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The engineering behind the Three Gorges Dam that slowed earth's rotation
China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest power station ever built — 2.3 km of concrete, 22,500 MW of capacity, and a reservoir holding roughly 40 billion tonnes of water. It's so massive that NASA scientists calculated it lengthened Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds and shifted the poles by about 2 cm. This is the engineering, the physics, and ...
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