Hydroelectric dams: Using the Power of Water | Génie Français

Hydroelectric dams: Using the Power of Water | Génie Français - Megadams

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Жыл бұрын

Hydroelectric dams allow us to harness the power of water and are flood protection at the same time - a true engineering feat!
Dams are barriers that are built to store water or to protect an area from flooding. Dams can also be used to generate electricity by forcing stored water through dam turbines.
Some dams in France have revolutionized the construction of hydroelectric power plants.
Come along to France's largest dams and see how they were created: Serre Ponçon was built in 1960, is 120 meters high and forms the largest man-made lake in the country. The Romanche-Gavet dam was completed in 2020 and replaces six old hydroelectric power plants and five dams.
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@ockertvanzyl5340 Жыл бұрын

Just respect and admiration for the fantastic French people 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️

@doodstolentino7604 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! Nicely done!

@johndawson6057 11 ай бұрын

Big admiration for the engineers behind this.🎉

@Limewire1984 10 ай бұрын

That pressure equalizing trick. Wow!

@newrenewableenergycontrol5724 8 ай бұрын

Here is a bit of information most do not know. Modern turbines only operate at 15% efficiency when you include accelerated mass in the formula. That means a new design that does not require accelerated mass could produce six times more electricity! Imagine that!!

@vonsiry 27 күн бұрын

Good project

@dennisenright7725 Жыл бұрын

Magnificent project. Dependable electricity. So much better than windmills and solar panels

@domtweed7323 10 ай бұрын

You can combine them: Wind and solar backed-up with flexible hydroelectric. That way you get multiples of the amount of green electricity without intermittency.

@mountainmanxyz Ай бұрын

Dam it! Dam it all!

@silvayanik5828 Жыл бұрын

Those are really stupendous projects. They produce a huge amount of electricity and surely thanks to the force of gravity which gives such power to rotate the turbines.

@boriboribo Жыл бұрын

Mad respect for the French! 🙌

@pgdog888 Жыл бұрын

This is a baby compare to China's three gore dam. World biggest dam.

@cpcattin 8 ай бұрын

“So called Euclids” were a product manufactured in Euclid Ohio. “So called” Jumbo’s were first created in Nevada for the construction of Hoover Dam 1930.

@tanyalahies 5 ай бұрын

Wow....this is like watching a movie but it's real and the work done is very impressive. I bet, this project may compete with that from a Mine's site. Wow!

@Sorga_myth_dewa_real 3 ай бұрын

Nowdays is so much must be using concrete cement metal structure,,the water is 1 ton each 1m³,,thats mean million ton is hold by dam alone❤❤thanks❤,and it must super strong structure❤

@Sorga_myth_dewa_real 3 ай бұрын

Could be billions ton❤

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Measurements conversions from American to Metric in coins is refinement

@ppuh6tfrz646 5 ай бұрын

I assume that the water is constantly flowing through the turbines to generate electricity. But it isn't sometimes necessary to control the amount of water flowing which therefore reduces the amount of electricity being generated?

@konstantinhuwa3064 Күн бұрын

9:41 instead of drilling the holes, and put explosives in it, is it not faster, easier and cheaper to use something like shaped charge, much of them at the same time? Maybe even something like tandem heads? The front charges make much holes, second charges destroy the rest of rock?

@ryaaaaanwhat4072 Жыл бұрын

13:07 50 tons of clay delivered each day? That’s nothing. Was that a mistake?

@thornil2231 8 ай бұрын

I noticed that as well, maybe 50,000 tons

@prototropo Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the water is pumped back up into the reservoir only to store excess power in low-demand hours as pressure, for use in later high-demand hours? I don't believe this was explained thoroughly. The narration sounds as though it is just a lot of fun to pump water everywhere! But no--there are reasons for which the viewers are waiting, in suspense; because a rational plan is something for which the French are deservedly famous.

@Ironic1950 Жыл бұрын

You are correct. It is a pumped storage system, to provide peak power demand for electricity on the electrical grid.

