This is one my favourite channels already...

@TomorrowsBuild

3 жыл бұрын

YES!! Thank you so much 🙌 🙌

@liamwrightgittins6472

3 жыл бұрын

@@roywu3124 That is where I got the name of this channel from.

@camiloguzman1801

3 жыл бұрын

More than electrifying is awesome.

@breadyegg

3 жыл бұрын

It shed some light on the subject.

@Rodrilechan

3 жыл бұрын

Singapore should be annexed to China already since there are 76% Chinese there

Its great that Singapore acknowledges and is taking advantage of our (Australia's) excellent solar power potential! Why can't our government do the same, especially given the fact it wouldn't have to route a 3,750-kilometre undersea cable?

@raven4475

3 жыл бұрын

That's easy..... "It's because uhhhhh, we the government are fucking stupid" Good comment though 👍

@tomlaw4269

3 жыл бұрын

Because the government won’t fuck with the oil, gas and coal giants that basically run our country. By using solar as a main source of energy it would take a profit from them aNd ThAtS nOT AlLoWed

@Helios6221

2 жыл бұрын

Suncable is head quartered in Sydney, was founded by Australians, and its investors are Australian. In terms of government support, Australian and Sinagporean have both done so

@tomlaw4269

2 жыл бұрын

@@Helios6221 touché my friend I was just hypothesising

@henk-3098

2 жыл бұрын

Australia is already the country with the highest solar power capacity per capita in the world.

Australia: What is my purpose? Singapore: You charge my battery. Australia: OMG

Green Energy Superpower. I like the sound of that. Just as long as us Australians can have that sweet power for ourselves too.

@greenmachine5600

3 жыл бұрын

Nuclear power is viable. Too bad people are so ignorant of it.

@princeporridge6928

2 жыл бұрын

yea pretty much

@Cujo5

2 жыл бұрын

I think you're underestimating the amount of heat all the solar farms will produce and the impact on the environment it'll have.

@TheEthNick

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cujo5 Yeah but when you think about the overall reduction of carbon emissions, from people’s solar-powered homes, then things look a bit better than where we are currently.

@Cujo5

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEthNick Think about what you just said: Lets reduce carbon emissions which heat up the planet by heating up the planet.

And now Australians just have to wait until our governments stops sleeping at the wheel and does something proactive about our own energy generation (at a federal level).

@itsrobm8

3 жыл бұрын

Solar panels still use rare earth metals and only last a few years before they need repairs/replacing. The manufacturing process, mining process for the materials, and the actual materials used mean they aren't actually that environmentally friendly.

@tigertoo01

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsrobm8 so if I buy solar panels today then I have to replace them in a few years? Or at least repair them ? Lol. try 20 to 40 years maybe a panel clean every now and again and most of the material is (will be) recycled. Solar is still an emerging industry so we haven’t seen the full life cycle of the product.

@tigertoo01

3 жыл бұрын

@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace 20 to 40 years for solar panels. All material is recyclable. You’re also forgetting other renewables such as wind turbines. Battery tech is emerging. Home energy storage will be 2nd life vehicle batteries as most economical. Today you can install solar and battery storage in your home which will last 20 to 40 years depending on use and is cheaper than paying retail energy prices. For the same period.

@tigertoo01

3 жыл бұрын

@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace interesting about the life of your pannels there. i wonder if your expereince is common with others? Lithium titinate batteries are designed to last atleast 40 years. Good ol Lithium Iron Phosphate will get you 20 years if treated right. Wind turbines are not the bird killers people like you wish everyone to believe. Do some birds die from hitting a wind turbine blade? Im sure they do. Do some birds die from htting the windshield on a car? Id say many more die this way. Not trying to make a futility argument here but... Its interesting youve gone completely anti renewables? 15 years ago was not the best time to go completely off grid. Its immesurably easier to do so now. I am surprised that youre not up with the latest renewable options and real facts.. In your view is it just pointless and we should all just go back to being hunters and gatherers ? Its probabaly not a bad option. Is it better to burn coal and make solar panels or just burn coal and make heat which boils water to drive a turbine which makes electricity? I think making solar panels is probably the best idea IMO.

