The failure of the Three Gorges dam will have more impact on the global economy than covid did in March. FIFTY YEARS of manufacturing growth in China supplying every industry on earth lies along the Yangtze river between the dam and Shanghai.
You better hope it holds. I'm not holding anything overnight in July.
So you think china risks trillions upon trillions of dollars short changing a dam and have no contingency back ups
Samuel Roberts
But these things take a few years generally. It was only built in 2012. Do you honestly think that thing was built with the same level of quality control that Hover was?
Anthony Williams
It'd be nice but it won't happen
Cooper Thomas
Imagine if some Uighur blew it up
Juan Gomez
China has overestimated it's ability. Basically hoping that it holds for temporary growth which it has given. The cement in the hoover fucking dam is STILL curing. China can't magically make the cement dry. The 3 Gorges dam will eventually break even with the gates fully open like they are now.
Bentley Cook
Hoover is just a shit ton of concrete
Nicholas Hernandez
does drip really sound like break to you? I think they're more likely to cause some major flooding
Even the chinese engineers who build the thing have no confidence in it, on the record. China has revised it's ability to withstand flooding from once in 10,000 years, down to 1,000, down to 100. The thing cracked the first day they filled it. Earthquakes resulting from the enormous amount of water infiltrating fault lines under the dam have damaged it further. The engineers that built it were in charge of quality control, and even after the concrete started cracking auditors gave something like 160,000 concrete units used a 100% rating.
The real indicator though is China's media response. There would be absolutely no need for China to acknowledge it at all if there was nothing wrong. The CCP only ever says something is fine if it's not. You should know that by now.