The Plan to Fertilize the Ocean With IRON
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2019
- One day my marine biology professor had us all read a paper proposing the idea of fertilizing the ocean using iron to create phytoplankton blooms to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat climate change. While initially quite a preposterous proposal, the science behind this goal may be enough to convince you otherwise.
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This reminds me of the Human's solution in Futurama: Just drop a Giant Ice cube to the Sea.
Or that episode when they repelled an incoming giant trash ball with another giant trash ball
God, loved those series
Tow a chunk of ice from the kuiper belt and have it crash into Antarctica
Rain The Draconic that would actually create a lot of heat as it crashes down actually causing ALOT more harm than good
@@lukereich3536 that's hilarious
Thus solving the problem once and for all
Little girl: But...
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Now I'm curious about the effects shipwrecks have at their surrounding.
A ton of ocean life thrives as a result. Take a peek around there's tons of videos
Sometimes a ship is sunk on purpose to create habitats for fish, but yeah I guess it'll help in more than one way
@@HUGOGARCAO Awesome!
I was thinking the same thing lel. I guess unless it contains oil, it'll rust into a biome
ok now i want to know approx. how much weight a shipwreck loses per, let's say a decade, to the process of the steel hull slowly dissolving into the water.
*Plankton wants to know your secret recipe's location*
It's iron make sure you don't get anemia.
I think it’s in the Krusty Krab
Oh no, we've doomed the planet, what do we do?
Some guy: Why don't we give the ocean some vitamins
Hahah this genuinely made me laugh. Thanks
Underrated comment😂
Fe-rtilize
You my friend... are a genius
Best comment of the week
A very "periodic" comment.
Omg
LlamaStein, I feel the iron-y.
"1% argon but that's not really important"
Argon: :(
=ARGON IS INERT SO IT DOESNT CARE ABOUT THAT
=HEHE
@@robotnikkkk001it cares, it just can’t do anything, cause it’s inert.
The total amount of iron needed to treat the ocean is relatively small so I question the offset numbers. Additionally it has been shown that there is increased growth in fish life which would be a definite positive as they are being depleted . Sounds like a win win to me.
Don't living things need sunlight to survive?
What happens when this large algae blanket blots out the sun on kilometres of ocean surface?
Nah... she'll be right mate! Algal bloom is always a boon for the environments that it occurs in! 👍👍😎
@@wormbo2 Yeah, algae blooms are really bad, but these regions are already almost depleted of life so I don't see how it could be so bad, if done properly.
@@ronaldovargaslopes5919 still, manmade algae blooms on such a large scale even on scarcely-populated ocean areas can have unforeseeable consequences. The main problem with this proposal is that its consequences can't be measured easily via smaller-scale experiments, so it's a pretty big risk to just create algae blooms willy-nilly. I don't think scientists are wrong to be cautious or dubious of this approach
What could go wrong? Just 1/3 of the world's waters turning to blood. Hmm! Wonder where I have heard that before?
No biggie! Beautiful Blue Carrribean waters are so overrated. We are going to risk everything on this next new thing some group came up with. What's really amazing to me is the number of people applauding this idea and not falling out their chair in shock that this is even being discussed as "options to save the planet".
@@iCarus_A yes but compared to what? We are talking about mass desertification along the equator, potential releases of enormous amounts of methane in the permafrost and the melting of the arctic as major feedback effects amplifying our existing warming to catastrophic levels - we're talking about near human extinction, and if not that then superhurricanes and the melting of glaciers causing serious geopolitical instability and mass migration that no country can handle.
The effects on the local flora and fauna in the ocean are not a major concern in comparison...
Can you IMAGINE the amount of conspiracy theories that will spring up around this if this is ever put into practice...
Mistaken Rants . Consider the conspiracy required to not do it. By far the easiest and cheapest mitagation if CO2.
@@thebeautifulones5436 did 6ou not watch the end of the video? This would barley put a dent in our carbon emissions.
@snowpiercer
@@macaroon_nuggets8008 Even if most of the carbon is released over time, that would still help buy us more time to implement other measures. Humans love putting debts on future generations, might as well get a climate loan so we have time to figure out how to get rid of the CO2 for good.
