Mponeng and TauTona gold mines in South Africa are the deepest any human has ever gone underground, with thousands of miners underground at any time... That is a megaproject worth looking at
Ya know Corn has a much more complex genome than humans... so the Corn Genome project!!! Who could do it!?! Why so complex 🌽 WHAT ARE YOU HIDING!?!?! why does he think eugenics starts with an H?!?! DID CORN PUT HIM UP TO THIS?!?! Why would it do that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! 🧐
I had another news Simon : Several years ago China announced a $72 billion plan to build 2 giant tunnel stretching from high up in the Himalayan mountains in Tibet to the desert of Xinjiang region to channel glacier into water flow to make Xinjiang desert a new China breadbasket or new agricultural center. The planned project is still in a careful study or early stage. It seems China never running out of gigantic infrastructure project since anciet times.
Include it with all the Great Observatories: TheChandra X-ray Observatory, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope (visible), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared)
For that matter, once the James Webb goes up, (assuming 2020 doesn't get it), it probably deserves an episode of its own. Just the scope of the project so far has been pretty mega.
The California Water Project was a similar project on a slightly smaller scale, but still huge. Water is diverted from the Central Valley, the Owens Valley and the Colorado River to several areas of Southern California to feed the growth of one of our largest metropolitan areas.
The California Water Project is tiny compared to this and covers just one small region of the USA. The Souht-North water transfer covers the entire Chinese nation...
@odegaard Europeans have done hard works too to turn what was originally swamps and wetlands in Roman times into expansive cultivable land. Took millennia and numerous regimes and man power to happen, but eventually made it. Nothing wrong with people fighting hard to inch some gains from nature in order to survive and prosper. Only then do we learn to what extent should we go with that.
Netherlands wouldn’t have a country without the dams they build to keep the water out of their below sea level lands. There is nothing wrong irrigating arid lands by making canals channeling water to arid regions.
Ikr he host so many channels and the other day he goes "subscribe to mega projects we do about 3 videos a week... Eh we could push 4 a week" xD god damn dude he's such a workaholic
He's built a magnificent youtube empire, he mentions Ollie a bit, and someone else is hosting one of the other channels now, I'd expect there to be a few more people helping out
fox hello 😂😂🤣 nice answer. No but pace at which they are trying to achieve there goals coupled with the huge amount of corruption means that sometimes things go very wrong. This water project is a stupid idea. It's not the Chinese people who are at fault it's their government.
"Unchecked economic growth or clean water" Well, since there is a business prospect in taking dirty water, run it through filters, recarbonate it and sell it at a profit, while drinking clean water directly off of the ground is not, I can tell which it is going to be.
@@alexandercarder2281 - The channel is called "Megaprojects" unfortunately - the scope is too small to encompass the greatness of the beard. We're talking dry-dock levels of greatness.
Simon, have you ever considered creating a multi-part series that crosses over into Geographics and Biographics. For example you can tie Mao, the three gorges dam and the a geographic on the cities that were lost under the water. It can improve your base and views plus make a very interesting watch.
@@leozao5 knossos was an ancient city from the classical era/bronze age on the isle of crete europes oldest city but the island was inhabited from the neolithic era or stone age if you prefer to call it that
What I love the most about Simon is that he gives comparisons for us simple folks to grasp the idea, not just dry numbers and figures. This goes on to show his dedication to learn and teach. Love you brother keep up the good work.
On the topic of China, I think *Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge* is pretty Mega fitting for a Megaproject episode. By the way, I love Simon's Chinese pronunciation, I can barely make out a single word as a Chinese person, neat.
I'd like to request a vid on Simons beard, but i'm not sure if it's a megaproject or a biographic. Possible it's a geographic as its home to a rear type of stoat.
He should like, stop trimming it and take a photo every day for a year, and do one of of those time-lapse videos, while narrating his facial-hair related choices or something .. ...would that almost qualify as a micro-documentary on the beard?
I agree I’d like a video on the Ford super-carriers but... they are so new and majority of the new tech is highly classified. My nephew has been stationed on the Ford since the first sea trails. He can’t hardly say anything about the ship due to national security.
Hello Simon! I appreciate all of your videos, from geograpshics, biographiscs, megaprojects, sideprojects, Top Tenz and Business Blaze. You have great content and I appreciate what you are doing. Thanks!
That was a pretty interesting video Simon. Thanks :) - I show these to my engineering students in class, and they find your mix of documentary and comedy quite fun. I've been hoping you do a megaproject episode on a bridge build for some time. There are so many different ones you could look at, but my favorite is the Oresund bridge that spans between mainland Europe and Scandinavia through the straits of Copenhagen.
Hong kong - macau bridge recently completed is said to have cost 18,8 billion dollars. And that is mostly useless. So money is not a problem, as long as it is in yuan an inflates the gdp.
An American and a communist were talking about freedom. The American says " my country is better because I am free to criticize my government" The Communist replies "So am I, criticizing America's government is encouraged in my country ".
I love how Simon starts his educational video off by saying "I don't really know anything about this". That Definitely feels like a touch of business blaze sneaking into the video
I'd love to see a Megaprojects take on a marine salvage operation like the Costa Concordia, which was the biggest and most expensive one to date I think. Perhaps even the ones done at Pearl Harbor, Scapa Flow, the Vasa, the Kursk, or the CIA funded Project Azorian; The raising of the soviet submarine K-129
@Ben Ghazi That and the operation to salvage and conserve her would qualify I would hope. Not many people realize the amount of effort it takes to conserve waterlogged artifacts that are small. They conserved a whole entire ship and it took years to do it.
