@-sawal it is a long time. I have been to war, shot, stabbed, cut, burnt, poisoned, fell 30 ft on steel, Agent Orange,totaled 2 cars and 1 dump truck, and so many other things.
Interesting video! The wind turbine blades are a nightmare to reuse or recycle, some uses after wind but also costly. Because of this video I understand how making the turbines is a bad and expensive process including the environment impact.
planet is suffering? nah planet is just fine, the people in it however are doomed. we're not damaging the planet that existed for billions of years. we're making it less habitable for ourselves
The boatbuilders did NOT learn how to build balsa-cored structures...they started building cored hulls in the mid-1960s and started using vacuum bags in late 1990s - early 2000s.
@@andyjohnson5571 I know my friend this eco conscious crowds don’t know that most rear and expansive tree forest is cutdown so they will feel that they didn’t something good for the environment
Discover the fascinating story of how balsa wood - the lightest wood in the world - has transformed from a humble resource into a billion-dollar industry. From the initial seeds planted in tropical regions to becoming an indispensable material in industries ranging from aviation, toy manufacturing, to lightweight construction materials, the balsa wood industry is booming, driving an investment rush and opening new development opportunities. Follow this extraordinary journey and find out why balsa wood is being called the "new gold" in the modern world.
This is great, but I wonder about the environmental cost of harvesting balsa wood on such a massive scale. Are there sustainability practices in place?
I used to buy 1 meter sheets of balsa for about 2 bucks before 2020.. Now there 4 bucks a sheet, no thanks to the wind turbine industry hogging all the wood..
Two wrongs do not make a right...both countries are largest emitter of CO2. Instead of blame game and propaganda against each other, both countries must stop this type of exploitation.
as a tradesman of multiple tradeswho has worked years with ESD, Cathodic reactions, and all forms of Lightning Protection and sensative hi value equipment hardening? and DC rail, aero, comms, towers, fuel xfer, manufacturing, and others. "I wounder why"? Would some are these same techs are not used in the construction of these wooded lightnig rod$? And I worked with all energies but nuc, with fiberglass, kevlars, carbons, epoxy's all temps, pressures, or environments man made or natural. I can think of quite a few ready to go off the self techs used today that may not be perfect but could mitigate or eliminate the risks, I smell BS. Or MORE PROFITS!
Two comments- one is who are all those Africans supposedly harvesting balsa in South America??? And in addition, when an impact occurs and the skin is cracked, hidden rot occurs in the balsa which soaks up water like a sponge. Many boatbuilders have switched to lightweight foam.
@@joeyjamison5772 indeed. But kind of need to wonder about integrity of this tale when a person repeatedly mistyped basic data, what else is off? Subverted by lack of editing I'd say.
Keep cutting it and do not plant new once and 50 years later the person becomes a desert and talking about climate change. Instead just planting new tree while cutting old onces
Would you have an email? I have a reasonable experience in using planted wood as a substitute for minerals and would like to share if it's of your interest Thanks
Sometimes it is hard to accept what's coming wrong from your own side. It is human nature I guess but truth must be plainly told not to hurt anyone but to correct someone.
I know it’s a totally different scale, but still I‘d like to compare: After WWII, we Germans really didn’t want to accept what we did wrong under Hitler. We called people who stood up and called the wrongdoings out „Nestbeschmutzer“ (Nest polluters). To this day people don’t want here what their direct ancestors might have done wrong But trust me. Critic is usually good. Especially for those who have a lot power
My first run in with balsa wood was throwable toy 10 cent airplanes around 70 years ago.
how old are you?
@@-sawal I am 78. I was born in 1946.
@@johnbethea4505 My respect grandpa!
@-sawal it is a long time. I have been to war, shot, stabbed, cut, burnt, poisoned, fell 30 ft on steel, Agent Orange,totaled 2 cars and 1 dump truck, and so many other things.
@@johnbethea4505 Wow! Sounds like a pretty wild experience in Vietnam. Did they capture and torture you?
