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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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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.
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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.
Finally I can power my flux capacitor without worrying about the Libyans coming to ge me.
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!
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