Why Europe is Building into The North Sea
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- This is how you build an energy island.
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Please do a video about if geothermal will be increasing its contribution in Europe or the world
Best beer comes from Bavaria!
Need part 2 and explain how that actually works
Simon Stevin did a lot more than just invent the decimal points, and his name is more appropriate for this project than almost every other name they could think of. He was among other things also a great and VERY famous civil engineer in the low lands.
He made HUGE contributions to both mathematics, physics and engineering. Famous for his designs of fortresses, windmills, HARBOURS and also modernizing the dutch army led by Willem van Oranje. In the Netherlands he is just as famous as all the other greats in science!
And ironically, he actually didn't invent the decimal system nor the decimal notation we use today. He basically wrote a Dutch text about decimals based on obscure Greek and Latin translations of Arabic manuscripts. As for the notation, a small vertical line similar to a comma had been used by Arab and Persian mathematicians for a century, perfectly readable and useable, but this guy came up with a horrible one that looked like this: 3⓪1①4②1③5④9⑤2⑥7. Brilliant guy, but I don't know why Fred zeroed in on his work on decimals.
I've still got no clue on how the energy island actually functions. Seems like we got half the amount of information we need to paint a picture.
I imagine it allows for machinery to allow the electricity to flow further than any one wind turbine could allow. Turning up the pressure in the pipe, if you will.
@@redstonerelicthat's correct, but the how and why would have been nice for people that don't know that.
Yup. I think the B1M has become less technical over the years, to appeal to a wider audience. Fair enough, but I think it you're nerdy enough to be here, you can cope with a bit more detail on electricity transmission.
Same here.
It's an electric transformer: it raises the relatively low-voltage electricity from the turbines to high voltage. It needs to be close to the wind turbines because transmitting low-voltage electricity over long distances is inefficient.
As someone who has lived in Belgium, 2024 is incredibly optimistic. Projects are often slow moving.
Specifically with all those farmers and landowners in the way.
I live in Belgium like 5 min minutes away from the North Sea
Thank you for making a video about my country. Hopefully no delays with this project.
you know it's belguim where going have delays form NIMBY's and politics
@@alexanderangryboy Who lives in the backyard of that energy island in the North Sea?
Groundhogs day is one of those timeless classics.
I've been following since the first video on this channel. And when you guys make so much great content it's hard to remember a great video besides the previous one.
This is a great project hopefully more of these will go up where they fit geographically.
If the construction of this Island is as fast as the Ghent railway station, we might eventually be the 37th island in the world by 2073 :p
This video seems to be missing a lot of information - especially the 'why' and the systems that will go onto the island.
I always learn something from your videos.
Awesome to see a video about my country!
(King Felipe made me chuckle)
Me living in Belgium and learning about this now
These building blocks remind me of updated versions of the Mulberries used in the early days of the D-Day invasion. Better tech and more time to make them more stable, I would think.
Exactly M8 they are, I believe Engineers and architects often look at history and see what good idea's they came up with. And two Mulberry harbours were intitially constructed and towed across the channel only for one to get damaged in a storm, but they did what they were constricted to do
I can't believe I didn't know this channel existed: forward-looking "what's next" projects are my favourite part of B1M. You could probably do more cross-promotion, eg the occassional mention in the video outro
It better be ready in time. From 2026 ICE cars are no longer tax deductable in Belgium. There are around 600,00 company cars in Belgium. If all these cars are to be electric, you need a lot of electricity.
Thank you for making a video about my country. Hopefully no delays with this project.
I believe It’s a docking hub for supertankers and undersea cable connections hub. Basically a floating distribution centre (like a giant oil rig type construction on legs). Will serve as a base for servicing sea based wind turbines and there will be numerous ones in various North Sea locations.
I think a circular design would disperse the sea's energy better.
If each identical section is shaped like stones in an archway the more force the Sea applies the stronger the circumference is.
