Guy Tests The Water Pressure Of A Hydroelectric Dam | Guy Martin 

3:15 "That's us generating electricity, for 90,000 ohms"

Seen it, done it, been in the mountain.

Just when I thought I heard all the pronunciations for the word "water".

Great British....but Scottish again. Why does England steal everything Scottish

A whole lot of woke talk from the narrator.

I love the way Guys says WATER lol

Love the narration. If The Lord of the Rings opened with a hydroelectric dam instead of a mountain range, this would be the intro.

A fish swam into a wall and said 'Dam'

The empire sure left that dam in a hurry! They took all of their gear with them!

There are 2 more in the pipeline, as it were. 1 on Loch Ness called Red John, and 1 on Loch Lochy called Coire Glas. Foyers, also on Loch Ness, has been operating since the 1960s. There are a few smaller schemes in operation.

Working as an operation engineer in a 720MW hydropower plant, i can surely say hydro electric generating stations are a marvel of Man

Oh, hey, it's a location used in Andor. Neat. Also, nice chops to open the valve and just stand there in the spray. Seems an odd design choice, though.

That is a beautiful dam, with those block/brick buttresses. Very picturesque!

Ya know … I’d actually be quite comfortable knowing that that was the guy monitoring the dam above my town 🥳

...."makin electricity for 90 thousand gnomes". (sic) 😂. English subtitles would be useful!

Think about this. When you include accelerated mass energy in efficiency computations, the efficiency of a hydro turbine never exceeds 16%. What could we do different to improve that efficiency closer to 100%? No 100% is not possible, but why not eliminate accelerated mass and get closer to 100%. Like 90%. If we do not think about it we will never do it.

I like Guy but I can't get over the way he pronounces "water". 🤣

My grandad was a tunnel tiger. Lots of hydro electric places up in the highlands where I live. They’re awesome.

Guy Martin mate..you are my Idol..would love to meet you in person... cheers from Austria

No pressure testing was conducted during the making of this video.

What is the gear ratio on that hand cranked safety valve?

Why did it have to make mention of 100000 ev's

If you drink 6 pints and squint whilst he talks, he kinda sounds like Tyson Fury.

So back to nuclear energy...

A similar scheme operates in Turlough Hill in Ireland and has done so since the 1970s. Designed and operated by the State owned Electricity Supply Board, ESB.

“Whatter”

Like a kid in a chocolate shop…

The closing of that service seal sounded a lot like Godzilla just arrived. 🦖

ok so last i posted it was about my invention well this is a post on the issues of green power technology So firstly there is no such thing as green power. WHY? Well by my book for it to be green the power used to process the raw materials into say a billet of aluminum must have come from hydro as wind and solar can't deliver the rate of power needed for the smelter to run Now this issue exists throughout the entire chain from ground to shop front and then there is the Elephant in the room of 100% recyclable non meet that bar let alone exceed it wind at best is 65% solar well 25-30% even hydro at about 95% is not 100% So i hear you shouting this man's full of #### And yes you are on the right line if your about the power made sold to the public not the back story Lets put it another way would you let your child have a Teddybear filled with toxic material's ? NO the first job as a mom or dad is to keep them healthy yet you will allow technology into their future that as i type this is going to landfill Now to the next issue life of the power technology So solar is about 12 years then the return drops off by 15yrs your looking to replace them Wind is about 27 years then costs have eaten all the profit Hydroelectricity well 100 years is the norm but can run twice that Now in closing its time for some truths in my world yes i am for hydro over sun and wind and as RDP Marine Australia i have an agenda but it is up front i have told you Also i have moved to a caravan lifestyle 10 years ago a van i designed and made solar on the roof 8 135amp batteries AND MADE IN FIBERGLASS so i know i live it In closing well done for getting this far and yes it is just right to live in and have been doing so since 2014

“This countries energy problems” - Scotland doesn’t have an energy problem.

Wouter

There are three or four small private schemes in the glen in which I live. Unfortunately they sell their excess to the grid so we can't be self-sufficient.

What if you used the water being released to pump water back into the dam using no electricity 🤔

That’s the kind of delta p that can squeeze a fellow through a keyhole.

There is a similar set up in Snowdonia, North Wales, I believe that opened in the early 1980s.

It is just a hydropower plant. Narrator made it sound like a mystery.

Yes and what about the fish that wanted to go down river but was blasted back up and over the wall he was dammed for ever and lived more prosperous for ever after. The end

All that electric was already in use so no new electricity for electric cars. Such bravo Sierra

I don't know if james milner switched to a racer

Hook a water powered pump to that safety release valve

California is the place to transfer water 😊

You should show what GB did with palestine

Why does this guy remind me of Fred West?

#99 MESIN AIR NYA BAGUS BANG 😂🇮🇩

Reduce birth rate.

Surely guy should know tidal power is the uks best solution

👎damn backchitnoise👎

right? right? right?

We need more Guy Martin (and a Translator!) just kidding more Guy for the Guy's! Ok that didn't sound right... ;)

From that thumbnail I thought Guy was starring in the movie of The Backrooms.

its a poor design tho you pump water from river but extracting its energy right on the dam turbines could installed near the river so water could gain more energy while moving downhill

WHATer

Uk could have build more of these ,but the agenda and profits of the elite were more important.

"wathr"

If you want impressive power stations visit North America

I just woke up, and I read the video title as:" Guy taste the water of pleasure in a Hydroelectric Dam"

Guy says water so weird. Narrator is also kinda eh time for some caffeine

In 2022 there was an estimated 10 million electric vehicles that would need charging at least once a day that would mean this entire damn would only be able to charge 1% of the vehicles... That's a lot of water and a lot of energy

“Generating electricity for 90,000 ohms”

When people are watching the world cup, and all put the kettle on at half time, these guys open the taps.

watta

Isn't this where 'Andor' was filmed?)

why not have a couple of turbines in the run down the mountain, even if they get smaller in size, you want to get as much out of whats there as you can

"wot we gonna do?" Nuclear power mate!

Aye yup! Guy Martin...genius.

That engineers had a few lines on his break

4:08 Emergency Open Now!

I wanna speak to the dam manager!

Thanks for your sharing

i work in 1200 MW HEP

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Moan the scotlin

WOW.. what a dam!' Woohh

The only thing missing, was the warning siren signalling the opening of the pressure relief valve, as anyone caught in the drainage basin downstream could be injured or drowned. That is the dam truth.

Instead you can dig holes, drop heavy rock down the shaft when you need electricity and lift it up when in excess

O Dam guy

Go On 😊

wtaf is watta

BUM!

wa 'ah...

Dam

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Is this the same Guy Martin that races in the Isle of Man TT race

440MW - sorry but a drop in the ocean and what about the pumping losses. At least it can provide Mvars as needed at anytime

What was the water pressure?

At last a solution far better than a battery. The UK should be doing this on scale. And there are more places than you might think where this is possible.

how do you change that seal on that drain valve or just tapered?

It's a bit of a conundrum to think what the electric car owners of the world would do with that last 18 hours of power grid. And what non trade skilled citizens would resort to to last 18 more.

Nuclear power! Is the answer...

Luss, lomond side.

We need people like you in the u.s.a.

The real star is the narrator, what’s his name

Guy you need to come to East Tennessee and ride the famous “Dragon” through the Great Smokey Mountains… it’s a hairy ride!

Absolute trick engineering

4:30 Guy Martin is now in charge of the safety precautions That’s some scary words right there

EVs a joke

Years ago when I was an electrical apprentice, 1980's, we were told of a proposed American scheme, where they would use excess power to compress air to a few psi above ambient and store it by pressurising a huge underground cavern, what came of it I have no idea.

Fun fact : Nuclear is "greener" because dams release a lot of methane from organic decomposition caused by repeated flooding

Over produced material, i just want facts. this is a waste of effort to make

watter hahaha