Welcome back to another video if you're new to the channel
then my name is Jason AKA Hanbao Wang
Today we're in Hubei Province, in Yichang
We're gonna be exploring
the Magnificent the engineering Marvel that is the three gorgeous Dam
first look at this hotel I should make a video just about this hotel
anyway cue the Epic intro in three two one let's go
the Three Gorges Dam the world's largest hydroelectric Dam with 34 turbines and
an installed capacity of 22 and a half thousand megawatts producing
clean renewable energy it stands at 180 meters in height and two point
kilometers in length the structure took 17 million cubic meters of concrete to complete enough to
construct five Hoover dams how about that then America why don't you put that in your headlines
the dam holds back approximately 39 cubic kilometers of water American scientists calculated
that the mass contained in the Dam's Reservoir actually slowed down the Earth's rotation by 0.06
microseconds yes that's right China's actually giving you more time in the day construction
began in 1994 and the damn body was completed in 2006 and this Marvel of engineering this
colossal construction has been standing strong ever since although it had a construction cost
of a whopping 32 billion US dollars that cost has already been recovered in 2013 the dam now brings
in an income of around 7 billion US dollars per year by providing flood storage space the dam
reduces the potential for floods Downstream which have historically plagued the yams of Lane the dam
has drastically reduced flooding in the region and literally saved millions of people's lives
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apologize for that Dad joke but you know I'm a dad now I can make those kind of jokes okay wow
we are now on the main structure uh of the dam of the three gorgeous stem and this is
um the largest of its kind by installed capacity so we're standing somewhere along here right now
the turbines were designed um by a Chinese company and a German company so it's kind of
an international cooperation here you know and it's just crazy if you think about it the river
the the Yangtze River a river so ferocious so powerful that we humans have invented something to
directly influence the flow of a river just think about that for a second it's crazy I mean look at
this Mega structure we've literally stopped a river in its tracks and controlling the level
of water at one side different to the other it's crazy if you just think about that I mean
human innovation are now at the ship lifts I mean look at that look at the
height of it it stands at 113 meters and it can lift ships weighing up to three
thousand tons takes around 30 to 40 minutes for the ships to uh go through it as opposed to when
they would go through the ship locks we would take three to four hours so we're saving quite a bit of
time well I think that may be the biggest elevator I've ever seen in my life we are now on escalator
who would have thought they'd have an escalator at a Down they have a damn escalator at a dam it's
quite a big one we're heading up to some Scenic spot now so we can have a look Over the Hole place
so in this direction the river passes through the city's Wuhan
uh Nanjing and heads towards Shanghai and then out into the sea and then if you come over this
way you're going in the opposite direction inwards to China heading towards Chongqing
um and you can just see in front of me there the reservoir we are now at the three gorgeous
right Bank power station and we're about to go inside wow we've even got the uh
military guy God in the door here oh my God wow oh it's so cool inside
oh whoa
whoa look at the Chinese flag
so you can see in front of me here there are 12 turbines and the ones with the little red lights
on it means that they're currently working so before the dam was constructed you know
um Chinese they anticipated that it would affect the fish or some of the fish in the river once
they construct the dam uh this Chinese sturgeon to be precise and so they constructed this uh
Institute to protect the Chinese sturgeon which um you can see here are these are the the baby ones
because Chinese sturgeon let me tell you this they can grow up to 100 kilograms and I think they do
have some big ones here hold on let me let me try and find it for you and they've been around since
the dinosaurs I don't know which period maybe the Jurassic period but anyway so they created uh this
Institute to protect the natural Wildlife oh these are slightly uh slightly bigger ones I'm
sure we can find uh even bigger ones oh my God these are tiny ones hold on a second let me find
massive dinosaur sturgeon ah these are quite big whoa there's a white one there
but you know if you were to tune into Western media they're gonna say oh China constructed
the three gorgeous Dam and they wiped out all the wildlife well that's just simply
not true they actually built this kind of facility is like this even before the
dam was constructed to protect the natural wildlife in the area so you know when you
tune into Western media you know just just think twice you know seeing is believing
I mean this place is just a massive facility and now I've just found out where the biggest
sturgeons are look I mean just look at this wait just hold on
spaces and now we have some massive sturgeons here oh my God they're like
sharp right I'm still searching for a massive Chinese sturgeon I mean them those ones were
pretty big but I've been told that further down here they have the biggest ones so
so let's go take a look we're searching for a kind of Moby Dick
wow my God I think we've found the biggest one it's kind of hard to
see the size because it's like it's it's on the bottom of the water but that is massive
it's probably 100 kg whoa that one's even bigger
I bet that's about 150 kg that's bigger than me it's my six or seven foot long
so actually I just found out they can actually live a similar age to humans so
some of them can live up to a hundred years old I mean that is just crazy
now we've come to uh another Institute where they will protect all the plant species and
more than 1 300 species of plants are protected at this institute you can see some of them here
okay that is the end of this video I hope you enjoyed that little tour around the
three gorgeous Dam and I will see you in the next one signing off signing off