Denmark's $34 Billion Green Energy Island

[@Bormeth]

I'm from Denmark didn't even knew we were building that 😂😂

[@Timonster007]

Hvordan - det var overalt i medierne hahaha.

[@JohnJohansen2]

Proud of that?😳

[@JohnJohansen2]

@@noahlloyd4354 Well! Hver sin, begrænsede, interesse. Jeg troede det var almenviden. 🇩🇰

[@skymaster4121]

Hvad hedder projektet?

[@deprived1814]

@@skymaster4121 Jeg er ret sikker på, at alle i Danmark er stolte af det

[@khioukhom419]

I like the ambition of Denmark. I live in the US and disappointed in the lack of knowledge the general public have about carbon neutrality.

[@JohnJohansen2]

Well you've just had four years of set back. Maybe the future will be better. 👍

[@pfzht]

Aside ftom the fact it's an economy killing pointless goal?

[@DreadX10]

@@JohnJohansen2 I'm afraid the setback is almost a generation because too many people think a "green deal" is something poisonously toxic (to the economy). Takes a long time to reverse that kind of thinking.

[@chrisz0619]

@@JohnJohansen2 then how does our air quality keep improving? And did so over the past 4 years? Oh what? What’s that? You’re a stupid pathetic piece of shit? Oh got it

[@chrisz0619]

@@DreadX10 hey look, another stupid pos

[@Hjiel]

"Located 50 miles off the Danish coast". Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

[@vera_ah]

Yeah Denmark is just all coast

[@ryanb7385]

its quite small tbf

[@anishkoneti7822]

@@ryanb7385 i mean japan is also small, smaller then the province of alberta, but its coast line is almost as long as the entire coast of the US. no matter how small the country, the coast will be massive

[@devinhedge]

That leaves 2miles or so right? LOL! jk

[@nakoda1610]

@@anishkoneti7822 exept germany

[@defnotaghost6460]

Kjør på Danmark! Hilsen fra Norge🇳🇴

[@jfauerby]

Tak Sure :-)

[@Vanagandr518]

Vore fantastiskt om de byggde först en ö utanför Danmark och sen en till ö utanför Norges kust! Tänk er en serie med öar längst Europas kust som producerar grön energi

[@defnotaghost6460]

Robin H vi i Norge har allerede mer vannkraft enn vi sjølv kan bruke, så vi eksporterer overskuddet. I tillegg så investerer vi i vindparker til havs (siden vi har så store havområder) slik at vi kan selge enda mer strøm til Tyskland og England.

[@Jefff72]

I'm more familiar with Swedish. kjør is similar to kör. Jag är amerikansk och var in Danmark 2014.

[@Abbetmaan]

@@defnotaghost6460 Lad os alle i Skandinavien bane vejen for en grønnere verden! Hilsner fra Danmark til mine norske og svenske brødre 😎

[@youssr859]

Did you just say that Denmark was europes largest oil producer? That cant be true - do you mean Norway? Edit. Ah the EU not Europe. I still did not know Denmark was EU's largest oil producer. I guess this is a new fact as the UK is no longer part of the EU.

[@tommash.r.2606]

I also questioned that statement, considering Norway produces more than 14 times as much as Denmark😂

[@Astrologist]

That also made me do a double take!

[@samuelmauritson1567]

@@christianhudeck2174 oh yeah thats why

[@holgerchristensen4021]

​@Archytas Repentus its a myth

[@meehall3960]

The "green" countries of Denmark and Norway are actually the most polluting.

[@suvajeetdatta1220]

God damn Denmark has less people than my neighborhood 😂

[@AndersGetherSoerensen]

Small is beautiful. :-)

[@link77ism]

Monarchy is nSty6

[@davemorgan9511]

God Bless Denmark!

[@JohnJohansen2]

You should come visiting us! You would be welcome. 👍🙂

[@ToJak91]

And still, it feels a bit crowded..

[@brolysujay]

Watching this from India feels so depressing. We are busy building huge statues and bailing out billions to fraudsters.

[@mortimerhasbeengud2834]

Yeah, the billionaires that run the US are all Xi-facing oligarchs, so at least Team India acknowledges an enemy.

[@tacitus539]

Who are you building statues of?

[@martian7913]

@Daddy Ji yes, India is truly becoming विस्वगुरु।

[@sayollahuuberandchill8898]

India is also working on 175 GW green energy project do some research.

[@noeldennehy1294]

@Daddy Ji what an obnoxious rant by you... You must be a small man inside. Grow up.

[@griffon8330]

I lived in Demark before. One of the cleanest and safest place ever.

[@jacobgravers1042]

@Wischmopps you are funny😂

[@DubbyDominate]

@Wischmopps lol 😂😂😂

[@luxurianilindr4547]

@Wischmopps Being allowed to carry guns equals freedom ? I mean there is a free nation out there that gives a gun to just about every one that desires one. No proper training and education requierd. And we have seen how that "freedom" turns out.

[@user-vl8bv5jt9m]

@Wischmopps so your freedom is only at home you can't carry gun outside where you more likely to get shot

[@turtinator8735]

@Wischmopps this just screams american hamburger ideology called "freedom"

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

Where I live in Denmark, from my window I can see one of the current much smaller offshore wind farms. When the Wind is good, Denmark is getting over 100% electricity from wind.

[@KawaloliASTP]

And here is the problem, what is happening when the wind goes slow? Import energy from nearby countries and burning coal. Look at "CO2 electricity map" to see the impact of CO2-Emissions of your country from day to day. :) Greetings from germany ^^

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

That's not a problem. Getting CO2-less energy a lot of the time is a good step forward, and as the video shows, we're nowhere near finished. Wind has in a major way already reduced the CO2 footprint of Denmark. Obviously, more needs to be done. Some of the year, we do import quite a bit of hydro power from Norway. Many homes are heated with waste heat from manufacturing, instead of burning stuff.

