How to Sail on Starlight

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Could Earth’s Heat Solve Our Energy Problems?

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How Do Substations Work?

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Why Fighter Jets Can Be Too Unstable

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NASA’s Dragonfly Mission to Titan

How Electricity Generation Really Works

From Practical Engineering. Continuing the series on the power grid by diving deeper into the engineering of large-scale electricity generation. Get $80 off your first month of Hello Fresh (with code Practical80): https://bit.ly/2VGUxzl The importance of electricity in our modern world can hardly be overstated. What was a luxury a hundred years ago is now…

Why Do Backwards Wings Exist?

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The Soviet Superplane That Rattled America

How Does the Power Grid Work?

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Why SpaceX is Making Starlink

Why Are There so Many Types of Screws?!

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How Do Spillways Work?

From Practical Engineering. The first 500 people to click get 2 months of Skillshare Premium free: http://skl.sh/practicalengineering4 We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we need it downstream or the…

California’s Renewable Energy Problem

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How Do Traffic Signals Work?

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The Challenge of Building a Self-Driving Car

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The Truth About Space Debris

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How are Underwater Structures Built?

From Practical Engineering. A quick overview of how we build underwater structures. Get $80 off your first month of Hello Fresh: https://bit.ly/2VGUxzl and use code practical80. Oceans, rivers, and lakes are often beautiful, but they’re not necessarily convenient places to build things. Yet, many types of the infrastructure we depend on every day, including wharves,…

How Many Digits of Pi Do We Really Need?

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America’s Insane Plan for Nuclear Powered Planes

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The Most Dangerous Dams

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Carbon Capture – Humanity’s Last Hope?

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Tesla’s Quest for Better Batteries

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What is a Weir?

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Designer Babies – The Problem With China’s CRISPR Experiment

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What is a Hydraulic Jump?

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How Water Towers Work

From Practical Engineering. Purpose and function of elevated water storage tanks. The job of finding enough water, making it safe to use, and then reliably distributing it to the system customers with almost no downtime is a monumental task that requires a lot of infrastructure. And, probably the most visible component of a public water…

What is Prestressed Concrete?

From Practical Engineering. Sometimes conventional reinforcement isn’t enough. The basics of prestressed concrete. Prestressing reinforcement doesn’t necessarily make concrete stronger. But, it does increase the serviceability of concrete members by reducing the amount of deflection under load. This video explains the two most common types of prestressed concrete: pre-tensioned and post-tensioned. Prestressed concrete is used…

Was Roman Concrete Better?

From Practical Engineering. Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. More Videos About Concrete: – What is Concrete? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOHURuAf5iY) – Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZINeaDjisY) -Does Rebar Rust? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLF18H9JGHs) In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted concrete (RCC) and water…

Does Rebar Rust?

From Practical Engineering. Check out the first two videos on concrete if you haven’t seen them already: – What is Concrete? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOHURuAf5iY) – Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZINeaDjisY) While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete…

Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed

From Practical Engineering. Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering and physics classrooms across the world. Both resonance from vortex shedding and aeroelastic flutter contributed to the failure. When you push the…

Why Tunnels Don’t Collapse

From Practical Engineering. How simple reinforcement is used to prevent collapse of rock tunnels. Tunnels play an important role in our constructed environment as passageways for mines, conveyance for utilities, and routes for transportation. Rock bolts are a type of reinforcement for stabilizing rock excavations, usually made from steel bars or bolts. This simple construction…

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