How plants survive the winter

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5 жыл бұрын

Despite the freezing temperatures, howling winds and constant darkness of Svalbard's polar night, this remote island is home to some incredible arctic plants. As the worlds climate becomes more extreme, bioengineers are studying these plants to find out how to improve our own crops.
Engineering Europe, Episode Six | Farming the Arctic
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@isaacarthurSFIA 5 жыл бұрын

I do not envy you trying to film on location there, but it's an excellent episode

@AtomicFrontier 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! This was definitely one of the most challenging to film, especially when needing to take the gloves gloves off to set up the camera/ lights.

@vahangood5999 5 жыл бұрын

I share Isaac's sentiment here.

@gary7vn Жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier Ottawa is colder.

@chemxcore 3 жыл бұрын

Hello I just came from Tom Scott's channel and I subscribed and am watching all of your episodes because this is damn good stuff!

@brandynamite3022 3 жыл бұрын

same

@sajanpreetsingh9144 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@natsgreatoldgamereviews6271 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Life_42 Жыл бұрын

Same!

@superfamilyallosauridae6505 4 жыл бұрын

I am shocked you don't have more subs. And unshocked Isaac Arthur noticed this channel. Really impressed you didn't visibly shiver, with any particular amount of layers.

@AtomicFrontier 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! I had borrowed a really warm jacket from a friend for the trip, but it looked really weird so didn't wear it while on camera. Svalbard was hit with a really "warm" winter that year, so it only got to -10C. The "putting hand in the snow" scene was excruciating though, since we kept needing to reshoot it because of forgetting the lines.

@superfamilyallosauridae6505 4 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier I'm used to real humid winters, so well above freezing starts to feel insane. Incomprehensible

@sajanpreetsingh9144 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@SMiki55 2 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier tfw for a second I thought you wrote "warm winter, only -100C"

@ratclit 3 жыл бұрын

Very underrated show

@gummykangaroo 5 жыл бұрын

Great episode!

@cederveltman 3 жыл бұрын

this shit is gonna blow up

@captainunknown2839 3 жыл бұрын

Very Underrated channel! I want to see you grow, You have one of the best quality educational videos on KZfaq!

@locabal8354 5 жыл бұрын

mate, i think i found a hidden gem

@Domihork 3 жыл бұрын

Just an interesting point to farms on Svalbards - during the Cold War, the Soviets had a self-sustaining town there called Pyramiden with their own greenhouses that produced fresh fruits and vegetables and even enough to feed chickens, cows and pigs. They were trying to prove to the West that they're better. As USSR neared its collapse, they abandoned the town as it was and let it crumble. Scarily enough, they started reconstructing it recently. I wonder why...

@romanski5811 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why, too, since because of climate change Russia is going to have a lot of land freed up for agriculture.

@Sedgewise47 2 жыл бұрын

Domihork 😯! Did anyone tell J.R. Nyquist?(!) (😬!…)

@riumaio1235 3 жыл бұрын

Yo, this was filmed in norway but holy moly this video is fire

@SPEEDKILLAR 5 жыл бұрын

Great episode again!

@zapfanzapfan 3 жыл бұрын

That is such a cool place :-)

@vulduv 3 жыл бұрын

4:00 even if it never goes bellow freezing point. you should still have antifreeze in the coolant system. as the coolant pump is lubricated by the antifreeze itself. (water is a comparably shitty lubricant) so without any anti freeze in the system. the coolant pump will first overheat, then it will jam, which destroys the cam belt, and ruins the engine.

@aularound 3 жыл бұрын

Good video! 3:16, I am sure that the temperature can drop far more than down to -20C on Svalbard. Probably down to -40C.

@teli6350 Жыл бұрын

yes Longyearbyen cold records go below -40°C, though the average January-February temperature in the town is only around -11°C. For Arctic standards, Longyearbyen winters are quite mild, with even towns on the mainland, like Kárášjohka, having colder winter averages and records than it.

@ERROR204. 3 жыл бұрын

How does this channel have such high production value?

@crazystuffproduction 5 жыл бұрын

really great channel

@ARBB1 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting approach to extremal agriculture

@ylhajee 3 жыл бұрын

I am currently binging your amazing channel. Thanks for all the great videos, and please continue! I do wonder about what you say at ~0:53 minute into the video, about a UV lamp for photosynthesis. UV is not the most effective wavelength for plant growth, and depending on if it produces UV A, B or C it could be varying levels of damaging to the plants. Are you sure it's a UV lamp and not some other lamp, and why is a UV lamp used here?

@markchinguz4401 2 жыл бұрын

Uv *can* be needed for some plants. But not for most crops. Good thing to pick up!

@Arktic06 2 жыл бұрын

Can we agree that his huskies kinda stole the show?

@vladomaimun 2 жыл бұрын

That dome looks like a factorio laboratory

@TISJA-qh4bh 3 жыл бұрын

he's even cuter in the hat 😍

@arcanephysics7384 2 жыл бұрын

anyone know the song that plays at the start of the video and after 4:40?

@goranjosic 2 жыл бұрын

I love your documentaries, they are great!!! But your voice is always weird, it sounds like it was recorded afterwards - the background sounds are missing when you shoot outside - and that's how it is in every your video. It would be great if you could fix it and record your voice where you are - it's much more natural (like Veritasium and others)

@Sedgewise47 2 жыл бұрын

1:20 _DOGGIES_!!!…

@williamchamberlain2263 2 жыл бұрын

Polish people: That title is ... uncomfortable.

@Felix-nz7lq 3 жыл бұрын

For being so young your delivery is fairly good. I would say that it’d be better if you perhaps spoke a bit slower since it feels a bit frantic at times. Really looking forward to future videos, you’ve got yourself a sub