Hey everyone, thanks a ton for watching! 😊 If you liked this video, why not check out a couple more? Our latest story, which is about Seattle’s Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, a bridge so unique it never touches the ground! ua-cam.com/video/O9GAS6nvP2Y/v-deo.html The railway connecting China to London: ua-cam.com/video/mTaVuXkyk38/v-deo.html We've got one on Singapore's Giant Concrete Boxes: ua-cam.com/video/8okJfNNbx5s/v-deo.html They are all pretty awesome in their own way. Thanks again, and don’t forget to hit that like button if you enjoyed it! 👍
Yes. Ever heard of "The 8th wonder of the world" in Norway, built from 1854-1861? Ship elevators upwards mountains and it's still active in 2024, 170 years later four tourists.
great, it's hard to find Chinese documentary videos, but with this video I got it all. there are several channels about great construction of the world, now I have one more channel about more new things, thank you.
comparing a dam to a bridge is dumb as fuck. nothing chinese is impressive. they throw thousands of workers at every jobsite and think thats impressive. doesnt matter what other nations do for their own nation internally. what other nations spend on things doesnt make anything important. cost doesnt equal actual importance of value.
@@LEGEND-jp7ch Seven Wonders of the Ancient World？only Pyramid left,If buildings only exist in legends and books, who are the great builders? by the way, the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids and the current Egyptians are not the same nation. But the Chinese who built the Great Wall and the current Chinese are the same origin.
@@yanlizhang7972 yea that weak wall 🧱 which was totally newly build by CCP government....there is no contribution from China without gun powder and India made world 2nd fortified wall 🧱 in just 23 years and it's very strong unlike your weak building 🏢 see kid china doesn't have anything and 7 wonder is add because of 7 important countries most importance in our modern time and Arab only have great piramid from 5000 years ago which is really great in desert 🏜️ which was done by human's slave while it's nothing to our Aryans who control 3 continent totally at that time and our war wiped out 25% world 🌎🌍 population 5,000 years ago 🤔🤣 modern day's 6.8 billions people's have Aryans bloodline for an reason 🛂
You are one of the few Indians who dare praise the Chinese for their works. Unlike many, who says that bridges infrastructure built by Chinese are like tofu. To them, I say continue to put your head in the sand and when you lift your head you will notice the world has passed you by!!!! BRAVO TO YOU & YOUR FRIENDS. Give praise when it is due and criticize when it is shoddy
I love Chinese people because they are genuine people and truly want to work together. Strangers are bonded instantly with brotherhood. Petty peer undermining is unthinkable
China has always been an engineering and economic powerhouse. Most people think of China only in the past 50 years or so.m, mostly as a poor country. They don’t think of its thousands of years of mega projects.
The same technology has been inaugurated in Germany in 1899 (Henrichenburg Schiffshebewerk). Hats off the Chinese, for claiming someone else’s technology for themselves - once again.
@@radiumdude Similar principles have long been used in ancient China. Many canals were built in ancient China, the best known of which is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (from Beijing to Hangzhou), built 1,300 years ago and currently 1,794 kilometres long. In ancient times, this canal was much longer than it is today, and it first connected Beijing-Luoyang-Hangzhou (later taking a straight line from Beijing to Hangzhou). This canal involved different elevations and passed through different rivers, so many locks were set up, the principle of which is basically the same as the principle of locks nowadays.
@ Yes, we all know that the (ancient) Chinese deserve recognition for millennia of ingenuity - before Mao destroyed everything in a few decades. However, technological advancements during the industrial revolution in Europe and the US were driven by specific demands and developed independently. It would be reductive to claim a direct transmission of technology. But we are talking about China today, and here we can observe said “technology transfer” from the West everywhere - by means of joint ventures or industrial espionage.
@@radiumdude The so-called transfer of technology is normal, and no one is forcing anyone to transfer technology. Technology itself is fluid, as it has been from time immemorial, and even your country may have learnt a lot of technology from other countries. When it comes to China, the so-called technology transfer from western companies to China is just a business, there is no compulsion, a lot of technology transfer is paid for by Chinese companies, and basically it is obsolete or near obsolete technology, no company will transfer its most advanced technology that it relies on for its survival to others. As for joint ventures, it's nonsense to say that all foreign companies doing business in China must have a joint venture with a Chinese company, in fact there was such a rule only in the automotive industry (there may have been others but I haven't heard of them), and it's now been abolished. China is a developing country, in order to avoid the impact on the domestic industry, the World Trade Organisation allows developing countries to protect the domestic industry, which is understandable and in line with the WTO regulations, the relevant enterprises can choose not to invest in China if they feel that it is not in their interests. As a matter of fact, due to the backwardness of China's domestic economic development in the early days, the technologies that the western companies got from China were all close to being obsolete, and the establishment of joint ventures was also based on the shares of these technologies. The western companies made a lot of money by relying on the technologies that had already been obsolete, and although these technologies were backward, they were still needed by China at that time, so this was a win-win situation, and there was nothing that could be blamed on it. So it was a win-win situation and there is nothing to blame. In the automotive industry, western companies exchanged backward technology for shares in joint ventures + business facilitation provided by Chinese companies, a very good business deal. These western car companies have sold millions of cars per year in China in just two decades, for example, Volkswagen, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, etc. The biggest market for these car companies is China, where they make unimaginable profits. This is not the most favourable part of the joint venture in the automobile industry for the western automobile companies, the most favourable part is killing the Chinese automobile industry. The Chinese auto companies that have joint ventures with Western auto companies are all state-owned enterprises, and their joint ventures with Western auto companies rule the Chinese auto market. Why spend huge amounts of money on research and development when you can make money by relying on backward technology transferred from the West? So for a long time, the Chinese auto industry was uncompetitive, and the vast majority of cars sold in the Chinese market were foreign brands. The biggest downside of setting up these joint ventures doesn't stop there, as a result of these joint ventures, they lobby the Chinese government to restrict the emergence of private Chinese car companies. Geely, for example, could not get a licence in the early days of the company, and when the government told them that they were bound to lose money building cars, they begged the government to give them a chance to lose money. Chery Automobile, for example, also did not have a licence and initially relied on local government support to survive as a subsidiary of Shanghai Automobile. And BYD, which was allowed to produce cars only by buying a car company. It was only much later that China liberalised its car market, so that a large number of competitive start-ups soon emerged in the country, and China's car exports rose from 1 million to over 5 million units in just a few years. And without the existence of these so-called joint ventures, this process could have been brought forward by more than a decade. Foreign automobile companies have benefited the most from these so-called joint ventures and technology transfers, and China has suffered the most. This is a great mistake in China's development process.
