I can't believe you didn't mention that in 2008 someone stole an entire beach in Jamaica and no one knows who that was. (I think you mentioned it once).
@@ChineseKiwilmfao In July 2008, 500 truckloads of sand were stolen from a 400-meter stretch of beach at Coral Springs in Jamaica's Trelawny parish. The theft occurred as the beach was being prepared for a resort complex, but development was halted after the sand was taken. While sand was found on other beaches, no charges were filed.
Yeah this is much more effective because of my experience with the consequences of resource gathering in video games. The problem is that in video games there's infinite space to move away, and there's no people left to suffer
I made a sand/red sand duper out of the end portal. Mojang left that glitch in because postgame requires too much labor. Why spend days of your life excavating desert by hand when you can AFK in the end for a few hours? Also, red sand is incredibly rare since the biome it spawns in is rare and not all mesa biomes have red sand. I couldn't even fill up a double chest full to make enough red sandstone for my build.
This is a huge unspoken problem in the Dominican Republic, and it has devastating effects in our diverse ecosystems. You could literally go to a river with your family and on the other side you'd see a truck or two stealing sand 😢
Ok, so let me sum it up : We're running out of : Petrol, gas,rare earth material, arable land, whatever goes into making fertiliser, and now I have to add "sand" to the list of the "soon to come" crisis ? Great
In 1972 the Club of Rome predicted the end of growth to start around now. Recently updated models show we are pretty much on track, just lagging a few years behind. Fun times ahead.
in my country we have a mafia around selling plastic bags, since it's illegal, and you'll hear on the news things like that: "the police just cracked down on a underground plastic bag factory" So yeah, mafia can work around anything.
Growing up in Uttar Pradesh, I remember frequently seeing reports of sand mafia related incidents in the news (probably because the state is a really big part of the Ganga river drainage basin). Many police/administrative officers have made progress exposing/shutting them down though some have paid for it with their lives :( Never understood what's the big deal about that sand though till now! Good job!
@@qlip fr , or ab inki sarkaro bhakti nahi jagti hai jab ganga ka balu dusre desh me bech rahe hai, which will result in accelerated deterioration of the river .
For some info on how we melt sand into microchips, the primary component of microchips is ultra-pure silicon crystals, which are gotten by dipping a seed crystal in and out of molten silicon. Some of that silicon comes from this silica sand, which is further refined.
Another solution may be to use far less concrete by bringing back stone building techniques mixed with modern technology. Sure it's more expensive today, but if done at scale, it could become more cost effective en efficient overall (as well as more durable, recyclable and modular).
Hmm, sounds like the corporations would make less money that way though. And doing things to help people in the future? Why don't the future people just solve the issue.
I lived in Morocco 4 years. Once I went to out to the country with my friend to visit his uncle's farm. His backyard was basically a big sandy cliff. We were walking towards the cliffs and noticed trails of dust being kicked up by horses. When we got to the hill we found an overturned cart and bags full of sand. I asked my friend what was going on and he said "sand bandits." We encountered a policeman up there and he asked us if we saw where they went. We said "no."
We haven't even figured out how to recover sand from buildings destroyed by natural disasters or war and so when any kind of rebuilding inevitably begins, we will need even more of it making matters worse
Not to mention that buildings made of concrete don't last very long anyway, especially in places like China where they make cheap concrete for better profit. We don't make them like the Romans
@@Potato-rb8ms are you an expert on China construction industry? How do you know their concrete is worse? Do you know that the largest dam in the world built there?
If you don't mind me abusing my civil engineering degree to bring up a teeny tiny techical hang up, the stony crystals you spoke about do not stem from silicates in aggregates like sand. Portlandite Hydration creates these stony spindly star-like crystals from silicates in cement (tri and di calcium silicates) alongside crystallisation of other cement based compounds (aluminiates and ferrites). These compounds come from heating clays and limestone into clinker and grinding it into cement. All of these compounds come from the cement not the sand aggregate. Aggregate provides mechanical strength to concrete mixes and reduces the heating effect of cement hydration by spacing out the cement paste which prevents overheating and the formation of cracks. Fine aggregates like sand are important because they fill gaps between larger aggregates which reduces the total space that can fill with cement mixture.
These spindly star like crystals grow into each other and lock all of the aggregate in place but the way crystallisation was spoken about in the video implies that portlandite crystalisation is a reaction between sand, cement and water. While it actually happens without sand. Sand is super important in concrete but is not a chemical component of the formation of these crystals. It is a mechanical additive to the concrete mixture not a chemical additive to cement.
@@mizan-mq3me we have real Tusken Raiders. If only there was someone who could fix this situation, and not just the men, but the women, and the children too.
Lightbulb... They can last forever but that's not profitable so planned obsolescence was introduced... Even newer LEDs can last 10x as long and 5xmore efficient, dubai has even paid them extra to bend the rules and make a batch of good ones jusg for use there! Bet u wasnt expecting that one 🤣sorry
@Betweoxwitegan I will tell you even more! I am such a crazy man that I'm doing this in Russia, where each word spoken in university makes me one step closer to a criminal case :)))) And, moreover, my course is focused on the Middle East (crazy place indeed). Usually we either stay unemployed or become teachers of English :( And, in addition, the expected salary is the best part, it is around 300$ or even less!
