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Throwing a rock down a 1500 ft hole

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Uploaded by on Sep 3, 2007

I'm throwing a rock down a 450 meter deep hole (1500 ft).

Scary roads when driving home from a similar project in the himalayas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GXbaeZv3cY

This is a video of the drill (sorry for the bad quality):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec3N0ltc_0Y

The hole is in Austria at the bottom of lake Feldsee, and it is a part of a hydroelectric power plant.
During the day, when the price of electricity is higher, a lake will be emptied, producing 70 MW of electricity.
During the nighttime when the electricity is cheaper, the generator will be used as a pump, refilling the lake. The pump will have a capacity of 11,3 cubic meters per second.

The total drop height will be 524 meters, where this hole is 450 meters deep.

Alpine Meyreder was the main contractor for the hole project, and Bergteamet was the sub contractor drilling this hole.

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  • good now jump in

  • @Mooseyra57 No. You can jump.

  • that is one amazing sound. I'd love to get a high quality recording of that for a sound library.

  • @musicallie44 I have lost the original video, so I'm sorry that I cannot send you the original audio file... But it was an awesome sound, especially when i were there! :D

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  • @bradoo123 actually probably nothing... you would most likely fatally hit your head on the side... but if i fell down i would probably just murmur "fuck." ha

  • @TarnationCarnation hahaha xD

  • imagine accidentally falling into, wtf would you be thinking on the way down D:

  • @blipoo98 look at my last comment in the uploader comment section

  • @Mooseyra57 why say that

  • Cool, next time jump in yourself.

  • Fool of a took!

  • Didn't the orks get pissed on you when the rock landed?

  • @fredrikjohansson already did. im at the bottom. meet u there! i brought pizza!

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