"Enough electricity to power the UK for an entire year". wut. This makes no sense.

China when they see most steep river with high hydroelectric potential in tibetan wilderness: damm

This is forcing india to build a new dam in Arunachal Pradesh to make sure they can manage water flows

China just approved it publicly with projected cost of 137 billion. That's more than international Space Station. Largest infra project ever.

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Great video, but a little note for your script writers, if I may: A common mistake is saying something like: "it could power the UK for a year", because it could also power it for five years. Or five minutes. It's not about time, it's about power output. So the correct way to say it would be "it could power a country the size of the UK". Thanks.

The title to this video should refer to a Mega Power Project, no Mega Dam.

Many of reports regards to this project fail to notice that monsoons and the rainfall / run off they bring happens downstream of China's territory at a much lower altitude.

My jaw dropped when it was revealed they were thinking about a 40 mile tunnel under a mountain to do this. I never knew about this grand canyon, but now I desire to go visit.

These specific mountains are uplifting at a rate of one meter per century. Out if everything, I'd imagine that'd pose the great problems and risk, especially for building and maintaining a 40 km long tunnel.

so 2000 meters drop would be 200 bars of pressure differential. that's going to be very challenging tbh...

Movie 2012 anyone? Where China build a dam in the Himalaya's to secretly construct arks for the survival of humanity after the massive Yellowstone eruption and following poleshift 😂😂

What does it mean to power the UK for one year? If it can power the UK then it can do so permanently, not just for one year.

This dam idea is actually really really smart, by using a tunnel and huge elevation difference, there's no need to build a huge concrete dam holding back a large water body. A portion of the water can simply be diverted into the pipe tunnels to the turbines or letting the water run its old course during maintenance/down time.

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This is crazy, they have over 87,000 dams including the Three Gorges dam and they still get most of their power from coal. Insane how much energy they need.

Me: I guess that you can say… My friend: DONT SAY IT! Me: god dam

Use some common sense: hydropower plants don't consume water. The same amount of water continues to flow into India. So, why imply that China is taking advantage of India? This is different from the Colorado River, which has been diverted so extensively that it runs dry before reaching Mexico.

If China use water on it's own teritory, and they give this water back (also on it's own teritory) I don't see what is the problem...

"Can china build monstrous infrastructure project x in the middle of nowhere????" me reading chinese history and looking at china today: "yeah, probably"