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Bridge Demolition is Complicated
The complex engineering involved in demolishing the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge. Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an ...
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The bizarre science of washboards on unpaved roads ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...
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The World's Most Recycled Material
Exploring the complexities that go into the creation and application of asphalt concrete. Of all the ubiquitous things in our ...
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How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works
A few of the complexities involved in managing a mini power grid. Drawing the line between what's worth the investment and ...
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This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed
Why Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed This is a crazy case study of how common sense can fall through the cracks of strained ...
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The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid
What the heck is power factor? Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...
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An overview of the different types of pile foundations and how they work. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual ...
13:21
Why Spillway Gates Don't Rust Out
An overview of cathodic protection, including a rust prevention shootout in my garage. The bundle deal with Curiosity Stream has ...
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The basics of fluvial geomorphology (the science behind the shape of rivers) Watch Part 2 of this series: ...
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Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires
Friction is the final frontier of vehicle/rail interaction! Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...
20:42
So You Want to Build a Tunnel...
Some of us just yearn for the mines. Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: ...
20:32
Why Is Desalination So Difficult?
An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean. Correction: The Carlsbad plant ...
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Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World
The wild story of Mosul Dam in northern Iraq Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: ...
16:40
Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?
A structural comparison of gravity and arch dams Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...
16:39
Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?
The answer isn't as simple as you might think! One statistician famously said, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.
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This Spillway Failed On Purpose
An overview of fuse plug and fusible gate spillways ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...
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An overview of reservoir sedimentation Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...
17:04
Concrete's Greatest Weakness is Time
The challenge of cure time Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...
13:46
You Spend More on Rust Than Gasoline (Probably)
The colossal cost of a simple chemical reaction. Metals are so necessary and important to modern society that we'll never escape ...
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Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?
A look at some of the most impressive flood control projects on Earth Do the Dutch really have the rest of the world outclassed ...