I just saw a story on megaconstructions, and the question presented is more than worrisome. Dream of building a bridge linking Siberia and Alaska, the two hemispheres, a bridge across the Bering Strait. It would be longest sea bridge in the world, up from New Orleans about 40 miles.
The engineer saw only problems, the temperature could be around - 60 ° C, it is located just below the Arctic Circle. Then for about 8 months a year, the sea is invaded by icebergs, and heaps of ice that would destroy any vertical pillar-based bridge go tapping insistently. The workers would have to withstand extreme climatolologia every day.
But the advantage, it would mean having a form of global highway to travel overland to anywhere in the world. A part of the ensuing exchange of oil or gas, which both have land in Siberia. Although would be a tie between nothingness and nothingness, as the nearest civilization would be a few miles away. Thus, there would also be built, roads and railway lines to communicate the nearest town or village with the bridge.
To give us an idea, the bridge would be around 80 km, about 3 times the Channel Tunnel, but it would be from Siberia to Alaska in 1 hour, and even, we would achieve the dream of man since ancient times back in time, due to schedule changes.
would have to build some 220 pillars, each block should have a building height of 40 floors, the pillars would not be vertical, but lower in conic shape to break the ice and do icebreakers. The idea was that the bridge had 3 floors: one for the road, one for high-speed train, and the third to hold large oil pipelines needed to exchange.
DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? This would be an achievement unimaginable in human engineering, joining two hemispheres, which was achieved only thousands and thousands of years, millions would say, when the ice age, but otherwise, would constitute an ecological catastrophe on an unexpected dimension of few natural areas and inhospitable world.
For my part, my vote is a nightmare, I think it would be unnecessary, the price would be too high for humanity, who thinks only build and build ........
The engineer saw only problems, the temperature could be around - 60 ° C, it is located just below the Arctic Circle. Then for about 8 months a year, the sea is invaded by icebergs, and heaps of ice that would destroy any vertical pillar-based bridge go tapping insistently. The workers would have to withstand extreme climatolologia every day.
But the advantage, it would mean having a form of global highway to travel overland to anywhere in the world. A part of the ensuing exchange of oil or gas, which both have land in Siberia. Although would be a tie between nothingness and nothingness, as the nearest civilization would be a few miles away. Thus, there would also be built, roads and railway lines to communicate the nearest town or village with the bridge.
To give us an idea, the bridge would be around 80 km, about 3 times the Channel Tunnel, but it would be from Siberia to Alaska in 1 hour, and even, we would achieve the dream of man since ancient times back in time, due to schedule changes.
would have to build some 220 pillars, each block should have a building height of 40 floors, the pillars would not be vertical, but lower in conic shape to break the ice and do icebreakers. The idea was that the bridge had 3 floors: one for the road, one for high-speed train, and the third to hold large oil pipelines needed to exchange.
DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? This would be an achievement unimaginable in human engineering, joining two hemispheres, which was achieved only thousands and thousands of years, millions would say, when the ice age, but otherwise, would constitute an ecological catastrophe on an unexpected dimension of few natural areas and inhospitable world.
For my part, my vote is a nightmare, I think it would be unnecessary, the price would be too high for humanity, who thinks only build and build ........
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