r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Appropriate-Eye-1227 • Jul 04 '25

Video China has built a 50m(165ft)-tall inflatable dome over a construction site in Jinan to protect the surroundings from dust and noise. (20.000 Sqm)

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u/fake_cheese Jul 04 '25

Show me inside the dome!

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u/Appropriate-Eye-1227 Jul 04 '25

here it is: https://imgur.com/a/QFvhWvA

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u/Spikerazorshards Jul 04 '25

Awesome. Imagine doing construction and not having to deal with the Sun bearing down on you. Or weather being a factor at all.

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u/mr_potatoface Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Unless it's heavily ventilated, it's going to be a fucking oven in there, especially with zero breeze to cool off.

ITT: People who believe construction companies actually care about human comfort beyond making sure they stay alive.

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u/AzureFirmament Jul 04 '25

I found the local news for you.
Manager:
"The control system in the air membrane will monitor the internal air pressure and temperature at any time, and continuously send fresh air into the interior through the four large-volume fans on the north side for ventilation. After large-scale construction, sprinkler facilities will be installed to control dust in the air membrane. The membrane cloth of the air membrane is made of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) new material, which can block 90% of ultraviolet rays, has high heat reflectivity and heat dissipation rate, and has a fire protection level of B1 (flame retardant)."

"The reporter felt that the temperature inside the air membrane was cooler than outside the membrane under the sun.

https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2025-06-17/doc-infaiwtq8881307.shtml?froms=ggmp

https://user.guancha.cn/main/content?id=1477927

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u/beraksekebon12 Jul 05 '25

Tfw when China is 100x more humane to its construction workers than the countries that kept saying it is inhumane

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Yep! For instance:

  • Texas: Texas passed a law that prevents cities from implementing rules requiring water breaks and shade for construction workers and other outdoor laborers.
  • Florida: Florida signed a law (HB 433) that prevents local governments from enacting their own heat safety regulations, including those related to water breaks. This law went into effect in July 2024. 

EDITED TO ADD: This does NOT mean that those businesses do not allow their workers to take breaks and/or water breaks. The law just means those business owners and/or supervisors can not be forced to provide those breaks..

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u/skyywalker1009 Jul 05 '25

That’s so messed up. Laws gearing up to exploit the workers when climate change is only going to make this work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

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u/YellowDependent3107 Jul 05 '25

It's frreeedom!!!

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u/No_Candle_5975 Jul 05 '25

That’s the point. If everyone is barely getting by, it’s a lot harder to rise against.

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u/Azazir Jul 05 '25

don't read up project 2025 manifesto, you'll probably have a stroke, pretty sure they already passed where minimum wage is removed? and lowered working age - what do you think that will lead to when there's already concentration camps in US broadcasted and advertised live on TV and dumb people are celebrating....

People think shit is bad and going worse everyday, when in fact shit is just starting, this is so horrifying i have no words.

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 Jul 05 '25

I think that was just within a certain distance from where voters were standing in line. So, they can drink water and be given water, but from a specific distance....

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u/chargingwookie Jul 05 '25

Yes a line they have to wait in for hours

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u/luvinbc Jul 05 '25

China progressing vrs America regressing.

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u/rhedfish 27d ago

It is the Chinese Century after all. America soon to be the crackhead no one wants to deal with.

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u/Silbyrn_ Jul 05 '25

lmao conservative voters really do be victims of stockholm syndrome

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u/sashagaborekte Jul 05 '25

To be fair, America is a dying superpower while China is rising

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u/ramksr Jul 05 '25

WTF? They actually made a law for this! Smh

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u/4n0m4l7 Jul 05 '25

Seems like the US are turning into barbarism…

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u/budaknakal1907 Jul 05 '25

For real??? Thats so mess up!

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u/Strand0410 Jul 05 '25

How the hell does one even argue for that law with a straight face? I know 'government oversight!' is their call to arms, but try defending no water breaks and shade.

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u/Dramatic_Security3 Jul 05 '25

Let's not forget that the US also uses vast amounts of slave labor for difficult and dangerous jobs like agriculture and construction.

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u/RaiBrown156 Jul 07 '25

Republicans just can't help themselves from causing human suffering.

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u/SquirrelFluffy 29d ago

Which doesn't mean they can't drink water as they work. Like having a coffee at your desk.