[@MprLarsen]

MrASTP93 in that case we do import a lot of electricity from both Norway and Sweden, which are mostly powered by hydro energy. But yes, slow wind turbines are a huge issue, that is also the case if it blows too heavy.

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

At least the plan of producing fuel does allow a lot of flexibility in using the power when available. The ability to replace fossil carbon for other energy systems than electricity may have a huge future.

[@blavand7105]

@@KawaloliASTP Weather counts for less than 7% of the downtime of offshore wind farms. Repairs about 1-2%. So they're operational for about 90-95% of the time. With the newest technology, a windmill can produce 60-70% of its output on winds down to 5ms and still produce power on winds at 3ms. So the loss gets lowered significantly, making the need for import almost non existing. As wind farms isn't the only power production.

[@trixie1752]

This is the kind of thing for our generations like hoover-dam or the moon landing was for our parents generations.

[@anishkoneti7822]

i mean, landing on the moon do be more legendary than a green energy plant, but your right, it is up there

[@Harry._.Thompson]

No landing on Mars will be, in our lifetime we will have permanent base on Mars and the moon

[@cocosloan3748]

34B$ ??? Its a scam and it will never pay7 off ! Period !

[@Juuk-D]

@@Harry._.Thompson why would you ever build a base on the moon, horrible idea. There is a reason no one travels to the moon anymore.

[@Harry._.Thompson]

@@Juuk-D could u do some research on space travel before commenting

[@ryansweeney9508]

I hope this is true and Norway Iceland and Scotland should do this but upto about 10 of them would sock up carbon as well brilliant CMON DENMARK MAKE IT HAPPEN AND SHOW US

[@JOhnDoe-nl4wj]

Why should norway do that? Oil and gas equals about half of the total value of norwegian exports of good.

[@Illyrien]

Germany has already tried for a long while and its a big failure. Why should we follow such a bad strategy?

[@gautamagarwal6558]

Yes we would like to see the project that turns waste into fuel in country like india where importing fuel is costly . India also produces millions tons of plastic waste yearly

[@davemorgan9511]

Yes, we could also use many of these types of projects in America, as well. 👍

[@e3498-v7l]

Bummer. People are too busy virtue signaling and marginally improving existing sources of energy while causing instability in the grid. There is no time to do things that actually matter.

[@PatrickBatefan]

@Ayan Majumdar current govt is already doing the work if you have actually looked into it instead of Bitching about it on internet.

[@professionalgamer5403]

@@PatrickBatefan I can't expect a sensible answer from guy with a username Stalin. So you needa do some research

[@prantamdhazrat6648]

I saw many videos on entrepreneurs in India already doing this in small scale. Hope the government also invest in this

[@JohnJohansen2]

1:40 Denmark has almost no electricity cables on masts anymore. Our cables lies in the ground, except a few 400 (380?) kV lines, and even fewer smaller kV. We have a security of supply pt at 99.996%. (I believe it's top 1 in the World!?) Personally I haven't had one single power outage in around 20 years.

[@perlarsen4468]

But we will get more, as we increase our reliance on windpower.

[@christianhegemann1911]

Denmark is a small and beautifull country no question. But to solve electricity and fuel problems of bigger countries we need other solutions I think ? But to support the hydrogen industry is already a step in the right direction in my eyes.

[@brokenlasse8533]

hva så der :D

[@JohnJohansen2]

@@brokenlasse8533 ???

[@joecool4656]

@@christianhegemann1911 hydrogen is not cost effective. Don’t fall for that bs. To produce the hydrogen you are looking at 90%, then you have yo compress the hydrogen, then you have to transport the hydrogen, and then you use the hydrogen with a 50% efficient fuel cell. To compensate for this ridiculous inefficiency, extra power generation must be scaled which makes it not cost effective. Fossil fuel like natural gas will always be cheaper

[@joseph2664]

at about 1:30 he calls the island a "large floating landmass". How to you get an island to float??? He really should have said something about the design.

[@meibing4912]

Denmark had the largest floating island for over 200 years. Old tech... Its not going to be floating around freely if you imagine something like a giant ship. More like an oil rig.

[@omega1231]

You'd be surprised as to how crafty you can get when you live on islands

[@HjortenHjort]

He also mentions in the video that it will be tethered to the surrounding windmills

[@scryedo1989]

I am gonna take a guess that it will anchored to the bottom of the sea like any of the oil platforms (not that i know the construction process or design) there are designs for ships that are stable from the upright position (Tilting research ships), as long as the bouyancy is the biggest problem it would be feasible in my mind.

[@andrewosei328]

Where I live the government squanders public funds on the most useless of endeavors and are corrupt beyond imagination, makes watching such videos a pain.

[@Terra_Lopez]

Wow, that's sad! Which country is that?

[@treefarm3288]

Ditto, Australia is starting to spend $90 billion on new naval ships, while no country since WWII has threatened us militarily, and we need better railways. Imagine following the Danish example.

[@Terra_Lopez]

@@viablybodacious302 Ha ha! Good one. Love it.

[@noeldennehy1294]

@@treefarm3288 I imagine Australia feels it's got to protect itself from China's expansionist overtones into the South China Sea.

[@NegativeAccelerate]

@@treefarm3288 China. But I get what you mean. Australian politicians are usually paid off by Chinese officials anyways which just shows how corrupt Australia is.

[@IrajMatthee]

I'm from South Africa and the biggest problem is reading repetitive news of Eskom (power company) being bailed out countless times.

[@Jamie-Z]

How much of the money goes to impoving Eskom and how much goes into the pockets of the people making the decisions?

[@IrajMatthee]

@@Jamie-Z I'm not sure on the financial divide but it's a BIG waste of money and Eskom increased their rates while jobs are being retrenched in other sectors of the economy. This is how our leaders think and this is why we are the most unequal nation in the world. (Haven't even mentioned the tax system too)

[@uriah777]

intresting I used to live in Paarl area for 7 years cause my parents were doing mission work

[@IrajMatthee]

@@uriah777 well be glad your family are out and don't have this stress.

[@stevenpaddybwoy]

South Africa has been on a rapid decline right about after the end of apartheid.....strange that isn’t it...

[@alexanderphilip1809]

Denmark and UK have huge wind potential.

[@martin096]

And UK also has huge tidal potential on the River Severn but the government doesn't use it 🤦

[@stableianF1oracle]

You silly people ... Germany is covered in wind farms and it still only supplies 1.5 percent of their needs. Anyone who thinks solar and wind is going to power countries are the same idiots who think there's a father Xmas and God lol 😂 grow up and educate yourself

[@JOhnDoe-nl4wj]

@@stableianF1oracle Silly goose, germany already supplies half it's energy needs with renewable energy. that's 50 million people without fossil or nuclear fuel.

[@stableianF1oracle]

@@JOhnDoe-nl4wj You silly silly boy .... How can Biomass power be considered clean when it involves shipping of millions of trees from Brazil. How dumb to cut down a whole rainforest that absorbs CO2 and then claim you're helping the planet. Natural gas isn't clean energy either with the millions of forged gas pipes being laid. Germany gets a whole 4 per cent of its needs from wind and solar wow wow wow what a help that is and in 10 years all the solar panels will need replacing and are full of poisonous compounds that'll end up in Africa along with the billions of TVs and computers they get dumped with. Yes that's helping the planet. Can't believe I have to explain simple facts to you as if you've just arrived on the planet. Please find a teacher who doesn't look like a hippy and wears a green energy badge for advice and education.

[@JOhnDoe-nl4wj]

@@stableianF1oracle Did you got your "facts" by googling "forged statistics" or did you simply made that shit up yourself? lmao Only 4% from wind and solar? Lolwhat? 28% solar and 30% wind as of 2021. Together with other means of renewable energy germany sits on 55% renewable total. Do you honestly think germans biomass productions comes from brazilian reinforest trees? LOLWHAT?! germany dedicates more than 3 million acres to producing biofuel. Germany buys 5% of the anual brazillian soybean crops , translating to 1 million acres. Also buying sugar palm oil from indonesia and malaysia worth another 2 million acres. Is this bad? Fuck, yes. Is using fossil fuel instead better? FUCK NO! Is recycling an issue? Fuck yes it is. Is it worse than producing radioactive waste or flat out make large parts of africa uninhabitable duo to worldwise carbon dioxide pollution, Hell to the fuck NO. Come up with better forged statistics if you want to look more plausable, silly ;P

[@pokemonshit9982]

now that is a country with ambition. thumbs up.

[@stealthcone]

It would have been much better to build a few nuclear power plants

[@nonameentered1918]

@@stealthcone why? Intermittent power generation is not a bar for hydrogen production. The main benefit of nuclear is it's predictability, which isnt necessary in this instance. Indeed, political bias, fuel cost and waste dumping is a huge problem for nuclear - none of which are "worth it" for hydrogen production. Building and maintaining the windfarm is, as the video points out, good for marine environment, developing skills and work. While nuclear plants also provide jobs, the stringent safety requirements make the jobs less accessible for "normal people".

[@stealthcone]

@@nonameentered1918 then why mention powering homes if the whole point was to make hydrogen? And if you make hydrogen for households and planes then when there isn’t any wind you turn on the coal power plants

[@screamingbirdheart]

In the Netherlands they had plans for a similar island more than a decade ago. Because of financial reasons they didn't build it. If someone now comes up with the idea, they tell them that due to the current windmills it is impossible to build it anymore. I hope that if Denmark build the island, the Dutch government will finally build there tulip shaped energy island

[@link77ism]

Remember the tulip bubble?

[@JohnJohansen2]

Probably NL will invest in collaboration with the Danish project, alongside other countries around the North Sea. The project should benefit countries like Holland, Germany, Britain/Ireland and Norway, as well as Denmark of course. Probably even Sweden and Poland.

[@Jakob_DK]

The original plan was to place the island in Dutch or Danish territory to avoid German planning permission. It is the same idea.

[@Dystopix]

@@JohnJohansen2 Norway and Sweden have some of the world's cleanest energy production. But Norway relies more than 90% on hydropower and there can be problems in drought. Sweden produces more electricity than it consumes. and has one of Europe's cheapest electricity prices to consumers. but there are some problems with most of the electricity being produced in the north and the main grid being privatized and these companies do not want to invest as much as is needed to give southern sweden a good electricity supply. Finland has problems with its nuclear power and has to import about 40% of its electricity. Poland is heavily dependent on coal for its electricity production. So if Denmark can help southern Sweden with electricity, then Sweden can supply Finland with clean electricity so they can avoid buying dirty electricity from Russia. And if the Danes then helped Poland not to be so dependent on coal, it would be good.

[@MrDadyD]

I dont expect much from next Rutte government... much like the three previous onces.

[@flytwin1772]

Very interesting, actually this isn´t the first energy island in the northsea, the Doggerbank island is already some steps ahead I guess.

[@michaelschalck]

To my knowleged the Doggerbank project will not be an Island, but 3 offshore platforms containing the transmission systems to shore.

[@afederdk]

It's actually the same project. The Netherlands originally proposed a much larger island on Doggerbank. Denmark and Germany joined the project and some research was then done that found it would be more feasible to have multiple smaller islands around the North Sea. This island is slated to be the first of those smaller islands.

[@annabellewood8887]

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[@victoriaglasston6320]

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[@frankbenjamin6584]

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[@joeybordeaux7718]

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[@frankbenjamin6584]

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[@frankbenjamin6584]

@@joeybordeaux7718 that's great keep it up 🙌

[@JohnJohansen2]

2:12 Isn't that Norway? Ups. Norway of course isn't EU.😔

[@LasVegar]

EØS or efta

[@herrensaar1989]

Yeah, both UK and Norway are now not members. So the small amount Denmark actually produce is still enough to finnish first. Just goes to show, how much fuel EU imports.

[@Petri_Pennala]

@@herrensaar1989 finnish🇫🇮😅 *finish

[@herrensaar1989]

@@Petri_Pennala Good for you..

