Armstrong was a savage. Built an entire dam, ran thousands of pounds of copper, just for a couple of lights so he could have a few drinks with his buddies in his picture gallery.
I love the way you interlaced the increasing difficult examples of dam engineering development with the construction of the Three Gorges dam. Each step standing on the shoulders of the gigantic projects that went before. Pedagogy at its finest. Thank you!
22:42 "It actually took 5000 men 21 months to complete this dam (Hoover dam). It was completed 2 years ahead of schedule and under the budget" Credit where it's due. We could learn a lot from this
The Hoover dam was built during the infancy of modern dam construction. I've seen the Hoover dam. It's impressive for the era but I could slingshot a rock across it's distance. The Three Gorges dam is 1.5 miles long. Let that sink into your perception.
Just watched a documentary, they claim 97 people died during hoover dams construction, but it’s not uncommon, and why they’re now paid well, more people die at work every year than have ever died at war
it's about how you need to make that dam (usually) just once. think how many coal/gas/fuel generator plants you need to replace the output of one big dam, and what is their pollution during their whole life cycle.
I was a Hydro Repairman on the Klamath River Project until it was removed this year. Anyone hiring? Great doc, love to hear the history. Hope those Yangtze fish are ok 😂
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The narrator would make an excellent advertising executive. With that said - it would take the Chinese 20-30 years to understand what a colossal mistake they made.
The fish were not just flapping at the location They were flapping very very far away from location You changed Mother Nature And started global warming with these contraptions These dams 🦫 We’re only supposed to be temporary Our moms and dads and grandparents gave this energy to us gratefully Now we are to upgrade it so our planet can stop dying
It was NOT a single light bulb but enough to light several rooms. There was a master switchboard so that all the house could be lit. The swtchboard has totaly open contacts. The whole system would be operational except for the dreaded 'elf and safety'. Rubber gloves please.
If you go back and you look at the manufacturers of all your equipment being built in the background or does it still have pressure pulling through it meaning it ain't been released all the way out of the old servers and connections
Here's another question can you release a different stage rotations like playing music on a piano try to understand if you can the concept of mountains different heist and directions and links
The dams were great pieces of engineering however the ship escalator/lift blew my mind,bonkers.Not too many affirmative action hires on these jobs I imagine.
So if it rains a lot does all the extra water slow down or speed up the rotation of the Earth? Wow it's been raining for 40 days and nights.. You mean 39 days and night. Now that's a lot of rain!
If your wondering how they came up with the technology to even lift these boats, search Peterborough Ontario lift lock! 😁 Canada believe it or not was the first to make the world's largest hydrologic boat lifts! I grew up with it, it's so tiny compared to these but when it was originally built it was the world's largest and first.. fun fact you can fit like 360 kayaks and canoes on it.. ptbo is small so we find new ways to play with it🤷🏼♀️
43:21 - 43:58 But this will only shift the sediment that had collected near the dam. What about the sediment that has settled along the length of the reservoir?