I think Bill Gates sponsored this video
2:42 "Oh yeah almost 1 percent Argon but that's not really important"
I laugh harder than i need to
Well it never is.
tbf it's a noble gas what're you gonna do with it
Well plastic don't work , lets give iron a try !
A bulk of plastic pollution comes from Asia and Africa, by the way.
@@Iamwolf134
Then we need bacteria that can consume the plastic.
I believe there is at least one species.
@@Iamwolf134 this is because a lot of more modern countries have shipped plastic to that area; all the while those nations have become increasingly modern and populous.
@@butterman0007 Even that's only because those areas chose to have western countries ship that plastic into them. Besides, what these poorer countries did with that plastic once they got it was of no western nation's inherent responsibility. In other words; buyer's responsibility.
@@Iamwolf134 well I don't know about you but if I buy a gun and end up shooting my fingers I'm going to sue a Pianist
We iron seeded off the coast of British Columbia and it restored the salmon stock to the greatest catch levels in the last hundred years! It also deposited a lot of carbon into the ocean as shells.
If someone already does that and it works, then we should do more of that
Why have I never heard of it? U would think any video mentioning overfishing would mention this as a partial answer. I see ur comment 3 years old. Do they still dumb iron shavings in ocean to raise ocean life?
I just watched the video of the guys who led that experiment and he claims that the Canadian gov sent a swat team to the facility they were at and took all their research
if this is the case for you lot, imma eventually try that in my country too and hopefully we can eventually get better fish yield too
@@nikitaw1982 czcams.com/video/i4Hnv_ZJSQY/video.html
So humans Have been playing the LONGEST *UNO* GAME ever
Plankton: “alright Co2 is kinda gone”
Humans:”REVERSE CARD”
Capitalism: *+25 cards and skip next player*
@@gearandalthefirst7027 Return your phone idiot
@@riche3244 based
“And yep you guessed it” no I really didn’t
lol true
BITCH YOU GUESSED IT!!! XD you was riiight...
I’m glad I discovered you channel! The videos are extremely well made and interesting. It’s nice to see that you’ve gone from 18k subs to 180k+!
My mind is still blown that he does not have 100 million+ subscribers.
Miao!
hmm throwing terms like 'hit by meteors' instead of explaining the hypothesis to it which is what it is and the likes of the conflicting ice age phase hypothesis. seems a vague explanation to it all, he wont explain why or how there is 1% argon in our atmosphere as its not important, yet the 0.0002% of methane is?
@@Dockhead argon is a noble gas. It does not react with much. Methane on the other hand is a very potent greenhouse gas and an organic compound.
And anyway you shouldn't look at how much of a percentage a gas is in the atmosphere but how much we are releasing into the atmosphere.
Unless you you don't think humans cause climate change. But then I think your on the wrong channel.
💯 million coming soon.
Plankton: ok I think that’s the last box of co2
Humans already burning the boxes: hehe
the format and infos is sick!! keep up that work you're awesome!!!
can save the earth by fertilizing oceans with iron: "well yes but actually no"
navy war for life
Fertilizing oceans with iron that can and will strip the Earth's atmosphere free of carbon dioxide will be terrible for plant life for plants needs carbon dioxide to breath in in order to live AND PRODUCE FOODS AND MEDICINES for us! But it is an idea worth pursuing in a CONTAINED ENVIRONMENT where one is cultivating edible micro-algae such as chlorella and spirulina and scesdesmus and wolffia achira and duanellia and others and so forth and so on. Because if 1 kilogram of water soluble iron powder can produce 100,000 kilograms of plankton or edible micro-algae, then one can only imagine what positive effects it can do for food production.
darthvader5300 so don't put too much in?
Edit: also, plant life etc seemed to have been able to survive before all this carbon dioxide was even extracted from the ground soooooo?
Edit 2: aaannnnnnddddd I just watched the whole video. Good short term plan though lol, I guess...xd
@@hazzballgaming6790 These days there's just more of it available for more plants to be able to survive in, thus causing the earth to become increasingly verdant as a result.
