Why Is Water So Important For Life? | Richard Hammond's Wild Weather | Earth Stories

Richard investigates the crucial role of water. Without water, there would be almost no weather: no rain, no snow, no hail, no clouds. He tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car and gets involved in starting an avalanche.
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  • @GodlikeIridium
    @GodlikeIridium Жыл бұрын

    "There are always kids like you on the beach" 🤣

  • @vickiebunch3072
    @vickiebunch3072 Жыл бұрын

    I wish I had a science teacher like that, I'd have been a scientist!

  • @guloonkhan3073
    @guloonkhan3073 Жыл бұрын

    Love you hamand

  • @paulmavric887
    @paulmavric8875 ай бұрын

    Now we are worried weather 🤔

  • @frankdalla
    @frankdalla2 жыл бұрын

    Because its a necessary ingredient to make Pepsi...

  • @enrambassabormarcelinopa-i1232

    @enrambassabormarcelinopa-i1232

    2 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAH and sugar too...lots of it😂

  • @neilmac3731

    @neilmac3731

    Жыл бұрын

    Pepsi isn't as good as coke 😕

  • @DavidElzeitsinfill
    @DavidElzeitsinfill Жыл бұрын

    The wild fires are made much larger and out of control because everything is so dry. There isn't enough moisture in the soil, there isn't enough moisture in the vegetation. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it. The natural water cycle can't refill aquifers that were filled thousands of years ago by melting glaciers after the last ice age. Big problems need big solutions. The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions. A better future is possible,

  • @pyr3x849
    @pyr3x8492 жыл бұрын

    He was scared for a second, did you see?! Haha 😅

  • @LordBaca
    @LordBaca2 жыл бұрын

    I’m only here because of Hammond

  • @4pf007
    @4pf0072 жыл бұрын

    💙💙

  • @inish13ers
    @inish13ers11 ай бұрын

    This guy works for the Alternative Facts Dept.

  • @MadnessIncVP
    @MadnessIncVP Жыл бұрын

    9:45 This music gives me flashbacks to 'Time's End' from 'A Hat in Time'. *inhale.*

  • @acidlabs1989
    @acidlabs19897 ай бұрын

    H20

  • @GodlikeIridium
    @GodlikeIridium Жыл бұрын

    University: The guys who don't drink 24/7 make cool potato canons. But btw, if you want a faster canon: Keep the vacuum part with the projectile in it, but add a second chamber to pressurize it and put a solenoid valve just before the seal behind the projectile. Then you'll get the 1 atmosphere you already got plus whatever you can pressurize the second chamber. Then open the solenoid valve, this will break the seal and shoot the projectile at much higher speeds ;)

  • @MightyYoungSir
    @MightyYoungSir2 жыл бұрын

    step your game up and hit that 2x button

  • @larrygardiner6577
    @larrygardiner65772 жыл бұрын

    WTF? 4 metres of rain (depth)/annum does not equal 4 cubic meters (volume) of water.

  • @butterflyladeda1080

    @butterflyladeda1080

    2 жыл бұрын

    Rainfall is measured over a unit of surface area ie, 4M per M^2 gives a volume of 4M^3 per M^2

  • @GodlikeIridium

    @GodlikeIridium

    Жыл бұрын

    4 meters of rain means 4 m of water, no matter the area. So no matter the surface, it would fill a tank to a level of 4 m. Over an area of 1 m^2, 4 m of rain would equal to 4 m^3 of water, because it fills a cube of 1x1x4 m.

  • @zorilaz

    @zorilaz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GodlikeIridium if they say that UK gets 4 m of water per year it means 4 m of water over the whole UK. Of curse this is a rounded nr, some areas more some areas less but the area is specified, the area is UK

  • @THUNDER52
    @THUNDER52 Жыл бұрын

    This video is copied from another channel I JUST watched. Sad

  • @johnnyllooddte3415
    @johnnyllooddte34152 жыл бұрын

    we provide an inch of rain per county worldwide for 1 million dollars an inch.. we are not responsible for flooding..5 inches in california this qeek.. youre welcome.. doc johnny

  • @johnnyllooddte3415
    @johnnyllooddte34152 жыл бұрын

    we provide an inch of rain per county worldwide for 1 million dollars an inch.. we are not responsible for flooding..5 inches in california this week.. youre welcome.. doc johnny

  • @daggermouth4695

    @daggermouth4695

    2 жыл бұрын

    What ?

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