The INSANE Chinese Engineering to Navigate Above the Mountains

[@dperreno]

I love the idea behind the Falkirk Wheel - by having two equally weighted "tubs," they have a balanced lift that needs very little energy to operate. The Strepy Thieu could have also operated this way, I'm a little surprised that they didn't do this. However, all of these lifts can actually be operated with relatively little energy as they can control the weight of the tub/ship by adding or removing water to achieve a balance with the counterweights. It just seems more elegant to use the second tub as the counterweight.

[@Talus-Gort]

Most of the weight that is lifted is water, not ship.

[@markfleser]

Ships displace water so it’s always the same weight.

[@Talus-Gort]

@@markfleser *Most of the weight* that is lifted is water, not ship. Yes, I know about Archimedes Principle, but look how much more water there is than the volume displaced by the hull.

[@johndanger8717]

Nope, any weight that goes up AND down can just be offset by a counterweight. When an elevator lifts you up, it only has to power lifting you as the elevator itself has a counterweight…

[@markfleser]

@@Talus-Gort if you have more volume you have what? Less density! It is ALWAYS the same weight, that is how things… FLOAT. That’s why you can float a vessel into something like the Falkirk Wheel and it always stays balanced even if there’s nothing on the other side.

[@eneko6790]

​@@markfleserread it again and think about what he is saying for a second. Also water stays at a pretty constant density when is liquid so what change of density are u even talking about

[@CaptainKedah]

Peterborough Liftlocks , in Peterborough Ontario Canada is One of the Oldest and holds the record of being the Largest Liftlock ever made for a Long Time, Obviously Not the largest anymore

[@pomodorino1766]

I've just looked it up. Amazing engineering for 1904! Also it runs without power other than the services, using only water taken in due to 30cm hight difference by the top caisson. Thanks for commenting!

[@weatheranddarkness]

Been there, it's so cool!

[@GoodBaleadaMusic]

Cheer up Cap'n!! Canada still has the largest people zoo's!

[@Dogsnark]

I had never been aware of such things as ship lifts. Wow - it blows my mind that such things are possible!

[@phuthanhle253]

great, it's hard to find Chinese documentary videos, but with this video I got it all. there are several channels about great construction of the world, now I have one more channel about more new things, thank you.

[@ourv9603]

Actually, our English friends built one of these, what? 200 years ago on one of their canals & is still in service. !

[@pomodorino1766]

Thanks for including data in proper measurement units. Really informative video!

[@MegaBuilds5280]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching it!

[@bikersoncall]

:facepalm: US is his biggest market, so yeah it's really just an insult to us. You're 'proper measurements' are no better than our own.

[@pomodorino1766]

@@bikersoncall 1. He used customary/imperial when appropriate. 2. I was referring to not using "100th of swimming pools" for volume, "football pitches" for area, school buses for lengt, blue whales for weight etc. 3. If customary/imperial units were better NASA wouldn't use metric, and miles/pounds/gallons wouldn't be defined as fractions of the SI units. (By your own metrology institute)

[@bikersoncall]

@@pomodorino1766 1. We're both on the Decimal system. 2. Everyone on earth used fractions, when needed, and they are needed. 3. Metric is every bit as randomly derived as thousandths of an inch (SAE) and metric still has to us thousands, and or fractions in measurement when determining the size of millions of items. 4. I didn't say Imperial was better. 5. I didn't watch the entire video, so wasn't aware of any US measurements being quoted.

[@pomodorino1766]

@@bikersoncall I don't think you understood what I meant, but I'm not here for the sake of arguments.

[@bonanap7183]

the first locks and canal 灵渠（ling qu）were built by Emporer Qingshihuang， 2300 years ago to conquer Guangdong.

[@maddox0110]

Forgot another great advantage of a ship elevator. It uses almost no water for the action. Normal locks "dump" water to the lower level, when lowering the level. Also, the elevator of Strepy Thieu was build to replace the way older victorian age set of elevators. (and I feel a bit neglected by not mentioning the elevator at Ronqueres). And yes, the enginering of Strepy Thieu was used as a template for the Chinese infrastructure.

[@Rob-e8w]

It's a ship lift. It's very impressive but it's nothing new, it doesn't `Navigate Above The Mountains` and it certainly isn't INSANE.

[@alexlee9095]

West don't have them this big n heavy.... Kehkeh.. Jealous😅😊

[@theviniso]

The line between "very impressive" and "insane" isn't as clear as you may think.

[@HouseJawn]

INSANE has to be the most overused word on KZbin. So obnoxious

[@pagan-540]

China great big powerful country. Very excellence mountains electricity technologies.

[@tettazwo9865]

What ship weighs as much as a skyscraper?

[@lesliepropheter5040]

England has been doing that for years

[@deepskywest3633]

Amazing

[@yuriypostrekhin6154]

Amazing new technology that Europeans have been using since late 1700s. Wow.

[@robinhodgkinson]

Except this is a ship lift and not a lock. They didn’t have those in the 1700’s. And locks first appeared in China. 😉

[@stevennotthe2997]

china INVENTED ship locks🤣

[@GoodBaleadaMusic]

The falkirk wheel is like when China recreated mini vegas . Cool try guys 👍🤣

[@MrNeilandio]

The Panama canal should build this.

[@antoniojunior36]

They always had it!

