Hi, great video. I helped rebuild the Dam and there was one life lost while rebuilding! The damage caused by the breach was tremendous. Thanks for your video.
Is this channel run by a company? It has all those hallmarks of a channel trying to pretend it's run by one or two individuals but a corporation is really behind it. I'm just curious.
@@packetloss5297 you can argue the anthropocentrism of climate change and the pork barrel responses to ajust to it, but pointing out its ongoing is demonstrable.
Somewhere I came across a story about the “opposite” of this set up, where in they had a huge underground mine, and during the day they pump the water out and allow it to generate power falling back underground from the surface, so the whole thing was under the town instead of above it seems a lot safer and doesn’t require any of the extreme measures to make it leak proof, etc., etc. If anybody knows where that project was, I’m suddenly curious to reread or re-see about that project just for contrast.
I was thinking of something similar. Had they allowed a rock quarry on top of this mountain, they would have something similar but much safer than the above ground lake they created. The amount of energy they are storing is incredible, to trust an above ground swimming pool seems a bit irresponsible. We also need more Stone quarries and to find a use for the voids they create seems like a win win.
You said "an unobtrusive reminder to do something under the video" which is subtle and appreciated but it doesn't take advantage of TH-cam's new feature that highlights the like and subscribe buttons in red when it detects the transcript of the word like and subscribe etc. Great video. thanks!
I hiked to the top of Taum Saulk before the reservoir was built by Union Electric. Visited Johnson Shut-ins many times before & after the disaster. (It was more fun before).
Because they barely produce more energy than it takes to build them, takes a ton of maintenance, kill birds like crazy, and if used offshore, create vibrations in the water that kills whales
@sherylbegby They kill a ton of flying wild birds. When they break beyond repair the companies usually leave them to rot in the field (farmers problem).
@sam12587 No deforestation kills a large population of birds. You're stating something someone else stated thinking they were intelligent. The other thing you stated also doesn't add up. you're saying when windmills break down, they're left beyond repair, and farmers have to deal with it... how does that make sense to you? If that happens, that farmer would then sue that company, making millions on top of millions. By your logic, renewable energy companies would basically be giving out free money. Before it even got to that point, wouldn't the company would have to get permission to even have the windmill built on the farmers' property. So, how does that make sense to you? What's even more hilarious to me is what you just stated is a direct quote from trump who was the reason farmers lost millions upon millions due to tariffs he set in place on China between 2016 - 2020 in which he told farmers to continue producing the same level of crops and other produce with no one to sell them too, all while lying to the American population about an airborne disease that he knew about beforehand yet lied about and never prepared the American people for. Another thing to add is because of that dozens of farmers lost everything, and many committed suicide because of it. Yet you don't mention that, huh. Going back to the original topic, if you believe that windmills are the main cause of death of the bird population, then wait till you find out what / how the fossil fuel industries deforestation campaign does to all animals ecosystems and the toxic chemicals that's they release into the air on a regular basis. Politicians are paid to speak kindly of the fossil fuel industry and negative about any industry that would or could possibly hurt it because they make multi billions if not trillions worldwide. You have to be trying to troll me because no one is trump level re-re. Even my disable cousin thinks he's a genius compared to trump. He even calls trump re-re. Personally, i would never take the word of or listen to a person or party that told their supporters to drink bleach and inject lysol into their bloodstream on National TV to cure covid. Or that he should nuke a hurricane to stop it. Or altering a hurricane forecast with a sharpie in the oval office and then telling people in another state who wouldn't get affected that they were going to be affected. I would never listen to a person who has committed fraud and bribery the entirety of their life. I would never listen to a person who instigated and started an insurrection on the US capital committing treason and is also the reason 5 police officers were murdered. I wound never listen to a person who got convicted of a felony crime on 34 different counts of fraud and bribery. I would never listen to a person who said hundreds of times he wanted to have intercourse with his daughter. I would never listen to a person who went bankrupt over 5 times. You are free to believe what you want. However, when fact and evidence are brought into the conversation, all the people spouting bs get mad because there are still a large percentage of Americans with common sense, honor, dignity, and actual patriotism. Yet what you stated is from a person who committed treason, yet you think others will believe propaganda. You my believe trump and fox, however no person with common sense would listen to trump, let alone fox who was sued originally for over a billion US dollars for defamation only to say in court they're not a news station but an entertainment station and their news anchors are only entertainment anchors. You and everyone who thinks like you are a complete joke and cancer in America. Nothing i just stated is an opinion. They're observations based on facts that the American people saw in real time.
