U.S. Put Billions of Gallons of Water on the Mountain, a Few Years Later Everyone Was Shocked

[@ThirdyGonzales]

why did youtube hide this from me for 6 mins

[@therewillbecatswithgwenhwyfar]

Slacker! 😂

[@Thomas.Nikolaidis10]

Thats gonna be the new trendy brainrot comment

[@bott3849]

They hate you

[@redbeard5598]

They hate us.

[@Delta52Dragon]

2 hrs

[@LaPetiteBoulin]

Is this channel run by a company? It has all those hallmarks of a channel trying to pretend it's run by one or two individuals but a corporation is really behind it. I'm just curious.

[@Vanwinckle]

It's 2 guys.

[@MafridhoBagus]

wow i didn’t realize watop missing from my algorithm for a while… now it’s back!!!!

[@jerrygator1132]

So just subscribe…

[@Jay-lh7zx]

@@jerrygator1132You clearly don’t know how the algorithm works

[@farshadmn4273]

the animation was much appreciated.

[@lorettaross2007]

Corporations only care about the bottom line, not the people downstream! Thank you for sharing!

[@DerekRhoads]

They wouldn't be in business if they didn't and you would be chopping wood for heat.

[@noctwice]

No, that’s not true, they also care about the top line

[@lorettaross2007]

@@DerekRhoads But they can care a lot more than they do, and still supply what they do!

[@richardhowell7040]

Oh, come on! They’re selling the power to the people downstream. They don’t want them dead.

[@richardhowell7040]

Somewhere I came across a story about the “opposite” of this set up, where in they had a huge underground mine, and during the day they pump the water out and allow it to generate power falling back underground from the surface, so the whole thing was under the town instead of above it seems a lot safer and doesn’t require any of the extreme measures to make it leak proof, etc., etc. If anybody knows where that project was, I’m suddenly curious to reread or re-see about that project just for contrast.

[@moraine2442]

Of course insurance covered it, why maintain safe design and procedure when the company gets a payout when it fails?

[@karingoerke7264]

Paid by US!! But if storm damage your roof? They don't know you at all and will not change on this point!

[@CReed55.]

This is an ideal halftime show to rejuvenate my workday. Thank you. 🙏

[@maa3563]

Practical engineering covered it first

[@TheTboy007]

I get deja vu in the first 10 seconds watching this. Seems they wanted to recycle content others covered recently

[@Jroc3578]

I've been here before and after. This is crazy to see on your channel. Thank you for this. Nearby is a recreation are called "Johnson Shut-ins" one of my favorite places.

[@waxore1142]

The one in Scotland is pretty awesome. and it has a equally fascinating back story.

[@grugbug4313]

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

[@doogie812]

This is BS! The problem could have been fixed with a $15.00 part from Maytag! Its a good thing these clowns don't engineer washing machines.

[@luisaraujo4708]

So, nothing in this story happened cuz Maytag washer parts weren’t used? Uhhh, ok…

[@HigherWaysWoman]

they keep skirting around Tesla's Power Towers. Our Electricity problems solved w/those towers & the money mongers just won't let us have what was gifted from this incredible Genius...Nikola Tesla. So our environment continues being dug up altered threatened & devastated....wonderful.

[@MrSummitville]

Tesla's Power Tower was an epic failure. Stop pretending it was a success.

[@mblake0420]

Carbon emissions do not matter when taking into account of the water vapor in our atmosphere

[@luisaraujo4708]

Yes. Or so your smooth brain has convinced you. LOL

[@djangodredd763]

Watop never disappoints

[@stevefroslie5318]

One EMP attack and we are all back in the stone age. Spend our dollars on that which lasts!!

[@Gloosch]

Silver lining there is a cool new hiking path? I wonder if people hike it...

[@Ophanim_Cherub1.4]

Dope vid bro

[@WReXckz1]

You said "an unobtrusive reminder to do something under the video" which is subtle and appreciated but it doesn't take advantage of KZbin's new feature that highlights the like and subscribe buttons in red when it detects the transcript of the word like and subscribe etc. Great video. thanks!

[@connorgeorge9591]

I love this guys videos, but why does the coffee look like witch piss?

[@Locke-L96]

Taste better!!

[@michaelcook6288]

Because it is witch piss....

[@luisaraujo4708]

How did you come to recognize what witch piss looks like. Hmmm?

