The Grid vs. The Next Big Solar Storm
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Dude I was on the fire department in 1989. I watched the transmission lines turn red and fall to the ground. You could see sparks arching up the towers. There's no way electronics can handle that. It will happen one day and everyone is going to get a huge wake up call. It got me interested in free energy though. In a way the power lines were just antennas at the moment
The answer to "Should we fear" is always no, but we should be prepared yes
so underrated comment. Up!
@@ronmcd5756 Made my day 😂😂🙌
we need to fear that we are not prepared
@@ronmcd5756 😂
The sun isn't a ball of flames and there are more important threats to be feared on this plane earth than the fricking sun.
3:05 that is not how it's supposed to spin
The magnetic flux through the coil isn't changing
Indeed, the wires need to "cut" across the flux lines, not move with them
And at 2:35 the change of a magnetic field does create a voltage in a wire... not only in coils...
I feel like this video is going to be reuploaded :D
Came to the comments to say this; it's the total magnetic flux through the coil that needs to change, and the diagram has all of the flux co-planar with the coil.
woopsies
You've seriously undersold just how powerful solar flares / coronal mass ejections can be in rare cases. They are ranked on a scale, and although X-class flares are not common, they are incredibly powerful. It's highly likely (pretty much inevitable) that the Earth will be in the line of sight for a major ejection at some point, and our preparedness for a geomagnetic storm of extreme magnitude is virtually zero.
I agree in general that for average solar storms, we're fine, but it's one of those "it's not if, but when" situations when it comes to a major event affecting life on Earth.
I agree this is much more worrying thing than asteroid collision and the spending should be brought up to par.
It may not even be rare so much as occuring on a much longer time scale than modern science officially recognizes. Also he doesn't take into account how much the Earth's magnetic field has weakened since 1859, with estimates currently at 5% loss per decade. Meaning a Carrington level event may be as much as 80% stronger than it was in 1895.
Suspicious 0bservers
@@83jdizzle83 Yes its weakening but it will get stronger after the reversal, if we still exist at all at that point
@@83jdizzle83 and if we do survive at that brief point when the magnetic field is gone we probably wont die, maybe get hurt and a bit of an increase of cancer life will still thrive
"Aurora Borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the world?!" -People in the Caribbean
Yes
-The sun.
They were most likely- “What the hell that?!”
@@barry3612 May I see it?
localized entirely in your kitchen?
Solar Wind and coronal hole connectivity at the poles.
I watch the Sun with my telescope and this pops up.
T M not the best idea to watch the bloody sun with your eye, let alone a telescope
Miftahul Salam i don’t think he just is watching through a normal telescope bruh
Guys what you can go is get a white wall or a piece of paper, and aim the telescope at the paper, you don't look in, but you see it on the paper.
Biko from the Lowlands yeah I was gonna say, hopefully it wasn’t a normal telescope xD
You can use a normal telescope with a sun filter on the front.
This is very interesting stuff! I work as a grid operator, and maybe once a year we have these sudden circut breaker trips on our transformers related to solar flares. Sometimes in such an extent we now have a direct line to meteorologists so we can recieve early warning in case of this.
I wonder what will happen to solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources. Will they be affected?
What's your estimate of the damage another Carrington (CMP) Event could cause with current AVERAGE EMP protection on most grids?
@@adrianjohnson7920 most process control equipment installed today are placed in shielded controlrooms. I dont expect that to be much damaged in such an event. The weakspot in my opinion are other things like servers who often are overlooked in that same regard. If the server infrastructure goes down the remote control and monitoring also goes down.
Thats ignoring older facilities built without EMP-protection.
Powerplants are not always equipped to start from "black". So in an event of mass outage and no remote operations the concequences will be dire. Even if no electrical power grid equipment is damaged directly you can expect a very long wait before stuff gets back on-line.
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Me: This is an interesting subject for a video
Me, remembering I have a pacemaker: Oh dios mio
117reconninja my grandma has one also rip to everyone who relys on tech to stay alive.
I would be surprised if they didn't have sufficient protection from things like this.
@@Recon_Ninja wow, and I have brain problems and go to IMR's every month
@@Recon_Ninja I meant NMR's nuclear magnetic resonance
The FCC mandates that consumer electronics do not have Faraday cages so....
As an Electrical Engineer, I understand every single word you said.
You make great efforts in explaining engineering to the mass! Keep it up mate! Engineers are the most important people in this world who risk our lives to make other peoples lives better!
