IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements (spectrum.ieee.org)
from flango@lemmy.eco.br to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 11:19
https://lemmy.eco.br/post/11752512

The South American hydropower facility set records for energy generation

On average, Itaipu generates around 90 terawatt-hours of electricity annually. It set a record by generating 103.1 TWh in 2016 (surpassed in 2020 by Three Gorges’ 111.8-TWh output). To put 100 TWh into perspective, a power plant would need to burn approximately 50 million tonnes of coal to produce the same amount of energy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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expatriado@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 12:23 next collapse

i didn’t expect to see IEEE Spectrum on Lemmy, last physical paper magazine i still get

flango@lemmy.eco.br on 28 Mar 11:48 collapse

If you have suggestions of other free and cool magazines let me know. I really liked Nature (news) site, but recently they’ve put everything under a paywall.

Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Mar 13:06 collapse

The project had a massive ecological and social impact on the region. People who lost their homes and farms to the lake, were still not re-settled or compensated almost 20 years after it was formed, it displaced native peoples from their ancestral lands, drowned old growth forests which caused them to rot and release CO2 and methane, disrupted the reproductive cycle of several species of fish, towns that were far from the river and then were close to the expanded lake were inundated by mosquitos, I could go on.

But hey, progress right ?

Fucking dictatorship.

Itaipu was completelly unneccessary, A chain of smaller dams would have provided the same capacity, but with lower and more distributed impact, but the fucking dictators had to show how Brazil was capable of tackling huge engineering projects.