Great Wall section collapses

[Korean]

Great fall of China: section of wall collapses - Telegraph

Great fall of China: section of wall collapses
A section of the centuries-old Great Wall of China has collapsed due to a combination of heavy rainfall and construction works.

 

[ahfatzia]

Well no man made structures last forever. Time and mother nature usually do their works well. In this case, no big deal, since many sections of the wall are not original anyway and can always rebuild.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Thats sad...Chinese Govt should repair it.Its a great work of engineering and architecture.

 

[INDIC]

Great wall is too long. It is a mammoth task to preserve it entirely.

 

[Icarus]

The Chinese will have it up in a few months, they built it when the most complex tool they had was the wheel, with today's technology, rebuilding the collapsed section will be a breeze.

 

[RPK]

The Chinese will have it up in a few months, they built it when the most complex tool they had was the wheel, with today's technology, rebuilding the collapsed section will be a breeze.

But seems like they are not interested.

 

[Haseebullah]

But seems like they are not interested.

Maybe they want to give it an ancient look,you know broken in certain places and breaking in the others.

 

[anarchy 99]

There is already talk going on that the broken sections of the great wall will be rebuilt.

 

[Rusty]

The wall is too important for them tourism wise, they will fix it.
Gotta keep that money coming in

 

[gambit]

Thats sad...Chinese Govt should repair it.Its a great work of engineering and architecture.

How to repair it? That is not a facetious question. Am not saying the Chinese does not have the skills to rebuild/repair that section, but the more of today's materials and techniques are used to rebuild/repair what was damaged/lost, the more that section become an artifact of modern creation than of the past that gained so much historical and archeological value.

 

[Martian2]

It's amazing the Great Wall stood for thousands of years.

I thought it would surely stand for another few thousand years, but I guess there are some weak links that crumbled after 2,000 years.

 

[Awesome]

How to repair it? That is not a facetious question. Am not saying the Chinese does not have the skills to rebuild/repair that section, but the more of today's materials and techniques are used to rebuild/repair what was damaged/lost, the more that section become an artifact of modern creation than of the past that gained so much historical and archeological value.

AFter another 2000 years the wow factor would return. If any section is being rebuilt it should be rebuilt properly/better rather than scoop up the rubble just for the sake of nostalgia.

 

[Battle of Bach Dang River]

Great fall of China: section of wall collapses - Telegraph

Is this a harbinger for China?

 

[Martian2]

Is this a harbinger for China?

The Great Wall is a harbinger in the sense that China is a nation of mega-engineering projects.

Today's Great Wall is the world's-largest Three Gorges Dam that produces as much electricity as 21 Hoover Dams.

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Three Gorges Dam generates the electricity of 21 Hoover Dams

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River is an American icon. It generates a massive 4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. Astonishingly, China's Three Gorges Dam produces the electricity of 21 Hoover Dams at 84.7 billion kilowatt-hours.

China's Three Gorges Dam is "the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind."

"One of the nation's best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam"

China fills Three Gorges Dam to capacity - CNN

"China fills Three Gorges Dam to capacity
October 26, 2010|By the CNN Wire Staff

China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water project, was fully filled Tuesday, state media said.

The water level hit the dam's design capacity of 175 meters (574 feet) at 9 a.m. Tuesday, said the corporation that developed the dam.

The 175-meter milestone will "enable the project to fulfill its functions of flood control, power generation, navigation and water diversion to the full," said Cao Guangjing, chairman of the China Three Gorges Corporation.

When the dam in central China reaches full generating capacity next year, it will produce 84.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, the Xinhua news agency said. That's enough to meet Beijing's needs for a year.

By comparison, the United States' Hoover Dam produces about 4 billion kilowatt-hours each year, enough to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, Arizona, and California.

The 2,309-meter-wide (1.4 mile-wide) Three Gorges project, built in the upper-middle reaches of China's longest river, began storing water in 2003. Water is diverted to the parched farmlands and cities of China's north.

The Yangtze River has been responsible for some of the worst floods on record, with hundreds of thousands of people killed over the past century alone. The Three Gorges Dam relieves 15 million people and 1.5 million hectares of farmland in the Jianghan Plain from the threat of flood, the developer says.

Critics say the dam worsens pollution by trapping sewage and industrial waste. They also warn that an accident or natural disaster could create a catastrophe in the densely populated region. Smaller dams could have met China's needs, critics say.

An estimated 1.2 million people had to move to make way for the Three Gorges, which inundated 632 square kilometers (244 square miles) of land. Historians decried the loss of centuries of relics and antiquities, and the loss of a way of life for myriad rural residents in hundreds of villages, towns and cities."

 

[Ajaxpaul]

Its a treat to visit Great wall...Please do preserve it for all humanity.