Brazil Breaks the Known Boundaries by Installing a 1,200-Ton Rotor that Transforms a River Into an Electric Power Plant

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Under the roof of one of the planet’s large hydroelectric plants there is a piece that imposes respect. A generator rotor of 1,200 tons, 18.7 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters in height, installed at the Belo Monte plant in Brazil. But the holder is not really the size, but what drags behind. Belo Monte adds 11,233.1 MW of installed power with 24 units and, under favorable conditions, presents itself as able to supply some 60 million people, alt…