According to The Kids Should See This, the lift cost an eyewatering $37 billion (£29.3 billion) to build. Completed in 2006 and full operational by 2012, the Three Gorges Dam generates 95±20 ...
The Three Gorges Dam ... is a new ship lift, a hydraulic seesaw that raises and lowers vessels as many as 371 feet to traverse the dam. Archimedes’ notion was simple: The weight of a buoyant ...