The $7BN Megaproject to Save Venice

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[@jessegoodyear9890]

Already loving this channel!

[@TomorrowsBuild]

Thanks so much Jesse!! That's officially the first ever comment on Tomorrow's Build. What a moment. This is up there with the moon landing.

[@jessegoodyear9890]

Heres me screen shotting this moment now😅😂.

[@SundayTalksYT]

da best sidekick to the B1M!!!!! The two editions

[@Godzzbinzz]

I just wanted to be a part of this history some how haha congrats on your achievement Jesse

[@TomTom-xp2jb]

Way to go Jesse Goodyear!!! All the best (in future endeavours) from Canada!!! 👍🌟🖖

[@altus3278]

I studied in Venice for two years. One advantage of floods is that apartments on the first floor are quite cheap.

[@ahmedelsleet8542]

Lol this comment is too underrated

[@justChuka]

🤣🤩😂🤪🤣😆

[@anupgopalvarma9297]

😀😀👌

[@lovegaba6691]

Hahahaha

[@tedjones3955]

I damn near peed myself reading your comment. Hang everything from the ceiling and sleep on an air mattress, eh? Yes, I'm Canadian.

[@charlesxavier4409]

imagine paying 7 billion only to have the dummy in charge not turn it on....

[@daveseddon5227]

Yeah - if only there was some way to automate it 🤣

[@alongfortheride84]

Imagine paying 7 billion only to have the thing become useless a few decades later...

[@daveseddon5227]

@@alongfortheride84 Yeah - they don't really seem to have taken into account the future! The future will happen and where possible it should be catered for! 🤣

[@vomm]

Why dummy? Did you even see the video? It was said that the weather report was wrong. And they have to think very carefully about raising the gates every single tide to avoid the bay being low on oxygen.

[@vinnyvasquez]

@@vomm Saving Venice is more important. The reports were not wrong, weather forecasters were the ones who underestimated it and authorities chose not to switch it on when they could have, as a precaution.

[@nickpiovesan4361]

In this context, “Authorities didn’t think to switch it on” is probably one of the most Italian-bureaucratic sounding things I’ve ever heard

[@tredue6642]

Sadly yes

[@nevetz845]

I think it's because the operations is said to cost around 300k€, and they probably didn't know if the tide was actually going to be big enough in order to raise the MOSE

[@michaeluvarov2373]

when the weather forecast said not to switch it on

[@bodylanbuuron4961]

Ferrari f1 team is

[@Tethloach1]

Maybe they will get in trouble for it.

[@XMarkxyz]

As a citizen of Venice (admittedly its continental part, Mestre) I can assure you this is by far the best informative video on this topic avaible in english; I've seen some others examples that are just incorrect and embarassing

[@bruh._.2911]

Che merda Mestre però

[@LeroiAlbertpremierdunom]

It's so sad to see people in this comment section saying they would just abandon the city, but don't realize people like you actually live there.

[@Paroissien]

@@LeroiAlbertpremierdunom People just have to visit Venice, and especially take one more day to walk around and take boats to see how marvelous and precious it is.

[@ErelH]

Would you say the system is effective? When authorities think to switch it on, of course (: BTW In my opinion even if it stopped 80-90% of the floods that's a huge win

[@Paroissien]

@@ErelH It is a depth structure, meaning, if the required depth to keep Venetians' feet dry is 38.85 meters, then a 39m structure won't do. It is a whole or nothing engineering, 90-95% success is a fail.

[@weareorigin]

Venice shops: we got flooded by water again Customer support: have you tried turning the $7BN megaproject OFF, then ON?

[@jasonlacroix6083]

That always works with my cable box.

[@berndarndt9924]

The thing is, this works most of the time and saves you a lot of money because this means they don't need to send out an engineer and you don't need to pay him.

[@Thawhid]

Just hit it hard two times itll reset

[@AMorphicTool]

More like... Venice: Your flood barrier isn't working! Tech Support: Is it plugged in and switched on? Venice: Oh... Right. No, no it was not. Tech Support: *audible sigh*

[@windshieldwasher6919]

You guys are all goats!!!

