"Well, I'll be dammed." -Yangtze River, probably

Simon and all the channels he is on has officially taken over the role of what the history channel used to be.

2:55 - Chapter 1 - An old idea 7:25 - Chapter 2 - The good & the bad 8:45 - Chapter 3 - Work begins 13:50 - Chapter 4 - Controversy 16:15 - Chapter 5 - Challenges 17:35 - Chapter 6 - The final numbers

Remember, Simon, there are A LOT of Brazilians who watch your channel and would greatly enjoy and appreciate seeing your video on the Itaipu Dam ...

I’m 30 and enjoyed History Channel as a kid. The fact that Simon can turn modern marvels into a 20 minute video instead of 60 minutes of slow filler and commercials.... makes me a happy boi

Special request: when you say numbers could you put them in text on the screen also? I might be the only one, but I can't mentally process a number nearly as fast as words.

Congratulations! One of the most accurate and balanced reviews of the Three Gorges Dam ever. I spent a year on site in 2000 as a foreign expert engineer regarding methods and machinery and am very knowledgeable about it and its construction. You are very accurate and a rational perspective. My company built many dams in the western USA and the Chinese came to see the results and request advice (Guy F Atkinson Co). I was impressed with their management and forthright administration, in addition to their construction accomplishment. I have lots of stories

Should do a follow up on all the rain they are getting and the news blackouts about the dam

I’d love to hear about the other dam. Also if you could do the Pikeville cut through project in Pikeville Kentucky. At the time it was the second largest earth moving project in the US. They basically cut a mountain in half to stop flooding and rebuild a city.

An interesting mega-project would be the system that protects the netherlands from flooding. Lots of equipment to keep the water out which is only getting harder as sea levels rise. Also impressive to look at. I like the new channel. I hope it is successful.

I recommend looking into the Marib Dam in Yemen. It was an ancient megastructure mostly forgotten today built in the ancient Sabean kingdom, one of the largest waterworks of it's time

The river’s name is actually the Changjiang, with means “long river”. The Yangtze is only the lower reaches of the river near the coast.

Can we get a video on the ocean cables that stretch the ocean floors

The next Megaprojects episode should be about Simon's mega work ethic.

Who's here after it was reported it this dam might collapse??

The dam built to last 10,000 years, then 1000 years , then 100 years, then tomorrow or maybe next week. LOL.

Yes tell us about itaipu damn in brasil, please

Skipped right over that “ship lift” now didn’t we !

This channel is amazing. Oh, and your edits are fantastic. It's nice to have a more laid-back vibe with the really awesome projects.

Now that it is starting to fail it is going to be part of a video called Mega disasters

I’m sure this dude is low key a super villain Just look how he dresses. And his surrounds. All his research is cover for taking over the world. We are on to you bald man. We know. And we are watching. Figuratively and literally

Legendary. Epic. Now do a video on the Saturn V Rocket, please and thank you!

"2020 couldn't get any worse.." 2020 : **look at 3 gorges dam** well, I have another idea

“...A balance between material costs and human and environmental costs by the Chinese government”. So just a consideration of material costs?

Dam failure: Kills 240,000 people Simon, casually: “not good”

I love the swell BLUEPRINTS in your thumbnails. Back in the olden days when I took my first drafting class, I was 13 years old (I am really, really old) and drawings were drawn by people with pencils. Back then copies were "blue-line drawings" that looked like the negatives of the obsolete blueprints and smelled of the ammonia used in the reproduction. I have worked on projects even older than me (older than dirt) that had the original old timey blueprints still on file. They are neat!

I have no idea what's going on, but you keep popping up in my recommendations, and seemingly on a new channel each time. And your videos are always super professional and informative. Do you ever rest???

"I'll write as much dam poetry as I want."

You don't want to be known as "That dam channel!" Stay epic Simon!

Please do an episode on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in western Australia. Love the vids :)

A weird side effect of this dam I had found while researching for a school project was an influx of ocean living jellyfish in the rivers

Great video, well presented. Thanks.

I think the Brazilian dam would make a great topic for Geographics though if it's too similar for this Chan. Great video as always. Love it. ♥️♥️

Simon: I don’t always start my videos by walking into frame, but when I do, I do it like a boss.

Love the new vidz Simon! Keep it up!!!

Simon, there’s two things that mega projects need: more dams and more trains and railroads.

Hi Simon, you're the new Richard Attenborough! Have you thought about a Mega Disasters channel too? A few ideas for project's videos: - Boston's Big Dig -The Roosevelt tunnel in Colorado - The Golden Gate Bridge

What about the Aswan dam on the Nile? That's a crazy story involving the cold war, moving ancient temples and significant conflict with other nations downstream about water rights. I'd be interested in the Brazilian dam too if the story is interested. I like listening to dam stories. Also, please do tunnel boring machines or their projects. I'm fascinated by them.

Congrats on the videos, they are great! Do an episode of the koogs, lands below sea level in Netherlands, North Germany and Denmark. It is very interesting.

Thank you for your improvements to your show. I'm glad that when you talk about America you're not putting it down anymore but telling both sides of the story. Great show I subscribed again thank you very much

This video is interesting and I will watch it again. Simon may have mentioned the number of people that are being displaced by the rising waters but I don’t remember how many different villages are underwater now and historical sites of thousands of years old are now underwater.

4:08 - Flatten your rug out, Simon!!!

Good informed, delivery.

Meanwhile 100 years after it was built Hoover dam is expected to last 10,000 years

The human genome project could be considered a megaproject.

11:10 Yes, please talk about Itaipu Dam, for your Brazilians viewers Edit.: Little fact, Itaipu while the second largest dam, actually produces more energy in year than Three Gorges, because o the volume of Water of Parana River.

