China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the world's largest, standing over 600 feet tall and extending for nearly 8,000 feet. The dam is so massive, it’s reputed to have slowed the Earth’s rotation.
China announced that it is building the world's largest dam in Tibet - even larger than the Three Gorges Dam, which according to NASA, has slowed the Earth's rotation by 0.06 seconds. The new dam will ...
This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass, changing Earth's moment of inertia. The dam, being the largest hydroelectric project, highlights human influence on planetary dynamics and ...
The dam, the biggest ever conceived, also holds geopolitical risks given its location next to the disputed and heavily militarized China-India border. Indeed, the mammoth dam is being built just ...