@chinanumberone7723

3 жыл бұрын

We need Pauline Hanson

The depth is just one issue. There's a large subduction zone where one plate slides under the other. This was what caused the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The cable would have to deal with both the subduction and the possibility of the ground shifting several feet in the event of the fault rupturing. If they don't, then Singapore would need adequate alternative power generation capability to deal with the very real possibility of this cable breaking and being unusable for weeks if it is damaged during a megathrust earthquake along the subduction zone.

@RandomUser2401

3 жыл бұрын

laying the cable in a snake-like zig-zag pattern with lots of spare length might help?

@Cujo5

2 жыл бұрын

What happens if a high voltage cable breaks underwater? Does it electrify the water and kill anything nearby? Green indeed lol.

@preetomsahaarko8145

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cujo5 If it was, thundering would have killed millions of sea lives everyday.

@Cujo5

2 жыл бұрын

@@preetomsahaarko8145 That's a good point.

@antonnurwald5700

2 жыл бұрын

It's strange they didn't mention this in the video. But since this is such an obvious problem in this region, I am sure there is a plan. By the way there is a subduction zone in the southern Mediterranean too, it's where the volcanic activity in Sicily comes from. So maybe the Italian cable guys have an idea.

Umm so why isn’t Australia doing this for ourselves so we can cut down on pollution

@uglyduckling81

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be stupid. All the political donations come from large mining.

@falafelscobes6122

3 жыл бұрын

We are. Small scale Solar added 3 GW of new capacity in 2020 to record its fourth-straight record-breaking year. Also 2 GW of new solar in 2020 as 32 projects were completed. Now 76 projects under construction, 8GW + : )

@gerry9292

3 жыл бұрын

how smart Singaporean are, they so small but mighty brilliant

@Astra2

3 жыл бұрын

We are, problem is the highest energy demand is after dark, which is also when solar doesn't work...

@VarietyGamerChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Because our electrical bills are already the world's most expensive, due to rampant corruption. We won't do shit.

There is amazing potential in parts of Spain to do this too internally and for me this is amazing news. Living out my life time seeing the world become greener is something to smile about.

Australia should build more of these and supply as many nations near them with sun power! Jobs for Australians and more income for the country to spend on public services 👍

@antonios111

2 жыл бұрын

That’s far too logical, they would never.

@Nico-dt5hu

2 жыл бұрын

yeah australia might be the solar farm of south east asia. You guys have so much more sun. Its probably more efficient for my country to buy land for an australian outback solar farm.

@canzukcommonwealth7309

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nico-dt5hu one day my friend the world will wake up and realise that places such as the North Sea for wind power, the southern nations for solar and island nations wave and wind power all connected so every human has power. Just wait until Africa gets its act together

@Nico-dt5hu

2 жыл бұрын

@@canzukcommonwealth7309 Yes! I hope for a future where power clean. One day.

@canzukcommonwealth7309

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nico-dt5hu it just takes time, some countries are still stuck in 1800s 😂

We hope you found this electrifying.

@PK-lz4ho

3 жыл бұрын

Try running an aluminium smelting plant on solar lol

@tomindenver1331

3 жыл бұрын

I was amped!

@AndrewBuilt

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is a powerful message! Way to go on the wicked fast growth grown on the new channel. Let’s build together!

@srbtlevse16

3 жыл бұрын

😀🔫

@deerandrew

3 жыл бұрын

punny admin

the theme over the whole movie is so nice. He's voice bumps up and down like a unicorn. Feels good

I'd like to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. "Where are we going to plug in the generator?!" "Australia?"

That'd be nice and much more sensible if Australia started exporting solar energy instead of coal. They have the climate and the land area!

@djitidjiti6703

3 жыл бұрын

And the natural resources, and the human resources. The only thing stopping us are those with vested interests.

@TheDJLionman

3 жыл бұрын

@@djitidjiti6703 you people have zero grasp of what solor fields cost economically or envriomentally why dont they just put they solar panels on the roofs of every building in singapore? because that doesnt make the rich richer, instead they wanna whore out an incredible amount of landmass and then create the single worst infrastructure vunerability imaginable what if pirates cut the cable or blow it up? singapore just looses power over night. I just dont even know where to start explaining how bad this idea is.

