Energy to Sustain Civilizations #5
This video is a deep dive into what energy is, how humanity currently is powered and how civilizations will be powered in the near future and also into the far, far future. For specifics see timestamps below
The video is based on a power point presentation and an excel spreadsheet. Both files can be downloaded by following the links below
Click link below to download power point presentation used in video as a pdf file
https://www.hmexperience.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/5_EnergyFuture_compressed.pdf
Click link below to download the excel spreadsheet that contains all calculations used in video
https://www.hmexperience.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/5_TheEnergyFuture.xlsx
Timestamps
00:00 Intro – Presentation agenda
07:30 Chapter 1 – Energy Production: What is it? E=mc^2
12:13 Chapter 2 – Efficiency: Wood coal oil fission fusion & antimatter
27:00 Chapter 3 – Efficiency: Gas food glucose protein fat & alcohol
40:10 Chapter 4 – Efficiency: Star fusion & 3 types black hole energy
1:15:17 Chapter 5 – The efficiency of converting light into food or electricity in order to sustain a biological civilization
1:37:50 Chapter 6 – Global electricity production by source
1:48:56 Chapter 7 – Cost of electricity production by source
2:03:38 Chapter 8 – Dealing with intermittency of solar and wind power
2:12:32 Chapter 9 – When will production become fully sustainable?
2:34:08 Chapter 10 – Conclusions and best future use of nuclear fuels
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