Falkirk Wheel

Falkirk Wheel - a salvage mechanism connecting channels Fort Clyde and Union.
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Thanks to Archimedes' principle (floating objects displace their own weight), each bucket filled with water weighs the same. This allows you to centrally balanced system is flooded with vehicles moving to the next channel, using only 1, 5 kilowatt motor (the amount of energy it takes to boil a kettle of water 8).





















































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