[@notafox]

I'm italian. It's so embarrassing that we can come up with incredible pieces of engineering and everything gets ruined by the corruption that cripples this country.

[@576arnav]

It's not just the corruption, There are several glaring engineering flaws in the design

[@istoppedcaring6209]

to be honest the idea is basically really simple, air causes the gates to rise to just above the water level when it is needed and the system is also somewhat vulnerable to human error I think it is better than nothing and I wouldn't have been able to randomly come up with it, but the deltaworks in the netherlands are completely proven (then again questions should be raised about impact on marine life as well

[@CrossWindsPat]

Don't worry. If it makes you feel any better its a worldwide human issue.

[@costaskl6589]

@@user-ll4cj2gl2v are you ok?

[@user-ll4cj2gl2v]

@@costaskl6589 I'm fine and you ?

[@yeahno6053]

CORRUPTION has kept this from happening sooner and wars over the contracts

[@Adam-ug7zn]

Can't let progress get in the way of profit!

[@trevor7355]

Corruption is rampant in today’s world.

[@stuckingachahell9222]

@@trevor7355 corruption has always been rampant, but now its alot easier to see and talk to people about it because we have the internet, but if anybody actually does anything is something else

[@trevor7355]

@@stuckingachahell9222 buy and hold GameStop.

[@trevor7355]

@@stuckingachahell9222 that’s what people are doing

[@moralester]

We were eating in a restaurant in Italy when the staff told us that they had to close soon, because "the water would be coming in soon" Needless to say it was a fantastic dining experience

[@GermanTopGameTV]

The clever bit of this system is, that it dynamically adapts to the tide level difference. In contrast to a watergate system, where huge steel doors have to withstand the tons of pressure from the water, these barriers operate basically without much stress at all. Waves are mitigated by the rotational degree of freedom and the water head pressure from the sea to the lagune is carried by buoyancy, rather then stressed steel. From an engineering standpoint, this system is great. Why, you might ask? If the water head becomes to strong on a conventional water gate to the point of system failure, the gate bursts open and lets all the water through, with the devastating effect of a broken damn. This system does the opposite. If the head pressure becomes to strong, a small flow over the top becomes possible, slowly and gently raising the lagune water level until equilibrium is recreated once more. I can see why it cost so much money, it's a brilliant solution.

[@corpo_ethereal2744]

And this is a brilliant comment.

[@kalyanvadlamani7607]

Basically, the gate being slant at an angle makes the difference?.

[@shiftxrqt]

Oh, Why you might ask? Lol

[@GermanTopGameTV]

@@kalyanvadlamani7607 the gate floating makes the difference mainly

[@mnz9999]

Very well written summary, this is how I saw it working also

[@notmenotme614]

It’s cool how these barriers are raised by using compressed gases to displace water, in the exact same way Submarines resurface.

[@hueyfreeman7810]

Don't subs use ballasting to acend and decend??

[@EmyrDerfel]

@@hueyfreeman7810 ballast is just water where there would otherwise be air.

[@jorehir]

@@hueyfreeman7810 Once they're submerged, they can change depth using their control surfaces like an airplane. But in order to get submerged in the first place, they have to flood their tanks. And viceversa when they want to resurface.

[@notmenotme614]

@@hueyfreeman7810 Subs work the same way. They have water tanks for ballast and when they want to surface, they blow the water out the tanks with compressed gas. Submarines also use “dive planes” (like a wing surface that can pivot) to pitch the submarine up or down

[@dabigcheezprod]

@@notmenotme614 no

[@Law19157]

The architecture of Venice is brilliant

[@victorr2245]

Here I’m thinking I’m watching B1M and realize that I have a bunch of new videos to watch…Fantastic!

[@jeroenh2003]

That bond reference killed me😂💀

[@somefuckstolemynick]

The joke could be said to be... licensed to kill. ;)

[@TomorrowsBuild]

It’s time someone held Daniel Craig to account for helping to sink Venice.

[@JoaoPessoa86]

Every now and then a James Bond movie will have a sequence that you just know was added because they hadn't gotten around to using the 007 stage at Pinewood

[@paulmcgreevy3011]

Amazing you were still able to type this message after you died.

