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2004-06-30 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-06-30 4:16:50 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anyone care to take odds on just how heavily those politburo Mandarins and PLA top brass are investing in riverbank properties downstream of the dam?

[crickets chirping]

All righty then!

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-30 9:48:53 PM|| 2004-06-30 9:48:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 If, God forbid, we came to serious blows with China, this would be an obvious target. I imagine the world would be horrified by the loss of life downstream.

Posted by Tibor 2004-06-30 9:52:30 PM|| 2004-06-30 9:52:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, all right. The Chicoms are finally learning how to pour deep sections of concrete. Anyone wanting to keep up on the dam construction and its aftereffects can go the link here.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-30 9:53:20 PM|| 2004-06-30 9:53:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I imagine the world would be horrified by the loss of life downstream.

Should China continue its pattern of aggressive behavior, any destruction of the dam will be of their own making. All blame for the deaths that ensue will rest upon the politburo's shoulders and nowhere else.

China cannot possibly be allowed to think that they may proceed unfettered in their aggression against Tibet and Taiwan, yet remain immune from having their major civil engineering projects become strategic targets.

This is the price of admission into the global community. Join the ranks and attain security through peaceful coexistence or expect your nation's vital resources to become targets. Nobody gets it both ways, no matter how much China thinks otherwise.

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-30 10:06:43 PM|| 2004-06-30 10:06:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't think that I would care to live downstream once the reservoir fills. I don't think "chemical grouting" will be of sufficient strength comes the day.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-30 10:45:12 PM|| 2004-06-30 10:45:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I predict thousands and thousands of people will be washed away when the damn dam collapses.

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-06-30 10:52:47 PM|| 2004-06-30 10:52:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bah, WE'VE known about high temperatures in concrete long before Hoover/Boulder Dam: They had their own refrigeration unit and laid plastic pipes of chilled water while pouring the concrete. If they didn't, the dam would STILL be cooling...

Posted by Ptah 2004-06-30 10:54:20 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-06-30 10:54:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 If they didn't, the dam would STILL be cooling...

Quite right, Ptah. Hoover Dam required a continuous uninterrupted 24/7 pour lasting for one entire year. Chilled brine was employed for heat removal during setting and the concrete used could pave a four lane highway from coast to coast. The penstock tubes are big enough to drive a school bus through.

One of the greatest civil engineering achievements on earth.

I predict thousands and thousands of people will be washed away when the damn dam collapses.

Halfass Pete, the final number would be in the millions. Given China's truly crappy civil engineering track record, Three Gorges is merely a disaster waiting to happen. The only thing I dread is that China might somehow use its collapse to fabricate justification for an attack on Taiwan.

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-30 11:10:03 PM|| 2004-06-30 11:10:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I was wanting to know what type of chemical grout was used on the dam?

Thank you
John

Posted by John 2004-07-12 11:41:53 PM|| 2004-07-12 11:41:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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