Britain's largest battery is actually a lake 

Just thought I'd mention, it's just north of Snowdonia. Dinorwig neighbours to the North of Snowdon. (You can actually see it from Snowdon if you take the path from Llanberis.) I mention this here because Snowdonia is *a rainy bit of Wales* compared to the rest XD

It's not as if Wales is that large

@@batt3ryac1d It covers an area about the size of Wales

​As a resident of Wales, I can confirm @@Timpilgrim's statement to be accurate.

There are two bits of Wales - the rainy bit and the bit that's about to be rainy.

We don't usually. It's normally the double decker bus or the blue whale

@@warren1134 Or the volume of a football stadium

The Olympic sized swimming pool is a US unit, not a swimming pool

Actually we use Olympic Swimming Pools. They're almost the same but they're defined in terms of Football Fields to make the conversion easier.

@@warren1134 Or Wales. We used to dabble with the Belgium as a unit of area but that's subsided post-Brexit.

Was it interesting see it full of machinery when you had already seen it empty?

a student engineer put in charge of removing a giant piece of rock? some ballsy employers

@@JBG-AjaxzeMedia not really. The miners were very skilled and did most of the work. I just marked out the centre line, level line and they knew the blast pattern. Some blasts weren’t very accurate anyway as the rock (slate) varied in hardness, so you had to go back and take a bit more out anyway. Putting stuff in (concrete, steel, machinery) was much trickier!

Amazing job you have sir :)

wow really? you are really lucky.

Sounds like a landmark name in a kid's Minecraft city

Sounds like an attraction at a theme park

Or some place in Middle Earth to avoid

Reminds me of Eddy Grant song ;)

There is Blush Mountain from Sun, Moon, and their Ultra variants, which has a power plant, does that count?

I was not expecting to see you here.

Robby baby

hello there rob

Why is Rob Scallon here? Guess this is just a great channel

I know right! He's awesome!

How do you work at these sort of things?

probably by having a related job and working for that specific company, if it is owned by one

Why couldnt they use gravity to pump the water back into the top and basically have free energy??

at BitcoinJake09 Beceause gravity only brings things closer, it can’t repel things away.

Yeah, I've been in there on the tourist tour, also been in Cruachan Power Station in Scotland, well worth visiting one of these if in the area. Very cool places.

Not all countries are "energy rich". Where I live we also use pumped storage energy to help us cope with peak demands.

I mean, tbf most major European nations could happily have dirt cheap electricity available in huge quantites but that wouldnt help with climate change.

I dont want to be rude but you guys have like 3 hydroelectric dams....

I live in Quebec, we produce so much damn hydroelectricity we could pull the plug on half of new york if we wanted. It's also state owned so we have the cheapest electricity in north america and everyone profits. We got 681 dams

@@thejumper7282 it’s a small country to be fair.

you forget the james bay dam as well ... most of that power is sent to quebec ... yet it sits in Ontario ...

Is that the reason the river is so low, now?

That is no small feat, very impressive. I know some of the big outages they had in the states in the 80's took days to get everything back in order.

Wow for real looks big but didn’t think it was that big

Wow

@@mnikhk During a black start only the powerstations are being fed electricity. So you don't need all that much power output, but the problem is that you do need that power output. That is the chicken-and-egg problem of starting a power plant. You need power to start the power plant before the power plant produces any power. Hydro is often used to provide the black start capability to electricity grids, because starting it up can be as easy as opening a (very big) valve and it can ramp up to full output quickly. So this plant and others like it provide the power to start other, bigger, plants like natural gas, and then finally big coal plants. As the power output from all of them slowly ramp up the power is then diverted to the actual consumers in the grid and area by area power comes back on.

It's not so much the power output, it's the ability to start outputing power at the correct frequency without having the grid to synchronize to.

Disney call the people who think up their rides Imagineers. They have nothing on the imagination of the engineering geniuses who imagined and brought this to actual reality.

Or a 70s band name.

Or a Sleep song name

Electric mountain 2: Electric boogaloo

Could be a scifi/horror movie

Same, I went “ahaha engie-neer”

@@dothmotherknowyouwearth tf2 intensifies

@@qaday123 BUM BUM BUM [MEET THE ENGINEER]

Same

It's a world-wide company hahaha! I worked for them! :D

Always has been.

so...the cake was a lie?

cake is a great battery, you store energy while cooking and get it back while eating

🎂

Don't you mean you did a double cake?

