What could possybli go wrong?
“What could possibly go wrong?”
If something goes wrong, you adjust your plans and build it again. For the ruling class, people were cheap in the 20th century. I suspect we are soon going to find out they are cheaper in the 21st century.
Well, weak Chinese concrete doesn't care if it is manufactured and laid by humans or AI. It's still shitty Chinese-made concrete.
3 Gorges will eventually be a victim of its own success, it altered so much riparian flow that a 100-year rain event, just a simple Theta-E like the Waverly NC 2021 flash flood (21 inches in 24 hours), stuck just west pf the dam for a day, will top 200 metres at +/-100,000m/s and the center will pop like a pimple.
The Yangqu Dam is in a less-favorable position for a convergence disaster but is in a better location for another trigger -- a fast melt from a massive early-winter snow pileup followed quickly by monsoon winter rains, like The Great Flood of 1937 on the Ohio -- a monster flood that simply puts the dam under water for a week until the Yangqu cheap concrete gives way completely. Buh-bye to every confucian nimrod for 75 miles downstream.