I retired last year from being a deepwater drilling rig Subsea engineer. I can honestly tell you that, unless you have been on a modern drilling rig, you have no idea how incredibly impressive the engineering is.
spare me i work in stage construction! one piece of truss with shite in it is just another piece of truss with chonky shite in it dont drop it or it will break! :P nah i get an idea from the self lifting hydraulift systems that the real money that they can throw at these works of Legendary Sized Meccano sets makes anything ive worked with seem like Meccano for 3 year olds! But people need to be warned about the Dolphin before they research it by accident!
Fun fact, due to ocean currents, the cables can be tethered to the ocean floor more than a kilometre away horizontally from where the oil rig actually is
provide incentive and people will respond. Many underwater welders make FAR more than regular welders so people WANT to become underwanter welder but it's still really damn hard.
@@mikehurt3290 As a commercial diver you will perform various activities underwater not just weld. Therefore it is said in the industry that one need to be a good diver first, as it take more time, ressources & logistic, compared to learning to weld. Yes it is dangerous, because of unpredictable weather, strong water current, Delta P, the still non negligible risk to get the bend, and wild life. But overall things had gotten better with advance in technology and continue to improve. I read that one time a guy lifeline tubes (oxygen, heating etc) was caught by the horn of a Manta Ray and he died from rapid decompression.
Bro I don’t think a lot of these people understand that gas is actually better for the environment than non recyclable batteries. Not to mention the insane price for not only an electric car itself, but a replacement battery as well.
@@spincycle6884 just means how much more insane vertical distances are compared to horizontal. We easily have a buildings that are several kilometres long but the tallest building in the world isn't even a single kilometre. Edit: actually a better example would be travelling. 8kms would be a relatively close office commute but 8kms vertically is practically scaling the Everest
@@stealthisit's like coal, they didn't know the consequences at the time. Now we do but its not a tap we can turn off quickly. We need vast amount of substitutes.
Wait till these genius greenies realize that the Electrical car and grid scam is completely unsustainable when completed to oil and coal. Ignorance truly is a bliss
It's always a pleasure seeing your video: the excited voice, the wowing smile, and the information is worth spending a minute... after every minute!! 😊
Like a dog who suddenly knows how to move furniture across the kitchen in order to climb up onto the counter to eat the chicken, humans suddenly get super smart when there's oil to be found.
Imagine if they let everyone use free energy... Instead, everyone who finds out about free energy, disappears. Keeping free energy a secret is about power and control.
The USCSB has a RUclips channel that shows off amazing animations of play by play disaster analyses, and they have one on the deep water horizon blow out
waterline stories youtube channel is 1000 times better resource, real stories told without the artist holliwood fluffery and BS. fr there have been way more saturation diver accidents than you might think. them dudes are nuts
I worked on a drilling unit (MODU) next to Perdido over a decade ago. It blew my mind how deep the water was. What's even more amazing is how deep they drill after going that deep!
@@curtmeister24Wind certainly uses less oil than a fossil fueled turbine. Just simply pointing out the hypocrisy of wanting to reduce the reliance on oil when wind turbines use plenty themselves, not to mention the many other downsides. I personally believe their are better options 🤷♂️
For the deep ones that don't have rigid structures, do they use flexible tubing to pump the oil? Like tubes made of rubber instead of steel? Please forgive me if this is a dumb question; I am not familiar with oil rigs.
Not a dumb question at all. From what I know several solutions have been used, where the most common is probably a combination, where rigid pipelines held in place by buoyancy, and flexible pipes the last bit. Fully flexible systems have also been used, but this does however not mean rubber flexible, but rather steel pipes in a S shape all the way down to allow for movement. Other sollutions with risers have also been utilised
Not dumb at all! They are definitely flexible, but on a large scale, so if you had one laying down on the grounds you probably couldn’t move it and it would look rigid. Would use steel and rubber and other materials to create a moveable tube.
For drilling & pumping oil, 50ft (15m) long steel pipes threaded at both ends so that each is screwed into the next one, with hundreds daisy-chained from the rig on the surface, through the water and then deep into the seabed to reach the oil reserve. Oh, and BTW, the steel pipes are not as rigid as you may think. For scale comparison, think plastic drinking straws: each one on its own is rigid, but eight or more, inserted one end into another, to form a long tube, it's so flexible that it has to be supported at both ends when held horizontally. And, for scale comparison again, if an average person's height is the sea depth at the drilling point, then a large oil rig is the size of a corn kernel and the pipe is thinner than a hair strand.
Remember that even if metal is rigid you can make chain mail (and other things) from it that is flexible. When you get to scales at 2000+meters they just have to be moderately flexible
Many rigs are not even anchored to anything but use a combination of ultrasonic and GPS signals to control dynamic positioning. They maintain positioning over a point with
Reducing oil use wouldn't come from alternative energy sources, or electric cars, but from decreasing production of most goods. You'd be shocked at how many things are made with oil, I'd recommend looking it up, and it'll help you understand just how tied with the economy oil is. If oil is cheap and plentiful, everything is.
