I’m 30 and enjoyed History Channel as a kid. The fact that Simon can turn modern marvels into a 20 minute video instead of 60 minutes of slow filler and commercials.... makes me a happy boi
It's natural beauty and the fact that it straddles two big countries (which brings its unique challenges) are all the more reason that it should be featured.
2:55 - Chapter 1 - An old idea 7:25 - Chapter 2 - The good & the bad 8:45 - Chapter 3 - Work begins 13:50 - Chapter 4 - Controversy 16:15 - Chapter 5 - Challenges 17:35 - Chapter 6 - The final numbers
I’d love to hear about the other dam. Also if you could do the Pikeville cut through project in Pikeville Kentucky. At the time it was the second largest earth moving project in the US. They basically cut a mountain in half to stop flooding and rebuild a city.
Special request: when you say numbers could you put them in text on the screen also? I might be the only one, but I can't mentally process a number nearly as fast as words.
when it collapses in very near future hopefully we will get good footage of it. that will be a good visual representation of how colossal without need for numbers except maybe the death toll.
An interesting mega-project would be the system that protects the netherlands from flooding. Lots of equipment to keep the water out which is only getting harder as sea levels rise. Also impressive to look at. I like the new channel. I hope it is successful.
The US built this massive storm surge barrier to help protect New Orleans against hurricanes. It seemed to have worked the couple of times they've used it. Maybe the Netherlands can just scale that thing up to protect their whole coast.
@@Odin029 Well.... Dutch engineers have went to New Orleans to share their expertise. Plenty cooperation between the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dutch institutes and companies. Read articles about it in aDutch engineer-magazine and in general, the measurements are often very situation specific.
I recommend looking into the Marib Dam in Yemen. It was an ancient megastructure mostly forgotten today built in the ancient Sabean kingdom, one of the largest waterworks of it's time
Congratulations! One of the most accurate and balanced reviews of the Three Gorges Dam ever. I spent a year on site in 2000 as a foreign expert engineer regarding methods and machinery and am very knowledgeable about it and its construction. You are very accurate and a rational perspective. My company built many dams in the western USA and the Chinese came to see the results and request advice (Guy F Atkinson Co). I was impressed with their management and forthright administration, in addition to their construction accomplishment. I have lots of stories
I’m sure this dude is low key a super villain Just look how he dresses. And his surrounds. All his research is cover for taking over the world. We are on to you bald man. We know. And we are watching. Figuratively and literally
@drew pedersen The Submarine Cable Map is eye opening, I used to work in a datacenter that had maps of the major fiber runs in the US and the submarine map on one wall (old one, this would have been 2014 or so) and you realize just how much time effort and money has gone into connecting the world.
@Biliary Clinton You mean like the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) that has landing points in California, Oregon, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. Still the SEA-ME-WE3 cable with landing points including The Netherlands, Australia and South Korea is just a bit longer.
? He's just a voice actor, he sets up a camera and films himself reading a script someone sent him, then emails an uncut version to someone else who does the editing.
@@Zanthorr Even if that were true: 1. You're an ass. 2. Voice acting is not as easy as you seems to think it is. Voice actors put in countless hours and work incredibly hard to ensure they're delivering their lines in the best way possible.
I love the swell BLUEPRINTS in your thumbnails. Back in the olden days when I took my first drafting class, I was 13 years old (I am really, really old) and drawings were drawn by people with pencils. Back then copies were "blue-line drawings" that looked like the negatives of the obsolete blueprints and smelled of the ammonia used in the reproduction. I have worked on projects even older than me (older than dirt) that had the original old timey blueprints still on file. They are neat!
That's why India and Taiwan are not afraid of China any more - All they need to do is to bomb the damned dam and 1/2 billion of Chinese will go to join Confucius in the sky
So, you must missed the info that the flood of Yangtze can kill one million people. Hmmmmmmm, it’s really a tough call for shortsighted people whether to save millions of lives and develop renewable energy or not.
My father (jack scriven) was the president of the canadian company Teshmont Consulting Inc. They were the company tasked with allocating where all the electrical power the dam would produce would be sent to and how it was split up!! I remember as a child having dinner with chinese business executives and their CCP Handlers at our house in winnipeg, manitoba, canada where Teshmont Consulting was based. I even have a picture of me and my family and all the chinese staff at winnipeg airport when they left! great video, thanks for your work.
I have no idea what's going on, but you keep popping up in my recommendations, and seemingly on a new channel each time. And your videos are always super professional and informative. Do you ever rest???
This video is interesting and I will watch it again. Simon may have mentioned the number of people that are being displaced by the rising waters but I don’t remember how many different villages are underwater now and historical sites of thousands of years old are now underwater.
11:10 Yes, please talk about Itaipu Dam, for your Brazilians viewers Edit.: Little fact, Itaipu while the second largest dam, actually produces more energy in year than Three Gorges, because o the volume of Water of Parana River.
Itaipu: 79 TWh in 2019. Three Gorges: 87 TWh in 2015. So unless Three Gorges has dropped significantly in the past few years, no, Three Gorges produces more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam#Generation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam#Generating_capacity
@@matevasas no, the freedom index is run by journalists from various countries. You can search it up yourself. US has a lot of restrictions, but nearly not as much as China (China is in the red, US is in the green).
