How Balsa Wood Became the New Gold Rush: From Seeds to a Billion-Dollar Industry!

[@johnbethea4505]

My first run in with balsa wood was throwable toy 10 cent airplanes around 70 years ago.

[@-sawal]

how old are you?

[@johnbethea4505]

@@-sawal I am 78. I was born in 1946.

[@-sawal]

@@johnbethea4505 My respect grandpa!

[@johnbethea4505]

@-sawal it is a long time. I have been to war, shot, stabbed, cut, burnt, poisoned, fell 30 ft on steel, Agent Orange,totaled 2 cars and 1 dump truck, and so many other things.

[@-sawal]

@@johnbethea4505 Wow! Sounds like a pretty wild experience in Vietnam. Did they capture and torture you?

[@grundlerg]

Anyone else wondering why the speaker is saying "Basla" multiple times? Just wondering about the proof reader of the script...

[@leoverboom7783]

Oh, how good that “green energy” is for the environment!

[@ExFarmTech0307]

It's a double edged sword from what I've seen, but if it was me I'm willing to take the risk for a less plastic future

[@TongTong-rh3br]

Nice to see the world class personal protective equipment and clothing that this responsible company ensures it's staff use

[@ryanbeard1119]

Oh, where is the overpaid fat cat safety nanny. Are you applying for the job. Let the indigenous be....

[@RichardBivins]

The boatbuilders did NOT learn how to build balsa-cored structures...they started building cored hulls in the mid-1960s and started using vacuum bags in late 1990s - early 2000s.

[@sgrams3578]

Interesting video! The wind turbine blades are a nightmare to reuse or recycle, some uses after wind but also costly. Because of this video I understand how making the turbines is a bad and expensive process including the environment impact.

[@SanctuarySpaNYC]

Lets not complain about how the planet is suffering because we're killing it with these striping practices

[@LordGizmo]

Yea it is fairly shocking to watch

[@Nashua-l1h]

Balsa wood is so easy to carve!

[@LordGizmo]

Amazing how light it really is

[@harry130747]

Those forest workers didn't look like anyone from Ecuador.

[@LissanFarm]

Farm-to-table restaurants are my favorite because they highlight the beauty of fresh, seasonal ingredients

[@LordGizmo]

They do indeed

[@MauriceWicker-k5s]

Are you paying attention at all?

[@LucidDreamer54321]

You posted on the wrong page. Try again.

[@antoniohorta5656]

Nothing to do w/ topic

[@tuberroot1112]

Ecuador is NOT in Amazonia, so they are not "Amazonian trees".

[@-sawal]

Google it because you are wrong.

[@coytheboy]

Parque Nacional Yasuní is in the Amazonia and that is part of Ecuador

[@prilep5]

Eco “friendliness” of windmills is startling

[@LordGizmo]

Crazy to think that balsa is used in making those

[@andyjohnson5571]

IN TEXAS THEY HAVE TO PUT THE USED BLADES IN A LANDFILL DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO RECYCLE. THOUSANDS ARE STARTING TO BECOME A REAL DISPOSAL PROBLEM.

[@prilep5]

@@andyjohnson5571 I know my friend this eco conscious crowds don’t know that most rear and expansive tree forest is cutdown so they will feel that they didn’t something good for the environment

[@tatsdgreat8886]

If u are startled by simply using wood, then go inhale more smoke from coal powered electrical generators😂😂😂😂

[@cameronf3343]

@@prilep5 Do you want to hear a crazy fun fact? Did you know trees are plants and therefore living beings which can be regrown?? 🤯🤯 Crazy right?!

[@-sawal]

crazy stuff... nice upload

[@LordGizmo]

Thank you

[@hinz1]

Certainly not more resistant than plastics. Balsa composite aircraft were famous for rotting away, if left in the rain.

[@hamafarm]

This is great, but I wonder about the environmental cost of harvesting balsa wood on such a massive scale. Are there sustainability practices in place?

[@jabesparker12]

In tropics there is no scarcity or rain will have very minimal effect if done in controlled fashion.

[@williamburns9731]

Yeah in 1950s my brother built a balsa wood😂model plane..ah the palonia tree is very similar .😮

[@jaguar4720]

USA use of Balsa wood for boats, airplane, sports and toys is ethical but China use of wood is unethical for no reason.🤣🤣

[@-sawal]

Two wrongs do not make a right...both countries are largest emitter of CO2. Instead of blame game and propaganda against each other, both countries must stop this type of exploitation.

[@davesbainrps6909]

Could make boat houses of the wood from windmills

[@LucidDreamer54321]

1.21 jigawatts!!