And you could still use a production line to build it so costs would be similar.
Just needed the engineers to try and think outside that box.
That isnt really relevant because the island will have soil as counterpressure.
@@ManderSeis It is relevant because in time the water will get behind the wall and then the soil will wash out. Seen it on so many concrete sea walls. Just because it looks like a lot of weight and volume to a human does not mean backfill soil is strong. The sea has relentless mass and time on its side.
@@artofdrifting yeah I think the engineers working on this know what they are doing. Stay in school kid.
You are not wrong on the basic premise, it’s just not that big of a problem in this instance.
@@disklamer
Time will tell.
Greece also has an energy island, called Revythousa.
Great project and presentation but still since the first video i dont understand why its needed to be an island? Its a ton of concrete which is propably one of the biggest climate killers and from the animations i would think the island need to be running for s few years to just offset the carbon footprint from the constriction. So why not just use existing islands or build it on the landside doesnt make much sense to me. Even a swimming construction or more like a oil rig which has just a few points which touch the sea bed. Woould be great if you could explain those factors or the necessity to make such a big concrete structure. Great videos keep going
as a belgian, I have never heared off this very interesting project.
I once saw a proposition for this, but didnt know they would actually do it.
Expect it to be done in 2030, 5 times over budget :p
Wow the umbrella doing something outside the box🌂☂️☔🧐
As usual, a very enjoyable video 👍
Isn't 45km offshore considered international waters?
_Arrr!_ 🏴☠
Yes, but it's still well inside a nation's EEZ (112km) so the nation can build what it likes and take what resources it likes, it just can't keep international traffic out.
It seems a very expensive and environmentally damaging way of setting up what is (as far as I can tell) the renewables equivalent of an oil rig.
Will they use Sahara sand?
The Danish island will take more time, because it’s much bigger, and will be used for research and a possible fuel hub for hydrogen powered ships. I think they will be working with creating ammonia as well, but don’t quote me on that.
What’s on the sea bed, that will be destroyed by this construction? The Channel is a very busy shipping lane. What preparations are made for an inevitable sometime collision?
My thing is. I am all for renewable energy. But what happens when the wind mills get to old? Are you judt going to leave them like i have seen many others do? How is this going to affect the ecosystem in the area?
the blades will need replacing before the main structure, so after the first 20 or so years they could just replace the blades, likely with newer designs, as both drones and boats have benefited GREATLY from new blade designs, I can't help but wonder with future meta materials brought on with AI and advanced construction techniques that we'll have significantly better ways to capture wind in the future. They wouldn't let them age out and crumble though - they're key elements of today's infrastructure so losing them would be terrible unless we manage to crack fusion or something else equally game changing, and the energy from wind is somehow obsoleted, though I find that being pretty slim.
@@Fenthule i hope they do what you say. But i have family in canada that had to give some of their land to the government for these things and 20 years later the government has left it there to continue being an eye soar, and kill birds.
The farms built now are usually located at the best locations to do so. So I would think it to be unlikely for them to abandon old wind mills there. Take them down and build new ones, sure
This would be a awesome build to film on site during construction. If you could get the permissions
It's nice to see actual football pitches used to express the size of something big!
Thanks for the content.
seems like i'm an undersea cable now, nice 6:00
The caissons are not a new idea, if we remember back to WW2 and those Mulberry harbours that the allies used on D-Day. I wonder if they got their idea from that??
So, where are all of the whacky environmentalists on this issue of an "energy island"? One would think that they'd be decrying the loss of sea floor habitat, etc.
Ah yes, those wacky environmentalists trying to save us from climate change, air pollution and ecosystem collapse...
Some environmentalists are dogma driven, others are reality driven. Same as anywhere else. Generally, most know that losing a few hectares here and there far out in the North Sea are worth it to get us off fossil fuels - and dependence on regimes like those in Russia and Saudi Arabia - while maintaining a high standard of living.