[@garys6333]

@@antoniojunior36 No, they haven't. The Panama canal uses water to lift boats, and is currently under heavy restrictions because it uses so much fresh water which then ends up in the sea and they don't have enough fresh water to replenish it.

[@solacar]

At 1:0 not elevation , correct is altitude difference .

[@y.u.so.]

This was deaigned by a Pakistani Engineer 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@Arcticwhir]

humans are so fucking cool! china is also such an interesting country. wow

[@NicolasValentinScotland]

The falkirk wheel is not far from where we live .❤

[@dearthditch]

Glad they don’t use the tofu cement on water projects. But the ghost cities won’t last long

[@davidanalyst671]

I have watched 2 minutes of you flapping your lips, and you are still covering the concept of "river locks" thank you. next up at about 5 minutes we are going to cover 2 + 2. And if you get to the end of the video, we may cover the concept of 3+3.

[@bikersoncall]

And do all that 'flapping' while if you read other posts, he gets thanked for using 'Proper' measurements, excluding US measurements, which is his largest audience. 😄

[@isousad]

777 milion dollars? That's it? sounds a bit cheap. I expected the cost to be in tens if not hundreds of billions. To put things into perspective, A Disney cruise ship costs more to build...

[@bikersoncall]

How is this channel funded?

[@kobrapromotions]

ccp

[@bikersoncall]

@@kobrapromotions What I was thinking too. Look at the title, it may not actually be clickbait, it also takes on the appearance of someone that has English as a 'second' language, because in our language it makes no sense, they aren't 'above the mountains' they are 'in' the mountains or a mountain range.

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Easy water elevator

[@Phoenix-bq7lw]

In UK they only do this in Peppa Pig.

[@tettazwo9865]

Nothing "maritime" on a river!

[@djr2078]

Ship that weighs as much as a sky scrapper…bye

[@flyingyakdeath]

There's little engineering in chinese products and infrastructure. Just similar to previous designs or copies.

[@soyuz281]

Ship lifts only make sense if its cost effective. When subsidized funding runs out, these projects become rusty dystopian landscape. Edit: the reason for saying this is the technology is not the difficult part. It’s the economic reality that makes or breaks such undertaking.

[@pomodorino1766]

Unless you refer to the funding for the construction, the lift is cost effective to run for sure. The time saved alone says it all, and the water saved is often also important. Consider that the Panama canal is forced to run at reduced capacity for months due to the water consumption of traditional locks. They are losing billions.

[@soyuz281]

@@pomodorino1766 I do not disagree. If its busy as Panama Canal then its obviously cost effective. For the example it the video, I do not know if there was other options for transport.

[@mankitwong4165]

cost effective to build? or cost effective to operate?

[@soyuz281]

@@mankitwong4165 both.

[@mankitwong4165]

@soyuz281 but how to account for the benefits that come with it? 3GW of carbon free electricity, unfettered navigate from inland to the sea.

[@RichardJohnson-t2h]

This is madness. We need to live within natural limits.

[@bikersoncall]

I'm listening but what is a sht list?

[@MasticateThis-ou3rn]

It’s pronounced moBEEL

[@bikersoncall]

''its'' ??

[@MasticateThis-ou3rn]

@ “it’s” a contraction of “it is” in this context

[@BassistInATutu]

Feels very much like an AI channel trying to make China look good.

[@MyKharli]

China does look good

[@okwatever3582]

Well, it’s overlooked. The nasty side is all we know. Yet bright side is overlooked.

[@caty863]

So, you want to say these dams and locks don't exist? You're pathetic!

[@BassistInATutu]

@@caty863 Haaahaaa! That's what you thought is it? Of course they are real. But the channel is AI. You really need to work on your English comprehension, and your manners. Silly child.

[@bikersoncall]

@@MyKharli On out technology. 😄

[@Terny228]

Why is everything that China does 50-100 years behind the West, So Amazing, but is bigger, so- and all that Shiny new Chinese economic boom infrastructure will degrade and the maintenance long term a giant headache, especially if your economy goes south, literally.

[@bikersoncall]

They are AMAZING innovators, they keep coming up with things we did 200 years ago. 😄 Gotta wonder who funds these videos. 😄

[@theviniso]

Because 100 years ago China was being pillaged and plundered by foreign colonial powers, and only recently they started to build infrastructure fit for a developed economy. The US had their economic boom many decades ago so if China is smart they will just watch and learn how the Americans deal with their decaying infrastructure.

[@bikersoncall]

@@theviniso Funny, you skipped a huge chapter the one about how Japan dealt with China. 80+ - years ago.

[@theviniso]

@@bikersoncall I didn't. Japan is one of the foreign colonial powers that exploited China.

[@bikersoncall]

@@theviniso You ignored the actual question, the answer of which is much more important to humanity than 'exploitation' of recourses.

[@thomaskrug6161]

PRC propaganda

[@okwatever3582]

Lol anything good about China is propaganda 😂😂 hater

[@caty863]

So, the 3-gorges dam is a hoax? Or it doesn't have ship lifts? You sound desperate and delusional.

[@Phoenix-bq7lw]

UK did this propaganda top. In Peppa Pig.

[@bikersoncall]

​@@Phoenix-bq7lw haha, I looked that up, so are you saying it's like designed at a level targeted for child like minds? Is that the context?

[@theviniso]

I don't see engineering channels talking about the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover dam being called American propaganda yet you could just as easily see them that way.