Three Gorges Dam: This Dam affected Earth’s Rotation
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Can the Three Gorges Dam in China slow the Earth's rotation?
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River, in Central China.
It is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, but all that power comes with great responsibility.
According to NASA, the dam delays the rotation of the Earth by 0.06 microseconds.
This happens when the dam raises trillions of pounds of water 574 feet (175 m) above sea level increasing the Earth’s moment of inertia and thus slowing its rotation.
Will the dam cause major consequences in our future or will the very minor delay not be noticeable for thousands of years?
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Definitely not if this vid is an example. In the first 30 secs you lied.
Slowing by .06micro secs is NOTHING!
Holy fuck utoob, give it up!!! Trying To edit my post. You won't let me. So i instead you leave it there against my will & proceed to call me a hate speecher?? Grow the fuck up utoob!! Lose the malekunt in charge.
.06 microseconds!
0:32 🚩🙄🙄 it causes a lot of damage ? Really tell me about a lot of DAMAGE. I want to see & know what you are on about.?
2:34 Here you vomited up another channels content. Copyright infringement.
There is more to come
SHAME
How many lives did it cost.
2:40 Queue another channels info
What they didn't mention:
The amount by which the dam slowed the earth's rotation is *0.06 microseconds* -- that is 6/100 of one microsecond, or just over one-half of one-tenth of a microsecond.
Since one microsecond is one MILLIONTH of a second, it would take nearly 20 MILLION YEARS for the cumulative slowing effect to reach ONE SECOND in a day's rotation.
In other words, not a whole boatload of an impact...
Thanks for this I was wondering how much of an affect it actually had
TradeWars.
But what if they made like 100 dams like this?
@@ConanObrien22 a billion of this dam and we be sun bathing till 11pm haha
It's relative
I feel like you are doom mongering. The moment of inertia will return to normal in a few centuries when the dam fails or is removed. The effect is essentially negligible because the earth is so massive.
Agreed what a statement to get more clicks...
Or is blown up due to China making so many powerful states angry. Or worse non state actors/terrorists.
That would be horrible I shouldn't say that.
Let's hope they keep it well maintained and protected.
How about that large Iceberg that broke off and is heading south?
Perhaps you are underestimating the ferocity of this damn and the cataclysmic disaster it is capable of 😮
This process has started 😂
Scientists are saying days are getting shorter, earth is spinning faster. The shortest day on record was in June. There’s hardly any danger of the earth slowing down.
That's not really true...you need to search up more why it could be very dangerous
@@andrewreynolds912 yes it is true. Get your facts straight before responding to people.
@@JamesAmbrose48 thanks. Although i too sometimes do the same thing lmao but I do my best not to though but still thanks.
i could prevent no flood, behind the dam the water is full of waste, id created more problems then benefits!
the only thing spinning is my head and the firmament
3 Gorges Dam is both a Masterpiece and an Impending Disaster.
Why a disaster?
Wrong. Try again.
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The Three Gordes Dam break/collapse news appears almost every year since it was completed.
Basically, fabricated news about the crack/collapse of the Three Gordes Dam it is distributed by those China haters.
Such the Three Gordes Dam collapse narrative is the usual western mind masturbation it has been doing for the last 2 decades.
It's boring and appears more stupid each time.
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@@k5d1j49that is with almost every dam
@@rockysage7760if it collapses or gets hit by a missle it would swallow up cities from hundreds of miles/kilometers away
I ain’t no general but that is one huge military target
And the retaliation would be devastating..
It is indeed..if China gos to war with USA .USA will fly over and nuke it
So are the US strategic oil reserves located in Elmwood, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans which have a much bigger footprint and can be ignited too!
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@@gunsumwong3948 so is the entire country of china, which would have a much bigger footprint and can be ignited too! Along with their nuclear missile bases in Hami, Yumen, Ordos and Qinling.
"Our body weight would be higher ..." I finally found the reason why I'm getting fat.
Bad application...LOL!
