The Three Gorges Dam, Examined

The Three Gorges Dam, Examined Asianometry 696K subscribers Subscribe 1.7K Share Download Thanks Clip 127,656 views Oct 18, 2020 The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s biggest dam. Everything about it is huge. And that includes the controversies. It has changed China forever. In this video, I want to talk briefly about this massive, titanic piece of infrastructure and look at it from multiple angles. Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.com - The Asianometry Patreon: / asianometry Chapters View all Featured places See more information in Google Maps Three Gorges Dam Hydroelectric power plant 3.1 (469) Details Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Asianometry 696K subscribers Videos About Patreon Twitter 5 On the Three Gorges Dam and More by Asianometry 14:17 The Sanmenxia Dam: How China Dammed the Yellow River by Asianometry 14:29 How the Three Gorges Dam Handles Extreme Floods by Asianometry 159 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... @DwayneScriven 3 years ago My father (jack scriven) was the president of the canadian company Teshmont Consulting Inc. They were the company tasked with allocating where all the electrical power the dam would produce would be sent to and how it was split up!! I remember as a child having dinner with chinese business executives and their CCP Handlers at our house in winnipeg, manitoba, canada where Teshmont Consulting was based. I even have a picture of me and my family and all the chinese staff at winnipeg airport when they left! great video, thanks for your work. 34 Reply 1 reply @armamentarmedarm1699 1 month ago With the dam in place, the Taihu area still fills its flood control basins pretty often. 2 Reply @lucasprado6705 1 year ago Itaipu in South America actually produces more energy annually than the three gorges, even though it is smaller, due to higher river flow throughout the year 15 Reply 1 reply @ponchotran9004 1 month ago My father and I took a cruise in Fall 1999 from Shanghai up the 1800 miles of the Yangtze. The pollution in the river and the skies was heavy. 1 Reply @UpNfamish2 2 years ago The most balanced and informative about this 3G Dam. Thanks. 9 Reply @bijayapun 3 years ago China: Dam USA: God Damn 9 Reply @hsooi2748 3 years ago Well, you can't hold on to your past forever, sometimes you just have to move on. It is sad, but that is how it is. 旧的不去，新的不来。 If you don't let go of the past, you will never appreciate the future. As long as something survives, it is worth trying something different and learning from mistakes. 10 Reply 1 reply @chavdarnaidenov2661 3 years ago (edited) There is always a price to pay, but many times it is worth it. Austria gets 2/3 of it's energy from hydro, which means it's energy is abundant, it's goods are competitive, jobs stable and environment clean. The US is no guiding light in this, because it's business-culture is inimical to long-term investments. The interesting thing in 3GD is, can that fertile silt be scooped up or bailed out and transported to agricultural fields. 16 Reply @SilentStorm_5 3 years ago Great video man! A lot of good information that I haven’t heard yet! (Assuming it is all true, there are A LOT of bad channels on YouTube when it comes to the 3GD, it’s all the same stuff repeated) but you sound VERY informed, so I think I am safe to assume you are being completely honest. (It’s just new information to me, and I am to lazy to fact check it well at least I’m honest️) so great job on the research and how you put it all together, and you did a great job with the narration! I am guessing this had to be a decent amount of work for you, but I think it was worth it! I know most people will just say good video, so sorry for the long comment, I just wanted to let you know why I thought it was good happy to give a like for this video and subscribe to your channel! 50 Reply Asianometry · 5 replies @Jessiffin 3 years ago Dam good video 8 Reply @pikminlord343 3 years ago Another excellent video. Well done! 12 Reply @skipperson4077 3 years ago Thank You for this, best I've seen on this subject. One question: silting is known to put an age on dams, that is they'll eventually silt up, won't run as planned forever. It seems to me that if China would crack down on water polluters, they could harvest the silt out of the dam for farmers to apply to their fields as a combo fertilizer/carbon source, this would allow the dam to 'age' longer, win/win. 12 Reply @RebeccaAnneTruly 3 years ago Interesting that its 45 stories tall. 8 Reply @bigbob1699 3 years ago What would the river basin look like today if the dam had not been built ? Would the floods have been acceptable compared to others ? 9 Reply Asianometry · 2 replies @joaosabino2909 3 years ago Hydroelectric dams are the best generators of electricity, and water storage for farming; perhaps there are problems with this one, but there should be many more around the World. 9 Reply 4 replies @jaytee4482 3 years ago (edited) 3 Gorgeous Dam 2 Reply @chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 2 weeks ago China's dam construction can't really be compared with the US' because US receives much less rainfall which means less water throughput through rivers (Yangzte has 4 times higher discharge at their midpoint versus the Mississippi) and also much more of that riverwater flows through flat plains like the Mississippi River does instead of through narrow gorges which is prevalent in Western and Southwestern China (Western US being the exception, but they receive even less rainfall). The US today is basically at dam capacity and can't meaningfully expand capacity even if they wished to. Reply @meowmeowbobo 3 years ago When you say it can generate 14gw of nominal clean power any cons isnt important anymore. That is an absurd amount of energy. 