I work in environmental science and youre right that this build has impact on the ecosystem. But the same people that work on making sure that offshore wind parks etc dont disturb the environment too much are probably also working on this. Would be interesting to know more about that tho. Its Belgium so they have to have biologists etc working with them on all of it so i wouldnt worry too much.
But why exactly do we need islands for that and don’t do it at the coast/ very close to the coast?
Environmental reasons since coastal regions are more active regarding animals etc?
Nice how you put Slovenian parlament building in. 6:28 🙃
super cool that I have done some work on this project
Now I know what is an energy island. but not why is an energy island. Wind parks already have offshore high voltage substations right? what makes this different, it does make it more complex, but I cant figure out why.
Yeah, have fun being on that island during a north sea storm. I don't know how high they plan to make those walls but I am kind of skeptical that they can stop the really high waves during big storms.
Thanks for the video!
Looks very similar to the Phoenix breakwaters that were used to build the Mulberry Harbours June 1944.
4:22 Actually Simon Stevin wasn't the inventor of the decimal notation we now use, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was. He wasn't even the first to use decimals (powers of 1/10). As usual in European mathematics, an Arab or Persian did it first and Stevin just introduced their thinking to a broader audience by writing Dutch instead of the Latin or Greek that Arabic and Persian texts were usually translated into. But Stevin's notation, inscribing the exponents of each decimal place value within circles next to their corresponding values, was a trash fire and was quickly replaced by Pitiscus's decimal point notation.
Very interesting!
The future is land recovery from the sea.
At the expense of losing sea front land when water levels rise due to water displacement from every artificial island that is built!
why not install off shore nuclear power stations?
Amatures. Its so smal. If you want to know about building in the north sea you sould look @ de maasvlakte and its extention maasvlakte 2 . the poort of rotterdam build a enormus harbor in the north sea. On top of that they also build 416 GW of wind power and build a giant windmill assembly plant .
How is the “up time” and efficiency on these open ocean bird choppers? More efficient and effective than natural gas? What do Europeans do with the blades at the end of their lifespan? In the US we stack them up in fields hoping that one day someone will come up with an effective means of recycling/reusing them.
Could I make three points: (1) on-land wind generation is a lot cheaper/faster to create than off-shore power. (2) These "power-islands" create single massive points of failure while distributed systems, like those on land, are more resilient, in the way that the distributed nature of the internet was designed to survive massive nuclear attacks. We need to bear this in mind when we consider the dangers of some state actors, for example Russia/China and recent wars. (3) These huge schemes cement in only big players having funding, and therefore control over energy production keeping ordinary people out of the loop and money flowing to wealth.
Which company's are building the energy island and with what materials?
Lego is. They're using very large plastic blocks. If you watch the video closely, you can see how they'll snap the blocks together. Fascinating stuff...
I love this channel. Very interesting and I always learn something
What is the environmental cost of building these islands?
In the middle of the busiest sea lane on the planet? I hope they succeed and there're no misshaps after it's built!
I'm nervous about relying on offshore generation. All those cables make for juicy targets for Russian or even Chinese submarines; leaving us very vulnerable.
American subs is mabey a better answer!!!
And Martians. Be scared, be very scared. Run away and hide!
By 2030 Russia will be neutralised and China will never be our enemy unless the US are stupid enough to keep poking it.
The better way is by using thr land in better manner like double use of land and better construction technologies. These will require fraction of the upfront costs when compared to floating cities.
This is near the area in the North Sea for the North Sea Airport. A 24x7x365 airport with 24 north/south and 24 east/west runways on the top.
The Terminals along the northern edge with short stay hotels and eateries. Airport cities on the Seas that can operate 24 hours per day for both passengers and Freight.
Below the runway level is where all the airport 'functionality' equipment and services for staff, passengers, and freight.