That's because people today are dumb. They don't know that 0 machines can operate without oil, even the 100% electric powered ones. yes those green hippies most likely need oil for their vegan faux leather shoes to be made.
Oil is used for manufacturing, but far FAR more is used for fuel. For every barrel of oil drilled, 45% of the barrel will wind up as gasoline, and another 26% will wind up as "ultra-low sulfur distillate" (IE. diesel fuel) and a little under 2% will result in heating oil. Almost 10% will be turned into jet fuel, and over 2% will result in other fuels. That's about 85% of the barrel turned into fuel. The other 15% will go toward manufacturing - especially bitumen, which is used in blacktop/asphalt, which will make up 4% of the barrel.
I never understand how solar panels n electric cars are a solution How about waste material from solar batterys My grandma had installed solar panels n after some years the huge batterys require to be replaced
Yeah...all fair. But we'll need oil for plastic and other oil-based materials for a long time still, even if we'd abandon any type of fossil-fuel from our motors
@@bahamutgamin1424 the train lines could be electrified though which is way more efficient than having batteries it's only economically viable for busy tracks though
Wasn’t expecting this! I’ve worked in each of these deep water oil fields. Perdido is something else. World’s deepest spar, at least it was last time I was there
Pushing oil drilling into increasingly deep water takes impressive technology, and gets us situations like the Deepwater Horizon disaster. We gotta wean ourselves off the oil.
Deep water horizon wasn't anything to do with the depth we were drilling, it was 100% a big oil company being cheap and not fixing things properly and cutting corners to shave off costs, it got men killed, and the guys responsible basically just got away with it because they have money
@@mlee6050not to mention the battery waste of going fully electric. We need to figure out how to recycle all this battery shit efficiently or it’s gonna be the same issue but with battery waste
This is difficult for a leftist to understand while they protest against oil while they wear a jacket made from oil.. all outdoor jackets are made from oil.
Ditching oil isn't the first priority. Ditching oil as fuel or generation or electricity production however is, and this is fully possible and some countries are more or less there already. Other uses like lubrication and production of plastics have existing alternatives already for those willing to take the step
@capitalismftw4757 about a hundred thousand times as many birds are killed by cats just in America as die from windmills in the whole world. Solar can be put on roofs that are otherwise unused, and may actually boost grass growth in pastures by shading the scorching summer sun. Oil puts out poisonous gases and particulate matter in the best case, and in the worst case can spill and kill marine life for up to tens of thousands of square miles
A) How do we get it all the way down there? B) Angry whale crashing into one on purpose 😂 C) Giant squid holding onto it to chill out and stop swimming for a minute
Actually, what we need to find on mars is water. Which can be drank, but mostly split into oxygen and hydrogen to fuel spaceships. Now you understand why India, China, Russia, USA, and some Others are currently racing to the moon where we found great evidence of the presence of water
Wait, if it is 2,4 km below the waves, how did they anchor down there? I know we can get to these depths, but it would still be interesting to…maybe make a video about that? This, and underwater construction…
Suction anchors are usually used... Essentially they're massive cylindrical piles and the water is evacuated out of them; pulling them into the seabed (in a nutshell). They're a simple yet neat technology, and commonly used for Spar and TLP's.
@MrDeerbomb, but you still had to edit your own comment. How many spelling mistakes did you make? Guess what? I don't care because I'm not an ass. You don't know me; you don't know my circumstances, and I don't know you, but you seem to be pretty privileged knowing and being able to learn three languages-your ableist.
@@alexcolclough6133 to be fair, he at least edited his mistakes afterwards. I assumed you just didn't care, neither do I care if you spelt it wrong. I understood.
Only about 25-30% of oil consumption (in the US) is for use in industrial applications such as plastics, the rest is motor fuel, electricity and heating. There is a lot of room to reduce oil consumption
Better find a way, we're currently exploring more and more difficult places as the easy deposits are drying up... You think 2km deep rigs exist for fun. Maybe think outside your lifetime. Thanks
Combination of putting together above the water line and divers and ROV’s under the water line. I’m just about to make the jump from working on an oil rig to being a diver
@@schizvoid8774no one cares? Really? That killed or injured millions of animals, ruined coastlines, and disrupted the livelihoods of thousands of people
Also what causes modern civilization to be possible. Humanity is safer by far from the climate now than ever before, in large part thanks to cost-effective reliable energy.
Well those electric cars do need quite a bit of lithium and we have to do more harm to the environment to get the lithium rather than just driving gas powered vehicles.
