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18:37 You made a very interesting point here, nobody understands how the big bang happened exactly and technically we are just a bunch of particles around fireballs, Makes you wonder if he created a mini Big Bang right there, on its own micro timescale, think about atoms that gravitated around the molten metal and Fire when it looked like stars, microscopic planets and generations of lifetimes all gone in the flash of a second potentially, if you were to think of each one of those pieces of molten metal in the air as a little star forming then dying, Like the universe has and will on a bigger scale. I wonder if there's any forces that would make any microscopic quirks or particles float around those mini fireball suns
@@samnoneofyourbisnus2543 those things are gnarly. Was sliding one back on a metal rack one time at a factory and the wires got pinched going in and it dead shorted and exploded and blew the whole top of the battery off and rained acid. They upgraded their system to NOT an old steel rack after that.
A note about Styropyro being on another level of insane than Allen and the Backyard Scientist. He really actually isn't. Yes, what he is doing is nuts, but his setup is well thought out and safe. That's not necessarily the case with the other two guys all the time. Particularly Backyard Scientist is pretty infamous for taking nearly no safety precautions at all while doing things that could seriously injure him.
One of the craziest things about that video is that the idea was suggested by a company that wanted to see what would happen and decided he was "the only person crazy enough to try," and also offered to sponsor the video.
Very interesting! T.Folse's narration and sidebars really added something that sometimes is missing from StyroPyro's videos. Reminds me of these English brothers (@Photonvids) who melt steel and other objects with high current produced via transformers- ruclips.net/video/DJOX0c60wQE/видео.html
Styropyro may be unhinged, but he EASILY has the most expertise and concern for safety out of almost any youtuber. He knows what he's doing and always at least tries to set up as many safety precautions as possible.
There is 9 giga amps of irony in your comment. Safety precautions? Did you see what he made there? Do you know anything about fault currents? Safety precautions. Bwahhh!
@@labibbidabibbadum there’s a difference between making something dangerous, but using it with precaution and the respect it deserves, and being reckless and endangering yourself and others. Styropyro makes gigawatt lasers too, but knows exactly how to operate them safely, and even lambasts tutorials and companies selling faulty safety goggles and equipment. No one is arguing that what he’s doing would be dangerous, but with the right knowledge you can use dangerous things safely. I myself am a chemist, and I routinely work with deadly poisonous compounds like cyanide and anilines. But I’m able to use them safely due to my knowledge and education concerning their proper handling and hazards. It’s the same sort of thing with Styropyro. Don’t get it twisted
@@spiderdude2099 Hi chemist, I'm an engineer and if you think this video somehow describes a respect for the forces involved or uses appropriate safety methods, then I'll be avoiding your lab. It's fun. Sure. It's like when I was a teenager I rode a dirt bike. I wore a helmet and gloves, leathers occasionally, but apart from that I jumped fences, rode like a goose, rode on the road unregistered - all the dumb things. It was great. I still do shit like that occasionally. But I don't pretend it's done with safety concerns in mind, cause it ain't. It's done with fun in mind. Period. If you think he's demonstrating appropriate safety techniques to protect him against megawatts, you're insane. He's done a rudimentary job of deploying some very basic safety techniques. He has relied on a serious amount of luck at the same time. It's like that submersible at The Titanic site. They had good luck for a few dozen dives. Then the laws of physics and thermodynamics caught up with them. Big energy means big consequences. 60 volts will very likely not arc flash you. But it will happily do so in the right circumstances.
i just realized that the energy released during TNT exploding can be quite accurately calculated, considering it's all in the chemical bonds in the material. It's not some arbitrary equivalence. It's quite direct.
@@GeorgeTsiros For the most part, but I would imagine there are some inefficiencies! I believe the term is "explosive efficiency" and is a measure of the difference between the energy contained in the chemical bonds vs what is actually released in its detonation
Styropyro is extremely intelligent and safety conscious. I didn't think at first but I've watched enough of his videos to get a better understanding. A person would easily die or go blind with the things that he does if they weren't extremely safety-conscious.
@@ZeRandomizor your definition of "great video" requires bodily harm, then. You might to think on that. Then again, 2000 years on, it's still the same thing : Joe Average yearns to see someone get hurt for his entertainment like it's the freaking Roman Empire circus games.
I also love how his battery array is within spitting distance of the large propane tank in the background... that offers 2 craters for the price of 1! 😄
I hope he gets to visit a steel mill electric arc furnace. I was in IT, and it included work in the melt shop. The EAF had three 24" hydraulically controlled carbon electrodes that drew the arc to melt the steel. The furnace had its own substation. Power was over 60 megawatts. That melted about 100 tons of scrap per hour. The sound was deafening, even with hearing protection. The light was brighter than the sun, and radiant heat was scorching. Standing in front of that machine was always thrilling.
I used to work in Telecommunications 40 years ago, and I visited an old style mechanical telephone exchange - they used to parallel stacks of 12V batteries. I heard the story about someone who accidentally dropped a massive screwdriver across the bus bars and the thing just melted away.
I heard about a university where they were painting the room that housed the battery for the telecom room when one of the painters set a paint can down where it shorted across the terminals. It left a light coat of green paint evenly covering every surface in the room.
I found it much more interesting when he helped maintain contact. Since the contact points continually kept disconnecting. It was much more satisfying when he was able to manually mess with the contact points himself. (It would be awesome if Styropyro does build a small reactor at some point. Or gets hired on to be a mad scientist for some big company lol)
I think the military asked him to come work on lasers at some point but he probably makes more money from social media than hed be getting paid there so
@@moodfm5673 it sure would be cool if he could be a "private contractor" worker for the government. So he can do what he wants but the government can call him when they need his help advancing laser technology in different projects, & areas of science. He seems like he could be so beneficial for so many aspects of experimental projects. I saw this one video on a (i think fusion concept) but the laser they use is so old and uses so much power & i swear Styropyro could improve that plant so much. *I wish i could remember what project I'm thinking about. My bad.
I don't know if we will ever know if he was actually asked to be working on lasers for the gov't...but that is a piece of gossip I choose to believe. As for his mad scientist thing. I believe we should be inclusive of these people and keep them as friends...I would not want one to be on the opposite side.
@@moodfm5673 Guessing here a bit, but if he's anything like me, he probably saw what the military expected of him and went "Nah, that isn't me." Then again the military probably wanted him for his smarts, thinking the people he would work with would teach him what he didn't already know. It's a thing with really smart people, they undervalue their potential in favor of what they've already achieved. You really need to lay it out for them if you want them on your team.
