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Water levels at China's giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on Friday.
With 75,000 cubic metres per second of water flowing in from the Yangtze River on Thursday, the reservoir's depth had reached 165.6 metres (543 feet) by Friday morning, up more than two metres (6.6 feet) overnight and almost 20 metres (65.6 feet) higher than the official warning level.
The maximum designed depth of China's largest reservoir is 175 metres (574 feet).
Authorities raised the discharge volume to a record 48,800 cubic metres per second on Thursday to try and lower water levels, and they might have to increase it again to avoid the possibility of a dangerous overflow.
Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai are all downstream...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:00AM (2 children)
60%+ of the American public doesn't even know where China is. All your problems are with the 40% who vote democrat/republican. And really only half of those do it because they feel obligated. So the real problem is only 20% or even less of the americans.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 22 2020, @01:24PM (1 child)
Wrong! Every American knows China is on the bottom of the world and that Chinese are upside-down.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @04:07PM
That is so very true. Everything in the pile "cheap china crap" that comes out is backwards (i.e., "upside down") compared to the rest of the world.
That is why your cheap china made electronics (i.e., the ones made by a china company, not contract built by china for a Eurpoean company) contains such stupidity as the "off light". What is the "off light" you say.... Well, it is a light that turns on when you turn the device off and turns off when you turn the device on. Exactly opposite to the way things should be.
I was also reverse engineering a cheap Chinese made coffee mug warmer a couple weeks back. Internally it used a small microcontroller designed as a touch sensor to turn on/off. Yes, a small computer in a coffee mug warmer so it would have a touch sensor an two heat levels. Anyway, the micro-controller needed 5-7 Vdc to operate. So the chinese engineer had hung the positive side of the DC filter capacitors off one side of the AC line, then setup two diodes as a full wave rectifier from the other AC with a zenier diode regulator to create a -5 (yes, minus 5) volt supply. Then the Vcc of the micro controller was connected to the positive side of the filter capacitors which was also one side of the AC line, and the ground of the micro-controller was connected to the pull down side of the negative 5 volt supply.
Which is exactly backwards (or upside-down) to how a European would design it. The negative of the caps would be ground (and be connected to one side of the AC supply, and the rectifiers and zenier regulator would create a +5 output rail to feed the Vcc of the micro-controller.
So yes, all Chinese are upside-down.