A shame these videos always conveniently omit the Janes Bay (la Grande) project in Québec. la Grande River flows west towards James Bay (at foot of Hudson,s Bay). The project built 11 power stations totalling 17,.4 gigawatts. A number of rivers were diverted into La Grande to augment its flow. At the north east end, portion of Canapiscau river (which normally flows north to Arctic) From south: Portion of Rupert River diverted north to Eastmain. Its source is Lac Mistassini, a very long lake inland to south. Almost all of Eastmain diverted north to Opinaca Almost all of Opinaca diverted north to to the Robert Bourassa Réservoir on La Grande river. Along all of those are dams. At the Robert Bourassa reservoice dam are LG2 and LG2a power stations and going west is the LG1 (flow of river) station which handles all the water fro all these diverted riverts Dam name River Power Common name Eastmain 1A Eastmain 0.768 (Bernard Landry) Eastmain 1 Eastmain 0.480 Brisay Canapiscau 0.469 La Grande 1 la Grande 1.436 la Grande 2 La Grande 5.616 (Robert Bourassa) La Grande 2A La Grande 2.106 La Grande 3 La Grande 2.417 La Grande 4 La Grande 2.778 Laforge-1 Laforge 0.878 Laforge-2 Laforge 0.319 Sarcelle Eastmain 0.150 Despite all the rivers flowing into Robert Bourassa, the spillway has not been needed since the mid 1980s. Look for: "Opening of the spillway gates at Robert-Bourassa generating station" from Hydro-Québec on TH-cam to see a test they do every 5 years to make suire the gates work. At the very end, you can see the scale of the spillway. (it is a ~160m drop over 1.7km distance over 10 steps, all in solid rock and this slows the water down as it drops. Look at 53.79665559004899, -77.43995749671156 in google maps to see the spillway. Google Earth has non winter view in 2015. The reservoir is a large number of dams around it. The rocks blows out to create the spillway were used to help build the major dam on that site. Diverting the Rupert to Eastmain require digging a very long tunnel under a mountain range so water could flow from one basin to the next. This was the last diversion done in 2012. For a map showing scope of project and how much water is funnelled into La Grande : www hydroquebec com themes production images bassins grande-riviere.png (TH-cam bans me for 24 hours if I post proper URLs sorry).
3G is tofu for sure Not sure about the rest All dams need to go But I do prefer dams for energy Seems that all dams need a upgrade and need to use 1/7 the surface area and not block the flow but stay under it Technology has improved Sad it improved the time they completed
To date there are no dams running multiple banks for turbines why? Well the story you are told is there are issues like turbine surging and dissolved gasses in the flow. This was the case But in Australia RDP Marine has made a turbine system that can be retro fitted
Another way to understand it do you understand degree value underwater and chill or in heat do you understand the difference how stuff floats in between layers
So here's another one and your equipment or in technology that's building all your infrastructure of your machinery as it lays now do you know if you are under seawater or above seawater do you know how to build the mathematical formula to understand that rotation in growth or in losses how to stimulate the layers of movement
#Highlights 💡 The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest concrete structure on Earth, spanning over two kilometers and standing 60 stories tall. 💡 It took 17 years and 40,000 workers to complete, and it will produce over 20,000 megawatts of power, equivalent to twice the nuclear power stations in Britain combined. 💡 The dam engineering pinnacle owes its success to five landmark dams, each featuring significant technological innovations. 💡 The dam's construction required diverting the massive Yangtze River and relocating over a million people. 💡 To understand its power generation, the text traces back to 19th-century Britain when the world's first hydroelectric dam was developed. 💡 The Three Gorges Dam has 32 generators, producing 5 million times more power than the 1878 Debden Dam. 💡 The Hoover Dam in the USA employed innovative techniques, including cooling with river water, to expedite construction.
Armstrong was a savage. Built an entire dam, ran thousands of pounds of copper, just for a couple of lights so he could have a few drinks with his buddies in his picture gallery.
All that trouble for one light? He ought to power the whole mansion, invent more efficient power systems. The house has central heating.
@broadstreet21 when you're that rich, I doubt you care about efficiency.
@@notanetbanger Not just money, but the time and effort to go into this.
He was Think imedyadley Hydroelectric. That important when u produced Semthing strong u must Turbin. Famouse Turbin.Smal or Biig.
Don't believe everything you hear.
I love the way you interlaced the increasing difficult examples of dam engineering development with the construction of the Three Gorges dam. Each step standing on the shoulders of the gigantic projects that went before. Pedagogy at its finest. Thank you!
I love shows like this
this should be watched in every school
more science and less commentary
Thank you for this documentary. Highly enlightening
Loved watching this, Amazing the engineering involved in making these, truly impressed, plus the narration and animations were spot on 😊
Well this is a *DAM* fine accomplishment
I’m *DAM* Proud to be part of a civilization that builds these structures
It’s a *DAM* good feeling
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a Dr., not an engineer!"- Bones, Star Trek
It's been said that one day humans will build a goddam
That's pretty dam funny when you think about it!
this DAM pun is getting too DAM much, its making me DAM full of seeing it DAM it
Absolutely amazing engineering of megas dams , but what happens if a bigger earth quake.
people die
What do u think
22:42
"It actually took 5000 men 21 months to complete this dam (Hoover dam). It was completed 2 years ahead of schedule and under the budget"
Credit where it's due. We could learn a lot from this
But didn't like a lot of those people die?
incredible. when there's a will, there's a way
The Hoover dam was built during the infancy of modern dam construction. I've seen the Hoover dam. It's impressive for the era but I could slingshot a rock across it's distance. The Three Gorges dam is 1.5 miles long. Let that sink into your perception.
