Mike Rowe examines how the Hoover Dam electrifies America

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@dertythegrower 2 жыл бұрын

Always love Mike Rowe documentary work

@djolley61 2 жыл бұрын

Was fortunate to be able to tour Hoover Dam some decades ago. The sound of the water rushing through the dam into the turbines is awesome.

@TheExplosiveGuy 2 жыл бұрын

Same here, I was pretty young but I still remember everything, looking down the side was insane. I particularly remember being fascinated by the size of the generators, I was a tinkerer as a child and knew all about electric motors and generators by that time and couldn't comprehend the sheer amount of power each of them were making and how a motor/generator could be made _that_ big. That's actually pretty funny thinking about that now considering that throughout my career as a machinist I've worked on industrial scale parts for steel foundries, dams, Boeing manufacturing equipment (lots of little stuff and one project for a building-sized machine that laid carbon fiber tape for the wings of 787s) and SpaceX machinery, to name a few, and a lot of those old childhood questions I had have been answered for a long time lol...

@briansmith8730 Жыл бұрын

After visiting Las Vegas several years ago and seeing an entire strip of buildings dedicated to gratifying the basest and most vile of human vices, I had my faith in humanity completely restored by visiting the Hoover Dam. Where the Las Vegas strip highlights some of the worst in human behavior, the Hoover Dam reflects the best in human excellence, determination, and bravery. It is a magnificent structure, built during a desperate time by people with backbones of steel. And, as a kind of exclamation point, the finish work on the outside of the dam is done in an Art Deco style, as if to say, “Not only are the builders of this dam the best in the world at what they do, they look good doing it.”

@thereissomecoolstuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike, heading down to Vegas tomorrow. Will remember this episode.

@rollandhartenfeld3259 2 жыл бұрын

It amazes me how many people do their jobs so well. We need to be thankful for their dedication and knowledge

@tylermoormann8850 9 ай бұрын

This is very interesting mike,have to do this everyday for a living . Europe, Canada, everywhere

@singahsung712 Жыл бұрын

7:59 I lost it when i met Jason Takeshita what a name😂😂

@DCDLaserCNC 2 жыл бұрын

I always love Mike Rowe videos!

@32ndspecialist 11 ай бұрын

I was in the Army & had an injury during duty. When I recovered I went to trade school through the Voc rehab program. This program paid for my education as well as a small amount to care for my family while in school. I feel fortunate my brain injury occurred while in the service otherwise I may be destitute from the medical bills alone.

@InfestedPunxx 2 жыл бұрын

4:28 She does her inspections by the book I respect that

@wyattforrest1879 2 жыл бұрын

She has too or she is fired

@taylorc2542 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly I know how BoR jobs work; and she only has that job because she's a women and minority.

@wyattforrest1879 2 жыл бұрын

@@taylorc2542 Lmafo sure

@mls8668 2 жыл бұрын

That was DOPE! Love me some Mike Rowe 👍

@cypriankatongojr7714 11 ай бұрын

2:23 I see very electrifying puns by Mike😂😂😂😂

@dicktimpano8807 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. I worked for our local electrical utility for 42+ years on the Distribution side. I knew very little about generation issues. Great video! 👍

@carlmead5520 2 жыл бұрын

Mike you are the best keep up the great job thanks again for your time and knowledge

@jonslg240 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love all the puns in this lol

@Flyforawhiteguy1982 2 жыл бұрын

Love Mike. Glad he brought back dirty jobs. One of the best shows on tv ever

@lordfox9596 Жыл бұрын

Daar heb jij groot gelijk

@blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602 2 жыл бұрын

Back when America could actually build … now we can’t even fix a pot hole

@nmoran2046 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a decent size uga duga gun

@TwinShards 2 жыл бұрын

The _dam_ amount of pun Mike Rowe was in _charge_ to make is amazing.

@thisisgame 2 жыл бұрын

is there a part 2 ?

@jeffrywilliams71 2 жыл бұрын

Keep doing what you're doing 👍👍👍

@ComputerGeek18 2 жыл бұрын

As a machinist, I got a good chuckle out of the no-metric sticker on Jason's ID.

@ai4px 2 жыл бұрын

There are two kinds of countries…. Those who built Hoover dam and put a man on the moon and those who use metric. On serious note, I use metric every day at my job and it is a superior system. But I do enjoy the joke above.

@EddieVBlueIsland 2 жыл бұрын

Mike Rowe - doing a job that NEEDS to be done. Thanks Mike for making hard dirty jobs appreaciated again.

@ethansprofile6670 2 жыл бұрын

Mike, the original generators are from Allis Motors from Milwaukee!