[@Petri_Pennala]

@@herrensaar1989 I ment that you writed incorrectly

[@diegoserrano8302]

I live in Germany now but I want to move to Denmark 💙

[@sujitpawarsoldier]

India🇮🇳 is also making this type of island with help of Denmark🇩🇰

[@tvrtkokotromanic8391]

Rich countries make new islands in the sea and that is why poor countries lose land from the sea so much about humanity.

[@hahahuhu9828]

German finally use gas from Nord Stream project after years of renewable energy project. Good luck Denmark

[@Jakob_DK]

Well we look forward to the Südlink so we can export power to southern Germany.

[@jtc1947]

@@Jakob_DK GERMANY had to get Nuke electricity from FRANCE and Natural GAS from RUSSIA! Check it out.

[@Jakob_DK]

@@jtc1947 We believe we can provide electricity at lower price than from gas, but gas prices may fall.

[@reneahlquist7209]

@@jtc1947 Germany must stop helping Putin by buying gas from Russia. Putin is a threat to Europe.

[@jtc1947]

@@reneahlquist7209 Putin and His communist cohorts are a definite threat! Want bad old days like Stalin.

[@MarKeMu125]

Sounds like a good solution for solving the intermittency issue with renewables, build more than you need and turn the excess energy into hydrogen.

[@sujitpawarsoldier]

India🇮🇳 is also making this type of island with help of Denmark🇩🇰

[@Juuk-D]

It makes me so happy to see people get together to save the planet for the future humans.

[@scifigames3272]

Why aren't more people talking about this?

[@fitrianhidayat]

Wtf are you talking about This video is talking about it

[@scifigames3272]

@@fitrianhidayat Oop, i meant why arent more people talking about this, lemme quickly edit it

[@JAM_2024]

@@scifigames3272 MSM gets paid by big oil companies that’s why.

[@scifigames3272]

@@JAM_2024 oof-

[@Jakob_DK]

The very questionable economy of it. Wind turbine parks are built without subsidies but this Island will require a significant government investment.

[@fastfreddy19641]

Nice to see the Danes doing something good. Last time they came to my town we had to hide. It was a long time ago though. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@ikramiqbal2273]

😂😂😂👍

[@cristiant9437]

LOL

[@Faryetes]

Don't worry, we might still visit your churches for easy accesible gold 😄 these things are expensive 🇩🇰🇩🇰

[@fastfreddy19641]

@@Faryetes may odin protect us. 😜

[@bernard6413]

"in danish arnold schwarzenegger voice,well be back"!

[@miller2675]

They are smart enough to realize this will, in the end, make them a ton of money.

[@urbandiscipline8858]

Another bonus is that it's environmentally friendly.

[@miller2675]

@@urbandiscipline8858 I would say the biggest bonus in fact is that it is better for the environment. I just hope they can show or demonstrate as soon as possible how much money it will make them so the deniers don't have a leg to stand on by saying "going green" is too expensive. All the idiots in the US (my home) will finally be ok with letting oil companies die if they can see there is money to be made elsewhere. That's what I want from projects like these.

[@Petri_Pennala]

@@miller2675 I see, why arent you guys using your gas out there and just ban goal and oil🤔

[@Softpaw1996]

provided it is a success. There have been many projects like this one that didn't deliver.

[@miller2675]

@@Softpaw1996 well. . . Yeah. Seems like an obvious statment.

[@Matthew_Murray]

Meanwhile in the US “how can climate change be real if I have a snow ball?”

[@Denzilb55]

4:08 Holy shit! That bro can lift!

[@nineiq8709]

This man is underrated

[@FiqFake157]

I know right!

[@sunshineflower2286]

Poor guy

[@Cars-N-Jets]

So, true.

[@INICK84]

Yeah this dude is dope

[@maknyc1539]

or is he

[@marvelordcwhocares8718]

Meanwhile in Germany:"Nordstream 2 is crucial to reduce climate change because... Oh actually it isn't"

[@user-propositionjoe]

Considering Germany uses a lot of brown coal still, switching over to natural gas which is way cleaner than brown coal it does help the environment. So dunno what you're talking about.

[@crylittlebitch]

@@user-propositionjoe true, but I don't see this natural gas being used for electricity production. At current prices it's simply not competitive with any other source of electricity production, unlike in the US and Canada where natural gas is incredibly cheap

[@chrissie9117]

But buying the Russian gas is still better and cheaper than importing LPG from US ships

[@phamnuwen9442]

Germany's unreliable solar and wind require lots of backup with fossil fuels. Germany's emissions are terrible compared to France who uses nuclear. Germany also has the world's highest electricity prices.

[@FarfettilLejl]

@@user-propositionjoe They're only switching to gas (and coal) because they have stupidly shut down their nuclear power plants (which are 0 emissions)

[@zachariahlarreau9564]

Yes I would love to see projects like this in the states

[@dubbadan1]

And Australia!

[@kristiankruse3964]

We need to get it to run smoothly, then we will take the project to the world. It makes electricity cheaper that coal or any other sources. In 10 years when we have it up running efficiently we will start selling them

[@coronalight77]

@@kristiankruse3964 lol what do you mean we? Are you working directly on this project?

[@kristiankruse3964]

@@coronalight77 I was involved in the political process

[@kristiankruse3964]

@@coronalight77 the idea is basically to become the "Saudi Arabia" of wind power. Personally I don't believe that is possible, but this is a good start

[@sujitpawarsoldier]

India🇮🇳 is also making this type of island with help of Denmark🇩🇰

[@nethanelong7525]

i see a very big potential of crypto mining

[@NN-jo6lj]

Crypto mining is a waste of energy, and should be banned.

[@TOPHOLM04]

@@NN-jo6lj You clearly dont have a clue about block chain or know what “mining” is... suggesting that it should be banned is like saying that the internet or banking should be banned

[@tyharris9994]

@@TOPHOLM04 Crypto currency itself should be banned. It has no beneficial use for society and exists soley for speculation, money laundering, tax evasion, and financing illegal activities like terrorism and drug trafficking.

