It was a pretty penny in the 1980s when you could pay all your bills and live off of $250 a week. Currency Valuation has been absolutely DESTROYED in 40 years.
So. What foreign national* is stealing video from another source, adding bad text, using a CG voice and profiting from the post. I know it won’t make much difference but difference but I’m blocking this channel. Maybe YT algorithm will get the hint and stop suggesting this tripe! * Obviously, English isn’t their native language!
I'm a retired electronic repair technician. What the hell is a degerorows of electricity!!!??? The narration was in English and then suddenly went into an alien language. Not of this Earth!👽
Fun fact: This wheel ALWAYS remains perfectly balanced. Whether there are heavy boats on only 1 side, both sides or none at all. No matter what, both sides of the wheel always weight exactly the same as each other. If a 10 ton boat floats in one side, then exactly 10 tons of water moves out of that side from the boats displacement. Everything naturally stays balanced no matter what is going on without any intervention.
Of course it remains perfectly balanced as long as both the canal at the top as well as the river at the bottom carry their normal water levels. What if one or both carry a different water level?
@@ernstnaumann6318You are correct. To make sure that balance is maintained there is a guy with a bucket who corrects for any deviation in levels. Both top and bottom (just in case).
The effectiveness comes from the counter-balance effect from the 2 opposite weights, not from the gear box. Like an elevator with the counter weight, they really only have to work to overcome the frictions and the small imbalances in weight.
It cost more to boil a kettle of water to make tea than it does to operate the Falkirk wheel. also the rotational bearings are such that they cane be inspected maintained and replace if necessary without much disruption.
Went on that in 2019 when we visited Scotland. When a canal boat is on it, the other side is balanced where a boat is on it or not since the water is displaced by the boat. When you're on top of it, the canal boat goes through a tunnel in the huge hill that the video doesn't show. It's also an increadable view from the top. The building with solar panels is a museum.
@@JefferyMullen-h2u That sounded interesting so I looked them up. They are very Impressive, especially lit up at night. The colored lighting is like gas-on-water effect
It really is an ingenious idea, both sides will always be perfectly balanced because the water levels will be exactly the same and the weight of the boat replaces the exact same weight in water.
@@charleszerphey6883 The weight of an empty (water only) trough is exactly the same as the heaviest boat that will fit. It’s all about water level. The boat weighs exactly the same as the water it displaces.
I developed the method for fabrication of railroad car rotor dumpers at Western Pa. Steel Fab. It had similars to this. Use at coal power plants in a couple minutes would flip a RR. car full of coal over and dump it out. Coal would freeze up in a car during winter and could not empty out from the bottom
It is “harmless” videos such as these that poison our minds: it states that the cost of the structure is $1,200,000 and that it took 1,200 tons of steel to construct it. The cost of one ton of steel in 2024 is $1,300. Therefore $1,200,000 doesn’t even begin to cover the cost of the steel alone.
This contraption is absolutely fabulous. It's always balanced and moves boats at the speed of light compared to locks but there could be the problem of stagnant water.
@@hotprop92The wheel is used as a connection between two different canals. The one that comes in from Glasgow is higher than the lower that goes into Edinburgh. There used to be a flight of locks at Falkirk. They were closed & filled in years ago. The wheel has reinstated the Glasgow, Edinburgh canal link.
i hope that's a joke....there's no way it's worth it if it costs more than a tank of gas to get to, it just lifts boats, go on a nearby boat ride then visit a fair or canival etc and ride a ferris wheel,spend the money on things that are worth it.
I just visited a few weeks ago- very cool, but there's also a lot more stuff to see in Scotland that's well worth the trip. Much easier now you can fly direct from Chicago or NY to Edinburgh- (used to have to go through Heathrow)
It is not efficient because of gears but because all the mass is perfectly balanced out. Including the weight of the boat, as it displaces its own weight in water.
He obviously meant to say that the COST of this machine was 1.2 million degurows which, as everyone knows, is equal to just under a billion demi-gurows.
Billions my arse my home town is 6 miles from it and it's nowhere near that. In fact it won't even be as much as the 1.2 million it cost. FFS Where'd they get this info 🤯
What does it do? It transfers canal boats between a high-level canal, and a low-level canal. It is much more compact than a series of locks would be, and with virtually no consumption of precious canal water.
This stuff is complete rubbish, if that's the best AI can do that isn't too impressive.... for something that supposedly cost millions to bring in annual profits of billions is so ridiculous a claim it is beyond contempt
Everybody wants to bow at the feet of AI! Listen, folks, it is a man made device, with man made hardware, man made firmware (basic operating instructions), and man generated software! If the device were (arguably) perfect, it would still only be as effective as the software can allow it to be! Don't you think there is a reason our phones and computers, even some automotive devices, need frequent updating? Maybe because the operating software has flaws; it is only as good as the writer of the code, which tells it what to do! Who wrote the code? A man/woman! So, who's afraid of AI? It's a little scarey, only because it is so darn fast, and that some dude (or dudette) wrote it!