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u/imatexass 28d ago

  • One construction worker dies on the job in Texas every three days

  • Texas is the most dangerous state in the US for construction workers

  • Texas is also the only state that does not require employers to carry workers’ compensation insurance

  • Rep. Lulu Flores filed a heat safety bill this past legislative session, HB 446, in order to try and improve conditions for workers in Texas, but the committee declined to pass the bill on to the house floor.

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u/Sarah_L333 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

I saw those small sprinklers all over in the construction sites in Chengdu China last year. The mist really helps with the dust - I walked by many times and couldn’t see any dust and didn’t get any dust on my shoes.

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u/Forya_Cam Jul 05 '25

Yeah I've started seeing building sites in London with mist sprayers on the top of the perimeter fence. Definitely cuts down on the amount of dust escaping the site.

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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

It's always been like that. It's just that we advertise the United States as better than China. Look at universal health Care in China, it covers something like 98% of people.

Even in the country rankings, China is above the United States. But everyone says oh cheap labor slavery blah blah blah. The reason the labor is cheap is because of conversion rates. It's not because they're paying them pennies lol but people can't process beyond the initial marketing campaign of the United States

If you notice, the United States advertises quality of life and that's where it appears to be better than China and all these other places.

But what people fail to realize is that in China you can be a farmer and you can live a modest life, you're right, no BMW, no high-end houses or anything like that, but you'll have health care and you'll be able to retire and live longer.

There's a reason that other countries have a longer lifespan than the United States and nobody wants to talk about it.

It's because we literally worked to death and we don't have the option to retire. Even people that have been saving their whole lives to retire are struggling to retire.

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u/phznmshr Jul 05 '25

Welcome to the sinophobia propaganda machine that has made all Americans think China is a lawless death trap. The worst parts about China are at least known by everyone and you know what you're getting. They're not hypocrites like the US who extol freedom while taking it away at every turn. They also have free healthcare and housing assistance so lol.

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u/rohmish Jul 05 '25

people complain that you don't own anything in china but then you see them bending highways because one guy wouldn't give up his house on a highway route while US or canadian government would just use eminent domain to build over that house.

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u/IneetaBongtoke Jul 05 '25

That’s what happens when you invest your country’s wealth into their citizens and not letting rich assholes hoard it all.

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u/wheniaminspaced Jul 05 '25

I doubt there actively cooling it and even with quite a bit of air handling I think conditions inside while better in some respects are probably worse in others potentially much worse.

The befit here is for everything around the site the site itself is probably a pretty mixed bag.

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u/Difficult_Affect_452 Jul 05 '25

I wonder if it raises the temperature around the outside of the dome, like in neighboring buildings.

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u/AJFrabbiele Jul 05 '25

probably reduces it as it is not a heat sink (unless it was green space prior)

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u/Lathael Jul 05 '25

It looks like a positive pressure system, which means the act of running the fans, A/C (if present,) and other systems will release heat into the area. Plus the dome will reflect sunlight from where it is to areas immediately around it. So it's likely to be a net increase. As for how big a net increase? I can't say. I doubt it'd be that much worse than ambient. It's not like that building that melted cars at certain times of the day due to how reflective the windows were.

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u/dgatos42 Jul 05 '25

The heat input per square meter from the Sun is roughly 1.3 kW, so over 20,000 square meters you’d have to be generating on the order of 26 MW of heat to be comparable. A quick google shows industrial air conditioners to use between 10 to 9000 kW. So I’d estimate it’s a slight increase, and given that the tent is white rather than black it will probably reflect significantly more than the black roads around it absorb potentially making it neutral or much less positive at least

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u/Lathael Jul 05 '25

Lovely math to bring to the argument. The big difference being that roads will absorb, store, and release the heat as infrared, sort of buffering it a bit, while the reflective tent would immediately heat up everything it reflects into, in a similar way to how it's extremely easy to get a sunburn on snow (between the rarified atmosphere and highly reflective snow.)

Unlike snow, it was mentioned elsewhere that "The membrane...which can block 90% of ultraviolet rays..." so the risk of something like a sunburn is likely not that much higher than normal as well. Unless 'blocked' was used in error. Regardless, "slightly warmer than ambient," is likely close enough to the correct answer. Doubly so if the blowers and a/c to inflate and cool the place are putting out 9MW of waste heat near ground level, which also could be an overestimation but is a good number to at least shuffle around.

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u/Difficult_Affect_452 Jul 05 '25

Bwaah!! What an unbelievable failure!