Can't help but wonder if they could do that with the Berkeley pit in Butte Montana. It's a former copper mine that's currently a toxic Lake. Effects left over from the copper mining.. They've actually developed a way to filter out some of the toxins from the water. But you got to wonder if the leftover pit could be used as an energy storage device.
Like drop in a bunch of lead plates to turn it into a giant even-more-poisonous-than-it-is-now battery? The water is too toxic and acidic to use for pumped storage in connection with a waterway or river. It probably can't be used in conjunction with the nearby Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond because the water came from the abandoned mine underneath and the plumbing would be a leaky nightmare. I was just thinking they should just fill it up with something other than water, like a giant buttload of acid neutralizing limestone, or the tailing from another mine, or garbage to be dissolved like oil, chemical and mining executives and arrogant engineers.
As a local, there are several improvements to accuracy in just the first few minutes. Miraculously, nobody died - I was supposed to be on the road which ended up 20 feet under water only hours distant. This facility has been rebuilt and it is working without the leaks which plagued the original facility.
I've been here before and after. This is crazy to see on your channel. Thank you for this. Nearby is a recreation are called "Johnson Shut-ins" one of my favorite places.
I was just there in April, that's where we watched the eclipse 😊 it's in Mark Twain national forest. They did an excellent job fixing things to look like before the flood 👍
? I'm not saying this might not be true based on how it is implied, but if you provide a specific timestamp to the video where this is discussed, this might be a little less confusing and something more valid and substantial. Just curious as to what you are alluding to as I don't see the connection after watching 75% of the video.
@@DavidGentry-WebDeveloper, unless this was posted by some little kid just learning what atoms and molecules are for the first time, this was most likely an idiot troll post.
WATOP thank you too for "you know why" because it can make me very uncomfortable when presenters try to sell their personality to the viewer. Without knowing who you are I am free to watch as long as I like, as often as I like, and I don't worry about hurting feelings. It can be troublesome to me. Also, you have enough personality as an anonymous presenter, I love the writing and the general messaging. Subtracting identity makes your videos quite a bit more accessible to me as a nearly asocial person.
Water vapor is a self-regulating greenhouse gas; when there's too much, it turns to clouds and reflects heat away from the Earth. CO2 is an unstable greenhouse gas. When it is too high, nothing corrects it or balances it. Try googling "Why do we blame climate change on carbon dioxide, when water vapor is a much more common greenhouse gas?" The amount of water vapor in the air is partly determined by the amount of CO2 in the air. The water vapor is not in the driver's seat. The water vapor amplifies the effects of CO2.
Amazing how the insurance company paid for the repair, yet the company was the reason for the utter failure due to the reasons you indicated. That's shocking, really.
Why have I never asked myself this question before? How does Darth Vader here (lol) drink that delicious looking coffee he makes at the beginning of every show!!
Interesting Idea!But Just Like Bridge and Structural,Integrities!It Needs To be Maintained and The Best Outlook,Planned for The UnExpected!No Remote Cameras or HUMAN Sensors😮!To Check on these Things😮!
Cool vid, but FYI, (likely others let you know so...sorry for the redundancy) the Michigan battery is located near Ludington. Pronounced LUHD-ing-ton. Thanks!
Hopefully you find a better channel by then. Over 3 million subs? I guess people really like the antifa, fake talking voice over style of regurgitated information
We usually pump water up and downhill to create an energy cycle or storage until later needed. It's called PSH or pumped storage hydro. When there's more energy than needed, we pump it uphill to store that energy, then when there isn't enough energy we pump some down through turbines to cover what we need. It's a very simple and affordable method that's cheaper than batteries for long-time storage.
