US TRAVEL VLOG DAY 4 - Niagara, New York
For this vlog, we roamed around Niagara, New York for the second day. We went to the Niagara Aquarium, Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant , and Niagara Falls at Night.
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Cameras Used: iPhone 7 Plus, Nikon D7000, Go Pro Hero Silver 4
Video Editing Software Used: iMovie 10.1.5
Locations:
(in order of the video)
Wingate by Wyndham, Niagara Falls
333 Rainbow Blvd, Niagara Falls, NY 14303
Aquarium of Niagara
701 Whirlpool St, Niagara Falls, NY 14301
Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant
Lewiston, New York
Rainforest Cafe
300 3rd St, Niagara Falls, NY 14303
Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel
310 4th St, Niagara Falls, NY 14303
Niagara Reservation
332 Prospect St, Niagara Falls, NY 14303
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Happy Mandolin by Media Right Productions
Ukulele Beach by Doug Maxwell
Venice Beach by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Sanskrit by Apple
Pendulum by Apple
Off Broadway by Apple
Time Lapse by Apple
Niagara Aero Car
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The Whirlpool Aero Car or Spanish Aero Car is a cable car located in Niagara Falls, Ontario that transports passengers over a section of the Niagara River referred to as the Niagara Whirlpool. The system was designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and has been upgraded several times since 1916 (in 1961, 1967 and 1984). The system uses one car that carries 35 standing passengers over a one-kilometer trip.
The Aero Car is suspended on six interlocking steel cables, each of which is 25 mm (0.98 in) in diameter. The car is powered by an electric 50 horsepower (37 kW) motor and travels at approximately 7 km/h (4.3 mph). In the event of a power failure, a diesel engine drives a hydraulic pump to pull the carrier back to the loading/unloading terminal. It also has a rescue car which holds four passengers and one operator. The rescue car has so far only been used for training purposes.
The Aero Car is suspended between two Canadian points, though it crosses the Canadian and American borders four times on a full trip. The car crosses the border about 500 feet (150 m) from the starting point and runs through United States territory for about 200 feet (61 m), but riders need no immigration clearance. At each end of the crossing, it is 240 feet (73 m) high, and in the center, it is 200 feet (61 m) above the river. Its span is 1,770 feet (540 m). The rapids entering the whirlpool below the Aero Car move at an estimated 35 to 37 km/h (22 to 23 mph), and the flow of the water coming through the river is about 2,800 cubic meters per second (623,000 imperial gallons per second) in the summer months, and 1,400 m³/s (300,000 imp gal/s) in the winter months. From the Aero Car, sightseers can see Whirlpool State Park in Niagara Falls, New York, as well as the Robert Moses Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station in Lewiston, New York. From the side or center of the car, one can view the violent motion of the 60 acres (0.24 km²) whirlpool below. Riders may also see hikers on nature trails and fishermen on both sides of the river.
The car was originally open, but a roof has been added to all later designs.
Source: wikipedia.org
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Impact on industry and commerce
American Falls (large waterfall on the left) and Bridal Veil Falls (smaller waterfall on the right)The enormous energy of Niagara Falls has long been recognized as a potential source of power. The first known effort to harness the waters was in 1759, when Daniel Joncaire built a small canal above the Falls to power his sawmill. Augustus and Peter Porter purchased this area and all of American Falls in 1805 from the New York state government, and enlarged the original canal to provide hydraulic power for their gristmill and tannery. In 1853, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Mining Company was chartered, which eventually constructed the canals which would be used to generate electricity. In 1881, under the leadership of Jacob Schoellkopf, enough power was produced to send direct current to illuminate both the Falls themselves and nearby Niagara Falls village.
When Nikola Tesla, for whom a memorial was later built at Niagara Falls, NY (USA), invented the three-phase system of alternating current power transmission, distant transfer of electricity became possible. In 1883, the Niagara Falls Power Company, a descendant of Schoellkopf's firm, hired George Westinghouse to design a system to generate alternating current. By 1896, with financing from moguls like J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor IV, and the Vanderbilts, they had constructed giant underground conduits leading to turbines generating upwards of 100,000 horsepower (75 MW), and were sending power as far as Buffalo, twenty miles (32 km) away. Private companies on the Canadian side also began to harness the energy of the Falls. The Government of the province of Ontario, Canada eventually brought power transmission operations under public control in 1906, distributing Niagara's energy to various parts of the Canadian province. Currently between 50% and 75% of the Niagara River's flow is diverted via four huge tunnels that arise far upstream from the waterfalls. The water then passes through hydroelectric turbines that supply power to nearby areas of the Canada and the USA before returning to the river well past the Falls.
Panoramic view of American and Horseshoe Falls from Canada.The most powerful hydroelectric stations on the Niagara River are Sir Adam Beck 1 and 2 on the Canadian side, and the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant and the Lewiston Pump Generating Plant on the American side. All together, Niagara's generating stations can produce about 4.4 GW of power. The engineer credited with design of the system is Edward Dean Adams.[14]
In August 2005 Ontario Power Generation, which is responsible for the Sir Adam Beck stations, announced plans to build a new 6½ mile (10.4 km) tunnel to tap water from farther up the Niagara river than is possible with the existing arrangement. The project is expected to be completed in 2009, and will increase Sir Adam Beck's output by about 182 MW (4.2%).
Niagara Falls at nightShips can bypass Niagara Falls by means of the Welland Canal, which was improved and incorporated into the Saint Lawrence Seaway in the 1960s. While the seaway diverted water traffic from nearby Buffalo and led to the demise of its steel and grain mills, other industries in the Niagara River valley flourished with the help of the electric power produced by the river until the 1970s. Since then the region has declined economically.
The cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and Niagara Falls, New York, USA are connected by three bridges: the Rainbow Bridge, just downriver from the Falls, which affords the closest view of the Falls and is open to non-commercial vehicle traffic and pedestrians; the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, one mile (1.5 km) down from the Rainbow bridge and the oldest bridge over the Niagara river. The newest bridge, the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, is located near the escarpment. Nearby Niagara Falls International Airport and Buffalo Niagara International Airport were named after the waterfall, as were Niagara University, countless local businesses, and even an asteroid.[15]
Niagara Power Plant 2 of 2
Niagara Power Plant 2 of 2
Think globally, power locally: Hydro plants serve neighbours
(8 Jul 2019) LEAD IN
In the US residents in Hudson Valley in New York State have found a way to support local renewable electricity.
They purchase power credits produced by a local hydro site - which in turn help its operators keep their turbines spinning.
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Electricity is a local issue for Manna Jo Greene.
As a resident of Hudson Valley she is able to purchase power credits produced by a hydro-plant on a river near her home.
It's through a programme promoting renewable energy.
My thought was to support a local source of generation. Clean hydro-electric power, Greene says.
Hydropower accounts for about 7 percent of U.S. energy, much of it from massive projects like the Hoover dam.
Smaller hydro projects can have a hard time competing with fossil fuels.
New York State lets an organisation called Natural Power Group market electricity from their three Hudson Valley hydro sites to customers in the region.
It's called community-distributed generation. Power from the turbines still flows into the electrical grid. But subscribers reserve a percentage of that electricity, and get a built-in discount.
New York State ratepayers help fund renewable programmes like this through a monthly charge.
So, it's allowing the community to kind of have a hand in their local power, says Sarah Bower-Terbush, co-owner of Natural Power Group.
The Northeast is dotted with hydro plants, many on old factory sites. The Wappingers Falls turbines sit inside a 19th century industrial building which first started producing electricity over a century ago.
So this is a really kind of cool, historic, challenging - I always keep that word in there - industry to be in at this time, says Bower-Terbush.
Proponents hope energy policies such as these can keep an old-school renewable resource be competitive in the 21st century.
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At the USA-CANADA border
Pouring rain as we wait to enter Ontario from New York State at Lewiston NY.
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Niagara Falls hydroelectric generating plants are the hydroelectric powerplants in the vicinity of the Niagara Falls, a large geological feature which straddles the joint borders of Canada and the United States of America. Since 1882 a number of hydroelectric plants have generated electricity in both countries, including: