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- What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to discover what on Earth they actually are. It’s a travel vlog, documentary, and science show wrapped into one. It’s Pindrop.
0:00 Intro
0:29 Electric Blue Ponds
2:13 Finding The Truth
5:47 Importance Of Potash
8:41 Potash From Rocks
14:04 Safer Ways To Mine
15:02 Droning
17:28 Potash The Savior - Zábava
I never really realized how annoying "TV Style" editing like this was until I stopped watching TV.
Especially the explosion sound effects are really annoying me. I just want to hear what the actual explosion sounds like, why the hell add another effect on top of it
So what you're saying is you prefer a smaller production budget?
@@BigDaddyWes not at all. I am sure you can spend a pile of cash on a product that feels closer to other things he makes. This isn't what I subbed for and it feels manufactured and actually feels cheap not money wise but content wise.
yeah, if could be edited without that 'TV' attitude and result in a much better video.
@@sirhenk5910 sorry to burst you bubble but there is no such thing as slow motion explosion sounds. High speed camera's don't record high speed audio. So everything you have ever watched with sound in slow motion has been edited. So any vid of the slowmoguys is also edited to hell.
There’s too much Discovery Channel in my Veritasium.
? Mythbusters style I might say...
Maybe let it dry out in evaporation ponds and scrape the Veritasium off the top?
Ye, remove that TV mayonnaise from my youtube.
@@stanbinary Mythbusters was a bit more toned down and just about rode the line of bad and cheesy, but enjoyable.
I couldn't have said it better.
This video has such videography. The script is also very well written, in such a way that it generates curiosity to know more and more. It felt like I was watching a show on BBC or Discovery and it brings back so many memories, felt super nostalgic. Kudos to the writer, director, videographer, producer and everyone else involved in making this video, absolutely loved it!
bbc
To compare this to Discovery channel and BBC today is an insult to this video.
The difference between this video and most other Veritasium videos is ART DEPARTMENT! Models are always dope.
@@manicmartyr69 I mean, I get people are salty with the BBC for whatever political reasons they don't like but they have been at the forefront of broadcasting technology since forever. A lot of core tech that's used throughout the entire industry comes from the BBC's RnD departments from colour science to audio specs (I say this having worked as a colourist for the better part of a decade). Plus they do make some super pretty stuff. David Attenborough's shows have been the high bar for documentary film making since forever and always put a focus on pushing technology and film making forward. They might make some ropey looking scifi every now and then (looking at you Dr Who) but shows like Peaky Blinders show they can make some good looking TV when they want to. Can't say I dig Discovery's style much though. Only so many cheesy "the truth is out there" documentaries I can stomach :D
Absolutely, but what's with the weird caricature of Humphry Davy, you'd think he'd deserve some respect.
I work in oil refining in a sulfur recovery unit. I recently took a class. We learned how sulfur is essential to life, and it's just a coincidence that sulfur production from refining has increased at the same rate that the population demand for sulfur. I think this could also be an interesting subject for a video.
Dear CZcams: I love you because you're not TV. Don't try to become TV.
yeah I was like, if I wanted National Geographic I'd watch National Geographic
Why you are not happy with high quality content ?
@@zaidrahman1398 I've been subed to Veritasium for more then a decade. Derick is a great youtuber, but this video just reeks of that same vapid corporate energy that plagues shows on TV, and that destroyed the Discovery and History channels
@@zaidrahman1398 It's not about the quality, the style of filming and commentating made the video drag a bit imo. It's the same reason I hate most documentaries.
@@MadMadCommando the production values were unnecessarily high. It didn't improve the content at all.
1min40 in, this feels really ridiculous, the rock guitar and sound effects in every shot, the overhyped shots, the reactions. This whole style instantly makes the entire interesting scientific approach feel cheapened.
Yep, you see it happen to every channel when they sell out to CZcams originals, slowmo guys and vsauce case in point
Totally agree. Not to mention that normally we would have a discussion about the adverse effects that potassium might have on plants and nutrition, but no, it seems that they've sold out, like most youtubers do. Disappointed.
I wish the yt dislike button did something
CZcams Originals for you.
Looks like all the negative comments are here🙄
Awesome presentation!
Btw, I wish Derek did one presentation for each element in periodic table. It will be very insightful and educational to know the discovery, uses and properties of each element.
The channel Periodic Videos has an old series like this, check it out!
i'll second that! I would definitely watch.
damn this is a great idea! :D lets hope he makes it happen!
Read the disappearing spoon by Sam Kean. It is exactly that
It is not a good thing, that we re over populating.
My wifes family is from Moab. She graduated HS there and we lived there in the mid 70's.
