Thanks so much for watching! If you want to see me react to one of NileRed’s experiments involving uranium, please check out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YiLWZcMHAf8.htmlsi=A-t5jKyWU91wu94R
Hopefully we see this day together! You know, then we will be able to say "remember back in the day when Tyler only had a little over 10 years of experience in the commercial nuclear power industry?"
@@Gameboygenius Fair point. According to LinkedIn.. no. At least not at the moment. He started his MBA at the University of Texas about 9 months ago. He works (leased) at Metas data centre in Houston, TX as a Critical Facility Engineer (Data centre operations, Maintenance, Project management) since september last year. Probably because of his decision to make the MBA.. but there's still the chance he gets back into the commercial nuclear industry later! And personally i think the chance is pretty high - but only Tyler knows.
Agree about the importance of keeping the errors in the video. Not only keeps everyone's safe of any impostor syndrome, but also, the ability to be able to recognize, analyze and solve your own errors is a skill as important as doing the thing in the first place. Great reaction video!
The channel he mentioned, Applied Science, is absolutely brilliant. There are some unbelievably complex and cool things that guy has done in what is effectively an at-home lab.
Oh yeah .. Applied Science, The Thought Emporium, extractions&ire / explosions&fire ... they're all their own acquired taste but intensely cool channels nonetheless.
@@hackbyteDanielMitzlaffIt's a really good one, but it doesn't really focus on the process, like Nile's videos. Its focus is shifted towards the theory part
@@cobaltchromee7533Indeed yes, that one was very "short on science" sadly. Which doesn't speak for the remaining content from him which might be worth a reaction by Tyler. ;)
The talk about readability of manuals reminds me of the episode of M.A.S.H. Where a bomb lands in the base and they are trying to defuse it and the conversation basically goes: “Cut the green wire” Cuts green wire “But first” Everyone looks at everyone
To your point about him keeping his “failures” in the videos, I do agree. One thing I think he’s really good at is making everything look the best that it can on camera. You gotta remember, even though his lab is awesome, I wouldn’t exactly call it a professional lab. It’s more like a semi-pro lab in my opinion. He does some things that I’m sure he knows probably won’t be useful but they’ll be better looking on camera to show what’s happening. Like doing the reaction in a dish instead of a beaker. I’m sure he was well aware that if the dish didn’t hold up to the temp change that the product wouldn’t be useful, but it allowed us to get a better view of the reaction that was happening. He’s gotten really good at what he does, and even though I think his explanations have always been good, I do think they’re improving over time. It’s really neat how large of an audience he’s garnered by doing this stuff as well.
@@rya1701 is it? millimeters are also informally called mils(as well as mrads) since it just means a thousandth. personally i've always called thousandth inches thous though
As a PhD student in additive manufacturing of ceramics, people are always surprised at the time required. In my scale of "normal", a day for a heating cycle is quite fast and 900C is quite low, but I'm also on the high temp side of things.
You got it right with how calming his videos are, and he's so accessible for those that don't have a clue what he's talking about. Oh and loving your reactions btw, love hearing someone so knowledgeable still so willing to learn!
I love that you remarked on how satisfying and relaxing his method is. I was thinking that this is the equivalent of ASMR so, Im taking some of the audio where he's using the mortar and pestle and when he's moving things around the desk and just loop them for a series called, "guess that ASMR". Or, "ordinary sounds with extraordinary materials". Not just with this video either. Lots of his and other creators. Might be fun or could be awful. Probably the latter. Let's find out!
Hey Tyler. I've really been enjoying your videos. Especially when you find comparisons to nuclear when you wouldn't expect it. Ben from Applied Science that was referenced in this video has a video that you'd might get a kick out of. His video is called "Alpha radiation makes sparks, detects smoke, and eliminates static cling". Keep the videos coming. :)
Funny little error in the paper detailing the procedure for making the superconductor. The caption for Figure 4 refers to a pellet "dye" when it should be written as die. A dye colors things, a die shapes things.
Honestly him covering the screw ups and side tangents really is what makes the experience of the science in his videos and all of the unforseen circumstances that one will deal with doing anything similar.
Hey Teller! I love your videos, it's always fun watching a reaction vid with some insights on the topic or just pure reaction vs just the video itself. Love your stuff. The only one little thing I want to point out in case you miss it is your volume levels through out the video on the different cuts change drastically and it can be a headache sometimes. Last night for example was watching you on speakers and suddenly after a cut the video got super LOUD xD If you need any help with this feel free to reply to this message, I do video editing for a while now and can help you out if needed. Keep up the good work!