Keep in mind that the most powerful nuclear plant has multiple units on site. A typical nuclear reactor makes 800-1200 MW, though the most powerful single reactor in the world is 1500 MW. Compared that to the 22000 MW for this damn.
@@NightBlado although it could power 1/3 of the UK (20 million people) he said it currently makes only 1.2% of China's electric usage today....so I'm not sure we're the wasteful ones ...
@@NightBlado Western countries energy efficiency has seen massive gains over the years. At one time, a single light bulb for lighting a house was 4,000 watts. Now, a light bulb is about 14 watts.
I can't help but be reminded of the St. Francis dam. What prevented that disaster from being that much more awful was that the areas affected by that collapse wasn't nearly as populated as today. Sadly, the Chinese government will do jack squat to protect their civilians from an upcoming collapse.
The whole of China's looking like a mega disaster atm. In 10 years we'll be bailing them out of the shit they're creating now, aaaand guess who will have to pay for it like always.
Hi Simon, you're the new Richard Attenborough! Have you thought about a Mega Disasters channel too? A few ideas for project's videos: - Boston's Big Dig -The Roosevelt tunnel in Colorado - The Golden Gate Bridge
When running at full power, the Three Gorges Dam can provide power for 20 million people. That's really impressive for a single power station, but it also demonstrates how we can't rely on hydroelectric power as a primary power source. There just aren't enough enormous rivers in the world to generate electricity for _7,000_ million people.
@@vonfaustien3957: Only for the land directly covered by water. Fish migrations can be compensated for, and the surrounding land is improved due to more reliable water supply. The big issue for me is they're heinously expensive and only moderately productive of electrical power, though they are pretty good for supplying water and controlling floods.
@@deusexaethera they completely alter the water flow for an entire region the changes to the environment are a lot more than just the submerged area and lots of enviroments and habitats rely on periodic flooding you can claim the resulting change is better but dam fundamentally destroy the habitat near and downstream saying the new ones better is like saying tailings ponds from mines are good because extremophiles thrive. Hydro dams arent clean power
@@vonfaustien3957: Learn how to use capitalization and punctuation. Writing everything in one long unbroken string of words makes you appear uneducated and everything you say less trustworthy. The same "destruction" of habitat occurs when a natural lake is formed in the path of a river, or when a river changes course. Blaming humans for doing it is a double standard. Humans are part of nature.
What about the Aswan dam on the Nile? That's a crazy story involving the cold war, moving ancient temples and significant conflict with other nations downstream about water rights. I'd be interested in the Brazilian dam too if the story is interested. I like listening to dam stories. Also, please do tunnel boring machines or their projects. I'm fascinated by them.
Judging by the latest satellite images and the buckling under pressure from the most intense floods it's ever encountered.. there might not even be a three gorges dam here soon.
I did a biology paper on the Yangtze dolphin that went extinct when the dam was opened. It was a beautiful dolphin that lived in the eddies of the river.
@@autopartsmonkey7992 If you understand so much why do you descend to the weak position of denigration? Wooooo so scary, let's appear to be wise by resorting to the tried and true resort of calling people names? Troll is the proper word for you Wumao.
Forget the dam slowing the rotation of the world, imagine a dam that has the weight to actually alter the shape of the planet. The three gorges dam has actually depressed the Earth's crust in that location.
You should try to do an ancient megaproject like the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids at Giza, if enough information on their building is known to make into a video.
things like great wall would be pretty much just old statistics of slave deaths, it is pretty hard to get numbers,that people agree upon, as all of those old records were burned and crossed out by Mao during The Great Leap (backwards)
A megaproject that often goes unmentioned and that you could do a video on is the us interstate system. If you look into it it had a huge environmental and socioeconomic impacts such as being a large contributor towards white flight and the abandonment of cities.
Dams terrify me because I end up thinking about what would happen if they failed. And just. So much horrific death and destruction... I mean, this is definitely an INSANELY impressive structure, but still thats horrific to think about.
Might even be worse if they just kept on working. I'm with the ecologists here, a dam like that is going to leave its mark on everything around it. But yeah, impressive as all hell, i really must say. I was having goosebumps for half of the video.
I live out in the sticks and walk the Brecon Beacons but when I drive up to Mid Wales and through the Elan Valley, a couple of times a year, and I know it's irrational but, I find something ominous about the dams. The only other place I've had this sort of experience was in The City Of Rocks, New Mexico. I don't give a damn about other dams in the area or big ones I've visited, like the Hoover.
I mean theoretically, if the change in the weight of the water behind the dam caused the rotation of the earth to slow, if the dam completely fails and all of that water is let out, as opposed to a failure where the water level behind the dam is still raised, then the rotation of the earth can speed up again.
When og business blaze jokes come out in non business blaze environments. We love you 3 wolf mug. One day the Enron mug will pop up and I'll lose my mind, allegedly.
Probably a zero chance of this dam collapsing, even if some concrete and some rebar was substandard. Why does anyone believe Hoover dam or any dam wasn't designed for building flaws or some substandard concrete and rebar? There no signs of major leaks or cracks. Small leaks and cracks are perfectly normal for concrete dams. Dams are designed with a huge safety margin. Concrete continues to harder as years go by so by now the concrete has reached over 99% of its full strength.
