00:00You're looking at the world's only rotating boat lift.
00:02This is the Fawkerk Wheel in Scotland,
00:04and it's a mechanical marvel that replaced 11 traditional locks with a single turn.
00:09Before this was built, moving a boat between these two canals took nearly a day.
00:13Now, it takes just for minutes, but here's the mind-blowing part.
00:17Despite moving 600 tons of water and boats,
00:20it uses roughly the same amount of electricity as boiling eight household kettles.
00:24It works on Archimedes' principle of displacement.
00:27The weight on both sides remains perfectly balanced.
00:30No matter how heavy the boat is.
00:31It's simple physics used to solve a massive engineering problem.
00:35Is this the most beautiful solution to a boring problem?
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