@CharlesNewkirk-lb6uh Жыл бұрын

Incredible great video

@terryhoath1983 9 ай бұрын

45.35 I don't think that he said, "100 kilos per square INCH" I am sure that he said "per square centimetre" which is something different.

@tylermalone4768 Жыл бұрын

So cool

@lesliecarr312 13 күн бұрын

I don't live there, but nonetheless, I hope the Grand Maison doesn't break.

@zakariaelalazaar1104 6 ай бұрын

منذ أزل التاريخ. . كانت مسألة بناء السدود. قضية وجودية. لمياه الشُرب والزراعة والحِماية من الفياضانات وفي سنة 1900 بداية إنتاج الطاقة الكهرومائية

@PAULSWorld131 Жыл бұрын

Strange species of beavers

@davidanalyst671 Жыл бұрын

the french definitely are....

@Jugraj_Gill Жыл бұрын

Jatta bhut wdia galan kr gya... Love 👍

@georgesgoossens5888 9 ай бұрын

I suppose I was not looking when the ROI (Return On Investement) was explained ....Anybody any idea what the cost (building and running) is/was and how to spread that cost on the people using the electricity ....

@MahamudHagimuse 11 ай бұрын

Wher in France this Biig Barage Hydro Electric Respect Engineer Behend this project

@hermandegroot1946 11 ай бұрын

About 40 to 50 km East of Grenoble at 45,205742 , 6,119160

@arturoeugster7228 4 ай бұрын

Not far, about 12 miles to the south west is the glider center of La Motte Du Caire, Launched by a winch, it is easy to fly there and see the dam (buit in 1955) and the lake stretching to the north east, with a little church remaining above lake level. Other villages reachable in the sailplanes is to fly towards the East, to Barcelonete close to the border of Italy.

@vonsiry 27 күн бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@raducristiandumitrescu1806 Жыл бұрын

How much energy is produced and how much is used to pumt water back to lake, is really fezable enough thow ?

@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372 Жыл бұрын

They will pump only when there is too much power in the network. Its lost of energy itself but increase stability of the system. I feel it was omitted on purpose to make the narrative more sensational. Its all old technique, just bigger.

@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 6 ай бұрын

nope !

@abhijitjacob 2 ай бұрын

2000 year old dam in India is still in use

@katherinekinnaird4408 8 ай бұрын

The bridge was not built so that " residents " could watch the progress. No government is that good to their people. 😮

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Our own common knowledge says at least 50 million

@mathiaskristensen9602 Жыл бұрын

Is that the TBM Danny Ocean used in Las Vegas? 😂

@molnarriki4876 3 ай бұрын

Lets see the other side of story.edf state company in france bought out somehow electro distributions in eu and uk.lot of them.they are charging a huge ammount of money and not developing grids.but they build in france.this story is arround with this story.thats why few countries bought back and chase them out from their countries.

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Plus 7.07 with different configuration with current technology

@TedApelt Жыл бұрын

I am glad that they can reverse the flow, because they might someday use solar panels to do the pumping. (There could be a lot of sun at an elevation above the clouds!) In the meantime they will have good long term grid storage.

@parambhatia3183 6 ай бұрын

Village FARMING WITH WATER 💦 with only

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Covid19 funding signatures Breaks Geneva Convention

@mrg7407 6 ай бұрын

Amazing what you can do with OTHER PEOPLES MONEY Then you Charge The People that you gave you the money. AMAZIN'

@GaryGraham-sx4pm 9 ай бұрын

a conduit is a tube for conveying water/wires etc. it is pronounced 'con duit'. it isn't pronounced 'con duct' which refers to behaviour.

@CrownOfGoldCompleatSacrifice_2 3 ай бұрын

49:08 boom their it is oasis possible 49:31 49:42 49:47 boom the water for generation and processing as needed

@qms4768 Жыл бұрын

🌊 🐠 💡 No mention of fish industry 🐳 🐠 🐬

@davidanalyst671 Жыл бұрын

the fish weren't smart enough to grow legs and walk over the dam yet, so the stupid ones die.

