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Three Gorges Dam. Concerns rise with water.

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bliter
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There is no shortage of naysayers but given China's often a-pall-ing air quality, the clean power that will be produced (claimed equivalent to that of 15 nuclear plants) must surely make the environmental costs acceptable.

Report of a 50-meter wave as a result of a landslide defies belief.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7120856.stm


Fidel
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That's a gorgeous dam.

bliter
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At completion, the weight distribution at the earth's surface will be so changed as to produce a shift. It will not be a gradual thing but an event of less than one hour.

This will happen when the formed lake is within 250cm plus-minus 50cm of its maximum level but could be triggered prematurely by the heavy rains that occur frequently.

If you are shoveling snow in Toronto, lucky you, because you can toss the shovel as the Jamaican sun does the clearing for you.

Jamaica, Vancouver even? My geography is zilch. Gotta look at an atlas.

ps.

Just heard a great item on Quirks and Quarks. An interview with a Dr. Bruce Logan of Pennsylvania.
It was on the production of hydrogen, using a tenth of the power required with electrolysis, while treating sewage and/or other organic matter.


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