ATOMIC HEART’s World-Changing Technology Explained 

*Thanks for watching!* Check out my first livestream of the game here. Come for the science and the design, stay for the extremely horny robots: ru-vid.com5esiHrM8eMQ

You know a game is “revolutionary” when it’s even got Kyle down bad. He already has a robot waifu as is.

Or as Einstein said, _"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."_

Kyle thirsting over the twins is one of the best bits of comedy in his videos

Cold fusion seems like the perpetual motion machine of nuclear physics.

the devs knew exactly what they were unleashing with the twin's design

Kyle, give ARIA an upgrade! Please don't peep other Robots, it'll break her Atomic Heart. 🥺

According to fallout lore even for them fusion both hot and cold was still in its infancy. The largest fusion corporation in the game was literally a fission company lying about themselve having discovered it. Everything in the game that has fusion in the name is actually just fission. Its my favorite secret in the game.

So that's why Iron Man 1 and 2 mention Palladium as the core of the Arc Reactor; it's cold fusion reactor!

Atomic Heart is one of those games that's very hard to play because you can only use one hand.

So Aria either controls the blast doors all the time, or is capable of overriding them at will. I think we all assumed as much, but it's nice to see it established as canon. I wonder what safeguards are in place to keep her from ever going full Halo 5 Cortana.

Can we take a moment to appreciate Kyle is morphing into Jason Momoa

You ever notice how the first person to discover something doesn't make any money off of it because they can't explain the new thing that is, up until now, unexplainable? Thanks for the video, Kyle. Great video, as always

Kyle wanting to do a little fusion with the twins...

I think it's worth pointing out that Cold Fusion is actually real ( though not practical. ) The one I really know of is Muon Catalyzed Fusion. One of the main things separating this from the scam ones, is it actually had a theoretical basis first ( 1950 ). This was then put into practice over the following years. Essentially it involves creating Muons ( super heavy version of an electron ) and introducing them into Hydrogen fuel. Due to their mass, the Muons sit much closer into the nucleus, allowing the atoms to get closer and fuse at very low temps, even below room temperature. Much like it can replace an electron, an electron can replace it, so the muon moves around from atom to atom, allowing fusion to continue. This was the one that really kicked off the Cold Fusion rush, as it was clearly proven and real, it just used far more power than it consumed. However, it had 3 clear major inefficiencies ( Muons decay in a very short amount of time, are very energy expensive to create, and they can get "stuck" to an alpha particle and stop transferring around. ), so many people thought we would simply solve 2 or more of these problems. Unfortunately, only small improvements have ever been made, leaving it stuck quite far from power generation. Thankfully hot fusion has been making steady and sizable progress since then, so it's looking quite viable. I still worry if it will actually happen at scale, but as briefly alluded to by Kyle, it is the current ONLY future power generation technology. If fusion does not work, we might very well be stuck where we are.

Just imagine an episode where Chris Hemsworth plays Kyle. Like 💯 percent straight, the exact script Kyle would read, with all the mad scientist bits and an off brand Thor reference🤣

I love your jokes, don't stop making them.

Cold fusion is impossible. Not because there may not be some new science out there that would allow for it, but because the number of assissins from big oil and coal and various governments that profit from it would make your life a John Wick movie real quick.

I remember when someone claimed to have cracked cold fusion around the turn of the millenium and even got the paper through initial peer review. Bonkers stuff.

I was also kinda hoping you would explain how cold fusion is relevant to the world of Atomic Heart, how it differs from reality & what they were able to create from it

Please bless us with your hair routine King Kyle 😭❤️

Can anyone explain the Hutchinson Effect? Or maybe get Kyle's attention so he'll do a debunk episode on it?

There are 2 types of Kyle: 1] drooling over robot mommies 2] making the worst puns in history

Oh lord. When modders get a hold of this game...

Oh! Nice. Kyle would eventually explain the "physics" of domi mommy robot twins. Lady Dimitrescu the sequel

I've seen so much Twitter...art of the Robot Twins and just now found out they're from this game. NIce.

