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How Australia turns wastewater into drinking water
I go behind the scenes at the Beenyup Water Resource Recovery Facility to uncover the science of sewage. Sponsored by Brilliant. Head to brilliant.org/AtomicFrontier for a 30 days trial and to get 20% off their premium annual subscription.
Huge thanks to the team at WA Water Corp for letting us come film!
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This video was brought to you by an unhealthy amount of coffee and our awesome Patrons at www.patreon.com/atomicfrontier.
0:00 Intro
0:27 What's in waste water?
1:47 Inflow and screenings
2:40 Sedimentation
4:00 Digesters
4:52 Aeration
5:18 The Sun is a Deadly Lazer
6:13 Advanced Water Recycling
7:49 But can you drink it?
8:43 Captain Sailout
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Hi, I'm James. I explore the world looking for interesting engineering stories which explore complex issues in interesting ways. I hold a Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a Master's in Space Systems Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'm one year into a PhD on space robotics at MIT.
My website is www.atomicfrontieronline.com, I occasionally tweet from AtomicFrontiers, and you can join the Atomic Frontier Discord server to talk about cool engineering stuff at discord.gg/4QZc3jYdTR. You can help support my work and see some cool behind-the-scenes content at www.patreon.com/atomicfrontier.
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Why typing sucks now
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Saving the sounds of Notre Dame
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  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle 5 годин тому

    I really wish they wouldn't call them "flushable wipes" I'm glad I don't have a smell-o-vision!

  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle 6 годин тому

    Is duck swimming in shitwater?

  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle 6 годин тому

    People are aware the reservoirs that nearly every major city on earth gets there water from are packed with animal poop, nasty diseases and microbes right? This is no different, it's perfectly clean H2O, people just have a silly hangup about it

  • @devchary9087
    @devchary9087 9 годин тому

    5:45 is that a bill wurtz reference lol

  • @mcspikesky
    @mcspikesky 10 годин тому

    I was going to watch this before you changed the video title and pic from the jar to this one.. was just getting around to it yknow

  • @newhailman
    @newhailman 10 годин тому

    This is why you never kiss Australian girls on the mouth 👄🤮

  • @Xxsnipedawg72xX
    @Xxsnipedawg72xX 10 годин тому

    Rick rolls loss as some sort of contaminant. Noice

  • @niaschimnoski882
    @niaschimnoski882 10 годин тому

    First of all: if I did that IT WOULD work as a generator. Second of all: I'm not doing that. THIRD OF ALL: why stop at human microbiomes? Let's test arthropods, marine mammals, molluscs, monitor lizards. Transhumanism homie LET'S GO!!!!!!

  • @davidec.4021
    @davidec.4021 10 годин тому

    Theyshould really do lessons like this in school. Even just as part of high school physics or chemical classes, it would make learning so much more “real”

  • @niaschimnoski882
    @niaschimnoski882 10 годин тому

    Yo what's that clocktower with the angled hotel looking building adjacent to it called? I have a dreamscape that looks kinda like that, so it's be cool to reference a real-life equivalent. But in my dreamscape its next to a cliff as well like that vertical street in organ and there are flying carsa and zombies everywhere and crescent moon shaped bay, bordered by a sea of fog that leads to the deep ethereal.

  • @niaschimnoski882
    @niaschimnoski882 11 годин тому

    Why does the soundtrack of this episode sound like that old Liberty Kids cartoon that DiC used to air on saturdays?

  • @niaschimnoski882
    @niaschimnoski882 11 годин тому

    I was hoping you were going to use a giant broadspectrum laser to fake the shadows. Cos atmosphere. I just wanted to see a fake moon landing cos I'm bored...

  • @Fluteboy
    @Fluteboy 11 годин тому

    0:28 - Our government here in the UK seems to have no qualms when it comes to pumping our water full of sh*t!

  • @j.griffioen1415
    @j.griffioen1415 12 годин тому

    dude this video is a work of art

  • @Male_Parent
    @Male_Parent 13 годин тому

    Ortholinear doesn't feel that small of an increase. But I reckon that could also just be that I'm still getting used to it so I'm forced to type slower until I get used to it. Actually it's probably because I'm using modifier keys to type my numbers/symbols. No moving up two rows.

  • @squidge903
    @squidge903 15 годин тому

    Dude has serious 'Tom Scott hands' vibes

  • @maxruggiero4338
    @maxruggiero4338 16 годин тому

    Admittedly, I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but I am very confused as to why the intro was shot in Cambridge, Massachusetts😂

  • @Yezpahr
    @Yezpahr 20 годин тому

    Lol, I had to scroll back 3 or 4 times to get the REAL point behind saying "medicine" twice. First time I thought "editing error", but I went back to check and only then noticed the screen was blurred too, so I went back a few more times and then it finally clicked. Geez. I'm slow today haha. 9:16 Missed opportunity to pronounce "AI" as "Aye" like a pirate.