Zero carbon admissions??? That was your last words on this. Yet earlier in the video, you admit that it takes more power to pump the water back up the mountains at night. It's just less expensive at night, not less carbon. Less money, more carbon. That's what you really meant, right?
This is a similar concept to how solar power storage could work. Solar power excess pumps water into a reservoir during the day, keeping it topped off and letting some off as necessary for surge needs, running continually at night to provide for night demand. It wouldn't scale to meet huge demand, but for rural areas it would be perfect. You'd still need other forms of generation to supplement, like wind, but it'd make a good solution for some more remote regions.
You know what I can't figure out is, if this guy doesn't wanna show his face than why does he show himself at all? Just show me the stuff that he's talking about instead. It's a lot better than looking at someone that looks like the leader of Antifa lmao
because internet is full of dangerous people it they know who you are.. also keep fame down and be modest, a sign of a better person than the nuts that need to broadcast who they are...
Fly ash is the main cause of environmental death from coal power plants and has been used to line a structure of water used for things like drinking, bathing and other things maybe even used for irrigation. A continuous circulation from top to bottom holding tanks just might give the illusion of cleaner water but eventually what's leached into the top reservoir will have fouled the bottom one too if leaching is occuring daily. Lots of water flowing is not good enough to test the waters and depending on the leaching material location it may take too much time to notice the infiltration as the ratio would build up over time and not discernable in tests until it finally shows up on tests then it will be too late. This is a material that causes reproductive harm and extinguishes plant life. The use of this fly ash is extremely alarming especially in this case. It is unbelievable that the EPA would allow this. My hope is that the mixture is unable to leach but I doubt it is healthy for any use much less a water source. Coal fly ash is the residue filtered away and it is also the bottom scrapings from the burning process left at the bottom of the furnaces where it is cleaned and disposed of or sold to construction as a filler in concrete or other products for roads. It makes no sense to me.
Most Interesting ! The beds of such plants,must be rocky to prevent sinking,the walls must be strongly plastered with anti corosive materials ! It should have a specific design to break the violent spill & downstream danger that leads to big loss !
2:58 a Gravity Battery, using water instead of weights - there's been a couple similar setups next to Loch Ness. Why didn't Plainly Difficult cover this?
And in Pennsylvania, three mile island is going to be turned back on and they have been busy working on it with a upgrade to that nucular power plant that it is from what I have heard and told by different people.
Hmm? 🤔 I suggest you have smaller reservoirs to generat power for smaller communities & have less devastation if a breach in the system of the way it was built collapses! 😮 There should also be a back up system covering these exposed areas of water making it water tight in a sense like a pool cover. 😊 Because you cant control the masses of gallons of water that would be rushing down. It is highly dangerous to have a place and hold millions of gallons of water & expect it to work safely 100% f the time. Smaller amounts, less devastation, pool covet, better built strictures & securing the parameter around the facility is a much better plan! ❤🎉
I think there is a miniature one of these in Indiana. Maybe only large enough to power a few homes or a neighborhood. I saw it years ago, and now all these years later I can't remember where I saw it. When I do I'll re-post.
Thank you for using standard US measurements when describing sizes and other details. I didn’t have the opportunity to learn metrics when I was in school.
it was an issue of failure on its way that was happening for years... it was acctually set to be fixed a few months later, but it failed before the repairs could be made.
I think the content of this channel is good but it's hard to follow with the sound affects, the muffled voice and the presentation is fairly confusing too.
The U.s. runs 60 htz electric. This means a flywheel or mechanic energy is needed to keep the 60 htz. Wind and solar don't produce enough to keep the htz up and keep grid from crashing. Ireland turned a coal power plant into a flywheel to do about the same thing. A way to keep the htz of the grid from collapsing if it gets too low.
Hydroelectric power is the most dangerous source of electricity. That's true regardless of whether the water comes from a dammed river or pumped storage.
Actually the most dangerous in terms of having caused actual health consequences is coal. Literally millions of people have died because of the pollution caused by burning coal to generate electricity. And that's not even taking into account the millions who will die due to sea-level rise, which decades of burning coal set into motion.
