Turns out that Gulf spill wasn't the monumental disaster they were making it out to be. I love oil, for what it gives us, I can live with a little risk.
I live in Utah in the US. A lot of the Crude produced here come out of the ground very warm, about 80-90 degrees C. Once you cool it down to room temp. a lot of it turns into solid wax.
I believe the place in Trinidad that you're thinking about is the " pitch lake " in La Brea. It is the largest naturally occurring reserve of asphalt in the world. It's a wonderful place to visit. I'm from Trinidad, therefore, I've been there already. It's a great experience to be able to poke a piece of stick into the ground and see asphalt coming up.
@kristijanadrian Well, hopefully, Im on the tracks to become a scientist. From my view what science does is build a body of knowledge understanding reality, then that knowledge could be used to damage or benefit. Yet it is true that every scientist is bound with an ethical responsability, for they are as human as we are and as important to society as many other sectors.
THis is how the incident should have been explained, scientifically, after viewing such an empirical and clear demonstration there is little room for biased conjetures or any other political mischief.
Thank you, sir! you always give a interesting and LUCID explanation. Luv ur videos. You have hairs of Einstien and the brain and good thng u dont have that moustache.
@thadude1337 I'd chose water electrolysis or salt water electrolysis (Gives Cl2, O2, NaOH, and some H2 aswell, but it's more complex than just using water), but my main problem is with the wires, so far i have used Al and Cu, but eventually i can see that there is some green CuO and some i guess Cu(OH)2, not even speaking about what happens with aluminium, so if anyone can answer, what should i do, just try to use Cu wires and see if there's a real trouble about my wires or it's just fine as is?
Yes Professor, we do have a pitch lake in Trinidad. Folk come from all over the world to view it. It bubbles up with the thick black gooey stuff which eventually hardens into pitch.
The real reason why chemists are pro alternate energy sources is because we want all the oil for ourselves to do chemistry with. But of course you can't tell that in public ;)
@KilgothMirna and thats a legit reason. rednecks can still be tough in and electric truck. doesnt mean they dont believe in the right things or same things as i do though.
You fine folks have been going beyond your original mission of providing abstract educational information (wonderful and important though that is) and are now providing a real public service in the form of scientific background information on important issues of the day. "Proper" news sources aren't doing nearly as good a job as you are. Thank you. Keep it up!
She should have tried some chemicals on that chocolate oil slick! Bit of fairy liquid in there...Then just scale it up to the size of Gulf of Mexico and use nastier chemicals and you've got a secondary ecological disaster.
we use Benzaldehyde at work its A compound that has A benzene ring and smells like almonds its very corrosive and burn the skin in high concentrations.\
Yeah, thank you for taking the time to make these videos. They're interesting and important. This is what YouTube should be. I don't understand how people are so into celebrity gossip and such but have no knowledge of or interest in the most fundamental science. Ignorance leads to suffering, ultimately. And the religious types hide their head in the sand and distort science, and gladly use their 3Ghz computer to tell (at light speed!) how science is a "false religion." This helps in that battle.
How to change marmite into water... lol No seriously, I love these videos, they are very interesting and easy to understand. I look forward to the next one :)
I'm actually from Trinidad an there is a Lake where it bubbles up which we call locally the "Pitch Lake" . It has also become quite the tourist attractions to those who know about it.
One very good way of making reusable booms is to make them full of hair \9both human and animal) there is a massive program going on in North America to collect all the hait they can to make these booms, but when BP was asked if they wanted them they refused saying they had things under control.
STOP TELLING THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE ... you can use crude oil "UNREFINED" for fuel. Only about 1% of the oil provinces produce crude that can be used in this way.
There was an oil company in NZ using land based rigs that sold unrefined crude to a steamship for "Bunker-C" use AND some local farmers used the same unrefined crude for their cars + equipment.
My source : Sounds Historical, Radio New Zealand. Email them to get more specific details.
This is true but they still must use refined diesel for shut downs as the cooled bunker cloggs all the injecters. I have heard of then running on oil base paint in emergency situations. but you still need the clean fuel for startup and shut down or the engine will be done.
I really like this video series and the professor is excellent at explaining concepts but always leaves me wanting to know more about the science behind it all! Whereas the experiment was needlessly long winded and didnt really have any conclusion. Questions like "why is it black" and "can you drink heavy water" etc are more interesting. Some diagrams would be good to help visualise some things though such as when you mention rings of benzene. Keep up the good work. :D
i think it was on richard hammond invisible world documentary or brainiac science abuse were they used plasma to make clothing water proof any way i wander if that plasma coating which makes any object resistant to water/!liquids can still be to oil's !
if so this could possibly benefit to build custom designed ship specific for collecting oil off surface using a huge roller/cylinder and a scrapper to remove excess oil off the absorbent material into containers with minimal water !
