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|u/adz1179 - 4 hours
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|Wonder what’s the toll charge? $2.50?
|u/littleday - 2 hours
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|A boat load
|u/PotentialMidnight325 - 1 hour
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|u/kaioDeLeMyo - 2 hours
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|A ship tonne
|u/inphosys - 2 hours
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|There's an award around here for you somewhere! Just don't know
|where I put it...........
|u/yaxgto - 42 minutes
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|u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 - 11 minutes
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|A ship load?
|u/PrescriptionDenim - 4 hours
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|Three fitty
|u/nomanslandishome - 52 minutes
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|u/GavinsFreedom - 3 hours
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|It goes up every year eh ?
|u/Young_Economist - 4 hours
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|Damn
|u/maxis2bored - 1 hour
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|Is it a god damn?
|u/Young_Economist - 1 hour
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|God tier damn
|u/psgunslinger - 2 hours
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|Dayum
|u/sicurri - 1 hour
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|u/Sunset_Bleach - 52 minutes
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|u/TWOITC - 1 hour
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|Can't beat the Falkirk Wheel 
|u/mackoa12 - 58 minutes
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|This is insane!
|u/TWOITC - 45 minutes
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|It is fantastic and because both boat lifts are equal weight, they
|remove or add water, it only uses 1500 watts to do a rotation.
|you could power it from a standard US electrical socket, not one of
|the higher wattage ones for cookers and dryers.
|u/Medical_Shame4079 - 34 minutes
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|I’m going to be honest, I just fact checked the hell out of that
|power consumption claim you just made and it turns out you’re
|entirely correct (1.5kWh, but still). Beg pardon for thinking that
|was an impossible claim - I still can barely believe how energy
|efficient that lift is even after reading a whole article about
|it. Science is cool.
|u/ronchee1 - 30 minutes
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|u/turkphot - 24 minutes
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|Tbf if the top pipe takes on slightly more water than the bottom
|pipe, you could even generate electricity.
|u/UpstairsRain6022 - 11 minutes
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|You could power it from a socket if the rotation took one hour
|to complete(assuming that your fact checking is correct). I
|doubt it takes that long.
|u/duke78 - 10 minutes
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|1.5 kWh is an amount of energy. The lift is done in 5 minutes.
|That's an average of 18000 Watts for those five minutes. It's
|still impressive, but not something you can from on an ordinary
|household outlet.
|u/l0033z - 5 minutes
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|LOL I just did the same. This is so wild. I love learning things
|like this!
|u/unknownohyeah - 28 minutes
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|That's just for the lift I'm sure. They still have to pump the
|water up to the upper channel.
|u/Medical_Shame4079 - 23 minutes
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|Now, keep in mind my knowledge on this is about 10 mins old,
|but it doesn’t look like there’s a pump. It’s 2 buckets and a
|motor that just turns the apparatus. The water is scooped by
|the lower bucket, ship enters, wheel turns with ship and
|water, boat exits at the top. No water pumping.
|u/TWOITC - 17 minutes
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|They don't pump any water. The Union Canal is at the top and
|the Forth and Clyde canal is at the bottom. The water from
|each canal fills up the boats lifts, the boat(s) go on, a gate
|is raised and the weight is equalised by the weight of the
|boat(s) causes water to flow over the gate until it is level
|with the gate, it is now equal weight. No pumps are used.
|u/turkphot - 21 minutes
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|Why would they need to pump water for that? I suppose the
|water flows there by itself. The falkirk wheel connects two
|canals that are on different elevations.
|u/ctw16 - 22 minutes
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|1.5 kWh in five minutes is 18 kW
|u/MTR-Reddit - 16 minutes
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|in five hours\* that's where the h is for in kWh. and only if
|moving continuously, which is doesn't.
|u/UpstairsRain6022 - 17 minutes
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|Thank you. Need a bit more beef than a standard socket
|u/stevenkelby - 32 minutes
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|Yeah the Falkirk wheel is cool, but how fast is that fucking
|boat?!!!
