{"id":116700,"date":"2021-06-30T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=116700"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:54:47","slug":"worlds-second-biggest-hydroelectric-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-second-biggest-hydroelectric-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Second-biggest Hydroelectric Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following country recently turned on the Baihetan Dam, world\u2019s second-biggest hydroelectric dam?<br><\/strong>a) Germany<br>b) Russia<br>c) China<br>d) Norway<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 28 June 2021; China turned on the World\u2019s biggest hydropower dam in the southwestern region of the country.<\/li><li>According to the Chinese government announcement, first two generating units of the world\u2019s second-biggest hydroelectric dam were officially turned on.<\/li><li>This dam, named as Baihetan Dam is built upon the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze, is part of Chinese efforts to curb surging fossil fuel demand.<\/li><li>Plans call for the 289-m-tall Baihetan Dam to have 16 generating units with a capacity of 1 million kilowatts each.<\/li><li>It should be known that China is building more hydropower capacity even at a time when dams have fallen out of favor in other countries due to environmental complaints.<\/li><li>The announcement comes ahead of the ruling Communist Party\u2019s celebration this week of the official 100th anniversary of its 1921 founding.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-turns-on-second-biggest-dam-in-world\/article35024748.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-turns-on-second-biggest-dam-in-world\/article35024748.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following country recently turned on the Baihetan Dam, world\u2019s second-biggest hydroelectric dam?a) Germanyb) Russiac) Chinad) NorwayAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- On 28 June 2021; China turned on the World\u2019s biggest hydropower dam in the southwestern region of the country. According to the Chinese government announcement, first two generating units of the world\u2019s second-biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":116701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-116700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116702,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116700\/revisions\/116702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}