@okuma0kuma I like the huge roller idea. Simply covered with a thick cloth, collecting water and oil mixture. When the tank fills up, you might pump out the collecter water back to the sea, since water and oil don't really mix well.
And, with custom-built engine it probably could run on collected oil. Perfect idea!
It's pretty fishy that we still are using fossil fuels. There's plenty of good alternatives as far as I'm aware. If you asked me I'd put my coin on lobbyism.
@risbolla The EROEI on oil is much better than other alternatives right now (Energy Returned On Energy Invested). For oil its around 30 I think... (to harvest 30 barrels of oil, 1 barrel is consumed in the effort). So it really comes down to cost efficiency. It's because of the existing infrastructure and investment into fossil fuels that we have, vs alternative methods. They're getting better, but they're not there yet.
Preventing spills is the most effective way minimize ecological damage. The entire off-shore petroleum production industry needs to bite the bullet of eating the costs of using the safest best practice methods and support and obey expert knowledge that indicates extreme risk.Drilling relief wells in advance, having an automatic blow out preventer, Installing domes as SOP before production commences.
yes it will cost many millions of Dollars and yes the consumer ultimately pays but worth it.
@HarblesTheSkeptial Honestly they make more than enough to be more secure and not charge the consumer but what can you expect from money grubbing assholes?
@HarblesTheSkeptial They already use a blow-out preventer. The reason this spill is so bad is because they blow out preventer failed, and the oil under pressure is just "flying" out.
I can only hope that this will help influence the US to put belief into alternate energy, so that it progresses. Just like how primitive crude oil took off, while its failures were being fixed and advanced.
@williepie I'm waiting for the Second Coming of the prophet Billy Mayes...maybe this spill is like the "Armageddon" and he'll return with all his angels armed with the power of SHAMWOW
The batteries are more than good enough for just about everyone. A 200km range is good enough for most North Americans to get to work, the grocery store school, and home. For longer, less-frequent trips you'd have a problem because we have virtually no long-range passenger railway system here. Continental Europe is doing much better in that regard, and I think EVs would be very practical there.
:O Trinidad! Yea there's a lake of crude oil. It's called the Pitch Lake, in La Brea. Legend has it that it appeared under a village of natives (the Amerindians) and sucked the entire village into it in one night. Even now, every now and again old clay pots surface in the lake!
@BeAnBeAn22 the lake is quite isolated and the oil is too viscous (very very complex hydrocarbods). The top most layer most people can walk on its that thick. To thick to be ignited by a spark. But there are still precautions taken.
You're going to waste CHOCOLATE !?! Are You Barbarians ?!? what angered me about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was learning that so many countries sent to BP their list of assets to help in the clean-up and when BP officials went to the Federal Government with the list, the Feds Refused to allow any help !
@Roddyoneeye They can't allow any help - there is a law in the United States that prevent foreign oil tankers from sailing in our waters. It is stupid and archaic, and was made to please the local oil companies, but it is the reason the feds aren't allowing help.
Obama may be the President, but he has to follow the law just like everyone else. It would take an act of congress or the supreme courts to overturn the law - an act that would take months if not longer.
@vagitoe The US President has the authority to 'Waive' the requirements, I didn't like the last President (Bush) but he issued the waiver within about three days,; this one is now what, Seventy Days ? And the president still refuses to issue the waiver !
Check out SunEcoEnergy(DOT)com. Using algae to produce oil. The politicians and their friends aren't invested in this technology so it will take time to expand production.
Love all the videos you guys make. And have actually learned quiet a bit from them. Thank you for the nice message at the end professor, I hope we can get this mess cleaned up, and hopefully if we aren't completely blind to the events that have taken place these past few months, begin to see that no, offshore drilling is not necessarily worth the risk. Or is it still too early to introduce such a crazy radical idea such as that?
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But we don't really need oil. We only need it because they're supressing the free energy technology that creates energy from nothing. Come clean, professor, how much do they pay you to lie about science?!
@tgz1000 Sorry to say, mate, nothing's free. There needs to be infrastructure, collectors, batteries, all sorts of technology to keep this inexpensive energy (sun, wind, wave, etc) is very expensive to setup. But for some reason those than can lay down this infrastructure are too short sighted.
I think what you're aiming at is 1) Sustainable (can we do it "forever"?) and 2) Low environmental impact (positive env. impact seems to be off the table) Both what we should be aiming for.