@selldivision

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDJLionman Why oh why didn't they use you as a consultant?

@davidcantor293

3 жыл бұрын

So does a lot of the the US desert however we are idiots here lmao

@adrianfleming3437

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah well we have Murdoch and Scotty I shit my pants at maccas in charge won't get any of that.

I like this Fred and the little jabs of humor.

@oak8728

3 жыл бұрын

What’s even funnier is China will basically hold Australia even moreso in their hand. Get ready to bend over Aussies.

@Rodrilechan

3 жыл бұрын

Singapore should be annexed to China already since there are 76% Chinese there, same with Australia soon

@Rodrilechan

3 жыл бұрын

And the rest of the world

@oak8728

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rodrilechan it’s called for lack of a better saying that won’t trigger a leftists last ball hair, a race problem. With the race being Chinese, driven by a govt so full of shiz that they’ve managed to pack the same shiz down their citizens. So much so that their own mouth cannot speak without the shiz of the govt coming out. Bad analogy but you get the point. Or maybe you don’t.

@Yoshi92

2 жыл бұрын

@@oak8728 I bet even saying it like that triggered some leftists last ball hair. I wouldn't call it "race" tho. It's "the brainwashed people of China", not the race per se. Or are Chinese ppl in Australia like Chinese ppl in China (second and third generation)?

I'm so happy I found this channel! It's a blessing!

Thanks for the little bits of humor mixed in, makes an informative video fun too.

The ac dc stuff is wrong. The thing that makes it low loss is the high voltage, when transmitting in the air we use high voltage ac since it’s really easy to use a transformer to raise the voltage of ac current. However underwater, the cables have a much higher capacitance, this results in energy losses in ac, but not in dc, so extra effort is put in with hvdc cables. (This explanation may be a bit wrong)

@daskurka

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they got it pretty wrong, generally AC is used for power transmission nationally and in peoples homes BECAUSE of its efficiency over distance when compared to DC. When we talk about HVDC and HVAC its a completely different world, the are many reasons why HVDC is better for a long distance underwater cables like you suggested. I think the thing that got me though was 'You will remember from school...' - how many schools actually teach V=IR, power factor or any basic electrical theory these days?

@juststeve7665

3 жыл бұрын

your answer is far more correct than the video.

@Cyberguy42

3 жыл бұрын

"You may remember from school" That part drove me crazy too. In high school I learned why transformers reduce transmission losses, and I have since taught hundreds of engineering students the relevant circuit principles to understand for themselves why that is the case, and if someone remembers any thing about circuits from school they will conclude that the video is just wrong. Only a small percentage of people understand parasitic capacitances and the effect on power factor, and even fewer would think of applying those principles here.

@BearsTrains

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cyberguy42 Yep, the voltage rise in a 4000km AC cable would be in the order of megavolts

@jjnakornx4659

3 жыл бұрын

I think when the distance of transmission reaches some specific number, HVDC is cheaper than AC transmission.

Loving the new channel, great stuff!

I love the more casual narration with subtle humor.

Awesome quality - I like the sound editing.

Singapore is a breathtaking city

@MrEazyE357

3 жыл бұрын

*country. Singapore is a country.

@ross5759

3 жыл бұрын

It is also classed as a city actually, therefore original comment stands.

@EdwardJWhiting

3 жыл бұрын

The humidity certainly takes your breath away until you get used to it.

@jayr6637

3 жыл бұрын

It's also a nice pretend democracy :)

@Sone_carat90

3 жыл бұрын

@J Hemphill no homosexuals have been imprisoned. Stop misinforming people. I’m gay and I feel very safe here.

Fascinating video, very interesting and a great project.

I hope one day they could invent a dome to cover Singapore and air conditioned the island. 😬

@khoocheepeng

3 жыл бұрын

As a Singaporan for 60 years, I would love to see this before I die, I love changi Jewel

@SuccessforLifester

3 жыл бұрын

@@khoocheepeng 😄.

@cck53sg

2 жыл бұрын

I too am thinking about it all the time.

Awesome channel, love it!

Wow the production quality is amazing!

