China's Three Gorges Dam is the world's biggest hydroelectric dam. It is 1.3 miles wide, more than 600 feet in stature, and has a supply that extends 405 square miles. The dam helps control flooding on the Yangtze River and permits 10,000-ton sea vessels to cruise into the inside of China a half year out of the year. The dam's thirty-two fundamental turbines are fit for creating as much power as eighteen atomic power stations and it was made to withstand a size 7.0 quake. The dam also cost $59 billion and it took fifteen years to build. It is the biggest undertaking in China's history since The Great Wall.
For more than three decades the Chinese government rejected notices from researchers and so called “tree huggers” that its dam had the capability
For more than three decades the Chinese government rejected notices from researchers and so called “tree huggers” that its dam had the capability