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YouTube description: Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 1,291 views • 8:40YouTube description: Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 399 views • 3:03"... Today's Adventures! Wren uses visual effects to show you how much water is actually on Planet Earth! ..."
posted by ant 5 years 4 months ago • 54 views • 6:38YouTube description: A microscopic examination of dirty water before boiling and after boiling. The magnification in each shot is shown in the bottom right hand corner. Camera - Nikon D3300 ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,736 views • 4:33YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 752 views • 8:43YouTube description: It's a terrible idea to try to extinguish burning metal with a water or CO2 fire extinguisher. Steve Mould shows why.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,518 views • 7:25YouTube description: Motherboard meets Kevin Vaughan, a 28-year-old vet and amputee as he tries his new amphibious water prosthetic, "The Fin,” a 3D printed prosthetic engineered for swimming.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 169 views • 5:02YouTube description: Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 495 views • 9:34YouTube description: Their skeletons are prized by beachcombers, but sand dollars look way different in their lives beneath the waves. Covered in thousands of purple spines, they have a bizarre diet... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 510 views • 4:23Romans used sealed aquaducts to span valleys too large for raised aquaducts.
posted by newtboy 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,045 views • 1:36YouTube description: For thousands of years, the people of Hungary have soaked in the rich, thermal waters that lie below the country’s surface. From Roman emperors to Turkish kings, Budapest’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years ago • 422 views • 2:45YouTube description: A metal alloy spoon melts in tea. Featuring Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Senior Technician Neil Barnes. Why not use Gallium? Well - besides the fact it's not what we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,324 views • 4:27At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 408 views • 7:08YouTube description: This is Barsha Pump, it's a new water pump created by aQysta. "Barsha" means rain in Nepalese and the pumps are being made available across Nepal, Indonesia, Zambia and 9 other countries. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 739 views • 3:19