How Scotland's Falkirk Wheel Boat Lift Works
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- This rotating boat lift in Scotland is one of a kind - here's how it works to raise ships 115 feet and connect two canals 🛳
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Okay, this is pretty neat and ingenious.
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Well, whatever floats your boat.
It's an amazing machine.
The Falkirk Wheel is an example of near-perfect engineering. Deploying the Archimedian principle results in the structure always being perfectly balanced and as a result the bridge only needs the power of something like a dozen toasters to perform a cycle. Even though there's a visitor's centre (complete with cafe) it was initially designed as a purely practical structure and only after construction did it become an attraction. As a result, it's become a huge and totally unexpected commercial success Even if you're not normally interested in this kind of thing, it's well worth a visit.
You might be interested in the proposed contour canal. Proposed a long time ago that is. Would have resulted in a canal with almost no locks going most of the length of the country.
so this is just a tourist attraction?
@@mrffbmanagerguy6322 nope, it's a working boat lift and would otherwise need a flight of locks to do the job.....it's also a tourist attraction
@@diceman199 thanks
That wheely cool. 👍👏
It’s a beautiful thing to see, and such a difference in water levels.
I love this idea. Very nice.
Been there quite some years ago and took one of Tourismus boots up and down the wheel.
When you see how large this construct is, you think that the Motor turning the bassins need to be quite strong. But it has - if I remember right- less than 200 HP. As both bassins have always the same weight.
You spin me right round baby... right round...
I now have "meatspin" stuck in my head. DON'T SEARCH THAT.
You searched that. 😔 Sigh.
Built in Ripley Derbyshire by The Butterley Company, Famous for also building St Pancras Station London..
wow.
i'd love to see that in real life.😄
I clicked on this thinking it was going to be a Tom Scott video. haha
I see no ships.
You can totally skate that….
Hmm.
So, we COULD use something like this to construct a canal to go to the desert southwest from the Mississippi river.
(since we have to stick major agriculture, large cities, and golf courses in the middle of the 🤬 desert. Because we're dum-dums. Ok?)
This would be irrigation water...and...
We also ought to make said canal big enough for SMALL transport barges. Ideally, standard sized barges.
The canal could be a very low-carbon way of shipping fresh produce (from farms along said canal) to major cities in the southwest.
Notice the extreme lateral ejections of very heavy material as the building explodes, the pattern of dust cloud formations and the rate the towers drop, and mostly over its foot print.
This looks like any demolition of large building towers, including those other Twin Towers September 11 2001.
Let's hope the dust and debris and clean up doesn't cause the diseases, cancers and deaths, over decades, again.
Wrong posting.