This is nothing more than lack of management or upgrading the system, especially with the large fees to each ship. There is no excuse for its mismanagement.
@@W9HJBill Agreed! ;) We no longer control the operation, and those who do, are just doing what they can to make as much money as they can, and we see the result. Trouble is, the people in power here in America are doing the very same thing. Using up the resources until it is all gone, and they move on leaving people broke in their wake. But the worst thing we face, is the coming war, with all of the terrorists coming over the open borders, we will be facing a massive uprising by islamists soon.
@@derekmoult238 Yes, but instead of draining the water into the sea, pumping it back to the source would save much of the water. They use ponds to reuse some of the water, but they don't pump any of the water back up to the source, which would save much more.
We could build a new one with 2 canals and use one for ship's going west and one for going east and pump water from one side to the other. Saving up to 90% of the water
I'm sure there is a logical explanation, but why not create basins and when you pump the water out to lower the ship, pump the water into the reservoir ... and visa versa? Yeah, I get that they are trying to use a gravity feed, but that isn't working, so stop wasting fresh water just by dumping it into the salt water seas. Seems like waste.
@@squishy-tomato Considering they charge hundreds of thousands of dollars per ship to pass and they are now turning away paying ships, seems like that isn't a good reason.
So what's stopping them from digging down deep enough so the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans can just freely flow from one side to another, without locks? If they did that, they could widen the canal enough to finally handle supertankers, too.
Digging out that much rock is really hard. And it has to be moved somewhere to "dump" it as well. Then there is the problem of a slight height difference between the two oceans which would turn a narrow canal into a raging whitewater rapids. We saw what happened when the Evergreen box ship "Evergiven" got wedged at an angle in the Suez Canal, blocking traffic for several days, and causing massive damage to her bulbous bow. If this new lockless Panama Canal were to work, it would have to be much wider than the already kind of skinny Suez Canal, and would be pretty destructive to the surrounding environment as well, since you would be splitting the continent.
Capital Greed has dried up the canal. The original canal was fine. The second canal, the Pan-Max canal was also fine. The Third mega canal is what is draining all the water. There is no rainfall problem, it is a greed problem. Solution? Throw my USA tax money at it so the rich can once again profit.
Someone (China) is deliberately sabotaging the canal. 1. Why didn't you mention the failed valve that has been draining Gatun lake for the last 5 months? 2. The drought would not be an issue if the failed valve had not been consistently draining the lake. 3. Panama isn't cloud seeding, which will refill the lake in weeks. 4. The canal authority is running undersized ships through the canal. Smaller ships means more water lost. Larger ships result in less water list because larger ships take up more volume in the canal locks.
It's not China. It's Russia+Iran. Or have you not seen the video's on how Russia wants to have their own Canal to take over the Suez Canal. Now all the Houthi attacks on vessels on the Red Sea make sense, scare ships away from the Suez, either by force or by the threat of increased insurance costs, or insurance companies refusing to provide insurance coverage for a Suez Canal transit, and it starts to make more sense.
The video claims that the "mules" used to tow vessels through the canal have been electrified recently... What about the GE electric "mules" that were manufactured in the U.S. and originally used in the Canal. I was born there and remember the canal using an electrified third rail for the tow mules. This is only one of multiple inaccuracies found in the video.
couldn't Panama, instead of flooding water downwards, just for the first, the lowest lock or part of it, pump seawater up into the first lock, lifting the ship and saving sweet water this way? The ship would have to be taxed for the increased energy cost but that would still be preferable than going all the way down to and around "Cape Storm" ?
And just the other day I saw a video of the cities in the U. S. that would soon be submerged due to rising sea levels. Perhaps we could build a pipeline and pump the rising water from our coast south to Panama. Once we got the water flowing to the lower water level at Panama, wouldn't that create a siphon action? My god I've saved the canal!!! SARCASM!!!
When I heard it was using freshwater that gets. Dumped in the ocean for each ship that passes through 52 million gallons. In order to keep up they're going to have to go with salt water and pumps or put in a desalination plant.
We should maby go back to sail ships instead of polluting the oceans. Edit i know it would be harder to start and stop a ship on demand but it would make the oceans not be so polluted maby offset global warming.