The NSA will have dozens of platforms for 400m high speed trains that travel in tunnels to deliver passengers and freight to and from a 1000km radius at a speed of 400kph. This would eliminate all airports from Glasgow/Edinburgh/Dublin/Belfast/Paris/Lyon/Frankfurt/Copenhagen/Malmo etc...
Everything within the 1000+km radius would fly in and out of NSA.
The flights would be between the four airports in western Europe.
NorthSea, West MedSea (off shore south France), East MedSea, and Baltic Sea Airport. All being off shore. All having HSR LGVs at 400kph. Anyone within the radius would travel by train to their nearest and then fly to one of the other three as well as to other Global Airports.
There should be no need for airports within these airport service zones as all intercity/interregional/etc would be by actual HSR/LGVs.
nah pass
sooo we have a mexican king now? guess with all the stuff passing through antwerp it kinda fits
6:27 Ah yes, because no competition always leads to new innovation.
It does though. It's a myth that you need competition to have innovation. There are endless examples that disprove it. Look at CERN.
The uk has 26 gw already from offshore wind.
Great video, really cool projects that makes so much sense for the offshore windfarm concept, and sharing electricity between countries. I do find it misleading that you are using a picture of a nuclear powerplant at 6:23 and saying: helping everyone move away from fossil fuels. This could have been picture better in your video.
I believe that that is actually the coal-fired Sofia Iztok Power Plant.
@@TheMedievalArcher I see, I was not aware that this powerplant, did have cooling towers. I must therefore ask to be excused.
@@nielsfs A lot of fossil fueled powerplants have cooling towers. Most, in fact.
Does the energy used on construction somehow stored in the island to be transmitted back to where it was built???
Yes, they put it into little boxes and float them to market.
Nice video TM, but you left out the disputed Ventilus project that will bring that energy to and across the land as people are not so happy with 380kV above their heads. Also, we don't have a Spanish king, but thanks for trying 😉
Gee, you mean like every other modern nation? It could be buried, but the cost would go up dramatically.
As a dutchman whose birthplace was on the maps shown, I'm happy for Belgium getting this and whatnot, but I do kinda want slap our government for not being first with this. There better be a lot of dutch companies involved and/or we'd better end up with the biggest and best energy island in the North Sea or I shall personally harrumph at the state of our nation
Four megatons? A drop in the ocean.
Can I live on it and be it's caretaker/technician or whatever please.
your show is too short to have 2 commercials !
I wonder how such a small nation grew so rich and advanced...
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein... small is best.
Colonization
@@anonymousinfinido2540 Yeah I'm pretty sure King Leopold and friends stole most of that.
@@at0mly hmm yup
@@at0mly Belgium was already rich before that tho.
I don't get it. They act as relays? What do they actually do?
As a place to put transformers
There will be produced hydrogen, when the windmills produce more energy than what the grid needs.
Maybe eventually for hydrogen production yes, but mainly to transform the electricity to extremely high DC voltage, to make transport more efficient.
And easier to connect wind farms to it. Otherwise those wind farm developers would need to arrange a cable network to the coast for each farm individually and deal with the legal hassles that causes. Here you just have the cable to the island and the connection from the island to the mainland is already there. Similar setup as is already in place on land, but is missing on the sea
The connections to the other energy islands are a nice bonus for providing an additional route to distribute surplus energy among countries.
What will be the purpose of this Island? You forgot to tell. I have understood that the windmills transform solar-energy, captured in windpressure, that makes the blades rotate, and then transform it with the help of magnetes in de dynamo into electricity. That's what we wanted.
Then you only need a cable to connect it with the users. The whole island is useless. Correct me if I'm wrong.