Around here there are 10 miles of 2200 ft to 150 ft of canyons. Take a boxcar and it with dirt and a cable to go 5 miles. On energy days, the boxcars could be transported up hills and generate power on less! There is 3 nuclear, 7 dams, and probable the largest wind power in the word!
Hi, great video. I helped rebuild the Dam and there was one life lost while rebuilding! The damage caused by the breach was tremendous. Thanks for your video.
What happened to the poor guy?
She was ran over by a Huge Haul Truck, twice.😢
@@kennyparker1195 Jesus man poor girl, may God rest her soul.
Thx for letting me know.
@@kennyparker1195 t...twice?
RIP!
Is this channel run by a company? It has all those hallmarks of a channel trying to pretend it's run by one or two individuals but a corporation is really behind it. I'm just curious.
you are thinking dark-docs and dark-histories. iirc both those channels are history channel backed.
this one is a couple of guys
The FBI hat on the desk should be a giveaway.. They mention "Climate Change" every episode...
@@packetloss5297 What would be the point of leaving an intentional clue? Reverse psychology?
@@packetloss5297 you can argue the anthropocentrism of climate change and the pork barrel responses to ajust to it, but pointing out its ongoing is demonstrable.
It’s far more than 1 or two people I can guarantee you that
Got to be weird to sit there and pretend to speak...
Not when you're making money.
@@House808-z8j making money is weird.
@@House808-z8j fair...
HE IS A 28 YEARS OLD MAN WITH 60 YEARS MAN VOICE.
@@BatkoNashBandera774 Making money is the requirement in the world you were born into. Get used to it.
This is an ideal halftime show to rejuvenate my workday. Thank you. 🙏
Somewhere I came across a story about the “opposite” of this set up, where in they had a huge underground mine, and during the day they pump the water out and allow it to generate power falling back underground from the surface, so the whole thing was under the town instead of above it seems a lot safer and doesn’t require any of the extreme measures to make it leak proof, etc., etc. If anybody knows where that project was, I’m suddenly curious to reread or re-see about that project just for contrast.
I mean its a gravity battery essentially, and searching for gravity battery mine shaft brings up loads of results
Google sink holes !
Googling
"gravity battery" cave
quickly gives an answer.
Pyhäjärvi, Finland
it's a lot safer as long as the ground above it isn't limestone. If it is then eventually that limestone will collapse
I was thinking of something similar. Had they allowed a rock quarry on top of this mountain, they would have something similar but much safer than the above ground lake they created.
The amount of energy they are storing is incredible, to trust an above ground swimming pool seems a bit irresponsible.
We also need more Stone quarries and to find a use for the voids they create seems like a win win.
You said "an unobtrusive reminder to do something under the video" which is subtle and appreciated but it doesn't take advantage of TH-cam's new feature that highlights the like and subscribe buttons in red when it detects the transcript of the word like and subscribe etc.
Great video. thanks!
wouldn't it be more obtrusive to have the like and subscribe buttons highlighted in red?
I hiked to the top of Taum Saulk before the reservoir was built by Union Electric. Visited Johnson Shut-ins many times before & after the disaster. (It was more fun before).
Corporations only care about the bottom line, not the people downstream! Thank you for sharing!
They wouldn't be in business if they didn't and you would be chopping wood for heat.
No, that’s not true, they also care about the top line
@@DerekRhoads But they can care a lot more than they do, and still supply what they do!
Oh, come on! They’re selling the power to the people downstream. They don’t want them dead.
Aswan dam is yet to collapse
Wind farms are the worst "eco friendly" power alternative
why?
Because they barely produce more energy than it takes to build them, takes a ton of maintenance, kill birds like crazy, and if used offshore, create vibrations in the water that kills whales
He said this because trump said it. He has no evidence to provide any rebuttal.
@sherylbegby
They kill a ton of flying wild birds.
When they break beyond repair the companies usually leave them to rot in the field (farmers problem).
