Inside CopenHill: The clean energy plant with its own ski slope | On Location
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- In Copenhagen, Denmark lies Amager Bakke, a unique power plant. Not only is it the world's cleanest waste-to-energy facility, it's also home to a man-made mountain called CopenHill with its own ski slope, the world's tallest climbing wall and challenging hiking trails up the building where you'll find the best views of Copenhagen.
Opened in October 2019, the building was designed Bjarke Ingels Group (aka BIG) with an aim to create a building that can "contribute positively to the city, become part of the city, and even to be a landmark of the capital". The plant serves 680,000 people and takes waste from up to 300 lorries each day. Its steam turbine produces 63MWh of energy, while its heat exchangers are used in a district heating system.
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I am an engineer, it really is a great project with a positive impact for the environment and the city. Knowing that Copinhill is leading the waste-to-energy transformation, in addition to the population go skiing, is impressive.
It is the efficient way of managing waste that cannot be recycled into energy, capturing greenhouse gases and emitting only steam into the environment. Greetings and congratulations from Huancayo Peru
this is the coolest idea ever and more cities should do it.
depends... you like skiing in nevada? :) haha jk
Why isn't the USA doing this?
@@internetisinteresting7720because the corporations hate the people and want to design buildings as miserable as possible
@@internetisinteresting7720 It is easier to just put waste in landfills, leaving it as gifts for future generations.
Creativity level: 100
Seriously, this gets me pumped up. I don't know how sustainable this idea is long-term but I'm gonna study this for my thesis!
good luck angel 🤗
How did it go?
How did it go?
How did it go?
How did it go?
I came here after seeing it on a Ford ad. I assumed it was CGI! What a great idea!
Me too!!
That’s why I looked this up, incredible
On a’’Ford as’’, how was Fords using this power station in Car ads?
Guys, YOU ARE GREAT PEOPLE!!! I wish in my Qazaq Eli, rich people and government will manage and spend money this projects in each cities, it will be big approval that we can save our lands from waists and build new level in our minds, to truly respect nature and spend for futures to our next generations, and teach good habits.
Amazing !!! I hope the US will follow Denmark's lead . SOON!!!!!!
I love* clean energy, their is lots of happiness and joy when it’s mentioned
How do you live it? 😂
@@Tafsern love* I’m sorry 😂😂😂
That is quite impressive. I would like to hike it, but I don't see myself visiting Denmark any time soon.
You should really go! The whole country is really awesome.
What if all theme parks committed to this philosophy? Space Mountain was fun. Trash Mountain could change the world ✌️❤️🎶
This something that needs to be done in the United States as well as other countries. We produce so much waste that's unrecyclable and send it to landfills then soon we are needing more landfill space after only a few short years. Even windmill blades are not recyclable and have to be shredded or burned. A power plant like this takes care of having to find more landfill space, produces energy in a much cleaner way and valuable land is saved for either farming, homes, industry or even just left alone for nature.
Very good convert waste to energy, it is the future and continuity of humanity. God bless
The Scandinavians speak very good English, their accent Is very clear unlike other Europeans...
Amazing building ever
Ford Puma commercial bring me here.
Class act man. World TAKE NOTE
Great project
every city should have this
great background music, my friend was sent out of class because of it
I can’t believe they actually built it
how much does it cost and how was it financed? Funny how this is the first question for some civil projects, but not others.
Pretty amazing and neat!😮
Awesome !
Climate change: Ade on the frontline brought me here. Stunning concept and beautiful structure
The Scandinavians and the Dutch always seen to be forward thinking and affluent. Why is it in the UK everything just seems stagnated. Or is it because of government interests that we remain the way we are?
That's because we pay a shitload of taxes in Denmark to be able to do these things, whereas most countries are running away from a high tax percentege.
@@marrydruli we pay shitload of taxes here also and only getting corrupt oligarchy in return.