The first guy to die building the Hoover Dam was J.G. Tierney on 12/20/22. The last guy who died building the Hoover was Patrick Tierney (J.G.‘s son) exactly 13 years later on 12/20/35.
Nothing to do with science/engineering but Damned Interesting.🤓
Who can understand and explain what God does or why? An obvious coincidence or with reason beyond our comprehension? Their ultimate sacrifice was the price they paid that all that was good in the years that followed occurred because of their sacrifice. What was the work of many has benefited mankind. Such a high price to pay, their lives were not in vain even though so few remember their sacrifice. I enjoyed this little remembrance. Something to think about, how other people have sacrificed so much that I thrive today because of their work.
I think you got your dates wrong
@@TeresaOverholt-ky1ctI did that on purpose to see anyone would notice! 😏
Sun Yat-sen was not just a politician, He was the first provisional president of the Republic of China after the overthrow of the last emperor of China. He is revered both in Taiwan and mainland China.
You mean mainland Taiwan.
@@escapedcops08 I mean the People's Republic of China. and you know it.
@@escapedcops08sounds not bad for me as someone from mainland
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That's funny cause if the Republic of China didn't lose the civil war, they would still call themselves China and Taiwan would be part of China. Silly westerners and their classic ignorance.
I am just curious how NASA and other people would explain mass balance on Earth and how sea level rising would affect the Earth's rotation?????
with high school physics
Put your hands up high like the Arctic ice and spin around. Moves the heavy weights from the center of the spin moving it to a mass at the equator the rotation will slow.
Ever see a skater do a spin?
When they bring their arms in, they spin faster.
When they extend their arms out, they spin slower.
Raising a whole buncha water a few feet above sea level is like the earth extending its arms a little bit. Does that help?
SO INTERESTING, THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT WILL HELP A LOT IN MY GEOGRAPHY REVISION😁
we have power to control everything untill its out of limits...
The Yangtze is dry ...the dam is both cracked, and dissolving at the base...big holes are now seen in the low water.... Siltation has now reached 29 meters at the base, which hastens the softening of the inferior cement.
The record low water level has placed a reverse tension on the structure itself. ...which hastens the cracking on the supports built into it.
The Chinese have built numerous dams in the upper regions....these regions are in a severe earthquake zone...and have been taking shock after shock as a result...they are also cracking, and disaster awaits a badly thought plan.
If the 200 year drought ends...and the dam fills again, it will collapse...or maybe barely hold the water..who knows??
But, an upper dam failure will kill millions in Wuhan, Shanghai, and leave. 16 ft mud floor that will makes the cities uninhabitable for decades.
Wishful thinking by the China-haters.
The annual reports published by the Three Gorges Corporation tell a different story.
year Three Gorges generation (Twh) Three Gorges Dam profit after tax (US$ billion a t 1$=6.8 Yuan)
2013 88.2 1.717
2014 88.2 1.674
2015 87 1.835
2017 97.6 1.730
2018 101.6 1.816
2019 96.88 1.734
2020 111.8 2.258
2021 103.6 2.107
@@gunsumwong3948 The 3 gorges corporation? 😂...This dam will end up being a disaster.
The newest dam upriver is is a serious earthquake zone...have you ever seen dominoes topple?
If you don't think it will happen, then you are not thinking about the probable future...
@@rburnett6266 Every infrastructure has a finite life span and every design has a safety factor against the local condition including earthquake. If you are qualified professional you wouldn't ask a silly question like you did in the Internet.
I am not related to Chinese engineering design but I did had a brief contact with the China's nuclear design and reinforced concrete concrete design codes and they are just as thorough and comprehensive as the American. Developed countries like UK doesn't have a nuclear code so don't underestimate China's capability.
Seismic design is just one of the many design requirements, like wind and tidal force, in the design of any structure. The risk of certain vulnerable areas is normally covered by a zone factor based on the historical earthquake history. Thus you can expect the zone factor of Sichuan will be bigger than that say in Beijing and will have a much larger corresponding "Peak Ground Acceleration" (PGA). In the US the maximum used is higher than 0.32g.for zone 4 covering areas like California whereas Texas whereas North Dakota is in Zone 0 expected to have PGA between 0.05 to 0.08g.