😂😂😂😂😂😂thought they were going to dredge it in parts, to made it for bigger ships. Mexico is digging theirs, and China is digging one down south too… put it on that train, they have room for millions of riders, room for more cargo😂😂😂
Ice caps melting dew to global boiling, Raining constantly in England because of chemicals being poured out across our skies you would think there would be plenty of water
Global boiling ahhahahahahaa. We just had record cold Temps here in montana. Our summers were way hotter in the late 90s and early 2000s. You can look it up. We aren't heating up
@@user-pj6bl5md5r yea it's the same in England there telling us we are having global boiling whilst we are singing in the rain, they think we were born yesterday
@@jiggsborah7041 I remember summer actually being warm and sunny in England and now it' just rains all the time and the chemicals they pump out across the skies never stop either 🧐
instead of releasing lake water into the ocean, pump the water back into the lake when ship leaving the last gate. Vice versa, pump sea water to rise the ship when entering the lake. problem solve but speed is not fast or install giant sea water pump.
This video is misleading in several ways, because money is the issue, the ships are bigger, heavier, the technical mechanisms need updating and for many years climate change has been affecting this and other water channels, and then there's the overall management of the canal
If the water between each pair of adjacent locks, (side by side), was pump between them, the same water could be used over and over. This would reduce the water needed to run the canal at max capacity. The water would flow until the level was the same in both locks. Then the pumps would have to be used to raise one and lower the other. Problem solved... Drought or no drought.
Just pump more sea /ocean water into canal from both sides if the canal... Build a permanent pipeline for the transport of sea water into the canal. Don't use fresh water...Use underwater robots to dig thru to the other side...I think only China can do it..
It is not fed by the two oceans, but by the Gatun lake, which is at a higher altitude, providing water that by gravity goes down with each ship, enabling it to stay afloat in each one of the locks and never goes up again.
A thousand years from now, when all signs of man have disappeared except for the big ditch they dug, future humans will declare a climate change caused the ditch lol. My daddy worked on building the bridge over that canal in 1959-60. Brought back reel to reel home movies of the job and coworkers. Grown men smiling into the camera before bailing off backwards doing flips into the huge nets hung underneath where they were working! Like a bunch of kids lol Wish I had those old films today, 63 years later!
Solar and wind power to pump water loss back up stream, and Desalination plants to replenish the lakes. Use the money they rip off the ships transit fees, therefore cut out the graft and corruption.
There's not enough local power generation to be able to do all of that. Just pumping the water instead of using gravity would need 10's of gigawatts of new power generation.
The commentator blames Human Induced Climate Change, omitting the first two words, when in fact the cause of the droughts in South & Central America since 2008 is Solar Induced via the Modern Grand Solar Minimum 2008 to 2034 with the direct cause, the Jet Stream Meridonial diversion of African Heat from the Trade wind zone of the Atlantic Trades, reducing the tropical rain storm flows into the Americas. That flow of heat has move into the Eastern Atlantic and North into Europe. The disturbed weather over the last two years has been the change over from a long running La Nena to a short, low powered El Nino & now back again during the next 4 months, with the La Nena likely to last over 8 years during the start of the next 80 year Gleissberg Minimum Period. A similar event took place during Vandal Minimum & GSM * 2 585 to 800AD & destroyed the Mayan Empire.
How can the canal dry up when there is an ocean on either side Some one please Explain this one the Gulf on the east side and the Pasific on the west🙄🙄🙄🙄
Why the hell would you use fresh water? If that is the issue then build desalinization plants to feed each holding lake. Or re-engineer it to use salt water from the oceans on either side. It's not a tricky solution just costly.
@@organbuilder272 Desalinization plants would remove the salt from the seawater. Or the filling system could be re-engineered to use piped-in sea water to fill the canal system due to it pouring out fresh water into the ocean losing the valuable potable water. Your juvenile taunts mean nothing to me hope that this clarification is now understood. I made the mistake thinking it was obvious what I was talking about but I see you could not fill in the details. Have a fine day.
@@squishy-tomato I said nothing about puting seawater into the lakes I said, desalinization plants to feed each holding lake that would then make it fresh water being pumped into the holding lakes. The most effective way would be to leave the lakes alone and to re-engineer the way the system pumps water into the canal. Using the ocean's salt water in the canal itself so it's not wasting the drinkable water, I hope that claers up any confusion.
Unless it dried up since last weekend when my buddy and his wife sailed through there on a giant cruise ship on their way to the Carribean :)
This is a stupid video with big lies. If the oceanic water did not dry, Panama Canal will never dry.
