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Some pics and basic info about the Belo Monte hydropower plant.
Located near the town of Altamira in the state of Pará (in the mist of the Amazon forest) it was build on the Xingu river between 2011 and 2016.
The river was transposed and two dams were build. Belo Monte which is the hydropower plant, 88 meters tall and with its 18 Francis turbines it has an installed capacity of 11,233 MW. This makes it the largest 100% Brazilian dam (Itaipú, the largest and number 1 by energy production is owned 50% by Brazil and 50% by Paraguay).
49% of Belo Monte belongs to Eletrobras, the rest to other pension funds and private investors, the company organized to run it is called "Norte Energia".
The second dam is the "vertedouro" located at the Pimantel site.
It's a water dam with a transposing channel connected to take water from its reservoir to Belo Monte. The Pimantel dam has no turbines, it only has a water discharge.
The maximum discharge capacity for Pimantel is 63,000 m^3/s. While the discharge that goes through the turbines in Belo Monte is of 775 m^3/s for each turbine.
Pic of the Generators being installed.
In total over 3 million cubic meters of concrete and 160k metric tons of steel were used during the construction. Most of the cement was provided by Itambé and Votorantim.
The dam attracted a lot of criticism by environmental groups and indigenous activists like the Cacique Raoni 
But leftist Presidents Lula and Dilma were the ones to approve the project.
At least Lula is good virtue signaling about environmentalism so annoying euros can leave us alone.
The construction of this dam is extremely dramatic as the construction site became a crime infested shithole (is in the middle of the rainforest and criminals offered services from drugs to prostitution to the workers). But that's another story. The dam flooded an area of 478 sq kilometers.
Schematics of the dam.
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How do you Belo Monte post and not include this pic
She died two weeks ago too
Also the Belo Monte we got is fake and straight compared to the original project:
Chad original compared to gay and limp-wristed version:
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Cringe activists and general-public-cels killing cool !engineering projects.
I already said that the post is just general info as the Belo Monte (and Angra 3
) clusterfricks deserve long effortposts. I'll write them eventually.
Honestly "environmentally" wise, a 4-reactor nuclear Power Plant next to the Xingu would have been a much greener alternative to Belo Monte.
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Dams are gay and globohomo, no wonder the world bank used to dole the little frickers out like they were adrenochrome filled teenagers back in the day. They used dams to counter BASED NVKE tech through their commie puppets at greenpeace and miscellaneous left-wing useful idiots
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meanwhile the Three Gorges Dam in China be like
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Lmao, the chink dam is already deforming after just one decade, while the Brazilian pride Itaipu stands strong with no structural pathologies after 40 years.
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If this exploded, how many would die?
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Dams don't explode. You could crash a 747 against that dam and it wouldn't affect the structure.
Dam rupture can occur due to faulty design underestimating the "sobrecarga" of water flow, faulty foundations not taking into account the type of soil or faulty materials. So far the only dam ruptures in Brazil were tail dams made of mud on mining sites, but those could have being avoided with a different design.
That being said, do not expect massive deaths in the millions from a Belo Monte rupture, there are only 10 municipios next to the Xingu River. Altamira is the most populated with 126k inhabitants.
Edit: here's a fantastic explanation of dam concrete by IBRACON (Instituto Brasileiro de Concreto).
https://ibracon.org.br/publicacoes/revistas_ibracon/rev_construcao/pdf/Revista_Concreto_63.pdf
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Reckon if I was to smash enough fully fuelled 747s into the dam it would eventually affect the structure.
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It would damage the generators and the pipes which led to the turbines but it wouldn't cause dam rupture, it would be superficial damage.
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Whoah
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Not enough
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Belo Monte isn't just in the middle of nowhere, it's where the people who live in the middle of nowhere have in mind when they say something is in the middle of nowhere.
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