Egypt’s $9BN Water Transfer Project

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15 күн бұрын

Today we explore the Qattara Depression in Egypt. This mega project is a pretty insane piece of planned engineering and one of the world's largest water transfer project. This gig project is so grand, we were blown away by the construction plans, will this project be a success?
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@TheImpossibleBuild 13 күн бұрын

That nuclear bomb idea was a pretty stupid one 🤣 Will this project succeed?

@johaocarl 12 күн бұрын

The best way to create an artificial Dead Sea.

@salahelackad2005 11 күн бұрын

That will ruin whatever groundwater still available in the scattered oasis in the western dessert of Egypt.

@mabdalbari 7 күн бұрын

correct, it would be an environmental catastrophe for even the Nile Delta and massive erosion on the north cost of Egypt

@Tom-kw6et 13 күн бұрын

Hydroelectric dams don’t generate power through evaporation wtf is this guy talking about.

@ArefRichardForster-mr2qj 12 күн бұрын

The Depression did this

@salahelackad2005 11 күн бұрын

He means the evaporation would be so large that there will be always an influx of water to come from the Mediterranean and power the turbines.

@MrPnggold 13 күн бұрын

modern engineering,,. anything is possible 🚀💯🙏🏾

@kc10man 13 күн бұрын

They are going to poison the water table and the worlds second largest aquafer. Great job...

@HammerOn-bu7gx 13 күн бұрын

While the Russians did use a nuclear bomb, as a test, to make a lake, it turned out to be a radiation hazard, so dropping that part of the idea is good. Reverse osmosis for that much water is problematic. I don't think there's enough tubing manufactures in the world to remotely cover the necessary tubing on a yearly basis. And the amount of plastic waste, unless it can be recycled, is horrific. An evaporative/boil-off condenser (Electric heaters fro the power turbines/solar/wind.) process may be better suited to such a large scale. Oh, and thank you for loosing the wobbly camera. But what's up with the small white grid in the video?

@dustinboyce25 13 күн бұрын

So are they relying on evaporation to create enough inflow for hydroelectric or floating surface covers to preserve the desalinized lake?

@tarek900045 13 күн бұрын

Its not an official plan cause that will destroy all resevoir water under the dessert

@DB-rw9ld 13 күн бұрын

There are machines that can take the natural moisture in the air and make it clean drinking water. Yes even desert air has moisture in it.

@jimbenjamin5992 13 күн бұрын

Great idea 👍👍👍

@PacoOtis 13 күн бұрын

Pipe dream! Best of luck!

@mmrr3757 13 күн бұрын

Proud of Egypt❤🇪🇬

@zebibacker0423 12 күн бұрын

Crying about ethiopians dam,and proud of Egypt hé? 🤔🤔 Egypt better zip it about ethiopians dam?

@Mohamed-bc3on 11 күн бұрын

@@zebibacker0423shut up fool. Stop talking nonsense all throughout the comment body and go do something beneficial.

@98TrueRocker98 13 күн бұрын

Why not divert the Nile water to run off into the depression instead of into the sea? That way you dont get a lake full of salt water but full of regular water

@mostafasamy8751 13 күн бұрын

The Nile is not infinite

@98TrueRocker98 13 күн бұрын

@@mostafasamy8751 Thats the point...

@ananazi23 13 күн бұрын

the Nile hardly meets 30% of fresh water needed in Egypt

@jcarp8471 13 күн бұрын

The Nile is also a lot further away from the depression then the Mediterranean Sea.

@danieljovany8234 12 күн бұрын

@@ananazi23 That is 100% incorrect statistic that you just made up.

@10hawell 6 күн бұрын

Whoever builds this canal will be remembered as God millennia from now. Maybe some powerful people fear that.

@felixyusupov7299 7 күн бұрын

Filling the depression with desalinated water is stupid because it requires constant inputs of energy. Filling the depression with salt water and using the energy to desalinate water for use elsewhere does make sense. Extracting sea salt for the hyper saline lake would be a position. Adding moisture to the air would be a positive somewhere down wind which in this case is south. Another positive would would be arresting sea level rise for a period of time while the lake fills.

@Most_like_of_god 10 күн бұрын

Nice choose Egypt!!! 🥰🥰🥰 ^ ^

@Drophead1991 13 күн бұрын

No offense but whoever made this video didn't do his homework, all the estimates you made for the project is completely incorrect a project like this would cost at least 100+ billion usd to make and thats a conservative estimate, not to mention if we could desalinate that much water why would we put it in an open lake in the middle of one of the hottest deserts to evaporate that is literally like burning your money and even if you found a solution to that the qattara depression is filled with salt marshes that cover an area of about 300 square kilometers so you basically spending billions every year to desalinate water only for it to evaporate and the remaining water will be infused with the salt marshes that will result in that water being unusable.

@andrewwilkinson8646 13 күн бұрын

Bold!

@pullahuru9168 13 күн бұрын

How much salt does the evaporated water have? Why not use large scale ultrasonic nebulizers and collect the mist from surface?

@glorgau 13 күн бұрын

$9 billion?!?! That might get 50 miles of high speed rail track in california (by the year 2045)!

@Drophead1991 13 күн бұрын

its not a 9 billion dollars, a project of this magnitude would cost 100+ billion the person who made this video doesn't know what he/she is talking about, for example the desalination plant's that they are talking about alone would cost upwards of 40+ billion usd to make not to mention he said the cost for the tunnels if 6 million and that also is not true the cost of a 1km tunnel alone at the cheap end would cost more than 100+ million usd multiply that by 50 km your talking another 5 billion usd just for the tunnel's, in 2020 it was reported that saudi arabia would invest around $80 billion into desalination over the next decade and that its desalination capacity is expected to reach 8.5 million cubic meters per day by 2025 and they are already been investing tens of billions over the past 20 years, that should give you an understanding of how much this project would cost in comparison. who ever made this video is living in lala land.

@selindenizcebi9952 13 күн бұрын

Egypt really needs this kind of project to become a big power in the future. 🇹🇷❤️🇪🇬

@zebibacker0423 12 күн бұрын

The Same for Ethiopië, Egypte is crying about ethiopians dam,Egypte can build whaterver they want, but ethiopie not, hhhmmmm funny arabs.

@selindenizcebi9952 12 күн бұрын

@@zebibacker0423 we love u all 🇹🇷❤️💋

@EgyptianHorus 11 күн бұрын

@@zebibacker0423lol African

@dlewis8405 13 күн бұрын

Great idea. The only missing ingredient is financing. It will never happen.😊

@Mohamed-bc3on 11 күн бұрын

Don't count on it. Where there is potential, there is always funding.

@davidcross701 2 күн бұрын

So there is a proposal for a canal from the gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean sea. It goes through Israel. But the environmentalist are not have it. But Egypt's project, no problemo!

@danieloehler2494 11 күн бұрын

The true problem of Egypt is not a lack of water, but the rapid population growth. It is just insane to breed that intense and add over a million additional Egyptians each year. Egyptians must learn to become realists instead of going on the "inshallah, bukra, maalish" path to doom.

@theprimest 13 күн бұрын

I did a similar video on my channel on the Qattara depression it's epic, Who else agrees?

@jayejaye92 13 күн бұрын

I looked at both, very similar

@mikedonnarumma5337 13 күн бұрын

how will fish react to being covered

@shannonalaminski2619 7 күн бұрын

No fish will be able to survive in a new artificial expensive dead sea.

@kma3647 8 күн бұрын

Far be it from me to criticize a civilization famous as one of the great builders of the world, but this idea is a pipe dream. Using nukes in the excavation process would render all of that silt that would feed the lake radioactive, making the lake radioactive. It would have been an ecological disaster. The idea of using evaporation to generate power is also not feasible. In fact, the lake itself is not feasible without some source feeding new water to it to offset what evaporates in the desert. They're talking about a "greening" and rewilding project too, which wouldn't see the regional climate change for 20 or more years. For a country already involved in several megaprojects, drowning in debt, and struggling to feed its growing population, this thing's a non-starter.

@unknownknown2776 13 күн бұрын

What wasn't shown was how exactly one intends to capture the evaporating water to create your continuous loop. Even if you could I'd be quite skeptical it would be enough. Otherwise you have to pump the water back up w electric pumps that aren't in the plans. Otherwise, you're counting on using up enough of the desalinated water to justify the continuous flow from the Mediterranean. What this does to the Mediterranean is not discussed.

@Mallsus2 13 күн бұрын

I think they alluded to it when they were talking about generating 40 GW of power through pipes. Water evaporates from the lake lowering the lake level & causing water to inflow from the Mediterranean through turbines. That's my guess anyway

@marccracchiolo4935 13 күн бұрын

This has potential I don’t know why Elon Musk and the boring company aren’t all over this

@unknownknown2776 11 күн бұрын

@@marccracchiolo4935 Maybe he would see flaws as do I. I'd be curious to hear his thoughts tho.

@gantmj 11 күн бұрын

Desertification isn't a thing today. The world's deserts are getting smaller as the atmosphere gains more plant food (carbon dioxide).

@armineser2591 12 күн бұрын

Desalinate sea water to fill a lake covered with plastic balls? Why?

@orion7763 4 күн бұрын

Why do all the videos on this channel have a white grid over all the pictures/video clips? It's very annoying.

@kliff1000 13 күн бұрын

Should have been done years ago, this will be a great example for other countries to follow suit.

@unknownknown2776 11 күн бұрын

Nonsense!! It's a very unique geographic situation and not likely found anywhere else. There's also lots of questions to warrant skepticism!

@dougmurray1902 13 күн бұрын

The screen you add that makes it look like you are looking through a screen door makes your videos unwatchable

@Preciouspink 11 күн бұрын

Valuable salt ,huh?

@farhanvlog 13 күн бұрын

Hmm

@grantnw 13 күн бұрын

Seems a bit fanciful.

@GreenSneakersAndHam1 13 күн бұрын

Pure fantasy.

@gjm456 12 күн бұрын

Great idea ? Or environmental catastrophe ?

@mtmadigan82 12 күн бұрын

That tunnel goes straight to gaza. It will never hold water, but they still get tools like you to pretend like its a civil infrastructure project😂 and the international community to fund it😂

@RyanCliffe-ec5yu 13 күн бұрын

Ayoo first

@Hypnotoad582 13 күн бұрын

I think it would mess with the dust blown from the Sahara into the Pacific Ocean… which helps the CO2-eating algae… so no I don’t think this is a good idea from a climate change perspective.

@donaldharlan3981 13 күн бұрын

Bad idea

@Drophead1991 13 күн бұрын

this is complete nonsense what are you making your estimates according to

@mattdathew2794 8 күн бұрын

GREAT VIDEO! but IQ is small, it doesn't make any ounce of sense to desalinate such huge amounts of water, do u even have an idea of how much power is needed to desalinate

@timallison8560 13 күн бұрын

waste of money. the roi is going to be something like 30-40 years.

@knowledgeisgood9645 13 күн бұрын

Egypt is in deep economical trouble already. They don't need to gamble on a project with so many unknowns. A large lake was created behind the Aswan Dam. It caused all kinds of problems. Egypt is bad at dealing with rainfall. The monuments would not be served by it either. To create an even bigger lake would be irresponsible.