@sam12587 No deforestation kills a large population of birds. You're stating something someone else stated thinking they were intelligent. The other thing you stated also doesn't add up. you're saying when windmills break down, they're left beyond repair, and farmers have to deal with it... how does that make sense to you? If that happens, that farmer would then sue that company, making millions on top of millions. By your logic, renewable energy companies would basically be giving out free money. Before it even got to that point, wouldn't the company would have to get permission to even have the windmill built on the farmers' property. So, how does that make sense to you? What's even more hilarious to me is what you just stated is a direct quote from trump who was the reason farmers lost millions upon millions due to tariffs he set in place on China between 2016 - 2020 in which he told farmers to continue producing the same level of crops and other produce with no one to sell them too, all while lying to the American population about an airborne disease that he knew about beforehand yet lied about and never prepared the American people for. Another thing to add is because of that dozens of farmers lost everything, and many committed suicide because of it. Yet you don't mention that, huh.
Going back to the original topic, if you believe that windmills are the main cause of death of the bird population, then wait till you find out what / how the fossil fuel industries deforestation campaign does to all animals ecosystems and the toxic chemicals that's they release into the air on a regular basis. Politicians are paid to speak kindly of the fossil fuel industry and negative about any industry that would or could possibly hurt it because they make multi billions if not trillions worldwide.
You have to be trying to troll me because no one is trump level re-re. Even my disable cousin thinks he's a genius compared to trump. He even calls trump re-re. Personally, i would never take the word of or listen to a person or party that told their supporters to drink bleach and inject lysol into their bloodstream on National TV to cure covid. Or that he should nuke a hurricane to stop it. Or altering a hurricane forecast with a sharpie in the oval office and then telling people in another state who wouldn't get affected that they were going to be affected. I would never listen to a person who has committed fraud and bribery the entirety of their life. I would never listen to a person who instigated and started an insurrection on the US capital committing treason and is also the reason 5 police officers were murdered. I wound never listen to a person who got convicted of a felony crime on 34 different counts of fraud and bribery. I would never listen to a person who said hundreds of times he wanted to have intercourse with his daughter. I would never listen to a person who went bankrupt over 5 times. You are free to believe what you want. However, when fact and evidence are brought into the conversation, all the people spouting bs get mad because there are still a large percentage of Americans with common sense, honor, dignity, and actual patriotism. Yet what you stated is from a person who committed treason, yet you think others will believe propaganda. You my believe trump and fox, however no person with common sense would listen to trump, let alone fox who was sued originally for over a billion US dollars for defamation only to say in court they're not a news station but an entertainment station and their news anchors are only entertainment anchors. You and everyone who thinks like you are a complete joke and cancer in America. Nothing i just stated is an opinion. They're observations based on facts that the American people saw in real time.
The one in Scotland is pretty awesome. and it has a equally fascinating back story.
Loving your graphics and edits. Information is shown and explained so well.
why did youtube hide this from me for 6 mins
Slacker! 😂
Thats gonna be the new trendy brainrot comment
They hate you
They hate us.
2 hrs
You're welcome Steve. Thank YOU for all your videos
So they caused billions in damage and was only fined 15million... Wow😮
Why are we wearing a mask 👀
He wants to be anonymous so folks leave him alone to live in peace.
Fewer edits, too! 😊
Silver lining there is a cool new hiking path? I wonder if people hike it...
Can't help but wonder if they could do that with the Berkeley pit in Butte Montana. It's a former copper mine that's currently a toxic Lake. Effects left over from the copper mining..
They've actually developed a way to filter out some of the toxins from the water.
But you got to wonder if the leftover pit could be used as an energy storage device.
Like drop in a bunch of lead plates to turn it into a giant even-more-poisonous-than-it-is-now battery? The water is too toxic and acidic to use for pumped storage in connection with a waterway or river. It probably can't be used in conjunction with the nearby Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond because the water came from the abandoned mine underneath and the plumbing would be a leaky nightmare. I was just thinking they should just fill it up with something other than water, like a giant buttload of acid neutralizing limestone, or the tailing from another mine, or garbage to be dissolved like oil, chemical and mining executives and arrogant engineers.
Thanks for another fine video......
Old F-4 pilot Shoe🇺🇸
Thank you so much for explaining that. Love the topics you explain. Very interesting content, please keep making more videos.❤
No one with common sense wants to hear the slurping of the coffee
Good thing coomon sense isn't common..
