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Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water
Anonymous Coward writes "The Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric project in the world, and one of the largest engineering projects underway right now, has begun accumulating water in the reservoir."
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I'd assume the two George Bushes... is the other George Washington?
Thought that said Three Gorgeous Dames begin storing water...was like, wtf?
Now if they're so against it they just need to do what the US government was afraid of during the cold war. All the chinese people have to stand on it and jump at the same time... thats 1 billion people times about 150 pounds each. or 150 billion pounds of force. Thats how you get rid of a controversial dam... damn it :)
I dunno. Will Jiang Zemin start building mines below the dam and end up pissing off the Ents? If so, I don't think his plan holds water, if you pardon the expression
...Nothing interesting here. Just move along...
Now I have to go pee.
In a related story,
life goes on as usual for Chinese peasants in the villages behind the dam.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
"China's Communist Party leaders have portrayed the dam as a triumph of engineering and of socialism."
So what does the Great Wall of China signify?
Seems to me to be the worst coutry to try that claim in...
No, you got it wrong. They are using bits of Eunuchs. Ewww, that was bad.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
unless those damn mutants find a way to blow it up sooner.
we're probably living in a simulation anyway so it doesn't really matter.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
This was in fact the biggest technological diaster of all time. You must not be considering the entire family of Windows products.
18,000 people dying a year overweighs the extinction problems.
Because, as we know, the human race is on the brink of extinction itself and cannot sustain such losses.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Can you say population control?!?
heck, if they time it right, they can do spring cleaning too...
We need more people. Too many turtles. Kill them.
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman
Finally I can power my flux capacitor without worrying about the Libyans coming to ge me.
Cutsie little turtles? Yes, we need more cute animals -- all the other animals can go.
Wow, sounds like Bush's dream. An "evil" country that bombs themselves.
What do you think?
As if I fucking care what someone who wants to contribute on the basis of a two sentence synopsis of the 3G project thinks.
Teach him to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
global warming (yes it does exist, America)
As I post, it is 41 degrees Fahrenheit in Chicago. In June. 41 DEGREES IN FREAKING JUNE! Yes, this just reeks of global warming, doesn't it?
Don't blame people over that. I am interested in huge projects like that, so I naturally checked the yahoo,google etc for info etc.
Half of the stuff was from the "green" organisations, some of them clearly gets money from "rival" goverments to bitch about the project.
I don't go mad to such stuff, we had similar problems (not naming country for needless off topic crap).
Its how International rivalry works, since beginning of 20th century.
One of the main reasons of building three gorges is interestingly to stop floods which effects hundreds of millions of people. Not just the power.
Anyways, this old green-politics game will go on like that...
Ugh good one, you just got slashdot banned in China.
Headline in 10 years:
New York Times
Three Gorges Rapids Project Complete
by Jayson Blair and Peter Arnett
China's first theme park, the Three Gorges Rapids, opened last week. A massive engineering feat, the proud and resourceful free peoples of China who independently banded together collectively to form a theme park around the largest rapids ever created by man or nature.
The process included building a massive temproary dam, filling the resivour, then the controlled destruction of the dam resulting in the rapids forming where the dam once stood.
The road building and hotel construction will begin soon, as the Chinese wished to keep the area in it's pristine, natural state as long as possible . . .
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
18.2 Gigawatts a year? you could go back to 1955 15 times!
Spyder
> December 17, 1997
>
> CERTIFIED MAIL
>
> Mr. Ryan DeVries
> 2088 Dagget
> Pierson. MI 49339
>
> SUBJECT: deq File No. 97-59-0023-1 T11N, R10W, Sec. 20, Montcalm County
>
> It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above
> referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:
> Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet
> stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of
> this type of activity. A review of the Department's files show that no
> permits have been issued.
>
> Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in
> violation of Part 301,. Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural
> Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of
> 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled
> Laws annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the
> dams partially, failed during a recent rain event, causing debris and
> flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are
> inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore
> orders you to cease and desist all unauthorized activities at this
> location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing
> all wood and brush forming the dams from the strewn channel. All
> restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 1998.
>
> Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so
> that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure
> to comply with this request, or any further unauthorized activity on the
> site, may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement
> action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this
> matter.
>
> Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David L. Price
> District Representative Land and Water Management Division
>
>
> ----Reply Letter----
>
> Dear Mr. Price:
>
> Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N, R10W, Sec 20; Montcalm County
>
> Your certified letter dated 12/17/97 has been handed to me to respond
> to. You sent out a great deal of carbon copies to a lot of people, but
> you neglected to include their addresses. You will, therefore, have to
> send them a copy of my response.
>
> First of all, Mr. Ryan DeVries is not the legal landowner and/or
> contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan - I am the legal owner and
> a couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of
> constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet
> stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, nor authorize their
> dam project, I think they would be highly offended you call their
> skillful use of natural building materials "debris."
>
> I would like to challenge you to attempt to emulate their dam project
> any dam time and/or any dam place you choose. I believe I can safely
> state there is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills, their
> dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their
> dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.
>
>
> As to your dam request the beavers first must fill out a dam permit
> prior to the start of this type of dam activity, my first dam question
> to you is: are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers
> or do you require all dam beavers throughout this State to conform to
> said dam request? If you are not discriminating