China’s plan for the 'world’s riskiest' mega dam high in the Himalayas | ABC News
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2021
- As China seeks to meet its targets of becoming carbon neutral by 2060, it is turning its sights to some of the wildest reaches of the Tibetan Plateau where it plans to build a hydropower plant so ambitious that it could produce three times as much power as Three Gorges.
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Experts believe it could be the riskiest mega structure ever built. Not only is the location prone to massive landslides and some of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, it’s also precariously close to the disputed border between India and China. Meaning any major project could further escalate discontent in a tense territorial dispute between the world’s two most populous countries.
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Between this and what's happening on the Niles river the international community really needs new laws about river sharing and infrastructure.
That'd be common sense, but you already know who would veto or walk out of those talks
Nice thought, but China just pays lip service to the international community then does what it wants anyway.
If you have the power you can do whatever you want this is the law of UN
99.9% of Egyptians are willing to go to war with Ethiopia or bomb the dam by airforce,,, and Egyptian media (controlled by the government) has strong view on the Ethiopian dam , president elsisi made many warning to Ethiopia , there’s military buildup on sudanese Ethiopian borders
@@KemetEG yeah, and then what ? You'll be at war with a mountain nation and god knows how hard it is to keep control over a mountain territory in guerilla warfare. Also they're used to it.
On the other hand the minute you'll leave they'll make you pay hence you'll be trapped in a war that you cannot win nor can leave... worse than afganistan for the us.
Not a smart place to build a dam that large, being a seismically active region. 😳
Yeah, if it broke all of India would disappear. That would really upset China. :(
As a geologist this is asking for a critical failure. I think they want to use it more as a weapon than a actually power station.
@@uldispaze7325 by weapons, he means to say they can discharge large amounts of water into India, which could potentially lead to huge floods in India and Bangladesh.
Most likely a weapon to wipe em out
The whole project sounds suss to me.
Waterways doesn't follow national boarders. It's very concerning that a nation would have control over such a massive body of water. It is indeed a very powerful potential weapon, controling the suply of water.
AND KNOWING CHINA IS A CON-ARTIST. NOT TO MENTION THAT BETWEEN CHINA AND INDIA HAS THIS CONFLICT OF BORDERS. HOPE INDIA WON'T FALL INTO WRONG DECISIONS.
I’m pretty sure this is the real reason. This is also exactly why China will hold onto Tibet no matter what
See conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Nile river.
One of the reasons China will not let Tibet go. The ability to control the flow of water to Asia is a geopolitical prize. The infrastructure building in Tibet when I was there 5 years ago is on a scale which dwarfs China's infrastructure building. It is epic. Tibet's GDP has been growing at twice the rate of China in percent terms but a large portion of that is going to Han Chinese immigrants. Railways, roads, dams and power grid, it is all being built at a break neck speed in Tibet. India has been caught short with its infrastructure on the frontier in Arunachal Pradesh and India is only now playing catch up.
@@JackMontana69 I am afraid India has been sleeping for decades as China has built infrastructure in Tibet catching India unaware. India has neglected its north eastern regions.
Still we aren't learning any lessons from the mother nature we are more becoming wilder and wilder...this will be the end of humanity...
Be more optimistic
Hydro is still the cleanest. It's not that you can build it everywhere.
Agreed to both of you but just think for a moment as those who are getting their livelihood from those rivers and you will not believe people use to live in such rough terrain they will pay the price and the water flow towards many countries living downward will sure to be affected I think you both also know this. we will be fighting over water and soon 3rd WW will start cause will be water. By the way water crisis is existed everywhere
Mother nature is there for human to bend her and do her from behind. She is there to be conquered by humanity, and that's what we human have learned so far.
@@shinqqing5161 "do her from behind" wow.
For india chinese dam doesn't cause much water scarcity.
Problem is china doesn't share hydrological data with downstream nations. They did this with india during 2017 floods. Also In case of heavy rains to protect dam they can release water from dams just like they did in their country. And also there are concerns about earthquake and landslides.
India did not behave in a friendly way, intentionally provoking the Chinese to serve their white colonial masters. So the Chinese are building a huge dam.
Better yet, they are also storing all their nuclear waste in containers next to the dam. If India invades China -> all that radioactive waste will depopulate all Indian cities along the Ganges and Brahmaputra river. The Chinese strategists call this the new "Scorched earth" strategy and a cheap solution to the India problem.