[@NN-jo6lj]

@@TOPHOLM04 The internet is important crypto mining is not. You can make a cryptocurrency that does not need crypto mining. And even if you could not use cryptocurrencies without crypto mining, crypto mining should still be banned. Some things are just more important than cryptocurrencies. I am, of course, not talking about handling normal financial data. I am talking about unnecessary energy pits like Bitcoin mining. But I guess that what i say goes against your personal financial interests. I guess that making your dirty money, by crypto mining, is more important to you, than the environment.

[@christianovesen3276]

Well i live in Denmark and now i am very proud of my country:)

[@mustafahu6371]

To be, is to do

[@nighthawk3045]

Same

[@ateisme3752]

Pollution-free* -> Hugh amount of glass fiber, metal rods and concrete, and metals that needs to be handled after 30 years.

[@lemongavine]

And how long before the environmental impact is paid back? Although, fossil based power plants also take a lot to build as well.

[@robl3571]

@@lemongavine yeah I was about to make this comment. Plus the amount of servicing and replacing of those windmills will be ridiculously expensive... they need to be completely replaced roughly every 15years... how about spending the money and R/D into the study of nuclear fusion and perfecting it. I believe it to be the next real great step for mankind technologically.

[@lemongavine]

@@robl3571 nuclear fusion has been the holy grail forever. Seems to still be far away. I would think the economics of wind turbines must be worth the investment, otherwise, they wouldn’t do it. They have wind turbines so large now, that one revolution can power a house for an entire day....gotta be some money coming from that. Crazy stuff. Interesting to see how the energy landscape plays out over the next 5 to10 years.

[@sinjinreed2091]

"Commies." -The US, probably.

[@macbuff81]

Texas should take some lessons from Denmark

[@crazydinosaur8945]

or at least use anti frost

[@jameseddleman6944]

WAIT youre telling me for the price of a single Us Attack helicopter with all the kicks you can make a large step to a completely green energy source that can power a whole city?!?!

[@nonameentered1918]

MilitaryIndustrialComplex says: SILENCE CITIZEN; THAT SOUNDS LIKE TREASON TO ME.

[@meretricioussimp7759]

You can build 2 of this withca month of usas military budget

[@R2D2trashcan]

Attack helicopters do not cost 34b.

[@jameseddleman6944]

@@R2D2trashcan And your totally right I think I miss read the info i was reading from. 268 helicopters for 34b. STILL 13 mill per. You understand though the us is the only country that spends nearly a quarter of its total budget (4.5 trill) on military. In 2019 the us spent 734 billion on all military applications , while China spent UNDER HALF that amount, 261 billion. And Russians spent 70 billion on their military. Yet American war vents are living on the streets today, homeless, no families. thanks for allowing me to make the situation clearer! And more bleak!

[@mauriliomatracia6297]

Does Denmark really generate more than 50% EU's wind energy? Could you please confirm?

[@Ekstrand1337]

5.0% seems like a more realistic number.

[@kristiankruse3964]

I think they made a mistake Windpower is just over 50% of the Danish electricity in 2020. This project and others in the Northsea will take us well over 100% We also have a project of similar size in the sea between Denmark, Germany and Poland to help Poland kick out coal

[@coronalight77]

@@kristiankruse3964 you need to just stop. You have no idea what you're talking about lol

[@kristiankruse3964]

@@coronalight77 oh and you do, please share your knowledge?

[@AndersGetherSoerensen]

Today, 50% of Denmark's energy comes from wind. I would think that a very large part of the EU's wind turbines come from Denmark. Vesta + Simenens is among the largest in the world with a high efficiency.

[@MrGaborseres]

I wonder if they could install led lights lights and other tiny devices that could warn flying creatures of the deadly blades of a wind turbine 🤔

[@JoshuaT902]

There has been a study that been published and peer-reviewed in DOF BirdLife Denmakrs Scientific journal that describes how much birds die from collisions are low from a newly made 11 turbines and using Laser binoculars, telescopes, and radar was able to map their flight paths. Their flight paths adjusted and there was around 99% of birds avoid it. I think coal plants are more deadly because they are putting pollutants into the air they fly in. Also this was in Klim Wind Farm, Vejlerne in Denmark.

[@woodrax]

There is a further study to add to Joshua's response that painting a single turbine blade black will reduce impacts from birds by 70%.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

You’d have to wait half a year to witness a bird flying into a wind turbine. Because that’s what the average bird kill count per turbine approximately is. 2 birds per turbine and year.

[@hamanakohamaneko7028]

If the US redirected 340 billion from the military (what will remain will still be larger than China and Russia) the US can afford 10 of there, serving 60 million people. It will take 5 years to serve 330 million people. Since the US is already partly served by Nuclear and Hydro, it will only take 4 years. And since building in large numbers make it cheaper, you can spare islands for Canada and Mexico.

[@JWS1289]

Am I missing something? Why do you need an island? Why not just have cables to the mainland to use the electricity for whatever you like there?

[@Loren1389]

"The country already generates more than 50% of the EU's entire wind energy" - Aaaahm that's just not true. Germany produces so much more. Can you give a source for that claim?

[@Juuk-D]

Sure buddy, how about YOU prove him wrong? You didn't add any proof of your claims? Also remember Denmark is the second flattest country and one of the windiest after the Netherlands.

[@alexbur6021]

Hopefully it’s a hybrid of solar panels and turnines and park

[@brandonbarr2784]

Just don’t smoke a cig in your park

[@alexbur6021]

@@brandonbarr2784 i dont smoke my step grandfather smoked which was one or the causes of his death that is why I don't smoke btw it is bad for health

[@JohnJohansen2]

Where would you put the solar panels?

[@Jayismynickname]

@@alexbur6021 facts keep them lungs safe

[@alexbur6021]

@@JohnJohansen2 on the roof if there housing

[@doubtingtom92]

And they name the island Atlantis 2. It survives a global apocalypse until the new cave men in the future see it sink into the ocean.