The Potash industry there employed alot of locals but it was just one of many mining type jobs in that area. Uranium was also big business in the Moab area. If you weren't mining the minerals you were trucking them and if you weren't trucking them you were processing the minerals in some mill or shipping them out on railcars to points unknown. But even I didn't fully know the history of Potash.
This was very interesting and informative. I had no idea the overall impact and importance of that Potash. Thank you. I'm a new subscriber ✅
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So, I think this is due to the CZcams originals, but the editing and pacing of this one are in contrast with the cozy and polite Veritasium-style. I can feel a "The History Channel" vibe here, it's just odd.
Yes, because this for CZcams Original which means technically IT IS a TV show/series format
@Abhinavv Arora In this case it doesn't work. I sincerely appreciated Mindfield, because it wasn't in this TV-esque style.
@@farifairis7388 I know, but CZcams has to be different from TV. I chose it for this reason. You have to be hooked by content, not from the fancy style. Feels like you miss the message, here. Even though the content is great as always
i don't like it at all
liked it, but I would've like the show a lot more if it didn't have all that way too loud, hyper-active music and sound effects. Also, those incredibly shaky graphics and camera angles are really hard to look at.
I personally prefer the much slower pace of the usual videos, rather than this more traditional TV-like pacing. They don't need to keep their audience's attention on such a tight leash, we're all here because we like his usual videos, which are generally calmer, slower paced, and less saturated (like geez it's like the colors are screaming at me in this video). A documentary-style series would've been much more in-line with that rather than... whatever this is
This is kind of ridiculous. Everything is over the top. Just let Derreck do his usual thing. It works. Why did CZcams have to change everything about the style just to release it as an original?
money
It’s awful. Too much nonsense and not enough information.
@Adrian M No, this was actually really good. Just because money and big companies are involved shouldn't change your opinion. This is Veritasium, just with better animation, better shots, better music, better quality. Do you really want to go back to old shitty youtube style videos, with garbage sound and 480p quality ?
The only reason you are hating on this is because the youtube logo is on it.
I'm also wondering if part of the budget didn't come from mining companies.
He explains how water is used to mine the potash safely, but no mention on how much water is used, how it impacts other uses of the river, etc. I've seen enough complains about the use of water in mining to suspect there's something left out here.
And before someone jumps at me: no, I'm no concluding anything. I'm suspecting important information is left out, and without it it's impossible to form a complete picture.
@@frechjo I mean yes it does use water but who is to say it’s fresh water? And even if it does use a lot of water this process seems to be the safest and least impactful. And I still believe the environmental impact is outweighed by the food and other stuff it provides.
The amount of work you put in your videos is outstanding. You take your time explaining the details with great animations and experiments!
I saw these ponds on my flight from Denver to Bakersfield Ca and have wondered what they were ever since. They are so stark and noticeable in the terra cotta-colored landscape. I've shown them to several people with google maps because I think there so cool and unusual THANK YOU!
My meth addicted brother thought he could smoke it
Please don't lose the personal touch and turn into an overproduced version of TV.
It would be shame
I love Ve but the editing made me cringe and the pace was so slow for the complexity of the subject. I felt like this video was aimed at children.
@@user-fs7eq8lq4w I hope that this is sarcastic like some kind of parody
@@ericcartman1929 ikr lmfao
@@user-fs7eq8lq4w Worse, it was aimed at boomers.
I wish the editing of these videos was less sensational. It's becoming discovery channel.
so what does it mean to be discovery-channel-esque? i haven't watched it in cable for years, and i don't remember anything shown in dc that has this video's editing style.
Why? It's really good
@@tsaqifammarsakti7825 because it looks stupid and cringy
I can barely get through the video. It's like watching reality TV. Also, first sound in the entire video is BWAAAAAAAAA
yeah, it got a bit platitudinous, especially at the end when he gets the social history wrong but Sounds Very Authoritative About It
Please, Derek, don’t turn into NDT
Outstanding video, Derek, as always. Fun to learn, interesting topic, and expertly narrated. Well done.
Fun fact: The biggest consumer of fireworks in the world besides the US Department of Defense...is the Walt Disney Company! With firework shows performed nightly like Enchantment at Magic Kingdom, Momentous at Hong Kong Disneyland, and HarmonioUS at Epcot, Disney has to keep up with how many fireworks they need to perform every night, and for every time a new show debut. Disney spends 50 million on them every year!
I will check it out.
ok, SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
I’ll never understand why youtube thinks people want generic network tv style shows from their favourite creators. This video was interesting, but the editing was annoying af with all the awful tropes of a discovery channel type show.
My thoughts exactly!
I've thought this for ages. I honestly don't know how it isn't a bigger discussion and I really really hope someone with an audience talks about it
That low "brrrrrrrrr" base and music were really annoying. The information presented deserves better soundtrack or none at all
100% agree. It felt like a cheap rip-off from Derek's much better thought out work
i liked it
the production value of this is insane...