All those alternative power sources require rare earth minerals mined by diesel engines, or require diesel engines to run electricity to in the case of the electric car chargers.
@@tucegs522 I guess it depends on the timeline in mind. We so heavily rely on oil for our world and that is not slowing down anytime soon. I would say the goal should be to find more oil and develop a more efficient method of utilizing it or trying to find a way to reuse/recycle oil.
@@tucegs522it’s what William said. Let’s be real, It’s not that as a society we don’t want to move forward towards more efficient and cleaner types of energy. But there all so many glaring problems to point out with each source and I’m not wasting any more time talkin about it on a RUclips comment section. But what I can say for sure estimates said to end oil use by so called experts or governments would kill hundreds of millions of people if applied across the globe. Let alone the idea of getting rid of petroleum all together is not possible if you simply ask how is the majority of electricity produced. I know we can get there just not in our lifetime
What bugs me about solar arrays and windfarms is that you literally NEED oil to build them. So they dont actually lower oil consumption, they increase it.
Thats 99% of all energy solutions lol. Pipe dream nice sounding ideas that still predominantly rely on fossil fuels but that can obfuscate it so the consumer can feel like a good person all because they cant see the smoke stack or exhaust pipe with their own two eyes. None of these solutions matter when china produces the vast majority of emissions and has no intention of killing their economy like the west does in the name of “the climate”
yes except there's a net carbon footprint calculation that's done for any such project so that you can guarantee that within the lifespan of the installation it would offset more carbon production than it costs to build it
@@theminecraft4202 They harm wildlife like birds migrating, they break a lot and require lots of maintenance, they're extremely toxic and pollute the ocean, they don't produce enough energy to ever quantify the amount of labor, toxicity and death of wildlife to justify them being built. Solar is a joke as well. Extremely toxic to the environment, especially after rainfall. They need to be cleaned all the time, they don't generate enough to quantify the toxicity they leave behind in the soil, from production and in the landfills. We would be better off wave energy harnessing the waves coming in, which occur way more often than both sunshine and windy days and it generates more power than both combined. The reason why it's not being built is because it's not about producing clean energy, it's about control. That's why we don't see Thorium Salt Reactors being used which would solve our energy crises immediately. 1,170 and 2,640 terrawatt-hours for wave energy 200,000 GWh Solar energy as of 2022. 434 billion kWh wind turbines 2022.
@@theminecraft4202 I know about those calculations, and I'm not impressed at all. In the first place, the unreliables require 100% backup capacity, because their production can drop to zero at any time. So the relevant comparison is not x TW of unreliables versus x TW of reliables, but (x TW of unreliables + x TW of reliables as backup) versus just the x TW of reliables on its own. And then you get into things like the exaggerated lifespans (20 - 30 years, when reality is closer to 10,) international manufacturers just paying governments to _say_ that they're going green even when they're using the same dirty energy as everyone else... And, what about when the voters get tired of paying for wildly overpriced, unreliable power? There are cases in Germany now where wind farms are being torn down to make way for coal mines - which is a completely rational, proportionate response to the effect unreliable power is having on their country. Shouldn't wind power have to own _those_ emissions too?
Damn that’s actually crazy as hell😭😭they’re deeper then I thought😭😭😭and they’re made different from how I thought, i thought they were all made with legs down to the ocean floor, not some floating and being anchored to the sea floor😭😭😭
I retired last year from being a deepwater drilling rig Subsea engineer. I can honestly tell you that, unless you have been on a modern drilling rig, you have no idea how incredibly impressive the engineering is.
is it scary being on them?? do they rock much??
How did you get trained to be an underwater engineer goddamn sounds like money 😂
spare me i work in stage construction! one piece of truss with shite in it is just another piece of truss with chonky shite in it dont drop it or it will break! :P
nah i get an idea from the self lifting hydraulift systems that the real money that they can throw at these works of Legendary Sized Meccano sets makes anything ive worked with seem like Meccano for 3 year olds!
But people need to be warned about the Dolphin before they research it by accident!
How are deep sea anchors placed on the sea floor?
@@maple_vanilla study engineering?
Mechanical/petroleum/chemical?
2450m deep is nuts!
There's a joke to be made somewhere in there 😋
that’s what she said!
Imagine the elevator ride 😂
@@vihaanyadu7033 that too without oxygen
Some might even say it's nuts deep 👀
I work in oil and gas and we build and install oil rigs...it really is a feat of engineering to see how it's done!
By any chance is it kiewit in Ingleside? They built some impressive platforms there
"We couldn't build the pyramids today"😂
You really gonna compare using technology with artificial materials
to move two million bricks hundreds of miles using just humans
Yeah, when you hear people like that you really understand that most people today don't understand how much humans are able to do.
Saying that only means _you_ can't
@@Soguwe how dumb can u be To think that?
