Hoover Dam's Power Generation | The Beauty of Engineering

[@SabinCivil]

I hope you enjoyed this video. Your support at Patreon is crucial to us - www.patreon.com/Sabins Cheers Sabin

[@WeyounLP]

lesics ur ruining ur stats by releasing 3 videos after another, spread them out to daily/weekly releases

[@enotdetcelfer]

Hey would love to donate. Don't want to use Patreon and have recurring payments. Your tiers come out to be $12, $24, and $60 a year, and I think for the quality here and over the years, that's an easy range to donate each year. Unfortunately I don't see a way to do this. Do you have anything set up? If you do, that will be an easy donation from me. Thanks for everything you do!

There's a cardinal error in the video - the installed capacity of Hoover dam's electric generators is not 2 Watts as stated at the beginning of the video, obviously! A single AA battery would be more powerful. 2080 mW is 2080 milliwatts, that's 2.08 W. Hoover dam's installed capacity is actually BILLION times bigger - it's 2080 MW (megawatts) or 2.08 GW. Check the metric (SI) prefixes, please. Should an engineer do such mistake, he would be fired, probably (or someone could potentially die from such mistake).

[@SANDMAN_66]

can we get a video on radial + axial winding of brushless motors?

[@SabinCivil]

@@enotdetcelfer Okay, totally understand that. One thing you can do is that join as one of our patrons and after one month cancel your membership. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gn3VeHWkbKZ3e5o This video will help you to cancel your Patreon membership.

[@DaveGunderson]

Nice video. You explained everything pretty much correct. I worked for Hoover Dam for a dozen years and have been inside those Penstocks and Laterals during ‘water down’ (maintenance cycle). An interesting fact: the insides of the steel penstocks are coated with Coal Tar to prevent corrosion. No place darker than walking in one of the main penstocks. The water velocity in those penstocks doesn’t exceed 15 ft/sec.

[@havakuvvetleri2.anajetussu534]

Greetings from Keban Dam in Turkey, do you do generator and turbine maintenance?

[@DaveGunderson]

@@havakuvvetleri2.anajetussu534 My own involvement was SCADA and Communications. However my work took me into dewatered penstocks and inside generators (sensor inspections). Great working in a hydro electric plant. I'm retired now.

[@CrypticCreator9052]

Man do I love hydro power, but you would never see me within a kilometer of one because oh my god that is terrifying, being even on it is scary enough, but being inside of one of those pipes? fuck that One of my biggest fears is large water-based areas like this, not like, lakes and rivers and such, but anywhere with large amounts of moving water or just large moving parts, I would probably pass out being inside that There is this one corkscrew water elevator near me where the corkscrews are only like, a meter in diameter and only a couple meters long, and as cool as I think it is, it scares the shit out of me being even near it

[@jacobp8294]

​@@CrypticCreator9052You ever play Skate 3? There is this feeplay map where there is a huge tunnel going down then out that is long and pitch black mifway through. The Hoover Dam had this one huge intake i kept looking at thinking, "damn that would be a crazy pipe to spiral through before death"

[@conniepr]

Thank you @DaveGunderson.

[@sergelevesque6292]

I cannot say enough good things about this video, the quality of the animations and the depth of the explanation is very well done. I will be using this as a handy reference for my electrical students in my College Program. Thank you so much for providing the teaching community with such a valuable resource.

[@ThomasKundera]

There are many errors in that video, however It's quite low quality.

[@TrillNaga]

⁠@@ThomasKunderaI knew I wasn’t trippin, I can tell by how he was explaining things that he was leaving out important details.

[@galzajc1257]

i really hope this channel survives and gets back views, cause there's just nothing like it on yt. when it comes to how things were build and work and things like that. it's just so well visually explained.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

There are at least 15 or 20 as good or better like Animagrafs

[@enotdetcelfer]

@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n Except Lesics has been doing these for 10 years. Animagraffs for 4. Lesics was there for us early on YT with clear, intuitive, and detailed explanations that showed others this is what was desired. They should not be in financial trouble. Audiences shouldn't treat their artists like corporations treat workers.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

@@enotdetcelfer I don't know how you came up with the corporations/workers analogy but there is no relationship or commitment and you want there to be one. You want the viewers to pay, but they don't. People watch what they like, that's it. No one is going to watch something out of pity or because they have been doing it for a long time. And what does "Lesics was there for us" mean?

