Cause of TVA’s Kingston ash dam break mystery of the universe
June 25, 2009
So the great mystery lingers. Like the decades it took to find the “root cause” of the sinking of the Titanic ultimately caused by the kind of steel and its assembly in the dry dock, the TVA mystery eventually will be solved.
Probably much later than plaintiff’s lawyers would like; and much later to pin the donkey tail on TVA that would lay blame on present TVA management. Wait a month for the TVA Office of Inspector General, also paid by TVA, to come up with its “inconclusive” cause or causes.
Something triggered the ash dam break, what else could it be? Let me speculate.
Was there a study of external forces such as the sun and moon in perfect alignment with some other planets or heavenly bodies that formed the “perfect storm” at 1:00 a.m. on December 22, 2008, exactly at the Kingston coal-fired plant?
Or the earth’s precession? The earth does wobble at its axis; perhaps it precisely wobbled at the “perfect storm” moment.
The moon exerts powerful pulling forces on the earth at all times and causes the oceans to slosh around at mostly the same times during its cycles. Maybe a particular “slosh” came a bit early or later to coincide with some of the other possible elements afore mentioned.
Whatever the cause, it was complicated. Complicated by measuring minutiae, $3 million worth, by trying to see if some mysterious element, maybe dark matter, could actually have caused it. For sure, TVA management cannot be held responsible for that “something” that lay undetected and apparently undetectable for 50 years!
What I’m referring to is the engineer’s “slime” theory as a contributing factor. This also has to be discounted because the greatest dam building force in American history, TVA dam builders for 76 years, would never let that slip by the thousands of engineers employed by TVA.
So I’m putting my money on the “natural disaster” theory because TVA never could be held accountable for that.
Why did the dam begin to crack? Too much pressure in the wrong places.
What helped it along? The consulting engineer said “slime”. I say it was dark matter. It is all over the earth and no one knows exactly how it reacts with anything. The only thing known about it is that it is there, that it actually exists. But we cannot see it. Slime you can see.
Also, I submit another theory, the domino theory that when a greater force pushes against a lesser force the greater force always will overcome the lesser one. Does that make sense? Stack some dominoes in a row close enough to each other so that one falls on another and so forth and see for yourself. That’ll be $3 million, please.
Ernest Norsworthy
emnorsworthy@earthlink.net
http://norsworthyopinion.com