In the 1970’s the US Great Lakes States & Canadian Great Lake Provinces signed a Pact to prevent the moving of fresh water from the Great Lakes to the Water challenged American West. So far this Pact has held the line preventing the transferring of Water.....so far...
India Govt must do nation wide interlinking of rivers project. All the surveys have already been finished long back. Atleast all the rivers of yearly flood affected eastern states like Assam, West Bengal, Bihar n Odisha should be linked to rivers of all the water starved southern states like Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka n Maharashtra.
One of the largest projects of this kind back in the day was Israel's National War Carrier project. The scale of everything in China is just on a different level, so it's hard to compare, but for the 50s and 60s when it was built, Israel's main canal providing water for half the country was a phenomenal achievement.
Taipei 101 and its giant swinging counterweight and crazy fast elevators. Might not be the tallest building in the world, but it is certainly one of the most innovative.
This problem discussed in this video is affecting not only China but so many other parts of the world. If there would be a mega project to get this problem not only with the drinking water but also with the pollution of our planet sorted, that would be even better. Because what China dose, will help them for a short time, but as said in the clip, it is not a long-lasting solution. There should be a way to create a new type of industry that has at its base not only the output amount of money generated but also the environmental concerns. A factory as non-pollutant as possible, but also with output as good or even better than the old fashioned factories. Also, I LOVE THIS SERIES !!! A really good job dear Simon and his crew, keep it up ;)
This guy is really anti-China. It’s palpable. Sometimes, I wonder. What would the West prefer China do? Nothing? Let people drown? Let the North go without water? Move hundreds of millions of people to the South instead? West does nothing but has a lot of advice. Busy stealing resources from other developing nations.
@@joseruiz4026 What do you mean by "sucking", exactly? Does sucking mean China is somehow stealing resources from these other countries? Please point to an article which demonstrates this. If by sucking you meaning "purchasing resources in exchange for money or infrastructure projects", then yes you could say China is "sucking" resources.
Hey, something absurd I thought I should add. In Sydney Australia, the state government is so incredibly incompetent that we built a tiny light rail system which was estimated to take a maximum of a few billion but ended up costing more than this entire project. This on it's own is rediculous, but the kicker is that it is worse than the buses which we already had in place.
This project is green, provides renewable energy, prevents flooding in the south and irrigates the drier regions, provides a new infrastructure transport route for inland shipping, access to previously unaccessible areas, increases technical and engineering knowledge, inspiration to others, generates agriculture and industry, etc. There is not much to dislike.
Because I can’t get enough of this channel and I’m partial to the aerospace videos I’ve been thinking of some videos: 2 parter on American vs. USSR ICBM programs - the cold war comparisons are awesome, also a video on SLS/ares 5 program - imho this has been NASA’s biggest disaster, but it looks like it might launch in the next year as the most powerful rocket in history so it would be really interesting to look at, f-22 raptor program and B-2 program would also be awesome they are definitely 2 of the coolest planes ever built.
Are you aware that, during all the worries about Russia having ICBM's during the cold war, we only had ONE functional rocket? (And that was a prototype). Of course, we never told anyone that back then.
Ivan Romanov I was not aware lol, wasn’t the r7 deployed as an ICBM though, same with proton? I just know that they did some crazy stuff for the US ICBM program, I think it would make an interesting video.
Marvellous. Shows that China and the CCP government do care about the people, environment and geographical impact on the people and country . This mega project had involved large budget of money and resources. I dont think any country in the world can undertake such mammoth project except China.
starship hasnt been finished yet and so it would be purely hypothetical and the design changes on almost a monthly basis so the video would grow out of date really quickly
For a related project consider dong a show on the thing that in some ways inspired this, Stalin's very stylishly and humbly name "Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature" which was a bunch of water diversion projects in Russia and central Asia that eventually lead to the drying up of the Aral Sea, once the world's 4th largest lake and now mostly a salt flat.
The old Grand Canal was the biggest water megastructure ever designed until the 20th Century megaprojects and took more than a thousand years to build. Beijing"s water is patrly pumped on the oter side of the country, 1500 miles away.
Part of the cost of these projects is providing new housing for those displaced. By and large, Chinese living in these construction zones are benefitting from better, safer, cleaner housing than they had before. Building buildings creates jobs, workers spend money, it all goes round and round, but at least everyday people are at least written into the plan.
You should absolutely do a followup with the California State Water Project, the Central Valley Project, and the Los Angeles Aquaduct (as a single video). Not quite this scale, but impressive for being started almost a century ago. There are some amazing characters involved.
And yet California is still either having droughts when there is no rain or flooding when there is rain. I live in California, especially Lost Angeles the fallen angel city. You should also consider doing a mega project on the homeless in the major cities in US. That would be a laughable mega project with massive amounts of homeless tents. 🤣
Traveling in the northern and northwestern areas of China that are the beneficiaries of this project, the need was obvious. Its mostly desert. But there were areas of agriculture, often large ponds too. I could never figure this out, as the ponds were obviously evaporating like crazy in the very hot climate. It seems to me that there is serious potential for drip irrigation, restoration agriculture, watershed restoration, and the other desert fighting technologies that have been devised over the past decades. Lots of others already there: solar water heaters, solar greenhouses, solar cookers, p v panel farms, wind turbines. Don't try solving the problem, try dissolving it.
