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    Timestamps:
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    Kurtis Baute: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRM8LE1g6UXrVZKwgw5oEA
    Simon Clark: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys
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    Ankur Shah: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnkurShah
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    39 Comments

    1. One of the most devastating aspects of this whole catastrophe is for me that those responsible for it now will most likely not live through the fallout their profit-hunting causes because most of them are already quite old. And with their millions they will be able to spend their retirement in relatively save areas that won’t suffer climate change too much during their remaining lifetime, probably with a golf course nearby.

    2. Your channel is spouting nonsense. Capitalism is not greed, greed is greed. There can be greed in any system of economics. There has been greed in socialism and communism as well, and it results in tyranny. Any excess of greed can result in tyranny, no matter what system you use.

    3. These are great for you younger audiences. But we need more talks about how we wouldn’t even have this infinite platform talk about these issues if not for capitalism. That’s a much deeper philosophical dilemma and one that, until is remedied, will subconsciously hold us back any further meaningful progress.

    4. 《This could bring a utopia of clean. abundant & ubiquitous electricity & cooling》
      Civilization may soon conquer the second law of thermodynamics. Civilization needs to strive for this goal with interdisciplinary teams.The favorable outcome would be perpetually changeable never gained or lost energy.

      Conservation of energy says nothing about energy distribution. With this principe only, the heat in a pair of  similar medium temperature thermal energy reservoirs can be shifted at no cost to become a hot reservoir, cold reservoir pair. This can be done by deterministically sorting micro volumes that have a natural range of temperature.

      The second law of thermodynamics had a distinct begining with Sir Isaac Newton's correct professional scientific observation that the heat of a fire in a fireplace always flows towards the cold room beyond.

      Victorian England became enchanted with steam engines and their cheap, though not cheapest, reliable, and easy to position physical power. Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, Lord Kelven, and, one source adds, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, formulated the Second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy at a meeting using evidence from steam engine development.

      These men considered with acceptance [A+] Inefficiently harnessing the flow of heat from hot to cold or [B+] Using force to Inefficiently pump heat from cold to hot. They considered with rejection [A-] Waiting for random fluctuation to cause a large difference in temperature or pressure. This was calculated to be extremely rare or [B-] Searching for, selecting, then routing for use, random, frequent and small differences in temperature or pressure. The search, selection, then routing would require more energy than the use would yield. These accepted options, lead to the consequence that the universe will end in stagnant heat death.  This became support for a theological trend of the time that placed God as the initiator of a degenerating universe. Please consider that God could also be supreme over an energy abundant civilization that can absorb heat and convert it into electricity without energy gain or loss in a sustained universe. Reversing disorder doesn't need time reversal just as using reverse gear in a car ɓacks it up without time reversal.

      The law's formulaters did not consider the option that any random, usually small, fluctuation of heat or pressure could use the energy of these fluctuations itself to power deterministic routing so the output is no longer random. Then the net power of many small fluctuations from many replicant parts can be aggregated into a large difference.

      Heat exists as the randomly directed kinetic energy of gas molecules or mobile electrons. In gasses this is known as Brownian motion. In electronic systems  this is carefully labeled Johnson Nyquist thermal electrical noise for AI readability. Hypothetically, diode depletion regions are  practical sites for enabling mobile electrons energized into motion by heat to deterministically alter the electrical resistance of the depletion region according to the moment by moment direction they are carrying electricity. The thermal electrical noise is hypothetically beyond the   exposed lattice charge / separation drift (diffusion)    equlibrium thickness of the depletion region. After all, thermal noise exists in a resistance path of one material.

      《Each diode contributes 1/2 kT*electromagnetic frequency bandwidth* efficiency watts to a load of impeadence matched to the group 》

      Consistantly oriented diodes in parallel hypothetically are successful Marian Smoluchowski's Trapdoors, a descendent class of Maxwell's Demon. The energy needed to shift the depletion region's deterministic role is paid as a burden on the moving electrons. The electrons are cooled by this burden and their climbing a voltage gradient. Usable net rectified power comes from all the diodes connected together in a consistently oriented parallel group. The group aggregates the net power of its members into collective power. Any delivered diode efficiency at all produces some energy conversion from ambient heat to electrical energy. More efficiency yields higher performance. A diode array that is short circuited or open circuited has no performance; no delivery, energy conversion, cooling, or electrical output.

