I remember when the old reservoir failed and the water breached. It was a disaster!!!

The scar down the side of the mountain is from when in 2005 the upper reservoir overfilled and the reservoir wall collapsed sending a wall of water down the mountain.

I have 32 years at Smith Mt Pumped storage in Virginia. They are very valuable to any utility.

My dad worked there on a drill rig when it was first constructed in the early 60's

Very nice.

My husband worked here after it collapsed & completely wiped out The Shut ins...

Yikes I never saw this!!!

I want to tell you that the video's your channel makes are very informative and inspiring. They help me to understand and think about big engineering problems and to imagine the possible solutions. One of the biggest problems or actually it is a combination of problems is man made desertification and water insecurity on one hand and the pressures of sea level rise and increasingly violent storms on the other. One aspect of this problem is that there is not enough water in some areas and too much water in others. So then the problem is how to move water from one area to the other. Since I am an American I will talk about the regional problem that I relate most too but the same problem can be found on almost all continents. Since the B1M does research on projects all around the world if there is any contact that you think would find it interesting to discuss the ideas I am describing with me please feel free to forward them my contact and this email. Thank you very much for your help. The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions. A better future is possible,

I take it this facility generates power via Hydro Electric means. So how does the water get there? Not naturally like almost every other Hydro Electric facility. Is more energy expended to get water up there than it produces?

@Eugen_Belyaev

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The present humanity STRETCHED UP, not having time to GROW UP (grow wiser, become intelligent), to give such concepts as MASS, GRAVITATION, ENERGY; adequate definitions! Someone thinks that ENERGY is an APPLE that needs to be picked! Someone thinks energy is a LIQUID that can be stored in a jug on the top shelf of a kitchen cabinet! A certain idiot, he considered ENERGY as a gas, a cylinder with which, you can place anywhere, so as not to feel deprived! It would never occur to anyone that none of the idiots who wear colorful robes and speak their theories from the pulpit are WRONG! For some reason, none of the "conditionally sane" had the idea that ENERGY IS NOT SUBSTANTIAL! This is not something to be poured, pumped up or touched! Approximately the way we talk about FIELD! Energy is not something that you can BUY, accumulate, and FOLD! And this means that we are once again confused! I want to tell you about our (and world) "relativistic" science! Relativism, like communism, is just what is written about it in the definition (see the definitions in the dictionary!). True, in recent years, there has been an increasing trend towards the rehabilitation of "erased" templates. If earlier the concept of relativism could be found in most medical and psychiatric dictionaries, now it has been replaced by "automatic obedience", "aggression" and "ambivalence", etc. The concept of relativism, which previously included the syndromes of schizophrenia, now most closely matches the psychiatric symptom of "childhood autism." What happens in academic science? I would like to inform you that this year marks the 18th anniversary of a very memorable event: the Academy of Sciences of the sovereign Republic of Kazakhstan publicly announced that the Energy Conservation Law has ceased to be in effect (or, let's say, "was refuted"), at an expanded meeting of the Academy of Experts The sciences that considered the scientific development of the candidate of technical sciences K.B. Igizbaev under the title "Method of generating profit of electric power capacity and installation for its implementation." I quote verbatim paragraph 2 of the technical conclusion: "The energy asymmetry of water circulation established by the authors, the proof of which is the" know-how "of the invention, refutes the law of conservation of energy." They also acknowledged the studies of K.B. Igizbaev, as well as the results he obtained, are fundamental! What did K. B. Igizbaev mean by this? Isn't that what Lomonosov said at one time in his correspondence with the famous German mathematician Euler, discussing with him by correspondence regarding Newton's theory of universal gravitation? By the way, Lomonosov, who had studied in Germany by that time, had the same specialty as Igizbaev - a mining engineer! Namely: THERE IS NO ATTRACTION, and what we call GRAVITATION is only an uncompensated difference in the conservative system of forces (Igizbaev's term) acting on the Earth! If Igizbaev repeated this conclusion drawn by Lomonosov, he would have blocked the possibility of obtaining a scientific conclusion from the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan for his invention! Therefore, its formulation sounds like: "energy asymmetry of water circulation in closed watercourses." The question immediately arises: "how is this possible?" The answer is simple: when the Kazakh Academy of Sciences was separated from the USSR Academy of Sciences, a committee was not created in it to combat pseudoscience, so Kazakh scientists did not have time to get out of the habit of having to tell the truth in any situation! Who are these daredevils, who were not afraid of the world scientific community, and "cut" the MOTHER-TRUTH (embed the truth-uterus), in spite of the world and Russian behind the scenes? This is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, professor, honored worker of science and technology of Kazakhstan, laureate of awards, etc. etc. Sh.M. Aytaliev, and also a member of corr. NAS RK, professor, doctor of technical sciences, laureate of the state prize, president of JSC "KazNII Energetika" B. Aliyarov. See also the video presentation of Igizbaev on my KZread channel

@megamandariini4075

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It "stores" energy by pumping water up when there is a surplus of power on the grid and then produces energy when its needed

@StephenPaulTroup

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@@megamandariini4075 Ok, but let me ask a question. If you already have excess stored energy, why go thru the extra steps of expending that stored energy to pump the water up just to recreate the same energy when it comes down? I must be missing something.

@megamandariini4075

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@@StephenPaulTroup its not stored in the power grid and would go to waste if its not used. Pumping the water is a way to store the energy for later use. Look up pumped storage hydroelectricity for more info if ur interested

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Just a leak.

@Carbon2wheeler

2 жыл бұрын

They certainly downplayed its role in destroying large swathes of the area.

Uhhh, giant pool, I guess

If you want us to tell you what we think, why do you remove all comments from the local community? HMMMMM?

So a giant boondoggle.

@jameswest9261

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It is used when the load on the grid increases and rather than rolling blackouts they bring the generators online to supplement the grid. Upper reservoir usually is drained for power during the day when peak loads are reached. The upper reservoir is pumped full during the night when the electrical demand is not at peak load. The generators are ran in reverse to pump water to refill the upper reservoir so the plant is ready for the next peak electric demand. They used to allow tours, but that was years ago and schools would set up an educational field trip.

I will try to get through this without using profanity. Ameren's toy damn, "to provide peak energy demands " to a nothing town, destroyed my favorite place on Earth. Johnson Shut-Ins. Don't believe anything you encounter about this project.

@carhasenfratz

27 күн бұрын

The shut-ins look ok now. I went there last fall.

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