Name: 中國的超級水壩將如何永遠改變亞洲地圖？ (How China’s New Mega-Dam Will Change Asia’s Map Forever)
Uploaded: 2026-01-20T17:04:20.000Z
Duration: 28 min 57 s

On Christmas Day, 25 December 2024, the People's Republic of China celebrated the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the inauguration of the Three Gorges Dam, which is still to this day the largest and most impressive hydroelectric project ever accomplished in human history.

在 2024 年 12 月 25 日聖誕節這天，中華人民共和國慶祝了三峽大壩啟用 13 週年紀念，這座大壩至今仍是人類歷史上規模最龐大、最令人印象深刻的水力發電計畫。

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Spanning across China's Yangtze river, the Three Gorges dam cost roughly US$34 billion to construct.

這座橫跨中國長江的三峽大壩，建造經費大約花了 340 億美元。

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And it produces enough electricity to fully power all of the needs of a moderately sized modern country like the entire Netherlands.

它生產的電力足以完全滿足像整個荷蘭這樣一個中等現代國家的所有需求。

So titanic is the scale of the Three Gorges Dam that its construction has resulted in a measurable impact on the Earth's rotation that'll last for millions of years, long after our own species goes extinct.

三峽大壩的規模如此巨大，以至於它的建造對地球自轉造成了可測量的影響，這種影響將持續數百萬年，甚至在我們物種滅絕之後。

Daylight hours are now 0.06 microseconds longer than they were before the dam.

白天的時間現在比大壩建造前長了 0.06 微秒。

However, only a few days after the Three Gorges Dam's 13th anniversary, the Chinese government made an astonishing surprise announcement.

然而，就在三峽大壩 13 週年紀念日後幾天，中國政府卻做出了令人震驚的意外宣佈。

It had just approved of another brand new hydropower project that will somehow absolutely dwarf the scale of the Three Gorges Dam in just about every way conceivable.

它剛剛準許了一個全新的水力發電計畫，這個計畫的規模將在幾乎所有可想像的方面，遠遠超越三峽大壩。

Unlike the Three Gorges Dam, which was constructed almost in the center of China, this new dam that China announced, which still doesn't have an official name yet, will be built in an incredibly remote, sparsely populated part of the country, deep within the towering Himalayan mountains of Tibet.

與建在中國幾乎中心地帶的三峽大壩不同，中國宣佈的這個新水壩，目前還沒有正式名稱，將建在一個極其偏遠、人口稀少的地區，深入西藏雄偉的喜馬拉雅山脈。

Unlike the Yangtze, it'll also be built on a river that until now, you've probably never even heard about, Tibet's Yarlung Seng Po River.

與長江不同的是，它也將建在一個直到現在你可能從未聽說過的河流上，那就是西藏的雅魯藏布江。

But whenever it's eventually finished, the Chinese government expects that this new dam, built across this remote and obscure Himalayan river, will be capable of producing an astonishing 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year, roughly triple the power capacity that's currently manageable by the Three Gorges Dam.

但一旦最終完工，中國政府預計這個建在偏遠而不起眼的喜馬拉雅河上的新水壩，每年將能生產驚人的 3000 億千瓦小時的電力，大約是目前三峽大壩處理能力的三倍。

The scale of this power will be so colossal that all on its own, this new Himalayan megadam would be fully capable of providing for all of the annual electricity needs of modern day Germany.

這項計畫的發電量將會非常驚人，單憑這個新的喜馬拉雅超級水壩，就能完全滿足現代德國全年的電力需求。

And in order to complete it within this very remote and geographically challenging environment, the Chinese government projects that it will end up costing around 1 trillion yuan, or about 137 billion US dollars, about four times the price tag that it cost to finish the Three Gorges Dam.

為了在這麼偏遠且地理條件艱鉅的環境中完成，中國政府預計最終成本將高達約一兆人民幣，或約一千三百七十億美元，大約是三峽大壩完工成本的四倍。

And making it among the most expensive engineering megaprojects to ever be attempted in human history on a comparable scale to the cost of the International Space Station program.

