Three Gorges Dam to be completed ahead of schedule.

182 million KW of clean energy, that sounds good. If only we would have more dams and burn less coal.
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Three Gorges Dam to be completed ahead of schedule.
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-04

YICHANG, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- An executive with the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation said the gigantic dam of the multi-function water control facility would be finished nine months ahead of schedule.

  Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of the corporation, said by May this year, the workers would have built the half-done dam from the southern bank of the river to the height of 185 meters.

"The Three Gorges Project will be capable of controlling the floods on the Yangtze by then and generating more electricity as the level of the water stored in the reservoir will rise from 135 meters at present to 156 meters," said Cao.

Situated near the Xiling Gorge, the easternmost gorge of the Three Gorges on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam is designed to have a length of 2,309 meters and a height of 185 meters.

It will also have the functions for flood control, power generation, navigation upon completion and will be built from northern and southern banks of the flood-prone Yangtze.

Launched in 1993, the Three Gorges Project, including the 185-m-high dam and 26 generators on both banks of the Yangtze, is being built in three phases on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China's longest.

In accordance with the original plan, the Three Gorges Project, with an estimated cost of 180 billion yuan (approximately 21.7 billion U.S. dollars), will also have 26 generators with a combined generating capacity of 18.2 million kw.

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