I love your reaction to this. I saw Nilered's video a while back, but had forgotten the cool monster the reaction created and some other stuff. Every part of this was awesome. Even the mistakes enhance to whole. We can all relate, and it seems more identifiable. A+
Love these videos! I've been watching Nile Red for a long time, and it's really cool to see someone talk scientifically about the parts Nile doesn't do as much, and try to explain it a little better than Nile does. Not saying Nile doesn't explain, he just kinda shorts the info down sometimes
The fact that you respect your fans so much to actually fulfill requests instantly makes you my favourite reaction channel. And you're reacting to my favourite science youtuber! Life can't get any better... I'll be sweet for the next hour :)
I’ve had a procedure be wrong in an undergrad chem lab class. And because I was the fastest chemist of my class, I ended up facing the issue first. We were told the instructor himself had reviewed the procedure, as he was the department head. So, we all trusted it. The instructions said to shake a corked test tube with a solution inside. So, I did it as the instructor had demonstrated with an empty tube. The acid solution bubbled and the gas built up in seconds and popped the tube like a cork and spilled acid all over my face. I remember I blinked, felt grateful for my goggles, and calmly went up to the professor. He asked what I wanted and I explained the problem and he stared at me, then panicked, then ran me to the eyewash area and we had to wash my face. He admitted that the directions were wrong and we were supposed to shake a different tube. Procedures being wrong can be a big deal, even in academics.
i think all the shooting from hip already been done in the early days of nuclear physics... i mean, just ask the team that play around with the demon core with a screw driver...
and a vacuum pump reaches a point where it cant pump, meaning the microscopic leakage back into the vacuum reaches an equilibrium with the stuff beign pumped out, at that point its mostly random whether you are removing moisture or taking it out, granted some of that will happen even while using nitrogen or some other gas to dry it out but with a powder its nice because the gas gets in the powder and helps it stay decently hot and in contact with the enviorment, much easier to dry stuff out quickly at a higher density.
Here is Australia in labs we would say mils rather than millilitres. I miss lab work. I have had to write a bunch of procedures for NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities) registration for some of the labs I have worked in.
Great job. I really enjoy the NileRed videos.... He makes so few, but then, we just watched, what, at least a 3 month long project.... Probably a lot more.... I think it takes a lot of honesty & a lot of integrity to leave in the mistakes.... It would have been SO easy to just cut that out..... Very admirable.
"mil" can be used to informally refer to any "milli" unit. Whether that be mm, mg, or ml. Which makes "mil" for "thousandth of an inch" ambiguous, since it now refers to two separate units of length. When designing circuit boards, where you use both imperial and metric, the imperial unit is instead called "thou". With an unvoiced TH like in "thousand", not a voiced one like the archaic second person pronoun.
you know, i find it freaking hilarious, most of the time when someone says its completely totalled, its barely a scuff or a mark, in some cases no damage is noticeable, even in use, but when they says its fine, its completely destroyed
wow this was really nice, props to both of you. Sometimes watching Nilered i think it can become a bit too dense but with you to break it up it went really nicely
Interestingly, a recent attempt, based on a different set of assumptions about how they work, seems like it may be correct. The standard theory is that when super cooled the atoms of a material slow down so much that electrons can pass through with minimal collisions (more or less). The alternative is that superconductivity materials tend to have crystalline structures, which at extremely low temperatures are unable to form completely consistent alignments. This causes "gaps" in the structure which are so small they will only fit single electrons, and when close enough together these gaps create "quantum wells", which extra electrons, from a power source, end up moving through by quantum tunneling. Since, again, this results in not just few, but theoretically zero, collisions, it supercunducts. Their test material appears to actually be the first real room temperature superconductor, and if correct, means it may be possible to engineer materials that will do so at higher temperatures.
I had to try it, it took a little convincing but chatgpt did write me a general outline of creating a YBCO super conductor, and it put a bit of safety in there aswell
I saw with fusion the more efficient method to make power is instead of heating water, you can use a technique called simply "direct energy conversion" or DEC. There's many listed ways for this to be done depending on the type of reactor, but the one most seem to know of is capturing the charged ions in a sort of inverted particle accelerator directly converting them to electrical power.
When I first found your channel I was extremely skeptical, like “how much content could there possibly be with any relevance to nuclear engineering” but I’ve been pleasantly surprised, especially with the scientific content like this, where even though it’s not quite the same field you still find tons of ways to add input because they share so many qualities. Have you thought about doing standalone educational videos? Like not reactions? I think you’d be good at it
I thought the end result of the several pellets failing was an interesting development. It hints to where particle physics starts to come into play, as the amount of oxygen used, measured as a whole previously, now depends on the amount of particles available for bonding with the YBCO. Pretty cool stuff. I theorized before getting to the end, that the bigger one would be weaker, as the magnetic flux would be affected more by volume, as opposed to mass, which is more cool physics coming into play. This is hinted by bigger volume allowing for more oxygen to bond, creating a situation where the bigger one was now stronger.
theres a really good Kyle Hill Half life video on a russian that accidentally put his head in a particle accelerator, its called "what would happen if you put you head in a particle accelerator"
I'm a health physicists at a national research lab.. Just wanted to say I appreciate your incite from the reactor world and all your anecdotes about it. We also have a reactor on the campus so I do get to experience some of that side of health physics.
It's incredibly useful to know what can go wrong, since people aren't likely to have 100% identical equipment. That way, if something starts looking wrong, you may know if it is or not.