@tgz1000 Are you prepared to give up driving, plastics, the entire industrial chemical industry, computers, and pharmaceuticals? I'm with you 100% that we need to do whatever is necessary to push clean, renewable energy forward, but it is simply untrue that we don't need oil. We need oil.
@tgz1000 You have some serious balls to impune the prof's integrity like that. Do you realize that the computer you are using to post your imbecilic stupidity is made from petroleum based products? And since you are so opposed to petroleum based products the next time you have any type of medical operation, say at the dentist, make sure you tell them no anesthetics since those are petroleum based. No antiseptics either for that matter so hopefully you'll just die from a simple infection.
@captwasabi Ignorance, pure ignorance! If it wasn't for fools like yourself propping up the petroleum industry, we would have starships and replicators with the free energy technology thats being held back. I can't believe anyone could be so pathetic and stupid, SURELY you're being payed by the industry to defend this quack crackpot science?
@tgz1000 Please tell me you are just being sarcastic and that you don't honestly believe the stupidity you just posted. I typically expect this level of pure thick-headedness from those who believe in ghosts and spirits. Besides, do you even have a clue as to the pure havoc free energy would have on the global economy? Whole markets would crash.
@captwasabi So you're admitting you're in on it! You're worried about markets crashing so you don't want free energy technology and you're willing to stifle scientific progress! You admit it at last, that you're partially responsible for most of the death and suffering on this earth, because you refuse to allow scientific advancements that might affect the monetary system! Just let everyone die, eh? Horrible, just horrible! How can you sleep at night
@tgz1000 You're either psychotic or just some douchebag troll. Either way you are officially past amusing and are now fully in irrelevant. Go troll elewhere.
@tgz1000 I should know better than feeding trolls....anyway, if you are referring to the Genepax "water-car" this car does not actually run on water persay. Instead, according to assumptions since the company has yet to release the mechanics of hwo the car works, the car is, in fact, a hydride-fuelled "hydrogen on demand" vehicle. Most other "water powered cars" turned out to simply be inverter frauds. Sorry.
@Cyrathil Oh, no doubt. Please don't misread my comment to even hope that "free energy" exisis. My comment was meant to just provide the drooling mouth-breather with even more reasons why his free energy dreams are insane.
@tgz1000 Wow. First off it is impossible to "create energy". It is only possible to take already existing energy and convert it into a different form.
Now, oil is used for far more than just making-for lack of a better word-energy. I'm sure you have had several people reply to this post giving examples of such.
As for the professor lying about science, while I do not agree with his views on global warming, I find his chemistry related discussions quite accurate.
dont they use chemicals to clean up oil spills though ? what about that
Poponfu1 1 week ago
6:06
gets blacker rebecca black
i was like WHAT?
liveoles 2 weeks ago
The woman is very annoying.. whereas the professor is much cooler.
tmeloe 3 months ago
Turns out that Gulf spill wasn't the monumental disaster they were making it out to be. I love oil, for what it gives us, I can live with a little risk.
bladder1010 3 months ago
Why would you have sympathy for people, just becouse they suffer?
If I (as an austrian) understand the phrase "to have sympathy for somebody" right it doesn't make sense in this kontext (at least to me...)
LaBderErste 4 months ago
@LaBderErste He feels sympathetic to peoples situation. To put it another way, he feels sorry for what they are going through.
eatpumkin090 4 months ago
@eatpumkin090 Thats more the statement I would sign ;)
And I got to say I'm a nitpicker sometimes.
LaBderErste 4 months ago
The 'Pitch Lake' in La Brea, Trinidad is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world.
inneruniverse17 5 months ago
wat happens if you blend 1 kilo hair .. with oil ?
and then cook it ?
TechnoMulen 6 months ago
sam did that experiment when i was in year5 and that was last year
kingzing12 8 months ago
I live in Utah in the US. A lot of the Crude produced here come out of the ground very warm, about 80-90 degrees C. Once you cool it down to room temp. a lot of it turns into solid wax.
TSorovanMHael 8 months ago
Poor Neil agian clean everything.
jlx78520 8 months ago
HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THE PORTUGESE SUBTITLES?
Zdawg2324 9 months ago
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You click the cc button at the bottom of the screen on the right
ligerx45 8 months ago
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Zdawg2324 9 months ago
3'rd grade science !
TheFrostymountains 11 months ago
Welcome home bp.
FrozenHaxor2 11 months ago
THE EXPERIMENT SUCKS
3648586 11 months ago
right at she said coco i smelled it !!!!
hanzithaking 1 year ago
coolio.
