historic drystone sheep dykeThe falkirk wheel has to be one of the top pieces of irl infrastructure that look like i messed something up in simcity
Rora Borealis@hannah It took me a minute to work it all out. That's a strange design.
Geoff 🏴@rora_borealis @hannah And a brilliant one. Stick two 10 ton narrowboats on either lift, two 0.1 ton kayaks, or 10 tons on one side and 0.1 tons on the others, and it remains balanced (cos displacement)...and still only uses the power consumption of the average toaster.
@_thegeoff @hannah The more I read, the more impressed I am with this engineering. Definitely some out-of-the-box thinking!
@rora_borealis @hannah Yup! Nothing that revolutionises physics or engineering, but it's definitely a "we've always done it THIS way...can we change that?" moment.
Metnix@_thegeoff
My physics teacher sense is tingling, there will likely be an exam question based on this in the coming school year.
@rora_borealis @hannah
My physics teacher sense is tingling, there will likely be an exam question based on this in the coming school year.
@rora_borealis @hannah
@metnix @rora_borealis @hannah Bonus points: what aerodynamic advantage does the spiky-cam design offer, given how fast it rotates? (A: Basically none, but spin it up real fast.....?!)