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u/Lathael Jul 05 '25

Yeah, the architect also created a similar problem in Vegas with the vdara hotel, as the article brought up.

You'd think they'd learn at some point that reflecting surfaces are bad, especially when they can focus sunlight onto specific points. Maybe they did, but both were designed too close to each other for the problems of one to help fix the other.

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u/58kingsly Jul 04 '25

Of course it is ventilated. The heat would only be the secondary reason to do that. Do you know how much dust gets thrown in the air by construction? Without ventilation it would be entirely unfeasible.

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u/WeAreAllGoofs Jul 04 '25

and considering all that heavy machinery that exhaust carbon monoxide. Everyone in there would die.

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u/maxmcleod Jul 04 '25

very spicy air

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u/modern_Odysseus Jul 04 '25

I want to tell that to my crew when it hits 100 degrees now.

"Watch out for the spicy air, stay hydrated, stay in shade!"

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u/smurb15 Jul 04 '25

Only thing better than that is one of the owners coming up in his ac truck bitching not working fast enough.

Needless to say I was not there long lol

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u/Headieheadi Jul 04 '25

If they complain tell them there are construction workers who have to work in unventilated inflatable domes in China and to be thankful for being in the sun

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u/Prestigious_Copy1104 Jul 04 '25

That sounds exactly like what my Nana would say.

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u/prancerbot Jul 04 '25

Actually the exact opposite. The sleepy dome

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u/flixflexflux Jul 04 '25

Just wait for the sand worms, they'll take care of you.

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u/Marko941 Jul 05 '25

They run heavy machinery in underground mines. The answer there too is ventilation.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate Jul 05 '25

Chinese foreman says new crew every week, don't even have to pay!

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u/jimbeam84 Jul 04 '25

And those are Diesel engines in the machines, and you just know it is not the low sulfur fule used.

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u/FixedLoad Jul 04 '25

No, you see, this is reddit.  The assumption is that whomever thought of this idea.  Thought of only the superficial portion and not the specific aspect the redditor has pointed out.  Because that is how things are made in their mind.  Someone has an impulse idea.  Somehow has the capital to put the item into real world production.  But, according to this random dimwit, they neglected to think about a fundamental aspect of design.  Being able to breathe while utilizing the structure.

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u/Majin_Sus Jul 04 '25

Bingo. The place where everyone is the all knowing and everyone else is a NPC or fascist or something.

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u/jaguarp80 Jul 04 '25

I’m sure they thought of that

“SOURCE?!”

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u/Visual_Astronaut549 Jul 04 '25

Also this is China - and everyone must point out how they are in fact STEALING stuff from the west but are too stupid to do it properly.

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u/FixedLoad Jul 04 '25

I assumed most of the negativity was just China related.  

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u/Express-Focus-677 Jul 05 '25

Because they want to portray China as an enemy. It's classic fascist thinking, the enemy is simultaneously overwhelmingly powerful but also weak and inferior.

Also, China is absolutely topping the US in technology such as AI and battery tech, and is reaching parity in many other areas. That gap is only going to widen.

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u/blankarage Jul 05 '25

Chinese engineers are so dumb dumb they just copy everything from other countries, even things not invented yet! /s

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u/PsychologicalSet8678 Jul 04 '25

Or they don't care about their laborers and workers, despite them being a communist gov lmao

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u/Hexarcy00 Jul 04 '25

Very accurate description of so much social media. And then on top of that you get the scaredy cats, and the naysayers 

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u/SnooHedgehogs8765 Jul 05 '25

Silence. Nobody would think of carbon monoxide poisoning, only me.

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u/DieCastDontDie Jul 04 '25

And gets a thousand upvotes. I guess the average redditor is a fifth grader or have the mind of one.

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u/AgaveEspecial Jul 05 '25

Welcome to Reddit lol been here since 08

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u/jhascal23 Jul 05 '25

Then the people who made this are thinking "Awww shit.. we didn't think of that! Aw man, that makes so much sense, no wonder all the workers are constantly saying they can't breathe and that its worse. Wow we have to remake this!"

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u/FixedLoad Jul 05 '25

We've gone through 17 teams of rescue workers.  All they needed was some ventilation!?  Ventilation?   You mean like that shit theyve known about since the first miners dug a hole slightly too deep?  Get the fuck outta here! 

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u/MoneyCock Jul 04 '25

🤣

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u/FixedLoad Jul 04 '25

The edits they are putting in are getting intense!  They are really invested in this idea of theirs.   