Noone gives a shit about 4 thousand year old tombs!
"Why would you ever build a contraption to go that deep?!"
Mr. Crabs: _Money._
Your mom never complained
money money money money *AAAAAAAAAAAAA*
@@janetpearson1455 Your mom should have used the birth control pill
Krabs
I had to say it in his voice 😂😂
Fun fact, due to ocean currents, the cables can be tethered to the ocean floor more than a kilometre away horizontally from where the oil rig actually is
How tf are they tethered to the ocean floor?
@@davidscanlon2538good question
False. First, they created and placed the oil rigs, and then they filled the ocean up.
That’s the sensible way to do it.
The only logical solution.
Of course how could we be so Stupid
That would make so much more sense!
I'm like 99.9% sure that you all are kidding but it concerns me that there *is* a 0.1%; that says something about the Internet I think.
I recommended checking out underwater welding after this short. Those workers are incredible.
provide incentive and people will respond. Many underwater welders make FAR more than regular welders so people WANT to become underwanter welder but it's still really damn hard.
@strategygaming5830 isn't it super dangerous too?
@@mikehurt3290 As a commercial diver you will perform various activities underwater not just weld. Therefore it is said in the industry that one need to be a good diver first, as it take more time, ressources & logistic, compared to learning to weld.
Yes it is dangerous, because of unpredictable weather, strong water current, Delta P, the still non negligible risk to get the bend, and wild life. But overall things had gotten better with advance in technology and continue to improve. I read that one time a guy lifeline tubes (oxygen, heating etc) was caught by the horn of a Manta Ray and he died from rapid decompression.
@@mikehurt3290 yup, used to be 20% fatality rate, in the last few years its about 10-15%
They clear at least six figures right? Crazy.
Bro I don’t think a lot of these people understand that gas is actually better for the environment than non recyclable batteries. Not to mention the insane price for not only an electric car itself, but a replacement battery as well.
8 km horizontal: 🤨
8 km vertical: 💀
What does that even mean?
@@spincycle6884 just means how much more insane vertical distances are compared to horizontal. We easily have a buildings that are several kilometres long but the tallest building in the world isn't even a single kilometre.
Edit: actually a better example would be travelling. 8kms would be a relatively close office commute but 8kms vertically is practically scaling the Everest
@@trippinhard250 not that, I mean wtf is “🤨” “💀” supposed to mean?
@@spincycle6884 "kinda okay" / "terrifying"
I dunno
English is not my native language btw
@@spincycle68848kms horizontally isn't that far so "🤨"
8kms vertically is a lot so "💀"
Its crazy how we come up with brilliant inovative ideas when loads of money is involved
If only they took the planet seriously
@@stealthisif only you had cared that much for your family
@@stealthisit's like coal, they didn't know the consequences at the time. Now we do but its not a tap we can turn off quickly. We need vast amount of substitutes.
Wait till these genius greenies realize that the Electrical car and grid scam is completely unsustainable when completed to oil and coal.
Ignorance truly is a bliss
@@AndrewN75 also the fact that there is so much corruption and lobbying by coal companies to stop alternatives from developing...
It's always a pleasure seeing your video: the excited voice, the wowing smile, and the information is worth spending a minute... after every minute!! 😊
This is wild! Imagine them on land!
wdym the deeper ones wont be that tall cuz gravity wont let em float
@@literaluniverse1274 Well yeah, but it’d be cool to imagine it
One of the rigs I worked on reached depths of 6,000m+. Granted it was in the mountainous area of Alberta in the Alberta deep basin.
@@NoblePineapples That’s crazy, thanks for keeping the world moving!
@@NoblePineapplesdo you have photos?
Like a dog who suddenly knows how to move furniture across the kitchen in order to climb up onto the counter to eat the chicken, humans suddenly get super smart when there's oil to be found.
Smart... Or bloodthirsty. Also like a dog!
Watch what would happen if all women found out how to move to another planet. The 60s space race would look like a crawl.
@@TheLoneMittenone can only dream right ?
Imagine if they let everyone use free energy... Instead, everyone who finds out about free energy, disappears. Keeping free energy a secret is about power and control.
@@TheLoneMittenYeah, but sadly they would need men to build the rockets, so...
Nuclear fusion reactors we always seem to forget about those
They do not really work yet. Only our nuclear fission reactors are actually sort of reliable.
On the topic of oil rigs. I maintain that everyone should watch Deepwater Horizon. It really puts into perspective how insanely complicated they are..
That movie barely scratches the surface my friend. :)
The USCSB has a RUclips channel that shows off amazing animations of play by play disaster analyses, and they have one on the deep water horizon blow out
There’s a new short podcast series about Deepwater Horizon and just how crazy bad it was-“Ripple”
If something breaks down there, good luck?
