Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Styropyro '100 Car Batteries in Parallel'

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Styropyro "100 Car Batteries in Parallel"

[markandrew]

A note about Styropyro being on another level of insane than Allen and the Backyard Scientist. He really actually isn't. Yes, what he is doing is nuts, but his setup is well thought out and safe. That's not necessarily the case with the other two guys all the time. Particularly Backyard Scientist is pretty infamous for taking nearly no safety precautions at all while doing things that could seriously injure him.

[Ben_Kimber]

One of the craziest things about that video is that the idea was suggested by a company that wanted to see what would happen and decided he was "the only person crazy enough to try, " and also offered to sponsor the video.

[Wavy_Gravy]

Styropyro's dead eye stare makes me feel he's always in control. Death itself wouldn't dare.

[spiderdude]

Styropyro may be unhinged, but he EASILY has the most expertise and concern for safety out of almost any youtuber. He knows what he's doing and always at least tries to set up as many safety precautions as possible.

[snoitseuqpi]

"The gayest force field in physics" was hilarious.

[phoenixmercurous]

If I heard Styropyro correctly, the batteries hold 320 MJ of energy, which is ~76 kg (168 lbs) TNT equivalent.

[enlightendbel]

Foldable plastic table shielding is something nuclear power stations should really look into.

[mathew]

Styropyro is extremely intelligent and safety conscious. I didn't think at first but I've watched enough of his videos to get a better understanding. A person would easily die or go blind with the things that he does if they weren't extremely safety-conscious.

[Craznar]

I used to work in Telecommunications 40 years ago, and I visited an old style mechanical telephone exchange - they used to parallel stacks of 12V batteries.

I heard the story about someone who accidentally dropped a massive screwdriver across the bus bars and the thing just melted away.

[anonimus]

"Hello, fire department, we've got Thor Nutting in the backyard, please help!"

[flintstonr]

What i really love is how after describes the batteries could probably create a crater, he just jumps cuts to himself laying on the batteries. Perfect

[johnhayes]

I'm an electrician by trade. I heard 40k amps and INSTANTLY said "excuse me what?"

[benmcreynolds]

I found it much more interesting when he helped maintain contact. Since the contact points continually kept disconnecting. It was much more satisfying when he was able to manually mess with the contact points himself. (It would be awesome if Styropyro does build a small reactor at some point. Or gets hired on to be a mad scientist for some big company lol)

[BlankBrain]

I hope he gets to visit a steel mill electric arc furnace. I was in IT, and it included work in the melt shop. The EAF had three 24" hydraulically controlled carbon electrodes that drew the arc to melt the steel. The furnace had its own substation. Power was over 60 megawatts. That melted about 100 tons of scrap per hour. The sound was deafening, even with hearing protection. The light was brighter than the sun, and radiant heat was scorching. Standing in front of that machine was always thrilling.

[ScarlettStunningSpace]

I was wondering when you would react to this video. It made laugh out loud more times than I can count. Always good to see another video from you.

[mrnobody]

Imagine being the two thieves from the "Home Alone" movie but instead of little Kevin you have little StyroPyro setting up the boobytraps.

[toreadumass]

26:39 I recall seeing a comment on the original video talking about how the carbon arc sounded like bass-boosted fabric tearing, as if the fabric of the universe itself was being ripped apart.

[DrPeppa]

I feel like if a high school science teacher were ever struggling to get the kids excited about science, they could just show the students Styropyro's videos lol

[ExActa]

Something you will never hear at a nuclear power plant: "I was hoping it would explode or something. Oh well".

[bloodstonek]

This one was so much fun to watch. I'm not sure which I enjoyed more- Styro's antics or your reactions to them! Great video!