1. By: 陈祥

3.  Dam at full capacity can provide 10% (22,500 mega watts) clean power for the entire China Needs)  Took 17 years to build (my entire life) and $37 billion (Completion of build 2009)  There is so much water in the dam it is slowing the Earths rotation  Largest hydroelectric power station in the world

4.  Generators weigh 6,000 TONS EACH, capable of producing 700+ MW. The dam has 32 of these. ($150M Each)  The dam can create as much power as 18 nuclear power plants  http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=tjTh7A4jnb c http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=tjTh7A4jnb c

5.  Three Gorges dam is one of few human made structures that can be viewed from space

6.  "I have just drunk the waters of Changsha And come to eat the fish of Wuchang. Now I am swimming across the great Yangtze, Looking afar to the open sky of Chu. Let the wind blow and waves beat, Better far than idly strolling in a courtyard. Today I am at ease. "It was by a stream that the Master said - "Thus so things flow away!""  Sails move with the wind. Tortoise and Snake are still. Great plans are afoot: A bridge will fly to span the north and south, Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare; Walls of stone will stand upstream to the west To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges. The mountain goddess if she is still there Will marvel at a world so changed."

7.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDE8nyi0_ 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDE8nyi0_ 8