Marky Mark and disaster movies always a great combo
waterline stories youtube channel is 1000 times better resource, real stories told without the artist holliwood fluffery and BS. fr there have been way more saturation diver accidents than you might think. them dudes are nuts
I worked on a drilling unit (MODU) next to Perdido over a decade ago. It blew my mind how deep the water was. What's even more amazing is how deep they drill after going that deep!
Oh boy, how much deeper do they drill?
@@Sinjinator sometimes two or three times the depth of the water
Sometimes even more.
What's the big deal? We've had drills for a while now. You just go BRRRRR till it hits what you want. 🙄
She should look into how much oil that wind turbines require to operate. They are not as eco friendly as they are made out to be.
It uses gear oil, then after 10 years or so they change it. You sound like a woke environmentalist lol
They change it far more frequently than every 10 years 💀 more like every 12-24 months. A single 5 mega watt turbine can use up to 700 gallons.
@@B3NNi420How much oil do the turbines powered by traditional fossil fuels use? I don't see how it matters, as it's probably a wash.
@@curtmeister24Wind certainly uses less oil than a fossil fueled turbine. Just simply pointing out the hypocrisy of wanting to reduce the reliance on oil when wind turbines use plenty themselves, not to mention the many other downsides. I personally believe their are better options 🤷♂️
It's ≈ 7g of Co2/kWh for the wind, against ≈ 800-1200g of Co2/kWh for oil. And it counts everything (Life Cycle Analysis)
For the deep ones that don't have rigid structures, do they use flexible tubing to pump the oil? Like tubes made of rubber instead of steel? Please forgive me if this is a dumb question; I am not familiar with oil rigs.
They arnt exactly flexible, but they can move so they (most likely) won't break
Not a dumb question at all. From what I know several solutions have been used, where the most common is probably a combination, where rigid pipelines held in place by buoyancy, and flexible pipes the last bit. Fully flexible systems have also been used, but this does however not mean rubber flexible, but rather steel pipes in a S shape all the way down to allow for movement. Other sollutions with risers have also been utilised
Not dumb at all! They are definitely flexible, but on a large scale, so if you had one laying down on the grounds you probably couldn’t move it and it would look rigid. Would use steel and rubber and other materials to create a moveable tube.
For drilling & pumping oil, 50ft (15m) long steel pipes threaded at both ends so that each is screwed into the next one, with hundreds daisy-chained from the rig on the surface, through the water and then deep into the seabed to reach the oil reserve. Oh, and BTW, the steel pipes are not as rigid as you may think. For scale comparison, think plastic drinking straws: each one on its own is rigid, but eight or more, inserted one end into another, to form a long tube, it's so flexible that it has to be supported at both ends when held horizontally. And, for scale comparison again, if an average person's height is the sea depth at the drilling point, then a large oil rig is the size of a corn kernel and the pipe is thinner than a hair strand.
Remember that even if metal is rigid you can make chain mail (and other things) from it that is flexible.
When you get to scales at 2000+meters they just have to be moderately flexible
Many rigs are not even anchored to anything but use a combination of ultrasonic and GPS signals to control dynamic positioning. They maintain positioning over a point with
“Mars has oil from reserves 896m below the surface”
The USA: NASAAAAA
it's actually even simpler than that, they just raided an ocean monument for sponges
Reducing oil use wouldn't come from alternative energy sources, or electric cars, but from decreasing production of most goods. You'd be shocked at how many things are made with oil, I'd recommend looking it up, and it'll help you understand just how tied with the economy oil is. If oil is cheap and plentiful, everything is.
That's because people today are dumb. They don't know that 0 machines can operate without oil, even the 100% electric powered ones. yes those green hippies most likely need oil for their vegan faux leather shoes to be made.
Oil is used for manufacturing, but far FAR more is used for fuel.
For every barrel of oil drilled, 45% of the barrel will wind up as gasoline, and another 26% will wind up as "ultra-low sulfur distillate" (IE. diesel fuel) and a little under 2% will result in heating oil.
Almost 10% will be turned into jet fuel, and over 2% will result in other fuels.
That's about 85% of the barrel turned into fuel.
The other 15% will go toward manufacturing - especially bitumen, which is used in blacktop/asphalt, which will make up 4% of the barrel.
reducing oil means putting the worlds back further into poverty. you know what countries who don't have oil burn for energy? cow shit.
Maybe we can reduce non-essential oil use like fuel :)
I never understand how solar panels n electric cars are a solution
How about waste material from solar batterys
My grandma had installed solar panels n after some years the huge batterys require to be replaced
nah my anxiety when thinking of those lines going down in the water.... bro nahhh... just suddently seeing them aprear like bro im done
Technically we did not build anything special for the deepest ones, we just leveraged buoyancy and put that into a fixed position
I thing you mean boooeeency
The REAL question is ..... who and how they tie it that deep? 💀💀
you know how anchors work?
Im assuming you drop them
they send 5 guys in a tube
@@einflinkeswiesel2695 most of the time its an anchor, but sometimes a diving bell will work.
@@av812bb I was trying to make a Titan joke but I guess it was to deep
Yeah...all fair. But we'll need oil for plastic and other oil-based materials for a long time still, even if we'd abandon any type of fossil-fuel from our motors
most of the US goods supply including food is transported by train train need oil to run so does all motors so oils not going any time soon
@@bahamutgamin1424 indeed. Wait till find out their EV needs oil.
@@bahamutgamin1424 the train lines could be electrified though which is way more efficient than having batteries
it's only economically viable for busy tracks though
@@Squee7e that's what I wanted to point out lol
@@bahamutgamin1424 also hi, fellow dragon! :D
Wasn’t expecting this! I’ve worked in each of these deep water oil fields. Perdido is something else. World’s deepest spar, at least it was last time I was there
Pushing oil drilling into increasingly deep water takes impressive technology, and gets us situations like the Deepwater Horizon disaster. We gotta wean ourselves off the oil.
We can't completely, say we go full electric vehicles and had power production to support them, you still have to replace the oil from time to time
@mlee6050 sure, but it can be from modern plant-based lubricants, doesn't have to be fossil-fuel based.
Deep water horizon wasn't anything to do with the depth we were drilling, it was 100% a big oil company being cheap and not fixing things properly and cutting corners to shave off costs, it got men killed, and the guys responsible basically just got away with it because they have money
@@mlee6050not to mention the battery waste of going fully electric. We need to figure out how to recycle all this battery shit efficiently or it’s gonna be the same issue but with battery waste
As oil runs out, they’ll have to resort to more extreme methods to pump the oil out
We’re many, many years away from ditching oil. We rely on it too much and it’s too valuable of a commodity to just end our reliance on.
This is difficult for a leftist to understand while they protest against oil while they wear a jacket made from oil.. all outdoor jackets are made from oil.
Ditching oil isn't the first priority. Ditching oil as fuel or generation or electricity production however is, and this is fully possible and some countries are more or less there already. Other uses like lubrication and production of plastics have existing alternatives already for those willing to take the step
@@capitalismftw4757 5-6 million people die yearly world wide due to air pollution caused by the burning of said oil, that's inconsequential for you?
@capitalismftw4757 about a hundred thousand times as many birds are killed by cats just in America as die from windmills in the whole world. Solar can be put on roofs that are otherwise unused, and may actually boost grass growth in pastures by shading the scorching summer sun.
Oil puts out poisonous gases and particulate matter in the best case, and in the worst case can spill and kill marine life for up to tens of thousands of square miles
@@capitalismftw4757that’s simple wrong
The ocean isn't as deep as nount everest, The mariana trench is.
That’s still the ocean.
Lmao
A) How do we get it all the way down there?
B) Angry whale crashing into one on purpose 😂
C) Giant squid holding onto it to chill out and stop swimming for a minute
"MoDeRn hUmAnS cOuld nOt bUild tHe pyRamiDs'
Show us how
@@DonaldDucksRevengehe meant to insult a guy who made a bullshit video about how modern day humans can't make the pyramids of Giza
@@DonaldDucksRevenge you take a brick and place another on top, repeat until you have a pyramid
@@suspicioussand Show us
@@suspicioussand80 tonne bricks?
If we had found oil on Mars we wouldn't have already be on Mars😂😂
Especially the Americans
Did you say oil on Mars?
Looks like Mars could use some democracy 🦅 🇺🇸 🦅 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
Ironically burning oil and coal on Mars would actually be beneficial for human settlement by raising the temperature of that planet.
How are you gonna transport that back
Antarctica also got oil but where is the US military.
Actually, what we need to find on mars is water. Which can be drank, but mostly split into oxygen and hydrogen to fuel spaceships. Now you understand why India, China, Russia, USA, and some Others are currently racing to the moon where we found great evidence of the presence of water
Your energy and excitement about all things science is infectious! I love science. You bring it to a different level!
Wait, if it is 2,4 km below the waves, how did they anchor down there? I know we can get to these depths, but it would still be interesting to…maybe make a video about that? This, and underwater construction…
Suction anchors are usually used... Essentially they're massive cylindrical piles and the water is evacuated out of them; pulling them into the seabed (in a nutshell). They're a simple yet neat technology, and commonly used for Spar and TLP's.
@@heyitsjel So they're straws?
@@almondsai7214 basically... yes, that's one way you could put it.
there are docs on youtube here you can look up
not to mention how they actually do the drilling
I know she has more than 2 million subscribers but I still think she is underrated
we have structure taller than Burj Khalifa😮..in some sense
I like how Americans pronounce buoy in the UK, we say boys for buoys
Whereas I can't stand the way they say it 😂
Isn't it buoy? Bouy is not even a word and I'm neither american nor british. Heck, even english is my third language
@MrDeerbomb, but you still had to edit your own comment. How many spelling mistakes did you make? Guess what? I don't care because I'm not an ass. You don't know me; you don't know my circumstances, and I don't know you, but you seem to be pretty privileged knowing and being able to learn three languages-your ableist.
@@alexcolclough6133 to be fair, he at least edited his mistakes afterwards. I assumed you just didn't care, neither do I care if you spelt it wrong. I understood.
@@MrDeerbomb a buoy is a floating ball used in the water to hold things like nets up
So it truly is about the motion in the ocean
I like optimistic tech stories, but also realistic ones. Windmills are a racket and electric cars are horrifically polluting to manufacture.
Please turn off Fox News
@@bobman717 I don’t watch Fox News.
I suggest you stop hoping for less oil consumption. It wont happen any time soon. That stuff is just to versatile of a resource to give up.
Only about 25-30% of oil consumption (in the US) is for use in industrial applications such as plastics, the rest is motor fuel, electricity and heating. There is a lot of room to reduce oil consumption
@@barelmaker theoretically, yes. Practically? No
Better find a way, we're currently exploring more and more difficult places as the easy deposits are drying up... You think 2km deep rigs exist for fun. Maybe think outside your lifetime. Thanks
@@machinedude9386Sweden barely uses oil for electricity anymore. It's not impossible to use other energy sources!
@@phreyahSure but oil isn’t really used for energy and to produce electricity
Oil has far more practical applications than electricity
We aren’t moving away from less and less oil. But ok. 🤣
Shoutout to all those hardworking Men contributing so much for our infrastructure.
Drill baby drill, let’s dig up and use as much oil as possible
One part of one of my biggest questions answered but the second part is who assembles them under the water and how?
Combination of putting together above the water line and divers and ROV’s under the water line. I’m just about to make the jump from working on an oil rig to being a diver
Im impressed on how they build it under water with such waves and stuff.
Let’s not forget this is what caused the BP oil spill
No one cares
@@schizvoid8774no one cares? Really? That killed or injured millions of animals, ruined coastlines, and disrupted the livelihoods of thousands of people
No, incompetence caused the spill.
Also what causes modern civilization to be possible. Humanity is safer by far from the climate now than ever before, in large part thanks to cost-effective reliable energy.
Well those electric cars do need quite a bit of lithium and we have to do more harm to the environment to get the lithium rather than just driving gas powered vehicles.
Also lithium supply is gonna end sooner than oil and is more dangerous for the environment
Boomer
@@jumpfly21please google what the third element on the periodic table is
All those alternative power sources require rare earth minerals mined by diesel engines, or require diesel engines to run electricity to in the case of the electric car chargers.
You had me until, “Hopefully, we’re moving toward a world using less and less oil”. I like living in reality.
? oil is a non-renewable resource. why the hell wouldn’t you hope to be moving away from reliance on it
@@tucegs522 I guess it depends on the timeline in mind. We so heavily rely on oil for our world and that is not slowing down anytime soon. I would say the goal should be to find more oil and develop a more efficient method of utilizing it or trying to find a way to reuse/recycle oil.
@@tucegs522youve been lied to, oil has always been a renewable resource
i love polluting the planet we live on!1!!1!
@@tucegs522it’s what William said. Let’s be real, It’s not that as a society we don’t want to move forward towards more efficient and cleaner types of energy. But there all so many glaring problems to point out with each source and I’m not wasting any more time talkin about it on a RUclips comment section. But what I can say for sure estimates said to end oil use by so called experts or governments would kill hundreds of millions of people if applied across the globe. Let alone the idea of getting rid of petroleum all together is not possible if you simply ask how is the majority of electricity produced. I know we can get there just not in our lifetime
What bugs me about solar arrays and windfarms is that you literally NEED oil to build them. So they dont actually lower oil consumption, they increase it.
Plus they use insane amounts of land to be able to replace a comparable fossil fuel plant
Thats 99% of all energy solutions lol. Pipe dream nice sounding ideas that still predominantly rely on fossil fuels but that can obfuscate it so the consumer can feel like a good person all because they cant see the smoke stack or exhaust pipe with their own two eyes. None of these solutions matter when china produces the vast majority of emissions and has no intention of killing their economy like the west does in the name of “the climate”
yes except there's a net carbon footprint calculation that's done for any such project so that you can guarantee that within the lifespan of the installation it would offset more carbon production than it costs to build it
@@theminecraft4202 They harm wildlife like birds migrating, they break a lot and require lots of maintenance, they're extremely toxic and pollute the ocean, they don't produce enough energy to ever quantify the amount of labor, toxicity and death of wildlife to justify them being built.
Solar is a joke as well. Extremely toxic to the environment, especially after rainfall. They need to be cleaned all the time, they don't generate enough to quantify the toxicity they leave behind in the soil, from production and in the landfills.
We would be better off wave energy harnessing the waves coming in, which occur way more often than both sunshine and windy days and it generates more power than both combined. The reason why it's not being built is because it's not about producing clean energy, it's about control. That's why we don't see Thorium Salt Reactors being used which would solve our energy crises immediately.
1,170 and 2,640 terrawatt-hours for wave energy
200,000 GWh Solar energy as of 2022.
434 billion kWh wind turbines 2022.
@@theminecraft4202
I know about those calculations, and I'm not impressed at all.
In the first place, the unreliables require 100% backup capacity, because their production can drop to zero at any time. So the relevant comparison is not x TW of unreliables versus x TW of reliables, but (x TW of unreliables + x TW of reliables as backup) versus just the x TW of reliables on its own.
And then you get into things like the exaggerated lifespans (20 - 30 years, when reality is closer to 10,) international manufacturers just paying governments to _say_ that they're going green even when they're using the same dirty energy as everyone else...
And, what about when the voters get tired of paying for wildly overpriced, unreliable power? There are cases in Germany now where wind farms are being torn down to make way for coal mines - which is a completely rational, proportionate response to the effect unreliable power is having on their country. Shouldn't wind power have to own _those_ emissions too?
Thank you!! I have been wondering this for so long!
"Hopefully, we're moving away from oil."
Thanks, I don't remember asking. Your ESG score +1.
She probably just wants to fit in and talk about shit she knows nothing about
You’re right, hopefully we keep using MORE and MORE oil.
The men working on those rigs are some of the best of us.
Global oil demand is forecasted to increase not decrease
We are literally using more and more oil every year.
Loving your video showing the scale of the earth’s crust and this was cool too!
Wait so the tallest manmade structure is an oil rig?
It's not if it's not on water.
Sperm wale? Is that even a thing? Lol🤣
Bro hasn't heard of sperm whales
Oil is way better than wind or solar. Fight me.
Nothing optimistic about "using less oil". It will bring nothing but poverty.
stop being woke and just give us ocean facts, we don’t need your opinions on oil, thanks! 😊
Exactly
Love your channel. It gives me time to “nerd out”.
Oil dependance will NEVER go away
I love what you’re doing for social media ❤
My ass thought that oil rigs float…
Your narration and even the tone of your voice is captivating.
Keep it up!
Damn that’s actually crazy as hell😭😭they’re deeper then I thought😭😭😭and they’re made different from how I thought, i thought they were all made with legs down to the ocean floor, not some floating and being anchored to the sea floor😭😭😭
Hopefully we use oil forever
This won’t happen because we use too much of it. With our current rate we’ll run out of oil at some point.
can't manage to keep them from spilling oil into the ocean though
Love when a question I’ve always had in my mind is answered by a RUclips short.
When theres money theres innovation
There should be a documentary showing how they build such an incredible feat of engineering. THERE. MUST. BE.
Ich träume von einer Kuschelparty mit Schatti und Shlomi
I like that you're using a comprehendable metric system.
You are amazing boo🎉🎉
So technically the tallest buildings on earth are oil rigs. They just need to be brought out of the ocean first.
Does only the part that's above water count for tallness?
@@OptimalOwl I mean, there's the pipe thingy that goes from the bottoms to the top, that can count maybe.
the men who tied the anchors down to those oil rigs. the men who assembled the pillars that hold up the oil rig.
that is just crazy.
You use the metric system! I love it!
The titanic be screaming lol
I have heard After Aerospace engineering, Oil Rig engineering is peak of what humans have achieved to built.
What's the tallest man made thing ever
Answer: Oil Rigs 💀💀💀
Daddy long rigs
damn i thought they built the ocean around them 😮
Hopefully we’re moving to a world that’s using more and more oil
literally no our usage today is unsustainable even ignoring the environmental and health threats we simply are just simply running out
I worked on an oil rig for a while. Goddamn, it feels so weird. Left the job after my first station lmao.
Umm what? We actually build the water around the oil rigs. (Joke)
Finally a channel that uses metric units
Optimistic tech stories: straight up about oil rigs being sick
Drill baby Drill
Thank god for off shore wind farms
Balls deep
Peak commenting.
The Deep 😮
I have always wondered about this 😮 thanks for clarifying 🤯
The fact that there is an oil rig anchored at the seabed keeping in mind that the deepest millitary submarine cant get lower than this is insane.
That crane moving the entire oil rig is more impressive engineering to me.
Drill, baby, drill!
ur vds are interesting keep going