@TomorrowsBuild

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙌

I feel like this is the B1M but with a little bit of ✨spice✨

Another key reason is that Australia is a trusted partner. Imagine having to depend on our neighbours for electricity, and some time down the road you enter into an argument or disagreement, it'll be disastrous for Singapore. (think of our raw water supply)

@shukriramlee

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, produce your own electricity instead of building ugly flying dutchman ship that taking a lots of space.

@jonathantan2469

2 жыл бұрын

But the cable goes through Indonesia. And thousands of kilometers of it.

@ip3vk

2 жыл бұрын

Rightly said. How to trust neighbouring countries as they will revoke or threathen to dishonour Agreement any time they like due to jealousy.

@jonijoestar6871

2 жыл бұрын

the cabble goes to Indonesian territorial water, not International zone. if Singapore so distrust their neighbor then Cabble should circumvent all the way to New Guinea, then North Philipine all the way to south china sea where area with real conflict happen

@Martin-xw7kk

Жыл бұрын

If Indonesia is what you are talking about then we Indonesian can still cut that off anytime we want.

Viking Link - The coolest name ever

I see B1M spin-off and I click.

@MichaelSmith-by3te

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the guy's voice sounded familiar

The transformation of modern Singapore is one of the greatest success stories in history. If you want to study how to build a nation for the 21st century you study Lee Kuan Yew. ….And I’m an American.

@metagde6402

2 жыл бұрын

Singapore is just a city even if you call it a nation Theres nothing to learn about building a nation altho you can learn city building Japan China is how you learn building nation

@boku955

2 жыл бұрын

@@metagde6402 Singapore is a nation. I'd just consider all 3 of those countries as how to build nations.

@cck53sg

2 жыл бұрын

@@metagde6402 To learn from China how, zero tolerance on covid by sealing their doors with locks and fences, on its own people and letting them die in hunger while in extreme lockdown, and extreme corruptions among its leaders and how to organs harvesting on their prisoners?? Building massive ghost cities resulting in Evergrande crisis crippling their own people with high debt. Their one-child poilicy is causing massive repucussions, huge imbalance resulting their poorest villagers to be without women folk and had to kidnapped girls to be their sex slaves, read the report on China's chained woman scandal. Worst place to learn how to build a nation.

@VanillaMacaron551

2 жыл бұрын

It must be difficult for Filipinos to see Singapore's success and realise they could have done something similar with the right leadership, instead of the wild corruption they have had for decades.

This channel provides such valuable and interesting info!! Seriously undervalued

Love the video love the added humor even mor, keep up the great work.

Love the humour!

B1M level of production! Phenomenal project, so exciting!

@Allannah_Of_Rome

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking exactly the same thing!! 👍

Great work Fred!

Thats actually a brilliant idea and more nations need to follow this

I love that instead of relying on their main channel's success to carry them indefinitely, Fred and his team have created something new to keep things fresh.

Why only 20%? Will the cable be able to transmit even more or is that maximum without an additional layout.

@orbitingancient

3 жыл бұрын

It's not cable limitations, it's currently just solar farm limitations, this could be increased if approved, 20% may be all they need once other renewable projects are made.

@RandomUser2401

3 жыл бұрын

@@orbitingancient where will the other 80% come from?

@TheBodiesInTheWaterBeckons

3 жыл бұрын

@@RandomUser2401 there's also plan to buy electricity from Laos via transmitter line through Malaysia and Thailand. Most people outside of the Mainland Asean don't know this, but. Laos is a huge exporter of Hydro-electricity within the mainland Asean, they exported so much to Thailand and Vietnam. They have so many dams with their mountainous topography, but. The Mekong river is getting destroyed in the process though. Yeah. Not a totally "clean" energy, lol. Laos is planning to be "the battery of Asia" they're pretty much planning to sell their energy to every countries on the Mainland Asean with Cambodia, Myanmar and Malaysia already on their list.

@adammcnally1955

3 жыл бұрын

As I understand it, Singaporean regulations state something like only 20-25% of Singapores electricity can come from a single source. That is what I have read, anyway.

@orbitingancient

3 жыл бұрын

@@RandomUser2401 fossil fuels

This is a very ambitious project! Nice video Guys!

This is the sort of ingenuity we need!