I've heard that research and experimentation into 'hot fusion' has made significant progress, maybe once we perfect that one we can eventually optimize our way to cold fusion.

Cold fusion is like the search for the philospher's stone. And tbh long term I feel like fusion and antimatter batteries will be used hand in hand as at some point those will be the smallest options for the power output and storage

I know that I use my _General Motors 300 ExtraLight Fusion Reactor_ to power my _MAD-5D Marauder,_ and it provides enough power to get it running up to 64.8 km/h, launch all four of its _Swingline X-1000 Jump Jets,_ and fire both of its _Defiance 1001 Extended Range Particle Projection Cannon_ *and* it's _Sutel Precision Line Large Pulse Laser_ and dual _Medium Pulse Lasers._ (I never bother with the _Federated SuperStreak 2-Tube Short Range Missile Launcher,_ though; complete waste of space and tonnage.) And all I need to fuel it is some water, using its built-in electrolysis unit to extract protium molecules... and in a pinch I can even just pee into it.

Would you explain the technology in Simon Stalenhags art? Those floating vehicles and towers etc

ARIA is really upset about the Twins hitting on you, I would be careful If I was you Kyle...

I think cold fusion at room temperature is asking for too much, but reducing to something below 700 celcius could definitely help reducing the problems with fusion

I remember how learning about cold fusion in school was the thing that got me into trying to study Physics… And much like cold fusion, the initial reaction could not be replicated and I eventually gave up…

Oh my! Thanks Kyle, you have taught me so much! I want to play a game of magic with you and learn about so much more :)

Most important thing I've learned here is, while I am a total sucker for milkmaid braids & dig chrome curves (@ least on a vehicle), turns out I'm more of a "has face guy". Who knew?

That metal hands joke with the Austin powers walk off is legendary and worth pointing out. Big ups.

I could definitely be wrong here, but I seem to remember a video from Minutephysics discussing a similar topic, Muon-assisted cold fusion. I'd be very interested in a video from you discussing it as well

The world of Atomic Heart is like a ‘Light Side’ version of the Cyberpunk timeline. A world where at the end of WW2 technology got a head start but without the Evil Tech Companies taking over the world.

You really can just audition to be Thor is Chris decides to quit.

Impressed to see you cover something from the game despite the 'controversy' around it. Stay unbiased with your science, science dude.

Those of us that grew up with MST3K appreciate the your turbulent relationship with Aria

I learned a lot today. Thank you, Kyle Hill.

I feel like the real star of Atomic Heart is the robot fridge save point thingy. I mean she is a ravenous thirster embodied into a claw fetish fridge machine thingy.

The door close at 11:10 was so passive aggressive lol

Hey Kyle! Love the show. Been following you since the before times. Just had a great idea for a video. Random number generators in computing. The difference between pseudorandom and true random number generators and how scientists actually generate random numbers for their experiments. A lot of people believe in this myth that there is no such thing as true random in computers but that is absolutely false. Also just getting into the idea of randomness used in science would be cool too. Keep up the great work, the great hair, and the fabulous beard!

Kyle is what you would get if Reed Richards swapped bodies with Thor, lol.

I love when you basically just act like a dork in your videos. It makes me feel secure in the fact that, no matter how good you look as a knockoff Chris Hemsworth, or him a knockoff Kyle Hill, you are still a just a funny, loveable dork who gets excited about science, hot robot mommas, and puntastic wordplays.

Goes from Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to Aquaman (Jason Momoa)

I have no idea what Atomic Heart is but this was super neat

You should do one on transporters and where sci Fi author Larry Niven took the implications

Kyle reminds me of Wilhelm from Borderlands. "I like steak and robots, I wanna be a robot." And I can cur that this is the case!

He always says he is a dollar store Thor, but he looks closer to Baldur from the GOW4.