I worked as a wind energy tech for a year. You would not belive what happens if you have a short inside the electrical cabinet. The big cables jump arround like they were possessed. They were originally kept in place by big zip ties. After the short all the zip ties were ripped and the cable was a few inches longer than before. And yes this was a lot of work to change out every damaged parts to get everything in working order again.
I feel like if a high school science teacher were ever struggling to get the kids excited about science, they could just show the students Styropyro's videos lol
I did some back of the envelope calculations when this video originally dropped, that battery bank can supply just over a megawatt, I was quite stumped and I think my jaw is still on the floor around here somewhere from when I dropped it then
And as the two guest tubers in the video said, “you shouldn’t be measuring in ‘mega’ anything”. Although I think anyone would agree Ohms would be an easy exception to that…except we know that’s one thing that didn’t come up in that video.
@@nameforcomments4092I haven't seen anyone do stuff with them, but megawatt diesel generators are not THAT expensive on ebay. They're primarily used for hospitals and other places that care about reliability, and have no interest in a 20 year old generator even if it's working fine, so the prices are pretty reasonable. But between the fact that they output high voltage 480v to 4160v depending on the model (requiring expensive step-down transformers to do something useful), and the fact that they consume tons of fuel (dozens of gallons per hour), they're not really practical even ifg you can afford the unit. And for perspective there's a 2.2 megawatt 600 volt unit for $170,000 right now - but I've seen better deals.
Best thing about seeing professionals react to styro is that their afraid of his insanity but there’s someone else who scares styro so be warned there are actual electric monsters walking amongst us
What gets me about this video in particular is that it wasn't even his own original idea; his sponsor for the video actually sent him the idea in their sponsorship email
18:30 my 9th grade teacher had a wild hypothesis that our unverse was flash of a match be struck by a higher being. To them the ignition and sparks only last a split second. To us inside the flash, it's been billions of years. I know that is probably not the case but its always stuck with me. He was (retired not dead) a good teacher.
it's cool to know that you're the guy that engineers nuclear power plants and my dad was the guy that built them. my dad was the project manager for the San anofre nuclear generating station project. he also unfortunately ended up falling and breaking his back inside a generator! he's 73 now and still a badass! love you pops thanks for being my hero!
10:18 You can clearly see a very large tank of liquid natural gas or propane about 20 feet behind him and his Sparkanator 5000. Why did no one mention that here or on his original video?
You talk about accidents in several videos and something I was always wondering is: what happens if there’s an uncontrolled fire in the control room? Does the whole plant have to shut down? Are there fire doors to stop it from spreading further? Where’s the worst place for an uncontrolled fire in a nuclear power plant?
So your scenario almost happened at Brown's Ferry in 1975. A worker was using a candle to check the integrity of some seals around a wiring bundle in a cable room and set the whole thing afire. It destroyed a lot of wiring before being extinguished. In that case the reactor automatically put itself into automatic shutdown without any human operators needing to do anything. It did get pretty dicey, though, because a lot of safety systems and control room instruments quit working because of the damage. Still, no harm to the reactor core occurred. That was all the way back in 1975, though, so I would imagine that modern plants are better protected.
If there was time lapse footage of stars being formed it would look something like this. This guy probobly has the most terrifying fourth of july displays.
Stumbled upon this channel by accident and I'm hitting like with zero hesitation because there's no shade thrown at Styropyro's safety measures. Digging how the creator watched the vid all chill and smiley, totally catching the fun vibes that were definitely put there to delight us viewers. 😎👍
I watched this when Styro first put it out and thought it was terrifying then. Watching it with nice headphones this time and it's way scarrier. By the time he is using it as a plasma cutter it sounds like some sort of evil monster.
I can tell you had a lot of fun with this one. Now I'm wondering if the ultimate evolution of this content is you collabing with all the mad science youtubers to actually build one of those Z-pinch reactors
I saw his video originally and worried about all that molten slag damaging the insulation on his cables. He certainly does some serious engineering to set this stuff up.
Just wanted to say I really appreciate the way you're constantly trying to add to what's going on. I'd say you're an S-tier reactor because of that! A definitive example for others!
I have watched Styropyro for years. He is the level of Dexters Lab I've not had the confidence or knowledge to perform safely that my brainbox craves. Love the lasers.... I think if most others performed this there'd be major fires and/or personal injury, it feels well thought out lol Well thought out for a crazy scientist anyway...
A long time ago in 1959 I wired my first 120v house circuit protected with a 15amp fuse. Used agw 14. I put a fuse in the fuse box. I turned on the swithch and got a flash. I wired the on-off swith incorrectlyly and shorted it out. When I took the switch out it had blown out. I was 9 at the time. In my career in engineering I also worked with system having large scale power considerations. I would say most people have no concept of megawatt power's explosive properties. If we consider a 12 volt batery has around 1.2 KWh of power that styopyo setup is about a 144 KWh battery. Now that is such a wonderful thing to be sitting on as you drtive around with all the other cautious safe drivers. I would prefer to sleep in a Nuclear Reator building. 😇
doubt it's during the video. But you could charge the 12V parallel bank (first arrangement) with a normal dumb charger... very slowly. A smart charger might think your battery is faulty because the charge barely goes up when it dumps lots of current in!
I think that's all on a single charge. Each of these tests is basically a car start. The current draw and duration for each individual battery are well within the specifications for their intended use.
Both my father and I used to work at A Refuse, derived fuel power plant and their battery room. Was sized and appropriately arranged so that it could allow for a black start of the local grid if the entire grid saw a shutdown. The inverters for their u p s supply were designed so that they would provide a true sixty cycle sine wave for them to excite their generator and provide a power source for other generating stations to sync to.
Its so nice hearing and getting more understanding of whats happening, like both hearing more words but also moments of further realisation of the madness!
It was fun to watch your reaction and listen to your comments on this SP video. I had a second round of laughing until my sides cracked. I almost choked with laughter when I watched the original.
Styropyro is the nicest person I have ever had the chance to engage with , he has a voracious curiosity on multiple topics and is impressively educated on all of them. Dude is a gentle genius.
someone like you making a reaction video is the true purpose of channels like styropyro. this is the intended result: professionals seeing what the amateurs actually get up to, and providing insight we otherwise wouldn't have access to.