It's a double edged sword from what I've seen, but if it was me I'm willing to take the risk for a less plastic future
Hypocrit solutions, Putin is our last hope :)
Balsa wood is so easy to carve!
Amazing how light it really is
Interesting video! The wind turbine blades are a nightmare to reuse or recycle, some uses after wind but also costly. Because of this video I understand how making the turbines is a bad and expensive process including the environment impact.
Anyone else wondering why the speaker is saying "Basla" multiple times? Just wondering about the proof reader of the script...
Speaker is a synthesizer. The scriptwriter misspelled Balsa as Basla.
The bane of AI robo-voices. One misspelled word and the gig is up.
crazy stuff... nice upload
Thank you
Oh, how good that “green energy” is for the environment!
Nice to see the world class personal protective equipment and clothing that this responsible company ensures it's staff use
Oh, where is the overpaid fat cat safety nanny. Are you applying for the job. Let the indigenous be....
No goggles, no shoes in the last cutting scene! Probably no accident insurance, either.
They should plant that kind of trees here in the Philippines
Farm-to-table restaurants are my favorite because they highlight the beauty of fresh, seasonal ingredients
They do indeed
Are you paying attention at all?
You posted on the wrong page. Try again.
Nothing to do w/ topic
Lets not complain about how the planet is suffering because we're killing it with these striping practices
Yea it is fairly shocking to watch
planet is suffering? nah planet is just fine, the people in it however are doomed. we're not damaging the planet that existed for billions of years. we're making it less habitable for ourselves
Those forest workers didn't look like anyone from Ecuador.
Exactly. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
The boatbuilders did NOT learn how to build balsa-cored structures...they started building cored hulls in the mid-1960s and started using vacuum bags in late 1990s - early 2000s.
Yeah in 1950s my brother built a balsa wood😂model plane..ah the palonia tree is very similar .😮
Eco “friendliness” of windmills is startling
Crazy to think that balsa is used in making those
IN TEXAS THEY HAVE TO PUT THE USED BLADES IN A LANDFILL DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO RECYCLE. THOUSANDS ARE STARTING TO BECOME A REAL DISPOSAL PROBLEM.
@@andyjohnson5571 I know my friend this eco conscious crowds don’t know that most rear and expansive tree forest is cutdown so they will feel that they didn’t something good for the environment
If u are startled by simply using wood, then go inhale more smoke from coal powered electrical generators😂😂😂😂
@@prilep5 Do you want to hear a crazy fun fact? Did you know trees are plants and therefore living beings which can be regrown?? 🤯🤯 Crazy right?!
Those Balsa wood workers are from Papua New Guinea, not from Ecuador.
Ecuador is NOT in Amazonia, so they are not "Amazonian trees".
Google it because you are wrong.
Parque Nacional Yasuní is in the Amazonia and that is part of Ecuador
I had a sponsored child in Ecuador, and he lived in jungle rainforest.
The voice read the word 'BAS la' instead of 'bal sa' more than once without even thinking about it and no edits lol
What? You expect programmers and "artificial intelligence" to know to edit? YMBJ!😅
(You must be joking)
Could make boat houses of the wood from windmills
great materia
Thank you
Certainly not more resistant than plastics.
Balsa composite aircraft were famous for rotting away, if left in the rain.
And if a puncture occurred from impact, they would quickly rot in that localized area and produce weak spots that would spread with the hidden rot.
Discover the fascinating story of how balsa wood - the lightest wood in the world - has transformed from a humble resource into a billion-dollar industry. From the initial seeds planted in tropical regions to becoming an indispensable material in industries ranging from aviation, toy manufacturing, to lightweight construction materials, the balsa wood industry is booming, driving an investment rush and opening new development opportunities. Follow this extraordinary journey and find out why balsa wood is being called the "new gold" in the modern world.
1.21 jigawatts!!
Maram than maram than, ellam maramthan, maranthan maranthan, manithan maranthan😢😢
This is great, but I wonder about the environmental cost of harvesting balsa wood on such a massive scale. Are there sustainability practices in place?
In tropics there is no scarcity or rain will have very minimal effect if done in controlled fashion.
