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Russia to build $65 billion tunnel to Alaska
Re: Russia to build $65 billion tunnel to Alaska
by papa moose » Thu 01 Sep 2011, 00:18:11
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'T')rack and tunnel maintenance will be prohibitive at best. I'm very skeptical to say the least. Especially when measured against the cost of shipping via container vessel.
I don't know, there's something especially efficient about rail transport. We're all sort of talking out our back side's here though, someone would have to dig into the numbers on the Chunnel.. my hunch is that a lot more traffic goes through the chunnel at a lower transit cost than what was shipped by boat before.
Trains are just so cost efficient.. you already have goods being transferred from container ship to train at the ports, so cut out the container ship middle man and that has to be more efficient.
Also trains are a lot faster than boats.
Trains may be faster but they only go from A to B. Ships can go from A to C and if no work is available will happily sail of to D.
Numbers for the Chunnel might be interesting but would not reflect very closely on a Bering Tunnel, i made a comment yesterday (maybe in anoither thread) about this being a rail line from Nowheresville to Nowhereski.
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Re: Russia to build $65 billion tunnel to Alaska
by Sixstrings » Thu 01 Sep 2011, 00:44:08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('papa moose', '.').i made a comment yesterday (maybe in anoither thread) about this being a rail line from Nowheresville to Nowhereski.
Well you're right about that.. it's been a long time since Russia settled Siberia and Alaska yet both are still huge and mostly empty. But I wonder about the pipeline.. if a tar sands pipeline from Canada to Texas makes sense, then maybe linking Europe / Russia with North America makes sense too.
Anyhow we need more info on this story.. it's odd, only one mainstream Brit paper article on it then nothing.. everyone else is bouncing off the original source. Where is a report from Russian media, I wonder.
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Re: Russia to build $65 billion tunnel to Alaska
by radon » Thu 01 Sep 2011, 00:56:32
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')Where is a report from Russian media, I wonder.
There is a story in English from the last year:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20101014/160948877.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')ussia's last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, was the first Russian leader to approve a plan for a tunnel under the Bering Strait in 1905, 38 years after his grandfather sold Alaska to the United States. The project was stalled with the beginning of World War I.
and in Russian from May this year:
http://ria.ru/analytics/20110504/370890700.html
No English translation on the website, hopefully, an online translator will do the trick.
Apparently, a story-in-progress but for whatever reason the British paper picked it up now.
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