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- Normally, the answer would be no. But in these very limited circumstances, at Iceland's Blue Lagoon, you can swim in geothermal power plant wastewater, and it's even healthy: although the marketing material doesn't usually mention it. Here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm.
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One thing I couldn't fit into my script: the pipeline expands by around several metres along its length when it's in use, because of the hot water running through it. The big boxes along the way are expansion joints and supports to allow it to move! As ever, all my sources are in the description.
Hi
Hi
4 weeks ago???
You are going nucleair Tom
Well this is old!
At this point I feel like like he's sponsored by Iceland's tourist department
I ain't even mad.
That would be neat
I'm cool with that
It’s working
I wish I could be sponsored by a country's tourist department
Those ducks don't realize how lucky they are. A place to swim in winter and being in a Tom Scott video!
Well Tom does get easily charmed by ducks.
That Duck now is probably more famous than me
It's so sweet
I wish I could touch the anime juice
Like Holden Caufield I too worried about ducks in the winter, until I saw them swimming in zero weather in a nearly frozen over river in Montreal. They were even diving under water.
A Brit calling anywhere “a bit wet” is terrifying
I live in iceland its always raining in reykjavik(the capital) were i live it does not rain much
@@johannjohannsson8255 As a tourist, I also noticed this difference. If you arrive in Seyðisfjörður (in the east of Iceland) with Norröna to wonderful sunny weather, you can expect to have a cold, rainy day in Reykjavík ;-)
@@RealGestumblindi Gosh I wish ligatures, accents and other 'special characters' were still used in English. But unfortunately we dropped them.
@@scootergrant8683 It sure would make all the confusion between same-sounding and same-looking words in English way less confusing
You're half right
"It only loses a couple of degrees over dozens of kilometers" I'M SORRY WHAT?! You can't just gloss over that bit, Tom! That's a MASTERPIECE of engineering!
It's the magic of a metric fuckton of insulation
The bigger the pipes the less heat it will lose (relative to the volume of water that gets moved)
Across the road from my flat there is a plant that heats up water, built by for St. Andrews University, and it pipes hot water into St. Andrews four and a half miles away. it is used by the university to heat its' buildings in the town,
@@richardmillhousenixon thanks for not using the imperial system to share those numbers with us.
British guy calling a country "A bit wet" probably means there are rains 23/7
25/8**
very accurate
27/10
∞/7
2÷4
When a British person says that somewhere is a bit wet, you should probably bring about seven umbrellas
Nah, the umbrellas will probably get destroyed by the sheer force of the rain
A scuba suit rather.
Hello from Ireland, the UK’s supposed rainshield 😂
Icelandic weather, wind particularly, laughs at your umbrella.
@@ce1834 if yous are meant to be our rain shield you’re doing a shite job
If Tom is trying to convince us that Iceland is awesome, then he's doing a bloody good job of it.
I’ve been there it really is. I had an amazing adventure in only 3 days though I recommend you get ready for very strong winds
I know it's so great it's class
I already believe Iceland is awesome because of the sheer number of memes that say it is
Been there.... twice... still need another visit as it is indeed bloody awesome.. it's like a different planet and I've been around the planet quite a bit!
@Jimmi K That's the one issue with Iceland in my opinion, the booze is taxed to hell
From what I've heard, spent fuel waste pools for nuclear plants are actually fairly safe to swim in, and will be actually "cleaner" from radiation than the surrounding room.
From what I know if you tried to swim in one you would only live for a few seconds before you get shot by the security guards.
@@R421Excelsior I see you are an XKCD fan
There are so many things about nuclear power that are wrong. Why can't the waste heat of a nuclear plant be used to warm a city or a town? If you have coal, pellet, gas or whatever burning plant the waste heat is used to warm the nearby city all the time. It's politics and nothing to do about safety. In a finnish schoolbook the section of radiation tells how Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident causes so and so many cancers in Finland and next to it is a pie chart where background radiatiom is hundereds times greater than Chernobyl's radiation. this is how nuclear power is depicted to children. No wonder that people think it's scary and won't have nothing to do with it.
@@topilinkala1594just don't put the thing that can go kaboom in the middle of a city, put it a bit outside. It's simple.
@@mrfrog0913 Nuclear power plants don't really go kaboom, not even if you get a Chernobyl-level disaster. Sometimes reactor components do, but the kaboom part doesn't really go past the power plant itself.
"There's a hottub on the beach."
- most Icelandic sentence ever said by anyone
Chip Walter if it were truly icelandic it wouldve been : það er heitur pottur á ströndinni ;)
@@Petra123231 im trying to learn icelandic for my trip in 2022
@@xiao4412 epískt
@@xiao4412 þú heillar mig
@@Petra123231 I think I can almost pronounce that!