|u/bestofwhatsleft - 24 minutes
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|Like a bat out of hell
|u/stevenkelby - 22 minutes
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|🛥 💨💨💨
|u/RuViking - 22 minutes
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|I know you're joking and realise the vid is sped up, but the speed
|limit on most of the canal networks is 4 knots.
|u/vanillaseltzer - 20 minutes
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|Seems like it's gotta be sped up footage.
|u/the_amatuer_ - 3 hours
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|I need this in Civilization
|u/jamirocky888 - 2 hours
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|+1 trade route and +1 gold for each tile adjacent to the river
|(basically Petra on a river)
|u/Kraaihamer - 1 hour
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|If one could move along rivers it would be cool if it reduced the
|move cost of river tiles. Maybe in VII..
|u/RieszRepresent - 1 hour
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|They announced that you will be able to move across certain rivers
|in 7.
|u/RiverRoll - 2 hours
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|This is the Goupitan shiplift, not the Three Gorges one. It consists of
|two lifts raising ships 72m and 127m respectively.
|u/Spicy_Eyeballs - 1 hour
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|127 meters is nuts, especially considering it can lift ships up to 500
|tons of displacement. Human engineering is honestly extremely
|impressive sometimes.
|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupitan_shiplift
|u/realultralord - 56 minutes
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|500 tons is the weight equivalent of 16 fully (by mass capacity)
|loaded 40 ft containers. That's not very much, but still better than
|to have 16 trucks navigate the mountain roads.
|u/Euler007 - 43 minutes
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|Yeah when we talk about ship infrastructure we should specify the
|maximum ship size it accommodates. People look at the video and
|imagine it's a Panamax, even though it's more like a river boat.
|Still impressive, just at the scale people imagine.
|u/StatementFine8179 - 41 minutes
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|Its less about weight than size. With a ship displacing water
|equivalent to its weight, the elevator will always weigh the same.
|u/_Hexer - 1 hour
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|Wow. Near where I live is one shiplift that I visited a few times.
|It's 60m high and that already is f*ing huge. Just imagining double
|that blows my mind
|u/Joe_Kangg - 1 hour
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|OP always talkin shiplift
|u/WillieIngus - 43 minutes
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|it’s about dam time someone said this
|u/Advanced_Bunch8514 - 3 hours
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|It’s systematic, it’s hydromatic
|u/scheiBeFalke - 3 hours
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|Why, it's greased lightnin'
|u/ThatMizK - 3 hours
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|Keep talkin, whoa keep talkin
|u/Jackmion98 - 2 hours
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|I’ll kill to get her ready.
|u/GBrunt - 2 hours
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|This is just for taking them up. The downward route is a very, very
|large slide.
|u/pedro_pascal_123 - 1 hour
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|Can you see it from space?
|u/erp2 - 1 hour
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|Depends what universe you're looking from.
|u/Britz10 - 4 hours
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|What China has done in the last 3 decades in terms of development is
|nothing short of amazing
|u/vingeran - 4 hours
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|Including laying claims to international waters and others’ marine
|zones as their own.
|u/skippermonkey - 3 hours
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|They learnt from the best
|u/Ynwe - 1 hour
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|Americans should feel proud, they learned from the best it seems.
|u/parnaoia - 1 hour
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|hey, we've all done shitty, 19th century-type things. It takes a
|very special country to do them as we speak.
|u/Ynwe - 1 hour
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|No? China is no different than the US in this regard, the last
|land grab the US did was not even a century ago. It is childish
|and stupid to believe that China is somehow worse or different
|from the US here
|u/rockmetz - 2 hours
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|it's all manifest destiny
|u/tensor-ricci - 2 hours
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|That's the next step on the road to becoming a superpower. Though
|vile, their violations pale in comparison to those of the European
|powers of yore.
