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.
0:00 Intro
0:29 Electric Blue Ponds
2:13 Finding The Truth
5:47 Importance Of Potash
8:41 Potash From Rocks
14:04 Safer Ways To Mine
15:02 Droning
17:28 Potash The Savior
It stinks to pump so much water from the Colorado river just to let it all evaporate on purpose. Not saying that they shouldn’t be able to do it I just wish the water wasn’t wasted. If they could reclaim it somehow that would be awesome
Interesting 🙏🙏
yall i was shook when i heard derek introduce himself at the beginning of the video
i legit had no idea what his name was but i just never questioned it before
I now I get why I did not get it. Many countries call it Kalium 🙂
Bro just taught me how to make an explosive.
I’m so confused… I have questions I can’t ask on here. Like seems easy to make a boom boom
Hearing how they burned all those trees >:( bastards
Eat be ready
Every time I see anything using gunpowder in media now I’m going to remember that it’s powered by bat poop.
My first thought was salt ponds ,
ah! finally something I didn’t know
"in this world few mysteries remain" lol
for me it does …
Don’t let them fool you this is heroin
Amazing. Thank you
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Just wanted to say thank you for all these eye-opening videos you make.
I really got answers to all the questions I had during this video.
One question remains, what does the end date for when the potassium will run out, and does scientists looking for alternative solutions?
Thanks
And what person, company or Government owns this business? Is it a government agency?
What about volcano ashes?? Would it work aswell
It was interesting to see.
And that my friends is why you don’t drink stuff in chemistry labs
These actually cause sever damage to the environment.
Hydro Retention ponds?
Is the blue copper sulfate intentionally added to these evaporation ponds?
18:27 sports people? You mean athletes….right.
That’s interesting. I actually didn’t realize the origin of potash was so deep. I love these videos. Keep on posting
why don’t you keep on doing these videos?????
Buddy reminds me of Adam from buzzfeed
Kalium
When potassium , mix with water , next is …
Each pond has a different chemical for making EBT cards.
Nitrogen pond?
George Washington sure thrived off his Gatorade!! Where would America be with out it?
Lethargic and dehydrated, but George had other plans.. Gatorade for all
Funny how only a year ago it was ok to see the value of fertilizer. The green new deal is outlawing fertilizer. So now we choose. Do 6 billion starve? Or do we use 8x the land to farm on, which means cutting down forest. Looks to me we were doing the best we can.
I hope this comes back
props to the bucket
I love getting these recommended every time you try a new title….
Good Morning,
Please MEASURE the curves of bodies of water … from water drops to oceans.
Cheers !
Now I know how to make gunpowder with sulfur and saltpeter ayyyy
So educative
So brilliant
Potashium
Enjoy this informative vid. Well done but Hunter Gathering did not actually take "all day everyday." At least not year round. If it had we would still be doing it. We would have no songs or art and no one would have figured out that the ash of their fire had a use
any more Pindrop videos coming out ? awesome stuff
This video is so cool.
Human society is the most wasteful ever Burning trees, to mining, wasting water in a desert
Could be done more efficiently, with 100yr old technology
I’d love to discover a new element like element 115, I think Bob Lazar has some.
Kazakhstan,
do you have patash
what is the quality
Is this (process, ponds) replicated around the world?
Kazakhstan,
do you have patash
what is the quality
Gatorade has almost no potassium. A glass of milk has way more. Like 10x’s more.
It does not benefit everyone, the pools are toxic and kills tons of wildlife.
Look at the cobalt mines in Africa that makes the lithium work.