CHINA Power Shortages Damaging Economy & Industry as Hydro Output Falls & Chinese Industry Suffers

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  • @Raven463
    @Raven463 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

    Their rainfall issues are partly self-inflicted.
    They've been building dams and diverting rivers without considering what it's going to do to water evaporation and such
    As a side note, if their dams are constructed to the same quality levels of their other infrastructure, I wouldn't want to live downstream of 3 Gorges...

    • @SeattlePioneer
      @SeattlePioneer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Next to nothing, I would suppose.
      Rainfall is generated from moisture produced in tropical oceans, by and large. Rain falls uninterrupted on land and then collects in rivers.
      Damming rivers increases slightly the opportunity for evaporation from reservoirs, but that is trivial comp0ared to moisture from tropical/ocean areas.
      Just as one example, huge amounts of rainfall on the west coast of North America come from "atmospheric rivers" originating over the tropical Pacific Ocean and then traveling east until it hits mountains of North America.

    • @olafthebear2327
      @olafthebear2327 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Even if one were to live downstream, the floods are probably going to relocate your home to a nice seaside wreckage of a house. At least hopefully before the dam itself collapses

    • @heinrichmuller7974
      @heinrichmuller7974 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      i know they seed the clouds to prevent rain during important events, and then seed them with another chemical to produce rain. i can't imagine this to be a good thing

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SeattlePioneer That is not true here. For instance the Yangtze river, beginning in the 1950s, dams and dikes were built for flood control, land reclamation, irrigation, and control of diseases vectors such as blood flukes that caused Schistosomiasis. More than a hundred lakes were thusly cut off from the main river. There were gates between the lakes that could be opened during floods. However, farmers and settlements encroached on the land next to the lakes although it was forbidden to settle there. When floods came, it proved impossible to open the gates since it would have caused substantial destruction. Thus the lakes partially or completely dried up. For example, Baidang Lake shrunk from 100 square kilometers in the 1950s to 40 square kilometers in 2005. Zhangdu Lake dwindled to one quarter of its original size. So it literally is a case of man-made structures encroaching on the natural replenishing cycle of the river and leaving it worse off as a result.

    • @SeattlePioneer
      @SeattlePioneer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      None of your claims deal with reduced evaporation due to dams. That was the claim made in an earlier post.

  • @jameslewis1605
    @jameslewis1605 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    Xi moving China back to the pre Mao era. You go you paper dragon.

    • @bangkok9205
      @bangkok9205 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's music to my ears!!!!!

    • @Sir_Godz
      @Sir_Godz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      it will be sooo different this time

    • @larzkruber822
      @larzkruber822 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Must have been america
      tricking them to pollute the air

    • @donaldkasper8346
      @donaldkasper8346 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In 10 years we won't remember where Russia and China were located.

    • @larzkruber822
      @larzkruber822 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great...
      What was it this time TH-cam?
      Didnt i use newspeak correctly?
      "This comment is double plus good"

  • @ianmacdonald9201
    @ianmacdonald9201 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    The water situation is going to get much worse as China has dammed all of the rivers that flow into the southern countries such as Vietnam and Laos.

    • @DK-ev9dg
      @DK-ev9dg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Worry about America.

    • @thomaslunde5014
      @thomaslunde5014 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@DK-ev9dg Deflection is cool right?

    • @DK-ev9dg
      @DK-ev9dg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thomaslunde5014 China has half through the biggest water transfer project in the history of mankind that is south to north water transfer project. America can only dream of project of this calibre and skill.

    • @thomaslunde5014
      @thomaslunde5014 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@DK-ev9dg Your social credit must be great.

    • @DK-ev9dg
      @DK-ev9dg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thomaslunde5014 millions of homeless that are sleeping on the streets in every city in under filthy conditions with no access to toilets, clean water and electricity in USA need credit rebuilt Some of them might be your relatives. Nobody gives them credit. Your elite serving poor hating incompetent govt has failed them. Send all the poor and homeless $2 each so that they can rebuild their lives. Shame on you.

  • @maddkatter7948
    @maddkatter7948 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    China can produce electricity with people on treadmills. Solves unemployment as well. 😅

    • @Woolymammoth-db1lt
      @Woolymammoth-db1lt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      treadmills were torture devices in prisons before they became an exercise equipment way before both those things they were "human powered engines" for pumping water and grinding grain.
      so not far off

    • @veikovasko5603
      @veikovasko5603 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@veikovasko5603 As is 5000 years of Chinese tradition.

    • @SonicPhonic
      @SonicPhonic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chinese farming has used so much pesticide that their bee population has crashed and they have to pollinate crops by hand. I guess there's always tea.

    • @ahmataevo
      @ahmataevo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hamster wheel economy.

  • @MrRezillo
    @MrRezillo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    Natural disasters are a tragedy. Natural disasters accompanied by lies, corruption, indifference and incompetence are a mega tragedy.

    • @TerryGaskett
      @TerryGaskett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Another Gr8 video, coal could be Au's biggest export in coming years ? better invest!!⛏️🪨⚓$$$'s

    • @richardkut3976
      @richardkut3976 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mother Nature Knows.

    • @TerryGaskett
      @TerryGaskett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@richardkut3976 Richard, wasn't talking about the weather problem, but the fact that China runs on coal & the benefits that would result in personal profit, for investment.

  • @t5ruxlee210
    @t5ruxlee210 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    Karma for a country that specializes in diverting its downstream river flows away from its not subservient enough neighbours ?

    • @sandybrown4957
      @sandybrown4957 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Confucius says "if you believe all you hear, you will eat all you see"

    • @azahariawang9155
      @azahariawang9155 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Which river is that? I thought water from Mekong river is being nicely shared by all relevant countries?

    • @azahariawang9155
      @azahariawang9155 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@sandybrown4957including rodent feet... Yuks

    • @surters
      @surters 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@azahariawang9155 Yes, soon to be 99% to china via diverted rivers and one percent to Mekong river.

    • @imnotanalien7839
      @imnotanalien7839 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂

  • @videomaniac108
    @videomaniac108 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    One possible problem with China's rush to convert to hydroelectricity is that China's construction of so many dams to create large reservoirs for feeding hydro-generation stations is preventing their rivers from properly draining the large amounts of water that accumulate during their monsoon season. This results in the rivers swelling on their banks, as the flow backs up due to the downstream restrictions from the reservoirs, and in spillages from the reservoirs, as they reach their capacity. The end result is the flooding that we have been seeing every year during their rainy season.