I did that too in 2006. I found it awesome at the time

You weren't ready

Field Trip = no lessons* for the day. This = almost a whole lesson still left plus the rest of the day. *trip write-up no included

yeah, kids are literally stupid. I remember I absolutely hated learning in school and now all I do for fun is learn about things. Every day is filled with regret over the countless opportunities for education I let slip by me. But that's life for ya, you don't know what you have until it's gone.

20 years ago I couldn't even spell teacher. Now I are one!

funny where i seem to bump into woodworking youtubers!

Lots of us are nerds as well as woodworkers... ;-)

Wordsnwood (Art Mulder) there was a proposal to build a system similar to the Niagara falls one in the Scottish Highlands but it was Lobbied out of existence by people concerned it would spoil the view for tourists, the same way every big renewable energy plan is

I live an hour away and never knew this! Thanks!

Wordsnwood (Art Mulder) of course! People find it very hard to believe that they are able to divert the water entirely, completely draining Niagara Falls, and it’s completely true! They’ve done it before and there’s talk of them doing it again.

Are you not ready to prove you’re worthy?

it gave me an erection

If you want insane levels of production, watch Captain Disillusion.

@@em.1633 oh, i wanted to say the same words, but you typed them 21 hours ago

@@em.1633 Captain Disillusion Is Great, One of the best about Visual FX and his videos takes a lot of effort and skills that nobody have (except the professionals). But people like Tom bring us very High quality video where the "video" itself Is just a little part of the job. Overall there is more on a Tom's content than on a Captain one. But this is not critic to Captain, simply they have different targets.

kurzgesagt has some videos with more then 1000 hours put into them.

Rosida Andriyana alright go back to jake paul’s channel

You see it a lot in these videos, the guests are always very well selected!

You're surprised that people in Wales label things in Welsh?

@@gwishart it's a reference to tf2

@@gwishart engie is a french company, it has nothing to do with the welsh language mate.

The sound of engies turtling intensifies.

Tf2

That's what I was looking for

YOU SHALL NOT.... wait buddy can u heat up my pool?

nah thats just joking, we all know the real power source is within ourselves

@@gloriascientiae7435 What are you? A proffessional Motivator ^^

The real power source was the friends we made along the way.

I saw your comment in some music video too.

Relatable.

NoT hOw PoTeNtIaL eNeRgY wOrKs LiKe BuT oK.

You aren't my teacher anymore Mr. Dolan!

No fap November. There’s a lot of “potential energy” you’re not the only one

@@tykuresa22 if only there was a way to harness all that potential energy going to waste this november

Then you never worked with machines. Or lived near one

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Is that an actual place?

I was going to mention Grady myself, his video on the topic is indeed interesting and was my introduction to the concept as well.

@@Weetile Considering Tom has published a guest video by Brady before I'd say it's relevant.

@@Weetile Doesn't hurt. Grady's channel is Super Super educational and Thomas isn't someone that doesn't want to educate the masses.

Weetile Independent recommendations aren't "advertising"...

@@Weetile what's wrong with directing people to other useful, educational videos? Especially when the audience is already interested in such things?

The Salisbury cathedral with its world-famous 123 metre spire?!

Nearly all the large powerstation in Norway is built the same way.

I hear the Russians love it this time of year.

Most of the hole was already there, since they built it in a quarry.

@@ThePavoReality Well everybody knows that now, so I guess it's famous?

They probably said when I went but its been a couple years. When did it open?

@@hannahlack1061 Wikipedia says 1984. I visited sometime 87 to 89, not quite sure. It was still shiny and new then, anyway.

Tom Hadler ahaha

@@herlinjm Not if you can't turn it into electricity "just by flicking a switch"

@@herlinjm The lake is an accumulator ("An accumulator is an energy storage device: a device which accepts energy, stores energy, and releases energy as needed"). I'm not sure your water bottle and your saliva are.

And aquamans boat and sonics car

You don't need direct uv rays to produce energy, although you can produce a lot more for that matter

Balrog from a common person perspective: Run away, is a demon! Balrog from an engineering perspective: And now, we connect the Balrog-1 thermal generator to the grid. Clean energy at a little cost. Nice!