The funny thing is it needn't have come to this if not for the foreign policy failure of our foreign minister Jaishankar
@@slslbbn4096 Not your foreign minister*
There's nothing like white colonial masters or something, Its all about interests.
China can't dare to do that because china sees itself in comparison with USA and war with india or sending nuclear waste to india will crush China's ambitions. Both the countries will be destroyed and it will only benefit USA not china.
So there's no reason China want to be in direct confrontation with India.
Yep, just like in their country when they released the 3 gorges damn to save a nearby city and flooded the surrounding villages, and then the govt said its a sacrifice theyre grateful the villagers made while forcing the villagers no choice lmao 😂
On a different note there is are reports of nuclear reactors or radio active elements lost around the Indian side of the tibetan plateau it was lost there when the US was trying to spy on China, Vox covered it recently. It's a bigger problem than the usual floods and earthquakes cause this won't be natural. No one else is really talking about it spread the word.
The region is very sensitive to eathquakes and natural disasters and it's ridiculously hard to build a dam over there. Even if the dam is built what happens in case of a devastating earthquake. Lol. All the money goes down the drain.
But we shouldn't underestimate the Chinese though, they were successful in spreading their Chinese virus which has destroyed the world.
Adding a huge fluid mass onto a very active fault zone, interesting.
Glad I don't live down river.
That’s exactly what I was thinking
I live downriver, in Assam. 🙄
Absolutely, Mekong already dying due to Chinese dams upstream.
It’s a unconscionable idea. They have famines that killed thousands of it population. They stole and destroyed Tibet. They are despicable.
This is suspicious as, I bet it's designed to fail.
They would lose what some dollars of money, but consider if the dam failed due to high tectonic activity, Let alone India, Bangladesh would have to suffer a lot because of its high dense populous sitting near its bank
Why don't you ask first with your neighbour Bangladesh about teesta river dam.
Wonderful thinking had postponed three gorges dam or India's narmada valley for well over 50 years. When pollution became a major problem, all succumbed
China weaponise water
Can India Managed The Disasters If Dam Is Damaged?
@@johnsun7485
Yes, About Time She Should Shows She Capable Of Managing The Dam.
The satellite images of the mountains have amazing patterns
Yeah kinda beautiful
Then along comes man.....
They same experts said the same thing about the 3 Gorges
Spot on
Exactly! There are some people who are facing the challenges and other people who sit down home and start to criticise as if it's a hobby.
Another great target 🇺🇸😁🚀👍
Western media care so much about China.
Climate change bad , China is polluting.
China going green is bad , dams are not the answer.
What is the answer ?
There is only 1 answer: China bad !
Apart from the sarcasm .
Building dam in remote areas is precisely the correct thing to do. When they were building the 3 gorges . Media complaint about having to move people . And if dam fail alot of lives are at risk . But if the dam is at a remote area , there is no need to relocate anyone. If dam fails there isn't any village around . What else do you want ? I get it . China bad !
The jury isn't in on that one yet.
We Indians will counter this move of China successfully by building taller statues and bigger temples.
Now this comment is pure gold! I like the self awareness lol
WTF did you contribute & how much tax do you pay
I hope you will contribute to economy more sir rather than helping black monet growth. Anyways I am totally against statutes
@@dss6838, I think his comment was for India to ... self-reflect? If you do likewise, your perspective may change.
That is stupidity.india should build more road, public toilets and hospitals instead. Why waste tax payers'money to build statues ??
There goes the price of concrete again.
I thought China still claimed to be a “developing economy”. Or is that just to avoid reducing emissions?
Ehh, cities are pretty developed but there’s still a ton of rural people.
My uncle is one actually. He lives in China in the rural mountain west of Chengdu and we try to visit him once a year.
I was in China a couple of years ago and rode the Maglev from Shanghai airport (321 kmh) and rode the high speed train back (229kmh).
- They just launched the first module of a space station.
- They have had nuclear power for decades and nuclear weapons just as long.
- And it doesn't matter if they stole the technologies they now produce or not.
China claiming they were a "developing nation" was bull shit when they first claimed it. Its just a higher level of bullshit now.
In the field of large-scale engineering construction, China is indeed the strongest in the world, but in many other fields, China is indeed a developing country.
if they don't build a Tofu building.
