On 28 Jul 2004 08:42:56 GMT, otforme (Charlie Self)
calmly ranted:

Larry Jaques posts:


inspector, tells me there is a nearly world wide shortage because of some
kind
of dam construction in China. Most of the current production is going there.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/chi.../three.gorges/
It's a WHOPPER!


Predicted to last until, IIRC, 2007, so prices will keep rising. That means

2009.

OK. Either way, it looks like a good reason to be glad you don't live anywhere
near the inundation path...or the country it's in. They're doing it on a grand

Sadly, it's a beautiful area they're filling up.


scale. One has to hope that some niggling goof-up isn't going to create a
disaster on the same scale say a decade or two down the road.

Yeah, there are even more folks downstream which will be losing flow
until the dam fills up, then are at risk if it breaks.


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