@@raybod1775 Because the Hoover Dam and other well built dams are built into the bedrock unlike the Three Gorges Dam which was built on top of the bedrock. Nevermind the substandard concrete and rebar, the entire foundation of the Three Gorges Dam is unstable. The only reason it wouldn't collapse is because the CCP has ordered it to partially open to prevent the water pressure from becoming high enough to cause a collapse. In this case 400 million people are now displaced rather than dead assuming they are warned ahead of time.
Congrats on the videos, they are great! Do an episode of the koogs, lands below sea level in Netherlands, North Germany and Denmark. It is very interesting.
Followed the build from the start , where my interest in China really moved up a gear. I met the guy in charge of all the crushed stone to be used in the construction. Sounds boring but a very important technical part of the concrete .The dam is as I type being put to its toughest test yet.
Yikes. St. Francis dam disaster was bad, but what prevented it from being much worse is that it didn't wait to collapse until the 2010s or even 2020s; where the areas that were affected by that disaster are much more populated today. This upcoming disaster will put that St. Francis disaster to shame.
Yes on the dam in South America. Maybe also the Grand Aswan Dam. I'm also very interested in suspension bridges. Would like one on the Verrazano Narrows and many others.
Yo Simon, I love the way you present each and everyone of these projects. You come from a neutral stand point and bring ALL of the receipts. Wish I had teachers in high school like you !
Big fan of your channel and your videos, my only critique/request when you splice in footage of the thing you're talking about, maybe make those cuts longer. I can't speak for everybody but I know when I watch videos like this I look forward to the footage inside/outside/construction activities ect. It's fun to see these amazing creations so when the clips are so short it's kind of a bummer that I can't really look at the big picture in the video you're showing instead quickly focusing on the center portion of the screen I'm missing out on seeing some of the other really cool things in the picture. 🤘 Even if you don't change a thing, again big fan. 👊
This sign of China’s progress hasn’t aged well. It was a very unique experience to take a cruise up the Yangtze River, but sad to know that many villages and ancient artifacts were lying under the water.
@@hughg4043 China flood is crucial all along upstream and downstream of 3-Gorges Dam Chongqing issue official flood warning 22 Jun, weather forecast shows heavy rainfall in upcoming 10 days. If the Dam falls (lets hope not), 4M+ people downstream will suffer. All turning points of river will be washed.
@@hughg4043 Western media don't write about it,people who have connections with Chinese people who live in China talk about it on TH-cam and Taiwanese media write about it.You don't have to love any media if you live in the West but you gotta love Chinese media if you live in China.
You should do the Aswan Dam, in Egypt, not only because of its size but, mainly, because of the additional mountain of work to save the gigantic monument of Abu Simpel.
Great recommendation, TH-cam. 2020 is giving a whole new meaning to "the roaring twenties". I do feel bad for the people downstream. Hopefully, its failure brings an end to the CPC.
How’d Simon manage to deliver this video without splashing himself with whatever was in that mug? Thy thing was swinging about and not a drop was spilled. Well done, sir.
Despite some negatives, I was totally in awe by the scale of this damn Dam. The scale that you tried to explain is way more than anybody can fathom. I believe it to be one of the greatest civil engineering projects, up there with the Pyramids.
@@pfeilspitze Stalin mainly killed Communist. The Capitalists killed 20M in WW1 and 60M in WW2. The Wars committed by the the US Capitalists since 1945 I estimate 20M and rising. By mass unemployment and Covid 19 operating on Free Market principles will make big inroads into the US Population and suicide is massive!
@@pfeilspitze The USSR was attacked by the major Capitalist European State in June the 22nd 1941 with 3M troops killing 27M Soviet Citizens. Before being subdued. By the Red Army in May 1945.
Great videos, great channels. Keep up the good work. Suggestions (on the Chinese theme): 1) The Great Wall 2) Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. (Maybe more interesting? Lesser known, for sure)
Simon and all the channels he is on has officially taken over the role of what the history channel used to be.
Not until he explains how aliens built all the stuff. :)
History channel wishes it was this good.
Business Blaze throws that idea back in your face
@@ilajoie3 are there bots for this channel or are you an idiot?
@@jayw6034 his name is Ivan I'm not sure if his first language is English.
I’m 30 and enjoyed History Channel as a kid. The fact that Simon can turn modern marvels into a 20 minute video instead of 60 minutes of slow filler and commercials.... makes me a happy boi
Hahahaha you are still a kid, I did most stupid shit when I got 30,like getting married!🥊
@@pashapasovski5860 I went to get milk when I was 30.
"Well, I'll be dammed."
-Yangtze River, probably
severely underrated comment lmao
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BADA-BUM-BUM-TSH!
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Afsluitdijk what you did there. Mekong as well.
Remember, Simon, there are A LOT of Brazilians who watch your channel and would greatly enjoy and appreciate seeing your video on the Itaipu Dam ...
Show it, a total different and amazing project.
I'd love to see a video on the Itaipu dam.
Yea bro Brazil is so much cooler than China you should definitely do it
It's natural beauty and the fact that it straddles two big countries (which brings its unique challenges) are all the more reason that it should be featured.
2:55 - Chapter 1 - An old idea
7:25 - Chapter 2 - The good & the bad
8:45 - Chapter 3 - Work begins
13:50 - Chapter 4 - Controversy
16:15 - Chapter 5 - Challenges
17:35 - Chapter 6 - The final numbers
I’d love to hear about the other dam. Also if you could do the Pikeville cut through project in Pikeville Kentucky. At the time it was the second largest earth moving project in the US. They basically cut a mountain in half to stop flooding and rebuild a city.
Check wikipedia. It's not like Simon has all the info just for himself
Dani I literally live there and know about it. I would just enjoy seeing others know about this but if my towns history.
After this I don't think I could sit through another dam video by Simon.
Chris Dotson Are you hate Chinese :))
Special request: when you say numbers could you put them in text on the screen also?
I might be the only one, but I can't mentally process a number nearly as fast as words.
I just ignore the figures. Unless comparison or percentage
when it collapses in very near future hopefully we will get good footage of it. that will be a good visual representation of how colossal without need for numbers except maybe the death toll.
The true death toll will not be known till the collapse of the CCP sadly
No, the numbers are big and meaningless. The most important thing are the Mao thuglife shades.
I might be the only one, no mate, you're that not special or unique 😂
An interesting mega-project would be the system that protects the netherlands from flooding. Lots of equipment to keep the water out which is only getting harder as sea levels rise. Also impressive to look at. I like the new channel. I hope it is successful.
Maybe someone could show the Italians before Venice is gone
The US built this massive storm surge barrier to help protect New Orleans against hurricanes. It seemed to have worked the couple of times they've used it. Maybe the Netherlands can just scale that thing up to protect their whole coast.
I think Tom Scott has already done a video on that if I remember correctly. Sorry Simon.
The channel real engineering made a video on that it's very good
@@Odin029 Well.... Dutch engineers have went to New Orleans to share their expertise. Plenty cooperation between the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dutch institutes and companies. Read articles about it in aDutch engineer-magazine and in general, the measurements are often very situation specific.
I recommend looking into the Marib Dam in Yemen. It was an ancient megastructure mostly forgotten today built in the ancient Sabean kingdom, one of the largest waterworks of it's time
Congratulations! One of the most accurate and balanced reviews of the Three Gorges Dam ever. I spent a year on site in 2000 as a foreign expert engineer regarding methods and machinery and am very knowledgeable about it and its construction. You are very accurate and a rational perspective. My company built many dams in the western USA and the Chinese came to see the results and request advice (Guy F Atkinson Co). I was impressed with their management and forthright administration, in addition to their construction accomplishment. I have lots of stories
Do you think the dam is going to last or will it collapse??
I smell a 50 cent army soldier
@@nobody5280 Indeed, any admiration about what is today a crumbling wreck in so many aspects really didn't age well...
@@VZarok "crumbling wreck", LMAO; which parts of it are crumbling?
I smell BS, no way your actually a westerner
I’m sure this dude is low key a super villain
Just look how he dresses. And his surrounds. All his research is cover for taking over the world.
We are on to you bald man. We know. And we are watching. Figuratively and literally
His sidekick is nicknamed Pinky.
Supervillain teamup with Kyle Hill...
Simon yelling: WRITE THE SCRIPT DANNY! (In a zebra mask 🦓)
Bezos?
@@Noone-jn3jp awkward Bezos laugh....
Can we get a video on the ocean cables that stretch the ocean floors
@drew pedersen I could understand that I've not searched them out myself. But Simon would definitely bring the bacon to the topic.
Oh hell yeah!
@drew pedersen The Submarine Cable Map is eye opening, I used to work in a datacenter that had maps of the major fiber runs in the US and the submarine map on one wall (old one, this would have been 2014 or so) and you realize just how much time effort and money has gone into connecting the world.
@Biliary Clinton You mean like the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) that has landing points in California, Oregon, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. Still the SEA-ME-WE3 cable with landing points including The Netherlands, Australia and South Korea is just a bit longer.
@Biliary Clinton Oh for sure the consortium of companies behind that latter one is literally several dozen telecoms giants.
The next Megaprojects episode should be about Simon's mega work ethic.
? He's just a voice actor, he sets up a camera and films himself reading a script someone sent him, then emails an uncut version to someone else who does the editing.
@@Zanthorr Even if that were true:
1. You're an ass.
2. Voice acting is not as easy as you seems to think it is. Voice actors put in countless hours and work incredibly hard to ensure they're delivering their lines in the best way possible.
More like his mega workload lol. How many channels is he juggling now?
@@darkstorminc Approximately 1/3 of all youtube channels
Simon and company*
Should do a follow up on all the rain they are getting and the news blackouts about the dam
The river’s name is actually the Changjiang, with means “long river”. The Yangtze is only the lower reaches of the river near the coast.
Yes tell us about itaipu damn in brasil, please
i want to hear about that dam too
Damn, me too.
Tell us about all the dams. We need a dam series
@@JoaoPessoa86 a dam series would be absolutely awesome. 👍👍👍
I'm buying a caipirinha for everyone that votes for Itaipu!
I love the swell BLUEPRINTS in your thumbnails. Back in the olden days when I took my first drafting class, I was 13 years old (I am really, really old) and drawings were drawn by people with pencils. Back then copies were "blue-line drawings" that looked like the negatives of the obsolete blueprints and smelled of the ammonia used in the reproduction. I have worked on projects even older than me (older than dirt) that had the original old timey blueprints still on file. They are neat!
Legendary. Epic. Now do a video on the Saturn V Rocket, please and thank you!
Who's here after it was reported it this dam might collapse??
more interesting question, who will be here AFTER the dam is collapsed.
@@buddy1155 rest in peace
@@buddy1155 😂😂😂😂😂😂 we shall revisit!
