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Three Gorges comes with its own battery setup. They can basically generate electricity on demand from that battery, assuming no drought. You don’t get that with
by seanmcdirmid 3y ago
Three Gorges comes with its own battery setup. They can basically generate electricity on demand from that battery, assuming no drought. You don’t get that with wind or solar without separate battery setup. That battery could even be the three gorges reservoir itself if you can pump water back up (not sure if they have a bottom reservoir for that).
- bobthepanda 3y agoDrought has hit China very hard recently. The problem is that some amount of water does have to flow through the Three Gorges since it is a major transportation artery and source of drinking water.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoDrinking water isn’t a major use case, but water for farming is, south China gets enough rain at least that drought isn’t so common (for now), but definitely not unheard of since it happened in 2022, see: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-...
- bobthepanda 3y agoFrom that article: > The Yangtze is the world’s third largest river, providing drinking water to more than 400 million Chinese people, and is the most vital waterway to China’s economy.