[@skeletorrocks2452]

Can't help but wonder if they could do that with the Berkeley pit in Butte Montana. It's a former copper mine that's currently a toxic Lake. Effects left over from the copper mining.. They've actually developed a way to filter out some of the toxins from the water. But you got to wonder if the leftover pit could be used as an energy storage device.

[@hizacaine]

Like drop in a bunch of lead plates to turn it into a giant even-more-poisonous-than-it-is-now battery? The water is too toxic and acidic to use for pumped storage in connection with a waterway or river. It probably can't be used in conjunction with the nearby Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond because the water came from the abandoned mine underneath and the plumbing would be a leaky nightmare. I was just thinking they should just fill it up with something other than water, like a giant buttload of acid neutralizing limestone, or the tailing from another mine, or garbage to be dissolved like oil, chemical and mining executives and arrogant engineers.

[@DopeNotLoveSick]

how come you don’t have a coffee sponsor yet! lol it’s 3pm and you got me thinking of a starbucks run😂

[@Canthus13]

This is a similar concept to how solar power storage could work. Solar power excess pumps water into a reservoir during the day, keeping it topped off and letting some off as necessary for surge needs, running continually at night to provide for night demand. It wouldn't scale to meet huge demand, but for rural areas it would be perfect. You'd still need other forms of generation to supplement, like wind, but it'd make a good solution for some more remote regions.

[@M0stlym3answ3ll]

I forgot you do that horrible coffee slurp in the intro. Maybe I’ll forget in another 6 months. See ya next year 😂.

[@krausr79]

Ooo, how about a mercury-based reservoir?

[@Sponsor_Block]

Classic WATOP

[@joelwexler]

Great presentation! It's amazing the family survived. I hope they're over the trauma. What's the deal with the facemask? Are you on the lam?

[@ThomwoththeWeather]

because internet is full of dangerous people it they know who you are.. also keep fame down and be modest, a sign of a better person than the nuts that need to broadcast who they are...

[@JK-cs1be]

He is hiding from the US law

[@Kunfucious577]

Imagine what the family was thinking when the flood hit them.

[@putyourselfonit]

Man i can swear you have a second channel by the name, ytUnPlugged

[@LaPetiteBoulin]

I'm pretty sure there is a company behind this channel and they just try to present as it's run by one or two people. There are a lot of channels that do this because viewers on KZbin like to support individual creators and not companies so much. I'm not positive about this channel, but I strongly suspect it is because you can't find a thing about its creator. Another sign of a company channel is they will have multiple channels & you won't see them have video sponsors with Raycon, for example.

[@ctmorrison]

when the good guys have to wear disguise while spilling secrets its time to man the barricades before the damn burst

[@xFR34KEEx]

This is why legacy media is dead. I want real knowledge, not gray matter filler.

[@michaelcook6288]

Facts. They rarely if ever actually cover news or interesting subjects, then they will re0eat the same nonsense for 4 days with no new evidence.

[@wdolgae]

Wow! The damage done was only $1 per gallon of water? What a deal! 😂

[@JimFry]

Ludington is pronounced "luh·ding·tn".

[@jjgarcia419]

Ludingtennessee

[@kingpetra6886]

Shocking. What goes up must cone down.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

Simple answer: GREED killed it. they cycled it to death,

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

The U.s. runs 60 htz electric. This means a flywheel or mechanic energy is needed to keep the 60 htz. Wind and solar don't produce enough to keep the htz up and keep grid from crashing. Ireland turned a coal power plant into a flywheel to do about the same thing. A way to keep the htz of the grid from collapsing if it gets too low.

[@luisaraujo4708]

Wow! I’ve always suspected there was a large flywheel in the power inverter that’s wired into my off grid solar system. Thanks for the heads-up!!

[@hirannes2217]

Take a moment to appreciate that noone died in the accident. That'll make your day go easier.

[@levisvarela3735]

engineers create problems, technicians deal with them

[@brs04wsc]

Got to be weird to sit there and pretend to speak...

[@michaelsteven8892]

Most Interesting ! The beds of such plants,must be rocky to prevent sinking,the walls must be strongly plastered with anti corosive materials ! It should have a specific design to break the violent spill & downstream danger that leads to big loss !

[@okaycola2]

Roots

[@jakthebean9989]

You're telling me this thing didn't have an overflow channel? That's quite ridiculous, how does a plan like this even get approved? It's disappointing because the idea is really good, they even had a valley to build the reservoir right next to where they built theirs. It may have lowered the overall height of the water, lowering the energy potential, but it would've still been a good design.

