The Netherlands built the world's largest generator to fight floods

Dutch scientists have successfully researched the planet's largest tsunami to combat floods, a phenomenon the people have been facing for several thousand years.

Holland built the world's largest generator

To date, the highest artificial wave the machine has made is more than 5 meters, but engineers expect to soon create higher waves at the newly completed station, worth 29.3 million USD. Speaking to BBC reporter Rebecca Morelle, Dr Bas Hofland said: "Today, we have created a wave of over 5m high, but we expect to produce more highs." .

The highest wave that the wave machine generates is over 5 meters. (Photo: Daily Mail)

Delta Flume , the name of the machine, generates waves by sucking 9 million liters of water and pumping into a container at a rate of 1,000 liters per second. Then it pushed water into a steel wall with a height of 10m. As a result, scientists can create waves of similar intensity to the ocean, even as a tsunami.

Then, the waves will be transmitted through a 300-meter-long narrow tank and impact on a series of flood control systems, such as dykes, sand dunes, dams and other barriers, to test these systems. Can resist the impact of large forces or not.

Panorama model of the Delta Flume waveform generator. (Photo: Daily Mail)

Industry experts regard the Netherlands as a leading country in flood protection technology. They used a variety of breakthrough techniques such as floating houses, building houses on columns and even flooding some areas to protect other areas.

The reason that the Netherlands is always very active in flood control is that two thirds of this water area is in danger of submerging in floods. This deep-watered country began to study hydrology more than 1,000 years ago, when ancient farmers built dikes to protect their lands.

In 1953, nearly 2,000 people were killed when the tide was high and a major storm hit the North Sea, causing 1,500 square kilometers of land to be flooded. The Dutch built the Delta Works, a network of dams and barriers, to protect the areas most vulnerable to flooding.