Just like the US the Chinese safety factor used on seismic zone is based on their best estimate but there are also other factor relating to the importance of the structure, the type of the structure based on its ductility, statistical risk factor etc. One statistical factor for the Three Gorges is it has been designed for 1 in 1,000 years flood. I know for a nuclear station many installations have designed to 1/500 to 1/1,000 event. Bearing the life span of a reinforced concrete structure, like a dam, seldom more than 100 years by which time concrete is expected to be totally carbonated and reinforcing steel would have corroded beyond economic repair.
I am not saying the Chinese design will last but every design is protected by the design code which represents the current state of the human knowledge. When something bad happens the national body will look at the design standard and increase the safety factor to suit the frontier of our knowledge. This is universal in every developed country throughout the world. Singling China designers doing inferior jobs and lack the thoroughness of the western countries is childish. There is no country more interested and committed in modernising its scientific knowledge than China.
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so this 60nsec delay is per day or per year or per what?
Whole video could of be done in 3 minutes with what was title of video. Plus it has no scientific evidence proving point.
Nice Job China
You did it of your Own
Yes, they did it again. 😂
Show us where this information is on the NASA website, please. Any links to prove that NASA reported this? I did not find this information on the NASA website.
The hula hoop part was great
"let's explore the damage that the dam causes to millions of people"
*peppy music playing in the background
I totally noticed the day getting longer. Now I know why.
By .6 microsec 😂
Insane imagination of saying, slowing earth rotation.
Dam is really nothing compared to earth.
Now we can blame the dam for our overweight 🤣🤣🤣
I just liked this video because of such big dam. I know earth and its circles better. Thank You
That damn dam makes me weight more. 🤣
ah, nice to know. I diddnt just got fat, it was the freaking dam, damn!
It can power 15 nuclear power plants?! Lol
42 billion tons is actually the same as lake mead at full capacity. I don't think this really takes everything into account.
What about now? Ironically, this dam supposed to prevent a flooding
I’m seeing some funky concrete deformations
Seems biased report.👎👎👎
The earth will slow down.
People will weigh more!!!
Soo, now my wife can argue with me.
It's not about calories in and calories burned. I'm not getting fat.
It's the earths slowing down fault.
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I guess that is just your damn luck....😂
Glad I'm not your wife
“Idk what else to call it if it isn’t a disaster.”
- Shows fatty with a hula hoop
it effected the rotation by .06 milliseconds. How much effect has the loss of the Aral Sea had on the earth rotation? it was only the 4th biggest land locked body of water on earth prior to 1960.
China is far better when compared to India, at least your projects have qualify unlike in India KAALESHWARAM project which got constructed with 20 billion dollars has started falling a part.
All these materials and water were already on the planet. And this tiny thing, compared to the size of the planet, won't affect the length of the day. The rotation of the earth is actually speeding up if you look at the data.
I think that the essence of the video is in the click byte. The argument of the earth slowing down is not supported by logic. Slowing down or speeding up can only be caused by a change in the weight - the amount of water in this case or its height from the center of the Earth. None of this has changed, the flow in the Yangtze Tiang is still the same and the average height of the water also remains the same. In addition, the amount of water in the dam compared to the weight of water in the oceans is negligible.
@@La_Ron It actually is speeding up. Ben Davidson keeps track of the data on his channel. The magnetic field and solar activity are what speeds or slows the earth, not weight distribution, which hasn’t changed. It’s being tracked by solar scientists, among others. You might want to check it out.
Shall I say Dam or Daamn 😂
The earth rotation is faster in the last 6 years
You've never heard of slosh dynamics.the earth fixes it's self.
You don't get the point the earth is a massive planet as compared to the dams built so the moment of inertia will not affect the fucking planets rotation.