[@kittty2005]

Where did they get enough flies to make that much ash,OMG.

[@Research_theTruth]

Thumbnail looks crazy

[@Sophistorage]

So they caused billions in damage and was only fined 15million... Wow😮

[@sandradavis9309]

absorbing story.

[@altond511]

You don`t have this problem with battery storage.

[@JeffBomer]

But first coffee and yet we never see coffee...

[@schut-gy5sc]

10 minutes

[@daniellarson3068]

China is building the world's biggest pumped hydro plant or so he says. They have a lot of high speed trains too. It seems like a lot of technological innovations are happening in China these days.

[@jamespommier]

No coffee the whole video

[@andysheepleton]

What a horrible design. Not planning overflow was insane. All they needed to do was to have drains at the top that were installed at a set level so that water would automatically overflow to a planed overflow that went directly to the lower reservoir, a smaller one at a lower level that would act as a switch if water drained through it, and upper ones if the switch was not operating as it should, to the point that they could have the pump moving water up at full blast all day long and the water would simply drain out the top. Pressure sensors were a horrible idea, they were a clear point of failure. Just have more and more planned outlets the higher up that they go. An ideal solution would notify and external authority every time water went through a higher outlet.

[@helora4507]

Coffee machine brand and type? Are you happy with it?

[@cars10w49]

Could've just built a spillover. problem solved

[@frisk151]

Water doesn't care...

[@Eli9A]

What did the water contained in it that nothing grows where the water ran through

[@kittty2005]

Was that Chinese plant made from an extinct volcano?

[@SwerveKing7135]

Dec 2005 😮

[@willisedkopic3553]

What does the WA stand for, I've been losing sleep!😅

[@DopeNotLoveSick]

We Are

[@kittty2005]

COFFEE it looks like brown liquid poo.

[@Labeledforlife]

Check out Hardy Dam in Michigan.

[@DavidWilliams-cm4ow]

Still wouldn’t live near it!

[@JC-dt4jq]

Ludington is pronunced with a short u not a long U, thus NO Loooodington.

[@beckyd3546]

At 4:47, hetch hetchy dam

[@voradorhylden3410]

Always thought burms were stupid. You move that much dirt, just dig a hole. And also i think the pump and dump "batteries" are ridiculous. Maybe just maybe, turn off streetlights or have businesses turn thier lights off at 3 in the morning. Maybe have "batteries " placed and it could be just like a curcuit. The batteries would keep the voltage at the right level when usage makes it dip. Right? Im not an electrician, but thats how it works right?

[@florforever1]

Hmm? 🤔 I suggest you have smaller reservoirs to generat power for smaller communities & have less devastation if a breach in the system of the way it was built collapses! 😮 There should also be a back up system covering these exposed areas of water making it water tight in a sense like a pool cover. 😊 Because you cant control the masses of gallons of water that would be rushing down. It is highly dangerous to have a place and hold millions of gallons of water & expect it to work safely 100% f the time. Smaller amounts, less devastation, pool covet, better built strictures & securing the parameter around the facility is a much better plan! ❤🎉

[@matthewrogers94mr]

Its a shame that so much safety regulations get igrnoed and something that is clearly not safe they ignore until its to late.

[@jbstepchild]

The gods of damn no dam

[@spreadkindness88]

🩷WATOP

[@Exmachin]

@WATOP. What’s the pink rabbit 🐇 on your table?…. Smdh

[@iamself3461]

Hey what happened to Steve’s narrator am I late can anyone tell me

[@GuyTheNice]

for what reason that coffe is getting made at the start? kinda pointless if ou never drink it, Suggest others to strt with it but never drink it ourself... doesnt make sense to include it

[@dandavis2447]

That was for doing all of the research before making the video!

[@Delta52Dragon]

Who else gets triggered when his masked 😷 dumb face pops up on screen? 😂😂😂

[@Ghettodachoppa87-kf6ml]

Why is it when I type its in black letters, but when I enter the comment its comes out in white letters?

[@Ghettodachoppa87-kf6ml]

typing here its white letters before I enter comment. weird, KZbin done broke itself

[@WubbeHenry]

why is your mouth covered?

[@DopeNotLoveSick]

bro on the run rn

[@juan-rh9cm]

57th like woohoo

[@angryhairpeice]

When you're state is 30th in education, you should outsource the tricky stuff the first time. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the people who rebuilt it were from blue states.

[@VoidWalker-g3o]

FIRST!

[@RichardStover-c4s]

Why do you look like my hero LUIGI?