這將使其成為人類歷史上，在規模上可與國際太空站計畫相提並論，最昂貴的工程超級計畫之一。

And China will not only have to overcome the financial challenges to finish the dam out either, it'll have to overcome the construction site's unique geographic and geologic challenges as well massive risks of earthquakes and landslides, and

中國不僅要克服財務上的挑戰才能完成這座水壩，還必須克服施工地點獨特的地理和地質挑戰，以及地震和山體滑坡的巨大風險，

the sharp geopolitical objections to the project that have already come from nations further downstream the river, like India and Bangladesh, who fear that China could be building the new dam to weaponize a significant amount of their water supplies during an intensifying period of climate change and water scarcity, leaving tens of millions of their citizens water needs at the veritable mercy of Beijing.

以及來自下游國家如印度和孟加拉的強烈地緣政治反對，他們擔心中國可能建造這座新水壩，在氣候變遷和水資源短缺日益嚴重的時期，將大量的水資源武器化，讓數千萬公民的用水需求聽任北京擺佈。

And in order to fully understand and appreciate how utterly insane this whole project really is, it helps to start out with the geography and the history of the river where this new dam is being built on the wild river that before this video you probably never even heard of the Yarlung Seng Po.

為了完全理解和體會這個計畫有多麼瘋狂，我們可以先從這條野溪的地理和歷史開始談起，這條河在你觀看這支影片之前，你可能從未聽說過，那就是雅魯藏布江。

An utterly raw and untamed river, the Yarlung Seng Po begins high up in the glaciers of Tibet, as so many other of Asia's greatest rivers do.

雅魯藏布江是一條極度原始且未經馴服的河流，它和其他許多亞洲最偉大的河流一樣，源頭位於西藏的高山冰川。

It flows from the west of Tibet to the east for roughly 1600 kilometers before it suddenly and violently u turns at this location, known as the Great Bend, before then radically shifting its course to the south through India and later Bangladesh, where it empties out into the Bay of Bengal and where it respectively becomes known as the more well known Brahmaputra river in India and later as the Jamuna river in Bangladesh.

它從西藏西部流向東部，長約一千六百公里，然後在一個稱為「大拐彎」的地方突然且劇烈地轉彎，接著大幅度轉向南流經印度，之後流經孟加拉，最終注入孟加拉灣，在那裡分別被稱為印度較為人熟知的布拉馬普特拉河，以及孟加拉的賈木納河。

While the river is still known as the Yarlung Seng Po as it flows through Tibet and China, it is the highest elevated major river that can be found anywh on the earth.

當河流流經西藏和中國時，它仍然被稱為雅魯藏布江，它是地球上海拔最高的が major river。

With an average elevation of about 4,000 meters above sea level, nearly as high as the highest peaks in the Alps are flowing through the Himalayan mountains themselves.

平均海拔約四千公尺，幾乎與阿爾卑斯山最高峰的高度相當，它流經喜馬拉雅山脈本身。

The river is located in such a remote, sparsely populated and difficult to reach part of the world that for most of human history it wasn't even entirely clear if the Yarlung Saint Po and the lower Brahmaputra in India were even the same river at all.

這條河位於世界上一個非常偏遠、人煙稀少且難以到達的地方，在人類歷史的大部分時間裡，甚至不完全清楚雅魯藏布江和印度下游的布拉馬普特拉河是否是同一條河。

In the late 19th century, there was significant speculation among geographers that the two rivers were indeed probably the same, but

在十九世紀末，地理學家們曾廣泛猜測這兩條河流確實是同一條，但

there had yet to be any scientifically conclusive proof.

當時還沒有任何科學上確鑿的證據。

The quest to become the first to prove that they were the same river was even further hyped up by the peculiar differences in elevation that was measured between them.

為了證明它們是同一條河而展開的探尋，因為兩者之間測量到的奇特高低落差，更是被炒得沸沸揚揚。

Since the Brahmaputra river was thousands of meters lower in elevation than the Yarlung Saint Po was.

