On this day 100 years ago GOELRO plan was accepted by Sovnarkom of the USSR. According to this plan, 20 thermal power stations and 10 hydroelectric power stations were to be built in the USSR in 15 years, including the largest one in Europe, Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, built in Ukraine in 1932.
TIL the 5 largest power stations in the world are all hydroelectric en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan on the Murghab River. This was the Hindu Kush Hydro Power Plant, in today’s Turkmenistan, the largest hydro power plant of Russian Empire (built 1909). Taken in 1911.
TIL The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei province, China and is the world's largest power station. In 2010, NASA scientists calculated that shift of water mass stored by the dams increases the length of the earth's days by 0.06 µs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thr…
TIL The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei province, China and is the world's largest power station. In 2010, NASA scientists calculated that shift of water mass stored by the dams increases the length of the earth's days by 0.06 µs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thr…
An aerial view of the Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station, the largest hydroelectric power plant in Germany and one of the largest in Europe
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant, which is described as the "largest battery in the world", on the border between Virginia and West Virginia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat…
TIL the 5 largest power stations in the world are all hydroelectric en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
This tunnel of a hydroelectric power station in Columbia v.redd.it/2af7xax88ih71
German soldiers in front of the destroyed Dnieper hydroelectric power station in Zaporozhye. 1942
These massive Turbines after failure. On 17 August 2009, a turbine at the hydroelectric power station of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam near Sayanogorsk in Russia failed catastrophically, flooding the turbine hall and killing 75 people. reddit.com/gallery/q63ozv
The construction of Zemo Avchal hydroelectric power station (by Soviet artist Boris Ioganson, 1925)
Builders of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station by V. Popkov, 1961
Water shoots out of the outlet of the hydroelectric power station below the Ruhr dam near Heimbach, Germany, Friday, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP Photo)
Hydroelectric Power Station Turbine Inlet reddit.com/gallery/qpnczw
Ethiopia is building the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa, Egypt opposes the dam which it believes will reduce the amount of water that it gets, Ethiopia asserts that the dam will in fact increase water flow to Egypt by reducing evaporation on Egypt's Lake Nasser, How so?
Egypt's dependency on the Nile in one picture
Sisi: Egypt Does Not Want War with Ethiopia, Sudan
[Cairo taps World Bank to mediate Ethiopian dam dispute] (http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/27/c_136853702.htm)
[Ethiopia leader rejects call for World Bank arbitration in dam dispute] (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-egypt-dam/ethiopia-leader-rejects-call-for-world-bank-arbitration-in-dam-dispute-idUSKBN1FA0WE)
Deputy Mayor of Goris Menua Hovsepyan said that the communal lands of the Karahunj village of the Syunik region of Armenia and the hydroelectric power station located on its territory will also come under the control of Azerbaijan. caucasus.liveuamap.com/en…
Ruins of an abandoned hydroelectric power station.
Komsomol women workers at a hydroelectric power station construction site (photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, 1930s).
Ruins of an abandoned hydroelectric power station.
Ruins of an abandoned hydroelectric power station.
The Mother Volga monument in honor of the Volga River is located in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl Region), on a long spit, about 400 m from the Rybinsk Hydroelectric Power Station lock. reddit.com/gallery/musf5t
Ruins of an abandoned hydroelectric power station.
Ruins of an abandoned hydroelectric power station.
"Valera and Vadim. Builders of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station" painting by Anatoly Levitin, USSR, 1961
BURUNDI: Bujumbura approves the construction of 2 hydroelectric power stations | Afrik 21 afrik21.africa/en/burundi…
On December 14, 2005 the Tom Sauk hydroelectric power station reservoir in Missouri, collapsed and caused a massive amount of destruction. Up to $1 billion+ in property damage.
Batman’s Hydroelectric Power Station in the Batcave (WIP) flickr.com/gp/maclaughlin…
Abandoned Podolsky waterworks. Project Podolsk sea. Russia. Podolsky hydroelectric station is one of the largest late - Soviet projects, the purpose of which was to create a large reservoir in the South of Moscow - "Podolsky sea".
Abandoned Podolsky waterworks. Project Podolsk sea. Russia. Podolsky hydroelectric station is one of the largest late - Soviet projects, the purpose of which was to create a large reservoir in the South of Moscow - "Podolsky sea".
high water temperatures caused by low water levels due to the Kenney Dam. The dam diverts, on average, 70 per cent of the Nechako’s flow to the Kemano hydroelectric station that provides power to the Rio Tinto aluminum smelter in Kitimat, B.C. nationalobserver.com/2021…
Abandoned Podolsky waterworks. Project Podolsk sea. Russia. Podolsky hydroelectric station is one of the largest late - Soviet projects, the purpose of which was to create a large reservoir in the South of Moscow - "Podolsky sea".
Batman’s Hydroelectric Power Station in the Batcave (WIP)
Abandoned Podil hydroelectric station. Project Podolsk sea. Russia. Podolsk HPP - one of the largest late-Soviet projects, the purpose of which was to create a large reservoir in the South of Moscow - "Podolsk sea".
TIL the Dnieper dam,the largest hydroelectric station in the soviet union was build with the help of american engineers. 6 americans received the medal of the order of the red banner of labour for "the outstanding work" in the construction of the dam en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dni…
After a dam failure in March 2020 this hydroelectric station was heavily damaged in another dam breach. Power station has yet to be formally commissioned. Kemsky District, Russia - 10/24/2020 v.redd.it/8ki7bbc5lgv51