I'm confused. So they convert the electricity from Ac to DC power to go under the sea? I thought Ac was invented so long transmissions don't have so much of a loss. They convert the power from DC to Ac when it comes out of the solar panel, then transmit it to the coast then convert it back to DC bring it to Singapore then convert it back to Ac to the individual power outlet where it is converted by most electrical devices back to dc

@WyattH

3 жыл бұрын

Ac was invented for long distance yes but at a certain point DC is actually more efficient

@Ct5678912

3 жыл бұрын

As long as the voltage is high enough to minimize resistive loss, DC is always better than AC for power transmission, especially for underwater cable, where the capacitive loss of AC is huge! AC was thought to be better in the old days as the voltage of AC can be stepped up or down easily by using a transformer, while DC can't. But now, with the advancement of power electronics, converters can handles higher voltage and power, so AC can be rectified to DC before underwater transmission to reduce losses.

@moritz5555

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ct5678912 Really? R=U/I so if you have high voltage than you have a high resistans. YOu need high amps not high voltage for efficent transfer with DC!

@Ct5678912

3 жыл бұрын

​@@moritz5555 Your statement assumed a circuit with only a voltage source and a wire that short circuited it with no load. The current with no doubt will be extremely large. However, you cannot apply Ohm's Law directly on a transmission cable because it is not a load and theoretically does not consumes any power. The loss on the cable is usually calculated by I^2R, where R is a constant. That's why current should be minimized. The power transmitted by the cable can be calculated by P=VI. To maintain the same power transfer capacity P, while minimizing current I, you need high voltage.

@SanctuaryLife

3 жыл бұрын

A high voltage DC combined with an adequately thick cable will give smaller losses than AC.

Good video as always by Fred Mills and Co. You are showing that KZreadrs can produce even better documentaries than Discovery Channel etc.

I did not know that there were already under-sea power transmission cables in use, and that such a project as one from Australia to Singapore was not completely mad. This video, short as it was, was an education for me. Wow.

I love the subtle jokes on this channel's videos 😂😂

@TomorrowsBuild

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, you’re welcome! 😂

I had to stop the video to have a good laugh without missing anything.

@itsMe_TheHerpes

3 жыл бұрын

ha ha ha, true. then you realize that they are serious about it, and you start crying.

Singapore doesn't mess around when it sets it sights on doing something...

@chrisyorke6175

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if Singapore is messing around, but all the online references say the project is still under evaluation mid-2021.

@lugiarboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisyorke6175 Is it due to the mapping of the seafloor? They can't fully commit until they know for sure what the undersea cable path will cost

@chrisyorke6175

3 жыл бұрын

@@lugiarboy The more I look at this project, the more questions it raises. Its cable link will be 5 times as long as the North Sea Link, which cost 3 million euros a km, so I can't see this cable costing under A$15 billion , inside a budget of $23 bil for everything.

@lugiarboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisyorke6175 The decision makers in Singapore will most likely go over budget as usual. But until the project is complete, the exact numbers will not be disclosed. I am guessing that they will justify the difference with the fact that they achieved diversification of energy sources for Singapore. However, there are definitely some small savings when compared to the North Sea Link. Cheaper labour costs and mild sea states for 10 months of the year will help a little. Even so, until i hear something from people in the know, anything i say is speculation...

@chrisyorke6175

3 жыл бұрын

@@lugiarboy If diversification is a motive, they ought to expand the Malay interconnector. That option would certainly be far cheaper than an Australian undersea cable.

This is such forward thinking! Bravo!

you guys are about to be rolling in the subscribers :)

The punchlines in between 😍

Video Suggestion: Why not build with BAMBOO?

@angleen

3 жыл бұрын

my grandad has built some few houses fully made out of bamboo and wood

@miroslavmilan

3 жыл бұрын

Do they still grow?

@roteschwert

3 жыл бұрын

You've spammed this on a few videos already

@attn.

3 жыл бұрын

@@roteschwert Man works for big bamboo

I love the scale of it! Think big!

Wow, this timeline is super ambitious. Kudos. I hope it works!

will be great to see this get built! can only hope our gov will do the same!

Got excited that I found a new channel similar to The B1M, then the narrater started to speak.... sounds familiar.... it’s Fred!!!

Wow... amazing video...