@charlesseymour1482 Жыл бұрын

minsed by turbine blades

@raselislam1703 11 ай бұрын

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@raselislam1703 11 ай бұрын

Uzi lba mubjnKimjk.SIGN. 1:50 nimkm😅/mkmm😅.😅 1:50 bjক 1:50 1:50 ক্ক😅

@raselislam1703 11 ай бұрын

খৃিলজ্

@louieballescas3524 10 ай бұрын

great

@ironclay3939 Жыл бұрын

Yeah? but the Pyramids are Half the size!! so what did they build the Pyramids with then HA!

@ocotillodavid2296 11 ай бұрын

With stuff that didn’t have to hold back tons of water pressure

@Hellnback303 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@kendallkahl8725 7 ай бұрын

Switzerland and Austria are blesse with high mountains and the places have get sites for hydropower. What I wonder is how the Carpathian Alps are being utilized for their hydropower potential.

@arturoeugster7228 4 ай бұрын

The dam in Switzerland is the Grande Dixence, biggest reservoir in Switzerland and the tallest in Europe.

@Gabcikovo 9 ай бұрын

Amazing, thank you so much for sharing. I wonder why everyone forgot about Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros barrage system that my Grandpa Anton Jablonský from Jablonka was in charge of as the head of the project centre at Hydroconsult in former Czechoslovakia and why that many horrible things happened during Robert Fico's reign in connection to Gabčíkovo and my family. I'm glad I found your channel because its helping me think and move in a truly unsolvable situation without outside guidance

@thornil2231 8 ай бұрын

who cares about that?

@garethlinford5785 Жыл бұрын

What about a dinowig in Snowdonia

@domtweed7323 10 ай бұрын

NIMBYs will get upset if you build it on a famous mountain, like Snowdonia. I suggest putting it on the 2nd tallest for less publicity, and giving locals a share in the profits to make them happy.

@nasigorengpecelesteh1506 10 ай бұрын

Pump back???

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Resonances? Vibration causes what in materials? Thoughts causes resonances on of The World thus beginning the accommodations of those thoughts dreams

@michelwong1 Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@ladanivadriver1578 Жыл бұрын

13 min area 50 tons each day wow thats alot 🤔😏😄

@BobTrethewey 9 ай бұрын

Why oh Why have musak on the video it completely spoils the content for those who just want the details explained having to strain to here the voice through this awful noise is ridiculous.

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Grain

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

I never sold out OBSIDIAN

@Gabcikovo 9 ай бұрын

I also appreciate that you shared this on the anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine because this year when I wrote to NATO about Gabčíkovo water dam and Jozef Gabčík, the next day Kakhovka dam in Ukraine blew up and when Zelensky came to ask Ĉaputová, the president of Slovakia about Gabčíkovo, the clean energy hydroelectric power plant, she lied to him its called Vojany, the black coal-fired powerplant polluting the world, and he didn't correct her. Thus the wrong message was communicated to the world. I'm a cousin of Andrea Brezanová, born Daubnerová, who was elected as the vice-president of the budget committee of the OECD in 2015 and 2017, while it was my Grandpa Anton Jablonský, the head of the project centre at Hydroconsult in charge of the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros barrage system, who represented Czechoslovakia in COMECON (equivalent of OECD). And I'm here to tell you that what's going on is éry, very wrong and dangerous for Europe and the world

@adamcrookedsmile Жыл бұрын

horrible music. Seems like you grabbed a French video, talk over the French engineers and added a bunch of loud and bad busic.

@Mack-ey2es 11 ай бұрын

Coz they r not assholes like brits n americans

@georgegajano6063 Жыл бұрын

1998

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Ditching and run off water? Given causes to desert formation in soil wetness

@cpcattin 8 ай бұрын

500,000 Olympic swimming pools ? How much is that in giraffes ?