@ Interesting analysis indeed. However, my point is still the same: China is still either procuring technology / IP or blatantly stealing it. Countless patents and other IP have been simply registered by individuals in China, with the intention to extort the owner of the IP later. I have seen many such cases firsthand over the past two decades. Every industry segment has its specifics, though. It was interesting to see your insights from the automotive industry.
The Chinese government says: "There are too many poor people in our country, so I plan to build a lot of infrastructure, which can increase employment opportunities and change people's lives." The US government says: "There are too many homeless people in our country, so I give them money so that they can take drugs and marijuana, and they can sleep in tents on the road."
The US government says: 'There are too many homeless people in our country. So, we give money to Ukraine or Israel, where people can kill each other. This way, no one notices that we are stealing money from our own people.'
We tried that in the 1930s and it didn't do much to get us out of the Great Depression. However entering World War 2 gave lots of people stable jobs in factories, manufacturing equipment for the war effort.
The Chinese government says, "There are too many poor people in our country, so we can take away another space for them to live in for a crazy engineering project, and it doesn't matter if a few dozen die in the construction, we have more poor people, the safety of the people doesn't matter, the money is important."
The Goupitan shiplift is not only an amazing bit of engineering, but it is also an economic miricle, they got it done for under USD800 Million and not the multi-Billions such a project would cost in the US, Canada, the UK or anywhere else in the industrial west.....
Well in China the money goes to the project, not to hundreds of committees, consultants, politicians, corporation, lawyers, accountants, etc etc etcetera 🧐
@@stephenhill8790 which for you else never get anything if something goes wrong which often it does, cheaper and faster is not always better, it can also mean plenty safety and quality skipping ... and just as these videos we also see the bridges and structures failing way to soon few years after they were built while some in other countries getting maintained for 100 years
......better yet, think about just how ruiniously expensive it would in either nation.......whilst both the UK & US fanny about with a few hideiously expensive infrastructure projects of questionable utility, China is roaring a head getting it done, faster, better and cheaper....plus they have started and completed many more major infrastructure projects in the past ten years then either the UK and US combined have started, let alone finished.
Wow, amazing what are humans able to build. Btw, despite grandiosity of Chinese lift, I was most amazed by Falkirk wheel, what small amount of energy it uses! So clever design! Thanks for this video!
@@bikersoncall 1. He used customary/imperial when appropriate. 2. I was referring to not using "100th of swimming pools" for volume, "football pitches" for area, school buses for lengt, blue whales for weight etc. 3. If customary/imperial units were better NASA wouldn't use metric, and miles/pounds/gallons wouldn't be defined as fractions of the SI units. (By your own metrology institute)
@@pomodorino1766 1. We're both on the Decimal system. 2. Everyone on earth used fractions, when needed, and they are needed. 3. Metric is every bit as randomly derived as thousandths of an inch (SAE) and metric still has to us thousands, and or fractions in measurement when determining the size of millions of items. 4. I didn't say Imperial was better. 5. I didn't watch the entire video, so wasn't aware of any US measurements being quoted.
@@markfleser *Most of the weight* that is lifted is water, not ship. Yes, I know about Archimedes Principle, but look how much more water there is than the volume displaced by the hull.
Nope, any weight that goes up AND down can just be offset by a counterweight. When an elevator lifts you up, it only has to power lifting you as the elevator itself has a counterweight…
@@Talus-Gort if you have more volume you have what? Less density! It is ALWAYS the same weight, that is how things… FLOAT. That’s why you can float a vessel into something like the Falkirk Wheel and it always stays balanced even if there’s nothing on the other side.