I'm not going to subscribe because of that.
this yt channel always has been weird asf
the way he talks just pisses me off
16:41 The “Lud” in Ludington rhymes with “Bud”. It does not rhyme with “lewd”.
As a local, there are several improvements to accuracy in just the first few minutes. Miraculously, nobody died - I was supposed to be on the road which ended up 20 feet under water only hours distant. This facility has been rebuilt and it is working without the leaks which plagued the original facility.
Thank you WATOP yor a great Guy
My toilet cistern has a great water level system that is accurate. No need for fancy sensors, a simple ball and arm mechanism does the trick.
I've been here before and after. This is crazy to see on your channel. Thank you for this. Nearby is a recreation are called "Johnson Shut-ins" one of my favorite places.
Of course insurance covered it, why maintain safe design and procedure when the company gets a payout when it fails?
Paid by US!! But if storm damage your roof? They don't know you at all and will not change on this point!
To be fair insurance is a financial risk mitigation service. They literally pay for the "just in case" situations like this.
@@anothisflame8266 No risk its a tax write off for companies and get payouts 100% of the time so no point wasting money on safety
Good info and presentation
wow i didn’t realize watop missing from my algorithm for a while… now it’s back!!!!
So just subscribe…
@@jerrygator1132You clearly don’t know how the algorithm works
How? They post almost every day! Seriously, how could you miss a video
@@thomascoleman594 The algorithm
I was just there in April, that's where we watched the eclipse 😊 it's in Mark Twain national forest. They did an excellent job fixing things to look like before the flood 👍
Sok here watching. Thanks for the info ..lovealways
Why the Antifa vibe bro?
Why the MAGA vibe? BRO.
Stop talking 💩
Well that escalated quickly but I can answer you both.... But it's not necessary 😂😂😂😂
Is this dudes voice not the same as the dude we see behind the desk?
Dude, you’re just cool. Thanks for the info.
This is BS! The problem could have been fixed with a $15.00 part from Maytag! Its a good thing these clowns don't engineer washing machines.
So, nothing in this story happened cuz Maytag washer parts weren’t used? Uhhh, ok…
insurance payout worth it failing
$15 part from Maytag would not fix the problem😂
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
CO2 is not Carbon. It's like NaCL is not Chlorine.
? I'm not saying this might not be true based on how it is implied, but if you provide a specific timestamp to the video where this is discussed, this might be a little less confusing and something more valid and substantial.
Just curious as to what you are alluding to as I don't see the connection after watching 75% of the video.
@@DavidGentry-WebDeveloper, unless this was posted by some little kid just learning what atoms and molecules are for the first time, this was most likely an idiot troll post.
Practical engineering covered it first
I get deja vu in the first 10 seconds watching this. Seems they wanted to recycle content others covered recently
@@TheTboy007 recognise this background music from one of the cave diving disaster channels?
WATOP thank you too for "you know why" because it can make me very uncomfortable when presenters try to sell their personality to the viewer. Without knowing who you are I am free to watch as long as I like, as often as I like, and I don't worry about hurting feelings. It can be troublesome to me. Also, you have enough personality as an anonymous presenter, I love the writing and the general messaging. Subtracting identity makes your videos quite a bit more accessible to me as a nearly asocial person.
Why is nothing growing where that first Darm flooded?
Carbon emissions do not matter when taking into account of the water vapor in our atmosphere
Yes. Or so your smooth brain has convinced you. LOL
@@luisaraujo4708 An ad hominem response should be avoided in rhetoric
Water vapor is a self-regulating greenhouse gas; when there's too much, it turns to clouds and reflects heat away from the Earth. CO2 is an unstable greenhouse gas. When it is too high, nothing corrects it or balances it. Try googling "Why do we blame climate change on carbon dioxide, when water vapor is a much more common greenhouse gas?" The amount of water vapor in the air is partly determined by the amount of CO2 in the air. The water vapor is not in the driver's seat. The water vapor amplifies the effects of CO2.
The WA Gran Coulee dam works pretty much the same way but way more efficient.
Amazing how the insurance company paid for the repair, yet the company was the reason for the utter failure due to the reasons you indicated. That's shocking, really.
