I am pleased to publish this map of hydropower projects on the upper Yellow River, also known as Machu (᪵ᨋᩛᨋ) [རྨ་ཆུ་] in Tibetan and Huanghe in Chinese. Many thanks to my amazing map maker and to all the readers who have provided us information and feedback. If you find the following map of dams in Northeast Tibetan Plateau of interest, check out related maps of dams on the eastern edges of the Tibetan Plateau. We are working on more maps, so please stay tuned.
For the sake of simplicity and accuracy, a project's Status is shown under four possible values: Built/Operational, Under Construction, Under Active Consideration, and Proposed.
The term "Built" includes HPPs that have started generating power but are not complete, as well as those that have been operational but are currently non-functional.
"Under Construction" indicates that work is proceeding on the ground and does not necessary entail that the river has been blocked or diverted.
"Under Active Consideration" includes projects in which the design, environmental issues, financing etc. are being developed as well as those that have been discussed but have never made it to the drawing board in any serious way.
"Cancelled" includes only those projects for which there is widespread agreement that the government has decided that the proposed projects will not go ahead. This does not mean that a similar project may not be in the works to get around of the cancellation of the original project.
Capacity is given in Megawatts. This should be understood to be the planned maximum rated power generation capacity of the generators of a HPP when it is completed. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, these figures are often given somewhat different values in different sources. Power generation capacity of hydropower generators is developing quickly so they may change.
Information shared here are obtained from the Northwest Hydro Consulting Engineers, CHECC, a Qinghai government website, and a number of other web based resources. Chinese and non-Chinese maps of the area have been used for geographical information.
The maps are only approximately to scale. The positions of the hydropower projects are approximate. A professional map should be used for more accurate geographic information.
For the sake of simplicity and accuracy, a project's Status is shown under four possible values: Built/Operational, Under Construction, Under Active Consideration, and Proposed.
The term "Built" includes HPPs that have started generating power but are not complete, as well as those that have been operational but are currently non-functional.
"Under Construction" indicates that work is proceeding on the ground and does not necessary entail that the river has been blocked or diverted.
"Under Active Consideration" includes projects in which the design, environmental issues, financing etc. are being developed as well as those that have been discussed but have never made it to the drawing board in any serious way.
"Cancelled" includes only those projects for which there is widespread agreement that the government has decided that the proposed projects will not go ahead. This does not mean that a similar project may not be in the works to get around of the cancellation of the original project.
Capacity is given in Megawatts. This should be understood to be the planned maximum rated power generation capacity of the generators of a HPP when it is completed. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, these figures are often given somewhat different values in different sources. Power generation capacity of hydropower generators is developing quickly so they may change.
Information shared here are obtained from the Northwest Hydro Consulting Engineers, CHECC, a Qinghai government website, and a number of other web based resources. Chinese and non-Chinese maps of the area have been used for geographical information.
The maps are only approximately to scale. The positions of the hydropower projects are approximate. A professional map should be used for more accurate geographic information.
10 comments:
Thanks for the info. Not related to this I have a technical question about this blog: I'm on Mac OS X and can't see the Tibetan script, just empty squares where the Tibetan letters should be. I remember that in Mac OS 10.5 they appeared correctly, but now in 10.6 not anymore. Any Mac nerd around who knows how to fix this?
Hi PeeWee, I use a Mac as well. My OS is 10.5.8, so I don't know if your problem is because of 10.6. Just FYI, I am using Monlam font on this blog. How I wish using Tibetan font were not that complicated for everyone ... sigh!
Hey PeeWee, let us check one thing. This problem may be because I recently changed the Tibetan fonts to Monlam version 3. Please check if you can now see one or both of the Machu's "རྨ་ཆུ་" written in the post above. If you can see the second one in square brackets, written with the older font type I used, it is because of the changes in font I made, not because of your OS upgrade.
Yeah, the second one (རྨ་ཆུ་)works. It displays in Kokonor, one of OS X's Tibetan Fonts. The first on ist still just squares.
"Metok Dumra: a collection of common flower names" ist the post where I first noticed the problem. All posts before appear correctly here.
OK, that explains. Now a dilemma, should I go with the older (smaller and not-so-pretty) font or stick with this one. I actually don't know why you are unable to view Monlam v-3 font. If only someone would tell us which font can be viewed by more people and why.
Thanks again PeeWee. Holiday greetings!
Thats frustrating indeed. You can check the appearance of your page in various browsers and OS here :
browsershots
Looks like only Windows Vista and 7 support Tibetan fonts natively.
More interesting info here:
Wikipedia Multilingual Indic
As far as I understand, you installed Monlam locally on your computer, therefore its available only for you (and people who installed it on their comps as well).
Hey PeeWee, thanks for the interesting information. It seems like my Tibetan font show up as squares on most computers. Sad. What to do. Is there a way to install Tibetan font non-locally so as many people (at least most Tibetan font users) can view it?
There is a new technology called "Web Fonts" where you get the font file with the code of the page. No configuration, nothing to install, like magic. Thats easy with latin fonts who usually are just something like 100 KB, but Tibetan fonts in Unicode are between 1 and 2 MB. Realistic only for readers with fast connections and up to date browsers. Besides that there would be a license question to be cleared up.
And then it's not only an font issue. Also the encoding needs to be done properly. Even if I install all the 13 Monlam fonts on my comp your posts are not displayed correctly, because something is wrong with the encoding. I see some squares and in between them some arabic characters.
With all this it's hardly surprising that many page editors still transform non latin text into images (in the year 25 of the Internet!!!) to make sure they appear correctly. Looks like we have to wait until everybody upgraded to Windows 7. Or switch to a Mac...
Wow, interesting. I think you should come up with the solution to that. I bet there is no money in developing solutions for Tibetan font problems. Or is there?
Here's my new Christmas/New Year/Everyday wish: use the best (which means free) Tibetan font which can be read by most users and have instructions with links for others to do the same.
Please post other power house on the river Huenghe downstream of Wujinxia
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