Izzi654 1 year ago
lol of course his oil is from the uk
freerangevegan 1 year ago
I believe the place in Trinidad that you're thinking about is the " pitch lake " in La Brea. It is the largest naturally occurring reserve of asphalt in the world. It's a wonderful place to visit. I'm from Trinidad, therefore, I've been there already. It's a great experience to be able to poke a piece of stick into the ground and see asphalt coming up.
salimali95 1 year ago
@kristijanadrian Well, hopefully, Im on the tracks to become a scientist. From my view what science does is build a body of knowledge understanding reality, then that knowledge could be used to damage or benefit. Yet it is true that every scientist is bound with an ethical responsability, for they are as human as we are and as important to society as many other sectors.
rushianokun 1 year ago
THis is how the incident should have been explained, scientifically, after viewing such an empirical and clear demonstration there is little room for biased conjetures or any other political mischief.
Im in love with this videos.
Thank you, wholeheartedly.
rushianokun 1 year ago
I just noticed that I wasn't subscribed. huh. Gotta fix that
Vennificus 1 year ago
ummmmmmm nutella
robovicify 1 year ago
Thank you, sir! you always give a interesting and LUCID explanation. Luv ur videos. You have hairs of Einstien and the brain and good thng u dont have that moustache.
Aashish7K5 1 year ago
i like her, shes hot!
Harshfate 1 year ago
@TheArmo1 is´nt it demand and need that controls what kind of fuel u use since nobody need hydrogen the demand is practically none?
thadude1337 1 year ago
is hydrogen hard to extract cause it seams to be the best solution also how do u extract hydrogen
thadude1337 1 year ago
@thadude1337 I'd chose water electrolysis or salt water electrolysis (Gives Cl2, O2, NaOH, and some H2 aswell, but it's more complex than just using water), but my main problem is with the wires, so far i have used Al and Cu, but eventually i can see that there is some green CuO and some i guess Cu(OH)2, not even speaking about what happens with aluminium, so if anyone can answer, what should i do, just try to use Cu wires and see if there's a real trouble about my wires or it's just fine as is?
RSXdaLV 1 year ago
Leave the oil on the surface where it can be "scooped" up. The oil and water collected afterwards can be separated again using a centrifuge.
JB000001 1 year ago
Oh, how PC: "Less oil... new sources of energy".
Convenient disaster for the eco-fascists...
JB000001 1 year ago
good video
Guinnie 1 year ago
Yes Professor, we do have a pitch lake in Trinidad. Folk come from all over the world to view it. It bubbles up with the thick black gooey stuff which eventually hardens into pitch.
judymaehs 1 year ago
Damnit it looks alot easier to clean on the surface! Why the hell is bp sinking the oil with corexit?
charlegamer 1 year ago 2
The real reason why chemists are pro alternate energy sources is because we want all the oil for ourselves to do chemistry with. But of course you can't tell that in public ;)
KilgothMirna 1 year ago 43
@KilgothMirna and thats a legit reason. rednecks can still be tough in and electric truck. doesnt mean they dont believe in the right things or same things as i do though.
garrypig 1 year ago
@KilgothMirna this is so hateful why would you post something so obviously false and cruel
zombierobopirate 3 weeks ago
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Thanks for the support, but we will always use oil. Look around you, almost everything in your rooms in your house are made of oil.
Octoberskylight 1 year ago
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Octoberskylight 1 year ago
You fine folks have been going beyond your original mission of providing abstract educational information (wonderful and important though that is) and are now providing a real public service in the form of scientific background information on important issues of the day. "Proper" news sources aren't doing nearly as good a job as you are. Thank you. Keep it up!
maekern 1 year ago 3
the oil looks like Marmite
mewrox99 1 year ago
the crude oil looks like nutella... i'm hungry
dylz 1 year ago
this will sound bad. but oh man, i love you guys, you rock sooooo hard
williamkendrick 1 year ago
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anonysquirrel 1 year ago
Professor reminds me a bit of Walter on "Fringe".
/watch?v=OIeDWzls3gs
DrLeroyGreen 1 year ago
please excuse the biology butting into chemistry's turf here but, I actually read that they are trying to develop oil eating bacteria...
japanesepoptart 1 year ago
LOL i like the girl with dubble glases 0:35 she is sexy..!
hellkster 1 year ago
She should have tried some chemicals on that chocolate oil slick! Bit of fairy liquid in there...Then just scale it up to the size of Gulf of Mexico and use nastier chemicals and you've got a secondary ecological disaster.
otleybey 1 year ago
we use Benzaldehyde at work its A compound that has A benzene ring and smells like almonds its very corrosive and burn the skin in high concentrations.\
wowggscrub 1 year ago
The professor seems like the kindest and most patient and benevolent person on the planet.
hackum1 1 year ago 38
@hackum1 I agree; he is wonderful and so are his video clips. Great team overall - this is one of my all-time favourite series to watch.