"It doesn't feel warm or else the Pipeline wouldn't do its Job"
Glad to hear I am not the only one whose inital thought was "I wanna touch it to see if its warm"
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me too comrade
saaaaame
*Interesting*
Same xD
Ok, if a Brit consider a country "a bit wet", well the country is a bit wet
@Colin Deal *M O I S T*
@@jacobesterson "hey whats up everybody its me critikal"
exactly what I was thinking
@@eee832 "this is the most moist country of all time" will be the next video
"Would You Swim In Power Plant Wastewater?"
Tom: Well yes, but actually no
are you real
i checked your channel and yes
hi bro make another video
can you stop being everywhere thanks
hi again
The fact that I'm willing to voluntarily watch someone talk about waste for 5 minutes genuinely amuses me. This guy could make waiting rooms sound interesting.
Now I want to know the history of waiting rooms. Thanks for that.
Post10 exists, were obviously not above watching someone unclogging a drain for 15 minutes. Just watch and enjoy folks.
you must be new here, welcome :)
Waiting rooms are mildly interesting.
There's a few problems you have to solve, keeping the people there entertained, having a good system to call people, making sure you get to everyone in turn, what color to paint it, what sort of things to put in it...
Idk, there's a purpose to it, so there's different ways to meet those purposes, so it's actually a little interesting.
@@plzletmebefrank nice Ted talk
Tom has finally found a way to get that permanent red t-shirt look
EklypsiSs it’s still there under his hoodie
@@ellismelatonin Oh shoot u r right
Grian Scott
@@anch95 XD
Aniruddha Chatterjee wait I’m subscribed to him too... 😱
Reads title: "no"
Looks at thumbnail: "yes?"
Watches video: "yesn't"
Hmmmmmmmm, should I, nooo, maybe, nooooo better not
I think "God no, it's 30 bucks" is the only right response here.
@@Dogman_35 it’s more like “nice, it’s only30 bucks”
I went "hell yes."
Then again, I already knew about how safe it is.
Euhm for me it already was to late if IT wasn't safe
3:00 That is the greatest subtle way of saying "I'm really cold" on camera I've ever heard.
there's a "waterfall" in Brazil where the water used by the nuclear generator is dumped and you can bathe there. The water is clear and warm (they use the heat from the nuclear energy to heat common water and turn a vapor turbine, so the water is from that turbine, not the heavy water used to cool down the plant itself, that one is heavily regulated)
Onde isso?
delet Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State
Were is it by longitude and latitude and how completely safe it is
cum to brasil
Anna yes
"Would you swim in a power plant waste water?"
"No, because I can't swim."
Missing out.
just time travel to a worldline where you can smh
Nice excuse ;)
Same
I've been their and its only about 1.50m at then most....... No exuse
Fun fact: The Blue lagoon offers a considerable discount to those with psoriasis and excema because of the benefits from the water.
I hope that discount is like 90%
It's free if you have a prescription from a doctor.
@@Tom_- be happy they are discounting at all. Don't get greedy
When I went I got the worst sunburn of my life...
I’m booking my flight
Icelandic ducks: "Migrate south for the Winter?! You must be joking!"
I'd swim in the outlet of a nuclear power station. The water is perfectly safe. It's probably the most monitored and controlled water going into any body of water.
They did in Die Hard V and everything worked out just fine!
Maybe not turkey point though
@@shanewright2772 Sadly, the movie didn't.
Sure all of the fission products physically cant escape into a holding pond but I personally don’t know if water can be irradiated itself. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Nuclear plants get a bad rep from cartoons e.t.c. that make it look like glowing uranium rods melt into the water during direct contact and it just gets flushed out as toxic sludge. The water is almost entirely for cooling and then it gets filtered and topped up.
Iceland: The country where human creativity and engineering never go to waste.
But what about good grammar?
Iceland: A country that should be covered or made with ice.
Iceland is made of ice
@@bigjohnson9606 Stop spreading your iceland propaganda. Tom Scott has shown us that Iceland arent made with ice, but soil
@@priyankagamer8845Just correct him
I lived near a nuclear power plant growing up. There was a bay near the plant where they released the circulated cooling water back out into the ocean, and this bay was usually about 5-10°C warmer than the surrounding ocean. Biggest danger was getting swept out to sea though, since the current was very strong.
so no super powers?
Tampa? Near Apollo Beach?
@@zwenkwiel816Well yes, but you just drown before you get back to land.
Wow, I was in Iceland no longer than a month ago, driving all around the place. I can ABSOLUTELY recommend visiting iceland and renting a car to drive around in! it is the best vacation you can possibly have.
Did not expect you here
There is a pandemic on right now.... no one except for journalists or famous youtubers are going to be allowed to go there.
For us less privileged, normal people, we may not be able to visit for many years.
Gromek999 oh damn gromek
love your terraria series
tbh if you’re going in colder months i’d recommend taking a tourist trip rather than a car. you learn a lot more and it’s also a lot safer. i saw a lot of overturned cars on the roads there. bus takes you to all the secret spots!
Of course! I want 3 eyes like the simpsons fish.
EDIT: Stop telling me it had 54 eyes. You're thinking of the squirrel from the movie. The fish had 3.
JAY HIHIHIHHH
Jay Exci yoooooooooooo
Hayyy
Hey Jay Eggci
Hi jay
"the worlds not going to run out of heat"
2020: "ill see if i can fit that into my schedule"
Underrated
Dont give it any ideas
But if you actively pump up heat from the core that heat doesn't just disappear. It will have a global warming effect.
Omg stop giving 2020 ideas
It’ll get hotter I’m telling you
When I went to the Blue Lagoon, it was very calming - even though a very cold and snowy day. Careful - the restaurant attached was very expensive. A fantastic trip if you visit is to get a tour of the nearby geothermal plant. It is absolutely mind-boggling.
Did...a brit just call another land "a bit wet"?
yep
We are very wet tbh
@@TheRaudmagi that definitely can't be misinterpreted
@@TheRaudmagi But is your country wet compared to great Britain?
hahaha Brits think their land is the wettest land.
I live in Washington, it's about as wet as Britain. It's not that wet.
When will Tom get his own BBC programme? Tom is such a real and amazing talent.
I have a bbc
How is the bbc shite?
@@rowan3053 they care only for politics not for knowledge.
Unless knowledge of politics.
@@rowan3053 Taxpayer-funded bias, propaganda and corruption.
@@uzijn the BBC isn't bias enough and let the stupid side talk too much
Coke or Pepsi?
Actually, I'll have a glass of power plant waste water, please!
henry i love you but you havent uploaded in a year please upload henry please i need you countent hepl pelase i want to se ehnery
pepsi
HENRY THE RC CAR yes
Vertified
But it's not drinkable water. Have you watched the video?
TH-cam gotta have an algorithm that's like: "You've forgotten the contents of this video, watch it again"
Me: "I've never watched thi-"
"Never mind"
Oh my god, the same thing happened to me a few moments ago.
"I know this video but I forgot what 'the catch' was."
This cheap power is why one of Icelands main exports is aluminium even when they dont mine any, refining it just requires so much power that its cheaper to ship it there instead.
Jesper Håsteen the other half of that equation is the fact that a lot of bauxite is mined in places that can't process it for a lack of power/expertise (example Guyana)
They have an entire hydro power plant built especially for that smelter. Was a bit controversial at the time.
I didn't know that! Thanks for the info
That's also why aluminium is the most economical metal to recycle. The power needed is a fraction of what's required to produce virgin metal. So always put it in your recycling bin!
Russia does a lot of aluminium smelting and the energy costs are staggering to the point that they run power plants almost to the red line to keep their smelters going. The Sayano-Shushenskaya accident could have been avoided as they knew the turbine that caused the accident was problematic and should have been running slower but they had to keep their output at a certain level due to the two aluminium smelters that the power plant feeds. When I read up on how much electricity is required to process aluminium I was gobsmacked.
Spongebob narrator: _"Ah, Blue Lagoon.."_
"couchy couchy coo"
I was looking for this😂😂
SpongeBobs bikini atoll is a real place its in the marshal Islands. the USA did alot nuclear testing their and thats why SpongeBob and friends can talk
No no no no no no no no no its Goo Lagoon
@@zfortressyt_6662 youre goo
I have gone swimming in this “waste water” and I would recommend it however there were some parts which were much warmer than others and as there was quite a lot of people in their as well as myself, the relaxation factor of it was overcome by a though of just swimming in other people’s piss.
Ummmmmm
Don't forget the dingleberries.
I assume you have to shower once you get out to wash off the silica so not really a big issue hygienically... But just the idea of it it a bit strange.
That would make me fully relaxed
No different to any other public pool then (in regards to swimming in others piss).
youtbe recommending this video during japan releasing fukushima water is on point
Exactly what I was thinking
What's it mean when a Brit says a country is "a bit wet?"
It means it's utterly miserable... Brits always skirt around the point.
How are you?.. I'm not bad. How's the weather?.. Not great. How's the food poisoning treating you? Could be worse.