And all in a country a load of people dunno abt

Erosion?

You could say the same for your car battery if you kept topping up the acid.

All electrical systems - no matter whether connected to the National Grid or independent require regular expert mechanical maintenance (or do you think nuclear power stations, solar panel farms, and wind turbines look after themselves?) As for the water level - it's Wales! I don't think I've ever visited Wales and it's not rained at least one point in the day. Considering it's described as 'a rainy bit' of Wales, I should guess that it is one of those regions of the British Isles that receives a peculiarly high degree of rainfall (like Eskdalemuir in Scotland and practically all of Ireland. It's quite probable that, unless climate change really makes significant changes to the British climate on a permanent scale (ie, we turn into a desert or frozen tundra), then I think we can be fairly sure that the liquid water level in this particular 'battery' will be just fine. Also, I'll be surprised if the water in the lake used in this battery is not more, much much more than required for daily operations. I doubt very much that the lake drains completely with each manoeuvre. So, more than enough water. Also, don't be such a downer. You sound like my son, for goodness sake. Think about your mum and dad for a moment and how it feels for them to hear you being so negative about nothing at all. It drives us mad.

It's the name a festival in the Alps for electronic music, but metal sounds nice :P

"Lovely weather we're having" -British saying, Facetious.

2MW wireless charger.

Ed R its also home to a pine martin, and a pair of ospreys. So another reason to visit

That is a proper power station though, not just a Peak Load Balance Station like Dinorwig is. It is a damn sight bigger too. Neither of them are batteries though.

ever been to the netherlands? we have some great rain down here

@@ducttaperd G E K O L O N I S E E R D

but no mountains

@@rollstuhlmeister true true

mgames Z E G M A K K E R

Benoit Bvg what is the top language?

@@demawoods2679, Welsh. Things in Wales tend to be dual language.

@@demawoods2679 Welsh/Gaelic i presume.

@@benoitbvg2888 Welsh is not a Gaelic language. The Gaelic languages are Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Manx. Welsh is a cousin: the other side of the Celtic family, along with Breton and Cornish.

I was expecting a lake with metal on the sides and an electrolyte liquid in the lake

"Random"

*ba dum tss!*🥁 😂

*NUTT*

Don’t be such a drip

It is a big "leeky" bucket that makes money .. a Monster liquid asset ;-)

nice wetter we're having, innit?

*flipping*

Sofus :-D !!!

Nice prof pic

@@beatrix1120 Thanks, the little guy has been dead for many years :(

@@Sofus. nice battery, I personally love it.

Sofus “Norway: the left testicle in the frigid sea penis that is Scandinavia”- John Oliver.

Not anymore there’s a blanket

+@@Weetile He's still around.

Weetile What, did you unsubscribe? He's still releasing music regularly

I know it's a quote, but the sun is more akin to a generator than a battery.

You could make a religion out of this...

*+thegreenmadow* The thing is that it takes minutes for a hydroelectric dam to kick in and start generating power, by which point the grid imbalance would have already tripped breakers and caused issues, which is what the large spinning steel turbines help mitigate. One possible solution is to have computerised batteries handle the spikes of energy consumption in between the times while the hydroelectric dam valves open or close (which takes time to mitigate the water hammer issue).

Electric Mountain takes like 10-30 seconds to kick in, as per this very video (when I went to visit they said it averages at 18 seconds) and provides power at such a level that its use is easily predicted and accounted for.

@@Weetile The mountain IS a power plant...

I mean He’s on Mount Thunder in mystery dungeon. Soooo, I guess?

@@KameKame27 zapdos irl confirmed

Power Station

Go back to the depths the underworld trump

1.21

Enough to send you back to the future.

That's a long partner!

@@jahinzee what is a long suffering partner ? is he talking about his pheenis ?

they Did

So whenever there is someone on the tv making fun of the French there will be a sudden glitch in the power grid. 😃👍

It's true the French have finally won but the British will always have Agincourt (349 years after that unfortunate event at Hastings).

It is the facility that they own not the grid itself.

Nationalisation is bad except when it's foreign nations apparently.

Well after Britain saved French ass twice in a century, the least France can do is to pay back Britain in the form of the LARGEST BATTERY EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

ba dum tsk

Surely seven times!