Wednesday, August 12, 2015

A citizen talks about conservation, forests and dams

Copyright © 2015 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar
Re: 
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-bird-a-dam-and-a-belief/article7527069.ece?homepage=true
Human beings have equal rights along with other beings to live and be
nurtured and preserved. There is true knowledge, learn thou it is this:
To see one changeless life in all the lives, in the separate, the one
inseparable. Normal civilization recognises this truth and accordingly
lives in harmony with nature. Modern civilization,man-made, does not
recognise this truth and builds a parallel man-centred way
based on falsehood: To see the separate existences apart and holding that
to be true. This society of specialists is generically destructive of
its various artificial parts and of the whole: Gandhiji who immediately
saw the glaring lacuna of modern civilization gave the warning at the
begin of the last century(1908): Given enough time modern civilization
will destroy itself. But it causes in the process of its own suicide, the
loss of life, infrastructure and habitats and extinction, whose
consequences are irreversible. Thats why the Indian and Chinese sages
and seers held modern civilization in utter contempt and always strove
to steer the people to be convinced and contented with being normal:
in harmony with nature. Actually nature's production, consumption and
return is wasteless and uses everything and thus of infinite efficiency
and zero cost.
Dams merely store and do not distribute the waters. It is a
slave of gravity and an idiot when it comes to the state outside of it.
A forest on the other hand is infinitely superior to dams as they are
endowed with the power of osmosis and transpiration and with the help of
the sun possess an atmospheric distribution network which enables
equitable distribution of waters in accord with the density of
vegetation and hence participates in the repeated recycling of water
-transpiration, precipitation. Thus they recharge the groundwater
table and sustain themselves by using 1 to 2 percent of the waters
passing through them.
Taking the example of India, say on the 26th July 2015, the IMD reported
14 mm of All India rainfall. On 3.288 million square kilometers
area of India, this translates to 46 billion cubic meters(BCM). From
fundamental physiological principles of plants, a tree transpires
more than its own weight of water in a day. With a dry biomass density of
50 kg per square meter, the amount of water transpired on a third of
India's area of 1 million square kilometers is 50 BCM, more than the rainfall
on 26th July 2015! This is the way trees and grasslands prevent extreme
floods and droughts, in tune with nature. Birds come and bees make honey!

But the dams have a more sinister extinction process inherent in  their
design based on the tenets of disconnection characteristic of modern
civilization: The dams act cumulatively destructively on components of
modern civilization and nature. As the monsoon progresses the dams increase
their contents and exert surge waves of forces at their centre of gravity
which in turn exert huge bending moments and forces all round the centre of
gravity. This results in direct heating up of the earth and melting of
rocks to result in dam related disasters like hurricanes, extremes of rain,
cloud bursts, flash floods, landslides earthquakes and displacements which
are vertically up during the monsoon and down during the dry season in tune
with the TOTAL changes in all the dam contents from time to time, synchronous
with water demands on the dams. These are suicidal forces caused by man centered
modern civilization, in utter contrast to mutually helpful reinforcing
effects of the automatic atmospheric distribution network of forests as shown above.
The extremes of rain increasing with increasing dam capacities cause the
reservoirs to exceed their design basis envelopes, monsoon after monsoon.
In panic the dam operators release the flood waters precisely at the the peak
rainfall periods as to save the dams from over-topping and failing! Suicide!

Thus harmony with nature must be the bottom line of normal living.
The biggest development projects for the next millennia are reforesting mother
earth according to ecological principles with correct proportions of grasslands
and trees so that evolution is allowed to carry on instead of stopping it
in its tracks by modern civilization. This must be carried out by people's cooperatives, with the action and fruits being enjoyed by the people, assuring happiness.
See http://earthquakescausedbydams.blogspot.in
and
Reforest Mother Earth to Live! at
http://practicethevedas.blogspot.in/2008/05/reforest-mother-earth-to-live.html
Modern and Normal Civilizations at:
http://modernandnormal.blogspot.in/2006/09/modern-and-normal-civilizations.html
 
 

Friday, August 7, 2015

Dam Surges, Flash Floods, Twin Train Derailments and Fukushima: Modern Civilization in action against itself.