That's why India and Taiwan are not afraid of China any more - All they need to do is to bomb the damned dam and 1/2 billion of Chinese will go to join Confucius in the sky
@@MrPip9999 but that will be cruel
"2020 couldn't get any worse.."
2020 : **look at 3 gorges dam** well, I have another idea
Why not.
Skipped right over that “ship lift” now didn’t we !
ebulating ahhh made in China I see
@drew pedersen world's largest shiplift at China's Three Gorges Dam th-cam.com/video/Uz0jLZBkx6I/w-d-xo.html
@ebulating But they did th-cam.com/video/Uz0jLZBkx6I/w-d-xo.html
@@王小斌-z5g Sure shill
I think the Brazilian dam would make a great topic for Geographics though if it's too similar for this Chan. Great video as always. Love it. ♥️♥️
Dam failure: Kills 240,000 people
Simon, casually: “not good”
Eh its a rounding error on what mao pulled off.
That's the very English way to say it.
Anyhow you got the point.
Try 4 million
So, you must missed the info that the flood of Yangtze can kill one million people. Hmmmmmmm, it’s really a tough call for shortsighted people whether to save millions of lives and develop renewable energy or not.
@@qingchengsui1636 the problem with huge dams like this is the environmental impact they have especially when so many are built on the same river
My father (jack scriven) was the president of the canadian company
Teshmont Consulting Inc. They were the company tasked with allocating
where all the electrical power the dam would produce would be sent to
and how it was split up!! I remember as a child having dinner with
chinese business executives and their CCP Handlers at our house in
winnipeg, manitoba, canada where Teshmont Consulting was based. I even
have a picture of me and my family and all the chinese staff at winnipeg
airport when they left! great video, thanks for your work.
I have no idea what's going on, but you keep popping up in my recommendations, and seemingly on a new channel each time. And your videos are always super professional and informative. Do you ever rest???
You don't want to be known as "That dam channel!"
Stay epic Simon!
This video is interesting and I will watch it again. Simon may have mentioned the number of people that are being displaced by the rising waters but I don’t remember how many different villages are underwater now and historical sites of thousands of years old are now underwater.
Ricky Hendricks 1 million people resettled I have read.
11:10 Yes, please talk about Itaipu Dam, for your Brazilians viewers
Edit.: Little fact, Itaipu while the second largest dam, actually produces more energy in year than Three Gorges, because o the volume of Water of Parana River.
Itaipu: 79 TWh in 2019. Three Gorges: 87 TWh in 2015. So unless Three Gorges has dropped significantly in the past few years, no, Three Gorges produces more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam#Generation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam#Generating_capacity
This channel is amazing. Oh, and your edits are fantastic. It's nice to have a more laid-back vibe with the really awesome projects.
“...A balance between material costs and human and environmental costs by the Chinese government”. So just a consideration of material costs?
Unfortunately, yes. China is asshoe! 🇺🇸
@@Windborne1974 the us as well brother ;)
@@matevasas Mate look up at the world freedom index. You'll see who's the larger asshole.
@@spinyslasher6586 haha freedom index. guess it's made by americans for americans. you hear what they want you to hear ;)
@@matevasas no, the freedom index is run by journalists from various countries. You can search it up yourself. US has a lot of restrictions, but nearly not as much as China (China is in the red, US is in the green).
Simon: I don’t always start my videos by walking into frame, but when I do, I do it like a boss.
Walk into frame, three wolf mug, *yup* its history time
"4x stronger than the next best nuclear plant"
Holy cow
"It could power 1/4th of the UK"
Oh, that's it?
Keep in mind that the most powerful nuclear plant has multiple units on site. A typical nuclear reactor makes 800-1200 MW, though the most powerful single reactor in the world is 1500 MW. Compared that to the 22000 MW for this damn.
More over this makes one wonder how much electricity we waste in Western Countries O_o
@@NightBlado although it could power 1/3 of the UK (20 million people) he said it currently makes only 1.2% of China's electric usage today....so I'm not sure we're the wasteful ones ...
@@pierzing.glint1sh76 keep in mind that China holds 20% of the whole fucking worlds population
@@NightBlado Western countries energy efficiency has seen massive gains over the years. At one time, a single light bulb for lighting a house was 4,000 watts. Now, a light bulb is about 14 watts.
Please do an episode on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in western Australia. Love the vids :)
poor c.y............such a sad twist
He was an Irish man
Do a top 5 or ten dams, or a history of dams pre-harappa to 3 gorges? You rock dude!
Now that it is starting to fail it is going to be part of a video called Mega disasters
I can't help but be reminded of the St. Francis dam. What prevented that disaster from being that much more awful was that the areas affected by that collapse wasn't nearly as populated as today.
Sadly, the Chinese government will do jack squat to protect their civilians from an upcoming collapse.
@@tidepoolclipper8657 the river past through Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai so when the dam collapse the death toll might be a shit ton higher
The whole of China's looking like a mega disaster atm.
In 10 years we'll be bailing them out of the shit they're creating now, aaaand guess who will have to pay for it like always.
@Jonathan Williams I hope so.
@Jonathan Williams Hahaha deluded idiot.
Hi Simon, you're the new Richard Attenborough! Have you thought about a Mega Disasters channel too?