Urbino237 4 months ago
@hackum1 yes, but so did Bruce Banner. Jokin', yeah the Professor is awesome.
fatheadedjake 1 month ago
You can also use an Oil Absorbing Polymer to clean the oil.
demonstrated by Steve Spangler here:
/watch?v=qO4S2Y1hwEo
rehnai 1 year ago
youtube.com/watch?v=PBddxvWEWEU
Woman gets caught in oil spill!
Tyrone5033 1 year ago
Yeah, thank you for taking the time to make these videos. They're interesting and important. This is what YouTube should be. I don't understand how people are so into celebrity gossip and such but have no knowledge of or interest in the most fundamental science. Ignorance leads to suffering, ultimately. And the religious types hide their head in the sand and distort science, and gladly use their 3Ghz computer to tell (at light speed!) how science is a "false religion." This helps in that battle.
scottp118 1 year ago 2
How to change marmite into water... lol No seriously, I love these videos, they are very interesting and easy to understand. I look forward to the next one :)
Clairenna 1 year ago
i could listen to this professor talk all day long! im subscribing.
jessejax 1 year ago
I'm actually from Trinidad an there is a Lake where it bubbles up which we call locally the "Pitch Lake" . It has also become quite the tourist attractions to those who know about it.
xaiber1 1 year ago
Professor, please don't cut your hair... We Americans love your style :)
mujicaalvarado 1 year ago
One very good way of making reusable booms is to make them full of hair \9both human and animal) there is a massive program going on in North America to collect all the hait they can to make these booms, but when BP was asked if they wanted them they refused saying they had things under control.
Stormrunner0002 1 year ago
STOP TELLING THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE ... you can use crude oil "UNREFINED" for fuel. Only about 1% of the oil provinces produce crude that can be used in this way.
There was an oil company in NZ using land based rigs that sold unrefined crude to a steamship for "Bunker-C" use AND some local farmers used the same unrefined crude for their cars + equipment.
My source : Sounds Historical, Radio New Zealand. Email them to get more specific details.
eyreland 1 year ago
@eyreland
This is true but they still must use refined diesel for shut downs as the cooled bunker cloggs all the injecters. I have heard of then running on oil base paint in emergency situations. but you still need the clean fuel for startup and shut down or the engine will be done.
Stormrunner0002 1 year ago
@Stormrunner0002
For engines made after 1960, Desil or Gas -- this "refined crude" point is true.
I don't know to what extent it applies to petrol based Marine Boilers, but most post 1970 marine boilers probably prefer refined products.
eyreland 1 year ago
what does crude oil taste like?
mistermuffin420 1 year ago
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well thats all fine and dandy
you fucking nerds !
hafe the ocean is dieing and your in the class room playing with fucking rock and shit and botal of soap !
this is our Great minds at work !
WELL need i say more !
ROFL
glenanimals 1 year ago
im thinking about going to nottingham uni. what are the chemistry courses like?
wiiboy999 1 year ago
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emo4g 1 year ago
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emo4g 1 year ago
can they flash freeze it?
just the top
TehConqueror 1 year ago
Thank you.
sent5blues 1 year ago
7:26 the professor is so funny (Sam and Neil probably disagree).
HansTheAtheist 1 year ago
did they used to use lead in pencils?
andythewooferguy 1 year ago
awsome
pipsproductions15 1 year ago
Fascinating stuff, nice one Periodic. It's great the way you're seizing on current issues to explain the science behind it.
johnmacward 1 year ago
Is it just me who wants to eat that thick crude oil?
BlueBajs 1 year ago 3
@BlueBajs No, no it is not
888Xenon 1 year ago
cooking oil and coco power do often go together. Add some eggs, water, flower, water, milk and baking powder you got a cake!
jnthnbush 1 year ago
I really like this video series and the professor is excellent at explaining concepts but always leaves me wanting to know more about the science behind it all! Whereas the experiment was needlessly long winded and didnt really have any conclusion. Questions like "why is it black" and "can you drink heavy water" etc are more interesting. Some diagrams would be good to help visualise some things though such as when you mention rings of benzene. Keep up the good work. :D
BENBOBBY2 1 year ago 60
@BENBOBBY2 Habsolutely hagree with hyou!