At the rate that China is building they'll soon cease to be one. Since the country is so large there'll be a lot of friction to get the country moving towards net 0. So getting started early is actually a smart idea. How they go about doing it is what should be the issue now.
3 times more power then current biggest dam! for sure it will be big help to "go green"
When the missiles start firing thanks to this. I doubt the world will be greener
There’s an inevitable and permanent destruction of nature when you try to divert such a massive river.
Until we develop usable fusion power (and probably even after) every form of power will be criticized and bemoaned. Humans simply consume and extract. It’s what we do. The only way to avoid any of this is to eliminate humans.
it,s ten time more dangerous to people live below. china not cares own peoples live even. will it concern other countries people then? no wonder more earthquake in china now, mother earth will response for sure.
@@BuddyLee23 starting with pooh bear🤯🤯🤯💥💥
"The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep." ~Saruman
saruman is fiction, doeesn't count, if you use rr tolkien maybe.
News: Earthquakes killed scores of people!
China: Nah it needs perfect score!
News: COVID killed scores of people!
India: Nah it needs perfect score!
Modi: 'We defeated Covid without vaccines'
@@hotchi1566
Chineese people : What is toll in Galwan clash, Corona spread from China.
Chineese govt. : Put those people in prison.
Chineese Military : we will make a new virus for the world, and handle situation of internal matters like Tiananmen square.
Global times : Corona spread from USA, (2days later), corina spread from Australia, (A day later ) corona spread from india ......
@@anujrathore3474 Funny. You believe China made the virus. I am very satisfied with the IQ of you people. Stupid enemy is good enemy.
@@anujrathore3474 I like PM Modi, ha ha . He said India has defeated the virus only two months ago. And he put huge budget on statues, temples, and his own housing project. And I'm happy that there are still so many Indian people supporting him. This shows how good this political system in India haha.
@Harshit Harshit PM Modi said India has defeated the virus only two months ago. HA HA,
Good idea! Tibet needs mega dam.
By controlling water flows to down river countries means control of those countries water supply which equals control of those countries.
They all can migrate to kiwiland which has more sheep than humans 🤔
All countries will do this if they have a strategic advantage, do you know the Israeli gov. controlling the water flowing of River Jordan? That's why they took the Goland heights!
@@jagdpanther2224 this^. Many didn't realized Israel use the same tactics, and US along with the west approve it. Its all fair game in geopolitics.
@@jagdpanther2224 US did that too, diverted all the Colorado River into US, left no drops to Mexico, you can google it.
The way things are going you'll be in a Chinese re-education camp in 20 years. You'll be wishing for sheep.
In-flow hydro would make more sense. Like on the Congo.
Hydro is but only a part of the project. The main objective of the dam, other than planned 60GW hydro capacity, is to divert water resource from Tibet to Xinjiang that is 1,000km apart. The entire thing is going to cost hundreds of billions.
@@simonwong9885 a big Dam like that in the eco sensitive region of Himalayas is stupid idea. China is exploiting Tibbet's natural resources and has killed and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Tibbet.a
@@simonwong9885 it's a long way from South East Tibet to Xinjiang!.That's a difficult to believe strategy for water or electricity. 🙄
But I suppose they have their reasons
@@baburavganpatravapte does the ccp care? Nope, if it benefits them and not their neighbors they will do it.they dont care about repercussions anymore, USA wont intervene, a lot of their large businesses' production is in china.
@@Zyscheriah you're right china doesn't give a shit
China constructed 11 giant dams on Mekong River, causing severe drought and saline intrusion in the lower basin.
Green energi baby
The insane egos of a few will lead to the end of us all.
That line about trying to building the damn for green energy purposes is the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever heard in my life. There’s no way any country would do something that risky and economically unviable unless there was some sort of bigger political play going on
That's instantly what I thought, this dam would hold the potentional to take away the water supply of 10's of millions of people in the country who is china's biggest rival on the continent. Going Green is just an excuse.
@@zacharysnyder2925 Exactly, they are building this for one reason alone, to hold a sword over Bangladesh's neck, threatening to screw them over if they ever cross China.
@@zacharysnyder2925 Most of INdia gets water from a different river, but south east Asia gets 100% of its water from that river.
@@homijbhabha8860 That still plays into their neo-Imperial doctrine. China is sick.
