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NNadir

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3. I'm not familiar with that one, but the one that scares me the most is, of course, the Three Gorges dam.

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Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:46 AM

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The consequences of failure of that monstrosity would dwarf years worth, perhaps decades worth, of losses to air pollution, a subset of the deaths caused each year from energy production, both by fossil fuels and so called "renewable energy," biomass combustion.

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I'm not familiar with that one, but the one that scares me the most is, of course, the Three Gorges dam. NNadir Sunday #3

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Ow! I wasn't familiar with that one. With the destruction of the planetary atmosphere, now well underway... NNadir Sunday #5