There’s another guy in the UK who used to make videos like this back in the day on RUclips called Photonicinduction he has some equally crazy experiments worth checking out. His last video released a couple of years ago he destroys a 5000A fuse with a 200 thousand amp capacitor bank.
3.6MJ is amount of caloric energy I ate for lunch. It's only 860 calories. TNT has terrible energy density, but it has to 1, carry its own oxidiser, while our bodies breathe air, 2 not release that energy while burning, or being oxidised, 3 release it all at once at a speed that is a significant fraction of orbital velocity, when a shock wave detonates it. In terms of peak power, it's a great standard, in terms of total energy released, it's less energetic than fuel air explosives, thermite or even gunpowder. It's about the same as lithium batteries, and only one order of magnitude higher than lead acid batteries
@@LocusNevernight oh yeah, if he actually manages to make his lightning machine i am Definitely expecting to hear far greater prefixes than even Giga… but, at least so far, he has not yet reached atmosphere charging levels of power dump.
19:37 Crowbar circuit are used in electronics. You put them across the rails in a power supply, and are triggered by something else in the circuit. When something goes wrong, the PS is shorted out, and (hopefully) the fuse blows. They are also useful to short the wires to an inductive load while simultaneously breaking the connection to the load, which prevents back EMF from frying everything. I have used them on DC coupled power audio amplifiers. These types of circuits are most likely to fail closed and send continuous DC into the speakers. Since any driver in one of my speakers costs more that all the circuitry combined in an amp, they are an ideal method to protect them.
Hey! I recommend the video called “X-Ray Gun Experiments” by Kreosan English, one of the craziest electricity related video I ever saw. Looking forward to your reaction!
I stumbled across your channel while taking a 600ish mile round trip over Thanksgiving holiday to visit family. Instead of listening to overproduced and underwelming songs on the radio I listened to RUclips on autoplay...and only interrupted this during the at times more interesting tasks like eating the 3 Thanksgiving dinners...turns out having a broken home has it's benefits...but I digress...during the return leg of the trip your channel was the last and only one interesting enough to pull over and end the autoplay in order to like and subscribe...I have now binge watched a few and so far none have disappointed, and for that I thank you for this great shared experience you have blessed RUclips consumers with! Hope you had an interesting and fun holiday aswell!
Hey Tyler! I saw your video on the qserf dmr meltdown recently and just wanted to say that the video you saw of the game is very outdated. The game got updated not long ago and had improved a lot of stuff in the game including the meltdown. Also there is a 2nd reactor in the game called Foxtrot-9, it’s a type 247 fission reactor and is quite realistic for a roblox reactor that is. I hope you check this out for a later video has I think you’d like it a lot more than the video you saw of the old version of the game. Thanks and have a good day.
I got an old 9/16s wrench with a decent sized spot melted out of the handle. I was working on a propane bobtail with a cat 3126 and i was changing the intake heater grate solenoid. Was working in a hurry so the batteries were still connected, and i accidentally let the wrench swing into the valve cover while loosening the nut on the hot lug of the solenoid. Instantly put that aforementioned spot on the handle, while i was holding it. Got a matching scar on my finger from the wrench momentarily turning into a cattle brand. And that was from 2 lousy truck batteries, probably less than 1500 CCA combined. Cant believe styropyro didnt melt more of his rig than he did with 49,000 amps or whatever loony ass number he topped out at.
The energy yield of TNT is approximately 4.184 gigajoules per ton, so his dealing with the equivalent of 75 tons of TNT per bank. That sounds about right. I calculated for a story once that the energy in the jet fuel of a small commuter jet was roughly similar to a small tactical nuke (though like the batteries, it cannot be instantly released).
He said Megajoules not Gigajoules so 320 Megajoules is equivalent to 75Kg of TNT not 75 Tons, certain people would have a field day if you could produce a 75ton TNT explosion with only 50 car batteries.........
While I appreciate seeing this reaction, I would have preferred if you waited a bit longer. Give the algorithm some more time to drive traffic to the original video. I think at least a week is fair, after that the views are only a trickle in comparison.
this reminds me when i worked at Interstate Batteries at a warehouse here in my town back about 16 years ago, taking in old and used and new unsold stock to test and charge we hook them up like this and throw massive loads and charge cycles at them sometimes they explode right Infront of you. the seats in my car lasted 3 months before they gotten eaten away from acid all over me everyday...
5:29 How does StyroPyro NOT get electrocuted here? There are exposed copper on the connections, and he lays across both the Red & Black lines. Ans (as we will see) that energy can jump quite a bit, at least further than his clothes tiny thickness... So, how/why is he alive?
It's only 12 volts. Which means while the current is very high potentially, it doesn't have the voltage to push through the resistance of his body and clothes.
It's the amps that kill, but it's the volts that help the current pass through. Doesn't matter how much power is in that bank of batteries, if it's not at a high enough voltage (called breakdown voltage for insulators) it won't create a closed circuit through whatever's touching the terminals. This is why you never saw any arcs of current through the air in this video, and also why styro could channel his inner French girl on that battery bank being relatively safe.
I used to use crowbar circuits in all my electronics projects. Basically if you’re running a DC circuit, you put a big ass diode between the negative and positive input. If the circuit is wired right nothing happens. But if you accidentally hook it up backwards, the diode blows out the power supply before your project.
I was glad to see him go over the reason the test pieces weren't staying put (you didn't include that in your vid). He was essentially demonstrating (crudely) how a railgun operates. That pesky Lorentz force.
not sure what the reactor facility ave output is - small hydro is about 2.5 - 3ish MW (i'm not a hydro elec guy so would love to know the correct number) - the one inch bolt carried about 2.5MW before the fuses blew - (love his fuses BTW - >>>do not try at home
It's really interesting to get that sort of explanation and helped me understand the physics involved with atomic fusion, having the basic visual of those magnetic fields separating those pieces of metal and then you explaining how that same force is used to compress those molucules of hydrogen together actually made a lot of sense to somebody like me who has little to no experience with how nuclear power plants work.
5:20 ... the answer is 320 MJ = ~76.5kg of TNT. 26:19 ... a Carbon arc lamp is what powered a lot of old movie projectors ... they used to have two of them in the cinema in my home town when I was a teenager (in the 1980's) and I sometimes assisted in the projection booth with keeping the distance between the rods consistent, as the arc gets dimmer the farther apart the electrodes were, so you had to check every two minutes and adjust them so they were always about 1cm apart.
