Colorado Experience: Hydro Power
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2015
- In 1891, due to a lack of timber fuel and the challenge of steep mountain passes, all mining operations in Telluride were in danger of being shut down. Cue L.L. Nunn. This Colorado pioneer financed Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the first in the world to generate alternating current electric power for industrial application. Thanks to this historic milestone, Telluride’s Gold King Mine remained open and hydroelectric plants soon popped up across the United States and the world.
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Another excellent look back into history, I must admit I thought hydroelectric technology was a recent invention, and the participation (in name at least) of Nicola Tesla is surprising but understandable given his brilliance in the invention of many electrical components that we still use today.
Thanks for sharing this interesting and very informative documentary, a compelling story of vision and genius. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Very recommendable! So Telluride, Co was one of the first electrified towns in the U.S. thanks to hydro power!
"To Hell You Ride"!
We need to reinvest in Hydro Power here and an Electrical grid of a different kid from Tesla's old Lab here sooner rather than later. Colorado has great influence in America by design.
EXCELLENT episode!
Truly amazing history
liked it a lot..pbs ROCKS
@19:20 horse vs electron races, bahaha
Mega Awesome.
Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse would be surprised at our long-distance transmission out in the Western part of the country which is now dominated by the large Direct Current connection between Sylmar California and Washington's hydro power. Up in the very high voltage ranges it turns out that DC is more cost effective for long distance transmission of energy.
Also takes care of a less obvious problem -- How to synchronize 2 regionally distant grids. HVDC is rectified at one end, inverted to AC at the far end, depending on what direction the juice is being sent. Thus, no need to stay locked to 60.00Hz exact throughout the length of the line, like AC.
Yes . However the conversion to and from those extremely high voltages requires AC .
Globally HVDC is a growth industry .
Wow
Tesla appears on the 100 dinar bank note of Serbia.
Tesla nearly ignored completely AS ALWAYS. I don't get it?
This area was the home of the now extinct Colorado Grizzly bear. They had been there since the Pleistoscene Epoch. They did not survive the interaction with railroads, mining, tourists and hunters. The DNA of the last one killed matches those of Scandinavian bears creating a biological link during the time preceding the Laramide Orogeny when Scandinavia was closer to the Bering Land Bridge which they crossed on foot during the Jurassic. It would be nice if PBS remembered them as well.