@@darthvader5300 they want CO2 levels below 200 at 150ppm plants (and WE) DIE. There is no climate/CO2 crisis, thats a $$$ tax crisis, airliners intercontinental fly since 1952 in jetstream which destroys ozonelayer , now half of level 1960 (and jetstream) since 1960, that slows since 1960 gulfstream (slowest since 1600 years) which causes WEATHER not climate change. UVindex now double from last years heatwave summer, and UV destroys fytoplankton....so BAN intercontinental flights airlines in jetstream WORLWIDE....
Just bring some villagers and make an iron golem farm
Y
Got nerfed :(
Add some lava ... to harvest the iron.
You need to do something about all those flowers/roses, however.
@@zeryphex use those to stop desertification by planting them in the desert
@@akaeru1071 rip
That was one of the more educational videos on something that's very pertinent to me that I've ever seen!!! Bravo bravo keep up the great work
I'm addicted to your channel! Thank you so much! if only science had been taught like this at school. I'd love to see a video about kelp if you feel inspired! : )
4:12 these fellas are doing some serious experiments that involve wearing dustmasks when working with water, a piece of dry ice and 2 sorts of food coloring
she probably has no clue about chemistry at all or she wouldnt be able to keep that serious face XD
OMG I'm mixing yellow water with green water ! OMG ! Science is so coool ! I'm must take a picture for Instagram !
Fe-llas
Oh the irony
I don't know. It sounds a bit rusty to me.
(I had to, sorry)
I hate you now ;)
I’m always amazed how you spent the first several minutes of this video answering the question “why does climate change exist?” down to the most fundamental levels.
Would you mind creating a playlist for all your environmental videos? It would make some of these amazing videos so much easier to find! Love the video and thank you! I learned so much in just a few minutes ^v^
Are you going to discuss the transaqua project for Africa.
The megaproject to restore lake Chad.
What happened to the lake
@@talentleesdorito9771 they used most of it up
@@talentleesdorito9771 Mainly climate change.
@@dantew5810 it's not climate change though is it? It's cotton farming, no?
@@walruspanda8768 That's the Aral Sea you are thinking of. The same happend to that lake.
"Such as not doing this as much, or promising to hardly do this at all in the future but doing just as much now"
Haha :D
Love your videos!
The problem is not the method as much as the lack of will to actually do it.
4:15 "What do scientists do?" --> mix green water with yellow water and a pebble of dry ice to seem cool
That's actually the cure for cancer!
And they succeeded at it.
I am glad you are being responsible and doing the homework on this video. The simple solutions never really are simple. In my opinion a group of psychologists well informed by scientists will be the most effective weapon against climate change.
Yeah psychologists scientists could solve to by telling everyone it is bullshit
Would be neat if everyone involved were also completely unbiased, to the point that they have to sign waivers on it (just to make sure).
Very informative video. Thank you for uploading. Hope you get more recognition!!!
Wouldn’t this draw all the oxygen from the water? Oxygen deprivation and fish death is common when lakes are polluted by nutrients
First channel I subscribed in CZcams❤️
This channel deserves atleast 1M subscribers 👍🏻
That was really interesting and deeply analysed. I'm glad to have found this channel.
Just out of curiosity, does the iron have to be in the metallic form, or does plain iron oxides/hydroxides work? There's a huge difference in the resources needed to processes it. Also there are vast swaths of easily accessible iron ore, that aren't pure enough for refining, but presumably low grade ore, even full of contaminants like silicon, would be fine to spread.
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Yes, because presumably if the natural process comes from deserts around the world, then it would follow that accelerating this process would also work (if more slowly than a more refined material).
Oceon pasture restoration. Its already underway and it works.
i think hydroxides would work too because according to what the video said, researchers has been using iron that had been dissolved in sulfuric acid, and iron hydroxides can dissolve in sulfuric acid too
so i guess solutions containing iron ions should suffice, whether if we should use fe2+ or fe3+, that i am unsure
Honestly, a 5% per yearly emissions century-long retention of carbon in the oceans would be useful. The big issue is the inertia of all the systems involved, including energy production, so anything that efficiently spreads the effect over a longer period is a positive.
Though personally, I'm more interested in wave-driven open-ocean pumps.
It's not 5% it's 0.05% (that's 1 half of 1 percent)
And if we remember how americans were smart enough to make lead gasoline and create ozone holes we could only imagine how screwed ocean could get.
There are still quite a few points missing from the equation.