Because Capitalism is king
This is exactly why I support Scottish independence. Scotland is very similar in size to Denmark, Norway, and Finland, and there definitely is political will for centre-left progressive politics which seems to be missing in England. Since our parliament was set up in 1999 we have copied Scandinavian land reform and freedom to roam legislation, eradicated knife crime and gang culture in Glasgow by treating it as a public health issue instead of a criminal issue. We have made university tuition free, copied Finland's baby box scheme, made period products free, 600 free hours of childcare, free prescriptions and hospital parking, free personal care, free bus travel for under 19s as well as pensioners, the Scottish child payment, 90% of our electricity from renewable sources and to pay for all this we have adopted a Danish style taxation system. Even today it has just been announced that our train operator, Scotrail will be nationalized. Independence is the next logical step in our quest to build the sort of country we want rather than continuing with the pathetic tory mess that we haven't voted for since 1955
@@dmreid9620 I best move to Scotland before the independence takes place. Lol.
You have almost changed my view on Scottish Independence.
😮 Can we bring this to Canada !!! And everywhere else
This architect is my new hero...
Why....? They’re all just plagiarising Hundertwasser and not showing him the credit and respect he thoroughly deserves.
Superman has left the building
I'm an Engineer and I deal with designing of thermal waste treatment plants. The Copenhagen Incinerator plant of ARC is one a case study about the failures because of ambitious oversized plant component which isn't economically viable. The dilemma is, that incinerator involve mostly Combustion of dry recyclables* and there's secondary fossil fuel input so to sustain the Combustion, thus it doesn't maintain the carbon neutral cycle and moreover, it's state of the art tech. For treating hazardous waste like the plastics from E waste and medical waste due to inhomogeneity although.
Our E waste is first collected, then sorted.... and then exported to 3rd world contryes where they burn it in open air. E waste should never leave Denmark or Germany in the first place.
The thing is though, every plant like this is its own prototype, and there will inevitably be something that doesn't work as planned.... but at the same time if you don't make a big leap once in a while, you will never have progress.
2:08 very misleading (intentionally or not) to say it only "emits clean air and water vapor" when it does emit large quantities of CO2 as well
I hope they keep to their word of installing a CO2 capture system by 2025.
@@Nearhi Unfortunately, carbon capture & storage is a very expensive process. First you need to capture the CO2 and liquefy it by compressing & cooling it (which is relatively easy, but requires a lot of energy).
Then you actually have to store the 131000 tons per year of liquified CO2 deep underground so it doesn't boil away. Liquid CO2 has a density of ~1.1 metric tons per cubic meter, and so this plant alone would require 119000 cubic meters of deep underground space every single year to operate. So for this idea to work, they would have to blast out a new massive ~50x50x50 meter chamber deep underground every single year. You only need to look at the cost of excavating modern metro stations (which are relatively close to the surface) to realize how impractical that would be.
I think carbon capture has some potential in places where there already are depleted natural gas wells (like the USA), as the already existing underground cavities can be used to store CO2 at a much, much more feasible price. But I doubt very much that they will ever manage to capture all the CO2 from this plant, let alone by 2025.
To me it would make much more sense to go for power generation methods that doesn't create CO2 in the first place.
John Smith Two words: CO2 scrubbing.
I think more so they're being scientific as he says it takes out the environmentally hazardous products. I'm sure there are likely still quantities of CO2 which naturally occurs however it's not as destructive to the environment and is at a safe level to be considered clean air just like liquid air is not 100% oxygen it has argon and nitrogen at safe enough levels to be combined. It's about reducing the levels compared to the alternative
You do know that "CO2" is part of "clean air", right?
Neat. How come America can't do that
American have better things to do like tik tok
Your too busy arguing 😊
America also has a ski resort in almost every state
Build this in NYC please
Amazing.
Great project👍
we need at least 20 of those buildings in İstanbul to build a sustainability in social life, I think it is a dream that could come true only if humanity reach the Mars😃😀😄Even its dream is great.
epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
incredible!
That's pretty cool, 😊
AMAZING
GREAT CONCEPT Thinking about something like that to solve Puerto Ricos energy crisis .
Excellent! But why is the steam wasted?
Wow!
Are they skiing on plastic astroturf?
creative one....
