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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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.'