If i were to make a meguffin to make cold fusion possible, it would be some radioactive material which underwent a weird form of beta decay emitting a relativistic muon instead of an electron. You could then have the muon be used for muon catalysed cold fusion (which could theoretically work, its just that to make muons you need to make pions, and to make pions you have to use beefy particle smashers so you're NEVER gunna get anywhere near a net energy positive). But for a story meguffin, it gets you within spitting distance.

The most unbelievable part is that technology for such energy abundance would actually change the Russian absolutist society from being absolutist.

Correctlion: cold fusion has been achieve at room temperature using Muons as catalyst. Still the energy release is lower than the energy need to produce the Muons, making it non feasible method to extract useful energy (with current theories and technical approach)

That laugh at the end is why your favorite comedian isn't dropping a special anytime soon 🥶

Cold Fusion, I love that channel. Dagogo puts out great videos.

We all know that the devs knew exactly what they were doing when they made the twins

Suppose you had cold fusion in a bottle. How would you make electricity out of it? Traditionally, we use the heat of some/any energetic reaction to boil water and spin a turbine of an induction generator, with the high-pressure steam it produces. That wouldn't be an option with a room temperature reaction.

"It's that War... war never changes..." Best one liners of an intro of all time. Props if you know.

"cold fusion" is also used in the Battle Tech universe I think, such as to power battlemechs.

Not gonna lie this video made me want to buy the game.....for the science of course lol

"Cold Fusion" used to refer to a known phenomenon now called Muon Catalyzed Fusion. This version requires cryogenic conditions, and frequent replacement of muons, but does experimentally work. It just doesn't produce nearly as much energy as is needed to maintain.

We are missing a key problem. Direct transfer of heat to usable energy. We are currently at 10% in lab and 9% in real world applications. An example in SCI-FI. Battletech is at 60%, and Stsr Trek is at 90 plus percent. Internal Combustion engine have an efficency rating of around 30 percent.

a hybrid "lukewarm" fusion might work. paladium charged with muons and a magnetic field around that to confine hydrogen. it could catalize fusion, but would probably take more energy than you get out of it.

Aria: Overly chatty, moody, doesn't take Orders. Shape follows function. L&R: Mute, no emotions, obeys, PERFECT DESIGN!!! But a cold heart.

4:04 nice try but the majority of the earth's surface is ocean, and I'll NEVER be protected enough to be safe there

Kyle, what is the point of cold fusion? I thought the aim of all reactions in the field of power production was to produce heat and lots of it. Heat to boil water, drive turbines, turn alternators and produce electricity. Is there some suggestion that fusion can be turned directly into electricity without other infrastructure?

