There is a longer version of this video in which my father features briefly. I saw it once when I was a student but I've never come across it again since.
Yet we have the climate freaks against hydro and building more dams to utilise this. They'd rather 400 wind turbines sitting on every untouched hill. Of course suggest putting a turbine behind their home and they form a NIMBY committee.
my grandfather my father & his 4 brothers all worked on this from start to finish,my grandfather was one of the head blasters,my father used to get a bonus for staying on site during holidays lol that meant we got easter eggs @ christmas when he finally came home lol
Small world, recently found out the chap in the office nextdoor was also involved in the blasting. He has copies of the old drawings and photos from when they were working on it.
Is this taken from a promotional DVD? No credits? On 'fully charged' the visit talks about 'pony pumps' for sending water back up and yet here the 'turbines are reversed' - sounds unlikely as they are two different engineering requirements. If it is an official video produced by the electric company, I'm surprised the narration has that bit about '..rotating up to 500 revolutions per minute'. The whole point of this installation is that it is always turning to match grid 50Hz and ready to come on line with power when the valves are opened. Interesting this hugely expensive disguised installation is surrounded by pristine landscape with no wind turbines or solar panels in view. We would need hundreds of these to avoid carbon emissions. The original slate mine provided a long-lasting building material. Now replaced with cement and plastic inferior products.
It's amazing that during all those years John Howard was pm in Aus his main complaint about renewable energy was that it could not operate 24/7. All the while places like this were already in place. The problem was already solved.
@@kitthearty Old comment but the problem is far from solved. The power station just like all pumped storage schemes only produce electricity for a few hours each day to cover peaks and spends a lot of the time pumping the water back uphill. Originally built to complement nuclear power stations which provided the baseload generation and rather than ramp down at night the power stored. In relation to storing renewable energy we need schemes like Coire Glas, it alone would more than double the UK Pumped Storage Capacity.
Dwi'n cofio fel plentyn 7 oed yn cael ei gymryd i weld y gwaith yn cael ei wneud ac ni allwn amgyffred anferthedd y cyfan. Hyd yn oed nawr dwi'n ei chael hi'n anodd deall beth oedd ac sy'n dal i fod yn orchest enfawr hardd o beirianneg.
The Welsh language is over played in this video to emphasise how Welsh the scheme is but it was the British tax payer that paid for the electric mountain
"Spiral casings" that get "smaller and smaller" to increase pressure? Yeah. Pressure is flow and restriction. Increasing restriction to increase pressure decreases flow and flow is where the "power" is. Only by pumping water downhill from above to increase pressure WITHOUT increasing restriction does more pressure = more power. Typical British "physics". It sounds good if you never took a real science class in your life and can't even "imagine" a flow rate not "measured" in "teacups per second".
When ur teacher sets this as homework
saaammme lmao
👩🏽💻👍🏽✌🏽
same in doing this rn its boring asf
@@Chayten_YT wait
I was there building it and since then went abroad and went on to be on another 5 Hydroelectical projects and still going.
BRYAN WYN ROBERTS thank sir
BRYAN WYN ROBERTS thank you sir
Is micro hydroelectric worth it? I've been thinking about doing it in s.wales
I'm a tad late on the reply! Thank you, it is a fantastic piece of engineering.
WOW isn’t enough but it’s all of got, what a project and what a job to have, thank you sir
I went there today in the school trip, I went on the tour bus, and I was scared going into the tunnel thinking it would collapse
ben jones when I went on my school,trips a couple days ago I thought that
Came here after watching the place on Fully Charged.
I think I'm going to listen to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King now, seems fitting :-)
I love clean energy. Got to visit this place.
"I love clean energy." - all that water doesn't go up the hill on its own. It is pushed up there by surplus nuclear energy.
Beautiful video rhank you 🙏❤️
Found while searching Cruachan...
Went there when i was 10 will go back soon :)
There is a longer version of this video in which my father features briefly. I saw it once when I was a student but I've never come across it again since.
A friends mum took us in what must have been an open day before everything was installed. Was huge inside
is no way to speak about the kind lady
Awesome video dude. Couldn't stop watching it
Unfortunately the visitors centre is closed and destind to become a car park 😢
The biggest rechargeable battery I have ever seen! Zero to full power in a few seconds. One and a half million cups of tea per second! Ha!!! Amazing.
Yet we have the climate freaks against hydro and building more dams to utilise this. They'd rather 400 wind turbines sitting on every untouched hill. Of course suggest putting a turbine behind their home and they form a NIMBY committee.
I'm going there with school tomorrow!
Bloody brilliant
my grandfather my father & his 4 brothers all worked on this from start to finish,my grandfather was one of the head blasters,my father used to get a bonus for staying on site during holidays lol that meant we got easter eggs @ christmas when he finally came home lol
Small world, recently found out the chap in the office nextdoor was also involved in the blasting. He has copies of the old drawings and photos from when they were working on it.
@@jollysoutherner Wow? You have an office "next door" to a former "blaster" that must be in his 70s or 80s by now?
Drilled or blasted? Not both? Kinda hard to blast without drilling.
I watched this vid at the electric mountain
Nice to see our next door neighbour :-)
Brilliant project -tidal lagoons should be our focus now -Swansea Tidal Lagoon should be approved immediately-no brainier to me
its not a good investment
You can tell its British because they're using cups of tea as a unit of measurement
And because the "science" is complete bullshit.
We have one the same here in Ireland ‘ turlough hill in wicklow
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More bit hundreds of lectric come out the hole in Whales yeah no
Is this taken from a promotional DVD? No credits? On 'fully charged' the visit talks about 'pony pumps' for sending water back up and yet here the 'turbines are reversed' - sounds unlikely as they are two different engineering requirements. If it is an official video produced by the electric company, I'm surprised the narration has that bit about '..rotating up to 500 revolutions per minute'. The whole point of this installation is that it is always turning to match grid 50Hz and ready to come on line with power when the valves are opened. Interesting this hugely expensive disguised installation is surrounded by pristine landscape with no wind turbines or solar panels in view. We would need hundreds of these to avoid carbon emissions. The original slate mine provided a long-lasting building material. Now replaced with cement and plastic inferior products.
Video is taken from DVD sold at the visitors centre.
why are you surprised that the GEC generators have a grid synchronous speed of 500rpm?
“One of the worlds largest”. The Australian Snowy Mountain Scheme is the biggest.
It's amazing that during all those years John Howard was pm in Aus his main complaint about renewable energy was that it could not operate 24/7. All the while places like this were already in place. The problem was already solved.
@@kitthearty Old comment but the problem is far from solved. The power station just like all pumped storage schemes only produce electricity for a few hours each day to cover peaks and spends a lot of the time pumping the water back uphill. Originally built to complement nuclear power stations which provided the baseload generation and rather than ramp down at night the power stored.
In relation to storing renewable energy we need schemes like Coire Glas, it alone would more than double the UK Pumped Storage Capacity.
Dwi'n cofio fel plentyn 7 oed yn cael ei gymryd i weld y gwaith yn cael ei wneud ac ni allwn amgyffred anferthedd y cyfan. Hyd yn oed nawr dwi'n ei chael hi'n anodd deall beth oedd ac sy'n dal i fod yn orchest enfawr hardd o beirianneg.
The Welsh language is over played in this video to emphasise how Welsh the scheme is but it was the British tax payer that paid for the electric mountain
"Spiral casings" that get "smaller and smaller" to increase pressure? Yeah. Pressure is flow and restriction. Increasing restriction to increase pressure decreases flow and flow is where the "power" is. Only by pumping water downhill from above to increase pressure WITHOUT increasing restriction does more pressure = more power.
Typical British "physics". It sounds good if you never took a real science class in your life and can't even "imagine" a flow rate not "measured" in "teacups per second".