Hi Juan. If you ever get a chance tour beneath the Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. The sound of the water going over the falls is deafening. There are places you get to look through to see the falling water from under the curtain. Nature at it's finest! Awesome experience. Enjoyed going on your tour of the Shasta Dam. Thank you. Judy from Victoria BC Canada.
OMG. I was there in 2012. Actually visiting the insulation factory and took a quick ride up the hill to check out the dam and lake. Wish I had time to explore this beautiful place. But had to get back to San Fran and beyond. Mt Shasta reminds me of Mt Taranaki here in NZ (active if not quiescent volcano here and not as high as Shasta). Awesome.
So great seeing the Shasta reservoir back to height. Couldn't believe how low the levels were. The bears are happy too, much shorter walk to take a bath 🐻 🛀✌️
Another Awesome video and sure brought back memories of our Shasta Lake days. Lived between Redding and Central Valley now Shasta Lake City, for 30 years since 1980. Loved the jet sking, the house boating, and the fishing!!! Took the Dam tour before the dam was made deeper for the fish.
You have a beautiful family, the dam footage is spectacular...you know it really shows what the US can do, it's immense engineering ability (it is such a shame that many in power are so utterly corrupt, that all good money is looted - in a time when so much money exists at the top yet infrastructure and the working people are so neglected to bring us where we're today.
Lovely video, as usual. You have no idea how you and your productions have added to our homeschool curricula!! THANK YOU is, as always, painfully inadequate, for what is obviously a labor of love. --Comers7
+ BeechComer - Yes, a labor of love and sacrifice of their time for his whole family. It's been some homeschooling for me too - at 70 yrs old! Among many facts, I've learned about a "gantry" today. And for your family, seeing the example of how his family is working together on all these videos - well, that must be a great confirmation of what you too are doing.
So nice to see California all nice and green in your videos, my one trip down was in late July when I found brown to be the more dominant color for most of the state. Thank you from BC.
Hi: It is sure nice to see you take your family on trips that are fun as well as educational. You will be surprised what they remember after they are grown and set down and they talk about these trips. I still get surprises from mine. It make me feel good all over again with you two. Keep doing it..
Shasta Dam is on our list of impressive places to visit. Thanks for this preview I can show the family. I was glad to see your family in attendance too. I think they are sweet.
You are such a geek Juan..... That is why we like you..!! Lovely family..!! WOW... still a Free Tour..!! I was there in April 1983 and the spillway was at full blast.
Just to clarify: The Shasta dam is part of the federal "Central Valley Project" (owner: US Bureau of Reclamation). Oroville dam is part of the "State Water Project" (owner: California Department of Water Resources). The "California Aqueduct" is part of the "State Water Project" and is not part of the "Central Valley Project." The "California Aqueduct" transports state water, starting at Lake Oroville, south through the central valley, and into Southern California.
Mark thank you for the info on state vs Fed Law. I did not know that law. in the Late 80s I owned land in ca with a large creek that passed through my property and I was considering putting a small hydro power system in as the drop was about 320 feet. The state said NO WAY Jose. However at that time and I assume is stll the case Fed Law said I could (with some rules and guidlines of cource But more imporant the Federal Law outdoes state. So I could have legaly moved forward with it. Not harming any fish nor blocking there travel nor harming the water or its flow. Meaning I could have the power plant as llong as the flow of the creek leaving my land was as before. I ened up NOT doing it as the state made it clear they did not care what the feds said or if they loose in court (for breaking state law Jail etc..) plus a very long expensive court battle was planed even though they nre they would loose. Its too bad as the plant would havre powered 247 homes with zero polution. Anyway than you. Beef (Jim)
Thank you for taking us along on your visit; very interesting. There are a number of key differences between this dam system and Oroville; the Shasta Dam seems very much ahead of its time, as it was built before WWII. I wonder if we will start seeing "The Browne Effect": Thousands of Blancolirio's subscribers and fans following in Mr. Browne's footsteps and having their family vacations at the places he vlogs about: Bridal Veil Falls, CA; Loon Lake, ID; Shasta Dam, CA. I must admit I'm tempted to visit them!