[@omega1231]

As a Danes I think this would be a great idea, although maybe Doggerland 2 is more "up our alley"

[@SuperJohn12354]

Interesting I just read an article on how wind turbines at sea have been a failure due to the damage to the propellers, my brother in law is working on a solar farm that coverts sun to energy during the day , the focus tower is cooled by water this super heated water is then stored and added to cold water at night, the steam drives turbines and thus creates a solar farm that runs at night and day.

[@davidwarren4569]

Unfortunately here in Australia we have a current government populated by luddites who just cannot see the long term financial benefits of getting involved in alternative energy. they discourage discourse on the subject because we have constituencies that rely heavily on coal mining and export and don’t want these people to lose their jobs which is far enough. That is about as far as they can see from a do nothing government.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

I feel you! We have the same exact disaster here in Germany. During the period of 2014 - 2017 more than 70k people in Germany’s fastest growing economy (durning that time) wind- and solar-industry lost their job in favour of 20k people working in coal. Which by the way are people close to retirement anyway.

[@ChevronQ]

this is freaking awesome. Kinda wish humanity would focus on building these Islands. It fixes incredibly many problems we have.

[@violateilmann6957]

Haha det her er sjovt

[@manatoa1]

I'm curious how efficient they expect this to be. Producing hydrogen by electrolysis is quite inefficient relative to batteries, then they're compressing that hydrogen to a liquid which takes a lot of energy, then pumping it which is hard to contain. Are they starting with fresh water or using desalination to get the water they're making hydrogen from? It sounds as if it could easily be under 25% efficient overall.

[@gandalf1124]

The power to X is not determined yet, but there are many options. Instead of cooling and compressing the hydrogen you can just run it trugh a sabatier process with CO2 and get methan. The methane can then just be added to the natural gas network. But as said, the video og flawed in so many ways it is hard to count. The only part that has been decided is to build the ilands, and use them as hubs for wind energy, the rest is fantasy.

[@phamnuwen9442]

It's not meant to be efficient, it's meant to destroy the economy of the Western world. China is building 1500 coal plants because they understand the importance of cheap, reliable energy (while promising to become CO2 neutral LOL). Wind and solar has made Germany's electricity the most expensive in the world.

[@AchterHetBureau]

They could better have made a nuclear power plant for that money.

[@gandalf1124]

@@phamnuwen9442 An outdated electric infrastructure with lacking capacity between north and south is the problem in Germany.

[@gandalf1124]

@@AchterHetBureau One Nuclear power pland is useless as it provides no redundance. Besides it would be way more expensive. Wind power is today way cheaper than Neuclear.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Methinks the cost of upkeep will cancel out any benefits, rendering this endeavour pointless.

[@joecool4656]

1. Projects never stay under budget 2. The country is isolating their power generation to one spot, a threat to national security 3. Hydrogen is not efficient enough round trip to serve as a viable way to store energy, you have to install huge amounts of extra generating capacity to compensate 4. That hydrogen storage can only do so much if their is dry-spell 5. They are hindering their economy by stopping search for oil. So many industries rely on petroleum other than energy 6. Human carbon emissions contributing to climate change is based on altered data from NASA/NOAA in 2000. Older graphs didn’t support it

[@shuaige3360]

But why build it in a island? why not transfer the electricity from offshore wind to the land, and do the hydrogene facility on the land? Why bother to build an island? what are the advantages? not clear in this video.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

It’s a showpiece I guess. Or they’re relocating the transformation station to cut powerline transmission losses.

[@Leopold5100]

@@petergoestohollywood382 HVDC would eliminate most transmission losses

[@mpoisot]

I'm wondering the same thing. Perhaps in addition to transmission losses there are environmental advantages to processing the H2 way out in the ocean in terms of sucking up large quantities of water and dumping out brine. But still, and artificial island half covered in parks seems overly expensive (and perhaps the parks are just "artists rendition"). Why not a floating platform like with oil rigs? Maybe even repurpose a decommissioned oil rig.

[@mikefdorst]

@@mpoisot Wholeheartedly agree. If it needs to be offshore for some reason, the way oil rigs do it is much cheaper with MUCH less environmental impact than building an artificial island.

[@shuaige3360]

@@petergoestohollywood382 seems very costly build an island just to avoid line transfer cost (if the electricity is transferred for a few dozen km, should not loose that much. China do transfer electricity with ultra high voltage thousands of km away.

[@anotherelvis]

We already have many maritime wind turbines in the North Sea, but it will be helpful to have the island as a local hub.

[@Grovesie35]

4:10 I don't care what he is making, homeboy needs a raise!

[@mox44]

🙏 Respect ‼️

[@AustenMerritt]

It's a no brainer!! Every country should be following suit!! We only have one planet, despite Mr Musk's attempts to take over Mars!

[@jeffgold3091]

have they solved any of the problems associated with hydrogen storage ?

[@Feynman981]

They didn‘t. It‘s another video to lift hydrogen stocks to give oil producers a backdoor to flood the market with hydrogen from fossil fuels once the „green“ infrastructure is built.

[@blavand7105]

As Feynman said, they haven't. The Hydrogen project is a long way down the line, until technology can solve the worst problems. There will be a Hydrogen plant, but it's for R&D. Right now it's meant as functioning as hub and alternative storage.

[@JohnJohansen2]

2:00 Actually in the beginning it will be around 10 GW, since expanding to 30 GW. Well it's the plan anyway.

[@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk]

Costs are always underestimated while production is alway overestimated. 2050? In the 90’s they were saying 2020 or 2025, now it’s 2050. Forever moving goalposts.

[@smallpeople172]

Who was saying what would happen by 2020 in the 90s ?

[@Rune__]

😂 In the 90’s 😂 What are your dumb dumb brain talking about? 😂

[@syhler1876]

how mutch CO2 did it cost to make??? how many years wil lgo before it is GREEN?????