I'm missing the large oceanic currents in the picture, which would aid in the presence of increased productivity, simply for being in the right spot. This would also explain the reason why large areas simply aren't fertilized by the currents. It would explain the rather harsh dividing line between the north and south and the isolation of the southpole. Although briefed touched upon, I didn't see a picture depicting the yearly dust cloud from the sahara to the amazon which we now know to be one of the biggest influences on amazonian forests and life in general.
But if anything, more plankton allows for more food in the foodchain and thus more sealife in general. More sealife is generally better for everybody.
@@kylorenkardashian79 0.05 is not half of one percent its half of 0.1 percent
Thank you. There was a video recently (can't remember the channel) that proposed this. At the time I was very skeptical, but I couldn't find anything to debunk the Fe seeding plan. You have clarified it perfectly.
So..iron from desert sand...so should we start scooping the ever growing sahara and sea dumping it?
I love the generic science video clips just mixing random chemicals with no measurements...
water and food coloring
No way, really?!....
@@matanuskabutler7566 and dry ice, im positive
dustmasks are also very useful
Ok, sarcasm aside, duh its water and food coloring. I'm merely commenting on the absurdity of mixing random amounts of chemicals with no concern for the size or scope of the reaction. How it's always showing science as swishing some liquids about it a shaped container
@@matanuskabutler7566 i know :p
1:17
Hey, I know where that is! It's Kaupanger, Norway!
Fantastic! (I'm Norwegian)
So what you say is: We need a giant Iron-Comet falling in the pacific ocean.
Epic explanation of a complex problem. Thanks
I had an idea.. human contains irons, why dont we dump humans into the ocean?! Thank me later.
lol
Need more minds like yours working on these tough global problems
I believe the Geneva convention restricts this under the conclusion of 'dude!' and the UN treaty of 'Bruh, seriously'.
That's where I plan on going when I'm done with my meat sack...
you first
4:12...that “have to kill batman” eyes
An idea I had a while back: you could make something similar to the machines being developed to collect plastic from the ocean and use it to collect algae from dead zones (where the process described in the video caused out of control algae growth to kill everything else), the local tourism industry or government could pay for it (dead fish don't exactly attract tourists, so they would have a reason for it). There are a lot of ideas to use algae to make more environmentally friendly products, so you'd have plenty of uses for it, and if you still can't find a place to put it, you can just dump it in the high seas where it would be unlikely to cause a dead zone
There is another way that iron can be used to sequester carbon in the ocean.
Mineral deposition through electrolysis has the ability to quickly store tones of carbon through the formation of calcium carbonate. This process can and already has been used to repair damaged reefs or create entirely new ones. Not only does this store carbon quickly, it promotes the growth of marine ecosystems that store even more carbon. Furthermore, the creation of marine ecosystems increases much needed fisheries that are needed to help feed a growing population.
well explained , i studied ecology and that was perfect !! thanks
You are perhaps one of the most informative channels in CZcams. When I saw you only had 26k subscribers, I was slightly shocked that you didn’t have more, so I subscribed. In addition, I was kind of angry because you deserved more, thus I subscribed, now you have 193k. Well done, and keep up the good work.
So you're saying you're 167k people? :P
Up to 1.05 million now
Awesome vid. Yeah, please make more of this great topic on ideas to change the climate.
An interesting topic. Thanks for making the video.
Good timing, just as i finished watching all his other videos
This was done by an individual and totally messed with the local marine life off British Columbia, it's worth researching that incident ...
THANK YOU. I was wondering about just such a thing.
Scientific American, www.google.com/url?q=www.scientificamerican.com/article/iron-dumping-ocean-experiment-sparks-controversy/
It was a dumb move yet shows what happens is an integrated, it's all connected deal.
It was a success that resulted in a big bump up of Salmon. Plankton increase causes an increase in marine life.
@@tomcop668 True, it caused blooms yet they weren't at all beneficial vs acidification dissolving pteropds , over 10% population loss vs 1970's to salmon fry & juveniles their primary food in the PacNW with no end in sight.
The only global scale counter to grind base pH rocks_to_flour into seas raises pH, it's plankton that RemoveCO2. If this isn't done when emissions finally end oceans outgas their excess CO2 stays above 400ppm >> 120,000yrs, try to drop it more req's grinding rocks or we're extinct in 3.5ky-5ky.