@@homijbhabha8860 what’s it called? Last time I checked China was executing a plan to build 300 dams, most along rivers supplying neighbouring countries. I bet there’s a few on said river. Ethiopia just finished damning the Nile last year in a blatant political move, Egypt and Sudan are PISSED. The murmers of the water wars are coming truer each day it seems :(
China: Mind your own business
There are some people who are facing the challenges, Shaping the future and other people who sit down home and start to criticise as if it's a hobby.
ABC: that’s insane
China: exactly what I want
psycho political party no value for any form of life.
I like this idea. Instead of building a high dam, they use the slope of the river. Just build a small dam and put a pipe in the river bed or tunnel thru the hill. That's earthquake-resistant and just like any other dam can not be used to shut down someone's water supply (where should the water go, the basin could not be infinite large) but to regulate so instead of drough to flooding you get a constant water flow. And 60GW saves 60 nuklear power plants. So even if the construction costs $500000000000 it's cheaper than Olkiluoto.
The question is how much water is left going through the canyon to sustain the ecology this way? Will it dry up completely?
But I can agree it will at least not flood out the upper canyon.
If i heard it correctly in another video it's 660MW from all the Chinese dams on Mekong. 2000 m drop 60GW! The lady's reaction was legit. Given the rates of electricity, that would be a money printer while giving considerable geopolitical leverage.
It's impossible for India, India can hardly build any roads, tunnels and bridges in North East hilly areas even..., but China does wondrous engineering works for all its citizens regardless of the terrains, difficulties etc.
Joke on you whole jammu hills are ready for roads, tunnels and bridgea, now it time in ne region
You really are behind, wake up and catch to rest of of the world
In distant regions of Arunachal Pradesh...there is a huge lack of connectivity@@nirnaydhale5820
More than 90% of water comes from rain in that region not the river. So saying building the dam to throttle the water supply to India as a weapon is not based on facts.
India can build dams too in their own backyard.. Will China complaint??
all the best to the engineers, builders, and locals.
China can do it. Matter of time. Hope it will also benefit other countries as well
China has no interest if helping other countries unless it serves its needs.
@@donnash5813 Same with any country... particularly USA...their interests come first
@@chuasc1356 🤡 one earthquake whole dam gone besides we know china made quality . Only viruse last long.
@The Professional lol Chinese cheap product .big companies opened their factory in india recently samsung ,apple, Tesla coming soon.
@The Professional cheap Chinese product only Chinese things last that is corona
Being able to turn off the water for hundreds of millions of people, that's worth far more than some new power plant...
Especially when your newly "found" province is full of people.
My money would be on the Netherlands.
@Blah Blah it can provide alot of power but 20 nuclear plants isn't that much in the scheme of things(especially with gen 5 coming out) China has 9 for almost 2 billion people while France which is tiny in comparison has 56. China can make enough clean power without having to subjugate its neighbours.
@Blah Blah The US military is one of the largest co2 producers in the world (warships, tanks, logistics etc) is it a good idea for the US to completely get rid of their military if china says that they'll protect us instead?
This is an equivilent position that you put almost a billion people in by allowing china to arbitrarily turn off or use their water supply.
@Blah Blah So you're assuming lots of things, 1. (water behind a dam doesn't evaporate), 2. chinas water usage in tibet will stay constant, 3. the amount of rainfall will stay constant (global warming doesnt exist), 4. reactions are binary (any threats or restriction will lead to a world war).
This last point is critical, and the basis of modern hybrid warfare. What is the tradeoff between consequences and actions. Russia can attack america as long as it's below the threshold (cyber, or partially deniable), China can imprison millions as long as it has russia's protection from the security council and controls the perceptions at home.
Geopolitics is complicated and not governed by morals or what you should do but what you can do. This is universally true throughout history and for every country. China is a powerful country, chinese population has some animosity towards india so china can do a lot without significant consequences.
There are no benign forms of power generation. Hydro integrates very well with other renewables (save your water when the wind is blowing or sun is shining). Far better than coal
Sure...thats totally the reason they wanna build it there.
You are totally in dark about the environmental concerns of such an enormous Hydro electric dam. Already the three gorges is in danger. China is insane
@@ne1711Oh yeah, China is falling, three gorges is breaking, sky is crashing down, and you're wetting the bed again !
