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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by masklinn on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:58AM (#12462228)
> If maintenance were interrupted (social upheaval) then Hoover too would fail.

Probably not in your lifetime let alone in a generation. Mosul's an issue because the substrate is not suitable for dam building (it's soluble gypsum, so it just keeps eroding because dam foundations kind-of tend to be around water) so the dam has to be continuously grouted to prevent it from failing.

Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 09, 2016 @04:41PM (#12465894)
Add Mosul holds 2.5 million people on a floodplain. When the dam fails catastrophically, it will be a bloodbath. It'll happen in the next few years.