A few ideas for project's videos:
- Boston's Big Dig
-The Roosevelt tunnel in Colorado
- The Golden Gate Bridge
Hello from Massachusetts
I lived through the big dig and every time im in Boston I get PTSD
YESSS! Do a BIG DIG video!
You realise Richard Attenborough is a dead actor?
@@barrybritcher instead of being a dickhead, just correct the name to David. You dont ALWAYS have to be the prick, troll.
@@ajgunter8932
He corrected you. You got it wrong. No need to be on your period about it.
When running at full power, the Three Gorges Dam can provide power for 20 million people. That's really impressive for a single power station, but it also demonstrates how we can't rely on hydroelectric power as a primary power source. There just aren't enough enormous rivers in the world to generate electricity for _7,000_ million people.
They also cause massive environmental catastrophes where you build them
@@vonfaustien3957: Only for the land directly covered by water. Fish migrations can be compensated for, and the surrounding land is improved due to more reliable water supply. The big issue for me is they're heinously expensive and only moderately productive of electrical power, though they are pretty good for supplying water and controlling floods.
@@deusexaethera they completely alter the water flow for an entire region the changes to the environment are a lot more than just the submerged area and lots of enviroments and habitats rely on periodic flooding you can claim the resulting change is better but dam fundamentally destroy the habitat near and downstream saying the new ones better is like saying tailings ponds from mines are good because extremophiles thrive. Hydro dams arent clean power
@@vonfaustien3957: Learn how to use capitalization and punctuation. Writing everything in one long unbroken string of words makes you appear uneducated and everything you say less trustworthy.
The same "destruction" of habitat occurs when a natural lake is formed in the path of a river, or when a river changes course. Blaming humans for doing it is a double standard. Humans are part of nature.
@@deusexaethera degrading an argument to one about grammer reeks of troll intellect
What about the Aswan dam on the Nile? That's a crazy story involving the cold war, moving ancient temples and significant conflict with other nations downstream about water rights.
I'd be interested in the Brazilian dam too if the story is interested. I like listening to dam stories.
Also, please do tunnel boring machines or their projects. I'm fascinated by them.
That would be epic! The present Ethiopian dam currently getting built tensions as a follow up will make it fascinating
Judging by the latest satellite images and the buckling under pressure from the most intense floods it's ever encountered.. there might not even be a three gorges dam here soon.
its gonna fail
What is the source of this information？
If it withstands - which I hope for millions of Chinese people - then it will need a major overhaul.
Google image turns to be distorted it is common sense, but anti China idiots will believe whatever fake news they got fed
@@foxtraner not all news in the West are fake news, there is more fake news in China than in the West.
Stop viewing American + Chinese news.
Well, as Mao said, "Make human life worthless enough and give me a place to stand, and I'll move the world."
I did a biology paper on the Yangtze dolphin that went extinct when the dam was opened. It was a beautiful dolphin that lived in the eddies of the river.
Is that paper available on line?
Could you please share?
Thx mate
I'm surprised that it was still alive before the Damm opened.. the Chinese eat everything. There's no bird's or wild animals in their country.
The Chinese Paddlefish, too. That was a painful but unsurprising conclusion when it published back in March.
@@richardhampton4915 That is false. If they don't have wild live anymore then how are we in this pandemic that originated from bats in China.
I believe there were many species that became extinct after the dam was completed.
4:08 - Flatten your rug out, Simon!!!
Nice catch!
That's called sprezzatura!
Something a little bit off to keep things interesting, that's what turns Italy into Italia
The human genome project could be considered a megaproject.
no,,,,not at all,,. thats stupid
@@autopartsmonkey7992 Not really if you understand its scope.
@@MountainFisher i do,,,,you dont seem to understand anything much at all
@@MountainFisher nice attempt at an insult...tard
@@autopartsmonkey7992 If you understand so much why do you descend to the weak position of denigration? Wooooo so scary, let's appear to be wise by resorting to the tried and true resort of calling people names? Troll is the proper word for you Wumao.
"I'll write as much dam poetry as I want."
Simon, there’s two things that mega projects need: more dams and more trains and railroads.
thats 3 things
Imagine a dam that could slow earth's rotation. Damn
Edit: no pun intended haha
Forget the dam slowing the rotation of the world, imagine a dam that has the weight to actually alter the shape of the planet.
The three gorges dam has actually depressed the Earth's crust in that location.
@@petert3355 thats cool
@@megaprojects9649 yowwww
Technically Hoover Dam slow earth's rotation too.
Ronnie Dai Technically you do too. And me too.
You should try to do an ancient megaproject like the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids at Giza, if enough information on their building is known to make into a video.
Oh yeah, I second this!!!!
Do this
things like great wall would be pretty much just old statistics of slave deaths, it is pretty hard to get numbers,that people agree upon, as all of those old records were burned and crossed out by Mao during The Great Leap (backwards)
Ancient Megaprojects section. Cover the 7 wonders, and then expand out. It could be sprinkled in here and there, like one ever two weeks or so
By The Great Wall you mean that one took over almost a millennia with multiple renditions and countless death to build? Yes hit me up sir!
A megaproject that often goes unmentioned and that you could do a video on is the us interstate system. If you look into it it had a huge environmental and socioeconomic impacts such as being a large contributor towards white flight and the abandonment of cities.
8th wonder of the world
It would have been much better if the U.S. used that money for a higher quality rail system for both passenger and freight services.
