China’s $137 billion Himalayan mega-dam will power 300 million homes

China’s $137 billion Himalayan mega-dam will power 300 million homes

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[bobsmith]

Most of the water (80%) in the Indian Brahmaputra actual is from rainfall on the south side of the Himalayas which is within India and Bangladesh. Water in the Yarlung Zangbo is mainly from snow melt from the Tibetan plateau and contributes a small fraction of the water on the Indian side of the border. As far as the dam is concerned it will be a run of the river power facility with no dam or a small dam which will not affect downstream water flow. India and Bangladesh are being paranoid. Power transmission will be by HVDC which is greatly superior to HVAC transmission but technically more complicated.

[albback]

The dam is not a traditional dam barrier plant, but rather a run-of-the-river type system involving subterranean boring from high upstream to downstream. This reduces potential for flooding and water restriction.

Also, India is hypocritical on this issue as it also built dams affecting water flow downstream to Bangledesh.

Most news articles lack detail or nuance on the project, choosing to focus on geopolitical issues to incite emotion.

[darek]

? You propagate misunderstanding - buliding a hydropower plant doesn't change amount of water which is flowing - it just takes kinetic energy from the water. It doesn't make water to disappear. We don't know if water will be somehow redirected to flow into another region. If not amount of water will be the same.

[manimalworks]

In the meantime, India is building a dam on the same river right after it enters its territory. So what is the complaint?

[manimalworks]

Not a dam. The plan is boring a tunnel through the mountain at the great bend. So water flowing through the tunnel can drive the hydro turbines directly and in stages along the tunnel. At the end of tunnel, it connects back to the river.

[williamharding]

I recently spent 2 days at the 3 Gorges Dam in Yichang China, it is absolutely amazing and massive, it has 32 700mw turbine generators and 2 80mw turbine generators, it is so long, it's massive

[jforfun]

The Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra River) has an annual flow of 160 billion cubic meters at the Sino-Indian Line of Actual Control. However, as it crosses the Himalayas into the downstream plains, its runoff exceeds 600 billion cubic meters.

This suggests that the hydropower station has minimal impact on the water flow to downstream India.

However, the media heavily focuses on this project, mainly due to its connection with China.

Meanwhile, India’s hydropower projects, which have a significant impact on Pakistan and Bangladesh, receive little attention.

[Kai-icmp]

If you do your research, this dam only affects 20% of water flow that passes through India, that’s if they decide to close the dam off, 80% of water comes from within India, mainly from their extreme rain drops during monsoon season.

[FrancoisEustache-edgd]

This project is using a really new concept. It won't be the usual big high megadam with a big long lake on the river. Too much costly on that river. It will be a series of stair cased derivation tunnels with a small dam on each step. This way the water flow taken upstream will join the river at the bottom with minimal ecological impacts to the river ecosystem. Also with minimal impacts on the river flow entering India. The Indian propaganda never expected that solution so they keep repeating the same arguments they made when the project was first announced. China is now the world's master of tunneling technology and they have found a new innovative application for it.

[JBear-inql]

If China wanted to do nefarious things with the water upstream, it can do it without spending $130 billion, and as many other comments have explain, damming a river is not necessarily a bad thing. It has many benefits even for downstream. Everyone should cooperate to ensure maximum benefits for all countries, and stop making hyperbolic claims for geopolitical gains. Have we forgotten all of the nauseating negative propaganda spewed about the three gorges dam many years ago?

[ITeachChinese]

India talks about China all day and demonizes China, China doesn't give a dam 😂

[same.]

No, around 80% of water in the same river are sourced from within India's border. So there is no reason India should be concerned

[SuhandiWijaya]

India is just jealous, 1 neighboring civilation has gone to year 3000, while they still live in the stone age 😅😂

[kevintewey]

I think China has so many engineers.They can do anything literally
and look the number up

[jameschu]

China has the legitimate right to use the water for its national survival because the water fall within its territory. India has no say on how China going to use its own water. India has its own water catchment area on the Brahmaputra river and most of the rainfalls are.

[johnhayes]

Once the reservoir is full, the water still needs to go downstream. So unless the Chinese redirect the outflow away from India, the water still gets there.

[rozarijorodin]

This is not real risk for any sides...
Someone from west is making this difficult for China to share power to India and China...
With this project both sides can benefit, and water will still be the same for India...
They need to make research where all water is coming down the stream...
I'm sure there is no issue with the build...

[peterg]

India didn't inquire her neighboring countries before building their dams !

[Gerry-tw]

Hydroelectric power plants use the potential energy carried by water but do not consume the water itself. There will be no reduction in water supplies to areas downstream along the river. In fact, if countries communicate well and operations of the plant are well managed, floods and droughts in the countries involved will be improved or even eliminated.