This is nothing more than lack of management or upgrading the system, especially with the large fees to each ship. There is no excuse for its mismanagement.
Greed and corruption.
Aren't you glad that Jimmy Carter (D) gave back the canal? /sarcasm
@@W9HJBill Agreed! ;)
We no longer control the operation, and those who do, are just doing what they can to make as much money as they can, and we see the result. Trouble is, the people in power here in America are doing the very same thing. Using up the resources until it is all gone, and they move on leaving people broke in their wake.
But the worst thing we face, is the coming war, with all of the terrorists coming over the open borders, we will be facing a massive uprising by islamists soon.
The canal is fed from river/s. They depend on rain. Like evaporation, they cannot be managed
@@derekmoult238 Yes, but instead of draining the water into the sea, pumping it back to the source would save much of the water. They use ponds to reuse some of the water, but they don't pump any of the water back up to the source, which would save much more.
We could build a new one with 2 canals and use one for ship's going west and one for going east and pump water from one side to the other. Saving up to 90% of the water
They must keep cleaning out cilt , when Pananapw was given to the goverment they spent the money but did not keep up matainance
Tell everyone about how they built a second larger lock system, taking way more water
I'm sure there is a logical explanation, but why not create basins and when you pump the water out to lower the ship, pump the water into the reservoir ... and visa versa? Yeah, I get that they are trying to use a gravity feed, but that isn't working, so stop wasting fresh water just by dumping it into the salt water seas. Seems like waste.
In the modernized version of the Panama Canal basins are currently in use.
@@squishy-tomato Considering they charge hundreds of thousands of dollars per ship to pass and they are now turning away paying ships, seems like that isn't a good reason.
There's a huge amount of water loss due to surface evaporation too, it's hot there.
There are basins, and an artificial lake. It is just dry.
So what's stopping them from digging down deep enough so the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans can just freely flow from one side to another, without locks?
If they did that, they could widen the canal enough to finally handle supertankers, too.
money and geography, as well as the fact that the panama canal is becoming irrelevant due to being too small
Digging out that much rock is really hard. And it has to be moved somewhere to "dump" it as well. Then there is the problem of a slight height difference between the two oceans which would turn a narrow canal into a raging whitewater rapids. We saw what happened when the Evergreen box ship "Evergiven" got wedged at an angle in the Suez Canal, blocking traffic for several days, and causing massive damage to her bulbous bow. If this new lockless Panama Canal were to work, it would have to be much wider than the already kind of skinny Suez Canal, and would be pretty destructive to the surrounding environment as well, since you would be splitting the continent.
Capital Greed has dried up the canal. The original canal was fine. The second canal, the Pan-Max canal was also fine. The Third mega canal is what is draining all the water. There is no rainfall problem, it is a greed problem. Solution? Throw my USA tax money at it so the rich can once again profit.
"Capitalist elites need no stinking Nature!"👎
Someone (China) is deliberately sabotaging the canal.
1. Why didn't you mention the failed valve that has been draining Gatun lake for the last 5 months?
2. The drought would not be an issue if the failed valve had not been consistently draining the lake.
3. Panama isn't cloud seeding, which will refill the lake in weeks.
4. The canal authority is running undersized ships through the canal. Smaller ships means more water lost. Larger ships result in less water list because larger ships take up more volume in the canal locks.
It's not China. It's Russia+Iran. Or have you not seen the video's on how Russia wants to have their own Canal to take over the Suez Canal. Now all the Houthi attacks on vessels on the Red Sea make sense, scare ships away from the Suez, either by force or by the threat of increased insurance costs, or insurance companies refusing to provide insurance coverage for a Suez Canal transit, and it starts to make more sense.
Another example of climate change not actually defining the facts
If I was a pirate this is where I would be hanging out!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
So, upgrade the canal again, wider, deeper, and eliminate the fresh water lake from the lock process.
The video claims that the "mules" used to tow vessels through the canal have been electrified recently... What about the GE electric "mules" that were manufactured in the U.S. and originally used in the Canal. I was born there and remember the canal using an electrified third rail for the tow mules. This is only one of multiple inaccuracies found in the video.
couldn't Panama, instead of flooding water downwards, just for the first, the lowest lock or part of it,
pump seawater up into the first lock, lifting the ship and saving sweet water this way?
The ship would have to be taxed for the increased energy cost but that would still be preferable than going all the way down to and around "Cape Storm" ?