[@festimelutisoska3155]

Mashallah

[@magicstarfish]

sea water has to be purified before electrolysis.

[@mikefdorst]

Not if you're okay with producing chlorine gas as a byproduct instead of oxygen.

[@kirkjohnson9353]

@@mikefdorst It could be handy for cleaning the island.

[@iliketacos2763]

This all "sounds" great

[@joshtaylor9773]

Everything can only sound great until it actually happens. Wouldn't it be great to fly. Wouldn't it be great to go to space. Wouldn't it be great to create a massive system that links all computers on earth and offers truly ludicrous amounts of information in milliseconds. Humans have done way harder things than build an island with some windmills nearby.

[@altrag]

@@joshtaylor9773 More to the point, humans have already built quite a few islands. We've built lots of windmills in the ocean. We've build hydrogen extraction facilities. There is absolutely nothing new in this project, technology wise. Only interesting thing about it is that someone has decided to put the money in and actually do it.

[@Rune__]

I am pretty sure that it “sounds “ great, because it is great 😂

[@iliketacos2763]

@@Rune__ I'm convinced Denmark is more advanced with green energy than America but I could be wrong . If this works at a reasonable price , fantastic . Over-unity would be outstanding but my thought is the cheaper and more abundant energy is , the more humans earth will get through population .

[@anatomicalx9355]

@@iliketacos2763 Well its easier for Denmark to supply itself. While only a handful of these islands are needed for Denmark, Dozens of them would be needed for the continental US alone. Nuclear power would better suit the US

[@paddymatter6255]

2/3 off the Energie will be lost. What a bad idee ;-(

[@nathanlewis42]

Do you have any idea how inefficient fossil fuel energy is?

[@petergoestohollywood382]

@@nathanlewis42 correct. The main difference here is that sunlight which provides the wind is basically falling on earth for free at any given time... whereas coal, oil and gas has to be extracted, processed and refined first.

[@hanadgeyre3499]

Why not use the island that is already next to the one, that they want to build it from scratch? or relocate the few people that already inhabited the island, surely few Billion Dollars would change their mind to relocate to Danish mainland.

[@ximpjeh]

Sounds nice, but for now they have no clue how to recycle windturbine wings. So this is just another big landfill, just on sea.

[@rajasekharnadipena4449]

4:08 Unsafe act observed.

[@andrewjensen8189]

probably has a harness 🤔

[@yodab.at1746]

Cue bad day at work video montage...

[@blavand7105]

What's unsafe about it? Don't slip and you won't fall. That's easy enough to understand? 😄

[@wiwersewindemer4437]

I'm a dano-swede, so I'll be getting it anyway.

[@vinaykumar-jv1ku]

placing wind turbines in sea is an excellent idea...

[@petergoestohollywood382]

It's called offshore and I absolutely agree with you

[@phamnuwen9442]

Yes, if you dump them in the deep ocean as waste lol

[@Petri_Pennala]

@@phamnuwen9442 How funny

[@otomackena7610]

It's not a new idea. It's called offshore wind power

[@Petri_Pennala]

@@otomackena7610 Yep but he is indian so what to expect

[@timmylittle2406]

Why not use the island for a green nuclear plant? The plant will not depend on the weather and when you consider the whole process they are a lot safer and environmentally friendly than solar panels and wind turbines.

[@fake_fishys.7134]

we are relly doing good in denmark

[@arielschabes9691]

Yes! Would like to see what the US is doing with offshore wind projects and other new groundbreaking green initiatives.

[@garethbaus5471]

Many people in the US are putting a lot of effort into killing any simmilar projects for the US.

[@ablair37]

would need a few of these islands 3 to 4 at least but there is a lot of land to do it as well

[@larsdahl5528]

Danish wind industry (I am from Denmark) is hoping, with the recent president change in the US, that the new president will be willing to support such projects in the US. Denmark is ready to supply expertise to such projects!

[@anatomicalx9355]

@@ablair37 We would need dozens of these...

[@anatomicalx9355]

@@larsdahl5528 America is much better suited for Nuclear power, considering we have the space and the economy for it. After what happened in texas during the storm, wind and solar power have lost a lot of backing

[@ChrisKlein0]

The UK can do this with the Isle of Wight, no island building necessary 👌🏻

[@Hession0Drasha]

Lower wind speeds off the south coast, you could also only build the turbines south of the island, north side is waaaaay too busy with shipping.

[@Alex9971000]

Exactly that is what I was thinking.

[@ChrisKlein0]

@@Hession0Drasha I was saying build it ON the island

[@Gexpgaming]

i am from Denmark and i diddent know about this :O

[@cristiant9437]

Taxpayers always find out last about the latest craze politicians do.

[@NRDK90]

Its been all over the news for ages....

[@farkassen6883]

Det jo Gex

[@geostyma]

Lol, the comments fact checking the shit out of this vid. As a confept it sounds nice.

[@sofusrnstruppilehave8179]

There are no strict laws on biodiversity. Denmark is the country with the least nature in the world.

[@crazydinosaur8945]

yes on land

[@FelixPelletierQC]

need more of this

[@jmonsted]

The island isn't floating. It's a giant pile of pumped sand from the seabed around it.

[@tayachting6345]

Yep, and yet they complain about destroying ocean life.

[@tyharris9994]

Why don't they just build the hydrogen factory in land? Not clear why they need an island at all.

[@tayachting6345]

@@tyharris9994 I know. I can't figure this out either. It seems like they are destroying marine life while trying to 'save' the planet. They have enough space on land to do this.

[@jmonsted]

@@tyharris9994 This is primarily a electrical substation for distributing the power generated by offshore wind farms. They will almost certainly add grid-scale batteries, but the whole hydrogen thing is just a "eh, maybe some day" bonus. Being able to desalinate water, make hydrogen and sell that hydrogen to passing ships could be a nice feature.

[@tyharris9994]

@@jmonsted Yes. I get all that. It's a substation, port, and desalination plant. Which doesn't answer my question as to why you need a 34 billion dollar artificial island to put them all on. All of these things already exist on land.

