I misremembered. They disassembled it into around 400 pieces and brought it down by truck. There are no reports on them losing pieces. As I understand however, it has yet to reenter service. It is very possible they did actually end up losing pieces.
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Yes,the Indo-Boeing method of manufacture and assembly,"why are there so many left over screws...oh well"
I still don't understand the point of making this dam. The money and time needed to build this could easily have gone towards solar or wind projects in Tibet.
It is upstream of India so damming there creates a massive chokehold over one of India's most important sources of water. It creates tremendous geopolitical leverage that would allow China to throttle India with plausible deniability of intentions. It's only for electricity after all...
Once the damming is completed, India will essentially be finished as a fence sitter, heel dragger, and spoiler. They will have no choice but to fully support BRICS and SCO initiatives coming from China. They will also no longer have the freedom to support Western initiatives against China. Of course, the scale of extra electricity for China is no joke either, but the geopolitical angle I think is the biggest attraction.
How does it choke Indian water supply? I seriously doubt these resources would be spent just to one up India. If there is anything to read related to this, please do share.
The result will be the opposite. I expect a fallout if the dam does choke water supply but again what can they do about it other than complain?
You vastly underestimate the nature of this water supply to India. It would be life or death for many of their people. It's not "one upping" them, but instead putting a noose around their neck that you can tighten at any time. And there is nothing they can do about it. If you can't understand that much, you need to study India's national water sources more.
The dams by definition and design are also massive reservoirs. You can easily reduce or stop flow rate to bring those reservoirs closer to their maximum storage capacity and the downstream water supply is cut off or significantly reduced during that period. How long you can sustain that "choking" period depends entirely on how large the dams will be. I don't know how much information about the dams' water storage capacity is already out there but when we hear estimates of 3x or 5x (or whatever it may be) of the three gorges dam, that highly suggests to me a very significant capacity to manipulate downstream supply by enforcing periods of extreme flow and periods of restricted or reduced supply. If you think it is impossible to utilize that function in a geopolitical and weaponized way, ok. By all means do so. If I were the Indians, I would not be so sanguine though. I would be extremely concerned about the downstream impact.
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