Solar farms and desert rain: Matt Ferrell's 'Nobody Expected' video passes a million

The Undecided video, tagged with China's Talatan solar park, the Sahara and the UAE's rain program, pulled the whole channel to about a million views in a single day.

Channel: Undecided with Matt Ferrell Story of October 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The whole channel is running at 1,000,582 views a day, 12 times a normal day (82,576).

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Matt Ferrell has spent the past few weeks weighing big energy ideas against each other, and his newest one asks a stranger question: what do enormous solar farms do to the weather around them? "Solar Panels Are Doing Something Nobody Expected" went up on Tuesday and has now passed a million views.

Its description keeps quiet about the subject, but the tags lay it out: the Talatan solar farm, Sahara solar farms, UAE rain enhancement, solar-induced rainfall and artificial heat islands. The previous upload had already pointed viewers toward a video called "How Solar Panels Make It Rain In The Desert". The idea has a scientific pedigree. A 2018 study in Science modeled giant solar and wind farms across the Sahara and found they could bring more rain and greenery to the region.

The video carried the channel with it. Undecided usually draws around 80,000 views a day, and on this day it came close to a million. Ferrell, who describes himself as a UI/UX designer by trade, followed up two days later with a companion piece under the same tags, "How Stopping Pollution Nearly Made Things Worse", which asks whether geoengineering can cause more problems than it solves.

Older titles are still working too. His look at China's giant compressed air battery is close to a million of its own, and "How Solar Is Beating Nuclear's Best Idea", from the small-reactor run we reported here, keeps adding viewers.

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The videos drawing views on Undecided with Matt Ferrell right now

Solar Panels Are Doing Something Nobody Expected1,125,941 views · 2026-10-06 Why Small Reactors Have Big Costs33,071 views · 2026-10-01 How Solar Is Beating Nuclear's Best Idea441,440 views · 2026-09-29 The World’s Largest Air Battery Just Switched On959,985 views · 2026-09-15

The numbers

One video about solar farms and rainfall lifted a channel that normally moves at a far calmer pace.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

82,576

now

1,000,582

subscribers

1,810,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

275,725,783

views per day

1,000,582

typical day: 82,576

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Animagraffs

1,930,000

Scott Manley

1,870,000

BBC Earth Science

1,820,000

Undecided with Matt Ferre…

1,810,000

Chris Boden

1,780,000

The Modern Rogue

1,720,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.