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First time that I've seen this one and it's very cool from an engineering design

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Fixed the embed for ya

From the people who brought us, HK !

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.

That thing is very cool. Never heard of it before.

Thanks PHPaul. I went through the instructions for embedding the video but obviously I screwed it up somehow.

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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.

Fun to listen to the Scottish accent of the narrator too.

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.

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.

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.

That was incredible. Thanks for sharing.

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.

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.

At first I thought it was just going to lower or raise the boat, but it also moves the water too. Amazing!

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...

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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.

flashguy

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.'

Just like the Peterborough boat lift in Ontario...

tac

Cool. Thanks for posting that, mholmes.