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16:30 At some point we're all going to have to sit down and agree that something being visible by satellite doesn't mean much anymore. My wristwatch can be seen by satellite. 😂

China when they see most steep river with high hydroelectric potential in tibetan wilderness: damm

Wrong Map, Arunachal Pradesh is part of India, These fake maps are mainly circulated by Chinese govt.

"Enough electricity to power the UK for an entire year". wut. This makes no sense.

Many of reports regards to this project fail to notice that monsoons and the rainfall / run off they bring happens downstream of China's territory at a much lower altitude.

2:10 the map shows the Indian state of Arunachal and two UTs JK and Ladakh as per conflicted region which is not. And the conflicted regions are shown part of either China or Pakistan.

The title to this video should refer to a Mega Power Project, no Mega Dam.

Movie 2012 anyone? Where China build a dam in the Himalaya's to secretly construct arks for the survival of humanity after the massive Yellowstone eruption and following poleshift 😂😂

This is forcing india to build a new dam in Arunachal Pradesh to make sure they can manage water flows

so 2000 meters drop would be 200 bars of pressure differential. that's going to be very challenging tbh...

And that map you showed is wrong. Arunachal Pradesh is part of indian democracy.

Me: I guess that you can say… My friend: DONT SAY IT! Me: god dam

What does it mean to power the UK for one year? If it can power the UK then it can do so permanently, not just for one year.

These specific mountains are uplifting at a rate of one meter per century. Out if everything, I'd imagine that'd pose the great problems and risk, especially for building and maintaining a 40 km long tunnel.

As a retired mine manager that has worked in Chinese gold mines for several years I can confirm that the Chinese are very good at tunneling and mining. Ok their safety culture was somewhat lacking but it is like all things in China rapidly improving, to be honest western ideas of safety a few decades ago was also pretty woeful. If a series of tunnels have to be driven 50 plus km and a series of underground power caverns excavated to manage the pressure drop then I see no reason why it couldn’t be done. Logistics and access maybe difficult, geology and hydrology may cause huge problems but the actual tunneling whether by drill and blast, but more likely by multiple tunnel boring machines is all proven technology in which the Chinese are well versed. The diversion dam at the upstream end would probably be no more than a low weir/ low head dam type structure, who needs a few more 10’s of meters of head when you have 2000m to play with, so interruption of water supply to international neighbors would not be a problem either during construction or operation plus a weir would allow the full river bed width to be used to bypass flood volumes back into the rivers natural course and allow minimum flows into the bypassed section of the gorge. The fact that the project is located on the collision zone between the China and Indian tectonic plates would need to be very carefully studied, I would imagine most of rocks here would be very contorted and low strength limestones and mudstones. So not a crazy idea, just a very big one.If I was not into my dotage i cannot envisage more exciting project to be involved in, on second thoughts, sign me up.

Underground hydroelectric power stations are a great idea. If done well, the sediment goes down the main river rather than into the diverted water inflow which is skimmed off the top. Here in New Zealand we have at least three of these types of hydroelectric power stations, Lake Manapouri being the most well known, which powers our aluminium smelter. By tunnelling a hole into the mountain and then damming the river at the top of the mountain the water "climbs" 30 metres in Lake Manapouri and then drops 178 metres (584 feet) down the tunnel (penstock) into the power station at the bottom of the mountain.

A tunnel setup would be exceptionally good for their downstream neighbors.Because its not holding any water back,normal flow is preserved. Electricity output would be somewhat variable over the year but i still think its the right move.Other powerplants can level those highs and lows. The only real question is whether the tunnel is cost effective

I know it is sort of out of bounce from your usual research, but I think a video on the 10 most technologically advanced countries would be a major hit 😮.

Might be a good idea to have consulted with multiple experts instead of 1 -- only

6:16 > "Before emptying in Indian ocean"!! That's bay of Bengal. Hope you'll remember this for future references.

Sounds like dam wars.