Just watched a documentary, they claim 97 people died during hoover dams construction, but it’s not uncommon, and why they’re now paid well, more people die at work every year than have ever died at war
And killed the river
Love how hydro electric is called "clean energy" when the process of making the dams is anything but clean.......
Dams are bad news, period.
it's about how you need to make that dam (usually) just once. think how many coal/gas/fuel generator plants you need to replace the output of one big dam, and what is their pollution during their whole life cycle.
Human breath is pollution, too. So you want "clean", dismiss yourself first.
If you have a better more efficient way and currently practical way for electricity production then the world will beat a path to your door.
Depends on perspective really and what you define as clean
A dam that's over 2 kilometers long? wow
It seems China is afraid of no technological obstical.
That's a damb long dam
@@mr.boomguy Damn straight.
I was a Hydro Repairman on the Klamath River Project until it was removed this year. Anyone hiring? Great doc, love to hear the history. Hope those Yangtze fish are ok 😂
Dammit, Jim, nicely done!
Thanks for that wonderful teaching
Slowed down the earths rotation by few sec is merely mans pride .
Have you tried to measure to see if you got tree elevation or inside rotations
Dr. Andrews is a great chemist, love him!❤
Insane Engineering/Production...
😧💪💥🦾👏
Now thats a Damn good Dam
what a fun n engaging way to learn engineering n architechture. thanks uploader.
Amazing structure what humans can build is mind boggling
Amazing documentary!!!
I LOVE YOU!
Man built a dam to please his friends
You god Dam right! 😂
That's the biggest Dam I See, thanks for uploading this documentary!
Matatan.🤔. Ribirin HS,
Great, documentary well done
Its an amazing engineering
My best friend, Great... We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks Have a happy day!
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Very exciting sound effects
I went on a private yacht through the Panama canal. Just out there when i didnt realize how awesome my life was and has become
The narrator would make an excellent advertising executive. With that said - it would take the Chinese 20-30 years to understand what a colossal mistake they made.
Wow! Very good and Beautiful excellent 😊💞
The fish were not just flapping at the location
They were flapping very very far away from location
You changed Mother Nature
And started global warming with these contraptions
These dams 🦫
We’re only supposed to be temporary
Our moms and dads and grandparents gave this energy to us gratefully
Now we are to upgrade it so our planet can stop dying
40:44 W protein shake big ups
This video is pretty dam awesome
Great facrs; ridiculously overwrought, melodramatic music! Way too 'dark'; wanted the sound off!
That’s a Dam good job 👍
That's some god dam engineering!
41:50 I think that chemists concoction was a little heavy on the ratio with fish 😂
I guess you felt angry 😂😂😂😂 I can feel your hunger too that fish is enough to feed on
What happened to the earth rotation because of all the oil we drill? Could it cause imbalance eventually?
where is ITAIPU DAM ?
We produce 76.382 GWh in 2020.
We are the BIGGEST in Energy Production.
it's in Brazil.
@@j121212100 for sure.
well, 3 gorges is supposed to average 95TWh, compared to 76 for ITAIPU. So ....
In the documentary it says it's twice the size of the itaipu
Well duh this is old documentary
It was NOT a single light bulb but enough to light several rooms. There was a master switchboard so that all the house could be lit. The swtchboard has totaly open contacts. The whole system would be operational except for the dreaded 'elf and safety'. Rubber gloves please.
This has such a 00s vibe , had to made then
Wow its incredible realy I like this video
If that guy were to do all that for one bulb today, it would cost him almost 50k for the copper alone.
