Nuclear Engineer Reacts to NileBlue Going Supercritical!

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to NileBlue Going Supercritical!

[cobaltchromee]

I really like this NileBlue guy. He should collab with NileRed!

[personagenerator]

The colors in the beads are a kind of structural color caused by light interference. It's similar to the colors you would see in a puddle with a thin film of oil across the surface of it. Its actually specifically called thin-film interference.

Some light waves reflect off the surface of the oil, while some go through the oil and reflect off the surface of the water. This causes these 2 different groups of photons to keep the same angle of reflection but offsets the phase of the waves between the 2 because of the different points of reflection. This difference in phase between the waves of the 2 groups causes constructive and/or destructive interference dependent on the angle of reflection(causing varying phase differences), which is why you get the array of shifting colors as you rotate the beads.

The 2 planes reflecting the light must be an odd multiple of one quarter of the wavelength of the light reflected from each other to create these colors. That means if the waves being reflected have a wavelength of 452nm, you could get these colors with a film or gap that's 113nm, 339nm, 565nm, etc.

I used to deep dive into physics books at the library when I was really little and Light is still one of my favorite things to read about and I hope this isn't completely boring to at least one other person out there.

[evan]

12 to 15 percent jump sounds like a massive amount of increased power generation over the course of one year 🤯

[LinkageAX]

"31°c is a little over room temperature" or as we aussies call it, the end of winter temperature

[not_smart_and_not_a_toy]

"i asked him if i could pay him to make one for me, but he just sended his fo free and didnt even let me pay for the delivery"
casually saying that Ben is the chillest and nicest guy hes met

[davidg]

I'm an old guy and I actually earned an Electrical Engineering degree many, many years ago. I was going through a bad time and actually got a D or F in in Thermodynamics but I picked up enough to realize it wasn't just the study of heat engines, it was so much more! Like the key to a whole lot of things. When I got back to it Thermodynamics got re-taken more seriously from both a theoretical perspective and as a bit of an IC engine enthusiast, this time getting an A or B. It's a subject well worth learning properly!

[seanspartan]

These Nile Red and Styro Pyro reaction videos are my favorite! 😊

[john_anti]

The aerogel video is worth a watch for sure..

[PhreakinPhilip]

My senior ChE design was designing a process to recycle PET using supercritical methanol. It was pretty cool stuff

[anthonyshiels]

I would love to see your reaction video for Nigel's Aerogel video.

[Blendrman]

Love it when a new science/engineering channel pops up on my feed, I can't get enough of it! This was a great reaction video with a healthy dose of relevant insight! Subbed!

[Plasmawario]

The aerogel is definitely interesting to watch! Would love to see a reaction of it!

[skwervin]

Add a pinch of glitter or confetti for the swirly action.

I'm with you... SHAKE IT!!!!

[adamsteinhardt]

In my field I almost never have to worry about gauge vs absolute pressure, although I do as best practice. Generally speaking, in about every scenario I’ve encountered over 12 years, if it’s less than the pressure of my car tires; it’s negligible. 5, 000 psi is considered low pressure, 15k is standard, and certain things are up to about 20-25k. The only time I hear about gauge pressure is when a new engineer has come out of school and they haven’t realized that 14.7 is less than rounding error

[danielthemangrande]

Day 6 of asking T.Folse Nuclear to watch Emplemons - "There may Never Ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov". A story about the cold war and the expansion of the nuclear arsenal and about the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident, in which one man protocol had to make a decision.

[Uthgardloki]

You should do a video with Nigel, maybe on the chemistry of nuclear reactions.

[oxylepy]

Just remember, everything that contains pressure off of atmospheric for your location is a bomb. Some are weak, others are not. Don't combine your shop compressor and things that can heat or puncture it.

[poldiderbus]

In 2016, there was an article that the water for the emergency cooling/flooding system in quite a few European nuclear power plants is heated due to the age and neutron embrittlement of the steel of the reactor vessel in order to reduce the thermal stress in the event of an accident..

[barjee]

you should also watch his video making aerogel, he builds his own pressure chamber with windows!

[tfrowlett]

I’ve done something similar to this with R-600a refrigerant. The filling hoses often have a sight glass on them and if you fill it with liquid refrigerant, close all the valves and let it warm up, it makes that cloudy vapour which disappears when a valve is opened.