I appreciate the apparent ease of controlling such a large amount of potential energy to spin the turbine/generator. Getting all this power sychronized to the power grid takes a gentle touch !

@Er.Jeetendra

4 ай бұрын

Yeah absolutely !

Once had a young engineer working at a very small dam close penstock inlet valve way to fast. This caused several hundred feet of pipe to implode.

@Er.Jeetendra

4 ай бұрын

that's so sad!

@watomb

4 ай бұрын

@@Er.Jeetendra no one got fired. Call it learning experience

@Er.Jeetendra

3 ай бұрын

Oh!that's a twist !😀Anyway nice learning experience I guess!

@adamruck

3 ай бұрын

I assume from water hammer?

@watomb

3 ай бұрын

@@adamruck no the air inlet was to small so the water rush down the pipe into river. This moving water with a small air inlet created a vacuum. The vacuum caused the old and rusted penstock to implode. I tried to find the news article but it was a small town in NY. All I remember it’s next to shoe factory. I was commercial diver at the time and worked on a ton of dams.

Lived next to the andritz plant. No clue they made stuff like this

Lovely 😍

@Er.Jeetendra

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!