Why have I never asked myself this question before? How does Darth Vader here (lol) drink that delicious looking coffee he makes at the beginning of every show!!
So, they certified the new dam on April fool's Day? Who does certifications on April fools? That's kind of hilarious.
Watop never disappoints
One EMP attack and we are all back in the stone age. Spend our dollars on that which lasts!!
good information
Interesting Idea!But Just Like Bridge and Structural,Integrities!It Needs To be Maintained and The Best Outlook,Planned for The UnExpected!No Remote Cameras or HUMAN Sensors😮!To Check on these Things😮!
That heavy paste water, what happens when animals drink it or it spills. What’s the ecological damage potential
The side effect to so much evaporation is more precipitation in the area or a wetter rainy climate down wind of this evaporation pond .
the animation was much appreciated.
Cool vid, but FYI, (likely others let you know so...sorry for the redundancy) the Michigan battery is located near Ludington. Pronounced LUHD-ing-ton. Thanks!
It looks like a giant infinity pool, very cool😎
I forgot you do that horrible coffee slurp in the intro. Maybe I’ll forget in another 6 months. See ya next year 😂.
It’s terrible and pretentious.
Hopefully you find a better channel by then. Over 3 million subs? I guess people really like the antifa, fake talking voice over style of regurgitated information
I am always amazed on how we can just build things to make our lives easier.
Dope vid bro
We usually pump water up and downhill to create an energy cycle or storage until later needed. It's called PSH or pumped storage hydro. When there's more energy than needed, we pump it uphill to store that energy, then when there isn't enough energy we pump some down through turbines to cover what we need. It's a very simple and affordable method that's cheaper than batteries for long-time storage.
1:56, wow
That Dam society!
Clearly didn't give a damn.
Lembrei do acidente em MG. Várias pessoas morreram soterradas. E recentemente no RS, na enxurrada.
Zero carbon admissions??? That was your last words on this. Yet earlier in the video, you admit that it takes more power to pump the water back up the mountains at night. It's just less expensive at night, not less carbon. Less money, more carbon. That's what you really meant, right?
This is a similar concept to how solar power storage could work. Solar power excess pumps water into a reservoir during the day, keeping it topped off and letting some off as necessary for surge needs, running continually at night to provide for night demand. It wouldn't scale to meet huge demand, but for rural areas it would be perfect. You'd still need other forms of generation to supplement, like wind, but it'd make a good solution for some more remote regions.
You know what I can't figure out is, if this guy doesn't wanna show his face than why does he show himself at all? Just show me the stuff that he's talking about instead. It's a lot better than looking at someone that looks like the leader of Antifa lmao
And shifty expression looks artificial and over exaggerated.
Sexy AF.
Great presentation! It's amazing the family survived. I hope they're over the trauma.
What's the deal with the facemask? Are you on the lam?
because internet is full of dangerous people it they know who you are.. also keep fame down and be modest, a sign of a better person than the nuts that need to broadcast who they are...
He is hiding from the US law
@@ThomwoththeWeather that makes 0 sense. just dont show your face.
That ain't a coffee. That's a soup in a cup of coffee. Cheers
It's a circular dam in the shape of a bean?
Fly ash is the main cause of environmental death from coal power plants and has been used to line a structure of water used for things like drinking, bathing and other things maybe even used for irrigation. A continuous circulation from top to bottom holding tanks just might give the illusion of cleaner water but eventually what's leached into the top reservoir will have fouled the bottom one too if leaching is occuring daily. Lots of water flowing is not good enough to test the waters and depending on the leaching material location it may take too much time to notice the infiltration as the ratio would build up over time and not discernable in tests until it finally shows up on tests then it will be too late. This is a material that causes reproductive harm and extinguishes plant life. The use of this fly ash is extremely alarming especially in this case. It is unbelievable that the EPA would allow this. My hope is that the mixture is unable to leach but I doubt it is healthy for any use much less a water source. Coal fly ash is the residue filtered away and it is also the bottom scrapings from the burning process left at the bottom of the furnaces where it is cleaned and disposed of or sold to construction as a filler in concrete or other products for roads. It makes no sense to me.
saying thank with no coffee in hand
This is interesting.😮
Most Interesting ! The beds of such plants,must be rocky to prevent sinking,the walls must be strongly plastered with anti corosive materials ! It should have a specific design to break the violent spill & downstream danger that leads to big loss !