    • @silverbird425
      @silverbird425 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I was thinking the same thing with lines of dams blocking one river and as each is in danger of overtopping, each is opened up and causes a flood of water to the next dam, which is opened up - until there is so much someone gets flooded (not helped by the city downstream that refuses to release water lest they get flooded).

    • @videomaniac108
      @videomaniac108 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@silverbird425 That's a good observation, a sort of cascade of catastrophies.

    • @LittleRadicalThinker
      @LittleRadicalThinker 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@silverbird425Overtopping water in the reservoir is likely the least to worry about in the big picture. Dams creates ecological catastrophe all the time.

    • @sailinggreenpearl2571
      @sailinggreenpearl2571 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is nonsense. Flooding occurs because we dont hold back the water. Its covering everything in concrete and constriction drains. Nature holds water back, preventing flooding

    • @sonialelii9038
      @sonialelii9038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And they keep building more of these dams ......

  • @paulwusteman9963
    @paulwusteman9963 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Now they will be opening 2 coal-fuelled power stations per week, not just one as now.

    • @billpetersen298
      @billpetersen298 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought, two a week is the norm?

  • @hardtackbeans9790
    @hardtackbeans9790 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    There is just something so poetic about a country that 'paints' some of the mountains green in touristy areas of China, 'going Green' to show off to the outside world.

    • @Withnail1969
      @Withnail1969 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you sure they paint the mountains green or is that made up? The Winnie the Pooh is banned in China story turned out to be made up.

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not to show off, it's to remove a major strategic weakness and improve limited domestic resource usage.

    • @CountJeffula
      @CountJeffula 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@neolithictransitrevolution427what? How does painting the hills help with that? You’re literally wasting human capital and paint and polluting the environment and making it potentially more difficult for plants to grow all at the same time. Also, once all the paint starts to flake off and float around, you’re potentially causing lung irritation and clogging up filter systems and polluting waterways. I can’t think of much things dumber honestly.

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@CountJeffula I'm obviously refering to the second half of the "poetic" symmetry, the "going green". And in doing so pointing out that China, while driving the world transition to renewables and electrification, does not care about environmental issues when painting a mountain or covering it in solar panels.

    • @DownUndaDigga
      @DownUndaDigga 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      G’day Count. I think Neolithic is parroting typical CCP propaganda/narrative which has mesmerised most of the 1.4 billion citizens. A bit like North Korea.

  • @drewstead316
    @drewstead316 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Aluminum is so energy-intensive that people in the business call it liquid electricity

    • @SeattlePioneer
      @SeattlePioneer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why would they call it LIQUID electricity?

    • @drewstead316
      @drewstead316 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Because the last step of the process uses catalysts powered by a huge amount of electricity to make molten metal, 20 kilowatt hours per kilo so the value of aluminum is directly tied to the cost of electricity.

    • @SeattlePioneer
      @SeattlePioneer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@drewstead316
      Must be an inside joke among aluminum refiners and chemical engineers.

    • @drewstead316
      @drewstead316 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The CCP subsidizes electricity to be about 15 cents per kilowatt and poorer states in the US also pay about 15 cents, but they don't do aluminum in California because it's like 45 or 50 cents a kilowatt hour here

    • @davidhanna8470
      @davidhanna8470 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@drewstead316 i worked on the Hoover Dam and at the Alcoa plants in Portland and Tacoma, never heard 'molten, liquid or metallic electricity.'. Granted, it takes exactly one shitload of electricity per. Pound of electricity, used to more expensive than gold, that's why the statues in front of the Hoover dam are cast aluminum.

  • @moors710
    @moors710 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    If you look the USA was producing "green" aluminum before it was in fashion. The Aluminum industry in Washington state in the city of Goldendale produced aluminum using electricity from dams on the Columbia river and the source for carbon in the electrodes was charcoal from trees used in the turpentine industry in the eastern Cascade Mountains. The turpentine industry was shut down due to completion from petroleum based solvents, and the electricity now goes to California who has shut down its nuclear power plants.

    • @daniellarson3068
      @daniellarson3068 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They produced aluminum downstream in the Dalles as well. Spokane had some aluminum stuff too.

    • @petermach8635
      @petermach8635 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Here in the UK we had an aluminium smelter at Invergordon on the West coast of Scotland, designed to use electricity from the nearby very wet mountains.

  • @jimmiefitzgerald4961
    @jimmiefitzgerald4961 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Aluminum used to be as rare as gold for a long time that way there’s a 20 pound block of it on the Washington monument because of the rarely or it but less then a few years after a new process made it one of the cheapest and most quantity metal in the world now

  • @seanlander9321
    @seanlander9321 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Aluminium is English, and the other version is some weird concoction from a country that invented spray on cheese.🤢

    • @hollysielaff5453
      @hollysielaff5453 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As an American I find your comment hilarious...I should be insulted, but...😂

    • @johnhaller5851
      @johnhaller5851 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The original name was aluminum, but the inventor of the name was convinced to change the name the aluminium to be consistent with Latin names like sodium. So, in 1808, the name was aluminum, and in 1812, aluminium was preferred by chemists. But aluminum stuck in the US. Which is better? I don't know.

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@johnhaller5851 The IUPAC determined the spelling as: aluminium, which means that is the recognised spelling.

    • @davidhanna8470
      @davidhanna8470 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wear spray on cheese. I keeps the seagulls from pecking my coconut.

    • @SimonGardiner-bj3pq
      @SimonGardiner-bj3pq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnhaller5851 Thank God for 'O' level chemistry.

  • @dougpage2730
    @dougpage2730 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Considering their hundreds of new coal-fired power plants, and the horrible air pollution the poor Chinese people have to breathe, they should have lots of electricity!!

    • @SeattlePioneer
      @SeattlePioneer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I give the CCP credit for IGNORING the weeping and wailing of environmentalists in their remarkable effort to improve the welfare of the Chinese people. Yes, that massive economic development has had impascts on human wealfare, but the benefits FAR outweigh those costs.
      Meanwhile. the industrial west is deindustrializing under the lash and complaints of environmentalists, and that industry is moving to China and other third world nations which welcome that industrialization for themselves and their people.
      Not many decades ago, the United States produced HALF the steel in the world. Now it is China that produces more than half the steel in the world, and the United States produces 1/12th the steel that China does.
      The video make the same point about aluminum.
      It is just the kind of selfish arrogance of environmentalists that will be reelecting Donald Trump in November.

