The decision was made. Build a solution. And what a solution it became. The project's cost, inclusive of resettling over a million people, matched the scale of the destruction, amounting to a monumental sum. Now get this, the dam houses 32 power units, six of which are nestled underground, generating a staggering 100 terawatt hours of power. To put that into perspective, a thermal power plant would need to burn a staggering 50 million tons of coal to match that output. But here's the beauty in its simplicity. The Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Plant, despite its grandeur, boasts a straightforward design, a typical gravity concrete dam with a surface spillway.