Switzerland’s Urgent Battle To Replace A CRACKED Mega Dam

[@edwardgurhy100]

Just how many times can you repeat repeat repeat yourself....?

[@218philip]

It’s very annoying, there’s so much real information the could be included. Maybe this was created for grade schoolers.

[@erikziak1249]

@@218philip More like AI.

[@ue4770]

That obviously AI generated text completely screws this very interesting topic! Telling aspects without understanding their context, repeating things multiple times, no concept.. 👎

[@kurtroosli5713]

The Dam is not Cracked!!!! We only wont a much biger Waterresevoir! The new Dam is higher! Best Regards from Switzerland. 😀

[@marcodada1094]

Wont want whatever 🎉

[@harleythomy]

Nothing to do with repairing something. The dam will be raised to increase the capacity of the Grimsel lake and thus to increase the power production, as the Swiss people have voted for increasing the power production from natural sources.

[@fredygump5578]

I bet the difference is that there are no property owners to deal with. And no politicians to keep changing the scope of work? (This is how all big infrastructure projects get bogged down...)

[@harleythomy]

All water (and electricity) infrastructure and supply is owned by the state in Switzerland. There are no private owners.

[@arroe8386]

The old dam is damaged, but building a new dam in front is cheaper and safer than restoring the old one since it's engineering is very outdated and since the old drain is getting into sediments. The dam gets built to the same height as before, but with the possibility to increase the height later. Raising a dam height only minimally increases the power production. Dam height increases are done to enhance the capacity of energy storage, which can primarily mitigate the winter gap problem of solar power.

[@theunknowdude3000]

The half-knowledge that is told here is sad. The entire construction project has been planned for a long time and is being carried out in a controlled and calculated manner.

[@muten861]

Yeah really sad. This video is really nonsense in many topics.

[@theunknowdude3000]

@@muten861 I agree

[@Aidan-tu4un]

To all builders of civic civil engineering projects in UK. Note that this project will finish on budget and on time!!! If you want another example, do a compare/ contrast of the Thames Crossrail and Gotthard Basis tunnels, started at about the same time!!

[@smjawed4516]

Amazing Swiss engineering 👏

[@r0llinguphill483]

"Powering the lives of countless people"- Except they can be counted.

[@Scott-ql4ut]

Stop with the camera noise

[@stevegray5263]

Yet another interesting topic RUINED by an AI voiceover...

[@JamesAllmond]

I rode by that last summer, glad I knew what awas going on or that would have scared the pookmy out of me! Not something you see every day. Grimsel pass isn't that remote... Fairly popular area. You can see this from the road. Really cool

[@haridasification]

This same type is needed in mullaiperiyar dam, Idukki, kerala state, India which is also 125 years old

[@jeffreyc6508]

Damn fine job

[@stevenmayhew3944]

Brilliant!! 😀

[@3komma141592653]

It's not thaaat remote. You can go there by care in about two hours, bit road is likely closed during winter.

[@Alan_Hans__]

Calling ANY place in central Europe remote is farcical. Most places in Europe you could probably put a 100km radius circle down and there would be a million people there. There are spots in Australia where you could potentially fit Switzerland and only find a few hundred people. A dam that is within 50km of major cities isn't remote.

[@st-ex8506]

Well... horizontally, you are 1000% correct! The dam is just 5 km away from the next village, as the crows fly, and 25 km from a large town and a major highway. BUT, vertically, it is more remote than any place in Australia! The nature of the terrain, and the winter climate, make the engineering of building that dam more difficult and costly than in the remotest of places. There is another dam construction in Switzerland that is even more remote! In the Grimsel dam featured in the present video, there is road access for trucks. At the Limmern dam, there is not! A giant cable car had to be constructed... and EVERYTHING, from giant construction equipment to cement, has to be brought by it. And in the winter, you have meters of snow, and arctic temperatures. I call that remote alright!

[@bizzfo]

Highly doubt that only cost 140 million

[@ppanzer7243]

It does

[@mik2137]

And it's probably on schedule 😊

[@st-ex8506]

Swiss here: the cost of building that new dam is indeed 125 million Swiss francs... so a bit below 140 million US dollars! And the project, started in 2019, will be complete later this year, on time and on budget. That's how we like our engineering projects to be in Switzerland... same for the ca. $14B Gotthard base tunnel, which was also within its original budget, obviously corrected for inflation.

[@bigbeardog99]

It's nice that there's concern for the environment and ecology downstream... not so much concern for what was destroyed by turning a valley into a man-made lake. 👍

[@derprisha2993]

Billige Abklatsch Doku des The B1M Videos 😂

[@NuggetLover4140]

The bad way to support this channel

[@Supercharged111]

I feel like this could have been necked down to about 2 minutes.

[@marccurcio1]

Hydroelectric Power, better by a Dam Site (damn sight)

[@andersdottir1111]

Perhaps building a double wall dam at the same time will be cheaper than 20 years down the track.

[@chamagical]

maybe you want to watch the vid again and take note of the timeframes!

[@hemicuda75]

it's not cracked and it's not urgent. they only improve the power output

[@tyleroryan]

If they leave the old damn, does that put less pressure on the new dam?

[@AlanJames-oy4bj]

I would think so. The existing dam has to hold back the full force of the water behind it. The pressure will be dramatically decreased once water is on both sides of the Old dam. This will likely stop the deterioration. The New Dam will only have to hold back the water between it and the Old Dam. Even submerged, the Old Dam will continue holding back the majority of the pressure. This means that the New Dam can be constructed with less materials and reinforcement. Not sure if that was a factor, though.