You make us engineers proud! Thank you!
Don't know about the risking lives stuff....but thanks!
@@RealEngineering I'm working with high voltage all the time. So engineer's work sure is dangerous! Atleast if it's Electrical Engineering! 😅
Srinath Sudharsan ok bud
@@yooooooooooooooo696 ok mate
@@RealEngineering u should watch Asian electronic personnel working on the grid
Pretty spot on. The main thing in Quebec is the GMD caused transformer saturation, which introduced a lot of harmonics on the system from the bad sine wave, which shorted through the capacitors as high frequency harmonics do, which caused their protective relaying to trip the capacitors as they were detecting over current, which caused the system voltage to collapse as it was being held up by a large amount of capacitors/SVCs. I think maybe one thing that would help this video would be a diagram showing the DC current flow from ground to xfmr ground to xfmr high voltage winding to transmission line and then the reverse on the other end.
Just use an uno reverse card on the solar flares
Big Brain
'no u'
*causes sun to have a blackout*
I see you everywhere. From Pewdiepie videos to this nerdy stuff.
Not even Einstein would think on that
"Weiss: An assessment of threats to the American power grid. " I could dump a ton of references on you but really this one is all you need as it does a fantastic job of collating a lot of information (with sources!) in a short paper.
That was a very good overview of the situation, thank you for sharing. A better overview than the video, imo. (Not to say the video was not informative.)
@@youliahadzhidimova5260 except that he equates CMEs with flares and solar storms... I guess this video is for the lowest common denominator tho
@@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124
Are you replying to my parentheses? If so, I stand by it. The video is still informative in the sense that a lot of people hear about the subject for the first time.
@@youliahadzhidimova5260 yes, you are right, it was informative only in the sense that it introduces the subject, with little to no information.
@@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124
Idk, maybe my bar is too low nowadays. But I just assume that anything on youtube is not a deep (or unbiased) dive.
It's sometimes difficult not to forget that I don't have an opinion on a subject just from watching a youtube video on it. /:
Edit: too
12:00 the bromance with wendover productions continues.
Hope not. Wendover sucks, not reputable at all.
When I saw that, I went straight to the comments - and fair enough, you did not fail me, there already is a mention of it :)
@@chrisjackson1215 Wendover is the best!
@Thegamercyclops They mess up or straight up lie on many videos. Specifically history, geography and politics.
@TheGamerCyclops off the top of my head the three that furst come to mind are:
Nuclear energy. Almost the entire video was wrong. They had no business making it.
The end of WW2. Claiming the Soviets had a superiorly trained militarym despite Stalins purge just a few years prior leasing to Russias dire situatio to beig with. And further propagating the myth that Japan did not surrender because of the tmoic bombs but becuse Russia invaded. Internl documents show the Emperor himself wanted to surrender after the first bomb. But his advisors wouldn't let him until after the second one. As they felt we couldn't possibly have had more than one.
And the first contact video. In which Wendover conpletely fails to comprehend nuclear radiation.
No channel can cover everything. And when they try to the spread misinformation through negligence or greed. I can't condone that.
And sorry but i only made it though about 5 of thier videos some time ago. These are just the ones i remember and just the things i have caught.
THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER
🌼Not anymore, there's a blanket!🌼
I fuckin loves that part
@@Isgolo *NO!*
*Humans are killing the blanket while denying the doing.*
Oh, im still a piece of garbageee
@@DystopiaWithoutNeons the blanket has been recovering for decades already
You neglect to mention Earth's magnetic field weakening thus geomagnetic storms having a more profound devastating effect if the conditions are correct
You said that, so I don't have to.
anyone else just mesmerized and fascinated with how beautiful the sun looks when pictured through these instruments??
If you want to look at it everyday and get science news and updates, suspicious oberservers channel is great.
Beautiful and dangerous at the same time
Hardening the grid and our electronics reduces our vulnerability to an EMP strike as well. That and intense solar storms are examples of things that are unlikely, but highly damaging if they do happen, and it makes sense for us to prepare against them.
I was in the Florida Keys in 89. Watching the Aurora Borealis while you're sitting on a warm beach at night was so surreal.
You didn't mention things like wireless telecommunication, pacemakers, etc.