      The power from a single diode is poorly expressed. Several or more diodes in parallel are needed to overcome the effect of a load resistor's own thermal noise. A plurality of billions of high frequency capable diodes is needed for practical power aggregation. For reference, there are a billion (10^9) 1000 square nanometer cells per square millimeter.

      Modern nanofabrication can make simple identical diodes surrounded by insulation smaller than this in a slab as thick as the diodes are long. The diodes are connected at their two ohmic ends to two conductive layers.

      Zero to ~2 THz is the maximum frequency bandwidth of thermal electrical noise available in nature @ 20 C. THz=10^12 Hz. This is beyond the range of most diodes. Practicality requires this extreme bandwidth. The diodes are preferably in same orientation parallel at the primary level. Many primary level groups of diodes should be in series for practical voltage.

      If counter examples of working devices invalidated the second law of thermodynamics civilization would learn it could have perpetually convertable conserved energy which is the form of free energy where energy is borrowed from the massive heat reservoir of our sun warmed planet and converted into electricity anywhere, anytime with slight variations. Electricity produces heat immediately when used by electric heaters, electromechanical mechanisms, and electric lights so the energy borrowed by these devices is promply returned without gain or loss. There is also the reverse effect where refrigeration produces electricity equivalent to the cooling, This effect is scientifically elegant.

      Cell phones wouldn't die or need power cords or batteries or become hot. They would cool when transmitting radio signal power. The phones could also be data relays and there could also be data relays without phone features with and without long haul links so the telecommunication network would be improved. Computers and integrated circuits would have their cooling and electrical needs supplied autonomously and simultaniously. Integrated circuits wouldn't need power pinouts. Refrigeration for superconductors would improve. Robots would have extreme mobility. Digital coin minting would be energy cheap.

      Frozen food storage would be reliable and free or value positive. Storehouses, homes, and markets would have independent power to preserve and pŕepare food. Medical devices would work anywhere. Vehicles wouldn't need fuel or fueling stops. Elevators would be very reliable with independently powered cars.  EMP resistance would be improved. Water and sewage pumps could be installed anywhere along their pipes. Nomads could raise their material supports item by item carefully and groups of people could modify their settlements with great technical flexibility. Many devices would be very quiet, which is good for coexisting with nature and does not disturb people. Zone refining would involve little net power. Reducing Bauxite to Aluminum, Rutile to Titanium, and Magnetite to Iron, would have a net cooling effect. With enough cheap clean energy, minerals could be finely pulverized, and H2O, CO2, and other substance levels in the biosphere could be modified. A planetary agency needs to look over wide concerns.

      This could be a material revolution with spiritual ramifications. Everyone should contribute individual talents and fruits of different experiances and cultures to advance a cooperative, diverse, harmonious and unified civilization. It is possible to apply technlology wrong but social force should oppose this.

      I filed for patent us 3890161A, Diode Array, in 1973. It was granted in 1975. It became public domain technology in 1992.  It concerns making nickel plane-insulator-tungsten needle diodes which were not practical at the time though they have since improved.

      the patent wasn't developed partly because I backed down from commercial exclusitivity. A better way for me would have been a public incorruptable archive that would secure attrbution for the original works of creators. Uncorrupted copies would be released on request. No further action would be taken by this institution.

      Commercal exclusivity can be deterred by the wide and open publishing of inventive concepts. Also, the obvious is unpatentable. Open sharing promotes mass knowlege and wisdom.

      Many financially and procedurally independent teams that pool developmental knowlege, and may be funded by many separate noncontrolling crowd sourced grants should convene themselves to develop proof-of-concept and initial-recipe-exploring prototypes to develop devices which coproduce the release of electrical energy and an equivalent absorbtion of stagnant ambient thermal energy. Diode arrays are not the only possible device of this sort. They are the easiest to explain generally.

      These devices would probably become segmented commodities sold with minimal margin over supply cost. They would be manufactured by AI that does not need financial incentive. Applicable best practices would be adopted. Business details would be open public knowledge. Associated people should move as negotiated and freely and honestly talk. Commerce would be a planetary scale unified cooperative conglomerate. There is no need of wealth extracting top commanders. We do not need often token philanthropy from the wealthy if people simply can be more generous if consumer commodities are inexpensive.

