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April 02, 2018, 04:34 PM
CQB60
From the people who brought us, HK !
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April 02, 2018, 04:44 PM
Skins2881
Probably the only time you'll ever hear this combination of words in your life.... That is one bad ass lock. Smart design to use two rotating locks to counterbalance each other and us only 22KW for 5 minutes. They could power it with a tractor engine if they wanted to.
Jesse
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April 02, 2018, 04:50 PM
comet24
That thing is very cool. Never heard of it before.
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April 02, 2018, 05:44 PM
mholmes
Thanks PHPaul. I went through the instructions for embedding the video but obviously I screwed it up somehow.
April 02, 2018, 05:48 PM
PHPaul
quote:
Originally posted by mholmes: Thanks PHPaul. I went through the instructions for embedding the video but obviously I screwed it up somehow.
There are several choices on TubeIt after you tell it which video to use. Use the bottom one with the {FLASH_VIDEO} tags.
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April 02, 2018, 05:59 PM
TMats
Fun to listen to the Scottish accent of the narrator too.
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April 02, 2018, 08:35 PM
Rey HRH
What the...???
I did not expect anything like that.
Very cool engineering.
It's amazing to imagine how the solution was crafted from the problem statement "How do we get a boat from point A here to point B there" and come up with that answer. Very imaginative problem solving.
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April 02, 2018, 09:00 PM
parabellum
Fascinating and ingenious. I had no idea.
If I were a maker of low budget films in Scotland, I'd try to get a permit to film there. It would be a great backdrop for a film set in the future.
April 02, 2018, 09:05 PM
corsair
Sometime, later in my life, I'd like to take a few months, rent a barge and travel through Europe via canal. England/Scotland have a growing tourism industry as they reuse their old canals for tourism and the Falkirk Wheel is one location I look forward to visiting. France has the most developed canal system for travelers, sailing along the Canal du Midi you could spend months going from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. There's a number of locks, lifts and water slopes that you travel through. You can spend a lot of time on You Tube watching them work.
April 02, 2018, 09:14 PM
h2oys
That was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
April 02, 2018, 09:15 PM
mark_a
Oh yeah? We have TVA and a gazillion pounds of ugly concrete for our locks on the TN river...
It would almost be worth sitting on a plane forever to go see that.
April 02, 2018, 09:26 PM
jeffxjet
When my family went to England for my BIL's separation ceremony and collectively decided to drive to Scotland for some fun time. I made sure to include a side trip to Glasgow to see it in person. It is every bit as impressive as you would imagine.
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April 02, 2018, 11:38 PM
YooperSigs
At first I thought it was just going to lower or raise the boat, but it also moves the water too. Amazing!
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April 02, 2018, 11:54 PM
barndg00
Was in Scotland 18 months or so ago, how did I miss that? It is amazing! It is a beautiful place that I mean to return to...
April 03, 2018, 12:42 AM
flashguy
quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881: Probably the only time you'll ever hear this combination of words in your life.... That is one bad ass lock. Smart design to use two rotating locks to counterbalance each other and us only 22KW for 5 minutes. They could power it with a tractor engine if they wanted to.
The really neat thing about it as that both carriers always weigh the same--each craft displaces its own weight of water (Archimedes' Principle) so the carrier always has the same weight.
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April 03, 2018, 02:52 AM
Texas Bob C.
Yeah, both carriers weigh the same. It takes very little power to operate it. The volume of the weight of the water that the boat and it's passengers displace weigh the same as the volume of the displaced much water. To put it in layman's terms, 'it's cool.'
April 03, 2018, 06:31 AM
tacfoley
Just like the Peterborough boat lift in Ontario...
