Tom scott made a samll video explaining it. Basically nothing worked like it did on paper. The model showed that it would cause horrendous floods. Sad because i do,like to big dream
@@kingofrivia1248 That didn't explain it, I'm here from that video as well. "The project failed on more than 99 accounts. Catastrophic and unpredictable flooding was just 1 of those 99 parts"
The barriers used in the model did not survive the 1950s so they can't be shown at the Bay Model. The plan chiefly called for two large earth & stone dams at the mouth of the bay. The intent was to hold back the tide of the ocean and keep in the majority of the fresh water flowing down the Sacramento and San Jaquin Rivers. Complicated locks would still allow shipping into the now freshwater lakes behind the dams and was supposed to release any over flow into the ocean. Large portions of the now dry bay basin would be slightly raised and protected by additional earthen dams. The testing was done for low river droughts and high river floods. Even moderate floods would completely destroy the dry bay basin and heavy floods would threaten to destroy the lock/dam system themselves if not flood other parts of San Francisco. Additionally, what this plan failed to understand, as did the engineers building the three gorges dam, is the fast amounts of silt and debris carried by rivers. The Chinese put in inaccurate data into the computer models and that dam will have to be destroyed within 50 years or it will destroy a large portion of China within 50 years. In San Francisco, the silt would quite rapidly fill these fresh water lakes making them even shallower and thereby evaporating the fresh water reserves faster. At the same time, this would make any subsequent floods worse in just ten, twenty, thirty years' time.
I have finished watching this video completely. (我看完這部影片了) I am a Taiwanese who cares about the global affairs. (我是一個關心全球事務的台灣人) And, sadly, most of my fellow Taiwanese don't really care about the world. (但是，很不幸地，我大部分的台灣同胞不那麼在意世界。) Hopefully Taiwan can become increasingly globally-aware and globally-competitive. (希望台灣可以越來越有全球意識與全球競爭力。) God bless Taiwan. (天佑台灣。)
I can't find a video that goes in greater detail to why it wouldn't have worked :/
Army Corps of Engineers built a huge model and it had flooding and all kinds of disasters-
I am trying to find video of that and can’t
@@hummervs3278 You can just go and visit the Bay Model the Army Corps of Engineers made-- it's in Sausalito.
Tom scott made a samll video explaining it. Basically nothing worked like it did on paper. The model showed that it would cause horrendous floods. Sad because i do,like to big dream
@@kingofrivia1248 That didn't explain it, I'm here from that video as well. "The project failed on more than 99 accounts. Catastrophic and unpredictable flooding was just 1 of those 99 parts"
The barriers used in the model did not survive the 1950s so they can't be shown at the Bay Model. The plan chiefly called for two large earth & stone dams at the mouth of the bay. The intent was to hold back the tide of the ocean and keep in the majority of the fresh water flowing down the Sacramento and San Jaquin Rivers. Complicated locks would still allow shipping into the now freshwater lakes behind the dams and was supposed to release any over flow into the ocean. Large portions of the now dry bay basin would be slightly raised and protected by additional earthen dams. The testing was done for low river droughts and high river floods. Even moderate floods would completely destroy the dry bay basin and heavy floods would threaten to destroy the lock/dam system themselves if not flood other parts of San Francisco. Additionally, what this plan failed to understand, as did the engineers building the three gorges dam, is the fast amounts of silt and debris carried by rivers. The Chinese put in inaccurate data into the computer models and that dam will have to be destroyed within 50 years or it will destroy a large portion of China within 50 years. In San Francisco, the silt would quite rapidly fill these fresh water lakes making them even shallower and thereby evaporating the fresh water reserves faster. At the same time, this would make any subsequent floods worse in just ten, twenty, thirty years' time.
here from tom scott
I have finished watching this video completely.
(我看完這部影片了)
I am a Taiwanese who cares about the global affairs.
(我是一個關心全球事務的台灣人)
And, sadly, most of my fellow Taiwanese don't really care about the world.
(但是，很不幸地，我大部分的台灣同胞不那麼在意世界。)
Hopefully Taiwan can become increasingly globally-aware and globally-competitive.
(希望台灣可以越來越有全球意識與全球競爭力。)
God bless Taiwan.
(天佑台灣。)
Glad this didn't work
Looks like a good way to save the south bay from sea level rise, and an opportunity for lithium mining for batteries.
Awe dang
Pave the bay!
@Maia Kubota He was joking!