[@paullelys161]

Many workers died during the construction of this dam and I hope there is a memorial to them at Hoover dam. An amazing engineering feat.

[@OneAndOnlyJackSchitt]

In fact, there is. Here's the Google Streetview of it: www.google.com/maps/@36.016694,-114.738919,3a,15y,14.54h,88.85t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipNtHdmJ9wqqIvP6PJ3ItgOch67zU_bJlkLYLpb-!2e10!3e11!7i11700!8i5850?entry=ttu

[@PeterFrederickMackintosh]

Yes there is a memorial at the Hoover Dam in honor of those workers who lost their lives building this beautiful dam.

[@yossarianmcnulty7979]

🙏

[@berniefynn6623]

This is wearing hard hats started.

[@conniepr]

Brave American ingenuity.

[@MrKockabilly]

Videos like this make us appreciate the efforts of the engineers and technicians in applying scientific principles a century ago for the benefit of humanity. Without these huge machineries and power monsters we wouldn't have advanced technologies we have today.

[@jaysant6958]

Yeah and their names aren’t really known in history.

[@ashantedula5696]

You did a better job of explaining how the hoover dam works than the actual tour.

[@Arstvlog]

Thanks again for such a fascinating animation explaining engineering technology from the past. Proud to be a Lesics supporter. ❤❤

[@atatsplace]

One omission is that the power towers are also angled to direct cable weight force directly down the centers of the towers. If it was only to avoid proximity to the rock face, then vertical towers could simply have been much taller to make up the needed difference.

[@_MH_d]

I don't know why these kind of Great channels are so underrated Great work man

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7 million subs and underrated 😅

[@_MH_d]

@@cantthinkofnameyeah7249 Bruh currently it is underrated... See the viewership of this channel from the last year

[@Kelly-gl5rl]

Thank you for everything you do. I’ve learned so much from you. I just started watching and became a $10 level on patreon. PLEASE keep doing what you’re doing!!!! You’re teaching the world SO much!

[@harman0810]

Thanks

[@1cedragon]

The quality of this channel is incredible!

[@conniepr]

Reminds me of my father. The look on his face when him and others were trying to make something work. He worked hard and smart with everything he did.

[@JohnJohn-dc7id]

Thanks!

[@mreza84]

This video deserves many Likes. 👍

[@DopravniPoradce]

Tip for another video. When I visited the Hoover Dam some 20 years ago, I bought a part of the cable transferring the energy to Las Vegas. I use them to this date as a pen holder, cause the cable is hollow and cleverly constructed. It's extremely interesting and there's a lot of physics knowledge and experimentation behind that.

[@b43xoit]

From penstock to pen holder.

[@mcarroll598]

This was an excellent presentation, to think the engineering of this almost a hundred years ago is crazy!

[@svjnico]

Love watching these type of videos and just knowing how things works . So cool.

[@jumpingjeffflash9946]

I've been to the dam twice and did the tour inside. This video did great explaining what I've always wondered about the intake towers and how they're made, I didn't realize they blasted out a hole to sit them in. I do know they use part of the diversion tunnel made when they re-routed the river. Amazing man made structure there in Nevada/Arizona.

[@frequentlycynical642]

Great graphics, thanks! What amazes me is that this, and like its contemporary, the Golden Gate bridge, was all done with slide rules. No computers. And slow communications.

[@myutoob2011]

Excellent video and animations. I've watch many documentaries about the dam and have visited and toured it. Even with that, I learned a little more about it thanks to your video.

[@gourisha9512]

Wow. Now I understand why Hoover project is an engineering Marvel. Showcases one of the best of American engineering.

[@mohammadgause8358]

Thanks

[@Romualdomgn84]

Thank you for the video. Keep up doing this great work!

[@MichaelMitchell94]

Thanks for making these videos! Happy to be a patron

[@neti_neti_]

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[@Mr--_--M]

And remember folks. It's beautiful. It's a key factor in it's operation.