The problem with rain in Iceland is we never get heavy rain its just a little rain for a long ass time, sometimes most of the day many days in a row. I envy countries where the rain is like a shower for few minutes and then its over.
@@danielcoward3469 Ehhh, close enough
Was about to say, if a Brit says Iceland is a 'bit wet', it's probably flooding
@@LonelyCinderella123 Sounds a lot like the US Pacific Northwest, only much colder, of course.
My father worked at Perry nuclear power plant in Ohio for over 30 years. When we would go fishing on Lake Erie, before 9/11 and increased security concerns, we would often go out to what was called "the bubble". It was the cooling water outlet from the plant. It was a giant pipe emerging from the bottom of the lake, well below the surface, and the water around it was the clearest I've ever seen in that lake. It was warm and full of fish. You could see the rumble of expelled water on the surface, hence the name. We had no shame about diving in and touching bottom or just lounging around. I seem to remember my father cautioning us about staying in too long, but I think that had more to do with making the guard towers on land nervous than anything else.
As Lake County resident and Fairport beach goer, where exactly was the cool water outlet? Is it close to the shore and plant? I'm kinda interested to see it now
Whiskey island represent
Euclid OH. Love it. My dad lives up there off E 223rd St.
I'm maybe an hour out from Lake Erie myself but rarely go downtown or to the lake. I know a few people who like to fish (never fished myself) so maybe some day I'll check it out.
I just looked it up and Perry NPP has cooling towers. Do they use the lake water as an auxiliary system?
TH-cam is getting real comfortable with these 15 second double ads
Then don't watch on your mobile phone and use an ad blocker. Problem solved.
@@Leenapanther that costs money, and what if I wanna watch on my phone at nigh?
@@polarispulsar there are free ad blockers
@@polarispulsar uh youtube vanced exists and anyway there are free advlockers
@@polarispulsar LMAO AD BLOCKERS ARE FREE
I dont know why people keep comparing this to radiation. It’s literally geothermal waste.
Because nuclear power plants do in fact exist 😂😂
@@psirvent8 and are the future.
Blue Lagoon is highly recommended, at least once if you're visiting Iceland anyway.
On an unrelated note, 'waste' water from Nuclear power plants *should* be safe as well. They're also using heat exchangers, so the water they dump never actually gets in direct contact with anything radioactive. This isn't an endorsement to go swimming though, at least not without a Geiger counter.
If I recall it correctly, nuclear power plants use two sets of hear exchangers, one loop of water just carries the heat from one side to the other, making the resulting steam that also contains droplets of water safe.
Myvatn nature baths, near Akureyri, is even better than Blue Lagoon in my opinion. Incredible views on a clear day!
Plus water is actually *really* good at shielding radiation. The only bad thing is if you ingest super-heavy water as Tritium decays fast enough to be of concern but slow enough to linger around....
It's safe if you do that with any power plant, that's how the district heating in Denmark works, though the water does pass through one more heat exchanger in your home so really you're two steps removed from the waste water.
@@m00str You are correct - for a pressurized water reactor - there are three loops - primary (reactor side), secondary (seam and water that runs the turbine) and the cooling loop (cools and condenses the turbine exhaust steam). This is a very simplified explanation.
My main memory of this was being lovely and warm whilst having a chilled drink, and looking up to see a lifeguard on a chair with a thick jacket on.
The Blue Lagoon is a great place to visit!
Fantastic info, as ever. I have to note that after my swim in the blue lagoon, as in - directly after, I lost all my toenails . they just fell off. No idea why - and they grew back normally , but by "directly" I mean that I was still there and able to speak to management and was told "it sometimes happens".
I was training for ultra marathons at the time, so toenail loss wasn't unexpected, but it was weird.
No blood?
LMFAOOOOO
@@GregoryMom No, literally just detached from the nail bed. I had lost a couple already from running too far, so maybe it just accelerated the process, but that "Oh, that sometimes happens" response.... Perfectly safe, just very minerally.
@@neilja1 Fascinating
that is very strange
There is something really wrong here at the beginning. I'd like to see the stories of coal ash contamination... Water used to spin turbines in steam powerplants (gas/coal/nuclear, whatever) is actually demineralized so it does not damage the turbine itself - turbines are actually expected to work for 20+ years and the blades would be rusted much sooner and torn apart if the water had been contaminated. I'd gladly take a bath in demi-water.
In fact, I remember our professor telling us that the steam turbines in Iceland are very special - because they are powered by the impure steam that comes from the geothermal activity, they have much shorter lifespan than conventional turbines (only a few years) and not as much precision goes into their making so it can be economically sustainable.
Agreed. Though feedwater isn't once-through, it's recirculated. This cooling water is just used in the condenser. No "coal ash" contamination possible.
