The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand
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7 жыл бұрынI never thought of sand as a non-renewable resource, but there's only a limited supply: and to make things worse, it keeps getting washed into the sea. At Cape May, New Jersey, the US Army Corps of Engineers have just finished rebuilding a beach: here's why.
Thanks to the folks from the Corps for showing me around!
There's more about their project here: www.nap.usace.army.mil/Mission...
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EDITOR: Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin
And thanks to Elmo Keep for linking to the article that inspired this video!
REFERENCES:
Leatherman, S., Zhang, K. and Douglas, B. (2000).
Sea level rise shown to drive coastal erosion.
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 81(6), p.55.
Peduzzi, P. (2014). Sand, rarer than one thinks.
Environmental Development / United Nations
Environmental Program, 11, pp.208-218. : www.unep.org/pdf/UNEP_GEAS_Mar...
Zhang, G., Song, J., Yang, J. and Liu, X. (2006).
Performance of mortar and concrete made with a fine aggregate
of desert sand. Building and Environment, 41(11), pp.1478-1481.
Beiser, V. (2015). The Deadly Global War for Sand. Wired. www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal...
Beiser, V. (2016). The World’s Disappearing Sand. The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/op...
@TomScottGo 7 жыл бұрын
Pull down the description for links, references, and details on this one - and thanks again to all the folks who went out of their way to make this happen!
@AAwArchie 7 жыл бұрын
Tom Scott I love your videos
@Fire_Wire 7 жыл бұрын
Tom Scott will do Tom
@stalker4429 7 жыл бұрын
Tom Scott Thanks for another great video!
@newtflavouredpopcorn9408 7 жыл бұрын
i love your videos
@jeremyzorek 7 жыл бұрын
+Tom Scott I remember seeing them doing work similar to this on the beaches in Long Beach Island, where I go on vacation with my family. IIRC it was because Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of beach erosion so they needed to rebuild dunes. Now I understand what they were doing and why they were doing it! Love your stuff, btw!
@lewisconroy6225 7 жыл бұрын
I swear 90% of our missing sand is in casual beach goer's cars.
@isabijl 7 жыл бұрын
Or in tourist arses.
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Lewis Conroy I've heard the Maldives actually disallow the export of sand even at a tourist rate...
@FlyingJetpack1 7 жыл бұрын
The next thing you know, people would start to salvage cars, dirty towels and slippers for sand
@miksuko 7 жыл бұрын
goers'*
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
My mother used to take home a metric shitload of sand from every other beach vacation
@chakornshipp4155 7 жыл бұрын
Anakin will be thrilled.
@lewisconroy6225 7 жыл бұрын
You sir, win the best comment I've seen all day.
@cosmicjenny4508 7 жыл бұрын
+Chakorn Shipp It's coarse... It's rough... And it gets everywhere...
@michaelecker448 7 жыл бұрын
Chakorn Shipp 😂
@katzen3314 7 жыл бұрын
xD
@DaxTheOtter 7 жыл бұрын
UltimateGeek its course and rough, and it grts everywhere
@s6th795 7 жыл бұрын
Sand used to be a renewable resource, but then Mojang patched the sand duplication bug.
@sirnomnom6315 7 жыл бұрын
s6thgaming lmao 👌
@ethankoetsier 7 жыл бұрын
s6thgaming No, you can still do it. It's harder now though
@odyseya 4 жыл бұрын
Just use an end portal, duh.
@chickeninabox 4 жыл бұрын
built a 16*16 nether portal on the nearest beach to a village and it's the largest nether portal I have made
@joeyhardin5903 4 жыл бұрын
@the last thing you'll ever see there is no blackstone sand
@PracticalEngineeringChannel 7 жыл бұрын
Excellent topic
@suryasekar97 5 жыл бұрын
You make a video about this
@karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos 3 жыл бұрын
sand-astic !
@noice131 3 жыл бұрын
Im here to let u know that ur comment is having 444 likes after 4 years. Niceee
@dennislepke2125 Жыл бұрын
@@noice131 one year later and it is now 555 likes.
@collaborativedataaccounts3249 8 ай бұрын
It's called Lies.
@Chowder_T 7 жыл бұрын
Sand mafia? Damn, reality really is stranger than fiction.
@roondarmurnig338 7 жыл бұрын
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
@manishsinghbisht3010 7 жыл бұрын
Chowder T the place where I live, they are in newspapers once a week!
@hark8318 7 жыл бұрын
Lordious reminds me of india
@kieran6417 7 жыл бұрын
They leave you sleeping with the fishes.
@setha7066 6 жыл бұрын
Roondar Murnig no it’s he who controls the doors control space
@ithinkimhipster502 7 жыл бұрын
it seems that the only thing that we aren't running out of is problems
@janeweber8654 7 жыл бұрын
We're not running out of people! That's probably why we have so many problems, though...
@eternitynaut 7 жыл бұрын
After 2100 when fertility rate, globally, will be less than 2, we'll be running out of that as well.
@mikeyo1234 4 жыл бұрын
And every solution creates more problems than the one it solves.
@cobalius 4 жыл бұрын
We're running out of creative solutions that they will pay for
@Mohazz88 4 жыл бұрын
U can say that again..
@rocktober9964 4 жыл бұрын
In Cape May, where this video was filmed, right next door is a bird observatory, in fact where those lakes are inland harbor thousands ofbirds during migration season. That sand is CRUCIAL to migrating bird species such as pipers and plovers and some sections of that specific beach are closed to nesting in some parts of the year. Also that bunker in the background is a wwii submarine outpost
@mellowyellow6572 Ай бұрын
I can’t believe he walked right in front of that bunker and didn’t even acknowledge it! It drove me crazy!
@anakinskywalker4355 7 жыл бұрын
Good, I'm glad!! I hate sand, its coarse and it's rough and it gets everywhere!!
@princessmarshella654 7 жыл бұрын
Same,Anakin,Same.
@pillarshipempireemployee0142 7 жыл бұрын
same
@stuff5499 6 жыл бұрын
Anakin Skywalker but still, there are many high grounds on earth
@tessgray678 6 жыл бұрын
How do you feel about obi-wan sending Luke to a sandy planet.
@Siegmernes 4 жыл бұрын
@@simplepotato24 Bro. It's a star wars joke. Look at his name xD
@DomenBremecXCVI 7 жыл бұрын
1. Stop building sandboxes for children 2. No child will ever think about becoming an architect 3. No building needed 4. More sand!
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Domen Bremec but we will need to do a lot of building when suburbia becomes obsolete at $500 a barrel oil.
@flodnak 7 жыл бұрын
Interestingly (or maybe not), the sand used in sandboxes is the same type as beach sand, because it sticks together - but the sand used in the pits around playground equipment, to break kids' falls, is a different type, exactly because it doesn't stick together.
@DomenBremecXCVI 7 жыл бұрын
flodnak We had grass around the playground and now they have tartan around it... never saw actual sand in their place
@kittyrules 7 жыл бұрын
flawless logic
@peterrafeiner9461 7 жыл бұрын
It only sticks because little Mike always pees into it :-)
@Stelum1000 7 жыл бұрын
We're gonna build a beach, and make the fish pay for it. We have the best sand.
@briangarrow448 7 жыл бұрын
Stelum -Your comment wins the Internet today. Well played, well played...
@annp4107 7 жыл бұрын
Stelum :') hahahaha
@id1666 7 жыл бұрын
We're gonna build sand and make the beach pay for it. Believe me, it's going to work. 100%.
@lastfirst8564 7 жыл бұрын
Stelum *Extensive arm movement and rotation*
@seinnajune348 7 жыл бұрын
Stelum 😂😂😂😂
@MrOwnerandPwner 7 жыл бұрын
This is where the fun begins.
@RedStickInc 7 жыл бұрын
Somewhere in the distance, you can here Anakin say "Yippie"
@anakinskywalker8943 6 жыл бұрын
Yippie!
@CeoLogJM 7 жыл бұрын
so what you're saying is that the next trillion dollar worthy Nobel price is a way to use desert and sea sand for construction?
@TomScottGo 7 жыл бұрын
In all seriousness, yes. But remember that capitalism will play a part too: it can't just be a way to use desert sand, it's got to make using desert sand cheaper than the alternatives!
@rokadamlje5365 7 жыл бұрын
Glass houses covered by solar panels...
@sjwimmel 7 жыл бұрын
+Rok Adamlje So no stone throwing in the future, noted.
@quakquak6141 7 жыл бұрын
that or a more efficient ways to store energy I guess, a lot of renewable sources of energy aren't constant and we are getting more and more objects that require portable energy (smartphone but more importantly for the future electric cars) we really could improve things a lot with batteries that recharge faster and have more capacity
@boothegoopc8417 7 жыл бұрын
Just mix it with that cheap arse breakfast cereal they try to feed you in hotels.
@Superdavo0001 7 жыл бұрын
So we're running out of: • Sand • Rare-Earth metals (and the common ones) • Hydrocarbons/fossil-fuels (not such a bad thing) • New land to build on • Fertile land (only gonna get worse with time) Among others... Does anyone else feel like we're heading towards a global version of Easter Island?
@Flem1337 7 жыл бұрын
So we are gonna end up making huge head sculptures out of rocks and leave em scattered across the world... Maybe thats what insanity feels like.
@TimRosenburg 7 жыл бұрын
we're running out of everything technically. Most of those things wont be a real problem for a long time and as with many other things people thought would be terrible, new technologies arise to solve problems.
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Superdavo0001 I think the rare earth thing is mostly a "China has cornered the market" thing - plus environmental concerns making mining harder and more expensive in the west. Oh and in your "running out of space to build stuff" - marginal settlements at the edge of comfortable human habitation (e.g. in the high Alps) are actually given up at a faster rate than created anew ever since industrialization started. And most of the land we pave over is paved to run or park cars on it
@sirgreggorygroda 7 жыл бұрын
To be fair, mount rushmore, lady liberty and alot of other big statues are already scattered across the world
@Snufkin224 7 жыл бұрын
Most important AND overlooked is that we will run out of phosphorus in about 87 years. Phosphorus is used as fertilizer and can only be mined. When we can't mine more phosphorus we will only be able to feed 1 billion people.
@patrickwinecoff91 4 жыл бұрын
“You come to me on my daughter’s wedding day, and you don’t even bother to bring me any sand”
@UselessDuckCompany 7 жыл бұрын
the production quality on this one was amazing
@ronitreddy9623 3 жыл бұрын
Cool
@enderkk5089 3 жыл бұрын
@@ronitreddy9623 cool
@ronitreddy9623 3 жыл бұрын
@@enderkk5089 cool
@bobbycraig2583 3 жыл бұрын
@@ronitreddy9623 cool
@iansmith8263 3 жыл бұрын
@@bobbycraig2583 not cool
@RyanTheCreator 7 жыл бұрын
It seems with every new video, the quality and production value goes up!
@MerthanE 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but every Video before that makes it seem like it would be impossible.
@110110010 7 жыл бұрын
*Tom Scott, but every time he makes a video the production value and quality go up*
@sjwimmel 7 жыл бұрын
I agree, this one reminded me a lot of his Field Day episode with all the nice drone shots and editing. He's got an editor now, Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin. I suppose that helps.
@PlonkapplePrequel 7 жыл бұрын
Josef Hornych delicious maymays.
@0xs 7 жыл бұрын
Cause ad rev. Don't worry I use adblock Don't worry I am only one person
@leomarra3873 3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the sand mafia Wilbur soot was right
@paigekirk48 3 жыл бұрын
I live about an hour north up the coast from here, and have been watching this happen for years. The dredging process is incredible, but it’s even more incredible just how much the beach changes in only a few years.
@acousmatic 7 жыл бұрын
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." -- Anakin Skywalker
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Connor was that scene bad writing bad delivery by the actor or both?
@baldman7738 7 жыл бұрын
Jesus Gonzalez both
@lifeincolour09 7 жыл бұрын
Bad writing from George Lucas. How is nobody in the comments making Dune jokes?
@spongethebest2728 7 жыл бұрын
Somebody Else Had My Joke
@ITYSL 7 жыл бұрын
Jesus Gonzalez the line was i dont like sand how you can deliver that badly
@Halosty45 7 жыл бұрын
Depending on what version of the world you run... I hear you can duplicate sand with pistons. :)
@AltoSilver 7 жыл бұрын
Halosty A stack of likes... well done.
@Abdega 5 жыл бұрын
That… actually gives me an idea on how you can coarsen fine desert and sea sand into sizes and shapes that might be more useable…
@cobalius 4 жыл бұрын
Just crush cobble a bit
@stonedude1234 5 жыл бұрын
"Entire islands going missing-" "Yo John, wasn't there an island out there?" *pushing wheel barrel* "Nah dude, totally just your imagination!"
@Doot139 7 жыл бұрын
"I hate sand it's course, rough and it gets everywhere"
@ryth7703 6 жыл бұрын
general misquoti
@stillbreathing4636 6 жыл бұрын
It's a pain when it gets in my Vaseline
@Megacooltommydee 6 жыл бұрын
For the flip side of things: "I like sand. Sand is squishy."
@chanyoonjun 6 жыл бұрын
Is it.... from Star Wars?
@batteredskullsummit9854 6 жыл бұрын
coarse*
@HazardousMoose 7 жыл бұрын
Imagine the day when building a sandcastle becomes a luxury only accessible to the wealthy... dark times Well dark times a long way out hopefully. But one question: Can't you recycle concrete? And if so shouldn't we then at some point in the future have the situation where recycling is simply cheaper than getting new sand?
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Scorpionsnerd I think concrete is already being recycled but unless you mix new sand in, the quality gets worse
@tjeulink 7 жыл бұрын
ofcourse we should be able to recycle it at some point, its just in no way economically viable. everything we are "running out of" isn't actually gone, just in a different form or extremely diluted. the problem is that its very expensive extracting that again, its fighting against entropy.
@HazardousMoose 7 жыл бұрын
tjeulink well obviously pretty much everything can be recycled. so when I asked if concrete can be recycled my question was exactly about feasibility and cost as well as how resource intensive it is...
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
tjeulink as I said above, you can crush old concrete and mix it in (they used to do similar things with slag) but if you exceed a certain percentage quality suffers
@52rhflight56 7 жыл бұрын
+Scorpionsnerd That day is now. The "folks" whose mansions are being "protected" by the Corps of Engineers are all members of the 1%. Not one mention in the vid about the Cape May Canal. Those beaches that are being protected are all artificial. They were produced from the sand dredged when the Corps excavated the Cape May Canal. The majority of beach erosion is not from rising oceans but from diverted sand. Natural sand deposits have been diverted from normal deposition by the many Corps projects to "protect" beaches and enhance navigation. As for the world running out of sand, it's not going off-planet. The Earth gains hundreds of tons of additional material each year from cosmic dust deposition. Until the pirates get ships capable of reaching orbit the sand stays on Earth. It just moves around, like it always has ... IMO if New Jersey was serious about protecting its people, it would insist that at least part of the hundred of millions spent each year on beach creation go into protective seawalls instead (which the beachfront owners don't want.)
@flori8320 7 жыл бұрын
If you play the video then press 0 non stop you have Tom tap dancing. You're welcome.
@TheBlackIPs 7 жыл бұрын
Press 9 for a different dance move :)
@flori8320 7 жыл бұрын
**claps**
@DJMavis 7 жыл бұрын
That's fantastic, good work
@danukil7703 6 жыл бұрын
Press 3 repeatedly to hear some nice beats :)
@OfficialNIKMIK 6 жыл бұрын
If you press 9 you can make him clap
@Arieljaay 7 жыл бұрын
Oh. That explains quite a bit. I vacationed there two years ago and every day I took a walking path next to the beach and noticed that construction vehicles were just moving sand around. I've always wondered "why the hell would they do that?".
@jamo6969 3 жыл бұрын
Anakin be like This is a happy moment. The happiest moment of my life. Only people that watch revenge of the Sith will know what it means
@IneptOrange 7 жыл бұрын
Give Tom Scott his own TV show.
@DA-bm2mj 7 жыл бұрын
nobody watches tv
@id513128 7 жыл бұрын
Wow, I never though this will happen! In Thailand, we use a huge amount of sandbags to fill in the beach. And some case, especially with the rock barrier in the sea, make the beach shorter than it should be due to stronger water current. I don't think pumping sand back to the beach is the good choice for long term. But it maybe the best way to do for now. Another cool video Tom. I'll translate this to Thai as always.
@985476246845 7 жыл бұрын
the missing sand offshore will just be taken from the beach back into the hole they took sand from.
@SasukeUchiha758 7 жыл бұрын
And this helped Anakin recover from his post-Tatooine flashbacks
@krystiankornilowicz4577 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve been there so many times at that fort, I remember going to cape May during the period they were rebuilding and then coming during the summer and seeing how changed it was
@Hdtjdjbszh 7 жыл бұрын
can we grind reality T.V. 'stars' into sand? they seem to be renewable
@Mudbloodlovers 7 жыл бұрын
Wow. I love your videos because I learn something new every time. They are short, but informative. I never even thought about running out of sand. It has never even crossed my mind. Thank you for bringing attention to things we never think about. These videos are addictive!!
@crabgnome5388 7 жыл бұрын
these videos are actually helping me write better... whenever I get stuck, I just ask myself what Tom Scott would do
@nickmiller8855 Жыл бұрын
They were doing this down the coast from us when I went to the beach in North Carolina. The equipment is massive and it’s interesting to watch.
@TheBluMeeny 7 жыл бұрын
Damnit tom, you past right by me. You just sneak in and around places of the world like a ninja, with no chance at anybody catching you. You strip tease.
@bentleyboy72 6 жыл бұрын
passed*
@TheOnlyInformant 4 жыл бұрын
I live near OC, and I visited Cape May Point regularly before corona!
@crosstian 3 жыл бұрын
I work in a gas station in Dunedin, NZ, and you could imagine my surprise when we walked in one night after finishing filming of his Baldwin St video!
@tali055 7 жыл бұрын
It's a very common thing in Germany too! We have islands where towns were built at the very east and are now located in the middle of the island. Sylt is probably the best example for the same sand pumping technique to protect the shoreline.
@ashleya3731 4 жыл бұрын
I love how your videos such a professional vibe with like showing your sources as you use them and theres no fluff just straight to the point information
@mengerspongebob 6 жыл бұрын
I've been to Cape May. I have fond memories of that place.
@lucyg7960 5 жыл бұрын
I’m just here for the Anakin jokes
@gruff1288 3 жыл бұрын
So this is what Wilbur soot watched
@eshachadha4309 7 жыл бұрын
I love Tom's videos because they introduce me to topics I haven't really given thought to before.
@hj45lp 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the references. Brilliantly done, and this should be standard practice everywhere. Keep up the great work, and thank you for doing so. :)
@cosmicjenny4508 7 жыл бұрын
The camera work on this one is incredible, Tom. Was this video filmed using drone? This has TV levels of professionalism to it. Well done, Tom! Great video!
@alfie6098 7 жыл бұрын
says in the desc. that camera and drone op was done by Osprey Persepectives
@tunafishjoe 7 жыл бұрын
Love the new reference bar on your video!!!
@GyaroMaguus 7 жыл бұрын
I recall quite some time ago that Tom tweeted about having an idea for a video involving sand. I've been waiting. I was not disappointed.
@klearn199 7 жыл бұрын
I like that you show your sources in the video! :)
@majoraswrath9590 7 жыл бұрын
Running out of sand??? Ha! What's next? Running out of oil & water?
@lastfirst8564 7 жыл бұрын
Mera Mera pffft what sadistic nerds.
@alexisbrown201 6 жыл бұрын
Anikan:This a happy moment,the happiest moment of my life
@daemonk756890 7 жыл бұрын
It fills me with so much joy when someone cites their sources.
@isaacmissi5920 7 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you cite your info. Your videos are great
@skbzy4710 7 жыл бұрын
the earth is slowly running out of oxygen, the earth is slowly running out of oil, the earth is slowly running out of metals, the earth is slowly running out of intellectual people
@globalko 7 жыл бұрын
oxygen?
@MarioFanGamer659 7 жыл бұрын
@globalko: Atmospherical leaking. Though not as much e.g. Helium, some Oxygen is still lost in space.
@globalko 7 жыл бұрын
There is no significant amount of gases being released into the space. What do you mean by "....Oxygen is still lost in space.".?
@ghost2coast296 7 жыл бұрын
No he's right, every time there is a bad solar storm it blows away a part of the upper atmosphere. Mind you this has been happening for billions of years with almost no effect. We'll never run out, 30% of the earth is made of oxygen it's just all trapped in the rocks
@zemph194 7 жыл бұрын
Trust me it's not a bad thing that the world is running out of fossil fuels like oil and coal.
@IABITVpresents 5 жыл бұрын
Never knew that the video that makes Anakin happy came from Tom Scott of all people
@einname9986 7 жыл бұрын
I am really happy that you adressed that topic.
@TheFaarao 7 жыл бұрын
I like the sources in the top right corner, very useful!
@echsomat4611 7 жыл бұрын
As always - Liked before watching :)
@TheMinipasila 7 жыл бұрын
And as always - Liked after watching
@christopherlamberson1242 7 жыл бұрын
echsomat same
@echsomat4611 7 жыл бұрын
TheMinipasila you hit like again? A second time after watching? That's not good. Don't do that.
@TheMinipasila 7 жыл бұрын
Nah I only like after I have watched any video.
@bennylofgren3208 7 жыл бұрын
+echsomat Don't cross the likes!
@sylthane6554 4 жыл бұрын
Anakin skywalker: *happiness noises*
@ARC--br7ot 3 жыл бұрын
Fellow trooper. Sup
@JohnCooke08204 7 жыл бұрын
Best explanation of beach replenishment or nourishment the residents of Cape May have had in a long while. Not sure the motivation of this production but I am glad to have found it.
@quadnumber 7 жыл бұрын
That quality is so niceee. Keep up the good work! :D
@Nokturnt 6 жыл бұрын
I can just imagine Anakin's ghost saying Yes to this video
@hydrastalized9682 6 жыл бұрын
Anakin is probably getting hyped and is celebrating like crazy.
@yugiohsc 7 жыл бұрын
thank you for citations! They are... needed... more than ever nowadays
@genericviewer8517 7 жыл бұрын
These videos are so well done.
@scottash76 3 жыл бұрын
Sand mafia? Damn Wilbur wasn’t lying
@falleithani5411 4 жыл бұрын
No-one who's played Minecraft should be surprised by this.
@BarginsGalore 3 жыл бұрын
Fal Leithani amateurs. Just get out the end portal dupe and build skyscrapers to your hearts content
@KunamaElgar 7 жыл бұрын
I was pretty excited to watch this video as I actually taught a Geography class about this very topic last year. Feeling so nerdy right now but I loved hearing about efforts to replenish beaches other than the ones I taught about, which were in the Gold Coast and Bocas Del Toro.
@OnkelJajusBahn 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for spreading awareness of this topic. Great video.
@itsyawho5957 4 жыл бұрын
Anakin’s voice echoes: Finally!
@Snufkin224 7 жыл бұрын
Next do a video on phosphorus.It will run out in about 80 years and means we can't grow food anywhere near same amount as now.
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Snufkin224 but can't you extract phosphorus from urine?
@Snufkin224 7 жыл бұрын
We can throw our poop and pee out on the fields, yes, but most end up in the ocean. Even organic farming needs mined phosphorus. As it is now the nutrient circle got some lose ends.
@jesusgonzalez6715 7 жыл бұрын
Snufkin224 I once read there is more gold in ocean water than all other known deposits combined. Only problem is: It's much too diluted
@darklink594 6 жыл бұрын
Well it all depends on the are in which the sewage is being treated. In some waste water plants. The water is recycled and if it is being used in an agricultural or irrigation purpose they keep the phosphorus and nitrogen in the water to act a fertiliser. Also in plants with nutrient remove the phosphorus is removed and the sludge is recycled as fertiliser. So there is some reuse, and since water is become more and more scarce or or becomes very economical to re use treated waste water. Wether it be for irrigation or indirect potabale reuse. Or it can be used to refill aquifers and reduce salt water intrusion. Either way the nutrients must be removed. And if it is being deposited into a lake or river they have to remove the phosphorus to prevent nutrient removal. You can also argue that the phosphorus going out in the ocean is being consumed by animals, microorganisms, algae, which allows it to move back up the food chain.
@Anonymous-df8it 2 жыл бұрын
@@Snufkin224 If that is too inefficient, then can't they just make it in a lab?
@fraga2328 7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Keep it up with the good quality!
@UGMD 4 жыл бұрын
Normally the stories and places are completely new to me but knowing this story and having a beach house near here when I was younger made it even cooler to watch!
@geminijets3242 7 жыл бұрын
Hey Tom, could you do A Things You Might Not Know video on why TV programmes have beeps when somebody swears? Why isn't it just silent, why does it have to be replaced with a beep? Thank you!
@D600Active 7 жыл бұрын
geminijets3242 At a guess people might think silence meant an intermittent audio problem somewhere.
@youtubehandleorsomething 3 жыл бұрын
Pack your things Padmé, We're going to Earth
@vampirica89 7 жыл бұрын
Very well produced video, it looks like a real documentary!
@bsulli 7 жыл бұрын
I really like that you have started annotating references in!
@Dawt_Calm 7 жыл бұрын
Awe, son of a beach. I knew it.
@milesmorales6583 7 жыл бұрын
I hate sand.. it's rough and course and it gets everywhere ...
@macmaniac77 7 жыл бұрын
Love the drone footage! Hope to see more from you again soon
@deaconblues_ 7 жыл бұрын
AY! Welcome to jersey. Cape May is beautiful.
@Grendelmk1 Жыл бұрын
Speaking as someone who used to work with aggregates: crusher plants can produce sand suitable for construction. Most of the sand where I work comes from crushers that turn big chunks of rock into gravel and sand. Said gravel and sand are used to make concrete and asphalt.
@Live-qf2lg 6 жыл бұрын
Anakin Skywalker: YESSSSS!
@ekleduden 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you Tom Scott, for the interesting videos. I really like them.
@kevingoskowsky9718 3 жыл бұрын
As a person from New Jersey. I watched the beaches erode away from the Sothern part ( I grew up in Atlantic City), I used to live in Brigantine NJ but had to move because the Island would had flooded multiple times.... then again I lived near the Bay inlet so i was kind of asking for it. I was hoping to learn something new, but its cool you covered this.
@samnub7912 7 жыл бұрын
I knew Anakin was behind this.
@stupot1359 6 жыл бұрын
Anakin Skywalker would approve of this
@jomiar309 7 жыл бұрын
This is the most interesting thing I've seen in months. Your work is amazing! How do you hear about these things?
@mezrowxd1355 2 жыл бұрын
Yooo I just found this video. It's awesome to know that Tom visited my county and covered the sand issue.
@SnootchieBootchies27 4 жыл бұрын
"The best means" is to rebuild the beach? How about stop building right next to the ocean after every hurricane?
@scanerang 7 жыл бұрын
Ask the Dutch about water control they are doing it for hundreds of years!
@ryano.5149 7 жыл бұрын
@Tom Scott: Wildwood, just a short jaunt north of Cape May, has the opposite problem! The beach over there continues to grow!! ...so much so that the old "fishing" pier no longer even reaches the ocean! That might be worth an episode as well, if you are ever back in that area!
@richypeach 7 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these videos!!
@HB-ps6rn 7 жыл бұрын
This title is a little misleading because sand is actually one of the few things that cant really be broken down by weathering due to the silicon oxygen tetrahedron. We are just slowly loosing track of where its all going.
@funny-video-YouTube-channel 7 жыл бұрын
The waves create new sand every second. It's a renewable resource.
@purplegill10 7 жыл бұрын
The thing he said was it wasn't in an efficient way. He didn't say it was completely unrenewable, just that it would take an incredible amount of time to do and not in an efficient way.
@ninjashot37 7 жыл бұрын
epSos.de Technically fossil fuels are renewable it just takes 1000 years.
@funny-video-YouTube-channel 7 жыл бұрын
He also said that we can not use the non-beach sand in the construction, which is BS. He is telling a lot of things, not all of them are correct. There are other resources that will become rare faster than the sand.
@funny-video-YouTube-channel 7 жыл бұрын
We can be relaxed about that. There are stone crushers that produce gravel at a thigh rate. Same can be done for sand too, if needed. Beach sand is just crushed stones and crushed shells of mollusks who produce them daily. Not an issue at all. The rising sea levels are more important.
@imienazwisko6527 6 жыл бұрын
It's pretty slow though.
@laurencewithey15 7 жыл бұрын
Really great use of military sources, big up to the engineers corps
@RobMacKendrick 4 жыл бұрын
Just the sort of gritty groundbreaking journalism we've come to expect from Tom.
@tomcharles1234 7 жыл бұрын
I hate sand - Anakin Skywalker
@ii_ethxn9748 4 жыл бұрын
I don’t like sand, it’s coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere!
@smashandburnyt6938 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@guynumber20 7 жыл бұрын
I like your videos short and straight to the point 👌🏻
@OnceIWasBooker 7 жыл бұрын
Why don't they just put some groynes down? Surely the US has longshore drift, therefore sand would build up protecting the beach? Im obviously wrong because they aren't doing that, buy why?
@xerion7432 7 жыл бұрын
Because you are moving the problem. After the last groyne you will get erosion again. Secondly it doesn't offer any protection against erosion from storms, sea level rising or wind.
@tatehewitt4220 7 жыл бұрын
There are basalt jetties throughout new jersey. The Army Corps of Engineers believes they hasten erosion now.
@52rhflight56 7 жыл бұрын
+Bruni What most people call jetties on the NJ beaches are technically groins and there are many of those. Only the structures protecting tidal inlets and harbor entrances are jetties (the technically correct usage for jetty.) Groins were meant to protect beaches while jetties were intended to fix the location of the inlet.
@Dudemon-1 5 жыл бұрын
Tate Hewitt -- Coastal geologists have known this all along. I assigned a paper by Orrin Pilkey to my university students back in the 80s!
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