TwinF Travels: China's Three Gorges Dam Project

A documentary style video that focuses on the biggest dam project in the world.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• dam
• china
• twinf
• yangtze
• yangtzeriver
• documentary

[1cosgrave1]

the dam could produce 10% of chinas energy, IF it was in full working order RIGHT NOW. but china is in the middle of a industrial revolution, so by 2011 the dam will only be able to produce 3% of chinas elctric power, and by 2020 i'm sure it will be far far less....

[jdubwa]

at least he did something good then you whos sitting on your butt calling people

[Fish880]

@DrMMHMD strong emotive language and name-calling are symptomatic of a weak argument. That's strange, because we both agree on the point you finished with: China is doomed. Even if the glaciers melted tomorrow, there would still be water in the reservoir. Even if they melted tomorrow, there would still be winter snows which would melt in the spring. Even if they melted tomorrow, there would still be summer rains.

[Fish880]

@DrMMHMD you do realize that you are providing evidence against the point you are arguing, don't you? Snow storms in the winter are precipitation. Even if the millennia-old glaciers disappeared, frozen and liquid precipitation will continue and there will always be floods. PERIOD.

[Fish880]

@DrMMHMD I'm saying you can't do either as effectively when you try to build a single dam for both purposes. A jack of two trades, master of neither

[Fish880]

@DrMMHMD Yep, it flows from glaciers. Almost all rivers are fed by either an aquifer or snow/ice melt. (If they weren't, how would they still flow during their region's dry season? I was talking about FLOOD CONTROL. It matters not what the rivers main source is, given heavy enough rainfall, any river can and will flood. Barring a volcanic eruption (which has occured in the past (but that is known as a Lahar)) Glaciers don't accelerate their melting greatly enough to cause floods, even in summer.

[Fish880]

@DrMMHMD Are you seriously suggesting that the Yangtze's overflow in 1931 which affected 28.5 million... was caused by glacial melting?

[Fish880]

@DrMMHMD Hey! honestly thank you, it is interesting to see what I was up to 2-3 years ago. With regard to your point, environmental "science" is shaky at best (climategate anyone?) They used to call it Global Warming, then they renamed it "Climate change" (No really? Earth's climate can/has changed?!?). If it is what they want everyone to think it is, there'll be a trend of shifts in local climates to the extremes of temperature/weather. If that happens, what's to say the floods won't get worse?

[Zhdophanti]

@DrMMHMD

The glaciers arent causing floods .. it's heavy rainfall

[MrFuznubz]

@allyoucouldhave Learn grammar, and don't tell me whose shit i should be minding. I didn't build the worlds largest dam on a fault line.

[MrFuznubz]

@rkseeds true, westerners (such as myself) have created a lot of global warming, but china is rising up in pollution, and they may very well surpass us in emissions soon. get your facts straight hater. and i may be an american citizen, but that does not mean that i want, or even support anything the united states government does.

[timfidotru]

@bonjouretavoir

Well, of course some stupid several 1000 year old junk and lazy animals are more important then taming the devastating floods and creating an overwhelming source of green energy.

They' d better make few hundreds of nice coal plants, and have great fun with the floods every year, don't they?