Three of the five largest European countries, namely The UK, Spain and Italy are cut off from the central European continent by sea or by mountains. As long as there is a political will, these difficulties can be overcome by bold engineering.
The disconnects in Europe (and Japan) are being connected. Consider the Bering Straits between Russia and Alaska. Here, we are talking about connecting entire continents! Asia and North America.
When, and if, this happens, for us Alaskans, this will be a big event indeed.
The infrastructure costs to connect either end of a Bering Straits crossing to anything of significance on either side will likely be prohibitively immense for decades to come.
- That’s what I call “bold engineering”!
I’m not an engineer myself, but I’m fully convinced we MUST continue to plan for and carry out daring infrastructural projects like these ones.
By the way, I hope this vision will one day become reality:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/transatlantictunnel/interactive/interactive.html
Regards.