That will destroy biodiversity there
@@dss6838 still better than a warmer planet as a whole
I'm really curious when china gets a major lesson teached from nature...
even if there is a risk of a catastrophe it should not stop people from going forward, only cowards back down from risk and threat, just like how India is so afraid of the west it can't decide entirely on its own interest.
You remind me of Sharon Stone
@@kimeli there is a word it's called wise
@@aruktoba5015 i assume your saying that indians are wise right?
@@kimeli no...
I say if he wise u choose a certain way and Chinese don't act on this Realisation
Building a dam on a international trans boundary river is almost impossible due to multitude reasons. If it was so easy, India would have built dams on the Indus river valley system long back and blocked 70% of Pakistan's water supply.
Have you seen the infrastructures of India?
India is already stealing water from Pakistan and creating dams, breaking India water treaty
So why cry now when China does the same to India?
@@tmanrx7 cope jihadi
@@tmanrx7
We are not crying...instead happy for Tibet & Yunnan province🙂🙏🏼❤️
@@tmanrx7 First - It is Indus River Water treaty, not India Water Treaty, you imbecile. Second - According to Indus treaty, 80% of Indus River Water share is allocated to Pakistan and 20% is allocated to India. Remember that Indus originates in Tibet whereas all it's tributaries i.e. Ravi, Baes, Sutlej, Jhelum and Chenab originate in India, despite this fact Pakistan is allocated 4 times more than what India gets. Pakistan is not entitled to anything, be grateful. Third - India doesn't even utilize 20% of its allocated share, the remainder of this too goes to Porkistan. India is building dams only to utilize the complete 20% of it's share, it is not encroaching on Pakistan's share. Fourth - You and your begger in chief PM should stop begging for free things and resources from other countries.
I think it has a dual purpose. China is going to dam this river to hold India's territories to ransom, not unlike when they built the Dam on the Mekong River.
There are no grounds for confusing building a dam and the Chinese actions in galwan valley
3 gorge dam always being criticized for the same reasons before it complete. All those reasons came to past and now China 3 gorge dam had been in operation for over 20 yrs.
And the free world is hoping it collapses since it was built.
And it was supposed to have a 2000 year lifespan yet now only 200 years according to a new estimate. And that was by the CCP engineers own words.
Building world's biggest dam in an inaccessible place, that's located on a fault line with more than 100s of millions living downstream? What can even go wrong?
@@unknownuser6809
Where u got the sources that js said by CCP engineers?
@@unknownuser6809 200 year is a long time, why you worry by then they will have something new in place
Himalayas change and grow every year, if they made it successful then its a marvel.
The dam is a drop dam, which uses the natural difference in height to generate electricity and does not store water.
Explain... Drop Dam?
It's a drop tunnel than a dam
A tunnel filled with turbines that will generate electricity in a scope that is unimaginable (60 gigwatts)@@muhammaduqbahahmadtermizi1252
Well, I have nothing to say but good luck
Imagine tofu-dreg construction and seismic activity wombo combo, fun
Good to know that there is one less person objecting it. Thanks!
weird there is no specifics in the description, no names, location etc
It's so you have to watch the video, extended clickbait. Namcha Barwa Mountain? Yarlong Tsangpo River? 29.631808, 95.073232 is the GPS co-ordinates to Namcha Barwa Mountain, You'll need to zoom out to see the river, the u turn is massive. Some 35+ kms across
Three gorges dam for electricity, solar plant on the west of china, waterway from south to north china for water drought area, one child policy - two child policy, massive high speed rail, massive urbanization, and now this. Damn, china is really trying to engineer every problem they encountered.
It does truly raise the question: what is Asia allowed to do? There seems to be much that many would not allow them to.
Rather see solar and an off shore wind farm built instead
They have done that this biased video failed to mention it
These things are great but they don't genererate nearly as much power as giant dam.
They did , but let's be real solar Don't generate as much
Solar and wind generation is pittance compared to a hydropower plant. Also, they're INTERMITTENT and can't be used for base loading.
It's green power
Inaccessible area, rocked by earthquakes and tremors, pushing the boundaries of logistics and economics and near a contested border. Something I have learned in the last 6 years from the actions of the CCP is that they are resourceful and ambitious but they are not fools. I have difficulties believing that they will build a dam in this area, despite of their announcements. Due to their rhetoric in the last few years towards the area, I would be more worried about a Geo-political play. I hope they prove me wrong.
