This Controversial Chinese Dam Is So Big It Messed With the Planet
The Three Gorges Dam in China is a structure so huge that it controls one of the world's most powerful rivers—and even ...
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THE THREE GORGES DAM IN CHINA
the chosen dam site just downstream of the world-famous Three Gorges scenic area; in December, Premier Li Peng formally declared the project open. The Chinese government has offered overseas ...
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New Three Gorges, New Life
Work on central China's massive Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydropower project, is 90 percent complete. Three Gorges project generates 150b kwhs of electricity in 3 years A hydroelectric ...
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An Elevator for 3,000-Ton Ships, Thanks to Archimedes
The Three Gorges Dam, China’s marvel on the Yangtze River, is one of the world’s largest engineering projects—the product of 37 million cubic yards of concrete. Its final feature ...
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The incredible £29.3bn and160m high ship lift that's the world's biggest
When the Three Gorges Dam - the largest hydroelectric dam in the world - was built it put a very large obstacle in the way of a trade route that had bee used for hundreds of years. So, to solve ...
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China’s Mega-Dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo: A Threat to the Region?
On December 25, China approved the construction of the world ... the Three Gorges Dam created massive environmental and geological challenges, including disruptions to gravity anomaly maps ...
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Water levels at China’s Three Gorges near maximum after flooding rains
SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...