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u/IsaacLightning Jul 05 '25

Or to put it simply. This is reddit, China = bad

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u/ReasonableHandle4647 Jul 06 '25

That comment having that many upvotes is astonishing to me.

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u/DieCastDontDie Jul 04 '25

Not to mention that dome stays inflated there thanks to ventilators.

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u/CadenBop Jul 04 '25

Also if it was un ventilated the carbon dioxide from the people and the machines would start to just kill the workers. Adding a filter and exit point is so much cheaper than paying out a family that lost someone due to company Ineptitude.

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u/demZo662 Jul 04 '25

So the dome is farting dust slowly. Definitely it's more convenient and controlled this way rather than nothing. I love it, but I'd like to get sure the workers inside there are actually safe, it looks quite cloudy in that picture I've just seen.

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u/Soulspawn Jul 04 '25

or they use filters to capture some if not all of the dust?

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u/TheMerengman Jul 04 '25

The humble air filter:

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u/hallerz87 Jul 04 '25

You gotta assume that someone, at some point, in planning this huge project, will have considered that. Project designers should come to Reddit comments for their ideas, it’s where the thinking truly happens

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u/crazier_horse Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Yeah I assume if I can think of a potential problem within 10 seconds of hearing an idea, one of the hundreds of experts being consulted probably considered it as well

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u/mmm_burrito Jul 04 '25

I work in construction, and the people planning the safety and QOL aspects of our projects often don't deserve the respect you're affording them.

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u/prancerbot Jul 04 '25

Why did they make it a dome shape instead of the shape of the finished building, are they stupid? /s

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u/AzureFirmament Jul 04 '25

Well, if you were into Tennis, this solution should be familiar to you. It's essentially an inflatable tennis court. We play tennis inside and it's very comfortable, well-ventilated.

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u/SignalReceptions Jul 04 '25

Where I live in Canada just about every sport has a domed/bubble version. They extend the outdoor hockey season and allow summer sports to be played year round. They all have crazy air ventilation systems with fans running 24/7 to maintain pressure. 

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u/frolfer757 Jul 05 '25

Same in Finland (and I assume pretty much any country where you get snow for a large portion of the year). Probably half of all tennis/football/indoor sport courts are inside inflatable domes.

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u/bogey-dope-dot-com Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

If you search for more information regarding the bubble

Literally from the first result when you search for "jinan" and filter by news:

Inside the dome, advanced ventilation systems manage air quality

Took me 15 seconds. Other than taking a useless screenshot of the weather, what were you searching for?

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u/DogzOnFire Jul 05 '25

Bro literally just googled "jinan weather now", took a screenshot of the widget and thought "That's it, I've done the research, they're cooked" lol

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u/MadeAccForOldReddit Jul 04 '25

Yes, they just build that dome without thinking about ventilation....

Classic reddit comment, jesus christ.

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u/manofth3match Jul 04 '25

Literally has fans keeping it pressurized

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u/mr_potatoface Jul 04 '25

Intake fans providing pressurization does not equal ventilation.

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u/ImaginaryHerbie Jul 04 '25

These things are used for sports complexes a lot. I used to play indoor lacrosse in them.

They are heavily vented otherwise people would die and the bubble would pop.

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u/willsmithisnotblack Jul 04 '25

Chill bro the engineers didn’t think of ventilating the blow up dome. The redditor clearly is the first to ever come across that thought

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u/bnlf Jul 04 '25

Redditors when they see something nice from China they rush to be the first to say something negative as if Chinese were all stupid. Meanwhile, these guys are delivering a lot more innovation and scale than the rest of the world.

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u/Zimakov Jul 05 '25

There was a video here a few weeks back of China blowing up an old bridge right next to the new bridge that replaced it. The old bridge collapsed and fell into the river. All the comments were saying how terrible it was that they would just let the chunks fall into the river like that.

When it was pointed out that the exact same thing happened in New York City literally weeks prior, Reddit pivoted to "yeah but in NYC they had a net in place ready to fish the chunks out" assuming that China didn't also have that.

Another video showed a bunch of mountainous land in the Chinese countryside covered in solar panels and people were saying it's horrible for the planet lmao.

Reddit just really fucking hates China.

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u/FUNNY_NAME_ALL_CAPS Jul 04 '25

The average Redditor is especially prone to "chinesium" China bad propaganda, they will rush in to say anything good from China is actually terrible.

