Can A Hydroelectric Dam Survive An Earthquake?!

[@ImogenBhogal]

I think we can all agree that the real star of this episode is Bill Wright and it will come as no surprise to you that he got a hole in one in a charity golf tournament, coaches ice hockey and has the most incredible enthusiasm for the John Hart Dam and its impact on the local community. It was such a pleasure to spend the day with him and the team AND to travel to Vancouver Island via the Harbour Air Sea Planes (one day they WILL be electric). What a day!

[@54mgtf22]

Bill was a great co-star to our favourite mighty midget.

[@NealeUpstone]

Asking kindly... When do we get to hear about the mining of gold? I ask because it's there in my face every time I watch and it's a notable distraction when watching something that talks about sustainability and economic equity.

[@fullychargedshow]

great question - whilst not about gold specifically i'd point you towards these two episodes

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[@JorgeniLund]

Great video and stunning views of not only nature but also technology.

[@grahamwoliter9649]

And Imogen

[@54mgtf22]

Yep. Stunning. The scenery behind Imogen is nice too.

[@urbanstrencan]

These kinds of projects are really important for future stability of dams and power we get from them, Great video

[@GuySmallwood-ie3fo]

Really enjoy Imogen’s content .. keep up the good work 👍

[@kipluce]

Nice work Imogen and team. I hope you had a great time on our island.

[@fullychargedshow]

we really really did!!

[@mikemellor759]

Great video - interesting insight into the issues of major dam upgrades.

[@TimsElectric]

Very interesting! I learned so much about power in my own backyard...I had no idea! :) thank you Imogen and the Fully Charged Show for doing this...I'm just down the road in Victoria :) :)

[@leschristinenewman3775]

You really need to visit New Zealand as we are nearly 90% renewable energy with many dams in both islands along with geothermal power stations and lately lots of on shore wind farms and lately solar. Well worth a couple of programs

[@envispojke]

Sounds kinda similar to Norway!

[@travisrenney5970]

Great content! Super good quality video. Such good information.

[@TomTom-cm2oq]

Hard to build that dam confidence. Great video. It was about dam time.

[@douggray169]

Great Video - Go Canada!!

[@Neilhuny]

I may be the first person ever to say this, but Imogen Boghal really is a very good presenter! Truly. I hope she doesn't get "stolen" for more mainstream presenting - or perhaps that she does, but continues to present for Fully Charged and Everything Electric, resulting in several million claims that "I knew her when she was .... blah blah blah".

[@AJames-jr8kw]

What a beautiful place.

[@TheWhyGuyChannel]

In exposing my ignorance it seems feasible to put floating solar panels in all of those reservoirs, considering that the infrastructure is already in place to tap into the solar output.

[@gordonmackenzie4512]

Loads of dams producing hydro power in the Highlands of Scotland. Some are very large. They were mostly built in the 1960s. Also pump storage hydro. New pump storage currently at planning and under construction.

[@theunknownunknowns256]

Imogen have you arranged to visit the electric cherry orchard (Forest Lodge Orchard) in Cromwell when you come for the Australia Everything Electric Show? Full electric farm.

[@fullychargedshow]

this sounds incredible! adding to the list of things to google!

[@54mgtf22]

Imogen. Awesome. 😍

[@WilsonCC]

Thanks Fully Charged Show! Always such a great job of educating and creating hope. It's also great to learn such interesting things about my "own back yard" of British Columbia whenever the Fully Charged Show is in Vancouver. Fantastic stuff! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@Rocky-gw4jf]

When I saw the title “Can A Hydroelectric Dam Survive An Earthquake?!” I almost screamed “IT DEPENDS.” Many California dams are too close to earthquake faults, or right on top. No upgrade can fix that. This video was basically BC Hydro PR, without other points of view. Build more dams? The good sites are dammed already. And some dams must come down for many reasons. PS Hydro dams are not "carbon free," they generate a LOT of methane.

[@HorizonimagingCoUkPhotography]

Such an inspiring video, very envious of all the hydro they have in Canada! 😎👍🏻 Don’t envy the task of making a dam earthquake-proof though! Building a new one that’s earthquake-proof perhaps, but retrofitting an existing / active one …! 🤯🤯 Huge respect to all the engineers that are making this possible 👍🏻🙏🏻

[@3184Patrick]

I live on Vancouver island and had no idea they were upgrading the dams lol

[@MR.MACH1NE]

Good to see Michael J Fox is still working...in all seriousness a great little episode...keep up the great content

[@CausticLemons7]

Infrastructure is cool!

[@danielmadar9938]

Thanks

[@colincampbell3679]

BC since they are on the west coast of Canada should also invest in off shore Wave & Tidal power and off shore Wind too.

[@3184Patrick]

might not be good here as our shore drops deep fast and there are many MANY earthquakes west off the island

[@showme360]

Wow our own water companies here in the uK could learn a thing or two here!

[@philiptaylor7902]

On Eileen Subhain in Loch Maree there’s an island in a lake, so island in a lake in an island in a lake in an island. 5th level!

[@bigbadthesailor5173]

as once visited by the great Paul Merton on one of his Grand Tours of Scotland ... I wish they'd re-screen those on iPlayer, a real joy!

[@markiliff]

Been watching Hannah Fry?

[@philiptaylor7902]

@@bigbadthesailor5173 For some reason I thought it was Nick Crane who’d visited it, but you’re right it was the guy off HIGNFY (or maybe it was Paul Murton!)

[@philiptaylor7902]

@@markiliff Whaaaat! I commented the wrong video! Doh!

[@markiliff]

@@philiptaylor7902 8-)

[@xanokothe]

Dams, the best power plants since 1900s

[@matt45540]

* electrical power, they've been powerhouses for centuries, just turning things directly

[@Yanquetino]

I'm curious to know if they've been measuring the salmon populations, and whether or not they are stable… or diminishing. Do they have spawning grounds up above all three dams?

[@crowfoot1199]

In the video one of the BC Hydro guys (Bill Wright?) said they were doing continual fish counts to make sure the work isn't impacting the fish, and I know the salmon spawn all the way up pretty much everywhere, including above the dam. Wright also said that gravel was being brought in, and that's for the spawning beds for the salmon. I would assume they'd have fish ladders to help them past the dam, and probably also hatcheries. I know the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) tries to track the salmon pretty carefully, runs or is involved with lots of hatcheries to help bolster the population, and tries to allocate a percentage of the salmon runs to Indigenous fishing, commercial, and sport fishing while still maintaining enough for conservation. This is a complicated mix of competing interests, and DFO is definitely not above reproach here, but I've spoken with the biologists and fisheries officers at DFO and they are all concerned about the survival of the fish, the environment, etc. Everyone hates the DFO lol - everyone wants a higher percentage of fish - there are massive amounts of money involved with commercial salmon licences, sports fishers hate them for not being able to just stick a pole in a river and catch a salmon (you need a licence! they need to know how many are being taken!), and First Nations communities need the fish for food, social, and ceremonial reasons as well as never having ceded their rights and title. Oof.

[@crowfoot1199]

er sorry for the info dump lol

[@darthsirrius]

"NFL football pitch." Rofl, oh Imogen, you adorable little British scamp 😋

[@EugeneLambert]

And you travelled there by electric seaplane too! BC Hydro really seem very switched on, if you will forgive the gruesome pun.

[@DefinitelyNotMyRealName]

Damn

[@ferkeap]

Candu British Columbia should integrate new nuclear reactors, like the Canadian Candu reactors.

[@zapfanzapfan]

BC is the Norway of North America.

[@ulf5738]

What a beauty ❤ and I ain’t talking about the dam

[@melonmelon2848]

One water source, 3times of power generation, TIL

[@ChrisBigBad]

"And this crane - it's fully electric!" - wait what? They come in un-electric? Here in Germany, I have never seen that ever. All these skinny cranes are electric. Okay, they might be running generators to power a crane if there is no reliable power during construction, but... hah. Strange :D

[@colinrobinson7869]

1 question, are Canadians bigger than European or do they do only one size of ppe that high zis vest you could have walked around in it.