Aashish7K5 1 year ago
@BENBOBBY2 The videos are aimed at schoolchildren or Daily Mail readers.
UncleKennybobs 1 year ago
Ok we done our part, now its up to the yanks.
possession2 1 year ago
benzene ftw =D
liuf92 1 year ago
Apparently , the professor enjoys playing with the thick Crude oil xD
rekinu5 1 year ago
the stuff in the gulf in the news looks like peanut butter. is it the same consitstancy?
crubba 1 year ago
Excellent video. Very informative
Intervene 1 year ago
You got a haircut! Awesome! I hope you donated your hair to help
mop up the oil spill :P
StringsCrusader 1 year ago
Thank you, from the US ^_^
Jeredin13 1 year ago
the govermnet has a thing which eats oil but its too expensive
ELFHUNTER50 1 year ago
put hair in it or animal fur
johngorgis 1 year ago 2
burn the oil :D?
uut0 1 year ago 2
@uut0 thats even worse...haha
fugehdehyou 1 year ago
@fugehdehyou at least the oil is gone xP. lotsa other bad stuff is in the atmosphere though lol
uut0 1 year ago
i think it was on richard hammond invisible world documentary or brainiac science abuse were they used plasma to make clothing water proof any way i wander if that plasma coating which makes any object resistant to water/!liquids can still be to oil's !
if so this could possibly benefit to build custom designed ship specific for collecting oil off surface using a huge roller/cylinder and a scrapper to remove excess oil off the absorbent material into containers with minimal water !
quaternion
okuma0kuma 1 year ago
@okuma0kuma I like the huge roller idea. Simply covered with a thick cloth, collecting water and oil mixture. When the tank fills up, you might pump out the collecter water back to the sea, since water and oil don't really mix well.
And, with custom-built engine it probably could run on collected oil. Perfect idea!
rageagainstthebath 1 year ago
I have an attention span longer than 40 seconds guys. I'm not enjoying the switching of cameras!
zeeneo 1 year ago
i love this type of video ! :)
dickychu2410 1 year ago
Periodic videos needs to make a video on graphite! Lots of interesting properties to discuss.
Lavabug 1 year ago
Maybe BP should watch these videos to learn about oil and how to clean it up.
culwin 1 year ago 3
It's pretty fishy that we still are using fossil fuels. There's plenty of good alternatives as far as I'm aware. If you asked me I'd put my coin on lobbyism.
risbolla 1 year ago
@risbolla The EROEI on oil is much better than other alternatives right now (Energy Returned On Energy Invested). For oil its around 30 I think... (to harvest 30 barrels of oil, 1 barrel is consumed in the effort). So it really comes down to cost efficiency. It's because of the existing infrastructure and investment into fossil fuels that we have, vs alternative methods. They're getting better, but they're not there yet.
Arkalius80 1 year ago 2
Does the professor has Parkinson's?
saonietzs 1 year ago
Preventing spills is the most effective way minimize ecological damage. The entire off-shore petroleum production industry needs to bite the bullet of eating the costs of using the safest best practice methods and support and obey expert knowledge that indicates extreme risk.Drilling relief wells in advance, having an automatic blow out preventer, Installing domes as SOP before production commences.
yes it will cost many millions of Dollars and yes the consumer ultimately pays but worth it.
HarblesTheSkeptial 1 year ago
@HarblesTheSkeptial Honestly they make more than enough to be more secure and not charge the consumer but what can you expect from money grubbing assholes?
aopdjasldksa 1 year ago
@HarblesTheSkeptial They already use a blow-out preventer. The reason this spill is so bad is because they blow out preventer failed, and the oil under pressure is just "flying" out.
StaupEimer 1 year ago
I like the tie, Professor!
paronfisk 1 year ago
ewww gooey yucky oil... xP
justartison 1 year ago
I been to the "pitch lake" in trinidad. It truly is a remarkable phenomenon.
PaulusTheMisionary 1 year ago
tell me not that he doesnt sound like Salad Fingers... lmfaooo
Dogjunior10 1 year ago
im in America.
2naruto1 1 year ago
That thick crude oil looks like pitch/tar... except that it gives way easier.
Kargoneth 1 year ago
...y por acá por México no se escucha que hagan algo verdaderamente útil para mejorara la situación causada por el derrame. Espero que mejore.
Hplus8 1 year ago
ThanQ Prof
GabrielKnightz 1 year ago
the asian girl is so boring, put the boron chick
kevin80k2000 1 year ago
I can only hope that this will help influence the US to put belief into alternate energy, so that it progresses. Just like how primitive crude oil took off, while its failures were being fixed and advanced.
