Dam That's Big: The True Scale of the World's Largest Dams

Narrated by Fred Mills. Additional footage and images courtesy of Shihan Shan, Google Earth, SkyscraperPage, Haroon Sadiq, Omeas Mumtaz Siddiqui, Ahsan Miana, Mott MacDonald, Le Grand Portage, Iran Water and Power Resources Development Co, State Power Dadu Hydropower Development Co and Li Donghui.

#construction #engineering #infrastructure

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[soyHapns]

That Jean-Claude Van Damme (Dam) measurement should be used more often in engineering

[tomasferreira]

Dam the metric system, I'm measuring in Jean Claude Van Damme now, the absolute superior measurement unit

[TheBM]

Big shout out to Jean-Claude. If you ever want to co-host a video about massive dams on this channel just hit us up.

[l.joseph]

My B1M experience isn’t complete when I don’t hear the word vast. Love this channel so much!

[bigjuicypotato]

You should have said "hit that dam subscribe button" at the end

[tricksor]

B1M feels like it should be a TV Channel with this production quality

[lanzortiz]

China: dam, we just made the world spin slower. 😂

[therealdave]

All these comparisons must've been so dam fun to calculate

[fiddlesticks]

In Taiwan, the Three Gorges Dam collapses several times a year

[LudicrousTorpedo]

I love how they add the title with "DAM that's big !", but that title is god DAM big !

[Forlfir]

The Itaipu dam in Brazil often produces more electricity than the Three Gorges one even though it has a smaller installed capacity + holds the record for the most MWh ever generated by a dam in one year

[Vivaswaan.]

When B1M makes a shift from straightforward, sort of formal titles to a little creative, eye-catching ones.... I like it.

[pierresihite]

Imagine the DAMage that would be caused if those dams burst

[victorreis]

People from Brazil and Paraguay: we are sad you didn't mention Itaipú.

[TheMajorStranger]

I'm confused. is it regular Jean-Claude Van Damne or is it JCVD doing split length?

[Samuel_J]

Well damn.
I had no idea these things are so big.

Excellent video. Fantastic content. And that editing **chef's kiss**

[gibbo_]

Loving the visuals and references to scale, great to understand just how truly enormous these structures are!

[FalaJC]

we needed to place the itaipu plant in brazil

[ErikFromCanada]

"Largest US Dam by Reservoir Size" is such a heavily qualified statement that I just mentally swapped that out to "We wanted to talk about this absolute icon here"

[stormysamreen]

On this list, Hoover Dam is the oldest (1931) followed by my country's Tarbela Dam (1960).