China has a megalomaniac who is President for Life, so anything is possible. The dam would be cocking a snook at India, the only Asian country which can stand up to bullying by China in the region.
ram ki gaand jali, sita ko ravan ke saath dekh kar
I don't think it would push the logistics too much, even less the economic side when they think about how much they gain from this politically too.
China is probably that's why building High Speed trains all the way to Tibet, it would solve that issue almost entirely.
@@MaTara01 As a Chinese, I think Japan and Korea are much stronger than India
@@MaTara01lol india iq 82
China , India and Bangladesh should invest in this mega project.
The trio nations can share the mind blowing amount of clean energy.
I mean 60 000 megawatts !!!!!!
If the same project is planned by USA or some European countries most of the commentators here would say "amen" without asking any questions
Oh, don’t foreigners always have China’s best interests at heart!
Ccp destroys.... in a bad bad bad type of way...
This would be a huge mistake. The Himalayas arent made of stone like the grand canyon. I see HUGE land slides as the Himalayas soak up all that water and become very unstable. NOT GOOD.
You don't think that the glacial meltwater that literally fills the Bramhaputra river system across the Indian subcontinent coming from the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Ice Sheet would, I dunno, cause there to be a lot of water that would soak into the Himalayas, do you?
Btw The Himalayas are literally comprised of granite and sedimentary rocks. It's not just a big old dirt pile, you know?
@@jessl1934 better grab a book and learn something the Himalayan mountains are shrinking from erosion.
@@jessl1934 The sedimentary rocks of the Himalayas include shale and limestone. NOT GOOD
@@nottodayfolks4923 How do you think that the Grand Canyon formed if not by erosion?
Do you really think that rock is impervious to water eroding it?
@@jessl1934 we're not talking about the grand canyon. Stop deflecting. Stay on topic. 2 different parts of the planet.
China should help Nepal also for building dams.....
the great bend is truly spectacular
There are many hydro engineers at top levels of the CCP. To them, every social problem or political malaise can be solved by resource engineering.
@@chrislogan33 Yu the great
The risks outweigh advantages. And moresoever it's a tactic to control water. If you read more about Mao's 5 finger strategy you will know it's a 70 decade plan to control water. I don't know what future wi we have if they weaponise water. And world will watch silently
No one can stop China from building these types of dams once they can overcome technical issues related to this project.
India doing the same to Pakistan in Kashmir
.....the writer Desmond Bagley wrote novels with this type of geotechnical theme . Very educational . I have one in mind set in northern Canada , the title doesn't come to mind though .
Nice... 3x the three gorges dam, that's a lot of electricity :V....
What’s the coal power ratio in Australia? As far as I concern 60% of coal power in China is pretty good considering China is manufacturing most if not all of the goods in the world. And it’s per capita co2 emission is still lower than the US. If the dam is not built in a disputed territory, then it’s not other countries’ concerns. Before you reach self-sufficient and carbon-neutral at the same time. It’s useless and not helping by pointing fingers at others and pretend to be an expert. If you are really good at your expertise, make your own country carbon neutral and set an example. Don’t just ship your plastic waste overseas and pretend it’s recycled, And move all your carbon heavy industries overseas and pretend it’s not your problem.
China work hard manufacturing everything. Australia just digs holes, I know, I work in the major coal producing areas in QLD lol.
@@anthonywilson7304 Labor wants to invest $15 Billion to get manufacturing jobs back to Australia, better for our economic recovery and Australians in general. Liberals just want to waste money on gas, just about the worst investment Australia could make at this crucial time in our recovery. Like it's been said, what happens over the next 3 years will effect a generation of Australians.
@@craigfirman1809 I hope so, it was taken away by previous governments, Labour included. However, we will have to match our energy use if we do.