Yeah really, wow... Giving me some strong Mythbusters(?) vibes.
Yoo i used to watch ur videos
Yeah, and it makes it feel dead. Like it's some corporate mayonnaise.
I far prefer his usual style, not overloaded with 'cool' TV crap.
@@Steelrat1994 Agree. The over the top producing (music, footage, script...)makes everything so exaggerated and over acted...
Everything used to be much simpler, and that’s not bad at all.
it is insane indeed...
This is super interesting to me since I work for Nutrien Agriculture, the largest producer of potash in the world. They are based in Saskatchewan, and formed by a mergre of Potash Corp and Agrium. Thanks for the great video!
When you mentioned that mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, it reminded me of another dangerous job. Saturation diving! I'd love to see an episode of that!
This is like 90's Discovery Channel, before it all went to reality show crap.
And shark week
2000's also had some good shows tho😣
This reminds me of Nat Geo
What if we have a reality TV show between a married couple of Potassium, Hydrogen, and their whiney kid, Oxygen?
@@runed0s86 Those would be some explosive episodes that's for sure 😂
To be honest I don't like the exaggerated intro with a million cuts. It does not feel organic and it reminds me of those horrible documentaries where everything has to be flashy and everything is repeated at least 5 times.
Its just as bad for most of the video. Why do animations have to jump around so much? I wanna use my brainpower to understand the info, not the filter out the vibrations in the picture.
The more he (Ve) becomes a product, the more of this type of video we will see unfortunately
Definitely. Old Veritasium is better than "CZcams originals" Veritasium.
The subject is interesting, but I'm not sure I can finish the video without vomiting.
Yeah, the video immediately felt different from his usual videos. I guess thats because it's an CZcams Originals series. The video really felt like it was trying to appeal to as many people as possible and I don't think the cartboard parts add anything to the video because they feel really hectic. Not sure I like it.
@@Jonas.856 I sure didn't finish it and this is a first for me on this channel
Amazing video! The quality is way up. The shots, the interviews and on-screen guests, the script that builds tension and invites other voices… well done sir.
There is lots of potash mining in Saskatchewan (my home province) and it was really cool to learn about the history. I had NO IDEA of the origin with burned hardwoods. I have only ever known it as a mined substance.
I’m sensing a conflicting point of view here.
Derek thought it was an educational video about an odd subject.
CZcams thought it was a murder mystery.
Exactly
While the video is amazing, I found the constant cuts around the explosions, and the broad, awe-filled, Discovery Channel-esque intro and tone of writing to be a bit distracting
I think we can all agree that potash is far more riveting content than murder trials.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I can agree. I was on the edge of my seat.
@@Yorb. living life on the edge
So proud of you, this is such a GREAT SHOW!
Don't talk to me! I am famous! Don't dislike my good good GOOD videos! Don't talk to me, dear dario
I won’t buy CZcams original
Like it
Curious.. a "show".. when i thinked this channel was all about science.
Totally agree, I like better the previous cozy style
I love the way you connect somewhat weird esoteric things like potash to Potassium to real historical facts and everyday usage. This synthesis is what makes for great content in the hurricane of crap and sensationalist baloney I must sift through online. Great job and thank you for doing it righ!
I'm going to watch this at least 2 more times, to cement all of the ways it can be made and which version creates which composition of Potash and then how each can be used!!! AWESOME video!!! Definitely knowledge worth knowing for sure!!!
I'm a 35 years old scientist, and this is the first time I learnt that the name "potassium" came from "pot ash". One of those trivia facts which you don't really learn in education.
But what gender is the potassium and how is it oppressed?
Maybe at your school. I learned this in 6th grade.
@@walperstyle are you trying to be funny
Looked at your acc, seems like ur just a lying creep that subs tonevery woman he can find
Kazakhstan has the best potassium
The TV format is a miss for me.
Yeah, this video could have been a lot shorter with the same information.
The ridiculous tv style editing with the CONSTANT base drop really took me out of it.
Your comment is a miss for me.
Great video. It shows the interconnectivity and importance of another, largely unknown, industry to the rest of society.
So glad I found this video! I noticed these huge pools of - something - on Google Earth once, in the middle of a desert in China, and wondered what on Earth they could be. I mean, they were out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, with no cities, towns or habitation sites for what must have been hundreds of miles around, and they had to be enormous to show up at the altitude I was viewing from. Now I know what they are. Cheers!
Interesting video, but have to agree with a lot of the comments here. This style of editing is not what we want, no million sound effects and 30000 different explosion sounds instead of the actual sound. Just doesn't feel real anymore
Yup. Going to the lowest common denominator style of CZcams.
This feels like a horrible stereotype of American TV. Everything the rest of the world makes fun of America for, all summed up in one video.
Yes. Dont let yourself be lured by money into this Hollywood-style crap.
I agree with you. Also, hunter gatherers didn't spend all day searching for food.
@@Volodimar I also thought the same when I heard that
because I'm currently reading Sapiens by Yual Noah Harari
These are the videos I pay my internet bills for, very informative and entertaining, also value the hardwork put in...
What a compliment
These type of people are why I keep living
Yep, not for ur channel lol
Damn I pay my internet for memes lol
Such great vids the school system can revolutionize the education system if they change just a two things. Hiring the right teacher that is passionated about other learning like this guy and what you teach. It's no secret school are teaching so many useless topics that wont help you grow in life leaving other topics that are far more important like financial and what not and let me tell you, old ways dont open new doors... Education needs to change as time goes by.
I like the nod to James Burke's 'Connections' series. Keep up the good work!
That’s interesting. I actually didn’t realize the origin of potash was so deep. I love these videos. Keep on posting
I think he should be given the budget of the CZcams show but they don’t force him to use their commercialized editing and video structure.
But the props were nice.
I hate the whole low frame rate vibrating stuff aesthetic that this has
Agreed
That would be amazing. Same budget, but fire the graphics guys and spend it on science instead.
It was way too shaky. It's like the viewers are expected to have ADHD.
This feels a tad overproduced in an off-putting way.
Yeah the little animations of the topics being constantly brought up made it feel like a video game or something. Didn't ruin the video for me but yeah
I miss the original music.
Feels way too much like some random History Channel show
That is because it is overproduced, by CZcams Originals. He is just the presenter in this video. CZcams Originals still hasn't figured out how to make fun videos like our favourite CZcamsrs
@@madhavdhilip Mind Field is pretty great without being patronizing
These videos are amazing! You have become a true master of engaging and entertaining education. Thank you for making these!
Oh, also, what is that song at the beginning of "Safer Ways to Mine"?? I love it!
Once again ,another holy grail video. I mean, I always loved your channel forreal, but the consistency of your content is just unmatched to me.
The editing quality of this video is really distracting. The topic was awesome thought.
extremely so, to the point i paused it and decide to just do my own research.
Incredibly overproduced. Way too much.
For me it was the big toothy smiles they put on the cut-outs of Davy and Washington.
I guess it was meant to appeal to an audience used to motion to grab their attention.
I utterly loved it because all the little details kept me engaged - without resorting to fake-excited shouting, fake-surprised eyebrows and arm flails. It was the perfect amount of audio-visual-motion engagement for me. 👍✨
I was more amazed by how strong that bucket is
looks like it got pulled up with strings or sum. very sus that it landed back upright
@@keatonspersonalemail9689 force of explosion was evenly distributed through the water so the bucket didnt spin much, plus the water kept the bucket heavy when it hit so it didnt go much of anywhere
@@keatonspersonalemail9689 why would they fake an explosion
@@pootzeketzi1233 cuz I’m high asf
@@keatonspersonalemail9689 hahaha
Been watching you for years! Thanks for the education and entertainment. This is my favorite video btw!
The Davy lamp is actually the second lamp that was designed to be used in areas where firedamp was a concern. The first lamp was created by George Stephenson, up here in the North East of England. In fact, the "Geordie Lamp" was in use for a couple of years before Davy demonstrated his own lamp. The reason the Davy lamp became common was purely down to discrimination - nobody believed that a poor, uneducated enginewright could possibly have created such a device. It wasn't until a committee of enquiry was held that Stephenson was exonerated, but by then the damage was done. Interestingly enough, the Geordie lamp was actually superior - with a high enough concentration of firedamp, the Geordie lamp would self-extinguish. This was in contrast to the Davy lamp, which would simply increase in temperature until it became unbearable to hold, and the lamp failed and the firedamp exploded anyway.
Are you saying George Stephenson was a African American? Or Mexican?
@@carpballet What part about "North East of England" don't you understand?
Geordie lamps for the Geordies of Yorkshire?
@@NorthernScrub - My daughters just returned to the U.S. from two weeks in the U.K. I shocked them a little when I knew who the Geordies are and that Newcastle is the castle built in like 1010 to replace the Roman 'castle' which I think was just a fortified settlement.
@@NorthernScrub Gosh. Sorry. I read “discrimination” and in the US the first thing we think is it must have involved blacks or Mexicans. My bad.
Frankly, The off beat music and fast pace (or rather dramatic) effect doesn't go hand in hand with the Veritasium channel.. the more subtle tone is way better
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it feels exactly like an american discovery channel show
Yes
It's because it's a youtube original, so it's all TV show -ish
Yeah, dislike from me. Not beacuse I'm hating, I mean it as a genuine feedback - I'm hoping Derek and the team sees something needs to be changed. It was so fast and chaotic my head wants to explode, every graphic constantly moving, shaking, also Washington and Davy are nightmare fuel with those mouths lol. Also too dramatic, quick cuts, the music, everything feels just crammed in. But here's to hoping next one will be better!
