From the guys who brought you bargain drywall.
......a height of 3,260 meters......
Something seems lost in translation. I think they mean the river bed elevation is 3,260 meters above sea level. An 11,000 foot high dam is not credible
I guess the Chinese are waiting for environmental impact studies before they begin construction?
Russia killing off Polish government, China damming off a major water source for India, Commie Muslim US President (God, I never thought those words would even be uttered together-even if we got Kerry or Hillary, those words wouldn’t be in the same phrase) not even saying we wouldn’t shoot down Israeli planes if they attempt to take the supposedly non-existent-only want nuclear power plant until it’s a bomb- nuclear sites in Iran, North Korea torpedo a South Korean vessel with nary a word from the world about it...
Yeah, this is feeling like WW3.
I saw a map somewhere that has the sites of all the proposed hydropower plants in China...simply staggering. Just about any river flowing from the Tibetan Plateau is targeted for a dam. Makes the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation here look like pikers.
Not the first time the analogy has been used but the Chinese and Indians are like locusts.
Here is a start of plans, active and constructed sites on the Mekong systems.
This isn’t the one I was really looking for though.
The Three Gorges Dam in China caused the orbit of the earth to change by one inch.
China actually needs a war and the dictators know it. Their one child policy has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of baby girls. They now 30 million more marriageable males than females. That is a lot of testosterone to keep in check.
You’re being misleading when you say its far bigger than the three gorges dam. This dam is 500 MW, the Three Gorges Dam will deliver or is alreadying deliverying 18,000 MW. 500 MW is about equivalant in output to a large coal fired plant.
FWIW, India would never take on the Chinese.
The political elites are too limp wristed.
And, without America to watch India’s back, India is alone, squeezed between China and Pakistan.
But, for China, another kudos for a mega engineering project.