No nuclear waste? That really depends on the type of fusion you're talking about (i.e. the type of fuel you're using). For almost all types of fusion currently being considered, primarily D-T fusion, you're going to be producing A LOT of free neutrons as part of the fusion process. You can't really contain neutrons with a magnetic field, so they go on to blast the insides of your fusion reactor vessel, with many of them getting absorbed by the atoms in the vessel wall, activating them and making them fairly radioactive. Of course, I believe most of that material won't be radioactive for long periods, taking maybe a century or two to loose its radioactivity. You don't get that level of activation with fission reactors, though, as the water in a fission reactor serves as a very effective shield between the fuel rods and the reactor vessel walls, preventing many of the neutrons from even reaching the reactor walls. Additionally, fission neutrons carry 7X less energy than the neutrons produced from fusion, which increases the nuclear cross section and makes it even less likely for the fission neutrons to penetrate a given level of shielding (i.e. faster/higher energy neutrons have smaller nuclear cross sections and so will go farther/deeper into other materials before interacting with something). So, nuclear fusion DOES create radioactive waste, but which should only lasts a couple hundred years. HOWEVER, if you exclude unfissioned uranium and transuranics (which are ACTUALLY unfissioned fuel which we ONLY considering as waste for POLITICAL reasons), fission reactors also produce waste that will mostly be gone in a few centuries. Fission will produce some activated materials just like fusion does, but fission will also produce fission products, which are SUPER DUPER radioactive. However, radioactivity and nuclear half-life are generally inversely proportional, such that the more radioactive something is the shorter its half-life. From the time you pull a spent fuel bundle from a fission reactor, 99.9%+ of the radioactivity of that spent fuel will be gone in around 20 years. That fuel will still be dangerously radioactive beyond 20 years, but mostly due to the presence of Cs-137 and Sr-90, both of which have half-lives of ~30 years (and so require ~200 years (7 half-lives) to reach background radiation levels and ~300 years (10 half-lives) to almost completely decay away). I can't speak to the relative amount of activated materials produced by a fission reactor, but I can speak to the amount of fission products you'll have to deal with for longer than it takes a baby to reach drinking age (in the US)). A 1 GW nuclear plant will use 27.6 Mt of fuel over a year, of which 96% to 97% is made up of unburned fuel and only 3% to 4% will be fission products. The fission products that will be a concern for longer than a couple decades are primarily just Cs-137 & Sr-90, which combined only make up ~12% of likely fission products, or 0.36% to 0.48% of spent nuclear fuel. That means, out of that 27.6 Mt of fuel waste produced every year, you're only producing 99.4 to 132.5 kg of waste per year which has to be stored for a couple hundred years. AND REMEMBER, Cs-137 & Sr-90 have half-lives of 30 years, so the material you're storing is always declining, falling by half every 30 years. ALSO, Sr-90 is a beta emitter (meaning it produces radiation in the form of electricity), so you can use that to produce radio-electric batteries that will produce steady but slightly declining electric current for a very long time.

I wish you hadn't done this free ad for a Russian made game that will support the war crimes in Ukraine. Big fan, love your channel.

First time I heard “cold fusion” was in the starcraft cutscene where the marine opens a cooler and grabs a beer, saying “thank god for cold fusion”

You did an episode on cold fusion, but you don't mention Andrea Rossis E-Cat device. He claimed to have invented cold fusion a few years ago, but still refuses to disclose exactly how his apparatus works. Most of the scientific community has shunned his device and calling it a hoax. I do know of a Swedish grad student from Uppsala (it's a friend of a friend of mine) who apparently wrote a paper proving that it would be possible. Sadly, I cannot understand this paper because I don't know nuclear physics that well.

The implication that an AI would demand monogamy surprises me every time I come across it

A Sci-Fi energy source that might turn out to work in the real world; Zero point energy. I would love to hear what you think about the approach they are using.

1:25 We all know you were there for the kinky vending machine. LMAO

I love watching those old Feynman lectures.

Game was amazing, glad you're covering it

Here for the sexy robo-twins. And for science, of course

What would it take for the pressure at the bottom of the ocean to be capitalized on? Or is the pressure in fusion experiments already surpassing the natural pressure we have on the ocean floor?

Kyle thirsting for the hot, tall robot ladies like the rest of us 😂😂

Sad to see Kyle Hill go in the same category as Alex Ovechkin. "Involuntary Putin Sympathizers"

i love the content! keep up the good quality kyle :)

I always thought gaining the cold fusion reactor in the SIMSCITY game was so cool looking and very futuristic with the purple/blue light that it shone when you pressed it

Science is life. Science is purpose. Science is beauty. Science is sexy.

Once you say that you support Ukraine, and now you promote a game that is pro-russian, pro-war and many people associated with it are against Ukraine. Not cool!

Deuterium + Tritium + muon = legit real world cold fusion. Confirmed many times by different researches since 1950-ies. There are couple of nuances however... Also, there was in idea that regarding infamous experiment with palladium rods, it were some chemical imperfections in these rods that caused hydrogen to squeeze just a little bit more which was enough to start occasional fusion reaction. So this case is not completely cold either.

