Instructional Video11:34
SciShow

The Heaviest Things Humans Have Ever Built

12th - Higher Ed
From the Great Pyramid at Giza, to one-quarter of the Netherlands, to continent-spanning electrical grids, humans are great at making really BIG things.<b<br/>r/>

Hosted by: @NotesByNiba (she/her)
Instructional Video13:40
TED Talks

TED: The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers | Tammy Ma

12th - Higher Ed
In 2022, physicist Tammy Ma and the team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a scientific breakthrough decades in the making: fusion ignition, or the combining of two atoms to generate more energy out of a reaction than...
Instructional Video2:38
SciShow

Why Wouldn’t You Put Your Wind Farm In the Windiest Place?

12th - Higher Ed
Wind is an ever increasing source of power worldwide, which means wind farms continue to be constructed. And choosing where to place those farms seems straightforward, but it might not actually be best to place the in the windiest places!
Instructional Video10:13
Curated Video

Could The Next Blackout Be More Deadly Than Katrina?

9th - Higher Ed
With climate change making temperatures more extreme each year, like we recently saw in the great Texas freeze and the Northwest heatwave, large-scale power outages become a matter of life and death. Could a power grid failure during an...
Instructional Video10:34
Curated Video

How America’s Hottest City is Innovating to Survive

9th - Higher Ed
In this episode, we delve into the latest science of the “urban heat island” effect, learn about the looming threat of a potential “Katina-like event” that threatens their electrical grid, and explore the gamut of options being pursued...
Instructional Video16:03
Economics Explained

The $6.5 Trillion Dollar Problem Nobody Notices

9th - Higher Ed
There's a massive cost that every developed economy has to deal with that nobody talks about... Infrastructure maintenance. It sounds boring but all of those developments that governments love to talk up can end up costing a fortune to...
Instructional Video10:43
IDG TECHtalk

How urban and rural communities can benefit from IoT | TECH(talk)

Higher Ed
The Internet of things isn't all about self-driving cars or drone deliveries. IoT has plenty of practical use cases in urban and suburban settings alike. In this episode of TECH(talk), Network World's Jon Gold joins Juliet to discuss how...
Instructional Video13:00
Physics Girl

Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars

9th - 12th
I drove 1800 miles in a Hydrogen car to learn about electric vehicles.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Towards a Smarter Grid

9th - 10th
How reliable is our national electrical distribution system - and what can be done to make it better?
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Rep. Roscoe Bartlett on Grid Security

9th - 10th
The Maryland congresman discusses our electrical grid and how to make it more secure.