The Red Sea Dam: Generating 50x the Power of a Nuclear Plant 

For sure!

Right

It's never going to happen.

We're already ruining Africa, seems on par with our species

Exactly, it's bonkers!

They'll have a system locks and a toll

​@@shabayaba123 still a terrible idea

They could have instead opted for smaller Gulf of Aqaba. It's not hindering the most important trade routes and it's gonna be way easier to build and manage.

damn them all to hell!

That was kinda one of my first thoughts upon clicking on le video, lol

came here to say this

least destructive communist initiative

there where also several dam failures both in europe ( the vojont dam in my country comes to mind) and several in the Us ... let's just say that dam failures can just delete settlements placed below the dam , because it's essentially a tsunami that is not slowed down by gravity , but accellerated by it ...

Better use of money than what most governments spend money on

How about a hospital or a power station to service a complete generation of people? This climate hoax will pass but the damage it does will be worse than any climate change.

There is another video about an even more retarded idea to dam the entire mediterranean.

I think this is one of the most marvelous bad ideas of all time, I'll sleep a little better knowing our species can f'k mother nature even worse she keeps playing wit us like this 😅

All in the name of carbon free energy.

​@@PeteTheL337 yeah, right. Because constructing a 1km wide 100km long colossal structure capable of holding back the ocean is completely carbon free. As we all know components production, transportation and construction happen by carbon free magic and does not require any fossil fuels or concrete. I'm amazed they can seriously discuss such braindead megastructures.

more like it takes the red sea 😄

No, this makes the Line look like divine benevolence. This is the kind of crap the Borg would do to a planet they assimilated.

Hey! The Line will utterly REVOLUTIONIZE making any two points in a city as far apart as possible!

If someone tried to build this, Egypt would do the smart thing and bomb it.

i think some of those engineers were snorting lines when they came up with it.

Don't encourage them.

Someone was like "I wanna be bigger than Moses"

That’s hawt

cooool, can you connect that to the tunnel from england to newyork?!

@@mho... Yes, no problem , will start straight after I build the Bridge to Nowhere!

The Penzhinskaya Tidal Power Plant (115-120 GW) is a project of a tidal power plant in the Penzhinskaya Bay, located in the northeastern part of the Shelikhov Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk. Geographically, it should be located in the Magadan region and the Kamchatka Territory of Russia. Depending on the chosen project, it can become the world's largest hydraulic power plant in terms of installed capacity and electricity generation per year. The Lena-Kamchatka railway can pass through the dam of the power plant. In order to fully realize the hydropotential of the Penzhinskaya Bay, two projects have been developed, which differ in capacity and annual electricity generation: The southern section is larger, with depths up to 67 meters and a length of about 72 km. It is planned that the capacity of this facility will reach 87.4 GW, that is, over 200 billion kWh of electricity per year. The maximum tide in the Southern alignment is 11 meters. The northern channel will have a length of about 32 km, and the depths will be up to 26 meters with a maximum tide of up to 13.4 meters. According to calculations, its capacity will reach 21 GW, which will allow to receive 72 billion kWh of electric energy annually. The construction of the Penzhinskaya power plant was discussed back in Soviet times. In the 1980s, research was conducted in the Sea of Okhotsk for future construction, but during the development of the project, Soviet engineers faced high costs for its implementation. At that time, the average construction costs were estimated at $260 billion. The decision to start creating the project reappeared in 2021. The choice in favor of Shelikhov Bay was not made by chance. The height of the tides here reaches 9 meters, and sometimes the water rises to 13 meters, which is the highest indicator for the Pacific Ocean. Considering the area of the Penzhinskaya Bay, it can be noted that the daily passage of water is 360-530 km3, and this exceeds the flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon (the largest river on the planet) at least 20 times. If we compare the Penzhinskaya NPP with the largest hydroelectric power plants in the world, we can see that the Northern section will approach the Chinese Three Gorges power plant in terms of its capacity, and the Southern section will surpass it four times. The commissioning of the enterprise will effectively solve the energy problems of the Far East. The power plant has a great export potential and can make a profit by supplying electricity to other countries. The station's capacity can be used in the following areas: hydrogen production in the Kamchatka Territory; laying of power lines to Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk region; electric energy supplies to Japan, China, other countries; processing of coal into combustible carbons (methanol or synthetic oil). It is planned that fish-passing facilities and locks will be built into the design of the station, ensuring the passage of vessels of various capacities. On the upper part of the dam there will be a highway that will connect Kamchatka and Magadan. In 2021, the company "N2 Clean Energy" and JSC "Kamchatka Krai Development Corporation" started to create a project of the Penzhinskaya PES, which can become the largest tidal power plant in the world in terms of power and electricity generation. Construction will be carried out in Shelikhov Bay, in the Sea of Okhotsk. The location for the power plant was chosen in the Penzhinskaya Bay, which gave the name to the object. Completion of construction works and commissioning of the facility is scheduled for 2035.

Just build it and blame “climate change” for whatever problems occur afterwards… problem solved

Also who needs the Suez anyway lmao?

Let's try: 1) 50 nuclear power plants are cheaper to build, will be available in less time and could be built closer to the areas where their output is really needed. 2) What about the closure of the Suez Canal and its trade route. The extra mileage imposed to the shipping lanes is it also 'carbon free'? 3) What about of killing one live sea and its replacement by a desert stretch? 4) Global cost. 5) Political feasibility. 6) Geotechnical instability on a dam built on two different tectonic plates.

​@diegoferreiro9478 7) Solar power exists, and the region is one of the most driest deserts in the world .Clearly, there are better green alternatives to a dem that size

That was my thought. How much extra oil would ships burn to make the trip around cape horn?

@@pauljaworski9386 For sure. Also, every country that has a navy sometimes sends it's warships through it. You can't rely on governments to make good environmental choices, but if it costs money and restricts their military they sure act swiftly

They would obviously build locks into it lol. Dams aren’t just walls you plop down into the water.

There would be a system of locks, of course.

@@MiniDevilDF Did you listen to the whole clip? After how ever many years the locks would be not usable

Short answer, almost certainly.

That would be the reasonable thing to do

At an average of $10b per GW, that would be $500b for 50GW, and you would only get 1GW in maybe 10 years. $200b for a 50GW dam is much better. But $50bn for 50GW of solar panels, and $100bn for batteries with a weeks storage is even better

​@@j.brendenstookey3437definitely not. 50 nuclear plants would be around $500b

Short term, maybe. Long term, no.

Rebirth island was soviet bio germ warfare base on an island. It’s closed now but before soviets left the poured all the weapons on the ground , now after the U.S. and others did there best to clean it but it’s been blowing up in the wind for yrs. The soviets largest production was death now it’s the Russians turn. Gross.

good thing the 'scientists' isn't in a position to carry it out. better prevention than cure. from extinction than relying on science to bring them back. mammoth anyone?

Same. My first thought was, "Oh, thi sis going wrong eighteen ways just in concept.". Mys econd was "See Lake Meade". .... Nope.

It was even found in Antarctica

That's what I was thinking! In the UK they spent almost that amount and still haven't completed a little 100 miles highspeed railway from London to Birmingham!

I mean yeah, if you do not know a guy who knows a guy who "Found" about 10 billion pounds of concrete that fell off a truck.

You know the Arabs use indentured workers, don’t you?

the materials and labor costs alone, they haven't factored in the corrupt funneling of ill gotten gains to donors, and supporters. when it's all said and done, it would have cost probably 30 trillion and made some people some very wealthy men.

​@@rogerblackwood8815 probably spent 50 quid on the actual railway building bit and the rest on mid level management positions and advisory groups in what adhesive might work on the stickers to put on the project resources along with a working group to come up with the little slogans to put on the fences around building sites. All very important. They also have a huge team of photoshop experts making pictures of what it might look like.

Thank you for your family's wise leadership, Dear Leader 😂

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It’s to chase likes…

Its even better when they don't show you how they got that number.

They addressed it in the video. They said the biggest approaches 8GW and most are 1GW. Did you not watch before commenting?

Most nuclear power plants are around 1 GW. Some slightly larger, some slightly smaller. But 50x is a good enough approximation for a RU-vid channel like this one.

@@nonconsensualopinion That's nearly an order of magnitude. Could literally just list the wattage and move on with it. And no, I did not watch the video. I try not to reward that type of title with view time.

Plus you need to maintain it for 300 years…

Saved me some typing.

No way that humans can build a complex structure that will last that long.

@@jdilksjr Except we did. There's plenty of human structure that were built centuries or millennia ago that are still usable. Sure, they're not very complex by our standard but they were when they were built.

@@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine Not in a destructive environment with moving tectonic plates and salt water. Buildings on dry, solid ground are way simpler due to the stability of the factors involved.

China will make the Belt. Then, all the trade will be done by 5 km trains. No more ships...

Kind of like Norde stream 1 and 2 .

Who would attack it? We all know....USA....because of increased shipping costs to European vassal states.

Not in this area, though. Which river would you get water from for cooling? There is none. The giant deserts are great for solar and the coastlines are great for wind. For example, Saudi Arabia could become a Saudi Arabia but for renewables instead of for oil.

@@QwoaX why not just use the Red Sea as the heat sink?

@@YanBaoQin You couldn't use the water from the sea directly, primarily because it's saltwater and saltwater tends to be extremely corrosive to any sort of machinery. That said, the nuclear power plants could just power a desalination plant specifically for the production of coolant and steam feedwater. It's not like saltwater has been a major obstacle for steam based power for a while, ships have had their own onboard desalination plants for a while now for the production of freshwater, both for human use and to help replenish their feedwater supply. Honestly, speaking of desalination plants, we really ought to be building a lot more of them. Would certainly help with the depletion of river and groundwater resources that some regions of the world are contending with.

@@QwoaX There's a fairly big one in Egypt I seem to remember.

@@andrewlucia865 the US Navy uses seawater almost exclusively for its nuclear power plants

At least they are safe, unlike dams.

@@SebastianLarsen nuclear reactors aren't safe

You'd only need about 30 or so if they're EPR's a proven and operating design. And there's really no limit on size, it's sadly unstudied but nuclear reactors are probably economical up to several gigawatts depending on type.

@@bronzedivision 1.21 Gigawatts???!!! I'm sorry future boy but the only power souce that can produce that is a bolt of lightning!

@@SebastianLarsen not sure if sarcasm, but actually yes lol... The amount of people who died constructing Hoover Dam alone is greater than any direct deaths from Three Mile, Chernobyl, and Fukushima combined. The irony is that when people start to treat things that are dangerous as anything less than inevitably call upon the grave. There are untold scores of men who make up parts of the Hoover Dam's foundation, irrecoverably buried in concrete.

You could probably solve fusion for this money...

Thorium has already been sorted out how to use it but sadly the USA, UK and others keep shitting on it. In a few years China will have it up and running and be years ahead.

​@@hubertino855 yea, just throw money at your problems and they will be solved lmao

@@MrOMGtime That was sarcasm? It's obvious that money will not solve every problem but it helps... Obviously spending it on building modern nuclear or nuclear research like thorium or SMR's will be better and with faster returns... And not building giga tarded dam... But aiming for fusion in the future is not an bad idea.

​@@MrOMGtime works in the education system.

That's what your mom said about anal.... now her bee whole is getting blasted out by multiple homeless men on the regular. The point is, Shawn, something might look like a painfully bad idea but in the end, might be massively cost-effective. You don't have to apologize to me son, as the bigger man I don't need those kinds of things from boys like you.

And it would be a bombing attack magnet, considering the geopolitical status quos native to the region

@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Your bee whole is already a BBC sea men dump magnet so you would know about the nature of such things.

Yeah, I mean, who needs electricity if you’re starving to death from lack of food due to drought and no more fishing, right?

300 years?! Damn don't even last that long! Wowzer

AND increasing carbon emissions due to all those ships burning all the extra fuel to make the longer journey.

Dutch

"and didn't share.."🤣😂🤣

Nope, by then fusion will only be 30 years away.

Not to mention all the extra carbon generated by not being able to ship through the Suez Canal. Every Single Day!

Finally a great comment lol 👍🏻

sand storms ruin solar panels

Too expensive per KWH compared to nuclear and other power sources.

@Curiosity I never deliberately stopped, though I am autistic and struggle to be verbal. That can contribute to gaps.

Ehh, it's already evaporating at that rate. It would be a lack of evaporation that would matter more I think.

as more land gets exposed the evap rate does go down so does affect the local weather

Usually. Roman concrete is much older. And they just figured out how it lasts so long.

Regular concrete can't. But roman concrete still stands doesn't it ? We can make an improved version of it. (Idea of the dam is shit though)

I thought he misspoke when he said 300 years.

4:37 doesn’t seem it would be concrete. Though I can’t figure out what it would be.

How do people come up with such bullshit? Concrete will basically last FOREVER. The thing that will break down is simple reinforced concrete - cause after some time the steel will start corroding and that is what destroys the structure. And no, ancient concrete is rather poor quality in comparison. Most of it has crumbles millenia ago. The only things that are left standing are those very few exceptions that just happen to have the right mixture and perfect conditions to last long - mostly areas with rather mild weather, no other outside forces that could damage it, and nearly completely static loads. If you used those same mixtures and tried making a sidewalk in northern europe out of that they would fail within a couple of years.

Its also 900 meters deep

There was a mega projects video about that I think. It was about draining the Mediterranean and building a new utopia in it.

@@chaddog313 there is, and nobody wants it

Fishing, like they did before. Oh wait....