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| China moves ahead with project to rival Three Gorges in size |
| 2006-11-27 |
| China has kicked off construction of a giant dam on the upper parts of the Yangtze as part of a plan that will eventually rival the Three Gorges project in size, state media reported Monday. The 28.9-billion-yuan (3.7-billion-dollars) Xiangjiaba project, in southwest China's Sichuan province, will have six million kilowatt of installed capacity when completed in nine years, the China Daily said. When combined with the 12.6 million kilowatt Xiluodu project, started further downstream 11 months ago, it will be the equivalent of the 18.2 million kilowatt Three Gorges Project, the largest hydro project in China. "The project will have to face manifold challenges, including environmental protection and resettlement of residents," said Fan Qixiang, the vice-president of China Three Gorges Project Corp, the builder of the project. The company will earmark 1.46 billion yuan for environment protection, Fan added. Nearly 90,000 residents from six counties in Sichuan and the neighboring province of Yunnan will be forced to leave their homes because of the project, the report said. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #5 In the 1990's roughly 80% of China's population was classified as [AGRARIAN/RURAL]POOR andor below the poverty line, a ratio which has only slightly decreased Year 2000-2006. As wid the majority or bulk of world Muslims, they have to be taught WHAT HYDRO- AND NUKE POWER PLANTS, etc. ARE. Anyhoo, when and iff America = Amerika, the USA = USSA = USR/SSR one day is de facto gone, it'll be interesting to see whose form of anti-US asymmetric warfare is superior > RUSSIA vv ENERGY, or CHINA vv WATER, for control of Mackinder's World Island??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-11-27 21:42 |
| #4 I'd also wager that these massive engineering projects are a combination of "rice bowl" for keeping the local labor population calm and some major pork barrel distribution for the PLA brass. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-27 21:34 |
| #3 Actually while they know how to build the reactors they don't have the knowledge or infrastructure to build the 'pebbles'. If I remember correctly there are only 2 or 3 firms in the world that have the engineering know how to make them. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2006-11-27 20:34 |
| #2 Fo this price I don't see why they don;t just build a few nuclear powerplants. They know how to build pebble-bed reactors, but I haven;t seen anything reported on them recently. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-11-27 20:11 |
| #1 Keep on building those large vulnerable and catastrophic failure-prone targets, China. Then later you can sit back and wonder why you diverted such massive wealth into procuring arms whose single use will automatically bring about your destruction. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-27 19:50 |