{"id":9,"date":"2007-06-12T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/12\/worlds-largest-dam-and-generator-starts-a-3-day-trial\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T07:45:45","slug":"worlds-largest-dam-and-generator-starts-a-3-day-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/12\/worlds-largest-dam-and-generator-starts-a-3-day-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Largest Dam and Generator starts a 3 Day trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news100751173.html\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2007\/06\/three-gorges-dam.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The AP reports that China has\u00a0switched on the first of the 12 <span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span>turbines on the right side of the huge &#8220;Three Gorges Dam&#8221;, it is already supplying electricity to the Chinese national power grid after a 3 day test run. The dam itself, is the world&#8217;s biggest hydropower project, with a total cost in excess of $22.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">China is hoping that the dam will let it cut its dependence on coal (where even at the moment, they are installing 1 coal-burning power station <u>per week<\/u>), as well as controlling the annual\u00a0flooding on the <span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\">Yangtze river.<\/span> This latest development follows the activation of 14 turbines on the left bank of the dam, which began operating in September of 2005.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Via PHYSORG.COM [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news100751173.html\" title=\"PHYSORG.COM\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reports that China has\u00a0switched on the first of the 12 turbines on the right side of the huge &#8220;Three Gorges Dam&#8221;, it is already supplying electricity to the Chinese national power grid after a 3 day test run. The dam itself, is the world&#8217;s biggest hydropower project, with a total cost in excess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}