Three Gorges Dam: The World's Most Powerful Dam

The future for the 3 Gorges Dam? Catastrophic destruction. The Chinese government lies, and then they lie about lying to escape the first wave of lies.

Yall can see for yourself on googlemaps salelite. Looks pretty straight to me still. So much disinformation out here. If it was offset as bad as the picture in the video suggest, i would have totally failed by now.

Slows down the Earth rotation…eh

Fake sat photos!!!

There’s another dam not far away which is older

Having worked for a considerable time in China. I wouldn't be want to live downstream of a PRC monster dam.

I have seen the dam in google maps today (2023) and surprise, it is exactly like the picture shown and dated in 2008. So the 2018 picture shown in this video is a fake one. What is the purpose of lying in this way? The whole video is based more in your willing than in reality.

In my fictional world, this dam never collapse

In my fictional world, fictional an made up dams are dominated the most powerful dams in the world

I can't help thinking that this is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

Wait till it dries up. Cuz it probably will backfire

And it changes weather patterns. But that's part of the plan

People of China overthrow your Communist regime and be free again. Yes again you used to be free. They erase that part of your history

Guess what's near the end of this river? Wuhan and it's COVID lab... all will be washed away into the sea.

just a matter of time

Bla bla bla people died bla bla bla BBC garbage.

许多人认为需要在世界各地的水坝周围建造旁通阀。如果您还没有好的方法来转移分配的水。天气似乎正在发生变化。
Xǔduō rén rènwéi xūyào zài shìjiè gèdì de shuǐbà zhōuwéi jiànzào páng tōng fá. Rúguǒ nín hái méiyǒu hǎo de fāngfǎ lái zhuàn yí fēnpèi de shuǐ. Tiānqì sìhū zhèngzài fāshēng biànhuà.

The thumbnail is a myth - the image of the Three Gorge Dam buckling is a distortion via the limitations of satellite photography. From the ground, the dam itself is straight and sturdy; however, what the officials forget to mention or do not mention is the unforeseen engineering and geographical forces threatening the dam itself. Let me present concisely.

One of the most immediate problems is the dam’s shape. In basic physics and engineering terminology, an arch/curve evenly distributes pressure and stress, whether it is weight or fluids. By contrast, a triangle or rectangle has sharp corners, which creates pressure and stress; however, these issues can be harnessed as an advantage in other applications, such as Leonardo Da Vinci’s Miter Lock. 

The Three Gorge Dam was built as a straight line, a simple structure to build (arches/curves are harder to master); however, the entire dam is bearing the full might of the Yantze River, the stress and pressure unevenly distributed and nowhere to go. Chinese officials try censoring or downplaying the severity of the damages (i.e. cracks, leakages, etc), but engineers and geologists - Chinese and international alike - know the bitter truth(s), and can do nothing other than monitoring and reporting their findings. While the dam itself has provided copious amounts of electricity for the Chinese nation, the hazardous rush to harnessing the Yantze River is a disaster waiting to happen.

The "I told you so's" will be epic when it fails.

I pray the dam bursts. Justice from God.

I don't care what the officials in China say that damn looks like it's distorted, and if it ever goes there are wiped out.
It'll be the greatest disaster in world history.😮

They built it on a major earthquake fault. It is only a matter of time before it breaks.

Great Video, Like all large projects the benefits and risks are a complex balance, the biggest threat to this Project is the increased rainfall with global warming, thanks for sharing

It will break. I guarantee it. It WILL break.

not working to well this month they have just flooded Hong Kong

I am happy to see that collapse... Such a wonderful scenery ..❤❤

probably a greater benefit to Taiwan than anyone...

a few well placed bunker busters would be a good deterrent against a Chinese invasion...

How cool is it gonna be to see this collapse lol

China is RIFE with massive corruption. Shortcuts were taken when building that 30 billion dollar contract and money redirected into people's pockets.

Jealous channel...mind your own country business..😂🎉🎉🎉

hahaha made in china

我今年6月去過 不覺得重大變形

I’ve just checked the google earth image. This guy is lying. There is no bend. The image is fake. Guys, please go and see for yourself.

you are too late.
according TW news, the dam should collapsed in 2019.


and then later, they found it's just a distorted satellite image. LOL

1. At the end of dam constructing,
theroretically shall be water injected in 6 months,
while the China government deside
to fulfill it in 20 hours.
The result is the persistent structural weakness of the dam.
2. The tremendous water in the dam
can easily cause the 5 on the Richter Scale.
Such geological risks caused by excessive gravity
may further induce catastrophic flash floods.
3. 40% of the electricity generation
is actually used for virtual currency mining.

Unfortunately,
the Yanhtze River Basin
had already gone rampage
far beyond estimation.
The devastating flooding lies all over
upper, middle, and lower reaches.
Its two great lakes have also expanded unprecedently.
The Yanhtze River cannot be tamed any more.

It's one of the most successful dams in history but it's in China so it's propagandized as a useless failure.

Stunned they didn't learn that curves = stronger. Straight = Weaker. Come on, is it me??? Or can people see the elephant in the room.

Typhoon Haikui in 2023 and the last flooding in 2020. The once every 25, 50, 100 year floods are happening closer together and getting stronger with climate change. I expect the PRC has the resources to address what needs to be done. Failure is not an option.

Divide the river up, send some of it through any desert regions around China.

People commenting about it being a target in the event of war really don't understand how grave a crime of war this would be. It'd actually be the biggest single event when it comes to death of civilians ever, by a large margin.
If it comes to this, a given nation bombing this dam, international relations would be already so messed up that the rest of the world would be getting nuclear nuked due to the proportions said conflict would have reached.

I do think that this dam is a pretty unwise construction for many reasons. But it being a target in the event of a war is not likely.

This thing is going to burst and kill millions. The Chinese will always make horrible quality designs, cutting corners to save costs.

Nothing is 100 percent good. It is still better than not having the dam.

They said this for years. Another sour grape.

Lol sucks to be china lol

If the dam collapse it drown china for long long years .

The recent floods are a bad omen. When you drastically interfere with Mother Nature, you never know the timing and scale of the consequences. Time will tell . . .

It always worried me that the dam was straight.
Is there not some advantage in having such a structure curved into the water, against the pressure?

photoshop distorted image of the dam...ridiculous.