Posted on 05/20/2006 12:08:25 AM PDT by HAL9000
China completed construction of the world's largest dam Saturday in Three Gorges area, central China's Hubei Province, signifying accomplishment of the major structure of the mammoth Three Gorges water control project aiming to tame the flood-prone Yangtze River, the nation's longest.At 2:00 on Saturday afternoon, the final concrete was poured for the 2,309-meter-long, 185-meter-high main wall of the Three Gorges Dam, which by then began to have capacity of holding water.
The concrete placement of the Dam's main section was completed 10 months ahead of the schedule, which will enable the Dam to start its role in power generation, flood control and shipping improvement in 2008, one year ahead the designated time.
Can this be a cause of global warming??
If it was built with the same level of technology that they do their mining with, I pity the Chinese who are living downstream from this thing.
They have flooded and erased hundreds of towns. Some of whcih were 200+ yrs old. Along with hundreds of archeologiccal sites. Many of which were under active excavation as well as many many untouched and scheduled for excavation. No more. They are gone for good now.
This damn is going to have repercussions - socially, envirenmentally as well as atmospherically for decades to come.
I personally think its going to crack and create a catastrophe of tremendous magnitude.
what's really amazing are the Reds and Tigers this year...
Remember the great WW II film.."The Dam Busters?"
Reds and Tigers?
A moose bit my sister once.
Read here (just one illustration):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/17/BUGHQ8939T1.DTL
thanks for the link:). the housing slowdown will increase supply. your costs will go down.
According to paving professionals I have talked to, quality concrete can take up to 120 to completly cure.
At least on Hoover Dam, the builders fitted it out for liquid cooling of the concrete.
"It is so big, some geologists think something bad will happen to the earth due to the weight of the water."
If that were true, then bad things would be happening to the earth under the oceans and great lakes all the time.
Not just a town. Water quality will be their issue.
Would not want to live down stream from this one.
Too much "high early" cement works OK for flat surfaces but you do not want it in a highwall like this.
Thanks
""high early" cement?"
http://search.yahoo.com/search?_adv_prop=web&x=op&ei=UTF-8&fr=op&va_vt=any&vp=high+early+cement&vp_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vd=all&vst=0&vf=all&vm=i&fl=0&n=10
Darn right. I used to drive a ready mix truck and some contractors, to hurry the job would put so much calcium chloride in the mix it would practically be smoking when it came down the chute.
If that were true, then bad things would be happening to the earth under the oceans and great lakes all the time.
Bad things may have happened to the earth under the oceans and great lakes, when they formed oh so long ago.
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