@@Betweoxwitegan I will tell you even more! I am such a crazy man that I'm doing this in Russia, where each word spoken in university makes me one step closer to a criminal case :)))) And, moreover, my course is focused on the Middle East (crazy place indeed) Usually we either stay unemployed or become teachers of English :( And, in addition, the expected salary is the best part, it is around 300$ or even less!
@@Betweoxwitegan i did it and i work in sustainability. Pays ok but i like what i do. I paired it with a science degree. Gonna upskill with a few data related things tho to round it out more.
Serendipity: my Dutch newspaper published an article on exactly the same topic a few days ago (although this video is much more in depth.) The Netherlands will run out of the quality North Sea sand it uses for building around 2050 at the current rate.
Australia sand exportation, although it's relatively small around 4MT compared to Iron ore of 893MT, for caparison Australian iron ore lands in China at around $16 a tonne, and sand would be chaper as it requires less processing. All sand mining in Australia happens off rivers, as there are huge plains of ancient deposit. Around the south west WA the sand is from rivers in the jurassic.
Which makes it cost more than just buying already usable sand, thus making it redundant, thus “you can’t use desert sand” it explains this in the video 😭
No, you have to put gravel in it. Irregularity in size is what makes cement work. I’m wondering where Namibia is in all of this, as they have desert sand along the Skeleton coast. That could become a world sand source.
I'm not entirely sure, but the sand grains need to be angular as well for the cement to work properly, and not just a mixture of different sized clasts The sand grains in an aeolian environment (desserts or other places with significant accumulations of wind-borne material) are to well rounded. This is because when two grains collide in the air, they do so with greater impact than they would experience under water. Air has a density much lower than that of water, and therefore the grains aren't cushioned when they collide in the air, as they would've been had they collided under water. Because the collision are relatively high energy, the grains may be damaged in the process. The most vulnerable parts of the grains are the angular edges, which tend to be ripped off during a collision. The grains in an aeolian environment are therefore what you call well rounded, since all their edges have been chipped off. Without the edges, I imagine that the sand grains won't be able to stay in place in the spaces they are supposed to fill between the larger grains in a mixture of cement But I'm no expert in cement, and I'm also only in my first semester of geology, so I'm not 100% confident in what I'm saying here
As a kid I remember going to a beach in Guatemala named “playa dorada” meaning golden beach. Over the years greedy miners have almost dried out the beach leaving just a rocky surface very sad tourism completely disappear
… you missed the most profitable, Human trafficking, doesn’t get used up the first time like drugs or sand. And because the vast extent of how people are sold and used worldwide is unknown but easily eclipses all these illicit trades combined.
Why does the victim not getting 'used up' matter? There is a huge surplus of illegal drug trade for meth and cocaine. It does not have a scarcity problem.
@ if you can sell something repeatedly you make more profit than having to get and source another person to make another sale. Or they can work another shift for free in a factory etc but it explains a lot of WHY that market is mind-bendingly huge.
Probably because the size of the human trafficking industry varies from 100-250 billion, which is smaller than the other 3 illicit industries mentioned in the video
3:34 Very off topic, but I love how the people that own the Breaking Bad house hate the fact that they own the house but still won't sell it to someone who does. They literally re-did the roof to make sure pizza's would slide off of it because people kept throwing them on it
Wow, congratulations on your impressive investment success! Your discipline and focus on delayed gratification is truly inspiring. I'm curious, what are some of the key factors that you consider when making investment decisions? Do you have any tips for those of us who are just starting to dip our toes into the world of investing? Thanks for sharing your story!
Fun fact: Singapore doesn’t advertise this, but Southeast Asian countries banned export of sand because of this island republic. Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia had at various points in time before today, banned sand exports. Singapore being the kid with the most money in the region, tends to use small contractors to subcontract to other grey suppliers who in turn get their sand from intermediaries that functioned basically as the local cartel from those named countries. Recently Jokowi had lifted the ban of sand exports, so Singapore can now buy (exfilter) sand from Indonesia again.
the gall of these poor third world SEAmonkeys, to undermine Singapore's growth?!?!?! They will regret it. Singapore is influential enough to meddle in their politics. best they not find themselves to be tributary states to Singapore. we are the King of Southeast Asia!!!! 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
@@jimmyc7269 No, no. In his utopian vision we live in skyscraper made of glass. As we all know, glass is a plentiful resource. You can mine it or pick it off of trees
“China uses more concrete than the rest of the world combined” “Sand flows in one general direction, from shoreline to cities” You didn’t even watch the video did you? Really puts in perspective how people want their perspective to be
Huge, how did you achieve such biweekly returns? I'm a newbie and I've lost a lot of money investing on my own. Please how do I go about it, the year is almost coming to an end, how can I make profit?
Hello, I am very interested. As you know, there are tons of investments out there and without solid knowledge, I can't decide what is best. Can you explain further how you invest and earn?
Hello, I am very interested. As you know, there are tons of investments out there and without solid knowledge, I can't decide what is best. Can you explain further how you invest and earn?
I live in Cambodia, and it is extremely depressing how badly sand digging is affecting the country. Officially, it is illegal but if you go to the river you can watch ships full of sand go past you one after another. Other dredge right in front of the most populated part of the city, in view of everyone. There is no attempt to stop it or even hide it, even as some streets have collapsed into the river because of the sand dug out underneath them.
