I don't think I've ever said wow so many times watching anything ever. That was mind blowing! Plus I never heard of "lignite" lol So yeah ever bit of this was new to me and I loved watching and learned something new today! Thank you...
OK I knew this mine was huge but @ 30:23 when you see the surveyers I could not find the proper word in the dictionary to describe just how big this mine is.
Amazing machines and i have always loved WELT dokus! As cool as these machines are i still wish Germany wouldn't have stopped their Nuclear Powerplants or at least to start making new ones such as SMRs.
Seeing as football pitches is a common standard of size measurement and that they are not square, saying 5 football pitches would fit under it is ambiguous!
I'm sorry but that job sitting in that shaking cabin pressing green and red buttons does not seem like a enjoyable position. Rather drive the trucks or work on the conveyor.
It might be but it doesn’t offer the same capacity factor and reliability that a coal or gas plant does which is why they are inconsequentially mutual partners in delivering constant and reliable power throughout the year.
@@ProfTydrim do you think the renewables could support all of the energy demands? Heck, Germany even want to import natural gas from Russia because of this. Not so renewable if you ask me.
@@niklasmorningstar4301 because the renewable energy supply isn’t that high at the moment we already started to heavily invest into renewable‘s all over the country but it will take dacades to finish and „if“ we get a new leading party that actually cares about the environment this will be done much faster but i don’t think this will change this country or to be clear the east loves its coal to much and they try to defend it in any matter
@@niklasmorningstar4301 and if you think there’s not enough capacity well some scientists made a study about how much space you would need to fill with solar panels to produce enough energy for the entire planet and the answer is the Space of spain about 500.000km2 which could fit 18times into the sahara as you see there is more than enough space and energy to even sustain our whole planet with just one renewable energy. Well ofc thats really really expensive and probably will never happen but it’s possible
"Glorious Leader! The War is lost, We cannot let our technologies fall into the hands of the enemy! Where can we hide our mighty Gustav Gun?" Glorious Leader:
To repeat what another poster said, super green Germany can call it lignite all they want, it’s still coal for electricity generation, lol. HoW DaRe YoU! But great documentary.
i dont know what you are on about with lignite. thats the english term used and in germany it is not used. it is instead called brown coal, though according to english wikipedia its also often called brown coal, so maybe lignite is more of an english technical term.
Hi ... You have to learn German well and do an apprenticeship. The job is definitely fascinating. The coal is mined about 100 miles southeast of Berlin and west of Cologne. During the GDR era there were 34 opencast mines with a capacity of around 300 million tons per year. The conveyor bridge was built in the GDR and is still working. Made in East-Germay ☺ Over 100,000 people in Germany had to leave their homes because their villages were being demolished ...
@@kristoffer3000 Are you volunteering to have the waste from this "cleanest Form of Power Generation" stored in your Home for the next hundred millenia? I agree we should've opted out of fossil fuels before nuclear, but it is clear that we need to get rid of both eventually
@@ProfTydrim Nice of you to strawman like that, just give up, you've already lost the argument. Storage isn't a problem and it's much less of a problem with newer kinds of plants that leave much less waste and can even recycle waste from other plants, that's what they do in France to great success.
@@kristoffer3000 I didn't strawman. As a Geoscientist I'm just reminding you that storage is a huge Problem, no matter the efficiency of the plant. If not for you and me or our children, certainly for the next thousand Generations. In the short term we should've gotten rid of coal before nuclear tho
Nobody should be proud or happy to see those excavators working. Lignite coal is the worst of the worst. Shameful Germany allows these mines to still operate
@Eric Liu Those machines will never leave that site - they'll be scrapped like all the other large mining machines - they'll use explosives to demo the gantries and then cut them up and make toasters out the scrap.
Seán O'Nilbud too bad they cannot find a way to harness your ignorance as energy - then they would have all the MWs they need without mining any coal! Oh well - what a waste of your mind space!
Yada yada yada. And when resources run out and this planet is half destroyed... what do we do? Yada yada yada, talk about greed while we are heading towards doomsday.
@@billybobsowbreath1774 You mean, Gina Rinehart? Eat eat eat till she blows up, while the country is full of holes. Greta Thunberg is not the only activist who cares, just because she is a known figure. What I don't get is, the hypocritical Government. Gina Rinehart is allowed to excavate massive holes in mining but a man and his small, portable 3 inch venturi nozzle dredge is not allowed to find gold in rivers which causes very little silt due to a gravel and rocky bottom and not a muddy bottom. How is that for hypocrites?