Too bad, tis so sad.
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@@tomcop668 No. There's far more life in the ocean than plankton and salmon. And it's all critical to the full ecosystem. You algefy the ocean you essentially destroy all other plant life that is CRITICAL habitat and food for basically everything in the ocean. It's called a food CHAIN for a reason.
I read about this a long time ago. The name of the article was something like, “Give me a tanker of iron and I’ll give you an ice age.”
Yes I very much like this. I read similar information in the early 1990's when Gregory Benford was the science editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine. He wrote of a number of different schemes that could be used to combat climate change. Adding iron to remote areas of oceans was one of these. I do not remember if the Antarctic Ocean was included.
I've been subbed since you had 20k subs. Crazy how fast your channel exploded
I'm curious to know how much more food we would be able to fish from this fertilized ocean. Any studies on that related to this iron thing?
The guy in this video mentions something about it czcams.com/video/i4Hnv_ZJSQY/video.html
I think a lot. But you remember that the basic idea was to reduce the amount of CO2 which catching fish would counter because the CO2 would stay in the biosphere.
One point he forgot to mention was that plankton rarely makes it down to the bottom of the sea while fish etc. make up the majority of the sediments.
Another awesome video pnce again.
The quality of the comments reflects the quality of your videos. These are the best comments I've seen on any CZcams video!
2 points about Ammonia:
* You can make the hydrogen in ammonia from renewable sources.
* The Haber Bosch process is actually exothermic - the reaction produces energy
Correct but it also requires s high input energy. Also most renewable sources are inefficient
The government should pass a law that if you put a image or video depicting cooling tower vapour as smoke (CO2) emissions you should get fined 100,000$ for misrepresentation!
Lol so true
Ja the optics look so lopsided. Especially when it's the UK where it looks like armageddon
I support your method completely, plus I've also have been studying Iron plus other chemicals,
As PhD and prof of chemistry, I suggest to treat iron ore with waste sulfuric acid ( already containing iron sulfate from production of titanium oxide pigment ), then increasing the pH with limestone and pour the still slightly acid slurry into the iron deficient seas away from corals. Main cost is transport. Although it would hardly reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere , it would be biologically beneficial. And note that global warming is hardly caused by the anthropogenic increase in CO2 , but by cyclic solar activity, this goes against popular opinion and vested economic interests. Basic physics tell us that the temperature of the Earth is kept up to 2/3 by the varying Sun and to 1/3 by the practically constant decay of U and Th inside the Earth.
Thank you!!!
"The earth cooling is resulting in desertification"
"Here's some ways we're thinking of to keep that going"
@@cavedmanjim249 I actually think developed nations need the climate change thing to be as bad as Al Gore said so we have something productive to worry about. Our default status is war for motivation, disease, but rapid onset global warming would require some really cool solutions that will help us do a bunch of other important things with space and shit.
@@cavedmanjim249 it's not an excuse for anything, I just think our evolution has shown that climate change = change in selection pressures. May as well get on with it and take control while we still can. It would allow us an excuse to rebuild infrastructure, move cities around, fix demographic issues by taking migration seriously. Fixing disease and general poverty is well on the way, and climate change accelerating will only mean more resources are thrown at these issues generally. If we actually start having an honest global climate plan.
Edited for spelling.
Thanks for making this video. Very informative. What about capturing the Plankton and then storing them in disused mines?
Lol
We need to keep testing and researching this. It's huge
1:15 Respiration is the process of breaking organic molecules apart (oxidization), the word you were thinking of is biosynthesis.
>or in english
>uses a term conjured from two greek words
Its almost like thats how language works
YellowBanan Yeah.. it’s almost like English takes words from other languages and makes it into their proper pronunciation.. weird..
@@jade4781 To be fair, there are languages that can/could express new concepts without foreign words. Icelandic, Inuktitut, German, Chinese and many others. Some of them use foreign words anyway, though.
"Almost one percent _are gone_ (Argon)"
There's a pun in there somewhere, I just can't shoe horn it not can I even find it.
As for where to get the processed iron all you need to do is go to an integrated steel mill. When they blow a heat in the oxygen furnace a scrubber called a precipitator pulls out fine iron oxide from the escaping heated air mass, and does so by the ton. The one I worked at disposed of at least twenty bags (2 ton each) daily.