[@RtCmdr]

Probably a bit of both. I'd guess that site has one-size-fits-all vests for visitors.. And since it needs to fit all (or at least most) it's probably generous in size. Source: 🇨🇦👷

[@TrevorReaStewartnexus]

We're big. We're friendly. And we're getting greener. =)

[@pjpcarv]

This has been going on for a while... what's the deal with the abrupt endings? You could at least plug in your Everything Electric bit at the end, too, or have the presenter say goodbye or something. It just feels like the video got cut out.

[@gphilipc2031]

DAM that's old.

[@thyristo]

Yangqu: 🥱

[@denis9450]

So to make them Earth quake proof they put them underground nearer to the earth quake

[@ferkeap]

It's a missed change of explaining why. FC, is failing a bit here. They should provide more context. It doesn't need to be in-depth.

[@grahambyrne8714]

No chance of looking at the 5 gorges damm in China then which you can fit the hoover damm into 4 times.

[@t1n4444]

Nah! The anti Chinese news (hah!) platforms have already hinted that damn is distorted, cue Photo Shopped satellite images of wobbly shaped dam wall as proof.

[@Neilhuny]

I walked past there once, and now it has a bulge it can't get rid of. Coincidence?

[@jonathanclutton2813]

A truly enlightened and properly environmentally friendly approach would have the aim of removing the dams altogether. Replace the power generation with instream turbines, wind and solar, and give the river back to the salmon and the beavers, who will restore aquifers for local water supply and boost biodiversity and carbon sequestration to levels we can currently only dream of.

[@davidcottrell570]

There are wind turbines on the northern tip of the island. Not sure of the efficacity of instream turbines or their impact on the salmon population, but I doubt it would be good, and you would still need dams to maintain a steady stream of water, preventing flooding in Campbell River in the winter and drying out the river in the summer. This system provides electricity for nearly a million people on Vancouver Island, and I would think that B.C. Hydro did their homework. At least we don’t depend on fossil fuels or nuclear power. We could go back to the pre-electric era, and a handful of gulf islands (eg Savary, Lasqueti) have opted out, but for most of us, electricity is a basic necessity. And at 14.5 cents kWh/h, affordable.

[@mbabcock111]

Dams have been a great, reliable source of cheap electricity leading up to nuclear power. However, nuclear is the only realistic, permanent baseline power source. Once SMR production is established, the dams can be removed. Repeal: Clean Energy Act Ch 22 Part 1 article 2 sub-para (o); and Add: sub-para (q) ...to achieve British Columbia's energy objectives to include nuclear energy.

[@ferkeap]

Nope, they are already there. You can build new rivers for fish.

[@roidroid]

0:09 which is the start of [SPONSOR]. (immediate cease "consuming content of" video) WOW mate, everyone can really hear the PR coming from before u even reach the doorbell eh. It literally had that vibe from the first literal second of the video, didn't it. ... yikes. ps: have we mentioned, that we're looking for a corporate buyout? we want someone to literally buy our entire brand. We're not gonna talk about this publicly, other than the public announcement, which we disabled comments on. "SO SHH SHUT UP, YOU ANIMALS" yes? The story is weird (bad PR), get it together mate. I trust your judgement - well... in the past anyway. If you've since gotten old & weird, find a PR firm with a similar ideology to u from 5-15 yrs ago (get close friends/family to help u judge, if necessary).

[@Paul-67]

Fukushima?

[@BRSxIgnition]

What in the literal hell are you talking about lmao

[@darthsirrius]

...yeah... what about it?

[@t1n4444]

@@Paul-67 Hmm ... are you aware of the difference between nuclear and hydro power generation ... and a tsunami and an earthquake? Perhaps you might care to expand your thoughts on the matter? I for one am fascinated by your comment so please explain your reasoning.

[@crowfoot1199]

I mean, he's probably just thinking about major structural damage in the event of an earthquake, for which Fukushima applies, even if it was the tsunami created by the earthquake that did the most damage. As someone who lives in BC, the Big One (tm) and if it will burst dams is definitely something to think about. But the whole point of the video is that BC Hydro ISe thinking about it and are working on making the dams safer.

[@ferkeap]

​@@t1n4444yes hydro is the worst lethal form, in statistics. And nuclear the least. But I agree it's fear mongering. We should look at it with context towards global climate chance.