@Ithecastic We literally tore a whole in our atmosphere with fossil fuels.
I think he's referring to coal ash contamination that happens afterwards if waste products aren't contained properly, rather than contamination that happens in the turbines. For US based examples, there's a famous spill that happened in Tennessee in 2008 where a bunch of coal ash got into the local waterways. More recently there's Hyco Lake NC where Duke researchers found coal ash contamination, both from the power plant dumping coal ash directly into the lake before EPA regulation, and coal ash leaking into the lake later from faulty containment.
Imagine going near a nuclear power plant and you just see Tom Scott taking a bath in nuclear waters.
That's the source of his power
It's not nuclear?
While it depends on the exact type of a power plant, it's not really possible to encounter radioactive wastewater in a nuclear plant. The water that's sprayed inside the cooling tower or in some cases is drained into a nearby river never goes anywhere near the reactor. The turbine water is heating it up in a heat exchanger.
@@R421Excelsior catch me in the nuclear reactor core eating on those uranium-235 bars like Capri suns
@@DavideCosmaro they're good for you.... i think
Geothermal energy is actually underground atomic energy.
If a Brit says somewhere is a “bit wet” it’s time to put up the flood barriers
In Iceland they also have ditches that are 2 meters deep and criss crossing their pastures just to get the water away from their fields.
Nah it's too hilly for that. More like just wear 5 rain coats
Omg we spend our entire trip in Iceland trying to figure out why the corner of this lake was not frozen and we thought how lucky those ducks were to have this corner of water to swim.
Thank you, more than a year after i finally feel relieved hahah
I live here, and honestly never questioned it once lmao
Wow. I love how you compact information in your videos and while presenting many details not mentioned elsewhere at the same time presenting them in the clearest organized form. Thanks Tom.
Tom Scott is slowly moving over to Iceland... Already hooked by the equally cloudy weather and recruited by the tourism ministry I suppose XD
You have to wonder how much rain they get when a Brit says it is a 'bit wet'
@@barrytschirpig9328 I'm imagining it's definitely more damp.
I've been in the Blue Lagoon and I can attest: It's nice and relaxing and the look is quite unique. As for the marketing the story I heard was that the workers of the powerplant went swimming in the water and found it to be really nice...and then some smart people decided to market it as a spa.
And yes: The earth would most likely run out of heat eventually...but it will probably be swallowed by the sun before that.
It's far more magical in the winter with snow on the surrounding rocks and great fog banks where you can't see anything as you swim around.
Yea, earth loosing its geothermal heat will take a very, VERY long time
Where does the heat end up escaping to, space? Because otherwise it's all recycled to an extent in some way or other right?
@@sageosaka I could be wrong on a few things but I believe a little heat escapes are atmosphere into space ever so slowly
@@Stuartw100 youd think with the sheer amount of friction in the earth constantly happening it would keep heating the planet forever.
This channel has the most random stuff to show ever.
But Austin McConnell
But Tom makes it so tasty
@@elijahamgast I enjoy Tom more, it's just not the most random
I've been to the Blue Lagoon and it's absolutely brilliant. If you ever get the chance to go to Iceland, do it! Incredible place
"Iceland is bit wet" says a Brit.
I am concerned.
As someone who is from Iceland, I spent few weeks in Britain and didn't find it wet at all.
Mastermind12358 WHAT
@@user-sk3cz4zc4q It doesn't rain in Britain anywhere near as much as Americans seem to think it does.
Apex Konchu I live in britain your right actually
Total rainfall isn't that high but it's always lightly drizzling
I used to go to the blue lagoon when I was a kid. It was free but also a little dangerous, as there were still sharp lava rocks all over the bottom
Inspector Haines ahh the good ol days before mayor tourism
Do you visibly regenerate injuries? Read minds? Move stuff by thinking about it? Shoot lasers out of your eyes, perhaps?
Now it’s like £200 each. The secret lagoon is way better imo
In Iceland, word "cheap" is relative.
They pay 4 cents per kwh. That's really cheap.
@@Sci-Filip in iceland, thats free.
@austinrover2005 come on... Really?
@austinrover2005 that's less than half of US prices
@austinrover2005 r/woooosh
I love that you never ask for subscribers or likes. Your videos are always fascinating, I very much enjoy them. Much respect from Australia!
This is where Nuka Cola gets it's benefits from.
BETHESDA: "Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!"
Didn't expect to see you here :)
Looked like a pool full of Nuka Cola Quantum.
@@angryox3102 nukalurks
@@angryox3102 It looked like it because it is
Another "write that down" joke. Every month it's something new and people just copy each other.
Tom Scott, five years ago: Don't swim in the Blue Lagoon in Buxton!
