CN China approves Tibet mega dam that could generate 3 times more power than Three Gorges - The mega hydropower project, set to be built on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet autonomous region, presents unprecedented engineering challenges.

China has approved the construction of a colossal hydropower project on Tibet’s longest river that could generate three times more energy than the Three Gorges Dam, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

The mega hydropower project, set to be built on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet autonomous region, presents unprecedented engineering challenges.

Total investment in the dam could exceed 1 trillion yuan (US$137 billion), which would dwarf any other single infrastructure project on the planet.

The Yarlung Tsangpo flows across the Tibetan Plateau, carving out the deepest canyon on Earth and covering a staggering vertical difference of 7,667 metres (25,154 feet), before reaching India, where it is known as the Brahmaputra River.

The dam will be built in one of the rainiest parts of mainland China.

The project is expected to generate nearly 300 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually. By contrast, the Three Gorges Dam, which now has the world’s largest installed capacity, was designed to produce 88.2 billion kWh.

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[Godchu]

Well good luck to them

 

[PunkinMan]

Lol China back at it again with the massive concrete structures that will be abandoned after they realize its too big of a job.

 

[bango skank]

Between Three Gorges and this, what’s with China’s obsession with bigger=better? Does a bigger dam directly translate to more energy generated? Obviously I’m not an engineer but are diminishing returns not a factor when it comes to hydropower?

Also, at least this article has informed me that not all canyons are as striking as the Grand Canyon. Apparently a canyon is just a river flowing between mountains.

 

[The Connected Nose]

So how many millions will this one displace, and how many cultural sites will be flooded this time?

 

[Audit]

Between Three Gorges and this, what’s with China’s obsession with bigger=better? Does a bigger dam directly translate to more energy generated? Obviously I’m not an engineer but are diminishing returns not a factor when it comes to hydropower?

China has a massive demand for power that's currently being met by non-renewables imported from foreign nations. They also have massive growing economic struggles. Think of a giant infrastructure project as the only way China can reliably invest in itself because the typical chinaman views real estate as the only legitimate investment and their stock market is pure fraud. Making giant hydroelectric dams solves two problems at once. I reckon this project will keep 10's of thousands of workers employed directly and indirectly for decades to come. It's hard to fault the Chinese for planning this project. It's this or more retarded quantitative easing and other such financial trickery. Building shit for the sake of keeping people employed seems to be the state motto of modern china (e.g. their ever-expanding high speed rail network that Californians fap to).

 

[AnotherPleb]

Between Three Gorges and this, what’s with China’s obsession with bigger=better? Does a bigger dam directly translate to more energy generated? Obviously I’m not an engineer but are diminishing returns not a factor when it comes to hydropower?

Also, at least this article has informed me that not all canyons are as striking as the Grand Canyon. Apparently a canyon is just a river flowing between mountains.

It's also about controlling water.

 

[Kiska]

So how many millions will this one displace, and how many cultural sites will be flooded this time?

Probably a few hundred people worst case, Tibet AR is among one of the most desolately populated regions of central asia and almost all of its urban population is concentrated around Lasa. Brahmaputra in china has already been dammed up near Shannan, this new "mega dam" is near Linzhi i think.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Man China is just making their entire country very easy for the United states to destroy with four or five strategic air strikes

 

[Apustajan apustaja]

Is this good for the climate or bad for Tibet? I need to know how to virtue signal.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Is this good for the climate or bad for Tibet? I need to know how to virtue signal.

It's about cutting water off to India.

 

[stupid frog]

It's about cutting water off to India.

So it's good?

 

[AnotherPleb]

So it's good?

Cutting off water could be a reason for the poos and chinks to go to war.

 

[Skitarii]

It's about cutting water off to India.

>China declares war on QUAD
>river gets dammed up
>indian crops fail due to mega-giga-drought
>millions die
>America blows the dam up
>india floods
>millions die

I see this as an absolute win

 

[AnotherPleb]

>China declares war on QUAD
>river gets dammed up
>indian crops fail due to mega-giga-drought
>millions die
>America blows the dam up
>india floods
>millions die

I see this as an absolute win

Until they whip up a conflict that drags in America - if you think Senator Bloodfeast wouldn't nuke India to save China then you don't know who's paying them.

 

[Weebburner]

Between Three Gorges and this, what’s with China’s obsession with bigger=better? Does a bigger dam directly translate to more energy generated? Obviously I’m not an engineer but are diminishing returns not a factor when it comes to hydropower?

Also, at least this article has informed me that not all canyons are as striking as the Grand Canyon. Apparently a canyon is just a river flowing between mountains.

whats wrong with big project? Maybe if we stopped electing retards in the west wed get back to breaking grounds and doing actual world changing shit in this century instead of just making iphone and androids slightly faster every year and making weapons to fund slav and desert inbred goatfuckers slapfights.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

So it's good?

Very good.

 

[wopirish]

The river turns into the Brahmaputra, which flows through the underdeveloped tribal areas of India into Bangladesh. Didn't China also plan to dam up the Mekong river too?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

It's about cutting water off to India.

So Indians will Suffer?

Based.

 

[kim foxx]

Maybe if we stopped electing retards in the west wed get back to breaking grounds and doing actual world changing shit in this century instead of just making iphone and androids slightly faster every year and making weapons to fund slav and desert inbred goatfuckers slapfights.

at this point its been a half century of divestment and funneling smart people into finance and computer janitor jobs instead of actual engineering. which is why smug idiots think you can defeat a concrete gravity dam with "just a few airstrikes" - you would have to know what characteristics of a gravity dam make them resilient to begin with.