How The Netherlands Stopped The Wind
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- tomscott.com - / tomscott - The Delta Works, to the west of the Netherlands, are one of the modern wonders of the world. But there's other, lesser-known infrastructure there too: including the Rozenburg Wind Wall, on the Caland Canal, which turns a dangerous, windy stretch of canal into a much more navigable bit of water. It's a triumph of humanity over nature, and it's astonishing.
Thanks to Dan W - / iamdanw - for letting me borrow his footage from the busier parts of the port of Rotterdam!
America: Imperial
Rest of the world: Metric
Britain: "It's 25 meters tall and a mile long!"
Good one! Haha, the brits are stuck in it everywhere a bit.
In the EU, but use Pounds.
Drive on the wrong side.
Have the strangest parlament rules.
Also they use stones, pounds and tons i believe.
We drive on the correct side
@@FIGHTTHECABLE not in the eu anymore r.i.p. boris jonshon
@Ikreisrond no, your dominant eye is normally the right hand one. this means, on the left its easier to focus on the road.
@@56independent42 well you use the gear shift better with the right hand
I'm from the Netherlands and I didn't even know this...
+TheFireworkfreak16 me too! 😂
Same XD
+TheFireworkfreak16 I cycled past those things half a year ago and didn't understand what they were doing there until now...
+TheFireworkfreak16 ik ook niet, eigenlijk
well, that is a long known fact...
The Dutch built a wall and made the wind pay for it.
And the immigrating ships
to stop the immigrant wind
You damn right we did! Those filthy illegal tornadoes.
Actually, The Netherlands never gets tornados!
Quenten Schoonderwoerd daar zijn we te gierig voor.
I've been living near Rozenburg my whole life (35 years), and always thought this was just a questional piece of Dutch architecture, something we're also known for. But this just makes so much more sense!
Well it isn't on a roundabout, so...
The walls to my house stop 100% of wind. Beat that, wind walls.
Thomas Lynn Do they ?, would you care to explain that air you're breathing now ?.
*****
well there go's the 100% then :p
Battusai1984 You're so pedantic :)
Thomas Lynn
Having a background in programming i deal with true and false, not "sort of true" ;)
Cadde
Debugging "sorry.dll"
Your code never returns a false, better to just add a constant variable and skip the redundant code.
(Or if you really want this joke to work, use AND instead of OR, true && not true = sort of true)
that sun peeking in over your shoulder made what you were saying just so much more impactful.
***** I was very, very happy about the timing. Sheer luck!
***** It was. Hope you liked it though, as you've experienced most of spring during filming and, quite possibly, two thirds of summer.
And next time you're over, I won't mind buying you a beer or two.
Google Nutzer
Why?
Google Nutzer Interesting. Could and would you please elaborate?
EDIT: extra "you" removed
There are multiple assumptions being layered here. Sorry about that. How would you describe your idea government, and how would that work?
The Dutch are literally fighting the elements
I can just imagine a druid going "Humans will always lose against the elements" and a Dutch looking at him and starting to laugh
And saying "Hold my Grolsch"
"Hold my bitterbal."
Hold my klok bier
Hold my stroopwafel
hold my frikandel
I don't know if anyone else pointed this out, but... Frans de Wit was an artist and Struyis was an architecht. They headed the project as they were in charge of not making it an eyesore, but the maths and physics aspect was worked out by a team of engineers. I'm not meaning to take away from their contribution, but credit where it's due and all that :)
Somehow i feel like if the netherlands was on a fault line the dutch would just fix it as well
In fact, we fixed the abswnce of a major dault line by producing earthquakes of our own from gas mining operations in the north.
in the province of North Brabant their is a fault line. It's a rather interesting one because water seeps out one side, but the other side is lower and covered in clay. But the side it seeps out off is rich in iron so you can find big blocks of deposited iron in certain places.
But no worries, we did fix most of the fault by smoothing it out and in some places actually cementing it in place.
+Azivegu That's where I live, used to take a bije across it to school daily.
Quintinohthree haha, leuk. Woon er ook vlakbij, maar heb via mijn opleiding (geologie) ook wat extra aandacht aan besteed. Is best interessant.
+Azivegu Haha, was ook een onderwerp bij aardrijkskunde op de middelbare.
1:01
"It is 25 meters high and a mile long". -Tom soft flexing his bilingual abilities.
More about the Netherlands. We like people talking about us
Netherlandistan, home of the orange mohammed.
but do netherland people like talking about the netherlands to people who are listening?
@@jerbid_ we're proud of ourselves
@@walterclements7968 precies!
I like your weed ;)
im from the netherlands and i've been here once, i thought it was some kind of abstract piece of art or something!
Your profile pic suits your comment perfectly
"God created the earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands."
No
Huntracony Aye
Actually Slartibartfast did
Oh sorry he made the Norwegian one...