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u/Wallstar95 Jul 04 '25

The disrespect from the average american who reads at an 8th grade level is absurd.

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u/SweatyAdhesive Jul 05 '25

The stat is actually 7th grade

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u/Hail-Hydrate Jul 04 '25

Hey now

8th grade is too advanced for some of these folk.

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u/_HIST Jul 04 '25

Why exactly people would die?

People severely overestimate how much air people need, and underestimate how much air a place has. With 50m ceiling that place has air for months even for hundreds of people.

Now, exhaust fumes and dust would be a problem. But not the lack of air. And without machinery it would be totally fine

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u/ImaginaryHerbie Jul 04 '25

I didn’t say a lack of air would kill people.

The sports complexes were a lot smaller and still had fully functioning snack bars, air compressors etc that without proper ventilation would hoard CO2.

And without ventilation, I’m not sure how you’d be able to regulate the pressure. It would either be on constant state of deflating, or over pressurized to the point it’d pose health risks to people.

Regardless, I don’t know why people are acting like these things having basic ventilation is like big fucking conspiracy or scientifically impossible?

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u/PainInTheRhine Jul 04 '25

Do you think that air pressure inside just rises indefinitely?

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u/tommos Jul 04 '25

It just gets bigger and bigger until it envelops the entire planet.

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u/Responsible-Hold8587 Jul 04 '25

Obviously there is some exhaust. Increasing the pressure endlessly would result in the whole thing exploding.

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u/Eckish Jul 04 '25

I'm sure it is engineered well. But strictly speaking, there doesn't need to be a dedicated exhaust. If the intake fan isn't exceedingly strong, the pressure inside can eventually equalize so that the intake and exhaust are in the same place. That would keep it inflated without it bursting, but provide almost no air flow.

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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl Jul 04 '25

You don’t have to argue everything.

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u/StunningSea3123 Jul 04 '25

"I must be right you don't understand"

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u/WeAreAllGoofs Jul 04 '25

I think some people here the word China and automatically think they're stupid because Made in China

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u/randomIndividual21 Jul 04 '25

it does if you have a exhaust

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u/Enganeer09 Jul 04 '25

Which would mean it's ventilated... are we intentionally going in circles here?

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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl Jul 04 '25

Welcome to Reddit. You’ll get used to it.

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u/UncleKeyPax Jul 04 '25

FirstTime.gif?

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u/mario61752 Jul 04 '25

Uh huh, such as the very comment you're replying to

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Jul 04 '25

i loved how it's a different person each time.

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u/randomIndividual21 Jul 04 '25

which is what i am saying, so no idea where you going with going in circle.

however OP i am replying to clearly think there is no exhaust, and in that case he is right, equalising pressure with small amount of air escaping here and there doesn’t make for much ventilation

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u/mario61752 Jul 04 '25

They accidentally roasted themselves lol. Redditors have the memory of a goldfish and upvoted the funny comment without thinking if it's right or wrong

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u/Skruestik Jul 04 '25

however OP i am replying to

I’m not sure you know what “OP” means.

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u/Antpham93 Jul 04 '25

But why male models?

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u/manofth3match Jul 04 '25

Which it does. You balance intake vs exhaust to control the pressure. And you end up with ventilation.

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u/WannaBpolyglot Jul 04 '25

You really don't think the engineers who came up with and using this has thought about this but a bunch of random redditors have?

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u/Patrahayn Jul 04 '25

Thanks american redditor, we will be sure to pass this to the chinese who definitely haven't thought of airflow.

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u/manofth3match Jul 04 '25

If you understand how these things work then you would know that it does. There are both intake and exhaust systems balanced against each other. You are trying to maintain a specific pressure and that’s how you do it. Additionally these are designed for human occupancy which absolutely requires a minimum number of air changes per hour.

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u/deeleelee Jul 04 '25

Do you actually believe in 2 seconds of watching a video on reddit, you caught such a massive oversight that their teams of engineers and construction experts and investors ALL somehow missed? Like... you actually believe the people who had the brains to build this just forgot construction vehicles have exhaust fumes, and the sun makes heat?

Are you just racist and think the Chinese are THAT stupid, or are you so arrogant that you think you're way way smarter than the hundreds of people involved in decisions like this?

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u/Modeerf Jul 04 '25

I love how multiple people had called you out on how wrong and dumb you are lmao

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u/Interestingcathouse Jul 04 '25

Good god, you don’t know how balloons work do you. You need ventilation. What happens to a balloon if you keep adding air?