@@44pilot Says Joe, the person who doesn't think about the future. Why? Because people who talk like Joe and calls others dumb are people who don't think, couldn't careless about the state this planet is in. Why (again)? Because people like Joe have mashed potatoes or scrambled eggs as brains. That's why. It's always for and against when it comes to debating on environmental issues, even though it is well known by environmentalists and scientists that at the rate we destroy the planet, we could put our lives and that of animals at the risk of extinction. But, talk and talk, do my part in helping Earth, only to be called dumb. Yep, that's right, dumb. When the very idiots who call people dumb are in trouble, e.g. floods, tornadoes, disasters, etc., they wished the very 'dumb' would be helping them with thank you thank you. A bit like the 'boy who cried wolf'. But, shh, 🤫 I am dumb for now.
There must be some serious issues with health and safety around that control cabin betcha they run super slow when OHS are there...and serious trucks have air seats why would the cabin not be on a cushion or similar. That or this guy is an actual robot. LOL at the end part, you basically mean you planted trees and moved animals so you could make money after, i understand the logic but the process alone of removing dirt changes the enviroment
mengeruk bumi merusak alam untuk sebuat perut akan ada masanya kalian dilahap telan inti bumidredging the earth destroys nature for a stomach and money there will be a time when you are devoured by the core of the earth, really very concerned
All thanks to the Jews peoples suffering but a forced labour to bring about the progress of humanity was changed and improved upon; less not forget, this is a labour of the past
try replacing this thing with some windmills and solar panels, sorry, not going to work. This good machine is helping to replace the CO2 that has been lost from our atmosphere and is helping to green the planet with new plant life that requires CO2 to photosynthesize.
The sheer weight and size of the machines is just mind boggling. So interesting to watch, we all really appreciate these uploads.
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This is a great youtube channel. Remind's me of what the Discovery Channel use to be...
reminds, used
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Germany has some of the coolest machines I have ever seen!! They have a machine for everything.
They are engineers of excellence
Amazing documentary and engineering.
I don't think I've ever said wow so many times watching anything ever. That was mind blowing! Plus I never heard of "lignite" lol
So yeah ever bit of this was new to me and I loved watching and learned something new today! Thank you...
Watching This is a blessing as Mechanical engineer.
Imagine LEGO making this into a real set~ XD
I'm sure if someone drew up the blueprints they would make it happen.
Thank you very much, I used these information for my thesis. You are great.
Stunningly fascinating !!!!
The machines that shift the tracks around are crazy!
Ya. Good show!!!!
An amazing refurbishment!!!
Awesome vid!
Nice greenery there with all that co2
Ja, if only the coal energy was cleanly converted to plant food without poisoning us with sulfur and nitrogen smog
fun fact you can tour one of these, its an old decommissioned one but with some maintainance still fully operable
This docu-series or whatever it's called (Sorry, I'm American) is awesome. It's definitely as good as Modern Marvels.
so the major issue of discussion at the coal miners union hall - are the operator's chairs adequately and comfortably cushioned
And here I'm thinking that an IKEA wardrobe was the most complicated thing to assemble that I have ever seen.
Lol.
MINDE BLOWING work
this is the meaning of mechanical...... unbelievable
Very, very fascinating !!! 👍🏽👏🏼
Impressive
Parker Schnabel's new digger for over burden as seen on the next season of Gold Rush
This machine was built in the GDR. It must be enormous. Although I live in East Germany, I have not yet seen this machine in real life.
Holy shit, imagine being a professional train drifter
If only we could bring ourselves out of the ice age cleanly through burning the carboniferous, our ancestors greatest dream of a green world restored
This machine is gigantic but brown coal is the dirtiest material to produce electricity.
Great presentation!!! I wonder what our next approach on making electric is....any ideas yet ?
15:00 Power plant or Skynet Central?
OK I knew this mine was huge but @ 30:23 when you see the surveyers I could not find the proper word in the dictionary to describe just how big this mine is.
It is definitly an example of what "german engineering" meant before it became synonymous with f-ing up an airport for one and a half decades :D
@04U2C
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i love this channel
6:28 - what is sucker field?
@Reaktro what's the difference?
Amazing machines and i have always loved WELT dokus!
As cool as these machines are i still wish Germany wouldn't have stopped their Nuclear Powerplants or at least to start making new ones such as SMRs.
me as a german i wish that to0....but we have a left green government and that meens we are going down...
@@diesunddas93 accurate
Ammazing.. Gretta iceburg should be made watch.
SMRs are too affordable *not* to use.
Take a shot every time someone says "overburden".
Makes Australian power systems look a joke
24:36 the backgroud music sounds very familiar with our traditional song.
Quite the machinery!
All of them were built in the GDR. The last one -- the fifth -- was started in the GDR and finished just after reunification.
a jumbo jet can fly yet is still used as a standard to describe something very heavy ...
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I like this big machines
Great video, I enjoyed it. Although I wonder why Germany is abandoning nuclear power, though it has its risks. It's way cleaner and more sustainable.
Because of the so called "Green party"
Nuclear power is the safest, cleanest and most reliable form of electrical production we have.
