’13 Facts About the Controversial Massive Chinese Dam That Slowed the Earth’s Rotation’
25 June 2020
15:00
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It Has Slowed the Rotation of the Earth
The secret behind this phenomenon is inertia. If it hasn’t been established yet, the Three Gorges Dam is massive. When the dam is at its maximum, the reservoir holds 42 billion tons of water. A shift in mass that size does affect Earth, increasing the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds.
