Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Dam!

So Chinese engineers blew up the last of the temporary dams at the just-completed Three Gorges Dam. Pretty sweet video of them doing so here. Especially cool is the views of the water levels suddenly rising/dropping. Although the hydroelectric portion of the dam isn't operational yet, it is completed structurally and now holding back a massive body of water. Three Gorges is 5x the size of the Hoover Dam.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Impressive.

andrewbishop said...

yes...most impressive young skywalker