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 Fifteen times more concrete was used to build the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant than the amount used for the construction of the Eurotunnel under the English Channel. |
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 The rate of construction at Itaipu was equivalent to a 20-story building being built every 55 minutes. |
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 The total volume of concrete used at Itaipu would build 210 stadiums the size of Maracana in Rio de Janeiro (200,000 person capacity). |
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 The total volume of earth and rock excavated at Itaipu is equivalent to more than twice that contained in Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. |
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 The iron and steel used at Itaipu would build 380 Eiffel Towers (Paris). |
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 The Itaipu spillway can handle a flow 40 times greater than the average flow of the Iguassu Falls. |
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 To produce the amount of energy that Itaipu produces 434,000 barrels of oil would have to be burned per day. |
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 Ten nuclear power stations of medium size would be needed to produce the same amount of energy produced by Itaipu. |
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The annual energy production of the Itaipu Dam is enough to support:
- Brazil for 79 days
- the city of Sao Paulo for three years and four months
- the city of Rio de Janeiro for six years and seven months
- Argentina for nine months and 22 days
- Paraguay for eight years
- all of Latin America (except Brazil) for 89 days
- China for seven days
- the United States for nine days
- India for one month and nine days
- Japan for one month and five days
- Portugal for one year and 11 months
- Germany for two months
- France for two months and 14 days
- the United Kingdom for three months and 12 days
- Spain for four months and 16 days
- the entire world for approximately two days
Note: the information listed above is from Itaipu Dam
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