Bering Strait Crossing
Please help this project by signing my petition. The idea is so great that it may help save the world, but to do so we must get the attention of our governments away from weapons and war and towards unity, coexistence and peace. This crossing, whether in the form of a bridge or tunnel, would be a modern day tearing down of the Berlin Wall and bring peace between the world's two superpowers, America and Russia.
Please sign my petition Now onto ideas for building it. One is an underwater tunnel (the longest tunnel in human history), and another is the longest bridge in human history. How to build the longest bridge or the longest tunnel in the most extreme climate on the world, next to Siberia and the Arctic. One idea that I had was to not build one continuous bridge but rather through dredging, build two more islands, one island between Russia and Big Diomede Island and another Island between Little Diomede Island and Alaska. Then only 5 relatively small bridges (or tunnels) would be required as opposed to one continuous one. Another idea is remove water and raise the ocean/sea water basin by adding rocks (which are abundant in Alaskan and Russian topography) and then building a not so deep tunnel. A third idea is to permanently connect the land using dredging, but that would separate the Arctic and Pacific and the natural water flow, so perhaps a final idea would be as many dredged islands as possible (perhaps 2 between Russia and the Diomedes and 2 between Alaska and the Diomedes) so that as little time, money, resources and manpower is spent on the connectors (a bridge or tunnel). I personally prefer both a bridge and tunnel because certainly this would be the most trafficked thoroughfare in the world, but any connector that has 6 lanes going and 6 lanes coming (12 lanes total) in two separate tunnels and a third tunnel for high speed rail is also acceptable. Anything that connects a, for far too long, separated world and its 8 billion inhabitants. |
My Petition
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Something like this is ideal
http://www.info-quest.org/PNG/BeringStraitTunnel01.png Stretch the peninsulas out as much as possible, whether they are stretched underground (for a tunnel, to make it as short, timely, and cost efficient as possible) or whether they are stretched above ground (for a bridge, to make it as short, timely, and cost efficient as possible). Dredging is costly, and a singular bridge across this region would be much cheaper, but long term, extending the peninsulas or building 4 or 5 small islands (really, just landing pads for a bridge or tunnel) would make the construction and engineering of a bridge or tunnel MUCH easier and hassle free, especially in this cold regional climate. |
Cost of connecting Russia and USA (whether bridge, tunnel, artificial islands, artificial peninsulas, or a combination of all of them): No more than $20 Billion
Cost of Building 70 Million automobile every year Cost of driving a Gas car from the southern tip of Argentina to the southern tip of South Africa (30,000 miles total) Given the cost of gas to travel 1 mile is 15 CENTS Cost of driving an EV from southern tip of Argentina to southern tip of South Africa (30,000 miles total): Given the cost of electricity to travel 1 mile is 3.6 CENTS (BUT with solar powered charging stations, traveling one end of the world to the other and back in an EV via road is basically free A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year Number of vehicles on the road: 1.2 billion cars Carbon emissions emitted by gas cars per year 5520000000 metric tons OR over 5.5 BILLION metric tons of carbon emissions emitted by all cars on earth, every year Carbon emissions of EVs: zero Number of planes in use today: over 40,000 Average cost to build a plane: $200 Million Cost to build every plane in use today 8E+12 OR over $8 TRILLION to build every plane in use Cost to operate all planes per year? Number of gallons used by planes yearly? 100 BILLION gallons of fuel Cost of jet fuel per gallon? $5.21 per gallon 5.21E+11 OR over $521 BILLION to run and operate every plane in use, every year. Carbon emissions of all planes in the world? 3.15 grams per gram of fuel Grams of fuel used by all planes yearly? 9.10971E+14 grams of fuel used yearly Grams of carbon emitted by all planes yearly? 2.86956E+15 grams of carbon emitted yearly OR 2869558650 metric tonns OR over 2.87 BILLION or basically over 3 BILLION metric tonnes of carbon emissions emitted by all planes in the world every year. Add it up: 2.87 BILLION metric tonne + 5.5 BILLION metric tonne = over 8.5 BILLION metric tonnes of pollution per year $4.5 TRILLION + $521 BILLION + $8 TRILLION = OVER $13 TRILLION And there isn't a mere $20 Billion for a peace making, pollution finishing road between USA and Russia? Who is paying these obscene amounts to build polluting, gas guzzling planes (both commercial passenger planes and military planes)? Military planes? The government Passenger planes? Boeing or Airbus Who pays the government and who pays the plane companies? YOU PAY the government with your taxes and YOU pay the plane companies by riding their planes Who spent over $4.5 TRILLION to build useless, pointless weapons that can kill every person on earth thousands of times over? The governments of the world. How did those governments gather such obscene amounts of money to fund useless weapons? Your tax dollars YOU can fix it by signing my petition |
I would love for this to happen, but you are kidding yourself with this
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Have you seen the 55 billion dollar estimate for the North Long Island Bridge? This project would be nothing short of 100 billion and that is a conservative estimate in today's climate. |
^ Construction costs are immensely over inflated. The actual cost of materials and labor is well within the number given (and likely even less). The estimate you gave is considering other factors. Use 20,000+ workers from around the world and have nonstop construction (aside from extenuating circumstances, weather, subzero winter months) and the cost would fall within and well below the estimate given. The number given is very accurate and here is why:
Bering Strait Crossing Length: 43 miles Cost: $20 Billion Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge Length: 103 miles Cost: $8.5 Billion Gotthard Base Tunnel Length: 95 miles Cost: $12 Billion Changhua–Kaohsiung Viaduct Length: 98 miles Cost: $8.5 Billion Lærdal Tunnel Length: 16 miles Cost: $113 MILLION Channel Tunnel Length: 24 miles Cost: $14 Billion Bohai Strait-Crossing Tunnel Length: 76 miles Cost: $40 Billion China-Taiwan Tunnel Length: 84 miles Cost: $80 Billion (but China-Taiwan tunnel is 1000 feet deep versus the Bering which is only 100 feet deep) Poorvanchal Expressway Length: 212 miles Cost: $1.5 Billion |
And just a reminder, the cost of building the roads to the construction sites to even get the construction equipment and workers there.
