Three Gorges Dam Could Collapse
Posted by feww on July 22, 2010
HOW LONG WILL SHE HOLD?
Image of the Day:
Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei Province central China, July 19, 2010.
The water influx into the Three Gorges Reservoir reached 58,000 steres [cubic meters, m³] per second on Monday morning, setting a new record in this year’s flood season. Engineers will raise the rate of water outflux to 40,000 steres per second from 10 a.m. on Monday to face the biggest flood peak since the dam was established. (Xinhua/Zheng Jiayu). Image may be subject to copyright. More photos …
In Murphy’s law has no time vector! Fire-Earth said:
FEWW Amendment to Murphy’s Law:
If more things can go wrong they will go wrong about now!… in the world’s major cities, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, oil rigs, production and processing facilities, powerlines …
A name for this?
Blog Moderators call this phenomenon Secondary Interlude to Human-Induced Planetary Antiphase.Previous Examples in recent times?
Repeated flooding in Manila, Philippines.Examples to watch for in the Near future?
Watch out for disintegration or collapse of Cities, large-scale structures, bridges, tunnels, power plants…, e.g., collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam in the next two to three years.Other Examples?
More examples would be posted after the Moderators have evaluated the structures, geographical regions and physical locations.Causes?
Earthquakes, Storms, Snowstorms, Extreme Rain Events (ERE), Drought and Deluge, Fatigue … Antiphase and all other human-induced and human-enhanced factors.See also entry at
Major Blackout Plunges Brazil into Darkness
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- Murphy’s law has no time vector!
- The First Wave of the World’s Collapsing Cities
- The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
- State of the World
- Failing Ecosystems
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