  • @dcc70
    @dcc70 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I wonder how well China's numerous aging dams for hydro power are maintained. I'd imagine as a dam ages, it would collect lots of sediments that would gradually reduce the dam's capacity to hold water, if not dredged regularly. Operators of these dams would increasingly become reluctant to release water for flood regulation in order to preserve power generating potential. Often they wait until too late to release the water, do it all at once and cause man-made floods. As electricity customers get flooded, the grid shuts down and that forces the generator to go offline.

  • @nealramsey4439
    @nealramsey4439 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    I wouldn't act as though China's use of hydo power is a good thing. They have caused far more harm than good by the use of hydro. Their flooding is in large part caused by the CCP and the work they have done and not done over the last 80 yrs.

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Ya the Three Gorges dam is kinda impressive but they would have produced more power, had more flood control, and impacted the environment less by building a bunch of smaller upstream dams.

    • @MarcPagan
      @MarcPagan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      China and Environmentalism go together like -
      a Democratic Party/Labour Party voter... and facts and logic.

    • @piotrmajewski5978
      @piotrmajewski5978 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@neolithictransitrevolution427But that would look worse in propaganda. And flooding only impacts regular, poor people, so...

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@piotrmajewski5978 the propaganda is really key. Floods of the Yellow River are literally legendary, a giant, world tilting dam to control it is a real psychological win.

    • @GiorniVenibato
      @GiorniVenibato 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Which floods?? You sound clueless!

  • @michelleagnew8780
    @michelleagnew8780 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I absolutely love that you pronounce it as aluminium and would be disappointed if you as a Brit didn’t pronounce it this way. I also accept and appreciate the American pronunciation of aluminum that you’ve used.
    Thank you for representing both!
    You’re an excellent content producer and you’ll never hear me complain because I learn so much from your videos!

  • @captainhadd0ck
    @captainhadd0ck 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    Every day I give thanks to the universe that I was not born in China.

    • @gdmoore
      @gdmoore 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @jchung5265
      @jchung5265 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd agree if you were born say before 2000. Do pick up some travel china vids like Sun Kissed Bucket List if you don't fly much!

    • @worldspam5682
      @worldspam5682 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@jchung5265 those "travel china" videos are becoming anti ccp for some unknown reason 😂

    • @scottstewart5784
      @scottstewart5784 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      A person with a shitty job living in a trailer in Georgia - struggling but parodxically still overweight, hit the worldwide birth lottery. Because's 1) they're not Chinese or any of 50 or so other repressed nationalities, 2) they're born free, and 3) they can improve their lot through industriousness. I called a window manufacturer here in West Virginia yesterday - they no longer make the windows - just can't find people to work the machines. Especially nowadays, a person with a work ethic can change their stars.

    • @sandybrown4957
      @sandybrown4957 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes your like lots of other losers but you got your wish, China likes win, winners not loose, losers and China got it's wish

  • @mevcarter6664
    @mevcarter6664 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Your videos are the bench mark for all other instructional videos: clear, concise and no irritating background 'music'.

    • @baggierols73
      @baggierols73 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Amen to the lack crap background music 😂

    • @carlflaherty2215
      @carlflaherty2215 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Despite this, he is not boring.

    • @DK-ev9dg
      @DK-ev9dg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He is being paid to bring this crap to people who don't know what's going on in America

    • @11000038
      @11000038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I hate background noises, stupid whooshing sound. Pop, beeps, or worse the maniacal drumming.

  • @Newsopathy-gf2ug
    @Newsopathy-gf2ug 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Here is the really stupid thing. Aluminium can be 100% recycled. In actual fact the world doesn't bother to recycle more than 75%. And that's idiotic because recycling it involves using only 5% of the energy of producing brand new aluminium and causes 90% less CO2. How many countries let the waste happen?

    • @devirama1
      @devirama1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hope someone powerful in the energy department is paying attention to this important post.

  • @hobbyfarmer62
    @hobbyfarmer62 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    One other thing it is totally wrong to NOT include China as one of the developed nations and stop giving them a pass on things.

    • @davidbaker9479
      @davidbaker9479 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They dont need a pass. They are adding more renewables via wind and solar than any other country. There carbon footprint will start dropping pretty soon, and they have pledged net neutrality by 2060, although I would put money on that happeneing much sooner than that at there current pace.
      They already have 3x more energy produced via renewables than the united states, and will likely continue to outpace us on installations every year. I would be surprised if we achieved net neutrality before them. Not just on the grid, but also transit and any other major pollution area. Ie transit.

    • @DK-ev9dg
      @DK-ev9dg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Go away. Who are you?

    • @Brommear
      @Brommear 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@DK-ev9dg Who are you?

    • @Taber01
      @Taber01 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      if they can spend money on sending probes to the moon, they should be recognized as a developed country

    • @Birch37
      @Birch37 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      China gets discounts due to being categorised as a 'Developing Country'. Yes agree....

  • @P6009D
    @P6009D 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    10,000 years ago Sweden was covered with 3km thick ice, I think that is extreme.

    • @ilari90
      @ilari90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      So are the +50 celsius temperatures on mediterranean atm

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's the kind of thing caused by high temperatures in the arctic, driving higher evaporation and precipitation in the north (less dry = more snow) and shutting down the North Atlantic circulation

    • @stevematthews4489
      @stevematthews4489 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How many people were living in Sweden 10,000 yrs ago?

    • @raevj
      @raevj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was an ice age…and we are at the END of the last ice age. This climate is not changing due to man or animal emissions. The science around this is completely bought by green energy Nazis…..don’t perpetuate their grift.

    • @craigrussell7542
      @craigrussell7542 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So what @P6006D?

  • @daviddelgado6090
    @daviddelgado6090 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Not only energy production, but that 1000 mile canal being built to supply Beijing with water.

    • @glennjanot8128
      @glennjanot8128 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That canal shows everything wrong with the CCP. They do these infrastructure projects always with reputation in mind, they want people in other countries to think that China is somehow a country of great infrastructure.
      A series of underwater pipes would be a lot more efficient than a canal. How many millions of gallons of water will be lost through evaporation?

    • @LeonardTavast
      @LeonardTavast 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      China even wants to drain the Baikal lake to feed Beijing but Russia doesn't consent to it.

  • @dirusso3030
    @dirusso3030 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Joe you are so Intelligent 🤓, I learn a lot with you! Thank you very much for all the information.💯%👍

  • @0Zebadee0
    @0Zebadee0 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Maybe Mr Xi could spend some of that US$700 million he's sitting on to aid his subjects.