Tom Scott, today: I went for a dip in the Blue Lagoon in Grindavik.
You mean in Reykjavík.
@@gabor6259 It is actually closer to a place called Grindavik (about 10 min with car) than it is Reykjavik (about 45 min with car), but for turist purpose they say Reykjavik.
That's a mixup you don't want to make!
@@kattkatt744 Oh, okay.
@Tailn O Wag The video he's talking about is called "The Toxic Blue Lagoon of Buxton" if you still want to watch it.
"the earth is not going to run out of heat" don't jinx it
2020, I dare you.
Jynx*
Unolock is going to sap all of the heat out of the planet's core and only Noktok: Hero of the South is going to be able to stop him.
It's just gonna get hotter
Jhon Krasnovskiy Jynx*
Tom can now add this video to the list of "times he was in Iceland at the wrong time to see a volcanic eruption".
3:14 "... the ice was strong enough to safely walk on ..."
Disclaimer: Tom is not an authority on whether it is safe to walk on a frozen lake.
The lake isnt really a lake, its a pond, and its not even a meter deep
it was so much fun when it froze tho. People went ice skating on it!
@@Petra123231 Tom is bad at measuring the structural integrity of ice, see his estonia trip
@@Petra123231 Mentioning it's not even a meter deep absolutely destroyed the heart of the original commenter because it actually does give them the qualifications to say if its safe or not that's funny af
Swimming in Power Plant wastewater:
Three Arms Later:
@@marias5230 r/wooosh
@@Gmodfan750 stfu redditor
@@SillyFunnyDummy yea right
@@SillyFunnyDummy what's so wrong about being a redditor? you're probably a redditor too
Foil arms and hog have entered the chat
cant believe that this is the same guy as, two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff
That was one of his best videos
I'd say he's come so far, but he's always been spectacular
@@Asiliea Yes. It is legendary.
Wait, he’s the same guy??
honestly this just doesn't compare
Hey Tom! I have started to use your videos to study for school aswell as watching you in my free time. It's so cool to see that a TH-camr I usually watch coincidentallly has a video about a topic we're learning in school!
Cheers
To summarize what Tom said, while yes this is power plant wastewater, it is pumped from the ground into a pipe, ran next to another pipe of water to heat that water up, then dumped out into the blue lagoon. Alternatively, it is pumped from the ground then the water pressure and heat are used to spin a turbine for power. So while it was used in a power plant, it is still pumped from the ground then directly into the lagoon while never leaving that pipe or having anything else put into the pipe.
its a geothermal reactor, theres no radiation involved or anything
I feel like Tom Scott will become the new David Attenborough
*youtube’s
Ella Peterson who
Menecreft David Attenborough is a British documentary guy who does documentaries on nature, Americans are missing out on a great guy
i genuinely have no idea, but googling it shows me that its probably a british thing
@@mene6465 I hope your joking...
"The Earth is not gonna run out of heat."
*laughs in geological time scale*
The Earth's core is losing heat (~100K per billion years) but it will never "run out" of heat, because the Sun will expand and swallow the Earth long before that can happen.
@@jadewhite766 Huh, I'd somehow assumed that it'd be geologically inert by them. Good (?) to know!
Heat death will end everything soon. A geological timescale is a blink of an eye to the universe. 🍄
@@davidbergmann8948 It's been a while since I read up on it but if you're worrying about that I do think the Andromeda galaxy is scheduled to collide with the milky way before that. Not sure what that'd do to our solar system, probably a big roll of the dice but I'm sure a few potential bad outcomes are hidden in there!
@@extrastuff9463 galaxies are mostly empty space. The vast majority of stars in either galaxy will experience nothing of note during the collision/merger.
That is the best sell I have ever heard for Iceland. Christ, I wouldn't mind living there right about now, sounds wonderful.
A bit pricy but is nice country, I went to visit a while back. It has some strong winds though.
Dont move there
@@meowikouwu oi what's that about mate
3:14 "Just so the ducks have somewhere to swim" Can't believe the heat made it's way to my heart from there..
It’s official, we can go swim at Chernobyl.
XD
Pfp checks out
@@roscommon- yep it's fine by me
Who said chernobyl? This isn't a nuclear power plant, it is a geothermal power plant. BIG difference. No radiation at all.
@@marcel151 the only thing that’s more radioactive is the fact you can’t take a joke
What's the soonest flight to Iceland, asking for a friend
Plenty of choice: 29 flights a week at Gatwick, from £40.
At the moment, it depends on where you're travelling from.