[@rejins8995]

The provided information is commendable. Adding details about the purpose and geometry, such as explaining the significance of gradually varying areas in the draft tube, would enhance the overall informativeness..

[@rogerscottcathey]

Fantastic! The 6 Companies consortium or conglomerate brought together the most brilliant minds to create Boulder Dam. It was the predecessor of the cooperative work used to take us to the moon.

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

I appreciate your comment. Growing up in Vegas and having family here since the 1940s I've heard about the 6 Companies as being the conglomerate that built the dam and being responsible for the many worker deaths. Those are the two things always mentioned about 6 Companies. Your comment made me stop and think. The 6 Companies managed to build that amazing structure in that location with the technology of the time and with the extreme working environment and weather conditions. That is incredible. I can see how the processes that built the dam would be used to go to the moon.

[@rogerscottcathey]

@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 : Yes, I'm sure they would've had a much harder time had there been an OSHA around back then. The lives lost was tragic, and they should have been properly honored and their families compensated. I am pretty sure the planning group formed a predecessor to think tanks as well. There is a legend that they would find a problem and cast about deliberately for someone to come at it with a fresh perspective. In the case of the concrete, they foresaw problems with the chemical heat and so decided to bring in someone to come up with a view to scheduling and calculate some way to pour and save time, otherwise it would take decades to properly insure integrity of the layers. Someone suggested bringing in Baird Spalding, a research engineer who had worked with Steinmetz, who after looking at their problem suggested replacing the rebar with galvanized pipe through which ice water would be pumped. Special refrigerated pumping houses were then built and the cooling was reduced to about five to ten years rather than whatever they calculated. I tried to get details on the origin of this legend but never succeeded. It was an anecdote that Spalding's publisher told at Spading's wake.

[@jasperjames35]

I have had the privilege of watching the old black and white video of how they made the hover dam and I was able to visit as well and now after watching this video, like Paul Harvey says, and that’s the rest of the story.

[@PeterFrederickMackintosh]

Very interesting story surrounding the most beautiful dam that was ever constructed and will always be the most beautiful dam in the world

[@texaspapa9445]

Outstanding presentation

[@Bertg1982]

Such cool animation in these videos. I understand all on the science and physics involved with Hoover dam but it’s still cool to see it animated

[@aditya7808]

Amazing explanation. Keep doing more such videos

[@thygate]

@8:03 > 2080 mW. Lower case m is for milli, upper case for Mega, Capitalization in SI units matters!

[@ShadowGear238]

Found the engineer 😂

[@emilyalexander2435]

Wonderful, I really hope you continue making these amazing videos

[@nulluser5637]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@My_Name_Suc]

espically with the legion on the other side of the dam

[@tatemd61]

😂😂😂

[@InsTance888]

The Brotherhood of steel roams that area. You a mutant?

[@SJVRF711]

I sided with yes man

[@theJosenOne-nx2vn]

Same

[@shonuff4323]

The genius of this is just amazing

[@HuzaifaKhan-e3t2o]

Great work sir!❤❤❤

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i really enjoyed this amazing 3d animation learning videos

[@sergioharo5807]

The pure, uncensored carnage unleashed on the water particles 😂

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I really appreciate your content 🎉

[@mrs6968]

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[@AugustineAriola]

Very exciting video as always. Very instructive and educational ..

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Chetta, super video!

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[@AventinIndustries]

3 Videos within 10 minutes 😍 Love it!

[@zusurs]

All of them are reposts...

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Amassing video 😮😮😮

[@nothngspermanent]

you deserve billion views

[@greghaffley1346]

No other KZbin channel explain in this level of details

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

saVree explains in way more detail, or Ohio energy professor, or engineer guy

[@vemaiesli1121]

Amazing video as always

[@seshadri338]

Needs appreciation. 🙏🙏🙏👍👍

[@sumansaha295]

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[@Tren-bh7sp]

Great job

[@PeterFrederickMackintosh]

I've said this many times the most beautiful dam in the world ever to be built is the Hoover Dam

[@vinquinn]

They do not use permanent magnets in the exciter except perhaps a small one to get things started. They use a wired electromagnet. The field of the exciter can be varied to control the output of the main generator/alternator. Vertical alternators and turbines tend to float in the air and do not require a large thrust bearing. The magnetic field holds them up.