What a perfectly placed, subtle but hilarious joke, I lost it. Well done

I really like where this channel is going :D Energy and sustainability are some of my favourite topics, so you hit the right spot!

@itsMe_TheHerpes

3 жыл бұрын

you have no idea what energy is, and you have no idea what sustainability is either, lol. it's just some words you heard of and you like to use.

0:21 is Lau Pa Sat. Wonderful eating experience if you find yourself in Singapore!

@philippelee5720

3 жыл бұрын

Too touristy try Geylang

@hubbabt

3 жыл бұрын

you can have that in any hawker centers in singapore at much lower prices! hmm but their satays at night is really to die for!

@JAYJAY-ch4ik

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it during your trip to Singapore but the next time you come search it based on food you like for example Chili crab, chicken rice, kway Teow , satay, nasi lemak on google Singapore and look for recommendations where the locals go for. It would be abit out of place but nothing out small island and it’s wide reaching public transport couldn’t provide. Till next time

Love the tongue-in-cheek commentary Fred. God know the Northern Territory hasn't much else to offer the world ; )

Holy heck I was watching this video and didn't realise I wans't on the main B1M channel. Amazing production quality as always

The informalness is quality 😂

Between Aus and Sing are some mighty fine geo thermal spots capable of generating a 24hr buzz - why not?

Fred's voice soothes my years

Awesome video!

$23B for 20% of the power demand? Good lord, wouldn't nuclear be a better answer?

@gerry9292

3 жыл бұрын

Singapore has no land to make it come true, and it's quite dangerous while Singapore is so small

@Astra2

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but apparently nuclear is bad.

@moose5.9

3 жыл бұрын

@@gerry9292 dangerous? Not really. ..

@luckyluke5638

3 жыл бұрын

@@moose5.9 Chances of accidents are extremely low, but if there is one all of Singapore will need to be evacuated. There's a reason why even in very nuclear countries like France all powerplants are built far from population centers. Nuclear is not a good option for Singapore.

@vipondiu

3 жыл бұрын

Nuclear is not dangerous and can be built in ships and anchored just off the paranoia boundary, the limit where people are just going to accept it. A 3-5 Km undersea cable from a couple of floating nuclear power plants like the Academic Lomonosov providing around the clock power in a way higher percentage than that 20% seems like a better idea than this. And no batteries needed either..... But yes, unfortunatelly it's another case of "BuT ma' ChErNoByL aNd FuKuShImA!"

Loving the little jokes

@TomorrowsBuild

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, you're welcome. We had a lot of fun with this one.

@davidanalyst671

3 жыл бұрын

you missed the real joke. Singapore is not 5 miles from Malaysia, but they spend billions of dollars and lay the most expensive and longest cable ever made, and go to australia for electricity because Malaysia is a bunch of commies and their government was just taken over by the military. Maybe @tomorrowsbuild should tell you about the BIG jokes. Communism

@cazulon1122

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 Commies? Taken over by military? Are you dumb or just ignorant Malaysia haters?

@cazulon1122

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 Go do some research and stop spreading false news like "government taken over by military"

@cazulon1122

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 Malaysia have monarchy they have complete control of Malaysia, the military cannot simply taken over the government, not even a single media in the world reported, the government has taken by military, even I live in Malaysia, there's no single news of it

Love this narration!

I love this channel!

Man this channel is awesome and needs more visibility! I was wondering: A significant portion of Singapore's land area to generate THOURTY GW of power is only sufficient for 20% of the overall demand? Wow. So how are they planning on covering the remaining 80% without fossile fuels?

@warriorson7979

3 жыл бұрын

I assume that "thourty" is halfway between thirty and fourty....?🤔

@RandomUser2401

3 жыл бұрын

@@warriorson7979 Please excuse the type, ofc I meant forty. A word that I quite seldom use usually (for reasons unknown, thirty and fifty are much more common and thirty probably lead me off-track).

@vipondiu

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the other 80% is going to be met with fossile fuels. Except if they plan on laying another Mega-extention cable to Arabia or Africa..... Solar energy is usually sold dishonestly by repeating the Maximum output of the installation over and over and not the yearly average. There is a huge difference with production at noon in the hottest day in the middle of summer (peak production) and any other time, like.......... Night time xD That's why in reality all those GW installed in Australia are only enough for covering 20% of Singapore's needs on average

@jonathantan2469

2 жыл бұрын

Some of it is planned to come from Laos, which has an ongoing large hydroproject. They will still need to depend on gas power plants for some local generation.