Then the "Pacific ocean" will laugh at itself
Versus the deaths yearly from the floods it is an acceptable “disaster”
405 square miles of available water for the sun to evaporate into clouds, then massive flooding
Great build good job
Making days and nights longer is not the answer
Very interesting
When the first minute and a half of a 5 min video is junk, then it isnt worth wtaching the rest to see if that is also junk
Then explain why my days are passing fast, both days and nights 😂 But a bigger issue in regards to dams is the Ethiopian dam which is reducing the flow of Nile
Anyone believe it impacts earth’s rotation is not an engineer, heck probably didn’t graduate high school
So that’s why I gained 5 pounds… dam it!
Interesting...yet here in America there has been no difference. If there is it is not noticeable
So what the hell does the Hoover Dam do who built the Hoover Dam I don't know a damn thing about it
This is a smear. Three Gorges Dam holds a water body of 39.3 km3, Taipu dam from Brazil/Paraguay has 29 km3 and Venezuela's Guri dam holds a massive 135 km3. This video singles out just that the Three Gorges Dam is the one slowing down the earth rotation which according to scientist is a loss of 6/100,000 second in earth rotation.
I think the China-haters have lost it by looking at one corner of the iceberg. Three Gorges generates just about 100 TWh electricity, which on its own can power 1/3 of UK annual need, but China in 2021 generated 1,340 TWh from its hydro fleet. How large is 1,340 TWh? Well apart from China, US and India no other country on earth can generate more than 1,340 TWh no matter what form of generations put together in a year. Also most hydro power China generates is dispatched to over 2,000km away to the consumers. That kind of transmission technology is unavailable outside China.
So smearing China doesn't make the western economies better or stronger but will makes China more advanced and powerful technologically. The three Gorges dam commenced generating electricity in 2003. The west has been concentrating to demonise and slander it weekly, monthly and yearly. China during the intervening period has increased the hydro generation by 4.76 times since 2003. China is now the world's biggest renewable generator in each of solar, wind and hydro!
Imho, Hydro is far superior.. tho i would have limited to smaller Hydro electric facilities/dams which if fail, wouldn't have the same massive negative effect.. and Renewable sources of energy are NOT all they're cracked up to be either.. they are in fact an environmental disaster as far as the ecological damage they create..
Wind Turbine Blades that need to be buried bcz they're NOT recyclable.. and same goes for Solar Panels after their roughly 25 yrs of useful service.. hopefully some clever ppl will come up with solutions within the next 10 - 15 yrs.. i won't be around more than likely by the time the solar panels on my roof are done and dusted.. like myself we will both be MIA in this realm.. not to mention the wildlife that are destroyed by Wind Turbine Farms and the fires etc they can generate when they fail..
Shalom
Thank you❤
It more dams means opposite direction😁😁😁😁😁
Hamburgers are slowing the Earth's rotation.
You all crickets now?🤨
A Chrysler big block Hemi will do the same.
On the back of an elephant.
It is wonder how smart people can be stupid at the same time
I thought the earth was spinning faster nowadays….
The world is spinning from the beginning until today unchanged from it's normal rotation. We feel the time is faster not due to the Earth spinning faster but because of what we have today with all the tech gadgets ..... all lead to a full of Self Entertainments where we are so busy with our lives enjoying it ..... Was Apps. Facebook, UA-cam, Games, TikTok, Instegram .... etc. Almost everyone in the world are so absorb to their Hand Phone .... Everywhere ... The one that is FAR AWAY is so near to you and the one near you is so FAR AWAY. Everybody is in their own world ...... unnoticing when the times passed by.
The scientific evidence suggests for a person lives up to 100 years old he/she would have experienced a total 2.19 second slowing down if he/she keeps a digital watch to record it on the day he/she was born.
Why longer days are disaster? That's fine.
I came here from digraj sir geographie's marathon video of class 10😅😅
Uttarakhand. Of. India. Suffers. From. Earthquake. And. Underground. Water. Blast. Risky. In. Life.
Do you how many things have changed the earths orbit in the last 20 uears😂😂😂
Well dam
damn
It only slows down the earth rotation by 0.06 microseconds
The oceans are millions of time larger bodies of water.