Damn that ad transition was smooth af lmao
2020: Write that down, write that down!
get out from citys storm isciming. castles and monasterys build on rocks are survival and ropes for zero grvaity.plasma event empcoe is coming 21 december
Man, It's Solar Minimum so the Sun cannot Eject them for now
Yeaaaaaaa
I heard of your channel first when you done the collab with Alec Steele & I've been watching ever since. I've actually went back to college to become a Mechanical Engineer & I've told other students & lecturers about your channel & they all love it too.
Keep up the great work.
Alec is the man. I'm hoping to move to America at the end of the year. Will try and do some more collabs with him in Montana.
Yea himself & Will are really doing great things over there.
Did I see on Instagram that the USAF have offered to bring you up & will you be doing a video of it?
What an amazing video! I loved how you were subtly teaching us about electricity while keeping a main story to keep us intrigued. Absolutely golden.
Another point worth noting, the Carrington event occurred while earths magnetic field strength was optimal, but in the last 100 years it's been weakening at an increasing rate (about 5% per decade now) and appears to be heading toward a magnetic reversal that could take decades or even centuries to complete the flip. If a Carrington event happened during this time you can expect the geomagnetic effects to be much worse, maybe exponentially. As well as direct issues of dangerous cancer causing radiation, I imagine you would want to go underground for a few days in such an event if our magnetic field is weak at the same time.
Also, wouldn't the danger from a solar storm be just as much the damage to computer systems as it would be transformers? If half the worlds computers or more were fried it would shut everything down for months and have lasting effects for possibly years or decades, we've seen the chaos from a city losing power for a couple days or weeks, imagine entire countries losing power for months.
Yeah, this video was comically stupid. Cables are one thing, computers and satellites controlling them are entirely another and vast majority of them isn't hardened to deal with this. Not to mention fixation on Quebec with its modern power network and concluding "it will be OK" when say US network is horrifically obsolete and under-invested with bigger blackouts being caused by minor problems. Big storm could probably kill US power network for days, if not weeks. It's like crafting a nail from titanium and concluding one made from glass would work just as well, how much ""research"" was spend on this, 5 minutes on wikipedia?
@@KuK137 You could mention this to him by direct message instead of sounding like a damn donkey in the comment section. He'll be more than happy to redo the video.
didn't he make it clear that the danger from a solar storm is the relatively large and fast change in the earth magnetic field which induces large currents in long wires such as transmission lines... since your computer doesn't involve a loop of wire several kilometers large it won't be affected. Just like passing a stick magnet by your computer won't hurt it.
@@joejoe4games Except that computers are plugged into the wall which is connected to hundreds of miles of wire and power lines. You could unplug it but like he said, we have at best an hour warning, good luck getting the message out and getting thousands of government employees to unplug all the computers in massive buildings/ airports all over the country in one hour.
Further, I'm not convinced on your theory completely, if a simple static shock from carpet is sufficient to fry mother board components I don't have a large amount of confidence a large solar storm couldn't build and discharge a sufficient shock from the coil windings in the power supply and motherboard connections, even if the computer is unplugged.
@@95TurboSol The danger is entirely on the long networks. Computers have an AC to DC converter in their power brick, so power doesn't even get directly from the grid in to the computer, and has to be able to deal with bad electric grids you can find in some places of the world as well. So I'm not even sure you could actually so easily burn them out. If they were that vulnerable then the worlds lightning strikes should probably be killing far more computers then they currently do.
Should we fear the next solar storm? Sure, why not? We fear everything else.
We need a Greta to help us fight solar flares. "how dare you. You've ruined my power grid! How dare you"
Lol! I for one choose to enjoy every day that I'm alive and breathing! Nothing like that "inner peace" that comes from knowing the difference of what we can do versus what is too big for us on such a scale; change what I can and accept what I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference. ;)
including egirls vsco girls vegans etc
Oh good idea, add a fear of solar flares to the list of things people can be afraid of. Black people, Brown people, Jews, Commies, Liberals, Democrats, Conservatives, Gays, Hillary, Trump, Guns...
Man, the whole country needs a giant prescription of calm-the-fuck-down.
@@Mp57navy "aged like milk"
As somebody that works in the electrical industry, you shouldn't underestimate the dangers of a massive solar storm hitting our grid. It is a genuine fear and does have the capability to cause phenominal damage. Granted, there are ways to mitigate that damage through software, like you mentioned, but if the storm is large enough, such as the one mentioned in 1895, there's nothing we can do to stop the resulting catastrophe without some major changes to the electrical grid.
