🫨Китай розпочав будівництво найбільшої у світі гідроелектростанції на Тибетському нагір'ї на річці Ярлунг Цангпо, втричі потужнішої за греблю Трьох Ущелин у Центральному Китаї, яка наразі є найбільшою у світі і яка сповільнила обертання Землі, змістила її вісь на дюйм та збільшила тривалість доби!

🇨🇳⏱️⌛The Chinese Three Gorges Dam is so massive that it has slowed down the Earth's rotation, shifted its axis by one inch, and increased the length of a day! By holding back 45 trillion kg of water at height, the dam increases the Earth's moment of inertia, which slows the planet's rotation and lengthens the day by approximately 0.06 microseconds – a change confirmed by NASA scientists. The day has become longer, and the Earth's axis has shifted, as the colossal amount of water has altered the distribution of the planet's mass. It’s interesting to wonder if this has impacted climate change?
The Three Gorges is the largest gravity dam in the world. Taming the third longest river in the world – the Yangtze, which stretches over 6,300 kilometers, required extracting 102.6 million cubic meters of earth and rock, pouring 26.43 million cubic meters of concrete, and using 463,000 tons of steel (which would be enough to build 63 Eiffel Towers). Since the start of construction on the dam in 1994, 1.3 million people have been resettled from 13 cities, 140 towns, and over 1,300 surrounding villages. The structure is 2,309 meters long and 185 meters high. The dam creates a reservoir that is 667 km long with an average width of 1.57 km. The surface area of the water body is 1,045 km², and its water storage capacity is 45 billion m³.

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