Fascinating video. Potash is also mined at the Bonneville Salt Flats outside of Wendover, Utah, which is like this place one of the stranger landscapes you'll ever see on Earth. Looking forward to more! -John
I know this is random, but yeah. This is why America has so much ammunition.
No one asked, JOHN!
Same company as the Moab plant. They bought it while I was with the company. Obviously different process though because of no underground mining. Same amine separation process. I liked the management at the Wendover site better though!
I live in Utah but I’ve never seen these
Not to be confused with Wendover Productions
I have a brand new and deep respect for Potash now!!!! I had no idea of it's importance. Looking forward to other videos from you. Thank you!!
ive never been so hooked or so interested in something i never thought i would ever care about . god bless youtube man
I'm extremely happy YT has finally recognized a creator and educator dedicated and able as Veritasium, but their approach is still off IMHO.
I remember the Vsauce series and to me that was far worse, but the overproduction with constantly different music, sound effects, low quality animations strip the clean and curated look of high quality CZcams and instead feels like ripping off the Discovery Channel. We're getting better but i still feel like this isn't what it's needed. You don'0t have to dress up science and mesmerize us with distracting explosions sound effects, the content is already interesting, let it shine in itself!
you
@@mooneymakes359 wat
i mean
i don’t mind the high quality
i don’t think it is taking away from the content
THIS IS AN OPINION
@@AverageJoe610 for me “dumbing down” here is more noticeable than quality :|
Seems I’m getting old))
I agree. Veritasium on his own is great. This seemed very clickbaity, forced and unnatural. Maybe YTO had some guidance on what kind of content guaranteed retention in young audiences?
I prefer Veritasium suspended in the middle of giant illusion attached to celing spinning and talking
yes hahaha, i want him to have a higher budget but this style of documentary video is meh compared to his usual style
What a great resource for scientifically minded individuals. I love science that has a story. It relieves one of the task of memorization. The story is so fascinating, that the facts remain in the mind. Thank you for a well done resource. I am truly engrossed by your presentations.
Nice homage to the Connections format 👏. My favorite classic science + history show.
The overly dramatic editing and music is so cringe. Really happy to see this as a CZcams original series but when will CZcams learn? They always go too over the top with the production which takes away the personal connection we feel with our favourite creators.
Yup. If it keeps up like this, the next video will be my last on this channel. If I wanted over-production values that obscure content, I'd watch TLC.
True, it does feel different and maybe it's for a slightly different audience. Feels more like a Netflix show. But I'm sure Derek had a lot of fun with the bigger budget and if anything he deserves it.
@@issadraco532 cool essay. unfortunately you are wrong.
@@issadraco532 I also have seen a "handful of clips from this dude". That's because I have been subscribed for over 9 years to this channel. This is the only reason why I did not switch it off after two minutes or gave it a thumbs-down.
It's YT Red editing that crap and you can see it. It feels wrong front to end.
@@issadraco532 I've been subscribed to this channel for years. I recommend it to everyone. I'm a huge fan! I'm delighted that he has this contract with CZcams! And I still think this was a good video.
BUT - Just like every CZcams Original I've seen, with the exception of perhaps Mind Field and the Slow Mo Show (both of which I highly recommend), they have taken away too much of the magic. I didn't read a single comment before writing mine, I wanted to offer my totally unbiased opinion as such a big fan of this channel.
My honest impressions of this video, although it was entertaining and I watched it through, were that I didn't like the editing style. I liked some of it, it looked very professional. The problem was the hugely over dramatic music and the pacing. Something about the upbeat tone while he was discussing the tragic loss of life in that accident felt really off to me. It wasn't in keeping with this channels demeanor.
I'm only offering my feedback because I REALLY want this show to be the best it can be. I'm hoping they take on board the critisism and do better next time. I'm not complaining just for the sake of complaining.
I love how that bucket jumped all the way out of camera shot and then landed back on the table, that was so cool
That whole sequence had some pretty great accidental comedic timing.
I searched up raining indoor potassium for this and I couldn’t find this video but I found the channel and found the video on the channel.
Learn some other adjectives. Nothing cool about an explosion.
@@kenbellchambers4577 thanks for sharing your subjective opinion buddy
@@mranonymous3554 Seeing so many people brainwashed to the point of being literal monosyllabic morons is not a 'subjective analysis'. Every one wants to be a hipster. It is so cool to say 'so cool'. There are many other words in our diverse language, but it always 'cool', 'cool', 'cool' You know what is cool? A freaking dead penguin. Try some other words for a change, it doesn't hurt.