DreamPharaoh 1 year ago
I think its time for operation SHAMWOW.
williepie 1 year ago 41
@williepie I'm waiting for the Second Coming of the prophet Billy Mayes...maybe this spill is like the "Armageddon" and he'll return with all his angels armed with the power of SHAMWOW
Grundalizer 1 year ago
I think it's about time BP tried lowering a huge sheet from a few helicopters into the Gulf :D
Envergure 1 year ago
ER-EV is all we need to kick oil to the curb, then pure EVs when the batteries get better.
ndyt 1 year ago
@ndyt
The batteries are more than good enough for just about everyone. A 200km range is good enough for most North Americans to get to work, the grocery store school, and home. For longer, less-frequent trips you'd have a problem because we have virtually no long-range passenger railway system here. Continental Europe is doing much better in that regard, and I think EVs would be very practical there.
Envergure 1 year ago
@Envergure, I think the ER-EV is the better choice for now.
ndyt 1 year ago
why doesn't she just drink up all the oil? it would work alot faster than a paper towel.
totem022 1 year ago
use hair
supercourse2 1 year ago
@noobenstein The only thing that fool has for free is crazy.
captwasabi 1 year ago
Of course no dislikes, no one dislikes the prof :D
MiniMongooseStudios 1 year ago
More! I'm learning stuff... it feels funny but i like it....hahaha :p
laurence1211 1 year ago
The BP is coming! The BP is coming!
mrbenboy77 1 year ago
Poor Neil!
canvent 1 year ago
Thank you for doing this vid. I think you are great!
leftatmars 1 year ago
Nice haircut!?! Love you..
TheIndie360 1 year ago
@TheIndie360 he's married.
BeAnBeAn22 1 year ago
Looks like someone needs to invent an orbitally deployed giant paper towel roll.
AliasUndercover 1 year ago
Fucking damn it BP!
ZingbatStew 1 year ago
:O Trinidad! Yea there's a lake of crude oil. It's called the Pitch Lake, in La Brea. Legend has it that it appeared under a village of natives (the Amerindians) and sucked the entire village into it in one night. Even now, every now and again old clay pots surface in the lake!
01reyaz 1 year ago
@01reyaz cool.
BeAnBeAn22 1 year ago
@01reyaz wouldn't it be dangerous though because one little spark and WOOOOSHHHH. you have a huge forest fire and tons of Co2 in the air?
BeAnBeAn22 1 year ago
@BeAnBeAn22 the lake is quite isolated and the oil is too viscous (very very complex hydrocarbods). The top most layer most people can walk on its that thick. To thick to be ignited by a spark. But there are still precautions taken.
01reyaz 1 year ago
BP oil disaster is a fucking pollitical problem they have scientists claiming they can cap it. Its just a way to ban off shore drilling in general.
xmrwaffles2 1 year ago
Crude oil which is reasonably runny can be burned in diesel engines...they do it in oilfields in Australia.
douro20 1 year ago
how old is the professor? his hands are so shaky :(
JaksProductions 1 year ago
You're going to waste CHOCOLATE !?! Are You Barbarians ?!? what angered me about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was learning that so many countries sent to BP their list of assets to help in the clean-up and when BP officials went to the Federal Government with the list, the Feds Refused to allow any help !
Roddyoneeye 1 year ago
@Roddyoneeye They can't allow any help - there is a law in the United States that prevent foreign oil tankers from sailing in our waters. It is stupid and archaic, and was made to please the local oil companies, but it is the reason the feds aren't allowing help.
Obama may be the President, but he has to follow the law just like everyone else. It would take an act of congress or the supreme courts to overturn the law - an act that would take months if not longer.
vagitoe 1 year ago
@vagitoe The US President has the authority to 'Waive' the requirements, I didn't like the last President (Bush) but he issued the waiver within about three days,; this one is now what, Seventy Days ? And the president still refuses to issue the waiver !
Roddyoneeye 1 year ago
Check out SunEcoEnergy(DOT)com. Using algae to produce oil. The politicians and their friends aren't invested in this technology so it will take time to expand production.
TonyUnplugged 1 year ago
nice vid, thank u!
lyric939 1 year ago
Love all the videos you guys make. And have actually learned quiet a bit from them. Thank you for the nice message at the end professor, I hope we can get this mess cleaned up, and hopefully if we aren't completely blind to the events that have taken place these past few months, begin to see that no, offshore drilling is not necessarily worth the risk. Or is it still too early to introduce such a crazy radical idea such as that?
Budskee420 1 year ago 2
@jarjarbinks77 I once had the chance to hit a small amount of nitroglycerine with a hammer. It was quite fun!! And it made an enormous bang.
