This is a really astute comment that fleshes out a thought in my pre-cast concrete structures 🧵 thread.
Prestige projects like the Kerch Straits bridge beget prestige infrastructure like beam launchers.
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Prestige projects like the Kerch Straits bridge beget prestige infrastructure like beam launchers.
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https://twitter.com/VermisstPfarrer/status/1512798295420116992
If you don't know what a 'beam launcher' is, internet searches can be your friend.
Here are several pictures of Chinese beam launchers.
China has spent a lot of money on developing high productivity civil infrastructure construction techniques people in the West have
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Here are several pictures of Chinese beam launchers.
China has spent a lot of money on developing high productivity civil infrastructure construction techniques people in the West have
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...simply ignored.
Infrastructure looks the way it does because of the tools used to build it.
The extensive use of pre-cast concrete structures requires specific mechanized tools in your economy to move & place it.
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Infrastructure looks the way it does because of the tools used to build it.
The extensive use of pre-cast concrete structures requires specific mechanized tools in your economy to move & place it.
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These mechanized tools are extremely vulnerable to thieves stripping copper cables & wiring.
It requires 24/7 security that cannot be bribed to use it in places over run with such thieves.
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It requires 24/7 security that cannot be bribed to use it in places over run with such thieves.
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What people in the West miss about the Chinese emphasis on speed in building huge civil infrastructure is that it helps defeat the CCP's kleptocratic tendencies.
The faster infrastructure is built. The less time there is to steal stuff from beam launchers & cheapen the
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The faster infrastructure is built. The less time there is to steal stuff from beam launchers & cheapen the
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...concrete.
Marginal incentives in an economy matter.
In Russia, only in 'prestige projects' that answer directly to Putin can thievery be kept low enough for massive mechanized infrastructure associated with pre-cast concrete structures like beam launchers be kept
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Marginal incentives in an economy matter.
In Russia, only in 'prestige projects' that answer directly to Putin can thievery be kept low enough for massive mechanized infrastructure associated with pre-cast concrete structures like beam launchers be kept
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operational.
If you cannot keep the mechanized infrastructure needed to place pre-cast concrete structures operational in Russia outside the Kerch Strait bridge.
You are won't have many pre-cast concrete structures vendors to reach back too.
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If you cannot keep the mechanized infrastructure needed to place pre-cast concrete structures operational in Russia outside the Kerch Strait bridge.
You are won't have many pre-cast concrete structures vendors to reach back too.
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1512795395805618184
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