So, a transatlantic causeway?
Discussion
LD1Racing said:
After all this travel chaos, and the potential for more to come, are there any reasons (cost aside) that we couldn't build a transatlantic bridge or causeway across one of the roughest stretches of ocean to permenantly link us to the developed world?
They already have one in Wales, The Severn Bridge.
I would imagine that building a 5 mile deep set of pillars to support the bridge isn't only prohibitive on cost, but also on the technological front too! (Puerto Rico Trench)
Also, that's a long drive without stopping for a pee! In which case, you would need service stations. That means staff. How do they get there? Too far too drive. Rail link? Airport?
Would be fun though! Approx 2500 miles or 10hrs flat out in a Veyron not taking into account fuel stops
Also, that's a long drive without stopping for a pee! In which case, you would need service stations. That means staff. How do they get there? Too far too drive. Rail link? Airport?
Would be fun though! Approx 2500 miles or 10hrs flat out in a Veyron not taking into account fuel stops
Edited by Wing Commander on Monday 19th April 20:17
singlecoil said:
Wing Commander said:
10hrs flat out in a Veyron not taking into account fuel stops
And tyre changes, of which there would need to be several.Maybe the bridge/causeway thing could be done with pontoons (floating)?
) at 250mph along a ramp that just happened to be going upwards with a 40ft wave. It would be like this for the whole way...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5N7R9Wbe_E
Jonny671 said:
Balmoral Green said:
How about a flexible tube that is laid down on the sea bed like a cable, then we can be squeezed through it in cigar shaped cylinders pneumatically.
I'm sure that is an actual theory someone has come up with..Imagine that.
Could work in New York and live in London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresund_Bridge
[quote]The cost for the entire Øresund connection construction, including motorway and railway connections on land, was calculated at DKK 30.1 billion according to the 2000 year price index, with the cost of the bridge paid back by 2035. In 2006 Sweden began spending a further SEK 9.45 billion on the Malmö City Tunnel as a new rail connection to the bridge; it is due for completion in 2010.
The connection will be entirely user financed. The owner company is owned half by the Danish government and half by the Swedish government. This owner company has taken loans guaranteed by the governments to finance the connection, and the user fees are the only incomes for the company. After the increase in traffic these fees are enough to pay the interest and begin paying back the loans, which is expected to take about 30 years.
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Just think how many more billions maybe even trillions it'd cost
[quote]The cost for the entire Øresund connection construction, including motorway and railway connections on land, was calculated at DKK 30.1 billion according to the 2000 year price index, with the cost of the bridge paid back by 2035. In 2006 Sweden began spending a further SEK 9.45 billion on the Malmö City Tunnel as a new rail connection to the bridge; it is due for completion in 2010.
The connection will be entirely user financed. The owner company is owned half by the Danish government and half by the Swedish government. This owner company has taken loans guaranteed by the governments to finance the connection, and the user fees are the only incomes for the company. After the increase in traffic these fees are enough to pay the interest and begin paying back the loans, which is expected to take about 30 years.
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Just think how many more billions maybe even trillions it'd cost
Nuclearsquash said:
Also the small but rather important fact that the european and north american plates are moving apart. So any bridge/tunnel/pontoon is gonna be ferked pretty quickly.
Bridges are built to cope with expansion/contraction due to temperature. Over 2500miles that would be quite a significant variation, more I think than many years of plate movement.It might well be, but it'sa certainty, and it would take only one major plate shift where your bridge yadda yadda is to render it a very expensive folly.
I love the idea though. It might be easier to route it via iceland greenland and the northern canada to break things up a bit,then you can also mitigate the plate movements as iceland sits astride it, so any damage would be cheaper easier to maintain.
I love the idea though. It might be easier to route it via iceland greenland and the northern canada to break things up a bit,then you can also mitigate the plate movements as iceland sits astride it, so any damage would be cheaper easier to maintain.
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