Extreme Engineering - S01E03 - Part3/5 - transatlantic tunnel

[juniornutshell]

a pacific crossing is more likely

[CinnabonChan]

I bet Cthulu approves of this tunnel. Commuter's souls always have the most potent levels of despair, and now the tunnel will bring them straight past his house!

[stambrosecollege]

@adawilkes1 If something is worth £100 and after a period of time it's value is £50, then £50.00 has been wiped off it's value and effectively disappeared. Money is not like energy which cannot be created or destroyed. the money need to build this tunnel rules it out as a feasible option, at least at this point in time. I wonder if they could do a simple refurb of the channel tunnel to convert it into a mag lev train in a vaccum?

[Kleavers]

@adawilkes1

Time for a resource based economy!

[raran44]

this is too far fetched but it would be so epic if the world was some how connected other than aircraft and watercraft some day.

[vettedreams]

never gonna happen

[America100000able]

If this is constructed imagine how much people would be put to work.

[onequestiononly]

Oh....wow. 00:35- I live there :)

[ILikeFood0460]

think about a ticket to ride this thing? Yeah i don't think ill have money for it if its ever built, or if im alive by the time. cool idea tho

[littleone2813]

I agree with adawilkes. tunnels,monorails,subways,publ­ic or shoudl i say good public systems and smaller towns and cities would be a good thing.

michelle

louisiana

[debashissahu90]

It doesnt seem weird to go for a tranatlantic tunnel in the near future. With globalization it has become necessary to move people from one nation to other. Well with the jets carrying almost all the burden,it wont be possible for it to do so in the near future.

[KypHeM]

@debashissahu90 Ships still do most of the work.

[shinjide213]

The atlantic would be a good place for tidal wave electricity power knowing how much water runs through it everyday.

[hyperthreaded]

It would be cheaper to just develop/improve supersonic air travel. And that could then connect any two points in the world, not just NYC and England.

[stromfilip]

@hyperthreaded "It would be cheaper to just develop/improve supersonic air travel. And that could then connect any two points in the world, not just NYC and England."

Well there's a limit to how much we can improve air travel. In the end, you still have to lift all of the planes and the cargos weight during travel. That takes energy. This project would probably stand for a thousand years, mitigating the huuuuuuuuuuuuge energy cost of its construction

[discotheminecrafter]

I'm guessing the cost of building the transatlantic tunnel is probably more than the cost of colonizing Mars.

[amitk19]

The Norwegian rail network is a wreck, a floating tunnel will even be a greater disaster!

[2730Sm0keR]

I hope they start making this soon, then perhaps us young ones (im 18) can try it out when we get old and when its done (hopefully)

[TheAtxman8669]

man that'd be one hell of a ride

[bennovitz]

You could probably do it. But if you are to travel at 5000 mph the smallest vibration would cause derail. None of these options could prevent that. Buy hey, fascinating idea - love it:-)

[discotheminecrafter]

@bennovitz smallest vibration to cause a derail, I can't believe that fish can cause a major accident. still, that would be fun to ride in.

[bbtvN]

@discotheminecrafter wow,i think it will derail cus I think a fish can cause a tunnel that carries an over 10,000 kp/h train to move.A fish will be insane.

[VulcanTrekkie45]

Honestly, I know that they're working on the premise that the tunnel would run from New York to London, the two largest cities on each side of the Atlantic. But what about a much shorter route between two still major cities? Boston to Vigo, anyone?

[rlclark50]

This is a really cool concept, but in reality it combines too many unproven concepts which themselves need individual models (and of significant scale) to be developed first: The Submerged Tunnel, Transit in an Evacuated Vessel, Submered Evacuated Vessel Transit etc. And the scale of this project would be massive, further complicating these obstacles.

First, above ground, short run evacuated tunnel transit needs to be proven, as well as submered tunnel. Then combine them all in a small scale

[Tzimnewman3]

Nice dream but all it takes is one section to fail to make the entire tunnel a death trap.

[crock703]

We all know how reliable those offshore oil platforms are now, don't we.....

[Tzimnewman3]

@crock703 I would never travel this tunnel. So many things can go wrong.

[qoohkLive7]

lol how about a teleporter x)

[blixexxx000]

EE rocks