You are definitely right. Complicated problems comes with multipronged solutions. This is just one of the clogs but improving water efficiency and better environmental management gets the best bang for the buck but also hardest to implement
David Ford I can only hazard to guess that progress is slow and difficult to show, the enforcement is definitely improving from what I can see though. End of the day, when it’s too expensive not to comply then the rest will fall in line, we already have seen much environmental activism is China as the country got richer, making coverups all the more difficult. Give it another 15 years.
I realize you just did this aqueduct project, but the California aqueduct would be a great topic... Other great projects (if you haven’t already done) would be the Pyramids of Egypt, transcontinental railroads (US and Siberia), Erie Canal, Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall, HMS Dreadnought, Golden Gate Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Space Elevator, US Interstate system, SOSUS Sonar system, Distant Early Warning Radar in the Cold War... And so many more...
Please put some maps images to show locations (i feel a lot of videos from you guys lack geographical visual references). Love your work, thanks for the entertainment!
And now the fun part. It is known, that forests serve as sort of a conveyor, that carries precipitation much further inland from sea, than would be expected. And what is China doing? Cutting down forests of Siberia, since Kremlin sold them renting rights for large territories basically "for peanuts". In theory, this may cut short rains feeding rivers in the west of China, and turn Mongolian steppes into arid, perhaps even deserted land. And if rivers upstream run lower on water, this magaproject will be of little use in a few decades, or even completely useless, depends on how bad problems may be, if there will be such consequences.
@@taotaohe5677 This effect is there, as there would be no rains in the West of Amazonia or in the central Africa, if there were no dense forest cover. The other issue is - which parts of Asia do Siberian forests have impact on, that's the only dubious part of my speculations., as rains in those parts of China might be more dependent on air flows from Pacific, than from North-West. However, what is 100% certain - China, under the "wise" leadership of CCP will fuck up their own people and nature, as well as spawn problems for neighbouring countries too. And of course you are wrong about my geography knowledge, I've always been good at it, besides I have a globe at hand right now. The only thing missing is to either confirm or dissuade my suspicions is a map of the prevailing winds in that region, got to look up for that.
@@TotalRookie_LV er, so on which facebook post did you read that from? you do realize that the bulk of the water in East & South Asia originates from the Indian & Pacific ocean hitting the Himalayas, along with the glacier melt from the region? The only place where it is remotely affected by your siberian claims is near kashgar/Ili area where significant water comes from the Atlantic hitting the Kunlun mountains...... On the part of reforestation, you do realise who is in the forefront of the world right? Takes $$$ to get things done right, third world countries aint gonna care when they don't have enough food on the table. Now that there is $$$ on the table, naturally priority changes. CCP aint saints but credit goes where credits are due. May I suggest you take off your rose tinted glasses and see everything objectively for once?
@@taotaohe5677 My own country has increasing forest area, no "wise leadership" or large sums of money needed for that. And yes, I know, that China is on "the forefront" of reforestation, as is India. Thank you for information, at last something useful, instead of supposed insults. XD Besides look on the bright side, due to warming, evaporation increases and there will be more rains and snow, so some rivers will get fed more, depends on region.
@@TotalRookie_LV Lets put this into context, China contributed 25%, and India around 8%, lets not put those numbers level. Chinese numbers grew due to the need to control desertification, helping to reclaim lost arable land from the desert while also controlling air pollution from reducing the particulates. After all these decades they finally got something right and bulk of the public supports this. Where as in India, most of the greening was from agricultural activities. This is why I don't even want to put them in the same line. Maybe 2 to 3 decades from now, when India's GDP goes above 10,000 per capita then we can start talking. Because on the road there, its going to get alot worst for India before it gets better. (Lets see what land India need when the population gets richer and starts eating more meat, and where its going to come from) . Hehe Siberia is going to enjoy the warmer climate...
You should do one of these on the nurburgring. At a combined length of 25.4 kilometers (Nordschlife+Grand Prix Circuit) its the longest functional racing circuit in the world and has a fascinating history including several bankruptcies, multiple driver fatalities which led too a a safety boycott by F1 drivers in 1977 which led too the race being moved along with several famous 24 hour endurance races. Before the old Sudschlife (south shelf) circuit was demolished the track was nearly 27 kilometers long.
It's a peanut compare to a newly completed $11,4 billion Beijing Daxing International Airport. Yeah... there you go another gigantic China infrastructure project.
Elevation is calculated with respect to some lower point in the project. Altitude is calculated from sea level. I maybe wrong but this is how I learnt about it in college.
what was that huge telescope they built in like 1940s they had to move huge steel beams up the mountain via horse. i think it was the observatory hubble used but im not sure.
@@jimkennedy4509 Schmidt telescope on Mt Palomar, yes. VLA or VLT would also be kind of cool. Also, looks like the 100-inch telescope on Mt Wilson was also done via horseback, maybe a thing given the need to be far away from city lights and air palution. www.mtwilson.edu/building-the-100-inch-telescope/
I can't help but notice that your map of the PRC includes the island of Taiwan, which is not administered by the PRC and forms part of its own independent country.
_"I've got a solution. Let's not move the people, let's move _*_an entire water system_*_ up north."_ A less disingenuous and ridiculous way of looking at it might be to say, "Let's not move *a billion people, their homes, workplaces and all other public infrastructure, abandoning centuries of work,* let's just pipe the water where we need it, since water is a fluid."
The dumbest thing about that comment is if China actually did try to move the ppl Simon would be here making the exact opposite comment but with the exact self righteous attitude.
