This SpaceX Engineer is Building a Mobile Nuclear Reactor | Doug Bernauer 

Like Fairchild and Boeing and Lockheed Martin were for the Boomers…those companies drew the best talent and brightest minds…and those young engineers set up new companies…SpaceX…will spawn great companies and a great company from their successors will do the same…

@@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 It's not even about drawing the best minds. Not only did it draw smart people, it allowed them to practice and build up there skills. I think that's the biggest problem today. A lot of big companies are already built up and it makes it very hard to go and work for them and actually do something extraordinary.

"We can put nuclear power on military vehicles, Nuclear Power saves lives" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 This guy is crazy as hell, Big red flag right there He wants to aid killing people and telling me that nuclear power saves lives. crazy guy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@zxcaaq He was talking - if you were listening - about the fact that a HUGE percentage of our losses (our dead and mutilated soldiers) in or around combat environments - tens of thousands of our soldiers, are killed when ambushed for the supplies they carry: water, food, and weapons, but mostly FUEL - while simply being in a convoy that is delivering fuel to keep Forward Operating bases running, tanks and other vehicles fueled, bases lit and cooled or warmed, etc. He said clearly, and as a veteran who saw casualties by the thousands air-lifted away, I completely agree - they were in convoys, and simply delivering fuel. This has become one of the most dangerous jobs in many fields of combat. If we had small nuclear plants buried a ways from the base (but close enough to be guarded in a hardened bunker), avoiding fuel explosions, and the need to feed the base thousands of gallons of fuel just to keep it going, as well as being able to charge massive batteries, and power the entire base, those casualties could be reduced exponentially, because the demand for 400.00 dollar a gallon fuel would become largely unnecessary - and rations, weapons, and other supplies could be air-dropped to these same bases (you cannot "air-drop" liquid fuel). We would also save enormous amounts of money on fuel. He is NOT "crazy as hell," you just weren't listening - or have never been stuck on a base that is running out of fuel and food; or driven in a convoy delivering fuel to such a base, and been suddenly surrounded after the first vehicle hits an IED, and suddenly a huge attack force is cutting the convoy to pieces, and ends up killing everyone in the convoy, taking the vehicles, and then taking the fuel for their own use. He's not crazy - you're just uninformed...

Like nothing existed before SpaceX… silly young punk. Guess what, we’ve already been to the moon and back so many times it became boring. Bill gates has been working on micro nuclear for a decade now …

"We can put nuclear power on military vehicles, Nuclear Power saves lives" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 This guy is crazy as hell, Big red flag right there He wants to aid killing people and telling me that nuclear power saves lives. crazy guy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@zxcaaqThumbs Down. Did you even listen to the interview with your brain open? So many military lives are lost- even on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations- in CONVOY operations, 70% of which, it turns out, carry diesel fuel for base generators- diesel fuel that could be replaced by a portable nuclear reactor. (Another possibility: replacing diesel generators at remote bases with rectennas to receive beamed solar power from orbiting solar power satellites- something that was officially studied by the Pentagon some ten years ago). To have American soldiers lose their lives guarding fuel that need not be there at all if the base’s power source had simply been replaced with a portable nuclear reactor would seem to be a no-brainer to any thinking person. - Dave Huntsman

Based on what? I've seen numerous very intelligent nuclear engineers and companies go bankrupt. I wouldn't bet a nickle on it, to be honest. Nothing against the effort though...

mobile nucleur power sorry but this guy crazy , we cant even get it going for more than 30 seconds which was tested in japan

Even doing it for spacecraft. Or bases is the right direction.

He said everything that can't use stored forms of energy is a worthless creature... what a great guy

Government won't let him.

@@texrifleman Then move.

@@ghost307 Thats a silly response.

The elements are not evenly distributed across national boundaries. National boundaries are man made and no longer useful to civilization, the greatest game ever. The false competition narratives today are creating more conflicts distracting humans from the serious work like this that is critical to a decent livable future

One of the best bumper stickers I saw growing up, before I became an engineer ,was “If it’s not grown, it must be mined!“. Most of today’s snowflakes sadly don’t understand that🤷

@@chammockutubei can tell you haven’t grown up near any mines have you

⁠@@chronicandironic8701, Yes, mostly surface mine completely surround this area where I live, but I work around the country with some work in Korea and South Africa. I engineer underground Aquifer and Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems (so called ATES & BTES) and have done some preliminary work on “CTES” which utilizes dry or flooded mines, caverns or caves for thermal storage. I’m a mechanical engineer, not a petroleum engineer or a mining engineer, but the majority of my work is either underground or industrial. Why do you ask?

Its funny, the US is the leader for small nuclear reactors that power submarines, aircraft carriers, and a few other select ships. These mini reactors can power floating cities, but somehow we have to invest millions to research small mobile nuclear reactors. The size of which we already have installed on ships. I am def not a nuclear energy scientist, but this has always puzzled me since the technology has been around since the 60s.

It's always been commercial.

Nothing new

It hasn't always been commercial. It's always had government grants and subsidies. Once it becomes just a matter of manufacturing then it will actually be commercial because it won't need land to operate

@@RedRyan Who do you think builds and maintains "big" reactors?

@@TheChipMcDonald but big reactors don't have the ability to expand sites and grow when needed like many other commercial processes do. Also if the city or county issues municipal bonds to pay for the project it is hardly commercial. Perhaps industrial at that point but a utility is not the same as a diesel generator manufacturer. Are you starting to feel the difference needed in funding

Agree! I used to operate and maintain nuclear plants in the Navy and almost had a prompt critical event once. Had to scram.

@@lawrenceleske3470 onboard one of the vessels??

@@lawrenceleske3470Wow, the battle short was in then???

Or can be hit by a hostile missile or captured by insurgents? What can go wrong? As far as a understand, the reactor is running on highly enriched uranium. That is a brilliant idea, to bring this stuff in a warzone.

Thorium is the way

It’s because the majority of the climate movement is not about fixing anything but protecting their power by ensuring the continued existence of crisis. France once had 70%’of its power generation from nuclear power and the climate crisis has caused France to decide to lower that to 50% by 2025. The crisis must live on for as long as possible lest the fear mongers be forced to create a new crisis.

@@somenygaard 100%

Both of you people are paranoid and delusional.

@@somenygaard Or you know, it could have something to do with TMI, Fukushima, Chernobyl. It works great, right up until it doesn't. And then the incident is measured in decades, centuries, and trillions of dollars.

@@moki123gby the way, unlike you, I was affects affected by Chernobyl. Oh my first birthday, just 70 miles away . It changed our lives completely. And yet, here I sit, still being less of a scared pansy than you. Weird.

Bro just get RU-vid premium lol

Just listen on RU-vid no viewing

Or just download the mp3....

It is already done, for example on Russian icebreakers

This basically a fallout technology.

I can hear the hopefulness in your keystrokes

me too :)

"We can put nuclear power on military vehicles, Nuclear Power saves lives" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 This guy is crazy as hell, Big red flag right there He wants to aid killing people and telling me that nuclear power saves lives. crazy guy 🤣🤣🤣🤣