1. How he recharge his batteries 2. Why he doesn't wear an earprotection 3. Did he use suncream (arcs emit a lot of UV radiation) 4. why he doesn,t clean the contact area
Nice job on your reaction video.... We have battery strings like that at work also.... We have 24 connected together on bus bars, to make a ballpark 50-52 volt DC system, operating at a few thousand amps... I think we're floating it at 52 volts??? Yeah. 52.something Anyways, we have multiple strings of those..... Those feed into rectifier banks, and it provides backup commercial AC for several hours.... We also have backup generators, but if those fail to start.... Luckily, in all my years, we never tested how long those batteries really might last with no generator. Luckily I was always able to get the generator started..... We were told it was 6 to 8 hours, but... At another location, they supposedly went dark after a little more than 2 hours.... Anyways, I also got a laugh when you wondered aloud the rating of his arc flash suit..... I think ours were in calories??? I think I had a 12 calorie suit.....???? I'm not sure.
We used batteries to flash the field on 3 emergency diesel generators who came online automatically when power failed - this was one of 3 sources of backup power - the others were 500 kv and a 230kv lines
I've been taught in school can you can throw a wrench between the poles of a car battery and expect it back at the same speed. And bent. Styropyro pretty much proved it, in his own twisted way.
Fun and fascinating! One of the most striking things is the lack of a fat zap, or any hum, which I usually hear in high current videos, because this is of course DC, and the hum comes from AC mains voltage.
another point to make is that if you boil out the average car batt and it's full of hydrogen and ignites then it's almost equivalent to the average hand grenade going off - shorting a batt leads to this type of failure - the electrolyte is there for a number of reasons including safety - also since he's using maint free batts which are VRLA - they have a stabilization chemical added to the elec. to prevent evap. (it's an industrial batt tech that carried over to the consumer market)- but i'd have went old school deep-cycle and popped the caps and ran a fan to ensure maximum output with basically no chance of explosion (though fire would still be possible)
Wrench circuits are a thing in styro's other hobby: dangerously powerful lasers. You'd rather short your power supply than overvolt and kill your expensive and sometimes difficult to obtain laser diodes.
This is going to show my age, but a while ago, USS Long Beach was a nuclear powered cruiser and they had 2 battery rooms. Each room had 6 rows with each row holding 24 batteries long, and 4 batteries wide
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18:37
You made a very interesting point here, nobody understands how the big bang happened exactly and technically we are just a bunch of particles around fireballs,
Makes you wonder if he created a mini Big Bang right there, on its own micro timescale, think about atoms that gravitated around the molten metal and Fire when it looked like stars, microscopic planets and generations of lifetimes all gone in the flash of a second potentially, if you were to think of each one of those pieces of molten metal in the air as a little star forming then dying, Like the universe has and will on a bigger scale. I wonder if there's any forces that would make any microscopic quirks or particles float around those mini fireball suns
Real time fireworks from different metals, makes me wonder what he will get up too next.
he should have used a few forklift batteries
@@samnoneofyourbisnus2543 those things are gnarly. Was sliding one back on a metal rack one time at a factory and the wires got pinched going in and it dead shorted and exploded and blew the whole top of the battery off and rained acid. They upgraded their system to NOT an old steel rack after that.
320 megajoules is the amount of energy stored in barely less than 70 Kg of TNT
A note about Styropyro being on another level of insane than Allen and the Backyard Scientist. He really actually isn't. Yes, what he is doing is nuts, but his setup is well thought out and safe. That's not necessarily the case with the other two guys all the time. Particularly Backyard Scientist is pretty infamous for taking nearly no safety precautions at all while doing things that could seriously injure him.
Backyard Scientist is a Florida Man through and through.
And then there’s the guy that scares styropyro
@@Nishye501 is this guy a hypothetical or who is it
@@JadEDUfollowing lol
@@JadEDU he’s real, I forgot his RUclips channel give me a sec
One of the craziest things about that video is that the idea was suggested by a company that wanted to see what would happen and decided he was "the only person crazy enough to try," and also offered to sponsor the video.
Very interesting! T.Folse's narration and sidebars really added something that sometimes is missing from StyroPyro's videos. Reminds me of these English brothers (@Photonvids) who melt steel and other objects with high current produced via transformers- ruclips.net/video/DJOX0c60wQE/видео.html
PhotonicInduction is also knowledgeable and extremely crazy
Kids wild
Styropyro's dead eye stare makes me feel he's always in control. Death itself wouldn't dare.
People have been saying he will end up dead for ten years.
Instanteneous blacksmith?
@@TheHologr4m That's the point, he's way too smart for that.
Styropyro may be unhinged, but he EASILY has the most expertise and concern for safety out of almost any youtuber. He knows what he's doing and always at least tries to set up as many safety precautions as possible.
Stuff Made Here also takes multiple safety precautions. However he is not as unhinged
Edit: I missed a word
Styropyro is brilliant. He got his degree in Chemistry but is really good with electrical circuits, lasers, and physics.
There is 9 giga amps of irony in your comment. Safety precautions? Did you see what he made there? Do you know anything about fault currents? Safety precautions. Bwahhh!
@@labibbidabibbadum there’s a difference between making something dangerous, but using it with precaution and the respect it deserves, and being reckless and endangering yourself and others. Styropyro makes gigawatt lasers too, but knows exactly how to operate them safely, and even lambasts tutorials and companies selling faulty safety goggles and equipment. No one is arguing that what he’s doing would be dangerous, but with the right knowledge you can use dangerous things safely.
I myself am a chemist, and I routinely work with deadly poisonous compounds like cyanide and anilines. But I’m able to use them safely due to my knowledge and education concerning their proper handling and hazards. It’s the same sort of thing with Styropyro. Don’t get it twisted
@@spiderdude2099 Hi chemist, I'm an engineer and if you think this video somehow describes a respect for the forces involved or uses appropriate safety methods, then I'll be avoiding your lab. It's fun. Sure. It's like when I was a teenager I rode a dirt bike. I wore a helmet and gloves, leathers occasionally, but apart from that I jumped fences, rode like a goose, rode on the road unregistered - all the dumb things. It was great. I still do shit like that occasionally. But I don't pretend it's done with safety concerns in mind, cause it ain't. It's done with fun in mind. Period. If you think he's demonstrating appropriate safety techniques to protect him against megawatts, you're insane. He's done a rudimentary job of deploying some very basic safety techniques. He has relied on a serious amount of luck at the same time.