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It looks like the nearest connection to the North American rail network would be in Hay River... which is about as far away from the Bering Straight as Yakutsk (the nearest connection to the Russian rail network).
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As a reminder, I'd love for the project to happen. Make no mistake. |
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On the Russian side, there are long term plans to build a link all the way to Chukotka (the Russian side of the Bering straight crossing) regardless what happens on the US side, and independent of any Bering straight bridge/tunnel crossing. |
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https://i.imgur.com/Gk0WziS.jpg Red and dark orange sections were completed, light orange and yellow sections were cleared and graded. The rest... is what I imagine a line from there might look like. |
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The real problem is there is no value in connecting two unpopulated areas which are thousands of kilometers away from any useful center within any of the countries that might be involved. Who's going to use it? Shipping companies? Wouldn't a boat be more effective than slogging materials thousands of kilometers by road? and...Permanent Global Peace? :haha: |
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This road gives the world the greatest chance at a near zero percent poverty rate, globally. (although there will always be factories, industry and pollution in an industrialized world) This road gives the world the greatest chance at a near zero percent pollution percentage, globally (by eliminating the cause of 50% of all pollution - fuel powered planes (and cars, which will all be electric within 10 years)). This road (bridge or tunnel) will take less than 10 years to build and as little as 5 years if a larger workforce is hired. China is the largest exporter of goods on earth. Currently it takes a cargo ship 30+ days to haul exported goods from China to America via the Pacific Ocean. This project would help world trade tremendously. It would only take 21 hours for a high speed train to haul exported goods from America to China, if this road is constructed. 30 days via ship VS 21 hours (about 1 day) via the Bering Route According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty in China. If China was simply able to do this by selling and trading goods with the Western World through sea (which takes months) and air (1-3 days), and put its people to work making products for the rest of the world, then how many people in 195 countries can be lifted out of poverty if the selling/trading time is decreased to 20 hours via high speed rail. Oil tankers transporting oil via the Pacific also take months, while a pipe line will also be constructed in a separate tunnel in this project, allowing endless oil for the entire world and eliminating the need for cargo ships. This road lifts the entire world up at once, lifts the economies of all the worlds countries at once, and unites the entire world. This isn't just a road connecting two countries, this is a World Road, a new Silk Road for the 21st Century. |
Also, the maximum weight capacity of an average airplane is 50,000 lbs
The maximum weight capacity of an average train is over 300,000 lbs (over 6 times the load carried in one trip (whether the load consists of human passengers or cargo)) |
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A study was done on potential routes between the contiguous rail network, Whitehorse, and the Alaska Rairoad. https://i.imgur.com/8djyDCx.jpg http://www.interbering.com/Feasibili...March-2012.pdf The Interbering website is very interesting. http://www.interbering.com/index.html |
Shipping containers by sea is way, way, way, way cheaper than shipping by rail.
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Number of airplanes in the world: over 40,000
Cost to build an airplane: $200 Million Cost to build all airplanes in the world: over $8 TRILLION to build every plane in use First jet fuel powered plane: 1939 Number of years fuel powered planes have been in operation: 80 years Cost to fly every single plane in the world every year (cost of fuel for all planes per year): $521 BILLION to run and operate every plane in use, every year. Cost to run every fuel powered plane in the world, for the past 80 years: $521 Billion * 80 = over $42 Trillion to run every plane in use since 1939 There are 10-15 plane crashes every year Number of airports in the world: 17,678 Cost to build an airport: $10 Billion Cost to build all the airports in the world: 17,678 * $10 Billion = over $177 TRILLION to build every airport in use today Number of ships in the world: 53,045 Cost to build an average ship: $1 Billion Cost to build all ships in the world: Over $53 TRILLION to build every merchant fleet/ship in use today Cost to run one ship, for one day: $200,000 Cost to run one ship, for one year: 365*$200,000 = $73 Million Cost to run every ship in the world, every year: $73 Million * 53,045 = Over $4 Trillion “every year, on average, more than two dozen (24) large ships sink, or otherwise go missing, taking their crews along with them.” Add it up: $8 Trillion + $177 Trillion + $53 Trillion + $42 Trillion + $4 Trillion = $284 TRILLION (look at that number again, OVER A QUARTER of a Quadrillion Dollars) The cost to operate trains in less than the total cost of operating planes and ships (Cost Train < (Cost Ship + Cost Plane)) Trains are cheaper, more efficient, carry a heavier load, can run all season, faster, safer, and much better for the environment |
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