@@markfleserread it again and think about what he is saying for a second. Also water stays at a pretty constant density when is liquid so what change of density are u even talking about
IT WASN'T YOUR MONEY THOUGH 😂😂😂 You act as if the government used your money for that. But to uneducated people they'll actually think you made a profound point @@peterderycke5766
I love the idea behind the Falkirk Wheel - by having two equally weighted "tubs," they have a balanced lift that needs very little energy to operate. The Strepy Thieu could have also operated this way, I'm a little surprised that they didn't do this. However, all of these lifts can actually be operated with relatively little energy as they can control the weight of the tub/ship by adding or removing water to achieve a balance with the counterweights. It just seems more elegant to use the second tub as the counterweight.
@@shawnyu4862 In theory, they could have built the Chinese lifts using the same principle (a second tub instead of counter-weights)... and then reduced the energy required by increasing the water level in the 'down' tub to make it heavier, and thus automatically lifting the other side (and only needing power to slow / regulate the speed, etc). The downside to this approach would be the need for a double-width entrance at the top and bottom, which would be a significant factor in some of these designs (especially the one with the aquaducts and tunnel, etc), plus the double-width lift itself.... and they don't look like they service enough traffic to benefit from being able to lift one boat at the same time as lowering another, so economically the extract construction cost (to double-lift) may not be worth it...
@@logicalChimp No, what I meant was not about power or size but the shaft and bearings. Can they have such a large carrying capacity? The elevator can distribute force to more steel wires and bearings... It's just my personal opinion...But this type of machine design is lovely.
Looking at paint, decals, & frame... I think that your Guerciotti is mid 1980's. Thanks for including the history lesson. I only learned that the company recently was reborn because of their great grandson's interest in his heritage.
Forgot another great advantage of a ship elevator. It uses almost no water for the action. Normal locks "dump" water to the lower level, when lowering the level. Also, the elevator of Strepy Thieu was build to replace the way older victorian age set of elevators. (and I feel a bit neglected by not mentioning the elevator at Ronqueres). And yes, the enginering of Strepy Thieu was used as a template for the Chinese infrastructure.
The Chinese build fantastic infrastructure projects. Money no object to its cost. But, we have seen with other mega projects is that quality control is minimised for speed of construction. Longevity is the key to successful major builds and the ability not to change the natural environment too much.
@@markverani5088 You retarded trumpcuck. These people were practically forced to build that wall. Nothing hard about having a shitload of forced people building a wall.
This also explains why the Chinese adopted gravity batteries to storage renewable energy, as the fundamental technology has been proven and could be very reliable.
Incredible. It would be interesting how much energy it costs to lift up one ship and how much Euro and how much many the ships have to pay for lifting up or down.
The energy required is mentioned for the Falkirk wheel, albeit that only lifts 35m. However, given the basin and the counterweights are perfectly balanced, the effort should be comparatively minimal (mostly just overcoming friction)... which is why one of the big Chinese lifts uses 4x electric motors with a combined power of 1.2kW, iirc, and takes 40 mins... meaning it uses 0.8kWh to lift a ship... which, at a (UK) cost of 35p / kWh means that lifting a ship costs... ~28p :D even if I got my numbers wrong, and the motors use 1.2MW (1,200kW), that's still only 280 GBP to lift a ship - which, for the profit involved in a single cargo ship, is less than a rounding error :D
The narrator incorrectly tells us that the counterweight ropes are used to raise and lower the basin. The video shows brief clips of the large helical screws that actually raise and lower the basin.
The FORD AirCarrier cost USD13Billion , the UK ones - USD4 Billions... Yup.... The cost of these amazing Infrastructure which will last Decades and benefits Millions of people ...
Norway had ship lifting over mountains since 1861, over 160 years ago. Norway's elevators are called "The 8th wonder of the world". Norway is currently building worlds first cruise ship tunnel through a mountain, and also worlds longest underwater highway. Anyway. Some of these mega projects in China were designed by Norwegians as Norway did mega projects since 1800's and have a long experience with them.
Peterborough Liftlocks , in Peterborough Ontario Canada is One of the Oldest and holds the record of being the Largest Liftlock ever made for a Long Time, Obviously Not the largest anymore
I've just looked it up. Amazing engineering for 1904! Also it runs without power other than the services, using only water taken in due to 30cm hight difference by the top caisson. Thanks for commenting!
A ship lift saves energy because the total weight on the lift remains constant regardless of the size or number of ships it carries.(This is due to the principle of buoyancy: the water displaced by the ship equals its weight, so the combined weight of the ship and water remains consistent.) This allows the counterbalance system to function efficiently with a fixed weight. In theory, even a small additional weight on one side (e.g., 1 kilogram) could cause the lift to move up or down.t.
Lol, I clicked thinking this was one of Simon's video's... then within 5 seconds I got this huge audio level increase, very telling. Don't know how that got through editing.
damn, china is doing something right aye. Australia takes 10 years to even add an extra lane to 2 km of a highway. always see a bunch of construction workers standing there watching that one worker.
I kept waiting for you to explain how these massive lifts work, with electricity, water power, etc, but never saw it. If you explained it somewhere let me know.