[@señor-curiosity]

great materia

[@LordGizmo]

Thank you

[@Glaudge]

The voice read the word 'BAS la' instead of 'bal sa' more than once without even thinking about it and no edits lol

[@RichardBivins]

What? You expect programmers and "artificial intelligence" to know to edit? YMBJ!😅 (You must be joking)

[@woodtales-v7e]

NICE\

[@SamsonHosea-g7p]

Pictures are taken from Papua 🇵🇬 NEW Guinea

[@kamarajm4106]

Maram than maram than, ellam maramthan, maranthan maranthan, manithan maranthan😢😢

[@Wonderer94]

Mentions Ecuador but shows pacific Islanders

[@Agungsuprihatin]

Balsa lebih ringan dari kayu sengon kah?

[@JoeKyser]

They say Basla too much for me fo think this is full of facts

[@ΛάζαροςΣτεφανίδης-ψ2β]

Work with balsa on boats construction

[@charlesbauer7493]

Make new towers from old blades

[@fakhruddinmohdsaman7628]

how about pulai tree..it light and strange too.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

as a tradesman of multiple tradeswho has worked years with ESD, Cathodic reactions, and all forms of Lightning Protection and sensative hi value equipment hardening? and DC rail, aero, comms, towers, fuel xfer, manufacturing, and others. "I wounder why"? Would some are these same techs are not used in the construction of these wooded lightnig rod$? And I worked with all energies but nuc, with fiberglass, kevlars, carbons, epoxy's all temps, pressures, or environments man made or natural. I can think of quite a few ready to go off the self techs used today that may not be perfect but could mitigate or eliminate the risks, I smell BS. Or MORE PROFITS!

[@WilliamPetterson-d6h]

Keep cutting it and do not plant new once and 50 years later the person becomes a desert and talking about climate change. Instead just planting new tree while cutting old onces

[@karthikshetty2206]

How monoculture is sustainable

[@musiclover6790]

Use Bamboo

[@kabiruMaina]

1:24 it's BALSA not BASLA

[@joesutherland225]

Theres a similar african tree okume i believe its called

[@johnnywright5236]

got wood

[@user-fx2oo3bi9c]

Teak wood from india Only for Rolls Royce .😢😢

[@WSA691]

fix the damn script that the bot narrator reads, it is Balsa not Basla and there are so many cases of the second...

[@danholman7105]

Wut be basla wood?

[@joeyjamison5772]

Mis-spelled script fed to robo voice audio generator, that's what!

[@danholman7105]

@@joeyjamison5772 indeed. But kind of need to wonder about integrity of this tale when a person repeatedly mistyped basic data, what else is off? Subverted by lack of editing I'd say.

[@joeyjamison5772]

@@danholman7105 Some people rely on artificial intelligence because of a lack of natural intelligence.

[@davesbainrps6909]

Should make cars from it

[@havingfuningeneralandalsop2485]

BAHHZZZLAAA

[@r.guerreiro140]

Would you have an email? I have a reasonable experience in using planted wood as a substitute for minerals and would like to share if it's of your interest Thanks

[@marktanska6331]

To watch this destruction is soul destroying.

[@winscaser4008]

China slowly destroying other country while preserving their own.😂

[@flippensweet3]

With all our trash in the world we will make thousands of new mountains! yay lol

[@deaftodd]

Easy solution, stop making too may people!

[@mypiebecamepizza9503]

While you have a kid, the irony

[@UncleRosie]

Anyone else watching aware of the fact that wind turbine towers almost never produce as much energy as they took to build? Sad but true.

[@JoBlow-63]

Absolute bollocks. Just another ignorant keyboard warrior who has no idea what he is talking about.

[@ryanbeard1119]

Balsa wood sucks.

[@crispysocksss]

Omg, me too! 😂

[@samcohen1625]

When you started denigrating China, I stopped watching.

[@-sawal]

Sometimes it is hard to accept what's coming wrong from your own side. It is human nature I guess but truth must be plainly told not to hurt anyone but to correct someone.

[@Balu_420]

I know it’s a totally different scale, but still I‘d like to compare: After WWII, we Germans really didn’t want to accept what we did wrong under Hitler. We called people who stood up and called the wrongdoings out „Nestbeschmutzer“ (Nest polluters). To this day people don’t want here what their direct ancestors might have done wrong But trust me. Critic is usually good. Especially for those who have a lot power

[@WabuhWabuh]

why are so many blacks in south america?

[@kabiruMaina]

3:38 it's BALSA not BASLA

[@NeloReis71]

BASLA apears 3 or 4 times, very distracting. someone mistyped and AI reads it as is.