    • @jchung5265
      @jchung5265 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that's the reason he is selling US$B bonds , to pay for disasters!🤣

    • @mombaassa
      @mombaassa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Dividing the US$700 million by a population of 1.4 billion, would give each person 50 cents.

    • @0Zebadee0
      @0Zebadee0 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      or he could just spend the money on flood prevention measures and more effective water distribution systems

    • @jchung5265
      @jchung5265 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mombaassa natural disasters are usually localized, unlike‘COVID’ like plans

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Who ever thought you could get aluminum foil out of that rock and all the steps to do it sure had a far thinking brain!

  • @bvzpRTZMJQmKiWAFyohH
    @bvzpRTZMJQmKiWAFyohH 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Joe, I'm always impressed by the wide range of topics that you cover in your videos. What was your profession before becoming a content creator?

  • @glynnec2008
    @glynnec2008 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    How do the British pronounce "Platinum"? Is it by chance "Platinium"?

    • @dreadpenguinlord340
      @dreadpenguinlord340 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For that matter, why the change from "Londinium"? 😛

    • @davidhanna8470
      @davidhanna8470 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In America it's 'Plutonum-nuts.' Like Beer Nuts, only a bit more radium-actively.

  • @Brommear
    @Brommear 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    14:23 Fun fact - the second biggest hydro-electric plan is on the Paraná river between Paraguay and Brazil. One generator supplies all of Paraguay's electricity and the other 18 about 25% of Brazil's.

  • @Newsopathy-gf2ug
    @Newsopathy-gf2ug 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you Joe Bloggs for striking this blow for British English. Your loyal British audience appreciates all you Britishisms!

    • @deanhough8993
      @deanhough8993 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      American here sharing your enthusiasm for Joe blogs. I\we appreciate Joe, you and our British friends.

  • @danielduesentriebjunior
    @danielduesentriebjunior 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The most abundant element on earth is iron, not aluminium. However, most of it is confined to the earths core.

  • @lawLess-fs1qx
    @lawLess-fs1qx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    my head can deal with yanks misspelling Aluminium but how the hell did they turn petrol into gas, especially as we already had gas.

    • @davidhanna8470
      @davidhanna8470 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anything that starts your motor. Bending over the crank to start up a Model A Ford would make a cow blush with embare-assment. Thus, the production of gas. It's scientifical. You probably couldn't follow the mathy bits.

  • @user-mad7max11dystopia
    @user-mad7max11dystopia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Don’t get us southerners started. We make two or three extra syllables for most words which really comes in handy for old country music songs. But if you start adding them and we was to get ahold of them, it could be a mess.

    • @geoff9759
      @geoff9759 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      best keep quiet?

    • @user-mad7max11dystopia
      @user-mad7max11dystopia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geoff9759 well daddy always said if you keep your trap shut folks might think you’re a idiot but if you start running your mouth you’ll prove them right. Apparently someone else said something similar but daddy put it in southern Appalachia so’s I could understand. Understand?

    • @Bob-nd2mr
      @Bob-nd2mr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      and if you aint what you is then you is what you aint

    • @user-mad7max11dystopia
      @user-mad7max11dystopia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Bob-nd2mr my favorite line from O Brother Where Art Thou: Is you is or is you ain’t my constituency

    • @davidhanna8470
      @davidhanna8470 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't you mean, " Countarey Muusak-uh?". Doesn't Brad Paisley prove global warming?

  • @ycplum7062
    @ycplum7062 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Americans and British, one People divided by a common language.

    • @azahariawang9155
      @azahariawang9155 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Malaysia follow British english !!! So it's ALU-MI-NIUM for us, hahahahahaha

    • @dianapennepacker6854
      @dianapennepacker6854 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@penderyn8794Who told you the word British came from Welsh?
      The word came from the explorer Pytheas from Massalia who called the isles - Brittanniai. Then the world evolved from there through the Romans.
      It is said the tribes at the time called themselves Britt-? something.
      Also Pritani from the Greeks is an other origins. Or forms of that word. I can't copy and paste it nor type the characters. I don't really understand how a word can go from a P in Greek to a B when the Romans translated.

    • @floxy20
      @floxy20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This means war!

    • @franciscoaguilar123
      @franciscoaguilar123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's water and not "whater." LOL

    • @azahariawang9155
      @azahariawang9155 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@floxy20 water war????

  • @vaevictis6990
    @vaevictis6990 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    You just explained impact of climate change better then many Environmental "Activists" have

  • @situationalawarenes
    @situationalawarenes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Those EVs suck the live out of the network.

  • @ronnelacido1711
    @ronnelacido1711 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Woah, several of their provinces have been flooded due to torrential rains but still not enough to power their hydro dams?

  • @jasontram7775
    @jasontram7775 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Sorry Joe Aluminium is not the British spelling and pronunciation… it’s the worldwide standard accepted by the scientific community for over 200 years. The Americans, at that time, decided to defy the world because their aluminum industry was too big and important at the time that they felt they might hurt it if “people got confused” (“people” in this context is limited to those in North America) - this message brought to you by an American himself. SMH

    • @MrCenturion13
      @MrCenturion13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Here, let me SYH too, ya gormless derp.

    • @adamdonovan4071
      @adamdonovan4071 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Totally agree, I think Alcoa set this into the American mind.
      Pretty much all other metals that end in um have the i preceding it. They really botched that.

    • @priceprice_baby
      @priceprice_baby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Excpet for a few rare ones like tantalum and Molybdenum​@@adamdonovan4071

    • @hillwalker8741
      @hillwalker8741 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      proof americans are more efficient hehehe

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamdonovan4071 So the rest of the world spells platinum as platinium? Learn something new everyday.

  • @grzegorzkapica7930
    @grzegorzkapica7930 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Cut down forests and you get extreme weather and less rain fall. No global warming needed for that.

    • @NapoleonGelignite
      @NapoleonGelignite 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nonsense. If you increase CO2 concentration to levels not seen in 20 million years that will cause change.

    • @ahmataevo
      @ahmataevo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@NapoleonGelignite - 20 million years ago the Co2 content was 20 times greater than it is now. It's in ice core samples from that time.

    • @NapoleonGelignite
      @NapoleonGelignite 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ahmataevo - 20 million years ago the CO2 was between 500-600 ppm.
      420 x 20 = 500? 😂😂😂😂😂
      Your mathematics is even weaker than your science. 😂
      I think you’re confusing 300 million years ago with 20 million years.