ProfWithTheHair 1 year ago
great video and message..
np231 1 year ago 2
Could you imagine the professor holding a small bottle of nitroglycerin?
jarjarbinks77 1 year ago
That last message was very nice. Thank you!
cwbh10 1 year ago
Wow, never expected that voice from that face.
Senkatuka23 1 year ago 2
Try straw it works great!
itsabomberscope 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
But we don't really need oil. We only need it because they're supressing the free energy technology that creates energy from nothing. Come clean, professor, how much do they pay you to lie about science?!
tgz1000 1 year ago
@tgz1000 I seriously hope you're joking
Shannariano 1 year ago
@tgz1000 Sorry to say, mate, nothing's free. There needs to be infrastructure, collectors, batteries, all sorts of technology to keep this inexpensive energy (sun, wind, wave, etc) is very expensive to setup. But for some reason those than can lay down this infrastructure are too short sighted.
I think what you're aiming at is 1) Sustainable (can we do it "forever"?) and 2) Low environmental impact (positive env. impact seems to be off the table) Both what we should be aiming for.
clearmenser 1 year ago
@tgz1000 Are you prepared to give up driving, plastics, the entire industrial chemical industry, computers, and pharmaceuticals? I'm with you 100% that we need to do whatever is necessary to push clean, renewable energy forward, but it is simply untrue that we don't need oil. We need oil.
grimshawr 1 year ago
@tgz1000 You have some serious balls to impune the prof's integrity like that. Do you realize that the computer you are using to post your imbecilic stupidity is made from petroleum based products? And since you are so opposed to petroleum based products the next time you have any type of medical operation, say at the dentist, make sure you tell them no anesthetics since those are petroleum based. No antiseptics either for that matter so hopefully you'll just die from a simple infection.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi Ignorance, pure ignorance! If it wasn't for fools like yourself propping up the petroleum industry, we would have starships and replicators with the free energy technology thats being held back. I can't believe anyone could be so pathetic and stupid, SURELY you're being payed by the industry to defend this quack crackpot science?
tgz1000 1 year ago
@tgz1000 Please tell me you are just being sarcastic and that you don't honestly believe the stupidity you just posted. I typically expect this level of pure thick-headedness from those who believe in ghosts and spirits. Besides, do you even have a clue as to the pure havoc free energy would have on the global economy? Whole markets would crash.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi So you're admitting you're in on it! You're worried about markets crashing so you don't want free energy technology and you're willing to stifle scientific progress! You admit it at last, that you're partially responsible for most of the death and suffering on this earth, because you refuse to allow scientific advancements that might affect the monetary system! Just let everyone die, eh? Horrible, just horrible! How can you sleep at night
tgz1000 1 year ago
@tgz1000 You're either psychotic or just some douchebag troll. Either way you are officially past amusing and are now fully in irrelevant. Go troll elewhere.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi There's this car that runs on water man. IT RUNS ON WATER.
tgz1000 1 year ago
@tgz1000 I should know better than feeding trolls....anyway, if you are referring to the Genepax "water-car" this car does not actually run on water persay. Instead, according to assumptions since the company has yet to release the mechanics of hwo the car works, the car is, in fact, a hydride-fuelled "hydrogen on demand" vehicle. Most other "water powered cars" turned out to simply be inverter frauds. Sorry.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@tgz1000 Yeah, it's called a boat.
vagitoe 1 year ago
@captwasabi "esides, do you even have a clue as to the pure havoc free energy would have on the global economy? "
It wouldn't have an impact on the global economy. It doesn't and can't exist... Those laws of thermodynamics get in the way...
Cyrathil 1 year ago
@Cyrathil Oh, no doubt. Please don't misread my comment to even hope that "free energy" exisis. My comment was meant to just provide the drooling mouth-breather with even more reasons why his free energy dreams are insane.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@tgz1000 Yeah, because everything in Star Trek's going to magically come to life in the next twenty years.
meteosurreal 1 year ago
@tgz1000 Wow. First off it is impossible to "create energy". It is only possible to take already existing energy and convert it into a different form.
Now, oil is used for far more than just making-for lack of a better word-energy. I'm sure you have had several people reply to this post giving examples of such.
As for the professor lying about science, while I do not agree with his views on global warming, I find his chemistry related discussions quite accurate.
512Airsoft 1 year ago
haircut? i like
Splooshiba 1 year ago 2
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how butch is that chinese bitch!lol
Martyburp28 1 year ago
Ahhh! It's the Symbiot from Spider-Man :p
Met54321 1 year ago 2