It's too bad that you have to fly them big ol air planes all over the world because you are one hell of a journalist. I am always very impressed with your reports. I could probably watch you report on watching paint drying if you did so...Thanks for the great stuff you put out here for us to see!!!
when i was about your daughter's age i toured Hoover dam. i was confused about the relationship of the power plant to the dam. i thought it was actually inside the dam. thanks for sharing!
About 35 years ago my parents took me with them on vacation to Arizona. We visited and toured Glen Canyon Dam, Hoover Dam, and Parker Dam. I've had a fascination with dams and rivers ever since.
Really enjoy your videos..In 2011 our house in Bangkok was surrounded by water for 3 weeks due to a screwup on holding too much water in the dams when rainy season started..It was hard to believe as close as we are to the gulf that it could happen..We tour the dams on our road trips around Thailand..Thanks for taking the time to do these
Awesome dam! I got to go in hoover dam when I was in high school years ago. The spillway looks like a big water slide. What a test of the emergency runoff!
I took a tour of Shasta Dam some years ago and really enjoyed it. Shasta is unique in that it has two additional smaller generators (besides the 5 main generators) which power the dam itself. So if there was ever a major failure of the power grid, Shasta would be able to help put it back online.
Loved the video, nice to see this info on Shasta Dam, great looking family also. I think we will go and take a look see about touring the dam, thanks for the video!!! We got to get out of Evacuation Area 1A in Oroville sometime and its good to take a trip.....
Funny that they are allowing tours again... meanwhile in Ohio, we can't get within 300 yards of a lousy Lock and Dam on the Ohio River that had a wonderful observation deck, still standing, but defunct. Great video as always!
Alot of it was welded together & watching the old video's & seeing the old pictures they would walk along the Horiz bars suspended in the air as they installed the re-bar... quite the feat seeing them weld a "walkway" for themselves as they proceeded... very skilled & courageous workers... somewhat different than the libtards who work at starbucks today & need counseling if a Karen appears demanding to see a manager!
Great vlog. I've been meaning to do that tour for years. ever since I saw the Huell Houser video log. I love the ending " the best part of the tour, it's free "
GREAT VIDEO. Very informative. That's they way the Eagle Creek dam West of Indy where I worked for 4 years was built. One block at a time. The downstream side was a layer poured later as a wearing surface. High strength concrete with smaller aggregate sizes. The main dam concrete had gravel as large as 8". Eagle Creek and Oroville are gravity dams. Held in place by their massive weight. Shasta is an arch dam that holds the water like a bridge on it's side.
Thanks Juan and family. Interesting tour. Built on time and under budget!! (p.s.,I don't understand why Oroville dam isn't like this one, but I don't live there.)
+sue200012 - Another viewer of this video, Soren Solveig, left this comment that may answer your question: "Just to clarify: The Shasta dam is part of the federal "Central Valley Project" (owner: US Bureau of Reclamation). Oroville dam is part of the "State Water Project" (owner: California Department of Water Resources). The "California Aqueduct" is part of the "State Water Project" and is not part of the "Central Valley Project." The "California Aqueduct" transports state water, starting at Lake Oroville, south through the central valley, and into Southern California."
It's actually really easy to see the differences in quality and maintenance between Oroville and Shasta. Oroville being built and maintained by California and Shasta by the Feds.
And Shasta obviously has good aeration combined with a steep slope. Good design unlike Oroville that could not afford that in its time. Thanks for this Juan. Excellent.
Juan I'm sitting in North Carolina watching your videos very well done,I have a brother who lives in Vacaville I'm a little concerned at people down stream of Orville it's only 80 miles to Vacaville.that a very large amount of frigid water! Keep up good work d price Charlotte
+ David Price - I understand your concern; I have a brother and his family that live just four miles from the dam. I'm on the east coast and am so thankful for Juan's reporting.