  • @D-vb
    @D-vb День тому

    I think the graph is upsidedown

  • @IronBabyFists
    @IronBabyFists День тому

    Alphabetized. Clever. 😎👍

  • @lapispyrite6645
    @lapispyrite6645 День тому

    Damn, you got me with that Rick roll

  • @Veilure
    @Veilure День тому

    Wonderful video. Feels like something I would watch in science class. Once again, well done! 🤩

  • @br3nto
    @br3nto День тому

    Wow!

  • @vlodek69
    @vlodek69 День тому

    my first thought was "I'm not sure i want to know" but here we go

  • @McDaniel77
    @McDaniel77 День тому

    Since politicians don't produce anything, the government lowers the wealth.

  • @MightyElemental
    @MightyElemental День тому

    7:00 So the pressurized filter also clears out chemical contaminents? I only recently heard people worried about hormonal contaminents from birth control pills for example, but if that step filters that out, then no issues. Right?

    • @Jan12700
      @Jan12700 21 годину тому

      With Reverse osmosis they are not a problem, but not all water treatment plants use them (like in 5:55 Explained). Also some Hormons and chemicals are more a problem for the bacteria within the Aeration step.

  • @kentokai1536
    @kentokai1536 День тому

    Yea, keep talking while giving a sound demo, totally defeats the purpose of demoing the sound when all I can hear is your drawn out explanation...

  • @lorelius.hogglefart
    @lorelius.hogglefart День тому

    I LOVE THIS COUNTRY! EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE A VIDEO LIKE THIS I'M REMINDED OF HOW GOOD MY COUNTRY IS! GOD BLESS AMERICA! I LOVE THIS PLACE! IT IS HOME TO THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD! AND HOW WE FIGHT ANY THING GOOD DEEMS UNWORTHY! AND THE OIL, OH THE OIL! SUCH A MAGNIFICENT AND BEAUTIFUL ELEMENT! IT TREATS US SOO WELL! I LIVE THIS COUNTRY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!

  • @Churro_Douglas
    @Churro_Douglas День тому

    Saying "oil" and showing the American flag was the sickest burn

  • @Chainsaw-ASMR
    @Chainsaw-ASMR День тому

    My dude, please clean the upper lip of your toilet. Whatever that stain is made of…it’s gross

  • @catbat06
    @catbat06 День тому

    Phenomenal work. I wonder if there's another dimension to learnability which looks at logical grouping of things such as open and closed brackets being near to eachother or in symmetrical positions? Not sure how you would encode such a principle though.

  • @Meneer456
    @Meneer456 День тому

    Nice video! But how often do the filters need to be changed?

  • @goatfiddler8384
    @goatfiddler8384 День тому

    When getting ready to do a PhD in Chem Eng at Curtin I was involved with a team looking at colloid mobilisation in the above mentioned aquifer. Lugged about 10 IBCs worth of the RO water from Beenup to Curtin on the back of my long suffering '98 Hilux ute for our experiments. The aquifer retention time I was told was 25 years.

  • @steakeatingkitten
    @steakeatingkitten День тому

    i've never seen a video that makes me want to eat sand as much as this one

  • @lukeranger3382
    @lukeranger3382 День тому

    Well their new drinking water matches most of their people.

  • @AliciaSykes
    @AliciaSykes День тому

    Internet, I present to you- the next Tom Scott!

  • @michaelriccio6012
    @michaelriccio6012 День тому

    2:39 Yo that marble is fucking gone...

  • @KekusMagnus
    @KekusMagnus День тому

    When you filter the water so much it becomes too clean to drink. Now that is impressive

  • @chriall
    @chriall День тому

    Perth Local here, I had no idea about this system and it's actually pretty cool, fells kinda weird watching you drink my used water though even if it is now perfectly clean 😅

  • @sumbigdumkunt
    @sumbigdumkunt День тому

    Funny enough, I probably helped make those meat pies and can confirm their quality is that of actual shit lmao

  • @anabanana7254
    @anabanana7254 День тому

    Is “plastic toys” code for condom 😂😂😂😂

  • @Crystal3lf
    @Crystal3lf День тому

    Not only does my shit go here, but I drink this water, and I drive past it everyday and didn't know about it.

  • @robspiess
    @robspiess День тому

    @4:49 Missed opportunity for "Jurassic Fart".

  • @lecantalouprouge
    @lecantalouprouge День тому

    As an environmental engineering student from "third world" country, that ultra filtration is a dream for us because it costs a lot of money

  • @wyrdlg
    @wyrdlg День тому

    How long does one of these Ultra filters last? And - guess what they do on ISS!

  • @Tyretes
    @Tyretes День тому

    how this channel made me click the video only to comment; how this video made me click the don't recommend channel button.

  • @rh9909
    @rh9909 День тому

    I'm so amazed by how many memes you sneaked in while being informative

  • @Languslangus
    @Languslangus День тому

    I think my city shozld rather than dump the treeted waste warer into the river, use it for irigation.

  • @ArosIrwin
    @ArosIrwin День тому

    I really enjoyed your graphics!

  • @NothingXemnas
    @NothingXemnas День тому

    It is terrible that if you told this to any other country, people would be absurdly grossed out at the idea that a "the water treatment getting fucked a single day would mean poop in the tap water and a day ruined", leading to people ONLY consuming bottled water, which makes things much worse.