Posted on 12/27/2024 7:32:25 AM PST by BenLurkin
The dam, which will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, could generate three times more energy than the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest hydropower plant.
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The Three Gorges hydropower dam required the resettlement of 1.4 million people.
Reports indicate that the colossal development would require at least four 20km-long tunnels to be drilled through the Namcha Barwa mountain, diverting the flow of the Yarlung Tsangpo, Tibet's longest river.
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Shortly after China announced its plans for the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project in 2020, a senior Indian government official told Reuters that India's government was exploring the development of a large hydropower dam and reservoir "to mitigate the adverse impact of the Chinese dam projects".
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China has constructed multiple hydropower stations along the course of the Yarlung Tsangpo over the past decade in a bid to harness the river's power as a source of renewable energy. Flowing through the deepest canyon on Earth, one section of the river falls 2,000 metres within a short span of just 50 km, offering huge potential for generating hydropower.
The river's dramatic topography, however, also poses major engineering challenges - and this latest dam is by far China's largest and most ambitious to date.
The site of the development is located along an earthquake-prone tectonic plate boundary. Chinese researchers have also previously flagged concerns that such extensive excavation and construction in the steep and narrow gorge would increase the frequency of landslides.
"Earthquake-induced landslides and mud-rock flows are often uncontrollable and will also pose a huge threat to the project," a senior engineer from Sichuan provincial geological bureau said in 2022.
The project could cost as much as a trillion yuan ($127bn; £109.3bn) according to estimates by the Chongyi Water Resources bureau.
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Belt and Road?
“Instead we build these stupid wind turbines everywhere and cut down out forests and put up solar farms.”
What are you smoking? I want so if that copeium. China is all in for energy they dominated both wind and solar deployments for 2024 it’s not even close they out built everyone else on the planet.
[By far the most important market in 2024 was China, adding an impressive 80 GW (75.8 GW onshore, 4 GW offshore), accounting for nearly 70 percent of the global market volume. Following China, the top contributors were the United States (approx. 4,060 MW), Germany (approx. 4,020 MW), India (3,420 MW), and Brazil (3,280 MW), according to the GWEC ranking.]
Solar they kicked butts and took names too.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65064
[Utility-scale solar power capacity in China reached more than 880 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, according to China’s National Energy Administration. China has more utility-scale solar than any other country.
The 277 GW of utility-scale solar capacity installed in China in 2024 alone is more than twice as much as the 121 GW of utility-scale solar capacity installed in the United States at the end of 2024.]
At least know what the F you are talking about before posting complete BS.
China has TEN Texas’s worth of just solar power read that again they have ten times what the largest independent North American grid has total capacity in JUST solar their wind is another ten Texas worth.
There is a single factory in China IS not can IS making enough solar panels to put a 80,000MW Texas sized grid up every 18 MONTHS. This is their century, they are not will dominate the energy industry. The sun will never run out nor will wind the numbers they are throwing up are what powers a class one civilization, oil can never ever do that the math is clear on it.
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