[@MrBoliao98]

Actually Singapore legit should think about putting this at Pedra Branca, like the wind there big enough.

[@MoonLiteNite]

Where does singapore get power from now? I am assuming natural gas from malaysia?

[@Petri_Pennala]

@@MoonLiteNite I think some of it might come from Australia

[@MrBoliao98]

@@MoonLiteNite actually it's diversified, the bulk is natural gas from Indonesia, then there's the local production from rubbish burning and green sources. And then there's the 2% of our power from Malaysia's grid.

[@phamnuwen9442]

I suggest nuclear. The fantasy of building a grid around unreliable power sources is coming to an end sooner or later.

[@MrBoliao98]

@@phamnuwen9442 only the finnish have a nuclear dumpster, no one else have it.

[@crane7702]

Scottish offshore wind is growing rapidly and could help The EU to convert to green energy with Denmark

[@smaragd_]

I like to see new tech but these videos never cover in depth other side. And then herd jumps to like and shower with positive comments. And when I hear "green house gases", buzz word, I just discredit everything else. All other real problems are ignored and everyone jumps on buzz trends like "climate change", "CO2", "emissions", etc. Pure bull!

[@Ted...youtubee]

Spot on.. Hope people have deep pockets.

[@marius3421]

As a dane i can tell you earliest date its done is 2036 and it will end up costing atleast 40 billion usd

[@garethbaus5471]

That is expensive, but not as expensive as I would have expected.

[@marius3421]

@@garethbaus5471 well anything findes by the government always goes over budget and time

[@donmeisner4438]

And what technical data are you using to reach this conclusion? Are you educated in this field?

[@stoic.little]

Why keep mixing imperial and SI units?

[@paulmcgreevy3011]

Why not?

[@kieranh2005]

Everyone should be multi-lingual in Imperial and Metric

[@oskartegnesjo1111]

Don't be fooled by Danish greenwashing. They still direct their Copenhagen sewage systems straight out in the sound outside the city. You still have a ways to go, Denmark. Greetings from big brother Sweden.

[@curioussand1339]

It's the recent climate change that is responsible for the Copenhagen sewage system being overloaded by rainwater and that has to go somewhere, so I guess they decided to let it out in Oeresund instead letting it fill the streets and houses. They are already working on ways to separate rainwater from the sewage system so the sewage cleaning facilities only has to deal with real sewage. But that is not done overnight in a big old city as Copenhagen. In the meantime they are working on ways to reduce global warning and thus the amount of water that can be held in the atmosphere which should hopefully lead to less extreme rain over time. Then we just need the rest of the world to follow suit.

[@schultz_dk6245]

i live in Denmark and didnt know ehhh... FUCK :)

[@lukash2155]

Why not just build a Thorium plant?

[@ClemonsKunkel]

Awesome 😎 Go Green technology.

[@jamesmooney8933]

Kill birds, and people when the Wind Mill freezes ask Texas

[@petergoestohollywood382]

Let's GOOOO!

[@jamesmooney8933]

@@petergoestohollywood382 Let's forget about green

[@petergoestohollywood382]

@@jamesmooney8933 let’s forget about you

[@jamesmooney8933]

@@petergoestohollywood382 LOL

[@JGBerserkR22]

Danish humans, just bravo 👏🏻

[@Joel-ee4yh]

Make a video on new nuclear tech like MSRs and SMRs, it's a new tech on the horizon and an effective way to combat climate change.

[@insectbite1714]

True, the media never talks about this for some reason

[@montiro8999]

So many mistakes in this video. No Dänemark does not produce 50 percent of the Eu wind energy 7:13. This video is very rushed.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

Jup, there are some major mistakes here and there.

[@CyclonicTuna023]

So their going to try to generate a massive amount of green electricity to power the most inefficient way of creating hydrogen. Remind me again why it wouldn't be simpler to just use the electric energy in the first place instead of losing 60% of it by turning it into hydrogen? And how are they planning on storing and transporting all that hydrogen?

[@jcollishaw]

I’m just guessing but by planning to cop the inefficiency you can build a completely reliable and scalable power source from the very beginning. The Hydrogen is pumped under the sea to plants on the mainland and to export terminals for other countries as well. It’s certainly not the most efficient process. But then again neither is burning fossil fuels

[@chusainforlife5472]

Man, this video should be a reminder to all of us that there is still hope in humanity

[@magnusharrison2715]

You should see where those turbines end up, they were created to last and withstand hurricanes tornados etc, it’s hard to recicle fiberglass and fiber carbon, sometimes they use it as fue to produce energy which defeats the purpose of being “GREEN” so it’s easier and cheaper to just lay them off somewhere just creating waste on the land

[@simonalison1014]

We live in hope ...

[@petergoestohollywood382]

@@magnusharrison2715 dude. After producing up to 120x more energy emission free, than what was required to manufacture it, I don't think there is any purpose defeated. Besides hydro power, there is virtually no other other source of electricity that is as eco-friendly. Trust me, if it wasn't I would stop studying it right away!

[@carlosbedoya6012]

Danemark is so inspiring!

[@henryjanicky4978]

Dream come true-Denemark is building future energy hab.Only one thing I will add to this project-all solt extracted from electrolysis should be taken to land and pail up for future processing application. Good luck!

[@gorillaguy9902]

Could you do a video on the kardshev Scale

[@SC-yy4sw]

i don't really see the point in making an artificial island tbh. I mean I understand that an island could make wind farms maintenance a little easier but on the other hand, you'd have to transport employees there everyday or every week. Could they not just install offshore windfarms and then build the hydrogen plant on land ?

[@soubhikdutta6184]

It is because of the distance.

[@SC-yy4sw]

@@soubhikdutta6184 I don't really see the problem in laying 50miles of subsea cables. The celtic interconnector between Ireland and France is projected to be 600km long.

[@insectbite1714]

@@SC-yy4sw sneaky ecological damage

[@jprsfragoso]

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