It's like that submersible at The Titanic site. They had good luck for a few dozen dives. Then the laws of physics and thermodynamics caught up with them. Big energy means big consequences. 60 volts will very likely not arc flash you. But it will happily do so in the right circumstances.
"Hello, fire department, we've got Thor Nutting in the backyard, please help!"
"The gayest force field in physics" was hilarious.
"What's so gay about magnets?" had me laughing.
If I heard Styropyro correctly, the batteries hold 320 MJ of energy, which is ~76 kg (168 lbs) TNT equivalent.
i just realized that the energy released during TNT exploding can be quite accurately calculated, considering it's all in the chemical bonds in the material. It's not some arbitrary equivalence. It's quite direct.
Your calculations are incorrect. You forgot to add in the propane tank on the other side of the fence next to the Batteries.
@@GeorgeTsiros For the most part, but I would imagine there are some inefficiencies! I believe the term is "explosive efficiency" and is a measure of the difference between the energy contained in the chemical bonds vs what is actually released in its detonation
@@DarkAttack14 true, it won't be exact, but even so, it is still meaningful, yes?
And one stick of dynamite is the energy equivalent of one mega joule so roughly 320 sticks of dynamite
Foldable plastic table shielding is something nuclear power stations should really look into.
Styropyro is extremely intelligent and safety conscious. I didn't think at first but I've watched enough of his videos to get a better understanding. A person would easily die or go blind with the things that he does if they weren't extremely safety-conscious.
The fuse setup on this one was a neat touch.
"Extremely intelligent" people do not hide from explosions caused by megawatt circuits behind a cheap folding table.
@@TheNefastor If it was done perfectly safely, it probably wouldn't be a great video
@@ZeRandomizor your definition of "great video" requires bodily harm, then. You might to think on that. Then again, 2000 years on, it's still the same thing : Joe Average yearns to see someone get hurt for his entertainment like it's the freaking Roman Empire circus games.
@@TheNefastor Ugh, average people. Savages.
What i really love is how after describes the batteries could probably create a crater, he just jumps cuts to himself laying on the batteries. Perfect
I also love how his battery array is within spitting distance of the large propane tank in the background... that offers 2 craters for the price of 1! 😄
I hope he gets to visit a steel mill electric arc furnace. I was in IT, and it included work in the melt shop. The EAF had three 24" hydraulically controlled carbon electrodes that drew the arc to melt the steel. The furnace had its own substation. Power was over 60 megawatts. That melted about 100 tons of scrap per hour. The sound was deafening, even with hearing protection. The light was brighter than the sun, and radiant heat was scorching. Standing in front of that machine was always thrilling.
I used to work in Telecommunications 40 years ago, and I visited an old style mechanical telephone exchange - they used to parallel stacks of 12V batteries.
I heard the story about someone who accidentally dropped a massive screwdriver across the bus bars and the thing just melted away.
I heard about a university where they were painting the room that housed the battery for the telecom room when one of the painters set a paint can down where it shorted across the terminals. It left a light coat of green paint evenly covering every surface in the room.
Yeah, a 5XB based CO could easily draw hundreds to thousands of amps at -48V.
Ive done enough work on smaller arrays, my biggest fear was dropping a wrench across the bus bars
@@davidconner-shover51 can you get insulated wrenches? Just a normal wrench with a coating on the handle?
@@conorstewart2214 Maybe some grip tape, I don't play with it too often, and the newer LiFePO4 batts have a BMS shutdown on overcurrent
I found it much more interesting when he helped maintain contact. Since the contact points continually kept disconnecting. It was much more satisfying when he was able to manually mess with the contact points himself. (It would be awesome if Styropyro does build a small reactor at some point. Or gets hired on to be a mad scientist for some big company lol)
I think the military asked him to come work on lasers at some point but he probably makes more money from social media than hed be getting paid there so
@@moodfm5673 it sure would be cool if he could be a "private contractor" worker for the government. So he can do what he wants but the government can call him when they need his help advancing laser technology in different projects, & areas of science. He seems like he could be so beneficial for so many aspects of experimental projects. I saw this one video on a (i think fusion concept) but the laser they use is so old and uses so much power & i swear Styropyro could improve that plant so much. *I wish i could remember what project I'm thinking about. My bad.
I don't know if we will ever know if he was actually asked to be working on lasers for the gov't...but that is a piece of gossip I choose to believe. As for his mad scientist thing. I believe we should be inclusive of these people and keep them as friends...I would not want one to be on the opposite side.
@@moodfm5673 Guessing here a bit, but if he's anything like me, he probably saw what the military expected of him and went "Nah, that isn't me." Then again the military probably wanted him for his smarts, thinking the people he would work with would teach him what he didn't already know. It's a thing with really smart people, they undervalue their potential in favor of what they've already achieved. You really need to lay it out for them if you want them on your team.
Or maybe, just maybe, they wanted him because he's cute and never ages.
I worked as a wind energy tech for a year. You would not belive what happens if you have a short inside the electrical cabinet. The big cables jump arround like they were possessed. They were originally kept in place by big zip ties. After the short all the zip ties were ripped and the cable was a few inches longer than before. And yes this was a lot of work to change out every damaged parts to get everything in working order again.
I was wondering when you would react to this video. It made laugh out loud more times than I can count. Always good to see another video from you.
This shit went from 100 to 1000000 in a second Styro is a crazy man
@@sugar858 He blew my socks off with this one lol
@@ScarlettStunningSpacePlease consult your sock doctor to see if they are in anyway injured.
@@nathanpfirman625 They're possessed by demons (jk)
Imagine being the two thieves from the "Home Alone" movie but instead of little Kevin you have little StyroPyro setting up the boobytraps.
Or worse: Michael Reeves!
Unfortunately... that would be termed a snuff film.
OBLITERATE
marv_scream.mp4
I feel like if a high school science teacher were ever struggling to get the kids excited about science, they could just show the students Styropyro's videos lol
This one was so much fun to watch. I'm not sure which I enjoyed more- Styro's antics or your reactions to them! Great video!
Thanks!!
I'm an electrician by trade. I heard 40k amps and INSTANTLY said "excuse me what?"
Seeing those bolts immediately liquefy and the threads nuts melt was certainly an experience.