Seeing as football pitches is a common standard of size measurement and that they are not square, saying 5 football pitches would fit under it is ambiguous!
how long is the shift
All this so we get power, so we can watch RUclips videos on how to repair the mining machines, that extract lignite to be burned, to create power..
29:07 captain Ramius has entered the chat
Lignite is fancy term for low grade brown COAL
Lmao
In Germany, only the word brown coal is used.
This music is horrible stressful
Really amazing.. the great Germany
I'm sorry but that job sitting in that shaking cabin pressing green and red buttons does not seem like a enjoyable position. Rather drive the trucks or work on the conveyor.
in my younger days i worked in marine construction. trust me - its quite a thrill to be in charge of the biggest tonka toys in the world.
Would solar would be cheaper at this point?
Hahahahaha
It might be but it doesn’t offer the same capacity factor and reliability that a coal or gas plant does which is why they are inconsequentially mutual partners in delivering constant and reliable power throughout the year.
@@KevinBuehling
That is absolutely right! 👍
Someday, they gonna have to go Nuclear Power once coal is long gone.
We phased out nuclear. We phase out coal as well. We switch to renewables
@@ProfTydrim do you think the renewables could support all of the energy demands? Heck, Germany even want to import natural gas from Russia because of this. Not so renewable if you ask me.
@@niklasmorningstar4301 because the renewable energy supply isn’t that high at the moment we already started to heavily invest into renewable‘s all over the country but it will take dacades to finish and „if“ we get a new leading party that actually cares about the environment this will be done much faster but i don’t think this will change this country or to be clear the east loves its coal to much and they try to defend it in any matter
@@niklasmorningstar4301 and if you think there’s not enough capacity well some scientists made a study about how much space you would need to fill with solar panels to produce enough energy for the entire planet and the answer is the Space of spain about 500.000km2 which could fit 18times into the sahara as you see there is more than enough space and energy to even sustain our whole planet with just one renewable energy. Well ofc thats really really expensive and probably will never happen but it’s possible
@@Ashwey_069 You're forgetting to mention the need for storage and that you can't just stick everything in one spot.
"Glorious Leader! The War is lost, We cannot let our technologies fall into the hands of the enemy! Where can we hide our mighty Gustav Gun?"
Glorious Leader:
1080p never looked so pixelated
To repeat what another poster said, super green Germany can call it lignite all they want, it’s still coal for electricity generation, lol. HoW DaRe YoU!
But great documentary.
i dont know what you are on about with lignite. thats the english term used and in germany it is not used. it is instead called brown coal, though according to english wikipedia its also often called brown coal, so maybe lignite is more of an english technical term.
As a German I am not really familiar with the word lignite.
In Germany, only the word brown coal is used.
hmmmm hearing the word strip mining makes me think about minecraft strip mining
Watching this video made me want to dig a massive hole in minecraft lol.
stripping the land, show that destruction. They do it in the US as well as other countries.
Imagine if this giant transform into :)
4400 years old coal.
You can visit this machine
Love the Toyota SUV 😏
Calling this mobile might be a stretch
He can’t stop saying conveyor belt. Everyone except him calls it a conveyor.
I should’ve bought the conveyor bridge+ excavator
PS:I bought it then went to mcdonalds to show someone with a long car then he cried lol
I now bought everything then used them for a mining scene for a tv show instead of green screen
I also bought an aircraft carrier and reworked the cannons to water cannons and then turned it into my home then put everything on the carrier
Fun fact my grandpa bought them(not real this is a joke)
dont i love this chanel called welt ....way more than any other channel...
why are they all talking so fast?
time is money
hey can I work here
Hi ... You have to learn German well and do an apprenticeship. The job is definitely fascinating. The coal is mined about 100 miles southeast of Berlin and west of Cologne. During the GDR era there were 34 opencast mines with a capacity of around 300 million tons per year. The conveyor bridge was built in the GDR and is still working. Made in East-Germay ☺
Over 100,000 people in Germany had to leave their homes because their villages were being demolished ...
great machine
but
such an bad harm to nature
The land is being renaturalized after coal mining.
@@germanCrowbar that filthy coal is also being burnt though...
@12:49
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russia war destroyd AN-225 Mriya near Kyiv in 2022 year
the green germany :)
Working on it. You don't turn this around within a few years
@@ProfTydrim And you sure as shit don't go green by closing down the cleanest form of power generation we have available.
@@kristoffer3000 Are you volunteering to have the waste from this "cleanest Form of Power Generation" stored in your Home for the next hundred millenia? I agree we should've opted out of fossil fuels before nuclear, but it is clear that we need to get rid of both eventually
@@ProfTydrim Nice of you to strawman like that, just give up, you've already lost the argument.
Storage isn't a problem and it's much less of a problem with newer kinds of plants that leave much less waste and can even recycle waste from other plants, that's what they do in France to great success.
