China Is Building a Solar Station in Space That Could Generate Practically Endless Power
The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...
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THE THREE GORGES DAM IN CHINA
In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project,” marking the conclusion of decades ...
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Water levels at China’s Three Gorges near maximum after flooding rains
SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...
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China ‘sends’ Three Gorges Dam to space: 10 MW produced out of nothing
China has a plan so fantastical that it sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. The Asian country intends to install a solar farm in space. One scientist has compared it to building a Three ...
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An Elevator for 3,000-Ton Ships, Thanks to Archimedes
This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...
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China Three Gorges Corp
Engie Brasil to buy two hydro power plants for $523 million Power firm Engie Brasil said on Friday it had signed a contract to buy two hydro power plants in northern Brazil for about 3 billion ...
China authorizes controversial hydropower project in landslide-prone region of Tibet
China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...
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U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (A), The
Lodge, George C., and Cate Reavis. "U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 900-017, May 2000. (Revised July 2000.) ...