It's been a while I have watched your video fully.
Great video series to watch.
And never seen that much excitement on that Potassium hydroxide blast
nicely explained. the illustration @14:20 and analogizing water molecules to miners is brilliant
Thanks CZcams! I used to be the plant engineer at this potash plant from 2004-2007. It's still owned by Intrepid Potash Inc. out of Denver. Pretty accurate in all accounts technically. The solution mining method was at first just flooding the original room and pillar underground mine. In 2005 they drilled a set of interconnected horizontal boreholes through the potash bearing strata using the same tech used for horizontal oil and gas drilling. A small point of clarification, but the majority of the evap ponds are actually sodium chloride and the KCL is separated in the plant a few miles east via an amine bubbling process. The remaining sodium saturated water is actually recycled back down the pump shafts. KCL is preferentially soluble in water and this keeps the sodium byproduct from building up. All the feed lines are kept as saturated as possible to minimize corrosion, which as you might imagine can be a big problem.
How much danger is there of the pumped liquid leaking out into the nearby river? I know fracking has dangers of introducing contaminants into the water supply, but that is often due to the fragile nature of the rock where the natural gas is present. Does the potash have a similar structure and therefore similar dangers?
you mean thank veritasium
@@PrinceKaladin - The underground solution mining is not done under pressure like hydraulic fracturing (I also spent 18 years as a petrophysicist in the oil and gas industry) so no leakage from underground to the surface water. The ponds are lined with a synthetic rubber liner and they don't scrape it clean when the harvest the evaporated product with converted road scrapers. There is a rock hard layer of salt on the bottom. That said, there is no 400 acre ponds that do not leak, and there is some from the ponds. The water flows across some less permeable rock layers under the ponds and comes out near the river. There are a series of sumps and pumps to catch and recirculate the leakage. Honestly there is not much in the way of harmful contaminants in the water. Mostly just salts and some of the CuSO4, but in very trace quantities. I used to do mass spec analysis on occasion. But it's not great to salinate the Colorado either, so yea they do the best they can but it's not perfect.
Must be pretty weird seeing a place you're familiar with in a series about mysterious locales.
Is the copper sulfate in the formation or added? That wasn't clear to me. Thanks for expanding on the chemistry.
“I’ve seen this demo before, but never with such a huge explosion”
Mark Rober: “is that a challenge?”
Mark Rober: w o r l d s b i g g e s t p o t a s s i u m e x p l o s i o n
"Please do not try this inside at home kids...."
Rober? You mean styropyro?
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say
Styropyro would get a kilo of potassium and light with a laser
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say marks also a great scientist,
This guy deserves his own TV documentary series.
He has one. Uranium, Chasing the dragons tail.....google it/
Wow, I just flew over these today and didn’t know what they were! So glad you made this!
So CZcams Originals did an episode with Veritasium.
Can we have a Veritasium version please
I hate how they're trying to turn CZcams into TV
True that.
I watched because Veritasium, and because Derek managed to keep the presentation bearable.
But I want science and technology, not watered down general audience content. We are a long shot from the Veritasium video on quantum spin.
Let's hope he grabs the money and comes back to his standard, which was already excellent.
Vsauce was more in line with this kind of editing: it was a phylosophy channel that used science and technology to bring reasoning forward.
Veritasium is a science communication channel by the words of its own maker, so it needs to be in depth
That’s why they’re called channels
TV was the original CZcams. The first channels weren't much different than the first CZcams channels. Just some dorks filming themselves doing stuff and broadcasting it.
I hated it too! What's great about youtube videos is they feel casual. They tend to have the sensibility of a podcast. It's jarring to see it overproduced like cable crap. The content is fantastic - super interesting video. But so frustrating to have the rock music blasting, and camera panning from a 1000 angles, like they're terrified we'll get distracted at any moment. Sometimes more money isn't better.
Though if Derek reads this: I loved the content of the video! Brilliant as always!
OMG I JUST found these on Google Maps as I was planning a road trip to Texas for the eclipse, and BAM Derek's video pops up in my feed!
I'm glad the level of content is getting better
Thank you a lot for making us smarter
No one talking about how freaking epic was the bucket jump.
Good thing it was plastic!
I didnt notice that my jaw was dropped for about 3 minutes after that just trying to process what i had just seen
I know!! LOVED it!!! And I can't believe how he remained relatively mild in his amusement the whole time. Every time I've done an explosion demo, I jump like 5 feet in the air and yell "OH SH**!!!!"
You are
WHY did it jump tho ?? You would expect that water rapidly blowing up should push bucket down, but instead bucket just flies after water, like rocket flying backwards, weird.
I think were all blown away by the fact that the bucket stayed upright after the explosion.