I like your video. Well done!
>Accidentally did climate enginnering
>Oh no, we dont know much at all, we must reverse it
>Intentionally do climate enginnering
>Expect things to be alright.
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@@TomMKW I mean if your specie is still struggling at creating a mechnical system that is either maintainence free or completely self maintaining for the next several millennia in order to perform these kind of "simple" planetary engineering projects, it might be a hint to just learn more about it before trying.
@@memk yeah let's just wait until we are extinct before we start trying to solve the problem. this has to be the stupidest comment i have ever read.
@@TomMKW If the "wait" can makes you go extinct then may be your priority should be improving your tech so that you wont first, THEN think about how to fix it long term. Because you are not going to be fast enough. Get that fusion power working and full automation first before start putting iron in your water and hope that you could might be saved in 3000 years.
@@memk i never said to not invest into technology. There's absolutely no reason we can't be doing both at the same time. Truth is, the longer we wait to adress the problem the bigger it's going to be in the future and the more it will end up costing. But i guess you don't mind and just want to leave the next generation with the costs while you try to live guilt free by rationalizing your idea what we're doing now aint bad.
1: Take iron-rich meteoroids and plunge them into the iron-depleted parts of the ocean.
2: The meteoroids slowly dissolve in the ocean and release iron alongside other minerals.
3: ?????
4: Profit!
That's how mafia works.
The main problem here is: solid clumps of iron sink to the bottom of the ocean, while the iron is needed in the upper layers where the sunlight supports cyanobacterial/phytoplanktonic growth.
@@SeaUrchinZone exactly. Iron would have to float like an icecube. Maybe it can be combined with lighter materials to make that happen. *shrug*
@@SeaUrchinZone that's where the ????? comes in
Yeah: add balloons for floating, place over deep see and sink when ready.
Great video! 👍
Iron also acts as a catalyst for the Haber process. This results in the increase of ammonia. therefore, increase in nutrients.
Yepp, plenty of fish is a side-effect
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I read this article when i had done project(innovative) on this topic during my college days.. After more study we conclude that though this process look good but it result in changing ecosystem of ocean and more algae bloom,invasion of microorganism and iron poisioning which kills ocean animals and corals.. The best way to tackle climate change is to use renewable energy more and using more efficient machines which runs on fossil fuels,growing trees and recently scientist researching to absorb carbon in atmosphere form into stones.. Dont know how reliable is..
Human thought he is better but he dug grave for himself.. What ever happen because of climate change, our earth survive and microbes to survive.. Our planet already saw five extinction.. If humans die new organism will born better than homio sapiens that is evolution.
This video also reminds me about azola video.. Nice explantion sir.. You are awesome.. Thanks for the video..😀
Solar and wind are garbage. Nuclear is the only viable solution.
Yes, solar/wind produce more waste.
The Fukushima Exclusion zone is less radioactive than Denver.
Even at the worst case scenario for Chernobyl nuclear is a factor of 10 times safer than solar and a factor of 100,000 times safer than coal.
Entire us solar capacity = 2 GW nuclear plant.
most of this energy is provided when it is not needed which artificially deflates the price of solar.
Adding nuclear to the grid increases supply 24 hrs a day reducing price across the board.
Economies that rely on solar/wind suffer from having coal/nat gas plants which struggle to profit, during times when solar/wind are off (literally every single day at some point every day) people end up paying ridiculous amounts for electricity.
Solar produces 300 times more waste than nuclear and panels have a half life of 30 years.
A solid nuclear plant can last 80 years.
Cost per GW in China,South Korea, and France is 3 billion and dropping, this is easily achievable or we can contract France to build for us.
The time for the nuclear age is now. bitch ass solar and wind do nothing but cause problems and delay the solution.
What to do with waste? up your ass. No seriously, steel barrels. It's solid material, it won't fly off.
Nuclear when it goes wrong is better than solar when it goes wrong is better than coal when it goes right.
Show some respect for the bilingual among us
@@stevenutter3614 hey metal head.. I understood what he said.. If you dont understand,your head is garbage.. This is science channel dont use swear word.. If you are smart go and act somewhere else...