To get into the pool is like £80 tho
Loads of flights every week to Iceland from Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester
At the moment there's a covid-19 scan on landing, about a week of quarantine, a second scan and the you can go :)
Why do I keep getting this guy's channel recommended asking random rhetorical questions nobody would even think off asking
1:42 "It doesn't actually feel warm, if it was, the pipe wouldn't do it job"
*Cries in Russian, remembering those giant long uninsulated pipes from our power plants*
If pipes look uninsulated to an untrained eye it does not mean they all are. The outer galvanised metal shell IS on top of insulation.
Tom Scott: The Earth is not going to run out of heat
2020: hmmmmm interesting challenge
2020: hold my corona.
Really the Earth is getting warmer, and could stand to cool off a bit.
TheReaverOfDarkness Its atmosphere is getting warmer, but under the surface it is cooling down
@@TheReaverOfDarkness the atmosphere =/= core
@@3run632 The atmosphere is heating up MUCH faster than the interior is cooling. If this rate of heating continues, the Earth's interior will begin to increase in temperature on a non-astronomical timescale.
More like: Tom Scott Convinces You to Travel During Coronavirus
He's probably got himself like a small private plane or helicopter
@@iamjohnnygamer893 i think they're just old vids
@@mooble1325 This too. Lots of videos are recorded and edited long before they are released.
Chill sheep
@@noobishtitan9714 chill sheep,hypocrite
That thumbnail is a thing of utter beauty make no mistake
All I could think of was the french narrator from Spongebob;
"Ahh... Goo Lagoon"
same
All I could think of was, "A platoon of Judoon near...that lagoon."
Iceland, stop stealing our Tom Scott!
Sincerely,
New Zealand's tourism industry
New Zealand's tourism industry,
no. We make a living off tourists... and fish.
Sincerely
Iceland
Iceland, Mom says it’s my turn with Tom Scott!
Iceland we give you sheep you give us Tom Scott
Sincerely,
New Zealand's tourism industry
@@cocoabeanzz You only make a living off tourists now. We're taking your fish (again,third time lucky)!
Sincerely,
UK Fisheries Division, Department for Agriculture
0:11 my dog when i give him food
Happy tom
Tom happy
COLD FIRE WATER PLANT
Near Livorno, Italy is a village called „Rosignano Solvay“ where a factory pumps the cooling water back to the sea. Its nice to swim inside it and feel the temperature difference between the sea and the warm white water. The beach looks realy tropical from the lime inside the water. Really a journey worth!
Dude, are you smocking or something? That isn't just water, its full of toxic minerals, there are signs everywhere telling you to not go in the water, all fish and plant life in the area of the beach is half dead if not gone and the reason the beach looks tropical is because of thoose dangerous waste products, dont tell people to swim there, they could get horrible skin irritations
@@diegomanosperti8682 The beach is filled with people. It’s dangerous when you live there and swim in it every day but when you’re on vacation and do it only for two days its completely harmless.
@@fleischlicht7452 i can assure you, you will never feel worse after not swimming there, expecially if you stay all day, there are many othere beaches to go in Tuscany, but this one isn't worth it
Michael Stevens, Tom Scott, and Randall Munroe are the real reasons I've ever learned anything.
@Carter Watts you forgot Veritasium
Not enough channels. Keep exploring.
@@Sam-fq3bt Wait do you mean Dirk from Veristablium?
I'm sorry, but who's Randall Munroe?
@@wr.en. He's the author of the webcomic xkcd. No need to be sorry for having any question ever :)
Just another item to put on my Iceland bucket list.
"high on a hill there's a lonely water plant"
Doesn't have the same ring as a lonely goat herd.
I have water skied. In the cooling water of the Haynes power plant in so. Cal. From 30 to 50 years ago. Over 80 now and no health problems. Mike
"No!"
*Sees Tom swimming*
"Well now I am doing it"
Tom is really capitalising on his trip up north
Sounds like a nearly perfect system. I mean, as a Norwegian I knew Iceland had geysirs and was volcanic and so on, but I never had anyone explain to me just how much you could do with that before. This just blows my mind.
also, at the geothermal powerplant, where the blue lagoon gets its water from, they combine methane which they isolate from the steam, with carbon dioxide to produce methanol fuel for cars, and at Hellisheiðarvirkjun geothermal powerplant, there they isolate the Co2 from the steam and dissolve it into the cooled water from the steam, and pump it down again, down to 2500m, there, the co2 infuses with the rocks and solidifies.
Iceland is one of the largest producers of aluminum. Turns out you need *lots* of energy to produce aluminum from bauxite. And Iceland has lots of energy...
Denmark has the same system but just using waste heat from power generation and industry, it's always baffled me that no other nordic country has adopted it as it seems like an obvious must have in our climate.
@@hedgehog3180 District heating was/is very widespread in East Germany. The Plattenbau did not have fireplaces like the older hosuing but East Germany tried to fulfill its power needs with domestic lignite, so district heating was the natural solution for that...
@@hedgehog3180 Did you mean to say no other country 'outside the Nordics' has adopted it widespread? (and even that is not really true) All nordic countries, especiallyu Finland/Sweden have district heating systems in place everywhere, utilising waste heat, biomass and sidestreams from industries. Even in smaller towns this is common. It makes a lot of sense to build when every house requires three times as much heat in comparison to more southern European households.
I went to the Blue Lagoon once 10 years ago on holiday and I still occasionally have massive nostalgia. Smelled like eggs though. And it was way too crowded.
Not in the video: you better reserve a time slot for when you intend to arrive on their homepage two weeks ahead of time so you don't have to wait an hour to get in.
This is currently not a problem because of the virus situation. In a normal tourist year, better book a month in advance.
@@jonfr How about winter time? Does the northern lights bring the tourists, or does the cold scare them away? Here in Alaska, tourism kind of dies as soon as the snow flies.
"the earth is not going to run out of heat"
*the laws of thermodynamics would like to know your location*
The core temperature drops by about 55 degrees C every billion years
It will run out of heat, long after humans have gone extinct.
Because the heat from the sun eating the earth will be the end of it
_muffled opening notes of End Times playing in the distance_
@@TomLuTon [citation needed]
We have one right here in San Diego. Sea water is sucked in through pipes, cools down the plant by going in chambers *around* (not into) the material, then flows back into the ocean. The only change that occurs to that water is that it now returns heated :) Makes for great swimming
I heard that this is a problem for fish because heating the water deprives it from it's oxygen. But then again it's the sea. It resupplies with the waves. How are the fish there mate?
Nothing like pumping super heated water into the ecosystem. I’m sure it is a great benefit to the wildlife.
Iirc San Onofre had a similar cooling solution prior to its shutdown
I visited the blue lagoon a few years ago. One thing I remember is there being signs prohibiting cameras, them selling waterproof phone covers and everyone taking pictures.
"The earth is not going to run out of heat"
Tom, it's 2020... Don't write it off just yet.
Well, the Pacific Northwest certainly won't...
i mean... global warming is technically heat... so he’s right in that respect
And... we've probably got an alien problem on our hands as well (the whole venus PH3 thing)
Considering the human ability to alter our environment to extract any resource we require, and the speed that we increase this at, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we end up "draining" the Earth "dry" of its heat in a few hundred years. Probably for something dumb too, as it always is. Never underestimate human idiocy and its destructive potential.
Anyone remember the movie The Core?
Yes I'd swim in power plant 'wastewater' (so long as the temperature was okay). Why not? (Depends of course on the power plant). It's mostly just cooling water that's been taken out of a river, or sometimes discharge from a hydro dam. Generally speaking, water quality standards ensure that it's no worse than the natural river it discharges into. So as a generality, yes.
Honestly, I think I've swim in worse waters
I live very close to Lake Ontario, facing Toronto in Canada, and the water in this video looks cleaner than any beach I've ever seen. Makes me feel icky lmao. People still flock to the beaches to swim regardless😂
swimming pools are probably worse with all the human waste....
I grew up swimming in Lake Eerie.
How bad could the power plant wastewater be?
I like how here it's the opposite, it's not cooling water, it's heating water
I went to the Blue Lagoon a few years ago with my family. The actual bathing/swimming experience was pleasant enough, but to the contrary of helping make my skin healthier or whatever, it just gave me full-body dandruff that lasted about a week, of an unholy amount of dead skin coming off every time I adjusted my t-shirt, put socks on etc.
Well I guess you now know what it feels like to be a snake.
You are s snake
You're one of those Reptilian Overlords people talk about, aren't yous?
@@IgnarHusky sssssh
Too bad. I loved it.
That part about the ducks was very wholesome.
Perlan isn't a water tower anymore. All those "towers" contain the exhibits. I visited the museum last year. One of the towers is a planetarium.
now that sounds awesome!
Would swim in it and did in fact to a trip to Iceland in 2013. I loved Blue Lagoon!
I really want to go back to Iceland soon. It was one of my favourite places I've ever been.
Is it really 30GBP to swim there? That seems very expensive to me.
Same here. No other vacation like it.
In most countries: "Ah the boiler's broken"
In Iceland: "I *AM* the boiler"
But what happens when Iceland breaks?
@@michaeledmunds7266 Earthquakes.
@@michaeledmunds7266 Well, it is breaking. Constantly.
0:38 I love that sign. Its so minimalist.