@boku955

2 жыл бұрын

Something underground. I'm hoping they make lots of nuclear power plants very deep underground and produce it from there. Energy imports as well.

Should do something similar in the USA with states like NV, AZ and CA, whereby CA desalinates water and AZ/NV provide a bunch of solar energy. Then CA/AZ or NV can provide each other with power/water at hugely discounted rates. Solves water issue for many and also worries about power.

@jimb1580

2 жыл бұрын

💡 👌

Knew this would involve HVDC and happy to see Viking link getting a mention (working on it)

Thanks guys for providing a very educational video without guys like you who make videos like this makes me appreciate that teligence of the human being

Great content just like your other channel.

this is only the beginning. I see that Singapore have recently started research and development into making the island state, 30% reliant on local food. What they really should do is 1) Recycle and expand the Ord river irrigation system. The lake argyle is Australia's, biggest fresh water man made lake with a big airport,

This channel reminds me of The B1N very, very much...and that's a good thing. :)

This is an AMAZING project i really hope it succeeds and proves how viable solar power is.

33 GWh battery? I will believe when I see it

@Dave_Sisson

3 жыл бұрын

I suspect that a pumped-storage, closed-circuit hydro-electric system would be cheaper as well as lasting 5 times longer, requiring much less maintenance and not being full of toxic chemicals like batteries are. All you need is a dam or tank at the top of a hill, another at the bottom and a penstock connecting the two.

@RandomUser2401

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson now we only need a hill ..

@Dave_Sisson

3 жыл бұрын

@@RandomUser2401 While I don't know the Northern Territory, in my experience hills tend to be found in most places. Just find a fairly steep hill with room on the top for a modest dam and a few hundred metres elevation between the top and bottom and you've got a site for your pumped hydro power station.

@moose5.9

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson nuclear is a better answer than solar and hydro. Ans cheaper than this project by a long shot

@Dave_Sisson

3 жыл бұрын

@@moose5.9 You may be right, but the only ways to store excess electricity so it can be used later are in batteries or by pumping water uphill. I was only arguing that pumped hydro is better than batteries for energy storage, *not* generation.

Im divided about this. The Australian government wont even build a solar farm for the Australian people. But on the other hand it could bring in a good income for the NT.

@chasingsunsets87

3 жыл бұрын

I don't trust plan that come from Singapore. Alot of those running shell companies affiliated with singapore and I have not experience anything positive when there was an uptick here of those individuals where I live.

@chrisyorke6175

3 жыл бұрын

I won't repeat my comment above on Nyngan and Broken Hill solar farms, both subsidized by the public purse. Look up ARENA. The Renewable Energy Target involved a cross-subsidy scheme costing $30 billion when fully paid out, and its beneficiaries are solar and wind farm investors.

@catprog

2 жыл бұрын

I don't trust the government to build anything. Fund yes, build no.

Love so much. The B1M & Tomorrow's Build From Bangladesh

Amazing idea

Who else came here from B1M? Loving this channel already

@papihuey

3 жыл бұрын

Man this is B1M’s second channel🤤

Great now Australia needs to do the same thing for ourselves!

this was a brilliant video

Just awsum!

This has to be the craziest energy project ever..

@alexchan4074

3 жыл бұрын

Mine is beaming energy from space to earth by collecting solar energy by satellite

@hibiscushumbani

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexchan4074 did @B1M do that video? where can I find that?

@lilaclizard4504

3 жыл бұрын

only on the surface. It actually makes a LOT of sense when it's full potential is considered. Australia has vast desert areas for collecting the sun's rays & also has one of the world's biggest lithium reservoirs & all other natural resources to build solar panels & batteries & 50% of the world's population live within a little circle of the globe just north of Australia, so this sounds big & crazy, but if it works out, it will be just the start of powering nearly half the world's population

I don't know but it seems like anchoring a few floating nuclear powerplants Academik Lomonosov style, 5-10 kms from Singapore providing 24h baseload power would make more sense than a 23 Billion Megaproject of this size for importing solar power from another freaking country more than 3000Km away. And just for 20% of its needs. Singapore needs 50Twh per year, equivalent to 5.7 Gw constant.... Not undoable with floating barges and that giant budget....

