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At only 200 square miles, we can fix it. Assuming the area is square, the perimeter is just 56.56 miles. We can go around with a tunnel boring machine, replacin
by burfog 8y ago
At only 200 square miles, we can fix it. Assuming the area is square, the perimeter is just 56.56 miles. We can go around with a tunnel boring machine, replacing coal with a concrete-lined tube. We can dig a trench, like a road cut or canal, lining it just as we sometimes line our road cuts and canals.
- Synaesthesia 8y agoYeah only 200 square miles
- burfog 8y agoThe best case is a circle, giving a perimeter of 50 miles. Some other projects to compare it by: 94 miles total for the three bores of the Channel Tunnel 120 miles for the Suez canal, finished 149 years ago 51 miles for the Panama canal, finished 104 years ago with steam shovels Clearly, we can do this.
- bdamm 8y agoIf it were laid out on an identifiable surface, then perhaps that could be done. But veins of coal in the earth branch unpredictably in 3D space. You'd be following a fractal surface.