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It would almost certainly be a rail tunnel. Presumbaly its purpose would be to bring Siberia's timber and mineral resources to North American markets faster and more efficiently than loading them onto ships. Or it would, if there was a transportation infrastructure on the Siberian side of the Bering Strait. That would have to be built, too. Neil's been cavorting with Russian oligarchs, too, you say?
Meanwhile, China will be building rails north toward those Siberian resources, too.
If it's fifty miles long, it's not much longer than the Chunnel (and Japan has a 50+ mile undersea tunnel as well --- the Japanese tunnel no doubt has similar problems with seismic activity). As an engineering project, it's not particularly cutting edge.
It's not crazy, but if the Chunnel can't pay for itself, it's hard to imagine this thing doing so.
Posted at December 5, 2005 2:32 PM in response to Neil Bush: No Billy Carter
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Only by fractions of a millimeter a year, if at all. I think the BART tunnel under San Francisco Bay may have the same problem?
Posted at December 5, 2005 2:15 PM in response to Neil Bush: No Billy Carter
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From your keyboard to God's browser, Mr. Schmitt.
Posted at November 1, 2005 3:45 PM in response to Power Shifts
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Bravo! And bravo to you for your creativity in finding a way to circumvent the Republican control of the House agenda to force them to face the music (or at least a vote) on this!
That kind of creativity is what we need, so that people can see what these Republicans really stand for, because, once they do that, they'll reject them.
Posted at October 27, 2005 8:32 AM in response to Saving Davis-Bacon
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May I bring MIT's Open Course Ware project to your attention?
It is an attempt to put most of MIT's teaching material online, available to anyone in the world who has access to the internet, for free. As far as I can tell, MIT only gets a lot of good karma out of the deal.
Posted at October 19, 2005 12:52 PM in response to College.com?