因為布拉馬普特拉河的河床比雅魯藏布江低了好幾千公尺。

This led to runaway speculation at the time that somewhere deep in the then uncharted and unexplored wilds of Tibet, the two rivers could have been linked by the biggest waterfall on the planet, the which only further encouraged daring explorers to set off into the Himalayas in search of the proof.

這導致當時人們瘋狂猜測，在當時未經勘探和探索的西藏荒野深處，這兩條河流可能被地球上最大的瀑布連接起來，這進一步鼓勵了勇敢的探險家們前往喜馬拉雅山脈尋找證據。

It ultimately wouldn't be all the way until the year 1913, when an expedition finally confirmed that the Yarlung Saint Po and the Brahmaputra were indeed the same river.

直到1913年，一次探險終於證實了雅魯藏布江和布拉馬普特拉河確實是同一條河。

And although no massive single waterfall was discovered linking them, as many had initially hoped, what they actually did end up discovering was arguably even more impressive and is still nothing less than one of the most popular, poorly known about great natural wonders on the planet.

雖然沒有發現連接它們的巨大單一瀑布，正如許多人最初希望的那樣，但他們最終發現的，可以說是更令人印象深刻，而且至今仍是地球上最受歡迎、卻鮮為人知的自然奇觀之一。

From its source high in Tibet to where it becomes the Brahmaputra lower in India, the Yarlung Seng Po has to roar down through nearly 8,000 meters of elevation around the great bend of the Yarlung Seng Po, where the river violently ARCs for roughly 500km and makes that sharp U turn toward India.

從它在西藏高處的源頭，到它在印度下游成為布拉馬普特拉河，雅魯藏布江在雅魯藏布江大拐彎處，必須咆哮著穿過近8000公尺的高低差，在那裡河流劇烈地彎曲約500公里，並急劇轉向印度。

There's an especially violent 160 kilometer long or so section of it where the river rapidly plunges in elevation by more than 2,000 meters, the steepest drop of any major river on the planet, and

其中有一段特別洶湧的河道，長約160公里，河流在其中迅速下降超過2000公尺，這是地球上任何主要河流落差最大的地方，

which forms a gorge that's roughly three times the depth of the Grand Canyon in the United States, as measured from the nearby mountain summit to the Yarlung St.

形成了比美國大峽谷深約三倍的峽谷，從附近的 સિરેન શિખર 到雅魯藏布江

In fact, this canyon throughout the great bend that the river carves through the Himalayas here is now widely recognized as being both the longest and the deepest canyon anywhere on the Earth's surface, which has earned it the nickname as the Yarlam Sing Po Grand Canyon.

事實上，這條河在喜馬拉雅山脈這裡形成的巨大彎曲峽谷，現在被廣泛認為是地球表面上最長、最深的峽谷，是以贏得了「雅魯藏布江大峽谷」的綽號。

For decades after Tibet was invaded and annexed by China in 1950, this majestic but obscure natural wonder was strictly off limits to outsiders and was generally hidden from the outside world until the government began issuing permits to visitors again beginning in the 1990s, which then led to another modern race to become the first person to successfully kayak through the world's longest and deepest canyon.

自1950年西藏被中國入侵和吞併以來，幾十年來，這個雄偉卻鮮為人知的自然奇觀一直嚴禁外人進入，並對外界保密，直到政府在1990年代開始重新向遊客發放許可證，這又引發了另一場爭奪成為第一個成功駕馭世界上最長、最深峽谷的現代競賽。

But the conditions are so wild and extreme here that kayakers began referring to the Yarlung Saint Po as as the Everest of rivers, Another nickname and legacy for the world's highest major river that has remained for decades.

但這裡的環境極其狂野和極端，以至於皮划艇運動員開始稱雅魯藏布江為「河流的珠穆朗瑪峰」，這是幾十年來一直保留著的世界上最高主要河流的另一個綽號和傳承。

Multiple people lost their lives attempting to kayak through the river's Grand Canyon in the 1990s.