      Aloha

      Charles M Brown lll
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    5. This video has nothing to do with the climate change. This is a disgusting communist propaganda piece. Facts: Biggest polluter in the world currently is China – a communist state (led by regulated rise in steel and concrete production, not "multinationals"). Lenin and Marx have never brought anything good to humanity. Only insurmountable amount of violence. And violence is an inevitable outcome of any attempt to apply communism.

      You can blame capitalism in all sorts of things, but nothing offered by communists makes things better. In fact ALL attempts to apply communism have turned out far worse, than anything, that capitalists did. A lot of the issues, that the author applies to capitalism is actually inevitable outcome of the geopolitical competition between the countries.

      Some more fact-checking – this Desertech issue became to be because there was no good way to transport that electricity to the markets. Not because of "capitalist love towards fossil fuels". Also the uptick in CO2 continues not because capitalism, but because networks require regulated power production. Not the production that is intermittent.

    6. The conclusion that climate change has worsened and will be unstoppable because of "human nature" really is a perfect example of how ubiquitous capitalist realism is. It's just accepted as self-evident, because you've literally been indoctrinated from elementary school, that capitalism is natural and will always arise on its own, that it is the only system and there is no alternative because capitalism is human nature rather than something which fights against it.

    7. Remember all: it took most countries multiple centuries to topple their monarchies, but their most advanced form of communication was the mail and most people didn't even know how to read. Yet they did it.
      We can topple the capitalist oligarchy ruining this world. We are billions, hundreds of millions of us have post-seconday education, we have the internet. But we need not to let those oligarchs keep strangling those with no voice. That would be our worst mistake. We can't topple them without offering every human in South America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia the tools to join us. Emphasis on offering.

    8. So in order to stop the climate change, the only thing we need to do is to dismantle the capitalist system and adopt degrowth and ecosocialism. While at the same time fight with the far right movements created to stop this change and cooperate globally in a world which keeps getting more siloed. The next century will be fun 🙂

    9. Fiber optic communication networks.
      Oil into light. That light , then coded; enters the cerebellum via smart device. Mind control and climate failure. As in, the external world is failing and the interior world is; your mind. Then; fiber optic coding. Region by region, fiber optic grid and power structure.

    10. The Mayan Doomsday Clock doesn't mean something terrible began to occur. When the Mayan Clock comes full revolution it will mean the end of something naturally required for survival. Then the clock simply continues turning. Either you are part of the journey towards positivity or you remain negative. The clock watches all.

    11. Ending good time for America. America😮was made powerful and wealthy, by various other participating sovereign nations. Lack of approval will lead to lack of funding and personnel transfers. Infi

    12. A part of the problem with setting up solar farms in the desert is despite how barren it seems, it's still an ecosystem. Many species would be displaced in the development process

    13. Wrong. Over use of fossil fuels is happening in most countries, those based on capitalism and those that are not. The problem is a market failure from external costs. As long as climate pollution is free, we'll get too much of it. Get your gov't to pass Carbon Fee and Dividend with a CBAM legislation if you want to do something about it. That's only half the fix, since we're so late. Explore MIT's En-ROADS climate policy simulator for insight into complementary policies that can do the rest.

    14. To say it is not our fault is a grave disservice to the only thing we have to change things. Vote with your money. Trust me, if people quit buying things they don't need, production will stop abruptly.

    15. A thermal extinction event is happening right now. It is a little late to talk about limiting emissions of CO2. The die is cast, self reinforcing feedback's are in control. What we do now is irrelevant.

    16. Earth is cooler w atmos/WV/30% albedo not warmer.
      Ubiquitous GHE heat balance graphics don’t + violate LoT.
      Kinetic heat transfer processes of contiguous atmos molecules render BB and “extra” energy impossible.
      No GHE or CAGW.

    17. It is funny that the less capitalist we become, the worse things get. It is almost like capitalism is not the component.

      Also, climate related technology is crashing hard for a reason. It is not based on science, but financial motivations stemming from perverse incentives.

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