> 45.4MW capacity Just a few moments earlier... > equipped with 23 pumping stations So... We can generate electricity by using electricity? I suppose it _does_ have the advantage of being an energy store so the pumps can be constantly working but the generators only need to kick in as demand requires, but that's a bit of an assumption on my part and the implication is that they'll be generating about 45MW, but spending at least that in pumping because what goes up must come down.
Mponeng and TauTona gold mines in South Africa are the deepest any human has ever gone underground, with thousands of miners underground at any time... That is a megaproject worth looking at
This needs to be covered. And Engineering feet!
Yessssss
That sounds incredible! Wanna know more
SparkBerry
🤔So...Umm-Had WWIII actually happened, would-...[???]...
@@navysealblackwater Shout out from lake Erie.
I'd like to request a slightly different mega project, the Human Genome Project.
Oh yeah this is really interesting
No bro hugenics in north America
@@headsetlucky13
Maybe learn how to spell it before trolling...
@@aggiesce yeah dam public French school
Ya know Corn has a much more complex genome than humans... so the Corn Genome project!!!
Who could do it!?!
Why so complex 🌽 WHAT ARE YOU HIDING!?!?!
why does he think eugenics starts with an H?!?!
DID CORN PUT HIM UP TO THIS?!?!
Why would it do that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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I had another news Simon :
Several years ago China announced a $72 billion plan to build 2 giant tunnel stretching from high up in the Himalayan mountains in Tibet to the desert of Xinjiang region to channel glacier into water flow to make Xinjiang desert a new China breadbasket or new agricultural center.
The planned project is still in a careful study or early stage.
It seems China never running out of gigantic infrastructure project since anciet times.
It'a pretty much a modern great wall
Allegedly they are secretly building it. They are not running out of projects, they are going where the water is.
@Make America Great Again 50 years, lol. You must be confusing China with America; it will take them less than 7 years.
Careful consideration those words don't bode well when China is concerned
Yea, they announce allot, but is it true...
I'd love to see a Megaprojects video on The Hubble Telescope
Include it with all the Great Observatories: TheChandra X-ray Observatory, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope (visible), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared)
James webb
@@brianbarrett2487 I wouldn't be surprised
@@Omegatonboom hopefully it works!
For that matter, once the James Webb goes up, (assuming 2020 doesn't get it), it probably deserves an episode of its own. Just the scope of the project so far has been pretty mega.
"Why don't we just take this water, and push it over there?!" - Patrick Mao
@odegaard That's nothing, move the Amazon river, and make it slower, to Europe.
The California Water Project was a similar project on a slightly smaller scale, but still huge. Water is diverted from the Central Valley, the Owens Valley and the Colorado River to several areas of Southern California to feed the growth of one of our largest metropolitan areas.
The California Water Project is tiny compared to this and covers just one small region of the USA. The Souht-North water transfer covers the entire Chinese nation...
Mother nature: *"This is your geography"*
China: *"NO"*
it's not nice to fool mother nature
@odegaard Europeans have done hard works too to turn what was originally swamps and wetlands in Roman times into expansive cultivable land. Took millennia and numerous regimes and man power to happen, but eventually made it. Nothing wrong with people fighting hard to inch some gains from nature in order to survive and prosper. Only then do we learn to what extent should we go with that.
@@dodgeplow Then you should live in a model society since I pretty sure you home is not what the mother nature has give you
Netherlands wouldn’t have a country without the dams they build to keep the water out of their below sea level lands. There is nothing wrong irrigating arid lands by making canals channeling water to arid regions.
Megaprojects: How Simon organizes his day.
Ikr he host so many channels and the other day he goes "subscribe to mega projects we do about 3 videos a week... Eh we could push 4 a week" xD god damn dude he's such a workaholic
He's built a magnificent youtube empire, he mentions Ollie a bit, and someone else is hosting one of the other channels now, I'd expect there to be a few more people helping out
Having traveled the US, Europe, Middle East and China nothing compares to the scale of engineering that China takes on
China's engineering has always been marvelous since the Great Wall was built.
@@za7v9ier don’t forget the grand canal.
Yeah and the scale of Chinese mistakes is also massive.
@@paulchedzey7276 like the railway of US which been made with chinese hands?
fox hello 😂😂🤣 nice answer. No but pace at which they are trying to achieve there goals coupled with the huge amount of corruption means that sometimes things go very wrong. This water project is a stupid idea. It's not the Chinese people who are at fault it's their government.
"Unchecked economic growth or clean water" Well, since there is a business prospect in taking dirty water, run it through filters, recarbonate it and sell it at a profit, while drinking clean water directly off of the ground is not, I can tell which it is going to be.
Civilization: bring resources to people.
Idk, at this point china is falling apart; it seems to be "economic growth + clean water or the chinese communist party's continued existence".
The beard grows increasingly impressive - a few more months? it'll need to be credited as co-host.
Alegendly...
#simonsbeard
Oh no! That'll probably start a rivalry between ETA and #simonsbeard
Let’s have have a video on simons beard 🧔 a truly EPIC MEGA PROJECT
@@alexandercarder2281 - The channel is called "Megaprojects" unfortunately - the scope is too small to encompass the greatness of the beard. We're talking dry-dock levels of greatness.
Simon, have you ever considered creating a multi-part series that crosses over into Geographics and Biographics. For example you can tie Mao, the three gorges dam and the a geographic on the cities that were lost under the water. It can improve your base and views plus make a very interesting watch.
I like this concept!
A self-collaboration... i like the idea lol
@@wakenbake507 lol. And then he'll have to make a Blaze about it.
We need one on the palace of Knossos, and yes I'll be calling for it after every video because I'm a history nerd
agreed!
