Abandoned/Proposed Feasible Megaprojects
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The plans for Boris Island are older than many think. It was floated in the late 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary_Airport.
Some of the cross channel link plans were pretty ambitious too. Not to mention Hitlers ideas for the Atlantic wall.
I like the idea of the Bering Straits bridge. You'd be able to drive from Edinburgh to Rio!
Some of the cross channel link plans were pretty ambitious too. Not to mention Hitlers ideas for the Atlantic wall.
I like the idea of the Bering Straits bridge. You'd be able to drive from Edinburgh to Rio!
Have those ever actually been produced? I thought that despite the theory being sound, there were other issues which so far had meant they were not possible to build with our current technology. If we don't have any, we can hardly be blamed for not planning to use them.
Flooding Egypt's Qatarra Depression for hydroelectricity, weather engineering, salt harvesting, and electrolysis.
think at the moment they are a bit the holy grail of nukes.
So one day we might see them.
It is quite possible that you are aware of Amerigo Vespucci's finished timeline, but then again, perhaps you are not The Key West-Havanna Tunnel
And of course there is the Breitspurbahn (broad-gauge railway) project proposed in Nazi Germany. Megalomaniac and impractical like a lot of things proposed or built there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn
And of course there is the Breitspurbahn (broad-gauge railway) project proposed in Nazi Germany. Megalomaniac and impractical like a lot of things proposed or built there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn
Replacement of all cross-Suez traffic links to allow the canal to be dredged to allow all Malaccamax traffic to transit it. As for the rest take your pick.
BlondieBC
Banned
Bering Straight Damn (Stalin)
Diverting water to Aral Sea (Stalin)
Reversing flow on Congo to lake Chad (Modern Chinese)
A giant Holland type project in the North Sea. Rhine is diverted through Kiel canal, Thames through English Channel. You could walk from London to Berlin. (1910 or so)
Diverting water to Aral Sea (Stalin)
Reversing flow on Congo to lake Chad (Modern Chinese)
A giant Holland type project in the North Sea. Rhine is diverted through Kiel canal, Thames through English Channel. You could walk from London to Berlin. (1910 or so)
BlondieBC
Banned
No Idea if it can even be built, but it was proposed. The area would be larger than the Low Countries, so I also have not idea who was supposed to settle there.
By blocking the English Channel, and diverting the Thames into the channel, it also will change sea currents around the UK possibly changing the weather.
Nobody's mentioned the proposed Japan-Korea Tunnel yet? It would be massively more expensive, longer, and more complicated than the Chunnel. Nonetheless, it would probably still be economically feasible, if only North Korea would allow cargo trains to pass through their territory.
No, and they won't be until we figure out how to ignite hydrogen isotopes in that manner without the energy of either a lot of lasers, a fission detonation, or whatever the magnetic confinement fusion method uses.
I'd imagine that antimatter-catalyzed fusion (where antimatter takes the place of a larger mass of plutonium) would be an example of a 'clean' atomic explosive, but that would require generating antimatter on a large scale. It's the only design that immediately comes to mind.
Anyway, other Megaprojects: Atlantropa is a favorite of mine. There's also Project Horizon (US Army project to build a fortress on the Moon defended by Claymore mines and Davy Crockett bombs).
Dayton Kitchens
Banned
By the way, a good book to read about huge projects is "Macro". Published back in the 1990s IIRC and full of interesting ideas.
Another is "Engineers Dreams" by Willie Ley IIRC.
For what it's worth, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had a copy of "Engineers Dreams" and remembered the Alantropa concept from the book. He included references to it in his novelization of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".
In the book, Admiral Kirk gets confirmation of the V'ger sighting while at the Strait of Gibraltar Dam.
Another is "Engineers Dreams" by Willie Ley IIRC.
For what it's worth, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had a copy of "Engineers Dreams" and remembered the Alantropa concept from the book. He included references to it in his novelization of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".
In the book, Admiral Kirk gets confirmation of the V'ger sighting while at the Strait of Gibraltar Dam.
lake eyre osmotic project
Build a canal from the shore of South Australia to Lake Eyre. Since the water in Lake Eyre would be much saltier than seawater, there would be a large osmotic gradient. Even if the lake is above sea level, the osmotic pressure would fill the lake. Evaporation from the lake would condense in the surrounding area, and the center would not be so red.
Build a canal from the shore of South Australia to Lake Eyre. Since the water in Lake Eyre would be much saltier than seawater, there would be a large osmotic gradient. Even if the lake is above sea level, the osmotic pressure would fill the lake. Evaporation from the lake would condense in the surrounding area, and the center would not be so red.
The Brooklyn Battery Bridge? It actually would've been less expensive than the tunnel that was actually built, but it would've fucked up the New York skyline and Battery Park in the process, while running much too close to the Brooklyn Naval Yard.
It still pisses me off that he wanted a Bridge but he wouldn't let O'Malley build a Dome on land no one wanted.
