[DeaconBenjamin]

These pictures are from Der Spiegel

[RC2]

There goes our cement. We should double the price of our cement and stop buying their products. A perfect time to set them back 100 years in their quest of becoming a world power.

[KoRn]

Damned damaged dams!

(sorry, couldn’t resist) =P

[dfwgator]

IB4TJD

[12Gauge687]

When Sri Lanka is bailing you out, you know you’re in trouble.

It’s quite probable that in order to make the concrete more pumpable too much water was added. Knowing how low-bid contracts have worked in the USA, I’m pretty certain contractors and sub-contractors (as well as Communist Party cadres) on these projects skimped on the quality of concrete, reinforcing and even curing time.

Not too sure if vermiculite can be used in this situation but patching with concrete isn’t going to do too much unless it can cure in a relatively dry environment.

[chainsaw]

During a time o war hitting all 70 dams at the same time would just about end a war.

[Eye of Unk]

Has anybody thought about those rumors of the folks that claimed that the building of the Three Gorges dam would put unknown stress on a fault line possibly creating earthquakes?

Irony indeed, a nation that will collapse by its own ideas of expansion.

[ricks_place]

Powerful Earth Quakes are unpredictably damaging but....
...the enormous damage to building structures and 70 dams is a warning to all on Chinese workmanship.

[Travis McGee]

Ping

[Spok]

Under Communism, sound engineering principles are replaced with budgets and deadlines. The ChiComs are paying the price and if the west bails them out, nothing will change.

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