I don't when know what that is, but I support your request just because of your dedication
@@leozao5 knossos was an ancient city from the classical era/bronze age on the isle of crete europes oldest city but the island was inhabited from the neolithic era or stone age if you prefer to call it that
What I love the most about Simon is that he gives comparisons for us simple folks to grasp the idea, not just dry numbers and figures. This goes on to show his dedication to learn and teach. Love you brother keep up the good work.
On the topic of China, I think *Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge* is pretty Mega fitting for a Megaproject episode.
By the way, I love Simon's Chinese pronunciation, I can barely make out a single word as a Chinese person, neat.
I'd like to request a vid on Simons beard, but i'm not sure if it's a megaproject or a biographic. Possible it's a geographic as its home to a rear type of stoat.
Or Today I Found Out how Simon maintains the beard 😂
Mao was based AF. Seriously listen to his actually words, Mao was amazing.
He should like, stop trimming it and take a photo every day for a year, and do one of of those time-lapse videos, while narrating his facial-hair related choices or something ..
...would that almost qualify as a micro-documentary on the beard?
The Gerald R Ford super-carriers are defently worthy of a video
I mean... There's lots of them out there. But I guess this guy can make one too lol
I agree I’d like a video on the Ford super-carriers but... they are so new and majority of the new tech is highly classified. My nephew has been stationed on the Ford since the first sea trails. He can’t hardly say anything about the ship due to national security.
@@laidbackeasttexan true
Hope your nephew happy and well
@@Omegatonboom I don't think he can build.one with his current income. He'll have to buy one second hand, or work for Pepsi
And the Newport News Shipyard
Hello Simon! I appreciate all of your videos, from geograpshics, biographiscs, megaprojects, sideprojects, Top Tenz and Business Blaze. You have great content and I appreciate what you are doing. Thanks!
That was a pretty interesting video Simon. Thanks :) - I show these to my engineering students in class, and they find your mix of documentary and comedy quite fun.
I've been hoping you do a megaproject episode on a bridge build for some time. There are so many different ones you could look at, but my favorite is the Oresund bridge that spans between mainland Europe and Scandinavia through the straits of Copenhagen.
I have to say Thank You as well. I would never have known about this if you hadn't posted this report.
62 billion seems a lot, until you compare it to e.g. the F35 program cost: 1625 billion (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II)
Yeah but that's just thieves stealing money. This is an actual project.
And this project is more likely to succeed over the F35
Any country on earth would take the f35 over this project. And China can't make a decent f16 knock off much less a true 5th Gen fighter.
"For reference, that is a sh🤬 ton of money!"
Blunt, descriptive and to the point. I love it!
In usa: it dont make commercial sense!!
In china: screw the money, I'm thirsty!!!
If you like that side of Simon have you watched his channel Business Blaze?
@@TA_Plus_Hemi best channel ever.... allegedly.
Hong kong - macau bridge recently completed is said to have cost 18,8 billion dollars. And that is mostly useless. So money is not a problem, as long as it is in yuan an inflates the gdp.
@@112313 You are a Legend
“Smash that dislike button... what’re you going to do”
Check out business blase if you want more funny stuff and less information
Oh man, I said the same thing before reading the comments, you think it was hilarious too?
@@judechamberlain7580 BB is by far the most enjoyable of his many many channels.
@@judechamberlain7580 feels like the Simon Whistler personality is coming out in more of his channels doesn't it?
T/A Plus Hemi the addition of cocaine and quarantine has had an effect on his content.
I’ve stopped using a calendar to tell time, I’ve instead started relying solely upon Simon’s beard.
_"The Chinese government claims many things that are not always true."_
I'm sure glad I live in the U.S. where such a thing could never happen.
You should be glad to live in the US. this "joke" about the government in your country would get you arrested if you lived in China...
at least you can call your government out for it without getting killed.
I think the lower risk of death makes all the difference
An American and a communist were talking about freedom. The American says " my country is better because I am free to criticize my government"
The Communist replies "So am I, criticizing America's government is encouraged in my country ".
oh really the terror country US
@@python5827 he was being sarcastic if you haven't noticed
I love how Simon starts his educational video off by saying "I don't really know anything about this". That Definitely feels like a touch of business blaze sneaking into the video
I'd love to see a Megaprojects take on a marine salvage operation like the Costa Concordia, which was the biggest and most expensive one to date I think.
Perhaps even the ones done at Pearl Harbor, Scapa Flow, the Vasa, the Kursk, or the CIA funded Project Azorian; The raising of the soviet submarine K-129
@Ben Ghazi That and the operation to salvage and conserve her would qualify I would hope. Not many people realize the amount of effort it takes to conserve waterlogged artifacts that are small. They conserved a whole entire ship and it took years to do it.
In the 1970’s the US Great Lakes States & Canadian Great Lake Provinces signed a Pact to prevent the moving of fresh water from the Great Lakes to the Water challenged American West. So far this Pact has held the line preventing the transferring of Water.....so far...
That would make sense since the great lakes are shared by two countries.
More visuals of the project scope would be awesome. Comparison visuals, maps... Love your videos, keep it up.
India Govt must do nation wide interlinking of rivers project. All the surveys have already been finished long back. Atleast all the rivers of yearly flood affected eastern states like Assam, West Bengal, Bihar n Odisha should be linked to rivers of all the water starved southern states like Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka n Maharashtra.
Would you consider doing an episode on the Madrid Metro? It might be nice to hear about a megaproject that handled costs well for once!