|u/BunzoBear - 2 hours
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|Stop believing what your country tells you China has been a
|superpower for decades. The other superpowers will not refer to
|them as a superpower because they don't want their citizens to
|realize that China is a superpower
|u/AwsumO2000 - 1 hour
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|No facts make them not a superpower, china is currently a
|struggling low wage producer that suffers from autocracy Its
|more likely to implosie that explode as an economic superpower
|u/Dadalid - 1 hour
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|“China is going to collapse soon” I’ve been hearing this since
|2016 lol
|u/BunzoBear - 2 hours
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|Anyone can say something is theirs It doesn't make it theirs. Who
|cares if they say it's theirs when they don't defend it
|u/Fiber_Optikz - 3 hours
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|When the government owns all the construction companies it makes
|permits easier and regulations more lax
|u/Britz10 - 3 hours
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|Government doesn't own all the construction companies in China,
|government is just a lot more intentional around a lot of things in
|China, it's similar to how the other Asian tiger economies got a leg
|up, the government was very involved in shaping the growing economy.
|u/Jon_De_H - 3 hours
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|This means our lawyers are better!
|u/grambell789 - 2 hours
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|How does it work mechanically? Is it water powered like a regular canal
|lock?
|u/uhmhi - 2 hours
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|Hopefully. It would require a shit ton of energy to lift all that
|weight otherwise.
|u/grambell789 - 57 minutes
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|It could have a counter weight.
|u/Jack_of_sum_trades - 5 hours
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|The shiplift at the Three Gorges Dam is the largest and most
|sophisticated in the world! It is essentially a giant “elevator” for
|ships, capable of lifting vessels weighing up to 3,000 tons over a
|height difference of 113 meters (371 feet for you Americans). The entire
|process takes just about 40 minutes, compared to the 3-4 hours required
|to traverse the dam’s traditional lock system.
|u/BunzoBear - 2 hours
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|That's great but this is not a picture of the lift at the three gorges
|dam
|u/Tort78 - 1 hour
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|It is impressive, but that’s not the Three Gorges lift picture you
|posted.
|u/Darryl_Lict - 3 hours
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|I've taken the traditional lock system and that was crazy enough as it
|was. This was fortunately before they filled the dam and I was able to
|traverse the Three Gorges in all its glory. Really glad I had that
|chance and always dreamed about it when I heard they were going to
|build the dam and I read about it in National Geographic.
|u/DbrDbr - 2 hours
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|Great, my fear of water and fear of heights, combined…
|u/FlinflanFluddle4 - 1 hour
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|Why do they need to be elevated?
|u/Lightbation - 28 minutes
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|Mountains
|u/gRimpaki - 1 hour
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|U should Post it in more subreddits. I saw it 6 Times
|u/DasFunktopus - 1 hour
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|It works on so many levels.
|u/Loose_Fajita - 2 hours
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|Yeah but can it lift your mom?
|u/blasphememes - 2 hours
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|So dam high
|u/bwoah07_gp2 - 1 hour
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|Wow, so a boat bridge of that height does exist. Peppa Pig wasn't
|lying after all.
|u/ForgettableUkraine - 1 hour
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|But is it a wheel that runs off the equivalent power of three tea
|kettles
|u/Dr_Schitt - 17 minutes
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|Yeah my mom uses one.
|u/inphenite - 39 minutes
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|Yet it still can’t lift your mom.
|u/2NDPLACEWIN - 3 hours
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|ahhh yes........the source/outbreak pivot for WWZ
|u/Tempera1202 - 2 hours
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|This whole thing frightens me.
|u/ApprehensiveTrip7629 - 1 hour
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|WTH
|u/h8101 - 52 minutes
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|Weird question: does the bridge at the top weigh more when there’s a
|boat in it? Or does the buoyancy or something cause it to way the same?
|u/Camblor - 49 minutes
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|Looks like a massive minecraft creeper
|u/Jestercopperpot72 - 30 minutes
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|No I'm good thanks
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