🖕🤓 4:12 Desert sand is actually totally fine for concrete, as it requires less water than other sands which strengthens the mix overall. Transportation cost has a much higher impact on where people get sand - not many people are building mega cities in the desert, but if they did, desert sand would certainly be used. Practical Engineering did a great video about this myth - check out “Are we running out of sand?”
So as far as I understand dessert sand has smoother grains making it harder for it to interlock and form strong bonds, it also has more trace elements in it which make it less suitable for construction, you can filter these impurities out but it costs more So whilst desert sand can be just as good as beach sand it costs a lot more to process and transport it.
@@reubennelson4086 if you mean tiktok/douyin’s connection with ByteDance, yes. But the CEO definitely still thought Singapore was in China considering he asked if he had a Chinese passport and if he ever been a member of CCP even though Singaporean citizens above 22 years old can’t have dual citizenship lmfao
I read about this in the international version of the NY Times, I think in 2007 or 08. A business in the UAE applied to the Saudi government for a permit to export some sand out of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government denied the application! The reason was that it was a special type of sand the business in the UAE wanted to import: the sand had particularly angular grains making it suitable for bunkers on golf courses. The angular grains make it less likely for a ball to become buried in the sand if landing in a bunker from a great height.
I think (I don't know) that this depends on the region you live in. In Europe, this is true. In SS Africa, I'd be very surprised if this was the case outside of a few very advanced economies.
in indonesia, legal sand mining location will always spotted near an active volcano. sand around this location need to be mined regularly to stop the sand from becoming cold lahar that can destroying nature, infrastructures and taking people's life sand mining other than this spot are most likely illegal
Hoserrr, great video, very informative. I think way more people should see this kind of stuff man. There's a butt But I think you gotta structure the video with desire to watch almost til the end, like keep a little secret you hide until the end that will bring up audience retention or something. I know it's a creative and difficult obstacle, building storylines while also being accurate and informative. But I think it got a little boring now matter how interesting the knowledge was. For reference, for about a year I've watched the channel and pretty much never clicked off a video of yours; always pulling it up walking to the break room or preparing a nice meal to sit and view the art you make, but this one is like old people talking, it's enjoyable to a point. But during this vid, I clicked off around maybe 10 ish mins and came back days later and almost clicked off again, hence the reason for sending this message. Definitely don't lean into perfection, I don't wanna see my hoser burn out. Do what you think is best, the true fans will always click when they are ready to be enlightened and laugh. Keep doing your thing man, I don't know another channel that's this good at 'edutainment'.❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😇😇 (I should get better audience retention with my comments😔)
Exceptional video!🔥 I have incurred so much losses trading on my own....I trade well on demo but I think the real market is manipulated.... Can anyone help me out or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong??
Trading on a demo account can definitely feel similar to the real market, but there are some differences. It's important to remember that trading involves risks and it's normal to face looses sometimes. One piece of advice is to start small and gradually increase your investments as you gain more experience and confidence. It might also be helpful to seek guidance from experienced traders or do some research on different trading strategies.
Investing in crypto without professional guidance? I laugh at you, as you'll likely remain stagnant or suffer significant losses that could prevent you from trading further. This is a major issue for many new investors.
It's essential for you to have a mentor to keep you accountable. Myself, I'm guided by Janet. for years and highly recommend her I focus on her. To be honest, I almost didn't buy the idea of letting someone handle growing my finance, but so glad I did.
Wow, I'm surprised to see Janet mentioned here as well. I thought myself and my family were the only ones enjoying Janet trade benefits...I didn't know she had been kind to so many people
This is the best and funniest Yankee presentation of what might change my life. I'm no aggregate specialist but I do know a lot of it with a degree in soil science and plants. However the most fun was building golf courses. But because I wasn't aware enough of the younger age to get in the same business
@@cloudunknown dirt gets muddy and grass dies from being walked over often. I'd suggest clay brick roads, they're smooth like concrete and thus nice to walk on.
1:55 I learnt a bit about this one on a technical school: sand is melted into long round pieces of silicium and is then cut into smaller pieces, kinda like a "cookie" (that's the best way I can define it as), which then gets inserted a ton of pieces and ultimately becomes a processor
8:10 We don't want to hear it, but real estate bubbles can be really good for cities. Big skyscrapers become viable projects, sophisticated infrastructure is built, and modern megacities pop up in areas that would otherwise never have the motivation to build anything higher than a 3 story walk up. Whenever a governing body makes a decision to rip the band aid and let the bubble pop, they are always trading long term growth for short term relief. Similar dynamics exist for other industries. We are training company managers to either scale up supply quickly or not at all, because if they wait too long, the nation's managers would step in and end demand.
Bubble bursts tend to be more harmful than the growth the bubble can generate. We have quite a few recent case studies showing that. And bubble burst are very difficult to stop, if not impossible. There's a reason why economists don't recommend you get into a bubble.
Hello Hoser! I love your videos. Could you do one about Spain? I know you did the greenhouse one and the turism one. I was thinking about the economics and history from the civil war up to present day, like you have done with other countries. Thanks!
Did a septic install on a sand mine in West Texas earlier this year Apparently, most of our fracking sand was coming from Wisconsin/South Dakota via rail, and its only in the past few years that sand mining has started domestically within the state
A video about whats going on in Georgia right now would be amazing. Im not georgian nor do i have any clue about georgian politics, but what is going on with Zourabichvili is extremely interesting and may play a significant role in Georgia and the EU’s future
F it. Since you're here in these comments, you have time to follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/hoserforever
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WHERE is that George Friedman video you made
Monkey
Singapore is a major sand importer, that mysteriously stopped major land reclaimation efforts once their conplicity came to light... I wonder why...
