(via Kurzgesagt) Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, ...

Later in the video, Kurzgesagt compares the deaths from nuclear power disasters to those from other energy sources. The channel estimates that hydropower , for instance, has killed hundreds of ...

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Kurzgesagt Fusion power is the holy grail of energy production. Short of building some sort of Dyson sphere around the sun , it's the cleanest, most efficient source of power we could hope to achieve.

(via Kurzgesagt) At the height of the Cold War, a terrifying concept emerged: a bomb so powerful it wouldn’t need to be dropped.Known as Project Sundial, this doomsday device would have left a 400-km ...

Kurzgesagt. Kurzgesagt notes the Impactor, at 6.2 miles in diameter, would’ve unleashed the energy equivalent of billions of nuclear bombs upon contact.

Kurzgesagt framed this hypothetical scenario with two exercises in superlatives: the Marianas Trench and the Soviet thermonuclear bomb Tsar Bomba. The Marianas Trench, located off the coast of the ...