“Doesn’t this dam generate power for most of central China?”
That would be another significant (and long lasting) effect of a complete rupture type of failure.
The likely alternative to replace all that electrical generation for many years, would be oil, gas and coal; which China generally has to import, at the cost of hard currency, rather than their own profligately printed Monopoly money.
Big changes are coming for the US just from this COVID crisis. I read today that 60% of the restaurants that have closed, will never re-open and will file bankruptcy. So perhaps the jobs we’ll have in this country again will only be manufacturing jobs.
Imagine you’re a recent “undocumented” worker who just arrived in the US, and you find out that all the jobs disappeared when you arrived. Gonna be some pi$$ed off, and mad about it, hombres.
Lot of nuclear power plants down stream.
“Doesn’t this dam generate power for most of central China?”
According to Forbes:The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, with an installed capacity of 22,500 megawatts of power generation.