This Hydroelectric Dam Is So Large It Slows The Rotation of The Earth

People affect the Earth in small and large ways

Grant Piper
4 min readSep 6, 2022
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The Three Gorges Dam in China is a massive construct that spans the Yangtze River. The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia. The flow of the river is so powerful that the Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric station in the world by power produced. The Three…

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.