@@anthonywilson7304 and they do this violating human rights and destroying the world
Until recently it was China who was the largest consumer of Australian coal. So you little statements doesn’t really have a point. And also it is know for record levels of air pollution visible from space. Which still recently suffered from
where is this country they mention? I have never heard of Inder,
I laughed out loud when that white woman said "it's completely nuts". You haven't got a clue what the Chinese are capable of building.
pore enough money and everything is capable of building anything and if you are judging Chinese capabilities by the great wall then let me tell you the great wall isn't that great
I live in Canada, but I have been to the three gorges dam. It produces as much power as 32 nuclear or coal power plants. If this is a bigger project then wow that is amazing! I much rather see this water being put to good use going around the corner then to see another 32 nuclear or coal plants go up. They have to power their factories to make your computer somehow, this looks like a much better plan then burning coal, gas, oil, uranium and also better then solar or wind. There will be consequences to any path they choose to produce their electricity, this dam looks like the lesser evil to me and I am so glad that they are not invading any small middle eastern country to get the energy that they need, rather they are using what they have to make what they need. It is brilliant and I fully support the plan!
Of course it goes without saying that it is very important that this dam or tunnel will be well made. No matter what you do, it is always best if you do it well!
This Projekt would destroy so much nature and land!
Yup, no wonder the Chinese are having wet dreams about it!!!
I hope they can build it go ahead china
Thanks for covering this story.. As it will impact our river Brahmaputra in Assam.
If it's this expensive, risky, ecologically dangerous, and prone to literally falling apart from an earthquake, why not just build solar, wind, and batteries instead? They're far cheaper and can be distributed faster and much more easily across the country and electrical grid. 60 GW of power from one source would require insane transmission infrastructure and would lose some of the power going all the way from one side of China to the other.
Actually China Made the biggest power grip on the world before
Now India is showing concern about this dam and talking about downstream ecological impact. Their farkka and gojoldoba dams in padma river and teesta river have caused widespread ecological damage in the downstream country of Bangladesh. Unless you are the victim you fail to observe the impact of a these one sided decisions.
A separate law should be enforced throughout the world on international rivers, otherwise this is only going to increase tension among neighbouring countries.
Idiot Bangladesh itself said yes to making it and water sharing deals were made when those two dam were made.
Treesta had flood issue even before those dames were made, Bangladesh still get 35% of water supply which is same as the amount it used to get before the dam was made, Bangladesh still has fishing and transportation right in that river. What ecological issue you are talking about? Most of agriculture is done in Delta region away from the rives and barely any animals lives in those planes due to regular floods.
Seriously
@@GameControlYT, If India can make it work, why not China? Instead of speculating, countries should cooperate!
@@adamiskandar5107 cooperation never brought anything good in the world
@@GameControlYT with such a sweeping statement, how to dialogue?
@@adamiskandar5107 you don't, just keep quiet
This is how pakistan has issue with India building a dam on river which travel in pakistan, seriously not saying china is good guy here but all the southern Asian countries deserve eachother
It’s game over for India
I once believed anything reported by ABC. Lately, I just can't.
Hi oppressed Chinese
Wow... It will be an engineering wonder once completed. Very good ideas if environment is not affected.
Not only environment it will have effect on spin of earth ..
Harnessing water power for power generation as well as irrigation is welcome but safety and needs of the people of the entire region is important and secrecy and hegemony is to be avoided .the video is informative.
If this help Tibet & Yunnan province than I am super happy for them🙂❤️👌👌👌
Feel so bad for the real owners of the land Tibetans.
The madness of CCP
The madness of USA
@@TCLTCL-mk4vk +20 social credit score
Smart that China has proposed a productive use for the river. In India, they simply pollute it.
Yes like most of chines rivers. Biggest polluted place
why does "water expert" make me laugh lol
Nevermind Tibet is not their's!
India also doing the same weaponising dams all along the border with Nepal. India made so many illegal dams alongside the border with Nepal without even consulting with Nepal like for an example, a dam called tanakpur bridge, koshi bridge, so many of them and even Nepal requested many times to India for meetings to solve these issues but india said no for the meetings and because of that so many agricultural lands of nepal going barren.
Please make a video on that also how india bullying it's small neighbour.
Same in bangladesh
We're loving it. Have fun
Really??
As if we already don't have enough border issues and internal issues, that we have time to "bully" other countries??
We'll see who's bullying who. Sri Lanka has come to its senses to what happens when you think China is a friend.
India and Nepal really share most of their culture. Why the heck we are gonna bully you dude.
@@bingbong5159 Same in America.
Building dams downstream doesn't affect you. Building upstream though does affect what happens downstream. Huge difference.
A great construction project in human history. 👍
You never make a video when India made dam on Pakistani river.
Without liberation of Tibet, South Asia will dry up.