“With their shiny hands” followed by mike myers brow lift haha

Finally something about Atomic Heart without politics

Kinda feel sick after reading the eurogamer article on this game. For what it's worth I think I would rather miss out on a cool looking experience after learning the designers decided to put in those sexulized robots' while releasing it on the anniverssary of the Ukraine war. The only defining attribute with those sexualized robots shares the likeness of a political figure. Too many coincidences for my palate. Cool video on the cold fusion though.

If you’ve ever taken a science class, there’s a good chance you recognize these names. Tim and Moby.

Answer the phone, Kyle. The twins are waiting for you. Give in to the robussy.

Well, seems a lot of people do not understand why "pro-russian game made by russians" is a bad thing, so let me explain a bit. Fistly, the game is obviously made by russian team, who'se offices were in russia, and they are still in russia and still paying taxes. Pretending that they are from Cyprus and not connected to russia at all, but they have only a fictive digital office in Cyprus, and the fact that they are all russians is easily checkable on linkedin. "And so what" will you say, "they just made the game and nothing to do with the war, it's okay thing to do to avoid sanctions". Well, not exactly. Imperialism, racism, "dominance over other tribes", and nostalgia about ussr are deep in russian culture. Besides there's strong evidences that the game was ordered and sponsored by government, via the Gasprom company - the biggest oil giant in russia where majority of owners have government positions. Needless to say, war in Ukraine and other countries around russia (what a surprise) is not other but a attempt to "reunite the big and great ussr". "So what's wrong with atomic heart lore? Wolfenstein uses German nazi setting and lot of other games do too and it's okay". Well yes, but not exactly. In most of that games nazi dictatorship is always shown as a bad thing, and you are either playing against them, or not and eventually end bad or have some kind of consiquences or moral. In this game ussr is shown like a good thing, with cool technology, innovations, ideas like "soviet would be great place today if it still existed" and all that kind of praising. Damn, you are playing as a "good kgb agent". Do you know what is kgb? No, it's not like csi, it's more like mind police in Orwell. This structure was spying on their own people, and was arresting everyone who was a tiniest bit not agreed with the government position. And then tortured them and killing, or even worse - sending for exile to syberia or other extreme regions, where forced people to work like slaves with no rights and care. Of course most of arrested were dying in suffer in the process, and they were millions, and that's only official. Soviet union never were a good place to live. Brainwashing, repressions, hunger, crysis, poor life and destruction. Ukraine especially hates it because of event called "holodomor". Government created an artificial hunger in order to genocide the entire region. They forcefully confiscated all the crops and animals from the people, killing and arresting everyone who were against it in the process. And then they just sold them abroad as a payment for foreign factories. More than that, when Europe found out that Ukrainians are starving, moscow was in denial of that and was blocking humanitarian help. And the most hilarious thing of all, is that when a huge region almost died out (Donbas region by the way, yes that exactly) - russian simply migrated other russians there, and they started to live in the dead people's houses like nothing freaking happened. This is the face of russian utopia. For entire soviet history, russians showed their "big brother" dominant state, constantly neglected other nations, forbidden their languages and cultures. That's why everyone on post ussr hated it And now russians are sinning that old songs about "great union" again and trying to conquer other countries to rebuild their empire, while throwing their propaganda and disinformation all ower the place. And a lot of people are okay with that and don't now what's the problem

I like Kyle’s work but I’m not a fan of this game considering the news that explained how the Atomic Heart developers are connected to the Russian Government. I hope there’s a comment on this somewhere.

''I'm Thor if you squint'' made me laugh hard.

I always thought Aria and Kyle had a brother-sister like relationship. I guess I was wrong.

As much time as you spent in Ukraine I'd think you'd be hesitant to give any shine to a game funded by Gazprom and the Kremlin.

I feel bad for the game developers of atomic heart. Zelensky wants the game banned. As a game developer, leave us artists alone. We don't have anything to do with global politics. Support atomic heart if you like the game.

All I know is there's a very thirsty vending machine in the game.

Ahh cold fusion Any one remember the movie "The Saint" with Val kilmer?

Atomic heart is a piece of Russian propaganda