In order to achieve a ‘crack-free dam’, the entire dam used low-heat cement (the first in the world) that has extremely strict requirements on concrete processing technology and temperature control.

They argue that while the centralized, outmoded dam technology will make lots of money for the companies and will consolidate their monopolistic control of Chile’s central energy grid ...

“Right now, we can use this technology to understand how the performance of a dam is changing over time but what I’m most excited about is working towards integrating it into an operational ...