Posted on 05/29/2021 9:04:41 AM PDT by McGruff
China currently has one of the most expansive and impressive high-speed rail networks on Earth, and they aren’t showing signs of slowing. As their network reaches the far corners of their nation, Beijing could be setting its eyes on what lies beyond – far, far beyond.
According to reports, China wishes to build a high-speed, 13,000-kilometer (8,078-mile) train that travels from mainland China, up through Siberia in Eastern Russia, under the sea through the Bering Strait into Alaska, across the rocky peaks of Canada’s Yukon and British Columbia, and into the USA. Once constructed, they have could further extend their international bullet train into every corner of the US.
The price of such an outlandish proposal? A cool $200 billion. A price tag so high, even the likes of Jeff Bezos probably couldn’t reach it.
The plans emerged in 2014, when multiple news outlets covered a report by the Beijing Times that outlined plans for China to build the 8,000-mile super train. It would be called the “China-Russia-Canada-America" line (catchy, we know) and stretch across all four nations, connecting them together for a trade, tourism, and economic boom. Stretching across the Bering Strait, it would require an underwater tunnel four times larger than the Channel Tunnel, and far more high-tech to boot.
At the time, engineers from China claimed to be already in talks with Russia about beginning the line, which they were very confident was possible with current technology.
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check out the US Geological site showing earthquakes in the area. It wouldn't last a month.
Would be great to use passengers on this train to inoculate population of the US with every newly-developed product of the gain-of-function “research”!
There’s already the Halekoa Tunnel that runs between Honolulu and L.A.
All because some Chinese elite is afraid to fly. Wait till they try traveling underwater for thousands of miles.
The train would cross at the Bering Strait, 55 miles at its narrowest point. It could also make use of the two Diomede islands sitting in the strait potentially shortening the length of needed tunnels by dividing them up.
The headline calling it an "8000 mile underwater train line" is pure BS
Nevertheless, I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen.
Yes, plus there’s the trusty engineering safety standards of China to consider.
That concept should be considered DOA.
Peach
That’s right, if it were our government (federal or state), it would be a trillion, at least.
Even if it could be built and fully loaded with cargo on a two mile long train, it would still carry less than a typical cargo ship and it would only save shipping times by a couple of days.
This is just fantasy.
As kids we always thought if you dug a hole down far enough you’d reach China. We were just ahead of the times.
It could be an inflatable flexible tube with decompression chambers at each end...
“Cheap desalination”
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Thinks Israel checked this box...
Chinese always go with lowest bidder, lowest bidder bribes contracting agency, lowest bidder purchases substandard materials to maximize profits, lowest bidder guarantees project to look good and last for seven years, lowest bidder accepts money from contracting agency, lowest bidder goes out of business.
I do not trust China and its Communist leadership. But at least they get things done with regard to infrastructure.
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And after 7 years it all falls apart. Nothing in China is made to last more than that
If they were able to complete ONE MILE a month to finish 8000 MILES would take 666 YEARS.
Even at ONE MILE a WEEK it would take 153 YEARS.
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Chinese very patient ...
If you look at the global map where desert regions meet the sea, cheap desalination would transform those coastal regions into garden paradises.
That’s a joke.
As Biden would say - totalitarian thugs can make decisions faster... They don't have to worry about 'consent of the people'... hell, they don't have to worry about 'the people' at all.
And the cost?
No problem.
People in China work 12 hour days 6 days a week. Their overlords can just add on an extra day to pay for this extravaganza. Remember in commie hellholes only the people at the very top matter.
When I was a child, Herb Caen’s nephew walked across the frozen sea from Alaska to Russia in one day. He was arrested by the soviets who didn’t believe him, claiming he was a spy.
That should be the route, and it should be above the sea , not under it.
I understood that. The thing is the strait is right where two continental plates come to a drift point and the pacific plate shoves under these two. Let alone the fault linse through there. There are twenty fault lines between here and our nearest town 40 mile away. I have a little understanding of Geology and plate tectonics I am judging this from.
But it still boils down to “why”. We don’t need it, “Why do they?”.
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