A junkies wet dream! Lol
If you go back and you look at the manufacturers of all your equipment being built in the background or does it still have pressure pulling through it meaning it ain't been released all the way out of the old servers and connections
Great movie
The dam is almost as long as the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Chinese have a bridge longer than that bridge as well.
@@indridcold8433so does the US. It's in New Orleans, LA and it crosses Lake Pontritain.
这个视频好像是30年前拍摄的。
中国的镜头都是至少20年前的，采访英国专家应该是十几年前的。视频里没有出现更新的中国素材，除了3D动画（质量绝对是近几年的水平）。
🤩Great Engineering
39:23 Even a great engineering like this, without a good management, it will still cause terrible flooding, hilariously.
thats what the fish said when it swam into a wall dam
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That's a lot of resources there. I wonder how many countries have giant holes in them, for all of those resources.
They had their own resources sir. China produces 60% of the world's cement.
They are not like many nations that have no domestic production. They have their own resources. Most of what is in your home is likely made in China.
With zero thought to ecosystems, even their own...
@@carlsaganlives6086 yet u wrote ur stupid comment with a device which has resources from china and probably was made there aswell
Amazing. Very clever indeed. Make it all free even better. It can be done so why not?.
What's the name of this narrator with a great voice?
John Michie
Similar project should be done by African leaders on river Congo who a very talking about Africa unity. Let them unit on such.
Here's another question can you release a different stage rotations like playing music on a piano try to understand if you can the concept of mountains different heist and directions and links
Tony what are you on about
Very useful thanks alot❤🎉😊
I love hydro electricity Power plants
Wow 🤩
What I'm really interested to know is how was Jean Claud Van Dam was built...
Someone will tell me they didn't see that scientist just blending poop with fish together. Eew!💔😂
God, you sure love that 3d graphics software at Element 18 eh?
Dr. Shitlow made an incredible cocktail. How much you think you pay someone to drink that ? 🤔
Desperate people drink garbage like that daily. Granted, they do not last long.
The dams were great pieces of engineering however the ship escalator/lift blew my mind,bonkers.Not too many affirmative action hires on these jobs I imagine.
Yeah not a job or place for that b.s for sure.
Didn't mention the Niagara project of the early 20th century.
Alllll that effort made to cool the concrete and now the thing is cracking like a chocolate egg
Amazing!
that's a powerhouse
44:05 OK. Then what will they do to resolve the problem?
Exited ❤️
That make China economic grow so fast. Everywhere have big construction, China company is there.
18:48 What about all the concrete that will sink to the bottom of the reservoir?
Does that just stay there?
Uncured concrete can change water chemistry. Once it’s cured it can be underwater and there’s no issues.
"Yeah, I have a question... Is this a 'God Dam'?"
So if it rains a lot does all the extra water slow down or speed up the rotation of the Earth?
Wow it's been raining for 40 days and nights..
You mean 39 days and night.
Now that's a lot of rain!
Nice
Politicians needs to quit stealing the funds
I was one of the chief engineers who built this 6 storey oil rig. It took us 21 hours to finish it. 21.
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26:03 rip camera man
If your wondering how they came up with the technology to even lift these boats, search Peterborough Ontario lift lock! 😁 Canada believe it or not was the first to make the world's largest hydrologic boat lifts! I grew up with it, it's so tiny compared to these but when it was originally built it was the world's largest and first.. fun fact you can fit like 360 kayaks and canoes on it.. ptbo is small so we find new ways to play with it🤷🏼♀️
Very interesting
43:21 - 43:58 But this will only shift the sediment that had collected near the dam.
What about the sediment that has settled along the length of the reservoir?
The Three Tofus Dam will be quite a spectacle one day.
I feel bad for those who will witness it in person.
It's better than Burger Hoover dam
As we've just dawned the 21st century, China has become a synonym for mega structure.
A shame these videos always conveniently omit the Janes Bay (la Grande) project in Québec.
la Grande River flows west towards James Bay (at foot of Hudson,s Bay). The project built 11 power stations totalling 17,.4 gigawatts.
A number of rivers were diverted into La Grande to augment its flow.
