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To: yarddog

One damn big dam.

Three Gorges Dam:

The project used 27.2 million cubic metres (35.6×106 cu yd) of concrete (mainly for the dam wall), 463,000 tonnes of steel (enough to build 63 Eiffel Towers) and moved about 102.6 million cubic metres (134.2×106 cu yd) of earth.[28] The concrete dam wall is 181 metres (594 ft) high above the rock basis.


15 posted on 08/30/2015 7:55:23 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Hillary not only brings old baggage wherever she goes, she picks up new baggage when she gets there)
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To: Graybeard58
Someone need to point this out to Jeb.

I mean, read it for yourself:

The project used 27.2 million cubic metres (35.6×106 cu yd) of concrete (mainly for the dam wall),

See? Even CHINA built "the dam wall" /ba-dum t'sssssh>

16 posted on 08/30/2015 7:57:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Graybeard58

The volume of concrete in the Three Gorges would build just under 11 copies of the Hoover dam. (10.9 or so) That’s a lot of concrete...


29 posted on 08/30/2015 9:14:54 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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