[@appleslover]

Rest in peace

[@JohnRobertson22]

My wife and I were honeymooning in Venice just after the flood in 2019, and we spoke with some of the shop owners as well as some of the residents about aqua Alta and they said that it’s getting worse and worse I’m so glad that this might help them!! These very happy people got very solemn anytime someone spoke of aqua Alta, it’s very serious and detrimental to their way of life

[@kenno6741]

Thanks sherlock

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Thank you for this video. I really should’ve watched it sooner. I really can’t believe how crazy the Venice project has gone over budget. It’s just insane.

[@MiaMakesThings]

Just found this channel! It’s really awesome! I’m so glad i’ve stumbled upon it! Keep up the great work!

[@phykin]

This reminds me of when Discovery was a good channel, thanks for taking the reigns!!!

[@ForcesNL]

Apart from the climate change propaganda. I could try and ignore it I guess. But using the facts from a few years to claim sealevels will drown people soon is so dumb. People never learn to avoid hypes to scare children about the future. lol. But I'm dead serious. Look at all the scams with covid. So many people have power they will not let go. Great people they are.

[@ElusiveTy]

@@ForcesNL Your conspiracy theories don't change the facts. There need to be more channels spreading the right information, like this one.

[@JV-cz7db]

@@ForcesNL Yes climate change propaganda, aha. One year ago a city near mine was recovered in water of 1m and the last flood like that happened 40 years ago. Yeah idk where you live but ive been in indonesia and near some isles you can clearly see house roofs floating in the sea. Maybe try travelling a bit to see what happens in the world instead of staying in your farm in texas.

[@whydoievenbothertoputthish2199]

Omg adam savage is the producer?!!?!? That dude is definitely living his best life props to all the people involved!

[@brucelee4996]

Mythbusters

[@iaretight]

The guy can’t even wave hi when I see him ride by on my street in SF.

[@lytrell1326]

He’s the guy from The B1M right????

[@EdgarLee-ig1ue]

@@lytrell1326 I don't think so. He's from the Mythbusters show and has videos on the KZbin channel "Adam Savage's Tested"

[@JonatasMonte]

@@lytrell1326 He's the guy that co hosted (don't know if that's the term) Mythbusters with Jamie Hyneman. He's the one that wore an Indiana Jones hat. It's crazy to think we already have a generation that didn't grow up with Mythbusters (ot the Lord of the Rings)

[@ProudlyElongo]

Need to save this beautiful place for the next generation. I've been in Venice it's soooo beauuutttiifulll! I love Italy. Filipino from Finland. ❤️

[@ginger_nosoul]

I watched a long documentary on this, sea life is also a big issue growing on all the underwater equipment, preventing it from working properly.

[@chriswalker4370]

I love they way that they say "The Thames Barrier" then "Rotterdams system" - not even trying to pronounce the latter!

[@Tim_van_de_Leur]

Allemaal in Koor!! Waterlandkering :P

[@Ozymandias1]

@@Tim_van_de_Leur Wrong, it's named Maeslantkering. Or Maize Land Kerring in English.

[@jroar123]

I once worked offshore close to Venice. The Adriatic can be as mean as they get. One night when boarding a helicopter, the wind and driving rain blew ferociously enough that the helicopter had a hard time staying on the helipad. Being a large man, they asked me to get aboard quickly for ballast. I was soaked as everyone else was. The helicopter shook trying to maintain its footing. The normal paperwork for the flight couldn’t be accomplished at that time. The Helicopter Landing Officer (HLO) was fighting the wind and rain to the point he crouched down leaning into the gusts. Once the doors shut and the pad cleared we took off with little resistance straight up into the storm. The funny part was that once we gained a few hundred feet, the ride smoothed out as we turned direction to Padova, Italy. The airport was only 20 miles away. Other times the Adriatic was so ruff that the rented cruise ship Nord Norge had to leave the platform because of the swells. We had a good 25 feet of up and down for hours. Finally we made for Port of Padova and protection from the sea. We had to stay there for 5 days before we could make it back.

