The Most Useless Megaprojects in the World

Whats your opinion about these projects? If you owned an artificial island, what would you build on it?😲👇

Dubai really think they're in minecraft 💀

Dubai and useless megaprojects go hand in hand.

Mirabel saved my life one afternoon. 3 mile long runways allowed a 747 over loaded toward the tail, to land HOT. Fast. Really fast. And with a three mile long runway, it could be done.

I don't know if you've already covered this in a previous video, but there is another nuclear power plant that was abandoned during construction. It's the Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant in South Carolina. James Cameron used the primary reactor containment vessel of this plant to film most of the scenes in his movie The Abyss. He filled the tank with millions of gallons of water, and the logistical challenges of the whole endeavor were quite intense for both the actors and 20th Century Fox.

Wise man said don’t build ur castle on sand son , one should really listen to that advice 😂

A wise man builds on rock. A foolish man builds on sand.

I remember hearing a lot of news about the ghost mall in China. So glad to see that they turned it around!

Wonderpark Eurasia opened in 2019 so I'm surprised you didn't mention COVID as an obvious factor in its close as the world shut down the following year. No park could have survived that so soon after opening.

7:29 12 hours in a day? Are days in the UK faster then in the rest of the world?

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant should have been the Bataan Geothermal Power Plant instead, since the area is perfect for that type of power plant.

Exploring the world's most useless megaprojects in this video is a captivating journey. It highlights the challenges and lessons learned from ambitious endeavors. The stories behind each project provide valuable insights. Well-presented and thought-provoking!

It boggles the mind to see how many people think they can outsmart the ocean. The ocean isn't going anywhere! We are!

Nowadays Mirabel Airport is used to move pretty much all dedicated cargo flights, and that does free up a lot of capacity and runway time at Dorval. But it was pretty stupid to abandon the rail link.

I enjoy learning of any catastrophic failure that takes attention away from the fact that I myself, am a catastrophic failure 😊

This fear of nuclear power plant is stupidity. Chernobil had serious project problems, and operatorors made a huge mistake

Grew up in Montreal. Last time I used Mirabel Airport was 1999 for a winter trip to Cancun when I was 19. That Airport was HUGE! Most residents travelled there by car. Now; there is a light metro line (Reseau Express Metropolitan) being built half way in Mirabel. It should open late next year. If there is a business care; the line could extend there.

Slight correction on Mirabel. Until the mid-70s transatlantic flights were almost all required to land @Montreal as the Eastern Gateway (as you noted) but it was also government policy not to allow more than a handful of grandfathered transatlantic flights @YYZ. This was to make Montreal a global aviation centre (IATA and the ICAO were both based there, it was also the home of Canadair/Bombardier/Pratt&Whitney & Rolls-Royce engines) as part of the rivalries between that city and Toronto. However political pressure built and Ottawa had to remove the restriction and allow unlimited (albeit bilateral) foreign airline access to YYZ. Since more travellers wanted to fly to Toronto, traffic to Montreal(and YMX) shifted southwestward. Mirabel is still home to the former Bombardier commercial aviation division, now occupied by Airbus and Mitsubishi. The design of the terminal was also obsolete by the time it opened as it relied on people movers (like those @Dulles) which could not really serve the new generation of jumbo jets. IAD had to adapt its original plans as this also impacted its ability to service jumbos, so built out several piers for regular style gating.

It's stupid to make islands when you have a large unused desert

Toronto was the wanted aeroport in the early 1970s, Canadian airlines were denied access to many foreign aerodromes due to lack of access to YYZ.