在1990年代，有多人嘗試駕馭這條河流的峽谷時喪生。

And it wasn't all the way until 2002, when a team finally managed to successfully kayak through the canyon's entire descent.

直到2002年，才有一支隊伍成功地完成了峽谷的整個下降旅程。

Throughout the entire history of the region, it's still believed that no single human has ever managed to travel along the Yarlung Sing Po's entire length from beginning to end, a theoretical achievement that's still waiting to be claimed by someone who's either brave or foolish enough to try it.

縱觀該地區的整個歷史，人們仍然相信，沒有任何一個人類能夠從頭到尾沿著雅魯藏布江的整個長度旅行，這是一個理論上的成就，仍然等待著一個足夠勇敢或足夠愚蠢的人來嘗試。

It is believed that for years, if not even decades, the Chinese government was also well aware of the Yarlung Seng Po's enormous hydroelectric potential and was quietly busy researching the feasibility of harnessing it.

據信，多年來，甚至可能長達數十年，中國政府也清楚雅魯藏布江巨大的水力發電潛力，並一直在悄悄研究開發它的可行性。

Just behind the scenes, you see China possesses by far the largest latent hydropower potential out of all of the world's countries.

你看到的，中國擁有所有國家中最大的潛在水力發電潛力。

Today, with enormous water volumes crashing down through the country in multip giant rivers from the mountains in provinces like Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan, China possesses nearly three times the amount of hydropower potential as the United States possesses, and

今天，在西藏、四川和雲南等省份的群山中，有數條巨大的河流帶著龐大的水量奔騰而下，中國擁有的水力發電潛力幾乎是美國的三倍，

roughly double the amount of hydropowered potential as Brazil, the country with the second highest potential.

大約是擁有第二高潛力的巴西的兩倍。

Tibet alone represents roughly 30% of China's total nationwide hydropower potential.

光是西藏就佔了中國全國水力發電潛力的約30%。

And all on its own, Tibet has nearly the same amount of hydropower potential as the entire United States has.

而西藏本身的水力發電潛力，就幾乎等於整個美國的水力發電潛力。

And yet Tibet is extremely underdeveloped, Geographically rugged and sparsely populated.

然而，西藏卻極度開發不足，地理上崎嶇不平，人口稀少。

It's basically the size of the entire southwestern United States.

它基本上就等於整個美國西南部的大小。

And yet its population is only about 3.6 million people, about the same size as just the Minneapolis St.

然而，它的人口卻只有大約360萬人，大約跟美國明尼蘇達州的明尼亞波利斯聖保羅都會區差不多。

Paul metropolitan area in the US state of Minnesota.

As such, Tibet's enormous hydropower potential that's just sitting there is almost entirely undeveloped.

是以，西藏那裡巨大的水力發電潛力幾乎完全沒有被開發。

Still, with the province's currently installed capacity representing just 1% of Tibet's technically exploitable potential.

不過，目前該省的裝機容量僅佔西藏技術上可開發潛力的1%。

And in the very near future, China will need to increase that exploitation of Tibet's hydropower potential in order to meet their ambitious renewable energy and climate goals.

而且在不久的將來，中國需要增加對西藏水力發電潛力的開發，以實現其宏大的再生能源和氣候目標。

Xi Jinping has set out goals for China to reach peak carbon emissions by no later than 2030 and to reach full carbon neutrality by no later than 2060.

習近平為中國設定了目標，最晚在2030年前達到碳排放峰值，最晚在2060年前實現完全碳中和。

In order to reach these lofty goals, Tibet's massive and still largely untapped hydropower potential will have to be finally cracked open.

為了實現這些崇高的目標，西藏龐大且仍未充分開發的水力發電潛力將必須被真正打開。

Across the country, China has already built more than 20,000 dams that are higher than 15 meters just since the 1950s.

自1950年代以來，中國全國各地已建造了超過20,000座高於15公尺的大壩。

And hydropower already accounts for China's second biggest source of electricity, remaining only behind coal.