I can't believe you didn't mention that in 2008 someone stole an entire beach in Jamaica and no one knows who that was. (I think you mentioned it once).
Yo, it'd be really nice if you could include the names of the music used in your videos in the source pastebin. Some really nice tunes here and there
Imagine going on vacation and finding out someone stole the entire damn beach
cant have shit in detroit
Like theres nothing there but a big hole full of water? That's called the ocean mate.
This literally happened in Jamaica. Look it up 😅😂
@@benjamindover4337 I just mean the coastline
@@ChineseKiwilmfao
In July 2008, 500 truckloads of sand were stolen from a 400-meter stretch of beach at Coral Springs in Jamaica's Trelawny parish. The theft occurred as the beach was being prepared for a resort complex, but development was halted after the sand was taken. While sand was found on other beaches, no charges were filed.
This reminds me of the amount of desert I destroyed in Minecraft for that sweet sweet glass...
Yeah this is much more effective because of my experience with the consequences of resource gathering in video games. The problem is that in video games there's infinite space to move away, and there's no people left to suffer
I made a sand/red sand duper out of the end portal. Mojang left that glitch in because postgame requires too much labor. Why spend days of your life excavating desert by hand when you can AFK in the end for a few hours? Also, red sand is incredibly rare since the biome it spawns in is rare and not all mesa biomes have red sand. I couldn't even fill up a double chest full to make enough red sandstone for my build.
@@gollossalkittyand you can mine it in the desert and not just frim riverbeds and beaches
Tbh, terraria is worse, cuz you need sand for a lot more than glass
I did this but for tnt
This is a huge unspoken problem in the Dominican Republic, and it has devastating effects in our diverse ecosystems. You could literally go to a river with your family and on the other side you'd see a truck or two stealing sand 😢
Same in India, despite several court interventions. Reason ? Corruption.
It’s so sad because we are killing our little paradise 😢
I am sorry for your country
Yeah baby, that sweet sweet profit is nice for the right people 😂
Boo hoo. some people lose, some people win. Nyehnnanananyeh🎵
Ok, so let me sum it up : We're running out of : Petrol, gas,rare earth material, arable land, whatever goes into making fertiliser, and now I have to add "sand" to the list of the "soon to come" crisis ? Great
In 1972 the Club of Rome predicted the end of growth to start around now. Recently updated models show we are pretty much on track, just lagging a few years behind. Fun times ahead.
Dont forget water
Phosphorus goes into fertilizers s
And we haven't found ways to replace,find more, or mitigate the effect in scale cheaply enough yet..double great.
For most of those, we are finding alternatives
Sand Mafia sounds cursed, having anything next to mafia sounds like drug slang
in my country we have a mafia around selling plastic bags, since it's illegal, and you'll hear on the news things like that: "the police just cracked down on a underground plastic bag factory"
So yeah, mafia can work around anything.
It sounds like a gang based in a desert, not a gang that sells sand illegally.
Last year in Greece there used to be Donuts Mafia, run by Albanian gangs from N.Macedonia.
The og mafia started as a cartel of lemon sellers. Anything with strong demand will attract such attention.
@@Dac_DT_MKD WTF, why? Was there a donut shortage somehow?
Growing up in Uttar Pradesh, I remember frequently seeing reports of sand mafia related incidents in the news (probably because the state is a really big part of the Ganga river drainage basin). Many police/administrative officers have made progress exposing/shutting them down though some have paid for it with their lives :(
Never understood what's the big deal about that sand though till now! Good job!
Hello fellow Up walla, i am also from Up 👋
@Shiva-05 नमस्ते!👋
Its still going on in Bihar. On a large scale too.
@@qlip fr , or ab inki sarkaro bhakti nahi jagti hai jab ganga ka balu dusre desh me bech rahe hai, which will result in accelerated deterioration of the river .
UP isn't famous for rapper ? Lots rapper case are from that state. Right ?
"I hate sand, it is rough, irritating and Gets everywhere" cit. Unstable teenage space wizard
In his defense, he was getting clean from a Vicodin Addiction.
Whoops, wrong movie starring the Canadian "Actor".
But I'm a senator. 😂
@@joe-zj8js I am the Senate
And then Predatory Jedi kidnapped that kid and brings it to weird cult of men in a temple in a big space city😂
Are you guys talking about Jordan Peterson or something else?
For some info on how we melt sand into microchips, the primary component of microchips is ultra-pure silicon crystals, which are gotten by dipping a seed crystal in and out of molten silicon. Some of that silicon comes from this silica sand, which is further refined.
damn il stop preheating my oven then 😞
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If Sandman in Spiderman is smart enough, he'd be rich selling premium sands, enough to treat his kid and more
Sir selling your body is prostitution and it is illegal
Isn't that his body?
Can't even afford a house and now we gotta buy sand too 😭
😅😅
But what If I don't like sand because it's coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere?
Just dig hole like Steve dude
Tell me when you got sand for free?
can't afford a house cus of the sand market bru
Another solution may be to use far less concrete by bringing back stone building techniques mixed with modern technology. Sure it's more expensive today, but if done at scale, it could become more cost effective en efficient overall (as well as more durable, recyclable and modular).
