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I'm sure it would be much more effective to go full Netherlands on Manhattan and set up dikes and seawalls and pumps.
by DavidAdams 10y ago
I'm sure it would be much more effective to go full Netherlands on Manhattan and set up dikes and seawalls and pumps.
- johan_larson 10y agoHello, Reinhardt Gehrke here from Deutche Bank Municipal Bonds. We got the the RFP you sent around. We are eager to be of service of course, but is this a misprint? You want to borrow trillions of dollars for infrastructure projects?
- thriftwy 10y agoI don't think it would be prohibitively expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Dam to compare to - 15mi of dams built for a much less wealthy city.
- binarymax 10y agoAt New York prices it would be... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/where-the-second-avenue-subway-went-wrong http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/where-the-secon...