@Milad Ismael Wrong. Pakistan gets more water from the Indus than they should. According to the Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan gets waters of Indus, Jheelum and Chenab. India gets Ravi, Sutlej and Beas.
"What Is Indus Waters Treaty?
India and Pakistan signed a treaty for sharing of river waters of the Indus drainage system in 1960. The agreement was mediated by the World Bank and named as the Indus Waters Treaty.
Under this treaty, Pakistan got a favourable division of waters of the six rivers of the Indus system. Pakistan was given rivers that had greater volumes of flowing water.
India was allocated the waters of the Sutlej, the Beas and the Ravi the three less voluminous eastern tributaries of the Indus. More voluminous rivers, the Indus and its western tributaries, the Jhelum and Chenab went to Pakistan.
The distribution of river waters gave India a share of about 20 per cent or about 3.3 crore of 16.8 crore acre-feet of estimated water in the Indus system. India has never utilised full share of the Indus waters allocated to it."
@Milad Ismael If you want Indus "handed over to Pakistan" then you should talk to China, because Indus originates in Tibet. Indus also flows through Indian Kashmir, not just Ladakh. Indus waters are used in Indian Kashmir only, rest of India does not use it at all.
Read the Indus Water Treaty.
thats alot of damage. when earthqueke attack alot of people will die
If they design to prevent the earthquake, I don’t think you should worry about it.
@@Lisa-kx5wd chiness design i prefer no.
The displacement of weight from the water will cause earthquakes!!!
God, when will massive engineering projects like this finally learn and start to consider the geological impacts on the nearby region?
Thats not how Earthquakes work boomer
@@zylnexxd842 At last someone who understands basic geology!
What we should _really_ be worried about with all these Chinese megaprojects is if they dig too deep because they'll hit the core and let all the gravity out.
The Three Gorges Dam created so much pressure upstream that it actually caused major earthquakes after it filled up. This is a geologically unstable region already... that much water would create earthquakes. If that dam broke, it would kill millions downstream in both India and Bangladesh. This is a terrible idea, and very much can be used as a weapon.
China must building up this project.
A 16th century Telugu legend has predicted that third world war will start on the issues of water , these water issues should be solved immediately
Hope you are referring to Brahmam garu.
@@vamsiguntupally6395 so you are going to bring cast here as well?
@@mrbeastwithnomoney Just wanted to re confirm the Legend name if he mentioned Veera Brahmam garu or any other person. I dont even know his caste name nor I mentioned about caste in my previous statement.
@@mrbeastwithnomoney his name itself is brahmam not brahmin
china: im going to build a dam
india: no, you are trying to flood us
china: im going to build a canal (the ambitious Hongqi River project) to divert the excessive upsteam water flow up north, which will also benifits india during flood period.
india: no, you plan to drought us
Great China can always face up to greater challenges with determination and willpower. Long Live China.
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Store fresh water for irrigation and power.
Power?? How does water give you power? Lol
@@traceytaylor4132 Water turns turbines which generate electricity.
@@donnash5813 storing water don't generate electricity
@@bsobro It does when you release it.
China is clearly working hard to achieve the CO2 neutral emission target. Where are the actions of other countries? US? UK? Anyone?
They are nowhere near their target. You have been fed state media lies.
What happened to the dams they built not in the mtns
Say good bye to water, India.
India is the world's largest Democracy! Go Democracy, Go India!
I say go for it!
china is like youtube.
do it for views 😂
India is doing the same with Indus River 🤷🏼♂️
No it really isn’t tho, India has a water treaty with Pakistan, made on the consent of both countries.
Thats a LIE.
it would be nice if everyone lived on their own land and did not dream of other lands and countries
That area is China land though..
@@Ilovecruise Which land u are talking abt?
@Kumar Stilleatscowdung or tibet
tell that to the americans.
Hope Europeans leave natives lands Americas Australia new Zealand Zimbabwe south Africa Palestine and indian hindus leaves Kashmir khalistan north east bodos nagas lands and jawarnese native islands called Andaman Nicobar of jawarense tribes
This dam will never have a good ending.
Stfu
@@zylnexxd842 Get lost paid bot, don't come around here
What is the point of building a dam here when there's hardly any city or population at that place?.. unless you have some ulterior motive.
If it was built by India you would be celebrating 😂😂
Good job china carry-on. Bangladesh with u.
Lol this will affect poor khangladesh more than india