PickVidsBest Earth & energy (other) Videos
The 12 Earth & energy (other) videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 0 intermediate, 12 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a lecture. What they share is that a derivation is walked through at classroom pace instead of a conclusion being dropped. Channels you will keep seeing include lXlSalemlXl, endofsuburbia, Sid Smith.
Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett
Physicist Al Bartlett's well-known lecture on the arithmetic of exponential growth, applied to population, energy consumption and resource depletion.
The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy.
How to Enjoy the End of the World
A Virginia Tech presentation by Sid Smith about collapse, fossil fuels and overshoot, arguing that industrial civilization faces a decline and how one might live with that.
"Energy Revolution? More like a Crawl" - Dr. Vaclav Smil
Energy scholar Vaclav Smil argues that global energy transitions are slow and that renewable targets should not rest on wishful thinking.
Arithmetic, Population and Energy - FULL LENGTH
Physicist Albert Bartlett's full-length lecture on how steady exponential growth in population and energy use collides with finite resources.
America Was Wrong About Ethanol - Study Shows
Engineering Explained examines new research suggesting corn ethanol in US gasoline may emit as much or more carbon than gasoline.
Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident
A short documentary about the 1980 Lake Peigneur accident in Louisiana, where an oil rig drilled into a salt mine beneath the lake.
Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
Channel 4 News reports on undercover Greenpeace footage of an ExxonMobil lobbyist describing efforts to weaken climate legislation.
There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)
An animated short on limits to growth, covering oil formation, peak oil, energy, economic growth and resource depletion.
Coal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on coal examines the industry, its executives and its treatment of miners, and includes the coverage of Robert Murray that led to a lawsuit.
Schaliegas: USSR Gas Well Blow Out = Nuclear Bomb Puts Out Fire
A short clip showing how the Soviet Union used a nuclear explosion to extinguish a blown-out, burning gas well.
I visited the US National Helium Reserve
Tom Scott visits the US National Helium Reserve in Amarillo, Texas, and explains why headlines that the world is running out of helium are misleading.