When a substation transformer explodes, you've just lost a piece of essentially bespoke equipment worth thousands of dollars These aren't the tin cans you have attached to the pole by your house, these things are the size of cars. The biggest fear right now is that if enough of these transformers go up in smoke as a result of a powerful solar flare, it could take months to years to replace them all. Such events that could cause this kind of damage are extremely rare, but if it happened once, it can certainly happen again, and that's what we're afraid of.
So many people have no idea whatsoever of the value and importance of this information and that is very sad. Thank you so much for your time and information. Peace and love.
“Should we fear it”
Ha jokes on you, I’m already afraid of everything
ja ja ja good you are olso Loved-Blessed Be.
YES and YES...
Build a global faraday cage...
Hmmm my GPS stopped working:(
We have one. Its weak right now. Magnetosphere
Is this a lost reference?
Would have been interested to hear about the impact solar storm can have on satellites (geostationary and LEO). Like reducing the lifespan, possible critical failure, and the way satellites are designed to mitigate that risk. Maybe in another video? :P
In school my teacher pulled one of your videos up and i literacy screamed I know this channel lol
I’ve done that before lol
Suspicious 0bservers is the channel to watch for Space Weather. 🙏
Hah i just recommended that channel on another comment
@@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124 🙏👊🤘
00:02 Had to pause, look at it and THINK...
What is this? NOT_Skillshare?
Pretty sure I am the first channel they have ever sponsored.
@@RealEngineering Sadly no, Techaltar did before you. Looks like there will be a storm of shopify soon on youtube.
Or Brilliant
@Real Engineering Could you make a video on the threat of a magnetic shift of Earths magnetic field? (I mean the cyclic shifts North to South and vice versa)
Like your content a lot!
Best description and easiest to understand than all the others I have watched. Well done!
I was really wondering about this topic, thank you so much for making this video
This is the most amazing and accurate video to ever handle this anomaly . You are amazing
You both should watch Suspicious 0bservers. Heliophysics and Plasma Cosmology at its best. Theres over 400k of us worldwide.
@@northeastslingshot1664 hey, they won't do that, they are still stuck in the good old days. This video is not accurate at all. He speaks that we have nothing to fear from the Sun! How wrong he is!
@@crazyscott2646 we're not saying that there's nothing to fear from the sun we're saying" no drama needed " anyway thank you for your comment.
Most Importantly...
STARLINK Project: **Exists**
Solar Storm: *I AM INEVITABLE.*
I'm sure those little satellites will have some way for dealing with solar flares. Global internet outages are bad for business
+@@limiv5272 Exactly...How?
The starlink system is with in 500km of earths surface, it is also designed to be easy to replace failed satellite and the low orbit means the failed satelite wont take long to deorbit and burn up.
When the starship first proper orbital delivery viecules, space x will be able to deploy a large part of their satellites in one go.
+@@peter4210 Better Not Answer When You Don't Have An Answer.
How Do You Exactly Replace The Failed Satellites?
*No One Can Stop Solar Storm.*
@@maxplaysgamez-sharesgaming1756 Look, if your going to be a little bitch about it, dont like your own comments ok
very well produced and researched video. thank you for this
They are coming!! They are coming!!!
If a CME causes a major Carrington event then we'll be too busy trying to _survive_ to worry about it.
We should find methods for absorbing the energy. Sort of like a lightning rod for lightning, but more of them, and tied to power stations or something.
@@zachs.7013 If they happened more often I could see the investment happening. OR if we had more (any) orbital industry.
@@zachs.7013 absorbing energy isn't the problem. Storing it is. Currently tesla has the best storage methods, but after one facility burnt down, and they were sued in another case, it put the science of storage on ice. Not that it isn't advancing, its just advancing carefully. I have several large marine batteries, for storing my solar and wind, but the tech is not much different from 10 yrs ago. They are no longer lead acid batteries, and i can store them inside without worrying about toxic gas, so theres some advancement of note.
Many say we are overdue for our next Carrington level event.
@@voidpunkprincess Geographics with Simon Whistler did a CE video yesterday. He pointed out that there are detectors on satellites that _should_ give between a few hours and a few days warning.. Enough time to shut down the electrical grid _IF_ there is enough political willingness to put up with the sheep screaming.
"Cost" seems to be a silly reason to take into account when it comes to keeping the electricity grid and systems that rely on it safe from something as potentially dangerous as a lethal solar storm
I knew CME’S were destructive, but never thought about WHY... it isn’t the matter from the sun causing the chaos, it’s the impact on the earth’s magnetic field and the manipulation of the field causing movement of the field through our wires... wow.