@@kristoffer3000 I didn't strawman. As a Geoscientist I'm just reminding you that storage is a huge Problem, no matter the efficiency of the plant. If not for you and me or our children, certainly for the next thousand Generations. In the short term we should've gotten rid of coal before nuclear tho
That how you destroy mother earth buddys
Terrible music.
Pretty bad: coal plants
Nobody should be proud or happy to see those excavators working. Lignite coal is the worst of the worst. Shameful Germany allows these mines to still operate
@Eric Liu Those machines will never leave that site - they'll be scrapped like all the other large mining machines - they'll use explosives to demo the gantries and then cut them up and make toasters out the scrap.
You know you are not going to switch the entire power production of a country to green energy over night?
@@PeterPanik_ They switched it back to brown after closing down nuclear plants though.
1.6MW is enough for 3m German homes but only half that amount of US homes because fat can't think.
Fat can't think ? What does that mean ? Thanks.
Seán O'Nilbud
too bad they cannot find a way to harness your ignorance as energy - then they would have all the MWs they need without mining any coal! Oh well - what a waste of your mind space!
Why does the US have all the top companies?
@@kennyg1358 Imperialism, economic imperialism and profiteering massively from WW2.
Yada yada yada. And when resources run out and this planet is half destroyed... what do we do? Yada yada yada, talk about greed while we are heading towards doomsday.
What do you propose we do ?
Don't worry.... Greta Thunberg is ON it!
@@billybobsowbreath1774
You mean, Gina Rinehart? Eat eat eat till she blows up, while the country is full of holes. Greta Thunberg is not the only activist who cares, just because she is a known figure. What I don't get is, the hypocritical Government. Gina Rinehart is allowed to excavate massive holes in mining but a man and his small, portable 3 inch venturi nozzle dredge is not allowed to find gold in rivers which causes very little silt due to a gravel and rocky bottom and not a muddy bottom. How is that for hypocrites?
Mick Carson how does it feel to be the dumbest person in the comment section?
@@44pilot
Says Joe, the person who doesn't think about the future. Why? Because people who talk like Joe and calls others dumb are people who don't think, couldn't careless about the state this planet is in. Why (again)? Because people like Joe have mashed potatoes or scrambled eggs as brains. That's why. It's always for and against when it comes to debating on environmental issues, even though it is well known by environmentalists and scientists that at the rate we destroy the planet, we could put our lives and that of animals at the risk of extinction. But, talk and talk, do my part in helping Earth, only to be called dumb. Yep, that's right, dumb. When the very idiots who call people dumb are in trouble, e.g. floods, tornadoes, disasters, etc., they wished the very 'dumb' would be helping them with thank you thank you. A bit like the 'boy who cried wolf'. But, shh, 🤫 I am dumb for now.
not good for air pullution🤥
na 4 j nog niets terug gegroeid........
some people are sooooooooo rich that they even don´t can figure out how to burn money... people are damn rich...
10% that is not something to be proud of.
What does Greta says about it :D
How dare you!
Who cares 🤣🤣🤣🤣 she should go there and accidentally fall into one of the conveyors on the way to the power plant.....oooops
It is interesting how insignificant she is in relation to this :D
Who’s Greta?
@@danielbenedict8818 greta thun-der-berg :D elf from the sweden :D
Earth crying...!!!!
Big bad machine
There must be some serious issues with health and safety around that control cabin betcha they run super slow when OHS are there...and serious trucks have air seats why would the cabin not be on a cushion or similar.
That or this guy is an actual robot.
LOL at the end part, you basically mean you planted trees and moved animals so you could make money after, i understand the logic but the process alone of removing dirt changes the enviroment
Crap.
Is this a Siemens commercial?
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GA I.A.M.
“14 men and women” *they’re all men*
mengeruk bumi merusak alam untuk sebuat perut
akan ada masanya kalian dilahap telan inti bumidredging the earth destroys nature for a stomach and money there will be a time when you are devoured by the core of the earth, really very concerned
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Greta Thunberg: ima bout to end these 5000 men's whole career.
That'd be fantastic actually.
All thanks to the Jews peoples suffering but a forced labour to bring about the progress of humanity was changed and improved upon; less not forget, this is a labour of the past
What the hack is a ''work machine' ? Your bizarre English reaches new heights.
obviously, there are machines somewhere, that don't work
Work machine (Arbeitsmaschiene) is a direct translation of a German expression for the machine / vehicle that the person "drives / operates".
try replacing this thing with some windmills and solar panels, sorry, not going to work. This good machine is helping to replace the CO2 that has been lost from our atmosphere and is helping to green the planet with new plant life that requires CO2 to photosynthesize.
Please never type anything ever again.
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Years of work of F60 could be done by F16 in few minutes by deploying Nukes at the excavation site!
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