Posted on 07/29/2020 8:04:13 PM PDT by BeauBo
People in cities along China's Yangtze River, already swamped with water, are now scrambling to shore up embankments as the world's largest dam faces fast mounting flood pressure...
The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze, Asia's longest river, which has become a raging torrent with storm water pouring into the reservoir of the dam at 60 million litres per second on Monday night.
On Tuesday morning, dam operator the China Three Gorges Group said water flow into the reservoir fluctuated between 50 million and 60 million litres per second.
And the peak flow has not eased, adding more than ten trillion litres to the mega-dam in just 10 days.
All arteries leading from the Yangtze River remain deluged by the third big flood this summer.
The China Three Gorges Group say they plan to hold as much water in the dam as possible to buy time for cities downstream to build up their defences.
According to local reports, the dam's operator has indicated there are 13 days left before the reservoir will fill to the brim.
(Excerpt) Read more at 9news.com.au ...
Larger Safety Margins are safer.
Economic competition continues to rule though.
You know if the TGD fails it will be blamed on the previous administrations.
Any consideration of that possible event that doesn’t acknowledge that is ignorant.
“The Azwan Dam holds about three times more water.”
Another Freeper pointed out a few days ago, that a dam in Canada holds even more water still.
I think that where Three Gorges leads, in in its electrical generation - 22 gigawatts.
The then Premier (Li) took a special interest in electrical generation. By the time he left office, his family controlled 15% of the electrical generation of China.
Hydroelectricity (once the initial construction cost is paid off) is even closer to having your own money printing press, than oil production. Since that is what the boss wanted, that is what the engineers sought to maximize.
Love history.
Don’t appreciate some of your other replies but this one is gold!
Thanks.
Off topic but I thought you might appreciate this Leftist attempt to sustain the disreputed “Thucydides trap.” narrative.
“You know if the TGD fails it will be blamed on the previous administrations.”
Someone would have to take the blame - quickly. I assume the topic has already come up, as they considered their options in responding to the disaster scenarios.
Xi might try to further consolidate power, by picking some potential rivals within the Party to blame. Executions could come swiftly, if there was a major failure of the Three Gorges Dam.
The Li Administration, who supervised the design and construction (and whose family owns a good bit of the electricity revenue) would be the natural blame sump, from a credibility standpoint.
But they might also try to blame traitors collaborating with foreigners, seeking to sabotage China, to justify an oppressive purge, to keep people busy and in line. Maybe blame Christians, or Falun Gong, or some other group of have such anti-Chinese leanings.
Likely they will circulate (test market) a few narratives over time, but they will need a fall guy immediately if the dam busts.
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crz wrote:
“20% is flooded, and a large portion is dried up as a result of drought up north.
BTW, the dam was built under the usual corruption within that political system. Several engineers quit, and they claim that it wasnt even dug down into solid bedrock before they started pouring concrete.
News today from sources say that since they built it in sections, some of the sections have substantial cracks forming.
If it does not blow out, it will be a miracle.”
A matter of not if, but when?
Anyone snag pics of the cracks?
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Whoa!
All true though.
I expect a partial failure of the TGD. Nothing the CCP’s media can’t handle.
Already floods downstream have occured that shouldn’t have.
I think people expecting the CCP to suffer are ignorant of the media situation.
\Sad to say.
The logistics to move agricultural materials could become an issue tending to counter an outrageous price hike.
They will need to trade in gold rather than devalued fiat.
The dams upstream are up to seventy years old. One of those could fail.
BeauBo wrote:
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“Are the recent storms significantly out of the ordinary?”
Forbes reports: “It was reported to be the worst flood since 1998, and not 100 years as some in Beijing have said.
All told, more than 400 Yangtze tributary rivers have overflowed, with nearly 200 people dead and properties underwater.
Average rainfall is around 12% higher than last monsoon season.”
They also state: “The thing is, that the (Three Gorges Dam) power station is down the Yangtze River from a handful of other dams that exist at a higher elevation than the Three Gorges. And because of the floods and problems at those dams upstream, Three Gorges is buckling under the strain of massive flows of water.”
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“buckling under the strain”
So, Forbes has confirmation that failure is beginning....
Xi is looking askance at about four factions sharpening their knives at this moment.
There is no defense against this dam collapsing. None.
“May you live in interesting times” has never been so applicable as it is today. What is going on in the world is surreal.
what would a ‘partial failure’ of the TGD look like?
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