Thanks for explaining that better than any of the other fearmongering videos and documentaries I have seen on the subject!
Informative in So many ways! I love this channel!
The fact that you know this much about so many different topics is mind blowing
Reading is a powerful tool!
"Any prospective link that ends in a question is typically answered with a 'no'".
I just learned about this today and was legitimately upset about it until I watched this, thank you
Really great video, very informative and well explained. Thank you
Thanks for doing this topic. I actually feel much better now.
Canada: 9hrs without electricity and chaos.
Puerto Rico after maria: *hold my beer for 5 months*
Blackouts don't cause chaos in Canada. Just really cold nights and a baby boom 9 months later...
TIL the basic concept of how transformers step voltages up and down. So interesting
Good job integrating the commercial in your video. Clever.
Super! Great to see someone else touching up on the topic.
A subject ive been studying for many years. Truth is solar activity influences our blood pressure, seismic activity, climate plus so much more.
More to this which meets the eyes. Made a brief video on it last year. Have a look hope you find it helpful.
Anyway keep it up
Stay safe
All the best
Finally! Someone who explains why the real risk of Geomagnetic storms to the power grid is the reduction of a transformer's inductance by a DC current saturating the core. Every time I try to do this, eyes glaze over accompanied by blank stares. And yeah, sensors can detect this when it happens and trip safety cutouts. The hydro plant in Quebec should darn well have had a detector for the sudden loss of it's load and immediately shut down the generators' field currents in time to prevent damage. Betcha they have added this feature since. So, how many decades might it take for this part of the solar-storm risk story to reach the lame-stream media? Not taking bets on it for now. Great job! Thanks!
I feel your videos have increased in quality recently, nice work😄.
Also with the pending polar switch I think solar wind id going to become more of a problem, especially for things like satellites which are hard to fix
I think the main problem from the solar wind is when it is weak, not when it is strong. Protects the earth from galactic cosmic rays, which are strongly implicated in climate change--and not the good kind.
Beautifully and clearly narrated!
Capacitors could be set up to gather the extra electricity like a battery from the solar storms and later re-inject that power back into our power distribution while absorbing the overcharge at the same time acting as a surge protector.
Massive solar flare: Happens.
Companies who replaced human workers for machines: Makes no money.
Human workers: *Laughs in union*
Money won’t be the problem when civilization falls apart and we get sent into another dark age.
@@evanwatling3897 and skynet takes over
Almost all transactions take place electronically now and that requires a grid. Sorry not sorry unions.
@@evanwatling3897 Yeah it will, just the type will change. If fur pelts were valuable, the one who had the most fur pelts would run the show.
It's almost like non of you actually watched the video
"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."
Which is nothing
@@victorrosas7692 that's the point my friend you understand.
Only Love is the answer-Nothing to fear .do get Beeswax candles just in case. Blessed Be.
The graph paper notebooks are very nice. Way nicer than what I’ve bought at office supply stores. Very high quality. I bought 4 and gave one to each of my two kids who I hope will follow me into engineering or some other STEM field. Anyway thanks for selling those.
Nice vid! Also cool to know Finland has invested on the power grid, since I live here. Solar storm in the coldest winter days could hurt if the grid goes, hah
Me:
*loves astronomy and engineering*
*sees this video*
*INSANELY FAST CLICKING INTENSIFIES*
Me: Studying astrophysics in college
sees this video
revision time!
@Grass1 I'm studying Quantum mechanics later this year, gonna be a pain hahah, modern physics is extremely unintuitive. The astronomy parts are really nice.
@Grass1 Hope you guys get a chance to study Time Parity Non-Conservation, aka "Spin". Attended a quick lecture by Prof. Eugene Commins @ UCB Physics Dept. back in the 90's. Left me almost dizzy thinking about the implications.
@Grass1 The maths is complicated but the theory is just downright horrific. One of the professors was like "A lot of weed is the only way to truly understand this stuff". Once you get stuck into it in college and actually have to study it you might not like it as much haha
@Grass1 You''ll want to be really good at vectors, algebra and differentiation.
"The sun is the same in a relative way, but your older.
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."
P. Floyd
"We all know that the sun is king"
L. Veirs
As always, amazing video!!! Really appreciated buddy
Brilliant how you rolled right into a sales pitch 11:33 without missing a beat!
