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The effect/kinetic energy of the water involved would be comparable to that released by a nuclear explosion. Total madness. https://www.theguardian.com/world/

The effect/kinetic energy of the water involved would be comparable to that released by a nuclear explosion. Total madness. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/nova-kakhovka-dam-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ukraines-strategically-important-reservoir https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/nova-kakhovka-... "The reservoir it contains holds an estimated 18 cubic kilometres of water, about the same volume as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Bursting the dam could send a wall of water flooding settlements below it, including Kherson, which Ukrainian forces recaptured in late 2022" In 1941 the retreating Red Army blew a different dam, the Dnieper/Dnipro dam, up to a hundred thousand people died on that occasion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station#World_War_II_and_post-war_reconstruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station#...

KeplerBoy 3y ago
The energy will be released over a long time though. Nevertheless, every structure downstream will end up in the black sea.
bouncycastle 3y ago
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- MichaelMoser123 3y ago
  that one is 150 million kilometers away, and we have an atmosphere for our protection.
  - bouncycastle 3y ago
    Yet, you cannot look at it with the naked eye for more than a second & it scorches large areas of Earth leaving only dry desert sand.
    - defrost 3y ago
      There's an oversimplification. Entire bands of the earths surface receive the same amount of sunlight per square metre for similar amounts of average time per day. Only some of these regions are left with only dry desert sand. There might be more to this than simple hours per day of sunlight, topography for one factor.
      - bouncycastle 3y ago
        There's more. Sun is also responsible for floods, typhoons, cyclones and tornadoes. Hundreds of disasters every year. Come to think of it, energy stored in the dam is the result from the Sun evaporating water from other areas, and then convection currents, aka wind, blowing the clouds over the continent and condensing. So, it's all energy from a nuclear explosion.
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- eenokentee 3y ago
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KeplerBoy 3y ago

The energy will be released over a long time though. Nevertheless, every structure downstream will end up in the black sea.

bouncycastle 3y ago

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MichaelMoser123 3y ago
that one is 150 million kilometers away, and we have an atmosphere for our protection.
- bouncycastle 3y ago
  Yet, you cannot look at it with the naked eye for more than a second & it scorches large areas of Earth leaving only dry desert sand.
  - defrost 3y ago
    There's an oversimplification. Entire bands of the earths surface receive the same amount of sunlight per square metre for similar amounts of average time per day. Only some of these regions are left with only dry desert sand. There might be more to this than simple hours per day of sunlight, topography for one factor.
    - bouncycastle 3y ago
      There's more. Sun is also responsible for floods, typhoons, cyclones and tornadoes. Hundreds of disasters every year. Come to think of it, energy stored in the dam is the result from the Sun evaporating water from other areas, and then convection currents, aka wind, blowing the clouds over the continent and condensing. So, it's all energy from a nuclear explosion.
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eenokentee 3y ago
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