THE VIDEO SHELF · black hole energy
The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
Kurzgesagt explains the black hole bomb and how far-future civilizations might extract energy from spinning black holes, including Dyson-sphere-style ideas.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked as a nice summary of how civilizations could harvest black hole energy.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
- Topic
- black hole energy
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Kurzgesagt had some nice summaries of: 1) Why white dwarves might be the last home for life in the universe - [LINK] 2) ...or maybe it will be black holes - [VIDEO]
Malic on Hacker News · 2018-06
In What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from nowThere's also the Penrose process which is theoretically useful on spinning black holes. I also watched this in the past, which has some fun ideas (that are probably a little fanciful?) [VIDEO] tl;dw: put a mirror around it and shine light in, get back lots …
kadoban on Hacker News · 2021-08
In What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
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