Posted on 12/16/2024 4:43:57 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
Spanning 3,400 miles, the tunnel would be the most ambitious infrastructure project ever undertaken. The difficulties of building an underground rail tunnel all the way from London to New York might seem insurmountable, yet plans to actually construct such a tunnel are genuinely being considered, with those behind the idea estimating that it could cost somewhere in the region of $20 trillion.
Not only would the tunnel be the longest ever built by a huge margin at 3,400 miles long, but it would also make incredibly fast trans-Atlantic travel a reality, with trips between New York and London taking a mere 54 minutes to complete.
This remarkably short travel time would be achieved by creating a vacuum within the tunnel and using pressurized vehicles that could theoretically reach speeds of up to 3,000mph.
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I remember the “Big Dig” in Boston. It took forever for them to stop the leaks. And that was only a few miles.
An interesting idea, but Iceland is one of the most tectonically active places on Earth.
And Iceland is going through an uptick in activity right now.
One accident. Everyone on the train is dead no matter what. If the 3000 mph crash does not kill them, then exposure to the vacuum would. Clearing the wreck would take months, if even possible. Absolute stupid waste of money and resources.
Depends on the quality of your duct tape.
Do it in stages. NY>Greenland>Iceland>Scotland>England.
That’s why Trump wants to buy Greenland.
The Atlantic plates separate at a rate of about 2.5 centimeters (~ 1 inch) per year. Anything built would have to account for that.
So, a backup would be, what, take a few years to clear??
Musk wants to do it as a technological feat. Imagine potential uses of the engineering. Innovative solutions using outside the box methods. This is cool stuff.
NYC to London? ... We can call it the “Sh&thole Express”.
Trains wouldn’t work in the US, because the US doesn’t control where people live to the same extent. You can move airports easier, if needed, than you can move track lines to account for moving populations.
Unexpected sudden stop....
Just more fuel.
I’m sure Elon is making sure everything works.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Those words do not appear in the article.
Any plan for a trans-Atlantic tunnel which does not include those words is rubbish.
Next!
Wouldn’t it be better to solve the single mother problem?
How about we pay down $20 trillion in debt instead?
Exactly!
OK. My work with vacuum systems leads me to think on such things. Suppose the tube is pressurized to 1 atmosphere, roughly 14 PSI. 5000 PSI on the outside, 14 PSI on the inside ... net pressure is 4986 PSI compression from the outside. Evacuating it to some small fraction of a PSI on the inside really doesn't make any significant difference.
Not a problem at all,
Look up the Channel Tunnel from London To Paris through/under the sea, with different train gauges in France from Britain.
Built over 20 years ago,
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