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Old 12-24-2021, 02:39 PM   #121 (permalink)
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10x feet of elevation gain? Aren't the Sea of Cortez and The Pacific Ocean at the same level?

Siphons work just as well upside down. A salt-water Artesian well.

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Boring Tunneling Cost Predicted to Be $4-5 Million Per Mile
https://www.nextbigfuture.com › 2021 › 08 › boring-tunneling-cost-predicted-to-be-4-5-million-per-mile.html
He is projecting Boring Company to reach about 50-70 Meters per day in 2021 and just under $6 million per mile. This would be about a mile of tunneling per month. Will projects Boring Company improving quite a bit of next 3 years and then leveling off in improvement.

Why The Boring Company's $10 million dollars per mile ...
https://www.teslarati.com › elon-musk-the-boring-company-10-million-dollars-per-mile-price-tag-game-changer
Even if the cost of boring tunnels for public transportation projects rises somewhat above the $10 million per mile price demonstrated with the LA/Hawthorne tunnel, it will be still be well under...
$7.5 million times 100 miles is less than a billion.

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