Posted on 05/25/2022 2:38:47 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A new Chinese dam would become the world’s tallest 3D-printed structure. Engineers believe they can build the dam within two years while eliminating the need for human laborers at the dam site. Artificial intelligence will control unmanned machinery to construct the overall structure.
Chinese engineers will take the ideas of a research paper and turn it into the world’s largest 3D-printed project. Within two years, officials behind this project want to fully automate the unmanned construction of a 590-foot-tall dam on the Tibetan Plateau to build the Yangqu hydropower plant—completely with robots.
The paper, published last month in the Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), laid out the plans for the dam, as first reported in the South China Morning Post.
Researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing explain the backbone of automation for the planned Yellow River dam that will eventually offer nearly five billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
But it’s hard to tell what’s more ambitious: the fact that the researchers plan to turn a dam site into effectively a massive 3D-printing project, or that through every step of the process the project eliminates human workers as they go fully robotic.
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Are there Labor Unions in Communist China? I’d think the ultimate Chicom negotiation tool is the barrel of a gun.
Exactly.
That would make for an interesting syfy story. AI becoming greedy and dishonest, skimming money and material from projects for its own purposes.
China teaches its children math & science. America is teaching its children wokeness & perversion (hence ~40% will be homo or bi).
No contest.
A quick search shows there is no new news on the dam. Survived high waters 2 years ago and is putting out the most electricity now since it began.
I did see a headline saying China wants to build a dam three times larger in electrical capacity in Tibet. It sounds like the Chinese are thinking about it with no details yet. The article did say that it would severely impact India.
“...through every step of the process the project eliminates human workers as they go fully robotic.”
Five million androids carrying wicker baskets of dirt?
Chinese dams are effectively destroying the environment of much of SE Asia (the Mekong)
https://archive.internationalrivers.org/resources/8477
The Aswan Dam has done horrible damage to the lower Nile’s ability to feed Egypt.
All in the name of “green” renewable energy.
That dam site is likely a damn sight bigger than the last dam site that was ever constructed with a 3D printer.
“ drama that it is letting go has been unfounded.”
That’s good to hear. After the controversy building it, one would hope it would hold up.
Does it 3D print the rebar?
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