We did the Boulder (Hoover) Dam tour around 1955. My dad, born in 1898 wasn't a Hoover fan so he continued to call it Boulder Dam. My mom, born in 1915, liked Hoover so she called it Hoover Dam. :-) My wife and I took our three kids on the tour in 1976. It seemed smaller to me. :-)
Nice presentation. Incidentally, the Central Valley Project, built in the 1940s and 1950s by the Bureau of Reclamation included Shasta Dam, Folsom Dam, Friant Dam, New Melones Dam, Trinity Dam, Whiskytown Dam, the Delta Mendota Canal, the Friant Kern Canal, the Madera Canal and the Delta Cross Channel. A great "can do" effort.
The more videos you update, the more hydroelectric culture I have as a follower. You give us new perspectives of dams, normally on the Oroville situation but today's family tour is so interesting! What comes next about Oroville? Congratulations!
blancolirio In a lower sea level (height), we have similar dams here in Catalonia (Spain), on the lower course of the Ebro River, like: Riba-roja Dam (in catalan, "embassament de Riba-roja") or upper and closer in Mequinenza Dam. Take a look on google Earth. ;)
That's cool that you can still go in it. We toured the grand coulee dam here in Washington last summer. The "tour" post 9-11 is not what it was in the 90s. It's still worth the trip however.
Shasta is a fair sized dam. If you want to see a real big dam, come up to Washington state and tour Grand Coulee Dam. They have a lazer light show in the evenings during the summer months. You can watch the light show and accompanying music right from the local motels or at the downstream viewpoints. I've been to almost every dam on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, some incredible engineering....
The Wikipedia page says the spillway and turbines there hit a record flow of 637,800 CFS back in 1948. That's a lot of water. Always a nice road trip in that part of WA state to check out the Grand Coulee Dam.
I will be viewing that part of the series soon!! As much as I love Hoover Dam, which is incredibly beautiful, I am a wee bit partial to the big girl. Back in my younger years, summers highpoints were camping trips spent in canvas tents, a huge station wagon filled with kids and grandma, seeing every national park and WPA dam in the west. Kept the tradition up with my kids. And I am amazed at the way those workers transformed the western half of the country. Folks forget that most of the United States rural areas had NO ELECTRICAL POWER until the projects of the Great Depression. Just a couple of generations ago....
My mother lived in Kennett, which is under the lake now, and she and her siblings used to play in that train tunnel as kids, and would dare each other to lay down off to the side as the trains came through. Most people from Kennett moved downstream to Keswick as the water rose.
Hey blancolirio That was a very cool video/ I love the shasta dam. Since you are a pilot i hope you might consider flying to the Grand Coulee Dam. It is very cool. It has the largest Generators in the USA since they added the 4th power plant about 30 years ago. They have a way cool Lazer light show on the face of the dam at night. This dam is so big the cement in the middle has stll not set yet. Enough cement to build a freeway from coast to cost was poored into that dam. It is still hardening there was so much. Once they stared pooring they could not stop. 8 persons are buried in the cement ( not sure how exactly that happend ) A little note. Just one of the penstolks of the 4th power plant carries more water than the Hover Dam in Total. And makes more power. about 100 miles from there is Dworshak dam. It is not as tall but second tallest dam in the USA. But it looks taller from the highway as you are farther below the botom when you drive by it. It liiks more like Hover but larger. Grand Coulee is and if not closedto inside tours sinse 911 is so full of very very facinating facts and NO other dam in the wold is build on the same priciple. It also has pumps that push water up over a hill to send water to the columbia bason and turned the second largest desert in the us into some of the best farmland.
That 'block' construction method is the same way they built Hoover Dam. Hoover / Boulder was completed in '36, Shasta was started in '37. Presumably all those experienced workers moved from Hoover to Shasta
Back in the day there wasn’t endless studies and court challenges to building a major project. I’m not saying it ought to be that way again. I am saying so many requirements and court interference get in] the way of accomplishing anything in a timely manner and on budget
I enjoyed that, it was good. I wonder if they use a filter of some sort in the penstock intake structure to prevent sediment getting into the turbines?
Do that means «technologies» to use turbo as internal rotors electricity producing devices that could "change" water in explosive components already exist ? Gosh, that cavitation knowledge is huge ! Re-use water as burning components in an engine using turbo electrical produce ... Juan, you're a genius !
Looks like they always were Francis turbines. The head is right in the Francis "sweet spot". With computers and such they can now design better blades which allow more flow with less turbulence = better efficiency
To elaborate. The power house contains two 125 MW units and three 142 MW units..........Water flow in the 15 foot diameter penstocks is only about 10 to 15 MPH. Obviously it is much faster through the inlet raceway.......Pelton wheel turbines are very sensitive to fluctuating head. Deviating from the design head leads to inefficiency. They also have to work in air as a surrounding medium........Francis turbines aren't nearly as sensitive to fluctuating head and run fully flooded, which means that part of the energy comes from suction in the tail race.
Hi Juan. If you ever get a chance tour beneath the Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. The sound of the water going over the falls is deafening. There are places you get to look through to see the falling water from under the curtain. Nature at it's finest! Awesome experience. Enjoyed going on your tour of the Shasta Dam. Thank you. Judy from Victoria BC Canada.
OMG. I was there in 2012. Actually visiting the insulation factory and took a quick ride up the hill to check out the dam and lake. Wish I had time to explore this beautiful place. But had to get back to San Fran and beyond. Mt Shasta reminds me of Mt Taranaki here in NZ (active if not quiescent volcano here and not as high as Shasta). Awesome.
You've probably heard this already, but I think you're the best dam reporter there is.
See what you did there !!!
LOL
So great seeing the Shasta reservoir back to height. Couldn't believe how low the levels were. The bears are happy too, much shorter walk to take a bath 🐻 🛀✌️
Nice to see snow again on Mt Shasta too.
Now it’s lower than ever!
Another Awesome video and sure brought back memories of our Shasta Lake days. Lived between Redding and Central Valley now Shasta Lake City, for 30 years since 1980. Loved the jet sking, the house boating, and the fishing!!! Took the Dam tour before the dam was made deeper for the fish.
You have a beautiful family, the dam footage is spectacular...you know it really shows what the US can do, it's immense engineering ability (it is such a shame that many in power are so utterly corrupt, that all good money is looted - in a time when so much money exists at the top yet infrastructure and the working people are so neglected to bring us where we're today.
Awesome Juan.Thank you for sharing it with us.The power of water is amazing.
Thank you for your high quality, very informative and interesting videos
Lovely video, as usual. You have no idea how you and your productions have added to our homeschool curricula!! THANK YOU is, as always, painfully inadequate, for what is obviously a labor of love. --Comers7
Wow! Excellent!
+ BeechComer - Yes, a labor of love and sacrifice of their time for his whole family. It's been some homeschooling for me too - at 70 yrs old! Among many facts, I've learned about a "gantry" today. And for your family, seeing the example of how his family is working together on all these videos - well, that must be a great confirmation of what you too are doing.
Some day I'll tell you about how I quite flying so I could meet a nice girl and start a family. (it worked, too) --Comers7
So nice to see California all nice and green in your videos, my one trip down was in late July when I found brown to be the more dominant color for most of the state. Thank you from BC.
Hi:
It is sure nice to see you take your family on trips that are fun as well as educational. You will be surprised what they remember after they are grown and set down and they talk about these trips. I still get surprises from mine. It make me feel good all over again with you two. Keep doing it..
Impressive engineering and incredible flow of water. Thank you for sharing your family time with us.