The US is learning the hard way, right now, that tunnels for water create cavitation that damages the tunnel.

This is the beginning of water wars😢

Why use the erroneous map in the video...disliked and complained.

0:15 "...power the UK for an entire year..." I suspect that the phrase "for an entire year" is unnecessary. Presumably the dam produces enough energy in one year to provide the UK's electricity for one year. In other words, the two "one year" cancel out and you could just state that it could "power the UK" period. The 'Meaningless And Unnecessary Units Of Time' error is very common with reporters and narrators.

The incident in Sikkim was on 4th October 2023. Writing from Sikkim. The implications are still going on. In 2020, China lost as many as 43 soldiers, but you didn't mention it!

I’ve said for decades that China’s interest and stranglehold on Tibet is “Water Related”. They’ve already managed to cut down the volume in several rivers that are critical for the Mekong River and Bangaladesh and NE India. If they continue to harness the headwaters of so many rivers it WILL become a serious geopolitical problem.

Although I'm a crazy fool in love with enormous engineering projects, it breaks my heart to think how many rivers in Asia, as already is the case in the American West and Alpine Europe, have been incarcerated with towering, concrete plugs or rechanneled for the convenience of housing sprawl and the efficiency of agriculture. The imposition of geometries that serve our convenience, however, happen to bedevil ancient, pristine environments with their least natural shapes: right angles and straight lines. As with the brutal corruption of the world's oceans with our human storm of noise, our flood of plastic, our sewage overflow and bycatch cloudbursts, the rivers of the Earth have been sterilized with chemicals, clogged with silt, suffocated of oxygen by reservoirs and dismembered by dams. When I hear about new such travesties, I think of that great line in "Under The Volcano," when the protagonist contends with a familiar endless but aimless discussion of national interests: "It's too late in the world for flags," he quips, bitterly. Precious the irony of apothegm that so much power of history can be condensed in eight words and recast as a history of power. And like any recipe for abbreviated disasters, just add water to those eight parched words and it's already too late in the world for dams. Especially if the little sea a dam will birth must straddle an ominous crack in the Earth, on a mountain touching the sky, while everyone pretends that no-one asked, "but why?"

I love the way you've transformed this channel, Regis.

Yes, lets build a damn on top of a seismically active area. Not like the Himalayas are done growing... this is like buying your toddler super expensive shoes. 😂

I think 2012 movie is coming to life love it, we play with nature and it start playing with us😅 Awesome plan

60 GW??!! That's enough to power 50 trips back in time!

Scott Lindgren led a major whitewater kayaking expedition down the Tsangpo River, theres a documentary of it somewhere.

very informative! great video!

"To dam the impossible dam to fight the impossible flow To bear with bear with unbearable power To run where the waves dare not go"

My opinion.. Put that much water flowing that far downhill, that fast, the water will scour the inside of the tunnel quickly. Water is harder than steel, harder than rock or concrete, and flowing water oscillates. Quickly, it will bang into one side of the tunnel and then the other. Single digit years, that is all it will last. Lessons were learned in the spillway tunnels of Glen Canyon Dam during the high releases of 1983 and 1984

The British had a plan to divert the Yarlung Zangpo into the Kali Gandhaki. Where the Kali Gandhaki cuts through the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountains is the deepest gorge on Earth.

Bro, I love that you have 1.1M subs and you still use a janky lighting setup, broadcasting from a room in your house. I'm not being facetious, I think it's great. Content is king. Nice work.

So glad to see that Kashmir isn't a part of India in the map you presented ❤

Catastrophe struck Sikkim on October 4 last year when Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) devastated the region. The disaster wiped out 80% of Sikkim’s electricity generation capacity, including a significant 1200 MW hydropower plant ( Tiny Dam as mentioned 16:49 ). Currently, no hydropower projects along the Teesta River in Sikkim are operational, allowing the river to flow freely. Along with the water, a significant amount of materials has also been carried downstream. We hope this leads to a bountiful harvest for Bangladeshi farmers, who may benefit from the increased water flow and nutrient-rich sediment.

