SoCal - Day 7 - Hoover Dam
117 Degrees Fahrenheit is what the thermometer said..
In the middle of the desert runs the Colorado River. On the River lies one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. The Hoover Dam. On one side is Arizona. This is what it looks like from Arizona:
On the other side is Nevada. This is what it looks like from Nevada:
This thing is massive.
That is actually the color of water too. I learned a lot about concrete while I was here, It reminded me of Prof. Collins. For example, I didn't know that it would take 125 years for the concrete to cool down, when it cooled down it would create cracks and crumbling. They basically made a huge refridgerator that coold down the concrete in a few days.
Another interesting fact is that the lake behind the damn is called Lake Mead and it took 6 full years for the lake to fill up once the damn was in place.
Also listen to this: At the time Hoover Dam was the largest dam ever built, the most expensive public project ever attempted, and at over 6.6 million tons, the first man-made structure to exceed the masonry mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The dam stands sixty stories or 726.5 feet tall, twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, and is two football fields wide at the bottom. The turbines in place today can produce a total of 2,998,000 horsepower and 2,074,000 kilowatts of electricity and is still one of the country’s largest. The powerhouse produces over four billion kilowatt-hours a year, which is used in Nevada, Arizona, and California
In the middle of the desert runs the Colorado River. On the River lies one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. The Hoover Dam. On one side is Arizona. This is what it looks like from Arizona:
On the other side is Nevada. This is what it looks like from Nevada:
This thing is massive.
That is actually the color of water too. I learned a lot about concrete while I was here, It reminded me of Prof. Collins. For example, I didn't know that it would take 125 years for the concrete to cool down, when it cooled down it would create cracks and crumbling. They basically made a huge refridgerator that coold down the concrete in a few days.
Another interesting fact is that the lake behind the damn is called Lake Mead and it took 6 full years for the lake to fill up once the damn was in place.
Also listen to this: At the time Hoover Dam was the largest dam ever built, the most expensive public project ever attempted, and at over 6.6 million tons, the first man-made structure to exceed the masonry mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The dam stands sixty stories or 726.5 feet tall, twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, and is two football fields wide at the bottom. The turbines in place today can produce a total of 2,998,000 horsepower and 2,074,000 kilowatts of electricity and is still one of the country’s largest. The powerhouse produces over four billion kilowatt-hours a year, which is used in Nevada, Arizona, and California
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