I’ve been following this forever. They never followed through with the ring design
I wanted to see the chimney with the steam ring.
I'm curious as to how the incinerator is powered. You can't just light a match and burn a lot of that waste. There must be some kind of fuel being used to fire the burners. Why no mention?
Chances are you start off with light stuff to get it super heated, and then work your way up to stuff that doesn't burn very well.
A bit of fossil fuel is added to get the fire started because it is so very big, however, as they say, the CO2 is trapped and doesn't enter the atmosphere.
It is actually too big - Copenhagen has to import trash from England to keep the plant going.
Keren, hebat banget teknologinya 👍👍👍
Why is everybody so obsessed with Elon musk and Jeff bezo.. this is what we should all be paying attention to!
This is like something out of science fiction
Insane
Someone know the name of the song in the back of the video ? I love it !
Veryyyyy cool
does anyone live in denmark ?
All citizens of Denmark were in this video
What do they do whit the ashes generated by the plant?
That looks cool, would love to visit...... But i bet it still stank lol
What do you have to study in college to create things like this???
What if you don't quite make the turn half way down the ski slope?🤔
There is ski nets catching you , at the end aswell. Like any selvrespecting skisort has aswell. So not a problem.
Plus a real wall aswell behind it, so it aint soft. But if the net should break when you run into it, you still stop.
But can you use also PV panels on the side?
You could! ...but Denmark is pretty dark and rainy in the winter...
Did he just say that steam runs the turbine 1:55
It runs a turbine, but they showed a windmill when they said that. That was misleading. It doesn't turn the turbine in the windmill, it turns a turbine built into the generator.
@@Nearhi Yeah, a Dutch engineer wouldn't make such a colossal blunder. The video editing team @ Wired should be rewired.
@@Bionik1980 You mean a Danish Engineer :)
Bionik1980 Dutch ≠ Danish
Nice😍😍
Hello! i major in architecture in southkorea!!
I want to use this video clips for making educational architecture contents in korea. Can i use this?? :)
yea sure go for it
@@IIISentorIII 😂😂😂
Where’s the rings of steam?
Minas Tirith (Gondor) with Frodo right now
Cool concept! Foreground music highly annoying
1:11 "Here we produce so much energy that we are able to make 19 Olympic-size swimming pools boil from 0 to 100 degrees, everyday...and that's what we do with the energy, it amuses us."
1:57 lol! Wrong turbine, video editor...
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what about the co2 and other gases from burning
They have been making the “its only steam” argument to coal, oil, “natural” gas, and various refineries and other plants related to oil and manufacturing. It’s always more complicated than “just steam”
This is a four-minute video.
@@ScreamingScallop The video being short doesn't justify them "forgetting" to mention that it releases 131000 metric tons of CO2 per year (equivalent to ~28000 cars).
@@CandyHawk0 Oh, well then, let's just stick with coal and nuclear. The waste from nuke plants will be someone else's problem! Al Gore uses a plane and lives in a house! /sarcasm
@@ScreamingScallop I am very much against coal and all fossil fuel burning power sources, including just burning trash instead of making an effert to recycle all of it. Nuclear, on the other hand, does not release any CO2 or other toxic gases. The waste is dangerous if not stored properly, but with modern generation 4 reactors it is only dangerous for a few centuries (and currently existing waste can be used as fuel). Considering our other options are to either 1) not have electricity and return to the stone age or 2) suffer the consequences of a worst-case climate scenario, I think nuclear sounds pretty ok, especially with next gen tech.
@@CandyHawk0 What about wind, solar, and dams?
cool
The waste burning emits CO2, nice omission from the video.
what happens with the co2?
See here: www.a-r-c.dk/amager-bakke#r%C3%B8grensning
It's in Danish, but Google translate works fine.
Some CO2 is produced of course because something is being burnt. In general waste to energy plants have far lower CO2 per tonne than burning gas or goal. See here: waste-management-world.com/a/waste-to-energy-the-carbon-perspective
The CO2 is released into the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming, just like any other fuel-burning power plant.
