Once Derided as an Expensive Folly, China’s Three Gorges Dam Goes From Strength to Strength

Located on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, the Three Gorges Dam is now the world's largest water control and hydropower project, consisting of a 7,661 foot-long, 594 foot -high dam, a five-tier ship lock, with 26 hydropower turbo-generators generating 20,300 megawatts. Only Brazil’s Itaipu dam produces more electricity.

In addition to generating electricity, the Three Gorges Dam controls floods by storing excess water and helps to regulate the Yangtze's shipping capacity.

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What is interesting is that while environmentalists admit that hydro-electric is the cleanest means of producing electricity, they were still whining about this dam while it was being built. Yet you never see an environmentalist attack beavers for building dams. They see beavers and beaver dams as a part of nature, but not man and man's dams. What this reveals about the extremist environmentalists is their own self-hatred turned against the rest of mankind.

Posted on Jan 10, 2012 at 08:17
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