[@bernhardammer5106]

You have absolutely no idea about physics!!!!! The water pressure does not depend on how large a reservoir is, i.e. how much water it contains. Only the depth of the water is the determining factor. This means that the water pressure is the same at both dam walls! The only difference is that there is water on both sides of the old dam. It therefore receives pressure from both sides, which balances each other out. It therefore no longer has to be able to withstand the water pressure, but only its own weight.

[@tyleroryan]

@bernhardammer5106 Not true. If you had 100 feet deep water, and only 1 foot wide from bottom to top, it would be a lot less pressure on the dam then 100 feet deep, and 100 feet wide.

[@MichelRay-n3q]

Je suis Suisse et je n’ai jamais entendu parler de ce barrage 😳…

[@st-ex8506]

Eh bien! Voyage un peu dans ton pays! Une excursion au Col du Grimsel est magnifique, et te permettra de voir ce barrage de près! Perso, je connais pas mal la région pour y avoir fait un cours de répétition.

[@MichelRay-n3q]

@ ce n’est pas faux bien que l’on ne peut pas tout savoir non plus.mais je vais sans doute y penser 🤓👍

[@davidhorizon8401]

So much word garbage. Nothing helpful or factual about this project.

[@Derekmorgan-s2j]

If the dam collapsed it would have catastrophic circumstances including flooding .... Eh ?

[@justaperson8560]

But if the old dam collapses the flooded middle gap will shear the new dam off the cliffs in my opinion

[@chamagical]

The flooded middle gap takes the water pressure off the old dam so it will not collapse.

[@scafusa]

@@chamagicalyou are both wrong. They are currently (jan 25) draining the water completely and carving a big hole into the bottom part of the old dam. Once filled, the water pressure will be completely on the new dam

[@st-ex8506]

The old dam will bear no more load at all, once the middle gap is flooded. Structurally, it will be as if it did not exist.

[@bernhardammer5106]

@@st-ex8506 Flooded from both sides, the old dam will only have to bear its own weight.

[@st-ex8506]

@ ... not even that: i's own weight MINUS the weight of the amount of water it displaces (according to some old Greek guy)... so, roughly only 60% of its own weight!

[@CraftyRoseDentalinstructor.]

Dam ,,,,,

[@Golden-dog88]

DONT REPLACE JUST REMOVE

[@donaldkasper8346]

Vid alternates constantly between initial foundation dynamiting and nearly completed dam or nearly completed AI simulation.

[@lisadebliss7835]

Urgent Battle? 😅

[@williambradford1603]

The amount of people is countable😅😅

[@cgschow1971]

Did the 12 year old write this?

[@Darren-r9b]

What is this?

[@duotronic6451]

I don't believe this guy. 1 minute in, check comments. Yes. This is typical click bait KZbin video 😢😢😢

[@markusstudeli2997]

The title is a bit of an exaggeration: It was carefully planned and scheduled, not a real urgency or "battle", however, the content of the video is mostly accurate. And it's indeed a well planned and executed project that promises not too much cost overruns and delays.

[@Jaystarzgaming]

AI generated video red flags.

[@st-ex8506]

Swiss here: you'd better believe this guy. Everything is true! I would say that only the word "urgent" in the title is a bit clickbaity... because, if the work HAD to be done, it's not like the old dam was about to fall over in the next year or so! It had only grown into an unacceptable danger in case of a major earthquake... which happen, the Alps being (quite obviously as they are growing) an earthquake zone.

[@RogerSchmid-ks2gt]

absolute bullschit.... it is a new dam which will allow to collect much more water in the alps. This is the result of swiss votation.. Absolute bullshit.

[@draider8112]

Why is everyone hating in the comments? XD (Yes, the criticism sounds reasonable, but why everybody? 😂)

[@CarlLang-l6j]

If it didn't collapse during the boring of the rod holes in the mountain it was in good condition.

[@SithLordmatthew]

Preserving the old dams historic significance heheheehe LOL. No it's cheaper and not necessary to remove it is all

[@JeremyMontejo16]

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[@justayoutuber1906]

The Taco

[@notthemessiah9243]

Tartarian

[@mrHello420__]

All AI garbage

[@volkerr.]

Doesn’t that prove that water power plants are expensive and produce CO2 too..? 🤔

[@mik2137]

Nobody pretends that hydro storage power is CO2 free. However the CO2/TWh is rather low, but not 0. And yes, hydro storage is somewhat expensive and will soon be more expensive than battery storage.

[@volkerr.]

@ run-of-river power plants are the only harmless plants. At least regarding CO2.

[@philtucker1224]

140 million? Just 140 nice Swiss houses? I don’t think so. Try 1 bn….

[@mik2137]

No, newspaper articles confirm the cost of around 140mio CHF. Increasing the dam height by 23 meters (option for the future) doubles the cost though. The Swiss real estate is expensive because of high land prices and because of high purchasing power, but not because of particularly high construction costs.

[@philtucker1224]

@ wow that seems very good value. Some houses in London almost cost as much! I’m also a regular visitor to Switzerland and generally find most things Swiss to be twice as expensive as the Euro countries.

[@st-ex8506]

Swiss here: no, you think wrong! The cost of the whole project is indeed of 125 million Swiss francs, or a bit below US $140M! The project is running on time (planned completion in fall this year), and on budget!