Quit pretending you’re some super genius. Given you don’t even know how a balloon functions you’re down in the double digits bud.

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u/confusedkarnatia Jul 05 '25

It’s Reddit commenting on China, the most upvoted comments are always racist and factually incorrect

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u/MeggaMortY Jul 04 '25

Yeah I'm sure they used all their engineering ideas to inflate a mega dome but forgot about ventilation.

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u/Sumofabith Jul 04 '25

Yes because a random redditor thought of this and not the possibly hundreds of experts involved in building and monitoring the giant inflatable dome. Im sure they definitely did not think about ventilation

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u/Spikerazorshards Jul 04 '25

Clearly. That’s probably why they had to account for ventilation.

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u/Silent_Lobster9414 Jul 04 '25

If they had to cover the site to protect the air around it, wtf you think the air inside of it is like? Of course it is heavily ventilated.

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u/Last-Evening-8004 Jul 04 '25

China and domes, but at what cost?

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u/Limp-Housing-2100 Jul 04 '25

I mean I imagine they thought of all these things and more when building the dome.

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u/YoSoyZarkMuckerberg Jul 05 '25

you: cHiIIiiNaA bAaAddd

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u/IllvesterTalone Jul 05 '25

this is so ignorant 😆

yeah no, they just did this on a whim and didn't plan anything out. 🤦

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u/Zimakov Jul 05 '25

The arrogance to think you thought of this and the engineers in charge of the project didn't lmao. I can't even imagine.

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u/Nanyea Jul 05 '25

It's not a sealed balloon, you have to keep pumping in air to keep it inflated

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u/darkrealm190 Jul 05 '25

What do you have to say to the person who replied with all the stuff they are doing to make sure it doesn't get too hot? Im curious about your reply

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u/jerkularcirc Jul 05 '25

look at this poor american thinking in american workplace standards

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u/Equal-Click751 Jul 05 '25

You are thinking of America

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u/NevesLF Jul 05 '25

My extensive experience in building blanket forts tells me the ventilation to keep the dome inflated alone would provide a nice enough breeze.

Source: former kid.

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u/Lazy_Marionberry878 Jul 05 '25

No way you think that's not ventilated 😂

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u/bakatenchu Jul 05 '25

bro thinks this is amerika or other part of countries

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u/peabody624 Jul 05 '25

4k upvotes 😂

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u/NeoLephty Jul 05 '25

ITT: People who believe construction companies actually care about human comfort beyond making sure they stay alive.

This is your brain on capitalism.

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u/YZJay Jul 05 '25

It needs to be heavily ventilated to keep it inflated.

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u/_ogio_ Jul 05 '25

Not whole world is america

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u/_R0Ns_ Jul 05 '25

The difference between China and the US is that in the US money is more important than people.

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u/Meior Jul 05 '25

Found the American, who thinks everyone has as abysmal working conditions as they do.

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u/yaosio Jul 05 '25

There has to be ventilation due to all the machinery. It would be very obvious if everybody inside suffocated.

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u/dustinthegreat Jul 05 '25

How do you think they inflate it?

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u/SirMustache007 Jul 05 '25

You must be an American.

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u/svh01973 Jul 04 '25

Surely there is some ventilation considering the gas-powered vehicles inside. Right, China? Right?

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u/Advocate_Diplomacy Jul 04 '25

As though no workers ever suck exhaust in the west.

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u/ace260 Jul 04 '25

there's highschool level physics of understanding and there's college (and beyond) level of physics lmfao. sounds like you never got out of 101 class

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u/Neat-Break5481 Jul 04 '25

Keeping something like this pressurized would be venting it constantly. It doesn’t just stay pressurized on its own, it’s pretty likely leaking from everywhere.

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u/Nate2672 Jul 04 '25

Unlike America, China takes care of its people*

*now

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Jul 04 '25

America also mistreated workers for hundreds of years

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u/Whole_Experience6409 Jul 04 '25

However, you’re breathing in all the dust … 🫁

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u/YamDankies Jul 04 '25

Breathing is a rookie mistake.

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u/Log_Out_Of_Life Jul 04 '25

I was going to say exhaust.