Amazingly well balanced. Turned by just a 30hp electric motor. Some say it can be turned by hand. I saw it in July of 2023. One of the reasons why I went to Scotland.
It's a boat lift for narrowboats using the canal system. Instead of a hillside full of locks, this lifts the boats up to the upper level. You drive in to the pod, the watertight seals come down, the whole thing rotates while the boats stay level, then the reverse; gates are opened and the boat chugs out.
Visited here in April 2023. We were unable to enjoy riding the lift because they only had one boat available and were running behind in giving tours. It was still awesome to see in action. They also have more entertainment available at the site.
One point 2 million is cheap! Rides in an amusemet park cost a hell of a lot more than that. Even a ferrisvwhell is more than that. The narrator needs to be fired. Gears dont reduce power consuption. Dtill havebto power the gears!!! .
The Peterborough (Ont.) lift lock, built in 1910, uses far less electricity to handle a 65-foot lift. The lock, on the Trent-Severn Waterway, uses hydraulic cylinders to raise and lower two bathtub-like caissons which are 130 feet long and 33 feet wide. The lock is bi-directional, with one caisson and its boats and water rising while the other is falling. A valve in the pipe connecting the two vertical hydraulic cylinders controls motion of the caissons.
But this saves canal water. As it is not moving water from the high level to the low level. It replaces a flight of 11 locks. That were filled in over 80 years ago.
Doctrine Designer and Doctrine inventor of this Technology is A Pakistani "Doctrine Engineer" Dr. Raja Haroon Latif. He had Doctrine design that "Falkirk whel" in "2002".
That's very efficient in terms of Degrurows of electricity! Keep in mind a typical refrigerator uses a whopping 0.035 Degrurows of electricity to cool 50kg of radishes from room temperature down to 280 Kelvin!
If I remember correctly it was built in the last century, not in the 21st century. And yeah, 1.5 what? Edit, it opened in 2002 but the design was under discussion back in the 70s. I probably saw an article on it in popular mechanics
@edwarddodge7937 it was "Butterly engineering" in Ripley derbyshire, give them a look up as their history and catalogue of works is actually quite impressive. Used to drive past there everyday for years and now the site is literally just a huge hole in the ground, it's quite sad really.
This is EXACTLY what is needed for the new Nicaraguan Canal. There will be saltwater and freshwater stretches of the Canal. These waters must remain separated for the benefit of the different species they host. This wheel should enable ships to be transferred from sea to lake and back to sea without mixing the waters.
And because of archemedes principle, you don't have to worry about the size of the ship being lifted. The weight in both bays will be the same regardless
You failed to mention the most important question from this short. That sky boat road! Sky boat roads that are like 4 stories up from the ground actually exist? Where do these boat roads lead too? So its a high up road thats actually filled with water right? Does it cause boat traffic jams if you bring too many up at once?
It's Chief Engineer claimed it took more energy to boil a Kettle than it takes for 1 full revolution on the Wheel. He got called out, and proved it...!!👏👏
He didn't mention what it does. There are lots of canals in this part of Europe are commonly used for transportation. These two canals were very different heights so this was the solution to move boats travel in one canal to be able to move to the other canal.
Gears cannot "reduce energy consumption." In particular, gears necessarily add friction. What they contribute is bringing the mechanical force needed down into ranges that can be provided at the highest motor efficiencies. That can save energy. Balancing the masses of the two boats further reduces the energy consumed _at the wheel_.
It is only good for small scale boat lift (up to 115 ft). Nowaday, you need to lift ships (up to 3000 tons) to around 100M on average. For some of the larger dams the lifting height is anywhere from 200 - 500M.
Ever seen the lift locks at Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on the Trent/Severn waterway? Same idea, but the bathtubs go straight up and down. The operation requires very little energy as the tubs counter balance one another. It has been doing this for over a century. There is a similar lift somewhere in England, too.
And the gears have absolutely nothing to do with energy consumption all they do is allow a smaller motor to move the mass. Efficiency is achieved due to well understood and ancient physical laws. Archimedes principal means that any boat placed into the gondola displaces its own weight in water out of the gondola this means that both gondolas weigh exactly the same whether there is a boat in them or not this means the entire structure remains balanced meaning the motors which drive the mechanism dont lift or lower any weight at all they simply need to overcome the inertia and friction in the system.
