Is the Sea Full of Uranium? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Kurzgesagt

[lloyddennison]

Love your videos Tyler. I know it’s not Nuclear, but would love to see a reaction video to electric mountain in Wales. It’s a crazy lake powered, power station. Britains largest battery (which is actually a lake) it’s so powerful it can perform a “black start” and bump start the entire UK national grid.

[Shadow]

You speaking of space and of high pressures in the video reminds me of Soviets attempts of going to Venus. I'd like to recommend a video called "Surviving Venus in the 1970s" by a channel called Primal Space. It's a cool story of perseverance and testing the absolute limits of 1970s technology, hope we go back to Venus again. Well, after we set foot on Mars maybe lol.

[robertsmith]

It is, and various countries have tried to extract it <but> boiling off or otherwise filtering several cubic kilometers of seawater in order to extract milligrams of uranium is simply not economically viable.

[alexandercarder]

That’s crazy, at 18:08 I was drifting off to sleep and your comment ‘drifting off to sleep’ woke me up 😂😂😂

[derpychicken]

You kept mentioning how everything was ultra compressed down there and assumed how the vampire squid had a lot of surface area to deal with compression, and this simply isn't the case. Proven wrong instantly by the two fish that came after, the anglerfish, frilled shark, and viperfish which clearly arent specialized to maximize surface area and minimize volume. Even going deeper, the many crustaceans and echinoderms such as sea cucumbers and large crabs clearly arent built to minmax volume to surface area too. Those squids are built like that to maximize the size of their nets to catch as much marine snow as possible. Animals at that depth take advantage of the fact that water is nearly uncompressible, allowing them to be perfectly fine. The challenge is the organs and other structures that CAN be compressed, like swim bladders full of air, and certain other organs that have gas in them. Deep sea life minimizes the amount of compressible gas in their bodies, as well as make use of certain compounds like TMAO - trimethylamine N-oxide that is present in their cells which helps them withstand pressure at a cellular level. Similarly, marine snow is still saturated with in-compressible sea water, just like how the miles deep of soft sediment on the abyssal plains are too, which allows them to not be compressed into flat dense pancakes. Much the same way, plastic bags and other trash that drifts down to the abyssal plain looks exactly the same. Unlike submarines which are full of compressible air which allows subs to implode and be crushed, the trash is full of seawater from all sides and wont be compressed. If it had any air in it, the pressure would instantly crush it out, but stuff that sinks into the sea is already saturated with seawater.

[Yezpahr]

2:29
**corpse floats by**
Tyler: "this is a really cool animation"
GreenAmogus: "Ayy, I call for a meeting"

**Tyler was jettisoned**

[darkwinter]

It would still look like a bag... just a slightly thinner one.

[pirobotbeta]

Sea-floor nodules.
Lumps of minerals that form on the deep-down.
Rake them up with rakes...manganese is one of the first elements harvested this way.
Sea-floor mining is a widely used practice.

[alanhere]

"EM is radiation so just like nuclear is radiation" in the same way as gravitational waves are radiation, in the same way as gossip is radiated out and is therefore a source of radiation 🤷🏻‍♂️

[TTULangGenius]

Hi, Tyler! I found you through your reactions to styropyro and have been binge watching your channel for the past few days. I really love your thoroughness and insight along with how you connect different fields of science together (such as you explaining the inverse square law while reacting to styropyro's laser videos). I've learned many new things by watching your videos and if I see anyone in the future have misconceptions about nuclear power/science, I will refer them to your videos!

Thank you for all the work you put into your content!

Cheers from Texas!

[jeffborders]

The deepest bore hole was abandoned because it was too hot down there. The rock itself was so hot and malleable they described it as cutting through hot plastic. So pour in some water, and collect the steam. It's like a molten salt nuclear reactor down there.

[MediocreHexPeddler]

This makes me want to play Subnautica again.

[Merennulli]

Even getting down to the abyssal plane, let alone the Marianas trench, the compression and deformation of the hull is so great that the submarines that make the trip are usually only able to make single digit numbers of trips. I don't think we'll ever see naval vessels making that trip. Not without new materials at least.

[darkwinter]

Well, part of the pressure handling is due to the fact that they don't breathe air and thus don't have nitrogen dissolved in their blood to cause the bends upon ascending.

[jaskaasi]

there is uranium (or waste barrel ((oildrums))) of the coast of new jersey since the 1950s us navy also shot those barrels with .50cal machine guns if they floated

[mikeholmstrom]

I've also heard of Gold in seawater. But, again, the cost of recovering it makes that unlikely.

I wonder if used fracking waste water could have substantial amounts of Uranium & Thorium in it. It frequently has disturbingly high amount of Radium in it, so Uranium is likely part of it. But, it also has Arsenic & Barium in it.

[SugarGlider]

You might enjoy SOMA fm, they're an independent radio station. Their station Mission Control adds ambient music to the apollo recording.

[constantinewolf]

do you plan to register to patreon too? i'd totally love to support your work but don't want to register to another supporter site.

[SaltyRad]

I guess fish at that depth would need some sort of way to balance pressure between the outsid and inside of its body which makes me think a lot of those creatures at that depth is just mostly water.

[ThatJay]

12:05 yeah at this point the increase in power/flux is supercritical, but its still so little as to not even really be measurable