@@rohannapthali1658 as a bilingual, that comment was hard as fuck to read. Didn't have to wash my eyes after that though, so that's a plus.
@@xvladdy5928 hey.. What up with you? You internet bullies wont accept if others speak english.. You better use swear word somewhere else. I dont want to spend time with you bullies..
please do more vids like this.
More stuff like this would be super cool.
Very informative video. I like it.
420'000 years
damn *earth is dope*
Earth smoke dank
Nice
Nice
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What if I comment on it?
Are you happy now?
@@AtlasPro1 oh snap gottem
@@AtlasPro1 I'll be happier. Twice
@@griffinclements3908 Yes I do.
We talked about this in my bio lecture
Very interesting, thank you!!!
Steve would be mining the ocean.
No because of all the drowned in it
@@rydemk4168 then make it peaceful durr
starkgalaxy131 then he would drown
Respiration helmet?
Increasing the humus content of our agriculturally used soil is another important way to extract carbon from the atmosphere and bind it.
I am convinced, that farmers have the most important profession in the world.
Humus?
@@user-do5zk6jh1k Humus !
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus
@@user-do5zk6jh1k also sabra
@@Betterhose Cool. Thank you
Great video, and super informative... do you have any knowledge on a process to "clean-up" contaminated lakes using biological processes?
Excellent video.
and thus salty iron man is born.
3000
Great video! Any chance you could make a video about how the Fukushima disaster is affecting the pacific ocean?
It doesn't really affect the pacific as a whole, it's way too big. During the early days of nuclear power they just dumped the waste into the oceans since it dissolves in so much water that you are left pretty much just background radiation again. I'm not defending this as a good thing, they banned this practice for a reason, the point is that the ocean used to be systematically bombarded with nuclear waste of many nuclear plants and Fukushima is just one power plant that had a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly).
Igor Katchkin pretty low actually.....
@@thulyblu5486 The problem is that once you do some research on the health you start to hear about horror stories. Like whales being seen with massive tumors and the declining population of orcas in the pacific ocean. The problem is that this is the worst nuclear disaster since chernobyl but now instead of the radiation being contained its seeping into the ocean and has been for over 7 years. Something like this has never happened in the history of mankind and I truly believe that more people should talk about it.
@@detachsoup6061 looking at the stories told by fisherman about what they see on the pacific ocean is more than enough proof that something is really really wrong.
Igor Katchkin yess a lot is very wrong with our oceans, but you cant link it to fukisima, also in whole japan only 1 person died due this radiation, and yess people dont live in the ocean, but the effect should be more notible if it would be so bad.
Fukisima was a horrible diseaster but it has been seemed worse than it is, nuclear energy is a the best energy for place without major natural diseaster, modern nuclear reactors are super safe and tjernobyl isnt a relevant argument, the earthquake in japan was one of the strongest ever notice by humans, so its not likely to ever happen again.
0:32 damn this is trippy
You see my profile picture?
This is an Iron reef now.
Titanic sank
The organism deprived of iron: IRON IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Just my 2 cents as someone who works with aquariums... it sounds good on paper but usually wreaks havoc in reality.
Algae/bacteria blooms can cause serious death to anything that touches the water and adding too much Nitrogen to the nitrogen cycle will kill wildlife namely fish if concentrated enough. Plants and beneficial bacteria use nitrogen, but alage tends to use it more and can overwhelm anything else thereby causing death to other plants/animals if left unchecked. Snails and fish that eat algae will overwhelm the ecosystem to eat up the plentiful bounty if not killed by nitrogen levels spiking beforehand. I don't work with coral, but I bet you anything they will suffer major casualties as well since most will die if even the smallest of changes happen to water parameters..... In other words TONS OF LOSS all around.
marine and freshwater species generally can't handle too much change otherwise they die. Granted the ocean is a huge body of water, but if something changes big enough it still effects them.
Exactly. There’s also ALWAYS unknown consequences when to trying to engineer ecosystems. It’s just too intricate for us to know what’s going to happen throughout the food chain. We would get caught in an endless loop of trying to mitigate our alterations. We’ve done many times with animals and thy become invasive species, so we then introduce more animals to control the problems we caused. I don’t trust that we’re smart enough to know how to do this kind of thing safely.
