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China will build and finance two dams in Patagonia equivalent to 10% of Argentine power demand
Argentina's government this week awarded a 4 billion dollars contract for the construction of two hydroelectric dams to a consortium led by China Gezhouba (Group) Co. and which includes Argentine firms Electroingenieria SA and Hidrocuyo SA. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhy not wind power, plenty of it down there, could wind Crissie up ( mention FALKLANDS ) and she could create all the wind power needed for Santa Cruz.But seriously why not wind power, you only need turbines and heh presto, localised power. Unforetunately you would run out of names to give them, much better to call a dam after you deceased husband. what is it with Argentinians and naming things after people, must be ego I suspect.Problem with dams is the power is a long way away from the consumer.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0El Chocon dam in Neuquen supplies power to BA 1200 kms away, how much power is lost on the way.
I wonder if a little bit of that 4 billion will find its way to the Seychelles.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 02:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 trenchtoast
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 04:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if ANY of that 4 billion will find it's way to the project? Most of it will end up in the Seychelles.
As for the Chinese, make sure they pay up front, and in US dollars.
Were these the dams previously banned because of environmental damage?
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0IF they ever get built I wonder if they will have a hole in them to commemorate Nestor's unique boss-eyed 'beauty' feature?
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 07:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mind you, if the argies have ANYTHING to do with the actual construction (other than pocketing the money) they will be lucky if it stops at one hole.
I will believe it when it happens.
LOL’s
Five YEARS. So that's US$5.5 plus billion argieland will have to spend in the meantime. This will no doubt come from the debts argieland is refusing to pay. I do hope the US Supreme Court rules that argieland must pay. And authorises seizure of every available argie asset.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 08:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hydroelectric power: good green renewable power. Perhaps we could look at damming some of our rivers in Patagonia too.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0@Chris: How is your mum, long time no seen her!
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Send my regards!
Maybe it is time tp ask for money as they just lost their court case appeal:
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/139076/bondholder-fight-argentina-loses-us-appeal-sc-appeal-resolution-pending
SCOTUS is all that is left is they accept it.
With all the money China is putting forward, it makes me wonder if CFK will make some new enemies seeing as she can't be trusted with money even a bake sale for children, let alone a major construction project.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dique El Chocon supplies hydo power to Neuquen and BA ( on the river Limay ) Dique Cerros Colorados ( regulating dam on the river Negro ) serving Neuquen and Cippoletti. All the above were designed by the British firm Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners ( Chocon was built by the Italian firm Impregilo SA ) in 1967-1970
Argentina will get the dams built and then default on the payments. It's the Argie way.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Damn, dams, railway carriages, shale exploration, soy farms etc, etc.
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder how long Before we start reading prices on the Blue Yuan?
@ 8 warteiner
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With your self-confessed super intellect I would have thought that even you would have realised that at the age of 67 my beloved parents are both dead.
You are truly an edifying spectacle to behold, true argie shithead of the first order. Managed to go anywhere on the coach with your drunken mates this year. No money! Don't worry, with TMBOA on her final crash and burn dive of the country you will be eating dog shit soon.
Oh, you ARE eating dog shit now? Well, you deserve it, watch out for the intestinal worms!
As Argentina are bitching about the bio-diesel tariffs the EU are applying, why do they export it when they have a shortage of diesel?
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 015 Pete Bog
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's one of the few things they can sell and get dollars for.
Argentina, the South American whore!
Aug 23rd, 2013 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Selling her ass to the Chinese, funny enough, for their Yankee dollars!
Were these the dams previously banned because of environmental damage?
Aug 24th, 2013 - 05:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think .... do you know?
The dam called Nester Kirchner will definately be built, how could it not.
Aug 24th, 2013 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0wow, that's dumb.
Aug 24th, 2013 - 04:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It'd be funny if the countries upriver started damming.
but yeah, not good for the water ecosys.
Isn't there a Chinese copy of a Lancaster made for a film, knocking about? The FuAA Lancasters cannot fly, so should the RAF's last flying one and the Chinese copy train up for a Dambuster raid when Argentina defaults.
Aug 24th, 2013 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It'll be interesting to see how the Chinese would react, if the Argentine government tried to screw them over.
Aug 24th, 2013 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I doubt they'd invade Argentina, their current ability to militarily project themselves beyond their own borders is limited at best, but they'd damn well make sure that Argentina NEVER received a penny from anyone in the future.
What the Argentine government doesn't understand is the mentality of the Chinese.
They are a proud people with a long and rich history of inventiveness, wisdom and truth. Above all they believe in respect.
The Argentine government doesn't understand respect. They expect to get it, but never give it, and don't understand that it has to be earned.
The Chinese are certainly a people and a country that deserves and has, indeed, earned respect. They also respect other's, even if they don't necessarily agree with them.