The Goupitan Ship Lift. Cost $777m. Likely built over a LWE. In the UK that would never have got past planning and would have cost £777bn. If anyone thinks China won’t be the world’s superpower in the next few years, think again
When America was great in the 1950s they had some amazing construction schemes, dams, bridges, and mountain roads but China makes that look like toy land, the money China has to spend must be amazing ,no other country can compete with them now,
@@antoniojunior36 No, they haven't. The Panama canal uses water to lift boats, and is currently under heavy restrictions because it uses so much fresh water which then ends up in the sea and they don't have enough fresh water to replenish it.
I am surprised China didn't build two lifts beside each other so that each lift acts as a counterbalance for each other. We have lifts in the province where I live that do just that.
Hey everyone, thanks a ton for watching! 😊
If you liked this video, why not check out a couple more?
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They are all pretty awesome in their own way.
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Yes. Ever heard of "The 8th wonder of the world" in Norway, built from 1854-1861?
Ship elevators upwards mountains and it's still active in 2024, 170 years later four tourists.
If a unit of weight is a kilogram or a ton. Why to compare it to an elephant?
This summer, we went on that elevator onto the 3 Gorges Dam lake; it is fantastic.
great, it's hard to find Chinese documentary videos, but with this video I got it all. there are several channels about great construction of the world, now I have one more channel about more new things, thank you.
Makes the Hoover Dam look like child's play. Incredible.
lol The Hoover Dam is not even worthy to be mentioned here.
comparing a dam to a bridge is dumb as fuck. nothing chinese is impressive. they throw thousands of workers at every jobsite and think thats impressive. doesnt matter what other nations do for their own nation internally. what other nations spend on things doesnt make anything important. cost doesnt equal actual importance of value.
@ You are an amazing individual! I could learn a lot from you... but I'd rather not.🤡
Different times. Hoover Dam is an excellent piece of engineering works with the technology and machinery they had.
@@nomercyinc6783 haahahaha the copium
Wow, China is definitely the greatest builder of infrastructure for the 21st Century.
We are great builder since the construction of the Great Wall 2000 years ago
@@yanlizhang7972nope there was many great builder countries that time.
@@LEGEND-jp7ch Seven Wonders of the Ancient World？only Pyramid left,If buildings only exist in legends and books, who are the great builders? by the way, the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids and the current Egyptians are not the same nation. But the Chinese who built the Great Wall and the current Chinese are the same origin.
Google tofu buildings. China's corruption is insane.
@@yanlizhang7972 yea that weak wall 🧱 which was totally newly build by CCP government....there is no contribution from China without gun powder and India made world 2nd fortified wall 🧱 in just 23 years and it's very strong unlike your weak building 🏢 see kid china doesn't have anything and 7 wonder is add because of 7 important countries most importance in our modern time and Arab only have great piramid from 5000 years ago which is really great in desert 🏜️ which was done by human's slave while it's nothing to our Aryans who control 3 continent totally at that time and our war wiped out 25% world 🌎🌍 population 5,000 years ago 🤔🤣 modern day's 6.8 billions people's have Aryans bloodline for an reason 🛂
many indians like myself absolutely adore chinese infrastructure. god bless chinese people.
Indian got too much corruption and cast system.
Reinvented the anderton lift
May the gods bless the wonderful people of India as well.
You are one of the few Indians who dare praise the Chinese for their works. Unlike many, who says that bridges infrastructure built by Chinese are like tofu. To them, I say continue to put your head in the sand and when you lift your head you will notice the world has passed you by!!!! BRAVO TO YOU & YOUR FRIENDS. Give praise when it is due and criticize when it is shoddy
You're one of the emotionally secure ones
I seen boat lifts in the UK but I never saw anything like this. Amazing
Great explanation of the advantages of this over locks. Great video. The Chinese never cease to amaze
It will last about 10 years then fall apart like most chinese construction.
@@chucklesthered2338 COPE
@@chucklesthered2338 yeah it may in your dream, too bad for you this is reality.
the first locks and canal 灵渠（ling qu）were built by Emporer Qinshihuang， 2300 years ago to conquer Guangdong, Guangxi。
虽然但是 应该是qinshihuang😂
Good that you mentioned it, otherwise people will say this is a copy from the other side of the globe.
Thanks for the fun fact!
I love Chinese people because they are genuine people and truly want to work together. Strangers are bonded instantly with brotherhood. Petty peer undermining is unthinkable
most countries work work together. nothing unique here
@@funkmachine9094which country same china,can you tell me ?
it's do or die
And the usa stands for U Stand Alone
That is the complete opposite of what most people have experienced when it comes to Chinese people...
China has always been an engineering and economic powerhouse. Most people think of China only in the past 50 years or so.m, mostly as a poor country. They don’t think of its thousands of years of mega projects.
Since I was young (quite a while ago) the media has always emphasized what a terrible, horrible place China is, God Bless America.
Hats off to the Chinese!
The same technology has been inaugurated in Germany in 1899 (Henrichenburg Schiffshebewerk). Hats off the Chinese, for claiming someone else’s technology for themselves - once again.
@@radiumdude Similar principles have long been used in ancient China.
Many canals were built in ancient China, the best known of which is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (from Beijing to Hangzhou), built 1,300 years ago and currently 1,794 kilometres long. In ancient times, this canal was much longer than it is today, and it first connected Beijing-Luoyang-Hangzhou (later taking a straight line from Beijing to Hangzhou). This canal involved different elevations and passed through different rivers, so many locks were set up, the principle of which is basically the same as the principle of locks nowadays.