Hmm, sounds like the corporations would make less money that way though. And doing things to help people in the future? Why don't the future people just solve the issue.
@@lithic2331unless you are up fifty, you are the future people
No ,it will be ended like sand , over mining, destroying ecosystems and more
And stone was hard to shape and hard to get ,unlike sand
Or just dig hole and covered with leaf and wood
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Npc ass comment tho
Thats what they programmed you to say
So-called 'free thinkers' when someone doesn't make a comment that they've never seen before:
I lived in Morocco 4 years. Once I went to out to the country with my friend to visit his uncle's farm. His backyard was basically a big sandy cliff. We were walking towards the cliffs and noticed trails of dust being kicked up by horses. When we got to the hill we found an overturned cart and bags full of sand. I asked my friend what was going on and he said "sand bandits." We encountered a policeman up there and he asked us if we saw where they went. We said "no."
Sandits...
We haven't even figured out how to recover sand from buildings destroyed by natural disasters or war and so when any kind of rebuilding inevitably begins, we will need even more of it making matters worse
Not to mention that buildings made of concrete don't last very long anyway, especially in places like China where they make cheap concrete for better profit. We don't make them like the Romans
So climate change increases sand demand. And making sand increases climate change (CO2) production.
@@Potato-rb8ms are you an expert on China construction industry? How do you know their concrete is worse? Do you know that the largest dam in the world built there?
You can just crush it again tho?
The sand must flow!
I don't like it
maybe Arrakis' Spice harvesting operation is just a coverup for mining its sand lol
If you don't mind me abusing my civil engineering degree to bring up a teeny tiny techical hang up, the stony crystals you spoke about do not stem from silicates in aggregates like sand. Portlandite Hydration creates these stony spindly star-like crystals from silicates in cement (tri and di calcium silicates) alongside crystallisation of other cement based compounds (aluminiates and ferrites). These compounds come from heating clays and limestone into clinker and grinding it into cement. All of these compounds come from the cement not the sand aggregate. Aggregate provides mechanical strength to concrete mixes and reduces the heating effect of cement hydration by spacing out the cement paste which prevents overheating and the formation of cracks. Fine aggregates like sand are important because they fill gaps between larger aggregates which reduces the total space that can fill with cement mixture.
These spindly star like crystals grow into each other and lock all of the aggregate in place but the way crystallisation was spoken about in the video implies that portlandite crystalisation is a reaction between sand, cement and water. While it actually happens without sand. Sand is super important in concrete but is not a chemical component of the formation of these crystals. It is a mechanical additive to the concrete mixture not a chemical additive to cement.
That was very informative, thank you friend.
I ain't reading all of that.
We got Oil mafia , crypto, lithium, diamonds,gold ,wood ,house.
And now SAND MAFIA, what's next? Stone Mafia?
@@mizan-mq3me we have real Tusken Raiders.
If only there was someone who could fix this situation, and not just the men, but the women, and the children too.
Lightbulb... They can last forever but that's not profitable so planned obsolescence was introduced... Even newer LEDs can last 10x as long and 5xmore efficient, dubai has even paid them extra to bend the rules and make a batch of good ones jusg for use there!
Bet u wasnt expecting that one 🤣sorry
air mafia
Hold up you got a point there
Don’t mess with the WATER mafia.
I am almost over my bachelors degree in international relations. But this man manages to surprise me again and again. Keep on like this!
I would not have the balls to study international relations, the job prospects are well... Prospects I suppose.
What do you plan on doing?
@Betweoxwitegan I will tell you even more! I am such a crazy man that I'm doing this in Russia, where each word spoken in university makes me one step closer to a criminal case :)))) And, moreover, my course is focused on the Middle East (crazy place indeed). Usually we either stay unemployed or become teachers of English :( And, in addition, the expected salary is the best part, it is around 300$ or even less!
@@Betweoxwitegan I will tell you even more! I am such a crazy man that I'm doing this in Russia, where each word spoken in university makes me one step closer to a criminal case :)))) And, moreover, my course is focused on the Middle East (crazy place indeed) Usually we either stay unemployed or become teachers of English :( And, in addition, the expected salary is the best part, it is around 300$ or even less!
@@artekchanel9358 You're a nutter bro 😂
@@Betweoxwitegan i did it and i work in sustainability. Pays ok but i like what i do. I paired it with a science degree. Gonna upskill with a few data related things tho to round it out more.
I visited Gibraltar last year and they’re doing a lot of land reclamation since they have so little space… that said Spain is NOT PLEASED
thats what they get for being spanish
as indonesian, if the island counting is conducted now the 17000 island indonesia have probably dont exist anymore.
its now maybe 15000ish and still counting- DOWN
and don`t forget that our government just legalized sand mining 🤦
Man you guys really have it tough with the politicians
@@nggatauYT "it's good for the enviroment" said the dumbass minister
Serendipity: my Dutch newspaper published an article on exactly the same topic a few days ago (although this video is much more in depth.) The Netherlands will run out of the quality North Sea sand it uses for building around 2050 at the current rate.
Australia sand exportation, although it's relatively small around 4MT compared to Iron ore of 893MT, for caparison Australian iron ore lands in China at around $16 a tonne, and sand would be chaper as it requires less processing. All sand mining in Australia happens off rivers, as there are huge plains of ancient deposit. Around the south west WA the sand is from rivers in the jurassic.
