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> C. The renaissance dam is a gravity dam. Giant concrete structure. It's not going to be easy to destroy. To put this into concrete terms: the Renaissance dam
by anonydsfsfs 5y ago
> C. The renaissance dam is a gravity dam. Giant concrete structure. It's not going to be easy to destroy.
To put this into concrete terms: the Renaissance dam is 476ft tall. According to Wikipedia[0], non-nuclear bunker buster bombs are limited to a penetration depth of ~20ft of reinforced concrete, which would barely dent a dam this size. Even the USAF would have a hard time destroying this dam from the air.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster
- mjevans 5y agoWhat if erosion were the driving force? A smaller attack could be devastating if one or several targeted strikes caused a spill and damaged directive devises such that it began an active process of erosion. It's a failure mode I greatly fear for all mega-projects.
- ilstormcloud 5y agoIt would take thousands of years. Dams are strong enough to outlast us.