6 Reply 1 reply @henrichretien9866 3 years ago Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise ... tout va très bien ... Tra la la la .... 3 Reply @nerinavshrestha3338 3 years ago Mother of all rivers. This river is Dragon. 1 Reply @hobog 3 years ago gobi desert sand -> more silt for Yellow and Yangtze rivers? 2 Reply 1 reply @ehfik 2 years ago dam son. good video, just like the rest of your uploads Reply @shazmosushi 3 years ago (edited) 3:20 Interesting pronunciation of Tiananmen. (though in English everybody pronounces way different to the original language eg, Genghis Khan as "Gen-gis Karn" instead of "Chingus Harn") 7 Reply Asianometry · 2 replies @greg9057 1 year ago Through the axis of the world off through all the weather patterns off just a little bit like 3% good deal huh now think back 91 is that when it got filled up we've been having all sorts of bad weather ever since Reply @wsmithe2209 3 years ago 3 gorges dam is not the world's biggest dam in the world, it's the biggest hydroelectric power dam so far today. There are some dams that bigger than 3 gorges dam in the world. 1 Reply @marcheck3400 3 years ago Back in the 90s when I was still a child, hydroelectric power was seen as green renewable sources of electricity and generally better than fossil fuels. But as impact of large dams are better understood attitude towards hydroelectric power changed. Back in the 90s I would have supported the Three Gorges Dam, but now I am not so sure anymore. And I really find China's large dam building craze that is still going on today very concerning. Another thing to add here is that the Three Gorges Dam sits on an earthquake active region, and despite this more dams are being added upstream to control silt and to take advantage of the mighty tributaries of Yangtze river for power generation. I am not sure whether this is a good idea to begin with. 1 Reply 2 replies @goldengrain9851 3 years ago They sounded and looked so proud of the work on the History channel and Modern Marvel's. according to the photos the dam is deformed. 5 Reply 8 replies @shazmosushi 3 years ago There's a lot of wild speculation on the internet about the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam (given how common "tofu building" construction techniques are in China) due to it nearly "overtopping" earlier this year. The collapse of the Three Gorges Dam would clearly cause millions of deaths directly (a 100 meter high wall of water travelling at 100 kilometres per hour reaching highly populated downstream cities like Yichang in less than an hour), and many more through disease. I don't doubt that the Three Gorges Dam has many structural issues that the Chinese Communist Party members in charge are doing their best to cover up, but a catastrophic failure/collapse has been predicted for decades. The idea that it's going to collapse the imminently has been vastly overstated. 6 Reply Asianometry · 13 replies @UnitedAsia 3 years ago More CLEAN ENERGY! Good job China 5 Reply 1 reply @kathyschreiber8534 3 years ago It is still 2020 and the rain over there is Over the Top. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the Dam collapses. Mother Nature is trying to create Balance~~ 2 Reply 2 replies @sarcasmo57 3 years ago I have been there 3 times. All dams fail. 1 Reply @jangounchained5279 3 years ago And yet they have the BIGGEST FLOODS EVER - DESPITE THAT DAM !!! ️️️ Ccccccc in time they will destroy it and build series of small dams... 4 Reply 1 reply @johnhicks6380 3 years ago Don't keep talking about it just tell us when it breaks Reply @cosmos6107 1 year ago When will Americans protest the building of the Hover Dam? Save your tears for your own. Reply 1 reply @millyashby4629 3 years ago Honestly this is what happens when corrupt deceitful people want it all and the citizens pay for it all and i don't mean money wise if you all got a drain Reply @pavlovsworld9122 3 years ago When will people in China have the balls to revolt. Thanks for your piece. I can sense the frustration. I dont believe there is any controversy about this damn. Should never have been built based on the merits. My sadness is from the fact if the damn does give in we will never hear about it in the West until weeks after. 4 Reply 10 replies @teektalon3310 3 years ago Interesting. God bless all the innocent when this GOV. CONTROLled un Godly lock breaks. Reply @Hotelsoap6911 3 years ago I'm gonna laugh my ass off when the dam breaks 4 Reply 5 replies @wongstephen4513 3 years ago Call out to God Jesus Christ repend all your Sins and pray for Forgiveness and Repentance what has been done to the people of God. Amen Amen Amen 1 Reply 1 reply @chrissikora3359 3 years ago It will collapse Reply 1 reply @kellythesinger2945 11 months ago What percetage of your Viewers are Americans? it's disrespectful to use European measurements when 80% of your listeners are Americans. Aye? Reply 1 reply @housemana 1 year ago would be nice to have a followup to this excellent video to see where we are now. @Asianometry Reply