Thanks h0ser, I almost thought I would waste my first day in years, without any existential crisis.
You can infact use dessert sand, but it costs more to make it useable
Which makes it cost more than just buying already usable sand, thus making it redundant, thus “you can’t use desert sand” it explains this in the video 😭
It costs to remove rock and soil dust maybe?
No, you have to put gravel in it. Irregularity in size is what makes cement work.
I’m wondering where Namibia is in all of this, as they have desert sand along the Skeleton coast. That could become a world sand source.
I'm not entirely sure, but the sand grains need to be angular as well for the cement to work properly, and not just a mixture of different sized clasts
The sand grains in an aeolian environment (desserts or other places with significant accumulations of wind-borne material) are to well rounded.
This is because when two grains collide in the air, they do so with greater impact than they would experience under water. Air has a density much lower than that of water, and therefore the grains aren't cushioned when they collide in the air, as they would've been had they collided under water. Because the collision are relatively high energy, the grains may be damaged in the process. The most vulnerable parts of the grains are the angular edges, which tend to be ripped off during a collision. The grains in an aeolian environment are therefore what you call well rounded, since all their edges have been chipped off.
Without the edges, I imagine that the sand grains won't be able to stay in place in the spaces they are supposed to fill between the larger grains in a mixture of cement
But I'm no expert in cement, and I'm also only in my first semester of geology, so I'm not 100% confident in what I'm saying here
Wow, I would have never thought of sand as being so valuable. Great information.
“Hey bro what you got for sale”
“Sand”
That’s some good sand bro
IRL Tusken Raiders before GTA 6
"I don't like Sand. It's Coarse, Rough, Irritating, and it gets everywhere" Hoser's Compatriot
I know a certain Jedi knight who would find this quite irritating, he might even hate it.
Lols who is it? I have 2 in my mind
Did this certain Jedi Not reach the rank of Master?
@@andrewwinslow9315 I think it’s anikan skywalks or Luke
Well to be fair, it's coarse, rough, and it gets everywhere
@@popsicalstickgamer123 it's Anakin who doesn't like sand. Luke doesn't share his opinion.
hoser is giving me an existential crisis over sand
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Team Fortress lore video.
As a kid I remember going to a beach in Guatemala named “playa dorada” meaning golden beach. Over the years greedy miners have almost dried out the beach leaving just a rocky surface very sad tourism completely disappear
That sucks!!!
… you missed the most profitable, Human trafficking, doesn’t get used up the first time like drugs or sand. And because the vast extent of how people are sold and used worldwide is unknown but easily eclipses all these illicit trades combined.
Why does the victim not getting 'used up' matter? There is a huge surplus of illegal drug trade for meth and cocaine. It does not have a scarcity problem.
@ if you can sell something repeatedly you make more profit than having to get and source another person to make another sale. Or they can work another shift for free in a factory etc but it explains a lot of WHY that market is mind-bendingly huge.
Sand is coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere
Probably because the size of the human trafficking industry varies from 100-250 billion, which is smaller than the other 3 illicit industries mentioned in the video
There are less humans than yotta tons of sand
3:33 Stelvio Cipriani - Mary's Theme (1969) for anyone wondering
OH MY GOSH IT'S HOSER HOSER I AM LIKE A BIG FAN
3:34 Very off topic, but I love how the people that own the Breaking Bad house hate the fact that they own the house but still won't sell it to someone who does. They literally re-did the roof to make sure pizza's would slide off of it because people kept throwing them on it
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Fun fact: Singapore doesn’t advertise this, but Southeast Asian countries banned export of sand because of this island republic.
Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia had at various points in time before today, banned sand exports. Singapore being the kid with the most money in the region, tends to use small contractors to subcontract to other grey suppliers who in turn get their sand from intermediaries that functioned basically as the local cartel from those named countries. Recently Jokowi had lifted the ban of sand exports, so Singapore can now buy (exfilter) sand from Indonesia again.
the gall of these poor third world SEAmonkeys, to undermine Singapore's growth?!?!?! They will regret it. Singapore is influential enough to meddle in their politics. best they not find themselves to be tributary states to Singapore. we are the King of Southeast Asia!!!!
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Number of likes on this comment really shows how many people read comments before finishing the video.
You can see the sand deposit on the ride from Changi airport.
I didnt think they had much sand and thats why they had to do that
@@Nixdb Yup. It's covered well, starting at 13:50.
Oh look, it's yet another reason why England was never going to let Scotland gain independence in 2014 2:04
cry more
30.000 tons of concrete per km of highway is insane. Really puts in perspective how degrading for the environment it is to have a car-centric society
If my country is going to import violent third worlders who ride public transport, I'll just take my car
Did you miss the part about how most of the concrete is used for urban developments, the opposite of a car-centric society?
@@jimmyc7269 No, no. In his utopian vision we live in skyscraper made of glass.
As we all know, glass is a plentiful resource. You can mine it or pick it off of trees
“China uses more concrete than the rest of the world combined”
“Sand flows in one general direction, from shoreline to cities”
You didn’t even watch the video did you? Really puts in perspective how people want their perspective to be
I do wonder how much concrete and thus sand railroads use compared to highways
Hoser watching your channel grow to the hundreds of thousands feels so nice 1 million soon man Proud of You
$80k every 4 weeks! I now have a good house and can now afford anything and also support my family😎
Huge, how did you achieve such biweekly returns? I'm a newbie and I've lost a lot of money investing on my own. Please how do I go about it, the year is almost coming to an end, how can I make profit?