@kalyanvadlamani7607

3 жыл бұрын

Singapore has a very busy shipping lane, so it's not that feasible and any nuclear fallout from a disaster would definitely have a high impact on the city.

@vipondiu

3 жыл бұрын

@@kalyanvadlamani7607 They do not need to be IN the shipping lanes, just closer to Singapore than Australia is. And in case of an apocalyptic accident the advantatge of a floting reactor is that in can be easily scuttled. 1m meter of water is enough shielding for fuel after a few days post-shut down

@chrisyorke6175

3 жыл бұрын

The batteries will have to be very cheap, going by these costs. The Horndale, SA battery cost $90million in 2017 for 0.3% of the storage. Solar panels must now be phenomenally cheap, too. Nyngan's solar cost $2000/kW. This project will need 5 million kW or so. Never mind the cable cost.

@greenmachine5600

3 жыл бұрын

Nuclear is the best option

@de20

3 жыл бұрын

What about nuclear waste?

subscribed halfway for the effort.

There is a similar (though probably smaller, but I haven't checked the sizes) project to build a solar farm in north Africa and connect it via an undersea cable to the UK. The site has been carefully chosen to avoid areas that local power companies have any plans to build solar farms in so prime land is not being "stolen" from locals or anything like that.

HVDC - prevents capacitive issues with super long undersea cables, and maximises power transmission for a given cable insulation level. Downside is the power electronics required at either end for conversion to AC. The reason everything else is AC is because it's very convenient to change voltage levels using a transformer, it also can drive inexpensive motors well.

Imagine emissions from producing such a long cable.

@dennisthemenace9133

3 жыл бұрын

Battery able to power entire country, panels, cables... It isn't green energy at all.

@lkrnpk

3 жыл бұрын

If you manufacture solar panelis using coal. Not every one burns coal for their power needs

@lkrnpk

3 жыл бұрын

@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace Ah I thought you were talking about burning it for electricity.

This channel gives me hope :D

Well i have seen some stupid ideas on KZread but this is at the top of the list!

@rosswoolley2854

3 жыл бұрын

@Chief Governor over everyone Now i have seen the stupidest reply on KZread!

Yes, but now, as of very recently, the NordLink has been completed. Norway to Germany. I write this on June 2nd of 2021. I believe it is now THE longest undersea electrical cable in the world.

@lisagarcia522

3 жыл бұрын

You are right

Imagine using that long transmission wire to transport nuclear energy from Australia. Australia have so much potential for nuclear power, it's a shame that they are afraid of it.

@VFPn96kQT

3 жыл бұрын

With nuclear power there won't be a need in this cable. Singapore could produce enough energy locally.

@greenmachine5600

3 жыл бұрын

Ignorance and fear are dangerous. They don't realize how effective nuclear energy is.

@dennisthemenace9133

3 жыл бұрын

@@greenmachine5600 they do, but they just don't have tech to make it safe. Also they have to push green agenda, knowing it's not green at all.

Amazing.... good to see .

Its a great project well done.

This is great for Australia! We need big thinking and big projects! Im so sick of all the pessimism, humans can accomplish almost anything we put our mind to. Also, anything to make the Aussies less reliant on China is a great thing

Stone the crows, mate, that's a pretty good idea! Might even get Australians thinking "Hmm- we really ought to build some solar farms for our own cities 🤔" except we're blessed with all those other options listed at 1:03 and I guess the older methods remain cheaper (not to mention more politically influential).

@raptor0040

3 жыл бұрын

Where the fuck have you been the last few years? Australia has solar farms popping up all over the place.

@videowilliams

3 жыл бұрын

@@raptor0040 Well, OK then. GOOD!

Awesome. Indeed it seems a farfetched project. Let's see its progress!

Years ago Australia made this tv ad about how our temps soar in the desert and how you can literally crack an egg on the car bonnet and the sun would cook that shit. The funny thing about that ad is, we knew what our sun could do even way back then and nothing was done about it....