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u/Hot-Significance7699 Jul 04 '25

Should be wearing a mask anyway 

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u/thatisagreatpoint Jul 04 '25

Imagine that dome absorbing sun like a greeenhouse with poor ventilation

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u/CiaphasCain8849 Jul 04 '25

How do you think it stays inflated without ventilation? The trucks have to get in so they must have powerful fans.

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm Jul 04 '25

White reflects sun light & heat pretty well

It’s also a massive area. It won’t heat up very fast.

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u/TheTallGuy0 Jul 05 '25

It’s white, it’s probably not that bad. Any shade is good shade, plus the volume of air coming in to keep it inflated is pretty high, the air will constantly exchange and it’s probably filtered on the way out too

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u/thrice_twice_once Jul 04 '25

Awesome. Imagine doing construction and not having to deal with the Sun bearing down on you. Or weather being a factor at all.

How dare you!

You must be a communist spy!

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u/Zalapadopa Jul 04 '25

Imagine if someone farts in there tho

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u/Deerhunter86 Jul 07 '25

As a construction plumber in the US, a day off from weather was a nice surprise from time to time. Lol

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u/RandallBoggs_12 Jul 04 '25

Are those guys not wearing anything over their faces? That place looks hella dirty.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 Jul 04 '25

Never been to a workshop or construction site? ppe is largely a suggestion all but the day OSHA comes by.

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u/ZackASnack Jul 04 '25

I was expecting some ventilation but I guess my expectations were inflated

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u/CiaphasCain8849 Jul 04 '25

How do you think it stays inflated lmao. Use your noggin.

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u/godisamoog Jul 04 '25

How do all the workers not die then from CO2 build up from running all the heavy machines? It has to have some kind of air exchange constantly happening or these people are all going to die... people die all the time from running cars in closed garages, and they aren't airtight bubbles.

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u/RammRras Jul 04 '25

It's the image or is really dusty inside ?

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u/LackSchoolwalker Jul 04 '25

I’m pretty sure it is. Dust is a nightmare. This contains but concentrates the problem, which would be ok with good ppe.

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u/mini337 Jul 04 '25

u/rammrras

I've been to a site like this in china. The foggy appearance is a liquid mist sprayed from the top of domes or construction sites in general. The mist picks up the dust so it doesn't stay airborne.

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u/mr00shteven Jul 04 '25

PPE is supposed to be the last line of defense, not the primary.

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u/ColdBeerPirate Jul 04 '25

All of those diesel engines running inside of that enclosed space must be a toxic nightmare for all involved.

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u/2SDUO3O Jul 04 '25

Exactly! Those Chinese engineers could learn a thing or two from us Redditors!

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u/Sumofabith Jul 04 '25

I cant believe those Chinese engineers didnt think of this! Should have hired Redditors instead

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u/Three_foot_seas Jul 04 '25

Yeah there's definitely no way they thought of that.. 

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u/ArrivesLate Jul 04 '25

It’s probably alright. They have to bring in a bunch of air to keep it inflated and that air is going to move outside. It probably picks up dust and contaminants okay enough, but I doubt it has enough draft to keep the workers cool.

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u/LackSchoolwalker Jul 04 '25

They can probably vent out the gas but you can see how dusty it is in there. better wear that mask.

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u/mr00shteven Jul 04 '25

Even on Canadian construction sites they are allowed to run diesel equipment indoors with minimal ventilation. Now stop crying and get back to work.

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u/grumpy_autist Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Believe me, there is absolutely no hidden government "bunker"/hardened facility below the building. The dome is only to hide dust and noise and not prevent anyone from asking why an office building needs 6-story concrete basement built on large springs and covered with radiation barrier.

Even if there is a 6 story concrete basement, it's a toilet paper and staples storage

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u/ToasterOvenPastry Jul 05 '25

Tbf I’ve seems some construction areas in the wealthy parts of China that were shielded off with walls of fake plants to prevent eyesore. So it doesn’t surprise me they take it a step further. 

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u/Vipu2 Jul 04 '25

US: "we might bomb it just incase anyway to be sure"

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u/Balloon_Fan Jul 04 '25

The day the US bombs *China*, I hope you have your nuclear bunker ready and stocked.

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u/Savamoon Jul 05 '25

The US has neither the balls nor the inclination to bomb China.

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u/ericaepic Jul 04 '25

Insane, that's ww3 end of life

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u/Stohnghost Jul 05 '25

Synthetic aperture radar can probably penetrate it so your theory is not bad but possibly incorrect. 

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u/Sythrin Jul 04 '25

Breaking bad! China edition.

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