If the dam leads to a reduction or disruption of water flow to downstream countries could we see a dispute similar to that of Egypt and Ethiopia?

I saw a small dam in Idaho burst, back in about 1980, whole roadbeds were transferred, intact, a long way. There was one old 3 story farmstead with it's snow stair moved about 1/2 of a mile, we played 'Match the House' where you try to figure whar pile of rubble matched which cellar. A fun car game. Dams fail. Think New York in about 1902ish. Death and destruction from a smaller dam project.

India has also recklessly constructed multiple dams on rivers going to Pakistan. China has only learnt it now from India.

This is the reason why china fought a war in 1962 with India for tibet and Himalayas for the pure water bodies and these projects

I don't know exactly if they can or not and I hope they can. Other than that, I saw the Three Gorges Dam up close, it's really big.

I think Bangladesh has the right to say no, according to the international laws of the rivers, passing through different countries.

This video is so waffly, so here is the whole risk/reward evaluation in one sentence: There is a huge amount of potential hydro-power available where the Yarlung Tsangpo river descends steeply from the Tibetan plateau because it nearly doubles back on itself, BUT the Himalayan range is experiencing rapid tectonic uplift and is geologically unstable, so excavating long tunnels through these mountains is likely to end in tears.

This is going to be a geological nightmare just like the 3 gorges dam.

Remove all the cement blocking rivers asap. The subcontinent just recorded a temperature of 53C degree this June. This is beyond what humans can withstand (ditto, animals, fish, birds, microbes.)

This should be an international cooperative project where every country involved shares expense and rewards. ( maybe this will even strengthen the connections between the countries involved )

Main agenda to have full control on Bramhaputra river

Flat earthers gonna freak the bowl will fill

60 Gigawatt? GREAT SCOTT! :D

This dam idea is actually really really smart, by using a tunnel and huge elevation difference, there's no need to build a huge concrete dam holding back a large water body. A portion of the water can simply be diverted into the pipe tunnels to the turbines or letting the water run its old course during maintenance/down time.

Better figure out what concrete is first 😂

1:48 Dr Ruth Gamble,Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia ......an environmental, cultural and climate historian of Tibet, the Himalaya, and Asia. She is writing her third book, a history of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River. Dr Gamble has taught across a range of areas including environmental history, environmental humanities, religion and philosophy, South and East Asian History, and the Tibetan language. She developed an award-nominated, interactive eTextbook for Tibetan language studies. She co-developed the Environmental Humanities core subject, Global Environments, Asian Environmental History for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dams has sediment flushing provisions with the outlets lower than the turbine outlets. Run of the river dam do not stop the flow of water. After a brief period of filling the dam normal river water resume. However some water may be diverted for irrigation

If its going te be realized, then India and Bangladesh have to start building there water reservoirs. Hopefully they will cooperate together.

Sounds like a interesting experiment with a few impressivly catastrophic risks, have at it!!

Run of the river projects don't require huge lakes to develop their water pressure. Without the reservoir, the impact of landslides and earthquakes is diminished. Niagara Falls power plant is an example Construction will need to avoid impeding sediment flow. Silted in dams lose capacity.

The Angry Beavers: "Hold my beer..."

In Tibet which they stole? Hmmm...

I wonder how many people were displaced to build this one.

Ahhh so that's why I saw those drones grabbing concrete bags..

So generous of china spending 100b$ to help uk with their electricity

Happy Independence Day America 🦅

I remembered that I've seen people talking about this project decades ago, and the project is not just about the dam, but also a super canel that links the river with Xinjiang to eliminate the deserts there

It's possible but very difficult to build heavy infrastructure in the Himalayas. The earth is very fragile & unstable ,minor earthquakes are frequent, water will gush through the walls if you're building a tunnel.

If USA builds a dam, that' fine, that's success, that's progress, that's "green". If China does the same, "that's extremely bad", no matter what.

*some guy to the Three Gorges Dam: I don't want to play with you anymore

He referred to this project as crazy a crazy number of times.

So nice of them to power the UK

holy... 60 gwh?! that's 10x your standard nuclear power plants

This sounds like straight out from 2012 movie.

The tunneling variant looks much safer and cost effficent to me, even if a lot of power gets unused while it flows over, or doesent fit into the tunnel. Because you can avoid being destroyed by landslides, a lot of sediment can still flow through, and you dont have to deal with this big waves of flush every monsoon season. So the overflow can still use the old riverbed and wont break your dam. It takes longer, but its way more protected from the elements, and safer from earthquakes and falling rocks.

Also a warmer planet is a wetter planet, not a drier planet.

whoever thought of nuking a proposed water source wasn't thinking

The majority (~70%) of the catchments of this river are within India and Bangladesh borders, so they both won't be affected at all, especially since it is a "run-of-the-river" which literally is NOT to disrupt flow nor does it store water. And it was recently confirmed by Indian government as well. In fact, this dam could help India and Bangladesh by allowing them to build storage dams in their own borders without any need to disrupt flow of waters while capitalizing on already controlled upstream flow from Chinese side, for a few years- thus making dams cheaper for Bangladesh and India if they coincide with the construction of this Chinese dam.

Love this channel. Anything that doesnt have whistler narrating

16:55 it was not sikkim it was joshimath in uttrakhand where the glacier burst happend

Oh dam…

0:15 What does that even mean?? Over what time-span, a day, a week, a year, every second?

Please, whenever you mention coal burning for electricity production, never forget to mention that in addition to all the CO2 production, it also produces radioactive wastes that are simply released in the atmosphere, contrary to nuclear plans who retain all radioactive elements for safe storage!

4:30 "insane altitude" -- "insane" ELEVATION. 'Altitude' is from the surface you're measuring from (terra firma). 'Elevation' is from sea level. It would only make sense if you're referring to the plateau height from sea level. FYI.

Let me know when a single mega project ever on this channel is completed. I tried to go back 3 years. Maybe i am mistaken. Not saying 0 mega projects have ever been finished. Just saying none i have seen on this channel. 3 years isn't much either. Now maybe 10 years.

A dam of this size in a very active earthquake zone is like an atomic bomb that can blast at any moment

What incredible construction project , just crazy ❤❤❤ Great video

As observed from satellites, a warmer planet is a wetter, greener planet.

One of the CCP’s greatest crimes against humanity and the natural world. This part of the Yarlung Tsangpo is sacred to its native Tibetan inhabitants, it belongs to a place called Pemakö (པདྨ་བཀོད), one of Tibet’s many “hidden lands”, which are considered sacred spaces and portals into another, divine world. This gorge has been famously impenetrable, by even the most intrepid Victorian explorers such as Younghusband. The book “The Heart of the World” by Ian Baker covers this place and topic extensively and does it justice. This would be a complete and utter travesty in all aspects. Nothing about this can be considered a “triumph”.

Dude atleast show the correct map of india

Tunnel seems like a good idea then. Given this isn't a dam, but a run of the river, then even if it was destroyed by an earthquake, then there wouldn't be many significant downstream consequences as the river would just continue running as normal (assuming they will also retain the original line of the river as an overflow.)

Fresh water will be priceless in the future lol

Why did you need to use morphed map of Bharat?

Hey boys and girls, remember the 7.2 earthquake in Nepal several years ago ? Yup. Coming to a new dam in Tibet soon. 😂😅

Tofu dreg construction should hold up well.

19:00 if they find a way to let the sediments through, they'll probably sell it by the truckload 🤑

This hydropower plant is China's contribution to south Asia energy need and the gate way to greater Bengal, traditional friend of Buddhist China.

In a country that has never been theirs absolutely amazing

Better to split the colossal project into several smaller ones so that when natural disaster happens, the damage can be contained.