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[Note that this is intended to be a rhetorical question advanced for the purposes of pedagogy. If you find yourself wanting to post an answer, you have missed the point.]
That's an excellent overall summary as he covers almost every aspect of the subject albeit in brief. It would be good if he produced a second video dealing with the low entropy of incoming energy from the sun and the higher entropy of radiated energy from earth and relate that to global warming. In all the debate over global warming little is talked about why say CO2 and other greenhouse gasses increase the earth's t…
Which debate over global warming are you referring to? There are debates that involve atmospheric chemists that discuss Earth darkening cause and effects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo
It may help lower the temperature of the debate if they did.
Edit, we're pitching this discussion at the level he has—the lay public. Scientific argument over the minutiae is another matter altogether.
A pithier way to introduce this topic: the first law of thermodynamics, a.k.a. the law of conservation of energy, is that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. In light of this, how can there ever be a shortage of energy? [Note that this is intended to be a rhetorical question advanced for the purposes of pedagogy. If you find yourself wanting to post an answer, you have m…
I hate Veritasium's clickbait, and I think most of his videos are very poor, but this one is the exception. It's very well put together. The first ten minutes of the video is exactly how I introduce entropy to people. Of course I can't give him a pass on how crass it was telling that women he has a PhD in physics (he does not). The video would have been so much better without that two seconds of footage...
I hate Veritasium's clickbait, and I think most of his videos are very poor, but this one is the exception. It's very well put together. The first ten minutes of the video is exactly how I introduce entropy to people. Of course I can't give him a pass on how crass it was telling that women he has a PhD in physics (he does not). The video would have been so much better without that two seconds of footage...
"I think most of his videos are very poor," Why do you think so? (Most to me seem reasonable but one on speed of electricity stands out as badly done (he redid the video but it too could have been better).)
Kind of sad that a expensive camera + clickbait thumbnail/title > Experts communicating clearly and accurately.
I imagine he/his team is scouring youtube for the experts, and remaking their videos with more production value.
I decided I didn't have the brainpower/mental capacity to think about The Witcher and that this video on Entropy would be easier to digest.
A pithier way to introduce this topic: the first law of thermodynamics, a.k.a. the law of conservation of energy, is that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. In light of this, how can there ever be a shortage of energy? [Note that this is intended to be a rhetorical question advanced for the purposes of pedagogy. If you find yourself wanting to post an answer, you have m…
I think it's not so much a shortage of energy, but that there thermodynamic equilibrium and thus no available energy to do anything.
I don't think this will ever happen tho, it's pretty clear to me that making energy more dense is a universal process.
"Can you get time out of Quantum Mechanics?": https://youtu.be/nqQrGk7Vzd4