Japan's Plan to DESTROY the Price of OIL and GAS!

In the war between hydrogen and battery-electric future, the battles have been pretty one-sided, in favor of batteries. With companies like Tesla producing 2 million battery EVs, you might be tempted to even think the war is over. But Japan has bet HUGE on hydrogen and a new breakthrough approach to its production might finally make the Japanese gamble, a winning proposition. So how exactly does it work, and how likely are we to see it roll out in the near future? Let's find out about Japan's Plan to DESTROY the Price of OIL and GAS!

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Hydrogen Gamble
02:25 Japan's Position
05:32 Key Industries
06:18 Hydrogen's Dirty Side
06:58 Fukushima
08:10 HTGR Reactors
11:15 Benefits For Hydrogen
12:12 Japan's Plan
14:37 Safety
16:58 Conclusion

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[robertmeredith]

The Helium cooled pebble bed reactor is just one of the reactor designs capable of producing very high temperature process heat for Hydrogen, ammonia, etc, along with molten salt and Sodium cooled designs. Its disadvantage is that the waste ceramic pebbles are more difficult to reprocess than conventional fuel rods and thus less amenable to reuse of waste stream U238 and Pu in breeder reactors. MSR and sodium designs can be breeders, fueled by waste and produce dramatically less and shorter-lived waste streams than the current Japanese design. They are likely better future designs, but the Japanese deserve credit for pioneering a better replacement for the expensive water-cooled reactors we've been stuck with for decades.

[MohitJainDDN]

Riding two wheeled transportation is far more effective. Saves fuel, less surface on streets, less parking space.. most people weigh under 200pounds but are communing in 3k+ pound vehicles. Most of the fuel is being burned lugging around weight of car.

[unlockingbehaviourchange]

Really interesting and informative. I've heard convincing (to me) arguments in favour of molten salt reactors and I wonder how these stack up against the HTGRs talked about in this video.

[scubamaz]

What about THORIUM reactors. To my knowledge this would be the best way forward for a variety of reasons. Mainly no risk of meltdown and no radioactive waste byproduct.

[robertshorthill]

Japan is surrounded by water, salt water that can easily be broken into 2 parts Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen. Both elements can be used chemically to produce energy, under the right applications. Even in high school in 1964, for a science project, I demonstrated an apparatice to break apart a salt water solution into H2 and O2, collect the gases, compressing under low pressure both gasses separately and powering a simple steam engine, built by a class mate. We won science fair ribbons. A novel thing to consider back when gasoline was maybe 15 cents a gallon. Maybe when gasoline is 15 dollars a gallon, people will have more of a use for Hydrogen technology.

[miketopper]

Truly brilliant ! I am a nuclear power worker and I am totally impressed by their genius ! Great narration also !

[jonowack]

You should review the Carnot cycle fundamentals. Given the operating temperature of the HTGR is around 1000 degC, you get a much more efficient thermodynamic cycle for the nuclear reactor. (Older reactors are only about 30% efficient with a temperature of 300 degC)

[triularity]

Based on this, I'm kind of surprised Japan didn't try developing thorium reactors when they shut the traditional nuclear plants down.

[twomuchfury]

This was very informational, i really enjoyed the way you presented the subject material. I'm looking forward to see how Japan handles this new breakthrough and in all honesty i hope they win this "arms race" as you call it

[stoltobot]

Japan has always been able to leverage public-private partnerships like high speed rail, with their massive domestic consumer market to get developing technologies to become the standard, like CDs, not to mention at times the battle of the standards itself consisting of mainly Japanese competitors like VHS/beta or BR/HDDVD, or at worst up and running like the costly to develop hybrid tech in the Prius. Japan is down but not out, and I wouldn’t bet against the kid

[JGL]

After the power usage restrictions for California's EV owners due to a lack of forethought on the power limitations of the grid...the Japanese H2 plans seem very sensible.

[arjunprathap]

It's Japan, they will achieve it.

[johnnybigpotato]

They have been talking about ceramic coated nuclear fuel for well over two decades. Good to see someone has finally done it.

[joemercs]

The U.K. have been using ‘Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors’ (AGR) since the 1980s but the primary coolant gas used is Carbon Dioxide. This design was chosen in the U.K. in the mid 1960s after evaluating a variety of designs including high temperature helium cooled reactors.

[bossman]

Well I think this is one of the most interesting video's you ever produced. Thanks man.

[jaykent]

I LOVE Hydrogen; however, its combustion yields the NUMBER 1 Greenhouse Gas (aka Water Vapor)! Water vapor is responsible for 65-70% of the total 'Greenhouse Effect'. Personally, I think we could use more Greenhouse Effect!

[dontuno]

I had some involvement in the liquified gas industry and I remember how a very well known customer got extremely excited by finding a new source of a very finite gas i.e. helium. If I remember, there was some suggestion that on current consumption rates the world had only circa 500 years worth. Not sure how that would be impacted by the proposed gas cooled reactors but it would seem as ever there is a price to pay for energy of any sort no matter how it is produced.

[SSingh-nrqz]

This video earned my sub. Great video. My experiences with EV tech is EVs are great for light weight things like commuter cars and bikes. The problem is when you do heavy work. There is a great video comparing the Ford F250 (combustion engine) VS the F250 Lightning (EV). They both towed a trailer with a car on it on the same road at the same time with the same exact trailer and two classic cars that were identical. The Lightning only made it HALF WAY through the challenge before needing to be recharged while the regular F250 had plenty of fuel left to finish the trip and drive back. The take away was "EV trucks are great as long as you don't do Truck things". I believe Hydrogen will be for heavy duty applications while batteries will be for light duty. Which is perfectly fine. I rather have competition in tech making things perform better, reducing costa, and pushing each tech to innovate.

[synchro]

Reminds me of part of the story in the anime Ghost In The Shell where Japan developed the "Japanese Miracle". The process neutralized the most harmful forms of nuclear radiation and was used world wide in the story.

[lanceferraro]

This is heartening. As someone that maintained Navy Nuc sub reactors, I am glad to hear this. I never have liked the Navy Nuke to civilian transfer of nuke power. There are better ways.