[@googleanti-speech7618]

Now you understand why the mythology was so much about the Adriatic. Because they truly would either get lucky and have a nice travel, or just straight up die in a horrible storm.

[@JGirDesu]

Great comment! Just have to say *rough and not ruff

[@andreamelchiorri5302]

You are right! Sometime, due to meteorological condition The west side of adriatic sea is as a pot when the water boiling. The waves rise up very quickly due to wind that increase speed constricted from Croatian and Italian mountais and the modest deep of seebed. The result is a storm with high wawes withot a preferential direction an gusts of wind of very higt intersitity.

[@supporterofeverythingyouli6255]

I doubt that helo was flying in those weather conditions sounds like a tall story to me!

[@derekfromtauranga6012]

I visited Venice in Nov 2017 and was shocked how much of the city was submerged when on a Gondola tour. Stairs and landings which would have been above water level when built were probably a metre underwater. It’s a fascinating place considering it is mainly built with wooden piles under it. It probably would have been cheaper to build a sea wall round the city instead of all those expensive gates?

[@cosettapessa6417]

There were different solutions. Even talking about raising foundations like they did somewhere else.

[@cosettapessa6417]

@David Wang Nothing lasts forever. What are you saying?

[@attila840702]

I hope they save Venice, it's one of my favorite places. I've been there 4 or 5 times in the past 20 years.

[@Thomas-qf1od]

They should've asked the Dutch to handle this :')

[@leonardochirara8486]

Precies!

[@plasticpinocchio247]

Asking a country who doesn’t really like us and tries to hinder us in any way they can to solve one of the major national security problems we face? Nope I think I’ll trade some corruption and bureaucracy in exchange for handling this exclusively within our borders thank you very much!

[@Caleidus]

No, thanks. We have been brilliantly dealing with hydraulic engineering since Julius Caesar........

[@plasticpinocchio247]

@@Caleidus Its not even an engineering problem, it’s the corruption behind it that painted a bad image for the MOSE and some environmental weirdos who want to stop it.

[@bobthetroll]

Yep, Italians have good food and clothes but not so good at engineering.

[@Hateme021]

I was there when it flooded a few years ago. I couldn’t understand the cat walls until the water came lol

[@alihaider-nj4kw]

The worlds beautiful city love from pakistan 🇵🇰🇮🇹❤

[@travelds]

As an Italian resident in Veneto I must say that it is a simple and at the same time clear video. only one correction: at 2:40 the names of the entrances of Chioggia and Malamocco were reversed.

[@beppihappy836]

Se mi fusse da Mestre diria "ma dove ti va"

[@albertoschiabel7123]

Venessia gang

[@KSingh627]

I’m sure you’re not a huge fan of tourists, however I’d like to visit Venice again, what specific months would you recommend?

[@travelds]

@@KSingh627 from 14th September to 29th november or from 15th March to 30 April... I suggest not to visit Venice during weekend. PS. From June/july 2022 the municipality of Venice Will introduce a tax for non-venetian people(to pay MOSE manteinance), and you have to book your visit in Advance.

[@KSingh627]

@@travelds wow thank you Davide! When I visit, I’ll reply back in this thread and see if you’re in town! Haha

[@andie_pants]

I remember watching Modern Marvels-style shows on Discovery back in the 2000s about this. Cool to see it built and working!

[@Lumatka]

Not really a modern marvel if it doesn’t even work

[@bory215]

@@Lumatka It works. Smh. Didn't you watch the video?

[@Cacophony314]

This is brilliant engineering 👏🏽.

[@aaryanveer1894]

saving venice: 7 billion hosting olympics: 50 bIlLiOn

[@The_Real_Daniel]

Crazy how governments chose to spend our money huh?

[@LuisMendoza-pp9qi]

I just learned that this channel is produced by Adam Savage!!!! Best maker EVER!!

[@darrenc3439]

He is a damn liar then. Venice is sinking and sea levels are not rising....

[@davidmccarthy6061]

@@darrenc3439 Of course it's going up! Miami spent $300M on pumps to deal with the increasing tides. All coastal areas are doomed. Well, actually the new coast will just be further inland.

