Hoover Dam Power Plant Tour - Narrated

[@JungleYT]

When I was there as a kid, the room *vibrated and throbbed!*

[@tammyphxaz]

very good camera work thanks for posting

[@Coldbrookdangee]

Imagine you get to be the engineer that designed these in 1936

[@rushcummins8257]

In 2012, the Three Gorges Dam in China took over the #1 spot of the largest hydroelectric dam (in electricity production), replacing the Itaipú hydroelectric power plant in Brazil and Paraguay. The Three Gorges Dam has a generating capacity of 22,500 megawatts (MW) compared to 14,000 MW for the Itaipu Dam.

[@Charlesbjtown]

Guy talks like a game show host.

[@theresapolicar7367]

I missed this place

[@elliswoodall407]

I do too and what got me is how them power lines "leaned" in the THE CANYON. Lol very rare to me. I went there back in The summer of 2000.

[@elliswoodall407]

It's some serious stuff and a engineering MARVEL.🔋🔌⚡

[@EphemeralProductions]

love the tour guide. cute and funny ol man! Hehe

[@artmchugh9283]

tall32guy COME ON DOWN! you're the next contestant on the price is right !😄😄

[@edwardbenkert2618]

Very cool

[@DESIBOY-fe7nm]

When a difficulty comes, Americans always find their way. Respect from India

[@rahulkatare802]

No comment bro American r rude ego don't show brotherhood

[@RJ1999x]

Allis Chalmers turbines and generators! made in Milwaukee Wi!

[@heman248]

I find funny how we just have to make things bigger to get more of the same stuff. I love how symmetrical this universe is!

[@Coldbrookdangee]

That big ass rotor was an electromagnet rotor??? So no permanent magnets in the generator? So how is the rotor energized?

[@vst9266]

With that blue thing on the top. No permanent magnets,are coils on the rotor.

[@EphemeralProductions]

2080! that's 2 gigawatts! O_0

[@EphemeralProductions]

you can kind of hear the 60 hz vibrations from the generators.

[@estebanquito356]

actually it's 120hz

[@EphemeralProductions]

estebanquito356 ??!!! How is it that it is 120 Hz, when the power frequency is 60 Hz? I always thought the vibration of the elelctricity supply (50 or 60 Hz) was directly from the rotation of the commutator in the generator... O-o

[@scotty3034]

I was curious and am running the audio through a spectrum analyzer in Pro Tools as I write this. I'm seeing sub freq's starting at 35Hz @ -6db and peaking at 80Hz @ +1 db. There's probably far lower than 35Hz on site but that's probably the limit of this camera mic.

[@jefftoole5154]

Oh baby big shaft

[@vst9266]

If u work near the generators u can "feel" in time heart disease too from the electro magnetic field. Is the most common disease workers get from staying in that magnetic field.

[@mandysingh7868]

Nice

[@jimbeck553]

When I went there recently they would not let us anywhere near the turbines.

[@PuffleFuzz]

Jim Beck then they don’t have the guts like this dude

[@narendravishvkarma1632]

good

[@joegoins9894]

Take magnets put them on the shafts and take two magnets and put them on each side and the motor runs for free

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

American know-how. The Chinese were only 78 years behind us in Dam technology.

[@joshmoritty]

How ironic. They have the world's largest power station called Three Gorges Dam.

[@MeaHeaR]

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