Helps the planet getting warmer and more cozy
Curiously people never ask this about gases produced by landfills, which are actually worse than modern incineration plants. But yeah, like John Smith correctly said the CO2 goes into the atmosphere. We can all help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases released by reducing our trash production.
@@ψιλόςκύβη But how about a new iPhone every year? A new TV every 2 years? Starbucks cups with that written name? What will define those people then, make them special?..
if you think about it, pyramids were kind of artificial hills. So with modern technology we could build a giant artificial hill like 20 km high with a very stable design
lol
how they handle the smells? I don't get that...
It burns at such a high temperature and the scrubbers make sure of it dosent smell
But what happens with the dangerous "waste"?
The waste is water and oxygen :)
I feel like it would be slippery with normal shoes
The building is quite extraordinary. However, what I can't wrap my mind around is people skiing on green grass.
it’s neveplast
What's funny is the incinerator and generator was designed and invented in England. Also England pays Denmark to take our rubbish too.
Hundertwasser was way ahead of his time and everyone should know his name!
what if America did something like this but it was a public swimming pool that was heated by burning trash and whatever happens is between...
Jknews anyone?
Okay okay okay, but does it smell bad there?
xxxx85. No it does not
The highly-repetitive electronic background "muzak" is irritating and unnecessary.
what music is this in the background
it's background music.
your welcome.
is art
1:13 - 2:15
Of course it already has many Strava segments LOL.
👍
Why would they boil all those olympic pools? :sad:
Ratatatatatata
Lol! Maybe they do it once a year for a massive clambake, but the rest of the time they heat an equivalent amount of water that is pumped away for district heating and the rest to power turbines used for electricity generation.
It actually stinky there
"And that steam runs the turbine" not bloody likely! The turbine shown is a wind turbine and has nothing to do with the rubbish burning system. Do your homework!
indo cuma melongo
Meanwhile, Merica.
They clean chemicals/Toxins from the Chimneys, what I would like to know it what happens to the highly toxic Filters? Burning rubbish is not a solution, and could encourage more single use plastic packaging to be used, as people have an excuse to carry on using it, thinking they are helping with ‘Green’ electricity.
In Denmark we only burn what cannot be recycled. We have dumpsters for glass/metal/hard plastic (including meat and most other plastic containers), paper, organic material and one for the leftovers, only the leftovers will be burned.
Further more, many major factories in Denmark are currently taking steps to use biogas (from the recycled organic materials) and re-use the heat they are producing, to heat up local households.
About the toxic filters, I don't know the answer. But i bet it's handled in a better way than just letting it out and polluting the air.
This is the best done waste-to-energy plant I am aware of, however, waste-to energy is a very bad idea, overall.
They are clear that they have scrubbed the air, but speak not at all about the concentrations of toxins that will be in the ash, or of the ash itself. They mention the vast number of trucks moving the waste to the plant, but do not mention the emissions from that trucking, or the impacts on neighborhoods of that transportation.
Waste-to-Energy should be a last resort, very last. Too many people and governments see this as a fix-all for our energy problems and for sustainability, but it is just a more sophisticated way of throwing value "away" and acting like we meant it from the start, and are masters of our own mistakes. We did not and we are not.
We can benefit so much more from material management, and we are creating HUGE risks in consolidating so many materials, including chemical compositions, into ash...
The waste that is burned is the left-over waste AFTER recycling.
Over 3/4 of all waste in Denmark is recycled, and Denmark has to import wast from England to keep the plant going.
The problem is that a lot of waste CAN'T be recycled. If you landfill organic waste it decomposes and traps CO2, whereas if you burn it it becomes heat and hot-water and you can filter out the CO2. That also had the added effect of not having to burn fossil fuel to create heat and hot water. win-win.
As for the trucks etc, it's kin of a self-defeating point. Is the logic that unless every single part of a process can be 100% clean we souldn't bother doing anything? The powerplant doesn't produce trucks - it produces power.
It's quite misleading . By giving half information . And that windmill instead of turbine .....wtf
Look up what a turbine is.
Lots of white people there not much diversity.