Hello, I am very interested. As you know, there are tons of investments out there and without solid knowledge, I can't decide what is best. Can you explain further how you invest and earn?
Hello, I am very interested. As you know, there are tons of investments out there and without solid knowledge, I can't decide what is best. Can you explain further how you invest and earn?
Wow Wow her too Miss Luara Clarence is a remarkable individual whom has brought immense positivity and inspiration into my life.😮..
The very first time we tried, we invested $2000 and after a week, we received $9500. That really helped us a lot to pay up our bills.
Sea level rise denied. We're stealing all the sand
Because I needed another rapidly depleting natural resource to add to the list of why the future fills me with anxiety. Take my subscription.
I live in Cambodia, and it is extremely depressing how badly sand digging is affecting the country. Officially, it is illegal but if you go to the river you can watch ships full of sand go past you one after another. Other dredge right in front of the most populated part of the city, in view of everyone. There is no attempt to stop it or even hide it, even as some streets have collapsed into the river because of the sand dug out underneath them.
🖕🤓 4:12 Desert sand is actually totally fine for concrete, as it requires less water than other sands which strengthens the mix overall. Transportation cost has a much higher impact on where people get sand - not many people are building mega cities in the desert, but if they did, desert sand would certainly be used. Practical Engineering did a great video about this myth - check out “Are we running out of sand?”
Nah, hoser is right bro. I remember my history teacher talking about this too
@@JoseLeybaDiaz Your history teacher fell for the common myth! Happens to the best of us -- including me until I learned better.
Real Engineering or Practical Engineering??
@ Practical, whoops
So as far as I understand dessert sand has smoother grains making it harder for it to interlock and form strong bonds, it also has more trace elements in it which make it less suitable for construction, you can filter these impurities out but it costs more
So whilst desert sand can be just as good as beach sand it costs a lot more to process and transport it.
Love the use of Mary’s theme. The laughing woman is a fantastic film
That "China is adding a new Singapore" is so much funnier when you consider that a lot of non-asians think Singapore IS a part of China
I don’t know anyone who thinks that
@@404willumThe American government
Ok but the jury asking the tiktok ceo about his association with the CCP is extremely valid if you know anything about its history.
@@reubennelson4086 if you mean tiktok/douyin’s connection with ByteDance, yes. But the CEO definitely still thought Singapore was in China considering he asked if he had a Chinese passport and if he ever been a member of CCP even though Singaporean citizens above 22 years old can’t have dual citizenship lmfao
I love the passion that comes through in your voice, it makes the topic interesting :)
_"I hate sand. It's rough, course and it gets everywhere"._
@@userMB1 not like here. Here, everything is soft and smooth.
Thank you for bringing light on an issue I didn’t know existed. Love the vids, keep up the magic
This happens a lot in my area, in Romania, close to a river. The authorities tried to stop them once but they couldn't
I read about this in the international version of the NY Times, I think in 2007 or 08.
A business in the UAE applied to the Saudi government for a permit to export some sand out of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government denied the application!
The reason was that it was a special type of sand the business in the UAE wanted to import: the sand had particularly angular grains making it suitable for bunkers on golf courses. The angular grains make it less likely for a ball to become buried in the sand if landing in a bunker from a great height.
actually, very informative, thank you!
If you come from Ukambani-Kenya you know that this is a multi million business in Kenya 🇰🇪
3:21 "...even boats have been made of concrete."
Fucking *WHAT?* 😭
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship
The beached remains of the SS Palo Alto is featured at the timestamp you provided.
You've gotten really good at this.
Pacing, wording, vfx.
Smooth as the smoothest sand, baby.
I thought the sand mafia was a mafia in the desert
The situation is so bad in India that we have sand mafia songs.
Yeah, no to the "it's because people move to cities" argument. Resource use and infrastructure need per person are much lower in cities.
I think (I don't know) that this depends on the region you live in.
In Europe, this is true.
In SS Africa, I'd be very surprised if this was the case outside of a few very advanced economies.
@AskTorin I'm sure that's true as well. But even in this case, the root cause for more resource use isn't the movement towards cities.
in indonesia, legal sand mining location will always spotted near an active volcano. sand around this location need to be mined regularly to stop the sand from becoming cold lahar that can destroying nature, infrastructures and taking people's life
sand mining other than this spot are most likely illegal
Hoserrr, great video, very informative. I think way more people should see this kind of stuff man. There's a butt
But I think you gotta structure the video with desire to watch almost til the end, like keep a little secret you hide until the end that will bring up audience retention or something. I know it's a creative and difficult obstacle, building storylines while also being accurate and informative. But I think it got a little boring now matter how interesting the knowledge was.
For reference, for about a year I've watched the channel and pretty much never clicked off a video of yours; always pulling it up walking to the break room or preparing a nice meal to sit and view the art you make, but this one is like old people talking, it's enjoyable to a point. But during this vid, I clicked off around maybe 10 ish mins and came back days later and almost clicked off again, hence the reason for sending this message.