@ Yes, we all know that the (ancient) Chinese deserve recognition for millennia of ingenuity - before Mao destroyed everything in a few decades. However, technological advancements during the industrial revolution in Europe and the US were driven by specific demands and developed independently. It would be reductive to claim a direct transmission of technology. But we are talking about China today, and here we can observe said “technology transfer” from the West everywhere - by means of joint ventures or industrial espionage.
@@radiumdude The so-called transfer of technology is normal, and no one is forcing anyone to transfer technology.
Technology itself is fluid, as it has been from time immemorial, and even your country may have learnt a lot of technology from other countries.
When it comes to China, the so-called technology transfer from western companies to China is just a business, there is no compulsion, a lot of technology transfer is paid for by Chinese companies, and basically it is obsolete or near obsolete technology, no company will transfer its most advanced technology that it relies on for its survival to others.
As for joint ventures, it's nonsense to say that all foreign companies doing business in China must have a joint venture with a Chinese company, in fact there was such a rule only in the automotive industry (there may have been others but I haven't heard of them), and it's now been abolished. China is a developing country, in order to avoid the impact on the domestic industry, the World Trade Organisation allows developing countries to protect the domestic industry, which is understandable and in line with the WTO regulations, the relevant enterprises can choose not to invest in China if they feel that it is not in their interests.
As a matter of fact, due to the backwardness of China's domestic economic development in the early days, the technologies that the western companies got from China were all close to being obsolete, and the establishment of joint ventures was also based on the shares of these technologies. The western companies made a lot of money by relying on the technologies that had already been obsolete, and although these technologies were backward, they were still needed by China at that time, so this was a win-win situation, and there was nothing that could be blamed on it. So it was a win-win situation and there is nothing to blame.
In the automotive industry, western companies exchanged backward technology for shares in joint ventures + business facilitation provided by Chinese companies, a very good business deal. These western car companies have sold millions of cars per year in China in just two decades, for example, Volkswagen, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, etc. The biggest market for these car companies is China, where they make unimaginable profits.
This is not the most favourable part of the joint venture in the automobile industry for the western automobile companies, the most favourable part is killing the Chinese automobile industry. The Chinese auto companies that have joint ventures with Western auto companies are all state-owned enterprises, and their joint ventures with Western auto companies rule the Chinese auto market. Why spend huge amounts of money on research and development when you can make money by relying on backward technology transferred from the West? So for a long time, the Chinese auto industry was uncompetitive, and the vast majority of cars sold in the Chinese market were foreign brands. The biggest downside of setting up these joint ventures doesn't stop there, as a result of these joint ventures, they lobby the Chinese government to restrict the emergence of private Chinese car companies. Geely, for example, could not get a licence in the early days of the company, and when the government told them that they were bound to lose money building cars, they begged the government to give them a chance to lose money. Chery Automobile, for example, also did not have a licence and initially relied on local government support to survive as a subsidiary of Shanghai Automobile. And BYD, which was allowed to produce cars only by buying a car company. It was only much later that China liberalised its car market, so that a large number of competitive start-ups soon emerged in the country, and China's car exports rose from 1 million to over 5 million units in just a few years. And without the existence of these so-called joint ventures, this process could have been brought forward by more than a decade.
Foreign automobile companies have benefited the most from these so-called joint ventures and technology transfers, and China has suffered the most. This is a great mistake in China's development process.
@ Interesting analysis indeed. However, my point is still the same: China is still either procuring technology / IP or blatantly stealing it. Countless patents and other IP have been simply registered by individuals in China, with the intention to extort the owner of the IP later. I have seen many such cases firsthand over the past two decades. Every industry segment has its specifics, though. It was interesting to see your insights from the automotive industry.
The Chinese government says: "There are too many poor people in our country, so I plan to build a lot of infrastructure, which can increase employment opportunities and change people's lives."
The US government says: "There are too many homeless people in our country, so I give them money so that they can take drugs and marijuana, and they can sleep in tents on the road."
The US government says: 'There are too many homeless people in our country. So, we give money to Ukraine or Israel, where people can kill each other. This way, no one notices that we are stealing money from our own people.'
And then create anti-homeless structure around cities. Don't forget about that.
@@AntiImperialist666 Hahaha.true
We tried that in the 1930s and it didn't do much to get us out of the Great Depression.
However entering World War 2 gave lots of people stable jobs in factories, manufacturing equipment for the war effort.
The Chinese government says, "There are too many poor people in our country, so we can take away another space for them to live in for a crazy engineering project, and it doesn't matter if a few dozen die in the construction, we have more poor people, the safety of the people doesn't matter, the money is important."
The Goupitan shiplift is not only an amazing bit of engineering, but it is also an economic miricle, they got it done for under USD800 Million and not the multi-Billions such a project would cost in the US, Canada, the UK or anywhere else in the industrial west.....
Well, they kinda use a slavery kinda workforce... also, its still a communist autocratic state.
I’m sure there will be comments about sl@ve lay-ber floating around in this comments section.
Well in China the money goes to the project, not to hundreds of committees, consultants, politicians, corporation, lawyers, accountants, etc etc etcetera 🧐
@@stephenhill8790 which for you else never get anything if something goes wrong which often it does, cheaper and faster is not always better, it can also mean plenty safety and quality skipping ... and just as these videos we also see the bridges and structures failing way to soon few years after they were built while some in other countries getting maintained for 100 years
@@stephenhill8790 don't forget the military complex
I had never been aware of such things as ship lifts. Wow - it blows my mind that such things are possible!
Just imagine how long it would take for US or UK to develop something like this using their advanced infrastructure technologies
......better yet, think about just how ruiniously expensive it would in either nation.......whilst both the UK & US fanny about with a few hideiously expensive infrastructure projects of questionable utility, China is roaring a head getting it done, faster, better and cheaper....plus they have started and completed many more major infrastructure projects in the past ten years then either the UK and US combined have started, let alone finished.
how long do you live not in China? and why?
@@wladjarosz345 wanna try that again in correct English?
@@gumpyoldbugger6944 If only they divert money from their war chests and into public infrastructures (but why would they, it is not profitable!)
@gumpyoldbugger6944 art thou in communist China too?
Wow, amazing what are humans able to build.
Btw, despite grandiosity of Chinese lift, I was most amazed by Falkirk wheel, what small amount of energy it uses! So clever design!
Thanks for this video!
And this is why the US hegemony on infrastructure technology is over.
US never had a hegemony on infrastructure.
I think European countries has the hegemony over US on infrastructure. ,😄
What gets done in the US depends on campaign donations.
I'm really surprised this entire project cost less than a billion dollars.
that's because this was built by our government, nobody needs any profit, so......apparently it should be cheap.
material bare cost
I am amazed but still fail to believe that these marvel engineering exist & function.
Go see for yourself. How do think they went from broke to the second economy in 25 years?
Not only are China's infrastructure projects mesmerizing, they're also extremely cheap.
When you say "cheap", they say "tofu dregs" or "copy, stolen, easy to break", etc etc.
@@strongchallenger2269everything can be broken
They're affordable
@@strongchallenger2269Stay with that Stu mindset. Instead of happy for other
Thanks for including data in proper measurement units.
Really informative video!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching it!
:facepalm:
US is his biggest market, so yeah
it's really just an insult to us.
You're 'proper measurements' are
no better than our own.
@@bikersoncall 1. He used customary/imperial when appropriate.
2. I was referring to not using "100th of swimming pools" for volume, "football pitches" for area, school buses for lengt, blue whales for weight etc.
3. If customary/imperial units were better NASA wouldn't use metric, and miles/pounds/gallons wouldn't be defined as fractions of the SI units. (By your own metrology institute)
@@pomodorino1766 1. We're both on
the Decimal system.
2. Everyone on earth used fractions,
when needed, and they are needed.
3. Metric is every bit as randomly
derived as thousandths of an inch
(SAE) and
metric still has to us thousands, and
or fractions in measurement when
determining the size of millions of items.
4. I didn't say Imperial was better.
5. I didn't watch the entire video,
so wasn't aware of any US measurements
being quoted.
@@bikersoncall I don't think you understood what I meant, but I'm not here for the sake of arguments.
Thanks!
Thank you for the gift!
Most of the weight that is lifted is water, not ship.
Ships displace water so it’s always the same weight.
@@markfleser *Most of the weight* that is lifted is water, not ship. Yes, I know about Archimedes Principle, but look how much more water there is than the volume displaced by the hull.
Nope, any weight that goes up AND down can just be offset by a counterweight. When an elevator lifts you up, it only has to power lifting you as the elevator itself has a counterweight…
@@Talus-Gort if you have more volume you have what? Less density! It is ALWAYS the same weight, that is how things… FLOAT. That’s why you can float a vessel into something like the Falkirk Wheel and it always stays balanced even if there’s nothing on the other side.
@@markfleserread it again and think about what he is saying for a second. Also water stays at a pretty constant density when is liquid so what change of density are u even talking about
Respect
China great big powerful country. Very excellence mountains electricity technologies.
How on Earth have I never heard of this before? This is remarkable!
Many choose to highlight their difficulties. They figure it's in their political interest.
其实这是🇮🇳的工程
This is insane, how they able built the massive engineering project damn China
It is what you can do when you don't throw all your money into military stuff and a failed health care "system".
THIS nO CHLNA. .. THIS IS INDIA. PAROD TO BE iNDlAN.(G).a)(y hind!!
771 million usd... for three lifts...
And kamela spent over 1 billion not to be elected...
Puts things into perspective...
700 million for infrastructure..not complaints from me
I stand to correct myself... it's 1.5 billion now...
That's about 6 boatlifts...
IT WASN'T YOUR MONEY THOUGH 😂😂😂 You act as if the government used your money for that. But to uneducated people they'll actually think you made a profound point @@peterderycke5766
Thanks for sharing your stupidity.
I love the idea behind the Falkirk Wheel - by having two equally weighted "tubs," they have a balanced lift that needs very little energy to operate. The Strepy Thieu could have also operated this way, I'm a little surprised that they didn't do this. However, all of these lifts can actually be operated with relatively little energy as they can control the weight of the tub/ship by adding or removing water to achieve a balance with the counterweights. It just seems more elegant to use the second tub as the counterweight.
yes, but it can only used for small ships.
@@shawnyu4862 In theory, they could have built the Chinese lifts using the same principle (a second tub instead of counter-weights)... and then reduced the energy required by increasing the water level in the 'down' tub to make it heavier, and thus automatically lifting the other side (and only needing power to slow / regulate the speed, etc).
The downside to this approach would be the need for a double-width entrance at the top and bottom, which would be a significant factor in some of these designs (especially the one with the aquaducts and tunnel, etc), plus the double-width lift itself.... and they don't look like they service enough traffic to benefit from being able to lift one boat at the same time as lowering another, so economically the extract construction cost (to double-lift) may not be worth it...
@@logicalChimp No, what I meant was not about power or size but the shaft and bearings. Can they have such a large carrying capacity? The elevator can distribute force to more steel wires and bearings... It's just my personal opinion...But this type of machine design is lovely.
Looking at paint, decals, & frame... I think that your Guerciotti is mid 1980's.
Thanks for including the history lesson. I only learned that the company recently was reborn because of their great grandson's interest in his heritage.
Forgot another great advantage of a ship elevator. It uses almost no water for the action. Normal locks "dump" water to the lower level, when lowering the level.
Also, the elevator of Strepy Thieu was build to replace the way older victorian age set of elevators. (and I feel a bit neglected by not mentioning the elevator at Ronqueres). And yes, the enginering of Strepy Thieu was used as a template for the Chinese infrastructure.
Sorry, they adapted the engineering principles used in china more than 2200 years ago.
The Chinese build fantastic infrastructure projects. Money no object to its cost. But, we have seen with other mega projects is that quality control is minimised for speed of construction.
Longevity is the key to successful major builds and the ability not to change the natural environment too much.
These Chinese engineers are Aliens.... Not human.
Nothing special about it.
@@S.1-1-1-1-1Like the Great Wall, right?
China has a long-standing culture of massive undertakings.
@@markverani5088 Waaaw, imagine having a shitload of people building a wall... So spectacular...
@@S.1-1-1-1-1 Actually, it is. I mean, it cost Kamala an election. You think it's easy to build a wall that lasts that long?
@@markverani5088 You retarded trumpcuck. These people were practically forced to build that wall. Nothing hard about having a shitload of forced people building a wall.
Here in Scotland we brag about the little Falkirk wheel boat lift.
This also explains why the Chinese adopted gravity batteries to storage renewable energy, as the fundamental technology has been proven and could be very reliable.
Pumped hydro is gravity storage of energy. Water is more suited for gravity storage of energy then any other system.
That's an engineering marvel!
Extreme engineering 😮👏🏼🎉😊
Incredible. It would be interesting how much energy it costs to lift up one ship and how much Euro and how much many the ships have to pay for lifting up or down.
The energy required is mentioned for the Falkirk wheel, albeit that only lifts 35m. However, given the basin and the counterweights are perfectly balanced, the effort should be comparatively minimal (mostly just overcoming friction)... which is why one of the big Chinese lifts uses 4x electric motors with a combined power of 1.2kW, iirc, and takes 40 mins... meaning it uses 0.8kWh to lift a ship... which, at a (UK) cost of 35p / kWh means that lifting a ship costs... ~28p :D
even if I got my numbers wrong, and the motors use 1.2MW (1,200kW), that's still only 280 GBP to lift a ship - which, for the profit involved in a single cargo ship, is less than a rounding error :D
The narrator incorrectly tells us that the counterweight ropes are used to raise and lower the basin. The video shows brief clips of the large helical screws that actually raise and lower the basin.
This is a new interesting with informable experience to me. Good presentation. Thankyou.
The FORD AirCarrier cost USD13Billion , the UK ones - USD4 Billions...
Yup.... The cost of these amazing Infrastructure which will last Decades and benefits Millions of people ...
I'm surprised you didn't mention the first boat lift, the Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire, England, built in 1875 and still in use today.
yeah that's cute. There's a double one in Belgium that went in operation in 2002. It replaces the 4 lifts that were built around 1890.
Crazy how people are so insecure about China in these comments 😂
sadly that's what happens, when the west could no longer compete on equal footing, all that is left is hate and jealousy. That is a western feature.
Especially those low-grade United Snakes
The sour grapes are out in full force and I'm 😂😂😂. China makes western exceptionalism feel like dog poop😂😂
Did you read that guy's comment? "nothing chinese is impressive" blah blah blah.... You know who is this guy from, don't you?
@@strongchallenger2269Definitely american 🤣🤣🤣
We don't have such technology in India
INDIA SHOULD HAVE WORK WITH CHINA LONG TIME AGO. IMAGINE IF INDIA AND CHINA HAD RELATIONSHIP LIKE THE US AND CANADA THEY WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD
India has the most advanced cow-urine technology! 😅😅😅
You will be shocked to dxxxh how many technology you don't have in India
You have no TOILETS in India. Stop shitting on the streets and behind sheds !
@leonglh8456 Yes, india is top in cow-urine and cow-dungs technology.
new find, the locks of the 3 Georges Dam, opened in 2003, well done guys
Chinese technology and infrastructure are amazing im starting to like china now as a country. 😄
Norway had ship lifting over mountains since 1861, over 160 years ago. Norway's elevators are called "The 8th wonder of the world".
Norway is currently building worlds first cruise ship tunnel through a mountain, and also worlds longest underwater highway.
Anyway. Some of these mega projects in China were designed by Norwegians as Norway did mega projects since 1800's and have a long experience with them.
I can't imagine how metallurgy engineering could level up to the challenges faced by such constructions.. take just bearings..
Wow! As several people have noted, this is the sort of engineering marvel that USA used to specialize in.
Brilliant engineering as usual, taking human brains to the extreme!
They used similar combined ideas that Panama Canal, Panama; Falkirk Wheel, Scotland; and Alt Elbe Tunnel, Germany have been using since last century.
Very good video sir
Thanks and welcome
Amazing
Absolutely incredible engineering.
Peterborough Liftlocks , in Peterborough Ontario Canada is One of the Oldest and holds the record of being the Largest Liftlock ever made for a Long Time, Obviously Not the largest anymore
I've just looked it up. Amazing engineering for 1904!
Also it runs without power other than the services, using only water taken in due to 30cm hight difference by the top caisson.
Thanks for commenting!
Been there, it's so cool!
Cheer up Cap'n!! Canada still has the largest people zoo's!
A ship lift saves energy because the total weight on the lift remains constant regardless of the size or number of ships it carries.(This is due to the principle of buoyancy: the water displaced by the ship equals its weight, so the combined weight of the ship and water remains consistent.) This allows the counterbalance system to function efficiently with a fixed weight. In theory, even a small additional weight on one side (e.g., 1 kilogram) could cause the lift to move up or down.t.
China... Unbeatable... 💪💪💪💪
Not really.
Unbelievable superior engineering
I'd bet the steel reinforced concrete elevator weighs much more than the water and the ship combined.
FANTASTIC...
ABSOLUTEMENT....
YESS......
CHINESE TECHNOLOGY.
CHINESE ENGINEERS.
CHINESE BRILLIANCE.
David Baxter.
BELGIUM AND SCOTTISH
TECHNOLOGY....
USA AS WELL....
Lol, I clicked thinking this was one of Simon's video's... then within 5 seconds I got this huge audio level increase, very telling.
Don't know how that got through editing.
The French canal system is incredible. We need a youtube on the French canal system.
Great China❤🎉❤🎉❤
damn, china is doing something right aye. Australia takes 10 years to even add an extra lane to 2 km of a highway. always see a bunch of construction workers standing there watching that one worker.
It looks like a scaled up version of the Anderton lift near Northwich, Cheshire, built in 1875.
WOW.....SPECTACULAR😱
The Falkirk Wheel is the most inspiring machine, engineering solution, art object ever conceived. Staggering.
I kept waiting for you to explain how these massive lifts work, with electricity, water power, etc, but never saw it. If you explained it somewhere let me know.
Isn't Three Gorges Dam is moving from the base and in danger of collapsing?
The Goupitan Ship Lift. Cost $777m. Likely built over a LWE. In the UK that would never have got past planning and would have cost £777bn. If anyone thinks China won’t be the world’s superpower in the next few years, think again
What ship weighs as much as a skyscraper?
Awesome engineering marvel!
Excellent content
Why isn't that system used in the Panama canal?
The Panama canal handles much larger ships than the 3500 tons these elevators are capable of.
Nope - Panama is a lock-based system.
Check out the Falkirk Wheel in the UK.
they arent defying gravity they are overcoming it. Also engineering makes it all possible.
Simply, Great China!!
China's infrastructure was very underrated
The lift canal is only 3.5 meters deep? I can’t believe major tanker ships can handle water that shallow.
One of amazing Technology where human Ever made
We are great builder since the construction of the Great Wall 2000 years ago
Long Live The BRICS Project.
That Goupitan lift was incredibly cheap to make. Wow. I thought the cost was going to be in the billions.
I wonder, if similar system is possible for large, ocean going cargo ships.
The falkirk wheel is not far from where we live .❤
When America was great in the 1950s they had some amazing construction schemes, dams, bridges, and mountain roads but China makes that look like toy land, the money China has to spend must be amazing ,no other country can compete with them now,
chinese engineering , amazing marvel !!!
This dam is so huge that it has its own city and a university.
At 1:0 not elevation , correct is altitude difference .
China is just amazing how much they have moved ahead of the rest of the world
They aren't "ahead". One of the most corrupt nations on earth.
The Panama canal should build this.
They always had it!
@@antoniojunior36 No, they haven't. The Panama canal uses water to lift boats, and is currently under heavy restrictions because it uses so much fresh water which then ends up in the sea and they don't have enough fresh water to replenish it.
Wow
Cool, it’s that boat elevator from one piece ❤😂😂😂😂😂❤❤ I wanna try driving in that, looks so ccool
How much does it cost for a ship to take the elevator?
I am surprised China didn't build two lifts beside each other so that each lift acts as a counterbalance for each other. We have lifts in the province where I live that do just that.
What are the current bets on when that thing will collapse?
That stuff is being built in Europe since the beginning of last century.
No agitation there 😮