Nasa Gives No Credit: China Can Slow Earth’s Rotation with a Filling of the Three Gorges

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The largest hydroelectric power plant on the planet, built on the Yangtze River in central China, not only beats electrical generation records. NASA estimates that filling the reservoir of the Three Gorges completely would be enough for the duration of the day on Earth to increase by 0.06 microseconds. It is an impossible delay to notice on the home clock, but it reveals to what extent human activity already enters the physical accounts of the p…

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The Yangtze River is the third in the world in length, behind the Amazon and the Nile. The imposing reservoir contains 42 billion tons of water when it is in its maximum filling capacity (10 trillion gallons). Read more