  • @douganderson8315
    @douganderson8315 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    You say, "Aluminium", I say, "Tomato".

    • @joesterling4299
      @joesterling4299 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You say aluminium, I say aluminum,
      You say fortnight, I say two weeks,
      Fortnight, two weeks,
      Let's call the whole thing: making a tempest in a teapot.

    • @davidbale5954
      @davidbale5954 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Let's call the whole thing off.

    • @azahariawang9155
      @azahariawang9155 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You say tomato, i say aubergine

    • @spockmcoyissmart961
      @spockmcoyissmart961 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      tomatoe

    • @burningpentagram666
      @burningpentagram666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@azahariawang9155 Nobody likes eggplants.

  • @FitzzBang_the_Swaffelaar
    @FitzzBang_the_Swaffelaar 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hey Joe..
    is it just me or are you turning into a everything not western troll?
    Perhaps do a few more other topics than Russia and china? or some positive sides? its starting to look like propaganda

  • @tessjuel
    @tessjuel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    14:38 "Norway are almost there". The percentage of hydroelectric electricity in Norway is actually dropping. It was 100% for many decades but recently we've also started to get wind and solar power plants.

    • @jchung5265
      @jchung5265 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I heard Norway has been working on this with chyynah , is that true?

    • @ilari90
      @ilari90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I bet it hasn't lessened that much, in megawatts though, only the percentage amounts changed when new power has been added on top of it. Here in Finland too we hope good rainfall in Norway as we all trade the electricity in Nordpool electricity exchange so if Norway can't run their plants on full power, it raises electric bills in all northern countries also.

    • @katiehettinger7857
      @katiehettinger7857 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks for the clarification.

    • @danis8455
      @danis8455 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ilari90 So a lot of hydro in Norway is actually hydro storage. Basically giant pumps filling resovoirs from a lot of wind power from Denmark and more recently also from norway themselves, ontop of whatever water they get from rain and snowfall.

    • @tessjuel
      @tessjuel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@jchung5265 Not only with China. Norway's electricity production has been almost exclusively hydroelectric for 125 years now. So Norwegian electricity and engineering companies have a lot of experience and expertise in the field and have been involved in projects all over the world.

  • @davidkettell1073
    @davidkettell1073 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    i do not know where you are quoting your temperature numbers from but i can assure you that this year has been cooler than usual in northeast Ohio . i was born in the U.K and i can assure you that it was far hotter in 1976 than this year . I am sick of idiots and their left wing politics trying to scare people.

  • @davidc1878
    @davidc1878 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It amazes me how metallurgy has been something we humans have been experimenting with for many, many thousands of years. Such a crucial part of the development of human civilization.

  • @michaelpettersson4919
    @michaelpettersson4919 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Chinese can take some pointers from South Africa and simply ignore the problem.

  • @karljensen893
    @karljensen893 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is a program well worth watching ... well presented and informative

  • @Naturalook
    @Naturalook 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I don't think the amount of CO2 coming off the refining process is all that significant, on a global scale. ...mostly, it is how much energy it takes, and is that energy created by fossil fuels that 'can' make it bad for the climate. Hydro-electric energy is fossil fuel free, but it does mess up the riparian system it disrupts... Processing aluminum takes an enormous amount of energy... But once the aluminum is formed, it lasts, virtually, for ever. 95% is recycled...

    • @MarcPagan
      @MarcPagan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good points, but Leftists are fact immune.
      It truly is a religion.

  • @alanstone1206
    @alanstone1206 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Final summery, WE ARE ALL SCREWED.

  • @happyzahn8031
    @happyzahn8031 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A++ for explaining aluminum and aluminium. Good video.

  • @garysheppard4028
    @garysheppard4028 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The yanks should learn to speak the King's English!
    Al-um-in-ium!
    🙂

    • @tessjuel
      @tessjuel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We shouldn't blame the Americans for messing up the English language this time.
      Alumin(i)um was first named by the the English chemist Humphry Davy. He seems to have been better at chemistry than at spelling so he spelled it both ways and caused the confusion that still exists today.

    • @MrCenturion13
      @MrCenturion13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Now you know why they threw the tea in the harbor.

    • @MrRezillo
      @MrRezillo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your syllabification is off. It's five syllables: a-lu-mi-ni-um, and syllables start with a consonant where possible. If you're going to get on us yahoo yanks for not speaking the King's English, at least get the syllables right.
      That said, we were brainwashed from infancy. Every mom (er, mum?) in the country had a roll of Reynold's aluminUM in the kitchen drawer. No doubt the greedy capitalist warmongers of American industry improved the bottom line by dropping that additional 'i".

    • @garysheppard4028
      @garysheppard4028 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MrCenturion13 Bunch of trouble makers...

    • @garysheppard4028
      @garysheppard4028 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MrRezillo Actually it really should be Al-u-min-ium.
      Syllabification by Americans (i.e. citizens of the USA rather than Americans in general) is skewed by the fact that they pronounce it Al-loo-min-um.

  • @joelG1272
    @joelG1272 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Mars: Mars has shown some signs of warming, such as shrinking ice caps. This is thought to be due to natural variations in its climate rather than any external factors like human activity.
    Jupiter: Observations have noted changes in Jupiter's atmosphere, including increased turbulence and storm activity. These changes are likely due to the planet's own complex atmospheric dynamics.
    Saturn: Similar to Jupiter, Saturn has experienced changes in its weather patterns and storm activity. These are also attributed to the planet's internal processes.
    Neptune and Uranus: These distant ice giants have shown signs of atmospheric changes. For example, Neptune has experienced increased brightness and storm activity, which may be linked to its seasonal cycles.
    Pluto: After its reclassification as a dwarf planet, Pluto has been observed to have atmospheric changes, likely due to its highly elliptical orbit which causes significant seasonal changes.

  • @roderickflint1330
    @roderickflint1330 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    CCPs man over nature works really well lol

  • @mikep490
    @mikep490 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Our local aluminum recycler was a large consumer of our local hydro. Our city bought up excess hydro capacity points and sold electricity to them at cost (about 1/5th what homeowners paid.) As the city grew, the utility increased prices to other industry rates, somewhere around 1/2th the cost of homes. That drove the company out of business and kept local utility costs stable for years. Power use/costs is a tricky business.