YESSSS
Yes of course I am
Not as blown away as that bucket
As well as intact!
Most intriguing part!
Just wanted to say thank you for all these eye-opening videos you make.
I really got answers to all the questions I had during this video.
One question remains, what does the end date for when the potassium will run out, and does scientists looking for alternative solutions?
Thanks
This video made me smile with delight. Thank you for making it.
feels a little bit like i'm watching a commercial disguised as a documentary
welcome to entertainment
Word
Accurate
Yeah... this dude clearly in the pocket of big pot ash...
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood big potash 10/10 lol
This episode is like a nat geo documentary
... But without the dry narrator.
Nah, much more History Channel
Yeah, I found it disturbing as well. Not the usual Veritasium video I signed up for
@@panda4247 I have a headache
@@Doctor_Eightball same
THANK YOU. I've been seeing these for years on Google Earth, all over the world, and was always so curious about them.
Those pot ash ponds look amazing from Anticline overlook. Which is about a 45 minute drive from where I live but until now I never knew how the mine worked or operated. Very interesting and educational. Thank you for the video.
Is it just me that found this video is so much different than what veritasium video usually look like?
It doesn't feel like derek would say all that..it just doesn't sound like Derek at all........not literally of course.
It’s definitely a downgrade from the usual content.
It's a youtube original so go figure
@@lupa3041 yeah, i agree. CZcams original doesn't bring any added value to the channel, it's usually worse than the channel itself.
The amount of work put in this video is blowing my mind!!
True
Blowing my mine! 😂
@@DrManhattan84 He had a chance and missed it. 🤣🤣
Ha!..So vast
Just shows such a contrast on how most of these CZcams science videos have little to zero new created content and little interest in informing. Many CZcams channels are mostly parasitical, they just copy stuff to get short views.
Great docu! I cannot wait to see the next in this series.
I hope this kind of video are ones that going so viral. Great work!
“mining is one of the most dangerous professions”
yeah no crap. one creeper decides to blow up behind one of the miners and the whole thing lights on fire
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"Potassium, along with nitrogen and phosphorus, help crops grow far larger, and makes them drought resistant."
Wait, so electrolytes really are what plants crave?
Indeed.
But you also need to sprinkle enough toilet water on them, or they'll just dry out.
Brawndo's got electrolytes
Water? Like, out the toilet?
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@@davidpadilla1354 Hail Satan
As the holder of a USA Patent! Can I suggest that the conscious decision to avoid the Patented Davis lamp under license to avoid expensive fees, was a major factor in the loss of all those miners lives? This report into the disaster should be looked at again to expose the true reasons for such terrible inexcusable “reasons” offered in the report.
Greed is pernicious then and now!
Congratulations of this outstanding source of knowledge!❤
Two things: One, a great novel I read once, I think it was called Destiny's Road? Was about a human colony on an alien world, that had been there so long the colonists forgot they were colonists. The downside, there was no natural potassium on this planet. The pseudo-government were the only entity that knew how to grow potassium-rich plants in the alien soil, guarded very heavily. The plants were harvested and 'speckles' were sold in shakers, like salt and pepper, that people would buy from traveling merchants to put on their food. There was even a saying, "speckle-shy", as people who couldn't afford enough speckles would often end up with developmental disabilities...
Also, we learned from Borat that Kazahkstan is the world's number one exporter of potassium, right?" :P
If Veritasium was a school there would not be a single person that hated science or maths. The way he explains with so much hard work i never wish to leave his videos unwatched.
So true. Leaders in education should take notice on how it should be done
@@TheHunter2 except the actual part of learning people hate is the repetition needed to understand a subject completely. Veritasium is a great teacher because he isn't forcing you to do the homework it takes to keep knowledge in ya brain.
Exactly schools are failing kids big time
@@SpeedomusicSM its super sad.
I had this one math teacher who knew exactly what to say and i got straight A's.
Then i got another math teacher who was always goofing around and i got C's and D's.
One person can make such a big difference explaining the same stuff.
Cause even the same type of math gave me different grades just because of the teacher.
@@napoleonbonerfarte6739 I don't know... Watched it once; remember it all.
I realize this was made to get biggest audience possible, but boy was rock music multi camera explosion shots annoying
Not to mention the graphics for the explainer segments. I feel that I'll be having nightmares about historical figures with grossly out of proportion faces for a while now.
Really? I found it helpful
You guys can't handle pure science
No one can handle the
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@Avery St. Clair wow! Grumpy are we? I have an idea. Why don’t you make a show of your own liking and wash that instead? Or if that’s to much trouble, you could.... I don’t know... maybe not watch? Just a suggestion?😂
"I did not expect it to do that!" backs up, carries it with a 6 ft pole, has safety glasses on
Excellent presentation of the information. Thanks so much!
