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Old 04-27-2021, 04:47 AM   #59 (permalink)
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...and not enough emphasis on trying to figure out what would be a beneficial to everything form of transportation or if our insaciable glut for highspeed transportation is even necessary at the scale it is now.

Maybe figure out first where people and goods need and want to be. Offer incentives to make those places as close as possible. Then figure out what would be the best form of transportation between those points, as well as those places not in the usual routine, that not only makes everyone happy but is good for the environment.
Elon Musk Tunnel Trillions Through The Bering Strait?*

Bucky Fuller used to advocate for an electrical intertie across the Bering Strait because when you look at the world with his projection...


wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map]

...the Bering Strait is at the center of everything.

The Boring Company alleges to cut tunnel cost to 1/10th what it was. The video suggests instead of just under the Strait, go from LA to Shanghai. Subsonic 40ft shipping containers. This will would replace transoceanic shipping [polution] and high atmospheric [airline] pollution.

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05:07 some estimates say that shipping emits
05:09 18[%] of all air pollutants in the world
05:11 when you get to fund numbers[?] container
05:13 ships emit more greenhouse gas emissions
05:15 than some small countries
05:17 and that one ship may have as much
05:18 greenhouse gas emissions as 50 million
05:21 cars
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