@Mohsiy 3 ай бұрын

50 metres

@scienceoftheuniverse9155 3 ай бұрын

2 giraffes

@cpcattin 3 ай бұрын

@@Mohsiy 😎

@GoldScalpers 10 ай бұрын

Poor documentry.old pics and some old clips

@joer3739 8 ай бұрын

Two specimens arrive at the site SMH ugh

@parambhatia3183 6 ай бұрын

Ek Sandhu see movie with

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Sole owner of.

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

The 2nd industrialization where technology will save humanity from God and Planets Accommodations

@FlyToChina0071 2 ай бұрын

The English speaker has no idea what he is talking about. Funny to listen to, but the remove the quality of the video. Also talking about "Olympic Size Swimming pools" makes absolutely no sense. Who knows the volumen of these...???? Regards from Denmark

@josephpadula2283 Жыл бұрын

I am in the business and never heard the word Barrage as a synonym for DAM! USA citizen here. Is this the UK term or was this a direct French translation? Only term I know was Barrage Ballon a French WWI invention which acts as a Dam for planes trying to attack.

@vickclash7955 Жыл бұрын

They are not the same but to dam to have a barrage. You can build a dam on it’s on!

@shaunp9592 Жыл бұрын

Never heard it before either. Apparently it's an English word derived from a French term/phrase..."an artificial barrier across a river or estuary to prevent flooding, aid irrigation or navigation, or to generate electricity by tidal power":.. Typical French as$$ backwards illogical words, why TF they can't just call it a dam like everyone else I don't know. Anyway just highlight "barrage" and right click highlight then click search web and you'll get the same definition(s) I wrote.

@michaelmains6785 Жыл бұрын

Barrage is the french for dam.

@annexton3795 11 ай бұрын

Barrage is also an English word. We have a barrage that forms the Vaal Dam. The barrage is a particular type of wall, and the dam is the water behind it. But then you also get a 'dam wall', which is the same thing, only different.

@davidanalyst671 Жыл бұрын

This is great, but why dont they use concrete? Thats wierd.

@boomshine7 Жыл бұрын

because they are not amurican, why expensive concrete that deteriorates more than the natural material?

@ajaykumarshukla6620 11 ай бұрын

Now a days Electricity generated by wind, solar energy etc, further the electricity being generated locally, again distribution costs n losses are very less

@domtweed7323 10 ай бұрын

Hydro+wind/solar is even better. The hydro can act as a peaked plant, absorbing the intermittency of wind and solar.

@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 6 ай бұрын

nope ! only solar and wind actually ! @@domtweed7323

@harishabibi6324 10 ай бұрын

it's humble request to remove background musics please.. its so irritating

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Fish can swim at depth NOT ON THE SURFACES. PIPELINE HYDRO ELECTRIC USING NATURAL FLOWING FORCES. IRRIGATION in thoughts working principles

@user-qm5si4xy5e Ай бұрын

Trump steals the pumps

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

UNDER water volcanoes and polar ice melt WHERE HAS SEA LEVEL ALWAYS BEEN

@asunusual2186 Ай бұрын

It's not the force of water, it's the force of gravity....

@anasqai 11 ай бұрын

Maybe it is just France, Perancis = France also, then Franchise is still correct Vocab of "Another Shop of Different Owner but Same Company Way". France is a Country Name. Perancis is Malay Language of It. So it Maybe Meant "Magical France"? Like Big Names Like "Great Wall of China"? People misunderstood "Friends" to be using Countryname as Vocab "France" Instead? A Misunderstanding Movement? If Something Heard Before More Than 10Years Ago then it Exist, the Point is The Existence is Different then Can Notice The Mastermind Not "Winning" in their Storymaking Way. Means the Mastermind Have Guessed I Maybe Think of "Magical France" as Real Name. Then Maybe It is "Magical Dam of France" is Then Correct? Maybe it is the Strongest Point of France that the Dam Protects? The Point Mastermind Try To Create Should Be "France not Friends" To Be Said, As If Learning English Language, May Misunderstand if Read Apostrophe Part First?

