Back in the 1940s, hydro engineers blasted a 12km ledge into the wall of the gorge.
Feng became a hydro-engineer at a state-owned company until the party told him to go into government.
Any serious glitches at Three Gorges will nurture doubts about the wisdom of that plan, which has just got under way.Francis Li, a Canadian hydro-engineer who worked on the Three Gorges project, says his early scepticism has turned to confidence.
Instead of resisting this, a growing number of conservationists and hydro-engineers believe it could be the solution to Mexico City's problems.
Many a retired nuclear physicist or hydro-engineer, once responsible for the construction of dams or missile silos, emigrated to enjoy an American retirement in the 90s.
The Nabateans were master hydro-engineers, manipulating rain run-off and aquifers to allow human flowering in the desert.
Since the start of the storm on Monday afternoon Scottish Hydro said engineers have reconnected 9,000 properties which lost electricity.
Scottish Hydro said engineers are working to fix the power cuts and hopes to have its customers reconnected by early this evening.
A spokesman for Scottish and Southern Energy said: "Scottish Hydro Power Distribution engineers are continuing their intense and brave efforts to restore power to homes in Argyll and Arran following unprecedented weather conditions.
While the first time visitor is likely to emphatically proclaim the Kipawa River as the most beautiful, most serene place they have ever encountered, hydro consultants and engineers, disconnected from the attractiveness of that place, are making cost/benefit recommendations that marginalize the inherent value of a free-flowing Kipawa.
"It took a year of thinking before we built any prototypes," said Serge Montambault, a mechanical engineer with Hydro Québec's research institute here, who leads the LineScout project.