By the way people can not create Energy. Newton's 1st law. They only can transform it or transport it by means of pieces of glowing coal, and dutch: glowing dry "tondelzwam", batteries, accu's or even H2 (rather dangerous (zepplin Hindenburg), expensive (the circus around it, is produced using fosil fuels, like this island of yours.
best beer? thats a joke LMAO
german american here
Anyone with American blood wouldn't recognise a real beer if it poked them in the eye, and even German blood can't offset such a handicap. Soz 🤣
You have to wonder WHY is the sea level rising as numerous countries including ironically Pacific Islands are filling the ocean with soil thus the sea water displaced MUST go somewhere. Where you ask well UP it is not climate increasing the sea level but humans. Did the International Community demand that an Environmental Study including effects was submitted for this project.
Ik wist niet dat we een beroemde wiskundige hadden in ons land.
So it's like a big floating sub station with some solar panels on it? What's wrong with our seafloor cables?
I don't feel particularly inspired by this. Looks like it'll cost a bomb and cause a load of emissions. The benefit of it wasn't explained at all
"energy island"
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"Island energy"?
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What about the ecological destruction caused when building this project?
And Belgium shutting down their nuclear power plants. What a good example of energy :P
As someone who thinks nuclear power is a great source of electricity, our current nuclear power plants are just too old to continue operating. The current plans are basically to keep them operating as long as deemed safe by the operators. New nuclear power plants take too long to build sadly, so solutions that can be constructed faster like wind turbines are needed.
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The continentals use a decimal comma, not a point.
Fred, I love your videos but please do not take shortcuts next time because now I think I will question your other videos:
00:05 The European Union building you pictured is literally the only one NOT in Belgium
02:19 King Felipe is the King of Spain. It is King Philippe (or Filip), pronounced the same way as your dead king.
04:30 Simon Stevin might have invented the decimal point. But he was a MASTER in hydraulic engineering... WINDMILLS hint hint*** I am also not sure if "Belgian" is applicable since the country didn't exist back then so Flemish or Dutch would be more fitting. But his "nationality" is not that important, just putting it out there.
Kind of like new generation oil rigs.
I'm a little concerned about a remote island having such an important role in European energy. We've seen Russia increase its capabilities to disrupt and destroy European offshore pipelines and energy infrastructure and this just seems like another risky venture.
It would need missile defense capabilities
I don't see the difference with any other piece of infrastructure. They are all vulnerable and need proper protection.
I think it means security will be tight so that’s a good thing
Russia needs to go.
The US Gov't destroyed the pipeline
Efficiently power Island and most easiest for enemy target
Yes, those pesky Martians are watching it closely.
First: it's King Filip not Félipé! He's Belgian not Spanish! Second: I expected a more in depth approach for this video. How does this energy island exactly work? Why is there a need to build an energy island and why can't this be build on land? How will it be connected to land? A lot of unanswered questions!
Built on Doggerland
No.. That's further North.
If you look closely, you can see Lebron traveled.
The Dogger banks are getting repopulated ten thousand years after the flood.
Come on, this channel is better than measuring things in football pitches. You can do better than that.
The energy they take from the wind is lowering the winds force and cooling effects 🧐🤓😎😲 global what now?
That's a new one. LMAO!
Jend. Sam Ardi Bolkiah Abdurrahman Anggara, Guam( irian dar'es salam) country situs Ibrahim...
why not put everything on an oil rig?
Far too heavy, this will basically be an island of huge transformers.
what does it do???????
Need higher walls. We all know sea levels are going to rise 2mtrs
Based
great video 🙌 would have also been helpful if you said how many millions of tons of C02 / emissions goes into creating this floating concrete Island, and how much sea life is decimated in the process
....add to that the navigation hazards of 10x windmills and their impacts on the ecology.
Where is the reference to our greatest invention yet ?
Fries
And also our king’s name is pronounczd Philip not Philippé
Missed the "extremely clever" part.
Imagine thinking this is better than nuclear.
So the island is built pretty much like the Dutch built the Delta works in the 1980’s. Pfff, never been done!
Meanwhile in USA we burn books, deny women autonomy of their bodies and build next generation nuclear doomsday bombs.
I'm surprised they can build it without cheap Russian natural gas