Re: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/493697/water-gushed-36-ft-high.html


"There was no defect in the rail bridge nor there was any lack of monsoon
preparedness and there was no flood alert for this section,"..."The line was constructed at 13 ft above the river bed and the water
gushed at 36-ft high and 200 m width which is unprecedented and can be
called freak"
Very pertinent to the issue at hand but the phenomenon is no longer a freak!. The designs of modern civilization are being overtaken by events which repeatedly point to the generic inadequacy of these designs to deal with the inherent nature of specializations which by definition do not look at the whole of modern civilization but only at the microaspects of it. But one holistic personality prophetically said the truth about this specialist society as far as the begin of the last century in 1908. Thats the father of the nation who taking one look at this modern civilization told the entire story when he exclaimed: "Given enough time modern civilization will destroy itself."
The separate parts of modern civilization act destructively on one another and the destruction grows with time until it is felt by each and every part and the whole. To put the facts by applying the precautionary principle: The dams of the world together act to produce sudden changes in the sum total of all the water pressure heads of dams at their centre of gravity at powers of hundreds of terawatts. This results in surges to be applied at various locations on the earth and the dynamics are ignored by modern civilization: The water flash flood may have occurred realistically in a few seconds or a fraction of a second but with a force to cause the disaster. This is a glaring lacuna of modern civilization which also resulted in the great earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima which precipitated an ongoing extinction process: See the horrors of this modern civilization killing the Pacific Ocean at enenews:

08:34 PM EST on August 3rd, 2015 | 259 comments
TV:“Can’t believe it’s happened again” on San Francisco coast — Mysterious
whale deaths baffling scientists — Officials: An “inexplicable” trend —
Dolphins wash up dead on beach nearby, “heartbreaking to hear the dying
baby calling out” (VIDEO)

See the results of a study of the forces/surges of dams in this twin train derailment in the Table below:
Table MCHITSHARDA: The Surge Wave details of the World's dams hitting Harda
causing twin train derailment at 23:30 hrs IST on 4 August 2015: Many killed and injured.
Period

CGLa
CGLo

2015-06-01t2015-08-0418:01:51.430Z
21.57908
87.02759



AVLa
AVLo



29.05869
-68.9183

Distance from CG,km of AV,km

13813


Date and Time,UTC

2015-08-04T
2015-08-04T
2015-08-04T


17:46:57.700Z
17:54:34.173Z
18:01:51.430Z
La

18.058
22.3391
33.681
Lo

-68.4645
77.1018
-118.477
Depth,km

95
0
0.037
Mag

3.3

2.35
Type

Md

ml
Seismic Moment, SMx10^19.05 Nm

8.91E-06

3.35E-07
Sum of Seismic Moments, SSMx10^19.05 Nm
20.07796


Distance from CG,km


1026

Distance from Harda,km

14158
0
13562
Time,Z,Hr

17.78269
17.90949
18.03095
Time Difference, hr

0
0.126798
0.248258
Dam Content Changes as on 4 August 2015, BCM

8.31251875


Water Moment due to the Dam Content Change,WMx10^19.05 Nm


7.45674

LogWM


0.872549

Equivalent Earthquake Magnitude, EqMM


7.248366

LogEs


15.67255

Energy of Applied Water Moment,Es Joules


4.70E+15

Force,Up, exerted by the dam content change,  N


8.15E+13

Displacement, m


57.69622

Velocity of surge ,km/s


31.01608

Rail Track travel by surge, m


200

Time Seconds spent on Track by surge


0.006448

Surge Power, Terawatts


729635.4061

Location of event

38km SSE of
Harda,
11km SW of


 Boca de Yuma,
M.P.,India
Rancho


Dominican

Palos Verdes


Republic

California
Type of Event

earthquake
Trains derail
earthquake
Legend: CG Centre of Gravity La: Latitude; Lo: Longitude. AV: Average.




Link: WQ20150601t20150807HARDATWINTRAINDERAILMENT.xls query A5860:E5898




© 2015 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar