These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to discover what on Earth they actually are. It’s a travel vlog, documentary, and science show wrapped into one. It’s Pindrop.
shut up
4:27 his face: oh yea, explosion time
don put yo banan in yo wota
They used to specifically burn wood for potash when it can just be a by product..🙄There must be many industries usimg wood as a fuel and generating that ash as trash…
Great content, as always !
Potassium inherited the bad sides of its good ones. In agriculture, the amount of utilized potassium grew so rapidly that it has now become a huge problem. Because most lands where it’s spread upon (as a fertilizer for plants), are not the lands where it originaly formed. Making those first ones over-rich in potassium salts (hydroxyde, carbonate, sulfate, etc. depending on conditions).
This is due to one of its bad sides : nearly every soil types are unable to capture and keep potassium… it gets washed by infiltrating water from the rain (or irrigation), and goes deeper and deeper out of reach from roots.
That has turned some soils into depending so much on fertilizing that they are now considered "human dependant". In large areas of the USA, but for most of those into "industrial agriculture" as well, soil is so destructured by massive use of fertilizers (mainly potassium, phosphate, nitrogen) or salt-rich feces rejected by cattle that it has became some sort of dust. You take it into your hand and, no matter the rate of hygrometry, it flows in-between your fingers like powder.
It’s time permaculture takes over, Mother Earth longs for it !
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Wait, so you’re saying that potassium comes from pot ash not pot ass?
Dang it
Notice that when he slows it down (the explosion), it sounds like an evil laugh.
mans was really sponsored by the argentinian deep state government to make a nineteen minute video to coverup their devil’s syrup production.
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One of the best scientific explanation videos I’ve ever witnessed. Thank you so much.
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Its the small things like this that make me question intelligent extraterrestial life.
Why was this discovered, what wouldve happened if it hadnt, was it only a matter of time… so many little factors that build society
Nice presentation!
Yo where are the rest of these pin drop videos? I was really looking forward to the rest of them 🥺
well i haven never flooded and entire block with smoke using saltpetre and suger. we did not over do it at all and no one was super angry that day.
18:00 Well SOMEBODY’S read _Guns, Germs, and Steel._
4:28 and I thought that it’s edible so u could get ur weekly dose of potassium , would have blown my head off
potash never solved any problem ( about feeding the people ) it has just delayed it , with now a new dependence
My guess was horseshoe crabs but this is equally interesting.
That perfect bucket landing at 2:48 tho…..
POTASH
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This isn’t meth !
Mr veritasium guy sir pls stay calm on the music pls it’s very distracting.
CGP Grey is Hexagons and now Veritasium is Potash
Kazakhstan has best pottasium all other countries has inferior quaility pottasium.
Pool that saves earth? Pog
I knew that the word potassium was derived from pot ash. It’s what helped me memorize the word for what I know as Kalium in the first place. However, it took the comments section of this video to teach me that the German word for it, Kalium, was derived from the Arab word for the very same substance 🙂
This is so focking cringey ;_;
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Darn I was in Moab just a few months ago, wish I’d known ago this then!
YouTube was trying to hit the word count on this one lmao
Who would have thought a campfire would be so ubiquitous for the modern world.
4:27 "whaaaaaaaaaaaat?"
为了看懂这个视频，我去查了好多单词。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。额额额额额额额
4:24 is so cool to 4:40.
Hey Derek make a video about yourself like about your alma matter interest and how this channel started
An old school mate of mine nearly burnt the cottage down him and his mum were living in trying to make potash.
I cant believe I didn’t realize what that blue lake was. I watched Dr. Stone and I somehow didn’t recognize it until he mentioned fireworks
I have a PinDrop request please. 25°23’30.0"N 80°20’41.8"W
Am i the only one who didn’t know POT ASH IUM?
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I went to highschool in the same town as that pot ash mine here in Saskatchewan lol crazy
Puts solid potassium in water
"I did not expect it to do that"
17:33 I’m imagining a tallneck walking about here
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