You should watch more of Practical Engineering! The dude is super knowledgeable, has great graphics and physical experiments he uses to show his point, and every video is fascinating.
This guy is doing a public service. He admittedly loves public infrastructure and civil engineering and does an amazing job of balancing the technical details and gist of the underlying physics and engineering constraints with the context of the real world applications.
Sometimes the topics are almost comically mundane, but I jumped into them and found it thoroughly interesting. One example is his 10-minute explainer "What is a Culvert"[1]. It's the perfect debunking of something seeming "trivial" to the casual observer. In another video he comments on why on construction sites you see so many folks "just standing around".
He has videos you can watch with your kids about things you might ordinarily just wave your hands about, like "How Water Towers Work"[2]. And then bigger more much involved explanations on topics you certainly have heard of but never bothered to look into, like "What Really Happened During the 2003 Blackout?"[3].
lol I feel like I sound like a advertisement but I really just love his work and thoroughly recommend having this channel in your repertoire. He's also just earnest, not unnecessarily dire or animated, and often gives what feel like fair and balanced perspectives on some of the social issues surrounding these topics.
There is a wonderful YouTube channel called practical engineering. You might like that. It's primarily about hidden in plain plain infrastructure and the engineering behind it.
Applied science is a channel in a similar vein. Tackles a lot of interesting engineering projects and walks through all of his results till getting his final product. Really interesting stuff.
I have not seen that video, but he puts a lot of engineering work into his projects and might be hard to replicate if you are a DIY'er. Great videos to watch.
I appreciate the demonstrations he does for nearly every video. Also, there are so many engineering topics that sound boring, but are actually really interesting when you dig into them. The dangers of low-head dams is a great example of one of those topics.
Sebastian Lague does some of the best programming videos I've ever watched: https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague He is pretty light on the actual code (it's all open to see but he doesn't spend long going over it) and is focused on the outcome, which is huge for me.
+1 for Integza. You should probably include a disclaimer that it is backyard engineering at its finest. He doesn't really do a lot of hard science in his videos. He has great ideas and the persistence to get them at least semi-functional.
Engineerguy's youtube channel is a real gem, and I wish he made more videos. Every topic he's picked has made the subject matter interesting, even about the really mundane things like baby diaper design. My substitute channels in the meantime have been Practical Engineering and Applied Science, but those two don't really have the level of depth or polish (respectively) as Engineerguy.
His whole channel (called Technology Connections) is probably my favorite one on YouTube, can’t recommend it enough! My favorites are his series on refrigeration and heat pumps, for example this one:
This is not an answer to your question, but you may like the channel "Applied Science" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivA7_KLKWo43tFcCkFvydw He has a lot of strange projects with very different equipment. (Be aware that the DIY projects are not easy at all.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcXkmvXXwU&list=PLTZM4MrZKf...
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