To demonstrate how much less infrastructure his system requires, Howe uses the example of the Bath County Pumped Storage hydro-electric dam in Virginia, US.

为了证明这个系统无需太多的基础设施，豪举例说明美国佛吉尼亚州巴斯县抽水蓄能水电大坝。

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Afterwards some of us go canoeing out to the beavers' dam up the creek while the big guys stick around the camp to fish.

早餐后，我和一些人去划船，划到小河上游的海狸坝；大汉们则留在营地附近钓鱼。

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To help us think more like a river, less like a dam.

这些河流可以帮助我们思考，我们应该更喜欢一条河流，而不喜欢一个大坝。

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One told me that being involved in Crossrail was like his own Hoover Dam (the huge US dam built during the Great Depression) in terms of scale and personal achievement.

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In addition some of the 3D rendered images look bizarre including a flattened Eiffel Tower, cars that appear to have melted into roads and a road that looks like it has plunged into the US's Hoover Dam.

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Past generations gave us the interstate highway system and the Hoover Dam.

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