Love your family pics, Juan, thx for sharing your adventures! The Shasta Dam Tour is pretty cool...we took it a few months back 😆
Took my kids on the tour back in the late 90's. Your video is just how I remember it.
Very informative. Keep on educating America, we need it.
+ John Dill - Yes! Once again I felt like a eager-to-learn student watching this. His videos are always worth my time.
Shasta Dam is on our list of impressive places to visit. Thanks for this preview I can show the family.
I was glad to see your family in attendance too. I think they are sweet.
You are such a geek Juan..... That is why we like you..!! Lovely family..!! WOW... still a Free Tour..!! I was there in April 1983 and the spillway was at full blast.
Just to clarify: The Shasta dam is part of the federal "Central Valley Project" (owner: US Bureau of Reclamation). Oroville dam is part of the "State Water Project" (owner: California Department of Water Resources). The "California Aqueduct" is part of the "State Water Project" and is not part of the "Central Valley Project." The "California Aqueduct" transports state water, starting at Lake Oroville, south through the central valley, and into Southern California.
+ Soren Solveig - Thank you for spelling out the differences in ownership of these projects.
Mark thank you for the info on state vs Fed Law. I did not know that law. in the Late 80s I owned land in ca with a large creek that passed through my property and I was considering putting a small hydro power system in as the drop was about 320 feet. The state said NO WAY Jose. However at that time and I assume is stll the case Fed Law said I could (with some rules and guidlines of cource But more imporant the Federal Law outdoes state. So I could have legaly moved forward with it. Not harming any fish nor blocking there travel nor harming the water or its flow. Meaning I could have the power plant as llong as the flow of the creek leaving my land was as before. I ened up NOT doing it as the state made it clear they did not care what the feds said or if they loose in court (for breaking state law Jail etc..) plus a very long expensive court battle was planed even though they nre they would loose. Its too bad as the plant would havre powered 247 homes with zero polution. Anyway than you.
Beef (Jim)
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Mark H
Why such vehemence against private ponds?
My bullshit meter is going off, Mark H. There is clearly more to the story...
You are the man! Great pictures and information. I am disabled and can't go to interesting places anymore. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your tour. The interior looks like the inside of Hoover Dam (1931-36).
Thank you for taking us along on your visit; very interesting. There are a number of key differences between this dam system and Oroville; the Shasta Dam seems very much ahead of its time, as it was built before WWII.
I wonder if we will start seeing "The Browne Effect": Thousands of Blancolirio's subscribers and fans following in Mr. Browne's footsteps and having their family vacations at the places he vlogs about: Bridal Veil Falls, CA; Loon Lake, ID; Shasta Dam, CA.
I must admit I'm tempted to visit them!
I never even thought about doing the tour -- will definitely put that on my list for next drive up there. Thanks for the great virtual tour.
So impressed by that amazing dam. Thank you for sharing your day with us and your family.
So kind of you to share your video, TY.
Great presentation Juan - thank you.
It's too bad that you have to fly them big ol air planes all over the world because you are one hell of a journalist. I am always very impressed with your reports. I could probably watch you report on watching paint drying if you did so...Thanks for the great stuff you put out here for us to see!!!
when i was about your daughter's age i toured Hoover dam. i was confused about the relationship of the power plant to the dam. i thought it was actually inside the dam. thanks for sharing!
The fact it got built during the War Years is Very Impressive to me!
Great Video, Thanks Much & Y'all Have Fun!
Yes, and the workers got Veterans Status!
About 35 years ago my parents took me with them on vacation to Arizona. We visited and toured Glen Canyon Dam, Hoover Dam, and Parker Dam. I've had a fascination with dams and rivers ever since.
Good to know you can take tours again. Thanks for the video.
Really enjoy your videos..In 2011 our house in Bangkok was surrounded by water for 3 weeks due to a screwup on holding too much water in the dams when rainy season started..It was hard to believe as close as we are to the gulf that it could happen..We tour the dams on our road trips around Thailand..Thanks for taking the time to do these
Awesome dam! I got to go in hoover dam when I was in high school years ago. The spillway looks like a big water slide. What a test of the emergency runoff!
I took a tour of Shasta Dam some years ago and really enjoyed it. Shasta is unique in that it has two additional smaller generators (besides the 5 main generators) which power the dam itself. So if there was ever a major failure of the power grid, Shasta would be able to help put it back online.
Loved the video, nice to see this info on Shasta Dam, great looking family also. I think we will go and take a look see about touring the dam, thanks for the video!!! We got to get out of Evacuation Area 1A in Oroville sometime and its good to take a trip.....
claustrophobic just watching them walk the tunnels... walls closing in... so glad you guys walked it for us so I don't have to be afraid. Grin
Funny that they are allowing tours again... meanwhile in Ohio, we can't get within 300 yards of a lousy Lock and Dam on the Ohio River that had a wonderful observation deck, still standing, but defunct. Great video as always!
I live 2200 miles east but this is very interesting thanks for posting. Mt. Shasta is beautiful.
Your doing a great job , Thank you.
The Juan Browne Report. Truth all the way and I liked how the segments and the rebar were tied together here.
Alot of it was welded together & watching the old video's & seeing the old pictures they would walk along the Horiz bars suspended in the air as they installed the re-bar... quite the feat seeing them weld a "walkway" for themselves as they proceeded... very skilled & courageous workers... somewhat different than the libtards who work at starbucks today & need counseling if a Karen appears demanding to see a manager!
@@MrAdamNTProtester U got it!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful family with us, in addition to sharing your knowledge.
Great video. Glad you and the family are embarking on a dam tour of northern CA.
Great vlog. I've been meaning to do that tour for years. ever since I saw the Huell Houser video log. I love the ending " the best part of the tour, it's free "
GREAT VIDEO. Very informative. That's they way the Eagle Creek dam West of Indy where I worked for 4 years was built. One block at a time. The downstream side was a layer poured later as a wearing surface. High strength concrete with smaller aggregate sizes. The main dam concrete had gravel as large as 8". Eagle Creek and Oroville are gravity dams. Held in place by their massive weight. Shasta is an arch dam that holds the water like a bridge on it's side.
Thanks for another great video Juan.
ya'll decked out in your slickers reminds me of Niagara Falls circa 1955. thanks Juan.
Thank you Juan Browne! 🇺🇸✈️
Thanks Juan and family. Interesting tour. Built on time and under budget!!
(p.s.,I don't understand why Oroville dam isn't like this one, but I don't live there.)
Must not have been a "fixed price" contract to be able to come in under budget.
+sue200012 - Another viewer of this video, Soren Solveig, left this comment that may answer your question:
"Just to clarify: The Shasta dam is part of the federal "Central Valley Project" (owner: US Bureau of Reclamation). Oroville dam is part of the "State Water Project" (owner: California Department of Water Resources). The "California Aqueduct" is part of the "State Water Project" and is not part of the "Central Valley Project." The "California Aqueduct" transports state water, starting at Lake Oroville, south through the central valley, and into Southern California."
I see. Thank y'all.
It's actually really easy to see the differences in quality and maintenance between Oroville and Shasta. Oroville being built and maintained by California and Shasta by the Feds.
Oroville was designed by t Army Corp of Engineers. No amount of maintenance was going to prevent it. The failure was due to design flaws.
Thank you for sharing a very interesting video. God bless you and your family
And Shasta obviously has good aeration combined with a steep slope. Good design unlike Oroville that could not afford that in its time. Thanks for this Juan. Excellent.
Beautiful design - and review. Cheers
Thanks for the tour Juan. Loved the historical photos at the end.
thanks again Juan, you do great work...
thank you so much, I loved the model and your explainations
Very impressive, designed by guys with slide rulers.
I still have mine and even know how to use it ! !
Me too!
+ Jk Smith - Yes, very impressive.