[@darrenc3439]

@@davidmccarthy6061 Sweet lie, bet you can scare all the sheep into giving you control over their money and lives with a solid scam like that.

[@siritio3553]

@@darrenc3439 I wonder what all the schizoid conspiracy nuts would sat in like 20-30 years when this becomes a problem you can't ignore anymore? Like with corona?

[@darrenc3439]

@@siritio3553 You mean the one that you have a 98.9 % survival rate unless your morbidly obese or have a pre-existing life threatening condition? You might want to put you pull your face diaper down and get a little oxygen to your brain next time you want to respond, perhaps you will sound halfway intelligent, then again, probably not.

[@vincecabillon3253]

Wow' another channel, Love these contents...

[@RATCLIFFE-LISTENS]

Thank You great job why this has not received more News Coverage in the US is beyond me. Viva Italy!!!! Great Country Great People. ✌️

[@Jalmaan]

I thought I was watching the B1M, but is this a new channel? I these kinds of videos! :) Urban planning, infrastructural engineering and things alike, awesome stuff

[@juozasuwu4537]

Love that bond James bond sinking buildings part

[@TomorrowsBuild]

Haha, you’re welcome!

[@UPSLynx]

Thank yall for the amazing content between B1M and Tomorrow's Build. Incredible content, I've learned so much. Love it!

[@UNSOLVABLE]

Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

[@attilarza2488]

Love this City

[@niklassteinhauser5191]

Isn’t there also the problem of sea floor sediments going under the barriers while they are up and therefore blocking them from coming back into the foundation?

[@fredfrederickson]

Just tack that on to the 100 million per year maintenance cost too lol

[@bigbadjohn10]

This also happens with the Thames Barrier, but it is dealt with by the maintenance and testing cycle.

[@rajdharmendra5253]

The whole project is flawed

[@576arnav]

Don't mention such things here, these people don't like questions exposing their skewed narrative 😂😂

[@576arnav]

@@bigbadjohn10 The point is what's the cost of this added continuouse maintenance? Is this engineering oversight puts the economical feasibility and longevity of the project into question?

[@GuntherSchmidl]

I happened to be there randomly the first time they used MOSE and took the ferry out to see it. Impressive engineering.

[@roncatton7101]

Near, Far, Wherever you are, i believe that your heart will go on!!

[@Sedeerah]

This is so fascinating and potentially depressing at the same time. Hopefully this all works out for the best.

[@cadengrace5466]

It would cost less and be more fool-proof to build a causeway along the entire sea wall side of the lagoon and the Adriatic. Then using a pair of locks to allow ships to transit as needed, even up to cruise ships sizes. You could even build a slim causeway from Venice to the sea wall and have a commuter system for ships that might be too big in the future to use a lock. They would dock outside the wall and the passengers would transit into the city. The water in the lagoon would slowly become less saline and a new ecosystem would develop. This would allow for many things not found in the city at this time. The sea wall could even be built to put in a new airport. The advantages are huge for this Secure Lagoon concept and the cost is far less than what is being touted here and the big take away is that Venice would NEVER flood again.

[@willsin]

First time watching this channel. I like the overall presentation of this channel within 10 mins, just nice. Precise and informative content, clear voice and good intonation from the narrator that caught my attention. Impressive in general!! Added in my subscribed list. Thanks to the team👍🏻

[@CookieEspresso]

What abt the sinking issue with the foundation? If I remember correctly, Venice foundation was built on wood, and at some point they were considering shoving in compressed plastic underneath fill in the space and hopefully make it more stable.

[@xijinpingsfavoritehemorrho1328]

Yes, in the end this is all a huge waste of time. Venice is a temporary city and it cant be saved, and shouldnt be saved. 7 billion on venice with the state of southern Italy is shameful. The Venetians complain the cruise ships are making the water worse with localized displacement, being willfully ignorant of the fact a packed city with no roads or production of any sort needs cruise ships. They want to pretend that Venice has a reason to exist outside tourism when it hasnt been a financial center since the advent of the world economy. But the Italian govt wants to save it because tourism is all they have for the most part. That and the piles of crap Fiat builds you cant buy if you live anywhere it gets cold. Cause youll freeze to death.

[@examinatorant4522]

Very Interesting. Worth the watch

[@privateperson8289]

Besides the interesting information, this guy has a great documentary voice :)

[@lytrell1326]

Check out The B1M channel, he runs it!!

[@privateperson8289]

@@lytrell1326 yup, already subscribed tnx

[@HunkMine]

Definitely the most beautiful city I've ever been to

[@vasilygushcha4942]

Really interesting video and quality is just lit!

[@atklm1]

Well, on the bright side, they must have very clean streets...

[@nathanlewis42]

I would think the opposite that everything would be muddy afterwards.

[@sambeaumont395]

Sounds like this thing is going to be needed every high tide very soon.

[@rud]

I remember seeing them testing these things out since the late 80s. At the east entrance to Venice, further out than Punta Sabbioni they had sometimes someting that looked like experiments

[@MyerShift7]

The city was literally supported on cushions of water under the ground and when drainage increased, the city sinking was exacerbated. I have a reference book about this.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you for sharing...

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Are we having to have a new name of this cool and great website . Is the "Tomorrow's Build" becoming the new name from the old "B1M"?

[@nomadMik]

The one time I went to Venice, almost 20 years ago, they were having this problem. When I told my friends Venice was flooded (via LiveJournal at a 'net café-who remembers those?) they said 'isn't it supposed to be?'

[@handl3_me]

I saw the heading, thought of B1M, clicked...then I heard the voice😍. Golden!

[@free..to..air..]

I'm always reminded of the author Robert Benchleys tongue in cheek response to his agent when arriving in Venice for the first time....'Streets full of water....Please advise '...

[@god5535]

Fantastic narration. Also nice touch of James Bond!

[@lepke3133]

6:08 lol the Jimmy choo workers were stressed

[@larsjorgensen2911]

I was thinking that too. “These shoes were not made to wade through seawater!” Haha

[@Dysiode]

Would love to see more videos about tidal defence systems!

[@oooodos1711]

2:57 there have been *grippaggio* problems (they concerned the joint between the gate and the hinge, the contact between iron and iron)in the past but now it's ok.

[@owenbevans6062]

I was in Venice back in 1980 just a short time after the filming of Moonraker, the city was flooded then.

[@greeneyedwarlock882]

ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING and all encompassing! Some of the best time I’ve ever spent watching a video. Although I’ll never have the money to travel internationally, I sure hope Venice can be saved.

[@weldmachine]

Unfortunately this is only a temporary fix to a long term problem. If not for the floods the city of Venice is still sinking into the waters around it. The 7+ Billion spent would have been more wisely used if they did something about the long term problem of controlling the sinking city of Venice. The floods are the least of their problems.

[@greeneyedwarlock882]

@@weldmachine Welllllll, at least they've done that. I'm not an engineer but at least I know that trying to keep the entire city from sinking sounds truly impossible.

[@weldmachine]

@@greeneyedwarlock882 Not impossible to raise structures in height for different reasons. It's called Hydraulic Jacking. The Good part about this is you can keep making ongoing adjustments to the height. back fill as you lift.

[@greeneyedwarlock882]

@@weldmachine I'm well aware of the process but again.....trying to jack up allllllll those hundreds & hundreds of years old buildings that are incredibly fragile because of their age? No matter how slow & carefully anyone tried, they'd fall apart and their sheer number, once again makes the task infeasible.

[@weldmachine]

@@greeneyedwarlock882 True what you say about the fragile buildings of Venice. But which is worse ? Letting the city destroy itself ? Or sacrificing some fragile buildings for the sake of saving so many others. Demolition of unsound buildings is not a new thing. I would be for saving the city not trying to keep the water out. Just the maintenance alone each year could save multiple buildings each year. 100 million per year that basically does nothing except keep some people employed. The whole idea of the flood gates is a temporary measure at best. Not a long term solution. If one part of the gate system fails the water will still come in ????

