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    To what extent is the Three Gorges Dam sustainable? The Three Gorges Dam was built in 2011 on the Yangtze River in an area called Chongqing. It was built to prevent flooding of main industrial areas in China following the major flood in 1998 of the river. The dam is 1.4 miles long and is able to produce 18‚000 MW of electricity. Sustainability is when environment‚ society and economy are all stable and balanced‚ so that progress can be made. The Three Gorges Dam has had a big impact on these areas

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    Analysis for the Three Gorges Dam William Zhi Introduction The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) and associated infrastructure is the largest integrated water project built in the history of the world. It has also been one of the most controversial due to its massive environmental‚ economic‚ and social impacts. Private costs: * Construction costs of the power station and transmission facilities --64.613 billion Yuan up to 2006 (source: "International Water Power and Dam Construction".

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    Economic Impacts of the Three Gorges Dam Due to its enormous scale‚ the Three Gorges project is quite interesting in terms of economic impact‚ even despite the lack of data and evidence (due to the fact that the project has yet to be one-hundred percent completed) to back up these hypotheses. There were many positive and negative impacts predicted‚ most of which are beginning to emerge today‚ and all of which are closely linked to the social and environmental impacts discussed earlier. Construction

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    than 75% of electricity produced from renewable sources. In hydroelectric power plants‚ the water is utilized to move the turbine which in turn runs the electric generator. The potential energy of the water stored in the dam gets converted into the kinetic energy of the moving water in the penstock. This kinetic energy gets converted into the electric energy with the help of turbine and generator. How the Energy Is Harnessed Hydroelectric power installations harness the energy contained in flowing

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    roll on‚ Columbia‚ roll on! -Woody Guthrie‚ "RollOn Columbia."(1941) In EncountersWith the Archdruid‚ 1971 biographical account of a environmentalistDavid Brower‚writer John McPhee comments that for conservationists‚ there is something special about dams‚ "something-as conversation problems go-that is disproportionately and metaphysically sinister." McPhee continues: The outermost circle of the Devil’s world seems to be a moat filled mainly with DDT. Next to it is a moat of burning gasoline. Within

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    Yang Jiechi‚ I strongly think that you would not benefit from the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. I think this for three reasons. If the dam breaks‚ your people will be in unimaginable danger‚ you will suffer food shortages‚ and historical sites will be lost. The reasons not to build the dam far outweigh the reasons to build it. I hope you will listen to what I have to say. One reason why the dam shouldn’t be built is that if it breaks‚ the effects will be devastating. People for miles will be

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    Kaptai Dam (Bengali: কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is located on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai‚ 65 km upstream from Chittagong in Rangamati District‚ Bangladesh. It is an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir (known as Kaptai Lake) water storage capacity of 6‚477 km³. The primary purpose of the construction of the dam and reservoir was to generate hydroelectric power. Construction was completed in 1962. The generators in the 230 MW power station‚ called Karnafuli Hydroelectric Power Station‚ were commissioned

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    Hydro Electric Power Plant in Tamil Nadu Amaravathi Dam at Amaravathinagar‚ 25 km south on SH 17 from Udumalpet‚ is located in Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary in Coimbatore district‚Tamil Nadu‚ India. The 9.31 km²‚ 33.53 m deep[1] Amaravathi Reservoir was created by this steep dam. It was built primarily for irrigation and flood control and now also has 4 megawatts of electric generating capacity installed. It is notable for the significant population of Mugger Crocodiles living in its reservoir

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    Due to the lush environment and progression of resources‚ the Malaysian government has been interested in the Borneo land for a number of years‚ wanting to construct a set of 10-12 large water dams to generate larger amounts of hydroelectricity by the year 2020 (Morgan‚ 2012). The construction of these dams has displaced‚ and currently threatens to relocate the indigenous people who have inhabited the Borneo land for generations. The people of the Borneo land face the initial challenge of being uprooted

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    as an alternative energy source to replace the U.S. Dependency on fossil fuels. Defend your position and support ideas with facts. Also‚ explain how this issue relates to the Saint Leo core values of Responsible Stewardship and Integrity. Hydroelectric Power Moving water is a powerful entity responsible for lighting entire cities. Thousands of years ago the Greeks used water wheels‚ which picked up buckets of water around a wheel. The waters weight caused the wheel to turn‚ converting

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