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Can anyone confirm the 1000kWh consumption per house during one month?
I live alone and i use between 80 and 120kWh per month
@potatoesandducks958 Says:
The music is cool, where can I hear it separately?
@Prived1234o Says:
Imagine living a long and happy live in comfy warm oceans, just to be incinerated by Chinese coal plant😢
@TH3MACHINE Says:
Mad respect to those little plankton that gave the ultimate sacrifice just to move my Toyota Corolla seven micrometers
@sebastiandierks7919 Says:
Beautifully told and animated. Can't believe I didn't know this video before, glad it got suggested to me today. I'll have to check out Robert Krulwich.
@Gxaps Says:
Why don't you show this to big oil
@SangoProductions213 Says:
Seen another way: Burning coal is the closest we have to profitable fusion power.
@bobjoe258 Says:
doesn't it make more sense to discuss our fossil fuel usage, not in how many earths, but rather in how many earth-years? The actually significant stat is the rate of carbon production/turnover multiplied by (or integrated against) how many years it has had to accumulate, rather than the amount of carbon on earth at any given time.
Like, we can consume 100 present day earths worth of carbon every year, but this doesn't mean anything without comparing it to the number of years and rate of carbon depositing of earth's history. Like, the science says that we *do* consume fossil fuels in an unsustainable manner, but I think we can communicate that *genuinely* instead of misleadingly. The way it is presented now, it would seem very unsustainable even if the numbers in the videos were cut in 10 (since wow we are consuming 10 earths per year!!) but in reality if our consumption was cut in 10 fossil fuels would be *much* more sustainable, at least in terms of not running out.
Why mislead when you can actually just give solid reasoning that does prove the point you want? It just makes it easier for people to strawman arguments against you.
@kcwidman Says:
The animation style makes me incredibly uneasy for some reason. It’s well done, but my brain does not like it.
@JebidiahKerman-f4n Says:
Wow
@krateng Says:
4:08 mate if your grandma lives a mile down the road and you are driving a car there instead of walking or cycling you should worry about brain damage instead of ancient plants
@Kaldrin Says:
It's not often that this is explained, thank you. It's a little sad isn't it?
@LiberatorG Says:
just imagine how long it took micro organisms to learn to break down trees matter ( millions of years) and now imagine how long it will take them to learn to break down plastics... which are also much much tougher. we will have plastic fossils and will be able to mine "petrified plastic" before they are truly bio degradable
@ducksurd Says:
This shook me
@Tata-ps4gy Says:
Humans fulfill a crucial role in Earth's life history. To take back all this carbon that was wasted on fossils and let living matter take it back.
@leightonkekuewa1545 Says:
The “giving up their energy” was kind of warming. Thank you for your sacrifice ancient ones.
@iPlayCS26965 Says:
Which is why nuclear power is the future, both fission and if possible, practical, and scalable, fusion. I have calculated that if we replace our current global consumption of energy with 90% Nuclear, we have enough storage space to store over 50,000+ years worth of nuclear waste. It doesn't seem like a lot to an educated person, who understands that it can take up to 100 million years or even more for fission waste to decay down to stable lead, however that is the whole decay cycle from high-level waste down to elemental Pb-206. For high-level waste to decay down to medium-level waste, it takes between a few days to 100 years. This state is where nuclear waste gets its scary reputation of being deadly and hazardous, however now, 100 years doesn't seem like much, and France has discovered a way to recycle up to 96% of all nuclear waste produced back into fissile fuel that can be reused via the same fission process like always, and do the people who prefer solar or wind, that form of energy is not stable or sustainable, it all depends on whether the sun is up or not, or if the winds are aggressive. Not only that, but the amount of maintenance required to keep them functioning is both dangerous and contributes to the cost of 1 kWh of energy. Also, for those who don't know yet, modern nuclear powerplants quite literally CANNOT explode. Even in Chernobyl, the reactor did not explode because of physics or bad designing, (partially due to bad design) but the main cause was human error and the engineers overriding/disobeying safety procedures, basically pushing the reactor beyond what it's rated for. Modern reactors integrate both software AND hardware that physically prevent someone from doing such again. You can hack software, but you can't hack hardware. So there is quite literally no reason NOT to use nuclear power, it can replace all of our energy demands for >$0.01 per kWh and a single person produces about a soda can's worth of nuclear waste in their WHOLE LIFETIME.
@inrainbows1 Says:
phytoplanktons are underrated
@simen5734 Says:
nice video i finally know how do they make them
@kiryls1207 Says:
nuclear energy joins the chat
@D_ND_H Says:
100 billion? If the fossils were tiny plankton
@marmaje69 Says:
I was less concerned about carbon emmissions and More concerned about limited amount of this ancient fuel.
@zahw1814 Says:
nice
@ToxicnukemAnimations Says:
A football field of those trees would roughly power a family home for the average human lifespan (70/80 Years) birth to death
@beeefrx Says:
what if you use a really big fossil though
@06howea1 Says:
1000kWh of electric a month is quite a lot… I live in the UK and on average last year I used 180kWh of electricity per month
@privatename7634 Says:
AI energy needs has entered chat
@SingeStheos Says:
was this video made by pilotredsun???
@guillegilcriado6879 Says:
Wow. Simply wow. The video is truly amazing. And the sheer amount of fossil fuels we burn is worrying. Thank you for this. Really, thank you <3
@chinmoydutta6814 Says:
Thanks carbon
@marcgorgens7288 Says:
Good video❤
@yogeshykvOfficial Says:
We as a family of 5 using on average(of last 6 months) 162 Kwh of electricity each month.
That means we are burning 2 of those Lepidodendron Trees every six months.
We get solar panel installed as soon as possible.
@akay435 Says:
5:41 what you came looking for.
@BoeBinsky Says:
Am I terrible at ragebaiting or did you just feel the need to respond 💀 I guess I’m not too bad heh
@BoeBinsky Says:
This video doesn’t show the mass of the 20b plankton… How would I know what 20b plankton looks like, for all I know it could fit inside a gallon jug
@peacefulexplore1011 Says:
I don't know why but this video is just nice
@corbanwilson2622 Says:
Criminally underrated video.
@tiborjanoskiss2731 Says:
Wow, amzingly done!
@SovTalksFiction Says:
Wow.
@gamb Says:
Half of the numbers in this video are absurdly wrong and ultimately blame consumers for overuse of fossil fuels when big corporations contribute to like 90% of energy use.
@winnynvk Says:
This video inspired me to go electric, even though I know where the energy is sourced for my car, at least it’s more efficient and uses less energy per mile, and I know i’m making a difference.
@Bluetaill Says:
Here I was that oil and coal came from dinosaur bones
@robertf1720 Says:
This is the most wholesome description of fossil fuel I have ever seen
@shayon1174 Says:
Amazing animation
@Plantoffel Says:
Ngl, 2 trees per month is a LOT less than I expected! I’m by NO means an expert in neither Energy consumption, nor fossile fuels, but from all the compacting and the heat etc. I expected something more like 100 or so!
@moahhamid Says:
Beautiful video
@youtubeiscorrupt123 Says:
They didn't 'die to light the house' , they died and a long time later, we figured out how to properly honor their sacrifice 😊
@chuckles3265 Says:
If scientists can bring dinosaurs back, renewable energy.
@inotherwords-n7k Says:
Really great video, and deepened my intuition for how fossil fuels came to be and how they work. Would have been really nice to know our estimates for; how much of these fuels are available, and how much have we already consumed.
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