Even the China CCP officially announced that the 3gorgesDam has suffered "displacement and deformation" within the last four days.
Posted on 07/22/2020 8:33:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Same thoughts here.
Dam will hold! Yankee propaganda no work! Chinese engineering better!!
[The fear is that if the Three Gorges Dam collapses, we’re talking 510 million people upstream and downstream of the dam under threat. That’s nearly 1/3 of the population of China. ]
The Eder drains towards the east into the Fulda which runs into the Weser to the North Sea. The main purpose of the Edersee was then, as it is now, to act as a reservoir to keep the Weser and the Mittellandkanal navigable during the summer months. The wave from the breach was not strong enough to result in significant damage by the time it hit Kassel (approx. 35 km downstream).
The greatest impact on the Ruhr armaments production was the loss of hydroelectric power. Two power stations (producing 5,100 kilowatts) associated with the dam were destroyed and seven others were damaged. This resulted in a loss of electrical power in the factories and many households in the region for two weeks. In May 1943 coal production dropped by 400,000 tons which German sources attribute to the effects of the raid.[26]
According to an article by German historian Ralf Blank,[27] at least 1,650 people were killed: around 70 of these were in the Eder Valley, and at least 1,579 bodies were found along the Möhne and Ruhr rivers, with hundreds missing. 1,026 of the bodies found downriver of the Möhne Dam were foreign prisoners of war and forced labourers in different camps, mainly from the Soviet Union. Worst hit was the city of Neheim (now part of Neheim-Hüsten) at the confluence of the Möhne and Ruhr rivers, where over 800 people perished, among them at least 493 female forced labourers from the Soviet Union. (Some non-German sources erroneously cite an earlier total of 749 for all foreigners in all camps in the Möhne and Ruhr valleys as the casualty count at a camp just below the Eder Dam.[23]) ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6hne_Reservoir
While the Chinese dam might seem like a monstrosity, its reservoir capacity is only slightly bigger than either Lake Powell or Lake Mead, the two artificial lakes formed by two of the biggest dams stateside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Powell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead
Of course, Lake Powell or Lake Mead are only about half full, whereas the water level at the Three Gorges Dam is at the brim, to the point they are doing controlled releases. And the American dams pen in river water that passes through literal deserts while moving downstream. Whereas the areas through which the Yangtze River passes may not have enough water, but they aren’t deserts. The high Yangtze adjacent water table means that dam breaks from the Three Gorges can’t just soak into the parched desert soil the way a Hoover Dam break would eventually do.
I understand your post on the human suffering and agree with your last line “God help them all”.
China is still going into the homes of Christians, ripping crosses and other religious artwork of their walls, and replacing with pictures of Mao and Xi, telling the Christians to pray to them instead of Jesus. They are also stopping welfare and food payments to these same Christians, telling them to starve unless they pray to Mao and Xi as gods.
What is happening now seems to me, to be like the builder of the Titanic stating “that even God could not sink this ship”. China might get exactly what they are asking for. Let’s see their gods Mao or Xi fix this.
Even the China CCP officially announced that the 3gorgesDam has suffered "displacement and deformation" within the last four days.
Alert Issued after massive landslide!
[I visited the 3 Gorges area as the damn was being built. The local government/Party officials bragged about what a massive project it was, and how the new lake would be so large, it would change the climate of the entire area. Some European colleagues with me were shocked as if they witnessed a murder.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam
Canada’s Daniel Johnson Dam contains 4x the water volume of the the Three Gorges Dam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel-Johnson_dam
Bottom line is that something of this scale seems to have been done before, elsewhere.
If the dam breaks and kills 400 million people I will play the worlds smallest violin.
The chinese have ripped us off, steal from us and now kills our people. Eff em.
I hope the dam breaks bigley.
Those same chinese people have sympathy towards are stealing our tech from colleges and industrial base, planning and building weapons to kill US troops and will stab you in the back in a nano second.
They admitted publicly that they are starting to see metal fatigue and deformations in parts of the dam.
It’s going to be horrific if it happens, and after the Wuhan Flu, 2019/2020 will be the ‘Chernobyl’ event year for China. I don’t think they’ll recover as they are currently constituted if this dam goes.
I agree. I have no personal beef with any individuals in China, but I consider our countries to be at war. The Chinese government is a subversive force for evil and I want it to collapse. The failure of the dam will bring needed change.
consider one of the larger upstream ones going, it could be enough to take out the ones below it. cascade failire.
Yangtze River valley produces 25% of China’s food, 80% of APIs and chemicals for the rest of the world.
Flooding is going to have an impact on US... It’s critical we pay attention.
China’s living in intetesting times.
Are you talking about the 1959 north span of the Howard Frankland?
The company I retired from is a finalist to replace it.
The "Trump Curse" strikes again?
I used to be able to see the ships above the levee from behind my house when I was a kid in New Orleans. Happened every spring.
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