Three Gorges Dam Most Majestic
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 25, 2010 05:05 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Buildings, China, Hubei, Made in China, Weather
As well as being the world’s largest dam, China’s magnificent Three Gorges Dam also appears to be functioning as the world’s largest garbage strainer.
Torrential rains have seen the dam discharging record amounts of water, estimated at 70,000 cubic metres a second.
However, rains have also washed record amounts of rubbish into the dam, threatening to impede its operation unless authorities can remove the tons of garbage now collecting there (admittedly the fault of floods and Chinese attitudes to waste management rather than anything to do with the dam itself).
Aside from the dam’s unintended rubbish collecting abilities, its environmental impact is generally thought to have been highly favourable – the power it provides is said to have replaced the burning of millions of tons of coal and allowed increased river traffic.
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Highly favorable environmental factor? This dam literally killed off several species in its creation. Primarily the Yangtze river dolphin. China is in my top list of filthy countries, followed closely by Victorian England.
they're probably gonna dump the trash further down the river too
Knowing they're cleaning only to keep the dam functional, they're gonna throw the extracted waste right over to the other side of the dam to save the transportation fees.
There not evil, there economically viable.
And thats why we love china!1!
We do not love China, for the fukc's sake. Didn't they teach you in the biology class that each and every living being has to be admired and feared but not loved, so it wouldn't eat us unaware?
Why in the world would they teach you that? That's not fact, more like belief.
I guess you were raised while being feared and admired, but not loved, so that you wouldn't eat your parents unaware. After all, you're probably a part of 'each and every living being', no?
@18:16 Anon, your internet sarcasm detector is broken, you might want to get that checked out.
@soyokaze I lol'd
China quality again!
China built the world's largest garbage dam to contain the worlds greatest trash dump.
The Great Wall?
The great damp of China.
i'd hate to be livin' in a van down by "that" river. RIP chris farley.
When i first saw this dam on national geographic it's like wow...
when i see the same dam here it's like eeew...
*Sigh*.......China...
Current information management process: "Economy first". There's barely room to care for our species, how do you expect for "them" to care for the rest of the fauna?
Victorian England shoudln't be anywhere near the top of the list... but the main issue I have is that your top ten aren't all "China".
Some other Asian countries are there, and if pollution is taken into account (makes sense), the US is there too.
you know we americans are TECHNICALLY the number 2 polluter although we keep our streets cleaner and most of that trash still goes to landfills.
Lol who gives a fuck about animals? Kill them all I say.
how about you go die in a fire instead. World will be a better place without you
Ur a fuckin ANIMAL to weather or not u like it so why dont u go die
We are all mammals, but whether we are animals is up to interpretation. It all depends upon your definition.
1. any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food...ect.
In this case, yes humans are animals
2. any such living thing other than a human being
In this case, humans are not animals
3. a mammal, as opposed to a fish, bird, etc.
Yes
4. the physical, sensual, or carnal nature of human beings; animality: the animal in every person.
Yes
5. an inhuman person; brutish or beastlike person
No
Courtesy of dictionary.com
P.S. Definition 2 makes no sense to me since under this def. plants are animals also. O.0
Under those definitions, the interpretations are completely subjective.
Number 2 was made in the sense to raise humans above animals and by extension monkeys and in other words the reason why there was the debate to begin with.
Number 5 is meant as an insult to describe the inhuman traits that a human can have.
Hope you like being a vegetarian once there's no living meat left to reproduce.
China has the manpower and money to build massive structures like that, but still has citizens living in total poverty. They need to get their priorities straight.
If they focused on improving the living conditions, they wouldn't have as much money to build massive structures.
China + Hygine = Does Not Compute.
Had been and has been since 5000 years ago... till 1949
If environmentalists had their way, the only way the world would have for generating electricity would be solar panels in Nevada.
lol, I'm currently studying Human Geography now, and the case study for environmental pollution is the Three Gorges Dam XD
Fuck you ^^
Holy shit. Let's hope they make the world's first garbo-electric dam - you know, with turbines that won't be trashed by chopping up old fridges, wires, tools, and random shit...
Really, I'd have thought that for strictly selfish practical reasons they'd crack down on anyone sending this stuff toward such an expensive and important site.
Hopefully China's superintendent will show up and clean out the damn garbage disposal.
So, you think they just launch a big operation to clean it up and send it to another country ?
They already have tons of problem to care about. Most important is their power.
This dam is actually so huge that it shifted the earth's center of gravity.
Retard Alert!
It's unfortunately a fact, the water collected behind tilted the Earth's axis by 0.7 degress.
my dick is so big, the three gorges dam is like my pee in the morning
New transformers?
Gorgesdam Delta..?
In China that are trashformers.
Everything is China is always so dirty. So sad.
Frogs that spoke under the well knows nothing.
Ching Chang Chong
This dam is one hell of an engineering work. I've been to Itaipu personally once and it is astonishing. Three Gorges must be monstrous!
Engineering aside, it's a pity they wasted such beautiful power plant in a shitty country like China.
Still, good to see them tasting their own medicine. You fuck nature, nature fucks you ;)
I do pity some Chinese though, there are good ppl there. Unfortunately.
Problem is, nature fucks everyone, not only them.
Unfortunately, you do not resemble the meaning of "worthy of".
"Engineering aside, it's a pity they wasted such beautiful power plant in a shitty country like China."
Whos the "they"? Chinese? Duhh, chinese builds something in China which americunts cant? You jealous or what? yeah f*ck you hard.
You'd think that with something so huge and something that cost so much money, they'd care a bit more about what gets lodged in it. Apparently, that isn't the case.
Then again, if you're using the rest of China as an example, it really shouldn't come as that much of a surprise.
It just makes me wonder how much longer until someone actually cracks down on all the garbage, though.
someone should crack down on it with a Aviation Thermobaric Bomb
Well, hydroelectric is better than coal, but this particular dam also has numerous environmental problems, and they displaced many people and destroyed many historical sites with that reservoir. Not to mention, the risk of earthquakes that could crack that damn and flood everything downstream in the Yangtze river (which is a fairly significant risk in China) is also problematic.
If nothing else, though, one has to admire the scale. Now if only they could get their sanitation situation straightened out (and maybe lose the authoritarian government while they were at it), it'd be an unequivocal point of national pride.
Is there anyway to see it via satelite view like google earth?
Just cause you said that I downloaded google earth and looked. Apparently you can find it by just typing in the Three Gorges Dam while over China. It even gives you a 3D view and information about it.
I guess it didn't have the huge amount of garbage when the picture was taken though =/