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The dam will be built close to China’s border with India. The Yarlung Zangbo, known outside China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, becomes the Brahmaputra when it flows into India’s Arunachal Pradesh.
The dam, which will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, could generate three times more energy than the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest hydropower plant.
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect millions ...
The runoff of Banqiao Dam was 13,000 m 3 per second in vs. 78,800m 3 per second out, and as a result 701 million m 3 of water was released in 6 hours, [12] while 1.67 billion m 3 of water was released in 5.5 hours at an upriver Shimantan Dam, and 15.738 billion m 3 of water was released in total. [3] Rough diagram of water flow during the dam ...
The Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China, has the world's largest instantaneous generating capacity at 22,500 MW of power. In second place is the Baihetan Dam, also in China, with a capacity of 16,000 MW. The Itaipu Dam in Paraguay and Brazil is the third largest with 14,000 MW of power.
The tallest dam in China is the Jinping-I Dam at 305 m (1,001 ft), an arch dam, which is also the tallest dam in the world. The largest reservoir is created by the Three Gorges Dam, which stores 39.3 billion m 3 (31,900,000 acre feet) of water and has a surface area of 1,045 km 2 (403 sq mi). Three Gorges is also the world's largest power station.
The Aritash Water Conservancy Project [2] (Chinese: 阿尔塔什水利枢纽工程), [3] also called as Aritash Hydro-junction dam, [4] is the largest water conservancy project in Xinjiang. [5] The project is located in the upper reaches of the Yarkant River and deep in the Kunlun Mountains . [ 6 ]
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