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How Cable-Stayed Bridges Stay Up
Cable-stayed bridges offer an optimal balance of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and aesthetics. Unlike suspension bridges, they eliminate the need…
Are Dams Built to Last Forever?
Dams provide essential services like hydropower and flood control but inevitably trap sediment, reducing reservoir capacity over time.…
The Science Behind Solar Power and the Power Grid
Solar panels, batteries, and wind turbines, known as inverter-based resources, convert DC power into AC for the grid,…
Modern Rails Aren’t So Noisy Anymore. Why?
A specific component found in modern rails eliminates the need for joints in the tracks, reducing maintenance costs…
Is It Really Easier to Move Heavy Stuff by Train?
Using the metaphor of filling rooms with gravel and transporting it hundreds of miles away, this video delves…
The Science of Rivers
For being surface features of the Earth that seem to have always been there since the dawn of…
Spilling the Details on Spillways
We’ve managed to learn how to manipulate the forces around us so well that engineers are already capable…
The Secret That Enables Sewage Facilities
Civil engineer Grady Hillhouse, with his YouTube channel Practical Engineering, gives us a question that we perhaps choose…
The Curious Case of the “Ever Given” and the Suez Canal
In another YouTube video by Grady Hillhouse of the YouTube channel Practical Engineering, they take a detailed look…
The Mechanics of Canal Locks
Grady Hillhouse, of the YouTube channel Practical Engineering, discusses in this video the mechanics and processes behind operating…