menainfra.com— Is there something emerging economies in the Middle East can learn from the perhaps overambitious Three Gorges Dam?
Oct 17, 2009View in Crawl 4
why start with USD and then proceed to use metric? Not that I don't use metric and don't think its a good system... its just that if you're speaking to Americans most can't visualize metric as well because of how little its used.
Qxzkjp,I'm actually curious as to how I misused it? If something changes weight by 1-2 percent, would it be incorrect to say it's weight changed by a few percentage points?
.......this article is nothing but an enviro-weenie whine-fest.The Three Gorges Dam is an engineering marvel..........and it's something the USA used to do on a routine basis.
@autokad - ok, you want some currently under way? -The International Space Station which is funded and run mostly by the USA-The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a stealth fighter that is still under development & pre-production. -The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (Google it) just received an additional $3 billion in funding to extend it through 2010.-The building of NYC water aqueduct #3. Costing $60 billion, construction started in 1970 and isn't expected to complete until 2020.-There are a large number of oil-related megaprojects underway in the USA. Click on the "Overview" links at the top of this page for more details: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_megaprojects" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_megaprojects</a>- 9 of the 13 largest solar thermal power plants currently in development around the world are located in the USA.It really doesn't take a whole lot of effort to find out about these sorts of things. It took me all of about 5 minutes with Google to look all these examples up. I'll be more than happy to find more if necessary.
larsonal777Oct 18, 2009
why start with USD and then proceed to use metric? Not that I don't use metric and don't think its a good system... its just that if you're speaking to Americans most can't visualize metric as well because of how little its used.
antialiasOct 18, 2009
Qxzkjp,I'm actually curious as to how I misused it? If something changes weight by 1-2 percent, would it be incorrect to say it's weight changed by a few percentage points?
ravenhaftOct 18, 2009
Buried for misusing the term "it's".
anthropodeusOct 18, 2009
22.5 gigawatts! great scott!
Closed AccountOct 18, 2009
Buried everyone for excessive anal rapism, including me for posting.
Closed AccountOct 18, 2009
.......this article is nothing but an enviro-weenie whine-fest.The Three Gorges Dam is an engineering marvel..........and it's something the USA used to do on a routine basis.
Closed AccountOct 19, 2009
@autokad - ok, you want some currently under way? -The International Space Station which is funded and run mostly by the USA-The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a stealth fighter that is still under development & pre-production. -The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (Google it) just received an additional $3 billion in funding to extend it through 2010.-The building of NYC water aqueduct #3. Costing $60 billion, construction started in 1970 and isn't expected to complete until 2020.-There are a large number of oil-related megaprojects underway in the USA. Click on the "Overview" links at the top of this page for more details: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_megaprojects" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_megaprojects</a>- 9 of the 13 largest solar thermal power plants currently in development around the world are located in the USA.It really doesn't take a whole lot of effort to find out about these sorts of things. It took me all of about 5 minutes with Google to look all these examples up. I'll be more than happy to find more if necessary.