  • @robertjeal587
    @robertjeal587 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    'Aluminum' should never be spoken by a Brit

    • @zaphod22
      @zaphod22 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      CRIKEY!😆

    • @geoff9759
      @geoff9759 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      true - lazy colonials only

    • @abcdef296
      @abcdef296 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Aluminium is the original English word.

    • @ilari90
      @ilari90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@geoff9759 I bet you meant colonists, americans. The colonials would be the Brits again.

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We actually put that rule in place centuries ago, that's why they use a non-sense replacement

  • @hobbyfarmer62
    @hobbyfarmer62 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Of course folks point to things like you just did of 175 years of records as if they have great meaning regarding weather trends on a planet wide term. However while that is a long period of time in human terms it is less than even a blink of the eye in geological time passage. Remember if you put the life of earth on a 24 hour clock the whole of human existence is like the last minute before midnight so 175 years wouldn't even be a single blink in time. So sorry but your analysis is pointless because we don't know if this is all humans faults or a natural cycle and even over that 175 years there are cycles of highs and lows.
    Put simply your assumptions are based on nothing solid and meaningless. And it is possible China has harmed themselves by building so many dams disrupting natural flows which can effect rain fall. Oh and according to the enviros where I live say hydro doesn't count as renewable for our energy grids, which is BS.

  • @mamatuja
    @mamatuja 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It's global warming because we are coming out of ice age. Believe me, you don't wanna go the other way around.😂😂😂

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is exactly how we go the other way around. High arctic temperatures lead to higher evaporation of the arctic, leads to more snow and snow building up, and the North Atlantic current shutting down making winters in Europe far colder.

  • @o0alessandro0o
    @o0alessandro0o 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "I'm pretty much bilingual [I can speak both British *and* American.]" That is certainly one way to define bilingual :P

  • @RealityCheck6969
    @RealityCheck6969 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Chinese towns are swept away by floods and here are we talking about chinese droughts. :)))

    • @katiehettinger7857
      @katiehettinger7857 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I wouldn't smile the same processes are happening where we live.

    • @Anne-xz9hh
      @Anne-xz9hh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Northern parts get drought. Southern parts get floods.

    • @ilari90
      @ilari90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes, extreme weather phenomena become more common as atmopshere and sea water warm up.

    • @MarkH10
      @MarkH10 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And each is objectively factual and concurrent........................................................and have been for 6,000 years.
      When your grandchildren die of old age China will STILL have floods and droughts in the summer.

    • @ycplum7062
      @ycplum7062 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      China has the best of both worlds. Heat and drought up in the northern plains and floods in the mountainous/hilly south.
      /sarcasm

  • @dnotleythere
    @dnotleythere 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shanghai does not have power shortages. More wishful thinking instead of reality. China has more science and technology graduates in their education and training than the West has. It is also the West that is getting more isolated with trade and access to resources.
    China can get all the natural resources they need from the Saudis in their own currency and with trade with the growing Global South and Russia trading with them raw materials or other goods in fair prices no matter what the West does. BRICKS is getting stronger with growing participants working on immunity to Western sanctions. That is something important to point on this unbalanced imperialstic Western obsession with counterproductive never working sanctions channel. China is also the prime innovators of solar technology moving away from fossil fuels. The West cannot compete with them in that just like electric cars. It is the West that is confronting resources issues, aging crumbling infrastructure and inflation thanks to neglect and crazy Neocon policies diverting resources to a corrupt military industrial complex. Eisenhower was right back in 1960.

  • @zaphod22
    @zaphod22 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    There sure is an abundance of doom and gloom around the world, like I've never seen in 60 years.

    • @MrRezillo
      @MrRezillo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      True, but I always find Joe's gloom and doom vids about China and Russia rather heartwarming.

    • @louiswilliamterminator2887
      @louiswilliamterminator2887 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It has all been planned at an extremely high level

    • @sloshed-rat
      @sloshed-rat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's always been there. We just live in the age of information now.

    • @patricebertrand1146
      @patricebertrand1146 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @Marat_2023_Husnutdinov People leaving California are moving to a different state. People leaving Russia are moving to a different country. Two different things.

    • @SBCBears
      @SBCBears 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @Marat_2023_Husnutdinov People leave California for more benign reasons than people leave Russia now.

  • @manuelagustin7719
    @manuelagustin7719 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    china's energy problem will soon be thing of the past...china's production machinery is slowing down...no more orders from the west & many asian countries have started boycotting chinese products....

  • @ipeteagles
    @ipeteagles 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you supporters for subsidizing the presentation.

  • @antonychipman3088
    @antonychipman3088 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You’ve a thorough approach to research JB, underpinned by a prodigious curiosity. It’s a privilege to watch, cheers.

  • @SednovaNova
    @SednovaNova 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    guess we forgot that warmer weather means that globally food production increases, man who would have thunk....

    • @Cryosxify
      @Cryosxify 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wouldn't growing regions shift, some areas open up and others get hit by droughts/dry weather

    • @MsTubbytube
      @MsTubbytube 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      erratic weather reduces food production. Unexpected rain or heat at key points in the growing cycle can kill plants or blossoms. Warmer weather means that insect pests wyhich would die off in winter can survive year round. But this program is about industry and energy supply.

  • @patriot388
    @patriot388 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Joe China has over 1200 coal fired power stations and building more! This is confirmed on Google. India has over 300!

    • @Kodakcompactdisc
      @Kodakcompactdisc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ve heard they are opening 6 new ones every day.

  • @justskip4595
    @justskip4595 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Greetings from Finland. I request that you keep on using Aluminium. Alternatively I would be fine with Alumiini also.

    • @irenehabes-quene2839
      @irenehabes-quene2839 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In most languages it’s aluminium. It must have been a spelling mistake in the past which was adopted in the USA.

    • @johnhaller5851
      @johnhaller5851 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The original spelling was aluminum by the discover in 1808. Chemists suggested using aluminium to be consistent with Latin words like sodium and the discover changed by 1813. So, the US stayed with the original name, and the world changed.

  • @pacettid
    @pacettid 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome video, Joe. When I first started listening to your channel I knew very little about economics and the world economy. I decided to change that by listening to your channel every single day. Well done!

  • @BrianAlbert-hh3pi
    @BrianAlbert-hh3pi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Our economy is struggling with uncertainties, housing issues, foreclosures, global fluctuations, and the pandemic aftermath, causing instability. Rising inflation, sluggish growth, and trade disruptions need urgent attention from all sectors to restore stability and stimulate growth.