Definitely don't lean into perfection, I don't wanna see my hoser burn out. Do what you think is best, the true fans will always click when they are ready to be enlightened and laugh. Keep doing your thing man, I don't know another channel that's this good at 'edutainment'.❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😇😇
(I should get better audience retention with my comments😔)
Jesus turned water into wine, then the bottles into sand.
18:57 That ending 😂..... 😭
I knew this was a big mafia. In India it sure is, but seems its a global thing. Great vid, sharing this with friends and family.
Guys this is a diversion. The real reason theyre mining sand is to craft TNT
"He who controls the spice, controls the Universe"
The spice must flow
These are the videos we need 🙏
Another fun fact about sand and concrete: Pouring and curing concrete accounts for an estimated 8 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide.
One of the best vids on this channel
Exceptional video!🔥
I have incurred so much losses trading on my own....I trade well on demo but I think the real market is manipulated.... Can anyone help me out or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong??
Trading on a demo account can definitely feel similar to the real market, but there are some differences. It's important to remember that trading involves risks and it's normal to face looses sometimes. One piece of advice is to start small and gradually increase your investments as you gain more experience and confidence. It might also be helpful to seek guidance from experienced traders or do some research on different trading strategies.
Investing in crypto without professional guidance? I laugh at you, as you'll likely remain stagnant or suffer significant losses that could prevent you from trading further. This is a major issue for many new investors.
It's essential for you to have a mentor to keep you accountable. Myself, I'm guided by Janet. for years and highly recommend her I focus on her. To be honest, I almost didn't buy the idea of letting someone handle growing my finance, but so glad I did.
I think l'm blessed if not I have not met someone who is as spectacular as expert mrs Janet she is best ever seen
Wow, I'm surprised to see Janet mentioned here as well. I thought myself and my family were the only ones enjoying Janet
trade benefits...I didn't know she had been kind to so many people
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.
Anakin Skywalker
3:53 Thats the hospital i was born in :0
This is the best and funniest Yankee presentation of what might change my life. I'm no aggregate specialist but I do know a lot of it with a degree in soil science and plants. However the most fun was building golf courses. But because I wasn't aware enough of the younger age to get in the same business
You ever play Minecraft you know that sand is precious, Lol~
I want Anakin Skywalker in charge of the anti sand trafficking agency
We're running out of sand so we have to replace using concrete for every fucking thing.
Why not use concrete for highways, and cobblestone for streets? That would be much more sustainable
@cloudunknown Simply because....WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF SAND.
@@cloudunknown cobblestone is really rough to walk on, still, alternatives should be sought
@@ham_the_spam4423 idk grass then
@@cloudunknown dirt gets muddy and grass dies from being walked over often. I'd suggest clay brick roads, they're smooth like concrete and thus nice to walk on.
That “Yay!” at the end. 😂
10:32 calm down hoser..
"My trump card is sand" i said that once 😂
Wherever there is a building boom... Minors will appear... Even if they're not officially counted as a minor...
1:55 I learnt a bit about this one on a technical school: sand is melted into long round pieces of silicium and is then cut into smaller pieces, kinda like a "cookie" (that's the best way I can define it as), which then gets inserted a ton of pieces and ultimately becomes a processor
8:10 We don't want to hear it, but real estate bubbles can be really good for cities. Big skyscrapers become viable projects, sophisticated infrastructure is built, and modern megacities pop up in areas that would otherwise never have the motivation to build anything higher than a 3 story walk up. Whenever a governing body makes a decision to rip the band aid and let the bubble pop, they are always trading long term growth for short term relief.
Similar dynamics exist for other industries. We are training company managers to either scale up supply quickly or not at all, because if they wait too long, the nation's managers would step in and end demand.
Bubble bursts tend to be more harmful than the growth the bubble can generate. We have quite a few recent case studies showing that.
And bubble burst are very difficult to stop, if not impossible.
There's a reason why economists don't recommend you get into a bubble.
Hello Hoser! I love your videos.
Could you do one about Spain? I know you did the greenhouse one and the turism one.
I was thinking about the economics and history from the civil war up to present day, like you have done with other countries.
Thanks!
gotta love how every existential problem ends up going back to the solution of just having less people lmao
The numbers in this are just astonishing. Can’t believe how interesting a video about the sand trade is.
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No, ur actually first!
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Thank you so much for the timely video Hoser! It's so worrying how Indonesia just recently legalized sand mining yet again... I fear for our future
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Tf2 lore does'nt sound so insane anymore.
So...Are you telling me the novels of DUNE, were based in real life economics? ... Cool
Did a septic install on a sand mine in West Texas earlier this year
Apparently, most of our fracking sand was coming from Wisconsin/South Dakota via rail, and its only in the past few years that sand mining has started domestically within the state
Fuck fracking. Make that shit illegal.
Interesting thing about fracking is its only worth doing when oil is over $80 a barrel.
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Comrade Shcherbina: I need 5000 tons of sand
Sand Mafia: *Heavy Breathing *
One of your best videos!!!
Woah, I totally didn't know how important sand is. Thanks for this video! Very informative and alarming. We are really the ones destroying our nature,
A video about whats going on in Georgia right now would be amazing. Im not georgian nor do i have any clue about georgian politics, but what is going on with Zourabichvili is extremely interesting and may play a significant role in Georgia and the EU’s future
Your videos are amazing, thanks a lot. I always can’t wait for a new video to come out.