They could at a very substantial power penalty cost. However there may be resulting salt water contamination of fresh water wells and aquifers etc
And just the other day I saw a video of the cities in the U. S. that would soon be submerged due to rising sea levels. Perhaps we could build a pipeline and pump the rising water from our coast south to Panama. Once we got the water flowing to the lower water level at Panama, wouldn't that create a siphon action? My god I've saved the canal!!! SARCASM!!!
75% of the Earth's surface is water! Figure it out!
Can't pump saltwater into a rainforest lake system. Watch the map.
@@peterparker219
Have you ever heard of desalination?
When I heard it was using freshwater that gets. Dumped in the ocean for each ship that passes through 52 million gallons. In order to keep up they're going to have to go with salt water and pumps or put in a desalination plant.
oh gee what happened to the rising sea leval ? or did the climate change again ?
We should maby go back to sail ships instead of polluting the oceans. Edit i know it would be harder to start and stop a ship on demand but it would make the oceans not be so polluted maby offset global warming.
😂😂😂😂😂😂thought they were going to dredge it in parts, to made it for bigger ships. Mexico is digging theirs, and China is digging one down south too… put it on that train, they have room for millions of riders, room for more cargo😂😂😂
Ice caps melting dew to global boiling, Raining constantly in England because of chemicals being poured out across our skies you would think there would be plenty of water
Global boiling ahhahahahahaa. We just had record cold Temps here in montana. Our summers were way hotter in the late 90s and early 2000s. You can look it up. We aren't heating up
@@user-pj6bl5md5r yea it's the same in England there telling us we are having global boiling whilst we are singing in the rain, they think we were born yesterday
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@@jiggsborah7041 I remember summer actually being warm and sunny in England and now it' just rains all the time and the chemicals they pump out across the skies never stop either 🧐
@user-uk8tl3xy9e due, that's corrective spelling for you on my phone
I thought we were going to be underwater in twenty years ?
Chinese mismanagement
What about all of the ice caps melting? Does this mean we have more than 7 years to live ?...... hmmmmm😮😮😮
The last time I heard it discussed climate change is causing the ocean levels to rise remember?
It has nothing to do with a rainforest freshwater lake system.
Thus, increase on prices worldwide!
instead of releasing lake water into the ocean, pump the water back into the lake when ship leaving the last gate. Vice versa, pump sea water to rise the ship when entering the lake. problem solve but speed is not fast or install giant sea water pump.
This video is misleading in several ways, because money is the issue, the ships are bigger, heavier, the technical mechanisms need updating and for many years climate change has been affecting this and other water channels, and then there's the overall management of the canal
Sounds like we need a second one that’s twice the size
If the water between each pair of adjacent locks, (side by side), was pump between them, the same water could be used over and over. This would reduce the water needed to run the canal at max capacity.
The water would flow until the level was the same in both locks. Then the pumps would have to be used to raise one and lower the other.
Problem solved...
Drought or no drought.
That's how the new system works, it uses 60% less water, but there's still water loss due to surface evaporation.
They have an ocean either end so why don’t they use the oceans to supply water?
It connects two oceans, why not use their water. Time for an upgrade.
Watch a map! It's a rainforest lake system.
Yeaaahh. Isn't Global Warming supposed to prevent this kind of thing!!!
why not let salt water flow in the Canal... why do they need fresh water ?
It's hard to find saltwater rain.
Water doesn't flow uphill, Gatun Lake is like 85 feet above MSL...
Just pump more sea /ocean water into canal from both sides if the canal... Build a permanent pipeline for the transport of sea water into the canal. Don't use fresh water...Use underwater robots to dig thru to the other side...I think only China can do it..
Tofu engineering can do anything ...😊
The wrath 9f God is upon the earth ,repent ,Jesus is the only way
And of course, a brainwashed religious cult member jumps in with their fantasy story.
Have some more kool aid with your tin foil hat on
They should of been recycling the water in the first place, instead of flushing it downstream to the next ocean.
SEED THE CLOUDS FOR RAIN OR PRAY
How can something fed by 2 oceans possibly dry up ??!!
@@davidforbes7772 ocean on both sides with a lake in the middle all connected !!
It is not fed by the two oceans, but by the Gatun lake, which is at a higher altitude, providing water that by gravity goes down with each ship, enabling it to stay afloat in each one of the locks and never goes up again.
Seems like that's not working out well.
It's a rainforest lake system. Nothing to do with ocean saltwater. Watch a map !
@@peterparker219 Lake in the middle --ocean at both ends !!!!
Solar powered pumps maybe, to return water, rather than discharge it?
LOADING LIGHTER OR FULL LOAD PLAYS NO PART IN THIS CASE AS BOTH WILL USE THE SAME AMOUNT OF WATER
Let the billionaires that need it pay to build a new one and dredge it out.
They are paying for it. Do you think it's free to take a ship through there?
Then they need to quit crying and pay for it.
Which ocean is out of watr the Atlantic or the Pacific?
A thousand years from now, when all signs of man have disappeared except for the big ditch they dug, future humans will declare a climate change caused the ditch lol. My daddy worked on building the bridge over that canal in 1959-60. Brought back reel to reel home movies of the job and coworkers. Grown men smiling into the camera before bailing off backwards doing flips into the huge nets hung underneath where they were working! Like a bunch of kids lol Wish I had those old films today, 63 years later!
Solar and wind power to pump water loss back up stream, and Desalination plants to replenish the lakes. Use the money they rip off the ships transit fees, therefore cut out the graft and corruption.
There's not enough local power generation to be able to do all of that. Just pumping the water instead of using gravity would need 10's of gigawatts of new power generation.
well, it seems to me like we come up with other ways to get things through besides the canal
just a shame you intermix climate and weather..
Not possible, locks regulate the ocean waters that are rising BTW.
Why doesn't the government the clouds there like they do in America and create floods?
Never stopped him here.
Why not just dig out the Center area, no locks needed..............
And waste a huge lake? No, that's too destructive.
Manufacture in your own country again…
Why don't they use seawater, pump it from the ocean expensive at first but better in the long run
It's a rainforest lake system. Watch a map !
The commentator blames Human Induced Climate Change, omitting the first two words, when in fact the cause of the droughts in South & Central America since 2008 is Solar Induced via the Modern Grand Solar Minimum 2008 to 2034 with the direct cause, the Jet Stream Meridonial diversion of African Heat from the Trade wind zone of the Atlantic Trades, reducing the tropical rain storm flows into the Americas. That flow of heat has move into the Eastern Atlantic and North into Europe. The disturbed weather over the last two years has been the change over from a long running La Nena to a short, low powered El Nino & now back again during the next 4 months, with the La Nena likely to last over 8 years during the start of the next 80 year Gleissberg Minimum Period. A similar event took place during Vandal Minimum & GSM * 2 585 to 800AD & destroyed the Mayan Empire.
Why didn't they utilize salt water to use in the canal instead of fresh water.
It's a rainforest lake system. Watch a map !
How can the canal dry up when there is an ocean on either side Some one please Explain this one the Gulf on the east side and the Pasific on the west🙄🙄🙄🙄
It's a rainforest lake system. Everything dies in saltwater. Watch a map !
Why the hell would you use fresh water? If that is the issue then build desalinization plants to feed each holding lake. Or re-engineer it to use salt water from the oceans on either side. It's not a tricky solution just costly.
Because Lake Gatun is a fresh water lake. Don't you know what you are talking about. Have you ever been to school?
@@organbuilder272 Desalinization plants would remove the salt from the seawater. Or the filling system could be re-engineered to use piped-in sea water to fill the canal system due to it pouring out fresh water into the ocean losing the valuable potable water. Your juvenile taunts mean nothing to me hope that this clarification is now understood. I made the mistake thinking it was obvious what I was talking about but I see you could not fill in the details. Have a fine day.
@@squishy-tomato I said nothing about puting seawater into the lakes I said, desalinization plants to feed each holding lake that would then make it fresh water being pumped into the holding lakes. The most effective way would be to leave the lakes alone and to re-engineer the way the system pumps water into the canal. Using the ocean's salt water in the canal itself so it's not wasting the drinkable water, I hope that claers up any confusion.
Climate issues?? U mean natural silting? Lol
LOL, global warming, sea ice is at a 20 year high....
Just watch " The Deadliest Catch " they say they haven't seen this much ice this early in the year.
Pump water from the oceans and store it in a man made lake just like the fresh water lake I know it more money to do but it is a fix
Calling BS on this
Why don't you use sea water .
Watch a map ! It's a rainforest lake system.
so dig it deeper
Hum!
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I thought global climate change was gonna rise the ocean levels
Your not supposed to remember that in this video .... 😊
Drink a glass of saltwater and you see the difference. Watch a map of the "canal" !