3:00 uhhh it looks like the coil isn't rotating in the right axis
@@Jankyito that works
YES
ALWAYS FEAR
THE END IS NEAR
A solar flare wont cause the end. Solar flares have been around for a long time.
@@qioxqiox316 A civilization all-dependent on internet and electricity has been around for maybe 3 solar cycles. I wonder, do you have candles and a flashlight?
The location labeled Quebec City on the night view of the earth at 2 minutes is off by over 700Km, I grew up and still live in Quebec :) I also wonder if there isn't a slight confusion between the province of Quebec ( then 6 millions habitant ) and Quebec City (currently half million) shown turning dark. The blackout affected almost the entire province.
Great work! And big up for the citation of your sources!
2:35 the right animation is incorrect, using the rules of induction you see that there won't be any current or turning force generated in that configuration. Same for the coil in the magnets in the next animation
OMG yes! I'm surprised there aren't more comments about this.
Who cares..
I was using a magnifying lens to look at the Sol and this gets recommend.
Hey just wanted to say I really like the video. I’m impressed by your 3D graphic representations and the subtle sponsorship plug.
Great video! Great work! 👏
2:24 “as you probably know already, we generate electricity by moving a wire through a magnetic field”
No.. I don’t know, I had no clue lmao this is all new to me lol
I've always figured that this was something we've found solutions for ever since I first heard about it. So I've always said "Come at me bro" to solar storms. Besides a good apocalypse would be helpful right about now.
Helpful to whom...?
Nihilist, go away.
Thank you for sharing with us
Quite informative. Well done.
I strongly disagree with the conclusion of this video. I would encourage you to look into the work of professor Thomas Overbye at Texas A&M formerly of UIUC.
links help. This is the most recent thing i have found that he has done. czcams.com/video/BoBJmFl2N0w/video.html
"The mainstream media's fearmongering on is completely overblown..."
Coronavirus, anyone? Overblown, really?
@@MariaMartinez-researcher This comment was made before coronavirus. soooo... Yes, really.
Very simple and great explanation!
Smooth change to advertising spot! Awesome!
This video taught me Suns' farts are way too powerful. More knowledge is always helpful.
I thought it was an octopus in the thumbnail
No, it was the Earth and it's magnetic field being hit with one of Krillian's Solar Flares.
5:42 Thank you I needed this
Thank you for this!
Yeah but also all the electronics will be affected or fried, there's no solution to that
there is, Farady cages.
@@AntonySimkin yeah but not every instrument can be caged, definitely not within an hour..
@@AntonySimkin it's Murphy's law, is gonna happen now or later and we're gonna suffer
EMP would fry a lot of electronics, but not a CME. The biggest threat from a CME would be to the grid itself.
@@michaels4255 correct
Small electronics will be unaffected, the long wires of the grids and it’s transformers will.
We will be back to the 1700’s
Yeah as a Sun, You earthlings must be worried about my ejection
And the best: that ball can shoot to any direction!
@@ledgeri I can shoot in any direction you mortals
This is a great vid with great explanation of complex systems
I like the little bit of shade you threw at Wendover lol
I'm a little traumatized after watching the movie Knowing.
2020: *yes*
That cleared up a lot for me, the media just over blows every thing. Thanks
I think it's really cool you have a list of references in the dublido.
Lmao just type in /gamerule doFireTick false in the chat
Because of people like you I'm about to say the n-word.
Mestre Shake
I’ll give ya the pass.
@@prestonang8216 I revoke his pass
@@rawvid9065 Pass reinstated.
@@dirtypure2023 pass denied by Obama himself
Watching this reminds me why I choose not to study electrical engineering
What do you mean?
4th year EE here, powers is actually the “easier” of the EE disciplines... haha
Qwerty Yuiop I hate circuits
@@ryanbernadett9372 that's the general consensus at my university as well, that power is the easiest concentration. I agree.
I liked this video.The pictures/videos were amazing.
Excellent video !!!!
Anyone got recommended this after they watched Kurzgesagt's newest video
Hahaha I watched it 10 minutes ago. CZcams Algorithm is on work :)
Welcome to the scientifically accurate version
@@RealEngineering So you mean Kurzgesagt version was "scientifically" inaccurate ?
Yes
@@RealEngineering kurgesagt is hood for I guees teens most of my friends will be just bored of you bladbbering about "boring science" but I'll watch anything its just that kurgesagt is more engaging to most people
Big fail at 3:05
Awesome video
Its my BDay thanks for the videos especially today made my day