水力發電已是中國第二大的電力來源，僅次於煤炭。

Hydropower already makes up about one fifth of China's total energy production a day.

水力發電每天已佔中國總能源生產的約五分之一。

But in order to further expand hydropower's share and to further reduce the country's reliance on coal, Tibet's currently 99% untapped hydropower potential that's about on a scale of all of the hydropower potential in the United States will need to begin being exploited.

但為了進一步擴大水力發電的比例，並進一步減少國家對煤炭的依賴，西藏目前99%未開發的水力發電潛力，大約相當於美國所有水力發電潛力的規模，將需要開始被開發。

And the single largest source of potential hydropower in Tibet is right here at that great bend of the Yarlung Seng Po river along that stretch of the river where it crashes down more than 2,000 meters over around 160 kilometers.

而西藏最大的水力發電潛力來源，就在雅魯藏布江那個偉大的彎道，沿著這段河流，它在約160公里的路程中下降了超過2,000公尺。

As the Yarlung Seng Po passes through the Great Bend, it carves out the deepest canyon in the world, between the mountain of Gyalha Peri to the north, at an elevation of nearly 7,300 meters, and

當雅魯藏布江流經大拐彎時，它雕刻出了世界上最深的峽谷，北邊是海拔近7,300公尺的加拉白壘山，而

the mountain of Namche Barwa to the south at an elevation of nearly 7,800 meters, the 27th highest mountain in the world.

南迦巴瓦峰在南邊，海拔近7,800公尺，是世界第27高峰。

The plan to harness the Yarlung Seng Po's massive kinetic energy as it crashes through this canyon, as it's currently understood, will basically probably look something like this.

目前對雅魯藏布江峽谷奔騰能量的利用計畫，大致上會是這樣。

A high dam will be constructed roughly at the start of the Jarlung Saint Po's Great Bend, at about the location of this small town known as Pei Zhen, which will hold the river's waters back before they can enter into the Great Bend, which will create a vast reservoir behind it that will probably result in the flooding and displacement of an unknown number of local Tibetan communities that will have to be relocated elsewhere.

一座高壩將會建造在雅魯藏布江大拐彎的起點附近，大約是這個叫做貝珍的小鎮的位置，它會攔住江水，讓江水無法進入大拐彎，這將會在壩後形成一個巨大的水庫，可能會導致未知數量的當地藏族社區被淹沒和遷離，他們將不得不搬到別處。

At about the precise location of this dam, a series of at least three gigantic tunnels will be drilled fully beneath the entirety of Mount Nomcha Barua, the 27th highest mountain in the world, connecting the Yarlung Saint Po behind the dam to the other end of the Great bend.

大約就在這座壩的精確位置，至少會有三條巨大的隧道會完全鑽過南迦巴瓦峰，連接壩後的雅魯藏布江與大拐彎的另一端。

That's roughly 2,400 meters lower in elevation.

這大約是2,400公尺的海拔落差。

Each of these tunnels will have a diameter of about 13 meters and will run for a length of about 34 kilometers beneath the mountain.

這些隧道每條直徑約13公尺，會在山體下延伸約34公里。

As they descend down those 2,400 meters, the dam will enable the water in the Yarlung Singpo to be diverted away from the Great Bend and thrown down these colossal tunnels beneath the mountain, Instead crashing down 2,400 meters of rapid vertical drop before exploding out of the other end and turning turbines along the way to generate the gobsmackingly ludicrous levels of power.

當水沿著這2,400公尺的高度下降時，水壩將能將雅魯藏布江的水從大拐彎處分流，並注入這些巨大的隧道，而不是以2,400公尺的垂直落差奔騰，然後在另一端爆發出來，同時轉動渦輪機，產生驚人的龐大電力。

The current expectation is that this system will be capable of producing an annual capacity of roughly 60 gigawatts of energy, or about 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, roughly triple the amount of electricity that is currently being produced by the Three Gorges Dam, and

目前的預期是，這個系統將能生產約600億瓦的年發電量，或約3000億千瓦小時的電力，大約是三峽大壩目前總發電量的三倍，而且

roughly enough electricity to fully power the entire country of Germany.