One of the largest projects of this kind back in the day was Israel's National War Carrier project. The scale of everything in China is just on a different level, so it's hard to compare, but for the 50s and 60s when it was built, Israel's main canal providing water for half the country was a phenomenal achievement.
How about a show on the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft.
Taipei 101 and its giant swinging counterweight and crazy fast elevators. Might not be the tallest building in the world, but it is certainly one of the most innovative.
Still waiting on that dry dock episode, Simon!
This problem discussed in this video is affecting not only China but so many other parts of the world. If there would be a mega project to get this problem not only with the drinking water but also with the pollution of our planet sorted, that would be even better. Because what China dose, will help them for a short time, but as said in the clip, it is not a long-lasting solution. There should be a way to create a new type of industry that has at its base not only the output amount of money generated but also the environmental concerns. A factory as non-pollutant as possible, but also with output as good or even better than the old fashioned factories. Also, I LOVE THIS SERIES !!! A really good job dear Simon and his crew, keep it up ;)
China : get it, any projects we do which is considered controversial to the westerners, will be good for us
This guy is really anti-China. It’s palpable.
Sometimes, I wonder. What would the West prefer China do? Nothing?
Let people drown? Let the North go without water? Move hundreds of millions of people to the South instead?
West does nothing but has a lot of advice. Busy stealing resources from other developing nations.
@@Western_Decline you mean China sucking resources from africa too? Or taiwan? Or phillipines? Or Vietnam?
@@joseruiz4026 What do you mean by "sucking", exactly? Does sucking mean China is somehow stealing resources from these other countries? Please point to an article which demonstrates this. If by sucking you meaning "purchasing resources in exchange for money or infrastructure projects", then yes you could say China is "sucking" resources.
@@joseruiz4026 And yet China does the dirty work and supplies most of the world’s rare earths used in high tech.
@@joseruiz4026 Nah leave the sucking to the US-they're the best at it
0:40 - Chapter 1 - An enormous project
2:00 - Chapter 2 - The problem
4:10 - Chapter 3 - History
6:50 - Chapter 4 - The three routes
7:25 - Chapter 4.1 - Eastern route project
9:10 - Chapter 4.2 - Central route project
11:55 - Chapter 4.3 - Western route
13:20 - Chapter 5 - Environemental concerns
15:20 - Chapter 6 - A real solution
- Chapter 7 -
Simon: "Hey Ollie?"
Ollie: "Just read the script Simon!"
I also request you do the Interstate Highway System in America as it’s quite big in scale.
HMS Dreadnought please
or the Hood would be cool too
Presumably you are already familar with Drachinifel's channel?
No we need ze Bismarck, Hans!
While on the topic of megaprojects in China, I'd love to see a video on the Belt and Road Initiative.
When I die, do a video about how my liver survived through lockdown, it must be the worst beating a liver has had in the history of humanity
Looking back on this with the benefit of hindsight is quite a trip
native Americans and nomadic civilizations: we go where the resources are
China: the resources go where we are
i think the core idea of Chinese is do not waste anu inch of land for wealth progress and humanity improvement.
@@嘿嘿嘿-j5p yep and let's wait until it fails
@@嘿嘿嘿-j5p waste ?? You mean those empty cities made out of tofu and vacant?? Lmfaooo
Hey, something absurd I thought I should add. In Sydney Australia, the state government is so incredibly incompetent that we built a tiny light rail system which was estimated to take a maximum of a few billion but ended up costing more than this entire project. This on it's own is rediculous, but the kicker is that it is worse than the buses which we already had in place.
Speaking of water reversal, check out the reversal of the Chicago River in the early 20th century.
It’s called Nan (South) Shui (Water) Bei (North) Diao (Channeling, diverting) 南水北调, channeling or diverting water from the south to the north.
Do the most important and majestic megaproject in history: the Biggest Ball of Twine.
Would Weird Al be cited as a source? Or is that only applicable in Minnesota?
@@johnniemiec3286 he better be.
This project is green, provides renewable energy, prevents flooding in the south and irrigates the drier regions, provides a new infrastructure transport route for inland shipping, access to previously unaccessible areas, increases technical and engineering knowledge, inspiration to others, generates agriculture and industry, etc.
There is not much to dislike.
except the fact that its dirtier than toilet water
@@dickbags7044 Good for you to be such a wise man, you definitely live a very happy life.
The Kennecott copper mine in the USA should also be considered. As being the biggest open-pit mine in the world.
Combined with Mponeng Gold Mine being the deepest mine in world (4 km deep)
Not anymore
Because I can’t get enough of this channel and I’m partial to the aerospace videos I’ve been thinking of some videos: 2 parter on American vs. USSR ICBM programs - the cold war comparisons are awesome, also a video on SLS/ares 5 program - imho this has been NASA’s biggest disaster, but it looks like it might launch in the next year as the most powerful rocket in history so it would be really interesting to look at, f-22 raptor program and B-2 program would also be awesome they are definitely 2 of the coolest planes ever built.
Are you aware that, during all the worries about Russia having ICBM's during the cold war, we only had ONE functional rocket? (And that was a prototype). Of course, we never told anyone that back then.
Ivan Romanov I was not aware lol, wasn’t the r7 deployed as an ICBM though, same with proton? I just know that they did some crazy stuff for the US ICBM program, I think it would make an interesting video.
Marvellous. Shows that China and the CCP government do care about the people, environment and geographical impact on the people and country .
This mega project had involved large budget of money and resources. I dont think any country in the world can undertake such mammoth project except China.