@@Jemalacane0 rail is far too expensive
@@pierzing.glint1sh76 No it isn't.
@@Jemalacane0 in US it's not worth it, the population density isn't high enough
A weird side effect of this dam I had found while researching for a school project was an influx of ocean living jellyfish in the rivers
Satellite images of the dam show that the shape of dam has changed. It does not appear to be straight anymore. Concerning.
Can't say "I hate Mondays" anymore, new Megaprojects is out!
And every other day of the week (if we are talking about the host) 😂
Dams terrify me because I end up thinking about what would happen if they failed. And just. So much horrific death and destruction... I mean, this is definitely an INSANELY impressive structure, but still thats horrific to think about.
Might even be worse if they just kept on working. I'm with the ecologists here, a dam like that is going to leave its mark on everything around it. But yeah, impressive as all hell, i really must say. I was having goosebumps for half of the video.
Like the Vajont Dam.
I live out in the sticks and walk the Brecon Beacons but when I drive up to Mid Wales and through the Elan Valley, a couple of times a year, and I know it's irrational but, I find something ominous about the dams. The only other place I've had this sort of experience was in The City Of Rocks, New Mexico. I don't give a damn about other dams in the area or big ones I've visited, like the Hoover.
@@anatexis_the_first Complete bullshit!
@@Jemalacane0 Commie bot spotted.
Could you do one on the Romanian Parliament building? It was Caucescu's old Presidential Mansion, and it's massive.
Nice look, Simon - the camera work, the music, the textual section breaks & the backdrop.
late June 2020...nice timing of your MegaProjects take on the Three Gorges Dam. Much rain and flooding right now.
I'd be interested to hear about the new Daxing International Airport in Beijing. It's quite a pretty, and enormous, building.
It might be larger, but from an architectural standpoint, the Hoover Dam (with it's Arts Deco style) looks more impressive...
When this dam busts.... Do you think it will speed up the rotation of the earth?
I mean theoretically, if the change in the weight of the water behind the dam caused the rotation of the earth to slow, if the dam completely fails and all of that water is let out, as opposed to a failure where the water level behind the dam is still raised, then the rotation of the earth can speed up again.
Yeah we our days will get faster by 0.0006 seconds😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏
Syed Taha 0.06 micro seconds which equals to 0.000000006 seconds or 60 nanoseconds
It's closer to 3.5x more than Bruce Power, the largest nuclear plant in the world. Yeah, I'm that guy. Great video Simon! Do the Brazil dam sometime.
I would love to watch your takes on our great Itaipu Dam! Love from Brazil 👏
When og business blaze jokes come out in non business blaze environments. We love you 3 wolf mug. One day the Enron mug will pop up and I'll lose my mind, allegedly.
This is a bit akward, since its flooding like hell in china right now - this huge thing could actually collapse at any moment.
Would you be surprised if this would happen in 2020? kind of fits the theme this year.
There are like 400 million people living downstream around the yangtze river. If it collapses china as we know it would seize to exist.
@@dikkekater Looks like the Mandate of Heaven has spoken.
Probably a zero chance of this dam collapsing, even if some concrete and some rebar was substandard. Why does anyone believe Hoover dam or any dam wasn't designed for building flaws or some substandard concrete and rebar? There no signs of major leaks or cracks. Small leaks and cracks are perfectly normal for concrete dams. Dams are designed with a huge safety margin. Concrete continues to harder as years go by so by now the concrete has reached over 99% of its full strength.
@@raybod1775 Because the Hoover Dam and other well built dams are built into the bedrock unlike the Three Gorges Dam which was built on top of the bedrock.
Nevermind the substandard concrete and rebar, the entire foundation of the Three Gorges Dam is unstable. The only reason it wouldn't collapse is because the CCP has ordered it to partially open to prevent the water pressure from becoming high enough to cause a collapse.
In this case 400 million people are now displaced rather than dead assuming they are warned ahead of time.
It's pronounced Yahng-Tzeh lol. Love your stuff, Simon.
Congrats on the videos, they are great!
Do an episode of the koogs, lands below sea level in Netherlands, North Germany and Denmark. It is very interesting.
Very intriguing and great vid , wow a lot happen there an still will , thanks for all your hard work on all these videos , love the channel
Followed the build from the start , where my interest in China really moved up a gear. I met the guy in charge of all the crushed stone to be used in the construction. Sounds boring but a very important technical part of the concrete .The dam is as I type being put to its toughest test yet.
Beavis and butthead, "er, is this a God dam"
"Flooding would now be a thing of the past' Haha!
Yikes.
St. Francis dam disaster was bad, but what prevented it from being much worse is that it didn't wait to collapse until the 2010s or even 2020s; where the areas that were affected by that disaster are much more populated today.
This upcoming disaster will put that St. Francis disaster to shame.
Humans: we are now safe from nature.
Nature: you keep using that word “safe”, I do not think you know what it means.
Yes on the dam in South America. Maybe also the Grand Aswan Dam. I'm also very interested in suspension bridges. Would like one on the Verrazano Narrows and many others.
Yo Simon, I love the way you present each and everyone of these projects. You come from a neutral stand point and bring ALL of the receipts. Wish I had teachers in high school like you !
Meanwhile 100 years after it was built Hoover dam is expected to last 10,000 years
5:10 "halting any work on the dam project" - I see what you did there. BADA-BUM-TSSS
Simon you put this one out just in time for the 3 gorges to make headlines.
