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24 paź 2024 · Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in China. The largest dam in the world, it allows the navigation of oceangoing freighters, generates hydroelectric power, and may offer flood protection. Learn more about the Three Gorges Dam.
18 wrz 2024 · China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, is an absolute beast of an infrastructure project. If you've come across the mindblowing claim that it’s so vast it affects...
24 wrz 2024 · The vast quantities of water stored in the dam's reservoir have a very slight but measurable impact on the speed of Earth's rotation, according to a study by NASA scientists.
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam creates enormous hydroelectric power, while it also causes some negative environmental impacts.
The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
25 mar 2008 · SHANGHAI—For over three decades the Chinese government dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Dam —the world's largest—had the potential of becoming one...
1 sie 2020 · The Three Gorges Dam was designed to tame China’s longest river. But this summer’s record rains reveal its limited ability to control floods.