@rssvss 7 ай бұрын

Wrote this ? Geez.

@markuseberlein3394 11 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e6x2ppaalp6UmJc.html 100 bars is not 100 kilos per square inch.

@GodKing804 11 ай бұрын

Forgot to mention ecological damage

@FoodwaysDistribution Жыл бұрын

Overhype much? nothing special or unique about all these hydro projects

@terenceiutzi4003 Жыл бұрын

How many million tons of Co2 does the dammed up water dump into the atmosphere each year?

@Mack-ey2es 11 ай бұрын

What about oceans?

@terenceiutzi4003 11 ай бұрын

@Mack-ey2es yes as the water in the oceans cool thet do absorb millions of tons Co2. So when the water from the dams reaches the oceans, it will absorb CO2 again. And when the water reaches the equatorial oceans, it will dump it again.

@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 6 ай бұрын

80ties "knowledge" is really stupid......

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Knowing all or all knowing does 0 Good especially when held back for 4 years from others lack

@Splits-man Жыл бұрын

Big deal! Do yourself a favour and take a look at the Australian Hydro Electric Scheme built 50 years ago. Much much bigger! At the time in 1972 it cost AU$820m. Massive turbines on multiple levels. A virtual city had to be built first and entire mountains moved. And in those days they didn’t have all the fancy equipment of today.

@boomshine7 Жыл бұрын

so?

@johndawson6057 11 ай бұрын

Wasn't it declared a failure recently as it didn't meet certain economic or industrial requirements?

@jishan6992 11 ай бұрын

Dude chill, this ain't no competition

@Slavicplayer251 9 ай бұрын

@@johndawson6057that was the ord river irrigation scheme made at the same time in north western australia cost a third less made a bigger reservoir and promptly failed because turns out you cant teleport crops to asia and you actually need functional transport infrastructure which is still not there to this day (and i believe that old mate was trying to say the snowy river hydroelectric scheme)

@BradFalck-mn3pc 6 ай бұрын

Or head to northwest Washington state and British Columbia where the biggest of the big are there in numbers with the highest mega wattage on earth

@truthseeker1278 9 ай бұрын

This speakers is much annoying 2 me!

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Become to good to quick and egos jealousy will punish the entire population

@MikeySlou 11 ай бұрын

So dramatic with the music and all. Child's play compared to the stuff china builds.

@DonLuc23 10 ай бұрын

Another very poorly produced music video.

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Universal No degrees just high school and living expirences

@krivayacoleso Жыл бұрын

why all this? Just build a nuclear power plant. Heaps of unnecessary actions.

@jackhaus5238 11 ай бұрын

Bad for the enviroment

@ajaykumarshukla6620 11 ай бұрын

Why build such big dams, Smaller dams near every city, village, town serve the purpose better, eliminating cost of canals and water loss due to evaporation etc, water management is better, water is better spread over farming land , in big dams water is absorbed by catchment area so much that Earth Quakes are created by humans

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

University sells University but has taught or found nothing in their teachings learning

@rasgamer1213 10 ай бұрын

And remember tomatoes are disgusting 🤢

@jackbrown7341 Жыл бұрын

Soon, the world will see its dams completely destroyed. The earthquake that is to come will not only destroy dams, but mountains as well. Billions will die, and a great sorrow will cry out. This is only one of the horrors yet to come, for humanity will learn up front and personal just how Evil humanity can be. May God have mercy on us all.

@smeagoltek6382 Жыл бұрын

Forgot to take your meds lad?

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

13th generation Powhatan direct descendant 7 seas days continents 7months gestation Winston cup 7 Indian tribes 7 7 year statues of limitations Or World G7 NA Native American North America Nasa Nascar Nasdaq Ntt NFL NHL Nft and the others. Komatsu D575 for dossiers

@derekbentley334 10 ай бұрын

Same with women yet they seem to believe they are lacking something