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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.
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.
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.
6 cze 2018 · Three Gorges Dam, China is the world's largest hydroelectric facility. In 2012, the Three Gorges Dam in China took over the #1 spot of the largest hydroelectric dam (in electricity production), replacing the Itaipú hydroelectric power plant in Brazil and Paraguay.
9 cze 2006 · China already boasts the world's largest number of dams—86,000 and counting. The debate over where and how others are built could have huge consequences for China's rivers and beyond.
24 maj 2021 · Since the 1950s, more than 20,000 dams higher than 15 metres have been built in the country, including the world's largest hydropower station, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. Hydroelectricity is China's second-biggest source of energy, after coal.
8 lut 2021 · The mega-dam could produce as much as three times the hydroelectric power of China’s current largest dam, the Three Gorges, a project which forced the relocation of more than 1.4 million...