I did some back of the envelope calculations when this video originally dropped, that battery bank can supply just over a megawatt, I was quite stumped and I think my jaw is still on the floor around here somewhere from when I dropped it then
And he had the audacity to do it 😂
And as the two guest tubers in the video said, “you shouldn’t be measuring in ‘mega’ anything”. Although I think anyone would agree Ohms would be an easy exception to that…except we know that’s one thing that didn’t come up in that video.
What if he was still calibrated for 12V, then his reading might be off by a factor of five. So the real output was 10KA at 60V, or 600,000 Watts
@@nameforcomments4092I haven't seen anyone do stuff with them, but megawatt diesel generators are not THAT expensive on ebay. They're primarily used for hospitals and other places that care about reliability, and have no interest in a 20 year old generator even if it's working fine, so the prices are pretty reasonable. But between the fact that they output high voltage 480v to 4160v depending on the model (requiring expensive step-down transformers to do something useful), and the fact that they consume tons of fuel (dozens of gallons per hour), they're not really practical even ifg you can afford the unit.
And for perspective there's a 2.2 megawatt 600 volt unit for $170,000 right now - but I've seen better deals.
Didn't it hit 2.7MW? Oh later he hits 3MW and says so right after
Best thing about seeing professionals react to styro is that their afraid of his insanity but there’s someone else who scares styro so be warned there are actual electric monsters walking amongst us
zilipoper?
Photonicinduction ?
Backyard scientist is a Florida native who does crazy experiments. You should check out some of his stuff.
Known "crackhead engineer".
Nothing compared to styropyro... or photonic induction.
Wish he would just follow some form of basic safety..
Love the floating smoke ring from the titanium flamethrower at @25:54
Just noticed it too. Cool af.
What gets me about this video in particular is that it wasn't even his own original idea; his sponsor for the video actually sent him the idea in their sponsorship email
Something you will never hear at a nuclear power plant: "I was hoping it would explode or something. Oh well".
That dissapointed "Oh well"
organic chemistry: put a dollar in the explosion jar :D
@@davidbonar5190but picric acid is such a pretty yellow! How bad can it really be? 😅
Styropyro is one traumatic backstory away from becoming a supervillain
18:30 my 9th grade teacher had a wild hypothesis that our unverse was flash of a match be struck by a higher being. To them the ignition and sparks only last a split second. To us inside the flash, it's been billions of years.
I know that is probably not the case but its always stuck with me. He was (retired not dead) a good teacher.
I mean… God did say “Let there be light.” And the Big Bang may have been that light.
Probably just recursion. I know on many levels the universe can be seen as a fractal
That's the most intriguing display of uninhibited electrons I've ever watched, thanks for finding and sharing this!
I love Electrons. My corporation is named after them.
it's cool to know that you're the guy that engineers nuclear power plants and my dad was the guy that built them. my dad was the project manager for the San anofre nuclear generating station project. he also unfortunately ended up falling and breaking his back inside a generator! he's 73 now and still a badass! love you pops thanks for being my hero!
The smoke ring on the titanium flamethrower part was nice
10:18 You can clearly see a very large tank of liquid natural gas or propane about 20 feet behind him and his Sparkanator 5000. Why did no one mention that here or on his original video?
😮
You talk about accidents in several videos and something I was always wondering is: what happens if there’s an uncontrolled fire in the control room? Does the whole plant have to shut down? Are there fire doors to stop it from spreading further? Where’s the worst place for an uncontrolled fire in a nuclear power plant?
I imagine they have a smaller backup control room. A fire in the computer room would be worse.
So your scenario almost happened at Brown's Ferry in 1975. A worker was using a candle to check the integrity of some seals around a wiring bundle in a cable room and set the whole thing afire. It destroyed a lot of wiring before being extinguished. In that case the reactor automatically put itself into automatic shutdown without any human operators needing to do anything. It did get pretty dicey, though, because a lot of safety systems and control room instruments quit working because of the damage. Still, no harm to the reactor core occurred. That was all the way back in 1975, though, so I would imagine that modern plants are better protected.
If there was time lapse footage of stars being formed it would look something like this. This guy probobly has the most terrifying fourth of july displays.
Young man single-handedly creating a toxic waste site lol
Well, they could always hide behind the propane tank, if their plastic table shield doesn’t provide the desired level of protection
you will need to declare your property a dangerously polluted super site
Stumbled upon this channel by accident and I'm hitting like with zero hesitation because there's no shade thrown at Styropyro's safety measures. Digging how the creator watched the vid all chill and smiley, totally catching the fun vibes that were definitely put there to delight us viewers. 😎👍
Yeah, for what he does, he has great safety, to be onest he has better safety than the backyard scientist.
I watched this when Styro first put it out and thought it was terrifying then. Watching it with nice headphones this time and it's way scarrier. By the time he is using it as a plasma cutter it sounds like some sort of evil monster.
I can tell you had a lot of fun with this one.
Now I'm wondering if the ultimate evolution of this content is you collabing with all the mad science youtubers to actually build one of those Z-pinch reactors
Heck yeah, was waiting to see if you’d do this one.
I saw his video originally and worried about all that molten slag damaging the insulation on his cables. He certainly does some serious engineering to set this stuff up.
Just wanted to say I really appreciate the way you're constantly trying to add to what's going on. I'd say you're an S-tier reactor because of that! A definitive example for others!
I have watched Styropyro for years.
He is the level of Dexters Lab I've not had the confidence or knowledge to perform safely that my brainbox craves.
Love the lasers....
I think if most others performed this there'd be major fires and/or personal injury, it feels well thought out lol
Well thought out for a crazy scientist anyway...
A long time ago in 1959 I wired my first 120v house circuit protected with a 15amp fuse. Used agw 14. I put a fuse in the fuse box. I turned on the swithch and got a flash. I wired the on-off swith incorrectlyly and shorted it out. When I took the switch out it had blown out. I was 9 at the time. In my career in engineering I also worked with system having large scale power considerations. I would say most people have no concept of megawatt power's explosive properties. If we consider a 12 volt batery has around 1.2 KWh of power that styopyo setup is about a 144 KWh battery. Now that is such a wonderful thing to be sitting on as you drtive around with all the other cautious safe drivers. I would prefer to sleep in a Nuclear Reator building. 😇
something I was wondering- did these batteries require charging during this video and if so how would that be done. Love Styro!