Great Wall of China - designed by guys with Abacuses. Pyramids - by guys with clay tablets. Aquaducts - guys with papyrus scrolls.
+Eastern Woods I have one too. I'd need to read the instructions, which I have, to use it. I've forgotten. Good for you for still using it!
Excellent information as usual!
All your videos are great....
Wow. I was through that area early last year and Shasta was almost dry. It's good to see.
Juan I'm sitting in North Carolina watching your videos very well done,I have a brother who lives in Vacaville I'm a little concerned at people down stream of Orville it's only 80 miles to Vacaville.that a very large amount of frigid water! Keep up good work d price Charlotte
+ David Price - I understand your concern; I have a brother and his family that live just four miles from the dam. I'm on the east coast and am so thankful for Juan's reporting.
I too have been on this tour, it was great. Highly recommended.
Shasta Dam is one of my favorites. Maybe some day I'll go see it again.
Thanks for the tour...another great video!
Cool! Thanks for posting this! I will take this tour. Thanks Again!
We did the Boulder (Hoover) Dam tour around 1955. My dad, born in 1898 wasn't a Hoover fan so he continued to call it Boulder Dam. My mom, born in 1915, liked Hoover so she called it Hoover Dam. :-)
My wife and I took our three kids on the tour in 1976. It seemed smaller to me. :-)
Nice presentation. Incidentally, the Central Valley Project, built in the 1940s and 1950s by the Bureau of Reclamation included Shasta Dam, Folsom Dam, Friant Dam, New Melones Dam, Trinity Dam, Whiskytown Dam, the Delta Mendota Canal, the Friant Kern Canal, the Madera Canal and the Delta Cross Channel. A great "can do" effort.
Yep!
Oh boy! I've been waiting for this video!
No video inside :(
The more videos you update, the more hydroelectric culture I have as a follower. You give us new perspectives of dams, normally on the Oroville situation but today's family tour is so interesting! What comes next about Oroville? Congratulations!
A view of the beautiful watershed upstream...
blancolirio In a lower sea level (height), we have similar dams here in Catalonia (Spain), on the lower course of the Ebro River, like: Riba-roja Dam (in catalan, "embassament de Riba-roja") or upper and closer in Mequinenza Dam. Take a look on google Earth. ;)
That's cool that you can still go in it. We toured the grand coulee dam here in Washington last summer. The "tour" post 9-11 is not what it was in the 90s. It's still worth the trip however.
very interesting. Took a tour of the Itaipu dam in Brazil a few years ago.
Wow nice job Juan. Thank you !!!!
Thanks for the tour,we took a tour of hoover some years ago,amazing stuff.
Dude that was awesome to watch. Best quality entertainment on the web. Thanks for doing what you do! Love you videos!
Took the tour with my two children some 50 plus years ago. Now I live but a few miles from it all.
Shasta is a fair sized dam. If you want to see a real big dam, come up to Washington state and tour Grand Coulee Dam. They have a lazer light show in the evenings during the summer months. You can watch the light show and accompanying music right from the local motels or at the downstream viewpoints. I've been to almost every dam on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, some incredible engineering....
Just watched that on PBS 'American Experience'-...GREAT show.
The Wikipedia page says the spillway and turbines there hit a record flow of 637,800 CFS back in 1948. That's a lot of water. Always a nice road trip in that part of WA state to check out the Grand Coulee Dam.
I will be viewing that part of the series soon!! As much as I love Hoover Dam, which is incredibly beautiful, I am a wee bit partial to the big girl. Back in my younger years, summers highpoints were camping trips spent in canvas tents, a huge station wagon filled with kids and grandma, seeing every national park and WPA dam in the west. Kept the tradition up with my kids. And I am amazed at the way those workers transformed the western half of the country. Folks forget that most of the United States rural areas had NO ELECTRICAL POWER until the projects of the Great Depression. Just a couple of generations ago....
Thanks for the tip!!
My mother lived in Kennett, which is under the lake now, and she and her siblings used to play in that train tunnel as kids, and would dare each other to lay down off to the side as the trains came through. Most people from Kennett moved downstream to Keswick as the water rose.
interesting stuff! thank you sir!
Wow Juan, I found the way back machine. Great video!
Great design. The spillway trough is effectively the thickness of the dam. 50 to 250 ft thick. No erosion worries
nice job Juan. I live in sfla but you make very interesting to hear all the dam stuff. .
Hey blancolirio That was a very cool video/ I love the shasta dam. Since you are a pilot i hope you might consider flying to the Grand Coulee Dam. It is very cool. It has the largest Generators in the USA since they added the 4th power plant about 30 years ago. They have a way cool Lazer light show on the face of the dam at night. This dam is so big the cement in the middle has stll not set yet. Enough cement to build a freeway from coast to cost was poored into that dam. It is still hardening there was so much. Once they stared pooring they could not stop. 8 persons are buried in the cement ( not sure how exactly that happend ) A little note. Just one of the penstolks of the 4th power plant carries more water than the Hover Dam in Total. And makes more power. about 100 miles from there is Dworshak dam. It is not as tall but second tallest dam in the USA. But it looks taller from the highway as you are farther below the botom when you drive by it. It liiks more like Hover but larger. Grand Coulee is and if not closedto inside tours sinse 911 is so full of very very facinating facts and NO other dam in the wold is build on the same priciple. It also has pumps that push water up over a hill to send water to the columbia bason and turned the second largest desert in the us into some of the best farmland.
well done. thanks for sharing.
That 'block' construction method is the same way they built Hoover Dam. Hoover / Boulder was completed in '36, Shasta was started in '37. Presumably all those experienced workers moved from Hoover to Shasta
The engineer in charge was the same man
Nice quote there buddy LOL Keep these videos coming very interesting Thanks again
It is a shame our country can't come together and build great projects like this anymore. Put people to work etc.
Back in the day there wasn’t endless studies and court challenges to building a major project. I’m not saying it ought to be that way again. I am saying so many requirements and court interference get in] the way of accomplishing anything in a timely manner and on budget
Good info. I am in Mountain Gate for the last 10 weeks. Thx
Another great video Juan!
Thanks for sharing Juan.
Thanks Juan.
I enjoyed that, it was good. I wonder if they use a filter of some sort in the penstock intake structure to prevent sediment getting into the turbines?
She is a thing of beauty is Shasta Dam. Thanks for the tour, no puddle shots?
I enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Do that means «technologies» to use turbo as internal rotors electricity producing devices that could "change" water in explosive components already exist ?
Gosh, that cavitation knowledge is huge !
Re-use water as burning components in an engine using turbo electrical produce ...
Juan, you're a genius !
Nice video... thanks so much!
Nice informative tour!
Really nice video. You have a great family.
good video on a rainy day. thanks.
Love it Juan.
Did they replace Pelton wheels with more efficient Francis turbines? A quick search on line didn't yield anything specific.
Looks like they always were Francis turbines. The head is right in the Francis "sweet spot". With computers and such they can now design better blades which allow more flow with less turbulence = better efficiency
To elaborate. The power house contains two 125 MW units and three 142 MW units..........Water flow in the 15 foot diameter penstocks is only about 10 to 15 MPH. Obviously it is much faster through the inlet raceway.......Pelton wheel turbines are very sensitive to fluctuating head. Deviating from the design head leads to inefficiency. They also have to work in air as a surrounding medium........Francis turbines aren't nearly as sensitive to fluctuating head and run fully flooded, which means that part of the energy comes from suction in the tail race.
it's cool how you get around
Thank you for sharing.
So many were predicting a huge problem from all the snow melt.. What happened? looking forward to your next Oroville update...
armchair predictions by uninformed youtube fearmongers.
Yes, they are also predicting the Yellowstone calder to blow any minute....
...and that nagging asteroid....