Jorge in China? Those damn Mexicans be everywhere
Good video, but there are some mistakes in the language and rhetoric. Sun Yat-Sen was not "the former politician in China" in 1919. He was the serving President of the Republic of China. The dam does not provide "enough energy to run 15 nuclear reactors", it provides the equivalent energy output of 15 nuclear reactors. The dam didn't "reduce" all that CO2, acid nitrate and hydrogen sulphide. It's unclear what is meant here, but I think the point is that the dam avoided the creation of these chemicals that would have happened from other energy production. Lastly, the fact the day cycle is 24 hours long has nothing to do with the point about whether the dam makes the day shorter or longer, so the "because" shouldn't fit here.
In terms of the content, there are a few missed opportunities. The The Gorges Dam is interesting on its face, but it is even more interesting when you consider there are many other huge dams on the same river, whose total combined capacity far exceeds that of Three Gorges. Also the dam is the second-heaviest man-made construction in existence, after the Great Wall of China and before the Pyramids at Giza. And finally, the dam had been discussed as a target for Taiwan - something for them to attack in retaliation, should China ever invade Taiwan, which would cause a catastrophic environmental and humanitarian disaster.
Can't wait to have 30 hrs day
no thank you for whooshy noise and sound effects
You can be certain that there is another (nefarious) reason for building the dam.
You never mentioned how much it less than 0.02 sec it has absolutely no effect in the lifetime of earth even without the dam the earth rotation is slowing down some models predict it will stop in a million years china's dam has fastened it by about 10 yrs I guess 'wow they created a disaster'🤦♂️
News Flash, it rains ea day more than the total mass of the Dam and what's stored
So No, not even close, next??
Hmm...scientific bullshit
Amazing project. interesting and humorous video. Thanks.
The earth does not rotate
So we are good there
good video
Perfect location for our new B-21 Raider stealth bomber to strike 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Oh yeah!! I do think an earthquake will take it out soon. They built it with substandard materials and the area is due for a large quake.
I agree... He does the nonsense things in the world... Hope GOD will teach them nicely
least tyrannical american
The 3 Gorges Dam is easiest and quickest target to bomb to drown over half of China's population. But don't worry, they're just the poor population of China and not the rich elites of China.
As soon as I see NASA mentioned...I must move away from any facts you shared with us.
So just because the dam was constructed by the Chinese its a disaster? Come on! You can do better
Sun tzi techniques?
It will change again when it cracks.
Every time there's a huge earthquake, there are always headlines about the effect it had on the Earth's rotation.
"Massive Earthquake Slowed Earth's Rotation!"
Like this video, those headlines say less about the effect these things have on the planet and more about our impressive ability to calculate extremely tiny and practically meaningless changes to Earth's rotation.
The real headline should be about how amazing physics is and how it allows us to calculate such incredibly small changes.
. What happens when it fails.
你不会也相信在太空能看到长城吧
Don't credit China the power to stop the earth rotation, ...
so, miniscule alien missiles could technically also be stop by China?? Hear how absurd your take on the Yangtze River Hydro Power Project is ?
The bouncing bombs would have a field day. But the poor people down stream wouldnt.
Blow it up earth warriors.
someone is sounding jealous :P
Thanks for bringing back the old comment,thank you interesting engineering
It is collapsing.
This is what happens when you 🤔 you're bigger than the Creator.
I do not believe the science on this.
Moral of the story eat less
how about the earth doesn't rotate at all
🔴 after this was built in China let's look at the flooding in China in 2023 and the catastrophic results ❓ ❓❓, my scientific analytical experiments, in conjunction with Stanford University concurred the fact that the man-made lake 255,000 square miles, affected the Earth's rotation and it's axis, David Staudohar USMC USN SS USCG PHD MBA MSB MA BA ret ‼️
No it global warming sea levels have risen by.00001%
The damn need to come down😊😊😊🎉
Ugh the Three Gorges Dam made me fat!