Huntracony "God created the wind, but the Dutch stopped it."
That's really neat! I live in the Netherlands and I had no idea this was a thing, I'll have to visit sometime for sure.
Same here. I live in the Netherlands and I didn't know that!
Michael Kroes I lived in the town next to it for 20 years, never knew those things were for the wind..
Fennoman Same, haha
Same 😊
Fennoman "And that is something you might not have known".
Finally a British person who doesn't call the Netherlands "Holland"...
check out CGP video about that topic!
Thats only the part of the Netherlands that is called Holland we have north and south Holland calling the netherlands Holland is the same as calling the United States Dakota
I know but the Netherlands doesn't even has a official tourism site
shooter77 77 I've already seen it :)
I've never heard anyone here in Britain call it Holland. >.>
Awesome! I live in the Netherlands and never knew we had such a thing. Also its pretty ironicall that there is a windmill in the background.
That wall probably directs the wind straight at it... I don't see a problem. Perfect placement.
I live near Rozenburg, in Maassluis. That wind barriers are so well designed. When there is so much wind, the ships still can get through the tiny gap. Also a nice thing near Rozenburg is the Maeslantkering. Hope you have a video of that as well!
That wall's not going to stop the wind. The wind will just use a ladder or dig under it.
We kunnen er niet bovenover, we kunnen er niet onderdoor, we moeten er dwars doorheen!
@Kwok Yat Wai r/woooosh
Thank you Tom! This wall just made the perfect intro for a school assignment! I would never have known about this if it weren't for you, and I'm Dutch myself!
pretty sure tom gets off to mankind's achievements.
You mean you don't?
So do i :)
Watched a 2 minute and 19 seconds ad before watching a 2 minute and 12 seconds video. I'm proud of my new achievement.
the netherlands masters of the water stoppers of wind
***** you mean dams
ashley beaumont Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Ovenman940 Iceland?
ashley beaumont and King of the North
ashley beaumont Dat kan de afsluitdijk helemaal niet, dat zijn de deltawerken.
In a decade, do another video about the wall they build along the Suez Canal
My grandparents used to live in Rozenburg, and I must've gone over that bridge a hundred times. I remember seeing these structures and thinking, "bloody modern art, what will they think of next?" Guess it had a purpose after all.
I always used to see these as a kid because my grandparents lived in Rozenburg. I kinda forgot about them, but now I finally know what they are for.
Don't underestimate the Netherlands. As a great man once said: 'God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands'.
***** He's only half right.
***** Nobody cares.
CoWinkKeyDinkInc
You cared enough to respond, and I bet you care enough to respond to this comment too.
*****
I thought that maybe you weren't aware.
CoWinkKeyDinkInc
See? I told you that you care enough to respond again!
"we're humans, we'll stop the wind."
that's great and all, but can you make people behave reasonably on the internet.
and will it blend?
They're humans, they'll behave badly. The only thing more persistent and creative than a few people is _a lot of people._
LifelessHawk I know this was 8 months ago, but was that supposed to be an insult or a well-meant wish?
yes censorship or lots of hitmen
Concrete dust, Dont breathe this!
Bioniclegoblin I know it’s been 10 months, but I to am curios to know the answer to your question as well...
Derp. I've lived in the Netherlands for 32 years now, and had never ever heard of this marvelous structure.
Thank you for educating me Tom.
I've seen these being put into place. I was born in Rozenburg. Very weird to see a video of those windscreens as I've never really known what a massive job it would've been to construct them and place them. (I was very young when they were placed)
I don't know if it was around when the video was made, but just past the bridge is the mooring place for the largest (not sure if it has been beat yet) crane ship in the world.
When i ride my bike at night about 15km away i can see it's distinct lights towering above all the other structures in the Rotterdam harbor
everyone: "you can't defeat the wind"
The dutch: "hold my Heineken!"
and our shell and phillips
Hertog jan*
That was good!
And this is how it looks when a big ship goes through. It's a tight fit!
flic.kr/p/5Uxqx7
This was specifically built because the car carriers arriving nearby are very tall, boxy ships and they catch a lot of wind.
I've lived close all my life and have visited this bridge and wind deflectors often.
@R S It's not amazing. It's our attitude in engineering. We will find a way to do everything, as long as it is practical and can be done somewhat economically. For example the Maasvlakte industrial area is a good example.
"We're humans. We will stop the wind!"
Kinda want that on a T-Shirt :P
They're not the only ones to have that kind of things, the city of Fermont in Québec has 1.3 kilometre wall, 50 meters high (Surprisingly called the "Wall") made to protect not a bit of canal, but an entire city of the wind, and on top of that they even made it useful, they put the city services, shops and lodgings in it, to the point it's even possible for citizens (that do not work in the mines) to stay in it for the whole winter and never go outside of the winter (which lasts 7 months up there)
David Mulder
Edit: I love hitting "send" by accident. Anyway, I didn't know about Svappavaara as for the other side well, in some places the wind mostly comes from a single direction and to be honest I don't even remember what my original comment was x.x
Guess how is wonderful too? The person that brings all that nice footage to me with this wonderful commentary. Keep up the amazing work tom :D
Amen
Just the other day we came home from a family trip in one of the Netherlands many Center Parcs. On our way back to Germany we drove through Rotterdam. Then I thought to myself "Hang on a minute, you've seen that wall before... Tom Scott made a video about stopping the wind, didn't he?"
And you're absolutely right. We didn't even get out of the car, we just drove past it and still I was blown away by the sheer size of that wall. It's truly amazing.
I guess they should've built this at the Suez canal...
My grandparents live in Rozenburg and I have stood at almost the same spot as you have, funny... It is an awesome sight to behold
I am blown away by this video, or rather not blown away thanks to the structures
That's got to be one of the coolest things you've shown us Tom, thanks.
Central and Northern Europe is such and advanced place
manzilla48 Sane and effective tax policies which benefit EVERYONE.
I pass them multiple times a week since I'm a traindriver on the harbor train line, and didn't think much of them. But this video made me look at them in another way, very nice.
that is cool, my brother works on a containership that travels between rotterdam (mostly pernis) and antwerpen
We (I'm Dutch) ones had a plan to build a literal mountain, and we actually seriously considered it. In the end we didn't do it, not because we weren't capable of doing a infrastructurer project like that...
We could spend the money it would cost on much better things.
The Dutch can do anything.
The Dutch are very creative and inventive people. We (Britain) used to be like that- after all we sparked the Worldwide industrial revolution- but then we let left wing politics get in the way and now we're just an offshore colony for Afghans. I hope Netherlands doesn't make the same mistakes.
@@derekstuart5234 we're part of the EU with, due to ignorance, little support for leaving it and while the reigning govt is already messing stuff up I'd say bad chance 💀
In some townships here asylum seekers get privilege in terms of housing while knowing we have a massive housing shortage. They also get welfare and, if I'm not mistaken, free healthcare and don't pay taxes. With their welfare money they visit their "dangerous" homelands for summer vacation. Never mind integration or getting a job either. And they like us as much as they like you (so, at its mildest cultural disrespect). And the EU wants us to take in at least 20.000 more, however I don't know if that still stands with the Ukrainians flooding in now. Not to mention the attack on our history and culture, something the entire west seems to be facing. But the fact of the matter is that we're already second class citizens, the government doesn't really care about us.
@@Ned-nw6ge 100% agree
I cant believe I've only recently found this bloke. What a channel!!
I'd love to see some kind of fluid dynamics simulation to show why they chose that semicircular shape for the wall sections.
Mors Coronam I think the shape has more to do with stability and cost-effectiveness than fluid dynamics.
I could be totally wrong though and would like to see that aswell.
That little green Quonset hut at 0:04 is pretty awesome. Right in there with all those containers.
I bet you a million dollars that the suez canal will build one of these now
I mean we have been time and time again then a disaster happens aderlating get put back like it whas here in the netherlands we built to prevent assistentes and when the happen we make a solutoin to it kinde how you have to think when you are at constaint risk of the country flooding 26% of our land is under sea level
"This is a triumph of humans over nature, and it is wonderful"
Spoken as a true nerd Tom 😂
I literally drove by there every week for the past 15 years, and I only just learned what they actually are xD
Tom’s excitement here is so contagious... 😃
He gets around a lot.
Just like ur mum
King KobiGames #rekt
I have no comeback, congratulations King KobiGames
well, as long as you live in Europe and you are smart enough to find the good plane ticket offers, travelling it's pretty cheap. I used to go to Madrid (from Italy) once a month, always paid less than 60€ both ways.
That is absolutely remarkable. Flat wouldn't work, without the bar wouldn't work, uninterrupted barrier wouldn't work... Those architects have come up with something beautiful and strange and, although I could never have thought it up, I can see instantly why it has to be that way.
The Dutch most definitely didn't stop the wind when I had to cycle to school. Cool, though, I didn't even know about this.
We do it for ships but somehow every read to school is in the windiest direction, even when its from your back
@@cas8891 My perception is that the wind somehow changed 180 degrees during the day when I was at school, and that I always had it against.
Could someone expand on how that wall works - it's very evidently more subtle than just "put some concrete in the way" - I imagine there's some interesting fluid dynamics relating to the shapes and ratios of the walls to the gaps?
Viewing this after ever given...
heh
Tom Scott, once again showing me something i never knew existed.
25 meters is 10 or 11 people stood on eachothers shoulders, absolute madness
My family would have loved to have had one of these walls around me growing up, especially after eating a plate of baked beans on toast with cheese. :o)
Spunktastic JismMonkey I read your reply in the voice of Butt-head XD
Hello Tom,
Nice video. I visit Europort a lot for work. Did not know these facts!
