According to their studies, construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam resulted in a slight, measurable change in Earth's rotation: it slowed it by 0.06 microseconds. The apparent ...

Mega-buildings and dams like China’s Three Gorges Dam are subtly shifting Earth’s rotation. With its 40 billion cubic meters of water, the dam affects our planet’s spin, adding 0.06 ...

China is cementing its place in renewable power with the world’s biggest hydropower dam China’s excitement about building the biggest hydropower dam on Earth is being somewhat dampened by the blowback ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China is a structure so huge that it controls one of the world's most powerful rivers—and even slightly slows down the Earth’s rotation.

designed to beam energy back to Earth, likened to an orbital "Three Gorges Dam." To construct the massive array, China’s Long March-9 reusable rockets will loft components into orbit ...