@jimprice1959 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I used to give tours at Bonneville Lock & Dam on the Columbia River. A few mistakes though. Water is not "pumped." It flows down through penstocks via gravity and turns the turbines. Also.. the generator power wouldn't be expressed in Megawatts per hour. That would be like saying my car engine produces 150 Horsepower per hour. Power is expressed in Megawatts. Energy in Megawatt-Hours. A copywriter with an engineering background could help.

@RichardinNC1 Жыл бұрын

I've done a dam tour. Amazing place.

@neilfeinberg7825 Жыл бұрын

Saw a history channel documentary on the Hoover dam. It's someone s job to remove quaga mussels from the intake pipes so they don't clog and overheat the generator!

@YourDadsBoyfriend 2 жыл бұрын

Oh ya partial episodes are fun to watch... it like being in high school all over again only learning part of the process

@davenkathy101 2 жыл бұрын

Most of what I know of hydroelectric, coal, nuclear, power comes from my father in law, foreman, millwright for a major contractor. He much preferd the clean hydroelectric generators. A coal fired turbine is a very dirty job. Big bucks though.

@MadmaxMusic93 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly dirty crappy coal... we need Hydroelectric power or just electric

@clashwiththefam1015 2 жыл бұрын

We need the full episodes

@bluemagoo3116 2 жыл бұрын

Good job

@dougadams9419 Жыл бұрын

3 Seasons from 2021-2022. According to IMDB, This is Season 1 Episode 4, or what Fox Business took a clip from. 1 hour each episode. Can't find it on the Internet anywhere.

@BradFalck-mn3pc 8 ай бұрын

While Hoover dam is impressive what is also extremely impressive is the enormous hydro electric capacity that Canada has built in Quebec and British Columbia with 1/16th the population of America and now supplies the northeast and southwest with power when needed🇨🇦🇺🇸

@billyyank2198 2 жыл бұрын

Dam good video.

@FuctByTheGovernment 2 жыл бұрын

Edison didn't invent the lightbulb he just took the design and improved it.

@Lunarphantom99 2 жыл бұрын

Seen the Hoover dam over "Thanksgiving weekend"

@bks7842 2 жыл бұрын

How/where can I view full episodes of how America Works?

@EmperorTyrael 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when I had to drove the NCR and Legion out of Hoover Dam for Mr. House

@gmariet1391 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed that alot ! My hope is that there's too notch SECURITY considering the signs of the times!

@74the_magpie 2 жыл бұрын

Yes when I visited year 2006, no one was down there. Glad they are there.

@jimpikoulis6726 2 жыл бұрын

Yes summer is here and they need to work SLOW not FAST

@B-rad303 2 жыл бұрын

In about 10 to 15 years you're going to be able to stand where the lake was. And look up at the intakes.

@stephenlong3801 Жыл бұрын

I saw one woman. Doing good work.

@shannonconley5316 2 жыл бұрын

A Job worth doing, is worth doing well.

@rogerrathbun444 2 жыл бұрын

No LOTO when working on the elevator ?

@josephbennett3482 2 жыл бұрын

Those dam employees gotta be crazy to ride on top of the dam elevator.

@SHANNNNN0_ 2 жыл бұрын

Charles is a 🐐

@alexmaccity Жыл бұрын

You should examine why it isn't called the fdr dam

@recklessjunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Why cut short?

@andreforbes 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I wath the full episodes?

@andreforbes 2 жыл бұрын

Watch

@803fishn6 2 жыл бұрын

The NCR and Legion. That is all.

@74the_magpie 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike, good show!

@vinnieg6161 Жыл бұрын

I'd never watch fox but it's Mike Rowe Also Edison didn't invent the light bulb

@BradHouser 2 жыл бұрын

At 8:34 "Water is pumped from upstream and into a generator's turbine". There is no pump, it is gravity pushing the water. When the water level is too low, less ⚡ is generated.

@blaydCA 2 жыл бұрын

CORRECT! I caught that also. (See also: penstock) The only pumped water goes to Los Angeles which does generate power downslope to recover some of the power used to pump it over the mountains.

@kevinking5290 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t one already have the pins pre lathed ?

@SHAD0WZOMBIE Жыл бұрын

glad we have people like penny to oversee the electronics of our nations infrastructure..

@hardknot 2 жыл бұрын

Where’s the whole videos

@jumbomuffin1316 2 жыл бұрын

Right and how old is it?… and everything else in this country?

@rbrowning9617 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful mini-documentary. Very interesting.