Big fan of your channel and your videos, my only critique/request when you splice in footage of the thing you're talking about, maybe make those cuts longer. I can't speak for everybody but I know when I watch videos like this I look forward to the footage inside/outside/construction activities ect. It's fun to see these amazing creations so when the clips are so short it's kind of a bummer that I can't really look at the big picture in the video you're showing instead quickly focusing on the center portion of the screen I'm missing out on seeing some of the other really cool things in the picture. 🤘 Even if you don't change a thing, again big fan. 👊
"I am your dam guide, Simon, please don't wander off the dam tour and please take all the dam pictures you want. Now are there any dam questions?"
This sign of China’s progress hasn’t aged well.
It was a very unique experience to take a cruise up the Yangtze River, but sad to know that many villages and ancient artifacts were lying under the water.
Next episode: How did the Three Gorges Dam collapsed and killed hundreds of thousands of people!
The Three Gorges Dam 'collapses' almost once a year or two...Gotta love the western media.
Next episode: How did the Three Gorges Dam collapsed and killed BILLIONS of people!
would be a better description.
@@hughg4043 China flood is crucial all along upstream and downstream of 3-Gorges Dam
Chongqing issue official flood warning 22 Jun, weather forecast shows heavy rainfall in upcoming 10 days.
If the Dam falls (lets hope not), 4M+ people downstream will suffer. All turning points of river will be washed.
@@hughg4043 Western media don't write about it,people who have connections with Chinese people who live in China talk about it on TH-cam and Taiwanese media write about it.You don't have to love any media if you live in the West but you gotta love Chinese media if you live in China.
Please dear universe, smithe thee heathen CCP!
The other Dam in South America would be good to see, also the Aswan high damn In Egypt that the Old USSR help them build.
We visited the Itaipu dam a few years ago and it really is awe inspiring. Can't even grasp how big Three Gorges is
Please do a video about the Gateway Arch and National Park in downtown St Louis. :]
Hey Simon, do you reckon it could be possible to do a mega projects on the Bismarck?
That would be cool, or the Yamato.
1% of the electricity for China's needs, hmmm was it really worth it?
Henceforth to be known as Simon "Crazy Socks" Whistler.
You should do the Aswan Dam, in Egypt, not only because of its size but, mainly, because of the additional mountain of work to save the gigantic monument of Abu Simpel.
There is only one way Mao's poetry can be read. "Ten thousand pretty flowers over my ten thousand mass graves".
Only the poetry of the Vogan people is better.
This is one gorgeous dam . . . well, actually three gorges dam, but you know what I mean.
Too bad it won't last
🥁🥁🥁 . . . 🐍🐍
😂👌🏆
nice one.
Nice lol
Ayy, he took my suggestion :D
Great recommendation, TH-cam. 2020 is giving a whole new meaning to "the roaring twenties". I do feel bad for the people downstream. Hopefully, its failure brings an end to the CPC.
How’d Simon manage to deliver this video without splashing himself with whatever was in that mug? Thy thing was swinging about and not a drop was spilled. Well done, sir.
Despite some negatives, I was totally in awe by the scale of this damn Dam. The scale that you tried to explain is way more than anybody can fathom. I believe it to be one of the greatest civil engineering projects, up there with the Pyramids.
Wait 50 years
Québec's dams are smaller but they were built in a sub-arctic climate.
Itaipú is built in a tropical area and it's much more impressive.
Stackin icecubes ehh who needs a dam
And they were cracked before they finished.
The chinese actually did something better for once. Wake up qc
How about the new $1.3 trillion dollar high-speed train going in from Laos's capital to China? It's a biggen.
There is also some wall somewhere in China ...
This project was so large it created a concrete shortage in the US, that lasted years.
That doesn't pass the smell test... Shipping concrete over long distances couldn't possibily make economical sense.
@@jesterjames7633 shipping wet concrete no, but shipping the components of powdered concrete yes
And surely, the mighty algorithm recommends this after the reports of issues with the dam.
I've heard the concrete in the dam isn't anchored to the bedrock beneath it! What could possibly go wrong?
The next show this dam will be featured in is "Engineering Disasters".
"Between 1 and 4 million people" Im going out on a limb but isn't that a wide variant?
Envy loves to exagerate their own misery!
Huge variance is normal for communism. Take a look at estimates for how many people Stalin killed.
@@pfeilspitze Stalin mainly killed Communist. The Capitalists killed 20M in WW1 and 60M in WW2. The Wars committed by the the US Capitalists since 1945 I estimate 20M and rising. By mass unemployment and Covid 19 operating on Free Market principles will make big inroads into the US Population and suicide is massive!
@@mikefay5698 You're attributing all the deaths in WW2 to capitalists? You do know the Soviet Union was a rather big part of that, right?
@@pfeilspitze The USSR was attacked by
the major Capitalist European State in June the 22nd 1941 with 3M troops killing 27M Soviet Citizens. Before being subdued. By the Red Army in May 1945.
It won't be a dam for much longer!
::Eyes your coffee... Suddenly craves coffee:: Thanks, lmao. ::Settles down and sips coffee while binging this channel::
Great videos, great channels. Keep up the good work.
Suggestions (on the Chinese theme):
1) The Great Wall
2) Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. (Maybe more interesting? Lesser known, for sure)