Category Archives: Three Gorges Dam
Three Gorges passes huge test
Rating 4.33 out of 5
China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam appears to have passed its biggest test yet, managing to contain raging flood waters yesterday as the Yangtze River rose to levels not seen in more than a decade.
The dam is successfully handling an inflow of 70,000 cubic metres a second and discharging 40,000 cubic metres [...]
Three Gorges Five-step Ship lock
Rating 4.50 out of 5
The double-way and five-step ship lock was excavated through the ridge to the left of the hydropower complex, with upstream and downstream approach channels connecting to the Yangtze main channel. The total length is 6442 meters including 1607 meters for main body section. Continuous high slopes lie on both sides of the ship [...]
History of Three Gorges Dam
Rating 4.33 out of 5
In 1918, Mr. Sun Yat-Sen suggested, in his book Strategy for State, Part II: Industrial Plans , a scheme to “improve the upstream from here”, that is, “a dam should be set here to let ships go downstream and use the water resource as power.”
In May 1945, Dr. John Lucian Savage, [...]
Three Gorges Dam(The Three Gorges Project)
Rating 4.33 out of 5
The Three Gorges Dam (pinyin: Chángjiāng Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River in the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, at the Hubei province, China. It is the world’s largest electricity-generating plant of any kind.
The dam body was completed in 2006. [...]