[@topwonders88]

Very good !

[@dalegray934]

The continued blessings of A. J. Wiley's genious. Not a statue of this man exists, but the giant dams and other water structures in the western US and around the world stand as working monuments to him nearly a century later! He was the first engineer hired for the Hoover Dam project, but sadly died before it was completed.

[@markuspxpx]

I felt bad for the water particles, poor little creatures 🤣

[@GreatGloves]

Greetings from Finland!

[@captainamerica3814]

Take a dam tour when you visit Las Vegas.

[@rmatt24]

@3:53 Looks like a giant turbocharger!😮

[@jamesg1974a]

I was in there last December. It was pretty neat. When the water starts flowing it gets loud.

[@JITENDRACHAUHAN-zy3li]

Great Video Sir

[@stephens7136]

Good explanation videos that are being hurt in the algorithm due to constant reuploads. Each time a video is deleted and reposted hurts the views on the video, then they complain that the channel is in trouble.

[@trevorrichard4710]

Great video

[@thejuggernautofspades9453]

"We wont go quietly, the legion can count on that"

[@kelanaground]

Beatiful and amazing generator engineering... 8:11 .

[@Suavache]

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[@leejohnson7851]

"But the high speed water that comes down had a huge impact on this concrete layer" 6:59 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3aVanutYrJ5d7s This same logic can be applied to roads, where there are hills. Especially when heavy cargo laden vehicles come down a hill to the lowest point - I've noticed this is where many roads have deteriorated. Water also naturally flows to this point and could compromise it from underneath.

[@danrbn]

Valeu!

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[@mattshu]

3:00 “You can see these particles are taking a happy journey” Particles: 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@AshikJonathan]

this channel was supposed to be shut by 2023 September and here we are keep going Captain

[@lalitrajak5632]

Congratulations for 170k views

[@Brahmos85]

Simple wow.... Thankyou so much....

[@Dark_Matter2]

I really enjoyed video ❤

[@jeffcampsall5435]

Very well done 🎉 Adding an explanation of how the water EXITS the plant would be great. It appears that having the outlets opposite each other virtually eliminates any energy the outlet water may have…which means the downstream flow is only as strong as the head of the river at this point. Right?

[@foureyedchick]

God forbid that this extremely complex and delicate structure is hit by an earthquake. Oh boy!

[@MohitKumar-rx4pe]

will you make a video on how "thermoacoustic cooler" works in depth i.e. used to cool superconducting magnets? please LESICS TEAM

[@diyfamily6848]

In the video its said that the water exiting on the lower buckets is an "impulse" when it is infact "reaction" as the water leaves the blading. A mixture of impulse and reaction occurs as the water enters the turbine howexer.

[@wigaringtyasid9654]

Try discussing Sosrobahu pierhead method, it looks interesting!!

[@EliteSnake]

The divers who have to inspect the intake towers + penstocks along with the rest of the Dam have some massive balls. I would get major Meglophobia just being anywhere near them

[@huntershashi7499]

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[@MultiSpoonerism]

If only Caeser had access to this information perhaps the battle of hoover dam would've gone differently

[@daliborkuhinek]

One correction. At 8:06 it is written 2080 mW. That is 2 W. Is should be 2080 MW. It's 9 orders of magnitude diference.

[@NaveedKhan-w7d5m]

❤ excellent 👌 state of the art

[@bhaskarvishwakarma4562]

very nice video

[@loop4594]

Amazing stuff

[@upuldhanushkagajanayake2719]

Penstock exactly same 2000 years old Ancient Sri Lanken technique called “Biso Kotuwa “ some are still working

[@Duffr1234]

Excellent video

[@ProfessorMurray]

Hi, It would be great if you could update the CC to use proper punctuation to aid accessibility. Paul

[@JasonLuther1]

Water turbo!

[@e-04rohankumar38]

please make a video on gravity battery

[@rich-bk7md]

I cant imagine the engineering skills it took without using computers

[@ChadBray]

There is a machine gun tower above Hoover Dam to keep a watch in case the Germans did try to attack the dam.

[@sus_guy515]

Bruh