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The Trillion-Gallon Question: What If California's Dams Fail?
- WirelessGigabit 3y agohttps://archive.ph/zNgDn https://archive.ph/zNgDn
- kelsolaar 3y agoThanks to all the unsung heroes providing an archive.ph link!
- WeylandYutani 3y agoThe Netherlands is basically Atlantis. If we'd stop pumping water just for a week we all die. If the dikes fail there wouldn't be enough time for an evacuation and we all die. So build something that doesn't fail. Then build a backup system that doesn't fail. Not hard just expensive.
- rcme 3y agoNo one is building dams to fail. But they can fail for a variety of reasons. They need constant monitoring by experts for signs of failure and lots of costly upkeep when issues arise. This is a hard problem. The Netherlands is one of the foremost experts in this field. Just because it looks easy doesn’t mean it is.