Interior photo of Itaipu Binacional dam

November 11th, 2009 | Tags:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu

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Itaipu-Dam-Interior

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — Power was restored in Brazil after an outage at a dam providing 20 percent of the country’s energy thrust about half of the nation’s 190 million people into darkness for at least two hours.

The 14,000-megawatt Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric dam said operations were back to normal at 6 a.m. local time after transmission failed, causing the world’s largest dam by output to forcibly shut down for the first time since it went online in 1983. The government is investigating the incident.

  1. Roscenco
    November 12th, 2009 at 21:57
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    Dayam! That is some friggin’ space!

  2. James
    November 13th, 2009 at 10:01
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    You’re right about that. I can’t imagine the sound in there.

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