Screw fish, those eyelidless bastards are plotting something... I just know it.
Well, you must know how stocking ratio and system-volume affect stability, specially regarding the nitrogen cycle, right?
Have you worked with planted tanks or saltwater with ats/alge refugiua? These systems are limited by Fe, and dose accordingly. Further; N often limits P-uptake, so N can be dosed, though gfo can do a good job of bringing P and Fe into balance..
Seems that the effect on atmospheric carbon is minimal, but I wonder what kind of local affect it has on dissolved CO2/acidification. Thinking an increased ph and abundance of food-particles would aid in reef calcification, sinking additional C in the form of coral carbonates.
They also don't seem to have factored in whale migration's role as a carbon-pump..
thanks for video
Incredible productions.
You've seen Iron-Man
Now get ready for...
Iron fish?
Plankton Man?
AIDS.
I was wondering why we don't do this with food waste and human waste.
Thanks for the insight!
tried that for loooong time back before we used sewage treatment
@@hobog
I don't mean coastal release.
I mean deep sea pumps.
We use tankers to harvest the methane and release the material once spent into the oceans.
The algae blooms and the material enters the food chain safely.
* "...unfortunately, sometimes those people need a reliable source of income to support themselves..." And there you have it~
Imagine how much 'science' started with this exact motivator~
'Scientism' meets Economics;
1. Begin with a Hypothesis and Conjecture,
2. Toss in a splash of Alarmism,
3. Offer a possible solution (cloaked within polished, sophisticated presentation),
4. Seek and secure funding. *
This is a classic example of Marketing 101 - "Recognize a problem, create a sense of urgency, offer the best solution."
Nothing seems more 'reasonable' than to observe humans speculate, convince the masses of a problem, take some radical/risky action, only to find out they were wrong. (Gambling)
It's one thing to experiment on a small scale, but when it goes global and government policy is mandated (funding), only time will prove if the 'professionals' got it wrong... or right.
Will humans ever learn to stop playing God, as if to know what's best? Certainly not when there's a profit to be made... Greed is a powerful and dangerous sin.
Keep up the great work. We'll get there eventually.
The red sands of the Sahara contain lots of Iron oxide. The Atlantic is being seeded by the massive dust storms.
Umm why don't we add ferric oxide to plastic bags? The iron will be released as the plastic decays. See if you can beat me to the patent office hehe.
As the plastic decays? So after more than 100 years?
Alex Flügge well China and India aren’t going to stop dumping the shit into the ocean, so at least make it have some sort of positive impact.
I love how the narrator keeps saying Humans like another species other than us
Commenting here because this was a great video. Gotta improve that engagement for the algorithm
This is an outstanding video. Thank you. As a general oceanographer (phys + chem + bio) who specialized in applied maths and theoretical physics for the oceans, I miss (and this is not a criticism to this video) seeing content that combines these areas in a truly interdisciplinary way - for example, coupling mathematical simulations of ocean currents with nutrients transport and phyto- and zooplankton ecology (also higher trophic levels). From my experience in this field (~15 years), most physics people don't usually relate with biology and most biology people don't go deep into physics. Also, the way science believes turbulent (chaotic) fluids behave is a guess - a very good one, but nevertheless a guess. This was considered by the famous physicists Richard Feynman as "the oldest unsolved problem in classical physics" (there's literally a US$1 million prize for who solves fluid flow even before taking turbulence and chaotic behaviour into account). In my humble opinion - if anyone ever reads this -, mankind should (1) dive deeper into the theory of fluids to have a better grasp on how diffusion of mass/momentum/energy occurs, (2) develop compatible software to simulate this theoretical framework, and (3) fill the gap of truly interdisciplinary professionals and applications - only then we as mankind would really know whether it would be safe to test geoengineering alternatives on larger scales. This not to mention ethical implications and the fact that many nations would probably not cut the problem from the root (they would probably not stop messing with the environment) if science found a way to "remediate" it. And even if all of these gaps were filled, the chaotic behaviour of fluids (a very precisely defined and unquestionable mathematical fact) would disable science predict the oceans'/atmosphere's state much long into the future. The only true solution for Earth, in my humble opinion, in this anthropocene is: leave Earth be (!) - and get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible!