Posted on 07/15/2023 3:49:27 AM PDT by FarCenter
China is unmatched as the world's hydro hegemon, with more large dams in service than every other country combined. Now it is building the world's first super dam, close to its heavily militarized frontier with India.
This megaproject, with a planned capacity of 60 gigawatts, would generate three times as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam, now the world's largest hydropower plant. China, though, has given few updates about the project's status since the National People's Congress approved it in March 2021.
Opacity about the development of past projects has often served as cover for quiet action. Beijing has a record of keeping work on major dam projects on international rivers under wraps until the activity can no longer be hidden in commercially available satellite imagery.
The super dam is located in some of the world's most treacherous terrain, in an area long thought impassable.
Here, the Brahmaputra, known to Tibetans as the Yarlung Tsangpo, drops almost 3,000 meters as it takes a sharp southerly turn from the Himalayas into India, with the world's highest-altitude major river descending through the globe's longest and steepest canyon.
Twice as deep as the U.S. Grand Canyon, the Brahmaputra gorge holds Asia's greatest untapped water reserves while the river's precipitous fall creates one of the greatest concentrations of river energy on Earth. The combination has acted as a powerful magnet for Chinese dam builders.
(Excerpt) Read more at asia.nikkei.com ...
A land air carrier as well?
Building a dam like that is sure to upset a lot of farmers ....
But it does mean two dams that can be destroyed in the event of war.
We know they don't give a hoot whether or not millions of people are killed, but they do care about the loss of investment.
It makes one wonder if they have an iron dome system variation around this and the Three Gorges dam.
War crime.
That won’t matter if it goes nuclear
It should be interesting, but everything is weaponized.
I bet this dam will also keep most of the Bramaputra’s water from going to India and Bangladesh, like the dams which are hogging most of the Mekong River’s water.
“But it does mean two dams that can be destroyed in the event of war.”
A dam of that size would be impossible to destroy with conventional weapons. It would have to be hit with a nuke on the ground. The devastation wouldn’t be in China. It would hit India. Billions of gallons of radioactive water that would poison the land and kill millions of Indians. I think it was futurist Alvin Toffler who predicted in the nineties that the twenty-first century would be marked with water wars.
This dam isn’t so much about hydro power as it is about “soft” power, forcing India to bow to whatever China wants if they don’t want a famine. And China will want an infinite amount. They won’t be satisfied until India admits they owe their continued existence to the CCP. And THAT is the problem the entire world has with the CCP. There is no peaceful coexistence.
They don’t seem to fit into any war plan, perhaps someone may take them out if it was the end of the world time, but it wouldn’t help us at that point.
But it sounds as though downstream flooding is in India.
I thought the Three Gorges Dam was in imminent failure. At least those were the stories. I guess it held.
China put four dams on the Mekong River. The result was very littme water flowing in Loas, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
In 2020, I went down the Mekong by boat from close to the China border. There was barely enough water for the boat at places. It was not a big boat.
The water level dropped over 100 ft and made the river treacherous with all the rocks sticking up.
China has created a situation where if they are seen by the world as distracted every country on their border may try to take those dams. Also, it’s entirely possible that some of the neighboring countries have acquired nuclear weapons.
Ordinarily having nuclear weapons would be widely touted to act as a deterrent. But doing so would cause the world to embargo those countries and collapse their economies causing them to give up the weapons early. By waiting until China is on the ropes, perhaps in a Taiwan conflict or while there’s a civil war going on, the weapons can be demonstrated and used as a threat while the dams are secured and a solution to the CCP is found.
Link, border disputes with China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_People‘s_Republic_of_China
Could you clarify a bit?
Hydrologic Alteration. The effect mega dams have on the land and eco systems around their Great Lake size reservoirs. The weather in that region and it’s domino effect on weather around the World (climate change)... Remember all the droughts around the world in 2007 and 2008, while they filled up their last huge dam? Mega dam reservoirs depend on more than the just the water in their Rapidan cycles to fill up. Once the laws of nature catch up after 50 years or more, you end up with a Lake Mead sized bathtub ring.
Green energy.
How can the hypocrites be upset?
Get a clue. We have lost our way in the world.
I mean that, on most things with China, their purpose in doing things is rarely with a single purpose. They expect to go to war with the US and possibly India, so they may have built this dam keeping in mind that, if the US destroys it, millions of Indians will die. The US will have inadvertantly declared war on India if it destroys this dam.
When it comes to China, the obvious reason isnt often the only reason.
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