Thanks
I wish you would bring back your old outro when you used to say "and that, is something you might not have known" :'c
Love the view out there... And love the sun flare...
The Dutch are so crazy with their ambitious projects - I love it! XD
Tom, you're honestly just downright inspirational. I've been watching your videos for a longgg while now, and it's all just... great. Stay classy, Mr Scott.
You were just a few kilometers away from my house :o
For some reason that makes me happy :p
Tom thank you for another great video!
I wonder how much of it is archimedes valve action and how much is just 'hemicylinders are stronger and cheaper than flat walls' Very cool.
There's also the 'If there's no gaps it's gonna fall over' factor. Also it would create a massive windshear on top.
I think the open side of the hemicylinder is aimed at the wind and open on top to catch the ground level wind and smash it into the higher winds to create turbulence to prevent the wind from going over the wall.
Wow. I’ve cycled past this place many times and I had no idea what they were for. Thanks ;)
cool to see A video of something I see every day. it is called Rozenburg though
Whoops! Good spot - fixed it, thanks.
Thanks for this video.
I live in the Netherlands and regularly go to Rotterdam, but I never heard of this before. Really cool!
The Netherlands VS Nature
The Netherlands wins
we always win. and if we don't we'll find a way to win.
Well if we lose the battle we become better than before as we crawl up , that would be more acurate.
+Tom Bruggeman I thought when you lose, the country is flooded?
red toasti Nope, I live in the southernmost province, where it would be 100% fine.
Thomas Joosten not only wins, he winds
As part of a railway line route to not go over the major bridge, they had to teared down a couple of those big wind blockers and replaced them with smaller diameter ones.
Oh no. We wouldn't want wind to cause a huge ship to get stuck in a canal, especially when thousands of millions of dollars are riding on that canal working properly. What would we do.
lmao beat me to it
It's so nice to see my own country through your 👀 😊
You should come to the plains of the US. It was done 80-90 years ago. They just used wood (aka trees) instead of concrete and planted them by the dozen or hundreds of miles and around most buildings... They're called shelterbelts
Like the Dutch used to in the polders way back.
Next time you visit the Netherlands you should visit a greenhouse and the flower auction in the Westland (area north-west of Rotterdam).
Tom it's crazy that an Englishman teaches me the most about my country.
happy to see you like rozenburg
I live in the Netherlands and can confirm it's still windy as ****
Very interesting alternative to making the bridge higher and the supports wider
I am from The Netherlands and I've never heard about this wind-thingie... 🤔🤨🧐
Let me explain: Wind is that mysterious force that inverts your umbrella. :P
Cycled past this in September. Awesome structure. Wondered what purpose it served. Now I know.
The Suez Canal would like to have a chat
I'm impressed that they considered it cheaper to stop the wind rather than re-build the canal to be more practical.
And how should they change the canal to be more practical??
*a flood happens
“Don’t worry we’ll just block the ocean”
*wind appears
“Don’t worry we’ll just block the wind”
In the Netherlands nature doesn’t stop you, you stop nature.
And that is our exact way of treating nature: Nice woods! Let build a highway through it, so it splits up in two woods. Double the nature we have and improve infrastructure in one go!
There is litterally no nature left in the Netherlands. Sure, we have trees and wild animals and rivers and fields, but there is not 1 single square centimeter that has not been engineered in some way or the other.
@@Gooikes Quite often those woods have been re-connected with bridges and tunnels. Sadly, that project was stopped by the more recent governments.
There isn't enough land let's just make more
Dutch people are the true water and air benders
The dutch used to have wilow trees around farm houses to break the wind . as there is only flat land surounding them those trees served a double function draining exes water and breaking the wind for the buildings , this wall is based on that principle.
Yasuo has nothing on this wall!
I drove past those things lots of times, never knew what they were for! =P. Thanks for the info!
So, is that a way to stop the Air Nomads from escaping?
no the netherlands is just a bunch of engineers stealing air bending and waterbending with engineering
We need the old outro back! :D "And this is something you migh not have known".
"Nobody can stop the Netherland winds!" Well, I guess the Dutch could.
Love your enthusiasm Tom! Great video
They should have just built one of these at the Suez Canal /s
I think your presentation style has really improved recently, keep up the interesting facts!
"We are humans. We'll stop the wind."
There's not triumph of humans over nature when humans are nature. Nice vids.
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
I really love your videos! Please keep making em’
I thought the title was "How The Neanderthal
s Stopped the Wind"
XD
The Dutch are slightly more advanced than that ;-)
Same difference, would rather hear from the neanderthals
Wow this took my breath away..
Suez Canal wants your info
There is actual lense flare while you were talking omg majestic