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China Is Adding a Three Gorges Dam Worth of Wind Every Year
- touristtam 11y agoview of the dam's reservoir: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=3433 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=3433
- Gravityloss 11y agoWind energy has finally grown so it's worth a dam. And then some. Mountain reservoirs will have to play a big part in load balancing if coal is ever to be phased out. China has also invested in massive ultra high voltage transmission lines which should help. Those have been mostly foreign technology so far but things have been changing. We all could have chinese windmills, transformers and frequency converters before long...