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Looks like a parallel sailing skate boat park now.
This was interesting 🤔
But first coffee and yet we never see coffee...
Classic WATOP
This happens usually when there is no spillway in a dam..
Even it would not be good investment to pump water through the spillway.
Snowy mountains in NSW has the same set up as well. Not sure who built the first one though
What does the WA stand for, I've been losing sleep!😅
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I love this guys videos, but why does the coffee look like witch piss?
Taste better!!
Because it is witch piss....
How did you come to recognize what witch piss looks like. Hmmm?
2:58 a Gravity Battery, using water instead of weights - there's been a couple similar setups next to Loch Ness. Why didn't Plainly Difficult cover this?
And in Pennsylvania, three mile island is going to be turned back on and they have been busy working on it with a upgrade to that nucular power plant that it is from what I have heard and told by different people.
Hmm? 🤔 I suggest you have smaller reservoirs to generat power for smaller communities & have less devastation if a breach in the system of the way it was built collapses! 😮 There should also be a back up system covering these exposed areas of water making it water tight in a sense like a pool cover. 😊 Because you cant control the masses of gallons of water that would be rushing down. It is highly dangerous to have a place and hold millions of gallons of water & expect it to work safely 100% f the time. Smaller amounts, less devastation, pool covet, better built strictures & securing the parameter around the facility is a much better plan! ❤🎉
The water level should have been float controlled. Cheaper, simpler, almost fool proof.
I think there is a miniature one of these in Indiana. Maybe only large enough to power a few homes or a neighborhood. I saw it years ago, and now all these years later I can't remember where I saw it. When I do I'll re-post.
Talk about a disaster that could have been prevented super easily.
Thank you for using standard US measurements when describing sizes and other details. I didn’t have the opportunity to learn metrics when I was in school.
I dont call learning metric as a opportunity. I've been American for 73 years and we use inches and feet and ounces and pounds etc.
Hey! What is the coffee machine that you show in the beginning of your videos?
it was an issue of failure on its way that was happening for years... it was acctually set to be fixed a few months later, but it failed before the repairs could be made.
I remember 2005, her name was Tanya Sanchez.
No coffee the whole video
I think the content of this channel is good but it's hard to follow with the sound affects, the muffled voice and the presentation is fairly confusing too.
Thank God "Lesterville" was saved! 😜
Imagine what the family was thinking when the flood hit them.
I don't know about the one that's 40% more energy-efficient because you're converting perfectly good water into some type of slurry that's heavier.
My mom used to work there she said it was pretty crazy.
The U.s. runs 60 htz electric. This means a flywheel or mechanic energy is needed to keep the 60 htz. Wind and solar don't produce enough to keep the htz up and keep grid from crashing. Ireland turned a coal power plant into a flywheel to do about the same thing. A way to keep the htz of the grid from collapsing if it gets too low.
Wow! I’ve always suspected there was a large flywheel in the power inverter that’s wired into my off grid solar system. Thanks for the heads-up!!
The gold mine in Australia is called the Kidstone mine. Its downfall is that its miles from nowhere.
in this situation it's not the height or the amount of water in the reservoir that matters, it's the slope of the runoff
Hydroelectric power is the most dangerous source of electricity. That's true regardless of whether the water comes from a dammed river or pumped storage.
Actually the most dangerous in terms of having caused actual health consequences is coal. Literally millions of people have died because of the pollution caused by burning coal to generate electricity. And that's not even taking into account the millions who will die due to sea-level rise, which decades of burning coal set into motion.
Your contents are absolutely important. But that voice... is it your natural voice? Could it be a less shouting sound?
i live right next to this place
Around here there are 10 miles of 2200 ft to 150 ft of canyons. Take a boxcar and it with dirt and a cable to go 5 miles. On energy days, the boxcars could be transported up hills and generate power on less! There is 3 nuclear, 7 dams, and probable the largest wind power in the word!