The editor of this video: "I paid for the whole software and I'll use the whole software"
I think we should cut Derek some slack. He is clearly excited to be doing something he's always wanted to do, which is filmaking with a high budget. I think over time their editing style should find a good balance between "look how much this cost" and "we don't need to use all the takes".
Many others have commented on the format, I don’t have very strong feelings on that, but please rethink the shaky graphics are very hard to look at and actually see what is going on.
The constant changing of the titles makes me think that's the general consensus. Maybe the new format, the editing style and camera shake aren't pulling in as many views.
The graphics aren't hard to see and the camerawork is very minimally shaky wtf are you talking about?
@@toasttghost some of the sections are shaky, an example being 3:07 and a lot of the paper labels do the same shaking as they show up throughout the video
I watched the video in 2x speed and it makes this video look way better and you cant even notice the shake
Same
I completely loved this video it taught me a lot very inspirational I have now became a subscriber keep up the good work my guy
Thank you for all the amazing teachings
I find the editing and overall tone in this episode distracting and almost annoying.
It's very americanized, seems like maybe this was a pilot for a TV show to me. The music, sound effects, pacing, truncated explanations, intentionally "weird" animated characters etc. etc. seems like something taken right out of network television.
I am going to google whatever is done on the salt flats and see what it is all about, because I can't be bothered spending 20 minutes of this.
This is completely copied from a show on the Science Channel called "What on Earth?" where they investigate satellite imagery. It's not this annoying and it's a show I quite like, but it's upsetting to see him use some of the same imagery from the same location and claim he was figuring it all out. Nonsense.
same
The style of the vid isn’t Dereks fault, it’s CZcams’s. He mentioned in an earlier comment he fought hard against this editing style and will try and stand his ground for the next episode.
Where is this comment btw ?
i'm not following - how can youtube force creators to edit their videos a certain way?
@@Tomas-rl5dx This series is produced by Google, who own CZcams
The fact is that he still gave in. He could have asked for money via Patreon like other creators, but instead he signed up and sold his personality and channel. I know it may sound brutal but it honestly is an act of distrust towards his viewers, and a statement he is choosing to pleas the algorithm over pleasing the viewer.
@@foorack Greed but he is lying puppet anyway so its good that ge got himself fked.
That was soo knowledge bearing and interesting, thank you Mr Muller and Veratasium.
Great video, thank you! I've seen these ponds since 1978 and never inquired into their purpose, lazy me! That area was also part of a uranium mining boom in the 1950's. When I first visited Canyonlands Natl. Park, it was the 2nd least visited park in the entire system. Moab was "discovered' by the fat tire bikes in 1985-6, and it's been transformed since then. Such a fabulous part of the world!
I could really do with less of the dramatic music. Feels like watching american television. 5 minutes of content stretched out to 19 minutes to fill a 30 minute slot with the help of two commercial breaks.
That and they clearly cut stuff down to rush through them to the "exiting" bits. Like, he makes some soap from scratch, and we get a 2 second shot of him having cleand his hands with it. No time to show his dirty hands and then using the soap.
This is the crap editing style that makes me not want to watch tv dicumentary stuff
@@argh523 There is a lot of good content on CZcams.
I'm mixed about this. It's dumbed down. Talks down to the intended audience.
The weird, low-fps animation really did it for me. I really didn't like it.
Unlike American documentaries, this vid doesn't repeat everything five times, announcing the next three segments to come each time. So it is not quite as bad.
But the editing jumps all over the place as if it was trying to run away with your eyeballs.
@@andywomack3414 He makes some videos for scientifically literate people and some for the average person. Even though you may already know most of the stuff, most people don’t and the long winded explanations help them understand.
Really interesting and high quality, but kinda cringy, like they tried too hard to make something cool look cooler
Yeah this is not Veritasium's editing, someone else edited this one to make it more appealing to normies
Yeah, I'm much more fond of the old editing as well
i dont rly think its cringy, what makes it cringy for you?
@@kaiirossbaird7623 It dumbs it down.
@@Tokkemon i mean your right, but its still not cringy
Amazing. Wonderful production as always. You're fantastic.
In the past I used to rely on TV for informative content just like this one. But nowaday programmes like this one are so rare I decided not to own a TV. Thank you for this marvellous piece. I hope I manage to make an English lesson based on this very material. I hope my students are going to love it as much as I did.
This is like an over-the-top parody of Tom Scott.
He even talked about "Amazing Places"
and over-the-budget too!
Tom Scott seems like a cheap version of Vsauce
@@aiden3229 wrong
so an american version of tom scott
This looks like a show that would run on the Discovery channel back in the day when it was actually good. Wow, Derek this is a new level of quality!
I agree, smb
Amazing production. Thank you for this
Best information I’ve heard about potassium and pot ash. Thank you.