這足夠的電力可以完全供應整個德國。

In other words, this project, all on its own, could satisfy nearly 8% of China's entire current electricity needs, and

換句話說，這個計畫本身就能滿足中國目前總電力需求的近8%，而且

all of it with green, renewable hydropower.

全都是綠能、可再生的水力發電。

That'll give China significantly more flexibility to continue phasing out their remaining coal plants and to meet their ambitious goal of full carbon neutrality by 2060.

這將讓中國有更大的彈性，繼續逐步淘汰現有的燃煤電廠，並達成他們在2060年實現完全碳中和的宏大目標。

But to say that it will all be easy for China to do all of this would be foolish.

但如果說中國能輕易做到這一切，那就太傻了。

As you can probably imagine, building out a huge dam in a series of massive tunnels beneath a mountain in the Himalayas presents numerous interesting challenges from an engineering and logistics perspective that will be very difficult to overcome.

就像你可能想像的，在喜馬拉雅山脈下方建造一座巨大的水壩和一系列龐大的隧道，從工程和後勤的角度來看，會面臨許多嚴峻的挑戰，這些都將非常難克服。

The reason why the Great Bend exists where it does in the first place is not an accident of geography.

雅魯藏布江大拐彎之所以會出現在現在這個位置，並不是地理上的巧合。

It is directly the result of the Titanic and beneath the surface collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates that has been going on continually for the past 50 million years.

這完全是印度板塊和歐亞板塊在地下持續碰撞的結果，這種碰撞已經持續了五千萬年。

As the Indian plate has been slowly but massively colliding into the Eurasian plate, it has created two sort of wedged corners at the plate's edges that represent the most intensely deformed parts of the Himalayan mountains.

隨著印度板塊緩慢但大規模地擠壓歐亞板塊，在板塊邊緣形成了兩個楔形的角落，這也是喜馬拉雅山脈變形最劇烈的區域。

Over millions of years, it's been this constant pushing and squeezing of this northeast corner of the tectonic collision that shaped the Great Bend of the Yarlung Saint Po river, and

數百萬年來，正是這個東北角落的持續推擠和擠壓，塑造了雅魯藏布江的大拐彎，

also why it's one of the most tectonically active regions in the world today that's frequently subjected to catastrophic earthquakes.

同時也解釋了為何這裡至今仍是世界上構造活動最頻繁的地區之一，經常遭受災難性的地震。

Out of all of the major earthquakes across the entire 20th century that measured greater than an 8.0 on the Richter scale, a full 15% of them all just took place in the himalayas.

在整個二十世紀所有芮氏規模超過8.0的大地震中，有整整15%都發生在喜馬拉雅山脈。

And since 1901, more than 4,000 quakes of a magnitude 4.5 or greater have been recorded in this region as well, the epicenter of one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in history.

而且自1901年以來，這個地區也記錄了超過4,000次規模4.5以上的地震，這裡是史上最強烈地震之一的震央。

A magnitude 8.6 quake that struck in 1950 happened just 200 kilometers away from the Great Bend in India's northeastern Assam State.

1950年發生的一場規模8.6地震，就發生在印度東北部阿薩姆邦大拐彎處僅200公里遠的地方。

The damage from that quake greatly affected the area around the Great Bend.

那次地震造成的損壞，嚴重影響了大拐彎周邊的區域。

Buildings were completely destroyed and around 1800 people were killed.

建築物被完全摧毀，約有1800人喪生。

Despite the Great Bend's sparse population.

And afterwards, there were frequent aftershock quakes that continued rocking the Great Bend area for about another year.

之後，頻繁的餘震在大拐彎地區又持續搖晃了將近一年。

12 aftershock quakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater impacted the Great Bend area over the following year, which continued causing damage and exacerbating other risks in the Great Bend like landslides and mudslides.