You brought up an interesting point of unit conversion issues, i really hate to say it, but i'm all for unifying the units (and voltage) throughout the whole world. I had my fair share of trouble with that as i'm sure many people had also.
Funny enough, when you search up "mils" on the wiki, it gives you both - the unit of length and mililitres as a result. It is marked as an "infromal" in the second case though.
28:39 food grade sanitary tubing fittings... I used ALOT of these in building Pepsi and Gatorade plants. Sch#5 316L Stainless steel sanitary Tubing.... Awesome stuff to weld. My favorite.
i think when you try to isolate a chemical from impurities without knowing what in it by some process like this, you will have a list of all the possible contaminates and whatever process you pick, some possible contaminates will have an analogous chemical process to whatever you are doing to dissolve and reduce the stuff you want to isolate, so one method might filter some of it and another something else, without knowing that your test filters all of it you cant really be sure what you ended up with i guess, its very contingent on how easily two elements or two molecules can substitute for each other in a type of chemical process.
Very interesting video! I loved the trials and errors being shown to get the end result, and I learned a lot from the explanations given by you and the video maker. Thank you.
I'm a machinist in chicago. I use thousandths of an inch daily and I've never heard anyone refer to them as mils. I have heard millimeters referred to as mil.'s though.
We use the US Customary System, which is a bit older than Imperial. They share a lot of measurements but a USCS pint is 16 ounces, where an Imperial pint is 20 ounces. This carries on to quarts 32/40 ounces, and gallons 128/160 ounces. They're not even the same fluid ounces. Imperial also uses stones as a unit of weight, 14 pounds. We have something called a hundredweight, which is 100 pounds. An Imperial hundredweight is 112 pounds, because it's 8 stones, of course. An Imperial ton is 2240 pounds because it's 20 hundredweights. Our ton is 2000 pounds, also 20 hundredweights.
I'm a toolmaker & our family business & we occasionally build machines & parts for our US customers & its a constant ballache working with their Imperial DWG's or wiring up the machines for the different voltages. Though im sure its just as annoying for US engineers & toolmakers working with the metric system for their foreign customers.
20:55 indeed. I've been subbed to him for YEARS, he is very dedicated to education, so much so, that even a layperson like me, can easily follow along with what he's describing.
i think mils difference might come from the fact that he's using metric for chemistry and your mil measurement was related to inches, and is therefore imperial i suppose. Though saying that, there is an actual SI unit which is recognized to be referred to as mils but it's not short for millilitres, it's short for milli*radians*, which is actually a unit of angles (17.45mils = 1 degree) that either of you are unlikely to have encountered, since it's mostly used by artillery crews.
44:37 this is the only part that really surprised me. I thought it would have been locked into place right on top of the conductor. This means the field is always locking stuff into place just above the surface and not just because its resisting it as it comes into contact with the magnetic field
Hey there, I've been watching your videos for a while and i greatly enjoy them and learning more about Nuclear from the perspective of someone working in it. I saw a couple of times the topic of WWII came up and the bombs. There's a video by a RU-vidr named Shaun called "Dropping the bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki" that argues that its provable that dropping it was completely unnecessary. Its a bit long and more a political discussion so I'd completely understand if that's not something you want to react to. But i thought I'd put it out there since it's a perspective that's not discussed a lot in the conversation.
45:10 Correct me if I’m wrong, but found out via a game that got the detail correct: What should really be said in the movies is that its going “Prompt Critical” and that it wouldn’t explode.
I was not expecting the hellpoop, but it's less scary than the Alibaba furnace Nigel is probably a Ryu main, what with the tight grasp on fundamentals (and his tatsu is probably hella unsafe).
Cancer survivor here I didnt get that verison my verison of radiotherapy was done via blasting the tumor with the guide of a molded mask with marking stickers for a reference so they can hit the same spot every single time.
I must say for as old as steam power is, I am absolutely dumbfounded that we have never found a more efficient way of converting heat into electricity. It is just so unlikely that we would have hit on the best method so early on.
I think how to Start up and maintain nuclear power plant As well as determining a nuclear weapon and how to arm a nuclear weapon Should be taught at school everybody should know this just in case ( If anybody has ever played fallout u will understand The importance of these things) o and bottle caps 😂😂
18 not a regional thing: in NZ and Australia we shorten millilitres to "mills" too. We occasionally use inches but never heard of mills being a thousandth of an inch....
I'm surprised they used imperial at your plant, every science class I took they always used metric even though I live in the US, they said there was some reason but I can't remember exactly what it was, the only time we used imperial was when we had a tool that already used imperial and we just converted it to metric after measuring whatever it was that we had to measure
pro tip for the chemical maestro of you tube as well though, if you want to dry out a powder more quickly, don't go with a decent vacuum, go with a slightly worse vacuum and flood it with an inert gas, some chemicals are just nasty to dry out with all sorts of poles and places there water gets stuck more easily, so just flood it with nitrogen, or xenon or something like that, and vacuum again powder just conducts heat really poorly and reaching a decent vacuum 5 times is like reaching a stupidly low density vacuum with respect to everything except your inert gas, its like homeopathy but it actually works.