[@JoaoPessoa86]

I got so excited when they seemed to have worked in October

[@timcantrell4635]

It was such a great idea, lets build a city on piers lol!

[@joeharris3878]

I remember reading Natiinal Geographic magazine in the1960s when Venice had bad flooding, art treasures were damaged and there was attempts to restore oil paintings, etc.

[@onleashfreak]

Ooooh! This is great! I like how it goes in depth i like the new channel

[@Alex-ll3ig]

This is brilliant! ❤️

[@shirolee]

That's impressive and clever!

[@cardealershipgod8433]

Great content

[@67daltonknox]

Also need to ban large ships. Their wash damages the structures.

[@superandreanintendo]

Their travel in the city got recently banned

[@mygetawayart]

just a short while ago, they've finally been banned. The large ships will now be redirected to Mestre docks on the mainland, without permission to come near Venice.

[@1barnet1]

@@mygetawayart nope, they were banned from sailing through the grand canal and alongside st marco square. But they can still park their floating skyscrapers close to the train station. Which is not the mainland. They do have plans to build new terminals on the lagoon entrances. Which would solve this problem long term

[@Jamokai]

they will get right on it sir!

[@alexsummers2000]

Damnit Bond!

[@Antphoneigh]

Italian Builders: "This Channel should be called, 'Next Century's Build'."

[@haramberinokripperino7770]

Welcome to Italy, where everything seems perfect but in reality there is corruption everywhere

[@vicnovicio]

This is the first time I ever hear this about Italy. I never would've thought. Italy was such a dream country for me

[@haramberinokripperino7770]

@@vicnovicio i mean, if you come as a tourist you won’t have any problem, it’s not a dangerous place to live. The quality of life is super good (90% thanks to the food and nice places) but we are structurally and technologically behind in comparison to others. For example I still have a 5mb connection and I live in one of the best regions economically, thanks to the internet company that slowed fiber’s development

[@haramberinokripperino7770]

@@vicnovicio every country has pros and cons. If you have money in italy you will live like a god: best food (sorry for this 😂), awesome landscapes and infinite cities to visit. You won’t find a modern country tho

[@vicnovicio]

@@haramberinokripperino7770 i know! lol Your food is the best!

[@user-ie9jh7hs3c]

Isnt every country corrupt?

[@sorry_not_sorry6410]

So glad I am amongst the first to subscribe in this channel!!!

[@giuseppersa2391]

A most excellent video thank you! You might have forgotten to mention the inferior steel used that is now rusting away? Due to the classic Italian corruption of course..Giuseppe

[@fc_wolpertinger]

Inspiring!

[@nephurus4592]

I've been there. Nothing like it on Earth. It's a gold mine for Italy.

[@Forlfir]

I'll basically watch anything that your narrate tbh Another great channel btw!

[@TomorrowsBuild]

Haha thanks!

[@davidanalyst671]

this was already done. Why is it called tomorrows build? stop watching stupid videos

[@JamesOversteer]

Great video. I didn’t know about this. We have a system of locks that do the reverse in cardiff, Wales. It holds water from a river and creates a bay while allowing boats to leave at high tide. If you run out of interesting things to look at, it could be worth a video..

[@raghavgoyal2748]

I guess we should implement something like this in Mumbai too. Please cover the flooding problem of Mumbai city which happens every year in the rainy season.

[@aadharagarwal6648]

why is this channel so underrated?

[@saminatorx20]

Long time fan and Charted engineer. Do a video on Graphene concrete 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@shouryaghosh4151]

What a great load of content, I'll keep coming back to this channel 🤩

[@darrenc3439]

Enjoy the lies

[@emanuelerastelli3161]

Please note that the map showing the position of the barriers is incorrect. Chioggia is at the southern entrance and not in the middle, this is where Malamocco should be.

[@JoeBob79569]

I'm here after just watching a video that informed me that the NHS in the UK spent £37BN to make their COVID tracker app. After that, £7BN to save Venice sounds like a hell of a deal..

