works.