At the north east end, portion of Canapiscau river (which normally flows north to Arctic)
From south:
Portion of Rupert River diverted north to Eastmain. Its source is Lac Mistassini, a very long lake inland to south.
Almost all of Eastmain diverted north to Opinaca
Almost all of Opinaca diverted north to to the Robert Bourassa Réservoir on La Grande river.
Along all of those are dams.
At the Robert Bourassa reservoice dam are LG2 and LG2a power stations and going west is the LG1 (flow of river) station which handles all the water fro all these diverted riverts
Dam name River Power Common name
Eastmain 1A Eastmain 0.768 (Bernard Landry)
Eastmain 1 Eastmain 0.480
Brisay Canapiscau 0.469
La Grande 1 la Grande 1.436
la Grande 2 La Grande 5.616 (Robert Bourassa)
La Grande 2A La Grande 2.106
La Grande 3 La Grande 2.417
La Grande 4 La Grande 2.778
Laforge-1 Laforge 0.878
Laforge-2 Laforge 0.319
Sarcelle Eastmain 0.150
Despite all the rivers flowing into Robert Bourassa, the spillway has not been needed since the mid 1980s.
Look for: "Opening of the spillway gates at Robert-Bourassa generating station" from Hydro-Québec on TH-cam to see a test they do every 5 years to make suire the gates work. At the very end, you can see the scale of the spillway.
(it is a ~160m drop over 1.7km distance over 10 steps, all in solid rock and this slows the water down as it drops. Look at 53.79665559004899, -77.43995749671156 in google maps to see the spillway. Google Earth has non winter view in 2015. The reservoir is a large number of dams around it. The rocks blows out to create the spillway were used to help build the major dam on that site.
Diverting the Rupert to Eastmain require digging a very long tunnel under a mountain range so water could flow from one basin to the next. This was the last diversion done in 2012.
For a map showing scope of project and how much water is funnelled into La Grande : www hydroquebec com themes production images bassins grande-riviere.png (TH-cam bans me for 24 hours if I post proper URLs sorry).
i think they chose these dams just because they made some breakthrough on dam building, not how powerful/big they are.
3G is tofu for sure
Not sure about the rest
All dams need to go
But I do prefer dams for energy
Seems that all dams need a upgrade and need to use 1/7 the surface area and not block the flow but stay under it
Technology has improved
Sad it improved the time they completed
I'm a bit sad when they blender the fish :((
To date there are no dams running multiple banks for turbines why?
Well the story you are told is there are issues like turbine surging and dissolved gasses in the flow. This was the case But in Australia RDP Marine has made a turbine system that can be retro fitted
😮😮😮 a bige dame
A great construction
Where are Itaipu dam - in Brasil?
d c
can do favorable ?
blessong ?
What? No mention of Bonneville dam? Sheesh
Another way to understand it do you understand degree value underwater and chill or in heat do you understand the difference how stuff floats in between layers
Now I have to write a project about it
So here's another one and your equipment or in technology that's building all your infrastructure of your machinery as it lays now do you know if you are under seawater or above seawater do you know how to build the mathematical formula to understand that rotation in growth or in losses how to stimulate the layers of movement
Damn! 🤗
#Highlights
💡 The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest concrete structure on Earth, spanning over two kilometers and standing 60 stories tall.
💡 It took 17 years and 40,000 workers to complete, and it will produce over 20,000 megawatts of power, equivalent to twice the nuclear power stations in Britain combined.
💡 The dam engineering pinnacle owes its success to five landmark dams, each featuring significant technological innovations.
💡 The dam's construction required diverting the massive Yangtze River and relocating over a million people.
💡 To understand its power generation, the text traces back to 19th-century Britain when the world's first hydroelectric dam was developed.
💡 The Three Gorges Dam has 32 generators, producing 5 million times more power than the 1878 Debden Dam.
💡 The Hoover Dam in the USA employed innovative techniques, including cooling with river water, to expedite construction.
The issue is safety of factor of the to withstand environmental disaster for instance an earth quick. What is the safety factor of 3 Gorges Dam?
Balance of the planet is a worry with the poles melring.