[@rossrreyes]

It wouldn't be Italian if it wasn't complicated, corrupt and questionable. Should have put the Dutch in charge; they've been efficiently and effectively solving flooding problems for centuries

[@boontjes5528]

Exactly my thought, the mosaic barricades already seem to be rusting like a 70s Alfa Romeo. 😂

[@plasticpinocchio247]

Asking a country who doesn’t really like us and tries to hinder us in any way they can to solve one of the major national security problems we face? Nope I think I’ll trade some corruption and bureaucracy in exchange for handling this exclusively within our borders thank you very much! P.S. if you wanna look for corruption and questionable decisions you can take a good look at you government, as an American I don’t think you have much of a reason to look down on other countries, fix your damn problems first!!!

[@boontjes5528]

@@plasticpinocchio247 Look who’s talking.... an American! 🤣🤣🤣 The f are you talking about. ‘A country that doesnt like you...’ Jesus, what a dummy...

[@Caleidus]

No, thanks. We have been brilliantly dealing with hydraulic engineering since the times of Julius Caesar........

[@plasticpinocchio247]

@@boontjes5528 Predictable response, after all you’re Dutch...

[@dika2saja]

Italian and Corruption, thing that can't be separated

[@mistermood4164]

of course they invented the mafia lol

[@organicfarm5524]

And a greedy church in the centre...of their country.

[@italianoetnico.calabreseve9262]

The solution is to put an end to the italian unitary state. So you can free the severls populations currently living under this banana republic. Lombards,Tuscans,Venetians, for example, could express their potential once again. Until they are ''italian citziens'' they wil be the joke of Europe.

[@italianoetnico.calabreseve9262]

@@mistermood4164 The Sicilians invented the Mafia. Not Lombards or Venetians,Tuscans etc...

[@MichaelM-ik7nz]

The Large hadron collider did cost 7.5 billion Eur... But those yellow underwater metal bricks are amazing too!

[@meherbabaisgodinhumanform3090]

Very interesting!

[@Sir_710]

Watching videos like this just shows me that their is corruption literally everywhere like literally every country in every town its soooo sad

[@arunakurniadi]

3 videos already? Wow

[@Meuduso1]

The thing I don't get entirely is that if the water level rises permanently, the barrier has to always be up as well or the sea level inside the lagoon will rise, meaning that no ships bigger than those that already fit through the locks can enter the city, so at one point the barrier has to be up 24/7 or Venice will drown

[@DrCrabfingers]

It's all nonsense quite frankly. The rising sea levels will obviously inundate the land either side of the barriers anyway. The projections for sea level rises are utterly terrifying. All you have to do is look at Oceanic Palaeontology records to see the enormous changes in sea level that are linked to historic climate change. These changes, entirely natural, have been massively speeded up by human lifestyle choices and so what would have once taken 5000-7000 years could well happen in only a few hundred. That's the problem. We won't have time to adapt. Look at it this way...the last ice age was caused by a drop of 6 degrees celsius from the global average. Now think about what an increase of 6 degrees would do....goodbye polar ice caps...sea level rises by 100 metres....the sea level has changed by that amount in the past and will do again.

[@anto8375]

On the project it should have costing 2.5BN but the final cost was several times higher. A lot of people were accused of corruption, someone was arrested.

[@candvand]

Some day in the future, these measures won’t be enough. I have a feeling that the day will come sooner than many people suspect.

[@seankilburn7200]

How optimistic

[@WearySteerer]

Why not build a moat around Venice. And then have a much smaller access point. 🤷‍♂️

[@Nabium]

but that's pretty much what venice has already, only it has three access points

[@ClayMastah344]

smart!

[@fredygump5578]

My head just broke reading this comment. Do we understand that a "moat" is an encircling ditch typically filled with water? I keep shoveling the water to make a ditch, but it keeps flattening out all by itself! So frustrating!

[@blackkohi]

There needs to be a water exchange to maintain the biosystem that thrives in there. That's why they thought of barriers, not a damn wall

[@WearySteerer]

@@blackkohi a dam wall with barriers is what I'm getting at

[@antoniodemunari3335]

It actually worked pretty well in one occasion some time ago

[@finnw5361]

We dutch people have fought water so many times, its are biggest enemy but also are best friend.