National Geographic: Big,Bigger,Biggest:Dam S02E08

mother On the waters of the Yangtze river, China rises the biggest concrete structure on the planet The three gorges dam is over two kilometers long and sixty storeys tall It has taken 40,000 workers over 17 years to build When it fully comes online, this one dam would produce over 20,000 MW of power twice as much as all the nuclear stations in Britain put together It is the pinnacle of dam engineereing The three gorges dam owes its success to five landmark dams The three gorges dam is the biggest hydroelectric project in the world This dam used 28 million cubic meters of concrete Maybe one way to look at it is to say

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Length: 46min 54sec (2814 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 10 2014