Probably a hamsterfarm.
doubt it's during the video. But you could charge the 12V parallel bank (first arrangement) with a normal dumb charger... very slowly. A smart charger might think your battery is faulty because the charge barely goes up when it dumps lots of current in!
I think that's all on a single charge. Each of these tests is basically a car start. The current draw and duration for each individual battery are well within the specifications for their intended use.
Both my father and I used to work at A Refuse, derived fuel power plant and their battery room. Was sized and appropriately arranged so that it could allow for a black start of the local grid if the entire grid saw a shutdown. The inverters for their u p s supply were designed so that they would provide a true sixty cycle sine wave for them to excite their generator and provide a power source for other generating stations to sync to.
styropyro! favorite midwestern pyromaniac imo
This guy seems like he writes "laugh" in his scripts.
I like how he's doing these experiments just a few yards away from a very large propane tank.
Don't worry it's full so nobody will feel a thing
Its so nice hearing and getting more understanding of whats happening, like both hearing more words but also moments of further realisation of the madness!
Thanks! i was one of the people requesting it. here a little thanks :)
Wow! Thanks so much!!
It was fun to watch your reaction and listen to your comments on this SP video. I had a second round of laughing until my sides cracked. I almost choked with laughter when I watched the original.
styro is insane, but is inspiring and fun, on top of the fact his setups are extremely well thought out and he has no neighbors😂 hope he keeps it up.
Styropyro is the nicest person I have ever had the chance to engage with , he has a voracious curiosity on multiple topics and is impressively educated on all of them. Dude is a gentle genius.
someone like you making a reaction video is the true purpose of channels like styropyro. this is the intended result: professionals seeing what the amateurs actually get up to, and providing insight we otherwise wouldn't have access to.
Styro is far from amateur
@@KCbuffalo well yeah but i suppose compared to a nuclear specialist he is but it is different fields
There’s another guy in the UK who used to make videos like this back in the day on RUclips called Photonicinduction he has some equally crazy experiments worth checking out. His last video released a couple of years ago he destroys a 5000A fuse with a 200 thousand amp capacitor bank.
5:09 - 76.48kg of TNT according to wolframalpha
Haha, I was just going to say about 75kg then saw this comment 🤣 pretty insane
3.6MJ is amount of caloric energy I ate for lunch. It's only 860 calories. TNT has terrible energy density, but it has to 1, carry its own oxidiser, while our bodies breathe air, 2 not release that energy while burning, or being oxidised, 3 release it all at once at a speed that is a significant fraction of orbital velocity, when a shock wave detonates it. In terms of peak power, it's a great standard, in terms of total energy released, it's less energetic than fuel air explosives, thermite or even gunpowder. It's about the same as lithium batteries, and only one order of magnitude higher than lead acid batteries
Didn't notice this on the original video, but at 25:53 one of the titanium arcs creates a smoke ring!
Lets all just be very glad for his safety that he was not able to reach anything measured in Giga… because you know he would use it
Not able *yet*
@@LocusNevernight oh yeah, if he actually manages to make his lightning machine i am Definitely expecting to hear far greater prefixes than even Giga… but, at least so far, he has not yet reached atmosphere charging levels of power dump.
19:37 Crowbar circuit are used in electronics. You put them across the rails in a power supply, and are triggered by something else in the circuit. When something goes wrong, the PS is shorted out, and (hopefully) the fuse blows. They are also useful to short the wires to an inductive load while simultaneously breaking the connection to the load, which prevents back EMF from frying everything.
I have used them on DC coupled power audio amplifiers. These types of circuits are most likely to fail closed and send continuous DC into the speakers. Since any driver in one of my speakers costs more that all the circuitry combined in an amp, they are an ideal method to protect them.
Hey! I recommend the video called “X-Ray Gun Experiments” by Kreosan English, one of the craziest electricity related video I ever saw. Looking forward to your reaction!
I stumbled across your channel while taking a 600ish mile round trip over Thanksgiving holiday to visit family. Instead of listening to overproduced and underwelming songs on the radio I listened to RUclips on autoplay...and only interrupted this during the at times more interesting tasks like eating the 3 Thanksgiving dinners...turns out having a broken home has it's benefits...but I digress...during the return leg of the trip your channel was the last and only one interesting enough to pull over and end the autoplay in order to like and subscribe...I have now binge watched a few and so far none have disappointed, and for that I thank you for this great shared experience you have blessed RUclips consumers with! Hope you had an interesting and fun holiday aswell!
Did anyone else see the smoke ring that got made at around 25:50 in the video?
Hey Tyler! I saw your video on the qserf dmr meltdown recently and just wanted to say that the video you saw of the game is very outdated. The game got updated not long ago and had improved a lot of stuff in the game including the meltdown. Also there is a 2nd reactor in the game called Foxtrot-9, it’s a type 247 fission reactor and is quite realistic for a roblox reactor that is. I hope you check this out for a later video has I think you’d like it a lot more than the video you saw of the old version of the game. Thanks and have a good day.
I like you reacting to this guy's videos. He's hilarious on his own, but seeing your reaction is even funnier.
I got an old 9/16s wrench with a decent sized spot melted out of the handle. I was working on a propane bobtail with a cat 3126 and i was changing the intake heater grate solenoid. Was working in a hurry so the batteries were still connected, and i accidentally let the wrench swing into the valve cover while loosening the nut on the hot lug of the solenoid. Instantly put that aforementioned spot on the handle, while i was holding it. Got a matching scar on my finger from the wrench momentarily turning into a cattle brand. And that was from 2 lousy truck batteries, probably less than 1500 CCA combined. Cant believe styropyro didnt melt more of his rig than he did with 49,000 amps or whatever loony ass number he topped out at.
That video was mental... that kid is a madman. And I LOVE IT!
The energy yield of TNT is approximately 4.184 gigajoules per ton, so his dealing with the equivalent of 75 tons of TNT per bank. That sounds about right. I calculated for a story once that the energy in the jet fuel of a small commuter jet was roughly similar to a small tactical nuke (though like the batteries, it cannot be instantly released).
He said Megajoules not Gigajoules so 320 Megajoules is equivalent to 75Kg of TNT not 75 Tons, certain people would have a field day if you could produce a 75ton TNT explosion with only 50 car batteries.........
Gives me an appreciation for the design of those massive high-amperage fuses - they have to blow _without_ setting everything around them on fire.
I'd never heard of batteries discharging hydrogen. That's neat.
Electrochemistry tends to do that sometimes.
sulfuric acid + lead
H2SO4 + Pb = PbS + 2O2 + H2
@@JohnLeePettimoreIIIThat’s not correct. The hydrogen is formed when overcharging occurs due to electrolysis of water.
That bismuth bar in slo-mo could have been used in any shot of a movie FX explosion.
While I appreciate seeing this reaction, I would have preferred if you waited a bit longer. Give the algorithm some more time to drive traffic to the original video.
I think at least a week is fair, after that the views are only a trickle in comparison.
this reminds me when i worked at Interstate Batteries at a warehouse here in my town back about 16 years ago, taking in old and used and new unsold stock to test and charge we hook them up like this and throw massive loads and charge cycles at them sometimes they explode right Infront of you. the seats in my car lasted 3 months before they gotten eaten away from acid all over me everyday...
I don't normally watch reaction videos but this was such a good watch, you're a really chill dude, thanks for sharing all your interesting knowledge!
You’re quite welcome!
5:29 How does StyroPyro NOT get electrocuted here?
There are exposed copper on the connections, and he lays across both the Red & Black lines.
Ans (as we will see) that energy can jump quite a bit, at least further than his clothes tiny thickness...
So, how/why is he alive?
It's only 12 volts. Which means while the current is very high potentially, it doesn't have the voltage to push through the resistance of his body and clothes.
It's the amps that kill, but it's the volts that help the current pass through.
Doesn't matter how much power is in that bank of batteries, if it's not at a high enough voltage (called breakdown voltage for insulators) it won't create a closed circuit through whatever's touching the terminals.
This is why you never saw any arcs of current through the air in this video, and also why styro could channel his inner French girl on that battery bank being relatively safe.
@@Blend3rman Thanks for the detailed explanation :D
@@TheLegendsmith Thanks for the explanation
Just found your channel! These young men demonstrate why added training is required to work in the switchyard. Retired 45 year on-site nuke worker.
I used to use crowbar circuits in all my electronics projects. Basically if you’re running a DC circuit, you put a big ass diode between the negative and positive input. If the circuit is wired right nothing happens. But if you accidentally hook it up backwards, the diode blows out the power supply before your project.
I was glad to see him go over the reason the test pieces weren't staying put (you didn't include that in your vid). He was essentially demonstrating (crudely) how a railgun operates. That pesky Lorentz force.
styro really has it all, personality, knowledge, and a bit of genius/insanity to mix it all together.
not sure what the reactor facility ave output is - small hydro is about 2.5 - 3ish MW (i'm not a hydro elec guy so would love to know the correct number) - the one inch bolt carried about 2.5MW before the fuses blew - (love his fuses BTW - >>>do not try at home
I am not sure whats more fun to watch .. the original video or the adult in the room reacting to it? Hilarious, just gold.
8:45 i’m forever referring to oscilloscopes as “o-silly-grams” 😂
It's really interesting to get that sort of explanation and helped me understand the physics involved with atomic fusion, having the basic visual of those magnetic fields separating those pieces of metal and then you explaining how that same force is used to compress those molucules of hydrogen together actually made a lot of sense to somebody like me who has little to no experience with how nuclear power plants work.
5:20 ... the answer is 320 MJ = ~76.5kg of TNT. 26:19 ... a Carbon arc lamp is what powered a lot of old movie projectors ... they used to have two of them in the cinema in my home town when I was a teenager (in the 1980's) and I sometimes assisted in the projection booth with keeping the distance between the rods consistent, as the arc gets dimmer the farther apart the electrodes were, so you had to check every two minutes and adjust them so they were always about 1cm apart.
That perfect smoke ring at 25:53 was really cool as well
Holy crap you're right, it's easy to miss thanks to the bright lights
1. How he recharge his batteries
2. Why he doesn't wear an earprotection
3. Did he use suncream (arcs emit a lot of UV radiation)
4. why he doesn,t clean the contact area
Nice job on your reaction video....
We have battery strings like that at work also.... We have 24 connected together on bus bars, to make a ballpark 50-52 volt DC system, operating at a few thousand amps... I think we're floating it at 52 volts??? Yeah. 52.something
Anyways, we have multiple strings of those..... Those feed into rectifier banks, and it provides backup commercial AC for several hours.... We also have backup generators, but if those fail to start.... Luckily, in all my years, we never tested how long those batteries really might last with no generator. Luckily I was always able to get the generator started.....
We were told it was 6 to 8 hours, but... At another location, they supposedly went dark after a little more than 2 hours....
Anyways, I also got a laugh when you wondered aloud the rating of his arc flash suit..... I think ours were in calories??? I think I had a 12 calorie suit.....???? I'm not sure.
You're the content I'm looking for.
Keep going 💪
10:43 - Are we just going to ignore that beautiful Polyphemus moth right there?
We used batteries to flash the field on 3 emergency diesel generators who came online automatically when power failed - this was one of 3 sources of backup power - the others were 500 kv and a 230kv lines
I've been taught in school can you can throw a wrench between the poles of a car battery and expect it back at the same speed. And bent.
Styropyro pretty much proved it, in his own twisted way.
Fun and fascinating! One of the most striking things is the lack of a fat zap, or any hum, which I usually hear in high current videos, because this is of course DC, and the hum comes from AC mains voltage.
another point to make is that if you boil out the average car batt and it's full of hydrogen and ignites then it's almost equivalent to the average hand grenade going off - shorting a batt leads to this type of failure - the electrolyte is there for a number of reasons including safety - also since he's using maint free batts which are VRLA - they have a stabilization chemical added to the elec. to prevent evap. (it's an industrial batt tech that carried over to the consumer market)- but i'd have went old school deep-cycle and popped the caps and ran a fan to ensure maximum output with basically no chance of explosion (though fire would still be possible)
I just watched his video yesterday. I like your input from a relevant field.
Wrench circuits are a thing in styro's other hobby: dangerously powerful lasers. You'd rather short your power supply than overvolt and kill your expensive and sometimes difficult to obtain laser diodes.
There's no way I'd go that close to all those spark with that head of hair. It's like a pile of tinder.
I loved styro's video. it just had me giddy the entire way through
This is going to show my age, but a while ago, USS Long Beach was a nuclear powered cruiser and they had 2 battery rooms. Each room had 6 rows with each row holding 24 batteries long, and 4 batteries wide
Roughly 76.5Kgs of TNT (of course, only raw energy conversion, nothing else taken into consideration)