Very intriguing and great vid , wow a lot happen there an still will , thanks for all your hard work on all these videos , love the channel

Nice look, Simon - the camera work, the music, the textual section breaks & the backdrop.

Imagine a dam that could slow earth's rotation. Damn Edit: no pun intended haha

"4x stronger than the next best nuclear plant" Holy cow "It could power 1/4th of the UK" Oh, that's it?

I would love to watch your takes on our great Itaipu Dam! Love from Brazil 👏

Judging by the latest satellite images and the buckling under pressure from the most intense floods it's ever encountered.. there might not even be a three gorges dam here soon.

You should try to do an ancient megaproject like the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids at Giza, if enough information on their building is known to make into a video.

I don't know if you reflected or did a course but the last videos the past three days are next level. On all your channels especially business Blaze. Really really great quality Simon

Yo Simon, I love the way you present each and everyone of these projects. You come from a neutral stand point and bring ALL of the receipts. Wish I had teachers in high school like you !

late June 2020...nice timing of your MegaProjects take on the Three Gorges Dam. Much rain and flooding right now.

A megaproject that often goes unmentioned and that you could do a video on is the us interstate system. If you look into it it had a huge environmental and socioeconomic impacts such as being a large contributor towards white flight and the abandonment of cities.

Could you do one on the Romanian Parliament building? It was Caucescu's old Presidential Mansion, and it's massive.

My father (jack scriven) was the president of the canadian company Teshmont Consulting Inc. They were the company tasked with allocating where all the electrical power the dam would produce would be sent to and how it was split up!! I remember as a child having dinner with chinese business executives and their CCP Handlers at our house in winnipeg, manitoba, canada where Teshmont Consulting was based. I even have a picture of me and my family and all the chinese staff at winnipeg airport when they left! great video, thanks for your work.

Do a top 5 or ten dams, or a history of dams pre-harappa to 3 gorges? You rock dude!

I did a biology paper on the Yangtze dolphin that went extinct when the dam was opened. It was a beautiful dolphin that lived in the eddies of the river.

Can't say "I hate Mondays" anymore, new Megaprojects is out!

We visited the Itaipu dam a few years ago and it really is awe inspiring. Can't even grasp how big Three Gorges is

Yes, would love to see more hydropower videos! The Itaipu dam in Brazil-Paraguay looks interesting too!

Hey Simon, do you reckon it could be possible to do a mega projects on the Bismarck?

I'd be interested to hear about the new Daxing International Airport in Beijing. It's quite a pretty, and enormous, building.

Keep making the damn videos. We love em!

It might be larger, but from an architectural standpoint, the Hoover Dam (with it's Arts Deco style) looks more impressive...

When running at full power, the Three Gorges Dam can provide power for 20 million people. That's really impressive for a single power station, but it also demonstrates how we can't rely on hydroelectric power as a primary power source. There just aren't enough enormous rivers in the world to generate electricity for _7,000_ million people.

It's pronounced Yahng-Tzeh lol. Love your stuff, Simon.

I enjoyed the show. Keep up the good work.

Yes please, Do an episode on Itaipu dam as well!

Simon you put this one out just in time for the 3 gorges to make headlines.

The other Dam in South America would be good to see, also the Aswan high damn In Egypt that the Old USSR help them build.

So informative- thank you. I wanted to understand more given the many experts saying this dam is ready to collapse. Now I, Jane average know what a gravity dam is and why it is advantageous.

Love your vids! Let the history be the judge.

When this dam busts.... Do you think it will speed up the rotation of the earth?

5:10 "halting any work on the dam project" - I see what you did there. BADA-BUM-TSSS

Fantastic!!! Finally, your uber-excellent reporting has been freed from the most horrific noise ever to be accused of being “music”

Yes on the dam in South America. Maybe also the Grand Aswan Dam. I'm also very interested in suspension bridges. Would like one on the Verrazano Narrows and many others.

When og business blaze jokes come out in non business blaze environments. We love you 3 wolf mug. One day the Enron mug will pop up and I'll lose my mind, allegedly.

Beavis and butthead, "er, is this a God dam"

I enjoyed this, thank you!

Thank you for such amazing detail info and history. This is the best I see regarding China's Three Gorges Dam. Awesome job!

"Flooding would now be a thing of the past' Haha!

Dams terrify me because I end up thinking about what would happen if they failed. And just. So much horrific death and destruction... I mean, this is definitely an INSANELY impressive structure, but still thats horrific to think about.

Yes, I would like to hear about the Itaipu Dam in Brazil regarding ecological effect, construction, cost, and has it really helped.

Ive never related more to, “we did something,” when looking at these giant mega structures

This is a bit akward, since its flooding like hell in china right now - this huge thing could actually collapse at any moment.

Next episode: How did the Three Gorges Dam collapsed and killed hundreds of thousands of people!

I absolutely like your choice of background for this video...

And surely, the mighty algorithm recommends this after the reports of issues with the dam.

Followed the build from the start , where my interest in China really moved up a gear. I met the guy in charge of all the crushed stone to be used in the construction. Sounds boring but a very important technical part of the concrete .The dam is as I type being put to its toughest test yet.

Henceforth to be known as Simon "Crazy Socks" Whistler.

These Videos are so good

I like the extra camera angles :)

Simon can you make one about the ''Palm tree islands'' around Dubai(if im not mistaken about the location)

This project was so large it created a concrete shortage in the US, that lasted years.

You should do the Aswan Dam, in Egypt, not only because of its size but, mainly, because of the additional mountain of work to save the gigantic monument of Abu Simpel.

would be great to hear about the Itaipu dam