PickVidsBest Power grid, heating & buildings Videos
The 68 Power grid, heating & buildings videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 6 introductory, 4 intermediate, 58 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, Practical Engineering, Kirsten Dirksen.
Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
Technology Connections explains how refrigerator and freezer design affects energy use, using chest freezers to show why top-opening designs and layout choices matter.
Inside a smart meter, and the REAL problem with them.
Big Clive tears down a smart meter with a wireless modem found among fly-tipped materials.
Passive House - Fresh Air System Install & Costs (Zehnder)
Matt Risinger covers installing a Zehnder ERV fresh-air system in a tight passive house, explaining balanced ventilation, the benefits of heat recovery and the costs involved.
The artificial skylight that you won't believe isn't real
A short look at CoeLux, an artificial skylight that recreates the scattering process that makes the sky look blue, producing a convincing illusion of distant sun and depth.
Inside a heated shower head. (suicide shower)
BigClive tears down a heated electric shower head of the type common in some countries, often called a suicide shower.
I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.
A More Perfect Union report from a small Texas town next to a large Bitcoin mining facility, where residents describe constant noise and health problems.
The Power Grid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the state of the US power grid, why it needs fixing, and the risks of aging infrastructure.
Authorized Personnel Only - How to Start and Sync a 400,000 Watt Turbine Hydroelectric Generator
Chris Boden shows how an operator starts a large hydroelectric turbine generator and manually synchronizes it to the grid using a needle phase meter.
We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning
A More Perfect Union report on xAI's data center in Memphis, which residents say burns gas without permits or pollution controls and harms their health.
Britain's largest battery is actually a lake
Tom Scott visits Dinorwig Power Station in Wales, a pumped-storage hydro plant often called Britain's largest battery.
Spacer Installation on 765,000 volt line
Helmet-camera footage of linemen installing a spacer on an energized 765,000 volt transmission line, working from a helicopter.
Orkney - Island of the Future | Fully Charged
Fully Charged host Robert Llewellyn visits Orkney, where wind, tidal, wave and solar generation plus community energy schemes power the islands.
Electric Vehicle Charging Technology: Urban Electric - Pop-Up Charger | Fully Charged
A Fully Charged episode where Robert Llewellyn visits an Oxford street trialling Urban Electric's pop-up chargers.
This is Why Heat Pumps May NOT Be The Future
A UK tradesman's rant on the disadvantages of air source heat pumps, covering grants, heat pump types and whether they are worth it.
How to Heat a Swimming Pool with an Air Conditioner | Ask This Old House
A This Old House segment where Richard Trethewey installs a heat exchanger that uses waste heat from a central air conditioner to heat a swimming pool.
Aurora Test Footage
Footage of the 2007 Aurora test, in which a cyberattack was used to destroy a large generator at a test facility in Idaho.
The 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge
A short Vox explainer on the duck curve, the shape electricity demand takes in California as solar output grows.
Fluorescent Lights under High Voltage Power Lines!
Footage of Richard Box's art installation in which fluorescent tubes light up in the ground under high voltage power lines, showing the electric fields they produce.
Gas stoves aren't really that fast - even standard electric is faster!
Technology Connections tests how quickly gas, induction and standard electric stoves boil water, with CO2 measurements and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Grid: Renewable Baseload Power from a single desert location. Enough for 7 million homes!
A Just Have a Think video on the proposed 16 billion pound Xlinks project to build solar, wind and battery capacity in southern Morocco.