But p!ss off the Chinese, and Argentina will truly be finished. Cut out of all international markets, cut off from one of the biggest importers of soy and fuel in the world.
They have very long memories. Beware Argentine government, the Chinese neither forgive nor forget any slights against them.
This is priceless.
Aug 25th, 2013 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0You lot are so butthurt and it clearly shows through in your posts.
I'm not going to increase the pain.
Merely point in its direction and laugh.
And laugh.
And laugh...
23 Stevie
Aug 25th, 2013 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0But we will see who is correct before long!
@23 Priceless? Indeed you are. Although, attributable to you, the word is probably “worthless”. Let's see whether you can “understand”. These dams, if built on schedule, are FIVE YEARS away. Five long, cold years. Personally, I don't give a toss. But would you like to hear a joke. Dams in China can take up to 30 years to get to the point where they actually supply power. But try this lovely example. The Guxian Dam on the Luo River was started in 1958. It was finally completed in 1993. Isn't that good? 35 years. Will argieland be supplying the coolies? If so, I wonder how long it will be before the argie coolies learn what “work” is?
Aug 25th, 2013 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Try this clue. Argieland doesn't really have a car industry. All it does is put parts together. Dams are a bit different. You won't be finding the page of instructions that says “insert part B in slot C”. And it's argieland. They'll get it wrong anyway. As ChrisR says, we'll wait and see. 2018? 2019?
But I do apologise for my figures. In @6, I suggested that argieland will have to pay US$5.5 billion for energy imports over that five years. Turns out to be more like US$65 billion. Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay off the debts? Argieland will now be relying on one Chinese consortium. Let's see who finishes up butthurt.
conq
Aug 25th, 2013 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great.
In the meantime.
Here.
Have some vaseline.
Easier that way... Ask Anglolatino...
;)
Guzz you remind me of the pirate hunter at times, always needing to insert someones sexuality into someplace it does not belong. Perhaps you were man raped and have not gotten often it, or you enjoyed it and struggle with that. Do yourself a favor and take it out on your nits before they grow into full fledged lice.....do the world a favor.
Aug 25th, 2013 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good one Stevie!
Aug 26th, 2013 - 06:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Feel more like a man now?
26 Stevie
Aug 26th, 2013 - 07:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are starting to lose it, just like you did with the Guzz tag towards the end and we never “heard” from you for six months until your latest incarnation.
Such a shame, you CAN be inciteful when you try.
Stevie and A_Voice, a solo duet??????????????
Aug 26th, 2013 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 030 Simon68
Aug 26th, 2013 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think it's A_Voice and Redp0ll (note the zero for the “o”) who are cloned. But who knows and more to the point WGAF?
Don't worry lads, you will all get what you deserve. No more, no less.
Aug 26th, 2013 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0I will try to keep it in the level you choose yourselves...
Stevie
Aug 26th, 2013 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You chose this level, no one else.
Own what you are!
Nah Anglolatino, you need to read conq's posts. Soon enough you'll see him do a Manning.
Aug 27th, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Something like “My name is Berta and I'm in fact a sheep...”
As for your posts, I can't help to think that your only interest in this site, as an Australian, would be to have a free shot at SA in general and Arg in particular.
Well, guess what... We have our fun too.
;)
Stevie
Aug 27th, 2013 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your posts are making less and less sense over the past few weeks. Understandable since things don't seem to be going your way.
If you wish to read Conq's posts then do so. If you wish to raise my homosexuality for no reason then do so. Not only did it make you look pretty pathetic, but after castigating that I do the same thing, you're now a hypocrite.
Here's you back in May:
“Anglotón
I know many gay men.They don't feel the need to flaunt their sexuality as if they needed some kind of acknowlegdment.
You on the other hand, have told everybody you are gay plenty of times now, not counting the celebrities you share your fantasies of.
I understand the kick you got from making your sexuality official, but there is a reason people don't end every post with “byw, I'm hetero”.”
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/03/15/falklands-current-cruise-season-much-quieter-and-rather-turbulent
Seems it is now you that is bringing up my sexuality. You are doing about as well as Think did on that thread when he did the same thing.
As for the rest of your post thinking you know me.... PMSL. You just proved, that for all the information I share about myself, you still have no idea who I am.
A free shot? LOL. I don't need one I'm already eligible for residency. And I sure as hell wouldn't choose Argentina for anything longer than 6 months of uni.
If your idea of having fun is to use other people's sexuality to denigrate - go right ahead. Only one of us has come out of this looking good.
So sorry straight boy.
Anglolatino
Aug 28th, 2013 - 01:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0What?
Is it bad to be homosexual???
How can I denigrate when stating facts?
Just like Lucho being a racist for calling a black man black, you mean?
You are right in me not knowing you.
Where you fail is when you assume that I care...
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