Great to see Ireland's industrial heritage being championed. One aspect not explored in the Killarney video is the role the expansion of the water system played in the tourism industry over the years. Without the massive expansion of water treatment and distribution in the 1970s most of the larger hotels in Killarney would've been impossible to build.

A wonderful, fascinating programme. My wife's family are from the Wicklow/Carlow area and, when I visited Ireland for the first time, I was puzzled as to why older houses had German 'Schuko' plugs & sockets installed. I now understand that it was because Siemens supplied the infrastructure as well as the generating plant on the River Shannon.

I LOVE Ireland and it's people 💖Greetings from Oman 🇴🇲🎩

I really enjoyed this, what an accomplishment for the time, I can't believe I only just found out about this

I wonder if there is anywhere else in the world where a river can be found flowing over another river, or under another river, perpendicularly. Wait...X marks the spot. That must be where they hid the leprechauns gold!

@jean-pierreposman7282

Ай бұрын

In Afrika , don't now the country is a river that flow over a motorway. You drive there with you're car and you see a massive boat passing by over the road . And here in Belgium is a river where the ships float in a elevator and when the elevator sinks or climb the boats continue there ways on a much higher or lower level this is in Ronqiuere. It's uniek in the world and a 100 meters elevation that the boats have to pass

@Electriceye1984bySam

Ай бұрын

In Augusta Georgia, in the 1800s a creek flowed underneath the Augusta Canal until it was changed in the 1900s

@thomasbrady5381

Ай бұрын

Yes there is I live in Chewton, Vic Australia and the big town near Me is called Castlemaine and the river there has been redesigned

@juliane__

Ай бұрын

Just look at the Mittellandkanal in Germany. It partly flows on bridges or waterways or do you say aquaduct? It should be a compositum of viaduct and aquaduct.

Who I missed in the story was an economist. Lots of spending years before a watt of electricity could be sold. How was the project financed?

@forthrightgambitia1032

29 күн бұрын

By government funding. They spent 20% of the new state's rather threadbare budget on the assumption electrification would completely change the economy.

Ireland looks so beautiful, my family came from there way back, hundreds of years ago. Would love to visit someday. In reference to electricity, we take it for granted, flip a switch and we expect it to be there. This huge dam was only built 100 years ago, amazing to think of a part of a whole country not having electricity.

@johnowens8992

Ай бұрын

Most still dont

@pistonburner6448

Ай бұрын

Same with potatoes.

Ireland is the funnest place on earth. The folks are the finest, friendly and sincere. I hope to go back someday, I kissed the stone.

Absolutely gorgeous.

Love history.

@loraweems8712

Ай бұрын

I'm in Texas. My son-in-law is from Castleconnel, just outside of Limerick. I really enjoyed visiting the Shannon. Lovely people, lovely river!

Its actually a beautiful building

The art of the Insulting Question isnt lost on either interviewer. Go ahead, ask that Dense Redundant Question!!

Looks like a nice video. Unfortunately KZread is limiting it to 720 p resolution (unless we pay ransom to them). Please let me know if it can be seen elsewhere.

Superb. If I were younger I would apply for Irish citizenship.

28:29 "The railway started to spread across Ireland like an iron rash" What? I couldn't believe that I heard what I just heard...

History

Adorable 😊. England out of EU, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand etc. 😢

(all of britain/ireland should invest more in offshore wind -as an economic backbone )

@replica1052

Ай бұрын

turbines could be made of concrete to fill with water in strong winds (all you need to pull underwater cables is a boat )

@domtweed7323

Ай бұрын

We should work out the maximum available pumped hydro storage, and build the turbine fleet to match the pumped hydro storage fleet. The rest can be stable base load nuclear power.

@replica1052

Ай бұрын

@@domtweed7323 (nuclear is expensive and high maintenance -and the wind always blows offshore )

@domtweed7323

Ай бұрын

@@replica1052 The capacity factor for offshore wind is about 42% for the North Sea, maybe 60% if you go way offshore with a very tall turbine. So it creates a large need for storage, like pumped hydro, to back it up. Nuclear, like all power sources, needs economies of scale. Building one reactor is ridiculously expensive. But build 30 of one design, like France did (twice), and the per unit cost comes massively down.

@replica1052

Ай бұрын

@@domtweed7323 the farther offshore you go the more the wind blows - europe will buy all your excess electricity

wow how did they get so manny irish folk on tv? and why do they call it a scheme?

@gerardacronin334

Ай бұрын

The word “scheme” is commonly used in Ireland to refer to a plan or project, particularly a government one.

@elizamccroskey1708

Ай бұрын

In Ireland and the UK scheme doesn’t necessarily have the negative connotations that it does in the USA.

Biggest in the world? I don't think so. I've spent 43 years working on older hydro plants with greater capacity in the US. This is an amazing plant, but many of the statements made in this documentary are false.

@daviddavid1346

25 күн бұрын

If you listen she said When it was finished it was the biggest in the world

This dam never would have been needed if the likes of jp morgan and rockefeller ( I did not capitalize those 2 names out of disrespect for them) were not involved ! We should have had free energy back in the 1900's !

Old World tech. We did not build these.

first

Im a Roofer. Thank God not in Europe!! Those Steep Arse Roofs can Fook the Hell Off

My moms last name is toomey and she has been doing family research bc her mom told her nothing we come from kinda a shitty alcoholic family...but i guess her familys name was twomey but at ellis island it got wrote as toomey. W might have sounded like double o. . . idk but i would love to know where i came from. I have my dads last name elizondo and his grandfather was from spain but died when my dad was young and his mom was a shitty alcoholic so he was never told anything. Im happy to say my son is going to be the first generation in idk forever where a kid doesnt have to grow up in an adults addiction. I got sober 7 yers ago and it was the best thing i ever did ....along with having my 5yr old. But i know nothing about either side and i wish i did. Or had the means to do DNA stuff. Maybe when im outta school.

Those pesky Hermans again. Everywhere they go they bless other cultures. God bless the Hermans. Unlike new emigres to Europe,they bless the Irish people, blend well, and elevate Irish culture….why not invite more

River Shannon: “Revolutionary Electrical infrastructure, transformative role of railways in shaping Irish tourism, engineering marvels , cultural heritage… BUT ABOVE ALL SKIP… LAKERS IN 5 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥”

Third Reich Dam

@davidrenton

Ай бұрын

well not really 10 years prior, even though Siemans where crucial in the Third Reich, 10+ years later

@sgassocsg

Ай бұрын

Oh yes, then tear it down my virtuous friend. Show the world your virtue. Simpleton.

why not post everyday if you can?