Daily Express1mon
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 ...
National Geographic news4y
An Elevator for 3,000-Ton Ships, Thanks to Archimedes
This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...
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 ...
National Review4y
The Risks of China’s Three Gorges Dam’s Flooding
It Would Help if Our Guy Negotiating with Putin Knew Anything About Ukraine Weekend Short: Benjamin Rosenblatt’s ‘Zelig’ How Not to Argue With an Editorial Welcome to the Party, F-47 Angry ...
朝日新聞社4y
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 ...