{"id":7453,"date":"2021-04-27T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2021-04-27T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:00:25","slug":"melting-glaciers-threaten-chinas-plan-to-build-worlds-biggest-hydroelectric-dam-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7453","title":{"rendered":"Melting glaciers threaten China\u2019s plan to build world\u2019s biggest hydroelectric dam in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe Yarlung\u00a0Tsangpo is the longest river in Tibet. And the Yarlung\u00a0Tsangpo valley in southern Tibet is the world\u2019s deepest valley with a 7,000-metre (23,000-foot) drop from the highest mountain peak to the lowest basin.China plans to build a hydropower plant in the valley with electricity generation capacity reaching 70 gigawatts, about three times that of the Three Gorges Dam. The project was approved by the central government last year and included in the 14th five-year plan with a deadline\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3131321\/melting-glaciers-threaten-chinas-plan-build-worlds-biggest\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe Yarlung\u00a0Tsangpo is the longest river in Tibet. And the Yarlung\u00a0Tsangpo valley in southern Tibet is the world\u2019s deepest valley with a 7,000-metre (23,000-foot) drop from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}