接下來一年裡，有12次規模6.0以上的餘震襲擊了大拐彎地區，持續造成損壞，並加劇了該地區土石流和泥石流等其他風險。

The 1958.6 magnitude quake caused multiple high cliffs around the Yarlam Saint Post Great Bend to collapse in massive landslides, while avalanches and glacier collapses were also caused as well.

1958年的規模6.0地震導致雅魯藏布江大拐彎周圍的許多高崖發生大規模山體滑坡，同時也引發了雪崩和冰川崩塌。

Because of the continued tectonic activity around the Great Bend today, there are still multiple mountains around the region that are presently considered to be in an unstable state that are particularly susceptible to collapses, avalanches and landslides.

由於大拐彎地區持續的構造活動，該區域周圍仍有許多山體目前被認為處於不穩定狀態，特別容易發生崩塌、雪崩和山體滑坡。

There are believed to be dozens of points of potential major future collapses that present enormous challenges for the engineers and future operation of the dam to be concerned about.

據信有數十個潛在的大規模未來崩塌點，這對工程師和水壩未來的營運構成了巨大的挑戰。

And the physical challenges don't just stop there either.

Because the Indian tectonic plate is still actively crashing into the Eurasian plate, the uplift rate of the Earth's crust in the area of the Indian plate's northeast corner around the Great Bend, is generally believed to be around 5 to 10 millimeters per year.

因為印度板塊仍在持續撞擊歐亞板塊，科學家普遍認為，在印度板塊東北角的大拐彎地區，地殼的抬升速度大約是每年5到10毫米。

Mount Namjabarwa, the mountain where the dam's planners want to drill those tunnels under, is troublingly still growing at a particularly fast rate of about 6 cm per year, though this fact is going to be especially difficult to overcome over the long term, because within 17 years, Mount Nomchibarwa will have gained about one additional meter of elevation, throwing the location of the tunnels beneath the mountain off from their original location by the same meter of distance.

水壩規劃者想在南迦巴瓦峰底下鑽鑿隧道的，這座山仍在以每年約6公分的驚人速度持續增長，這點長期來看將會非常難克服，因為17年後，南迦巴瓦峰的高度將會增加約一公尺，讓山體下方隧道的原定位置偏移相同距離。

How exactly the engineers plan to overcome this phenomenon over the long term has not yet been disclosed.

工程師們究竟打算如何長期克服這個現象，目前還沒有公開。

All of this is why many analysts have referred to this Himalayan megadam as the riskiest megaproject ever undertaken in human history.

這一切都是為什麼許多分析師會將這個喜馬拉雅超級水壩稱為人類歷史上風險最高的超級計畫。

Moreover, the extreme remoteness of the location where this whole project is being planned in means that there's very little existing infrastructure in place to handle all of the massive construction and excavation requirements that'll be needed.

此外，這個整個計畫的選址地點極度偏遠，意味著現有的基礎設施非常少，不足以應付所有大規模的建造和開挖需求。

The population around the Yarlung Saint Po's Great Bend today is extremely tiny, at only around 24,000 people.

今天雅魯藏布江大拐彎地區的人口非常稀少，大約只有2萬4千人。

Up until very recently in 2013, the Madag county in Tibet, where the Great Bend is largely located, wasn't even connected to the rest of China by a major road that was accessible all year round, Transporting the enormous numbers of workers, equipment, and

直到2013年非常近期，西藏的墨脫縣，也就是大拐彎大部分所在的地區，甚至還沒有一條全年可通行的主要道路與中國大陸連接，將龐大的工人、設備和

construction materials to what is still a deeply remote and difficult to access location will present its own set of unique logistical challenges.

建築材料運送到這個仍然極度偏遠且難以到達的地點，將會帶來一系列獨特的後勤挑戰。

While China will also have to painstakingly and expensively build out the transmission lines from the project to transport the massive amounts of electricity that they'll be producing back to the more heavily populated and urbanized east of the country.

同時，中國還必須費時費力且昂貴地建造從計畫地點到國家較為密集人口和城市化的東部地區的輸電線路，以傳輸他們將生產的大量電力。