    • @LeahLewis-ny9iu
      @LeahLewis-ny9iu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      With the Chinese Yuan losing value to inflation and other currencies gaining traction, uncertainty looms. Yet, many still trust in the dollar's perceived safety. Worried about my ¥420,000 retirement savings losing value, I seek alternative security for my money.

    • @OliverLiam-px3vx
      @OliverLiam-px3vx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      With my demanding job, I lack time for investment analysis. For seven years, a fiduciary has managed my portfolio, adapting to market conditions, enabling successful navigation and informed decisions. Consider a similar approach.

    • @EricaWaters-lr6zw
      @EricaWaters-lr6zw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is definitely considerable! Do you think you could suggest any professionals or advisors I can get on the phone with? I'm in dire need of proper portfolio allocation.

    • @OliverLiam-px3vx
      @OliverLiam-px3vx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Just research the name Desiree Ruth Hoffman. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.

    • @EricaWaters-lr6zw
      @EricaWaters-lr6zw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I appreciate it. After searching her name online and reviewing her credentials, I'm quite impressed. I've contacted her as I could use all the help I can get. A call has been scheduled.

  • @CaedenV
    @CaedenV 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Perhaps worth noting that the drop in hydro production in 2020-2021 was because of massive rain and flooding. Too little water and the turbines can't run. Too much water and the pressure can damage things. Typically you can open up a bypass flow to keep the pressure down, but if the flooding is too much, then you just can't run the turbines and the water goes unused.
    Another issue is that they dam the river in the southern mountains every few miles... And they just haven't been all that coordinated. So a hydro dam up stream has too much water and needs to purge, which then causes a cascade of waste down-river. And if someone purges too much, or needs to empty for maintenance, then it can take days to weeks to rebuild the reserve, stopping water down stream. It's some bad planning.
    And because of this, countries down stream are getting cut off or flooded without warning or communication from the utility providers. It's a massive humanitarian issue that needs to be addressed.

  • @brian13105
    @brian13105 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    As a Canadian , where we kinda take the middle road between British and American English , I have to to say in the final analyses since its England's language , they win .
    I wish this was all we had to worry about in the Anglosphere .

    • @pixellordm8780
      @pixellordm8780 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To be fair the modern “stereotypical” british accent i do recall only actually appeared around the time of Queen Victoria; in a twist of irony both nations actually speak a “newer” form of English than Canada! As the USA’s modifications came mostly after the revolution during the stamp-taxation or post-war.

  • @JOHNPoST-y4u
    @JOHNPoST-y4u 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When USA took America from you BRITS we also co-opted correct and proper English you no longer own either one 😅😅

  • @mikemooney9124
    @mikemooney9124 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm British... living in China 15 years... it's the rainy season right now and, as usual, there have been floods and droughts here every year. I haven't experienced any electricity cuts here either.

    • @kingofbengland
      @kingofbengland 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I therefore assume that you aren't in the aluminium processing industry then.

    • @4DModding
      @4DModding 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you not see some of the insane flooding that has taken out a number of villages

    • @irenehabes-quene2839
      @irenehabes-quene2839 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      China is a very big country! Even in my small country of the Netherlands we see a divide in weather. China is in comparison in size almost a continent!

  • @luminyam6145
    @luminyam6145 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very educational, thank you.

  • @donaldcarey114
    @donaldcarey114 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The spate of records is EXACTLY what one would expect from the end of the last ice age. This has happened many times over the last few million years, no gas guzzling SUV's were involved.

    • @jbscpa
      @jbscpa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Facts.

    • @mksln
      @mksln 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As soon as Joe mentioned climate I was ready for the science denying morons to chime in

  • @gprovidakes
    @gprovidakes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    China has also pushed solar and wind, but locations of power vs location of consumption is huge disconnect. However, if multiple renewable sources are created you can better adapt to climate induced variations.

  • @veganbutcherhackepeter
    @veganbutcherhackepeter 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    "Aluminium" is what every science-savvy person calls it.

    • @joesterling4299
      @joesterling4299 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Spoken like a true provincial.

    • @AnakinGroundcrawler
      @AnakinGroundcrawler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Science savvy person here.
      I definitely don't pronounce it like that.

    • @davidhanna8470
      @davidhanna8470 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When it's used in an engine block, I call it Crapium.

  • @BrulesRules
    @BrulesRules 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Correction. Penstock builds water pressure (not velocity) to spin the turbines. Thanks for the great presentation.

  • @anthonyferris8912
    @anthonyferris8912 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Don't talk to me about extremes. We've had 6 consecutive sunny days where I live and now we're all in a panic!

    • @pjhgerlach
      @pjhgerlach 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same here after one of the wettest springs on record.

    • @pjhgerlach
      @pjhgerlach 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Gabor-y3h 30 C here in the Netherlands. Just keep calm as it never takes long before the temperature takes a nosedive as the next cold-front comes along.

    • @pjhgerlach
      @pjhgerlach 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That explains the higher temperatures. 😂

    • @joesterling4299
      @joesterling4299 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The hysteria over the weather is the real extreme.

    • @pjhgerlach
      @pjhgerlach 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@joesterling4299 As long as you realize that there's consensus about the climate.

  • @stevegray9674
    @stevegray9674 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent channel. Thanks for putting information in a easy-to-use format.

  • @johncarter3521
    @johncarter3521 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    there were massive floods and droughts in china long before hydro was established
    background climate variability much larger than most people realise

    • @stephenthomas3085
      @stephenthomas3085 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. There is a unique global scientific consensus on climate change backed by hundreds of thousands of peer reviewed multi disciplinary papers telling you what is happening and it is backed by lived experience in every country in the world. Variability has been comprehensively ruled out.

  • @NapoleonGelignite
    @NapoleonGelignite 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s good to see the connection between climate change and inflation being explained. The impacts of food price inflation are already apparent.

  • @geoff9759
    @geoff9759 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It is and always was Aluminium, the colonials are lazy with language, hence 'thru'

    • @cleanwillie1307
      @cleanwillie1307 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If by colonials you mean Americans, we aren't lazy, we are utilitarian. I believe a fairly common comment Europeans make about Americans is that we work too much.

    • @geoff9759
      @geoff9759 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cleanwillie1307 lazy

    • @DMBriffa
      @DMBriffa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cleanwillie1307 You are both right. But how come Americans drive everywhere rather than walk?

