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Enormous New Dam Fails In Brazil
New Scientist ^
| 7-10-2006
Posted on 07/10/2006 8:15:34 PM PDT by blam
Enormous new dam fails in Brazil
10 July 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition.
GIANT cracks have opened in one of the world's tallest dams, just months after completion. The cracks appeared after a tunnel collapsed on 20 June beneath the 200-metre-high Campos Novos dam in southern Brazil, and the reservoir rapidly emptied. At one point, 4000 cubic metres of water (more than enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool) were rushing downstream every second towards a second dam on the river Canoas.
"If this had happened during the rainy season, and the two reservoirs had been full, water would likely have poured over the lower dam and it might have been destroyed. That would have been a major disaster, with perhaps hundreds killed," says Patrick McCully of the International Rivers Network, a California-based group that campaigns against large dams. Between them, the two dams can hold more than 2 cubic kilometres of water.
The dam's owner, Enercan, a consortium of Brazilian power companies, has revealed little about the accident. It is reported to have been trying to patch holes in a leaking tunnel since October, before the second tunnel failed catastrophically last month.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beaverscoulddobetter; brazil; bushsfault; crackkills; dam; ducttapeterrorists; energy; enormous; environment; fails; hahaha; hooverwouldbeproud; isthatacrack; latinamerica; new; ps; thatsadoover; water
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To: Cobra64
Hoover Dam has series miles of copper tubing within it's concrete so chilled water could be pumped through and carry off the heat that concrete generates as it cures. Forgot the fancy term for it.
To: HKMk23
I heard that the concrete is still curing. Amazing what we did 70+ years ago. Now we can't even rebuild this:
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posted on
07/11/2006 1:32:55 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: KS Flyover
Gonna take more than Band-Aid's and super-glue to fix that!
Looks like a do-over, as in do it over from the beginning.
143
posted on
07/11/2006 1:42:13 PM PDT
by
Richard-SIA
("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
To: alancarp
144
posted on
07/11/2006 1:54:29 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(FR doesn't suffer fools lightly.)
To: ctdonath2; SierraWasp
I have every right to raise these questions because we are dealing with a group of no growth anarchist's affiliated with a similar group in the North West that planted fake evidence in a Forest Service study looking for endangered species in a EIR for a logging plan.
If you can spare a moment of your narrow mindedness you should read this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649116/posts
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posted on
07/11/2006 6:41:35 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
07/11/2006 6:44:44 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: alancarp
Dang, how do you fix THAT?
To: alancarp
Dang, how do you fix THAT? And if that doesn't work...
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posted on
07/11/2006 6:48:33 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: BigBobber
Hoochie Coochie Construction!!!
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posted on
07/11/2006 6:51:53 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: alancarp
"Dang, how do you fix THAT?"Rebuild it!
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posted on
07/11/2006 6:56:26 PM PDT
by
TheLion
To: dalereed
Don't they know they have to exterminate those wild earth boaring creatures before they build a dam.Yeah, those creatures from the movie Tremors are tough to get rid of.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:10:08 PM PDT
by
Gideon7
To: Larry Lucido
Allllll right, now... we're getting personal!
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:15:43 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(NASCAR: Always turning left, but can never keep up with the Liber-commis.)
To: tubebender; ctdonath2
Yes, it has become almost commonplace for these militant EnvironMental Pagag religionists to plant all sorts of supposed rare and endagered flora and fauna, or to play with photographic things with especially narrow angle shots that leave stuff out and even to the point of deliberately faking stuff with photoshop!!!
I'm not sure ctdonath2 was questioning your veracity but somehow thought you couldn't figure out what you were really looking at. Either way I can see how you'd think ctdonath2 was a little insensitive at best and a little insulting at worst.
Oh well. It's 7:38 so time for another carafe of wine, right???
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:38:13 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
To: Erasmus
Well frankly Erasmus, you don't git to!!! So fergedaboutit!!!
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:39:52 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
To: tubebender
Relax, bucko. Was just pointing out some plain indicators of non-photoshopping.
To: SierraWasp
Having examined many "photoshopped" pictures (and those not but accused thereof), I was simply making the relevant suggestion of looking a little deeper at the images before jumping to the "conspiracy" line of reasoning.
To: blam
Call them engineers from Boston.
Empuje grande?
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:14:26 AM PDT
by
rvoitier
(Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals are from Uranus.)
To: alancarp
You don't. You blow it up and start over.
jeeeez Louise..
I wonder what the head pressure is on that.
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posted on
07/13/2006 4:35:07 PM PDT
by
concretebob
(The US Constitution only applies to those who believe what it says..)
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