...some weather porn. The Three Gorges Dam (TDG) on the Yangtze River in the Hubei province of China is the largest hydroelectric dam on earth... and it might fail.
http://3gd.mooo.com/
The dam is currently at record input (74,000 cubic meters) and record output (49,400 cubic meters). The current basin depth is around 164 meters. Record depth is about 165 and the dam is said to be capable of holding to 175 meters. However, a lot of people think that’s bullshit because communism is built on lies (see Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, White Sea Baltic Canal).
If TGD fails, it will kill millions within months. The Yangtze River system hosts transportation of manufactured goods to the coastal regions, multiple nuclear power plants, multiple military installations, and roughly 1/3 of China’s domestic food supply. Millions have already been displaced and left homeless amid record downstream flooding and China has recently made record purchases of US corn as their emergency food supplies have been destroyed and exhausted.
In short, if TGD fails, it will be nuclear-level cataclysm that takes an entire generation to recover. This will further rock international markets as we rely on China for basically every manufactured product.
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Oh yeah, and I lost Weather Bucket in a windstorm. T’was a good bucket.
http://3gd.mooo.com/
The dam is currently at record input (74,000 cubic meters) and record output (49,400 cubic meters). The current basin depth is around 164 meters. Record depth is about 165 and the dam is said to be capable of holding to 175 meters. However, a lot of people think that’s bullshit because communism is built on lies (see Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, White Sea Baltic Canal).
If TGD fails, it will kill millions within months. The Yangtze River system hosts transportation of manufactured goods to the coastal regions, multiple nuclear power plants, multiple military installations, and roughly 1/3 of China’s domestic food supply. Millions have already been displaced and left homeless amid record downstream flooding and China has recently made record purchases of US corn as their emergency food supplies have been destroyed and exhausted.
In short, if TGD fails, it will be nuclear-level cataclysm that takes an entire generation to recover. This will further rock international markets as we rely on China for basically every manufactured product.
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Oh yeah, and I lost Weather Bucket in a windstorm. T’was a good bucket.