How the Panama Canal ACTUALLY Works!

The Panama Canal may just be the greatest engineering marvel on Earth, and it's been on my bucket list for SO LONG. 🚢✨ I finally had the chance to visit, and wow, it was mind-blowing! Not only did I get to see this epic waterway in action, but I also learned a ton about how it saves water in the coolest ways. 💧🌍
Did you know they don't use electricity to move the ships? 🤯 Plus, they've been dealing with some serious droughts lately, which has big ripple effects around the world. 🌦️🌐 After spending an entire week in Panama, I've uncovered all the fascinating details about how this canal works. So, let's dive in and explore the magic of the Panama Canal together! 🌊🔍

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Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
1:10 - How it works
2:14 - How much water?
4:20 - 1 Water Reuse
9:10 - 2 Canal Sharing
10:00 - Why Not Pump?
11:00 - Costs to Pump

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[ipp_tutor]

Amazing video. Great and detailed look at how the Panama Canal works. Love it!!

[alessandrog]

Answering the title…Actually it has already started…they’re trying to use lakes around the area to mitigate the problem but basically global warming is causing to rain less then before

[alefernaqwe]

Should generate electricity when moving thewater and use that topump, then you only need enough extra to cover inefficiency

[ccatarinajm]

Thank you for this video. As Panama is my country of birth, I am of course always interested in watching what videos say about it whether it's something new or not. With this one being so clear and not in Spanish, I can show it to my friends and my daughters for them to learn.

[rogermccaslin]

What is amazing to me is that on the surface of it, it looks simple. But, when you did into the specifics, it quickly becomes more complicated. The coordination of moving the vessels through is a elegant dance.

[whig]

You wouldn't need to pump the water back up to an elevation, if you pipe it to a heater and it will rise as steam through whatever channels and condense back into the water above.

[tbix]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Always loved the behind the scenes activities of canal locks, and especially the Panama Canal. Would be interesting to see if they are still using the original scada system to control it, a video all in its own. I read a story about it once, it consisted of what looks like a model train layout and moving the components on the layout moved the actual components in the field. Some early power plants operated in the same fashion but have all been replaced with computers that emulate it on a screen now days. I in the article they were saying that the Panama Canal was the last system operated on such a system. Unfortunately it’s probably been retired since then. I’ve often speculated that the system probably got its start as a spinoff of the system they used to use to control old ocean liners that you can sometimes accurately enacted in old movies where the drama is between the bridge and the engine room. The bridge moved a lever for the engines in example and then a flag next to the handle followed his request as the person in the engine room moved there identical lever into position indicating that they received the request and would be implementing it as soon as possible.

[humpi]

Wouldn't it make sense to use wind and solar power to drive the pump? It's easy to do a derating for a pump, so you can aling the consumption to the generation. In addition: Wind and solar power is cheap a.f.

[Hendriksys]

The pump plan sounds doable. But the cheaper option is to just hope for more rain. Sounds like they need to run out of water first before investors start thinking long term

[robincross]

My uncle was born in Panama. My Grandfather and Grandmother were there during the construction 100 years ago. I am named for my Grandfather.

[theboz]

I was stationed at Ft. Clayton, and stayed in the barracks right at the main gate and across the road was the Panama canal. Some of the ships, at the time were inches from eitherside of the Canal. Stayed there for one deployment as a MP.

[adroper]

I was stationed in Panama for 8 years of my USAF weather career, and we routinely return since my wife is from there. Our last visit was in February 2023. Not too many people get the chance to see locks empty, so I was happy to see this in the video. Unfortunately, the immensity is lost in the video. This is a really great overview, and I look forward to the rest!

I didn't realize the drought dropped water levels to submerged tree tops.

Has anyone analyzed the overall impact of the NeoPanamax locks on water demand from Gatun and the Chagres River?

Panama receives hellacious rainfall in the canal region during the wet season, and normally, the water tables return two months into the wet season after an El Nino event. The 1983 El Nino was really drastic when I was there, to the point we were working with cloud-seeding ops to boost rainfall, but it wasn't this bad. Once the wet season resumed, the water tables returned, and the cloud seeding ops stopped.

[dellmerlin]

Excellent video. It looks like the Panama Canal is a giant gravity energy storage device. Nature charges the gravity battery when it rains in the lake. The battery is discharged by the locks to raise or lower the ship. Does Panama have adequate wind and or solar to pump and store the discharge water back into the lake? Would this be like pumped hydro or gravity energy storage? During your visit was anyone thinking of this?

[claudiaroy]

Amazing engineering thanks for explaining

[urbanstrencan]

Another great video, love the work you do, keep it up.
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The year this was build is just amazing engineering 😊😊

[cavemann_]

Came here from Matt Ferrel's community post. I really appreciate the real life footage!

[prmath]

VERY INTERESTING info you showed us in this video 👍🏼 Thank you 👍🏼

[randallstephens]

Still wondering why it wouldn't be worth it to finish the job an make it a sea-level canal?

[geogmz]

Crazy how the world and most importantly western countries can allow themselves to only have 1 route through central america.

[MrReviews]

So if they make $10 million/day and the cost to pump water is $75k/day, that's >1% of revenue to operate. Sounds like a no brainer.