Paulownia tree is also light and grows faster.
Balsa lebih ringan dari kayu sengon kah?
I used to buy 1 meter sheets of balsa for about 2 bucks before 2020.. Now there 4 bucks a sheet, no thanks to the wind turbine industry hogging all the wood..
NICE\
USA use of Balsa wood for boats, airplane, sports and toys is ethical but China use of wood is unethical for no reason.🤣🤣
Two wrongs do not make a right...both countries are largest emitter of CO2. Instead of blame game and propaganda against each other, both countries must stop this type of exploitation.
Work with balsa on boats construction
Pictures are taken from Papua 🇵🇬 NEW Guinea
how about pulai tree..it light and strange too.
Make new towers from old blades
as a tradesman of multiple tradeswho has worked years with ESD, Cathodic reactions, and all forms of Lightning Protection and sensative hi value equipment hardening? and DC rail, aero, comms, towers, fuel xfer, manufacturing, and others. "I wounder why"? Would some are these same techs are not used in the construction of these wooded lightnig rod$? And I worked with all energies but nuc, with fiberglass, kevlars, carbons, epoxy's all temps, pressures, or environments man made or natural.
I can think of quite a few ready to go off the self techs used today that may not be perfect but could mitigate or eliminate the risks, I smell BS. Or MORE PROFITS!
Two comments- one is who are all those Africans supposedly harvesting balsa in South America??? And in addition, when an impact occurs and the skin is cracked, hidden rot occurs in the balsa which soaks up water like a sponge. Many boatbuilders have switched to lightweight foam.
1:24 SAID BASLA INSTEAD OF BALAS
How monoculture is sustainable
Mentions Ecuador but shows pacific Islanders
Wut be basla wood?
Mis-spelled script fed to robo voice audio generator, that's what!
@@joeyjamison5772 indeed. But kind of need to wonder about integrity of this tale when a person repeatedly mistyped basic data, what else is off? Subverted by lack of editing I'd say.
@@danholman7105 Some people rely on artificial intelligence because of a lack of natural intelligence.
They say Basla too much for me fo think this is full of facts
Theres a similar african tree okume i believe its called
Use Bamboo
1:24 it's BALSA not BASLA
got wood
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Keep cutting it and do not plant new once and 50 years later the person becomes a desert and talking about climate change. Instead just planting new tree while cutting old onces
Should make cars from it
Would you have an email?
I have a reasonable experience in using planted wood as a substitute for minerals and would like to share if it's of your interest
Thanks
Teak wood from india
Only for Rolls Royce .😢😢
I think 3a paid this guy to ensure that they're on the up and up with sustainability. How sad
fix the damn script that the bot narrator reads, it is Balsa not Basla and there are so many cases of the second...
It's BAL-SA.... PLEASE
Hey u forgot to mention Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬,we grow and we also have huge shipments of balsa wood to South East Asia.
China slowly destroying other country while preserving their own.😂
To watch this destruction is soul destroying.
Easy solution, stop making too may people!
While you have a kid, the irony
Balsa wood sucks.
Omg, me too! 😂
Anyone else watching aware of the fact that wind turbine towers almost never produce as much energy as they took to build?
Sad but true.
Absolute bollocks. Just another ignorant keyboard warrior who has no idea what he is talking about.
When you started denigrating China, I stopped watching.
Sometimes it is hard to accept what's coming wrong from your own side. It is human nature I guess but truth must be plainly told not to hurt anyone but to correct someone.
I know it’s a totally different scale, but still I‘d like to compare:
After WWII, we Germans really didn’t want to accept what we did wrong under Hitler. We called people who stood up and called the wrongdoings out „Nestbeschmutzer“ (Nest polluters). To this day people don’t want here what their direct ancestors might have done wrong
But trust me. Critic is usually good. Especially for those who have a lot power
why are so many blacks in south america?
AI bot..BaLsa no BaSla get it right bots suck
3:38 it's BALSA not BASLA
BASLA apears 3 or 4 times, very distracting. someone mistyped and AI reads it as is.