Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the structure itself still remains. Dams come in all shapes and sizes, but contrary to what you might think, the most dangerous dams are often the smallest, also known as low head dams.
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I remember hearing about a limestone based dam in Iraq that was not being maintained by ISIS and most like to fail. Wonder what happened to it.
ReplyDeleteThis fellow did a video on the Oroville Dam spillway fiasco and rebuild a while back. It was excellent.
ReplyDeletePractical Engineering youtube channel - I've spent hours watching his vids - all have been very informative and easy to follow.
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I love Grady's channel. He knows what he is talking about and explains difficult engineering principles in a clear concise video.
ReplyDeleteStarker here, I love Grady's videos too, Practical Engineering. He goes to great lengths to make certain he gets the concept across but does it in a way that doesn't annoy people who already understand it .
DeleteI thought this was a sound bite for the EPA wanting to regulate every puddle. It was nice to know information. He needs a segment on people sticking their hand in fryer oil to see if it is up to temp. It is more like the tuber having his friend hold his beer while he goes over the waterfall.
ReplyDeleteThe boil. I've seen it and thought churning water, which it is. However, The Boil, great word for it.
ReplyDeleteGood info. Still, even on rivers without dams, we tend to lose as many as we do with sneaker waves. No matter what, it seems people just don't think things through before they get in, or even walk too close. Like they don't realize how fast the river is actually moving or how cold it still is, despite the warm sunny day. Also, even with every alert we can think up, people just do not get that the Pacific Ocean can be supremely pacific one moment and then send a whopper that knocks you down and sucks you in... where you end up just like in this video, only the dam is replaced by the incoming wave/s. :o[
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