  • @robabramovitz5192
    @robabramovitz5192 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are definitely doing right with the channel. Thanks from a Patreon supporter

  • @adamdonovan4071
    @adamdonovan4071 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    As an American, it should be pronounced aluminium…all the other um metals are ium; it makes no sense that aluminum drops that.
    Brits are right on this one. Stupid Alcoa.

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a Brit, when an American says 'chip' I know they mean crisp. when they say 'jelly' I know they mean jam. If a Brit starts using Americanisms, do they mean British chip or American chip?
      it winds me up, because it just makes things less clear.

    • @adamdonovan4071
      @adamdonovan4071 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benholroyd5221 lol. That is funny.
      On that note, I don’t understand British pudding…
      There are so many of them. Fanny vs Fanny; very different.

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamdonovan4071 Pudding i believe refers to the stomach that they were boiled in, so thats where black pudding comes in, i assume early steamed pudding were made the same way, and then it became synonymous with desserts. How Yorkshire puddings got that name, speaking as a Yorkshire man, I have no idea.

    • @adamdonovan4071
      @adamdonovan4071 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benholroyd5221 ive had black pudding and white pudding, actually pretty good. I was thinking more Christmas pudding or figgy pudding, which I think is more like a cake.

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamdonovan4071 Christmas pudding and figgy pudding are / were steamed. Normally in a muslin these days, I assume it was done in an animal stomach originally?

  • @billowink6821
    @billowink6821 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Kind of like "Nuclear" vs. "Nuculear." Always got a kick out of G W Bush blowing that one AND having his finger on the button.

  • @dbcoopernd
    @dbcoopernd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Looking at global temperatures since 1850 is like trying to get directions to the Mall only looking at a map of your neighborhood.

    • @yvonnetomenga5726
      @yvonnetomenga5726 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Of course, if you only have records that go back to 1850, you have to make do with what you have.

    • @petermach8635
      @petermach8635 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The world has changed a lot since 1850, urban centres have expanded and where weather station were once in the countryside, they're often now surrounded by buildings ..... and we (and the starlings) know that towns are warmer then the countryside, especially at night ..... and jet engines at airports produce more heat than piston engines, just sayin'.
      I'll wager the modern records weren't weighted to take those changes into account.

    • @rioluna6058
      @rioluna6058 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow you are so wrong. I Wonder how everything el se in your life is if you are that wrong with something so simple ​@@petermach8635

    • @mksln
      @mksln 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@petermach8635wrong. They are actually done via satellite observations vs you sticking your bum out the window to check the temperature.

    • @petermach8635
      @petermach8635 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rudeness @@mksln is never a good idea. Satelllites are indeed used but local weather stations all over the world provide much of the information that's fed to models for predicting the weather ..... models modelled after their creators desires.

  • @robertnewhart3547
    @robertnewhart3547 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    C U N T always trying to blow people's speakers out with the 808 bass intro!!

  • @adambester3673
    @adambester3673 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    china produces 3 times the amount of hydro power that Canada does but thinking of it through the lens of per capita is pretty huge for Canada.

    • @ve2dmn
      @ve2dmn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Quebec has 50% of that hydro-power and 90% of the AL production. BC is in second place with 18% of the power and 10% of the AL production.

  • @alandoherty5237
    @alandoherty5237 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brilliant video thank you for all the information provided by your good self keep smiling and be happy

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The temperature of the Earth changes. We know this. We cannot stop it changing- we know this too. Instead of killing ourselves trying to control it (which we cannot) we should adapt as required.

    • @frankstollar8492
      @frankstollar8492 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Earth never in its history warmed as fast as the last 100 years and we are causing that.

  • @kasbas5922
    @kasbas5922 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sorry the moment I heard, climate change I stopped watching the video !!

  • @clifforddicarlo9178
    @clifforddicarlo9178 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Good explanation of consequences of climate change.

    • @MarcPagan
      @MarcPagan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Provide proof to your claim.
      Per hard science, MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
      90%+ of Earth’s atmospheric CO2 is from decaying leaves alone, 2% at most from fossil fuel.
      So, if atmospheric CO2 is a crisis, what’s the plan to stop plants from rotting?
      Search:
      "The Mathematics of Leaf Decay" for the MIT News article.
      Also,
      please note any chemist that agrees that raising CO2 in a gas mixture
      of about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen from 400 parts per million to even 2000 parts per million, will have an impact.

  • @davidchartres6606
    @davidchartres6606 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where is NZ? It produces about 80percent from hydro.

  • @patrickmurray8451
    @patrickmurray8451 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    the polar ice caps were supposed to be gone by 2012 . we have been lied to

  • @cookiecookie9040
    @cookiecookie9040 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Joe, loved the scientific explanation of the aluminum process!

  • @MarkH10
    @MarkH10 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    OMG whatever will our trees do with all the CO2 in the atmosphere? Are high levels of CO2 promoting deforestation, by depriving our trees of essential oxygen? What a catastrophe!

    • @John_13_35
      @John_13_35 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Correct.

    • @ilari90
      @ilari90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No, in some instances it promotes growth. There's still 21 % oxygen in the air, carbon dioxide is way under 1%. But that is not the issue but the huge amount of deforestation we humans cause when logging, and clearing areas for farmland or other uses.

    • @brian13105
      @brian13105 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well at least there's ONE other sane person left on the planet . One day in the distant future the world will have a great laugh looking back at this era .

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean this is all just silly, but even if you think CO2 isn't causing warming higher levels clearly cause ocean acidification. Because higher levels of CO2 in the water is higher levels of Acid.

    • @robertpendzick9250
      @robertpendzick9250 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You understand that in the process of photosynthesis (how trees grow), CO2 is taken in and Oxygen is expelled, while the carbon is stored into the tree (structure and sap). SO high levels of CO2 actually can help increase the speed of growth of the tree and it's oxygen production. True of many plants.

  • @richarddobosz6174
    @richarddobosz6174 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great presentation thank you compulsory listening

  • @ImperialSutehk
    @ImperialSutehk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Its getting warmer because the earths tilt has moved 7 degrease

    • @ilari90
      @ilari90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope.

    • @P6009D
      @P6009D 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Earth's tilt varies between approximately 22.5° and 24.5° degrees over a 41,000 year period. The Earth's climate changes because of it, but it takes thousands of years, not 100 years.

  • @davidhanna8470
    @davidhanna8470 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We need a blooper roll for this episode. "Alumumblium, Abloomium, Alulumbrium."