@raivis923 2 жыл бұрын

for how «important» their jobs is, they sure do like to say «i think so» not «i know so»

@UltraMagaFan 2 жыл бұрын

If lake mead keeps dropping like it’s been doing that dam ain’t gonna be making electricity anymore. People need to stop moving into the desert. Droughts and the fact that it was built in the 30s and can no longer keep up with modern water demands is gonna screw a bunch of people over. I really hope that doesn’t happen. This operation is pretty cool.

@repooc1961 2 жыл бұрын

Jason "Takeashita"?

@jamesgarrison6430 2 жыл бұрын

They have cnc that could knock that out in a hart beat

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@rodeoclownobama5796 2 жыл бұрын

yeah everytime my gf cooks there is burnt smell, you know something is wrong

@PeterPeter-fo8df 2 жыл бұрын

It electrifies Las Vegas and Southern California...not all of America

@bopitbull3957 2 жыл бұрын

Hope there's like a hundred of those filters The amount of muscles and garbage was like an atom compared to how much water flows through there.

@EPTXMAN 2 жыл бұрын

Penny smelled and felt some wires and relayed the info to Eric.

@jeffreylawdermilt4139 2 жыл бұрын

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@mikefinley4367 2 жыл бұрын

Rolling blackouts, possible national blackout, can't seem to maintain the grid so let's put thousands of electric cars in use, what a plan!

@Bangabalunga 2 жыл бұрын

Let's have useless foreign wars rather than upgrade our electricity grid. Specially foreign wars where we just pack up and leave having achieved nothing. What a plan!

@mikefinley4367 2 жыл бұрын

@@Bangabalunga It was a lie to begin with by the sellout republicans known as the Bush presidents who as does the left, support the U.N. agenda for a one world hov / dictatorship instead of America and exactly why they all hate Trump. He isn't a player, not on board with the sneeky agenda and in fact began reversing Thier Implemented tactics right away. Open borders is a U.N. policy to merge USA, Canada & Mexico as region 2 just as the E.U. is region 1

@user-ww6zj1qv9i 2 жыл бұрын

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

@ice9594 2 жыл бұрын

It won’t produce much electricity as of next year if the drought persists.

@chrismarichalar7919 2 жыл бұрын

was there last september but they had it closed due to the scamdemic

@cybertrk 2 жыл бұрын

Put solar and batteries on all those homes and restore the river. Astroturf all those stupid golf courses too

@life50150 2 жыл бұрын

Electronics kit handle the American made materia l unlike these electric parts malfunction all the time

@josephfbuck 2 жыл бұрын

Well they just forgot to ask Elon Musk to build a gigafactory does a neon musk have all backup power supplies for his plants I mean he sells a battery pack for your house why does the back up our power grid we only have to buy 20% of our daily power from overseas maybe he can help increase that

@julius3066 2 жыл бұрын

why are all these videos half done?

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@tmccaw21 2 жыл бұрын

A licensed electrician is running her bare fingers over controller wiring on the elevator to find issues? This is a joke right?

@jhogan1960 2 жыл бұрын

Penny's partner carries her water. In the rush to incorporate women into the trades in the name of equality; the men still do the heavy lifting, while management virtual signals their commitment to 'diversity' and 'inclusion'. All the while, the quality of the work suffers while the guys have to run interference or the chix. I'm in water treatment and we see it all the time in our field.

@BrassAxe 2 жыл бұрын

You've made a lot of assumptions. She's an Army vet who started as a student laborer in 2007 and went into the Power system apprenticeship program in 2011. You know, apprenticeships, the type of education we lost in the USA, and she started from the bottom up. The type of work ethic we crave. You must be fun to work with.

@DimensionMachine 2 жыл бұрын

I am shocked that in that obviously very safe and highly regulated environment I saw almost nobody wearing safety glasses including a few times when they really could have needed them, their boss could not have been pleased when he watched this.

@marlinpruett8343 2 жыл бұрын

! Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s go, Brandon

@tonyatwood1353 2 жыл бұрын

Great show! Now if we could only get joe biden to watch it, He probably would`nt understand it anyway..........Lets Go Brandon!!!

@glutenfreegam3r177 2 жыл бұрын

I will NEVER understand why many engineers and machinists are NOT using the metric system.

@GFSwinger1693 2 жыл бұрын

Because it is not up to Engineers and Machinists to decide what system is used. This often comes from customer or industry standards. In th case of Hoover dam it is a legacy standard from the era this facility was constructed.

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@dannylamb9041 2 жыл бұрын

Well, to begin with the Hoover dam doesn't electrify America. At 2080 mwg it barely has the capacity to supply average demand for Arizona.

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