For those not familiar with metric liquid measurement expressed in cubic meters... 400 cubic meters (mentioned at 7:47 ) is about 100,000 gallons.
Suggestion: The glory that is RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Hey Simon, this worked really well for the Aral Sea!
can you do one on SLS, Starship and/or New Glenn?
Fantastic as always Mr Whistler sir
Do a vid of the SpaceX Starship/Mars colony
starship hasnt been finished yet and so it would be purely hypothetical and the design changes on almost a monthly basis so the video would grow out of date really quickly
I don't know why but one of my favorite parts of the videos is when he says to smash that dislike. Love it.
Also, geographics rural China video?
For a related project consider dong a show on the thing that in some ways inspired this, Stalin's very stylishly and humbly name "Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature" which was a bunch of water diversion projects in Russia and central Asia that eventually lead to the drying up of the Aral Sea, once the world's 4th largest lake and now mostly a salt flat.
You mean like this one? th-cam.com/video/xEIt4OojA3Y/w-d-xo.html
@@karliebellatrixyoung6359 That other guy looks A LOT like Simon. Weird. :-)
The old Grand Canal was the biggest water megastructure ever designed until the 20th Century megaprojects and took more than a thousand years to build.
Beijing"s water is patrly pumped on the oter side of the country, 1500 miles away.
Thanks
What kind of pumps are used?
Next megaprojects video needs to be about Simon's glorious beard.
Good talk, life’s info. Concise and thank you . 👍
Part of the cost of these projects is providing new housing for those displaced. By and large, Chinese living in these construction zones are benefitting from better, safer, cleaner housing than they had before. Building buildings creates jobs, workers spend money, it all goes round and round, but at least everyday people are at least written into the plan.
Congratulations on reaching 1 million on VisualPolitikEN
Would love to see you do the city of Shenzhen
You should absolutely do a followup with the California State Water Project, the Central Valley Project, and the Los Angeles Aquaduct (as a single video). Not quite this scale, but impressive for being started almost a century ago. There are some amazing characters involved.
And yet California is still either having droughts when there is no rain or flooding when there is rain. I live in California, especially Lost Angeles the fallen angel city. You should also consider doing a mega project on the homeless in the major cities in US. That would be a laughable mega project with massive amounts of homeless tents. 🤣
So far only one person has smashed that dislike button so I guess the pronunciations were acceptable
Nah he butchered Jiangsu
An excellent idea. Superb. I've lost touch with whatever fine tuning they've done since I first read they were going to do it.
Not sure if you've done this one, or if it would even be considered "mega", but how about the Wieliczka salt mine?
Traveling in the northern and northwestern areas of China that are the beneficiaries of this project, the need was obvious. Its mostly desert. But there were areas of agriculture, often large ponds too. I could never figure this out, as the ponds were obviously evaporating like crazy in the very hot climate. It seems to me that there is serious potential for drip irrigation, restoration agriculture, watershed restoration, and the other desert fighting technologies that have been devised over the past decades. Lots of others already there: solar water heaters, solar greenhouses, solar cookers, p v panel farms, wind turbines. Don't try solving the problem, try dissolving it.
You are definitely right. Complicated problems comes with multipronged solutions. This is just one of the clogs but improving water efficiency and better environmental management gets the best bang for the buck but also hardest to implement
@@taotaohe5677 So why isn't it happening?
David Ford I can only hazard to guess that progress is slow and difficult to show, the enforcement is definitely improving from what I can see though. End of the day, when it’s too expensive not to comply then the rest will fall in line, we already have seen much environmental activism is China as the country got richer, making coverups all the more difficult. Give it another 15 years.
@@taotaohe5677 It just seems so odd that there is technology but not this really needed one. Solar greenhouses everywhere, very impressive design.
I think the US freeway system would be a good Megaproject topic.
Would be a very interesting video. There was a strong racial component based on which communities would be demolished as well.
But it's old would it still be interesting?
I realize you just did this aqueduct project, but the California aqueduct would be a great topic... Other great projects (if you haven’t already done) would be the Pyramids of Egypt, transcontinental railroads (US and Siberia), Erie Canal, Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall, HMS Dreadnought, Golden Gate Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Space Elevator, US Interstate system, SOSUS Sonar system, Distant Early Warning Radar in the Cold War... And so many more...
Do a video on Hadrian's Wall. Giant wall in North Britain (goes across the entire country) built by the Romans to keep out the Scots.
My favorite megaproject is the speedometer that reads 60 mph in the opening credits.
ITER in France. The prototype fusion reactor.
Thanks Simon! Learning this for GCSE geography and will use your video to revise! :)
business blaze is slowly leaking to simons other channels and I love it :D
Allegedly
Please put some maps images to show locations (i feel a lot of videos from you guys lack geographical visual references). Love your work, thanks for the entertainment!
Another one Simon :
The newly completed $11,4 billion Beijing Daxing International Airport.
Hi Simon & Team, I really enjoy all of your channels. Keep up the fantastic work.
And now the fun part. It is known, that forests serve as sort of a conveyor, that carries precipitation much further inland from sea, than would be expected. And what is China doing? Cutting down forests of Siberia, since Kremlin sold them renting rights for large territories basically "for peanuts". In theory, this may cut short rains feeding rivers in the west of China, and turn Mongolian steppes into arid, perhaps even deserted land. And if rivers upstream run lower on water, this magaproject will be of little use in a few decades, or even completely useless, depends on how bad problems may be, if there will be such consequences.
You never passed geography right? Have you even checked the map before spewing the garbage from your little brain?
