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2013-03-18 China-Japan-Koreas

China - Flyash Liberation Army has new rival: Corrosive Sea Sand

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Posted by Frank G 2013-03-18 14:04|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Salt doesn't help the chemical processes in concrete either...you can easily break it up with a hammer (or a small earthquake).

Posted by tipover 2013-03-18 16:58|| 2013-03-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Lest we fergit, despite their on-going problems wid defective Civil-Contruction Engineering, China desires to proceed full speed ahead wid a post-Three Gorges, World's-largest dam project that is said could de facto slow down the rotation of the planet we like to call Earth???

And exclusive of any US-vs-Rising-China"Peak Oil/Resources" issues.

This will not end well.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-18 20:01|| 2013-03-18 20:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I assume that's a five year plan, Joe?

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-18 21:44|| 2013-03-18 21:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect this was a corner-cutting measure devised by suppliers because of a lack of government regulation. Kind of like the melamine milk imbroglio.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-03-18 22:39|| 2013-03-18 22:39|| Front Page Top

#5 If you're that sure about the Melamine Milk thing... I have thought, in my more paranoid moments, that that was their way of keeping the "wrong" people from buying their kids milk and a corresponding IQ boost.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-03-18 22:45|| 2013-03-18 22:45|| Front Page Top

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