@@taotaohe5677
This effect is there, as there would be no rains in the West of Amazonia or in the central Africa, if there were no dense forest cover. The other issue is - which parts of Asia do Siberian forests have impact on, that's the only dubious part of my speculations., as rains in those parts of China might be more dependent on air flows from Pacific, than from North-West.
However, what is 100% certain - China, under the "wise" leadership of CCP will fuck up their own people and nature, as well as spawn problems for neighbouring countries too.
And of course you are wrong about my geography knowledge, I've always been good at it, besides I have a globe at hand right now. The only thing missing is to either confirm or dissuade my suspicions is a map of the prevailing winds in that region, got to look up for that.
@@TotalRookie_LV er, so on which facebook post did you read that from? you do realize that the bulk of the water in East & South Asia originates from the Indian & Pacific ocean hitting the Himalayas, along with the glacier melt from the region? The only place where it is remotely affected by your siberian claims is near kashgar/Ili area where significant water comes from the Atlantic hitting the Kunlun mountains...... On the part of reforestation, you do realise who is in the forefront of the world right? Takes $$$ to get things done right, third world countries aint gonna care when they don't have enough food on the table. Now that there is $$$ on the table, naturally priority changes. CCP aint saints but credit goes where credits are due. May I suggest you take off your rose tinted glasses and see everything objectively for once?
@@taotaohe5677
My own country has increasing forest area, no "wise leadership" or large sums of money needed for that. And yes, I know, that China is on "the forefront" of reforestation, as is India.
Thank you for information, at last something useful, instead of supposed insults. XD Besides look on the bright side, due to warming, evaporation increases and there will be more rains and snow, so some rivers will get fed more, depends on region.
@@TotalRookie_LV Lets put this into context, China contributed 25%, and India around 8%, lets not put those numbers level. Chinese numbers grew due to the need to control desertification, helping to reclaim lost arable land from the desert while also controlling air pollution from reducing the particulates. After all these decades they finally got something right and bulk of the public supports this. Where as in India, most of the greening was from agricultural activities. This is why I don't even want to put them in the same line. Maybe 2 to 3 decades from now, when India's GDP goes above 10,000 per capita then we can start talking. Because on the road there, its going to get alot worst for India before it gets better. (Lets see what land India need when the population gets richer and starts eating more meat, and where its going to come from) . Hehe Siberia is going to enjoy the warmer climate...
You should do one of these on the nurburgring.
At a combined length of 25.4 kilometers (Nordschlife+Grand Prix Circuit) its the longest functional racing circuit in the world and has a fascinating history including several bankruptcies, multiple driver fatalities which led too a a safety boycott by F1 drivers in 1977 which led too the race being moved along with several famous 24 hour endurance races.
Before the old Sudschlife (south shelf) circuit was demolished the track was nearly 27 kilometers long.
Suggestion: huge airports, such as JFK and Los Angeles International.
It's a peanut compare to a newly completed $11,4 billion Beijing Daxing International Airport.
Yeah... there you go another gigantic China infrastructure project.
@@dwchen1 Yep, been there and it makes JFK look like a small airstrip.
How about the Tokyo airport since they had to build an island for it
Kangaoero Kansai is in Osaka Bay, not Tokyo
Isn't Singapore's Changi International larger and busier? Or London's Heathrow which is the busiest airport in the world.
Another good video guys! Great job!
Isn’t it “elevation” rather than “altitude”?
Elevation is calculated with respect to some lower point in the project. Altitude is calculated from sea level. I maybe wrong but this is how I learnt about it in college.
@@ritwikreddy5670 well sounds right to me
Video suggestion - Snowy River scheme. Huge Australian water project that took 25 years to complete.
The A12 video has twice the views of the deep hole.....Allegedly 😂
Great video and project. Missing some supporting graphics though
The ISS and how its going to become a space hotel
Check out his very first video on the channel
what was that huge telescope they built in like 1940s they had to move huge steel beams up the mountain via horse. i think it was the observatory hubble used but im not sure.
I think it is the Mt Palomore telescope
@@jimkennedy4509 Schmidt telescope on Mt Palomar, yes.
VLA or VLT would also be kind of cool.
Also, looks like the 100-inch telescope on Mt Wilson was also done via horseback, maybe a thing given the need to be far away from city lights and air palution.
www.mtwilson.edu/building-the-100-inch-telescope/
I can't help but notice that your map of the PRC includes the island of Taiwan, which is not administered by the PRC and forms part of its own independent country.
Word of advice. Please make video graphics that better explain these complex distance and elevation changes along these water routes.
Useless without maps, one finally appears at the 12-minute mark
Good job as always. love your presentation. A little fed up with the content of your previous channel on politics. Love what you’re doing here
_"I've got a solution. Let's not move the people, let's move _*_an entire water system_*_ up north."_
A less disingenuous and ridiculous way of looking at it might be to say, "Let's not move *a billion people, their homes, workplaces and all other public infrastructure, abandoning centuries of work,* let's just pipe the water where we need it, since water is a fluid."
The dumbest thing about that comment is if China actually did try to move the ppl Simon would be here making the exact opposite comment but with the exact self righteous attitude.
> 45.4MW capacity
Just a few moments earlier...
> equipped with 23 pumping stations
So... We can generate electricity by using electricity?
I suppose it _does_ have the advantage of being an energy store so the pumps can be constantly working but the generators only need to kick in as demand requires, but that's a bit of an assumption on my part and the implication is that they'll be generating about 45MW, but spending at least that in pumping because what goes up must come down.